Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1975 Page: 4 of 16
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Page 4, Hondo Anvil Herald. Tbure., Feb. 20,1975
Leisure Lodge News
By I.S.B.
Guests at the Lodge had
a lovely surprise when the
D'Hanis Homemaking
Class walked in and offered
over the Bingo
to take
games.
We do appreciate the
interest of these young
ladies and certainly hope
they come back.
It seems we are in the
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I7I0 Ave. M, Hondo 426-2443
party week as of Wednes-
day, when Mrs. Mettia
Hemby of the kitchen staff
had a birthday. All of her
gifts were things for her
new home.
Friday we had a beautiful
Valentines Day party and
everything carried out the
motif. The ladies of the
Martha Club of the Catho-
lic Church made the cook-
ies. These were served with
red punch. The hospital had
a huge cake decorated in
Valentines and the First
Baptist Church made place
favors from Valentine doil-
ies with a rose on each.
Everyone had a hand in
voting for our Valentine
Queen and Mrs. Poehler
won by far Her daugnter-in
law, Mrs. Milton Poehler,
and granddaughter shared
in the festivities.
Thanks to Mr. Hermes,
instructor ot tne vocational
school at the Airfield, we
have eight good benches for
outside that can be moved
about in '.he yard. Mr.
Hermes had six of his
students build them. A
great big thanks to them,
also.
Saturday the men played
croquet and pitched horse
shoes. As no score was
kept, I think everyone won,
just by enjoying the beauti-
ful day and sunshine.
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School Lunch
^1 From us
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RATE ANNOUNCEMENT
The Jennings Family is proud to announce our top
choice to re-open the Raye...The Sam Moss Family.
Once again the Raye will be locally owned and family
operated, and Hondo will have a needed theatre.
With Ruth Jennings and the late Ray Jennings
having put 51 years of their life in local business and
in the Colonial, Park and Raye Theatres, we felt a
definite responsibility to not only find a new owner,
but a proper, acceptable and deserving owner. We
feel the Sam Moss Family meets all our desires and
hopes... and that the Moss Family, The Raye and
Hondo will all benefit.
With new ownership comes new enthusiasm, new
ideas and a renewal of discipline and courtesy inside
the theatre that will be enforced. When you go to a
movie the management wants you to have enjoyed
your evening out. Reaction to a movie is necessary
but distracting noise and moving around by the very
young will once again be like it used to be...
controlled.
The Raye has such a special meaning to us ... we
hope the Moss Family comes to enjoy the same
feeling of pride and gratitude that only years and
work can inscribe.
It was the new owners’ idea and request to retain
the “Raye” name in honor and out of respect for it’s
founder, the late Ray L. Jennings, —for this we are
grateful.
THE JENNINGS FAMILY
Sherrill Matthews named
Betty Crocker leader
Sherrill Matthews has
been named D'Hanis High
School 1974-76 Betty
Crocker Family Leader of
Tomorrow. Shepill won the
honor by competing with
other seniors in the written
knowledge and attitude
examination on Dec. 3. She
is now eligible for state and
national nonors and will
visors will be the guest of
General Mills on an ex-
pense-paid educational tour
which will include Wash-
ington, D.C., and Williams-
burg, VA. A special event
of the tour is the announce-
ment of the All-American
Family Leader of
This week
All she wrotm
by Edna McDoda
iiencan Tuesday of last week ushered in the Chinese New Year
. ...... WI Tomor- of the Rabbit. Based on a lunar calendar the start of a
row, whose scholarship will year is always different but it always falls between Jan. 21
be increased to $5,000. and Feb. 19.
receive a specially designed Second, third and fourth / rather like the idea of The Year of The Rabbit. It augurs
award from General Mills, place winners will receive weu for those of us who admit to being a little hare-brained
Inc., spbnsor of the annual scholarship increases to nQW and
Feb.24 - 28
MONDAY -- Hamburg-
ers, Potato Chips, Lettuce,
Tomatoes, Pickles, Onions,
Oatmeal Cookies.
TUESDAY - Meat Pat-
ties and Gravy, Mashed
Potatoes, Peas, Hot Rolls.
WEDNESDAY - Bur-
ritos, Spanish Rice, Slaw,
Ice Cream.
THURSDAY - Frank-
furters, Macaroni with
Cheese, Green Beans, Gela-
tin with Whipped Cream.
FRIDAY -- Tuna Salad
on Lettuce, Crackers,
Sliced Tomatoes, Chocolate
Pie.
educational
program.
State Family Leaders of
Tomorrow receive a $1,500
college scholarship while
state second-place winners
receive a grant of $500. The
state winner also earns for
his or her school, a 20-
volume reference work,
'The Annals of America
scholarship $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000
respectively.
A $1,000 Nutrition Schol-
arship is also avaialable
again this vear from Gener-
al Mills. Tne winner of this
grant is a participant in the
Bei
etty Crocker Search who
is planning a college major
in nutrition or a related
from Encyclopaedia Brium- ^1* "j*”"* *»•
“ Educational Corpora- ^
1 ,n ., , , and scores highest on the
In the spring state win- included nul*ition .
ners and their faculty ad- tjons 1
Have you ever tried Moo Shu Pork? Fating pork is
considered lucky when it is served on the first day of a new
Year. Moo Shu has been described as a Chinese taco as it
is made by placing a mound of savory pork filling on a thin
wheat pancake, rolled up and eaten with the fingers
At today's prices, we would probably consider ourselves
lucky to eat pork most any day.
• * *
Celebration honors Ibigpens
on
Golden Wedding Anniversary
g-
pen of Menard were compli-
mented recently with a
champagne reception and
celebration honoring their
Golden Wedding Anniver-
sary.
The Thigpens were mar-
ried February 13, 1925 in
Menard and raised their
family there. As a young
man, Thigpen was employ-
ed by tne Moser Motor
Company before being self-
employed with a paint and
boay shop. In 1940 he
became superintendent of
the Menard City Water
Works until 1945 when the
family moved to a ranch in
Medina County. Both were
active in the First Christian
Church of Menard He is a
former deacon. The couple
returned to Menard four
years ago for retirement.
A total of 152 guests
registered with an orchid
plumen pen at the register
table covered with a white
dotted swiss fitted cloth.
The 42-inch, three* iered and
pedestalled wedding cake
featured an orchid flowing
and lighted fountain. It was
topped with a golden “50"
encrusted in pearls with
two white feathered doves
holding wedding rings. The
cake fountain was encircled
with greenry and an ar-
rangement of spring
flowers.
Champagne punch was
served from a flowing foun-
tain lighted in green. Coffee
was served from a gold
coffee service. Crystal tear-
drop candlesticks with
white tapers were on each
table. The punch table was
laid with an orchid taffeta
and net tablecloth.
1710 AVE,
426-2443 HONDO
all day,
every day!
SIid into the all day shoe1
Wear it to work, for play, lor evening It's a
fashion wedge you'll want
ki slrny Black l White
FANFARES
•17.50
This price-fixing business is nothing new. As long ago
as 301 A.D., a fellow by the name of Gaius Aurelius
Valerius Diocletianus Jovius, a Roman Emperor, issued
an edict in an attempt to fix prices, especially in the
interest of soliders. [This was evidently before the day of
Post Exchanges]
The story is long and too involved for me to figure much
about it but it does seem timely even after all these many
years.
The equivalent of.a government “soil bank wiped out
half of the provincial vineyards to check the over-produc-
tion of wine; bread was substituted for wheat and with
free pork, olive oil and salt added
The purchasing power of the denarius, the Roman coin
of denomination dropped way down. The Emperor s edict
____ ____________ complained of, “unprincipled greed claiming that prices
The Hors’Deuorvre table of foodstuffs had recently “mounted fourfold and
featured a floral centerpiece eightfold".
with gold double wedding jhe denarius which, under Nero in 54 A.D., had
rings covered with mini- contained 94^, pUre silver had been diluted to 0.02°k under
atureshiskabobs and condi- Claudius Victorinus by 268 4 D
TXl So. U ~r
oysters olympia and assort- m # 0
^Mrs.3T^higpen was dres- Here's a bit of copy from the ANVIL HERALD of
sed in an aqua double-knit 8/26/05 that I can't resist including and I shall try to
floor-length gown with long remember some of its terminology to use on our Coastal
chiffon sleeves. She wore an skeeters when they make return visits
apricot camellia corsage. ••'fhe Stegomyia Fasciata mosquito is spreading his
1 he hostesses for the gala esoteric cogitations of and unpremeditated explanations
affair were the four 1 higpen ^ Mafia Plague into the remotest inhabitable
(iduHnicrs. ivi 1 s. nuDeri 1 . . .
Reynolds and Mrs. Elisha ., , ., , , . .
Snodgrass, both of Odessa. H * are muc’* a ra‘d tf\at lf ouJ n r t , ,
Mrs. Charles J. Fischer and nf(ht down to plain English and treat Yellow Jack plainly,
Mrs. David Bippert, both the disease will either interfere with the deglutition in
of Castroville. Grandchild- someone’s esophagus or cause volcanoes to break out of
ren serving were: Roxanne their medulla oblongata It has certainly intered with the
Bippert, Carol Anne Fisher, vox populi some time since."
and Mrs Davis McClure, of Whew! Now, you take it from there
Sabinal. * * •
Out-of-town guests were / don't know uhat salaries today's District Judges earn
from Junction, Brady, . an ^ ear[y [905 the Houston Post was quoted "In an
Sabinal Castroville Abi- argument (or the increased salaries to District Judges, the
iene, Eldorado, Kerrville, average judge cannot support his family on $2500 a year
and Brownwood. “This argument will hardly convince the farmer who
pays the brunt of the taxes and whose family lives off a
much less sum. that he should still further tax himself in
order to keep the family of one of his public servants in
greater affluence. "
* * *
. Some weeks ago I saw [and read] an article in a Houston
th£„U,22i> U”fver8ily Tf Sunday <“*" bu, rt,
Texas students were candi- datel,ne was Columbus Junction. Iowa. So, I'm sure that
dates for bachelor's degrees &r dofln H. Jennings’ pretty wife is still in Hondo looking
in the College of Education after their two future debutantes who, their Grandmother
at the close of the fall RUTH, says "are the delight of my life, too."
semester. Among them was The Iowa “Norma Jennings” is a farmer's wife who
Walter Stephen Rothe, who describes herself as “a freelance writer for newspapers
is now coaching baseball when I'm not keeping books and doing other farm
and teaching in the Hondo chores ”
school system. He received • * *
a BS degree in Physical
RECEIV ES DEGREE
Education.
LAUGH
LITTLE
Ralph Hauger
TV announcer:
“For those of you
who sneaked into the
kitchen during the
sponsor’s message,
I’ll repeat it now.”
The young girl
smiled sweetly at the
long line as she step-
ped into the phone
booth. “Don’t worry,
she said, “I just
want to hang up on
him.”
Boss to the retir-
ing employee: "As a
retirement gift, I’m
giving you the office
clock. I know-you’ve
had your eyes on it
for years.”
Mrs. Paul Revere:
“I don’t care who
you say is coming.
It’s my night for the
horse!”
Why not make a trip
to
LEINWEBER’S
in Hondo?
1710 Ave. M
426-2443
We’ll take good care of
your entire family
I heard about the arrival of JEREMY ROSS
McCULLOCH [in Brusly, LA. ] when I was in Hondo but I
had not realized that he is the great-grandson of the
ROBERT [/VeffieJ hOCHs. His grandmother, Mrs. LEO
HIGHSMITH, told me all about him
And now I've lost count of how many grandchildren and
great-grands Nettie has.
* * *
( When I visited the MUSEUM one afternoon [sharing
, 1 hostess duty with Sally], one of the new displays I noticed
was a plaque by BETTY HAILE.
Betty is the girl with original ideas! This sample of her
i f originality is made from nails, bits of wood and other
materials from the old cotton gin once owned and operated
by |one of] the JOHN MUENNINKs.
Even the mortar between the sqaure nails that
represent “logs" was scraped, bit by bit, from the walls of
the Faseler house in the same area
* * *
The D Hanis Brick enterprise will observe a "diamond"
anniversary this year. A news item from that neighboring
f town, datelined Sept. 7, 1905, reported: "The D’Hanis
i t Brick Company steamed up this evening and tested the
machinery at its new plant. Manager BIRKNER says
everything moved along fine and it will now be a question
I [ of only a few days before his bucket brigade will be seen
passing to-and-fro in this new enterprise which is proof of
Medina County s determination to grow industrially."
* * *
Newspaper editors, generally, are used to "catching it"
from all sides, depending which side the "pitcher” is on.
, Maybe even B.K.L. [better known as SPARKS] will find
1 comfort in these observations which appeared in the
SABINAL SENTINEL in November, 1905:
To save an editor from starvation, subscribe to his
[ paper and pay for it promptly. To save him from
bankruptcy, advertise in his paper liberally.
To save him from despair, send him every item of news
[ ypu can get hold of. To save him from profanity, write
your correspondence plainly on one side of a sheet of paper
and get it to him as early as possible.
To save him from making mistakes, bury him, for dead
people are the only ones who never make mistakes.
Lastly, newspaper readers would do well to remember
that there are no perfect people and this includes both
1 1 editors and their readers. ”
* * •
Now, The Defense rests!
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Hondo Anvil Herald (Hondo, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1975, newspaper, February 20, 1975; Hondo, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth819698/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hondo Public Library.