St Anthony's Bazaar Draws Big Crowd and Prizes
St Anthony's Catholic Church held a bazaar at Fiedler Hall after a Sunday dinner. Prizes awarded included a mule, 25 pounds cotton, 100 pounds cotton seed, 50 pounds cotton seed, ewe sheep, 100 pounds maize seed, a Leghorn rooster, a large blanket, a crocheted shawl, a box of candy, and a folding bed. Proceeds reached about 500 dollars with expenses around 60 to 70 dollars. Named winners include H N Kissell Kerrville Otto Itz Harper Benno Stein Spring Creek Richard Roeder Harper Frank Baumann Sr Fredericksburg Max Lang Harper Frank Lott Harper Mrs Otto Fritz Harper Mrs Charley Lange Harper Albert Kaiser Harper.
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St. Anthony’s Catholic Church
Fiedler Hall
Tose
H. N. Kissell
Kerrville
Otto Itz
Harper
Benno Stein
Spring Creek
Richard Roeder
Frank Baumann, Sr
Fredericksburg
Max Lang
Frank Lott
Otto Fritz
Frank Wahrmund
Alfred Duecker
Charley Lange
Albert Kaiser
Harper School Opens With Strong Attendance and New Staff
The Harper School opened Monday morning with very good attendance. W. C. Wenzel serves as superintendent and teaches ninth and tenth grades. Grace Hargroves is principal and teaches seventh and eighth. Vivian Gooden teaches fifth and sixth. Alice Stovall teaches third and fourth. Mrs. W. C. Wenzel teaches first and second. All teachers are new except Stovall and Gooden who taught here last year.
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Harper School
W. C. Wenzel
Grace Hargroves
Vivian Gooden
Alice Stovall
Stovall
Gooden
Harper Area Social Roundup Players and Visitors
Miss Abbie Cook spends the week in Austin. Edmund and Mrs Tatsch visit Harper from the Reservation. E R Dabney and family travel from Austin to enjoy a Harper visit. W C Grosenbach and son Billy come to Harper midweek. Fred Whitewood with Madge Rommel visit Harper. Harry Marshal from Fredericksburg visits Harper. Gilbert Pape stays in Fredericksburg with friends and relatives. Ed Peter and Reinhold Reed trade in Harper. Adolph Filter makes a Fredericksburg business trip. Oliver Kowert and Aug Ahrens of Fredericksburg stop by Tuesday. Lewis Menges and kids from Hayes ranch visit Harper. Felix Jung of Detroit visits his parents in Harper for the first time in eight years. Bill Berson family of Violet and Odillia Hoelscher of Corpus Christi spend time at the Lange home.
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Felix Jung
Detroit
Michigan
Jake Jung
Bill Berson
Violet
Odillia Hoelscher
Corpus Christi
Frank Lange
Harp er visitors and bereavement report from local page
Oran Parker visited Harper on Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Felix Maier of Sunday visited. Mr and Mrs Dan Honig and children were in town Wednesday with Mrs Ralph Solomon and Mrs John Gibson of Kerrville also in town. The death of J M Scarborough Jr's month old daughter occurred Tuesday night at Secor Sanitarium, grieved friends announced Wednesday morning.
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Felix Maier
Fredericksburg
Harper Sunday
Dan Honig
City
Ralph Solomon
John Gibson
Kerrville
J. M. Scarborough, Jr
Secor Sanitarium
Texas Lignite Riches Highlight State Resources
Texas sits atop sixty thousand square miles of lignite. In 1928 life insurance companies paid out 53.1 million dollars in death benefits matured endowments dividends and surrender values ranking eleventh among the states. The Texas printing industry spent 9.282 million dollars on wages in 1927 excluding salaries.
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Texas
Texas Newspaper Landscape by the Numbers
Texas has 121 daily, one tri weekly and 617 weekly newspapers totaling 944 publications. Of 245 county seats, 220 host newspapers.
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Texas
Card of Thanks for St. Anthony's Bazaar Harper
Gratitude is offered from Fredericksburg to all who patronized the St. Anthony's church bazaar in Harper last Sunday. The event's success is acknowledged, with special thanks to the Blum orchestra for music and to Loyal Music store for bringing the piano.
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Fredericksburg
St. Anthony’s
Harper
Blum
Lloyal Music Store
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Purina
R. M. Lewis
America
Chrysler Motors
Harper News
Mias Marie
ST. Anthony's Bazaar
Abbie Cook
Austin
Edmund Tatsch
Reservation
Harper Friday
E. R. Dabney of
Raymond Cottle
W. C. Grosenbacher
Billy
Harper Wednesday
Mrs
Fred Whitewood
Madge Rommel
Harry Marshal
Gilbert E. Pape
Frederiksburg
Peter and
Reinhold Reed
Adolph Filter
Oliver Kowert
Aug Ahrens
Lewis Menges
Hayes Ranch
Oran Parker
Harry Hohman
ACME
Juenke & Schoenewolf
General Merchants
Fredericksburg Motor Co
Fredericksburg, Texas
Sudden Service Garage
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