New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1957 Page: 1 of 8
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NEW ULM.
TEXAS,
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19th, 1967
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Receives $25 00 Savings Bond
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Thos. Batla Dies In
Bellville. Dec. 9th
Fire At Shelby Destroys
Com and Building
Austin County Road
Work Contract Let
Enterprise Christmas
Edition to be mailed out
Monday, Dec. 23.
Industry Methodist
Christmas Program
Auto and Pickup
Collide, Six Injured;
Three Seriously
Santa To Arrive At
Fayetteville, Saturday
| Schweke-Mikulenka
Nuptials Read Saturday
“Hone power was much safer
when only the horses had it.*’
A small WANT AD will sell
the largest of articles — Try one
next time I
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Heuschkel Lodge
New Ulm And Koerner Ixidge
were
tredit-
Miss Faye Jeanette Schweke,
daughter of Mr. and'Mrs. Lester
Schweke of New Vim, and Lester
Mr. Thomas IL Batla, 74„
Bleihlerville died in Bellville
Monday. Dec. 9, 1957,
lengthy illness.
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VOLUME 48 — NUMBER 12
Burial Serv:ces Held
Friday, December 13
For W. C. Fischer
by Miss Frieda Vogelsang
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TWO WOMEN ARRESTED—
SHOPLIFTERS’
UNLUCKY DAY
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Miss Emma F. Dietreich
Burial Rites Saturday
Christmas Celebrations I
Observed Dec. 14 By
Hermann Sons Lodges
of
on
after a
of
State Highway
The Patalik’s daughter was ta-
ken to the Crippled Children's
hospital in Houston, and their
son Gene was treated and releas-
ed Sunday to his • grandparents,
who came from Schulenburg to
pick him up.
Ralph Watson, head of the Hal
liburton Oil Well Cementing Co.,
located in Columbus, came upon
the accident shortly after it
happened, and he radioed in for
ambulances and help to Columbus.
The two vehicles hit head-on,
and were almost a total loss.
Santa To Arrive At
uS h.hS u XsiS Frelsbur9' Sunday
| A special feature was the visit
i by Sister Elizabeth Flach, a mem
her of the Grand Lodge, being
one of three on the committee for
the Home of the Aged ami Sister
Goforth, Youth Director for the
Grand Lodge. They showed a
1 film in sound technicolor, cover-
> Home
period only a week away the Tex- I the liquor.
J Articles found in the ear in-
cluded an adding machine, stat-
ionery, a portable radio, two elec
trie percolators, 22 cartons of
cigarettes, six bags of canned.
goods and other grocery i‘
one fishing reel, three eartons of
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perfumes and colognes, pneumonia was taken to the C<Z
the liquor from a Brenham drug
store brought the women’s down-
fall.
A hunt for the missing liquor
model
loaded
Pictured is the Hermann Sons Rest Home at Comfort, Texas
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A contract for 1.533 miles
construction on
159 in Austin county has been a-
warded to a Madisonville firm, it
was announced in Austin this
week by the State Highway Com-
mission.
O. W. Howard and J. C. Mc-
Laughlin submitted the low bid
of $177,777.63 on the project.
Construction of bridge widening,
grading, base and surfacing, lo-
cated from 2.0 miles east of Bell-
ville to the Brazos River, is ex-
pected to take 120 working days,
according to W. E. Carmichael,
District Highway Engineer at
Houston.
J. S. Griffith, Resident Engin-
eer at Bellville will be in active
charge of the project while it is
under construction.
Mr. Henry Bolin was taken to
the Bellville hospital. Monday af-
ter suffering a heart attack at
his home.
ton; eight grandchildren and one
great-grandchild.
One son, Johnnie, his parents,
five brothers and two sisters pre-
ceded him in death.
Final rites were held Wednes-
day, Dec. 11, at the C. M. B.
I church in Wesley at 2:30 p.m.
with Rev. H. E. Reseda, Sr. of
Caldwell and Rev. Jos. A. Barton
of Nelsonville officiating. Burial
was in lhe church cemetery at
W esley.
Pallhear-*rs were
as Christmas gifts to members of
their families.
But none of the i
was wrapped, although brand
new. and officers suspected the
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Mr. Batla was born in Bernar-
do, Colorado County, April 23,
1883, son of the late Mr. and Mrs.
Steve Batla. He was baptized by
Rev. Anthony Motycka on Dec.
12. 1893 in Acker, Bell county.
On Feb. 11, 1906 he was mar-
ried to Miss Caroli.le Louise Bed-
rich in Nelsonville by Rev. An-
thony Motycka. Mr. Batla was
engaged in farming the greater
part of his life.
He was affiliated with the
Czech-Moravian Brethren church
of Wesley; a member of the 8. P,
J. S. T. for 54 years, and also a
member of the Lodge No. 24 Cy-
clone Bell Co., Texas.
Among the survivors are his
wife, Mrs. Caroline Batla of
Bleihlerville; four daughters,
Theo. Loesch of Industry,
J. V. Hegar of Houston,
E. S. Bones of Austin and
Don McLuchcon of Ogden.
Utah; two sons, Edwin Thomas
B'itl.i of Bartlett and Raymond
.1. Batla of Austin; one sister,
Mrs. Joe W. Marek of Burling-
— Photo by Gross Photo Service—Bellville
Erick Glewinkel, President of the Austin County Farm
Bureau is shown awarding a $26.00 Savings Bond, as First
Prize, to Mr. M. H. Dierking of Bleihlerville, for his efforts in
the recent Austin County F-B Membership Drive. Mr. Glen-
* winkel is also from Bleihlerville.
TEXAS STATE HIGHWAY
PATROLMEN TO BEGIN—
Operation Deathwatch
The pupils of Sts. Peter A Paul
merebanAiue Parochial school, Frelsburg, will
... present their annual Christmas
s program on Sunday, at 7:00 p.m.
Santa Claus will make hs appear-
ance, and fruit and candy will be
distributed to the children.
An invitation is extended
all to attend.
turned up in their late
automobile which was
Covered dish suppers
I served, followed by the
Sirpuii, .L/iuuiv Siptak, Louis Christmas bags of candy and ional !
Batla. Joe Glacser and Raymond fruit will be distributed. The pub .celebration.
Batla. I lie is cordially invited to attend. 1
special welcomed guests at each
Santa Claus — songs and of thp n>0 , irtips
they had visited J. W. Barnhill’s
drug store. Barnhill said they
came into the store and asked
for a walking doll. He left to go
upstairs in search for one, leav-
ing Mrs. Barnhill alone in the
store with the women. The wo-
men looked around the store
where much Christmas merchan-
dise is displayed. Mrs. Barnhill
said she saw one of the women
raise her skirt, which aroused
her suspicions, but she did not
see her take anything.
When Barnhill returned, he
Hermann Sons Home At Comfort, Texas
On Sunday evening, Dec. 22nd
i beginning at 7 o’clock, “The
| Quest For Christmas.’’ will be
presented by the children, youth i
and aiiult divisions of the Indus-
try Methodist church. The church
choir, under the direction of Mrs.
Melvin Spiess with Miss Esther
Santa Claus will be coming to
Fayetteville, Texas, this Satur-
day, Dec. 21, and will arrive at
3:00 p.m. on the square. He will
have bags for all the children
present that day.
The Fayetteville Rural High
School band will give a concert,
beginning at 2:00 p.m. Everyone
is invited to attend.
The building housing a corn
sheiler, a tractor and about 1000
bushels of corn was damaged by
fire last week. Friday. The
blaze was discovered about 3:00
p in., and had evidentally started
(from the exhaust sparks of the
tractor which was being used to
furnish the power for the sheiler.
The Industry Fire Department
r W8S eaNed, and they managed to
r ° i help save about 500 bushels of
scarves, five pillow case sets, to return home Sunday.
three small sets of silverware, His raany friends are wishing
two boxes of 30-30 shells and 'a-, for him a speedy recovery.
rious other small items. ■ ____________________
The women were arrested after yj BELLVILLE HORPTTAT.
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_ Arnold and’gram will be taken for The Me- Covered dish suppers wore Mr. i id Airs. Ben Andreas were
Erwin Marek, Jesse Batla, Otto thodist Orphan Home in Waco.
Stepan, Johnnv Siptak, Louis Christmas bags of candy i
Funeral services were conduct-
ed for Miss Emma Franciska
Dietreich at 2:00 p.m. on Satur-
day, Dec. 14, 1957 at the Zaskoda
Chapel in Industry', with the Rev.
Josef Barton of Nelsonville, of-
ficiating. Under direction of
Koenig Funeral Home, burial was
in the New Ulm cemetery.
Pallbearers were Chas. Slacik,
Alvin Krause, Bennie Krause, Ed-
die Pileik, Irving Kaase and Ed-
die Krause.
Born Aug. 11, 1883 near New
' Ulm, the deceased was a daugh-
ter of Fritz and Mary Bader
I Dietreich. Miss Dietreich, a kind-
I ly person, had never married.
For the past 40 years she made
her home with her sister and hus-
band, Mr. and Mrs Willie Hanka
of Rt. 1, New rim.
Much bad luck befell the family
in 1917 when four members of
the family died within two weeks.
Both of her parents died on the
same day. Miss Dietreich suffer-
ing from flu complications pas-
sed away at the family home* on
Wednesday, Dee. 11, 1957, after
having been ill just four weeks.
She had attained the age of 74
years, 4 months and 2 days.
Selma Kaase of New Wehdem
Survivors are two sisters, Mrs.
Selma Kaase of New Wehdem
and Mrs. Willie Hanka.
W. C. Fischer, a native of Colo-
rado Co, who was born Feb. 15,
1880, north part of Colorado coun
ty, passed away Dec. 11, 1957 af-
ter retiring for the night, at the
home of his daughter, Mrs. Cur-
tis Albrecht where he<and Mrs.
Fischer were visiting, near Robs-
town.
His
ry
A pickup truck occupied by
i Henry Lillie and his son Donnie,
of Alleyton, were in collision
with a Chevrolet passenger car
occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
Patalik, treir son Gene, 6, and
daughter, Karen, 2, near Alley-
ton, about 8:45 a.m. Saturday,
December 14th.
It was reported that the Lilie
truck traveling south on
Road crashed head-on with
The building, owned by San- Patalik car when Mr. Lilie had
I ford Schmid, was located across attempted to pass another car in
the road from the Shelby Store, the dense fog.
and thus the danger to nearby1
buildings was lessened.
two light-fingered women i
the fast driving husband of one
of the women.
The women were arrested in
Brenham, Friday night, Dec. 13,
for shoplifting and have confes-
sed taking more than $400 worth
of merchandise from stores in
seven central Texas towns.
The husband, being chased for
speeding, crashed into a drive-in
eating establishment in Harlin-
gen, Saturday night resulting in
injury to himself and two other
persons.
To be tried on shoplifting
charges in Brenham are Mrs.
Jewel Barker, 28 and Mrs. Nobie
Hammock, 38, both of Port Isa-
bel.
The charges of misdeameanor
theft were filed in the county
court of Judge Odis Tomachef-
sky by Brenham Chief of Police,
Arthur Sternenberg in connection
with the theft of two fifths of
whiskey.
Their untimely shoplifting of
Brenham drug
(Brenham-Banner Press)
The week-end of Friday the „ .
13th proved an unlucky one for I Mikulenka, non of Mr. and Mrs.
and ' Tom Mikulenka of Lubbock, were
— 1 united in marriage Saturday,
Dec. 14 at 3:30 p.m. with Dr. Nor-
man L. Roberts, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Colum-
bus, reading the sacred service.
Their only attendants were Miss
Waldine Meyer of Columbus and
Lawrence Mensik of Huntsville.
The bride was attired in a blue
suit, white hat, with black acces-
sories and a white carnation cor-
sage.
Miss Meyer wore a blue suit,
black accessories and a pink car-
nation corsage.
The wedding, a quiet ceremony
was attended by only close rela-
a few friends of the
the late Hen-
ry Dietrich and Emma Friedrich
Fischer, moved to Bell County in t
1880, seven miles west of Bart-'
lett, where they bought a farm. I
On Oct 29, 1901, Willie Fischer
was married to Miss Lena Aug-
usta Spiegelhauer, a daughter of
the late Ernests W. Spiegelhauer,
of near Holland. Texas. Native
of Austin County. The couple
farmed west of Bartlett for seven
years on his parents farm. Later
buying their own farm seven
miles east of Bartlett, where they
farmed for 17 years, buying anoth
er faun two miles south of Hol-
land, where they lived for 35
years..
They celebrated their golden
wedding anniversary on-Oct. 28,
1951.
After retiring from their farm
work, the couple bought a place
in Bartlett where they moved in
1956. They were the parents of
seven children, of whom two died.
A son, Arthur, who was a State
Highway Patrolman, stationed
at Brenham, was killed in a traf-
fic accident on his 25th birthday, ■
Jan. 18, 1932. A daughter, Miss*
Lillie, died June 30, 1957.
Services for Mr. Fischer were
held Friday, Dec. 14, 1957, at 2 8X1
pm. in the St. John’s Lutheran'
church with Pastor Probst offic- [
iating. Burial was in the church
cemetery.
Surviving relatives besides his
wife are two sons. Ernest of New 1
Orleans, La., Henry of CvrPu». h,
Christi; three daughters, Mrs. s ‘ Th”
F. aertarh or Holl,. m™. C«- '."XrJith
Ls Albrecht of Robstown, Mrs |iush(.ls of corn were 1()st in
Joe Svad enak of Weslaco; 8J(|)p flame8
grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. •
Mary Lange and Mrs. Herman
Wiege, Mrs. Edwin Schultz, all
of Bartlett, two brothers, Frank
who lives on the Old Fischar
farm, and Adolph of Belton; al-
so 'a large number of relatives
many living in Fayette, Austin,
and Colorado county including
the Vogelsangs of Brushy, where
the Fischer’s visited from time
to time.
Among those from Austin and
Colorado county attending the
funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Al-
bert Schultz, their daughter,
Miss Mildred and son Thpo., Mrs.
Ix*o Stern, Mr. and Mrs. A. D.
Voskamp, Sr., Dietrich Vogel-
sang and sister Miss Frieda.
tives and
couple.
The newlyweds are both 1957
graduates of Columbus high
school.
The bride was employed by
the A. 8. C. office in Columbus
up until her marriage, and the
groom is employed by the Bud
Ferguson Humble Service Station
in Lubbock.
They will be at home at 4217A
—34th St. in Lubbock.
Mr. Lillie, a driller for Mere-
dith Drilling Co., working in
Beaumont suffered broken jaws,
breaks in his right arm, a broken
collar bone, chest and other in-
juries. His son Donnie, who was
enroute to see a specialist in Hous
ton for treatment of a back in-
jury received in a previous traf-
fic accident this year, suffered
painful bruises, but no broken
bones.
Mr. and Mrs. Patalik were on
the critical list in the Columbus
hospital, with Mr. Patalik suffer-
ing a fractured leg and facial
wounds.
saw the women leaving in their
car. He said Mrs. Barnhill voic-
ed her suspicion that the women
had shoplifted merchandise in
the store. He immediately dis-
covered a fifth of whiskey had
been taken off the soda fountain
bar.
He called police, gave them a
description of the women and
the car and then set out on a tour
of the town in an effort to find
them. He came back to the bus-
iness section to find police watch
ing a car which he recognized as
that of the shoplifters.
The women were in Citizens
Drug Store looking at perfume,
and when they saw Barnhill out-
side, they left and walked west
on Main street. W hile thev were
gone Barnhill looked in the car
and discovered not one but two
fifths of whiskey which he iden-
tified as coniine- from his store.
The back seat of the car was
loaded with other merchandise.
C ity and county officers then
arrested the women who claimed
they had bought the merchandise
as < hristmas presents but could
give no sales slips.
After questioning by sheriff’s
• leputies and highway patrolmen
which lasted into the wrly morn-
ing hours, the two women finally
admitted stealing most of the
items found in their car. They
sa.d they took all of the articles
una*V from ,he lowing towns:
Hallettsvdle, Fayetteville, La
(.range, 5 oakum, Cuero, Schul-
enburg and Brenham.
. Deputies said the auto accident
i by Richard Hammock, 48. hus-
, band of the Hammock woman,
■ had nothing to do with the wo-
I men s shoplifting spree.
Wse
JOE BASTIAN RECOVERING
items, FROM PNEUMONIA
Dec. 21 nnd extends through film, three cooking pots and
» t '"’"roaster,
a 1
of women’s panties,
Mr. Joe Bastian suffering with
pair of men’s trousers. 32 pair iumbus hospital Wednesday night
--------one large Of thi8 past week
doll, three men’s hats, four head Greatly improved, he was able
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the Christmas holiday articles had %been shoplifted like
, as Dept, of Public Safety has
placed its enforcement functions
on the alert for traffic law viola-
tors.
Operation Deathwateh, the de-
partment’s count of all violent
deaths in Texas, opens at 12:01
a.m. r
11:59 pm. Jan. 1st. During this
period 113 persons are expected
to lose their lives in traffic acci-
dents. while 205 are predicted to
die from all violent causes.
Speed and drinking while driv-
ing were named as the leading :
factors in fatal traffic accidents
during holiday periods.
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New Ulm Enterprise (New Ulm, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 19, 1957, newspaper, December 19, 1957; New Ulm, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1228567/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nesbitt Memorial Library.