La Grange Journal (La Grange, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 13, 1935 Page: 1 of 8
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Opposite Masonic Building. Published Every Thursday Morning and Entered at the Post Office as Second-Class Matter
B. F. Harigel, Proprietor
Democratic in Principle and a Worker For LaGrange and Fayette County
$2.00 Per Year
Volume 56
LaGrange, Fayette County, Texas. Thursday, June 13, 1935
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Number 24
Neighborhood and State
News Gathered at Random
Regular Week-End.
WICHITA FALLS. —Two women
and one man, residents of Burkbur-
nett, were killed instantly when their
automobile overturned after sideswip-
ing a truck on Highway 66 nine miles
of Jacksboro Saturday night. The
dead are H. O. Schroeder, 34; Mrs.
Bruce Palmer, 30, and Mrs. Mae War-
ren, 28. Bruce Palmer, husband of
Mrs. Palmer, was injured.
• * *
Spectacles Missing From
Wilson Statue.
AUSTIN.—Woodrow Wilson's spec-
tacles are lost—the spectacles being
the bronze nose-glasses which a-
dorned the Wilson bronze statue on
the University of Texas campus.
Amateur sleuths are divided as to
whether they were taken by a bird,
looking for a nest framework, or by
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a student prankster seeking a me-
mento of college days.
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Leave For Summer Vacation.
GAINESVILLE.—It looks like a
long, hot summer for Gainesville bar-
bers and razor blade salesmen. A
whisker-growing contest, sponsored
by the Cooke County Fair, will start
June 15, when the face of every con-
testant will be given a minute in-
spection to make sure it has no stub-
ble. The object of the contest is to
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obtain typical characters for the pion-
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boiling
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eer days’ courthouse square, to be re-
produced on the fair groups. It will
end September 2, closing day of this
year’s exposition, when cash prizes
Will Send Delegation to Capital to
Push Request For Roads.
MINERAL WELLS.—Texas county
commissioners and judges Saturday
indorsed a proposal that the state
highway commission seek $100,000,000
in PWA funds to pave Texas road
gaps before the Centennial celebra-
tion next year. The resolution of in-
dorsement declared the judges and
commissioners believed it better to
spend the money in that way than on
“less worthwhile projects.”
Judge E. L. Pitts, Lubbock, pres-
ident of the Commissioners and Judg-
es Association, which convened here
in a special meeting to discuss the
road fund question, and Judge W. R.
Nelson, Carthage, secretary, were
named to go to Washington within
the next two weeks with members of
the state highway commission and
the state engineer to ask for the
funds.
* * *
Fall of The Alamo—From The
University News Service.
AUSTIN.—Reports of the fall of
the Texas Alamo may not have
echoed around the world but they did
reach‘throughout a great part of the
United States of America, judging
from vaTious newspaper accounts of
that year. One account of that trag-
ic battle appeared in the Goshen De-
mocrat, of Goshen, New York, on
April 16, 1836, a copy of which has
just come into the hands of the libra-
rian of The University of Texas. It
will be given for the longest beard, | partment of the University, whose
the best-trimmed beard, the most mother, Mrs. William H. Duryea, of
comical facial adornment and the best
handle-bar mustache.
Money For Centennial Expenditure
Provided by Commission.
AUSTIN.—The Centennial com-
mission of control Saturday paved
Middletown, N. Y., sent it to him.
It was through the efforts of Samuel
E. Gideon, University professor of ar-
chitecture, who is keenly interested
in the preservation of any material
relating to early Texas, that the gift
I was presented to the University li-
the way for expenditure of $1,200,000 , brary.
state funds for a central exposition , The report of the fall of the Ala-
building and equipment at Dallas. mo, published in the Goshen Demo-
Plans of the Central Exposition Cor-! crat, is practically identical with one
poration for a $1,000,000 building published on March 28, 1836, in the
were approved, a contract made, and
a certification to the comptroller ef-
fected to make the funds available
immediately.
Walter D. Cline, general manager
of the Dallas exposition, announced
he would leave immediately to urge
an appropriation of $3,000,000 by
congress to supplement state, city and
exposition funds. The state appro*
priation was $3,000,000, of which
$500,000 was set aside for publicity,
$1,200,00 for Dallas and the remain-
der for commemorations at historical
places. The exposition issued $2,000,-
000 in bonds, while the City of Dal-
las promised $3,500,000 for construc-
tion.
New Orleans Post and Union, and
reproduced on April 12 in the Ar-
kansas Gazette. The University li-
brary does not have a copy of the
Post and Union but does possess the
Arkansas Gazette which carries the
account.
The New York paper evidently re-
ceived its report of the battle in a
round-about manner. The article fol-
lows:
“Sir—Bexar has fallen! Its garri-
son was only 187 strong, commanded
by Lieut. Col. W. Travis. After
standing repeated attacks for two
weeks and an almost constant can-
(See Neighborhood News, Page 2)
Are You Interested
In Having Trades
Day At LaGrange?
Thursday night, June 13, at 8:00
o’clock a meeting ft the business men
of LaGrange; object: to discuss the
question “Shall There be a Trades
Day at LaGrange This Month?”
Are you interested? The question
will be handled in a business-like
manner, with comment from every
business man who wishes to air his
views.
Past Trades Days at LaGrange
have proven to be great attractions
for LaGrange, and have drawn thous-
ands. To outline a program, in the
event a favorable decision is made,
will be another part of the discussion.
Here is a bit of inducement: On
Thursday night the prize fight will
be on, Max Baer and James Brad-
dock will mix it. No reason to re-
main at home and “get the fight by
rounds” as Geo. Lauterstein will
bring his radio to the meeting and
“tune” in at the proper time. Thus
you get all about the fight and all
about Trades Day.
You can smoke and talk, and when
the fight’s on, you can smoke and lis-
ten. Thursday night at 8:00 o’clock!
Youth Injured When
Diving Into Creek;
Partial Paralysis
Fred Dockal, son of Wilkins Dock-
al, tenant on the A. C. Schuech small
farm near the city limits in the east-
ern end of the city of LaGrange, was
critically injured last Saturday when,
in company with several boy friends
he was enjoying a swim in High Hill
creek. The youth, in diving into the
swimming pool evidently forgot that
the pool was shallow. His head
struck the rock bottom with great
force, and in consequence he was par-
tially paralyzed.
Rushed to the LaGrange Hospital
he was immediately given the neces-
sary attention, but no X-ray was tak-
en. An ugly scalp wound was nursed
and dressed by the surgeon and at
noon Tuesday, Fred was reported to
be improving.
TRUCK TURNED
Recently Arrested
Swindler Has Long
Record—Boarding
Two weeks since the Journal made
mention of the arrest of one J. H.
Kelly, a transient, who was brought
from Schulenburg to LaGrange and
placed in jail, charged with swind-
ling; Kelly is still an inmate of the
county jail. The Journal stated, at
the time the article referring to the
arrest appeared, that “the sheriff’s
department is handling the case along
the usual lines” and these “lines”
have revealed something.
Taking the finger prints and for-
warding them to Washington, the
sheriff was advised by mail, with a
“record of the transient that identi-
fies him entirely to the opposite of
that which he sought to pose, vizi
“traveling superintendent of a Pull-
man Railway Company.” (Journal
readers will recall that mention w^s
made of Kelly having telegrams, sup-
posedly sent to him, but which did
not bear the earmarks of genuine-
ness.) Kelly’s “record” is punctured
with prison terms, pardons, aliases,
forgery, etc., with the last entry, the
report from Sheriff Loessm.
In referring to this transient, the
Journal adds the following, which is
taken from the last issue of the Shi-
ner Gazette:
“About four months ago a transient
approached Mayor Richter, who was
chairman of the Community Chest,
for a meal ticket. The custom of giv-
ing meal tickets had just been can-
celled, but there was something so
out of the ordinary about the ‘tran-
sient’, the Mayor personally tipped^
him for a meal. He also received
worthwhile aid at the brewery.
“Some four or five weeks ago May-
or Richter received a very gracious
letter from the same party ’from the
St. Anthony Hotel in San Antonio,
recalling the incident and asking for
the address of parties at the brewery
to whom he wished to write his ap-
preciations. He told of his recent
marriage to a lady of wealth and of
his restoration to worthwhile employ-
Fire Boys Delegates
Leave For El Paso To
Attend Convention
(See Arrested Swindler, Page 8)
Driver Pietsch, of the truck deliv-
ering milk to LaGrange, sought to
avoid colliding with another motor
vehicle, Sunday morning, near the
Joe Brendle, Sr.
Aged 82 Years
Dies Friday, 7 th
Death relieved another last Friday,
when it claimed Joe Brendle, Sr., aged
82 years, 6 months and 7 days. Mr.
Brendle died at the home of his son-
in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs.
Otto Kirsch of near Halsted. Funeral
services were held from the residence
of Mr. Kirsch Sunday morning at
8:30 o’clock, and interment, took place
at ihe Rutersville cemetery. Rev.
Carl Baer officiated a^ the home and
at the grave.
Present to witness the last rites, in
addition to his mourning relatives,
was a large number of friends of the
family, attesting the high esteem in
which the deceased was held. Of Mr.
Brendle, one who knew him intimate-
ly and for many years writes as fol-
lows:
Mr. Joe Brendle was the eldest of
seven children born to Joseph Brendle
and wife Pauline, nee Sommer. He
was united in marriage with Miss
Pauline Herdler, January 23, 1877; to
thi3 union there was born six chil-
dren, one of whom died in infancy.
Miss Pauline, a daughter, died in
April of this year. Surviving him
are: his widow, Mrs. Pauline Brendle,
three sons Reinhold of Austin, Joe of
Rutersville and Wm. E. Brendle of
Rutersville; one daughter, Mrs. Otto
(Mathilde) Kirsch of near Halsted
and five grandchildren. These sur-
viving relatives have the sincere sym-
pathy of everyone in this hopr of sor-
row.
Mr. Brendle was a laborous farm-
er, a kind neighbor, husband and
father, and a highly respectable citi-
zen of this county.
THE STORK’S VISIT
W. W. Thomas of Conroe visited in
LaGrange, Sunday and Monday with
Mrs. Thomas, nee Miss Ruby Dippel,
Assistant Chief Gus. A. Spacek',
acting as “sponsor”, in company with
Walter E. Neimann, Arnold E. Spa-
cek and W. J. Hruska, delegates se-
lected at the April meeting of the
LaGrange Fire Department, left for
El Paso Sunday to attend the annual
convention of the State Volunteer
Firemen’s Association. They will re-
turn at the week-end. What the dele-
gates and the Assistant Chief expect
to see while towing the side lines is
another matter.
These conventions, held annually,
have a tendency to give to the dele-
gates from over the State, good in-
structions in fire fighting and also,
the need for attending drills regular-
ly. The railway companies, as here-
tofore, courteously extend passes over
their lines.
Last Thursday the monthly meet-
ing of the Fire Department was held
in the firemen’s room at the City Hall.
This matter of attending the State
convention and to study what is of-
fered at the sessions, was given in
final instructions just before the
meeting adjourned.
There was brought to the attention
of the members, an earnest plea from
the officers of the Department; the
plea came in the form of a typed pe-
tition and bore the signatures of the
official end of the organization. Out-
lining that mere membership meant
nothing if the interest in the efficien-
cy of the members was disregarded,
these officers, through their spokes-
man, Chief Creuzbaur asked that
every drill be attended. “Unless this
is done,” said the Chief, “LaGrange
may need only a paid fireman at the
fire station, who will give the alarm
and be ready to accompany any and
all citizens to a fire.” Which means
that the citizens would lend a hand
and do what may be expected of them,
in such appealing moment.
Chief Creuzbaur also mentioned, in
the form of a plea to the members,
that “it is hard to reduce your key
rate once it has been raised; requires
several years. Let us therefore keep
our Department up to the high stand-
ard essential, and not be informed by
the insurance department at Austin
that our key rate has been raised be-
cause of our own negligence and will-
ful disregard for the service we are
supposed to render.”
The Fire Department, with Chas.
Albrecht, will sponsor one night’s en-
tertainment at the City Hall grounds,
a night during the rt-rmHon hour
period which has its first offering
Friday night. What the program will
be, will be announced later.
The Department, having installed
a part of the paraphernalia essential
in a small gymnasium is causing
some of the boys to take £hese gym-
nastic exercises and they seem to like
it. At the meeting last Thursday
night, it was agreed to have the ad-
dition of another muscle building
gym furniture.
Two new members were added to
the Department; these are Richard
Alexander and A. H. Witt. The sec-
retary was instructed to address a
vote of thanks to the City Council
ior the appropriation of expense
money for the delegates to the State
convention.
Vital Statistics
home of Mrs. Rosina Lueders. The and the little baby daughter, Ouita
truck turned turtle; Mr. Pietsch es- Ann, bom last Wednesday. Mother
caped injuries. I and babe are doing fine.
Deaths Reported
Died at LaGrange, June 2, of pel-
lagra, George Alexander, (colored);
aged 76 years.
Died at LaGrange, May 81, of ab-
ce»s of lung; Henry Friedrich, aged
63 years, 2 months and 20 days.
Died near LaGrange, June 7, of
apoplexy, Joseph Brendle, aged 82
years, 6 months and 7 days.
THE STORK’S VISIT
A baby boy was bom to Mr. and
Mrs. Geo. Prilop of Hostyn, Sunday
morning. The young man tipped the
scales at eight and one-half pounds.
Mr. and Mrs. Eck. Weishuhn and
daughters of Houston, on a visit with
Mr. and Mrs. Julius Weishuhn at
Ledbetter, were in LaGrange for sev-
eral hours, Tuesday.
Alluring" For Ever
When Out In The Open
After you have closed the office desk for the day you lean
back in the old revolving chair, gaze at the walls and think; you
believe this helps you to rest; reading what the news gatherer
has placed into shape is the better recreation. Unfortunately for
the most of the readers, what is written by some of the staff writ-
ers cannot be reproduced without incurring a penalty. These
chaps are everywhere, they bob up like a cork in the brook stream,
and they ever give you something new to think about.
Greta Garbo left for native home in Sweden last week; who
cares? Right, the interrogative is timely. There isn’t much to
the item, home ever draws the prodigal and there is always the
fatted calf to be slaughtered by the old man when news reaches
him that the prodigal is about to walk through the front gate.
Greta may have sought a rest from the studios, and the orders
that the rasping voice of a director belches forth.
Merely going away is not the idea to mention; when one of
these celebrities—call them that because the public has become
infatuated with their acting—gets out in the open there iB a bat-
tery of photographers ready to snap the camera and get a last
minute picture before the whistle of the passenger boat is heard.
That happened to Greta when she reached the harbor at New
York. AnS Greta had the pleasing knowledge that her picture
would appear in the afternoon edition of the paper. That’s
advertising.
Says one writer: “Without those pictures these cinema ar-
tists would be standing on a peg.” Occurs to us that a great
many of the artists do just that. The advertising feature is over-
whelming, however, and it is needed by every artist in the cinema
world. The public clamors for everything that keeps u]>a ner-
vous tension, and every time a photograph appears on the first
page of the daily presp, there is talk, and more talk.
Why does the man attending a gathering of boosters, wheth-
er for a road meeting purpose or for the annual celebration of a
County Fair make the statement: “We must get some publicity
on this meeting, or little will be accomplished?” The answer is
easy and can'be given in four words: “It pays to advertise.”
Willing to be put to the test of proving that contention,’ the
Rambler directs the reader to the publicity that is given by every
corporation, every convention of dignitaries, every convention of
civic and fraternal organizations.
This advertising is a part of the tax the newspapers have to
pay to keep their organizations alive; they spend thousands of
dollars in the effort to hold the attention of the public, and in
turn they sell thousands of dollars worth of commercial adver-
tising space, and extra copies of their paper. The auditor that
makes his appearance at the newspaper office, later, checks up
and approves the sworn statement of circulation, as made by the
advertising and circulation managers.
Satisfying the cravings of the public is to every man an as-
signed duty; you will ever find that when the housewife looks
over the paper, especially the weekly paper, her attention is
drawn to the advertisement of the merchant and she reads what
he has to offer for the week. It would seem meet and proper,
with this knowledge a part of the business man’s assets, he would
certainly not seek to incur the displeasure of the little woman
who receives her weekly allowance for home expenditures, but
would help her to balance the budget by advertising his mer-
chandise.
This hue and cry about not being able to get the business
because the money is not there, is time-worn and hackneyed;
getting a publisher’s rates and then forgetting to place the ad-
vertisment is poor business management. Had it not been known
that the French liner was to dock at the pier in New York last
week, there would have been no demonstration. But it was ad-
vertised, and the crowd was there to give the greeting. Greet-
ings are always good, try spreading them for a while, in the
form of an advertisement in the old Journal. Keep at it and the
dollars will roll your way.
Notes From County
Home Dem. Agent
On County Work
Small Equipment.
Canning can be made .much easier
if some small equipment is acquired.
A wooden spoon is useful in making
pickles and relishes, and for stirring
products, especially those pre-heated
in enamel vessels. Two ladles or
dippers will be helpful. One of these
should have a solid bowl and the oth-
er a perforated bowl. Two funnels
will solve the problem of filling jars,
cans and bottles. One funnel should
have a very small opening and the
other should have an opening large
enough to fit the top of a fruit jar
or can. Two large kettles will give
the capacity necessary for pre-heat-
ing products as well as giving capa-
city for preserving. Several sharp
pointed knives are excellent for peel-
ing and removing cores. A ten cent
stiff bristle vegetable brush is useful
in brushing the silks from the corn
when husking.
Precautions to be Observed.
When packing tin cans, the con-
tents should be thoroughly heated be-
fore the can is sealed. If the cans
cool after being filled, or if they are
filled cold, the cans and contents
should be heated before the sealing
is done. This pre-heating, either be-
fore the product is placed in the can
or jar, or after they are filled, serves
several purposes. It expels the air
from the can, drives the air out of
the cells of the products themselves,
and serves to form a more complete
vacuum.
Directions for packing glass jars
vary with the type used and are dis-
cussed in the canning bulletins.
After the food is packed in the can
and sealed, it should be placed im-
mediately in the pressure cooker or
water bath. To allow it to stand any
length of time before processing will
develop a condition known as flat
sours, or make the product become
mushy and taste as if vinegar had
been added.
In packing products such as greens,
(recommended in No. 2 cans or pints
or smaller sizes only) £he heat will
penetrate quicker and a better steril-
ized product results if a wooden han-
dled spoon or similar instrument is
forced down the center of the can,
making a small opening or “well”
into which the liquor may flow. Too
close or too tight packs give oppor-
tunity for under-sterilization and de-
velopment of botulinus poisoning.
After the jars or cans are placed
in the cooker or canner, it too should
be exhausted or have the air driven
out. To accomplish this, the petcock
is left open for about seven minutes
after the steam starts escaping and
then closed. This method lets the air
sealed in the canner escape, thus al-
lowing the pressure gauge to regia-
(See Notes From Co. Agent, Page 8)
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