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NEW ULM. TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1952
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Volume 42 No. 29.
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To The Democrats
Of Austin County:
Baumgart, Harrison
Returned As Trustees
Farm Bureau Clinic
Held At La Grange
Services At Industry
For Mrs. Ervin Mertz
Annual Decoration Day Rites Held At Industry
Here Sunday Afternoon For Eddie IL Lindemann
Three Inches Rain Fell
Here Saturday Morning
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Local Music Students
In Recital On April 25
Brenham Office Of TEC
Shows Employment Gain
ATTEND FUNERAL OF
RELATIVE AT HOLLAND
her appreciation.
In the “Unscrambling Word
which Baumgart received
and Harriscn 42.
Social Security means both re-
tirement and survivors insur-
ance benefits.
Gold Star Tea honoring Miss
Dorothy Wolf of Welcome on
April 19, from 2 to 4:30 p. m.,
in the Methodist Church Educa-
tional Annex, in Bellville.
Films on Cancer and Civilian
Defense* will be shown in com-
munities of the county as fol-
was
nice
Read the classified ads in
this issue of the Enterprise.
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Mrs. Minna Paasch Dies
At Her Frelsburg Horne
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Copy Of Early Texas Newspaper Published At
San Felipe Wanted For Display In Museum
Cpl. E. M. Orsak of North
Fort Hood accompanied by Cpl.
and Mrs. Hub Williams of
Gatesville visited briefly in New
J were
accompanied back by Mrs. Or-
‘t end
Columbus.
Visiting in the Ben L. Moel-
ler home on Easter Sunday were
Mr. and Mrs. Herman Weiss Sr.
of here, Mr. and Mrs. Herman
’ Pasadena, L,
• Moeller of Fort Hood;
rains amounting to 2 one-half Mr. and Mrs. Waldo 1----------
Bernard Ashorn of Ft. Worth
spent the Easter holidays at
New Ulm visiting with his fa-
ther, W. C. Ashorn.
Kenneth Ray Kulow, nine-
months-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Leroy Kulow of the Bernardo
community, died at 1 a.m.
Thursday, April 10 after an ex-
tended illness.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Mohnke
and daughter Margo of Gorman
spent the week end with their
mother, Mrs. Nora Mohnke in
the home of Mr. and Mrs. W.
D. Mieth. Mrs. Mohnke and
baby remained for a longer stay.
B
I baptized at St. John’s Lutheran
church at Cat Spring.
Funeral services were held at’n- ■ zv
2 p.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Filial ulU KCpOFt M10WS
17,432 Bales In County
Miscellaneous Shower
On Tuesday evening, April 8
the Community Hall was the
setting of a miscellaneous show-
er honoring Nelcine Minssen,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. E. C.
Minssen, bride-elect of Larry
Krebs.
A wishing well decorated with
pastel shades of crepe paper and
Easter Bunnies held and
surrounded by the many
and useful gifts.
Mrs. Robert Lee
Mrs. Milroy Kreb.®,
displayed and arranged
gifts.
In the Columbus Independent
School District on Saturday,
April 5, in the trustee election,
Ernest H. Baumgart of New
Ulm and W. H. Harrison of Al-
leyton were reelected to serve
another term.
Voting was
Etlinger Funeral Chapel in Bell-
ville, with Rev. A. J. Mohr offi-
ciating. Burial was in St. John’s
cemetery at Cat Spring.
Besides his parents, he i __p
survived by his grandparents, bales ginned in" Austin county
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kulow of (]ast year. This is almost exactly
Bernardo, and Mr. and Mrs. Ot-| io.OOO bales more than the pre- ■
ceding year, when 7,813 bales
were ginned.
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Brenham, April 14.—Non-
agricultural employment in tne
area served by the Brenham of-
fice of the Texas Employment
Commission experienced a siz-
able gain during March, accord-
ing to a report just released.
The gain halted a decline in em-
ployment which had lasted since
last October.
Increases were noted over a
four-county area. A return to
work of seasonal process work-
ers in Giddings, however, ac-
counted for the largest increase.
Total ron-agricultural employ-
ment in Austin, Fayette, Lee
and Washington counties is es-
clubs from April 27 to May 3.
Theme “Todays Home Builds To-
morrows World.”
Workshops on landscaping,
flower arranging, corsage mak-
ing, yard improvement will be
28 and 29. All club women and |
others interested are
attend.
Prof. Gus Streithoff, music
instructor in the New Ulm ele-
mentary schcol will present
music students in a recital on
Friday, April 25 at 8 p.m. in the
local school auditorium.
Featured will be the school
band and the rythm band, selec-
tions by individual students, and
each room will sing songs taught
by Mr. Streithoff.
The public is cordially invit-
ed to attend this recital. There
will be no admission charges.
Kulow Infant Is Buried
At Cat Spring Saturday
Visitors in the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis O. Muenzler
Sunday were their children and
grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. R.
A. Jecmenek and daughter of
East Bernard, Mr. and Mrs. Ri-
ley Ashorn and daughter of
Orange, Mrs. V. M. Crawford
and children of Columbus, Mr.
and Mrs. Wilson Neumann and
daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Har-
ry L. Muenzler and daughter of
New Ulm.
Miss Minna Paasch, lifelong
resident of the Frelsburg com-
munity, died at the family home
on Wednesday, April 16. She at-
tained the age of 68 years, 3
months and 3 days.
Miss Paasch, who never mar-
ried, was born at Frelsburg on
January 13, 1884, a daughter of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Christian
Paasch. She attended the local
school for her education. She
spent her entire life on the fam-
ily farm assisting her brothers
and sisters.
Funeral services will be held
at 9:30 a.m., Saturday, April
19 from the Columbus Funeral
Heme with Rev. H. F. Wolber
of the Frelsburg Lutheran
church officiating. Burial will
be in the Lutheran Cemetery at
Frelsburg.
Survivors are two sisters,
Misses Anna and Emily Paasch
o»f Frelsburg; six brothers,
Henry, William, Christian, Otto,
George and John Paasch, all of
Frelsburg; and a number of
nieces ar.d nephews.
Willow Springs News
HOME DEMONSTRATION
CLUB NOTICES
one is cordially invited to see
Any one expects to be a Can-
didate for State, District,
County and Justice Office in the
Democratic July Primary must
file his or her application with
the Democratic Executive Com-
mittee on or before the 5th day
of May, A. D. 1952.
(s) Alvin Meissner
Alvin Meissner, Chairman,
Democratic Executive Commit-
tee or Austin County, Texas.
TOP ROW, left to right—Sharon, 2 years, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Spiess, Rt. 2, New Ulm; Elaine, 3
year.-, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Raeke, Rt. 2,
New Ulm; Jimmy, 10 years son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
Hewer, New Ulm;
BOTTOM ROW, left to right—Jeanette, 4 years, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kanter, New Ulm; Marilyn,
3 years, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Neumann, New
Ulm; David, 2 years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Weige,
Ne w Ulm.
New Ulm and surrounding
area was blessed with a splen-
did 3-inch rain early last Satur-
day morning.
The much wanted moisture
started falling soon after Frf-
day midnight and continued un-
til mid-morning Saturday. The
moisture was especially benefi-
cial to pastures and hay mead-
ows. falling slow enough so that
the soil could absorb nearly’all
of it. \
This was the first good rain
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some 70 workers over the esti-
mate of a month ago.
Employment in Brenham also j
increased in line with other <
parts af the area, to reach a ■
total of 2,700 as of April 1.
The number of claimants for,
unemployment benefits dropped 1
off sharply during March from
277 to 179, a decrease of 48. The
Brenham office placed 114 work- "»th her mother and other ref-
ers in new jebs during March.
98 of them in non-agricultural
industry and 16 in agriculture.
Is there a copy of the Texas
Telegraph and Register and/or
the Texas Gazette in Austin
county ? These newspapers were
puublished at San Felipe dur-
ing the Colonial and Revolution-
ary Period. The Gazette was
first published in 1829 and the
Texas Telegraph and Register
in 1835. Copies of these news-
papers are desired for the mu-
seum in Stephen F. Austin State
Park. If anyone is in possession
of these papers and would be
willing to place them on display
in the museum, they should con-
tact the Museum Committee.
The committee recently named
by the Executive Committee of
the park association is a fol-
lows:
Mrs. Carrie May Ferrell, Cur-
ator of Museum; Mrs. Enola
Phillips, chairman of Commit-
tee; Miss Hillia Mittarck; Miss
Mamie Price; Richard Lorenz;
Mrs. Lillie Pteibisch; Mrs. W.
L. Thomas; A. D. Armentrout.
Plans are rapidly taking shape
<for the mammoth celebration
May 1 with the naming of the
following committees:
Facilities Committee.
Decoration Committee.
Information and Registration
Committee.
Reception Committee.
In addition, standing commit-
tees such as the Membership
Committee, Music Committee
and Executive Committee are
working on pha.se® of the pro-
gram. The Executive Commit-
tee is the planning committee
for the celebration.
The Sealy Band Mothers Club
will operate the food and drink
' | stand. The Sheriffs department
• along with the Highway Patrol
will handle the traffic. Publicity
is being handled through county
and state newspapers and radio
publicity is planned. The Golf
The little boy was born in Bell- Oil Compary is furnishing the
ville September 3, 1951. He was sound system for the May 1 pro-
‘ gram.
Easter guests in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. Leander Reichle
and son Leander Jr. were Mr.
and Mrs. C. A. Grobe of Wei-
mar, Mrs. Tennie Voitle and
Mrs. Claude Graves and daugh-
ter Claudette of Columbus, Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Powell and sons,
“Bubba,” Sam and Robert of
Bay City, Mrs. Ed. M. Griffith
----------- and daughter Dotty Kay of Ter-
timated at 9.525, an increase of rell, Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Meyer,
?? r.-“ th. cci:-|Mr.<. M. C. Koch. Mrs. M. B.
Magill. Mrs. E. H. Baumgart
and Mr. ard Mrs. C. B. Roberts
and children Charles and Con-
nie The occasion was also Lean-
der Jr,s. eighth birthday anni-
versary.
Miss Burdine Mohnke of
Houston spent the week end
Convention to be held in Sanders, Mrs. John Mikus of Fay-
I etteville, Mrs. Willie Sincl of
El Campo; Mrs. Charlie Domes-
le of New Ulm, Mrs. Don Theut
of Galveston and Mrs. Don Ha-
jek of®l Campo; and four bro-
thers, Eddie Urbanovsky, Fred
Urbanovsk.v and Charlie Urban-
ovsky of Fayetteville ard Vince
Urbanovsky Jr. of Ne w Ulm.
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THE NEW ULM ENTERPRISE
triCt. Director director R. A.
Fuchs of Brenham, presided at
the meeting. C. H. DeVaney,
vice president of the Texa.®
Farm Bureau Federation urged
counties to get resolutions pass-
ed and sent to Texas F. B. Fed-
eration, and to Congressmen for
immediate action to support ap-
propriatiomjfor Foot and Mouth
disease lalXtratory. He urged al-
so to get facts and figure.® on
damage done to peanuts if put
in storage to qualify for support
prices. Hearings on this matter
may be held in the near future.
Members attending from Aus-
tin county were: Wm. E. A.
Meinscher, E. A. Kiesewetter,
L. J. Sodolak and C. A. Kloss.
- all.!' Luo.t. uuuua. ...u.vio
hostesses | g q Obermueller home
iged theixfr nnfi vrs otto Meitze
Presidential Convention will in £ ; • ;
turn select delegate.® to the dren survivors'include her" fath-
State Democratic Presidential er. Vince Urbanovsky; five sis-
Convention to be held in San. ■ - "
Antonio, Texas, and for the pur-|
pose of transacting other mat-
ters that may come up for con-
sideration by the Convention.
Witness my hifrid this the 8th
day of April, A. D. 1952.
(s) Alvin Meissner
Alvin Meissner, Chairman,
Democratic Executive Commit-
tee for Austin County, Texa.®.
Funeral rites for Eddie H.
Lindemann, well known retired
merchant and cotton buyer of
Industry, were held Saturday,
April 12 at-3 p. m. in the Meth-
odist church at Industry. Rev.
L. D. Hardt officiated, being as-
sisted by Rev. C. J. Mann of Co-
lumbus and Rev. A. M. Roos of
Schulenburg. Miss Willie Mae
Heldberg rendered a solo, ar.d
the Raeke family quartet sang.
Burial was in the Methodist
cemetery with graveside cere-
monies by the Fayetteville Ma-
sonic Lodge under the direction
• e t — V!_______mi__
I Leon Simank Funeral Home of
I Brenham directed the services. t
Pallbearers were member*® of to fall in this area
the Fayetteville Masonic Lodge,
Edwin Raeke, Edwin Ludwig,
J. C. Buenger, Ben R. Rogers,
L. W. Noack, Oscar Voelkel, B.
F. Lindemann, Edward Marek
and T. A. Pophanken.
Mr. Lindemann had been in
failing health for about a year.
He had only been at home about
ten days after being a patient
in the La Grange hospital, when
he suffered a fatal heart attack
at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 10
at his home. He was 68 years
and 18 days of age.
He was born in the Rcckhouse
community on March 23, 1884,
the son of the late Edward Lin-
demann and wife Julia Fische.®
Lindemann. On March 8, 1906
he was married to Miss Minna
Graeter. Four children were
born to this union. One child
died in infancy. Those remain-
ing are Major Marvin Linde-
mann of the U.S.A.C., now sta-
tioned at Arlington, Virginia;
Mrs. Olivia W’hiddon of Hous-
ton; and Rubin Lindemann of
Columbus. The mother, Mrs.
Minna Lindemann died on June
10, 1937. On June 4. 1939 Mr.
Lindemann was married to Mrs.
Anna Heldberg Fisches, who
with the above named children,
and three grandchildren survive
him. AL-o surviving are one bro-
ther, Monroe Lindemann of In-
dustry.
Mr. Lindemann spent all of
his life in the Industry area with
the exception of two years dur-
ing which time he attended
Blinn College at Brenham. For
many years he was a prominent
merchant and cotton buyer, re-
tiring about a year ago when
his health began to fail. In his
youth he united with the Meth-
odist church and was active as
long as he was able. He was a
member of the Masonic Lodge
at Fayetteville since 1927.
Among those from this area
who were in Holland on Easter
Monday to attend funeral serv-
ices held for Mrs. Henrietta
Eckermann, were the follow-
ing: Mr. and Mrs. ty’alter Eck-
ermann of the Pisek Communi-
ty, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Galle
and Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Eck-
ermann and children Joycine
and Wendell, of Rockhouse.
.Funeral services for Mrs.
Clara Urbanovsky Mertz, 44, of
| near Industry were held Sunday
I at the Leon Simank Funeral
Home in Brenham and continu-
ed at the Catholic church in In-
! dustry with the Rev. Edward
Geiser officiating. Burial was
light, oniv 44 votes were cas’Cof in the Catholic cemetery at In-
• ■ • - ‘ ’ 44.
a. m. to 3:30 p.m
in High School auditorium;
ies, service agents and county .?? *.n .1
agents.
Seven counties attended out
dustry.
Pallbearers were Ludwig C.
I Urbanovsky, Jerome Urbanov-
sky, John K. Mikus, Donald
Theut, John Hajek and Willie
Sincl.
Mrs. Mertz, mother of two
young children, was found Fri-
day in a barn by her husband,
Ervin Mertz, who started a
The annual Decoration Day
and Memorial Services will be
held at the New Ulm Cemetery
on Sunday, April 20.
Services will be held on the
cemetery at 3:00 p.m., with Rev.
H. F. Wolber, pastor of the local
Lutheran churcn scheduled to
deliver the memorial address.
Other exercise.® appropriate to
the occasion will also be held.
Weather conditions permit-
ting, a large gathering of rela-
tives ard friends can be expect-
ed on this day, with many com-
ing from distant places over the (
state. • of Leslie King of Columbus. The
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Buckshot Lane Featured
Again In Life Magazine
planted.
Home from College
Hughlere Schmidt, daughtei*
of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo P. Sch-
midt and student at Texas Luth-
eran college spent 10 day.® with
homefolks.
Vacation Ended
Mr. and Mr. Harold Schultz
and Randy returned to Houston
Sunday evening after spending
their vacation in Austin, Bren-
ham, and here.
Personals
Easter Sunday visiters in the
> were
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Meitzen and
son Manfred of Houston; Mr.
After all the gifts were un-1 and Mrs. E. G. Heinsohn and
wrapped the honoree expressed son Bobby and Mr.®. Giese of
La Grange: Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Henkhaus Sr. of New Ulm; Mr.
contest, Mrs. W. C. Krebs was and Mrs .Harvey Davis and son
the winner. t Rex of Brenham; Mr. and Mrs.
A delicious lunch of cakes, Harry^Henkhaus Jr. and son of
pies, sandwiches and cookies,
and coffee and punch was serv-
ed to a large group of friends
and relatives.
held in College Station on April j Rain and Cool Weather
District 11 Farm Bureau Clin-
ic was held in La Grange on ■
Wednesday, April 9, at the Am-'
encan Legion Hall from 10:00 j
i. Lu G.GG p.ui. The Clinic'----.------- -- —-------- — —
held for Farm Bureau presi- ,0_ ", at 3
I 23 in High
jSchool; Bleiblerville—April 24,
and in Sealy, April 25. Every-
, .. ... .. one is cordially invited to see
th« d a" 1 these .films.
4-H Girls Dress Revenue on
April 26 in Bellville, please
watch for further announce-
ment.®.
National Home Demonstra-
tion Week will be observed by
Under Chapter 13, Sec.
authority vested in us by law
we, the Democratic Executive 1 search after reading a note she
Committee for Austin County, had k<ft. Beside her body was a
Texas, do hereby call Precinct J single-barrel shotgun. She is
Conventions to be held within 1 ..-aid to have been in good health
and for each voting precinct of j and spirits and the note gave no
Austin County, Texas, on Sat- reason for her actions. Her hus-
urday, the 3rd day of May, A. 1 band and children, Mary Ann,
D. 1952, at 3 p.m. on said date 112, and Daniel, 10, had been a-
for the purpose of selecting way from the house about two
delegates to the County Demo- ■ hours on a fishing trip, and
cratic Presidential Convention | found her body on their return
which will convene at the Court i home. A verdict of death from
House in Bellville, Texas, on' self-inflicted gunshot ^wounds
Tuesday, the 6th day of May, > was returned by the justice of
A. D. 1952, at 3 p.m. on said the peace, Emil Galle of New
date which County Democratic Ulm.
Besides her husband and chil-
T. W. “Buckshot” Lane,
Sheriff of Wharton county and
candidate for the office of Re-
presentative of the 9th, Con-
gressional district L® featured
for the second time in Life
magazine this week.
Buckshot Lane crashed the
pages of Life the first time on
July 14, 1950.
i
w 1951 cottcn crop shows 17,432
Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kulow of (]ast year. This is almost exactly
jr» « « w < .. ■ XVa. < _ _ - . -
to Bastian of Bellville, former-
ly of New Ulm.
Pallbearers were Elmo Ma-
tuska, Bernard Szymanski, A-
mandu® Brast and Marvin Ker-
sten.
Hub
man < >nits visiivq uncxiv in
Last Friday night, April 11, i Wei®s Jr. of Pasadena. Cpl. Ulm Thursday night. They
urged to ' this community received heavy i Clarence Moeller of Fort Hood; i.—...r—..— —„ ....
«.«>,na nmAamtinn, o r im.i xfra Wiaui.) Moeller .-hk who spent the week
inches, followed by a cool north and family of Brenham; Mr.
wind. Due to the heavy rain, and Mrs. Harold Schultz and
cotton that had just been plant- Randy o>f Houston; and Mr. and 1
ed will probably have to be re- Mrs. H. H. Schultz of here.
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