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OLUME 63 8c PER COPY SHINER, LAVACA COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 6, 1955
GAZETTE PASSES
MILESTONE 63
in a corporate
the
ap-
for
No.
With closing of 1954 another
volume of your home-town
newspaper also closed.
With the issue of December
30, there was written the close
of 62 eventful years of com-
munity service.
With the first issue of the
New Year, January 6, 1955, it
is now volume 63, Number 1.
The continuous growth of the
Gazette and its value to this
area has been made possible by
our cherished advertisers, who
have realized the value of the
Gazette’s extensive coverage to
help them sell their wares, and
we are most appreciative of
their patronage^
To our faithful and loyal
subscribers we are most grate-
ful.
For the wholesome co-opera-
tion of all reporters of all or-
ganizations in the city in as-
sisting the paper in publicizing
their events leading to the ad-
vancement of their goals our
heartfelt appreciation is ex-
pressed.
The Gazette will continue to
try to please and sustain high
ideals as long as it is under the
present ownership and man-
agement. We Thank You.
Postal Receipts
Up For Year 1954
According to Postmaster Ar-
thur T. Ward, the postal receipts
for the Shiner, Texas Post Of-
fice increased by $947.16 or
5.12% for th. calendar year
19TA4 .+he previous year.
The gross receipts for the of-
fice in 1953 were $18,505.61,
whereas those for the year 1954
were $19,452.77. During
year 1954 extensions were
proved by the Department
extensions on Rural Route
1, and also Rural Route No. 2
out of the Shiner Office.
The Postmaster further stat-
ed that the Christmas rush in
1954 was the most orderly in
the history of the office. This
can be due only to the co-op-
eration of the public in mailing
early and often. The patrons of
the Shiner Post Office are due
a word of thanks and apprecia-
tion from all the postal employ-
ees for their co-operation in the
well regulated and methodical
plans.
Hermann Sons
To Install Officers
Sunday, January 9 at 2 p.m.,
the local Hermann Sons Lodges
will be hosts to the annual in-
stallation of officers of District
10 and 11, which includes Yoa-
kum, Hochheim, Gonzales, Flat-
onia, Hallettsville and Shiner.
The installing officers will be
E. J. Lamm and E. H. Niemey-
er of San Antonio. About 250
officers and guests are expect-
ed.
The meeting will be held at
the American Legion Hall fol-
lowed by a dance to which the
public is cordially invited. Joe
Patek’s Orchestra will furnish
the music for the dance.
All the members are remind-
ed to bring sandwiches and
cakes. Any guests attending this
meeting will be welcomed.
Food Sale
January 29
The St. Ludmila’s Academy
P.-T. A. held its regular meet-
ing January 3.
The meeting was opened with
a prayer and held in regular
order.
A food sale sponsored by the
members will be given January
29. All the menjibers who are to
bring food will' be contacted.
February 5, -the first Friday
of the month, all members are
asked to join in a corporate
Communion. Be sure to mark
this date.
/ THE BROWNING Robert Bednar
' CLOTHING STORE Placed At Rest
HAS BEEN SOLD In Catholic Rites
serve
was a
Motal,
spring
Tape-
local
been
Robert
home-
forth-
morn-
Philadelphia, were held
a Solemn High Requiem
Monday, December 27, at
a.m. from St. Clement’s
merchants advertising
we carry your mes-
the people tg whom
■town without a newspaper
Bp a school without a teach-
ror a church without a pas-
ading Away
he first days
K the tinsel
■pity’s
Bmas
■ for another
Weather Unpredictable—
The New Year thus far has
nted its weather problems,
virtually came in wet, but
t wet enough. A mere drizzle.
Christmas Eve s
rature fall to 2
24 ho
80.
utiful
, then th
heavy f
noon
smog. New
, sunshin
W. T. Browning has announc-
ed the sale of the Browning
Clothing Company to a firm
that will soon be ready with
plans to remodel the building
and open a department store
with a complete line for men,
women and children.
The sale of the store marks
the end of business that has
been in the same location for
43 years and also means the re-
tirement of Mr. Browning from
active business. The store has
grown steadily through these
many years with a yearly in-
crease in volume. As Mr,.
the tern-
degrees. In
there
^lt has been said a small town
Ba place where everybody
Brows what everybody else is
Bing, but they read the
gaper to see if they’ve
laught at it.
I The Gazette is happy to
I community as responsive and
^-operative as Shiner. We
BUish column after column of
news, dear to the stu-
Bjoody.
|^Tne notices of the churches
Bd all of their activities, to say
Bthing of the social and civic
Be of the area.
■ All the drives for the benefit
B humanity are given generous
■ublicity. If no weekly news-
■apers were available how
■any would know of these
Bents.
■ To our
■ogram,
to
B||| few dailies go.
B_- are conscious o/ the many
and heartaches related.
Brths, weddings, sorrows of
Be have been conscientiously
Bronicled.
| The Gazette has contributed
Its share to ihe upbuilding of
fehlner.
| Our wish for one and all for
rhe New Year is for a perman-
ent lasting peace, and for the
early return of our' brave men
fend women from foreign lands
v»e the price of blood has
been paid on embattered land,
blood stained sea and on the
Ivings of the air.
■Gazette Has Birthday—
■The Gazette has a birthday,
today we are writing Volume
13, Number 1.
b Your home-town newspaper
Rs reached its sixty-third an-
niversary.
r A newspaper is an institution
)f the town, as valuable as the
tehonl system, the Post Office,
Brailroad, and deserves sup-
trees are not so plentiful.
Mr. Hollman experienced
much pleasure last year in shar-
ing his crop with the school Mrs. Albert Janecka, Waelder,
children adjacent to his home. • Colored Unit: J. V. North,
This year he is covering the Hallettsville.
area allotted to his special • Dismissed patients are:
friends and among the forty Frank Luksovsky, Mrs. Frank
boxes distributed, this writer ~
fell heir to some coveted orang-
fes and grapefruit.
B Some of the grapefruit was
Bpped from the trees in clus-
Bs of three ard four to a stem.
Bnk you, Santa Claus.
were
came
lasting until
ling Califor-
’s Day was
and
F. Michna, Mrs. Gus Welfl, Mrs.
Joe Vlasek, Mrs. Daniel R.
Freytag and baby boy, Law-
rence Veit, Steve J. Pokluda,
Mrs. Leo Janak and baby boy,
Mrs. Theresa Wenske, R. J. Os-
born, Mrs. Anna Roth.
Funeral services for Robert
J. Bednar of 7009 Paschell Ave-
nue,
with
Mass
10:00
Post Catholic Church, Philadel-
phia, of which he was a mem-
ber. He also held membership
in The League of the Sacred
Heart, The Holy Name Society,
St. Clement’s Post Catholic War
Veteran’s, also a member of the
Knights of Columbus Yoakum
Council No.. 1582.
Mr. Bednar was returning to
his west Philadelphia home
Browning says, it has been a from work. He had just alight-
big business in a little city. He ed from a trolley a half block
further states that he has con- from his home at 5:10 p.m., De-
ducted what can be considered cember 21, when he was struck
an experiment in the retail by an automobile driven by a
clothing field. By carrying an
adequate stock of first quality
standard merchandise, selling
for cash, operating efficiently,
and advertising widely, he
found he could operate on a
very close margin and yet come
out with a profit, due to the
large increase in sales volume.
He further stated that he had
tried many ways to get that de-
sired volume—hand bills, va-
rious premium plans, newspa-
pers, direct mail and many
er promotional features,
semi-annual catalogue of
past 15 years, newspaper
vertising, circulars, and in i
oth-
The
• the
■ ad-
more
recent times, the radio have
brought customers not only
from neighboring towns but al-
so from many places that we do
not think of being in Yoakum
trade territory. Every week naw.
customersifom Flatonia, Moul-
ton. La Grange, Fayetteville,
Schulenburg, Hallettsville, Ed-
na, El Campo, Ganado, Victoria,
Gonzales, Port Lavaca, York-
town, Nordheim, Kenedy, Go-
liad, and even as far away as
San Antonio, Houston and Cor-
pus Christi.
In retiring, Mr. Browning
wants to express his gratitude
to every person who has con-
tributed to the success of the
business. In many cases, he re-
members little boys brought in
by their parents to get his first
pair of long pants. The same
boy came in for his graduation
suit, and returned again for a
wedding outfit. Later on that
man has brought his own little
boy as a customer.
Mr. Browning says he was
glad to sell the business to a
reputable firm that will es-
tablish a creditable store for
the town. He also said that the
employees of the Browning
Clothing Company who have
played so large a part in the
success of the business have all
been provided employment,
either by the new firm or else-
where.
Mr. Browning speaks of 43
years in business in Yoakum.
In reality, he has been in this
line of business for 53 years,
the first 10 of which were in his
home town of Seymour, Texas,
starting out as a boy in his
teens. Being a minor, it was
necessary for him to have his
disabilities removed by the
court in order that he could
transact business legally. He
takes great pride in having
clothed the men. and boys of the
community for so long a period.
It is small wonder that he re-
tires from active business with
mixed emotions.
f the week
id glare of
the
16-year-old boy who had just
obtained a driver’s license four
months ago. The boy told police
he was just driving around the
neighborhood in his father’s
car in order to charge the bat-
tery which had been affected
by the cold weather.
Many expressions ot regret
have been heard over the tragic
event to a former Shiner lad.
Robert Bednar was born Feb-
ruary 3, 1897, at Praha, the son
of Vince and Annie Matejek
Bednar. He attended the Shiner
High School and later Bald-
win’s Business College, Yoa-
kum. He was a valued employee
of the former Shiner Drug Co.
and the Corner Drug Store.
He joined the U. S. Navy
during World War I and seryd*
from 1917 to 1920. He^as mar-
x/ted vtr-^Mss Pauline Schaefer
September 27, 192^ in Shiner.
Some thirty years ago they
moved to Philadelphia and Mr.
Bednar became associated as a
commission merchant for a
wholesale fruit and produce
house. He was employed at the
time of his death by Wyeth
Laboratories Division of Ameri-
can Home Products Corpora-
tion. He had met with pheno-
minal success in his adopted
home.
Immediately after the acci-
dent he was taken by police in
an ambulance to a hospital and
his wife was sent for. He died
shortly after receiving the last
rites of the Roman Catholic
Church.
He is survived by his wife; a
son, Robert J. Jr., of Clifton
Heights, Pa.; a daughter, Mrs.
William Quinn of Glenolden,
Pa.; five grandchildren; one
brother, A. J. Bednar, Shiner;
three sisters, Mrs. Vlasta Vogt,
Shiner; Mrs. Annie Halamicek,
Gonzales; Mrs. Lillie
Corpus Christi.
Over all the years
kept in touch with his
town through the Gazette and
on occasional home visits he al-
ways found time to contact the
local print shop. Only recently
in renewing his subscription he
joked about “Texas Brags” and
included a Texas Brag Dollar
bill he had “contacted” in the
Quaker state.
Hospital Patients
Listed this week are: Miss
Emily Patek, Mrs. Charlie
Gaedke, Mrs. Johnny R. Dier-
schke and baby boy, Mrs. Isidor
Simper, Fred Kram, Ernest E.
See, Joe A. Boehm, Shiner ; Miss
Clara Petering, Yoakum; Burl
Wayland, Nixon; Mrs. John
Sablatura, El Campo; Mrs. An-
ton Lev, Flatonia; Mrs. H. G.
Zingelman, Louis H. Jasek, Mrs.
Victor J. Jungbauer, Moulton;
re to
being put
ar.
yard and
I contests wer;h also fading
■. The j prancing reindeer
f being |erded -by old San-
•ack to th. Artic ppa*ionq* fHp
Lherds &re gijidfig iheir
bp to the\ fold; the Christ
m and th^ Marjger scenes
■ tv/t sleep; the
teing led by the
| to BethVem be recaU_
■again m 115
Ijay the i j truths they
fre symbol *
I guidance. ar“ aPm‘-
■Local Grown > _ .
L G. Hollmatrus Fr““-
Pntaining a cits«ema to ba
I the purpose c3 just
■tends with orariuP^g^£2“S
Kit. |
■Some years ago hi
heavy yield al
Bkmarket for hil
Big came an uni
^^wave and redud
B yield. Since th
COTTON FARMERS URGED TO Mrs. W. F. Mueller
SIGN ALLOTMENT PETITION Brought Home To
Rest December 31
HOME AGAIN
AFTER 30 YEARS
ROTARY NEWS
80,000,000 will be
born to
William,
were her
Randolph
Jaks, Al-
and Rob-
Due to the fact that Lavaca
County lint yield per acre is
only 187 lbs. compared to 500
to 1500 lbs. per acre in many
other Texas counties, these fig-
ures reveal that Lavaca Coun-
ty hasn’t contributed to the
great cotton surplus which now
exists. Wheras, Lavaca County
again fell victim of another
drastic cut in cotton acreage
in 1899„
in Oak
will
13
1:00 p.m.,
ounces.
Daniel R.
are proud
desiring first day
m#y obtain them
for each
a self-ad-
The Farm Bureau is circula- by all growers, if members of
ting a petition urging all cot- the Farm Bureau or not. These
ton farmers in this area to sign petitions are located in Shiner
as soon as possible in an effort at the First National Bank, C.
to get more cotton acreage for
our county.
The petition should be signed
the
before
O.D.A. wiil1 held Mondav.
January 10 at 7:30 p.m., when
plans for the year will be dis-
closed. Kindly mark the calen-
dar date and plan to attend. In-
stallation of Jr. C.D.A. officers
in charge of Diocesan Chair-
man, Mrs. M. McQuillan of Yoa-
kum.
• FIRST FRIDAY — Friday,
January 7, is the First Friday of
the month. Devotions in honor
of the Sacred Heart will be held
immediately after the 6:00 o’-
clock Mass. Confessions Thurs-
day at the regular hours.
« GAMES PARTY at the Shi-
ner Catholic Parish Gym every
Friday night from here on.
Starting time is 7:30 p.m. The
public cordially invited.
• ALTAR Society will meet
Tuesday, January 11 at 2:30
p.m. All members are urged to
attend the meeting. Hostesses
for this meeting are Mesdames
John and Alvin Darilek, Jus-
tine, Mary and Ludmila Dusek,
Annie Bolech, Leo Ebarra,
Frank Filip, Martin Fric and
Joe Faltisek. Hostesses for the
February meeting are Mesdames
Tillie Fietsam, Arthur and Ed-
die Fischnar, Alfons Grill, John
Havel, John Haverda, Emil Ha-
jek, E. J. Henkhaus, Felix and
Leo Hybner.
• MEETING of Blessed Virgin
Mary Society of the K.J.Z.T.
will be held Sunday, January 9
after 8 o’clock Mass. All mem-
bers urged to attend.
• AMERICAN Legion Auxil-
iary will meet Wednesday, Jan.
12 at 7:30 p.m. at Legion Park.
• EICHENLAUB and Bluecher
Lodges will serve as hosts to the
District installation of officers
Sunday, January 9, beginning
at 2:00 p.m. All members are
kindly asked to bring sand-
wiches and cakes. The meeting
will be followed by a dance at
night for the public.
• HERMANN Sons Lodge No.
20 will meet Thursday, Jan. 6
at 7:30 p.m. at the Hermann
Sons Hall.
• CHAMBER of Commerce will
meet at noon Thursday, Jan.
6 at the Shiner Dine Inn.
• O.E.S. Chapter 272 will meet
Tuesday, Jan. 11 at 7 p.m.
Lillian Ward, W.M.
• SHINER Cemetery Associa-
tion will
7 at 3:
B. Welhausen and Co. and
Wolters Bros. Co.
The petition reads as follows:
“We, the undersigned, all
farmers of Lavaca County,
hereby respectfully request that
you exert all efforts in repeal-
ing the order by which our cot-
ton acreage was cut to such an
extent that we are unable to
make a living on the small
Notices & Meetings
• COURT St. Paul C.D.A.—
union, one son,
in infancy. Surviving are
daughters and four sons:
Emil (Emma) Bengsch,
Henry (Elsie) Wenske,
Congratulations
• Private Jene Dreyer and
wife are happy over the arrival
of a daughter, born in Gonzales,
December 30, weight 9 pounds,
10 ounces. She was given the
name of Deborah Ruth. A cable
of his daughter’s arrival was
sent immediately to the proud
father who is at present sta-
tioned at Trois Fontaine Post,
France. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. H.
Dreyer of Shiner have been
visiting with their new grand-
daughter.
• Mr. and Mrs. Johnny R.
Dierschke announce the birth
of a son, born in the local hos-
pital January 3 at
weight 6 pounds, 7
® Mr. and Mrs.
Freytag of Flatonia
of a baby boy, born in the local
hospital December 29, weight
9 pounds, 4 ounces.
• Mr. and Mrs. Leo Janak
are happy over the arrival of
a wee son, born at the local
hospital December 28, weight 6
pounds, 14 ounces.
• A 2/c and Mrs. Edward
Simper are rejoicing over the
arrival of a son in the De Tar
Hospital, Victoria, December 28,
weight 8 pounds, 9 ounces. The
wee lad was given the name of
Steven Richard. The father is
in the Navy at present station-
ed on Okinawa. The mother
was the former Miss Evelyn
Spann of Shiner.
Following a lingering illness
of an incurable malady, Mrs.
William F. (Alma) Mueller was
summoned to eternal rest Wed-
nesday, December 29, at 6:10
p.m. in an Austin hospital.
Funeral services were held
from the Buffington Funeral
Home, Shiner, Friday, Decem-
ber 31 at 2:30 p.m., with inter-
ment in the Shiner City Ceme-
tery.
The Rev. S. R. Horwood con-
ducted the last impressive rites.
Mrs. Mueller was bo m Sept-
ember 14, 1877, the daughter of
William and Christina Griffin
Stoeltje, now deceased.
Born in Welcome, Austin
County, Mrs. Mueller was a na-
tive Texan and ever loyal to her
state during the 77 years, 3
months and 15 days of her
earthly pilgrimage.
At the time the family moved
for 1955 while many other Tex- ,t° Witting, Lavaca County, she
as counties received substan-
tial increased acreage for 1955.
Therefore, we demand that
Lavaca County Cotton acreage
quota for 1955 be adjusted to
not less than 52.000 acres.”
Besides signing this petition
all growers are urged to write
to their Congressmen in Wesh-
ington immediately so as to get
immediate relief. Don’t delay
another day, do it today.
was baptized and confirmed in
the Lutheran faith.
She was married at Witting
to William Mueller
They resided later
Grove and Shiner.
Ten children were
this
died
five
Mrs.
Mrs.
Shiner; Mrs^ Laddie (Wilma)
Vincik, Mrs. Boyd (Hilda) An-
derson, Mrs. Joe (Adela) Step-
hens, Austin; Ed and Herbert
Mueller, Shiner; Arthur of Yb^
kum; and Robert luei^B
Hartford jronn.; 14 granoWB^
u£en; two step-grandsons and
8 great-grandchildren; three
sisters, Mrs. Emily Coldewey,
New Braunfels; Mrs. Christina
Sein$" Westhoff; Mrs. Emma
Sander, Shiner; four brothers,
Frank Stoeltje, San Antonio;
Charles of Southton; Sam of Se-
guin and Otto Stoeltje of Ark-
ansas.
Following the death of her
husband October 24, 1939, Mrs.
Mueller made her home with,
her youngest daughter, Mrs.
Adela Stephens in Austin, but
visited frequently with her oth-
er children. She united with
the Shiner Methodist Church
October 28, 1948 and was a loyal
member and supporter of the
church.
Her funeral was largely at-
tended despite the forbidding
weather and the flowers were
profuse and beautiful.
Casket attendants
nephews, Hugo and
J. Mueller, Alphonse
fred Remmers, Hugo
ert Stoeltje. Select voices ren-
dered, “What A Friend We
Have In Jesus” and “Abide
With Me.”
Her pastor’s tribute spoke of
her as a Christian mother, de-
voted to her children and anx-
ious for them to follow the
Christian way of life. When the
final summons came he spoke
of her as having entered the
house not made with hands,
where-in was eternal daylight,
everlasting joy, peace and hap-
piness to receive her gracious
reward.
A home comer welcomed by
relatives and many friends was
George Mladenka of San Fran-
cisco, California, who flew in acreage allotted for 1955.
for a brief visit at Christmas,
after 30 years absence on the
west coast.
George has been a barber in
the Palace Hotel in San Fran-
cisco for many years.
On his return Sunday to his
adopted home, he was accom-
panied to Austin to make his
plane by his sisters, Mrs. Chris-
tie Meyer of Shiner and Mrs.
Bill Konecny of Schulenburg.
Notice Dance
Club Members
Please pay your dues at
First National Bank
February 1, 1955.
Board of Directors
-:-o-:-o-:-o-:-
The Shiner Rotary Club met
Monday noon at Shiner Dine
Inn. Visiting Rotarians present
weie Rev. Henry Smith, .The first meeting of the year of
Rubin, Francis Mikulenka, Bil-
ly Seale and Otto Gaedke of
Hallettsville. Don Kasper had
as his guest Bob Nagy of Alice.
Don Kasper had charge of the
program and presented Jim
Rushing of Houston, who gave
the program. Mr. Rushing is a
member of the staff of Public
Relations for The Texas Manu-
facturers Association. Mr. Rush-
ing gave a most interesting and
inspiring speech. He told of all
the accomplishments this coun-
try had" made under the free
enterprise system, and of the
dangers that face our way of
life. Mr. Rushing charged all
Rotarians and business men
with the responsibility of in-
forming the youth of our coun-
try with the advantages of our
system of trade and our way of
life. Mr. Rushing’s speech was
presented in an eloquent man-
ner and was enjoyed by all.
Special Stamp
Honors Rotary
A special postage stamp com-
memorating the fiftieth anni-
versary of the Rotary Club will
go on. sale February 23 in Chi-
cago.
The 8-cent stamp will be .84
inch by 1.44 inches and will be
illustrated by a flaming torch
and the Rotary emblem flank-
ing a globe,
printed.
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