The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1974 Page: 2 of 35
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Page 2 - The Giddings, Texas, Tin es & News - Thursday, July 4, 1974
Winchester News
BY MRS. MELVIN FRITSCHE
Letter To The Editor
FARM BUREAU QUEEN
AND LITTLE MISS
Miss Jeannette Reinhardt,
daughter of Mr. Marvin Rein-
hardt, will represent the Winches-
ter Farm Bureau at the Fayette
County Queen’s Contest in La
Grange on July 6. The Winches-
ter entry in the Little Miss
contest is Wendy Teinert, daugh-
ter of Mr and Mrs Paul Teinert
III. Everyone is invited to attend
the contests as there is no
charge. Miss Pattie Hielscher of
Houston will do a twirling
routine
BIRTHDAYS
Tami Zoch, age 11; Dawn
Schulz of La Grange, 4; and
Kimberly Ephraim, 3. of Mid-
land, celebrated joined birthdays
on Sunday afternoon in the home
of Mr and Mrs. Martin Zoch.
Each birthday celebrant had a
Ragedy Ann birthday cake. The
girls opened their gifts and
played games. Also attending
were Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Schulze of La Grange and Miss
Debora Seeman of Giddings.
PERSONALS
Attending the Karisch - Rich-
ards wedding in Freeport on
Saturday were Mrs. Hulda
Karisch and Roy, Mrs Alford
Zoch. Ann and Alice, Mrs. Eunice
Karisch, and Mrs. Dugie Hall,
Mrs. Hugo Koenning, Ray and
Sherry, Mrs James Ephraim,
accompanied by Mike Dalchau
and Janna, also Mr and Mrs.
Melvin Fritsche and Elaine
Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hohle and
family and Mr. and Mrs.
Gerhardt Hohle of Austin were
Sunday visitors in Winchester.
Mr. and Mrs Allen Buchhorn
and son of Austin visited over the
weekend in the Marvin Reinhardt
home.
Susan Fritsche of San Marcos
spent the weekend in the Melvin
Fritsche home.
Visiting in the home of Mrs.
Minnie Koenning were Mr. and
Mrs Elgin Kasper and sons of
Austin and Mr. and Mrs Dalton
Koenning and family of Houston.
Mr. and Mrs. James Ephraim
II, Kim and Jennifer of Midland
are vacationing the week in the
home of Mr and Mrs Martin
Zoch and Mr. and Mrs. James
Ephraim.
Mrs Alma Pietsch accompa-
nied Mr and Mrs. Roy Pietsch
and sons to Dallas to attend the
wedding miss Sharlene Gersch,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert Gersch to Phil Frieder-
icks, on Saturday. The wedding
was held in the Zion Lutheran
Church at 7 o’clock on Saturday
evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Gersch of
Dallas held an open house on
Sunday to celebrate their 45th
wedding anniversary. Mr. and
Mrs. Ted Gersch also spent the
weekend in Dallas to attend the
wedding and anniversary.
Mr. Paul Karisch accompanied
Mr and Mrs Darrel Green and
family and Mr. Joe Logwood to
Houston the previous Monday
evening They visited with Mr
and Mrs Paul Karisch Jr. and
family and all of the group went
to the Astro Dome to attend the
ball game.
Mrs. Otto Noack and Mrs.
Millie Franke of La Grange
accompanied Mrs. Arnold Kasper
of Warda, along with Miss Tillie
Fritsche of Houston left Friday
for Houston They visited with
Mr and Mrs Billy Karisch in
Conroe also with Mrs. Mammie
Fritsche in Houston
KARISCH — RICHARDS VOWS
A large memory candle, spring
flowers and greenery provided
the setting at St. Paul American
Lutheran Church in Freeport for
June 29 wedding of Brenda Sue
Karisch and Morris Derral
Richards
The bride, daughter of Mr and
Mrs E. C. Karisch, graduated
from Brazosport High School,
attended the University of Hous-
ton. and has a B.A degree from
Texas Lutheran College. She is a
teacher in the Brazosport Inde-
pendent School District.
FARM BUREAU
The Winchester Farm Bureau
will meet on July 9th at Shorty's
Place of business. All members
are asked to keep this date in
mind.
To The Editor:
My wife and I have just
returned from the Lee County
100-year Centennial Celebration
held at Giddings Our Pastor,
John J. Socha invited us to come
down as our church gave him
permission to help you all to put
the 100th Centennial over Here in
Fort Worth he is quite a stem
winder being a very active
member of various non-church
related organizations. We even
elected him Tail Twister in the
Lions Club and he is also a
director of the North East
Chamber of Commerce. So 1 was
a bit anxious to see just what he
was getting into. We arrived in
Giddings around noon on Friday.
He was working out some detail
with some one. We stopped to ask
where the Sands Motel was and
before we could get going he
(Socha) introduced us to nearly
everyone that happened to come
by This took a good half an hour
We then checked in at the Sands,
cleaned up and came back to the
County Courthouse square and
found the celebration going on in
full swing. Pastor Socha spotted
us in the beergarten and again he
introduced us to nearly everyone
around.
"Howdy Boy," what a bundle
of energy this man is. People
coming to him for advice, and
other officials reminding him that
he was to be here at so and so
time, also a radio interview that
he was supposed to be on Again
more introductions I believe this
man knows every man and
woman in Lee County The
Courthouse square was complete-
ly circled with food and conces-
sion stands, representing many
civic and most religious bodies.
The lunch stand prices were most
reasonable (Big city promoters
note!). A big steak sandwich with
a drink less than a buck!
My wife and I were raised in a
small country town in Minnesota
and our only celebration was a
Fall Harvest Festival. Everybody
in the surrounding country was
there displaying farm and garden
products. The women folks
displayed homecanning and pre-
serves. also plain and fancy
sewing. The crowd that gathered
in Giddings reminded us very
much of our younger days, 1910
to 1920. It pleased us to see so
many Negroes taking a part in
the celebration
The year 1874 spirit was fully
evident Ladies wearing authentic
clothes of that time and men
doing the same. The people were
well behaved, I did not see a
single person get out of line. The
pageants and stage programs
were excellent. (Did Mr. Socha
have something to do with
these?). To me the hardest
decision the Judges had to make
was giving the award to the
Beauty Queen Contest winners
The Parade was something. All
old time rigs and floats. A special
thanks should be given to Mr.
Pickle for arranging to have the
Shepard Air Force band head the
parade The man with the horse
drawn cultivator was real 1874
times, also the Negro driving the
surrey. There were so many
outstanding entries in the parade
it would be very hard to mention
all of them.
To me the outstanding event
was the Sunday evening church
services at the grove in Serbin.
This is the first time in my life
that <3) three languages were
used -- Wendisch, German and
English
To us Pastor Socha is a real
stem winder!
Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Boch
Ft. Worth (Haltom City), Texas
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allegiance to our
country. On her
birthday she doesn't
show her age. She
is still upholding
high ideals of
liberty and peace.
Our support is need-
ed to keep these
objectives alive.
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Preuss, L. M., III. The Giddings Times & News (Giddings, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 4, 1974, newspaper, July 4, 1974; Giddings, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1665632/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Giddings Public Library and Cultural Center.