Weimar Mercury, The (Newspaper) - December 12, 1958, Weimar, Texas THE WEIMAR MERCURY VOLUME NUMBER SEVENTYONE COLORADO FRIDAY DECEMBER 1951 SIX Eagle Columbus Firms Loses To Shiner Cage Meet Continues 1 Coach Troy Weima Wildcats missed 3 shots in the final 8 seconds to b defeated 5553 by Shiner afternoon in the opening game o Weimars third annual The loss put Weimar in the conso lation bracket with another day Eagle for a Thurs day game that will elim one of them from the tourney In other games Pla tonla beat Eagle Lake Col beat Schulenburg Sher idan beat Garwood beat Round and Moulton beat More Today action continues at today Thursday when Giddings plays La and Gonzales meets Louise at Following the Lake ship bracket play between Flatonia and Shiner at 6 Columbus and Moulton at and Sheridan against the winner of the Grange in the Fridays will start at with Wackier taking on the Garwood will piny the Grange loser at Round the loser of at Schulenburg at 6 games begin with one at The championship game will be at 15 Led First Quarter Weimar was ahead 1210 at the nd of the first quarter and Shiner ed 2725 at the Shiner had its lead to 4641 as the final but the Wildcats hopped it down for the exciting At Tuesday night the Wildcats lost with Mike Brynt scoring 24 and James Dahse 14 or Weimar and Edwin Peter both trams in Cecil Calhoun and Gold dropping in 4 points Visit is Next Prizes v 23 i Commerce ad on Page 3 of this is Look for it again next Santas first visit will be next at when he will join a parade from the public school campus to town and spend the afternoon visiting with all children who He will come by with Brasher picking him up at a northern airport and landing him in Blackie cow pasture at the northwestern corner of Leonard Chambers Weimar Wildcat Band will lead his parade down Post Office Street from the school to the business circling the block and stopping at the Brasher building just south of the Mercury where the Garden Club and city workers will have prepared a stage and There he will visit with the children and give each a bag of Santa Day or the drawing of merchants will be Merchants are to have boxes at the city park bandstand by 2 and the drawings will begin at 3 Merchants who arc not listed in this weeks ad and wish to be added to next weeks should get their tickets at First State Bank by Registration at all the and presence at the drawings is not Winners names will be posted in several places and published in the 1 issue of the Winners will pick up their prizes at the stores giving County E II Colorado County bought some 000 worth of including n maintainer for Precinct a pickup track for the county a car for the sheriffs department and a sloper blade attachment for Precinct in by commissioners court in their regular monthly meeting on With all four commissioners and the county judge the court also Voted salary raises for the two district court 0 Approved the lease con tract with the Farm Bureau for ren tal of county Reappointed all Drainage Dis Added to the 1958 bud get for road work allowed an ad for district clerk help and handled other matters o Baring Sells Pickup Baring Eagle Lake Chevrolet submitted the win bid among six firms to sell the county a Chevrolet pickup truck for County Agent Doyle Moore Its bid was with an alternate bid adding for such the Other truck bidders were Brasher Motor Universal Motor plus for extras mentioned above Meyer Motor Meyer Car Bid Wins Meyer Motor of Columbus was low bidder on the a 1959 Ford Fairlane sedan offered for with of a 1955 model Chevrolet 210 now being used by the sheriffs Meyer offered a package price of for both the pickup and Brasher Motor had a the total the county will pay buying the vehicles on low separate Other car bidders Brasher Motor All these are based on the 1955 Among 5 companies South Texas Equipment offer of an Adams maintainer for net of a Gallon while not the lowest was accepted by the commissioners as most advantageous buy for the Other bidders were The Mustang Equipment Benson Tractor and Boeck Engineering prices ranging for a motor to 600 for a Mustang Equipment submitted the only bid for the sloper blade at for a Caterpillar moto grader in Precinct and its pric of was accepted by th Court Reporters Get Raise From 4 Counties Colorado County Commissioners Court voted Monday to pay its share of a raise for the two district court Bob Gray and Betty who serve 4 counties along with District Judges Lester Holt and ElEach of the 4 counties now will pay Kelly and Gray per In addition they and transcript In other money matters Monday The court granted the request of District Clerk Richard Schmidt for additional money needed to pay his office helpers salary the rest of the An additional was put in the 1958 budget for road work to which had exceeded the budgeted amount for that type of Increased from to A from the City of Columbus for worth of street paving at he along with a city Payday for county officers and ip to 22 to precede the c Preparations for Weimars tw Santa Claus Days shifted into nig gear the past week as more than merchants posted cash and disc prizes totaling nearly 1 be given in drawings De cember Dai 00 Drau o Eight or ten more merchants wit h perhaps more in prizes are ex 0 to be added during the com ing A complete list of thos o who had signed up in the program along with the prizes they are of is published in a Chamber Allotted 1296 Less or Farmers V and their wives will join others ovc the nation in help ing deckle several important ques lions through a cotton marketing They way they vote will determine whether quota penalties will apply the kind of allotment program in cf and the level of price on the size of but Cotton ite Monday 1959 just announced and revealing a decrease in acreage more than 10 are expected to whet interest in the Colorado Countys allotment for 1959 is acres as compared with this years a reduction of 9 Voting Boxes Nine polling places will be open in this county from 8 to 6 In this area cotton growers and their wives will vote at Weimar City New Community Center and Store at Marketing quotas will only be in effect for 1959 if at least twothirds of the votes cast in the referendum are in favor of the If marketing quotas are farm operators will have an opportunity to elect a choice between A complying with their regular farm with price support parity for the 1959 crop of uplam IB complying with an increased allotment larger the regular farm with under Choice No Less Support If more than onethird of the Army Fund Drive December 1517 A drive to replenish the Salvation Army funds in a local a fund which is available at all times for help to local needy fami will be held here Monday thru The local fund is down to with Money collected previously has been used to help families in real need o clothing and medicine they wcr unable to Henry Ed Gone Va Ho ward Mac Allister and Mayor urges citizens to support the drive so this fund may continue to After the United Fund gets into operation here the Salvation Army w 1 be included in but the first United Fund drive will provide funds for and the local Salvation Army need is for Glee Club Annual Christmas Concert Monday A program of band and Kinging will be offered in the 7 Children U A Negro mother and her 7 children age from 3 to 11 years were left homeless and with only the lothes on their backs when fire Adams Cook said she was t quickly enveloping the mall home in A gusty north threatened to carry the fire to y but firemen arrived quickly and None of the occupants of the house Several of children eie in There are four a n and three ages for lit Homeless 5 and Fronle Jackson has provided a home for the anc through the efforts of Kitty Salvation Army who by ivas hero minimum ture needs are being but arc needed for the nay leave them with only the regular Ihc price support level to producers who stay within their allotments would drop to SOU of A referendum on rice marketing quotas will be held Monday also bul it docs not affect farmers in this part of the Any producer who was engaged in the production of cotlon in placed all or of his allotment in the Soil or had nn allotment m is eligible to said manager of the Colorado ASC County Committee office He emphasized that wives of producers arc also eligible to vote Christmas Issue On December 23 The Christmas greeting will he published at when Leonard Chambers students present their annual Christmas The concert is free to the The high school band will play Burst of the Buglers Holiday cornet trio by Tommy Richard Cernosek and John In the Viclory Southern and The Sixth Grade Band will present hree numbers Ensy Steps and Junior Band Eight pieces will be offered by the Girls Glee Club For the Beauty if the Go Tell il on the Holy Caol of the Rise Up Shepherd ind How Lovely What Child is nd White Traffic Halted As Car Topples Post Henry Lee made il U s Christmas lights COURTHOUSE HOLIDAYS SET All offices in the courthouse at Columbus will be closed both and Christmas following the usual commissioners court voted REAPPOINTED Commissioners if Drainage for terms Monday Prank and Frank Ve TEXAS MASONS LEVEL CORNERSTONE FOR SCHOOL of Commerce Meets Tonight plans for Weimars two San Highway The same size ns the ui niles but used ns is the corner of Main nm SI broke about G feet narrowly mining Williams The pole anil he jumble of highway Inl and i u WHAT GOES ON HERE 14 Womens Guild 1 nr m ding 2 30 in Iir Club when the Chamber of meets at in the all president will hi nr from the il K if i Inn h i i i i PRODUCE PRICES ong state officers of the who port levelling of the cornerstone for building being erected on trie con Home and School of li were I grand to Randall Fort The
