The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, June 20, 1983 Page: 2 of 10
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Ail
Joel
laftdap-
at his 100th birth-
day huh at-•Hospitality
House last week, it was
noted some of the ladies
were passing through the
line twice to get a chance to
kiss' Joe. Sister Nancy
Doerhoff wonders if all the
commotion might bring
•Joe "amid Hfecrisis?"
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In case the cast of ''All
For The Love of a Frog
Prince" which opens (and
closes) this Friday night at
the Bastrop Opera House
has a case of last minute
stage fright, just recall the
words the immortal Ethel
Merman shouted to her
fellow cast members on
opening night of a Cole
Porter show, "Remember,
if .any of those dopes out
there could do as good as
you, they'd be up here
doing it."
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What's the longest word
ifce i
that on radio follows this
phrase: "And now a word
from our sponsor."
Joe Kirby asked a fellow
worker at Motorola last
week why be never seemed
togetexdtedatthejob.no
matter what happened.
The co-worker said, "I Bve
out in Cedar Creek With
five hound dogs > outside
that are always chasing the
chickens, two fox terriers
that chase the cats inside,
four children that won't
turn off the TV, one wife
that talks , all evening to
friends on the telephone
and a mother-in-law who's
after me to distribute
leaflets for the Moral
Majority. And you wonder
why I get to work 10
minutes early and am the
last to les^e?" *
Loblolly Lowdown: Water
and sewer rates are about
ready to almost double in
and now wont sell their
downtown Bastrop cafe.
Molly Lawhon and Minnie The
Surprenant wQI stay on
while Mildred Ben-
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The Lost Pines
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•And County News
TEXAS' OLDEST WEEKLY NFWSPAPLR
Published Monday and Thursday at the Bastrop
Advertiser office, 908 Water Street, Bastrop, Texas
78602. Second Class Postage paid a! the Bastrop,
Texas Post Office 78602. An independent, home-
owned newspaper, non-sectarian, non-partisan,
devoted to the welfare of the people of Bastrop
County. Subscription rates $9.50 per ytar, payable in
advance.
Jack Fraser - Publisher
Jerry Appel - Business Manager /
Eric Williams - News Editor
Ellen Moore - Reporter
Claydeen Osbom - Advertising
Kellye Green - Production Supervisor
Sharon Roper,, Richard Kni«ht.
Jimmie Cottle - Production
jFay Panndl.Tom Sharper, Janine Peters,
LouHonble-CiicalatiBW. .
BASTROP ADVERTISER (UPS045-020)
i MEMBER TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
ningfield moves to William
son County. The'cafe will
close July 1 to 10, reopen-
ing on the 11th....Shirts-N-
trict's board of review,
hearing complaints about
tax"Values. They'd be paid
SISatfhour.
Stuff in the Colorado "Ask if they'll serve for
Shopping Center is for nothing," Watterson sug-
sale. Contact Brenda
Meuth if you're interested
in acquiring the retail
business....D.E. King, the
acclaimed Smithville dog-
catcher, iquit and was
replace^ by Robbie
Scoggins but after an en-
counter with a goat aihd
other happenings,
Scoggins quit too, effec-
tive Friday Smithville
school chief Don Hestand
conducted a survey, of
athletes' grades and found
that students competing in
extra curricular sports
were also in 'general doing
the best with their studies.
The Jock image is dead at
SISD as far as he's concer-
ned It looks like Rudy
Belmares, the new golf pro
at Lost Pines Golf Course
in Bastrop State Park, has
located a post for. the
driving range he pianino
open. Rocky Paramore*f
Industrial Park, across
from the state park, is the
location.
guested at the district's
meeting. "Tell them it is a
public service and they
could sleep better at night
if they did it free."
•••
Dome Ditty: Bastrop In-
depenent School District
Trustees last week ap-
proved setting up reserved
seating at Erhard Field for
next fall's Bastrop Bears
football games. Trustee
Robert Miller said he's con-
cerned, however, about
ticket scalpingJLooking at
• the sparely haired Miller,
Verlin Callahan (who's in
the same boat hair-wise)
said, "What are you
worried about? You've al-
ready been scalped."
***
River City Talk: The spec-
tacular Mother's Day con-
cert of some of the world's
greatest classical music at
Smithville's Presbyterian
Church" last month WS5'$<5*
successful that the singers
are planning a repeat Aug.
left ville's Hospitality House
the lawn sale at last week, "Lean on your
the closed Bastrop Hotel husband on one side and
mil end up in the Bastrop prop him up on the other."
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GADABOUTS: Linda
Ridge and Kerry Mclntire
of The Buescher State Park
UT Cancer Research Cen-
ter are back from'Cozumd
where they said tjjey saw
sea turtles and swam with
barracudas.. .Ace artist -
and sign painter John Riley
has joined the Cancer Cen-
ter as staff artist...The
male chimpanzee named
SyrsoU of Rhoda, is the
24th chimp bom at the
Science Center's
Veterinary Division at
Camp Swift...Don Mut-
schink, of the Milton's
retailing empire, is back
from Acapulco with his
bride, the former Patricia
Huling, a science center
staffer. They
honeymooned at the -
pyramid shaped Princess
Hotel, last abode of ,
Howard Hughes, went
sailfishing and parasailing.
Don said the Mexican
resort had large crowds but
prices are still favorable
for Americans.
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FACES AND PLACES:
Anthony Wallace, son of
Mary Ann Wallace of
Bastrop and ( a 1978
Bastrop High graduate is
now living in Hawaii with
his family. He's currently
on a Navy tour and just
recently visited Hong
Kong...Linda Quitta has
taken over Tam's Interiors
on Highway 71 in Smith-
ville and Tam McKeown
plans to concentrate on a
gift shop at another
location...It's the first
grandchild, Aaron Louis
Hanna, for G.L. ind
Margaret Hanna of
RocknerrTMaffgarer~Newby
is back from the Texas
Func/al Directors
Association convention in
Dallas and Pastor John
Glasgow of First Baptist
.
An author more than 20 ,
years ago penned one of to youths from all
the best dedications we've Bastrop County*
ever seen in a book he had
written about animals
"To my MHfl|
most enjoyable perapd in
teres ting specimen I
one
matron meowed!
t about a redhead I
just graduated: "i|
she was studying for]
a MRS. degree." 1
County Women's Shelter,
due to open later this sum-
mer in Smithville, donated
by Dr. Curtis McDonald....
Rev. Barry Jackson, a
Bastrop native who is now
the pastor of Sweet Hope
Baptist Church in Round
Rock, will return July lOto
preach at Macedonia First
Baptist Churhc where he
.was called to the ministry
by Rev. C.A. Williams
Watch for a knife and saw -
sharpening service to open
next month at Bastrop
Builders Mart.
•••
How to attract atten-
tion: A church in the Texas
Panhandle listed on its
bulletin board this
message: "Fools Wanted!
Let all members be
present." The point being,
of course, is that all
humans are fools about
something. (We're a fool
over chocolate cheesecake
but can't get any
hereabouts. Mark Cozad's ,
German Chocolate
Cheesecake--served5 at
Esther's El Gaflitd iifa
other spots is good but not
exactly what we have in
Invites you to our 2nd annua)
BOAT SHOW
featuring
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ALUMNACRAFT BOATS
June 24-25 ,
8:30-6 Friday
8:30-^ Saturday
Stop in and see our fine
selection of flatbottom, bass
boats, canoes & Dilly trailers
Register for free fishing
tackle prizes
HOME OF FINE FURNITURE
PHONE $12/237-2432
HOURS Monday Frxlay 8:30-5:30 » Saturday 8 30 3 30
veterans, earn extra cash
the best way you know how.
Your military know-how can be the key to an extra part-time
income. Yqu can join the Army Reserve and earn over $1,922 a year
for serving a weekend a month pljjs two weeks a year.
We restore your military benefits, and even your oidrajik if Vpu
join within 30 months of your discharge.v5> '
Call your Army Reserve Representative, in the Yellow Pages
under "Recruiting." "A
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Williams, Eric. The Bastrop Advertiser and County News (Bastrop, Tex.), No. 32, Ed. 1 Monday, June 20, 1983, newspaper, June 20, 1983; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth602115/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.