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THE SCHULENBURC STICKER
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Insurance.
Vol. XXX
Scbulenburg, Fayette County. Texas, Friday, August 15, 1924
No. 49
Improve Night Appearance
The business men on Lyons
Ave., have decided to light up
this street and make the town
show up pretty at night. Each
business house has had an elec
trie drop placed in front of it, at
night they are turned . on and
burn all night. It shows up
mighty pretty and certainly does
add to the appearance of things.
It makes the street look lively
and full of pep, as thbugh live
wire business men are here.
The charges are reasonable,
only a dollar a month and they
burn all night long. We believe
it would be a good idea for the
other streets to fall in line and
light up this town, dark spots
don't help any town. But plenty
of lights and no dark spots are
good for. any town. Let's get
modern, why not Schulenburg
have a white way, the same as
any other city? Drive up Lyons
Ave., see,if you don't agree with
ns.>
Buys Proetzel Home
Emil H. Baumgarten has pur-
chased from Mr. and Mrs. Robt.
±Jroetzel their big pretty home
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Pioetzel will,
move into their new home just
as soon as they can get it built,
their new home will be located
uu the lot just east of their pres5
tut home.
Mr. Baumgarten says he will
liave this big home either for
sale or for rent just as soon as
>lr. and Mrs. Proetzel vacate it.
it was his plans to nlake a tea ch
its home out of this place, it
uiay yet be done. It would
certainly be an ideal place tor
this. >
This is one of the prettiest
places in town having a 200 foot
n-ont and 275 feet deep, lots of
oig rooms upstairs and down.
Mr. Baumgarten has put in
borne septic tanks and other im-
provements to make this place
btrictly a first class up-to-date
house. It would make a wonder-
lui rooming house or home for a
iu,rge family.
Henry Borchers Car Stolen
Farm Sold
Waiter Williams sold his farm
located about three miles west of
tjwn to Willie Brunkenhoefer
aov a consideration of $5000, this
is a good farm, we are glad to
..ee Willie buy a fayn of his own,
iie is a good honest farmer and a
iiardworker.
Thursday night as Henry
Borchers was attending the pic-
ture show at the Opera House,
someone stole his Ford roadster
that he had standiug in front of
the Theatre.
Henry stated that he usually
always took his keys out but this
night he forgot and left his keys
in the lock.
As soon as the car was missed
Henry and Constable Frank
Janicek started west looking for
same, but their car broke dowD
at Flatonia giving the party
ample time to make a get-a-way
in case he was headed in that
direction.
Sunday morning Perry See-
berger saw a Ford Roadster pass
him headed up the street and
pass the Citizens Garage, he call-
ed Dickie Keuper's attention to
it and stated that it was Henry
Borcher's car. They started in
pursuit catching up with it at
H. P. Schaefer's home. Dickie
Keuper made the stranger move
over and he took charge of the
car driving it back to town, he
stopped at Borchers to make
sure it was the right car after
which he found constable Frank
Janicek who took charge of the
prisoner and locked him up. The
sheriff was notified and the
prisoner is now in the County
jail at LaGrange.
The prisoner stated that he
arrived here on a freight trait
Thursday night, he did not
know what town he was in, he
walked up the street saw the
Ford with key^ in it, he got iD
and drove it to San Antonio,
there he stole some numbers
which he put on this Ford,taking
the others off. He was enroutf
to Houston when caught here.
He stated that if he had known
that this was the town he stole
this car in he would not have
c<ime back through here. He
comes from up north.
This makes the second Ford
stolen from in front of the Opera
House, the other, Chas. Schind-
^ers, was recovered after an ex-
citing chase with the thievess
ending in their t jumping from
the car and making their get*
a-way in the dark. This car was
recovered in Waelder.
Big Picnic
AT
Rocky School House
District No, 8
Lavaca County
SUN., AUG. 17
Big Dinner
Band Concert in After-
noon. Entertainment
f jr all.
Refreshments.
Dance at Night
500 Club
Mrs. E. Vacek entertained the
members of the 500 club on
Monday afternoon.
The home was attractively dec*
orated with ferns and cut flow-
ers placed in crystle baskets on
the tables.
Mrs. R. F. Stieber winning the
mostnumber games was award-
ed a lovely buffet set, Mrs. R.
Nordhausen cutting high for
consolation, also received a lovely
buffet set, Mrs. Aug, Richter
cutting low was given two dainty
handkerchiefs and Mrs. George
Talley as puncher received two
handkerchiefs.
During an intermission a de-
licious salad course was served
the following ladies: Mesdames
W. A. Richter, W. H. Talley, K
D. Sengelmann, Aug. Rich'ter,
R. Nordhausen, A. Kehrer, R. A
Wolters, R. F. Stieber, and Geo-
Talley of Fort Worth.
IF-- - Efficiency—Cleanliness—Best' of Materials—Con-
scientious Workmanship—Reasonable Compensa-
tion forServices—Appeal to you in the selection
of your Dentist, 1 solicit your Patronage.
OR. JFOE F\ LE3S1NG
DENTIST
Office over First National Bank
Compress Opens Season
The local compress started its
season here Monday with a full
crew on the job. 70 bales of cot-
ton constituted the first lot of the
season, 52 of these were raised
locally and marketed here in
Schulenburg.
Oscar Brown, the good con-
genial superintendent in charge
of the Compress, expects to have
a big year this year. He has put
in lots of hard work since he
came to Schulenburg and has
put the compress on its feet add*
ing more than $2000 worth of
new machinery this year, which
makes this a compress • eq ual to
any in the state. Brown is just
a natural born Compress man
any way. It was a loosing
proposition for years 'but
Broiyn has been making money
for the company. He is well
liked everywhere by all the peo-
ple and just naturally gets the
business where other men would
fail.
Cotton Season Here
That Swimming Party
"Oh, it ain't gonna rain no
more", but who cares if it
doesn't so long as there is plenty
of water in Demel's Swimming
Pool, and so generous a young
host as Hirsh N. Schwartz uses?
it combined with a perfect moon-
light night like August 12th., to
entertain his many friends in
thfe most enjoyable party of the
season.
Yes, 'twas such a host, such a
place, and such a time, when a
hippy crowd of young folks
curned to the healthy summer
pasttime of swimming. Healthy'
I'll say so! Those folks proved
it by the way they fell into the
refreshments after the swim.
But even such ravenous eaters
as the well known Douglas (Red)
Glass, had to stop masticating
long enough to exclaim: "Well,
Hirsh, we've got to hand it to
you. These are the best eats I
ever tasted." And no wonder,
for there was a bountiful supply
of real fried chicken,sandwiches,
pickles, ice-watermelon, and the
coldest "sod.v-pop". It was
great, let me tell you.
Those enjoying the affair were:
Misses Lois Carr, Erma Eck,
Dorothy and Lillian Vacek, An-
nie Ruhmann, Ruth Vogt, Cora
Cornelson, Maxine Sengelmann,
Emmie Bittner, Clara Brauner
and Mrs. Maxine Howard,
chaperon, Mrs. R. Don Her ad;
Misses Bernice Schaefer, Mil-
dred Herder of Sugarland; Gus
Ruhmann, Red Glass, Adolpb
Schaefer, Oscar Brown, Henry
Schaefer, Clarence Saunders,
Jack Jackson, Otto Vogt, George
Vogt, Hirsh Schwartz, Buddy
King, Robert Prove of San An-
tonio, Roy Akridge and Mr. La-
baube. Cont.
Neau Beaux
The members of the Neau
Beaux Club were delightfully en-
tertained Monday evening with
Mrs. J. W. Schwartz as hostess.
500 giving diverson.
For success in the games Mrs.
O. H. Wolters neceived a pretty
flowers bowl for high score,Mrs.
Oscar Sobotik received a fruit
knife for high cut, while Mrs. K.
D. Sengelmann received a bridge
set for low cut.
During intermission a delicious
luncheon was served consisting
of chicken salad, sandwiches,
olives and asparagus tips.
Those present were: Misses
Norma Baumgarten,Tonie Mertz,
Lillie and Emmie Bohlmann,
Mesdames O. H. Wolters, Oscar
Sobotik, K. D. Sengelmann, W.
D. Cowan, R. Nordhausen, R. A.
Wolters, E. Vacek, Ferd. Herzia
and Geo. W. Maxwell.
The cotton season has opened
up here faster than was antici-
pated by the general public. We
expected a few bales to be com®
ing in right along but not at the
pace that it has been coming in
the past few days. One can now
find as many as eight and ten
wagons at the gins in line early
in the mornings. Wednesday
morning at seven o'clock we
counted 16 wagons standing at
the gins waiting their turns to
be next.
The cotton crop this year will
not be as large as last year by
perhaps 20 per cent,that is local-
ly. Unless we have a rain and
things change very much. How-
ever the difference in price will
help to take care of a shorter
crop. Tuesday about 40 bales
were sold here bringing an aver-
age of a little above 30c per
pound. Last year at this time
cotton was about 22 and 23c.
Up to ten o'clock this Thurs-
day morning 250 bales of new
cotton had been weighed in at
the local platform. It will run
over 800 by night. The cotton
market broke about 115 points
Wednesday and had a downward
tendency Thursday morning.
This was claimed to be due to the
good rains in central and north
Texas, through this region good
rains were reported everywhere.
It seemed almost certain that
a good rain would fall around
Schulenburg Wednesday to
break this long drouth, however
the little shower was worthless
and we would have been better
off withbut it.
Early Thursday morning cot-
ton was bringing up to 291-2
cents here. Cotton Seed at the
Oil Mill here was bringing $37.50
per ton.
Born
Eddie Watzlavick and wife
were made very happy when the
stork brought them a pretty
little baby daughter, Daddy Ed-
die is all & miles.
Postmaster and Mrs. W. A.
Farek are rejoicing over the ar-
rival of a big fine baby boy at
their home. No wonder Papa
Farek was wearing that big
smile on his face Wednesday
morning.
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Little are
very proud of a fine big baby boy
that was born to them, Daddy
says he's worth a million.
Mr. and Mr?. Henry Hollas
were made very happy when a
fine baby girl arrived at their
home Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. TheofieldKober-
sky of Middle Creek are rejoic-
ing over the arrival of a pretty
little baby daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Besetsny
were visited by old friend stork
and a pretty little baby daugh-
ter left with them.
Herman Danish and wife are
very proud of a fine big baby
boy that was born to them.
A. D. Smith Dead
A. D. Smith of Houston, form-
erly of Weimar and for several
years a cotton buyer in this city
dropped dead in Houston late
Wednesday evening.
Mr. Smith was one of the most
popular cotton buyers that ever
bought cotton in this section.
He was a good cotton man, a
plunger.
Mr. Smith moved to Houston a
few years ago. His many friends
here extend sympathy to his
wife and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Boettcher
left Wednesday morning for
their ranch to spend a few days
resting up and fishing.
Laying Drain Tile
The School board of our city
is now laying drain tile in and
around the school house to give
it the proper drainage that it
should have.
A total of 830 feet of drain tile
is being laid, a ditch of this
length will have to be dug. This
is absolutely necessary, as the
dirt that is piled up around the
building for several feet permits
the water to seep through the
concrete under the bottom of the
building. This drain tile will
carry all the water away from
the building after the rains and
protect the school building. The
drain is being placed at a level
with the foundation.
Tonsils Removed
Dr. Kopecky operated on Mrs.
Emil Lediak of Bluff removing
her tonsils, he also removed Eds
die Ripper's tonsils here Mon-
day.
Dr. Kent operated on Miss
Marzeline Herzik here Wednes-
day morning removing her ton-
sils.
Mrs. Emelie Russek had her
tonsils removed at the LaGrange
hospital Monday,she returned to
her home near the city Wednes-
day.
Emil Kann of Bluff community
was in town last Monday to have
his tonsils removed by Dr.
Zvesper.
Little Joe, son of Chas. Lux is
reported to have had his tonsils
removed at Dr. Zvesper's Sana-'
torium last Tuesday.
Mrs. Ernst Russek and son,
Ignaz, have returned from Hous-
ton where Ignaz had his tonsils
removed, he is getting along fine.
Breaks Arm
Emil Christ had the misfor*
tune of breaking .his right arm
last Thursday.
Emil was on his horse driv-
ing one of his neighbor's bulls
home, he was leaning over on one
side when he slipped and fell, he
put out his arm to break the fall
but the weight of his body broke
the bone in his arm.
Buy Home Here
&F. L. Heinrich, one of our most
prosperous farmers, completed a
deal here this week whereby he
purchased the Gottlieb Knape
residence.
Mr. Heinrich plans on quitting
the farm and moving to this good
town on or about Oct. 1st. We
welcome him to the city.
A post card received from Mr.
Nussbaum state that he is en-
joying his trip to market fine.
He says he had no idea what
wonderful goods he would find
in the big cities and some of the
cash deals he had made would
afford the ooeple of Schulenburg
and surrounding towns to have
the very latest styles and mer-
chandise at prices that will sur-
prise them.
Mrs. Mrazek's home has been
moved further back on her lot
and the remodeling of it is now
under way. Contractor Borch-
ers says he will have a very pret-
ty Lome here for Mrs. Mrazek
when he gets through.
The Sticker acknowledges re-
ceipt of a Flatonia Fair catalogue,
the book was well gotten ud and
nicely printed, it is a credit to
the Flatonia Fair Association.
The opening.day is Schulenburg,
Columbus and Elatonia day. A
real big fair will be held this
year, watch the papers fqr par^
ticulars,
Miss Una Mae Eck of Cuero is
here visiting Miss Irma Eck.
Boy Badly StungJJy Bees
Etlee Mathias Bower, age 18
months, who makes his home
with his grand parents near
Engle, climbed upon a bee hive
Tuesday evening to pick some
peaches from a peachtree. In
walking around on the hive he
turned it over and fell down, the
bees came out by swarms cover-
ing the little child's body and
stinging him all over. He scream-
ed from pain, attracting his
grandmothers attention, she
hurried out and picked him up
knocking the bees off his body,
she gave him first aid treatment
and then hurried him to Dr.
McKay at Flatonia where he was
given medical attention. The
little fellow is reported to be in a
pretty bad condition. The bees
having stung him all over his
little body. Early Wednesday
he bad 103 degrees of fever.
It is certainly hoped that the
little fellow will ere long be back
in his usual good health.
Mrs. F. R. Brossmann and
daughter, Miss Hilda, returned
from St. Louis and other cities
where they went to purchase
fall and winter merchandise,
they state they found some won*
derful goods at prices that were
right.
DA N C E
Will be given at the
Opera House
TUES. AUG. 19
Music will be furnished
by Cornelson's Happy
Seven
U. R. Invited
DANCE
At Freyburg Hall
Saturday, August 16th.
Plenty Refreshments
Music furnished by
Schwenke's Jolly Six.
Everybody invited
Committee.
Dance
Ammannsville Park
Ammannsville, Texas
SUNDAY, AUG. 17
Music by the
Sole Agrivators
Refreshments and good
order maintained.
Everybody Invited.
J. M. Bartos
Dance
will be given at
S. P. J. S. T. Hall
Engle, Texas,
Sunday, Aug. 1 7
Good music and re-
freshments and a good
time assured.
Admission 50 cents
Everybody Invited
To Drain Stan^ Pipe
Now that the new reservoir at
the Light Plant is complete and
ready for service a general house
cleaning of the water works sys-
tem of the city will take place.
The big stand pipe will be
drained and given a good clean®
ing on the inside, all the water
mains will be emptied and clean
water used to wash them out.
The Reservoir will be filled in
the mean time to protect the city
in case of fire.
This is a very good step that
the city fathers are taking, this
cleaning out is necessary, it will
get the old filth and germs out of
the entire water system and as-
sure a good clean water supply
for some time to come. The
water hereafter will be pumped
from the big well at the plant in-
to the reservoir which is built of
concrete and closed at the top to
prevent any substance from get-
ting into the water, from here it
is pumped into the standpipe and
out into the mains.
We want to thank the citv
officials for this move in the
interest of the people here.
Everyone appreciates this clean-
ing up.
Dr. Geo. o. Maxwell
DENTIST
Office Over City Drug Store
Schulenburg, Texas.
PHONE
Office 105. Residence 115
a
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Regular Old Tim
DANCE
In
Peter's Park, Dubina
Monday, August 18
FREE
Ticket for That Dance Only
Who Will Have the
Lucky Number
The coolest dancing place that
can be found on a very large
open air platform, 4 miles north-
west of Weimar.
Rose & Haidusek will d^mon-
starte the Westing House Light
Plant — Come and Investigate
How It worKS.
All kinds of Refresh-
ments and lunches can
be had. Order will be
Maintained.
Remember we will have another
election after this dance* so come
the candidates will be here.
Admission Only 50c
Music by the Weimar
Euphonic Orchestra
Everybody is Cordially
Invited
Emil & Julius Peter
Dedication
' OF THE
Yelehrad School
Will be Held
August 24th.
An all day picnic, band
concert, a big dinner
served, good speeches,
Big Dance at Night.
^Everybody Come*
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