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paid. But after more than a dozen years the scholarships were
discontinued; the Captain discovered that sometimes the money
was squandered on things other than educational.
Around 1920 as an act of reciprocity for the large volume of
business that the trade territory of Junction sent his way-
for years wool, mohair, banking, pecans, hides, and furs were
sold to the Schreiner-Hodges Company of Junction or sent
to the business warehouse at Kerrville - Captain Schreiner
offered a gift to the Junction Public Schools. The gift was to be
a donation equal to any amount they would raise for the
purpose of erecting a building. The money was given with the
understanding that the building would be called "The Charles
Schreiner High School" as long as it was to be used as a high
school. The amount of the gift, according to Superintendent
R. D. Kothmann of Junction, was around $10,000.22 The corner-
stone of the building is dated 1924, and for nine years it was
called "The Charles Schreiner High School." The name is still
on the building, but it is now called the "Junction Grammar
School."
In 1919 Captain Schreiner made a gift of $150,000 to the
highway maintenance fund of Kerr County to aid the good
roads program and the Old Spanish Trail project. In March,
1920, he and his sons made a gift of 700 acres of land as a
site for a tuberculosis hospital for ex-service men. This is now
known as the United States Veteran's Hospital Number 93,
at Legion, Texas. Another of his acts of philanthropy was the
gift of the Secor Hospital to the City of Kerrville. This
property was placed in trust, and the hospital continued to
operate for several years. The proceeds went into a fund to
provide a free clinic for the poor and unfortunate. In addition
to these gifts Captain Schreiner was the moving spirit in secur-
ing a railroad through the rough hill section into the beautiful
valley of the Guadalupe.23
Back in 1914, just prior to the war in Europe, Captain
Schreiner announced his purpose to establish at Kerrville, Texas,
a junior college and preparatory school for boys. The out-
break of the World War delayed the project, but during the
war he had investigations undertaken which led to an en-
22Letter to Gene Hollon from Supt. R. D. Kothmann, Junction, Texas,
January 10, 1944. (Other estimates have made the gift as much as $50,000,
but no one seems to be sure of the exact amount.)
23Kerr County.166
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