La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1927 Page: 6 of 8
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P/GE SIX
LAGRANGE JOURNAL
JANUARY 6, 1927
New Year Greetings To Oar Friends
and Patrons
The 6ld year has gone; when it came it was welcomed
and when it passed out, we bid welcome to the New Year
1927. During the past year we have been favored with
your good will and patronage, we desire in this manner to
extend to all of you our thanks for that patronage and good
will. The old year, while it did not give us all the pros-
perity that we had hoped to receive, it nevertheless in a
great measure relieved the tension of the year previous and
brought us plenty. In the distribution of your patronage
you gave us a liberal share.
At this time, when entering upon a New Year, with
bright prospects before us, with the warmth of a brilliant
sun and abundant rain, with hearts filled with gladness we
turn to our patrons and friends and offer to them our very
best wishes for a Happy and Prosperous 1927. May your
hopes, resting on the indications of the day be realized,
and may abundance of crops, good health and good cheer
be your lot for the present year:
W. F. BRIEGER
Furniture, Etc. Etc.
General Mercahandise
WM. WENKE
W. C. FROEHLICH
Lumber and Paints
Ginner and Miller
W. H. KARISCH
M. V. HARRIS
Confectioner
General Merchandise
Pressing
Barber
MRS. W. H. HART
General Merchandise
General Merchandise
C. S. GATES
Druggist
General Merchandise
S. C. HART
C. A. KAISER
City Garage
General Merchandise
W. B. HART
City Meat Market
H. J. REINSCH
Winchester Garage
E. O. KAISER
General Merchandise
WINCHESTER
STATE BANK
WHERE YOUR MONEY
IS SAFE
SAM F. DRAKE
& SON
INSURANCE
WINCHESTER SECTION
Devoted to Winchester and the Surrounding Farm Sections
T::INKING IT OVER
(By “Windy Chester")
Here we ere launched into another
year and with our voyage only six
days old, we venture to. say that
ad»out ninety-nine per cent of the al-
leged good resolutions have been lost
oviarboai .1. New Year resolutions
are g< ad in many ways, for one thing
they furnish something over a thous-
and cartoonists with a subject for
their comic atrip on the first of the
year, a subject which they do not
have to waste precious time thinking
np, and if the matter should be in-
vestigated it might be found that
they even use the same pictures every
year. That is their right just as it
is our right to make the same reso-
lutions each year.
The most good derived from New
Year resolutions however, is from
the actual resolutions. Probably one
out of every thousand keep some of
them, and nearly all keep them for
at least one day. Granting this there
are 110,000 people who reform per-
manently every year, and 109,890,000
who reform for a day. If you con-
sider this last number as so many
days of good living, reduce it to
yeans, and, upon the basis of forty
years for the average life calculate
the number of permanently reformed
people it is equivalent to, you will
And the result to be exactly 7526.7
people. Therefore the net results of
each New Year is the permanent re-
form of 117,626.7 people, which
ought to give Mr. Wayne B. Wheel-
er,''the W. C. T. U., various funda-
mentalists organizations and others
• great amount of joy. Of course we
realise that this system of calcula-
tion ia not without fallacy, that we
are making some far-fetched assump-
tion#, and that many people are like-
ly to sniff somewhat contemptuously
at the whole affair; but this does not
' necessarily mean that those men-
tioned above will not rejoice, for if
•they are fair minded, (and surely
they are) they will see nothing more
unreaaonable in our method of figur-
ing than in the general nature of
their own projects.
• « •
Ah alarming sign of the times is
the large number of people who
break the laws. There is no reason
why every one should not keep the
law. .Our laws are reasonable, be-
cause enacted by reasonable and con-
aclentious men, they merit the ap-
proval of the majority of the people,
(due to our system of government)
and there are only about 29,000 of
them, so they ought to be respected.
In making a statement concerning
the number of laws we are being ven-
turesome, even when we qualify that
number as approximate. There is no
ifcray that the exact number of laws
bow in effect can .be determined
without years of tedious research. A
young contributor to a current maga-
mine recently undertook to determine
the number of laws and enquired at
various official libraries. At a state
Lbrary he was told that over 15,000
state laws had been passed but that
some of them repealed others. At
the Library %f Congress it was found
that about 19,000 public laws appli-
cable to every citizen of the Republic
had been passed but that some of
these repealed others. In addition to
these ttierd are county and in most
places municipal laws that have to be
obeyed. After allowing for repealed
laws it was decided that 29,000 was
a conservative estimate.
Seldom do men forgather without
someone beginning a remark with
‘“There ought tp be a law—", and if
the man only knew it there probably
1st The First Congress passed 118
laws, and since the Sixtieth Congress
each one has passed about J00 laws.
The layman might well wonder what
they are all about, and when it be-
comes necessary for him to resort to
law,, commit himself to the tender
mercies of the lawyers with the old
saying “While there is life there is
hope" his sole consolation.
While culling the nows recently we
found a short article concerning a
visit paid by Wayne B. Wheeler, hegd
of the Anti-Saloon League to Secre-
tary , of the Treasury Mellon. Mr.
Wboeler's mission was to Insist upon
a more deadly poison being used in
the denaturing of industrial alcohol.
According to hipi it is the law that
industrial alcohol shall be made ab-
solutely unfit for uae as a beverage,
and that the only way to do it is to
mix wood alcohol with it. Wood al-
cohdl, as everyone „is aware, wiH,
when taken internally cause blindness
and death. Mr. Mellon insisted that
it was not the intention of the fram-
«rs of the Eighteenth Amendment
and the Volstead Act for their law
to he enforced by poisoning, nor was
the government going to do it. If
it ia decided that the poisonin., me-
thod of enforcement is unethical then
the manufacture of industrial alcohol
should be stopped. If it is decided
that it is not too barbarous, the pun-
ishment being in proportion to the
crime as it were, then we suggest a
new plan for prohibition enforce-
ment. Let the dry officers be sup-
plied with an adequate suoply of
wood alcohol, and when they have
discovered a cache of liquor, let them
secretly add some of the prison. In
this way the bootlegger’s customers
will be eliminated and the customer’s
friends and relatives will p.obably
eliminate the bootleggers.
• • ♦
Since this column has, like most
present day conversations, wandered
about until jt hit upon the'subject of
drink, we are going to give some in-
teresting statistics on the subject of
becoming and being intoxicated. A
French doctor has formulated the
following table with respect to a
160-pound man:
Alcohol Effect
5 oz. Practically sober (normal)
Inconsiderate (rather, care-
less)
Exalted (very happy)
Unfeeling (almost passed
out)
Unconscious (out)
Alcoholic content of various drinks
(not homemade):
Whiskey ________t_____60 per cent
Brandy _______________ 60 per cent
Wine '__________________ 10 per cent
Beer__._____________. 5 per cent
According to this in order to be-
come intoxicated to the utmost it is
necessary to drink 1 1-2 quarts of
whiskey or brandy, or 7 1-2 quarts of
wine, or 1 1-4 cases of beer.
We do not advise anyone to test
these figures u3ing the local concoc-
tions.
7 oz.
14 oz.
17 oz.
24 oz.
A HAPPY WEDDING
On Sunday, December 26> 1926, at
three o'clock at the Lutheran church
at Serbin, the marriage ceremony of
Mis# Esther Zoch of Warda and Her-
man Tschatschula of Winchester was
solemnized. The old church—always
impressive in its old world atmos-
phere—was made even more beauti-
ful with its festive Christmas tree
and decorations. .
As the wedding march peeled forth
from the organ, first to enter the
church was Miss Jamie Bohot, dain-
tily dressed in white silk and carry-
ing an arm bouquet of pink roses.
With her was Theo. Zoch. Next came
Miss Hulda Tschatschula, lovely in
white with an arm bouquet of pink
poppies; with her was Martin Schultz.
Next Miss Mildred Zwinerman in
dainty white dress carrying an arm
bouquet of pink roses and with her
Erwin Zoch. Next Miss Minnie
Waeker in beautiful white silk, car-
rying an arm bouquet of pink roses
and with her was Eddie Tschatschula.
Next came Miss Sophie Zoch in
white with an arm bouquet of pink
roses and with her was Eddie Schultz.
Next came Miss Edlin Schulze, dain-
tily dressed in white with an arm
bouquet of pink poppies, with her was
Herbert Zoch.
Next came the best men, Robert
Zoch and Oswald Tschatschula, fol-
lowed by the bride and groom.
The bride was charmingly gowned
,'n white satin and georgette and her
veil, most becoming, .was of the usual
tulle and orange blossoms.
After the ceremony the relatives
and immediate friends of the two
families returned to the Zoch home—
near Warda—where a wonderful feast
hrd been prepared. And there they
ate and made merry until a late
hour.
Miss Zoch is the youngest daugh-
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Gotlieb Zoch,
and Mr. Tschatschula is the eldest
son of Mr. and Mrs. John Tschatschu-
la. We wish them a long and happy
married life.
Rev. H. Schmidt, in hi# usual, im-
pressive manner, spoke the words
that united this happy pair and thus
also brought about a relationship be-
tween two prominent and highly res-
pected families. , .
Table waiters at the wedding feast
were: Miasea Selma, Alma, Emma
and Clara Schults; Tillie, Clara and
Elsa Zoch; Alma and Hermina
Pietsch, Tillie Walther, Minnie Jurk,
Minnie and Florence Liberty, and
Misa Emma Schults. The good cooks
were: Mrs. Paul Liberty, and Mrs.
Otto Steglich of Northrup.
CHURCH OFFICERS ELECTED
Members of the Lutheran church
held their yearly meeting at the
church and elected the following of-
ficer# for the year:
PERSONAL ME?IT10N
Friday, Christmas' ere, Jllss Leila
Mohler accompanied her cousin, \i.
F. Briefer to the lam lv hens cf *!r.
and Mrs. Brieger, itinaining for the
week-end with the wife and daugh-
ter, Miss Myrtle. She apparently en-
joyed the occasion of the Christmas
festivities of this home to the fullest
extent. Her cousins sincerely hope
THAT GENERAL AGREEMENT
(By W. F. Brieger)
Anent the general agreement as
recently suggested by our interested
citizens, for the welfare of the farm-
er population and incidentally this
community in general:
The writer of thi# comment has al-
ways been an ardent advocate of di-
versification, not only a# to poultry,
E. O. Kaiser, president; C. T. Kas-
per, treasurer, and Prof. ’ A. E.
Gruetsner, secretary; the following
were elected as deacons: Hermann
Kilian, Hermann Noack, John Kas-
per and Ernst Schulze. The first two
named were elected, the other two
hold over a year.
One of the members told the writ-
er that the members were well
pleased and that they had a very
successful year, and all praised their
that she will make a habit of thus [ but in all lines; hog3, cattle, vege-
giving pleasure tp them in the future, j tables and feedstuffs of every charac-
H. E. Benedix, Rhine Benedix and ! ter. It seems as though, if the farm-
er had a crib full of corn, hay and
other feed, he could have eggs, but-
ter, cream and poultry of .every des-
cription, and most important, a tub-
full of lard, bacon, hams and the
taiuch lauded sausage until there
would be but little more to wish for.
He should have these products in
such quantity that he could go to
tow* and exchange his surplus for
sugar, coffee, salt, pepper, clothing,
shoes, flour, etc. There would be no
necessity for him to go in debt. The
main objection to the general agree-
ment would be that it names but one
product, viz: turkeys.
In the past the writer’s' experience
has been, that when the turkeys are
marketed, they always belong to the
wife and children, and the seller ab-
solutely refuses to .apply any of the
proceeds of such sa^es on hk obliga-
tions for advances, that the mer-
chants have been making them dur-
ing the year. Su<sh strend on the
part of the gentry has about disgus-
ted and caused many merchants to
refuse to do any further crediting of
his wares.
, I hope that someone may point out
a way to eliminate this serious fea-
ture of the general agreement and
that this escapes the waste basket.
LITTLE LOCALS
Prof. A. E. Gruetzner motored over
to LaGrange Thurcday, on business.
Mr. and Mrs. Chest. Black and
children of Smithville spent New
Year’s day here with relatives.
• Miss Leila Mohler left for Cameron
where she will spend part of the
holidays with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Brahm and
family, and Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Philips and child, and Joe Philips and
his slBter Louise motored through the
country for Houston last week, Fri-
day, and returned Monday. They
visited with their relatives at Hous-
ton.
‘Albert Lorenz of Grassville. spent
New Year day in Winchester with
his friends.
Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Harris and son
motored over to Taylor Sunday to
watch the grey hounds run the rabbit
on the track.
Paul Kaiser and children of Smith-
ville spent Sunday ‘♦here with his
brother, E. O. Kaiser.
E. Zilss, Chas. Miertschin and Her-
man Lorenz motored over to La-
Grange Thursday, on a business mat-
ter.
Miss Esther Tschatschula of North-
rup visited at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. P. Haschke last week for a few
days.
Paul Handrick and H. J. Reinsch
motored over to LaGrange Friday i -
morning on business. j Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Rosenhain had
Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Peter and ; as their guests on New Year’s day a
children of LaGrange spent Sunday j large number of friends and rel-
in Winchester with their parents. | atives, who were invited to enjoy a
Martine Peter of Giddings spent I good, New Year’s dinner. The writer
Sunday here with his mother. learns that about fifty persons were
J. W. Moore of Smithville was a present and that it was one of those
business''' visitor in Winchester Fri- good, old-fashioned dinners where
day, for several hours. plenty was served, and that it was
Fulton Moore of West Point came enjoyed by all present. Four fine,
•over last Friday to inspect Frank fat geese had been slaughtered and
Reinsch’s stock before he could ship prepared in an appetising manner,
the animals to Vernon, Texas. Mr. and this, together with plenty of
Moore found them all o. k. j country sausage and other good eats
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Smith and made it very agreeable for all.
children, Mrs. W. A. Giles and Mrs. | Gus. Miertschke of Northrup and
M. E. Wilkes motored over to Gid- Miss Laura Koenig of Serbin were
dings Sunday afternoon to spend a united in marriage, Rev. H. Schmidt
few hours with friends. ! officiating, at the Serbin Lutheran
Paul Handrick and son Albert mo- church on January 1, last Saturday,
tored over to LaGrange Monday to After the ceremony the wedding par-
attend the county court. j ty returned to the home of the bride
R. S. Drake attended the New where a very sumptuous wedding
Year’s ball at LaGrange and had a spread was enjoyed. Our congratu-
nice time. Jlations!
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Williams and i One of Mrs. W. A. Giles’ custom-
daughter motored over to Smithville | ers returned a middle buster to the
Sunday for a joy ride. j Giles store, because the negro using
Arthur Pohl of Halsted is in Win- it was going to remove from Win-
chester doing a little repair work- at Chester. This was last week; the
the home of P. Haschke, this week.
C. P. Jones left for Houston to
spend a few days on a business mat-
ter.
middle buster was placed alongside
the warehouse and temporarily for-
gotten. A few days ago Mr. Smith,
connected with the business had a
TO SHOW HOW WELL KNOWN to^th^ wa^hm!”6”! “i? WaJk®d
RAUF RUTH IS IN NFW ' * to the warehouse to show it to
BABE RUTH IS IN NEW the proSpective buyer. Bless your
i sweet blushes, the middle buster was
nr U t. I . i ' *°ne> someone had called during the
W»lt,r Bohannon, the t«.V n,ghl, ,ook ,he , home *
year old aon of C. S. Bohannon just even , „c>t. „ , F k,
received a card from Babe Ruth, the POflt wVlpn h_ w . 5
, . , . t ’ « i Koat wnen he went there to make a
champmn home-run knocker of the ; sale and found he did
world who plays with the New York . thing to sell And tfce wor8t Qf ^
, j • ! afi is> you don’t know whom to sus-
.When the world series was go.ng pect of bei nt f M
in Wfllfpr wrnto RoKo n loffor /vf rtnn «
plow.
MEASURING SOCIAL
on Walter wrote Babe a letter of con-
gratulations for the three home-runs
he knocked in one day. He addressed
it to Mr. H. G. Ruth,* better known ____
as Babe Ruth, New York, N. Y., as j A social was given at the hall last
he did not know his address. He got ( Friday night, December 31, by the
it anyway. This shows that Babe Ladies’ Aid. The purpose'of the so-
Ruth is as well known in New York ' cial was to raise the Methodist Super-
as Sam Drake is in Winchester. This annuate Endowment quota for the
is what was on the card: | closing year. The Methodist pastor
December 13, 1926. {addressed the crowd, then everyone
Dear Walter:— j in the house was measured and do-
Babe Ruth, as You no doubt can nated a penny for each inch of their
appreciate, receives a large number height. After everyone had been
of letters. But especially after he measured a number of hymns were
hit the three homers was he flooded sung by the men, women and child-
with mail. ren. A number of games were also
Immediately after the worjd series played. The crowd was then, served
Babe Ruth started on his barnstorm-! with lemonade and sandwiches. A
ing tour and when that was complet-1 large crowd attended and proceeds
ed, started on his theatrical tour on amounted to $37.40.
wjjich he now is. . , • --- ——
Consequently it was humanly im- Rev- A. E. Moebus of LaGrange
possible for him to look over all the ' Preached in English at the Lutheran
letters. Therefore this is to ack- } c*lurc*1 lait Sunday afternoon, deliv-
nowledge your letter to him.
Yours truly,
JAS. A. BIHLER,
• . For Babe Ruth.
Readers
new pastor, Rev. E. J. Mebus. Which
is at it should he. v
ering a very able sermon,
of the Winchester Section will be
kept posted in the future, the date of
his next sermon will appear in this
| section.
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La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 6, 1927, newspaper, January 6, 1927; La Grange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth998273/m1/6/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Fayette Public Library, Museum and Archives.