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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1963
Page
4
The note states Tyler Texas grows more than two thirds of the commercial rose bushes in the United States and promotes standard want ads to sell merchandise or notify readers of services with a contact phone WY 7 2156 available for weekly or yearly runs.
Funeral services for 73 year old Alex W Maier, pioneer Fredericksburg saddlery and boot shop owner, were held Sunday at Schaetter Funeral Home with Rev. Noel Wilkinson officiating. Buried in St Marys Cemetery. Survived by daughter Louise, son-in-law M E Duderstadt, three grandchildren and several siblings.
A dual purpose meeting to explain the wheat certificate plan to be voted on in the May 7 referendum will be held Monday May 6 at 8 p m. Floyd M Burgess president Gillespie County Farm Bureau said the program serves all Farm Bureau members and all wheat producers. A short business meeting will follow to present and approve the revised Farm Bureau Constitution and By Laws. W C Bill Wedemeyer director of research and promotion will speak on the issue. The local Farm Bureau president says the group will not tell wheat farms how to vote.
Funeral services for Frank H. Petermann 84 were conducted Tuesday at Beckmann Funeral Home with Rev. Henry F Treptow officiating. Burial was in Greenwood Cemetery. Petermann, a Fredericksburg meat market operator born Aug 7 1878, died April 28. Survivors include wife Frida Foerster two daughters four sons nine grandchildren and several siblings. Pallbearers named Franklin Pfeiffer Lawrence Pfeiffer Stanley Petermann Robin Pickett E C Burrow and Jerry Petermann.
Six children were born in local hospitals this week. Two Fredericksburg families welcomed newborn girls, including Katherin Denise weighing six pounds twelve ounces on April 28, and another girl born April 27 to Mr. and Mrs Wallace Ottmers. Further births to Mr. and Mrs Clarence Schaet followed.
Children of St Marys Parish gathered for first communion at St Marys Catholic Church with Rev J J Hildebrand and Sister Charles Frances as instructors. The group lists many named children across three rows with Mrs Hugo Klein assisting.
Fredericksburg High School students Nancy Kowert and Helen Hahn topped the 1963 Junior Historian Writing Contest at the 24th annual Texas event in Austin. Kowert won $100 for "A Musical Star Cover Two Continents" about Frank Valentin van der Stucken, while Hahn received $59 in "Texas Maps and Mapmakers" with Rosanne assisting.
Don’t risk moth damage to winter garments. Before storing dresses coats sweaters and more send them to Stehling’s for thorough dry cleaning and steam pressing. We use the mothine process for moth-free odorless cleaning at Sterling Bros.
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