The Giddings Star (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1961 Page: 1 of 12
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GIDDINGS, LEE COUNTY. TEXAS. THURSDAY. JULY 20, 1961
VOLUME 22
NUMBER 16
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KAS
y
59c
LAYING OF THE CORNER-: was completed by Rev. John Tripp
First Baptist Church in Giddings.
95c
49c
89c
1961 CHEERLEADERS at Gid-
99c
31c
30c
ture this year, although it is re- Lexington, $889,147.18.
lated to factor two above. Cattle
The total deposits on Dec. 31.
Jimmy Herklotz
Burns.•
)
Guild Sponsors
The offertory was played by Mrs. factors and is to be expected.
years.
ang. Overshadowed’.
of the year is on deposit in the
and the food.
of these notes—at that time swells ‘ by Charles Fields, Jr., son of Mr.
the convention of the Women’s
teachers of the Lutheran Church,
there with many church leaders
Giddings.
—Photo by Walter A Schulz, .for a 2-lb box and not 12c.
ege for the second summer ses-
sion
a grass shortage during the spring
months.
Total deposits in The Citizens
State Bank at Giddings on June
MARGARET HOFFMAN TO BE
IN WATERMELON FESTIVAL
degree.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
W. G. Weidemann of Giddings and
cheerleader; Carol Jane Jenke,
front row. Margaret Hoffman and
Jeanette Richter.
Belgian Congo Residents Visit
Giddings On World Tour
into a copper tube and put it in-
to the cornerstone before the stone
was set into place in the northeast
show an increase of $17,063.62 over
those a year ago.
The statements issued by the
four county banks, The First Na-
tional Bank of Giddings, The Ci-
tizens State bank of Giddings, The
Lexington State Bank of Lexington
and The First State Bank at Dime
Box, in response to the call of The
State Banking Commissioner as of
June 30, 1961, show total deposits
amounting to $7,282 800-94 as com-
pared to $7,106,737.32 at the same
time in1960.
preach at the 9 a, m. service at
Martin Luther Church on Sunday,
STONE of the newly completed | Jr.-and Robe rt L Placke.
- Photo by Buddy Preuss [
Lee County Banks Report June 30
Deposits of Over 7 Million Dollars
JACK WEIDEMANN ENROLLS
IN A & I GRADUATE SCHOOL
Members of the congregation
who participated in the ceremony
• subscription campaign got off to
a big start this week
Reuben Coleman was the first to
enter the contest and has a good
start towards winning the United
Sates Savings bond which will be
the award that goes to the leader .
ONES .
29c
the dance at night.
Plenty of refreshments and
tertainment will be available;
25c
2.25
Mr. and Mrs. James D. Gid-
dings and daughter, June, from
Central Africa came through Gid-
dings Sunday on their tour of the
United States and Canada.
Giddings was included in their
travel route by a travel informa-
tion bureau in Virginia at the re.
quest of Mr. Giddings in order to
visit a town with their name.
They were particularly enthused
upon learning here that a descen-
dant of the family after which Gid-
dings was named is living in Bren-
ham and is named J. D. Giddings,
the same initials as the tourist
from Africa. . ..
M rs A nna Blasig Dies
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna
Blasig, 87, were held at 2.30 p. m.
Monday, July 17, at St. Paul's
Lutheran Church in Serbin, the
Rev. Max Studtmann officiating.
at the newly completed First Bap.
tist Church on Sunday, July 2, at
3 p m.
The service began with choir
The Cornerstone Laying cere-
mony of the First Baptist Church
of Giddings was held immediately
from, other states: The picture a-
bove was taken ast spring during
The total deposits on June 30,
have.not been moving to market 1960, were Citizens State, $2,452,-
Missouri Synod, will be gathered Missionary Societies of the church
at Immanuel Lutheran Church in
NEW MINISTER INSTALLED
AT WARRENTON-WALDECK
Installation services for the Rev
Marvin Kienig were held at the
Warrenton and Waldeck Lutheran
Churches on Sunday, July 16
The installation rites were per-
formed by the Rev. W W Koenig
of Beasley.
The new pastor was ordained at
Kingsville on Sunday, July 9.
He is a native of Orange Grove
and is married to the former Miss
Irene Billo, also a graduate of
TLC at Seguin.
spent four weeks at home during
Miss Hoffman will be escorted his vacation before entering coll-
p.v of the Day of Dedication pro- 1 •
gram; Mrs. Lottie Schnell, pre-
Baptist Church Corner Stone Laid.
corner of the new building.
IMMANUEL SCHOOL CHOIR
will sing at the banquet of the
Texas District Sunday School con.
vention in San Antonio Saturday
night. Some 1000 Sunday School
THE GIDDINGS STAR
Lee County's Favorite Newspaper — More News About More Lee County People Than Any Other Newspaper — Anywhere!
Ice C ream Supper
The Weslyan Guild of the First July 23.
Interment followed in the church
cemetery. (
A complete obituary will appear,
later, - •
NOTICE!
All Giddings merchants and
business men who would like
to have their advertisement
placed in the football programs
this fall and have not been
contacted as of yet are asked
to call or see Coach Smith
at the Athletic Department
Office or any one of the GHS
cheerleaders before Wednes-
day,, July 26, —
Dime Box S.P.J.S.T.
Annual Barbecue
The annual barbecue of the SP
J.S I at Dime Box will be held on
Saturday, July 29, at the S P J S T
Hall in Dime Box.
Beef, Pork; chicken and sausage
barbecue will be available at the
Entry into the rodeo as contest-
ants is confined to Lee County
youths of high school age or youn-
ger. Members of the 1961 gradua-
ting classes of high schools in Lee .
County may enter. -
continue to come to you as you
report.
At the Giddings Recreation As-
sociation’s Board of Directors mee-
ting. Tuesday night, the commit-
tee in charge of construction of the
swimming pool reported that they
were in need of volunteer labor
to keep the construction moving.
Bricklayers, concrete finishers,
carpenters, electricians, and com-
mon laborers’ are needed. Funds
are very limited and for work to
continue on the pool, all the re-
maining labor will need to be do-
nated.
Work still to be done includes
the putting of tile in the pool and
putting marble dust finish op the
Reuben Coleman Gets Head Start
In Star’s Subscriptio n Campaign
The Giddings Star's stupendous
They also were deeply interested
in the Kilian settlement at Serbin,
since they are acquainted with the
locality in Germany from which
the Wends emigrated in 1854.
They have been touring the
world since last year, visiting Ha-
waii, South America, and countries
in Europe, including Germany,
England and Wales.
They were enroute to California
to visit some friends there and then
will proceed through Oregon and
Washington into Canada.
The stop in Giddings included
a noon lunch at Rost’s Cafe, a
member of the Texas Restaurant
Pit from 9 a mi on and the pupblic mer member of the congregation used for restocking after the first, on Friday, July 28
is invited to attend. ------- - -
the Belgian Congo, He is 60 years
of age and says that his father
came out of a family of five bro-
thers, who scattered all over the
world. There is a possibility that
he is related to the Giddings bro-
hers who came to Brenham.
- The best source of information
on the branch of the Giddings fa-
mily at Brenham is the Hon. Al-
bert Stone of Brenham, now prac.
ticing law there and a former
State Senator.
As far as is known there is one
other town in the United States that
bears the name of Giddings. It is
located in Mississippi,
Third Annual Junior Posse Rodeo
Set For Friday Night, July 21
The annual Lee County Junior ]
bottom and sme-c -onto
ing cap rock around the edge of
the pool and the placing of side
walks, and the installation of the
six-foot chain link fence around
the pool area. Also to be complete —
ed are the equipment house, the ′ -
bathhouses and the pump house.
All of the fixtures and equipment
for the above things are on hand
and paid for. Money is needed
for the material for the concrete
work and the above mentioned
buildings.
The lack of money has caused
the slowing down of construction
An amount of $3500 is still needed, .
above the amount that has been
pledged. Anyone wishing to do. -
nate labor or money should call
John Jackson at 272 during the day 3
or 351 after 6 p. m.
The publiol is invited to visit the
pool site and see the progress that
is being made.
The latest donation to the pool -
fund was made by the Lincoln
Community Club at their regular
annual meeting this month.
Also an amount was added to the
fund by the net income from —
the dance at the Ledbetter Com- •
munity. Club, sponsored by the
Ledbetter Fire Department..
after the dedication services. Sun
day afternoon, July 2.
Rev John Tripp, Jr., pastor,
placed various historical papers | sented a list of the present church |
Paige Sets Revival
The Rev. D. D. Hogan, pastor
of First Methodist Church at Odem
Texas will be the preacher for the
revival services to be held at the
Paige Methodist Church beginning
at 8 p. m. Sunday, July 30th and
each evening through Friday, Au-
gust 4th.
The Paige Methodist Church is
the first church Rev. Hogan served
as pastor after beginning ministry.
He served the church for one year.
The people learned to love him
and hrs family so much in such a
short while and are looking for-
ward to having Rey Hogan as
their preacher again. And we wish
to share these expectant happy -
| weeks with everyone.
as fast as they would have if the 969.03 First National, $3,420,823,-
drought.of the earlier months had 75; First State, $346,018.70; and
The copper tube was then put
into the cornerstone and Rev.
Tripp and Robert Placke placed
the stone into position.
Bank depo sits in Lee County shortly later new loans are made.' Bank at Dime Box $380,283.13; and
A fourth factor enters the pic- in the Lexington State Bank at
and congregational singing, under |
the direction of Robert Placke,
Church Music Director and the
organ prelude by Mrs. R. B.
Jack Weidemann of Agua Dulce
Margaret Hoffman, daughter of enrolled in the A & I graduate
Mr and Mrs. W. E. Hoffman of school at Kingsville this week
Giddings was selected by the Gid- Monday to work on his master’s
Jimmy Herklotz, ministerial
student at Wartburg Theological
Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa, will
As the contest advances the point
to be earned will be increased.
But these increases will be based
on the individual contestant's pro-
duction. The longer you wait the
later you will get into the lugger
br ackets ot points.
And the cash commission will
the deposits temporarily, while and Mrs C. W. Fields of Giddings.
were II L. Snow, presented a co- 1
First-Baptist Church Sanctuary
Dedicated in Impressive Ceremony
Dedication services were held Call to Worship was sung by
New Harvest’r Dealer
George Bohot wishes to announce
that he is now dealer of Interna-
tional Harvester Company, having
taken this business over from Ste.
venson Truck and Tractor Co. He
will handle International Scout
Trucks Tractors, parts and oth-
er farm equipment, and will ope-
rate under the name of Bohot
Equipment Company.
George invites all farmers gn'd
all people interested in this line
to stop by and inspect his equip-
ment atthe same location of the
former Stevenson Truck and Trae-
tor Co. : .
NOTICE
In Paul’s Food Store advertise-
ment in this issue the price for
Wonder Rice should be 27 cents
Prathos Attend
Dallas Market
Mr and Mrs Bill Pratho and
Eight exciting events are sche-
duled with beautiful silver and
gold trophy buckles going to the
winners of seven' of the events.
—Since this is the third annual ju.
nior rodeo to be held, many of the
contestants will be veterans in
these contests and an interesting
evening should be in store for the
spectators who come out for the
events.
the church choir, “The Lord is in
His Holy Temple.", The invocation
was given by Rev. M. A Gary;
former Missionary Independence
Association and response by the
choir, "Hear Our Prayer O Lord."
Rev John Tripp Jr, pastor of
the congregation, made appro-
Rodeo will open at 8 p. m. on
Friday, July 21, at the Lee County
Sheriff's Posse Arena at Airline
Park.
Monroe Maass, Lynn Jones, and
Dick Boswell compose the com-
mittee in charge of arrangements
for the rodeo.
Entry blanks areyavaitable at
I Maass Butane Co. and Giddings
—Welding Service in tendings and
at Boswell's Barber Shop in Lex-
ington.—- ,
to right, back row: Glinda Bar-
, Home made ice cream and home membership of over 1500.
1 made cake will be featured at Mr. and Mrs Herklotz are vis-
this supper. The public is invited iting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E;
and enjoy the fellowship F Herklotz in Giddings this week.
The total deposits are down
$238,239.28 from Dec. 31, 1960.
This reduction in deposits at the
June call as compared to the pre-
vious end of the year call is
brought about by a number of
3 Bastrop Youths
Found Drowned
Three Bastrop boys were found
drowned in Gill’s Creek in Bas-
trop Wenesday morning, July
12, by their sister.
Arthur Peterson, 12 Leslie Pe-
terson, 10, and Carl Peterson, 5,
apparently were swimming, since
their shirts were found on a sand-
bar near the scene. The bodies
were in about 5-foot water when
recovered. .
They are the sons of Mr. and
Mrs. Leroy Peterson of Bastrop
and are survived by their parents
and seven brothers and sisters.
The accident occured near a
culvert in the creek, about 75
yards from their home.
Mr. Giddings is a retired Ame- Association.
rican army man. His wife is from | The city of Giddings was named
after one of two brothers by the-
name of Giddings who were land-
holders in Washington and Lee
Counties and owners of a private
bank in Brenham under the name
Giddings &. Giddings. The broth-
ers were named J. D. Giddings
and D. C. Giddings, J. D. Giddings
was the more famous of the two,
having held high state offices in
the Masonic Lodge. It was he Gid-
dings was named after.
The Mr. Giddings, who honored
the city with his visit Sunday, is
now residing near the border of
continued. In fact many cattle Lexington State, $886,925.40.
30, 1961, was $2,420,441 22, in the .
| First National Bank at Giddings. i Preaches Sunday
$3,612,929 41: in The First State Jitamy Herklotz.
R B Burns, “To A Wild Rose," In the first place, merchants try
in memory of Mrs J Will Tate to reduce their stocks of merchan- Methodist Church of Giddings is Mf Herklotz will serve his in-
who was church pianist for forty dise prior to inventory at the end sponsoring an Ice Cream Supper terhship beginning August 15 in
Mrs David Rose, a for- of year, while the money to be on the Church Lawn at 6:30 p. m. the Lutheran Church at Westby,
Wisconsin. This church has a
Rev . H 1, McClerran, former banks.
Sid Krenek will, supply the mu-
=*C both during the day and for , pastor of the church from 1944 to In the second place. depositors -
+ 1955, delivered the message.from the rural areas will have to come
en- Open House was held from 3 30 money, from their previous crops
i ;•. in until 6 that afternoon, still on deposit in December, while
roll; Donald Moore presented
| a list of the Sunday School teach-
| ers. Training Union, and other of- |
| ficers, Robert Placke gave-wo
| square iron nails which were tak-
j en from the old church building
when it was torn down.
Miss Bess Black then read the
history of the church from its be-
ginning in 1872 until the present
I time.
priate recognitions and announce-
■ ments and special music was then
sung by the choir with Robert
Placke as soloist, “How Great
Thou Art.”
A prayer of dedication was of-
fered by D L Moore, deacon:
Swimming Pool Needs Fur-s a, s
And Free Labor for Cr ana oust..
Germany and served the Ameri-
can Army as interpreter after
World War II. She speakes seven
languages. - -
They were particularly impress-
ed with Giddings and took several
pictures of different places in this
town, including a picture of the
office of The Giddings Star.
raisers are holding their cattle a The total deposits on Dec .31.
little longer, now to recover some 1960 were Citizens State, $2,525,-
of the lost growth while there was 1202 90. FS—t National S3 711 197 92.
First State, $374,498.00; and Lex-
ington State, $910,151.40.
dings High School are from left rett. Shirley Schneider, head
.—_2—.-------
or men’s 17 Jewel Timex watch
offered by the Western Auto Store!
ni Giddings for the’ final period
which ends on September 1
in the contest on Monday, July 31 *T---, i
But the first period has still 10 It will also be the policy of The
. , Star to permit new subscribers
days to go and the other entries1 .
only who come into the office to
can easily Cl se the gap through . r
hard < subscribe during-the contest to
Tr wor , , "I select the contestant who shall be
Several of r contestants have ,T
, ...... 1 credited with the point for that
entered, but had not made their
1 . subscription.
initial repol t by press time on 7 .
% , 1 . ..II; ♦ It IS important that you get
Wednesday Their names will not
. , . . , . . your name on the list of conestants
be released as contestants until:
they make their first return | so you will have an opportunity to
It should be pointed out that the pick up some of the gratis points
. . 1 , I even though you may not want to 1
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from the Lincoln area, the Dime I
Box area, and the Lexington area
should have a splendid chance to
get a shot at the three big prizes
offered by The Star at the con-
clusion of the contest, as well as
at the Savings Bond offererd by
the staff of Tlic Star for the first
Mrs. Jolin Pratho left early this
week for Dallas to select and buy
-—• — = the newest fall merchandise. Mr.
Pratho stated that this trip is in
keeping with the policy of Pratho’s
, practice of going to whatever .ef-
fort is necessary to assure you
that you will always be able to
find the very latest in fashions and
J the highest quality and lowest
prices right here in your home
town where your dollar spent
means more to you
in June they will have used up
f most of their operating funds and
will be waiting to deposit income
from watermelons, gram crops,
cotton, and peanuts in the coming
1 , ’months | dings Chamber of Commerce to be .
period ending July 31, the electric montse 4 1 -
blanket offererd by W ihrmund's In the third place per sons mak the Giddings Duchess at the Mc
Rexal Drug for the Meconanpoedie ing a practice of loaning money: Dade Watermelon Festival on Ju-
ending August 15 and the ladies’ usually have their notes’come due ly 22. |
at the.end of the year Payment
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