The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 8, 1978 Page: 1 of 6
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Harper Girls Place in'Make it With Wool’ Distr.Contest at Mason
Bode Feed & Supply Is Important Industry for Harper
To Build A
Better World...
Start In Vour
Own Community
HARPER WEATHER REPORT
By Frank Staudt
Publisher’s No. 235780
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^ Boosting Harper ^ High In The Hills sA Wonderful Region ^ Best Climate In Texas
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Rain during Nov., 2.36.
Rain during year, 31.93.
Volume 62, No. 49.
6 Pages
Population 383 Altitude 2100 Feet HARPER, GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS 78631 Subscription: $4.50 Per Year, locally; $5.50 outside.
Friday, December 8, 1978.
Harper Girls Compete in "Make It With Wool"
PATTY LEINWEBER
First Place
JAN ESQUELL
MELANIE McMAHON
Harper Herald Christmas
Issue Slated For Dec. 21
The Harper Herald’s annual Christmas issue will be
published and issued thru the mails on Thursday, Dec.
21, so that all copies of the Herald might be delivered in
time for Christmas which this year falls on Monday, Dec.
25.
The publisher-editor of the Herald kindly asks all
advertisers and contributors to this issue to please place
their copy or space order with the Herald by Monday,
Dec. 18. We plan to have an interesting and nice issue for
the Christmas edition. In Harper advertising space and
Christmas-New Year’s Greeting ads may be placed with
Jo Joyce Lang at the Hill Crest Station.
As has been the custom, the publisher does not plan
to print the Herald for the week of Christmas, for the
December 28 issue, unless circumstances and adver-
tising orders require publication. New Year’s greeting
advertisements are to be combined with the Christmas
greeting messages.
It is not too early to wish everyone a safe, whole-
some, Joyous and Happy Holiday Season. The publisher
extends sincere thanks for everyone’s cooperation and
consideration!
VICKY BEARD
Second Place
Harper’s'Bull of Woods’contest
entries come in slow
Only two bucks were entered
again during the past week in
Harper’s annual “Bull of the
Woods” contest.
A total of six bucks and one
turkey gobbler have been
entered as of this date, Dec. 5.
Charles John McDougall
bagged a nice buck on Nov. 30
which scored as follows: 88 lbs
dressed weight, scored 88
points, 10 points, scored 50
points 14 3/8 inch spread,
scored xsi V2 points, 12V4 inches
in height scored 49 points,
Circumf. base 32 points, a total
of 276V2 points. This tied the
score with the buck that Lynn
Parker (276V2) killed the week
Hunting violations up in
Gillespie County
Game Wardens Max Hart-
mann and Norman Henk report
that game violations for the
1978 season as of Monday
morning, Dec. 4, 1978, for the
first 3 weeks are up around 62
per cent as compared to the
same time a year ago in 1977.
Game Warden Hartmann on
Monday said that there had
been around 40 violations this
year as compared to about 25
last year, an increase of 15 or
thereabouts. These violations
were mostly for the usual kind
of hunting violations, including
hunting from a public road or
pasture without license, or
without proper authority; no
tags, tresspassing, etc.
The hunting violation fines
ranged anywhere from $25 to as
much as $200, the game war-
dens said. Local and outside
hunters were involved.
To date there have been no
serious accidents or fatalities
reported out in the hunting
areas.
The Game Wardens indicated
that the violations were not
On Saturday, November 4,
four cars pulled into the cafe-
torium parking lot and four
girls started off to Mason pre-
pared for the up-coming event.
In the first car Mrs. Thorn,
Vicky Beard, and Patty Lein-
weber, followed by Mrs. Mc-
Mahon, Melanie McMahon and
Jan Esquell.
What, you ask, were these
people going to do in Mason?
They were competing in the
district “Make It With Wool”
contest.
After shakily appearing be-
fore judges, smiling for what
seemed hours, and then model-
ing before an audience, the
awards were handed out.
Everyone who entered the con-
test received a piece of wool
fabric.
The Harper girls all placed
both in the junior and senior
divisions. Vicky Beard placed
2nd in the senior division and
Jan Esquell and Melanie Mc-
Mahon placed 3rd and 2nd in
the junior divisions.
Patty Leinweber placed first
in the senior division and will
compete in the state compe-
tition along with Melissa Grah-
m of Rocksprings.
The winners from the state
competition will go to the na-
tional contest in Las Vegas, Ne-
vada.
"I READ THIS"
(CONTRIBUTED)
The Strange Story Of Aspirin
About 125 years ago a German chemist, C. F. Gerhardt,
working over his tubes and bottles, developed a white powder
with a long name and, finding no use for it, put it on his
shelves where it gathered cobwebs for fifty years.
He didn’t know it then, but he had discovered the first
and perhaps the most useful "wonder” drug ever produced by
science. It has helped alleviate pain among millions of people,
found application in dozens of diseases, and the end is not
yet.
The drug was acetylsalicylic acid, currently known as
aspirin. It is unfortunate that it took fifty years before the
drug came out of the laboratory and found its first application.
Its medical benefits became universally prized, as attested by
explorers who have actually exchanged it for pearls and gold
nuggets in some areas of the earth.
Thus, in an era of jet-propulsed change, a pill first created
over a century and a quarter ago, holds the record as the
world’s most popular and useful drug.
According to "Today’s Health", published by the American
Medical Association, 22 billion aspirin tablets are swallowed
by Americans in one year alone.
Since Aspirin is such a common and important item in the
medicine cabinet, it is well to know something about its use.
Most family doctors think it is safe to take an aspirin or
two to relieve headaches, cramps, joint pains, or minor aches.
But if the dosage has to be repeated several times a day for
several days, the doctor should be called.
Never take an aspirin to reduce fever without consulting
your doctor. By doing so you may be masking disease symp-
toms.
Be sure to drink a glassful of water when you take aspirin,
and don’t swallow it on an empty stomach, otherwise it may
irritate your stomach.
Aspirin greatest danger is familiarity. There are very few
partof” the "county but were medicine cabinets which don’t contain a bottle of aspirin,
scattered into all sections, all Make sure you keep it well out of the reach of curious,
cabinet-exploring young children. Aspirin in large doses can be
fatal.
before.
Clint L. Brown killed his buck
on Dec. 4 which at the present
time is leading in the contest,
Clint’s buck scored as follows:
90 lbs dressed weight, scored 90
points, eight points, scored 40
points, 17 inch spread, scored
68 points, 13V4 inches in height,
scored 53 points, Circumf. base,
scored 28 points, total points
scored 279.
You can talk to local hunters
or outside hunters, they will all
tell you the same story, bucks
are scarce, not abundant like
they were in the fifties and
sixties.
confined to any one particular
directions of Gillespie.
Shades of the Past
In this week’s issue of The Harper Herald the
publisher is reprinting a full front page of The Harper
Herald as it appeared and was dated for October 22,1944.
Our readers will find this reproduction on page 5. No
doubt it will bring back memories . . . nostalgia of that
time ... 34 years ago! How time does fly!
The current editor-publisher, Norman J. Dietel, who
acquired The Harper Herald in February 1942, is still the
same owner-publisher. He remembers taking the photo
of the remodeled Harper Baptist Church, and the stories
on the front page, etc., the paper at that time having
been printed on an old-style hand-fed 4-page Walter Scott
flat-bed press.
Perhaps, in the months, weeks, and years ahead, we
may reprint other pages if our readers and subscribers
would like to see more of these old-time pages! Some
very interesting reprints, no doubt, would be of the
special Harper Centennial edition. We’d like to hear from
you!
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HARPER LOCALS
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Tatsch
honored Mrs. Clarence St. Clair
with a birthday party in their
pretty home in the Reservation
community Sunday afternoon.
A host of friends, neighbors,
and relatives were present to
wish Mrs. St. Clair a happy
birthday.
Those attending from Harper
were Mesd. Carl Whitworth,
Eddie Kensing, Bertha Geist-
weidt, Walter Parker sr., Bel-
ton Tatsch, and Ferdinand
Tatsch.
Mrs. Mildred (M. R.) Duder-
stadt was back at work in the
office this week at the Harper
Realty after recuperating from
a recent illness. Friends and
acquaintances were all glad to
see her back in the office,
meeting and greeting real
estate customers.
TALL HUNTING TALES
(The following article, a
humorous hunting story, was
brought to us by rancher Harry
Hohmann of the Willow City
community.)
Years ago Harry Hohmann
had a group of five hunters
hunting on his ranch. The hunt-
ers were in luck and it was not
very long before they had
bagged their limit, ten beauti-
ful bucks. The party started on
their way home.
In some small town they
stopped to eat a meal. It was
not very long before a group of
townsmen had gathered to ad-
mire the spoils of the hunt.
Asked one of the group:
“How do you manage to bag
your limit in such short time,
the season has just opened?”
•Here is the answer:
We are hunting on a Gillespie
County ranch. There are plenty
of big rocks and big trees on
this ranch. We distribute our
hunters in good hiding places.
One of us climbs a big rock or a
big tree. Then he makes a noise
like a growing oats patch. Deer
from far and wide gather to
relish this green growing crop.
All our hunters have to do is to
pick out their buck, shoot him
and stop as soon as they have
reached the limit.
One inquisitive youngster
who probably was dreaming
about his successful hunting
expedition, wanted to know:
“What kind of noise do you
make to resemble a growing
oats patch?”
FOR EMERGENCY
PHONE CALL
Harper Volunteer
Fire Dept.
and for Ambulance Service
PHONE 864-4444
But do not call for
information
IN ONLY FOUR YEARS-----
Gene Bode Has Increased Bode Feed
& Supply Business 2% Times
PLANNING A WEDDING? ~
See Mary at The Radio Post
for the latest in invitations,
shower invitations, book
matches, everything in that
line. Stop by at The Radio
cimi1 997-7571.
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HUBERT RAHE, left, and Gene Bode,
proprietor and manager of Bode Feed &
Supply, Harper, are on the outside of the
big building where mixed feed, about two
tons of ground corn and maize, is being
filled into a large trailer-bin which Rahe
has attached to his pickup truck. The Bode
Feed & Supply firm prepares custom-
made feeds for a large clientele, with
customers ranging to places as distant as
Rocksprings, and some even further away
from Harper.
—Photo by N.J.D.
BOB MALEY, Bode Feed & Supply firm employee and
“sacker” is seen filling a sack in the big feed mixing
department with the bag on scales where he is watching
it for proper weight.
—Photo by N.J.D.
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Americans eat more bananas
than any other fruit.
FINISHING TOUCHES were applied
Tuesday afternoon to a new roof and some
outside top Main Street frontage work at
the First State Bank in Harper by Barry
Gamel, Mark Tatsch and Scotty Senior of
the Barry Gamel Construction Company of
Harper. The bank had a new V-shaped
metal roof installed to replace a previous
flat shingle roof which presented “prob-
HHi
lems’’, such as water leakage when heavy
rains fell. The bank building has a second
floor, or ‘attic’ storage space which is
utilized to good advantage in the ever-
growing and popular Harper banking
institution, oldest in Gillespie County
which caters to a large clientele of patrons
from throughout the Harper trade terri-
tory* -Photo by N.J.D.
Gene Bode is one of the Texas
Hill Country’s most outstanding
industrious and versatile young
business men. Not only is he
doing a great job in continuing
the feed and seed business
established by his illustrious
father, Floy Bode, but he has
more than doubled the volume
handled by the firm since Gene
took over from his father in
1974.
Bode Feed & Supply of Har-
per, handling established lines
of feed and seed, ranch sup-
plies, Moorman’s Quality Feed
Concentrates, guns, ammu-
nition, hunting licenses, garden
supplies, and doing a large
volume in custom feed process-
ing, was established by Floy
and Gene in 1968. The firm was
known up until 1974 as the Floy
Bode Co. but when Gene took
over from his Dad he changed
the firm name to Bode Feed &
Supply. It is without question
one of the largest industries
and business firms in Harper,
exceeding perhaps many simi-
lar institutions in surrounding
cities.
The business started with a
line of feeds and seeds, service
station, handling wool and mo-
hair which was purchased from
surrounding area ranchers and
selling it to buyers who offered
the best prices. In about 1950
the firm started mixing feeds,
installing equipment for the
purpose so that local customers
could be more readily accom-
modated right here in Harper.
The business gradually ex-
' ' 't panded and volume increased
each year. Since Gene took
over in 1974 the amount of busi-
ness has increased more than
2V2 times, the firm having
handled a total of around 20
million pounds of custom-
ground feeds to customers at
Leakey, Mountain Home, Se-
govia, Rocksprings, Ingram,
the YO Ranch, Hunt, and Lon-
don areas each year. It is noted
that the business is continuing
to sell more than 7 million
pounds of grain each year.
Gene Bode adopted some
good, sound slogans when he
took over the business. He was
determined to make this firm a
growing and progressive Har-
per industry and he and his
capable, efficient and faithful
wife have no doubt succeeded
in large measure. Gene said
that he thoroughly believes that
it takes “hard work;” dedi-
cation, must believe in your-
self, be honest and courteous to
customers, have good help
(employees), believe in them
and most of all, in the Lord —
and you can’t miss.
Assisting Gene Bode in the
business, besides his father
Floy Bode who works part-time
since his retirement some
years ago, there are: Bob
Maley, sacker and warehouse
helper; A1 Foster who is in
charge of the warehouse; Rudy
Rangel, delivery man; John
Brown, a junior in HHS who is
a part-time employee;
Mrs. Merle (Clayton) Mas-
sey, clerk; Mrs. Barbara (Ron-
nie) Bode, bookkeeper; and
Gene’s wife, Joyce Bode, head
bookkeeper who helps her hus-
band with keeping the books
and with the business in every
way possible. Gene noted that it
takes a good wife to succeed
and perhaps therein is the
secret of his success.
Gene was married in 1960 to
the former Joyce Mueller,
daughter of Mrs. Clarence
Mueller and the late Mr. Muel-
ler. They have 2 children: Julie
and Janel. Mr. and Mrs. Bode
belong to the First Pentecostal
Church in Harper. In May of
this year he finished a total of 6
years on the school board,
being secretary-treasurer 4 of
the 6 years.
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