Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1964 Page: 3 of 12
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The Hondo Anvil
Rondo, Texas, Friday, December 25, 1964 Pag* 3A
! BIRY NEWS
By Mrs. Adolph Hutzler
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Recently M&M Lawrence
Tschirhart and family from Big
f oot were dinner guests of M&M
Adolph Hu trier MAM James
Bacak and Sandra Kay, San An-
tonio, and MAM Ralph Hutzler
and family, Lancaster, Californ-
ia, dined with them Ralph an i
family arrived &iturday night as
a surprise Christmas to the Otto
rtendeles and the Adolph Hutz.
lerj.
For the last'two weeks I have
hesn telling my friends, even
wpote to our daughter, Irene at
Chicago, that l had a feeling
they would come Even dreamed
orie night that I shook hands
*"> h Raloh and asked rim in the
dream why he cam" He said he
wanted to see us and Catherine
wanted to see h«r folks in Hondo
I got much I’dding from the
children abaft i. but now I am
returning if
MAM Amos Hitzfelder and
familv from San Antonio visited
Richard and Ella Rider and Al-
vin and Ima Bader Saturday,
The Baders will h->ve Christmas
dinner with the Hitzfeiders this
year
The Adolph Hutzler family will
have their Christmas dinner at
the home of MAM Otto Mann,
Jr in Big Foot this year
David Hutzler, wi h the Armed
Forces at Fair Banks, writes
that they now have four hours
of daylight. As of December 10,
the temperature was $2 and the
high for that day was 41 He is
supposed to bark home in 12
days He has until November to
receive his discharge but doesn’t
know where h<* will be stationed
next He has been in Alaska for
the past year and a half
Visiting Ima and Alvin Bader
Sunday, were VAM Oscar !>>in-
weher and von, Hondo, and MAM
Johnnie Iadnweber from SA
MAM Adolph Hutzler were
Pearsall visitors Wednesday dnd
attended the auction there
Mrs Fxtella Riry attended the
funeral -of her tizter-hvla w, Mrs
Annie Love Saturday morning
That afternoon they attended
the funeral of her nephew, Clif-
ford Na'tons
Mrs Frank Rthe visited Mrs
Emma Keller Tuesday afternoon
fjist sundav evening MAM A!
vin Bader visited their aimts
Mrs DeSa Boehme and Mrs
f*ora Bader in C.istroviUe Mrs
Bader »« recently released
from the hospital
As I complete my 12th year
as correspondent tor my com
munity. I am We tl'>x will he
one of the nicest Christmases
Mr Hu*-ler .and I have exper
lenced To all of you who read
this column io the Anvil Herald
staff ajid famiV* and to you
who have contributed faithfully
to this robimi a Hipns Christ
mas and a Prosperous New Year.
Here In Hondo
Mrs Ida M Haas* a resident of
Browtf* Rest Home visited in the
home of MAM Clarence H»a*s
last Sunday afternoon and even •
ing. for their early Christmas
gathering and dinner Others pre
sent .were Mrs Minnie Crell,
Mrs AJma Conway, Mr* Ullian
Orel! and children. Larry,
Cheryl and !jna Also present
were MAM Roy J Bohlen and
son Allen, all of Hondo
Christmastime
To you and your*, we extend every wish for
spiritual and material blessings during this
t#a$on, and throughout* the coming year.
KZB3CZS
Windrow
DRUG STORE and FOUNT Alh
MRS. LAURA WINDROW, Proprietor
'MRS. GLADYS WINDROW,'
Graduate Registered Pharmacists
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M ss Joan Car’c
Miss Carle
To Marry
In D’Hanis
Mr and Mrs Lawrence J
Carle announce the engagement
of their daughter, loan, to Mr
Joseph C Ijngfel!
Miss Carle is a gr din’e of D’
Haris High School, ;She attended
Southwest T-xax Jr College and
received her Barh-br of Srimice
Degree from Southwest Texas
State College She was a mem
of Alpha Chi and Kappa Delta
FI
Vr Langfeld is the son of Mr.
axd Mrs Charles B Langfeld,
He is a graduate of DHanis High
School, attended Southwest Tex-
as Jr College and received his
Bachelor of Arts Degree from
Texas AAM
The wedding is planned for
January 30, 1905 in Holy Cross
Catholic ’Church in D Hants
It’s Christmas In
Pennsylvania, Too
Mico News
Tic St Francis Altar Society
held its regular meeting and
Christmas psrtv Tuesday night.
December 15 The meeting oprn
ed with a prayer led by Father
Palmer
After a short business meeting,
there was an exchange of gif's
bv the ladies and a presentation
of a gifi to Father Thomas Palm
er from the Sbriety
A small Christmas tree, with
enlncful lights and decorations,
was placed on a table
Refreshments of rid fruit
punch float, coffee Christmas
cake and cookie* of various kinds
were served hv Mrs David Bol-
ner and Mrs Matt Dugnah
The nex* meeting will he held
January 19. I9fi5
Mr Eddie Carter and Mr
Scoitv Miller were San Antonio
visitors Friday ,
At AM Conrad Wurzbaeh of Rt
« visited,,M&M Matt Dugtyh last
Sunday.
SOIL
CONSERVATION
NEWS
Many farmers and ranchers
are applying conservation prac-
tices i now in prenara ion for the
future years While the land i«
idle this vear it is .an excellent
time to hare those needed ter
races installed
John Nester is .building parallel,
terraces on his farm jori west
of D’H mis These parallel ter
race* will e'imalnnte about 75
per cent of the point rows nor
tnallv seen on regular terraces
Parallel terraces have been laid
out on the Willie Muennink farm
south of Hondo
A wa'erwsy is being shaped on
the Alex Conrad farm, north of
Devine This waterway will ear
rv run-off water safely through
his farm It wilt be sprlgg-d to
Coastal Bermudagraas in Febru-
ary. 19R5
Cndergmmid plastic oipe is be-
ing Installed on the John Coyle,
Leo Hitzfelder and the Boumuin
Brothers irrigation farm* These
underground nines will eliminate
the open ditch that l« always Ml
of weed* They will prevent anv
water loss from seepage and will
prevent soil erosion.
If you an* h> nae-J of Conser-
vation work on vner farm or
ranch, whv not come bv the Soil
Conservation Service office and
discuts your need*.
By F.lna M'Djde
C i.il ih s ye r o' 1 01, every
one of t e assorted doz n* of
( h-i ’nri ' 1 ini' b( n ;>fi\ i-
Itg d to i-rjiy h 'e Is en in niv
n ive T as Thi- tin,’, I am
c.tperienei g rr.y first one
Jr* <; . >]. , Iv d c,r m* UTOUI1 I-
i"gs but wi lt equally compensa-
tory appeal.
It took a Texes fog and the
s-iposh of one o* ur sttdden blue
northi-rs to delay mi s *edu1e 1
■ arrival tome in hours la*t
T ursday It was p rt of- the
ei*hg ady« ntur > t’-at travM
anvwhere presen “ for me To
have left San Antonio in the
freezing 20s th' rmomet<*r wise
ond to ho'-c dpto'ir'*d vii New
York to Philadelphia and find
me brinket weathe' w hen I de-
planed was in it .If a novelty.
As if not to lot ru" dawn, the
elements have run the scale of
extremes From a blustery cold
Friday that m-de walking a
sort of involuntary exhibition of
the Witu i to crisp cold and de-
lightful sunshine Saturday, Sun-
day has brought the first snow
rf the season and 1 made a care-
ful on" block drag footed safari
tjjri'ugh it
With Monday’s- solstice busi-
ness, the day will be short for
'much venturing outside but one
can see much her-* in the space
of even one of the huge blocks.
NEWSPAPERS
Traditionally, the bus driver
t • kes a bus ride on his day off
So. what does an editor do’
Reads newspapers’
. If has taken most of the day
to read the voluminous ones here.
Without a single MAM a Sparks
or P.A column, or any of the fam-
i’rr verbal oa’hs of our weekly
Anvil Herald 1 h-H a bit of ad-
justing to do to follow the end-
less miscellany
A* my trifocals went through
their s-anning paces I made
notes of what to, share with you
back homr
CHRISTM AS
Here as elsewhere almost a-
mund the world, the main head-
lines seem to revolve around
some facet of the Christmas sea
son The ads jump out at one
from every page without th"
converi'-nee the Anvil Herald of-
fers of knowing where to look
for the familiar “remilars” on
which «o manv- Medina County
shoppers depend
It was reassuring to find, how- ,
e*er. 1 h■>t our local -tores and
shops off<*r much of the same
e-eT'-andise at favorably com- ‘
rveti’ive prices .and no standing
in !mr or wild scrambling to in- -
sure attention
- Perhaps not avail- hie at home
would he some of these Items,
listed here to {wove wtyi’d-want-
them anyway'
Offered, suhiect to prior sale,
were a pair of hand-printed por
retain quail, a’ 150 OOP plus tax-
es Who among kival Texans
would trade the s’gM of our na-
tive quail scurrying through o«?r
brushy expanse of ranchland and
the thrill oflheir sight and sound
for two porcelain replies* that
mii>ht not last beyond the first
dusting’ (And not even mv apol-
ogies to anyone who could or
Welt Id
For. the office hound, there- is
>n eleffric w-jf>tb*«k“t whl-h wi’l
*I)rod paper as fast as it is fed
into it. for easy removal “with
loss bulk and bother ” Available, -
•aid the ad, in either of two
finishes and for <110 Jeweled pa-
per flip* ($10 for a set of A)
promised restora'ion of order to
a cluttered dfsk
More on the domestic, side
were an elec ri" "foot-cozy, ac-
comodating bo*h feet to keep
them warm as the Srai'h Sea
Isles” end "a sleo-mrie for in-
somniacs. or pacify your prec-
ious restless infant ” It produces
"a whi’e sound, a scientific
blend of tone*, to induce slum-
ber ’*
These are extreme*, of course.
On many products, the tempta-
tion* to a willing spirit are many
but the weakness of the nurse i*
a hrieMv restrainin'* ipfldence.
EMPTY STOTKIN’C.S
Similar to our B&PW F.mpty.
Stocking Fund but much larger
in scope, is New York's apoeal
for the city’s neediest fimi!i»s.
Readers are reminded that "The
warme-t glow comes from help-
ing. o'hers” and it is a universal
truth In this 53rd annual solici-
tation of voluntary- contributions
to take care of the most piiieous
and worthy r ises in a huge met-
ropolitan area (after careful
screening ', lad we> k's total had
reached almost $150,000.
Throughout the lun^rcds of
png' - o' the S-.nday edition were
s -.rt red such rt minders as It-1
member t' e NY-- i->-t, Do Not
Fcr.'ct the Neediest.
One such a open! hnonened tq
b" p' 'Ced very near the ad for
the $50,000 '-nail, perhaps quite
uni-entionally
DEfOR •.’TON’S
Philadelphi-i is a blaze of
Chri-'mix ligh‘s and the street
and *tor» windows pro'drim the
festive season Many of the ma-
jor indoor demrarions fea’ure the
reliri us symbolism, too often
overlooked >n our curst for the
clever- and unusual Strolling
croons r-rnl nn apartment -tops
and hold ’he attention of at least
some among the milling crowds
on th? streets
Rit’enh*—se Sen *-e ene rf t''r*
man' p-*ks j" fin? histone old
ei'v in H-hl-h nearlv ore acre out
of even- ten is - park ar°a. is
vvphln two b’o'ks «' irv son
John’* aoer*merit W-> soen* a
deiighffid ha’f’'o-t there vester-
d'.v feeding Medi-’o Countv pe-
cans to th« park’s fur coated
sotiirrel* which accept even Tex-
ans be-iring gifts.
A smnll antique shop npnr the
Sqtpre has a window eomplete-
!v filled with decorations that
have brightened the Christmas
trees of ns long ago as genera-
tions hack One angel, b’issfully
unaw re of the dubious blessings
of retirement at a golden age,
s"-nvs wi’h tirtsv abandon from
what migh* be the original tr*>o
bran"h on which «he first dis-
covrr-'L an earthlv Christmas.
T mished stavs rvoecet dn min-
iatures sitV and velvet baubles,
neon show- boxes, ’he tiniest of
fnvs. b>-ing back the Christmas
of childhood to mar'- wistful
sooh who n.au'e to admire
Along Wllnu* Street father
pud son carried .a Christmas
t'-raii-/, that looked railing tall A-
lom' ide, a tvidgv little giri oar-
muffed and snow suited, he'd to
rwo branch singing, banpi'v "Wp
got us a Cwjsmns twee, we did,
we did, we did’” v
Fver where, packng^ laden in-
dividuals and prouns burrv in
end out the srdid blocks of a-
partment doors I noted one
voting coup!e who might have
mme from the Rentnik era and
the hoy bad add“d the fuzziest
rf the ReaMc hstir'-tits 1 was
th|nktng to mvs«tf "never in
Tea as” when the bov might have
read mv thoughts and suddenly
gr-eted me "How’re you ma’am’
Merry Christmas’”
COMMERCIAL
As though to prove that not a1!
m*' reading was “light”, I
might add that a business re-
port, based ori a resume from
various buying offices in the
»r»a. says that stores f? now
shifting to spring lines It lis’ed
as among present peak sales
numbers such items as electric
hair driers and slicing knives:
dressv handbags and flannel na-
jamb*; English hone china cups
and saucers and trouser racks
How’s that for variety'
T*,e problems of mass trans-
portation were covered at length,
wi*h th" prediction that speed
trains with special tr>rks 19-feet
anart and cars capable of ear-
ning 12 automobiles .were in the
foreseeable future
Tie threat of a local nre-Christ-
mn* transit strike was averted
vh*n a 6-mnn'h* renewal for
operation* was effected
And, a lone-suffering soul
f-om the New York state area
that recently experienced its
worst storm in years, announced
without fear o# contradiction that
“Families that freeze logether
sneeze together ”
Merry Christmas’
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SANTA CLAUS SEEMS to be giving
Mrs. Manuel Mares a pat for having
won a portable GE TV set for register-
ing in DeAAontel's GE Appliances, TV,
and Stereo sale last week. Ralph De-
Montel approved Santa's presenta-
tion. Mrs. Mares was delighted with
her unexpected Christmas gift.
vet
NOON AN-Pc ARSON
By Mrs. Louis btein
Mrv Jamie Orozco and neph-
ew, Mario Zamora, visited the
Louis Steins Sunday.
Dr Chas Mt-lenizer and Mrs.
Roy Tschirhart and children, vis-
ited the Albert Tsrhirhar’.s Sun-
day.
Mary Ann Tschirhart and Mrs.
Louis Stein were in San Antonio
Thursday.
Mrs. Faye King entertained the
Ladies Circle Club with a Christ-
mas party last Tuesday.
M&M James Davis were in Ly-
tic Saturday.
Visitors in the Roy Tschirhart
home. Thursday were M&M I-ou-
i, Stein and Leroy and Maurice
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Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, December 25, 1964, newspaper, December 25, 1964; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth810766/m1/3/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hondo Public Library.