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NEW ULM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1949
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Volume 38 No. 20.
Frelsburg Veterans Get
Taxes Were Collected
Bill Williams
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Cat Spring News
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Willow Springs News
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Grand Jury In Thanksgiving Hunting Death
Local Parent Teachers
Will Meet Friday Night
188 Austin Co. Students
Enter Soil Essay Contest
Attends Funeral Of
Brother At Sealy
West End Girl Wins
At Houston Dairy Show
Don’t Get Lazy About
Signals, Drivers Told
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Daniel Doerr of Alvin who is
a student at the University of
Texas spent Saturday and Sun-
day with Ms aunts and uncles,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry’ L. Muenz-
ler and daughter9 at New Ulm,
and Mr. and Mrs. Joe R. Zanek
of Industry.
Erwin Sladek, A. & M.
Graduate, To Begin
Aa Instructor Friday
1953 May Be Year Of
Bust, Says Babson
Attends Funeral Of
Relative At Eagle Lake
BIG GRASSHOPPER
YEAR PREDICTED
Blume suffered a multitude
suffered the ioss of a finger oriof cuts about the head, face
lingers in luenuva'i aCviuciita | anu chest, a di-located hip,
during the past week. Be care-'shattered knee cap and lesser
carried down the right-of-
all reported having had a splen-'way a long distance before be-
Eagle Lake Having Epidemic
Of
ing thrown off 28 feet from
the track.
A fuel tank on the train was
set afire by the impact and the
baggage car and all but regist-
ered mail was destroyed before
the blaze was extinguished.
Brendle, the driver, and Low.
ery, who was seated behind
him, were thrown from the car
and the latter’s hand was sev-
VocationalAgTeacherCragfc Near Njght
TWO OTHERS RECEIVE
SERIOUS INJURIES
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The New Ulm-Henkhaus Par.
ent Teachers Association will
have their next meeting on Fri-
day night, February 18, begin-
ning at 7:30 o’clock.
Following the business ses-
sion an attractive program is
promised, featuring a “Baby
Show,” and other entertaining
numbers.
All members are urged to at-
tend, and a special invitation ia
extended to all friends, who are
always welcome.
Work on Rug
Six of the local H. D. club
women met at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Hugo P. Schmidt on
Tuesday evening. Feb. 8 to
■work on the clubs unfinished
rug. Some of the members will
work every Tuesday evening un.
til the ruR is finished.
Wiliie Iselt was in Sealy
Wednesday morning to attend
Julius Iselt, of Sealy. Besides
Mr. Iselt, other relatives and
friends from this area were in
'Sealy to attend the services. ’
Details of Mr. Iselt’s passing
and life history ‘were not avail-
able at press time.
Austin, Feb. 15.—Texas mot-
orists are growing lazy about
signaling for stops and turns,
R. E. (Bob) Dysart, president
of the Texas Police association,
said Tuesday.
Motorists are becoming more
reluctant to stick their arms
out of the car window when
it’s cold outside or when snow
and rain are falling. That re-
luctance shows up in increased
accidents attributed to failure Colorado Co. Citizen.
to signal. Dysart, who is Fort
one misdemeanor.—Eagle Lake Worth’s police chief, said.
iT—ju-ui “Our traffic laws are all bas-
ed on common sense,” Dysart
said. “It’s because people eith-
er don’t know them, or delib-
erately violate them, that most
accidents occur.” ,
Dysart warned that driving funeral services forliig brother,
too fast for conditions is a fre-'' — T—-e jj—
quent reason for urban acci-’
dents. “You don’t have to be
violating a speed limit to be
driving too fast,” he said.
Haste and discourtesy are the
chief causes of intersection ac-
cidents, Dysart said.
The crash brought instant
death to Lowery while Brendle
died a short time later.
Eagle Lake and Columbus
minute jump, said Mr. Strauss,
coming within five hundred
votes of last year and nearly
two hundred higher than 1947,
another non-election year. He
attributes the poll tax payment
leap to the various discussions
going on over the state in re-
gards to referendum, local op-
ton elections, statewide prohibi-
tion and sale by the drink bills.
Austin county is getting ready
to vote its convictions, what-
ever the issued involved, Mr.
Strauss said.—Bellville Times.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis
Muenzler accompanied by Mr.
Rites Held For Victims
Services for Kermit Brendle
were held at Koenig Funeral
Home in La Grange on Monday
afternoon, with Rev. R. Heise
of the Lutheran church offi-
ciating. Burial was in the
Rutersville cemetery.
Survivors are his widow, one
daughter, and his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. E. Brendle of
Rutersville.
Last rites for Earh Lowery
were held in Greenville, his
home town, at the First Metho-
dist church. ,
Survivors are his widow, his
parents, five sisters and four
brothers.
a lie nvovs V
and Tommy Thomason. They i was
pll Vtavrirv/* Vaorl a cnlan ’
did time with plenty to eat and
drink.
The heifers have to be brought
back to the Houston show in
1950 together with their calves
and then there will be various
prizes awarded for the best
kept records over the two
years.
Ruby is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie Schmidt, of
Brenham, Feb. 14.—C. F.
Hoile, chairman of the Austin-
Washington Soil Conservation
district, said the board receiv-
ed 288 entries in the essay con-
test on “How Soil Conservation
Pays.”
All entries also will be en-
tered in the state-wide “Save
the Soil Save Texas” contest.
One hundred students from
Washington county and 188
from Austin county are taking
part in the district contest. W.
A. Lanier, instructor at Blinn
college, and Gerald Schuman of
Bellville will assist the board
in grading the essays for local
awards.
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Zjj-_°5C-l’f:n|and Mrs. Wilson Neumann and
baby spent Sunday in East Ber-
nard with Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Jecmenek and daughter Bar-
bara Ann.
Lake is having a new type of ery and Blume to
epidemic—amputated fingers.
Five Eagle Lake citizens have
La Grange, Feb. 15.—A pall
of sorrow wa9 cast over the en-
tire community Friday as word
spread of a tragic accident near
Altair Thursday night about
7:30 in which two members of
the La Grange V. F. W. basket
ball team were killed and two
others injured when the car in
which they were riding corded
with a Southern Pacific train.
The dead are Earl Lowery,
30, basket ball coach at La
Grange high school, and Kermit
A. Brendle, 27, veterans’ voca-
tional instructor at Fayetteville.
Injured were Leslie Blume,
La Grange postal employee, and
Oliver Hengst, an employee of
the state highway department.
The crash occurred as the
young men, all World War II
veterans, were enroute to Gar-
wood for a South Central Tex-
as League basket ball game.
Three other members of the
squad—Aubrey Voelkel, Char-
ley Otto and Jonathan Hengst
Ruby was accompanied by Mr. —had left in an earlier car and
Amputated Fingers ambulances answered the call
------ and Brendle and Hengst were
taken to Eagle Lake and Low-
i Columbus
■ the Schoensu community, near .
Shelby.
son says, grasshoppers
twice as hard to kill.
Dallas, Feb 14.—An authori-
ty on grasshoppers warns that
, •- . , , . .Ithe 1949 infestation of the in-
a‘u^n Tu 'sects in Texas may be the
Walter Hillboldt of Millheim ob-|wrost in Texas since ]9,10.
serve his birthday last Hednes-j I)r H G. Johnson is hea(j of
day evening i {h Texas A&M College Depar:-
Mrs. Emil Howe spent last mfnt of Entomo]ogy. He says
Friday m San Antonio with Mr. jthat the gras,hopper9 mav be
Ho*e* . „ , „ controlled—if the farmer will
Benme Prause of Cuero ac-|combat them with j.on whilc
they are hatthing.
Once they take wing, John-
are
Mrs. Augusfr Hoppe Jr. of
New Ulm. attended funeral
services held for her sister-in-
law, Mrs. E. J. Konescheck at
Eagle Lake on Wednesday af-
ternoon, Feb. 9. Mrs. Kones-
heck died in a Wharton hospi-
tal on Feb. 7.
Rev. Albert Brown of the
First Baptist church, conducted
the funeral services, and inter-
ment was in Lakeside Cemetery
in Eagle Lake.
Mrs. Konesheck was born
June 24, 1892, in Rainbow, Tex-
as, the daughter of Mamie
Woodward Rogers and J. W.
Rogers, and had made her homP
in Eagle Lake for the past 35
years. She was an active mem-
ber of the First Baptist church
until October of last year when
one of her limbs was broken.
Pallbearers were: S. O.
Boothe, C. H. Matthews, Gor-
don Birdwell, Sam Austin, R.
E. Altman, and Eddie Caylor.
Mrs. Konesheck is survived
by her husband, four children,
Mrs. C. L. Richter, Mrs. G. H.
Tate, David and Chester; nine
lA-andchildren, five sisters, and
four brothers.
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Marek
and children of the New Bre-
men community were pleasant
visitors in New Ulm, this
Thursday
Ruby Schmidt, of near Shel-
by, an active Austin county
4-H club girl, was the winner
of a white ribbon and third
place, as well as $22 in cash,
in the Jersey Milking Race
Show at the Houston Fat Stock
Show. A Jersey heifer, won in
the Milking Race at the 1948
show, won for her these honors*
The heifer increased in
weight from 232 pounds to 565
'* 1 show.
Named Betsy at the time Ruby
won her, and now 17 months
old, she promises to make a
nice cow. Betsy was bred by
Sartartia Plantation of Sugar-
land, and was sponsored by R.
E Smith of the Second Nation-
al’ Bank, Houston.
The heifer, exhibited at the
Frelsburg Austin County Fair last October
won a blue ribbon.
Attends Banquet
On Tuesday night, Feb. 8,
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Meinscher to a banquet at the did not learn of the fatal crash
Bill Williams restaurant on
South Main. This wa8 given for
ail the winners of dairy heifers! was apparently not sighted by
Lake Wales, Fla., Feb. 10.—
• Another depression, probably a-
bout 1953, is unavoidable pri-
marily becaifee “tne last one
never was cured,” in the opin-
ion of Economist Roger Babson.
“All we ever did in the thir-
ties was put on a few plasters
to stop the pain,” he said.
“We are making the same
mistakes today that were made
before every depression in our
history and the reason is plain.
We never learn from the mis-
takes of others. Every gener-
ation has to gets its economic
thumping, it seems to me.”
The economist who foretold
the 1929 crash expounded a
habits cause “in the over-reach-
ing of one group or another.”
“The next one will be no ex-
ception This time its the labor
union leaders w ..o are trying to
cover too much territory. We
can no longer permit, for in-
stance, a man like John L. Lew.
is, as able as he actually is to
decide whether or not the na-
tion can have coal.”
March of Dimes Report
The local “March of Dimes”
chairman wishes to report that
the amount of $31.20 was con-
tributed, and extends thanks to
each one who supported this
worthy cause.
II. D. Club Meets
On Tuesday’ afternoon. Feb.
8, the Willow Springs H. D.
Club met at the home of Mrs.
John Coufal. Thirteen members
. answered the roll call Gy nam-
ing a shrub that should be
pruned in winter. The business
session followed in routine or-
der, with the council delegate
giving her report. Five dollars
was contributed to the March
of Dimes. The club also chose
to send relief to some German
family. The clothing demon-
strators took pattern measure-
ments for seven of the mem-
bers. After this demonstration
the hostess, assisted by Mrs.
James Dockal served lunch to
the members and one visitor.
On Sick List
We are sorry to report that
Mrs. A. C. Zenkner is on the
sick list, her illness necessitat-
ing her removal to a hospital
[ for observation. We wish her a
. speedy and complete recovery.
Personals
Mrs. E. W. Lincke and son
Lloyd visited in Houston last
Saturday and Sunday.
Sunday visitors in the H. H. - < . ... - „
Schultz home were, Mr. and ^°_r_e .follow,ng
Mrs. D. E. Gresser and children
■ of Austin and Harold Schultz
■ of Houston
New Home
Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Krebs
' will soon be the proud owners
• of a newly constructed home,
: work on same is progressing
nicely.
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Mr. and Mrs. Otto Keding
and daughter of Sealy
pleasant visitors here
Thursday.
Mrs. Anna Hill and Mrs. A-
dolph Kollatschny and Mary
Lou visited with Mrs. Alice Hill
in Bernardo last Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernst Dittmar,
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pless, Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Pless, and Mr.
and Mrs. O. W, Reichardt and
Otto Jr. and Olin Dittmar were
in Houston last Wednesday to
attend the Fat Stock Show.
A few ladies 'helped Mrs.
Emil Howe observe her birth-
day last Thursday.
Eagle Lake, Feb. 11.—T. T.
Waddell, State Game Warden
of Eagle Lake, was no-billed by
the Grand Jury for the Febru-
ary Term, 1949, of the District
Court of Colorado County,
whose report was given out by
the foreman, G. A. Beane, yes-
terday, on a charge of murder
without malice in connection
with the death of Frank Dun-
gen of Houston, 45-year old
Shell Oil Company machinist.
On Thanksgiving Day, 1948,
the game warden on official
duty, apparently startled Mr.
Dungen, who was hunting in a
thickly wooded area on the Cui.
len ranch near Columbus. As
Mr. Waddell drove down the
wooded road, the man suddenly
appeared in his path. He step-
ped from his truck and called
to the hunter to drop his gun.
Mr. Dungen apparently turned
to re-enter the woods, and the
game warden fire one shot into
ground, the bullet ricocheted,
striking the hunter.
The Grand Jury billed A.
Dotson, negro dance hall pro-
prietor of Eagle Lake, on a
charge of murder in the killing
of Johnny Span, also colored
on Christmas Even when Span
was reportedly attempting to
“crash tne gate” at Dotson’s
dance hall.
The Foreman of the Grand
Jury reported that the Jury
had investigated all criminal
accusations coming to their at-
tention and returned 13 true
bills, 12 felony indictments and
until about an hour later.
The Diesel-powered “dinkey”
HI -- ;«y not sighted by
at the 1948 show, their spon-lthe players until it was almost
sors and their county agents,1 in front of them. Tracks show-
or F.F.A. teachers who helped ed the car skidded on the pave-
them care for their heifers. I ment 52 feet before it struck
The hosts were Archer Romero i the side of the train. The cartown Sunday, visiting briefly7
in the Hilmer Fricke home.
Mrs. George Fricke of Round
Top visited here a few days
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Marsh
and daughters and Mr. and
Mrs. — Phillips and daughter
of Houston spent the week end
here with relatives.
Mrs. O. H. Michaelis of Bell-
ville accompanied by Miss Hed-
wig Kinkier visited here last
Friday.
Herman Bretschnieder re-
turned to Oklahoma after visit-
ing his sister and brothers 'here
a few weeks.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Strode
of Houston visited her mother
Mrs. Emil Howe here last week
one day.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Futch
visited in Industry last Satur-
day’ evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Pless are
visiting with their daughter
and family Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Hintz, near Shelby.
Richard Mau of Columbu^ ac-
companied 'by his girl friend
visited his parents here Sun-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. McMillian
of Houston spent Sunday in the
C. W. Howe home. They were
accompanied here by Mrs.
yaT'in^uJton ffthlJ"*
days m Houston with them.
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Two La Grange Men Die In Auto-Train
According to information
from Charles Strauss, county
tax collector, tax payments
through January 31 amounted
to 96 per cent of the total on
the rolls. Taxes due amounted
to $268,483.38, with $257,462.-
49 collected. r
Poll tax payments took a last begin' hlg duties Friday by tak-
—u m- over the preisburg of
veteran8 in the Zimmerscheidt
school house.
The Frelsburg class has been
coming to Columbus for study
with Columbus veterans under
W. T. Nelson, county coordina-
tor.
Mr. Sladek recently received
his bachelor of science degree in pounds jince the 1948
animal husbandry at Texas A.
&. M. college. A graduate of
Fayetteville high school in
1943, he received the Lone Star
and American Farmer degrees
in high school F.F.A. work. He
was in the armed forces in
World War II. He has a wife
and children.
Members of the
class include Sylvester Pavli-
cek, Sylvester Zapalac, William
Kuehn, Leroy Venghaus, Leroy
Weishuhn, Arthur Kautz, Clar-
ence Brune, Otto Huebner,
Ewald Meyer and Theodore
Schultz.
Newest members are Ray-
mond Kulhanek, Edwin War-
schak, Eddie Evanicky, John-
nie Acamek and Theo Janak.
The class and its new teach-
er plan to convert the school
building into a farm shop.—
Ten members of the Henk-
haus Gun Club met at the
rifle range Sunday afternoon
for the regular meeting and
target practice. In the average
„_ , score9
were registered:
E. H. Baumgart ...
Walter Glaeser
Davy Gross
Eddie Hegemeyer ...
C. O. Heinsohn .....
W. E. Heinsohn ...
Walter Kuehn
A. C. Rinn
L. A. Reichle
Lester Schweke
fan has not been identified, the Friday. His condition is also
ULllvia aie nupivixu.
Henry Wright of the Thorsten.' G
burg & Tamborella Gravel Pit,, matter of conjecture? The
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Place, and E. H. Henry, Super- ] south of Columbus on the high-
intendent of the colored school, I way to El Campo, has no signal
whose accident happened in | lights. Two other nearby roads.
where he had stopped the school i
bus to make an under-the-hood
investigation. When E. H. Hen-
ry came out of the emergency
room after having received
medical treatment, Mr. Nau-
mann arrived for the same
medical attention.—Headlight.
(controlled—if the farmer will
companied by “Pop” Kraus!
were business visitors here last
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Andreas
and Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Eck-
ardt attended a turkey supper
at the Hugo Kveton home Sat-1
urday evening.
was the silver wedding anni-
versary of Mr. and Mrs. Kve-
ton.
Relatives and friends, helped
Mrs. Walter Bretschneiaer ob-
serve her birthday Sunday. Her
birthday really was on Monday,
Valentine Day.
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Engelking
of Houston spent Sunday here
with her parent, Mr. and Mrs.
Hugo Suhr
Relatives and friends helped
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Pless of
Houston observe their birthdays
here at the home of his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Pless.
Hugo Suhr received congrat-
ulations on his birthday Tues-
day.
Mrs. Harvey Prause invited
a few guests for a surprise
birthday party for Mr. Prause
Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Ladig
of Houston spent the week end
here with Mrs. Minna Kuehn
and Mr. and Mrs. Will Ladig.
Mrs. Bernice Hauser of Ne-
vada also spent the week end
here with her mother Mrs. Min-
na Kuehn. She i, spending her
vacation here and in Houston.
Miss Hattie Mieth of New
Ulm visited her aunt Mrs. Mip.
na Kuehn Sunday afternoon.
She also visited briefly with
Mrs. Hilmer Fricke.
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Klopsteck
and children of Sealy were in
fingers >n identical accidents and chest, a
ful when you start poking a- injuries. He was transferred
round under the hood of your from Columbus to the La
car! Information is that all five (Grange hospital Sunday and is
cf the men were checking the reported to be doing well.
action of radiator fans whenj Hengst escaped with the
their fingers were caught be-j]jgbte,t injuries—a dislocated
tween the fan belt and pulley, hip, and cuts and bruises. He
While the fifth loser to the, was removed to his home here
fan has not been identified, the Friday. His condition is also
others are Morris Naumann,(improved.
Henry Wright of the Thorsten. Cause of the crash was a
burg & Tamborella Gravel Pit,, matter of conjecture. The cross-
Mr. Briscoe of the Mose Thomas jng( wbjcb is about 11 miles
Place, and E. H. Henry, Super- south of Columbus on the high-
intendent of the colored school, I way to El Campo, has no signal
whose accident happened in j lights. Two other nearby roads,
front of the, Laughlin Hospital a large gas flare nearby, as well
a9 lighted road houses in the
immediate vicinity, have been
suggested as possible reasons
for the men not having noticed
the short train until too late to
stop.
Brendle’s car, a 1948 Chevro-
let, was practically demolished.
—Fayette Co. Record.
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