The Smithville Times Transcript and Enterprise (Smithville, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 19, 1953 Page: 2 of 8
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THE SMITHVILLE TIMES THURSDAY, MARC H 19, 1953 SMITHVILLE, TEXAS
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T hz Stnithville Times
Published Every Thursday in Smithville, Texas, by
THE SM.'THVILLE PUBLISHING CO.
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District Meet
By Evelyn Thomas
Ac< on-ling to Coach Mays,
Smithville will he represented at
the District Meet at A&M Consol-
idated High School on Friday of
this week. Two volley bull teams,
tone of boys and one of girls, are
making the trip. We are allowed
Water'd ;s second-class matter January 1, 11194, at the Post Office at f,,UI. entries in playground ball;
',i. ,tl.. Vt <: -j • tl ' ■ Cringle is of March 3, 1879.
Subscription Kat . S3 "0 Per Year in Advance
Out oi Bastrop County, $3.00
10c Par Cr>]»y
Winner of Plaque for Outstanding _
Community Service 1947-1948, 19f>0-1951
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BeitsrCough Relief Bastrop County
When new drups or old fail to help . . _ .
3opnt s Column
ful proven ingredients aud no nar-
cotics to disturb nature’s process. It
goes into the bronchial system to aid
nature soothe and heal raw, tender,
inflamed bronchial membranes. Guar-
anteed to please or your druggist re-
funds money. Creomulslon has stood
the test of manv millions of users.
CREOMULS30N
* .’listws Coughs. Chest Colds, Acute Bronchitis
BASTROP TEAM PLACES 4th
A livestock judging team of 4-II
tin so are a team of boys and a
team of gill from Senior High
and t1.. .-.im.r two divisions from
Junior High.
The l ist of luck to each of you.
Freshman Program
By Joyce Hribek
F isy the thirteenth may be
considered an unlucky day in
unc respects, but for the Fresh-
men, it was a very lucky one. At
this time we presented our assem-
bly program. Gladys Pseneik act-
ed mistress of ceremonies.
Our first i nnber was a piano
io by Betty Sullivan. "And the
I.amp Went Out-’, a pantomime
1 kit was then presented. Jo Ann
Tam cka sang a song and Kay
Masters read a comical poem. In
Something New In
Ifomemnking H
By Mary Jo McDowell
This how it ill came about.
At tin beginnim f the year. Mi
Wren mentioned to us all the
phase of Homeinaking II which
would be available to us during
the year. From these we were to
choosi those «r preferred. Wlu n
she mentioned leathercraft. our
ears pricked up right quick. That
was something new and different
to us and w< were really interest-
ed.
After numerals discussions on
the subject and
Tiger Tales Staff
Reporters this week;
Joyce Hannu • h
Mimi Mick
Teddy Zimmorhanzel
Evelyn Thomas
Margie Matocha
Mary Jo McDowell
Joyce Hribek
Hetty Jean Burns
FFA District Banquet
By Theodore Zimmerhanzel
Tuesday afternoon, about 5:30
a group of representatives from
sessions withjthe Smithville Chapter of Future
leather catalogues we sent in our (Farmers of America left for Aus-
order for belts, billfolds, and [tin to attend a banquet of the
'Chapel Program
By Betty Jean Burns
We had a our speaker on Mon-
day, March !(!. Bro. Wood, who is
pastor id the Christian Church,
instead of Rev. Wiederaenders,
Lutheran minister, who was sche-
duled to be with us, but was un-
able on account of being out of
town. Billy Davi made the in-
troduction of Bro. Wood, and Mrs.
jOlin Fite, Jr., who sang. The
program was thoroughly enjoyed
by all.
Next week Gladys Pseneik will
introduce Rev. Wiederaenders of
the Lutheran Church as our
speaker.
purses Of rse, none of these
even resein! I what the finished
product v. dd look like. The
leather we ordered was cowhide,
which is a laptable to tooling,
carving, and tamping.
Whim wt received the invoice
for our material wo put away our
kitchen utensils and sewing
equipment id started working
Taylor FFA District. Among
them were a number of FFA
members and Supt. Pearce, Prin-
cipal Estes, Evelyn Thomas, the
FFA Sweetheart, and Mr. Karch-
er, the Vocational Ag. teacher.
Upon arriving at Austin High
everyone enjoyed a delicious
ine-il of barbecued beef and all
the tri’umin . After we had fin-
on design, for our projects. Most i bed . .mg. there was a Swoet-
of these w ic traced from a de ign i heart contest, with Joe Chi as
book on to paper, cut the shape
if what, vc we were ruing to
m i; ndeiic with March being wnrk „ that it could be H me
Good Manners Month ,a group of
students gave a skit entitled
"Making over Mary”. Following
Club boy . of Bastrop County a group song, "Forever and Even”
placed fourth in the 4 H Club di-B*»d Sally Malone sang a solo,
vi ion at the Livestock judging "Keep It a Secret."
PROFESSION VL
We hope everyone enjoyed our
piugrani as much as we enjoyed
presenting it.
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OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted
Schroder Bldg. — Phone 353
La Grange, Texas
Dfl. JAMES L. AoHLLY
OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Examined - Glasses Fitted
Frame Repairs & Lenses
Duplicated
Closed on Thursday
Office Over La Grange' Drug Co. j good scores for beginners.
Phone 380 La Grange, Texas j About 300 4 II Club and FFA
iiu-l-iihi .............mi -............ '“ boys entered the judging contest
...... :and we feel that the Bastrop boys
" " -------- j did pretty well out of that num-
1.0. 0.F. Lodge No. 393 bd of entries.
Me: ! M 3 00 P. M- GRAPEVINE KEWS
1.0. 0.F. Hall, Smithville, Texas]
contest at Austin, Friday, March
0'h. The hoys judged classes of
fors, duroc gilts, Hampshire gilts,
fers, duroc gilts, hamshire gilts,
jdelaine ewes, and showthdown J
j<w Bastrop team nv itn jOlf ft)!* 1 ht‘ Rl’lilVS
* re Tommy Davis, Sr thville; By Margie Matocha
Frederick Goertz, and Leon: _
Goertz, both of Rockne. Kenneth] Qn Saturdayi March 21, Mr.
Bart ah of Rockne was alternate jKil.kstvy wm take his boys to
on this team. jcuero to enter the Cuero Relays.
A group of 1 H bovs from Me- j This is the first track meet that
Dude entered the judging contest the boys have entered this year,
j Jiist for practice. The ones front The group of hopeful entries is
McDade entering the contest were , omp, sed of the following: Henry
John Anton Dube, Oscar Dube,-Baylor, Tillman Brooks, Jackie
Frank Neal Crawford, Royce Churchill. Jerry Fleming, George
Mundine and Leonard Rat' Kust- Helmcamp, Jerry Johnson, Buddy
m r. These boy made - mi very iKellar, Lee Nel Marcsh, John Ma-
'tocha, William McClure, William
Pseneik, Eugene Seidel, Roland
Simms, Erwin Stolle, and Charles
Williams.
Here’s wishing the best of luck
to all of you.
Visitors Welcome
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LAWYER
] At a meeting of the Smithville
I Watermelon Growers Association
M uch !), it was reported that the
'croup has planted nearly 300
; acres of watermelons already with
more to go .Wonder who will have
D'.e first ripe melon'.’
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La Grange
V eterinary Hospital
Dr. F. L. Gunn
T clephones
Office 105-W ll( 273-W
La Grange Texas
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Plione 50 Box 059
Ptactice In All Civil And
Criminal Courts
Smithville, —Texas
; If la;; the exhibit tor 4-H Club
We-.'k at the Chamber of Com-
merce Window in Bastrop.
Henry Wolf of McDade consi-
dering building the community
type nest for his laying flock.
Dave Kauffman of Hills Prai-
rie making plans to start raising
tomatoes.
mtustmutar • -
E. M. KING
P E It SO N A !,S
Mrs. Emma Saveli and daughter
Sandra Sue from Sandy Point,
Texas were visiting this weekend
'•.till Her i t"r and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Helen and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Ka; h-
and daughter, Cheryl Lynn weiv
visiting from Houston with her
parents .Mr and Mrs. Joe Hell n
and family.
t erred to the leather easily.
With i borrowed from the
Agra" hi, Department and oth-
rs fur*11 ed by Mrs. Wren, we
started lu.ively on our new ven-
ture The first step wa to make
tccky acting as Master of Cere
monies and Evelyn Thomas par-
The Observer
By Joyce Hannusch
Well, here is a new one again.
What I mean is a new Observer.
Did you see? “Oh!*’ Well I know
you didn’t see those class pic-
tures we took. They turned out
okay. That is the girls are hand-
some and the boys arc pretty.
Question of the week: Wtiat
did the poor people do who earn-
ed Mrs. Moore’s title "idiot”? In-
cidentally, if she’d listen to her
husband maybe things like that
wouldn't happen!.... Little did
the Chemistry students know that
there were a number of musical it was so easy to make red soda-
and vocal selections put on by |pop.... who is that certain sen-
different people. Among them
were Charles Pseneik, who won
ticipating in the contest
with
Jerry Fleming as her escort.
For entertainment afterwards
shorter too.... Evelyn, why did
you play hookey Monday morn-
ing? I was told you had a very
poor excuse... Joyce S., what
happened to you? Could it be an-
other fight? If so, who won?
Sally D . are you missing a pair
of shorts? You hud a better look-,
1 think Theresa has them on and
can't get them off. .. .William Mc-
Clure, the idea is to walk into a
room—not fall—and why at
Mind’s feet?....Ask Betty Jean
Sawyer if Bastrop was being
bombed Saturday. I think she can
tell you because she was there..
Jeanette and Henry Mae had a
very interesting time in Austin
over the weekend! Boys at a girl’s
slumber party! Doesn’t that sound
interesting’’
District Meet is this Friday at
A&M. We hope that the ones go-
ing will bring back something
even if it’s half of A&M....Mrs.
Childers discovered a gold mine
in u button box. I think we should
start collecting buttons... .Delia
Ann, you’re getting along pretty
well with the Bastrop boys, aren't
you?... .Patsy Z., where did you
get that cold? Could it be that
you’ve been riding in a conver-
tible?. . . Ann, what’s the idea of
you and Teddy running off with
Slats’ car? Well, I guess three is a
crowd. ..Oh, by the way Faye,
what were you doing Saturday
night?
If you are looking for me next
week, don’t expect to find me!
Alter all 1 wrote about every-
body, if anyone finds me, I’ll be
the headless one.
the It itl)< : pliable. This we did , first prize. This prize was a peek-
in' soai'.ing it and then wrapping j(J knil - and a whctrock.
it in towels overnight. Bv morn-1 We all enjoyed ourselves very
ing it w,v; right for design cut much and hope to have another
ting. With our dump leather on
mason 1 boards and de igns on
paper fixed securely on top of the
leaf we traced the design on
to the leather. After
meet ing of this sort soon.
most forgot to mention the ham-
mers we used. The other classes
finishing Van tell you how much noise they
this ta-k we cut the design into made.
the leather by means of a swivel j When the carving and stamping „
kn.le. Using a modeler we broad- procedures were completed, a pajamas in Bin.? Tell
|pop..
[ior girl who writes “Dear John’’
letters. Let us know who you are,
we might want his address......
Alice, what kind of apology did
you receive?
Did someone see some corn
growing around here? Beak,
where is your corn growing, on
your toe or beside the shrub-
bery,. .Fritz, who were you afraid
Maureen was calling? 11, now
who could that be?....Why was
Shirley wearing bright colored
us about
that Shirley... .Bess Ann, why
so excited, did you lose your ear-
rings'.’. . . .Faye, do you like short
PERSON A L S
Mrs. Velasca Donham and
Patsie of Fort Worth arc guests
of Mrs. Minnie Lea Levy.
Mr. E. H. Malone was in Dallas
Monday on business.
Mrs. F. R. Davis of Houston
spent several days last week with
her father, Mr. A. P. Lowrey.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Parson.*?
were in Austin a few hours last
Thursday on business.
Mr. and Mrs. P. It. Donnelly and
Susan left Sunday for Louisiana
after spending several weeks with
cried the cuts and shaded parts leather sealer was applied to in-
that were supposed to be in the sure durability and give a smooth
background in order to make shiny finish. Burnishing ink was
flowers and leaves predominant.1 also used on some articles. After
From this point on each girl the ink and sealer had dried, we
mo A or less on her own to put buckles and tips on belts and wiunci hji juu. i an(j ^rs ^ g Scallorn
use the® o ary tools to make laced pur es and billfolds. This The annual staff is breathing 'visjted wjth Mrs Wilev Lancaster
her project look like she wanted'completed our leather work, and in relief now. All the annual work |{|n{j ctau},pter jn La Grange one
it. With Mrs. Wren to give us if you ask any of the girls whojis over... .William Dave, what’s 1^^. jas^ wt,ck
helpful hint- and tools such as worked on it, I think you will j 1 ho idea of sticking Dorothy Jean
bevelers, sin let's, vr iners, and find that most of them enjoyed iwith a toothpick Saturday night?
bar ground is. our leather articles it very much and are quite proud I bet I know, the toothpick was
really began to take shape, I al- of what they accomplished, 'too long and you want them made
toothpicks? If you do we’ll try to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. E.
get the factory to make them Rosanky.
shorter for you.
Your white elephant may he
just what someone wants. Adver-
tise it in the Times for results.
Mr. Ervin Fleck from Hi .-ton
was visiting with his parents. Mr.
and Mrs Henry L. Fleck and
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PHONE 155
iting with Mr. and Mrs Henry L.
Fleck and family for the past two
weeks. They all enjoyed the visit
together.
You may run an ad in the
Times for as low as 25 cents.
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Halves or Whole
Fill Your Locker With This Nice Cornfed Meat
Come Out And See These Choice Calves
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