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NEW ULM, TEXAS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1949.
Volume 39.
No. 10.
$2.00 Per Year
First Aid Course For
Sealy, Dec. 1—Walter S. Nor-
to holiday greeting cards is
office:
not well informed as to the
the last holiday season.
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Died At Welcome Thurs.
Joyce Prause Is Elected
District FFA Sweetheart
Do Not Burn leaves; Save
Them For Garden Fertilizer
POWER FAILURE CAUSES
ENTERPRISE TO BE LATE
PAY POLL TAX OR
LOSE VOTE RIGHT.
COLLECTOR WARNS
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Prause in La Grange Monday, yersity of Texas cotton research
the spading fork and keeping They also visited in New Ulm
AUSTIN COUNTY POLLING
PLACES ANNOUNCED
Research Started On New-
Cotton Classing Method
On
was
in the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Ernst Karasek and Mrs. Ger-
trude Prause.
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D.
Mrs. Norman and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Milam Schroeder, and
family have received letters
from their son and brother at
irregular intervals during his
years stay in China.
Since the capture of Mukden
only two letters were received
*---The first was air
mailed in the post office and mail and left Mukden June 16
Veteran I-and Goes Through
In Wallis. First For County
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THE NEW ULM ENTERPRISE
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La Grange, Dec. 7—Miss Ger.
trade Dryman, Fayette County
agent, has announced her resig-
nation. She plans to do the
same type work in her new job
in Navarro County, with Cor-
Washington, Dec. 1-The Army
began releasing its post war
draftees today, nine months a-
head of schedule. The peace-
time draft law called for a 21-
month hitch, but the G-I’s have
been given the opportunity to
get out after 12 months. It is
part of the Defense Depart-
ment's economy drive.
Third Annual Blinn
Basketball Tournament
Rites For Willie Reeder
Of Houston Held Tuesday
Austin County Fair
Directors Are Named
Isla Jean Rinn Candidate
For Graduation At B.inn
reported killed in this area since
hunters were E*wald Richter, P™^8”1 at 'the Hermes School
who bagged an 8 pointer on building at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Saturday, and Ed. F. Warschak all-day^
reported killing a 9 pointer.
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CARRY ON UNTIL NEW
HOME AGENT ARRIVES
POST WAR DRAFTEE
GETTING OUT EARLY
Because of light and power
failure in New Ulm between
10 a.m. and 5 p.m., and again
between 8 p.m. and midnight,
Thursday, the Enterprise
day
fying for prizes. The member-
ship showed a gain of 16, rais-
ing the total to 220.
Plans discussed included year"
books, w’hich will be distributed
at a meeting Saturday.
A suit and coat revue will
Mr. and Mrs. Lucian Prause
of Houston attended the funer-
al of his aunt, Mrs. Arnold
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Every fall tons of leaves go
up in smoke instead of being
saved for use later in the vege-
table garden, flower beds or for
mulches on the trees and
shrubs. Burning is an easy but
wasteful way to tidy up the
home premises of fallen leaves
but it is not the best, says
Sadie Hatfield, extension spe-
Calvin Mikeska and Elgin
Ueckert of Bellville, and J. F.
Esterak of Wallis, were elected
to the board of directors of the
Austin County Fair Associa-
tion at the annual meeting held
November 22.
Retiring from the board are
Walter Chatham, A. A. Boriack,
G. * R. Schumann, Douglas
Thompson and Charlie Sanders.
Holdover directors are Leroy
Hillboldt, Ed. Kiesewetter, Rob-
ert F
Clarence Schier and Joe Wal-
ters.
The financial statement shows
a net profit of $162.33 from
this year’s f^ir. A loss of
$181.7*4 is reported in the ro-
deo staged at the fair, and two
of the dances showed a small
loss totaling $27.50, which was
more than made up by the $215
Brenham; and two brothers,
William Warmke of Bleibler-
ville, and Fritz Warmke of
Welcome. Two brothers and one
sister have preceded her in
death. Also surviving are 17
grandchildren and nine great
grandchildren.
Texas A. & . M. College. She
says it takes little trouble or
space to make a compost pile
and when the leaves decay into
humus or leaf mold, you not
only have organic matter that
has fertilizing value but, more
important, it adds to the water
holding capacity of the soil and
makes it easier to work.
Making a compost pile may
seem complicated to the ama-
teur but it can be simple. A
The first veteran land deal
as recently enacted by the leg-
islature has gone through in
Austin county, according to L.
F. Weige, county service offi-
cer.
Buying 67 acres near Wallis
from Duebbe brothers, John J-
Filip paid the maximum loan
fund, which is $7500. The land
is improved and Filip plans on
moving in and doing farming.
Blum, -Conrad^ Juergens, sicana as headquarters.
Plans were made as far ahead
as possible so that Fayette
County women may continue
their programs uninterrupted
until a new agent assumes du-
ties.
Annual reports for 1949 re-
vealed progress in many lines.
The Fayetteville, Ellinger and
St. Paul clubs maintained 100
profit made on the other dance, per cent attendance records at
Income was $7,482.31, ex-
penses totaled $7,319.98.—Bell-
ville Times.
Miss Joyce Prause,, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Milam Prause,
of Frelsburg, was elected FFA
Sweetheart of District I Mon-
day night, December 5, at the
fourth regular district meeting
held at Flatonia.
Mis,, Prause was chosen by
secret ballot.
Joyce won by close competi-
tion over seven other candi-
dates.
Schools entering candidates
were Shiner, Hallettsville, Fla-
tonia, Schulenburg, Weimar, La
Grange, Fayetteville, and Co-
lumbus.
Each candidate was introduc-
ed by one member of that
chapter, who gave a brief his-
tory of the sweetheart.
Miss Prause is now eligible
to try out for area sweetheart.
If she wins area she will then
go to state.
Other business taken care of
Monday night was the Leader-
ship Contest on January 7. and
the Judging Contest on Janu-
ary 14.—Doughlas Lilie, report-
er.
Visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Boehme and son
and Mrs. Ernestine Meyer on
Sunday night were Mr. and
Mrs. Hugo Meyer of Mentz and
their daughters Miss Beatrice
Meyer of Bellville and Mrs. Wil.
lie Ruhmann of Frelsburg, Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Meyer and
Ellis Meyer of Bernardo.
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3 inches wide. Please fold the _ .
flap into the envelope when me feel very good . . .”—News,
mailing such matter. ------------
Patrons having a number of; DMlieA le
greeting cards to deposit are
urged to tie them in bundles
with addresses all faced one
way before mailing so as to
facilitate their handling in the
post office.
Should any further questions
arise concerning your holiday
mail, ask at your post office
for information.
Waelder, Spring, Katy, La
t Grange, Fayetteville, Snook,
Fairbanks, Moulton, Giddings,'Sealy, Burton.
SAFETY SLOGAN—
“Don’t Let Death
Take Your Holiday”
laboratory will help meet the
inroads synthetic fibers made
in King Cotton’s domain by de.
veloping improved cotton class-
ing methods.
The new Cotton Research
Committee facility is equipped
with instruments which meas-
ure length uniformity, strength,
fineness, and maturity of cot-
ton. It8 air conditioning sys-
tem is designed to simulate
various weather conditions, so
the effect of temperature and
humidity differences on cotton
fibers can be observed.
“There is no such thing as
off-grade cotton because all
“Don’t Let Death Take Your
Holiday!”
That i8 the slogan of a na-
tionwide campaign by the Na-
tional Safety Council to hold
down the Christmas-New Year
holiday accident toll this year.
Council figures show the year,
end holiday season is the most
dangerou.- period of the year,
an.' that accidents annually mar
the holiday celebration in thou-
sands of homes throughout the
nation.
In a united effort to focus
public attention on the extra
holiday hazards and the extra
caution needed to meet them,
city and state officials, civic
groups, local safety councils and
160 national organizations are
joining with the council in the
Christmas safety campaign.
The council pointed out that
traffic accident death,-! on both
Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day run about twice as many
as the annual daily average.
Heavier travel and the festive
spirit of the holiday season add
io the normal winter hazards
of bad weather, slippery roads
and added hours of darkness.
“Every family in America
.«hould put one extra gift unde?
its Christmas tree this year,”
said Ned H. Dearborn, president
of the council. “That gift is
life. It could be the life of some
member of the household, or of
a stranger. But it will be sav-
ed because someone had used
just a little extra caution, com-
mon sense and courtesy to meet
holiday hazards.
“Unless everyone is willing
to go to a little trouble by tak-
ing extra care during the
Christmas holiday season, Am-
Surviving are his widow of
Houston; his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Otto Reeder of Coupland;
one son, Leon Reeder of La
Grange; two sisters, Mrs. Her-
man Schroeder of Coupland and
Mrs. Bertha Rusch of Taylor;
one brother, Otto Reeder
Houston; and one grandson.
it moist. She says leaves and
similar grass and garden trash
will decay even faster if the
pile is made of alternate lay-
ers of leaves and rich soil. It
is a good idea to mix in some
nitrogen fertilizer or manure if
it is available, she adds. Wood
ashes from the fireplace may
be mixed with the leaves. Use
about a pound of ashes for
every 20 to 25 pounds of leaves.
She says that leaves make a
good fall mulch for the bulb
beds and for trees or shrubs.
Apply the leaves before the
ground is frozen as a protec-
tion against heavy freezing and
against starting of growth dur.
ing warm spells in winter.
Blinn College of Brenham.
Texas has ninety-nine candi-
dates for graduation for the
first semester of the current
school year. One of the candi-
dates, Isla Jean Rinn, is from
New Ulm.
erville was runner-up, and Bell,
ville was Consolation winner.
The following teams will par-
ticipate in the Tournament
this year:
RoundTop - Carmine, Hemp-
stead, Bellville, Somerville, A.
& M. Consolidated, Cypress-
on
will reach readers
later than usual.
Cotton Producers To Vote Information On Mailing Sealy Youth Released By
School Bus Drivers Dec. 15 On Allotments Christmas Greeting Cards Communists After Being
Held In China Full Year
lowing information on the sub-
ject is timely.
It is advisable to send holi- served with the U. 8. armyln
day greetings as first-class maill!. —-■ —roi.
to obtain the many advantages, , , ....
which this service affords. Such t,me ,n Europe as a civilian em.
greetings prepaid at the first- P*0^- ~J- -----
cla.<s rate (3 cents per ounce) cwted w,.th the State Depart-
may be sealed and contain menU going to China. For a
written messages; they are dis- [u11 y®ari Chinese^Communists
patched and delivered first; re. --- -
turned for no further charge to at Mukden under house arrest,
the mailer provided the send- Preventing their leaving China,
er’s return address is shown on w“ ”-----J 1— J----*■
the envelope. On such sealed
holiday greetings mailed at and
addressed to patrons of an of-
fice not having city delivery
service, provided delivery is not
made by rural carrier, the rate
is 1 cent per ounce. Please .
note that the matter must be'from him.
not on the rural route and be and arrived in Sealy August 16.
for patrons or boxholders of,Walter, better known as “Sear-
that post office provided that cy,” said in this letter that he
office does not have city deli-' was guarded to and from work
very service. ;and that he expected to be
Unsealed holiday greetings! home in early December. In
sent as third-clas.; mail without both letters he indicated that
written messages enclosed are he was not able to send any
now chargeable with 2 cents'money home. Mrs. Norman
postage (if weight does not ex 'answered August 16th and a
ceed 2 ounces). However, a letter in reply, said that “Your
minimum charge of 3 cents is letter of August 16th reached
applicable to such greeting me yesterday (Sept. 12). It was
cards which measure les., than the first letter sent from the
4 inches long and^also less than States that any of us have re-
' ceived. And of course it made
Mr.;. Emma Warmke Hohlt, Joe Makeever, Bellville insur-
76, widow of F. W. Hohlt, died arce man is generously giving
at the home of her daughter his time to teach a first aid
and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.'course for Austin County school
tvrtiu____i___ — x I U..- ,
viously had the course. The
classes are held from 7 to 9
p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays
in the BellviHe elementary
school auditorium. A working
knowledge of first aid on the
part of bus drivers is consider-
ed necessary for the protection
of cnildren who ride school
buses.
The following explanation on
the new postage rates applying
supplied by your local post man> *’on of Mrs. Walter Nor-
man, of Sealy, is one of the
“It seems that the public I* American employees who is ex-
not well informed as to the Pected to leave Communist-
proper postage applicable to controlled China soon. Local
holiday greeting cards because relatives were informed by the
of postage rate changes since I Houston Press of the young
the last holiday season. To a-'man’» reteaa® frotn Communist
void trouble and delay, the fol- custody.
Mr. Norman has served as
clerk at the consulate. He
, dci ’CU mg o. <uiuy ui
w Ji the European theater daring
to obtain the many advantages; t*,e war and remained for a
which this service affords. Such t,me ,n Europe as a civilian em.
greetings prepaid at the first-] He 1^t*rf,be5am^..aMO'
ment, going to" China. For a
Willie G. Reeder, 55, railroad
painter, of Houston, and a na-
tive of New Ulm, died at the
St. Joseph Infirmary at Hous-
ton Sunday.
Funeral services were held at
the Koenig Funeral Home chap,
el, at La Grarge, Tuesday af-
ternoon at 2 o’clock with Rev.
Wm. Feller officiating. Burial
was in the Shelby cemetery.
Mr. Reeder was born at New
Ulm on January 7, 1894, the
son of Otto and Bertha Kintz-
ler Reeder. On Dec. 31, 1917
Hohk'he was united in marriage with!
Henske, of Waller, Mrs. Walter
Machemehl of Nelsonville, Mrs. i. . . ,.
William Haevischer of Welcome' ^or t"e Past el8ht years,
and Mrs. Richard Blaschke of
New Ulm; four sons, Otto
Hohlt of New Wehdem, Ed-
ward C. Hohlt, of Houston, H.
F. Hohlt, Shreveport, La.; and
Walter Hohlt of Corpus Chris-
ti; four sisters, Mrs. H. A. Al-
bert of Bleiblerville, Mrs. An-
nie Sander of Raymondville,
o Mrs. Mathilda Steinkamp of
erica ’isTikeiy"to celebrate the ^?C0L.aad Mrs^ Edgar Kitcke of
holiday by repeating the re- '
cord-breaking carnage of tne
recent Labor Day Holiday dis-
aster, when more than 550 per-
sons were killed by needles.; ac-
cidents.
“Remember—a safe Christ-
mas celebration, free from ac.
cidents that mar family happi-
ness at this joyous time of the
year, is the very best present
anybody can give or receive.
Don’t let death take your holi-
day-”
Brenham, Dec. 3—Some tax-
payers of Washington County
are holding back on payments
of poll taxes. It is the mis-
taken belief that the poll tax
law was repealed in the recent
election, the tax collector’s of-
fice reports.
An effort is being made to
.. -. ... correct this impression and to
ccunty^ council meetings, quah- convince taxpayers that in order
""to vote in next year’s elections
poll taxes must be paid as
usual.
The Blinn College Invitation
Basketball Tournament will be
held Thursday, Friday, and Sat.
urday, December 8. 9, and 10.
All games will be played in the
Marie Heineke Gymnasium, in
Brenham. Tournament play
will begin at 6:00 p.m. on
Thursday, December 8, with the
Round Top-Carmine Quintet
pitted against the Hempstead
“Bobcats.”
The tournament is held year-
ly by Blinn College to provide
sectional and intersectional
warm-up game, for the high
schools in the surrounding
areas.
Ttephies will be awarded the
winning team, the runnerup,
and the consolation winner. In-
dividual trophies will be award-
ed to the all tournament team,
the player elected best tourna-
ment player, and to the high
scorer. w
Dean James Atkinson is the
Tournament Director, Coach
Frank Butler is Ass’t Tourna-
ment Director, and James Rey- cialist in landscape gardening of
nolds, Student Tournament Di-
rector.
Games will be played Thurs-
day night from 6:00 p.m. to
8:30 p.m. on Friday from 8:00
a.m. to 8:15 p.m., and Satur-
day from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00
As an added attraction
the Blinn Buccaneers will meet
the South Texas Junior College
five at 8:30 p.m. on Thursday
night.
In the 1948 Tournament,
Giddings won first place, Som- stack of ieaves held down by
~ " boards or a layer of soil will de.
cay in two or three years but
this can be hastened by turning
the pile over occasionally with
George A. Vasicek, Chairman
of the Austin County Commit-
tee has announced that the fol-
lowirg polling places have been
selected to hold the 1950 Cot-
ton Marketing Quota Referen-
dum, Thursday, December 15,
1949:
Walli.% Hranicky Meat Mar-
ket.
Sealy, Sealy Courtroom.
San Felipe, Schubert’s Gin.
Cat Spring, Cat Spring Agri-
cultural Hall.
Bellville, PMA Office.
Cochran, Brandt’s Gin.
Kenney, Burgess Luhn’s
Store.
Nelsonville and New Ulm,
Nelsonville Hall.
Welcome and
Bleiblerville Hall.
Industry, Veteran’s Vocation,
lai School.
Polls will be open from 8:00
a.m. until 7 p.m. An eligible
voter must vote in the com-
munity in which he lives or in
the community in which he is
engaged in the production of
cotton, Mr. Vasicek said.
No farmer is entitled to more
i than one vote even though he
may have been engaged in 1948
in the production of cotton on
two or more farm,, or in two
or more communities, counties
or states.
Mr. Vasicek stated that elec-
tions are seldom decided by a
single vote but if all the “sin-
gle votes,, of the people who
could have voted but didn't
were counted, it could make a
great difference in the out-
come.
Mr. Vasicek urges every eligi-
ble voter to go to the polls and
vote his own choice Thursday,
December 15th.
Every cotton grower in the
U. S. will be affected by the
outcome of the election.
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William Haevischer, at Wei- bus drivers who have not pre-
come at 12:48 p. m Thursday,
December 1.
Services' were held Saturday,
December 3, at 1 p.m. at the
Leon Simank Funeral home in
Brenham and continued at the
Salem Evangelical church, at
Welcome, of which she was a
member. Interment was in the
Welcome cemetery, where she
was laid to re.st by the side of
her husband. Rev. Walter Wolf
conducted the ceremony, with
the following serving as i
bearers: Melvin Henske, Clar-
ence Hohlt, Horace Hohlt, Ar-
leigh Earl Machemehl, Wilbert
Henske and Royce Hohlt.
Mrs. Hohlt was born on Au-
gust 31, 1873 in Austin coun-
ty, a daughter of the late Wil-
liam and Minnie Schwettmann
Warmke, and spent her entire
life in that community.
December 21, 1893 she
married to F. W. Hohlt. They
were able to celebrate their
golden wedding anniversary in
On March 15, 1946 Mr.
Hohlt died.
She is survived by
daughters, Mrs. Frieda
Mr. and Mrs. Chester
Barnes Jr., of Washington,
C. are the proud parents of a
baby son, born to them on No-
vember 18. The little fellow
weighed 9’^ pounds and was
named Chester Earl Barnes III.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Chester E. Barnes of
Washington, D. C and Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Taylor of Houston.
Mrs. Barnes is a granddaughter grades of cotton have specific
of Mr. and Mrs A. L. Krueger end-uses to which they Me best
of New Ulm. ’ r*'i*J x
four
'Miss Nellie Luetge at Couplar.d.
I They made their home in Hous.
There were only two bucks
last week Thursday. The lucky culminate the year s clothing
‘tivaawwasi WCTC LLvvvaava - —
who bagged an 8 pointer on building at 2 P-m. Saturday.
school in furniture upholstery
will be held at La Grange De-
— cember 13. Two leaders from
Wallis visited in the Henry Mau each^club^are eligiblejo attend,
home Sunday. They were ac- , ' ” 7 “
companied back by Mr. and by each club in the county.
Mrs. Henry Mau and sons who
spent Sunday night and Monday
in Wallis.
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