Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 30, 1986 Page: 6 of 16
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6/VĚSTNÍK—Wednesday, July 30, 1986
The entry fee will be $5 per person
and the winners of both categories will
play in the SPJST State Tournament.
We do strongly encourage the ladies
to participate.
If you need a partner and would like
to play or would like more information
on the tournament, please call
me.
Clara Brož
-SPJST-
Lodge La Parita
No. 161 Meeting
Dear Members:
Our lodge meeting held on June 1,
1986 at 11:30 a.m. at K - Bob’s
Restaurant was very well - attended,
with 15 members and 6 guests.
Lloyd House called the meeting to
order asking all members to stand in a
moment of prayer for Sister Frances
Mutine who passed away. While
standing, the Pledge of Allegiance to
the flag followed.
Sister Tillie Valchar read the
minutes of our last meeting as
secretary, followed with the treasureťs
report which was approved as read.
A thank you card was read by
President Lloyd House on the
donation to the Scholarship Fund for
Silas Smith, followed by other
correspondence.
New Business — A motion to raise
the dooř prizes to $3 of $2 was made.
Motion passed and carried.
President House after some
discussion asked that Josie’s Plače be
checked out for the next meeting plače
in Šeptem ber.
Decision was finalized after the
findings were not appropriate for a
change. So we retům to K - Bob’s
Restaurant on Sunday, September
14th at 11:30 a.m.
Recognition of our selfless sacrifice
to protéct and preserve the worlďs
symbol of freedom, personál
contribution given in the year 1985 has
been officially recorded and our
lodge’s name entered on a permanent
Register of Contributors to be
display ed at the Museum of the rebuilt
Statue of Liberty, Port of New York
United States of America, for our
members to cherish of this
contribution, a framed
acknowlegement from the Office in
New York."\.
Joe Juricek was asked to give the
table prayer with all members to stand.
A motion was made to adjourn the
meeting, seconded by Jim Zezula.
Mary Wallace, Reportér
—SPJST—
Lodge Rozkvět
No. 172, Pasadena
News
Dear Members and Friends:
The June meeting was well -
attended and all went smoothly. We
missed our president, Brother
Dressler, who was on vacation. The
meeting was condueted by Vice
President Brother Dan Berry.
After the pledge to the flag and a
moment of silence, we had roli call of
officers, followed by reading of the
minutes of our last montlťs meeting
and reading of correspondence.
All reports were given and all were
good. We seem to be doing better as
time goes on.
Brother Tommy Wallace did some
painting on the bathroom walls and
other work. Also*work is being doně
on building a storage building or
rather a storage plače next to our
outside barbecue plače.
I also overheard some talk that we
need to make more improvements on
our halí. We will let you all know*when
plans are more definite, just what we
are doing.
The District V fall meeting will be
held at Lodge 172. Watch for details in
the Vestnik and do try to come out to
Pasadena and enjoy the day with us.
The dáte has not been announced yet.
Several members will receive 50 -
year membership pins at the District V
meeting. They are Christopher
Coroneos, Edward Fojtík, Vlasta
Machann, Adolph Stepán, Sadie
Stepán, Joe Zucha and Daniel Zucha.
Congratulations to all of you!
This is such a busy time with
reunions, anniversaries and weddings.
Brother Wink and Sister Marie
Appelt of Lodge 172 celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on July
13th. It was a beautifui occasion and
we wish them many more. On July
25th another couple celebrated a
wedding anniversary but theirs was
their first. A year ago Denise and
Lewie Bosley were married and they
live in Gove, Kansas. Denise is the
daughter of Leona and Julius Zella of
Houston and Lodge 172.
I hope all of you are having a nice
summer. Don’t forget our lodge
meetings on every 4th Wednesday of
the month.
Vlasta Machann, Secretary
—SPJST—
Lodge 179 To Hold
Anmial Feast
Dear Members:
Warrenton Lodge 179 met for its
regular meeting on July 10, 1986 at 8
p.m. President Harold Bergmann
presided.
Financial secretary, secretary and
treasurer gave their reports.
In old business, discussion of a feast
for second Sunday, August lOth was re
- opened. Since this would be our lOth
year of being chartered, a motion was
made and seconded that we should
continue to háve our feast. It will
consist of the following: A fried
chicken dinner with trimmings; a
variety shoot beginning at 1:30 p.m.; a
cake walk and/or cake auction also at
1:30 p.m. Brother Lee Leonhardt
agreed to donate all the potatoes we
will need. Chicken to go will be ready
ať 10:30 a.m. selling for $6 for 10
pieces. Adult plates will seli for $4.25;
child plates 6 years over, $2.25; under
6 years old - free.
Under other business, our trip to
Houston Astrodome was brought to
attention. The bus was to leave at 11
a.m. from Warrenton grocery, would
return around 8 p.m. that evening.
No other business was brought
forward. The meeting was adjourned.
The Food Committee at meeting dáte
did not advise what would be for next
month’s meal.
LODGE 179 TAKÉS TRIP
On July 13th at 11 a.m., Lodge 179
chartered a Trailways bus and went to
Astros’ baseball game. There were 44
seats taken and 4 tickets that were to
meet us in Houston. A large majority
of them were members and their
family with a few guests. Everyone had
a good time, however, Astros lost by
one run in extra innings. The bus
arrived at 8 p.m.
Mike Noak, Reportér
—SPJST—
Lodge 142, Houston
Meeting
Our lodge held its regular monthly
meeting Sunday, July 13th at 2 p.m.
Vice President Gus Florian called
the meeting to order because of the
absence of our President Dennis
Hermis who was vacationing with his
family in Colorado.
We had 49 members present who
stood to recite the Pledge of Allegiance
to our flag. All remained standing for
a few moments of silence in memory of
our departed member, Gretchen
Tanner. Gretchen was the daughter of
Virgil and Wila Tanner. We extend our
heartfelt sympathy to the Tanner
family.
Secretary Alice Jochen held roli call
of officers and then read the minutes
from our previous meeting which
stood approved as read.
Rosie Tumis read the financial
secretary’s report. Sidon Tumis gave
the treasureťs report.
The Board of Trustees and bar
reports were read by Rosie Schilhab.
The youth club report was given by
Keith Kieschnick.
Our Sick Committee reported that
William Janik was in the hospital and
they reported he is home by now. We
all wish William a speedy recovery.
We had no Grievance Committee
report and no Auditing Committee
report at this meeting.
New appiicants were Lisa Renee
Machacek, Leslie Machacek, William
M. Machacek; they all were signed up
by Sales Representative Sidon Tumis.
We were happy to háve Joe Gambii
and Mrs. Fred Buri as visitors in this
meeting.
Capsule prize for $40 went
unclaimed by Joyce Gruetzner; the
next month’s prize will be $50. The
youngest member $5 prize went to
Priscella Perez. The dooř prizes went
to Robert Kieschnick, Henry Linhart,
Millie Linhart and Nelson A. Roemer.
Brother Henry Linhart took the
pódium and read an article on SPJST
and what it means. This article was
published in Sunday’s Houston
Chronicle on page 4 of the Texas
Magazíne.
The meeting adjourned at 2:45 p.m.
Refreshments and lunch were served.
Our next meeting will be at 2 p.m.
August llth.
Alice Jochen, Secretary
—SPJST—
Lodge 187 Promotes
Polka Pfest/Battle
Dance
Members of Lodge 187 in Round
Rock will be busy during the
remainder of July and August with
speciál dance activities.
A Polka Pfest will be held from 2
p.m. until 9 p.m. on July 27th. Three
polka bands will perform including
Eddie Ray & The Polka Dots, Fritze
Hodde, and the Vrazels. A German
plate lunch including sausage, beans,
potatoes and sauerkraut will be
available during the dance.
A battle dance between Leather &
Láce and the Debonaires is scheduled
to last from 6 p.m. until 11 a.m. on
August 17th.
Other speciál dance activities during
the month of August include a speciál
appearance by Jana Jay (Hee Haw TV
Star) on Thursday, August 8th and
Johnny Dee & The Rocket 88s on
Saturday, August 30th.
Everyone is invited to come out and
enjoy some summer fun at Lodge 187.
The next Board meeting is scheduled
for August 20th and the next generál
meeting is scheduled for August 24th.
Larry Rohlack, Secretary
—SPJST—
Few Interesting Facts
About Alief
Although most people living in
Houston and its surrounding area
more or less know where the
community of Alief is located, there
are many others, especially in the other
parts of Texas, who are not aware of
its existence. This short article is
written to acquaint the latter group at
least partially with this Progressive
community. Alief, one of the fast
growing areas in southeast Houston,
has its own school district which starts
in the east at S. Gessner and runs in the
westerly direction to Bar ker reservoir.
In the north it begins at Westheimer
and its southernmost point is south of
W. Bell fořt. The community of Alief
was named in honor of Mrs. Alief
Ozelda Magee, the first postmistress.
She was born Alief Ozelda Morris on
Novem ber 18, 1851, in Italy, Texas.
She married Dr. J.S. Magee and had
two children who died in infancy. She
and her husband came to Dairy, Texas
around 1896 and filed an application
in 1897 for a post office. (The originál
village called Dairy was founded in
1894 by Jacamiah S. Daugherty, said
to be a school teacher from Missouri,
who introduced the production of rice
to the community.) Because the postál
officials advised the appiicants
“Dairy” was too similar to an existing
post office 1 ‘Daisy,” the name of the
post office was changed to Alief in
honor of its postmistress Alief Magee.
Mrs. Magee died on July 6, 1899 and
was buried at the homesite just east of
Bray’s Bayou and south of Alief
Houston Road. When this road and its
extension - Alief Clodine Road - was
widened, she was reburied in Alief
Cemetery on Bellaire and Alief
Cemetery Road. This cemetery will
soon be dedicated as a statě historical
site. Alief area began developing
around 1894 as a farming community
dealing with cotton, cattle, dairy
farming and especially rice which got a
big boost from the American Canaí
Company by pumping water from the
Brazos River into the rice fields
through a network of canals. (By the
way, the well - known Andrau Airpark
was originally an airport and rice farm
owned by Dr. Andrau. The former
canals for rice irrigation are still visible
from air.)
After WWII the community started
to tura to industrial development
dosely followed by the commerce and
residential build - up. There is no
accurate count of the number of
residenta in Alief (Dairy) in its early
settlement years but in 1940 the
populace was at 150, including a
couple of Czech families. In 1984 that
Figuře jumped to 135,000 - 140,000
people. As far as the education is
concerned, the communities of Alief,
Addicks and Barker were one school
district until the year 1906. In 1917, the
Dairy School became an independent
school district and changed its name
from Dairy to Alief. From 1911 to
1926, Alief (Dairy) operated a 10 -
grade systém. The eleventh grade was
ádded in 1926. A three - story brick
building was erected in 1911 on the 4 -
acre site where the annex, gym and the
tax office are now located. It served
the Alief district until it was
condemned in 1939. As of August
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Sefcik, R. J. Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 30, 1986, newspaper, July 30, 1986; Temple, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth631791/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Slovanska Podporujici Jednota Statu Texas.