The La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 9, 1964 Page: 2 of 16
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of books Shipped in from New
Orleans. The first of these two
explanations is possible (at least
as a contributing cause), but the
second is largely improbable. As
we know today, the basic ingre-
dient in continuing the spread of
Yellow Fever is not the presence
of Yellow Fever victims, but
their presence along with the
Aedes Aegypti mosquito . . .
and, of course, the stagnant pools
of water in which these insects
could breed.
When it is remembered that
the population of La Grange at
this time could not have been
much in excess of 1,000, then
the total death figure of 204
can be better appreciated in its
full tragedy -- one-fifth (or 20%)
of the total number of people
living in La Grange were to die
before the epidemic had run its
course. More than this could
have died, of course, their deaths
going unreported in the chaos
of the epidemic.
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1867 --- PART I
Until the completion of the pre-
sent series of dams, the most
“natural” natural disaster in the
La Grange area of Fayette
County, was the annual flooding
of the Colorado river. Year
after year, the rains and ris-
ing waters pushed the people
from their homes, and then wash-
ed many of the houses they hac
fled downstream. Some of the
floods, of course, were worse
than others — in July of 1869,
for instance, there occured that
•‘remarkable overflow which sc
belighted the prospects of the
town” as to virtually check any
further progress for sever*
years. Similar “remarkable”
overflows have occured in this
present centry some with-
in the memory of many local r-
sidents.
Of all the natural disasters
which have struck at La Grange
over the decades however, none
was more "disasterious” than
the outbreak of Yellow Fever in
1867. Almost unknown in pre-
rough, wooden boxes ....
(Lotto)
The Prst verified death from
Yellow Fever (that of a M. C.
Sayers) occured on August 27th.
From that day until the 26th
of October, the dreaded “Yel-
low Jack” would sweep back
and forth across the little com-
munity until it had finally clai-
med the lives of “112 of foreign
birth, 70 Amiericans, and 21
As in all epidemic areas, the
demoralization of the local pop-
ulation soon became evident from
th appearance of the town.
“Some families were entirely
destroyed; persons who could
fled from town and lived in
tents in the country . . .The town
looked like a grand funeral pl-
ace; the empty houses stood as
grand monuments of wrecked
business and fortunes. The town
was not cleaned of weeds, they
emitted a fearful stench; infected
bed cloths were scattered over
town. Funerals were not conduc-
ted any more with decency, the And after that, the ability to
supply of coffins in the town had dream.”—Landon Wills, CaL
given out, and corpses were houn (Ky.) McClean County
placed for burial in hastily made. News.
5:58 Sign on
6:00 News
6:05 Farm Show
6:30 Farmers Swap Shop
6:55 News
7:00 Bill Kruger Wake Up
Show
7:30 Overnight News Summary I
World, Local, State, Weather
Sports. Feature Story
8:00 Roy Edwards Show
8:30 Community Bulletin Board
8:35 Roy Edwards Show
8:50 Local News and Hospital I
Registers
9:00 Roy Edwards Show
9:28 News Headlines
9:30 Roy Edwards Show
Sat-Heres to Vets
10:00 News i
10:05 Roy Edwards Show
10:28 Headline News
10:30 Community Bulletin Board I
10:35 Salute to Smithville ;
Tues & Thurs-Bill Krueger I
Show I
10:45 Sat-Country Music Time I
11 ;00 News
11:05 Bill Kruger Show
11:30 Mon.-Pat Boone Show |
Tues.-Tuest Star I
Wed.-Lawrence Welk Show
Thurs.-County Agent ’
Fri-HD Program ■
Sat.-SC D Program
j 11:45 Sheriff’s Report
Sat. -Smokey the Bear
11:50 Tradin’ Post
12:00 Noon News Round-up
12:^0 Mon-Fri Lone Star Brass
I Band |
Sat.-FB Round up j
I 12:45 Sing-a Long With Mitch
Sat.-Washington Reports
I l;00 Polka Party
| Wed.-SS Program til 1:05
I Fri.-Herb Kloesel f
I 1:30 Community Bulletin Board I
I 1:35 Polka Party
r 5:00 News
I 2:05 Town &. Country Time j
I 3:00 News
I Fri. La Grange Livestock |
I Auction I
I 3:05 Grand ole Opry i
Sat. Darrel Dippel Show ic-
and Concert in Khaki <
4:00 News j
4:05 Roy Edwards Show *
4:30 Fri-Space Story
5:00 Evening News Round-Up I
5;15 Music for Easy Listening
5:25 Weather Watcher ;
5:30 Mon-An ounce of preven- I
tion i
Tues.-Clearing in the Wil-
derness
Wed.-Bible Tells Me So
Thurs., Minds of Men until |
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Fri.-Tex. Business Revue I
5:45 Music for Easy Listening
5:55 Sports News |
6:00 Sign Off
SUNDAY
8:00 Pilgrim Travelers Go«pe«
Singers
8:30 Herald of Truth
9:00 Rev. Burns Program
a: 15 Bob Wilson
10:00 News In Brief
10:06 Ann* Haar
1000 Hymn Time
HsKi Church Services
12:00 Sunday Serenade
112:15 Local News
112>30 Clark W. Thompson Re-
j pon
112145 Music for Easy Listen-
1130 Lariheran Vespers
I 200 Henry Broach Orch.
I 200 Lee Use Orchestra
| tiK Symphony Hkxu
I 400 Sen Off
KVLG Program Log
1570 on Your Dial
La Grange
through SAWWUT
The La Grange Young Home-
makers met on July 2 in the
La Grange State Bank Pioneer
Room.
Their program for the night
was on cosmetics and two lad- |
ies, Mrs. Rohan and mrs. Pietsch
from La Grange Drug were in
charge of the program. They
show how to put make-up on
and discussed many things on and
about make-up.
After the program, the ladies
all enjoyed refreshments served
by Mrs. Gooley and Mrs. Brandt.
Ms. Reuben Maas won the
door prize.
The meeting that followed was
presided over by Mrs. Warren
Albrecht. Several cmmittee
reporters were heard. A fair
booth was discussed for the com-
ing fair but no definite plans
were made. The members also
approved several amendments to
the Chapter Constitution.
The next month’s program will
be on fashions and everyone is
invited to attend.
The following is the first of
four articles about and contem-
porary with the Yellow Fever
epidemic of 1867.
tides were
Reverend John A. Logan Jr.
The first article fol-
said he got several “bites" but
not fish-Kiddingly, I told him I
couldn’t eat the “bites .
We’ll be writing again in a
couple of days to let you know
the road condition, etc.
Today I expect to visit Mr. Jos.
Muas from La Grange who is
now in the Hospital in Denver.
Colo. He is the father of Daniel
Mur as who works with me at
Janssen Bros., Inc. of La Grange.
Say, this climate up here is
wonderful ---just like air con
ditioning.
Dear Ladies:
I am of the 3rd generation of
the Johann Diedrich Wacker and
the Fredrich Girndt families who
settled in Fayette County in the
1850’s. .
My forebears are buried in the
“Ross Prairie” cemetery.
So are many of the old settlers
of Fayette County.
I have at intervals visited the
graves of my people in the Ross
Prairie Cemetery. Just two
weeks ago, myself and a number
of my Columbus kinfolk paid our
respects to our relatives, there
and we cleaned the graves of our
people of weeds and overgrowth.
The purpose of this letter to
The Journal is to ask the des-
cendants of the people who are
buried in the “Ross Prairie
cemetery to take care of the
graves of their people. I had
hoped that The Texas Legislature
wotild provide care for abandoned
emeteries in Texas. So far
there is no assurance that this
provision by the State will be
made.
Qtyr £a (fcrangr dhntntal
“THE NEWSPAPER WITH A PURPOSE — SINCE 1880
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at 127 W. Travis St., La Grange, Texas
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Press Association.
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The La orange journal- Thurs. July 9, 1964
EDITORIAL PAG?
ARE WE PROUD TO
BE AMER KANS?
We aLL claim we are PROUD to be AMERICANS.
Bur we turn around and
FAIL to take an active interest in the running of our government
by not even voting ....
FAIL to take advantage of the freedom of religion by not go ng
to church .... .
FAIL to use our right of free speech by not voicing our opinions
on important issues
FAIL to appropriately honor those who have died throughout tne
years protecting our claim to freedom ....
FAIL to teach our children that pride in our flag and country is
of vital improtance .
FAIL to abide by God’s law of conduct and almost completely ignore
the many laws of man ....
FAIL to maintain a family unit which is so vital to any way of
lifFAIL to participate in many of the projects which make oui
children grow into better men and women ....
FAIL to fully support our schools so that our future generations
can be better educated ....
FAIL to be tolerant of the othr fellow’s beliefs, religion, race
or color .... . .
FAIL to assume the responsibility of leadership in our churches,
communities, state and nation . . .
FAIL to honor our ancestors
great nation it is ... -
FAIL utterly to follow through on our own claims that ....
We are PROUD to be AMERICANS^
Columbian times, Yellow Fever
was to become, for more than
200 years, one of the great
plagues of the world. The last
great outbreak of epidemic pro-
portions in this country was ir
New Orleans in 1905, but prioi
to that time it had terrorizec
almost every part of the Unit-
ed States . . . .though it struck
most regularly at sea ports and
adjacent areas. Not until 190C
would Major Walter Reed and his
associates conduct the experi-
ments which wouud lead to the
gradual extermination of the di-
sease however. In the sixth de-
cade of the 19th Centry therefore,
Yellow Fever was still one of
the most feared diseases of man.
Because it was so feared, and
because so little was known ab-
out it or its treatment, it was
always treated with a kind ot
suspicious reverence that bord-
ered on out-right hysteria.
No one knows exactly how the
Yellow Fever virus was actually
brought to La Grange (though
some local citizens at the time,
would later indicate that they
had a pretty good idea as to
how it had been transmitted).
Lotto (Fayette County, Her His-
tory and Her People, 1902) re-
cords two different attempts tc
explain how the disease was
first carried into the community
--(1) that it had been brought in
by a peddler, or (2) that the
germs had been present in a box
OUR LITTIR1 . fO-THl •2DITDI
COLUMN
The following is a letter from
I. C. Hardcastle of Rutersville,
who with his son Erich, is mak-
ing a trip to Kodiac Colony. Al-
aska. Mr. Hardcastle writes fills
.letter from John Martin Reser-
voir, near Lamar, Colorado.
Dear Home Folks--
Thought you might be interest-
in in “operation” Nort to Alas-
ka. First night was spent near
Bowie about 254 miles from La
Grange. We didn’t get away from
La Til 6:30 p.m. July 1. My
son, Erich, thought we should
start out in good shape so nat-
urally, a 14 year old boy wants
supper at Cottonwood Inn before
we left. We drove till midnight.
No trouble first or second day
except that we have noticed our
two rear mud grip tires have been
cracking near the lugs -- I guess
we have too much weight on them.
Second day we drove 526 miles.
Our gasoline is averaging 11.5
1 miles per gallon which isn’t too
bad considering our heavy cam-
per on the back of this 1/2 ton
pickup. Also, when we went
thru Olka, yesterday we experi-
enced winds of 40 to 50 miles
blowing dust and a little rain.
That side draft on the Camper
: sure kept me tending tomydriv-
I ing.
My son has just come in from
fishing on John Martin Dam and
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