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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1952
Page
20
Attendees last week saw rare instruments in use by FHS Senior Band performers. Bassoons oboes baritone saxophones flutes clarinets French horns and a Sousaphone solo with piano accompanied several pieces. The event highlighted outstanding youth musicians likely to gain future college or professional opportunities as National Music Week approaches with many recitals planned.
The trio Wil lie Maurer Walter Wunderlich and Marcus Maurer caught 167 pounds of catfish above Marshal Ford Dam on the Colorado River over three nights. The largest fish weighed about 20 pounds and all were good eating size. Heavy rains have crowded Hill Country lakes and streams, with this haul among the season’s largest reported.
A Stonewall community brief notes a Thursday May night minstrel show at 7 30 p m with all invited, Mothers Club meets Friday at 2 30 p m at the school, and Miss Marilyn Klein hosts a miscellaneous shower at Weinheimer s Hall for her upcoming marriage to Buddy Lindig.
Harper Volunteer Fire Department to stage a minstrel show at Harper High School Gym on Thursday night May 22 to raise funds for equipment and obligations. Rev A A Gitter will coach. two new members Kelton and Elmer Lange join to bring the force to 20. Proceeds help improve firefighting gear and department needs.
Members of the Soil Conservation group met at the Club House with Mr. Baumann to study grasses and spray brush at Francis Rech’s place. Visitors from Comfort attended. Several ladies joined a Freezing Demonstration at Mrs. John Jones’s Blanco home. Local families fed news of hospital stays and river trouble, with many residents hosting visitors and attending celebrations and birthday events.
The Western district Catholic State League met in Selma on May 4 with Herman Kneuper presiding. Delegates from Harper Fredericksburg Stonewall Honey Creek New Braunfels Rockne String Prairie and Selma attended. Local attendees included Rev Fr Edward Bartsch Milton Schmidtzyinsky Mrs H B Halfmann Mrs Bertha Willmann Mrs Frank Holdforth Mrs Benno Stehling Mr and Mrs Alfred Kunz and Mr and Mrs Edwin Kammilah. Brother Herbert F Leies S M of St Mary's University gave the main address on Keeping the Family Together. The piece ends noting unfamiliar terms gutters and howdah with no relation to the meeting.
Fredericksburg area Boy and Cub Scout units displayed skills on the Courthouse Lawn in the first annual Exposition. Blue ribbons were awarded to Cub Den 1 Den 4 Den 6 Explorer Post 136 and Troop 135 for various crafts and demonstrations. red ribbons went to Dens 2 3 5 7 and Troops 134 136 for additional crafts and demonstrations.
The Miller Creek Soil Conservation group in Blanco County won the best Conservation group in Texas for 1951 and received a $1000 prize. The honor was presented at the Seventh Annual Fort Worth Press State Soil Conservation Awards dinner at the Texas Hotel in Fort Worth. Members named include J. Sauls Harry Brill Aubrey Hopkins Paul Petty M. B. Gipson E. H. Achilles and Wesley Brown. Attendees included all district supervisors and several Johnson City Blanco business men.
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