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Cemetery.
Burgess, head of the speech de-
Pallbearers were Jas. N. Thoma-
Weekend Weather
Expansion Discussed
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ary schools.
used to capacity. and a new band
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LITTLE LIX
Rites Held Sunday
For Miss Williams
Brenham Father
And Son Injured
In Houston Wreck
Adult Scout
Leaders To
Be Honered
Brenham Art Club
Demonstration Set
Raymond Schiller,
36, Of New Ulm
Commits Suicide
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Blinn Students
Attending Press
Meeting At A&M
Miss Clara Hamblen, Blinn Col-
lege librarian and sponsor of the
college annual, and Mrs. Paul D.
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PRO-NASSER
GROUPTAKES
OVER SUDAN
event of the confer-
inquet scheduled for
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dts
Funeral services for Miss Eloise
Williams, who died Friday, were
held at the Brenham Memorial
Chapel Sunday at 3 p.m. with Rev.
Walter Fox, pastor of * the First
Baptist Church of Brenham, offi-
COLDFRONT
ENDS ‘HEAT
WAVE’ HERE
Outstandi
ence is the
child, 5-year-old Philip Austin,
suffered leg injuries.
urbs and turning into a near bliz-
zard in the 4,000-foot Tejon Pass,
major highway route between Los
Angeles and the central valley
town of Bakersfield.
nd
be
chief when the nation won
pendence.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — Presi-
dent Eisenhower will leave
Thursday or Friday for Augusta,
Ga., and will remain through
Thanksgiving on a golfing vaca-
tion, the White House announ-
ced today.
students for four grades. Previous-
ly, the enrollment was 450 for
five grades.
“prudent" for some people to go
ahead and get flu shots as soon
as possible.
the near future.”
Members of the Brenham Inde-
pendent School District Board of
Brenham Weather
Cloudy with showers this after-
noon and tonight. Colder tonight.
Tuesday fair and continued cold.
Low tonight 43, high tomorrow 54.
Readings for 24-hours up to 7 a. m.
today: Max. 83, Min. 73, 7 a. m.
75, Rain .33, Sunset 5:35.
Voke, E. L. Vinson, Otto Acker,
and Quinnie Wilkening.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
State Department disclosed to-
day that Russian fighters at-
tacked a U. S. Air Force plane
over the Baltic Sea and
also made a treatening pass at
another plane over the Sea of Ja-
pan 10 days ago. -
November 17:
Max. 83
Mln. 73
7 a.m. 75
Main .23
No Indication Of
Flu Epidemics
At Fort Sill
Pvt. Roger Pomykal, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Pomykal of
Route 3, Brenham, is stationed
at Fort Still Artillery and Mis-
sile Base in Oklahoma where he
works as clerk-typist. He receiv-
ed his basic training and an
eight weeks a d m i n i s t r ation
course at Fort Chaffee. Ark. He
and his wife, Betty, live at 303
Arlington, Lawton. Okla
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BRENHAM, TEXAS, MONDAY, NOV. 17,1958
The talk was similar to others
held by the board recently—infor-
mal discussions on possible ways
of alleviating the crowded condi-
tions.
“We are conscious of the fact we
are overcrowded, but money is a
problem. Our finances are limited
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er.
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but
the
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vitality and
Industry,
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tive day for showers to fall
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November 15:
Max. 81
Min. 55
7 a.m. 57
Main .15
November 16:
Max. 80 .
Min. 57
7 a.m. 75
Rain 1.44
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tss
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Blinding sheets of rain fell in
parts of Fort Worth; some sec-
tions of the city got no rain.
A possible tornado damaged a
school and gymnasium, a cotton
gin and other small buildings at
Gunter, in Grayson county, be-
tween Dallas and Sherman.
Damage in the Wichita Falls
area was estimated at $15,000. At
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Season’s First Big -
Snowstorm
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General Deposes
Premier In 3 a.m.
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The Brenham High School and
Brenham Elementary School build-
ing are “full,” and an official of
the Brenham Independent School
STORM TRAPS
FOUR AIRMEN,
THREE SCOUTS
Blustery Norther
Hits City At
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lieving the crowded conditions is
the building of a new junior high
school, which likely would house
the seventh, eighith and ninth
grades,
“That would take care of the
situation for at least a few years,”
the school official reported.
While additional room for stu-
dents is a must in the near future,
more space for other phases of the
Blinn student publication, accom-
panied a group of students to Col-
lege Station Monday morning to
attend the Sixth Annual Texas Jun-
ior College Press Association Con-
ference.
Association members include 17
Junior colleges of Texas, and the
conference is sponsored by the
Texas A&M Chapter of Sigma Del-
ta Chi, national honorary journal-
istic fraternity.
Blinn students attending the con-
ference are Betty Dorsey, Kather-
ine Henderson, Joy Sander, Leona
Monday night, when the speaker of
the evening will be Ralph Lowen-
stein of Texas Western College, the
“Big Story” Award Winner.
Prominent newspapermen from
San Angelo, Dallas, Houston, Bry-
an, and other points appear on the
program, as well as professors of
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er, Bernice Buris and Ray Schlit-
kus.
The Brenham Art Club will have
a public lecture - demonstration
at the City Hall Tuesday at 7:30
p.m., according to Mrs. J. H. Haw-
ley, president of the Art Club.
Leslie Henson, art instr uctor
from LaGrange, will give the lec-
ture and demonstration and sev-
eral pictures will be on display.
hall was built there this past sum-
mer to eliminate some of the ov-
ercrowding. "
Although the seventh grade was
moved from the high school build-
ing to the new elementary school
upon its completion, almost 100
more students attend classes in
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Winds Cause
Hea vy Damage
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United Press International
Tornadoes and hurricane-strength windstorms roar-
ed through a huge sector of West, Central and North Cen-
tra; Texas today, damaging scores of homes, airplanes
and radio towers.
and it is always the policy of the
school board to try to work out the
most feasible plan toward correct-
ing the situation,” the spokesman
said.
That Brenham is growing is re-
flected in the number of students
SAN ANGUSTINE, Tex. (UPI)
— Five adults and five children
were killed and another person
critically injured early today when
a pickup truck swerved into the
path of a crowded old - model
sedan on a curve eight miles north
of this deep East Texas town.
All nine persons in the eight or
nine year old sedan were killed in
the head-on crash on U.S. High-
way 96. while the only survivor
of the accident was the p a s s e n-
ger in the pickup truck driven by
Charles Aaron McClelland, about
33.
NAVASOTA (Spl) — A T e x a s
A&M College English professor
was killed and six persons, includ-
ing three A&M students, were in-
jured in a two-car crash 15 miles
south of Navasota about 4:30 p.m.
Sunday.
Calvin Reed, 31, was killed in-
stantly in the collision as he was
returning to College Station after
visiting his family in Groves.
Injured in the car with him were
three Aggie students, Lamar Reed,
no relation to the dead man, and
Bruce Dement of Groves and Char-
les Graf of Vernon, who also had
been visiting relatives in Groves.
Injured in the second car were
Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Young of
Corsicana and Mrs. Ernest Brewer
of Snyder. Mrs. Brewer’s husband
escaped injury.
The injured were taken to the
Brazos Valley Hospital, but their
conditions were not reported as
serious.
Reed, a Baylor University grad-
uate who hed taught in the English
department at A&M for three
years, was pinned in the car after
the collision at the intersection of
State Highway 105 ahd Farm Road
1774.
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Damage was expected to total more than
dollars. It was estimated at half a million
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storms: 10 at Wichita Falls; five
at San Angelo; two at Fort Worth;
one at Odessa; one at McKinney
and one at Sherman.
North and west of the wind-
storms. in the Panhandle and
South Plains, snow covered the
ground and forecasters predicted
four inches by night.
At least two otner twisters were
reported around Lawton, Okla.,
across the border from North' Cen-
tral Texas.
Damage at Gainesville, hit at
3:50 a.m. by vicious winds, was
estimated as high as half a mil-
lion dollars. There was a report
of a small tornado in the down-
town, area of Gainesville.
It, or the vicious winds, dam
aged the Burley Motor Co. i n d
Enderby Butane Co., buildings in
Gainesville. Many plate glass
windows were destroyed. Many
carports and small outbuildings
were blown away.
Winds, up to 80 miles an hour
hit the northwest section of Fort
Worth. They damaged seven pri-
vate planes at Meacham Field and
tore the roof from a building.
Sheriff’s deputies at Fort Worth
said the wind threw a big utility
pole across the railroad tracks
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Rebel’s Birthday
Confederate veteran Walter Williams is present-
ed a huge cake and a puff on a figar, held by his
daughter, Mrs. Willie Mae Bowles, as he celebrated
his 116th birthday in Houston, Nov. 14. Williams, who
Elsewhere in today’s Banner-
Press is published a financial
statement of the Brenham Indus-
trial Foundation as prepared by
its treasurer, F. J. Kubitza,
president of the Washington
County State Bank. The state-
ment shows a total of some $65,-
000 has been raised in the form
of membership fees since organ-
ization of the foundation several
years ago. Most of the money
has been used in the purchase of
land for industrial sites and in
financing construction of the
Maddox Furniture Manufactur-
ing Co. building. To finance this
building, the Foundation put in
some $20,000 of its own money,
issued bonds totaling $60,000, and
borrowed an additional $30,000.
A total of $15,000 of the borrow-
ed money has been paid off.
When the bonds are retired at
the end of 15 years,.the Founda-
tion will have received back its
$40,000, and the building will be
transferred to the Maddox con-
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authority on influenza epidemics,'
“and so far there have been none
of the intense localized outbreaks
which usually signal the start of
an epidemic.”
Even without an epidemic,
there’ll doubtless be plenty of flu
cases between now and spring.
There are every winter.
So Dr. Leroy G. Burney, sur-
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Strain Kills Tracker
LONDON (UPI)—Henry Thomp- ciating. Burial was in the Prairie
son, 55, collapsed and die Sun LLea
___.___ _____ -___-_____day after carrying home adchild" P
partment and sponsor bf The Log, he had struck with his truck. The
and ripped up trees by their roots, snow and hail on Los Angeles sub-
One fell across busy University
Drive, delaying traffic.
A Brenham father and his elev-
en-year-old son were seriously in-
jured when the family automobile
crashed into the rear of another
car near Cypress-Fairbanks on
Highway 290 late Saturday after-
noon.
Confined to Jefferson Davis Hos-
pital in Houston are Henry Ben-
der, about 36, and Allan Ray Ben-
der.
The elder Bender is being treat-
ed for facial injuries and the son
for a head injury.
Riding with them was Mrs. Ben-
der and another son, Marcus, aged
three years.
Mrs. Bender and Marcus were
reported not seriously injured, but
suffered from shock as did the
father and elder son.
According to eye witnesses, all
four members of the family were
thrown from the car and Bender
was knocked unconscious.
Bender attempted to stop behind
a line of cars at a traffic light out-
side the city of Houston, and his
brakes apparently failed. The
Bender car hit the one in front of
a million
dollars , in
. District revealed Monday that
Key, Carol Hackemack, Dan Ku- "expansion will have to come in
, ] it, and that aut-hit another in
front of it.
No other persons than the Ben-
ders were reported injured.
Bender is a Brenham floor sand-
i ing contractor. Allan Ray is in the ,
1 5th grade at the Grace Lutheran
. J Church. /
1 ‘ The Benders were on their way
- to Houston to visit relatives when
A verdict of suicide by hanging
was returned in the death of Ray-
mond Schiller, 36, of New Ulm.
Justice of the Peace Emil Galle
of New Ulm said Schiller was
found dead hanging by a rope from
the limb of a tree on his family’s
farm about 5:30 a.m. Friday. He
was found by his mother, Mrs.
Paul Schiller, and his brother, Er-
vin Schiller.
Justice Galle said Schiller left a
note to his brother saying that
he didn’t think people liked him.
Schiller lived on the farm with
his mother and brother and work-
ed at various jobs including oil
field and electrical work.
Funeral services for Schiller
were held from the Pete Ettlinger
Funeral Home in Bellville Satur-
day at 2:30 p.m. and burial was
in the New Ulm Cemetery.
- One of the most talked-about pos-
in Brenham High and the element- sibilities by the school board of re-
Readings for 24-hours ending
at 7 a.m. on each date:
Pope John
Names 23
Cardinals
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By DANIEL F. GILMORE
United Press International
VATICAN CITY (UPI)—Pope John XXIII named 23
new cardinals today to raise the strength of the Sacred
College of Cardinals to an unprecedented.75.
The Potiff called a Vatican consistory for Dec. 15
when the new cardinals will be invested with their red
------------------—----- hats.
Two of the first kills reported
were those of Carson Wilke, 13,
who shot a four - point buck near
Kenney Sunday at 7 a. m. and
by J. H. Hawley, who felled an
eight - point buck near Carlos
Sunday about 6:45 a. m. F. C.
Schulte got a buck near Carlos
Sunday at 8 a.m. Royce Wittbec-
ker got a six point deer Sunday
at 5:45 p.m. on the Kansteiner
Ranch in Colorado County. G. H
Wilke of Long Point shot a buck
with four points that dressed out
at 79 pounds near Cat
Spring Sunday at 5 p.m. Other
kills reported by three Brenham
cold storage plants included deer
brought in by S. B. McCauley,
Waltr/Buro, Cecil Koon and
Butch Broecker Broecker felled
M eight - pointer while hunting
Mar' Cat Spring. Eugene Bode
got his season's limit of two
bucks on opening day at the Carl
Kingsbery Ranch near Hearne,
■TKingsbery killed one. Bode
hot a five - pointer at 7:30 a.m.
and a three - pointer at 5:30 p.
m. Kingsbery killed a four-point
buck soon after sunup.
Trusteees discussed the need for Built only four years ago, the
new buildings at their regular, elementary school is already being
meeting held last Friday night, used to capacity, and a new band
has been bedridden for the past year, and John Sailing,
112, of Slant, Va., are the only surviving rebel veterans
Navasota KiHs -___—_____
son, Elton Anderson, John De-
Wants Billions
Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor,
above, Army chief of staff, tells
a news conference in Washing-
ton that the Army needs a five-
year modernization program en-
tailing purchase of 15 billion
dollars’ worth of arms and
equipment. Washington sources
believe it may get half that
amount.
““gzteemnautay
The Citv oi
Reports circulated on an offi-
cial weather circuit that the wind
reached 105 miles an hour at Chil-
dress. Tex. But the Civil Aero-
nautics Authority reported that
was a mistake; the highest wind
recorded was 82 miles an hour
At least 20 persons were injured
in six Texas commonities in the
round .of tornadoes and wind
Hot weather Sunday apparent-
ly held down the number of
bucks killed by Brenham hunt-
ters on the first day of the sea-
son. So far only a dozen bucks
have been reported killed by the
local nimrods. Charles Wilson.
Brenham liquor control office re-
presentative who was one of the
unsuccessful hunters, said it was
too warm. "The deer were not
movingonaccountof the
heat. Hunting should be much
better later this week if It turns
cold," Wilson said. Many deer
are in the woods and the season
will be good with a break from
the weatherman, Wilson believ-
es.
United Press International
The season’s first severe snow-
storm swept across a broad front
from the Pacific to Minnesota to-
day trapping four downed airmen
and three lost boy scouts in
mountain wildernesses from
southern Arizona to northern
Utah.
Eight to 20 inches of snow were
reported in the Utah and Colo-
rado - Wyoming border areas
where horseback, snowshoe and
air rescuers sought two Air Force
officers missing since they bailed
out of a C119 transport with six
Ubers Friday. Also missing were
two civilians wibse disabled mili-
tary cargo plane was believed to
have crashed in the snowstorm
Sunday.
Temperatures dropped to 20 de-
grees in the Santa Rita Moun-
tains near Tucson, Ariz., where
three lightly clad boys, aged 12
to 14, became lost in a lashing
snowstorm Saturday.
The
SPECTATOR
• • •
DOZEN BUCKS KILLED
He named two new American
cardinals: Msgr. John O’Hara,
archbishop of Philadelphia, and
Msgr. Richard James Cushing,
archbishop of Boston.
Archbishop A m l e t o Giovanni
Cicognani, apostolic delegate to
the United States whose residence
is in Washington, D. C., also was
named a cardinal.
The new cardinals were named
shortly after the Pontiff named
Msgr. Domenico Tardini as Vati-
' can secretary of state. He had
been acting in that position for
some time. ,
Msgr. Giovanni Montini, the
irchbishop of Milan, was among
Italians elevated to the rank of
cardinal. Montini had won fame
for his work against the Commu-
nists in that industrial area of
Italy.
The 23 new cardinals raised
the strength of the Sacred Col-
lege to Its greatest strength in
history. The new ones include 13
Italians, 2 Americans, 2 French
and 1 each from Mexico, Uru-
guay, Britain, Spain, Austria and
Germany.
Elevation of two Americans to
become princes of the church
brings to four the number of
American cardinals. The other
two are Francis Cardinal Spell-
man, archbishop of New York,
and James Francis Cardinal Mc-
Intyre, archbishop of Los Angeles.
But the Pontiff this time did
not replace, the vacancies in De-
troit and Chicago caused by the
deaths in Rome thia year of Ed-
wald Cardinal Mooney and Sam-
uel Cardinal Stritch.
Archbishop O’Hara was born in
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Brenham Schools fFuU Up"
the high school building than
fore. geon general, thinks it would be
The current enrollment is 528 - -
Lon Garner, manager of Percy
Garner & Sons Funeral Home
here identified the occupants of
the sedan as Ralph Lee Reed,
about 26, his wife and baby
daughter; his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Johnnie Mae McCollister, about
32, and four McCollister children.
Another man, identified as
James Rayson, about 28, also was
in the sedan, but his relation to
the others was not immediately
known.
Garner said the survivor, Mau-
rice McClelland, about 38 or 39.
had been moved to Charity Hos-
pital in Shreveport. He suffered a
small fracture and other undeter-
mined injuries.
Garner said all of the victims
were Negroes, who lived at Cen-
ter, Texas, 28 miles north of San
Augustine. He said the McClel-
land’s truck was traveling north
toward Center at the time of the
crash. ;
The wreck was discovered by
passers - by about 1:15 a.m. and
it was estimated it had happened
about one-half hour earlier.
Brenham's “heat wave” of the
past two weeks was broken Mon-
day about 1 p.m. when a blustery
norther whipped into the city.
It is the first real cold front
to reach the area this fall, and the
forecast is for the temperature
to drop to a low of 43 degrees in
Brenham early Tuesday morning
and get no higher than 54 Tues-
day. >
Unseasonable high temperatures
were recorded in the city during
most of the month of Novem-
ber with the hottest being 84 de-
gre e s on November 9. The tem-
perature got up to 80 degrees or
above on nine of the last ten days,
including an 83 degree reading
Sunday.
Rainstorms accompanied
the norther adding to the total of
1.82 inches of rain recorded by Of-
ficial Weather Observer W. G.
Stein over the weekend. A total of
23 of an inch of that total fell
during the 24-hour period up to 7
a.m. Monday,
Monday was the fourth consecu-
WASHINGTON (UPI) - U.S.
Public Health Service officials
said today there is “no indica-
tion yet" of a recurrence of the
Asian flu epidemic that afflicted
an estimated 50 million Ameri-
cans last fall and winter.
“We have been watching close
ly,” said Dr. Carl C. Dauer, an
CAIRO (UPI) — The command-
er-in-chief of the Sudanese armed
forces was reported to have
sized power in the Sudan today
and to have pledged closer rela-
tions with President Gamal Ab-
del Nasser’s United Arab Repub-
lic. . 3
The semi-official Middle East
News Agency said Lt. Gen. Ibra-
him Abboud, the Sudanese com-
mander-in-chief, deposed Premier
Abdullah Khalil in a 3 a.m. coup
shortly before Khalil’s intended
departure for Cairo and talks
with Nasser.
Omduran Radio in the Sudan
broadcast a communique pro-
claiming the revolution aimed at
ending ‘anarchy and corruption
in all state organs . . . without ex-
ception,” the agency reported.
"We shall make every effort to
improve relations between the
sister UAR and the Sudan and
solve all outstanding questions be-
tween the two countries and elim-
inate artificially contrived tension
setween them,” Abboud was
quoted.
The agency said Abboud’s ini-
tial decrees dissolved all political
parties, banned demonstrations
and public gathering throughout
the nation and suspended all
newspapers.
Sudan is a young nation and
won its independence on Jan. 1,
1956. Until then it had been ruled
jointly by Britain and Egypt as
a condominium.
Once it won independence it be-
came torn between factions which
wanted full fledged independence
and a faction which wanted union
with Egypt and now the United
Arab Republica of Egypt and
Syria.
Abboud, the new ruler, is an
elderly military figure who head-
ed the Sudan defense forces in
the old colonial days and became
the army’s first commander in
The Annual Appreciation Dinner
of the David Crockett Boy Scout
District, h o n o ring den mothers,
scoutmasters, cubmasters, and ex-
plorer advisors, will be held at the
V. F. W. Home Thursday at 7:30
p.m. i
Dr. Ide P. Trotter, dean of Men
at Texas A&M College, will be
the principal speaker and Floyd W.
Kammerer of Somerville will be
the master of ceremonies. High-
lights of 1958 will be reviewed by
Rev. A. W. Hoick of the Eben-Ezer
Lutheran Church.
The invocation will be delivered
by Rev. L. R. Condrey of the
Hempstead Methodist Church and
the benediction by Rev. Walter
McPherson of the Brenham Meth-
odist Church. Sam Houston Area
Council Scout Executive Minor
Huffman will recognize the 1959
District Officers and 1958 District
Chairman Floyd Reed will present
awards.
Arrangements and program plan-
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the mishap occurred.
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Calendar of Events
__ _ /
November 17:
WBA meeting, 7:30 p.m. Sons of
Hermann Hall. Birthday party to
follow.
DAV meeting. American Legion /
Home, 7:30 p.m.
St. Paul’s Women’s Missionary
Society meets at church, 7:30 p.m.
November 18:
Meeting of. Sons of Hermann La-
dies' Lodge. Lodge Hall, 7:30 p. ,
m ,
Girl Scout Association meeting, 9
Scout House, Fireman's Park,
7:30 p.m.
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