PTA Program and Cook Book Praise Highlight Meeting
PTA members enjoyed refreshments and awards for teachers Mrs Hugo Walter Miss Faye Duderstadt and Miss Maurine Smith along with Evelyn Dennis. Mrs Striegler chaired the cookbook project thanking Emil Riley Emilie Henke and others. The report notes deer numbers rising in national forests with over 2 000 000 big game animals now estimated, 80 percent deer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hugo Walter
Faye Duderstadt
Maurine Smith
Evelyn Dennis
Austin American
Frederickburg Home Kitchen
Henry Lochte
Robert Striegler
San Antonio
Striegler
Emil Riley
Emilie Henke
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Saengerfest Plans Include Concerts And Dances
The 54th Saengerfest schedule lists rehearsals Saturday at 2 PM in the Public School Auditorium and a 4 PM Kammers program at the Fair Grounds with Joe Molberg as MC. Non members can buy $1 tickets for the Kammers, Saturday events, and dances. Sunday programs start at 7:30 PM in the Public School Auditorium with 13 numbers and a Fredericksburg Concert Band opening. The Sunday 2 PM concert also features 13 numbers. Sunday morning 9:30 AM business session in Peter's Hall will elect officers and decide next year’s host city. Participating choirs include Sadnger Runde of Austin, Beethoven Maennerchor, Liederkranz, Echo, Concordia, Maennerchor of Texas towns, and many others from New Braunfels, Comfort, Boerne, Taylor, and Fredericksburg. host club Hermannsohn Gemischter Chor. Dances at Peter's Hall and Seipp's Pavilion. Turner Hall hosts Sunday events. Bodo Holekamp is association president and William Dietel is musical director.
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Pubblic School
Fredericksburg
Alfred Pehl
Peter’ Hall
Chhosen
A. H. Kneese
Sadngerrunde
Austin
Tragic Vehicle Crash Kills Six Soldiers Near Fredericksburg
Six soldiers from the 36th Division perished in a double wreck near Fredericksburg Kerr County when a rain soaked road left drivers unable to stop a car from rear ending a slowly climbing truck. The other crash on the San Antonio highway injured Jack Lindsey of the Texas Livestock Commission.
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Ericksburg
Kerr County
Fredericksburg
Grona
Will Grona
Kerrville
Olga Durst
Paul Durst
Otto Baethge
Gillespie County
Marler
Rose
Harper
Charles Rose
Schaetter Funeral Home
36Th Division
133
Field Artilery
Cami Bowie
Jack Lindsey
Texas Livestock Commission Company
High Hill
San Antonio
Lindsey
Banks to Close Monday in Columbus Day Observance
Fredericksburg banks the Fredericksburg National and Security State Bank will stay closed next Monday October 13 in observance of Columbus Day which falls on Sunday October 12.
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Fredericksburg
City C Of C Seeks Block Mail Delivery Cooperation
C Of C seeks 100 percent property owner cooperation for city mail delivery. A Tuesday meeting set final instructions for securing support and outlined a committee of local residents and business figures to provide information. It urged immediate sidewalk improvements to enable twice daily free mail delivery.
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Chamber of Commerce
Henry Kneese
Victor Sagebiel
Felix Stehling
Otto Hartmann
P. Norman
Henry Kuenemann
Henry Borchers
Roman Peter
W. E. Loudon
B. J. Soehlin
Ellis St. Clair
Spinach Seed Promise from 1942 Agriculture Survey
A U S Department of Agriculture survey reports home production will provide a full supply of spinach seed for planting in 1942.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Compare Quality and Prices of Work Clothes Jackets and Pants
Catalog notes list Brown Duck Jackets and SES Brown Duck Pants with related items from Dickies and Army Cloth pants. Prices range around $2.65 to $2.00, with references to Pool’s Overalls and Sterling Bros. S148 appears as a catalog code.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dickie
Army
D. d
Pool
Sterling Bros
1941 Tax Payments Continue With New Poll Tax Receipts
Tax payers prepare for 1942 elections as exemptions must be secured by January 31, 1942. A new law allows poll tax receipts to be issued from books in precinct order, simplifying multi precinct bookkeeping. First day payees include numerous individuals and couples, with split receipts noted for Raymond Klein and Chas. Kelin Estate. Tax discounts drop from 3 percent in October to 2 percent in November and 1 percent in December. regular payment due in January with penalties after February 1. split payments allowed through November 30.
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Witten
Chris Feuge
Alvin Kensing
Martin Anderegg
Theo. Koennecke
Theo Lange
Albert Hartmann
Chas. Hartmann
Albert E. Bernhiard
Rolf Dannenberg
Edna Dannenberg
Hy. A.moellering
Alois Heinrich
Felix Heep
Clara Peter
Ernst Stehling
Adam Stehling
Edwin O. Kiehne
Comfort resident visits Fredericksburg to view old time pictures
Alex Brinkmann of Comfort visited Fredericksburg on Friday and showed interest in the "old time" pictures shown in the Woch enblatt. Brinkmann is a curator of old periodicals books and photographs.
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Alex Brinkmann
Comfort
Fredericksburg
Wochenblatt
Brinkman
Rat Poison Supplies and County Rat Problem Noted
Agricultural leaders report widespread rats in many county areas. The rat poison costs 25 cents per pound and is safe for domestic animals. Two pounds cover the average farm, with 190 pounds ordered in Grote’s office by Saturday October 4.
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Grote
Ladies Commercial Bowling League Formed
A four team women’s ten pin league will start on Wednesday October 15 with teams of five players each. Sponsors include Palace Theatre Lone Star Beer R J Peter's Package Store and Mutual Lumber Co. The league will run twelve weeks. Isidor Stehling returned from the Texas Panhandle where he assisted his brother-in-law Eugene Weichheimer in gathering the wheat crop and reported heavy rains damaged the harvest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palace Theatre
Lone Star Beer
R. J. Peter's Package Store
Mutual Lumber Co
Isidor Stehling
Texas Painhandle
Eugene Weichheimer
Isidor
Western Auto promotes brake fluid and parts for Ford A
Stop rite Hydraulic Brake Fluid replaces or adds to your original brake fluid. Western Auto Store advertises ready faced clutch plates from 72c and lined brake shoes for Ford A at 90c. Safe brakes cost little and avoid chatter and driving unpleasantness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Western Auto Store
Ford
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PTA
Sponser
Sonny-boy
Tow Sawyer
Stehling Bros
Texas
C. of
C. Seeks
Ladies Commercial Bowling League
Cooper
Saenger & Ochs
Polliace
Fisher
Pontiac
United States Navy
General Motors M* A
America
East Main Street
Boening Motor Sales
Fredericksburg, Texas
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