Calendar of Texan School and Festival Dates
Calendar listings show ongoing events in Gillespie County with multiple school related gatherings and shooting festival. Marked dates include April 27 Gillespie County Singing Festival at Peter's Hall May 4 Squaw Creek School Bear Creek Shooting Festival May 11 Luckenbach and Live Oak Schools May 24 Meusebach Creek School Palo Alto School May 25 Lower South Grape Creek Nebgen and June 1 Albert School.
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Gillespie County
Peter’s Hall
Squaw Creek School
Bear Creek Shooting Festival
Meusebach Creek
Palo Alto
Lower South Grape Creek
Nebgen
City Fire Insurance Rate Drops After Pumper Changes
Insurance figures show rates cut by about four cents due to not retaining the old pumper as a reserve. The city’s fire insurance rate declines to about 2c from 30c, with a 25 percent credit to excellent fire service. This marks a sharp fall from the 86c high before the city’s waterworks installation and equipment upgrades.
February Brings Rainfall Totals Across County
The column records February rain amounts from several observers. F B Riley in Rabapple reported the highest at 33 inches. Karl Durst Doss logged 2.88 inches while Hermit Schnelle at Handy Stop had 1.97. Levi A Deike at Ye reported 1.91 and Alfred Nerndorf in Fredericksburg 1.55. Otto Rahe in Harper noted 1.31 inches as the county's low.
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F. B. Riley
Karl Durst
Doss
Ermit Schnelle
Handy Stop
Levi A. Deike
Alfred Nerndorf
Fredericksburg
Oswald F. ‘Khardt
Otto Rahe
Harper
Exhibition Baseball Set As Browns Bees Train In San Antonio
San Antonio hosts two Major League clubs the St. Louis Browns and the Boston Bees as they begin spring training here. Pete Kraus joins the Missions outfield with Woody Bell and Carl Jorgenson boosting the defense and power. Tech Field will host daily exhibitions with stars including Johnny Allen Rip Radcliff Walter Judnich Geo McQuinn and Don Heffner among others with free practices. Tickets available at Alamo City Baseball Club Summers Drug Stores and Tech Field box office.
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San Antonio
St. Louis Browns
Boston Bees
San Antonio Missions
San Benito
Pete Kraus
St. Louis
Kraus
Woody Bell
Carl Jorgenson
San _ Antonio
Tech Field
St. Louis Brownies
Johnny Allen
Rip Radcliff
Walter Judnich
Geo. McQuinn
Don Heffner
Harmond Clift
Johnny Berardino
Elden Auktt
George Caster
Alamo City Baseball Club
New Moore Building
Summers Drug
Texas Highway map issue for 1941 spring edition
The Texas Highway Department releases the 1941 spring edition map featuring a Gulf Coast sunrise cover. It shows state highways cities towns and newly paved gaps since 1940 and includes federal census figures oil and gas regions forests lakes and streams with inserts for major cities. Free copies available by writing the department in Austin or district offices.
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Austin
Tex
Texas Highway Department
Gulf
Texas
Los Angeles
Chicago
Jacksonville
Atlantic Ocean
Highway Department
State Highway Department
Alfred Schupp Visits Relatives in Gillespie County
Alfred Schupp of San Antonio visited relatives in Gillespie County on Sunday, sharing time with family members during the weekend trip.
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Alfred Schupp
San Antonio
Gillespie County
Governor proposes merger of five Texas state bureaus
Governor W. Lee O Dan iel urges consolidating the Game Fish and Oyster Commission the Board of Water Engineers the Livestock Sanitary Commission the Soil Conservation Board into a single State Board of Agriculture to be housed at Texas A and M College with a $350 000 building and annual salaries for board members and an executive director. The plan includes an elected advisory board from senatorial districts and county boards and free state printed textbooks.
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W. Lee O’daniel
State Board of Agriculture
Texas A & M, College
Texas
Game, Fish and Oyster Commission
Board of Water Engineers
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Soil Conservation Board
State Agricultural Board
College Station
Texas Agriculture
State Board
Capitol
Fredericksburg Girls Third in Comfort Tournament
Fredericksburg High School girls finished third at the Comfort Invitational. They beat Kingsbury 27 21 in the playoff, then Dowdy beat them 23 14 and Blanco won the final 26 23. Stonewall claimed the consolation prize by defeating Comfort 29 27.
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Fredericksburg High School
Kingsbury
Fredericksburg
Dowdy
Blanco
Stonewall
Gillespie County
Comfort
Large Wire Shipment Paid By Railroad in Record Check
The railroad deposited a record payment of 1128.41 dollars from Stein Lumber Co for freight on over 100000 pounds of sheet iron fencing and wire shipped from Portsmouth Ohio by Wheeling Corrugating Co. The shipment represented a single carload of galvanized products.
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Stein Lumber Company
Portsmouth
Ohio
Wheeling Corrugating Co
Hill Country League eyed for Fredericksburg region baseball
The Hill Country area considers reorganizing a regional league centered on Fredericksburg with Kerrville Boerne and Comfort as potential rivals. San Antonio teams and area schools like San Marcos High School are noted, while Texas Tech hires Morley Jennings as athletic director and Dell Morgan as head coach. Bay View wins Santa Anita handicap at 58-1 as March training heats up in Florida and Texas venues.
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San Marcos High School
Lockhart
Lal Low
Thomas Jefferson Mustangs
San Antonio
Rattlers
Athletic Council of
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Morley Jennings
Baylor University
Dell Morgan
Rice Institute
Northwest Texas
Ball Cubs to Meet in Comfort for Hill Country League Plan
Representatives from Kerrville Boerne Fredericksburg Comfort and San Antonio will meet in Comfort on Friday March 7 at 730 p m at the Log Cabin to discuss forming a Hill Country Baseball League for the 1941 season. If Stower's Furniture Co joins, six teams may play a full schedule or a four team league could be formed with off Sundays for independent games.
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Fredericksburg
Kerrville
Boerne
Comfort
San Antonio
Stower’s Furniture
Dairyland
Ed. Friedrich’s
Giant
Edgar Marshall
Comfort Baseball
Stower’s Furniture Company
Deer Killed by Autos in 1940 Show Decrease
The state game department campaign to curb wildlife deaths appears to be helping. Warden Adolph Hep reports 1940 road kills in the county totaled 57 deer and 4 wild turkeys, down from 76 deer and 9 turkeys in 1939.
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State Game Department
Adolph Hep
Gillespie Game Warden
Heep
County Track Meet Not To Be Held This Year
Lack of enthusiasm from rural schools leads Fredericksburg Juni Chamber of Commerce to drop plans for a county track and field meet. Seven of about forty teachers replied. five favored the meet, committee chair Gilbert Kaderli thanks respondents and hopes to arrange next year.
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Fredericksburg
Juni Chamber of Commerce
Jaycee Committee
Gilbert Kaderli
FHS Netters Sweep Llano In Hard Fought Match
Fredricksburg High School tennis team dominated Llano with clean wins in singles as Guenther Luckenbach won 6-2 6-0 and Eddie Stein triumphed 6-1 6-0. Roy Bierschwale and Lonny Zwienner outlasted Llano 15-13 in 28 games then took 6-2. Arch ie Dean Weiss and Elgin Usener won 6-0 6-2.
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Anothr
Archie Dean Weiss
Elgin Usener
Llano
Mama Mosquito Promises Nudist Camp Visit If Children Behave
A satirical caption mocks a claim that a character named Mama Mosquito would take children to a Nudist Camp if they are good. The fragment suggests a provocative, humorously alarming scenario for readers.
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Mama Mosquito
Ten Pin League Standings Highlight Top Individual and Team Scores
Ernest Herbert posts top single game 252 and Hugo Klaerner leads with 617 in three games. Hotel Nimitz record 1011 for high team single game while Shifters top the three game series at 2707.
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Ernest Herbert
Hugo Klaerner
Hotel Nimitz
Shifters
State Safety Head Opens Program With PTA Choral Club
The program begins with a devotional by Mrs. James Shaw. A group from the PTA Choral Club will perform, accompanied on the piano by Mrs. Henry Lochte, as part of the State Safety events continued from page 1.
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State Safety
James Shaw
PTA Choral Club
Henry Lochte
Prize Winners Named In FHS Essay Contest
Marjorie Henke, Fredericksburg High School junior, won the Gillespie County essay contest on Increasing the Span of Life sponsored by the State Health Department. Katherine Stehling took second prize. Each prize totaled two dollars for Henke and one dollar for Stehling, announced at a Gillespie Medical Auxiliary meeting on Sept. 20.
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Marjorie Henke
Fredericksburg High School
Gillespie County
State Department of Health
Miss Henke
Katherine Stehling
Medical Auxiliary
Seb
Local Bowlers Sweep Visiting Teams Sunday
Local bowlers both men and women defeated visiting teams from Southern Select and Strauts-Frank of San Antonio. One local men's team won three of five against Southern Select, another won two of three against Straus-Frank, while the women beat the San Antonio side two of three.
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Southern Select
Strauts- Frank
San Antonio
Straus-Frank
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