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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1940
Page
7
The Stonewall correspondent reports the Friday graduation exercises and a class play, with diplomas handed to grammar school graduates entering high school. Addresses by Professor Gmyre and others closed a memorable event celebrated with flowers and farewells.
Doss Community honors mothers with a Sunday night program May 12 featuring Rev. Bergener leading a prayer and short address. The event includes multiple songs by the Doss Choir and Cherry Spring groups, poems by Otto Hahn Jr and Olinda Strackbein, and solos by Clara Anderegg.
Scholarship runs in the Goehring family as Mrs. Peter Weber, sister of this year’s honor graduate, earns high honors with a 94 plus percent. The two are the first siblings to graduate from the family, eleven years apart, both from Harper High School where red and white are school colors.
The Gold school closing featured a program of songs dialogues and musical selections attended by a crowd. Certificates were presented to Ewald Ottmers and Chester Eckhardt by Mr. Arthur Stehling of Fredericksburg. A later dance followed. a gas stove incident injured Miss Winona Duecker as flames were extinguished. The community mourns neighbor Waldemar Beyer’s sudden death and the Ladies Aid meeting at Cave Creek church was held.
Juenke and Schoenewolf shipped their second carload of wool this week to the Schreiner Wool and Mohair Co warehouse in Kerrville. The first carload of 32,000 pounds left on May 7, and the second was dispatched on Monday, May 20.
Fields of golden grain signal harvest time as residents begin cutting crops and wiring homes for electrical service in preparation for PEC extensions. Local figures Theo Pehl Margery Jenschke Sam Pehl George Pehl and families are mentioned alongside baccalaureate attendees Felix Jenschke Joseph Henry Petsch Elgin Ellebracht Pete Weber.
Graduation exercises set for May 24 in the Johnson City High School Auditorium following baccalaureate ceremonies on May 19. The program includes a processional, invocation by Dr. A C Hakim, musical interlude, benedictions by Rev. C D Curtis, and a recessional by Irma Nell Crider.
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