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THE LA GRANGE JOURNAL THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 1955
Miss Corine Schulle
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FLOUR
25 lb. Sack with 45c Coupons in Every Sack
50 Lb. Sack $3.39
50 lb. Sack with 90c Coupons in Every Sack
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square confection
a miniature bride
It was baked by
Mrs. Selma Fels of Houston,
sister of the bride.
The couple wilUmake their
home in Houston.
Kitchen Shower
Honors Miss Keilers
Miss Verlie Fay Keilers, bride
elect of Henry Nietenhoefer, was
honored at a kitchen shower at
the home of Mrs. Raymond Zin-
glemann January 1 at 3 PM.
A color scheme of pink and
green was carried out and the
bride elect was presented a cor-
sage of pink carnations upon ar-
rival.
Several games were played
and the winners were presented
with prizes and in turn pre-
sented the prize to the honoree.
After the unwrapping of the
many useful gifts, refreshments
consisting of cake, sandwiches
and coffee were served to ap-
proximately 25 guests.
Mrs. Delroy Zinglemann and
Mrs. Raypaond Zinglernann were
th£ hostesses.
Past Seven Days
In La Grange
TRAMP BUYS REINHARD WOLF BUSINESS PLACE
Werner C. Tramp, La Grange hatcheryman, has purchased
the building and property formerly owned by Reinhard Wolf,
local Case farm implement dealer. Mr. Wolf will continue to do
business in the same building.
The La Grange Hatchery building located on the Ellinger
highway will be moved to the new site by Mj. Tramp and the
new business will be known as the La Grange Hatchery and Feed
Store. The new owner has engaged Al Meiner, local contractor,
for the moving project and also for the addition of a new build-
ing to the old structure.
TPEA NAMES SHAFER AS NEW PRESIDENT
O. E. Shafer was named president of the Texas Public Em-
ployees’ Association in a meeting of the group held in the Lester
Hotel last Thursday. Shafer, an employee Wf the Texas State
Highway Department, succeeds former president Jack W. Ingram.
Also named were Jesse Lee Smith, president; and O. W.
Albers, secretary-treasurer. Both are employed by the highway
department. Directors named were Lecter Brewer of Schulenburg
and J. D. Legler of La Grange.
26 PER CENT OF FAYETTE CARS INSPECTED
Only twenty-six per cent of Fayette County’s 10,683 vehicles
have been inspected, according to Jack W. Ingram, inspector for
the Motor Vehicular Division of the Department of Public Safety.
Up to Jan. 25, only 2,795 cars had been inspected.
Figures for the various areas of the county are as follows:
La Grange-Rutersville-Winchester, 4,500 vehicles, 1,410 inspect-
ed; Schulenburg, 3,000 cars, 630 inspected; Round Top-Carmine-
Fayetteville-Ellinger, 1,000 vehicles, 450 inspected; and Flatonia,
1,500 vehicles, 306 inspected.
Deadline for the car inspections is April 15, Ingram stated
and warned that windshield stickers must be Intact.
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terest in Lot 2, and Lot 1, L.
J Sulak Subdiv. of Frc. Farm
Blk. 41, J. H. Moore Plan, La
Grange.
Elo Rohde to Reinhard Wolff,
Release Lien, Lot 1» L. J. Sulak
Subdiv. of Frc. Farm Byk. 41,
J. H. Moore Plan, La Grange.
Reinhard Wolff, et ux to Wer-
ner C. Tramp, Deed, Lot 2 A 1,
L. J. Sulak Subdiv. of Frc. Farm
Blk. 41, J H Moore Plan, La
Grange, Texas
Horace C. Jones, et ux to Rich
Rehmet, et ux, Deed, 255.79 a-
cres, Thomas O. Berry, Henry
Clements and William Lewis Lgs
Ella Nollkamper, et vir to
August Nollkamper, Gift Deed,
Lot 1, Blk. 64, City of Flatonia,
Texas.
August Matejowsky, et al to
Marvin Matejowsky, Deed, 150
acres, J. G. Wilkerson Lg.
James Howard Johnson, et al
to Sterling C. Evans, Trustee
for The Federal Land Bank of
Houston, Deed of Trust, 490.7
acres, Joseph McCoy, Jr. 1/4
T«g. Adam Zumwalt Lg. J. Mc-
Coy Survey, J. Stiffler Survey
(part Gonzales County).
Benjamin Franklin Harigel to
American National Insurance
Company, Assignment of Lease,
7,725 square feet out of Lot 221
Blk. 32, La Grange, Texas.
Benjamin Franklin Harigel to
W. O. Watson, Trustee for A-
merican National Insurance Co.,
Deed of Trust, 7925 square feet,
out of Lot 221, Blk. 32, John H.
Moore Plan, La Grange, Texas.
The First National Bank of
La Grange to Henry A. Rotter,
Partial Release of Lien, 1.32 a-
cres, E. Savage Lg.
Henry A. Rotter, et ux to Gil-
bert Hattermann, Deed, 1.32 a-
cres, E. Savage Lg.
M. M. Miller, et ar to Mary A.
Brown, et al, Release Oil Lease,
337 acres, David Berry Lg
Traders Oil Company of Hous-
ton, et al to M. M. Miller, As-
signment Oil Leases, interest in
457 acres, David Berry Lg.
Traders Oil Company of Hous-
ton, et al to M. M. Miller Sr., et
al, Assignment Oil Leases. In-
terest in 470.01 acres, J. E. Lew-
is 1/4 Lg. and David Berry Lg.
MULDOON NEWS
L. W. Miller
Louis Pandruf and went on to
Odom to spend the week end.
Mr Pandruf was the husband
of the former Miss Ada Coulsen
and a brother-in-law of Mr.
Speed.
Killed by Train
Bunk Carsley, a local colored
man, was killed by a freight
Mrs. train Saturday afternoon as he
was trying to catch it to come
home. He was employed as a
Section hand and had been so
employed for about 12 years.
"Know Your Soil" Is Muldoon
HD Topic
The Muldoon HD club met at
the home of Mrs Jesse Boehnke
Wednesday afternoon in their
regular monthly meeting. The
HD agent showed and explained
by slides, gardening and flowers
and also showed slide on insects
Attend Funeral
Mr and Mrs L. W. Miller Sr
and L. W. MIUer Jr attended the
funeral Wednesday afternoon at
Luling of Mrs R. W. Spencer
who passed away suddenly Mon-
day afternoon.
Mrs Sallle Ivy, Mrs H. W.
Pitman, Mr and Mrs Lonnie
Robbins and Mike and
Elisha Holstein attended the fu-
neral of Louis Pandruf at Seguin
Saturday morning. Andy Speed
also attended the funeral of
Other members of the house
Marjorie Hammer of party were Miss Barbara Sch-
- ■ - -.....- ' neider of Houston, Miss Fem
Caplinger of Pasedena and Miss
Catherine Roesa of Brenham.
For travel the bride chose a
blue grey suit with navy and
white accessories an an orchid
corsage.
The bride is a graduate of
Pasadena High School and at
present is employed at Pruden-
tial Insurance Co: The groom is
a graduate of R. T.-Carmine
Rural High school.
The couple will make their
home in Waco, where the groom
will enroll in Baylor School of
Medicine.
HD Clubs Hold
Trainin" Meeting
The Home Demonstration A-1 Miss Corine Schulle, bride-
gent, Mrs. Lois I. Hopper, held elect of Travis Etzel, was honor-
a training meeting on Egg Pro- ed with a surprise miscellaneous
duction and Egg Cookery in the shower on Sunday, Jan. 30 at
Home Demonstration kitchen the Carmine hall at 1:30 PM.
Wednesday morning, Jan. 26, The honoree was presented
for the food demonstrators of with a red carnation corsage
the various Home Demonstra- an(j the mothers each received
tlon Clubs in the county. a yellow aster corsage.
The demonstrators will pre- The gifts were laid on a table
sent the information obtained covered with red and white crepe
at the meeting to their respec- paper which held three r
tlve clubs at their February hearts and one large heart with
meeting. The eighteen demon- the names Corine and Travis and
strators, representing thirteen the date Feb. 13.
clubs, who attended were Mrs. A heart-shaped cake with two
Herman Olle Jr., Mrs. Lonnie pon Cupids holding little red
Garbade, Mrs. Charlie Stoelke. hearts centered the refreshment
Mrs. Paul Green, Mrs. Oliver table. Sandwiches, cakes, cookies
Pape, Mrs. Rud. Ripper, Mrs. and coffee were served to ap-
Wemer Boeer, Mrs Albert Boeer, proximately 150 friends and
Miss Annie H. Janda, Mrs. John relatives.
Graeter, Mrs. Robert Bruening, Mrs. Ardell Muske, Willa Mae
Mrs. Qtto Luetge, Mrs. John B. Schulle and AvaJOa Mueller as-
Janda, Mrs. Ed. Orsak, Mrs. sjsted the honoree in unwrap-
Harry Huelsebusch, Mrs. N. J. ping her gifts.
Stoever, Mrs. Lee Roy Best and Hostesses were Mrs. C. C.
Mrs. Marvin Cernik. | Creighton, Mrs. Ardell Muske,
Miss Barbara Jean Mueller,
Willa Mae Schulle, Mrs. Lucy
Muske, Miss Avalda Mueller,
Mrs. Richard Pohl, Mrs. Gerhard
von Minden, Miss Jean Arlys
Noak and Miss Maxine Sacks
Miss Schulle and Mr. Etzel
will be married on Feb. 13.
Houston registered the guests.
Mrs. Graeber, mother of the
bride, wore a medium blue dress
with black accessories and a
white carnation corsage. Mrs.
Bathe, mother of the groom,
point m wore a brown dr^s with brown
which was worn over a hoop, and PJok accessories and a cor
sage of pink carnations.
The reception took place in
the Educational Building of the
church where about 120 guests
MORTON’S
POTATO CHIPS
MORTON’S — PURE
BLACK PEPPER
MORTON’S
HONEY
SUNSHINE
HYDROX
NICE YELLOW
STRAWBERRIES pkg. 29c BANANA!
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USDA Approves
Cummins Creek h
Watershed 1
Two Central Texas watersheds
have been approved by the U.,,,
S. Department of Agriculture!'>
for technical assistance and z
surveys. The two watersheds
are the Cummins Creek water-
shed in Fayette, Lee and Col-
orado counties and the other
is the Brushy Creek watershed
in Burnet, Williamson and
Milam counties.
The two watersheds had te-P J
ceived top priority ratings from • >
the Texas Conservation ’
mittee. In the next step to be r ;
taken, the projects will be pre-11 I
sented to Congrss for consid-l';
eration and approval (or dis- >
approval). Then it will be as- .
sipned to the Joint house agri- >
culture committee. Further ac- >
tion will be taken if the water-
shed is approved by the joint 11
committees. * •
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T. G. Williams, head of the L I PECAN VALLEY CUT
local Soil Conservation Service ;; nFIMA A
office, received word of the Ag- • • IZDL |» M Kr*AM\ #
1 rlculture Department’s approvall J ULMIIU ’ *• vUIlw
of the watershed from the state * •
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Graeber-£3athe Rites
Held In Pasadena
Miss Mary Ann Graeber,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs Fritz
Graeber of Pasadena, became the
bride of Charles Farrel Bathe
of Carmine in an Impressive
candle light ceremony on Sun-
day, January 23, in the First
Lutheran Church of Pasadena.
The double ring ceremony was
performed by Rev. Fred C.
Harms, pastor of the church.
Parents of the groom are Mr.
and Mrs. M. H. Bathe of Car-
mine
Vows were exchanged before
an altar decorated with baskets
of white gladiola and palms.
Mrs. Fred C. Harms, the
church organist, provided the
traditional wedding music. Mrs.
Marica Tullois of Houston,
friend of the bride, sang
Love You” and “Because."
Given in marriage by her fa-
ther, the bride was attired in a
ballerina length gown of nylon
tulle over satin. The bodice with
a round neckline of shirred ny-
lon tulle and lace, came to a
point in the front. The skirt,
had rows of shirred nylon tulle
and lace. Her illusion veil was
topped with lilies of the valley
half hat. She carried a white Bi-
ble overlaid with an orchid and were present,
lilies of the valley.
Miss ]
Houston, a friend of the bride,
attended her as maid of honor.
Bridesmaid was Miss Claudelte
Jones of Houston. They were
identically attired in light blue
ballerina length dresses of cry-
stalline over taffata. They wore
a head piece of pink carnations
and carried a cascade bouquet
1 of pink ernations.
M. G. Bathe attended his bro-
ther as best man and R. T.
> Graeber of College Station, bro-
ther of the bride, was grooms-
man Alfred Weid and Fred G.
Schultz both of Houston were
ushers.
Miss
Marburger-Ziese
Honored With Shower Nuptial Are Read
On Sunday, Jan. 30, at four
o’clock in the afternoon, Miss
Erna Marburger of Round Top
was united in marriage to Ottd
Ziese of Houston.
The Rev. A. B. Weiss per-
formed the marriage in the
Bethlehem Lutheran Church at
Round Top. Organist was Mrs.
Willie Rebarski and Mrs. Del-
phine Hinze was soloist.
The altar vases held chrysan-
themums and fern. Other dec-
orations in the church included
roses and floor baskets of white
gladioli, stocks and potted fern.
The bride was attired
blue dress fashioned of Chan-
tilly lace and taffeta with navy
accessories. White carnations
and lilies of the valley with sa-
tin streamers formed her bridal
Bernice Fels, the bride-
maid, was attired in pink and
carried a nose gay of white car-
nations.
The best man was Leroy
Ziese.
A reception was_held at the
cake was a beautifully decorated
two - tiered
topped with
and groom.
REAL ESTATE
A. J. Freytag Affiant to the
public, Affidavit, as to repair-
tog, etc, Oil Well Drilling rig,
for A & H Drilling Company,
on lease covering 100 acres, J.
S. Davld e and what’s right way and kind
Briiht Sat^ection Assign- tn control each of
ment Oil Lease, Interest in
properties L.------
including Fayette County and
Mississippi.
The First National Bank of La
Grange - to Reinhard Wolff,
Transfer and Assignment of
'Judgment Lien, Cause No. 9884,
Dist. Court, Fayette County.
In Train’s Path H
Little Terry Blume, two-year- •
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 11
Les Blume, was rescued from ;;
the path of a Katy passenger H ,
train Saturday morning by her b ;
brother, Leslie "Butch" Blume,
La Grange High School student
and star athlete.
Terry wandered away from
the Blume home shortly before
dinner Saturday and was sitting
on the train tracks when bro- __________
ther “Butch” spied her and the < > ~ ____ ______ ____
w. E. SCHULZE GROCERYI
from the tracks just as the ;;
train roared by. I£|
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ALL BAY SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5th
PILLSBURY PANCAKES
Observes Birthdav
With Party
Little Dianna Marie Albers
celebrated her firth birthday
with a party at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Al-
bers in Carmine.
Eighteen youngsters and nine
ladies were present to help make
the evening one to remember.
After the gifts were opened, Di-
anna Marie shared her toys and
sand box with the little visitors
while the mothers enjoyed an
evening of fellowship.
Lunch was served while five
white candles burned on a large
yellow cake. The group sang
Happy Birthday to You. Whist-
les were given as favors and
pictures were also taken.
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of Jqsecticldes .to control each of
them.
in various Counties, The president appointed the
1 committees for the year. The
club also donated $5 to the
Match of Dimes.There were 14
members present and one new
mmber was added to the club,
Mrs Lonnie Robbins. One visitor
Mrs Jack Korenek and Mrs Hop-
— . per were also present. Those
Chas. Michalk, et ux to *‘eJn' present were served delicious re-
ird Wolff. Quitclaim Deed, in- /resbments by the hostess. Mrs
Effie Ivy will be hostess when
the club meets on Feb. 21, in-
stead of the fourth Monday, the
regular meeting date.
Perrnmals
Mr and Mrs John Walker of
Smithville visited friends
Thursday evening here.
Mr and Mrs Billie McClana-
han and daughters of Houston
spent the week end in the home
of Mr and Mrs S. A. Jacobs.
Mrs Jacobs returned home >vith
them for a visit.
Mr and Mrs W. L. McClanahan
of Houston spent the week end
here. Mrs McClanahan remained
here for the week.
Mr and Mrs Jewel McClana-
han and Donnie of Houston
spent the week end in the home
of Mr and Mrs Lubick Fleck.
Mr and Mrs J. C. Richardson
and Charles Henry of Brazoria
spent the week end in the homes
of Mr and Mrs H. W. Pitman
here and Mrs Mary Ellen Reitz
at Flatonia. i
Mr and Mrs Ira Ivy and John
Carol of Angleton spent the
week end in the home of Mrs
Sallie Ivy.
Mr and Mrs Leonard Cherry
spent a few hours Tuesday eve-
ning in Cuero with Mr and Mrs
Raleigh Coppedge and boys.
Mayers Donate Day’s
Dairy Mart Receipts
Saturday’s receipts from the
sales of “Tasty Sweet” pro-
ducts at the Dairy Mart—to-
taling $100—were donated to
the current March of Dimes
drive by Mr. and Mrs. E. B.
“Tex" Mayer.
Hie donation made possible
by Mr and Mrs. Mayer was re-
ported by MOD Drive Chairman
Charlie Jungmichel.
Sales during Saturday after-
noon were aided by a concert
presented by the Leopard Pep
Band, directed by Ernest Clark,
and by the four majorettes who
acted as hostesses during the
hours of 2 and 4 PM. The ma-
jorettes who assisted were Lil-
lian Hagens, Camille Freytag,
Virginia Mika and Judy Weikel.
Koopmann’s To
Observe First
Anniversary I Miscellaneous Shower I
Koopmann’s Food Store is Honors Miss Wolle
SeiraiinVren«SS A miscellaneous shower hon-
wp*>k pnd D H Koonmann own- oring Miss Edd Neva Wolle was
by
cials Thursday, Friday and Sat- Mre. B. Mazac at the latter s
Xy<oSe“mMmO”t‘°" °‘ *hiS Tvatou^’mourwas car-
milesto . ried out jn decorating the gift
In addition to the specials, and refreshment tables and al-
Mr. Koopmann is giving away a so in the wrapping of the beau-
two-pound bag of sugar with tiful gifts.
each purchase of $7:50 or more. A large number of relatives
This is available to all custom- attended.
ers he stated. But the big prize Miss Wolle thanked everyone
will be the 6 baskets of gro- for the lovely gifts,
ceries that will be given away
on Saturday. One of the baskets a
will be given away every hour ______
beginning at 1:30 o’clock. All bride of Marvin Dabbs
you have to do is register Georgia on Feb. 5. She is the
Thursday through Friday. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar
t Wolle of Rutersvllle.
In addition to the above,1
there will be free lollipops and
balloons for the kiddies.
D. H. Koopmann bought the|L
business a year ago from Clin- ;;
ton von Minden after Mr. von ‘,
Minden bought it from the Von ;;
Rosenberg Company. The. busi- - >
ness is located at 239 W. Travis J J
Street in La Grange. ;;
It has become known foc-JtsL
complete selection of groceries. ;
produce, frozen 'foods and meats. <
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