New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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Im Enterprise
$1.50 Per Year
NEW ULM, TEXAS, AUGUST 3, 1917.
Volume 7, No. 43.
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HAVE YOU SEEN IT?
WILLOW SPRING.
HELP YOUR COUNTY.
IT MAY BE BONE DRY.
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The Sheppard amendment to
the constitution was passed by
the senate on August the. 1st.
It reads as follows:
“The manufactrue, sale or trans-
portation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof
into, or the exportation there of,
from the United States and all
territory subject to the juris-
diction thereof for beverage pur-
poses, is hereby prohibited.
This article shall be inopera-
tive unless it shall be ratified as
an amendment to the constitu-
tion by the legislatures of the
several states as provided in the
constitution^ within six years
from the date of submission
hereby to the states by congress.
The congress shall have the
power to enforce this article by
appropriate legislation.
The Sheppard amendment ap-
plies not only to distilled spirits,
but to beer and wine. Attempts
to change this were defeated to-
day. So was an attempt by
Senator Hardwick of Georgia to
prevent the “purchase or sale”
of intoxicants as well as the
“manufacture, sale or transpor-
tation” set forth in the bill. Only
Hardwick, Broussard, Reed and
Harding voted for it.
A plea for the property rights
of those engaged in the business
effected was not given consider-
ation by the law makers.”
There is every indication that
the house will pass favorably
upon it when it comes up for
action there.
Young men who have married
since the call for registration
will go to the front if they are
phsically fit. There is no doubt
about that. The secretary of
war says the country needs men
-for the army ' and needs them
right now. Exemptions are to
be made only on the most com-
plete showing and a bridegroom
of six weeks, or two months, is
not going to be given the benefit
of a doubt.
The brides of this class of men
may be prosecuted as aiding the
“slacker” in his effort to avoid
serving his country.
It is a bad time for hurry-up
weddings, but the punishment
that may come to those directly
interested is as nothing compar-
ed to the fact the United States
must admit that, within its great
population and boasted free citi-
zenship, it has a few cowards.—
Austin American.
A very enthusiastic meeting
of good roads advocates was held
in the city Tuesday evening,
there being representatives here
from all the towns between Lu-
ling and Richmond, inclusive.
The object of the meeting was to
onganize these towns for the pur-
pose of working together for the
state highway to come this way,
known as the Central or South-
ern Pacific route.
The meeting was epened by
Prof. Chas. K. Quin, who briefly
stated the purpose of the meet-
ing. Mr. Chris. Baumgarten of
Schulenburg was elected perma-
nent chairman, and Mr. W. J.
Meininger of Rosenbu rg, secre-
tary, Talks were made by sev-
eral prominent people, among
whom were Col. Graham of
Houston and Judge Pearson of
Richmond.
Committees were appointed to
get data with reference to natu-
ral road material available along
the line between Houston and
San Antonio.
As soon as all the data is ob-
tained a delegation will go ’ to
Austin to appear before the
State Highway Commission and
lay before them such informa-
tion and data as they will have
and will make every effort to in-
duce them to build the highway
along this route,
The committees are working
unceasingly for the highway and
say they will not give up until
they get it.. The meeting was
held in the o^era house. There
were fully 300 visitors here for
the meeting.—Colorado Citizen.
Note. From the above article
it is easy to see that the propos-
ed route along the Katy is going
to be strongly opposed. The En-
terprise suggested a few weeks
The Enterprise and the Gal-
veston Semi-Weekly News, one
year, for only $2. Send in your
subscription at once.
The game played last Sunday
makes the seventh one this year
and the home boys have won six
out of the seven. Pretty good
playing for an amateur team, eh?
The team has in Hotmann and
Meyer two of the best pitchers
in this territory, and their team
mates have also been putting up
tiie kind of ball that means vic-
tory for them. Bartay who was
off in his batting last year has
his eye on the pellet this year
Well, nearly Everybody around
here is busy picking cottonk but
on account of the drought the
crop will be short this year.
Mr. Joe Crenek had his first
bale of this season,s cotton ginn-
ed on Tuesday.
Mr. O. L. Gross, the Rawleigh
man, called on his customers
in this neighborhood one day
last week.
Mr. A. Frederick and family
of Bartlett are visiting relatives
here.
Mr. Edgar Pfluhaupt of Dallas
is visiting here this week.
Mr. Arthur Pfluhaupt spent
last week with relatives and
friends in Bartlett.
Mr. E. Fischer and family mo-
tored to the Oak Hill Vineyard
to get some grapes last Sunday.
Mr. Elo Tetch of Wharton is
visiting home folks near Post
Oak Point. •
Mr. Adolph and Miss Lillie
Fehrenkamp of Ellinger were vis-
itors at the John Meyer home
Sunday.
Mr. Eddie Gross was a visitor
at the Louis Rinn home Sunday.
Messrs A. and R. Krueger of
Post Oak Point were in Pisek
Monday.—“Sappy Boy.”
Mr. Max O. Ginzel, rural
rier on route 2, has purchased a
Ford roadster.
Prof. Albert Fricke, accompa-
nied by his sister, is visiting rel-
atives in Comfort, San Antonio,
and other points in west Texas.
A barn belonging to Reinhard
Schwiezke was recently destroy-
ed by fire.
The Salem school at Welcome
closed its eight month session
on July 6.- Summarizing briefly
the history of the past session,
it can be stated that the attend-
ance throughout the year was
good and the cause of education
could be given adequate consid-
eration. The names of the pu-
pils who received award cards
are Franklin and Henry Franke;
Miladi, Leona, and Eugene Rei-
chle; Elsa Wensel, Elsa Thiele-
mann, and Frieda Sipta.
The first bale of cotton is ex-
pected to be ginned herein a few
days—J. H. A.
ago that it would be to the ^inter-
est of the counties through which
the proposed route is to pass to
organize and work for the road.
Since reading what the counties
opposed to the route passing this
way have done, we believe that is
almost a necessity for us to have
a definite organization through
which we can work toward thed
desired end. Concentrated ac>
tion goes a long way in^Scom-
plishing anything of a pnblic
nature. It is easy enough to
wish that it would pass through
here, but it is going to take work
before the thing is accomplished.
Mr. Leonhard Albert and fam-
ily visited at the Theo. Heinsohn
home Sunday.
Quite a crowd from here at-
tended the Lone Star dance Sat-
urday night, and reported a
good time.
Mr. W. F. Garlin of Smithville
Visited with the home folks Sun-
day.
Mr. Hugo Albert and family
and Misses Julia Janicek and
Mary Adomcik visited at the
F. A. Schulz home Monday night.
Mr. Richard Henniger and
daughter, Miss Lydia, of Ballin-
ger are visiting with friends and
relatives here.
Mr. Mpnroe Henniger left for
Marlin Monday night.
Mr. Edwin Albrecht of Yoa-
kum is visiting with his parents
during the week. The trip
made in his Ford roadster.
Mrs. Chas. Behrens and son,
August, returned from a
to Paige and Giddings.
Mr. E. O. Henniger and family
and Ellis, Helmuth and Miss
Hertha Garlin visited at the H.
C. Lincke home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Pagel and son,
Frank, while visiting relatives in
Lavaca county, had the misfor-
tune to break an axle on their
car near Rock Island.—“Little
Mike.”
The editor has travelled over
every southern state along the
Gulf Cbast,'b'tit liefer in all his
travels has he seek anything
more beautiful than he saw last
Sunday out on Route 2. A drive
over the twenty-acre vineyard of
F. A. Laake & Son is a sight not
soon to be forgotten, for on every
side of you there are vines load-
ed down with the palatable fruit.
Grapes of every hue, and all of
different flavors. We saw vines
which were so heavily loaded
that they had pulled their sup-
ports from the posts which held
them up. The bunches were al-
most perfect and as the sun
would strike them they had the
appearance of a mass of expen-
sive jewels—that was in the af-
ternoon. We cannot conceive of
them being any prettier, but un-
doubtedly they must be when
the dew is fresh upon them. It
is a pleasing sight to see cluster
after cluster of the fruit hanging
ready for the hands of the gath-
ers.
Mr. Laake said that some of
the vines had been producing
since 1883 and are still bearing
good fruit. Of course the origi-
nal vines have been killed down
but the present ones are from
the roots of those planted 34
years ago. The following varie-
ties are found: Herbemont, Post
Oak, Black Spanish, and Elvi-
cand. The crop which is the
most certain is the Elvicand and
it requires no spraying. The
others require careful attention
to insure a paying crop.
A person just looking at the
vineyard wouldn’t have any idea
of the immense amount of labor
required to bring it to its present
stage of development. At one
time what is now the vineyard
was a dense forest, and it has
only been by cutting out some
and, grubbing the other that the
ground has been made fit for
cultivation. Yes, it was hard
work, but the owner /feels that
he has been well paid for it and
you will think so too after seeing
it.
As previously mentioRed in our
editorials this is the month for
voting on the Reclamation and
Conservation Amendment. If
you haven’t given the matter any
thought, do so at once; as it will
mean a better developed county
and added - resources of several
thousand dollars. Voting for the
amendment will not directly ef-
fect the people in this end of the
county, but there is a large part
of the county which it will aid in
developing. This is their hour
of need, give them your assist-
ance and they will return the fav-
or whefi it is possible for them
to do so—that may be at an earl-
ier date than most of us think.
Below we print the opinions of
three of our most prominent offi-
cials on the advantages to be de-
rived from such a law:
Hon. Leonard Tillotson says:
“In my judgment no more im-
portant movement dealing with
the material welfare and devel-
opment of Texas has ever been
begun. It is a tremendous un-
dertaking, and we may expect
that its accomplishment will re-
quire time. The desire to work
out a solution of the problem is
very generally entertained in all
sections of the state. We who
have been facing the gravity of
this problem for years are enter-
ing upon this policy with a de-
termination to achieve practical
results that will recognize no
discouragements. ”
Senator Sheppard says: “Noth-
ing cbuld be of more infinite val-
ue to pur state than the develop-
ment ^reclamation and control of
our enormous natural resources,
including the development and
control of our rivets for purposes
of irrigation and power, the pres-
ervation knd distribution of flood
waters, the reclamation and im-
provement of lands both -in the
section subject to overflow and
in the arid regions, and the navi-
gation of such waters as are ca-
pable of this particular form of
development. The passage of an
amendment of tills kind will not
interfere in any way with the
work of the Federal government
along these lines, but, on the con-
trary, will facilitate that work by
putting the people in position to
take the initiative wherever pos-
sible, and to render substantial
assistance, wherever needed.”
Governor James E. Ferguson
says: “ I want you to know that
I am in hearty accord with the
movement, and shall be glad to
co operate in any way possible to
reclaim the river and valley lands
of the state from inundation,
which can be easily prevented
the matter is looked after
practical business way.”
and is swinging the willow for ex-
tra bases. He batted for an av-
erage of .500 in Sunday’s game
and one of those was good for
three bases. Dorbritz also show-
ed improvement in his batting,
as he, too, hit in the .500 class.
Both pitchers seemed to have
been going good as Hotmann
struck out 13 and his opponent
was credited with 9. There were
several stolen bases, but Swift
was in the lead with three to his
credit.
Three of the players have en-
listed, but the boys left will try
to keep the team up to the high
mark for the remainder of the
season. Kollmann, Hotmann, and
Swift are the players to join
the ranks of Uncle Sam's fight-
ing force. If they can throw
hand grenades like they can
a ball, they may be employed in
that line of defense when
reach the front.
The game:
New Ulm
Kollmann o
B. Hotmann i
Swift 2b
R. Hotmann |
Meyer cf
Bartay 3b
Dorbritz rf
Rinn lb
Hahn If
Totals
Round Top
Schiege If
A. Etzal p
D. Etzel lb
Tiemann c
Quade 3b
Graf rf
Ammeuch cf
Vogelsang ss
Fricke 2b
Totals
Two base hits: Schiege, Rinn, Mey-
er. Three base hit: Bartay. Stolen
bases: Schiege 2, Tiemann 2, Fricke,
Kollmann, Swift 3, Dorbritz. Struck
out by Hotmann 13, by Etzel 9. Bat-
ters hit by Hotmann I, by Etzel 1.
Base on balls off Hotmann 1, off Et-
zel 1. Left on bases New Ulm 4,:
Round Top 6. Double play Kollmann
to Rinn to Kollmann. Umpire
nelius.
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Brown, O. M., Jr. New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, August 3, 1917, newspaper, August 3, 1917; New Ulm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1193462/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nesbitt Memorial Library.