The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1953 Page: 8 of 22
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THE SHINER GAZETTE — SHINER, TEXAS
.Th ursday, December 24, 1953
DANCE
W IED HALL
SATURDAY, JAN. 2
MUSIC BY
RUDY KURTZ ORCH.
A dm.: Gents 60c; Ladies 25c
(Tax Included)
CHRISTMAS
DANCE
LEGION PARK
FRIDAY, DEC. 25
MUSIC BY
JOE PATEK’S ORCH.
Adm.: Gents 75c; Ladies 25c
NEW YEAR’S EVE
DANCE
Moulton V. F. W. Hall
THURSDAY, DEC. 31
DANCING FROM 9 to 2 A M.
MUSIC BY
Ray Kreneks Orch.
Adm.: Gents $1.75; Ladies 75c
(Tax Included)
For Table Reservations—
Call 3-4852
Dance Rain or Shine
—F I RE MEN’S—
NEW YEAR’S EVE
DANCE
LEGION PARK
THURSDAY, DEC. 31
MUSIC
JOE PATEK’S ORCH.
Adm.: Gents 75c; Ladies 25t
Dance Will Be Held
Regardless of Weather
No Fireworks Allowed
On Park Grounds
(Tax Included)
DANCE
LEGION PARK
. SUNDAY, DEC. 27
MUSIC BY
Rhine Winkler’s Orch.
Adm.: Gents 75c; Ladies 25c
(Tax Included)
Annual Christmas
DANCE
HALLETTSVILLE
RECREATION HALL
FRIDAY, DEC. 25
MUSIC BY
Rhine Winkler’s Orch.
—REAL MODERN MUSIC—
Adm.: $2.50 Per Couple or Stag
DANCING FROM 9 TIL 1
For Table Reservation—
Call Hallettsville 353 or 67
Make Your Reservations Early!
Hospital Patients
Listed this week are: Mrs.
Daniel Miculka, Baby Donald
Riske, Mrs/Otto Fisseler, Gil-
bert Fox, Mrs. Robert
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Chova-
netz will be brief visitors in
Houston during the Yuletide.
Mrs. Nannie Scott and fam-
Schreiber of Lake Charles, La., ily are spending Christmas with
Congratulations
• A2/c and Mrs. Marvin
___ announce the birth of a baby
Apts, 1 girl, their first born, on Dec.
CHRISTMAS DANCE
TURNER HALL
HOCHHEIM PRAIRIE
SATURDAY, DEC. 26
MUSIC BY
Rhine Winkler’s Orch.
Adm.: Gents $1.00; Ladies 50c
(tax included)
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fOR CHRISMS
Our wish
That your
be ever so
to you —
Christmas
joyful!
Schneider Furniture Store I
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Schneider g
The Lavaca County
A. & M. Club
PRESENTS
The Annual
CHRISTMAS DANCE
SATURDAY, DEC. 26
HALLETTSVILLE
RECREATION HALL
MUSIC BY
CLAUDE HARRIS
& HIS ORCH
ADM.: $1.20 PER PERSON
(Tax Included)
For Reservations Call—
Hallettsville 67 or 353W
SEMI-FORMAL
Mrs. Arnold Stanek and baby
girl, Otto A. Brieger, Valentine
Chilek, Mrs. Augusta Stindt, J.
J. Sedlmeyer, Shiner; Peter
Fajkus, Flatonia; Mrs. Willie
Hoepfl Jr. and baby girl, Joe
Wagner, Hallettsville; Mrs. Eu-
gene Jirkovsky, Yoakum.
Dismissed patients are: Mrs.
Mary Pollock, Mrs. Albert A.
Kalisek and baby girl, Mrs.
Tom E. Valenta and baby girl,
Herbert R. Discher, Leroy
Schoenwitz, Mrs. Frank Michna,
Betty Mican, Mrs. Julian M.
Moreno and baby boy, Mrs. B.
J. Machart and baby girl, Mrs.
Milton Riske and baby, Ron-
ald, Dorothy Kristynik, Mrs.
Isidore Wagner, Mrs. Louis E.
Herman.
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Mrs. Ruth Riske is visiting in
Bryan for Christmas.
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LAUNDRY SERVICE
Will pickup and deliver
laundry in Shiner daily at Balu-
sek Service Station. Will give
one-day service on shirt bun-
dles. (51-nc)
CHAPMAN’S
STEAM LAUNDRY
HALLETTSVILLE, TEX.
SEMI - FORMAL
DANCE
LEGION PARK
Wednesday, Dec. 30
MUSIC EY
BLUME’S ORCH.
OF LA GRANGE
Adm.: $1.50 Per Couple or Stag
Sponsored by
Shiner Sodality
Annual Christmas
DANCE
V.F.W. HALL
Moulton, T exas
SATURDAY, DEC. 26
MUSIC BY
Walter & Joe’s Orch.
Adm.: Gents 75c; Ladies 25c
(Tax Included)
FREE TABLES —
HALL WILL BE HEATED
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Reason’s
WENDEL’S
Gudiutji
JEWELRY
II CHRISTMAS
I GREETINGS!
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Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Wendel
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^ Best Wishes For A Holy And
& Happy Christmas To Everyone!
g? May we all be privileged to Worship together
^ in Peace and Goodwill as we celebrate the®
jjfc Birthday of Christ our Saviour and King.g^
f Sincerely, M
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Niemeyer ®
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best wishes
for the Holidays
SULPHUR PARK
H. R. Seidenberger—Rt. 3S Shiner, Texas
Christmas hells ring and angels
sing — The joyous song of our sincere
wishes
resounding chorus
that echoes "Good Health ... Good Cheer
and Much Happiness at Yuletid$."
NEW LIFE for OLD FLOORS!
Wood Floors—inside or out—Concrete
Floors and Worn Linoleum will look new
and wear years longer
when you apply this fine
finish. 8 beautiful colors
—plus Black and White!
ONLY
$2.25
PER QT.
<f MRAZ LUMBER CO.
PORCH, FLOOR &
DECK ENAMEL
SHINER, TEXAS
f ^JM^ayYou Have a
Merry Merry
’ And A Prosperous
New Year!
Fiedler’s Garage
Jackson Farm Machinery Co.
YOAKUM — HALLETTSVILLE
16. Little Mary Louise weigh-
ed 7 pounds and 5 ounces.
Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Joe H. Kouba and Mr. and Mrs.
Willie Schreiber for the first
time.
@ Mr. and Mrs. Harold
Koenning of Portland announce
the birth of a baby girl, born
December 11 at Sinton Hospi-
tal. She weighed 7 pounds and
3 ounces and received the name
Joy Lynn. Merle Ann is giving
her sister a hearty welcome.
© Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Sta-
nek are the proud parents of a
baby girl, born at the local hos- , v ,
pital December 19. The little!
Miss weighed seven pounds and
received the name Ellen Jane.
The mother is the former Miss
Ruby Cook.
® Mr. and Mrs. Willie Hoepfl
Jr. of Moulton announce the
birth of a baby girl, born Dec.
19 at the local hospital. She
weighed seven pounds and four
ounces and was named Mar-
guerite Caroline.
@ Mr. and Mrs. Albert A.
Kalisek of Moulton are the par-
ents of a baby girl, born at the
local hospital December 20. She
tipped the scale of 7 pounds,
4 ounces.
© Mr. and Mrs. Tom E. Val-
enta are welcoming a baby girl,
born December 18 at the local
hospital. She weighed 9 pounds
and 8 ounces.
9 Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Jir-
kovsky of Yoakum announce
the birth of a baby girl, born at
the local hospital December 23.
She weighed seven pounds, ten
ounces and was named" Sheryl
Elaine. This is their first child
and the mother is the former
Miss Lois Jean Reinhard of
Yoakum.
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Mrs.. Nellie Richter and her
house guest, Mrs. B. F. Walker
of Houston, are spending
Christmas with Mrs. Richter’s
son, T. H. Richter Sr. and wife
in Corpus Christi. Mr. and Mrs.
Richter came in Wednesday to
accompany them to Corpus.
Mrs. Walker plans a visit to
Pearsall before returning home.
Irene Claire Buske attended
a musicale in the home of Mrs.
Lee Fawcett in Yoakum. She
played two numbers, Petrouch-
ka, a Russian dance by Stra-
linsky and Romanze by Beeth-
oven.
Mr. and Mrs. Max Seiden-
berger are in Komensky and
Runge for Christmas.
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“WATCHING IN” CHRISTMAS
Flora Kirkland
Have you heard the sweet old
legend
Of the cattle in the field?
How they bow their knees in
worship
And their praise to heaven
yield,
At the solemn midnight season
Just befor$ the Christmas
dawn?
Bending low in adoration
At the hour when Christ was
born?
Do you know the Southern cus-
tom
Built upon this legend sweet?
Held in all the old plantations
When the light and darkness
meet,
How they watched the dawn-
ing Christmas;
“Watched it in” with prayer and
praise,
“Watched it in” with consecra-
tion;—
Blessed Day-spring! Day of
days!
While we know ’tis but a leg-
end,
That the cattle kneel and pray;
Has it not a tender lesson
For each Christian heart today?
Calling out a rev’rent mem’ry
Of that first glad Christmas-
tide;
When the Christ in sweet com-j
passion,
Laid His robes of light aside,
Chose a manger for His cradle,
Pillowed low His Kingly head,
On the yellow hay at midnight
In a Bethl’em cattle-shed.
What a wondrous sight was
granted
To the cattle standing by
With His angels singing o’er
them
And His starlight in the sky!
As this latest Christmas season
Comes to greet the world once
mobe;
As the joyous Christmas carol
Tells the story o’er and o’er,
Let the sweet old Southern
legend
Whisper to our hearts today,
Let the “Watching In” of
Christmas,
Move us now to watch and
pray.
Beaumont relatives.
Cadets John Degenhardt,
Willie Kutac and Oran Carl
Remmers, students of A. & M.
College, are enjoying Christmas
with their respective house-
holds.
Messrs, and Mmes. Edgar
Huber, Willie B. Hoerig, Alex
Kruse and son, Shiner; Walter
W. Huber and family of Yoa-
kum, attended the Schulz-Hu-
ber wedding in Houston Satur-
day.
Miss Marjorie Brod, Kenneth
Otto, Henry Neuman and Ed-
win Novak have arrived from
State University to spend the
season.
Mrs. A. F. Brosch is spending
Christmas with Dr. and Mrs.
E. A. Brosch in Wichita Falls.
Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Wolterj
are spending Christmas witl
their children and grandchild
dren in Houston.
Mrs. Sophia Fiedler, Mr. and
Mrs. George Fiedler attended
the funeral of Mrs. Anna Jan-
zen at High Hill Tuesday. Mrs
Janzen was an aunt to Mr.
Fiedler.
M./Sgt. and Mrs. Leroy J
Beal of Fort Campbell, Ky.
came in Sunday to spend the
holidays in the* Paul Stock an
John Beal homes.
Mrs. Emil Hajek was accom-
panied Sunday on a pre-Christ-
mas visit in the home of her
brother, W. J. Ermis, by her
sons, Emil Jr. and Gene and
Ltheir families.
A Legend Of The Christ Child
It was dark and cold in the cottage,
For the fire was burning low
And the one rush light was hoarded.
The hand of the midnight snow
Beat, beat at the narrow casement
Like the clods on coffin thrown,
And a mother, widowed, and young, and fari,
Sat holding her child, alone.
When hark! a knock at the doorway—
Unbidden a guest came in;
A trav’ler, aged, and bent, and frail,
And cloak wrapped to his chin.
“Good Hausfrau, lost on the mountain
A wandering one am I,
Oh, give me a place and a fire and a sup
Or else in the storm I die.
She paused—one hoarded rush light,
A meagre handful of food,
And to keep her child from the bitter cold
A bundle of kindling wood!
Could she give of her store? Oh, hush! oh, hark!
From the steeples far below
The wind was bringing the Christmas chimes
Through beat of the falling snow.
And she said: “For the sake of the Christ-child
' I give you all my store;
For the Christ-child goes on Christmas Eve
With blessings from door to door.
Perchance there are some who need Him more
With whom He is called to stay;
He has missed my door this Christmas Eve—
’Tis far up this mountain way.
And he astray in the snow fall
May be seeking a place to rest;
For He is only a Kindchen,
Like the weanling at my breast.”
She rose and went to the cupboard
And ’twas stored with wholesome food!
Amazed, she sought for a fagot—
And the basket was heaped with wood!
She turned to the ragged stranger,
And lo! in his humble stead
Stood one in a shining whiteness,
With a halo ’round his head—
The snow beat at the casement
Could not drown the steeple din—
When she opened her heart to the beggar
The Christ-child had entered in!
—Mary Huntington
THE CHRISTMAS STAR
It was a sad, December night,
Within my little room,
Around my candle’s dwindling light,
All thicker seemed the gloom.
My heart was lonely for a word,
A smile, a cordial hand—
Love’s tokens, all unseen, unheard;
Strange, in a stranger’s land.
Through the cold glinting pane, my glance
Fell on the window-stone,
Where a white, night-driven dove, by chance—
Fluttering and lost—had flown.
I raised the sash and took her in
Out of the homeless night;
The frosty air was on her wing,
And her poor heart, beat with fright.
I soothed her fears with gentle tone,
And, so her heart might live,
I warmed her breast against my own—
’Twas all I had to give.
Closely she nestled in my arms,
And drooped her head and slept,
Sheltered from all those wild alarms,
While I the vigil kept.
Night sped; I watched; and lo! a star
Gleamed distantly in view.
Its first radiance, seen afar,
Grew strong—and stronger grew.
And as I saw its kindling flame
Burn lighter and increase,
Deep in my gloomy spirit, came
A wondrous light of peace.
I know not if another eye
Beheld that blessed sign;
I know, it glistened in my sky,
With a new ray benign.
I know, it was the Star divine
That rose on Galilee,
Sent, through these thousand years to shine
And bring its hope to me.
It swiftly widended through the sky;
It glorified the night,
Until the splendor, blazing high,
Burst into morning light.
It filled my room; the illumined tide
Transforming everything.
My house shone in resplendent pride,
The palace of a king.
-Wolstan Dixey.
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Lane, Ella E. The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1953, newspaper, December 24, 1953; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1163669/m1/8/?q=denton+history: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Shiner Public Library.