PTA Membership Drive Underway in Fredericksburg
The Fredericksburg Parent-Teacher Association launches a short drive from October 9 to the October 11 meeting at 3 15 p m in the Visual Aid Building. Blank forms go home with students for parents to join renew or confirm existing membership. Dues are 50 cents annually and four class prizes will reward largest room memberships.
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Fredericksburg
Parent-Teacher Association
Visual Aid
Reinhard Enderlin
Alfred Hennig
G. A. Poehlmann
Eric Nagel
Tight Little Island Drive-In Benefits Pep Squad
A Drive-In event titled Tight Little Island held on Monday October 16 to raise funds for the St. Marys Pep Squad. Proceeds support the squad’s activities and school spirit initiatives.
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St. Mary's
Stonewall Wins First Play-off Over Seipps 12 to 3
Stonewall defeated Seipps 12 to 3 in the opening playoff game. Next Sunday the final will be played at Seipps in Fredericksburg. The Stonewall Farmers League held a postgame lunch and awarded prizes to Reubsahm and Pehl. A nominating committee was named to select the October 27 meeting show and to arrange gym heating. Scouts attended, merit badges earned, and an Austin trip to usher at a football game was noted. Trustees plan a school gym dance on October 7 with Happy Go Lucky Boys providing music.
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Stonewall
Seipps
Fredericksburg
Stonewall Farmers League
Reubsahm
John Pehl
Howard Cravens
E. Hodges
Ophelia Weinheimer
James E. Eckert
Tanner
Austin
Alfred Ahrens Jr
Happy Go Lucky Boys
Bicycles Mark Roughly A Century Of Use
The article notes bicycles have been in common use for roughly one hundred years, tracing their adoption and impact on transportation, sport, and daily life across communities.
Electrical Service Interruption Planned in Fredericksburg Area
Electrical service in Fredericksburg and rural areas will halt from 12 midnight to 4 a m Thursday due to transformer changes at the 69 KV Substation on Kerrville road. Announcement came from Felix Wilke city utility manager and Frank Schmidt LCRA construction foreman.
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Fredericksburg
Kerrville Road
Felix Wilke
Frank Schmidt
LCRA
Fredericksburg Firms and Professionals Expand Local Services
An array of local businesses and professionals expand operations in Fredericksburg. New offices house Duderstadt Insurance Agency offering fire and life coverage. Balser and Davidson provide eight-county accounting with staff including Madeline Oestreich and Julia Mae Kordzik. Vapo Butane Co. sells tanks and appliances with manager Tommy Jung. Attorneys Victor Rogers runs a law office alongside Texas Finance Corp and Rogers and Rogers Insurance. J E Smith leads Texas Finance Corp.
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Fredericksburg
Balser
Bewley Flour Mills
San Antonio
Air Force
Alvin Davidson
Internal Revenue Collector
Hill Country
Internal Revenue Department
Texas Employment Commission
Balser and Davidson
Madeline Oestreich
Jullia Mae Kordzik
Agnes Nebgen
Vapo Butane Co
Vapo Butane Company
Tommy Jung
Jung
Elias Klaerner
Vernon Ottmers
Victor Rogers
Rogers
Baylor University
Houston
Waco
Texas Finance Company
Rogers and Rogers Insurance Agency
Schroeder
Texas Finance Corporation
Gillespie
Kerr
J E. Smith
Finance Corporation
Frank Gregoire
Faye Dikemann
Cordes and Weinheimer Families Visit in Austin
Mr and Mrs Chester Cordes Mrs Adolph Weinheimer and Mr and Mrs Alvin Weinheimer spent Sunday with Mr and Mrs William E Wieheta in Austin. Miss Bernice Weinheimer of Elgin teaches at Elgin High School.
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Chester Cordes
Adolph Weinheimer
Alvin Weinheimer
William E. Wieheta
Austin
Bernice Weinheimer
Elgin
Elgin High School
William “Bill” Heimann 70 Dies After Short Illness
William Bill Heimann 70 longtime Gillespie County custodian and baseball enthusiast died Saturday at 6 30 PM after a short illness. He served as courthouse custodian for 12 years and was a former city and county employee a farmer from Rocky Hill. Survivors include wife Clara Kuhlmann two sons Wesley and Werner three grandchildren one great grandchild and one daughter who died in infancy. Funeral Monday at Beckmann Funeral Home with Rev Otto Lindenberg officiating burial in City Cemetery.
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William “Bill” Heimann
Gillespie County
Bill
Rocky Hill
Heimann
Fredericksburg
August Heimann
Helena Klein Heimann
Clara Kuhlmann
Wesley Heimann
Superior
Arizona
Werner Heimann
Galveston
John
Frank
Herman
Henry
Albert
Augusta
Ad. Bonn
Anna
Moritz Hartmann
Lena Heimann
Priests Transferred Within Diocese to Kerrville and Local Appointment
Rev. Albert Hubertus, assistant at St. Mary's, moves to Kerrville to assist Rev. Fr. Kemper and serve part time as chaplain at Legion Hospital. Rev. Gino Bernasconi is named new assistant at St. Mary's, arriving today. Both priests were ordained May 27 this year.
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Albert Hubertus
St. Mary’s Church
Kerrville
Kemper
Legion Hospital
Gino Bernasconi
Father Bernasconi
Father Hubertus
Seven Children Born In Local Hospitals This Week
Seven children were born in local hospitals over the past week. Three girls were born to Elgin Kramer on October 16 and to John Sager Biel and Arthur Crenwelge Jr. on October 3. Four boys were born to Bill Moses on September 27 R L Mitchell on September 28 Chester Eckhardt and W M Whitehead on October 1.
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Elgin Kramer
John Sagebiel
Arthur Crenwelge
Bill Moses
R. L. Mitchell
Chester Eckhardt
W. M. Whitehead
Polyandry Defined as Woman with Multiple Husbands
The article explains polyandry as the form of marriage in which a woman has more than one husband.
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PTA
Oak Grove
Washington
Calvin Herbert
Hugo Henke, Jr
James W. Danz
Calvin Herbert Hugo Henke Jr
Loo
Alimee
Dearborn
James Eckert
State Fair
Texas
Dallas
Christian Mathisen
Fred Mathisen
H. T. Latham
Arthur Houy
Elgin Heimann
Alfred Weber
Mathisen
Latham
Insurance and Federal Savings and Loan Association
Alfons Klier
Isabell Land
Marcella Weiershausen
Bill Heimann
Beckmann
Otto Lindenberg
Gibson
Fredericksburg Publishing Co
A. Hubertus
Elmo Baethge
Kallenberg - Schroeder Office Bldg
Klaus Manufacturing Co
E. L. Nixon & Son
West Main Sf
Chevrolet
America
Hein
E. Main
Yale
Renin
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