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Newspaper
Austin American
Location
Austin, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1949
Page
10
Rockdale on May 31 reports the total destruction by fire of the C. W. Matson two family apartment house, one of the town’s oldest landmarks dating to 1874. The origin of the blaze is unknown. the owner cannot estimate the loss, and occupants include Frank Love.
The First Baptist Church will open its vacation Bible School on June 13. The faculty includes Mrs Linwood Mehaffey in the beginners department Mrs Jim Edas in the primary department Mrs Claude Muston in the junior department and Mrs J E Daniels in the intermediate department C E Zigler will direct handwork for junior and intermediate departments.
A June 7 field tour sponsored by the San Marcos Chamber of Commerce will visit Hays County farms and ranches. Stops include Sid Hall’s, John Green’s, Go forth dairies, Bob Barton dairy, Goethorf Ohlendorf terraced land, and Gus Schneider farm with cotton yield improvements.
A car crash near Beaumont on Tuesday killed C. H. Wilcox about 22 and injured R. W. Jackson and R. A. Conroy. All three were Houston employees of the Singer Sewing Machine Company.
Llano Chamber of Commerce will award cash prizes totaling 100 dollars for parade floats in the joint Homecoming Celebration and Rodeo. Prizes include 15 10 5 for club and organization floats and commercial floats, 10 for best out of town float, 10 for best matched horseback pair, and 20 for best entry. Judges are chamber managers and secretaries from nearby towns. Local blacksmith Will Tatsch notes rising horse-shoeing activity with 60 horses shod in two weeks.
Twenty three future homemakers will receive on the job training in their homes this summer for school credit in canning clothes making cooking gardening child care and home improvements supervised by Mrs. Mary Cain. Enrollees include Delphine Werli Arnell Hopf Lula Seelke Manuella Gomez Latrelle Rieger Patsy Talley Esther Diddle Laverne Caninenberg Rosa Lee Walther Reva Rithmeyer Lavern Wilde Bennie Schirick Joyce Carter Evelyn Skrhak Dolores Bachmeyer Helen Kubicek Maydell Hopf Loraine George Lenore Clapton Marie Kuhl Marjorie Blackwell Pauline Sulke.
Elgin May 31. Miss Leona Callahan of Bastrop Senior Club will serve on District 12 4-H Club Council in Beeville from June 14. She has five years of 4-H work in Bastrop County and was county winner and state second in home improvements last year. she is secretary of her club this year.
One oil well in the old Thrall field east of Taylor is flowing 30 barrels a day and casing is being set in a second well. The wells are drilled by the D and D Company led by Denver H. Daugherty with Ralph Casey and Orbis S. Siler. The discovery well is on the George Dollinger place south of Thrall and southeast of Taylor. A deep test is expected soon.
Mrs. Ben L. Tyler formerly of Taylor and her son John Tyler were injured in a Houston collision with a truck on wet pavement. Mrs Tyler suffered a broken leg and cuts while John Tyler was reported in critical condition.
The First Presbyterian Church of Lockhart marks its centennial year with a schedule starting June 5. Dr Sam L Joekel and the church's committee unveil sermons by Dr W B Greenwood and Rev Malcolm Purcell, nightly talks, a congregational dinner, and a July 12 final sermon by Rev A A McCurdy. The observance honors charter members and the church’s founders.
Fire department rescue workers recovered the body of Charles L. Colgin 25 of Big Spring after a boat capsized 200 yards offshore on Gregory Lake near Westbrook He and Carter Nelson were fishing when the accident occurred in May.
Marble Falls welcomes the Atchison Lumber and Hardware Company owned by Mr and Mrs Joe B Atchison The business opens the first week of June and is located on Highway 281 and 7th Street The Atchisons previously lived in Austin and bring 20 years of experience to the venture
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