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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1949
Page
6
Fredericksburg logged the year's high at 95 degrees on Tuesday the 21st with 61 degrees the following Thursday morning. No rainfall occurred that week, according to local observer Alfred Neffendorf.
Mrs Kermit Striegler shares two desserts with detailed steps for cream puffs and an old fashioned cherry jelly roll. The cream puffs use butter flour water eggs and precise 35 minute baking for crisp shells. fillings include vanilla custard or ice cream. The jelly roll uses cake flour sugar vanilla and a cherry filling, rolled and coated with whipped cream for finishing.
Mr and Mrs Robert Walter hosted a turkey dinner at their home after the baptism of their daughter Vernel Bertha at Bethany Lutheran church. Sponsors were Miss Evelyn Walter and Ernest Bruns of Yorktown. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Ernest Bruns and daughter Melba Laverne of Yorktown.
Miss Jennabeth Jones and Lockett Shelton wed Wednesday June 15 at 8 30 pm in St Pauls Methodist Church Abilene. A garden reception at the parents home followed. Attending from here were Mrs J Hardin Perry and son J Hardin Perry II. Mrs Shelton has visited the Perrys and was a Ward Belmont College roommate.
Installation services were held Sunday night June 12 at First Methodist Church by Rev A C Greenwaldt. New WSCS officers include vice president Mrs Leroy Rabke and recording secretary Mrs Clinton Storck with several section secretaries. Wesleyan Service Guild also installed officers led by president Mrs Eric Nagel and secretary Mrs Raymond Oestrich.
Dr. G D Guilbert named chief of the Tuberculosis Service at the Veterans Hospital in Legion, toured Fredericksburg Thursday. He arrived in Texas from a Wisconsin Veterans Hospital and has served in the Veterans Administration since 1930 with prior posts in Arizona New Mexico California and North Carolina.
The WSCS of the First Methodist Church met in the Social Hall on Thursday afternoon with hostesses Mrs. E. L. Woerner and Mrs. Harold Stork. The program opened with a prayer and Bible reading about Light Dawns in Africa and included Light in the Mission Home. The group closed with a hymn and the Lord's Prayer followed by a social hour.
A two week music and singing school will be held at Emmanuel Gospel Church 414 E College Street starting Monday evening July 18. Rev Ernest Rippetoe superintendent of Stamps Quartett School of Music Dallas will conduct the school and Welton Cloninger will give private piano lessons. First time in Gillespie County the school is well known nationwide. Mrs P M Woerner is secretary and can provide more information.
Fredericksburg traffic signals were inoperative from early Tuesday to late Wednesday as the control box for the lights was moved to the new fire station. The relocation required a slack period, with service briefly interrupted while transformer work continued on Kerrville road sub-station and another outage anticipated tonight.
Dr and Mrs Leon Zwiener and Lonnie Zwiener visited Cleburne and Dallas over the weekend and attended graduation exercises at Baylor Dental School for their nephew and cousin.
Mrs Berhnard and Mrs Usener honored Miss Olivia Bernhard with a Sunday surprise party at Mrs Usener's home. Eight guests attended and refreshments were served on the lawn.
Governor Jester signs veterans land bill with support from Commander Ward Moody and Judge Horace Shelton. State Adjutant of the Legion Alvis Vandygriff and former VFW commander oversee signing in a ceremony led by Chief Clerk of the General Land Office.
The 54th Annual Gillespie Schuetzenfest will be at Schmidt's Hall Shooting Range on July 30 31. Sponsors are Scharf schuetzen Club. June tests at Schmidt's Range by Baron's Creek Shooting Club. many shot 30 rings in 3 attempts. Participating clubs include Hubertus Scharfschuetzen Grapetown Tivydale Bear Creek and Baron's Creek.
Robert Rausch 81 of near Cain City suffered a heat stroke at 1 p m Tuesday becoming Gillespie County s first 1949 victim. He was unconscious for four hours but his physician reports recovery while authorities investigate the incident.
The Standard newsroom highlights daily result days on the want ad page. Community listings, lost and found, sales results, and small notices appear as brief items guiding readers to follow updates.
Gillespie County residents invited to join Gillespie County Exes in Austin for a basket picnic at 6 30 p m on Friday June 24 at the Polo Field in Zilker Park. Emil Jordan chairs the Exes.
Miss Elberta Martin Mrs Margaret Roos Lutteman Miss Helen Harris and Mrs Delrose Wittneben all of Freeport travel via Fredericksburg to San Francisco for the American Home Economics Association convention. Lutteman’s daughter Rosemary stays with grandparents Ed and Mrs Roos. The group includes Freeport public school home economics teachers.
The Navy develops an Arctic breathing apparatus that significantly reduces heat and moisture loss during respiration, helping sailors retain body warmth and hydration in extreme cold environments.
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