Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 9, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 6, 1915 Page: 1 of 6
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Brenham, W*»hinglon County, Texas, Tuetday, April 6, 1915
Number!
The "Queen Elizabeth"
There was a meeting held at the
•city hall Monday afternoon by rep-
resentative German citizens of the
■city for the purpose of deciding
whether or not to secure the services
of Mr. Carl Halm of Los Angeles, Cal.,
to hold two lectures in this city on
the European situation.
Prof. C. Klaerner, president of the
local German Red Cross Society, pre-
sided and George Neu was elected
secretary.
Mr. Klaerner stated the object of
the meeting saying that Washington
county had responded nobly when
called upon for contributions to the
red cross society and that while there
was still interest manifested in this
work he thought .that it would be a
very good idea to secure th» service!
of Mr. Halm in order that renewed
interest might be awakened for this
worthy cause.
Pres. J. L. Neu of Blinn college
stated that the Blinn college would
furnish the auditorium of Blinn col-
lege free of cost for the two even-
ings of the lecture and it was then
decided to engage Mr. Halm for the
two lectures.
George Neu stated for the Banner-
Press that its columns were open to
the committee without charge and
Max Mueller of the Volksbote stated
the same in behalf of the Volksbote.
The two papers will also furnish
the tickets for the lecture free of
charge.
Revs. Edw. A. Sagebiel and E. F.
Schuessler were appointed a commit-
tee to notify the pastors of their re-
spective churches of the lectures and
they In turn to make it known to
their congregations.
Robt. Schawe was appointed a com
mittee of one to notify the secreta-
ries of the various Sons of Her-
mann lodges throughout the county
of the lecture.
J. L. Neu and Herman Dornberger
were appointed as Press committee.
They will have charge of preparing
all matter for the papers.
A committee of seven consisting of
B. Lehmann, Henry Drechsel, Prof.
Fischer, Prof. Kopp, Robert Schawe.
Henry Eckhardt and F. W. Schuer-
enberg, were appointed to take care
of the dispos't^w of tickets.
Profs. Klaerner ai<l Fischer were
appointed to arrange the music for
this occasion.
The lectures that will be given by
Mr. Halm will be "Who Shall Win,"
and the second one, "The Develop-
ment of the Zeppelins."
Both lectures wil lbe given In the
German language and from informa-
tion received the citizens of Brenham
can count upon a good lecture, the
speaker, Mr. Halm, being a fluent
speaker and has first hand informa-
tion on the subjects that are to be
discussed, having been born in Ger-
many, later moving to this country
and several years ago making a trip
to Germany and staying there for 5
years.
The money derived front the sale
of tickets will be first applied to-
wards paying the expenses of the
speaker and any surplus will flow into
the local red cross society treasury,
who will send the same to the proper
authorities.
The meeting of yesterday after-
noon was one of Germans and as
Prof. Klaerner exressed himself, was
the first time that he had seen such
a unity of all forces for the ad-
vance of a common cause.
He said in the course of his talk
that all lines had been obliterated
and that the Germans of the city
and county, regardless of difference
of political and religious beliefs, had
united for furthering a worthy cause
and of this he was proud.
The cost of admission to the lec-
ture will be only 25 cents for each
lecturr and the committee hopes that
when C.iey call that they will meet
with a liberal response. The date
of the lectures will be Friday and
Saturday, April 16 and 17.
BRITISH BATTLESHIP LORD NELSON
HAS BEEN. DESTROYED BY TURKISH
GUN FIRE INSIDE THE DARDANELLES
Berlin, April 6.—(By wireless toinople before the Russians get th«r«,
Sayvllle.)—A report received: In j the former intend to occupy th«
! Berlin from Athens says the British j lands at the entrance to the Dtrdft*
| battleship Lord Nelson, stranded j nelles. positions from which it would
inside the Dardanelles straits, has i)t. possible to checkmate Russia Itt
been destroyed by the Turkish shore 11ho future."
batteries. j
A counsel of war, the Athens dls- Two Vessel* Sunk by Submarine.
UNOISWOOD * UNOtSWOOO, N. V.
MIGHTIEST SEA FIGHTER OF THE BRITISH NAVY BOMBARDING
DARDANELLES FORTS WITH HUGE 15-INCH GUNS
The "Queen Elizabeth," the most powerful battleship in the world (in
service) in 1914, known in naval circles as the Super Dreadnought, has shown
the remarkable value of its long range 15-inch guns, which enabled the ship
to keep out of range of the Turkish guns and at the same time shell the
defenses. The "Queen Elizabeth" has a displacement of 27,500 tons, and her
main armament consists of eight 15-inch guns and sixteen 6-inch guns. Her
speed is 25 knots per hour, and she has the largest range of any ship known.
MANAGER HODDE
WENT TO PAIGE
Manager H. C. Hodde of the
Brenham Creamery left Monday for
Paige to look after the interests of
the creamery at that place.
The creamery is rapidly widening
its sphere of trade territory and is at
present getting nice shipments from
various points along the Central and
Santa Fe lines.
The farmers in the county are also
realizing that the creamery will pay
cash for their cream 12 months out
of the year and that the keeping of
a herd of good cows will pay well.
In some instances there are far-
mers who are devoting the most of
their time to the dairying business
with the result that the returns re-
ceived by them are proving very sat-
isfactory.
WICKS VERY BUSY
GETTING TEAM IN
EXCELLENT SHAPE
Young Man Wants Work.
Mrs. C. B. Shepard requests the
Banner-Press to state that there is
a young man in the city looking for
any kind of work and requests that
anyone having work that they would
like to have done to communicate
with her.
Dye SearcRy Boosted.
Chicago, April 6.—Because of the
scarcity of German-made dyes and
chemicals, the price of cleaning
clothes was advanced here today
from 25 to 50 per cent.
MRS. KOPERSCHINSKI
DP LATE SUNDAY
Wicks is drilling the boys in the
plays and signals that they will use
during the season. They use two
codes thereby enabling lUem to shtft
from one to the other during thd
process of a game; they will take no
chance on having their signals tlpjied
off by their opponents. Signal tip-
ping has developed to a fine point
during the last few years and is
something to be guarded against.
The boys are working twice daily,
at 9:30 a. m. and 2:15 p. m. and
are in fine spirit. There are only
two tilings necessary to put them in
readiness for the opening of the sea-
son; namely, a couple of exhibition
games and some lady to send in the
name that they will carry through
the season; they don't want to be
called "The Orphans".
As to games, Managers Martin and
Wicks have the wires working and
will probably have a surprise for the
fans in a few days, something to
show the real strength of the club.
This morning's sporting sheet
shows where our late opponents, the
Chinese, beat Baylor University by
a score of 10 to 8 at Waco yester-
day.
The games the local team had
scheduled at Schulenberg ror April
9, 10 and 11 have been cancelled
owing to the fact that they open
there on April 15 and 16.
A PROMISING OIL
HELD INDICATED
NEAR EARLYW1NE
MRS. BUCK DIED
LATE MONDAY AT
OLD WASHINGTON
On Saturday evening, the Wash-
ington County Oil and Mineral com-
pany, held a very enthusiastic meet-
ing at the court house. On the pre-
vious evening, a large number of
business men and citizens of the
town tyad made a trip to the field,
about five miles northeast of Bren-
ham near Earlywine, and investigat-
ed the conditions and Indications for
oil. In spite of the weather satis-
factory investigations were made
and all present seemed well pleased
with the prospects. Several promi-
nent business men have identified
themselves with the company and the
patch continues, decided to postpone
the attempts to force the Dardanelles
on account of the insufficient
strength of the landing expedition.
This dispatch contains the first in-
timation of the loss of the Lord Nel-
son. Her name has not been men-
tioned In any of the dispatches con-
cerning the Dardanelles operations.
She was 410 feet long, displaced
16,500 tons and was built In 1906.
London, April fi.- The GlaifOW
steamer Olivine and the RuSSlftS
bark Hermes wore sunk by a Qw«
man submarine Sunday afternoon oft
the Isle of Wight. The crews of thi
two vessels took to their boats and
were rescued by a British torpedo
boat destroyer.
The loss of the Russian bark r#-
ferred to in the above dispatch wai
reported yesterday At this tlma hf
She was armed with four 12-luch i name was not known. Fifteen mem-
guns, 10 9.2-inch* and 13 two-inch | hers of the crew got ashore safelf,
guns and carried a complement oflThe Hermes was a three-master bark
I of 973 tons. Current maritime r«0»
lords do not contain any reference!
to a steamer named Olivine.
HUNTSVILLE REVIVAL ( LOSED
IOO Converts Reported tit End Of
Meetings.
Mrs. William Buck, a member of
one of the most prominent and in-
fluential families of this section, died
Monday night at 8:40 at her home in
CI<1 Washington at the age of sev-
enty-two years. She was a native of
ermany, but came to this country
hen a young girl, and has been a
resident of this county for many
years.
The deceased leaves a widow, Wil-
liam Buck, and the following children
to mourn her death: Mrs. Fritz Leh-
de, Mrs. Adolph Bosse, Mrs. Charles
Sehulz, H. C. Buck, and W. H. Buck.
The latter was for years county com-
r
4
a noble Christian
wife and mother,
work will be carried forward vigo- mission®' from the Washington pie-
rously cinct, and is well known in Brenham.
. Some well-known oil drillers are Buck was
now seeking arrangements to sink woman, a devotee
wells on the land held under lease ] and possessed many noble qualities
by this company. Every oil driller, for which she was loved and esteemed
and prospector who has looked over by a host of warm friends, who will
this field has pronounced it one of deeply sympathize with her bereaved
the most promising yet investigated, family. She was a faithful worker in
Seeking a further guarantee of their! the Lutheran church of which she was
865 men.
Itusslnn Fleet Attacks.
"Dispatches from Constantinople
say there has been no change In the
Dardanelles situation.
"The Russian tleet. after its opera-
tions before the Bosporus, undertook
March 30 a further attack on Eregll,
a Black sea port In Asia Minor A' HuntHVllle, Texas, April 6.—The
total of 2,000 shots were tired. Nine I Head rick-Carter revival closed la»t
barges on the port were sunk and j night after a very successful session
four houses on the shore damaged f two weeks, during which time
There were no casualties and coal in: the big auditorium of the Methodllt
coming from Eregll as usual. ; church was filled nightly with all
A Russian aviator was driven off j classes and ages of people to heaf
by fire from the shore. The Russian Kvangeiist Edward Hendrlck and Mr,
fleet
returned at noon"
French Land Forces.
The Overseas News Agency today
gave out the following:
"A message from Athens esti-1«n. The two men have been working
mates at'more than 30,000 the num- In double harness as preacher and
her of Anglo-French troops which i nlnger, for the past 12 years.
Carter of Nashville, Tenu., preaoh
and sing.
More than 100 converts were add-
ed to the membership of the church-
have been landed on the Island of
Lemnos, near the entrance to the
I lardanelles.
"An article appearing In the Ta-
nin of Constantinople, expresses the
idea that in as much as th<» English
will not be able to reach Constanti-
Leavlng this afternoon. Dr. Hen-
drlck and Mr. Carter go to McGehee,
Ark., to begin a meeting of two
| weeks in that place, after which they
will grapple with sin in Houston for
i v< ml weeks, before returning to
Nashville.
judgment, the company has also
made arrangements with expert ge-
ologists to examine and report on
the Indications found in this field.
The indications have always point-
ed to an oil field in this county and
a consistent member and regular at-
tendant at divine services.
The funeral will be held at ten
o'clock Wednesday morning from the
family residence, the Rev. Picpen-
brock officiating, and all that is mor-
we hope the energetic work being, tal of this good woman will be laid
done by this company will result In ; to rest in the family burial grounds
successful development. In this i at the Lutheran cemetery.
work, the company has the interest j
and the upbuilding of the communi-! Bora to Mr. and Mrs. William
ty at heart, and their efforts are to
be c6mmended.
Schlottniann of Prairie
baby boy, mother and
well.
Hill, a fine
child doing
and Prof. Roomer made speeches that
were well received by the people.
W. D. NOTLEY HAS
COMPLETED PLAN
STREET PAGEANT
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A
Superintendent W. D. Notley of
the Brenham public schools, has
about completed his fffeautlful plans
for the street pageant of the Fire
Department's 34th annual Maifest
May 27-28, which developed so elab-
orately the "Evolution of Cotton".
The color schemes and artistic plac-
ing of automobiles, and floats have
been carefully thought out. This
promises to be one of the most gor-
geous parades ever seen in Bren-
ham.
The queen, Miss Gladys Baumgart,
QUEEN GLADYS TO
BE CROWNED WITH
ELOQUENT VERSE
Arrangements are being perfected
for th£ brilliant coronation exercises
of Miss Gladys Baumgart who will
be crowned queen of the Brenham
Fire Department's 34th Annual Mai-
fest by the king, Oscar Hoffmann, on
|he ^pioT-ning- of May 27th at thfi
I Summer Theatre.
The story of the "Evolution of Cot-
: ton" has been written in eloquent!
verse by Miss Eula Carroll, the!
| bright and accomplished teacher of
English in the Brenham High School
and the king, Oscar Hoffmann, are „ ,, _ . , ,x
. .. , . , ,. Miss Carroll tells that Spring in its . i
busny engaged in selecting the young . . . _ . | Ada
i people who will constitute the court
attendants.
As Governor and Mrs. Ferguson
are expected for this spring festival,
etherial loveliness is the planting
| time; that Summer is the imperial J
; season when the cotton plants de- i
velop and grow and that Autumn
REV. E. G. COOKE SCHOOL AT SALEM
PREACHED FINE HELD BIG PICNIC
EASTER SERMON! a„„~„ or ,„,lrot.
; Hon W. F. A. Roemer and District
(•hidings Memorial Methodist! (.|ftrk vv fI nonldln were among
church held a very Interesting asith„ viHlton, t0 the 8chool picnic and
well as very beautiful Easter ser- entertainment at Salem on Monday,
vices, both at 10 a. m. and 7.45 Sun- They report a good time, a large
day. j crowd of friends and patrons of the
Rev. L. G. Cooke took as his lexl i hcIiooI being on hand to take part In
Kaster morning, Rev. 1, 17-1H. His ,,xer,.|go8. Both Mr. Bouldln
sermon on "The Resurrection" from
this text was listened to by a large
and appreciative congregation.
As the choir sang "Onward Chris-
tian Soldiers", the recessional, the
Knight Templars In a body, marched
into the church and took their places
in the seats, reserved for them.
The following musical program
was rendered during the morning
services by the entire choir:
"He Is Risen," "Praise the Savior"
by Harwell and Dudley Buck's "Sing
Hallelujah" with incidental solos by
Miss Hermann and Mr. Grote.
The offertory, "Christ Is Risen",
j was perfectly sung by Miss Hermann.
The services closed by a hymn
! sung by the entire choir, entitled
| "The Son", which was especially pre-
pared by Mrs, McAdams, the orgaa-
isi at the Methodist church.
Th£ subject of the evening service
was "Behold Things Are Made New",
which was presented with great pow-
er by the pastor and was enjoyed by
many.
I Beautiful music under Mrs. Mc-
ms' supervision was rendered hy
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•> THE CITY ELECTION ♦
At two o'clock this after* ^
*!' noon the number of votes cast ♦
❖ at the different boxes was as ♦
❖ follows: City Hall, 260; ♦
•> Matchett's Stable, 206; Court ♦
❖ House. 167 making a total of ♦
•> 633 votes cast out of a possi- ♦
•> ble 800. ♦
❖ The voting started early and ♦
•> was fast and furious for some ♦
❖ time. At the City Hall the ♦
•> services of a guard was re- ♦
quired to hold back the crowd. ^
•> Indications point to one of ♦
•> the heaviest votes in the his- ♦
•> tory of the city. ^
%• It is too early to .say any- ^
thing about the standing of the ♦
❖ various candidates as the elec- ♦
•t* tion officers are not allowed to "S*
❖ give out any information. ^
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AERO STATION ESTABLISHED
Mrs. Mary Koperchinski, wife of
Leon Koperchinski, residing two
miles west of town, died Sunday af-
ternoon at the family residence at
the age of 22.
The funeral took place from the
family residence Monday morning at
nine o'clock and interment was made
at the Catholic cemetery, Father Ta-
l>or officiating.
New York Landing Place Arranged
for Few Members.
unusual interest has been ar0U8ed; | witnesses the plenteous harvest, while ]
| and every one is striving to make Winter reaP8 the reward in the sales
i the event one of great splendor in
! consequence.
the choir at tin- evening services.
Mrs. E. P. Anderson sang beau-
tifully the solo "The Day of Christ"
by Bartlett with obligate.
Overland Man Here.
of the cotton bale. The four poems j (>0rge Graham of Houston, state
are polished gems of perfect English j llgent „f the Overland Auto company,
B. W.DYER DIED
IN AUSTIN MONDAY
New York, April 6.—The Aero
Club of America has established a
landing place for hydro-aeroplanes
in this city for about a dozen mem-
bers who desire to use these craft for
their daily trips between New York
and their .country homes. The
place of landing is at Seventy-second
street and the East river.
Miss Hortense Dyer left today for
and reflect the poetic mind of the tal-11„ |n the city for a few days demon-1 Austin to attend the funeral of her
Elks' Dance Friday jented teacher. These seasons have i strating some of the new models with ! grandfather, B. W. Dyer, who died
There will be a dance Friday eve- been assigned to the following young; the local agent, John GIddlngs. 'there Monday night at the age of 80
ning at the Elks' club rooms. Prof, girls, who are pupils of Miss Carroll: years.
F. J. Navratll's orchestra will fur- Miss Bershie B. Low will impersonate^ >j>w Service Station. Mr. Dyer was born In Missouri and
nish the sweet and inspiring; music.! Spring; Miss Alice Buck, Summer; j The City Garage has been appoint-1 came to Texas about 30 years ago,
This will be the first dance follow-i Miss Bertha Seelhorst, Autumn, and ed a service station for Studebaker making Austin his home.
Ing the Lenten season, and It prom- Miss Ileane Beaumier, Winter. This ears by the Studebaker Brothers j vlved by eight children.
He Is sur-
ises to be particularly enjoyable.
Everybody Is cordially invited to be
present.
feature precedes the crowning of
Queen Gladys by King Oscar, and
will be exquisitely staged.
company of Texas and will at all j The funeral will take place Jjsom
times be willing to take care of the; the family residence there Wednes-
wants of the auto owners. | day morning.
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