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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1940
Page
7
The Stonewall Community Club announces its regular monthly meeting for Friday March 29 inviting all members. Obituaries, local greetings, and brief social notes from Stonewall and nearby areas are included along with short community notices and trivia about regional wildlife and fur trade.
Mae West and W C Fields star in a double barrel comedy at the Palace Theater with Mae as a Chicago cabaret singer and Fields as a traveling medicine man and card sharp. The production unfolds in an 1880 frontier setting with light romance and comic misadventures.
Mr and Mrs Alonzo Duecker report their daughter Lorine visited San Antonio over the weekend. They note the area is very dry and say rain is needed for farmers in that section.
Harper FFA members traveled 750 miles to the Houston Fat Stock Show and other sites in a major educational tour. The group visited Sugarland Prison Farm and coastal plains rice areas with Superintendent E O Larkin and Mrs Rolan Taylor among chaperones. A three legged lamb was born on an Oswald Eckhart farm, noted as unusual. Vera Kneese, born 1924, died 1940 in Harper. funeral at Presbyterian church with interment in Harper Cemetery. Ochler Hamilton Rites At Twilight Easter Evening reports the Abilene bride Miss Lerlene Hamilton and Harper groom Mr Carl Oehler wed in Abilene with family present.
Doss Child Eats Lye and is saved by simple antidote as advised by a physician. Local families attend confirmations, visits to Fredericksburg, and Easter holidays with updates on residents, rain, hail, and hospital recovery. Community notes include local business stock details from Fredericksburg Publishing Co. Inc. packed with names and places.
A weekend rain aided corn planting and ranch operations in Willow City. Editor R S Klett of Fredericksburg Pub Co improves after a five month illness, while Easter activities included an egg hunt for preschoolers and visits among local residents.
An office in Fredericksburg promotes a full range of office supplies with emphasis on convenient local access and stationery offerings. The notice highlights the Fredericks burg Publishing Co Inc as the local source.
Our first 4-H Club meeting with our new agent was held Tuesday morning March 19. Following the business meeting Miss Martin demonstrated a commercial pattern and showed how to mark perforations measure and sew a hem make bound button holes and finish a square neck line. Members present were Lottie Eberle Theresa Schmidtzensky Lottie Sehling Esther Arlitt.
A brief clipping lists names Wile Preservers Loreen Oehler Joyce Schriegler Lily Mae Arlitt Julia Mae Metz ger and Julia Stehling with J. S. credited as the reporter.
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