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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1950
Page
5
Jim Circle Motors in San Saba will mark its return after last June fire with an open house from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday June 3 in a new 55 000 dollar 48 by 144 foot one story building housing showroom office and parts department. Refreshments will be served and visitors from San Saba and surrounding counties are invited.
The first of three Girl Scout day camps starts Tuesday June 6 at 7 p.m. at the Girl Scout Cabin. Fees must be paid and permission slips sent to the proper person. A training course for adults was held May 30 at Tourist Park with strong turnout.
Fredericksburg Independent School Board buys the Louis Kott property including the homestead and adjacent lot to enlarge the campus. Deeds are being executed, bonds delivered, and construction plans by architect John Becker of San Angelo progress for the new primary building west of the football field, a new gym, and renovations.
Hans Hannemann Gillespie District Commissioner and future Capitol Area Council Troop 2 Scoutmaster attended a pre jamboree training session at Camp Tom Wooten in Austin. Training covered Jamboree preparations for Philadelphia events from June 30 to July 6. Hannemann said two local Scouts Nelson Geistweidt and Victor Rode will attend. departure set for June 25. Additional space remains in the two Capitol Area Council troops. interested youths should reserve. Leo Tomlinson and Alvin Davidson accompanied by spouses visited Laredo on Sunday.
The Fredericksburg National Bank will close Saturday June 3 in observance of Jefferson Davis birthday.
Louis Hirsch, the square First Teacher in Gillespie County, was honored at the Petersburg School closing where he taught the first class 60 years ago. Now retired in San Antonio, he recalled starting in 1890 at age 15, when state law required teachers be 16. World Wide Greetings Rotary Club notes global messages from St John’s Newfoundland to Auckland New Zealand. Gillespie County farms busy with harvest underway as combines work in grain fields amid rain concerns.
List of patients undergoing operations and tonsillectomies in area hospitals during the past week. Includes David Moldenhauer and Edgar Priess among those listed for operations, plus several children and relatives named in the ton silectomies group.
Preliminary Gillespie County retail data show totals across sectors for 15 furniture and home appliance stores, 12 automotive outlets, 30 gasoline stations, 4 drug stores and 21 other stores. Fredericksburg lists 121 establishments with 8.108 million in sales and 465 employees. County totals show 52 establishments, 1.187 million in sales and 41 employees. Final figures will appear in a Texas Bulletin, with releases available from the Bureau of the Census.
Accidental deaths near four day Memorial Day end for 504 total with a record 315 traffic fatalities, 75 drownings, 114 misc mishaps. Texans report 41 violent deaths including 21 on highways, nine drownings, one plane crash and 10 other causes.
The Fredericksburg conference Church School Teachers Association held a Sunday evening rally at Cherry Spring's Lutheran Church. About seventy five members attended with ten Bethany nine Zion and six Holy Ghost teachers present. Rev. G. A. Poehlmann led the afternoon study "Where Do We Go From Here." A supper followed and a second discussion. Plans for an October fall rally at St. John's Lutheran Church Crabapple were announced.
Members of the local Presbyterian Church hosted a reception and supper on the Hayden Osbourn lawn from 5 to 9 p m to honor Rev Wm M Logan of Kerrville serving as pastor and Ed Robertson who will lead during the summer. Out of town guests included Mr and Mrs Emil Gold and Mr and Mrs John Leavell of Kerrville. Yellow snapdragons formed the centerpiece on the serving table. A gift was given to Rev Logan in appreciation of his service.
The Frantzen Ahrens Post VFW hosts a benefit dance at Schmidts Hall on the San Antonio Highway Sunday night June 4 with music by the Happy Go Lucky Boys. Proceeds support the post building fund to renovate its Mason Highway club building. Reservations for Saturday night dance by calling 7614.
Mr and Mrs Fred Davidson and daughter Linda visited his brother the Alvin Davidson family during the past weekend in a brief family gathering.
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