The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1935 Page: 1 of 8
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SEALY, AUSTIN COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1935
VOLUME 48—NUMBER 11
BIG EVENT PLANNED FOR “R.R. WEEK” JUNE 10-15
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Turn to page 5, this issue.
LOCAL 7TH GRADE
GRADUATION CLASS
EXERCISES ARE HELD
Firemen Enjoy " Feast
At Absentees’ Expense
cars of dressed turkeys, 200,000
pounds of fowls, 30,000 pounds
BRIDGE AND DOMINO
PARTY BY R.R. MEN
BENEFIT BOY SCOUTS
from
the
PARENT - TEACHERS’
ASSOCIATION MAKES
STUDENT AWARDS
milk marketed in the Yoakum
.area, from Jersey cows that
were introduced, yielded about
their
ability,
Business
By’'Julian Capers, Jr.
8 and 9 o’clock.
Poppies will be
day Saturday.
Morris Gindorf,
Administrator.
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Mrs. W. E. Schier, will be one
of the graduates in the exer-
cises at A. & M. College this
TEXAS THEATRE
Cool as a Mountain Breeze
TONIGHT—Friday:
The Year’s Gayest
Musical Comedy
“ROBERTA”
with GINGER ROGERS
FRED ASTAIRE and
IRENE DUNNE
New Dance Sensations!
Paramount News—Comedy
Prices 10c and 35c
Friends of Mrs. Ellie Reaser
and her son will delight in the
news that Vernon is slowly but
surely recovering from the ac-
cident wherein he was so criti-
cally injured recently.
even one so profitable as
vestibule of a building
which many doors open,
ones they choose to open
termining the scope of
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The Sealy Canning Kitchen,
located in the Horsch old build-
ing near F. W. Hackbarth &
Sons, will be ready for opera-
tion Thursday, May 30. This
kitchen was made possible by
the donation of the building al-
un.,-Mon., June 2-3:
The Greatest Romantic
Comedy of All Time!
WARNER BAXTER
and MYRNA LOY in
“Broadway Bill”
Also A Fox Comedy
“Big Business,” and News
Prices 10c and 35c
as arose, using whatever ma-
terials were availabe to do the
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on sale all,
“Les Miserables"
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were not seriously injured, hav-
ing only suffered severe bruises
and a few minor cuts and
abraisons.
KITCHEN NOW READY
FOR OPERATION IN
SEALY; OPENS TODAY
Austin, Texas, May 28, 1935.
—Happy, indeed, must have
been the reflections of the
governor of a state which has
a million citizens on the relief
/ rolls, depending for the bread
of life upon a government dole,
as he spoke to a huge throng
Tues.,-Wed., June 4-5:
BARGAIN NIGHTS
“Million Dollar
Ransom”
with Phillips Holmes,
Mary Carlisle and
Edward Arnold
Selected Short Subjects
Prices 10c and 15c
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county to visit cemeteries Sun-
day morning and decorate all
graves of ex-soldiers with
flowers. These committees are
as follows:
Sealy—c. J. Nastoupil, E. B.
Schiller, A. D. Armentrout, O.
C. Kurtz, Otto Remmert and
Ed A. Beckman.
Frydek—Julius Masarik and
to- the realization of their accom-
plishment, and after the in-
spirational addresses of the
evening felt that their efforts
on their behalf had not been in
vain, and no doubt resolved
anew to help them on to higher
& T. telegraph operator,
made secretary.
In order to render ;
training and to their
Miss Evelyn Cherkas
Invocation — Rev. Father
C. J. Kune.
Song—Sealy Choral Club.
Talk—Rev. Father A. W.
Nesvadba.
Address by Chaplain, Rev.-
Eugene Clarke.
National Anthem— “The
/ Star Spangled Banner.”
Benediction—Rev. E. Leon
Unger.
Taps.
Hill, Claudia Hluchan, Freddie
Hluchan, Billy Hover, Vera Jez,
Wilma Kellner, Marian Claire
Koy, August Kutra, Albert
Lewis, Ennis Nentwig, Em-
mett Pophanken, George Rich,
Edwin Schiller, Harold Siegert, ?
Zenith Verm, Bruce Viereck 1
and Frank Vykoukal. A
delivered the salutatory
matoes. So now they ship 20
and better things.
The members of the class
are as follows: Maggie Brune,
Evelyn Cherkas, Upton Diemer,
Louis Burger, Florence Esar,
Adelle Frimel, Buddy Garrett,
Earl Hackbarth, Nettie Marie
Perhaps the largest crowd
ever assembled in Sealy to do
honor to a graduating class
gathered on the campus of the
Sealy grammer school last Fri-
day evening.
Here from a platform built on
an extension of the portico on
the east side of the building,
and converted into an attract-
ive setting by the clever ar-
rangement of Spanish moss,
potted plants, vines and baskets
of flowers in the class colors,
was graduated the second larg-
est class in the history of the
school.
Hon. Ewing Werlein, dean of
the Houston Law School, and
a prominent attorney of that
city, delivered the class address.
Into this was woven humor,
From a beautifully decorated
stage setting in which the class
colors of blue and white pre-
dominated, the Seventh Grade
Exercises were held at the Sea-
ly High School auditorium Wed-
nesday evening, May 22. Beau-
tiful ferns and streamers of the
chosen colors added to the fes-
tive appearance of the stage.
The program for the evening
was under the direction of Mrs.
Roddie O’Connor. Invocation
was made by Rev. A. E.
Hughes, and the benediction by
Rev. E. Leon Unger. The class
sang three songs appropriate
for the occasion. The Saluta-
tory was given by Julius Eng-
elking and the Valedictory ad-
dress by Mary Frances Foytik.
Mr. C. V. Rice presented the
diplomas.
Rev. E. Leon Unger deliver-
ed the class address, stressing
the fact that we are still
pioneers for the future, and
gave several illustrations of
early Indian troubles. His ad-
dress was to the point and very
enlightening.
In presenting the diplomas
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knowledge. The members of
the class, members of the fac-
ulty and all listeners thorough-
ly enjoyed his splendid mes-
sage.
The invocation was made by
Rev. E. Leon Unger and the
benediction was pronounced by
Rev. A. E. Hughes. In well
chosen words that did credit to
cases of eggs a year. Whole
service to the local Boy Scouts
troop and at the same time
“railroad-minded” for the week,
it was decided that the railroad
employes of Sealy would pro-
mote a series of social activities
for the week beginning June 10
and turn the gross receipts
over to the Scouts to be used
on their annual camping trip
this summer.
The first and principal event
of the week will be a Benefit
Bridge on Monday night, June
.10, at which time, bridge, forty-
two, dominoes and other
games will be the chief diver-
sions.. The entire Katy freight
warehouse and platform will
be used for the entertainment,
and some 75 or 100 tables will
be provided for players. A
nominal charge of 25 cents will
be made to players, who will
share in receiving prizes from
50c to $1.00. Mrs. F. W. Hover
has been named by the railroad
men to sponsor the entertain-
ment. ______ _
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week-end. His parents and
other relatives and friends will
no doubt be present on the hap-
py occasion.
.$112,000,000 to farmers last
year.
So it is no wonder that Yoa-
kum folks, including Editor H.
D. Meister of the Yoakum Her-
ald, whose paper rendered val-
iant service in the planning and
carrying out of the new deal
agricultural program, are due
homage to it annually.
Perhaps, as Governor Allred
paid his tribute to the tomato,
he was thinking that credit
really should go to a people
made of the stuff of pioneer
Texans, who were dismayed by
Some 25 or 30 local railroad
men met in the Chamber of
Commerce hall Monday night
to perfect plans for the ob-
servance of “Railroad Week,”
which has been proclaimed in
all states west of the Missis-
sippi River. F. F. Fisher, Santa
Fe agent, was named as chair-
man and J. W. Fewell, M. K.
John Maresh.
San Felipe—Vick Boyd.
Cat Spring—Herman Mau
and Robert Oldag.
Peters—Willie Schubert and
R. W. Hintz.
Anyone wishing to contrib-
ute flowers are requested to
see or phone C. J. Nastoupil or
Ed A. Beckman not later than
Saturday June 1. Flowers will
be called for Sunday between
th pir ready partially piped for water,
by C. C. Glenn, owner of the
building, and donations of pipe
and other essentials by A.
Evelyn Cherkas placed first for
the Sealy schools and had her
name on the P.-T. A. Literary
Cup for the second consecutive
year. She and Frances Bock
took first place in debate and
Evelyn won second place in
Essay writing, giving her a
total of twenty points.
Frank Krampitz’s name was
engraved on the P.-T. A. Ath-
lete Cup for having amassed
twenty and one fourth points.
He placed first in four events,
including the junior relay, and
second in one event.
The Sealy P.-T. A. is due con-
gratulations for stimulating in-
terest in the various activities,
by giving these awards to pu-
pils of the shcool.
Funeral Held for Mrs.
Louis Merten of Peters
of merrymakers last week-end
at Yoakum.
The occasion was the eighth
annual “Tom-Tom” celebration,
honoring the tomato, once the
despised “love apple” of • our
grandfathers, which they re-
garded as an ornamental,' but
inedible garden plant,
Yoakum people Pdjscovered
more practical usecfor the to-
mato, but back of Their, carni-
val event lies one of th most
interesting and inspiring stor-
ies in the modern history of
Texas.
In 1925, following a disas-
trous drouth of South Central
Texas, community leaders in
Yoakum, hustling little city of
5656 souls situated on the bor-
der of Lavaca and DeWitt
counties 118 miles southeast of
Austin, decided to do something
‘ about the situation. Cotton and
feed crops were burning com-
pletely up, and there were no
other important crops. O. R.
Davis, then president of the
Chamber of Commerce, experi-
enced the wholesale marketing
of vegetables, made a study of
the Yoakum trade territory,
and decided that tomatoes were
the answer. An expert was
hired, with the Chamber of
no difficulty, but simply met o:
and overcame such problems C
of spring chickens and 5000
Levine an other donations by
the Sealy Chamber of Com-
merce, all of which is greatly •
appreciated by the Austin
County Relief Board. It is in-
deed an act of patriotism when
people meet a cause as the
people of Sealy have met this
emergency.
At present there are num-
bers of people in and around
Sealy waiting for their pro-
ducts to be canned in this kit-
chen. The employees will try
to do your work any time that
you call with the products.
Eeryone is invited to have their
products canned at our Sealy
Kitchen. All that is necessary
for the producer to do is to
bring the product to the kit-
chen in a clean condition, and
the Relief Commission will
furnish the labor, equipment
and cans necessary for canning
the product. The producer
calls for his product when the
canning operation has been
finished, leaving the necessary
toll of canned goods to the Aus-
tin County Relief Board. This
kitchen will be operated by a
local supervisor and local re-
lief employees, who must be
certified free from all diseases
by a certified doctor, and who
must abide by all existing rules
and regulations in the kitchen.
This kitchen is to be furnish-
by the Texas Relief Commis-
sion with retorts, sealers, cook-
ers, cooking utensils, soap, caps
and aprons, the local subdivis-
ion and citizens furnishing the
water, fuel, location and tables.
Your patronizing the Sealy
Canning Kitchen will be ap-
preciated. The local people who
have done so much to establish
this kitchen will certainly be
pleased to have you use it and
make a huge success of the
Miss Maggie Brune the valedic-
tory address. Mrs. Joe Baker
led the class in the singing of
two appropriate songs, with
Miss Winnie Crisp accompan-
ing at the piano.
As a culmination of four
years of teaching, cajoling and
leading the class to this point
in their educational careers,
Supt. Leo Presnell presented
them with their diplomas.-Just
prior to delivering these he ad-
dressed them, as he has on
many occasions, with a mes-
sage from the depth of his
heart, the very tone of which
bore witness to his deep and
abiding interest in them.
Principal A. D. Armentrout
made the P. T. A. athletic
awards.
There were twenty-five mem-
bers of the senior class this
year, and as they took their
respective places on the stage
the hearts of teachers, relatives
and friends were thrilled with
The Program
, Song—“America,” by the
assembly.
spring trade. Phillip Welhaus-
en, Yoakum banker, financed
the experimental crop during
"the first year, which totaled 13
carloads, grown on 40 experi-
mental acres.
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From that beginning, Yoa-
kum ships 600 cars of tomatoes
from about 3,500 acres, into
every important American city.
It operates 15 commercial pack-
ing sheds, and a commercial
cannery is being built. Average
net returns from tomatoes is
around $150 an acre, under de-
Members of the Sealy Fyr-
Fyters organization and a few
invited guests enjoyed a big
barbecue feast in the barbecue
room of the Sealy Meat Market
on Thursday night of last
week. The meat was unusually
tender, well prepared and made
still more appetizing when
served with potato salad, gravy
and your choice of drinks.
The firemen have a rule in
their meetings which require
absentees to pay a fine of 10
cents. These fines are set
aside for banquet purposes.
Some $45 or $50 had accumu-
lated in this fund, which made
possible the big free feast
Thursday night.
Among the out - of - town
guests were Judge W. I. Hill,
Sheriff Geo. Koy, County At-
torney Lee Dittert and Judge
C. D. Duncan, all of Bellville.
man Loehr and daughter, Ruby,
and son, James, and three boys
they had given a ride to the
swimming pool at Peters, Earl
Horn, Leroy Williamson and
Cleveland Keding, suffered a
painful, but not serious, acci-
dent when their car turned
completely over. The driver
lost control of the machine
when a rear tire went flat just
as it struck a sand bed south
of Peters.
The occupants of the car
were thrown in several direc-
tions, and Mrs. Loehr, who was
driving, was thrown in the rear
compartment of the car. It is
most miraculous that they
At the end of each school
year the Sealy Parent-Teachers’
Association gives an award to
the student in the Sealy Gram-
mar School and to the one in
the Sealy High School who
makes the highest grade in
5'their respective division.
The grammar school award
went to Douglas Koy, who
made an average of 94.4 for
the year. This is the third time
that Douglas has placed first
■ I in his school. An eighth grade
pupil, Viola Peschka, took high
honors in the high school. Her
average was 96.375.
For her literary achieve-
ments at the Austin County In-
terscholastic League Meet,
is Commerce and business men of
the community co-operating,
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While enroute to Bellville
Monday afternoon, Mrs. Her-
literary gems from sages of •
old, maxims of wisdom and
many excerpts from the Bard
of Avon, but the woof of the
whole was the inspirational
theme throughout. The ex-
ortation to build character
while building up mental fac-
ulties and acquiring knowledge
was most timely. He compar-
ed their graduation from high
school to their entrance into the
gross return has run as high as
$500. The labor-payroll, for
packing, grading and loading,
alone, is $11,000 a season.
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But Yoakum folks didn’t
stop at that. Having learned
lessons of diversification, they
didn’t make the mistake of get-
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? Saturday, June 8:
f “The Prescott Kid
with TIM McCOY
i Sun.,-Mon, June 9-10 :
I The Grandest Round-Up
of Comedy Stars Ever
Corralled—!
t Ruggles of Red Gap
with Charlie Ruggles,
• Mary Boland, Zasu Pitts,
t Charles Laughton, Roland
| Young, and Lelia Hyams
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? Thurs.,-Fri., June 6-7:
:i The Best Man Wins
i with EDMUND LOWE
and JACK HOLT
I Paramount News—Comedy
Mrs. Louis Merten, 62, died
at the home of her sister, Mrs.
Ben Fisher, in Bellville last
Friday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Mrs. Merten, a resident of
the Peters community for
many years, had been in bad
health for quite a while and
was making her home with her
sister temporarily while under
care of Bellville physicians.
The deceased was born near
Bellville and had lived in Aus-
tin County all her life. Besides
her husband, she is sur\ ved by
one son, Chester Merten. Three
children preceded her in death.
Other survivors are two broth-
ers, Herman Woehst and Aug.
Woehst, both of Bellville, one
sister in California and one in
Temple. .
Funeral services were held
in the Pilgrim’s Rest cemetery,
east of Bellville, Sunday after-
noon at 2 o’clock, and were at-
tended by a large gathering of
friends from over the county.
given interested farmers in
growing, harvesting and mar-
keting tomatoes for early
As has been the custom of
Sealy Post 442, American Le-
gion, for many years, a Mem-
orial Day program will be
carried out. again this year.
The services will be held on
Sunday, June 2, and the Post
will be assisted by the local
brass band and the Sealy Chor-
al Club.
Legion members are requested
to assemble at theall prompt-
ly at 4 o‘cloksiafdtf"fe afternoon
of June 2, aWWi time a few
selections wilgdelgEyed by the
band at 48088 in front of
the C. P. & L Co. office. At
4:30 the parade of Legion-
naires, headed by the band for
march to the cemeteries at
4:40.
Committees have been ap-
pointed in the various commun-
ities of this section of the
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“SPRING TONIC” |
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Trevor and Zasu Pitts
“Tailspin Tommy” and |
Terrytoons $
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Bracewell, E. W. The Sealy News (Sealy, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1935, newspaper, May 31, 1935; Sealy, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1590952/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Virgil and Josephine Gordon Memorial Library.