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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1941
Page
5
A new ten team bowling series opened at Turner Club bowling alleys last Monday night. The schedule features Monday Tuesday and Thursday team nights with a Friday makeup due to a skate tournament. The alleys are reconditioned and the 17 week split series includes teams led by Hugo Kraerner and others, with detailed rosters for each squad.
A revised induction plan for Texas Selective Service is to take effect with the Army calling 1375 men. General J Watt Page says the plan, approved by the War Department, reduces uncertainty and lets registrants arrange finances before induction. The process includes pre induction local board exams, Army examinations in district stations, and direct from exam to reception centers in the Eighth Corps Area with 20 to 30 days until induction and 10 days notice.
A garbled column mixes household advice with classroom banter and a new office boy interruption. The painter’s tip suggests exelic aid for glass cleaning while a quip about Julius Caesar and pension plans adds humor. A tense manager rebukes the thinking pupil amid a telephone query.
Alfred Friesenhahn thirty of New Braunfels was found slain and buried near Nocona Texas three miles west in Montague County. Clarence Hutcheson a deserter from the Army is held as suspect and admits killing Friesenhahn who was missing since Monday. Friesenhahn was brother to Sister Antoinette Marie of Fredericksburg and survived by parents three brothers and three sisters. Rites were held Sunday in New Braunfels.
Robert Stahmann, a prominent Comfort businessman with ties to Fredericksburg and Gillespie County, died Friday in Comfort from a heart attack. He is survived by his wife, a daughter Hertha in Fort Worth, and a son Walter in San Antonio. Funeral rites were held Sunday at 2 9 p.m. at Zoeller Beckmann Funeral Home with address by Robert Faust, the Herman Sons conducted the grave service, and the Comfort Liedertafel sang.
The International Milling Co announces a dictionary offer via its Robin Hood Flour advertisement. Send 10 cents and a flour sack guarantee with the coupon to Greenville Texas to receive the dictionary. Coupons are available from listed Greenville grocers and local distributor Lvehte Storage and Commission Company.
A teacher tells a boy named Fred he is behind and needs more push. Fred asks how to push if he thinks he is not behind, highlighting a humorous misunderstanding in a classroom moment.
Funeral services for Mrs Karl Weber nee Carolina Loeffler pioneer resident of Gillespie County were held Monday afternoon at 3 30 at the family residence and at 4 at Zions Lutheran Church Rev F A Brather officiating The interment followed at City Cemetery The deceased was born December 8 1860 in Fredericksburg and died Sunday morning October 20 at the family home aged 80 years 10 months and 11 days Surviving are six of eleven children Alfred Arthur Charles Lydia Mrs King Faulkner Ida Mrs H A Weiss Hulda Mrs Herman Jung and nine grandchildren Funeral arrangements were by Beckman Funeral Home.
Waldemar Hannemann will depart soon to attend an Aeronautical School in Dalas. Mrs. Margaret Tally and her daughters of Salt Lake City Utah will visit this weekend with her parents Mr. and Mrs. F J Maier for an extended stay.
A young man seeks help for insomnia. The doctor prescribes courting in bed until sleep. He returns next day and says he counted to 46 875 before sleep, but then realized it was time to get up. The joke hinges on the absurd wait to sleep while awake.
Local notice promotes Fredericksburg Drive In Station with Rubin Crenwelge listed as proprietor. Details suggest a property or service listing tied to the drive in venue. Further specifics not provided in the fragment.
Mrs Olga Emelie Weirich Usener died October 18 at 11 p m at Fredericksburg residence. Funeral services were held October 20 at 2 p m at Beckmann Funeral Home with Rev O Lindenberg officiating. Bear Creek Choir sang at City Cemetery where interment occurred. Survived by husband Lanzo Usener and four children Ora Laura Hileen Lanza. Siblings Willie Henry Weirich Alex Weirich Herman Weirich Emil Weirich. Preceded by Felix and Meta, Mrs August Ahrens.
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