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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
2
Gillespie County public health nurse Miss Ruth Kline thanks 1500 citizens and civic groups for backing the Public Health Nursing Service. She notes progress is gradual, benefits come from preventing illness, and the program rests on doctors and community partners.
General J Watt Page urged all licensed physicians and surgeons who are Selective Service registrants to apply for commissions in the Medical Reserve Corps. He cited a shortage in the Medical Corps and noted thousands of vacancies in the Medical Corps Reserve with first lieutenant grades offered. Local boards were told to balance community needs with armed forces requirements, allowing doctors essential to their communities to avoid induction for military training.
Churches invite worshipers for English 8 a m service Bible class for all ages at 9 a m and German 10 30 a m. Text St John 15 1 11 theme The Secret of Christian Life. Mary Martha Society meets next week at Miss Elsie Dietz home and Luther League devotional at Parsonage. Memorial appeal funds for Army and Navy welfare with committee listed. First Mass 6 00 a m second 7 30 a m High Mass 9 30 a m.
Sunday Cantate and Mothers Day services at 9 00 a m with Sunday school and Bible class. Divine services at 10 00 a m. Ladies Aid at 2 00 p m followed by cemetery grave decoration with flowers. Jungendverein gathering at 7 30 p m inviting newly confirmed members.
On Sunday May 11 at Doss Church services begin with Sunday school at 9 30 a m and regular worship at 10 45 a m A free will offering supports Lutheran Centers near Army training camps A 745 p m Mothers Day program at Cherry Spring Also a free will offering for the same purposes J M Bergner pastor
The church announces a full Mother’s Day program with 9 45 a.m. classes led by Emil Hahn, 10 45 a.m. worship, a 7 30 p.m. Young People service, and 8 00 p.m. sermon by Rev O F Kattner. Special songs and a message for the occasion. The public is invited. Ivan O Donaldson, pastor.
The church will observe Mother's Day in services this Sunday. Sunday school begins at 9 00 a m and divine services at 10 30 a m led by Pastor A Bracher.
The notice lists services for Sunday May 11 with Sunday school at 10 a.m. and regular worship at 11 a.m. at Albert Lusheran Church. Paul Leonhard is the pastor.
Cave Creek South hosts an English Mother's Day service at 9 a.m. and Luther League at 7:30 p.m. A church meeting to call a pastor is set for Monday May 12 at 8 p.m. in Cave Creek. Ladies Aid gathers May 14 at 1 30 p.m. Pastor Ww. C. Poehlmann invites all to worship and participate.
Mother's Day events at Edison Street Methodist Church include Sunday school at 9:45 a.m. led by Supt A W Holly, a special program at 10:45, and a fellowship lunch at noon in the basement. Evening union services at First Church feature a lay-led program under Brother H H Holly.
Regular services on Sunday morning at ten o clock with bible lesson and Sunday school. Services at two in the afternoon and at night seven thirty p m. Evangelistic services Thursday and Saturday nights at seven thirty p m. Everyone welcome. Walter Jost, pastor.
The Church of Christ meets each Lords Day morning in the hall over Piggly Wiggly Store. Classes begin at ten o'clock followed by communion service. Members are urged to attend and the public is invited to join.
The Kerr Kendall Gillespie and Bandera counties Medical Society Auxiliary met in Kerrville at Mrs J C Gaines home on May 2. Delegates to the state meeting were elected, and women from Gillespie County placed in the state essay contest prize list. A scrap book exhibit was praised and 41 members sewed layettes for the Red Cross.
Several hundred visitors tour the annual Power Show on May 2 as UT students exhibit wonders such as water flowing uphill electric lights under water and an electric train obeying voice commands. In charge of electrical engineering displays are Oliver Schneider and Scott Dabny with Lake Robertson presiding as Engineers Assembly president and power show chairman. Demonstrations cover optics electricity light sound and mechanics by engineering and physics students.
The notice invites readers to subscribe to the Standard for an annual rate of $1.50. It emphasizes an affordable option for ongoing newspaper delivery and readership.
Gov. W. Lee O'Daniel signs a May 8 law shifting vehicle title certificates from Public Safety to the Highway Department. Prices double for new titles. old titles remain valid for late buyers. Bills of Sale and Transfers abolished. titles must be produced for all vehicle transactions. Many titles issued to Gillespie.
The report states that county automobile and truck owners must still apply for titles through their local county tax offices during the recent registration period as issued by Tax Assr-Coll. Wm. M. Petmecky. The change occurred at the state title issuance level, not in local procedures.
A quirky exchange about physics and a joke ends with a shift to the next stop at a local drive-in. The scene mentions addresses and a person named Rubin and a place in a drive-in setting.
The builders foreman heckles a female singer on site asking if she is the lady Wot. She confirms and he warns about staying on the top note. He notes the men mistook it for the dinner whistle and paused twice.
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