La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1946 Page: 1 of 8
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Volume 67
Opposite Masonic Building Published Every Thursday Morning and Entered at the Post Office as
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 21, 194<
La Grange Is Site Of Bi-District Grid
Edw.H.Moss,
Attorney Dies
Edward H. Moaa, 74, La Grange
attorney at law for many years, pas-
sed away suddenly at Herman Hos-
pital at Houston early Monday after-
noon. Mr. Moss, who had been in ill
health for about two years, was se-
riously ill for about two weeks, but
his passing came as a distinct shock
to his friends here and in the area.
Funeral services for the veteran
attorney were held Wednesday after-
noon at 3 o’clock at the Koenig Fu-
neral Home Chapel, with the Rev. J.
H. E. Willmann officiating and inter-
ment was in the New City Cemetery.
The Masonic Lodge of here participa-
ted in the graveside services.
Mr. Moss, was born July 14, 1874
on the farm of his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John C.. Moss, near Ledbetter.
He received instruction at the public
school of Ledbetter and at the high
school at Giddings. After completing
his education, he passed examinations
as a school teacher and during the
years 1884 to 1897 he taught school
in Lee County. To complete his stu-
dies in law, he entered the widely
known offices of Brown and Lane and
studied there under their directioir;
and in May of 1898 was admitted to the
bar.
Lotto’s Early Fayette County His-
tory adds this:
“His sterling worth and ability
were soon recognized by the people
and before long he had acquired a
nice promising practice. The confi-
dence the people placed in his ability
was further shown by his appoint-
ment as city attorney of La Grange
in November 1900 and by his election
to that office in 1901. Mr. Moss~ is
* a pleasant speaker, deservedly liked
and popular with all classes of people."
Mr. Moss, who on Marchx 14 of 1907
was married to Miss Johanna Rosen-
berg at La Grange, leaves his widow;
two sons, Miles L. Moss of La Grange
and Edward H. Moss Jr. of Houston;
two brothers, A. S. Moss of Memphis,
Texas and John Moss of Lake Char-
les, La.; and two grandchildren.
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CASE OF MISTAKEN
IDENTITY
The Edgar Anders, mentioned in a
week-end Houston Chronicle as a
“hitchhiker” and who corroborated a
statement made by a party in an auto
accident, was NOT the Edgar F.
"Smiles” Anders of Hermes Drug
Store.
The story was about a 70 year old
Houston man who was killed when
he was struck by a car driven by J.
M. Sorrells of Pearsall, who “believed
the man was hit by another vehicle
before my car struck him.”
The Chronicle went on to say that:
“Edgar Anders, 34 of La Grange,
hitchhiking a ride with, Mr. Sorrells,
( corroborated Mr. Sorrells’ statement.”
The Mr. Anders, of Hermes Drug
TJtore, was in his place of business
all day Saturday, and was NOT the
Mr. Anders mentioned in the story.
-oOo———
<La Grange School’s
Honor Roll Is Listed
Honor roll of the La Grange Public
School for the first six-weeks has been
announced by O. W. Feist, high school
principal. Mr. Feist pointed out that
the ■ list is considerably shorter as
heretofore, due to the fact that stan-
dards have been increased to include
nothing less than an A minus grade
in any subject; and hereafter honor
rolls are to include Btudents from the
fifth grade and above only.
The list follows:
Fifth grade: Ralph Rosenberg,
f Sixth grade: Lu Beth Meyer, Laura
Fay Marvin and Jo Ann Albers.
Seventh grade: Lyndell Tanecka,
Doris Petrusek and Elaine Spacek.
Highth grade: Patsy Flaehmeier
and J. R. Rosenberg.
High School
Seniors: Loyce Jacob and Vernice
Miertschin.
Juniors: Leon Lidiak and Joaie
Fred Oppermann.
Freshhnan: Glen Roy Hausmann,
Here Are Winners in Armistice Day Parade in La Gran;
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Pictured above are snots taken at
the American Legion’s Armistice Day
! celebration parade here Monday, Nov.
11.
The photo at the top left will give
you just a bit of an idea of the large
crowd in attendance. In the left por- voted by judges as the prettiest float
tion of the photo you’ll see the color in d*e
bearers and the Legionnaires march- '
ing.
> tfie parade.
Bottom left is the La Grange Hos-
pital’s float, the most representative
j entry; bottom center, is the La Grange
Top right is the Lauterstein’s entry, State Bank’a float, voted the pret-
tiest commercial float in the proces-
sion; and bottom, right, la the Parent-
Teachers Association float, the pret-
tiest organization float. (Photos by
Schultz Studio of La Grange)
HOUSTON POLIO
VICTIM IS NIECE
OF LG PEOPLE
Poliomyelitis Saturday claimed the
fourth victim for the month in Harris
County, when 12 year old Marilyn
t Brewton died at Jefferson Davis Hos-
pital in Houston.
The victim was tjie daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Brewton of Houston,
and was a niece of Mr. and Mrs. A. R.
Brewton of La Grange,
i Funeral services for Marilyn were
held at 2:30 p. m. Monday at Crockett
and burial was in the Pleasant Grove
Cemetery there.
Nineteen city cases have been re-
ported since Nov. 1 in Harris County,
as polio reached what Houston city
officials termed “epidemic, propor-
tions.” The total number of cases in
that county for the year has reached
6B with five deaths, only one of which
occured before November.
The Brewton child leaves her par-
ents; her grandmother, Mrs. Avlona
Brewton; and several uncles and aunts,
including Mr and Mrs. A. R. Brew-
ton of here,
Muldoon To Honor
Town’s Namesake
On Friday afternoon, Nov. 22 at
7:30 p. m. the people of ^ayette
county are invited to be present at a
meeting in Muldhon at the Woodmen
Hall for the purpose of organizing an
organization with the objective of er-
ecting a marker to Father Miguel
Muldoon.
The little town of Muldoon is lo-
cated On the original grant of land to
Father Muldoon, and its citizens be-
lieve that it would be appropriate to
erect this marker in memory of the
man whose name the town bears.
Houston Wade of near Schulenburg,
well known Texas historian, has been
asked to be present and assist in the
organization work, and to tell the
story of Father Muldoon.
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NOTICE!
A meeting of the Rutersville Ceme-
tery Association will be held on
Thanksgiving Day, on Thursday,
Nov. 28 at 1 o’clock p. m. at the Wes-
sels Hall in Rutersville. All members
and friends are requested to be pre-
sent.
Four County Court
Fines Total $233
Union Thanksgiving
Service Wednesday
Guilty pleas were taken from four
defendants and fines totaling $233
were levied in county court here Mon-
day.
Oliver Thomas Jr. and John W. and Methodist Churches participating.
Murphy, both of Schulenburg pleaded | The Rev. J. M. Parker will deliver
guilty to charges of collecting Social the
Security benefits while working for
pay at the same time. Thomas was
fined $15.90 and $42.30, and paid back
$85.98 in benefits received from the
Texas Unemployment Compensation
Commission. Murphy paid a fine and
costs totaling $45.90 and returned $62
in benefits to the TUCC.
Malinda Scott was fined a total of
$75.60 for obstructing a public road
and violating the stock law; and John
H. Davis for swindling with worthless
check. He was fined $23.30 and re-
paid the check .to Klein’s.
All arrests had been made by De-
puty Sheriff Bob Koenig.
Union Thanksgiving services will
be held at the Travis Street Metho-
dist Church Wednesday, Nov. 27 at
! 7:30 p. m., the Baptist, Presbyterian
sermon.
This service is for all the people
who have reasons to be thankful for
the blessings that Almighty God has
so bountiful poured upon them; that
means all of us.
. “Come, let us worship the Lord to-
gether.” *
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8,272 BALES ARE GINNED
Dubina Area Girl It
Killed In Hit-Run
Accident In Houston
IN FAYETTE TO NOV.
Census report by C. W. Meyer dis-
closes that 8,272 bales of cotton were
ginned in Fayette County prior to
Nov. 1, as compared with . 12,995 to
the same date a year ago.
The *Cedar Crick Philosopher’
Philosopher Opposed to A Coal Strike—It
Might Force Him to Have to Cut Wood
Editor’s note: The Philosopher on
his Johnson grass farm on Cedar
Creek is worried over the prospects
of a coal strike, but for an unusual
reason, as his following letter reveals.
explainin to em I will be glad to let
em come out here and euf wood on the
halves, which usually puts a bigger
chill in em than a.freezin norther, but
when they come out here and ask me
in front of my wife, who I been telllrt
theie wasn’t no use in me cuttin wood
as wouldn’t nobody buy it, then they
Miss Evelyn Herzik, 19 of Houston,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Her-
zik of the Dubina section, late Satur-
day became Harris county’s 56th traf-
fic fatility when she was struck and
killed by a hit-and-run driver.
Miss Herzik was struck about 7 p.
m. at North Shepherd Drive and West
25th Street, and she died at Heights
Hospital in Houston at 1:30 a. m.
Sunday. The search by Houston police
and sheriff’s deputies has been nar-
rowed down to a 1937 or 38 model
Ford or Lincoln, believed to have a
broken left headlight, a damaged grill
nd a bent left front bumper.
The victim was reported to have
suffered compound fractures of the
skull and fractures of both legs.
While officers sought the death
car, 13 year old Jackie Ann Goss, of
the same neighborhood in which Miss
Herzik lived and who was knocked
down by the same car, remained in St.
Joseph's Infirmary with a broken left
leg and fractured left arm.
, His brother, Danny, 8, was an eye-
witness to the accident. He told police
he and his sister wltlf Miss Herzik,
had jutValighted from a bus and were
walking across the street on their way
home. He said he walked ahead and
was almost across the street when he
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No Game Fri<
BULLETIN
The non-district football
between the La Grange
and the BellviUe Brahmas
ville this Friday night
cancelled.
La Grange school officials an-
nounced at noon Wednesday that,
after centactlng officials of the
BellviUe school, It was definitely
determined BellviUe had matched
a game with Sugar Land for this
week-end and that the contest with
the Leopards has boon cancelled.
La Grange will be the site of the
La Grange Leopard hnd El Campo
Rice Bird, 83-A and 84-A, bi-district
football championship game Friday
night, Dec. 6 at 8 o’clock.
This was decided Tuesday when
i superintendents and coaches of the
! two schools met. After failing to agree
on the location orally, a coin was flip-
ped—and La Grange won the toss.
Local school officials will go to
Austin this week to see about getting
additional (portable) bleachers to in-
crease the seating capacity as much
as possible.
As soon as these arrangements are
completed, an advance ticket sale will
commence, with ducats available in
each of the local drug stores.
General admission for the tilt will
be $1.20 and reserved seats wiir~be
$1.80, which includes the admission.
Students’ tickets, if purchased in ad-
vance at the school will be 80c, and
60c if bought on the night of the game.
Every member of the Leopard squad
will be given an option on two tickets
for their parents.
Further details will be given as
soon as available.
Marianne Koepke, Minnie Merle Mein-*-
ke, Emory Jean Orsak and Rudolph G.
Seeberger.
Dear editar:
I don’t ordinarily take no hand in ^ ______
many affairs beyond the confines of j is oversteppin the .bounds of decency
this precinct, not even bein able to ’ and if they can’t get President Tru-
keep up with my own work here at min to
home, not to mention President Tru-
man’s and the United Nations’, what
with my wife gettin one continual
idea after another involvin work,
don’t make no difference if I haven’t
caught up with year before last’s
work yet, but there is one national
item which l am unusually interested
in. 1 hope President Truman and Sena-
tor O’Daniel get the coal strike trou-
ble settled, due to the fact folks has
been comin out here askin me if I
had any wood for sale and. my wife
has been talkin about extra Christmas
money and reflectin on the trees along
the creek out here and eyein me and
the ax in a significant sort of way and
I am here to say that if them coal mi-
ners strike they is strikin against the
United States government and the
peace and dignity of the home and I
for one am in favor of puttin a stop
to it once and for all.
I can handle the folks in town when
they ask me if t got any wood to sell,
I
to get John L. Lewis to keep the
miners workin then they ought to get
Mr. Bell to connect em up with the
gas line or wear more clothes and go
to bed earlier.
For the last sixteen years there
ain’t been a Republican out here 6n
the Crick, at least not enough so they’d
admit it, but they only last week two
of my neighbors begun runnin the De-
mocrats down and sayin how they
had been life-long Republicans them-
selves, don’t make no difference if
they always was first in line when the
Triple A checks was bein handed out
or the WPA needed a time keeper, and
while ft’s still a little early to guess
whst happens In 1948, I think they
both have in mind the postmaster’s
job. As for me, I will
with the Democrats, I ain’t
leave no burnin ship n long as
a cool spot left until I got
server spotted.
Youri faithfully,
J. A.
heard Miss Herzik and
scream. He turned and saw _
zik hurled through the air l NHH
siyter knocked to the ground. One of- Here'*
ficer said Miss Heralk was thrown The
57 feet by the impact.
Pieces of metal and from
tered headlight narrowed
down to a de luxe model
a standard, most possibi
Lincoln.
Third
This
LHS WINS LOOP
FLAG FROM ELGIN
“The days of ‘88 are back again!”
After an eight-year famine, La
Grange has once tpore annexed a dis-
trict football crown, this time that
88-A, when the Leopards of
Mentor Fritz Lobprles
Elgin Wildcats 12-6 on
soil Friday night. ‘J
This now means that tl
meet the touted El
(conquerers of Wharton
weekend to win the 34-A cro
the bi-district title. Site and
the contest remain to be decided,
bably by the end of the week.
But, getting back to thg LHS-Elgin
Wildcat tussle, it was just that—a
tussle. The Leps scored twice
five minutes of play were ovi
then held on—with every bit of
and intestinal fortitude within
And there wasn’t a '
the field aft*
sounded than
who after two _
at La Grange, had
trict
.
ther George ■
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Priebe, Charles W. La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 21, 1946, newspaper, November 21, 1946; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth997799/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.