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Newspaper
Fredericksburg Standard
Location
Fredericksburg, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1964
Page
1
A reflective piece urges gratitude for small blessings and community strength. It recalls the barefoot boy story and notes the local district’s loyal, principled teachers, highlighting retiring Flora Mueller for over thirty years of fair, diligent instruction.
Funeral services for Mrs. Carl Hartmann Sr. 97, longtime Gillespie County resident, were held Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. at Beckmann Funeral Home and 3:30 p.m. at Zion Lutheran Church. Rev. Kermit Menking officiated with Zion Lutheran men's choir. Burial was in City Cemetery. She died September 7 at Keidel Memorial Hospital. Born Emma Dietz December 23, 1866, she married Carl Hartmann August 23, 1887.
Preparations are underway for the Elementary-Junior High PTA Carnival on the public school campus Wednesday Sept. 23. Co chairmen Mrs. W. A. Nettle and Mrs. Frank Meine Jr. have organized a Mexican lunch downstairs and up stairs food service. A pageant by Grades 1–6 will be staged in the Junior High Gym at 8 p.m. with a theme The Triumph of Man featuring dinosaurs cave men Indians and settlers of early America. Committees cover lunch details decorations publicity and kitchen duties with many local names listed among volunteers.
Gillespie County old time Teamsters and families gathered for their 29th annual reunion at Klein's Hall on Spring Creek. Highlights included a memorial program for late Charles Enderlin and a business meeting presided by Henry Wendel Sr. The 30th reunion is planned for Labor Day 1965.
Fredericksburg High School will dedicate its new athletic stadium Friday night before the Hillbillies versus Burnet Bulldogs game. The $70,000 facility seats 2,691 with additional bleachers, features a 96 light system, a spacious press box, and was built by the board of education, the Billy Boosters, and local donors.
Gillespie County reports a 1964-65, 2373 students in county schools, up from 2259 last year. Stonewall 123, Harpers 208, Rocky Hill 44, Doss 38, St Marys 538. Fredericksburg Independent SD totals 1422 with 446 in first four grades, 486 in grades five through eight, 490 in high school grades.
Fredericksburg youth sell tickets for a September 26 event at Gillespie Fair Park to fund trips for St Mary's Mary Chorale FHS Billiettes and a youth singing group to German Day in Dallas on October 11 and support the FHS Band for the Cotton Bowl trip. Tickets cost 1 25 and include a German meal. program features a German band a sing along and more. Proceeds aim for at least 1500 net with a post dinner dance.
The Jaycees ran a Labor Day Rest Stop on the Courthouse Lawn drawing about 1500 visitors from across the United States. Co chairs Guenther Ottmers Jr. and Harold Klinksick oversaw, with four hour shifts from Friday 4 p.m. to Monday midnight.
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