Fredericksburg Garden Club Flower Show Promises Better Yet
The Fredericksburg Garden Club hosts its third annual Flower Show at Peter's Hall this weekend drawing hundreds of visitors from the community and surrounding areas. Members’ effort and cooperative spirit aim to boost aesthetic appreciation of nature and horticultural development in the county. Citizens are urged to attend and support the club’s cultural work.
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Fredericksburg Garden Club
Peter’s Hall
Garden Club
Birth records re-indexing urged for Gillespie County residents
County clerk urges Gillespie County residents to verify birth records before May 12 to ensure complete entries. Re-indexing aims to improve proof of birth for inheritance, insurance, citizenship, civil and military service, and employment. Check with the county clerk to confirm records are properly entered.
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Gillespie County
Outstanding Public Service by Doctors in Draft Examinations
Doctors serving the local draft board provide free medical examinations to national defense recruits. The service is generous and unremunerated, ensuring top medical care for young men entering military service. The piece contrasts doctors offering free care with strikes and disputes affecting the broader defense program.
Scouters Gain Experience In Sunday Session
Fifteen local adult scouters joined Vincent Hobbs Capitol Area scout executive for a Sunday training at Klaemer's Park. They learned encampment ethics, map making, compass use, distance and height judging, building fires, outdoor cooking, and stove making from a gallon can. A campfire finale followed the meal as part of a leadership training program led by Emil Walter the district training chairman.
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Vincent Hobbs
Klaemer’s Park
Emil Walter
Farmers Use Land Bank Services in Gillespie County
Gillespie County has about 357 farm and ranch families using the Federal Land Bank and National Farm Loan Association system of cooperative, low-cost, long-term farm mortgage credit. About 100 families have paid out of debt. outstanding Land Bank loans on Dec 31, 1940 totaled $928,886 across 300 loans. Since May 1933, 103 loans totaling $310,400 have closed. The seven-year period added 149 Commissioner loans totaling $272,300, with 119 loans for $215,400 still outstanding.
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Gillespie County
Federal Land Bank
National Farm Loan Association
Chr
Mathisen
Fredericksburg
Commissioner
Land Bank
Texas Fills Large Portion of 1941 Draft Quota
Gen J Watt Page Texas Selective Service Director reports Texas has furnished about 74 percent of its 1941 draft quota ending June 30. The June calls could raise Texas toward its 33 213 man limit. a new July 1 quota may be heavier. Page notes the 13th call will include 600 negroes with Gillespie County assigning no selectees. In total 3 726 negroes and 21 585 white trainees have been inducted into the armed forces.
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J. Watt Page
Selective Service
Texas
Gillespie County
Softball Schedule Listing Intervals and Opponents
A dated softball schedule lists matchups between J C and Fat and Lean Western Auto Mutual AAA Fire Dept and others across May through August. Several entries repeat or omit opponents and dates, with gaps in late June and early July.
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J.C
Western Auto
Mutual
J. C. Mutual
AAA
J. C
Fire Dept. Aaa
Fat & Lean
J. C. Aaa
Fire Dept
J.q
Fat & Lean Mutual
AAA Fire Dept
Fire Dept. Western Auto
AAA J C
J.C. Aaa
J C
Mutual & Fire
Fred ers Drive In Station Ad Promotes General Tires Tubes
An old advertisement notes Fred ericksburg drive-in station Rubin Crenwelge as proprietor and highlights General Tires and Tubes. The terse fragment suggests a local service bay offering tire supplies.
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Fredericksburg Drive-In Station
Rubin Crenwelge
Lutherans Launch Drive to Aid Soldiers Pastors Centers Planned
The Lutheran groups unite to raise funds for the Service Men's Division aiding chaplains and congregations serving trainees. Centers near camps will provide worship and recreation with staff for Lutheran services nationwide. A separate Missouri Synod drive coordinates with the national program. A genealogist notes an ancestor who was electrocution noted for a chair of applied electricity at a public institution.
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National Lutheran Council
Hoem
United Lutheran Church
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Lutheran Augustana Synod
American Lutheran Church
United Danish Ev. Luth
Lutheran Free Church
Lutheran Missouri Synod
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Arthur H. Rowert
Freder
Ewksburg
Predericksburg Publishing Company
Bookkeeper's Baitors
Texas Press Association
South Texas Press Association
Mes Rel In
Rer
Earth
Ea Air
Hhin
Iste
Poin Thie
the Notk
Heda
City Cafe
Gruen
Bulova
Elgin
Helbros
America
Gruen Watch Co
Priscilla Sterling
Max W. Staudt
Fredericksburg Hospital and Clinic
Keidel Memorial Hospital
Phey
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