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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1947
Page
8
The ae Gillespie Farm and Ranch News notes rain has helped wheat oats corn and garden produce. Farmers praise pasture fertilization with phosphate boosting grass and cow grazing on greener clover on knolls. The piece ends noting continued grazing and a page 6 continuation.
Stonewall School students chaperoned by Haas Weinheimer Nielsen Koug Burg Eckert Danz Gold enjoyed a picnic trip to San Antonio visiting Randolph Field and Brackenridge Park. They later staged a 10th and 11th grade farce Look Who's Here and held graduation exercises awarding diplomas to six graduates and marking high school entrants.
Commencement exercises will be held Friday night May 23 at the Johnson City High School auditorium. The graduate list includes Betty Jo Barrow Betty Jean Bruckner Aaron Brodbeck Jerry Casparis Charles Gliddon Violet Haynes Jay Lee Hobbs James Ross Leonard Martin Lindig Robert Maetsberger Pearl Ricketts Bubba Scott Irene Schaefer Joanne Stevenson Doris Terrell Elna Dean Walker Jo Crider Waters Bubha Faye Weeaks Marvel White and Alonzo Shelley. Baccalaureate sermon was Sunday May 18 at 11 00 oclock with Rev Ben Thompson delivering the address.
Doss High School sets May 22 7 30 p m for commencement and May 24 all day picnic with a 2 p m children’s program. A one ball game Doss outside team vs Cherry Spring, Boy Scout vs St Mary’s Scouts canceled. Curtain Club to present a three act play A Fortunate Calamity.
Harper residents will elect two new directors for the Harper Community Park on June 6 at the school building. Current directors include W. A. Cottle president and Mrs. Tommie Harlan Jr secretary among others. Donations total 1689.07 with the W O W Lodge giving 260 and the Harper Band Mothers 174.07 as the largest gifts.
Fredericksburg rancher Alfred Cameron topped the local market with 35 Delaine Suffolk cross bred lambs averaging 76 pounds. Lambs sold for 19 cents to Fredericksburg Livestock Marketing Co. Some ewes weighed 86 pounds while the lightest were 69 pounds.
A 10,000 ton gasoline tanker Pan Ma loaded with fuel caught fire in the Texas City harbor on Sunday morning near the docks hit by last month’s disaster. An electrical storm raged at the time raising the risk of lightning strike. Two men suffered serious burns.
Families of here attended the Baccalaureate Services of Fredericksburg High School. Five graduates ride the Willow City school bus. Local residents visit relatives in Brenham Llano Crabapple San Antonio and Crabapple areas over a weekend.
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