The Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1933 Page: 4 of 8
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THE TRIUCNK—FRHUY, APRIL 21st, 1933
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Frydek, Texas
The Easter holidays are nearly ov-
er now. Thursday and Saturday the
services were well attended but on (
Friday a cold wave with rain arrived
and kept some of the people from at-
tending.
Thursday Holy Mass was at 8:00
A. M. Friday the PaVslon written by
St. John was sung. People were
coming to church nil dny and 8 o’-
\clovi in the afternoon wpii« the I
tions of the Cross.
Saturday Father Nesvadba was as-
sisted thru the long morning servic-
es and the procession at 5 o’clock in
the afternoon by Father Holub from
the St. Mary’s Seminary of La Por-
te. The Band accompanied by the
choir played the Easter songs.
Easter Sunday at High Masts the
new Latin Mass was sung with the
accompaniment of the following mu-
sicians: Joe Mlcak on comet, Joe Ku-
tra on Clarinet, Anton Mlcak on
"Trombone and Frank Vancik and
dhas. Sodolak both on violins. They
•were directed by Vaclav Saha.
■ Sunday nite a play was staged by
' *<he Dramatic Club and was enjoy-
-ed by a- iarge andienee. The play
was under the direction of Fathei
Nesvadba and Frank Smesny. Mr.
Smesny also sang a few song's which
the people liked very much. Fath-
■er Holub after visiting and preaching
in other parishes came back to Fry-
dek accompanied by Father Kune of
'Scaly to attend the play. Monday
'morning Father -Holuh had Holy
Mass here in Frydek and was then
accompanied by Father Nesvadba to
Bellville where they had the Easter
Divine services.
■Wednesday, April 19th, the school
•Children of the St. Mary’s School
■will put on a play under the direc-
tion of the Sister.
"Louis P. Machala of Hallettsville
accompanied by hte wife and daugh-
ter visited here with relatives and
' friends.
Jerry Lezak with family and Miss
Henrietta Sivek of Elmaton spent j
Easter visiting with relatives and
■friends here.
Louis Saha and family of Elmaton
visited here with their parents and
other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Emil Sodolak and
' family of Fairchild visited in Frydek
with Father Nesvadba and relatives.
Mrs. Smykal of Liberty has been
vTsifin" here since the beginning of
Holy Week.
Mr. R. Zalesak and family of Wal
Os visited Sunday with Mr. A. Ku-
tra and also stayed to see the play.
Mr. T. Smesny of East Gate was
; ‘visiting his brother, Fr. Smesny,
here hr Frydek.
The norther which came Friday
What Happens When Chemical Factory Bursts
It is beyond human understanding | Sam Houston as is conceived by the
how logs and dcud trees fully 2 feet
in diameter and some 40 feet long
can become lodged in and along the
water und river bed, and it is a mi-
racle that not more damage lias been
done to surounding property by the
bucking of the flood waters.
The Cit'y Council consisting of Ma-
yor Timm and the Aldermen have
j rnude several trips and inspections of
child’s mind in picture und in deed.
Since Texas is being so widely ceie
bruted this year, the things of in-
terest pertaining to he Lone Saar
State will be featured at he exhibit.
Every birthday of great men and
the achievements of brave men since
The Landing of Columbus in the New
Woild in 1492 has been observed dur-
ing class periods of the present year
1 this work und have so far financed and historical events pertaining .An
“j-what was required locally an3 iFiey will be shown.
are to be congratulated for their See how the young mind contracts
| loie-'slghtednes in firmly backing the tho voyages of Cnlumbus and th(1 Pi,
ih.F.C. work along thus line and i« 1 grimK with that of Col. Lindbergh
I going out-side o fthe City limits to Jn tran,..continental flifrht M
correct and remedy this great men- ,JQ )92^
uceto the City causing the floods.
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An explosion occurred recently In a chemical factory In Surrey, England. The photogrnp1
area, bouses blown to pieces and everything covered with debris.
devastated
and held. Another hired man on the
Dach 'farm was detained ahd has
been held in jail for several days.
Verdict Withheld.
A third man was taken into custody
“Shot Once in Head.”
“He was sleeping with his face to-
ward the wall, I sat the lamp down
on a table and shot him once in the
back of the head, he didn’t move
Tuesday afternoon and removed to j any more,” Sheriff Loessin said Mrs.
the La Grange jail.
Justice of the Peace E. Vogt, who
with the posse of officers dug up the
body, withheld his inquest verdict
Dach’s statement read.
No charge had been filed againot
the widow Wednesday night. Two
men were still being held for ques-
SPORTS H
Eli Rubin
Seguin White Sox to Play Here
Sunday, April 23. j
The official baseball season will be
gin here Sunday, when the Halletts
pending further investigation of the | tioning, although Sheriff Loessin sai»J. ville Firemen tackle the strong Se-
! guin White Soxls, one of the strong-
est teams in South Texas.
The locals have been practicing
daily for the past two weeks and
LA GRANGE, April 19.—Charges
, mining, aitnougn snenrr Loessin sauj. viile Firemen tac
case. I neither had been implicated by the ' guin White Sox's,
Sheriff Loesin and Deputy Sheriff | woman in the killing.
Henry Rusfeek, brother of State Sen
ator Gus Russek of Schulenburg, tel-
phoned District Attorney Fred Blun-
dell to come here Wednesday to be-
gin an investigation of the case.
bruary 23. Stoever’s body was found
buried near Schulenburg Tuesday.
The 260-pound woman sat in the
Fayette county jail and rattled off
her account of the slaying to a Ger-
moming turned out to be a dry one j ™an bnguist, who ^in turn translated
Saturday and a frost was here ear-
Shotgun Murder Is Described;
Widow Asserts She Was
Attacked by Hired Man.
LA GRANGE, Texas, April 20. —
were to be filed here, Sheriff Will
Loessin said Wednesday, against
Mrs. Anton Dach, widowed mother of
three small children in connection
j with the death and burning of Henry
j Stoever, 58-year-old hired man on
Mrs. Dach’s farm near Schulenburg.
j Joe Kloesel, 25-year-old farm hand
M n , ; on the Dach farm, also was being
I l h r 36, farm woman, heW CU8tody here in conncctI
through a German interpreter here wjth th<J death q( stoever_ . T*
Wednesday n ght, made a statement Stoever*. M burned aimogt *.
to District Attorney Fred Blundell in j yond racognition( was found burted
which she admitted she 'shot Henry j seven feet deep under a newly con-
Stoever, 68, in the back of the head | --.trusted chicken house on Mrs. Dach’s
as he lay asleep the night of Fo- farm Tuesday morning. It was found
by Sheriff Loe&in, who became su-
spicious of Stoever’s absence since
February 24. Notes due Stoever, to-
taling about $650, were found in po.,
session of Mrs. Dach, Sheriff Loessin
said.
it will be remembered that in 1930,
when there were a number of largo
bridges w. shed out caused solely by
logs, trees and drift wood lodging
against the bridges which finally, on
account thereof guve away and thou-
sands and thousands of dollars had
to be expended to repair and erect
new bridges. It is well for th</>e in
i authority to take serious notice of
these maters, as a “Stich in time
saves nine,” and the removal an-1
burning of "this "wood and trees may
be the means of saving large expen-
ditures in the repair of washouts on
bridge approaches or the entire wash
ing away of the same, and a little lo-
cal help will a'ssure further work a-
long this line and the citizens as a
whole should be back of this good
work.
SCHOOL ART EXHIBIT; GRADE
THREE; PUBLIC SCHOOL
The significance of the twelve
months of the year will be featured
in the spring art exhibit held by Mrs.
Hope B. Finkelstein and her pupils
in room 3 of the public school Friday
April 21st.
J See the homes and customs of
othpr people as contracted with our
own. See on display the many in-
teresting things received from the
third grade Indian children of St. An
ne’s School Indian Island, Maine. An
admission fee of five cents (5c) will
be charged. The proceeds to go to
the local PTA. Visitors will be asked
to register when entering the room.
See the exhibit. Your patronage
will be appreciated.
should give a good account of them-
selves. The probable lineup for tho
locals will be as follows: Valigura.
In some respects a new day in far-
ming has arrived. Two young
Camp county farmers who recently
purchased land commenced their
farm operations by terracing their
land with the help of the county a-
gent. Terracing is becoming the
first step in farming, instead of a
last resort.
For the fourth year Randall coun-
ty dairymen have pooled their cows
for a co-operative tubercular teat,
says the county agent. Under tho
leadership of the county dairymen’s
association 63 farmers tested more
than 1000 cows at low cost to rind
only one-tenth of one per cent con-
See In picture and various construct dcmned. The first year were
ive work how Thos. A. Edfson gave eliminated.
light to the world. Why Benjamin 1.. ........ — —
Franklin decided to invent a heating .
stove, why he is called “The Father 1 Bln«neck Peasant eggs from
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1y Sunday morning. Little damage
■was done to the crops.
For Friday, April 21st, Texas In-
- dependence Day, a celebration is be-
* ing planned which will take place
in the Stephen F. Austin Park in San
Felipe. All the 'school children will
participate in the procession while
the two High School bands of Sealy
and Bellville will entertain thmont
the day.
the statement to officers. The woman
according to Sheriff Will Loesin,
said she killed Stoever because the
Admits Burning Body.
Mrs. Dach, who weighs over 200
aged man had criminally attacked ! Pounds, has admitted to him, Lqgu
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' Officers dragged the creek bottom
several times.
At noon Tuesday they decided to
dig beneath the new chicken house
on the Dach farm, Deputy FJoumey
declared.
“Mrs. Dach came to the chicken
house with us,” the deputy sheriff
said, “and we began poking long
pieces of iron into the freshly turned
• earth.
She kept saying a calf had died
and Mr. Stoever, before he left, bum-
her last December.
Dramatically, the farm woman de-
scribed the manner in which she
dragged the body of Stoever and the
bloody mattress on which he was
slain to a deep pit Stoever had dug
in the farm house yard in preparing
a flower bed, officers sa,u. Then
lowering her voice considerably, she
described throwing the body and mat
tress into the pit where Stoever had
earlier placed the carcass of a caif
which he intended to burn the follow
ing day.
“I rolled the body into the hole,”
the sheriff quoted the woman as say-
ing, “and lit a match to the logs lie
had placed in the pit. They began to
smoulder and in moving around the
hole in 'some manner the lantern, by
which I was working, fell into the
pit, so I quit work that night and
went back to the house and went to >
sleep.
sin said, that she burned and buried
the body, but contends that Stoever
killed himself.
Handwriting on the notes, trans-
ferring them to Mrs. Dach, did not
correspond with other samples of Sto-
ever’s writing, the sheriff declared.
Mrs. Dach told him, the sheriff
said, that Stoever transferred the
notes to her jufst before he disap-
peared. She bought them from him,
she claimed.
“I heard about the notes about two
pitcher; Randow, catcher; Richter, ] Thrift and what conclusion he
first base-man; Chas. Straubs, second
base; Rhem 'shortstop; Cotton Shaw,
third base; Sobotik, Appelt and A.
Boethel in the outfield.
Mayor Bill Timm will throw out
the first ball.
Brahmas lose to Moulton 5-4
After holding the hard hitting Moul
ton Bobcats to one run in seven in-
nings, Geo. Thompson, Brahma south
paw twirler wilted, in the eighth, al-
lowing four straight hits, three for
extra bases, which accounted for 3
runs and tied the score. The Bobcats
pushed acros's the winning run in the j
ninth in Mevan’s double—an infield
out and an error in the outfield. The
Brahmas assumed an early lead in
the second by scoring two runs on
two hits and several errors — and
added two more in the third in a
similar manner. This game ends an
abrupt season for the Brahmas who
lobt all of the three games played.
selected stock; fifteen $2.00
drew about the great force- llghtn- hundred $10. Pleasant Hill
ing- See the great hero of Texas— Pheasantry, Flatonia, Tex. 27-4
TEXAS FINANCE CORPORATION
WORK
N. A. Moreland, M. I. Bozka and
O. B. Sokol, are having a force of
some 60 men at work cleaning and
clearing the channel of the Lavaca
River, of dead trees and logs and
accumulatd drift-wood and growing
trees along the water’s edge, and
or three weeks ago,” Sheriff Loessin 'they have been “H8Ured an amount
said Wednesday. ’ approximating $800 from the State
‘ fund, provided it appears that splen-
did work is being done along this
\ , *ed the carcass in a pit hs dug on the
J V.,: r spot whew the new chicken house!___“Poured Kefaene on Lots.”
'* ’■ 0 stood,” the officer 'said. — 1 “'r1-- .
“When we found the body—or the*
few parts of it—she said Stoever had
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committed suicide after Jigging tin?
hole. She Raid he had cancer and shot
himself.
“She told us verbally that she had
burned the body because she did not
want her three children—two small
girls and a boy—to see the body,”
Flourney said.
John and Dick Stoever, officers re-
ported, said they had received 'several
letters not in the handwriting of
their letters not In the handwriting
of their brother, in which the dea l
man puportedly said he had sold $650
worth of notes, payable to him, to
Mrs. Dach. The brothers denied that
IStoever was suffering from cancer.
The brothers, officers said, became
‘The next day,” the statement went
on, “I poured a gallon of kerosene
over some more logs in the pit/ and
set fire to them. I kept'adding fuel
throughout the day. The fire burned
all day long.”
The woman’s voice was barely
audible as she talked of the funeral
pyre of the slain hired man, officers
said.
“I planned to kill Stoever the after
noon of February 23,’’ the sheriff
'said Mrs. Dach declared. “1 took a
shotgun out of his room and curried
it to the kitchen.
“That night I pretended I had to
scrub the kitchen and went, to work,
tie went into the room and went to
bed. After my three children were
asloe)»— it must have been 11 o’clock
—1 took the
“Last week I decided there was
something funny'about Stoever’s dis-
appearance, and drove out to the
Dach place to talk to Mrs. Dach. I
asked her about the notes and she
let me see them. I gave her a re-
ceipt and took the notes with me.
“I went over to the farm of Sto-
ever’s son-in-luw, August Ilenrlchs,
the other side of Schulenburg, and
WC compared the handwriting bn
the notes with that on letters to
Henrichs. They didn’t tally.
“Then Henrichs showed me some.
1 letters that he had received. One
was written about February 20, be-
fore the old man disappeared, and
was in his writing.
“The others were written about
February 25 or 26. I couldn’t make
out the date clearly from the envc- i
lope, and the letter was not dated
All Commodities Values
Advancing.
Now is the time to buy your requirements.
WE HAVE A GOOD STOCK OF
FLOUR FEED AND SEED.
Call and inspect our stock, appreciate your
call.
H. 6. TIMM
HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS
line and those who have made the
Flood waters of the City and comma
nity a study in the past are convinced
that for many years to come this
menace will be remedied by his work.
"I told Mrs Dach that there had I
been a lot of talk about Stoever’s dis- |
appearance, and that I wanted to
look around the farm a little bit. Sho
said that was all right, and we go1,
busy.
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and probed all around the house. In
tho chicken house I found a place
where the rod went down real deep.
I told the negro to get h?s spade and
start digging.
Found Charred Wood.
“About seven feet down we came
on several live oak chunks that were
They wc re not in his writing", and I,artV burned and a foot and a half
of charcoal from other pieces of
wood.
“We dug around In the charcoal
and came across part of a man’s
head. The skull had been cracked
gun from behind the | thing was funny,” Loessin said, “and i
suspicious at this time and demanded | kitchen cabinet and with u lamp in ’ Tuesday I took my deputy. T. J. ;
■ an Investigation. Tho notes were tak-1 one hand and the sljotgun in another Flournoy, and a negro out to the heart never burns;
■ p.n from Mr-. Dach by the sheriff I crept into his room. place with me. I Up.
one of them quoted old man Stoever
a’.s saying that hr hod a eancer anil
that maybe they wouldn’t see him
any more. The letter said that he
didn’t want to make any trouble for
his children and would just dis- : «nd there were some loose pieces of
appear.” J bone.
“I began to think then that some- j “Then we found an arm with the
hand burned off. We also found a
J human heart—you know, a human
it just shrivels
Red & White
Flour has advanced considerably and we are
offering: one more time at a BIG BARGAIN
FRIDAY & SATURDAY SPECIALS
FLOUR: 48 lb sack Ambrosia........$1.05
FLOUR 48 lb sack Tidal Wave......$1.00
MILK: R. & W. 2 baby cans...........775c"
MILK R. & W. 1 Large can.............5c
PEACHES R. & W. No 2V6 can.........15c
JELL: R. & W. or Jello per pkg.........5c
RICE: Fancy Blue Rose 5 lbs ... .. 15c
MALT: 2 lb. Budweiser................40c
COFFEE: Happy Home 1 lb pkg......15c
PAN CRUST: Shortening 6 lb can......66c
PRUNES: 60-70 Calif. 3 lbs............20c
BUCEK’S & GE0RGFS R. & W.
STORES
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Malec, Walter. The Tribune (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, April 21, 1933, newspaper, April 21, 1933; Hallettsville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1036418/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.