The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1959 Page: 1 of 8
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Fayette County’s Prize-Winning Newspaper
The Newspaper With a Puri
Volume 80
La Grange, Fayette Co., Texas, Thursday, October 22, 1959
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piQURNAL
llpUARE
Miss Amelia Janssen, pretty
drum major for the La Grange
Leopard Band, was a very happy
lady Friday night. The reason
wasn’t only because the band
she was leading across the field
gave such a fine halftime show,
but also because she was named
tiie sweetheart of the Leopard
football team. If the Journal
would choose a sweetheart as the
Leps, did, Amelia would rate
high on the list. Congratulations!
— AJ8 _
More parking space is being
made in the rear of the La
Grange post office and the im-
provements will remove a serious
traffic hazard on the highway.
Although the work calls for die
removal of two liveoak ... trees
which were planted when the
post office was built, it will do
away with the large highway
post office vans having to go in-
to the Brasher Motor company
drive way to get enough room to
get in the narrow entrance. Here-
tofore the traffic was tied up
during the time the vans were
entering the driveway.
_AJB _
For a while we Were wonder-
ing who those “creatures” were
making their way to school
Tuesday morning with the rest of
the nicely dressed students. Upon
investigating we found that it
was “fish day” and the freshmen
students were being initiated.
THE SWEETHEART of the La
Grange Leopards, Miss Amelia
Janssen, was announced during
the halftime ceremonies of the
La Gr«M»-Columbus football
game Friday night. Miss Janssen
is also the drum major of the
LHS. band. Miss Janssen is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Delvin
Janssen of La Grange.
Window Burglar
Caught at La Porte
aovU) w as au
halftime cei
Amina Janssen is Leopard Sweetheart
i enteredl&e field in
formation playing
The Leopard Band, under the'
direction of W. W. Johnson, cen-
tered its half-time show around
the announcement of the 1959-60
FoetbMl Sweetheart Friday night
at the La Grange-Columbus
The wirdfl» burglar who en- name,
tered several La,Gr8hge* resi- The bond-en!
dences during the past ^diveral band front
years was caught In La Porte Harold Walter’s “TSm O’Shan-
Saturday night, Oct. '17. ter”. The band then formed the
The burglar was Wallace J.' reverse band formation, and the
Ferguson, 43, formerly of Rock- band executed a weave. The first
dale. ! formation formed was a large
The break came Thursday circle as the band played “Round
night in Cuero when as he was and Round.” The band then form-
trying to break into a house, he ed a large heart. Then Jimmie
was seen. He got away; however j WeUseL representative of the
the license number of his car was Leopard team, went to the center
taken down. 1 of the heart to present Miss A-
Sheriff Mike Flournoy of -*--
Wharton put out a state wide(
pick up Saturday morning. Fer-‘
guson was caught Saturday night
as he was pulling another job at
La Porte.
Officers here received a report
Tuesday morning that Ferguson (
has more than 200 charges a-'
gainst him in Whaton, LaGrange,1
Cuero, Richmond, Rosenberg,
Alvin, Hallettsville, Brenham, ’
Columbus, Bay City, Schulen- !
burg, Yoakum, Pasadena, La
Porte and numerous other places.
Homes which were victimized
here the past two years included
those of G. H. Osthoff B. D. Oder,,
John L. Sulak, F. C. Prenzler,
Joe F. Drab, Roy Kuhn and E. \
W. Meiners.
Miss Rosa Meinecke
Greatly Improved
Miss Rosa Meinecke’s doctor
reports her condition as greatly
improved.
She is conscious, sits up in a
chair, knows where she is and
takes some food by mouth.
Miss Meinecke will be trans-
ferred to Bellville where she will
be nearer her nephew within the
next day or so. .
Calendar of Events
Thursday, October 22 —
Leopard “B” and Junior High
Team at Smithville.
Friday, October 23—
4 Leopards at Smithville, dist.
game, 8 p. m.
Sunday, October 25—
100th Anniversary of St. John’s
Lutheran Church, Ellinger,
beginning at 9:15 with
Sunday School.
Tuesday, October 27-
Fire Drill, 7 p. m.
La Grange Farm Bureau
meets, 7:3 Op. m.
Lions (Hub meets, 12 noon,
Lester Hotel club room.
Wednesday, October 21—
Trinty Hill Ladies Aid ,2 p. m.,
parish house.
Rotary club, 12 noon, Cotton-
wood Inn.
MISS KAREN ROITSCH, daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Roitsch,
La Grange, has been elected as
one -of four freshmen class rep-
resentatives to the Texas Luthe-
ran College coronation for the
30th annual Homecoming sche-
duled Oct. 30-31, Nov. 1.
The 1959 La Grange High
School graduate will serve as a
Lady-in-Waiting at the corona-
tion of the Homecoming royal
court. This event is slated for
Friday night, Oct. 30, in the col-
lege gym.
Miss Roitsch, who is majoring
in medical technology at TLC,
will also be a special guest on
Saturday night, Oct. 31, when
ex-students of TLC will hear U.
S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson at
the banquet.
In addition, she’ll be present-
ed at halftime that afternoon
when the TLC Bulldogs play the
McMurry College Indians at Ma-
tador Field in a 2:30 p. m. tilt.
The members o# the royal
court are also due for presenta-
tion at the Homecoming dance
following the banquet.
NOTICE
The Rutersville Cemetery as-
sociation will hold its annual
meeting Sunday, October 26 at 2
p. m. at the Weasels Hall. Impor-
tant matters will be discussed.
Presence b urgently requested.
melia Janssen, the 1959-60 Foot-
ball Sweetheart, with a dozen
red roses. The band left the field
placing “Percusion in Review”.
Fayette'; Farm
Bureau Parley
Is Thursday
The Fayette County Farm
Bureau will hold their 1959 con-
vention at the VFW Home here
Thursday evening, Oct. 22. It
will begin at 7 o’clock with re-
gistration to be followed by a
meeting.
On the agenda is a suate of re-
solutions which were adopted at
u meeting of local Farm Bureau
unit representatives last week to
be presented for action. Resolu-
tions may also be brought up
from the convention floor.
Eighteen attendance awards
are being offered to encourage
attendance. There will be a $5
first prize, $3 second prize, |2
third prize, and 15 one dollar
prizes.
Arthur Citzler, president of the
county Farm Burau encourages
all to attend so that this conven-
tion will go down as the largest
and the best ever had.
100th Anniver
At John's,
The St. John’s Lutheran
Church in Ellinger will observe
their 100th anniversary on Sun-
day, Oct. 25.
Sunday school will begin at'
9:15 at the church’s parish house.,
The worship service will be at j
the Ellinger Chamber of Com- [
merce building and will begin at;
10:30. The Rev. V, ,A. Mohr, pre- \
sident of the Texas District of ■
the American Lutheran church, j
will deliver the sermon.
Beginning at 11:30 a barbecued
beef meal with all the trimmings !
will be served at the Ellinger
Chamber of Commerce building.
Charges will be $1.00 for adults
and 50c for children 6 to 12.
Children under 6 will be free.
In the afternoon, at 2:15 the
Rev. H. C. Ziehe of Sandy Hill
will be the guest speaker and
tell about the history of the A-
merican Lutheran Church in
Texas.
The St. John s church was or- j servC(j jn 1895 and Pastor J. Her-
ganized on Dec. 26, 1859, with si from 1898 to 1900
Pastor Johannes Conrad Roehm,| Pastor Robert Heise came to
and others having done some E1ilnger in 190o and served the
work in Ross Prairie and other congregation until 1914, and a-
areas of Fayette Co. from the gsin frpm 1921 until his retire-
ment in 1951. Pastor H. Krause
served from 1914 to 1921.
After Pastor Heise’s retire-
ment, Pastor H. T. Flachmeier
served as supply pastor until
1952, when the present Pastor
Raymond W. Durst, was called.
During these years the congre-
gation has been served by 12
pastors, with Pastor Heise having
served a total of 44 years. The
congregation was organised at
Ross Prairie, moved to Ellinger
in 1895, and moved to its present
location in 1958.
The pastors of the congregation
helped to organize congregations I
at Fayetteville, Li Grange, and
Shaw’s Bend. In 1958 Che con-1
gregation of Shaw’s Bend with
REV. RAYMOND DURST
Pastor of St. John’s
the moving of its building to El-
linger, joined with the congrega-
tion that had helped it to organ-
ize.
The records of the congrega-
tion show that during these years
there were almost 1300 bapti-
sms, that the year i860 was the
record year for baptisms, that
record year for baptisms, with 45
being recorded.
The present pastor, Raymond
W. Durst, was installed in the
Ellinger Church on Sunday, July
6, 1952. He also serves the
churches of St. Peter’s at Prairie
Valley and St. John’s at Ruters-
ville.
Pastor Durst is a native of
Gillespi County, Texas and was
ordained a pastor of the Ameri-
can Lutheran Church at Zion
Lutheran Church, his home
church, at Fredicksburg.
He is a graduate of the Junior
Toy Drive Now
In Full Swing
The annual drive for used or
serviceable toys to be presented
to underprinvileged youngsters
of this community at Christmas
time got underway Sunday, Oct.
18. It will continue through Nov.
17.
The yearly event is sponsored
by the women of the La Grange
unit of United Church Council.
Toys which are repairable as
well as books, games of all sorts,
costume jewelry and the like for
presentation to infants up to
youngsters aged 16 years are be-
ing sought in the campaign.
Deposit containers have been
placed at the St. Paul’s Lutheran,
First Baptist, Travis Street Me-
thodist, St. James Episcopal and
First Prebyaerian churches and
also at the fire station. Sunday
Schools of the respective church-
es are also aiding in the ingather-
ing.
Last year 120 area youngsters
who otherwise might not have
had much of a Christmas were
made happy in some measure by
the efforts of the church ladies.
A similar response is hoped for
this year, and perhaps a better
one.
Grand Jury to Meet
The Grand Ju*y will meet on
Monday, Nov. 9. Grand jurors
will be announced next week,
according to District Clack Qce
year 1852.
On December 25, 1855, August
Fardinand Hahn was baptized,
and in the following years other
baptisms are recorded, even
though there wa^ no congrega-
tion. .
Pastor Roehm' served Ross
Prairie from Frelsberg, until
1860. From 1861 to 1871 Pastor
Rudolph Jaeggli served at Ross
Prairie and agaip from 1873 to
1883 /
From 1871 to 1873 Pastor Joh.
F. Wohlschlegel served the area.
In 1888 Pastor Dqerfler tame
and served untir^WJBS. In 1889
and 1890 the congregation was
served by Pastor August Wen-
zel. Pastor J. Fehner served frpm
1891 to 1894. Pastor Carl Baer
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La Grange Farm
Bureau to Meet
The La Grange, Farm Bureau
Local will meet Tuesday, Oct. 27
in the Farm Bureau office in La
Grange at 7:80 p. m.
Delegates to the state conven-
tion will be chosen and the an-
nual membership drive will be
discussed.
Mr. Fritz Janssen, President
urges all members to be present
for this meeting.
ON COMMITTER *
Miss Betty HtiWmann of La
Grange serve*
mittee at the eighth annual
Her parent
Rudolph Hagemann.
College:
theran C
his BA Degree:
versity, Colui
June 1, 1952,
BD
He and his wife, Mary Ann,
Urn in the parsonage at the Ru-
tersville church.
Elva Meiners
Nominated for TLC
Honor Program
Miss Elva Meiners, daughter of
Mr. and'Mrs. E. W. Meiners, 341
Guadalupe, has been nominated
for membership in the Honors
Program at Texas Lutheran Col-
lege it was announced by B. C.
Baurabech, Honors Council
chairman.
The 1958 graduate of La
Grange High School was named
as a participant in the program
based on outstanding scores ach-
ieved on freshman placements
tests and grade point averages.
The extra-curricular program,
known as the Honors Division, Is
at present a 2-year experimental
program designed to stimulate
the better student to extend his
knowledge in his particular field
of interest beyond that acquired
Mi— Meiners is
home scone
member of
/. * -
msg/t
ST. JOHN’S LUTHERAN CHURCH AT ELLINGER
La Grange Placed in New District
With Bellville Columbus, Humble, Katy
La Grange High School will
be in a new athletic district next
year, according to information
released by the University Inter-
scholastic League.
La Grange will be in District
21-AA along with Bellville, Col-
umbus, Humble, and Katy, dur-
ing the school terms of 1960-61
and 1961-62.
The new district placing* are
known as bi-annual conference
assignments.
Other schools now in District
20-AA with La Grange and Col-
umbus will be reassigned as fol-
lows:
Giddings will remain in Dls-
Cotton Plow-up
Extended Here
The cotton plow-up deadline
for 17 Southeastern counties has
been extended because fields are
too wet to clear. The extension
was made Friday, Oct. 16, by
John White, Commissioner of A-
gr {culture.
The new deadline in the pink
boolworm control program is
midnight Oct 81. It applies to
these counties:
trict 20-AA but will have as new
opponents, Elgin, Georgetown,
Round Rock, and Taylor.
Smithville and Schulenburg
will be In District 24-A with
Bastrop, Del Valle Goodwin,
Shiner, and Weimar.
Leopards Travel
To Smithville Fit
The Leopards of Marvin Dixon
will travel to Smithville Friday
night, Oct. 23, to engage In their
second district game of this sea-
son. The Leps dropped a 14-0 de-
cision to the Columbus Cards in
their district opener.
The two teams played to a 0-0
tie last year.
The Tigers, coached by Carter
Es Massey, Billy Spencer and
Doyle Rogers have a record of
four wins and three defeats. Last
week in a district game they ran
over the Schulenburg Shrothorns
34-0.
Starters for Smithville a
I; Crawford Gadd,
Appoint Mr*. Morgan
Mrs. Sue Morgan, widow of the
late Billy Morgan, has been ap-
pointed to fill the two and one-
half year unexpired term of her
husband as a member of the
board of trustees of the La
Grange Independent School dis-
trict.
Marketing quotas far the 196(1
cotton crop were proclaimed last
week and Dec. 13 was sat as the
date for growers to vote appro-
val or rejection of the controls;
The proclamation was made by
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra.
Taft Benson,
In order for the quotas to be-
effective, approval by at least
two-thirds of the growers voting
is required. This year’s crop was
approved by 92.2 per cent of the
growers in a referendum last De-
cember.
A total of 16 million acres will
be alloted to growers fc------
Ing cotton for next
kets. nils is
will have the choice,
year, of abiding by their
f tents or of over-
r 40 per j
78 V
the parity price of cotton,____
those overplanting would be eli-
ls a
?V-
on to prices charged the
Should the marketing|
cent of i
to those
ed within scr.
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Fuchs, Durwood L. The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 1959, newspaper, October 22, 1959; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998296/m1/1/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.