Pioneers Move to Harper and Early Texas Trails
The article recounts pioneer travel without canned goods or bread, wagon trains paused for baking and washing, and camps near Camp Verde with camel experiments. It traces the Cooke family migrations to Kerr and Gillespie counties, the Harper post office origin named after Frank Harper, and the Watkins family roots with extensive descendants. It notes local social notices and church history in Harper as of 1944.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kerr
Camp Verde
California
Cooke
Karnes County
Texas
Eliza H. Cooke
L. C. Watkins
Gillespie County
Harper
Fredericksburg
Noxville
Frank Harper
Stewart Place
Stewart’s Grove
Pedernales River
San Antonio visitors and local gatherings noted
Mr. Alf Solomon and wife of San Antonio visited his mother Mrs. J J Solomon and other relatives. Ewald Solbrig and family shopped in Harpe. Mrs. Fred Gammenthaler left for Mason to assist Miss Elsie Rothmann bitten by a rattlesnake. San Antonio residents L H Harper and Dallas couple Mr and Mrs James Hart Jr visited J S Whitewood’s family. Oren Parker hosted a barbecue for friends Sunday night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Durst
Baby of Doss
Fred Gammenthaler
Gene Jones
Little Son of
Junction
Arthur Bierschwale
Harper
Alf. Solomon
San Antonio
J. J. Solomon
Ewald Solbrig and
Chilren
Mason
Mr. Gammenthaler
Elsie Rothmann
L. H. Harper
James Hart Jr
Small Daughter
Dallas
J. S. Whitewood
Oren Parker
Dairy Production Payments Approved By War Food Administration
The War Food Administration approves dairy production payments at 45 cents per cwt for milk and 6 cents per pound of butterfat for May 1 to August 31 1944. May production applications are not accepted now. they will be combined with June filings after July 1 and before August 31. Producers should keep production and sales records and file at the County ACA office after July 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Food Administration
Dorman D. Sell
AAA
ACA
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gen. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Slitler
Wehrmacht
America
US Treasury
Treasury Department
War Advertising Council
Harper Business Firms
Carl Oehler Grocery & Market
First State Bank
Frank Floyd
Wm. Strackbein Service Station
Otto Rahe
Flog Bode Station & Warehouse
Richard Roeder
Gulf Station
C. W. Granville
Bill Kaiser
Joe Fiedler
Joe Kaiser
Texaco
Citizens Auto Company
THE
Harper Herald
Postoffice Department
Harper, Texas
Watkins
Encinal
Harper and Klespie County
Emma Harlan
Ingleside
L. L. Watkins
Kermit
Walter Tarr
Maggie Giles
Jerome Watkins
Ted Watkins
Kerrinle
O. H. Jones
Rocksprings
Ella Lee
Quemado
Robert Harlen Pierce
Jane Kelly
Long Beach
Calif
Florida
U. S. Air Forces
S. S. Stewart
Lubbock
Magdalene
Adalene Wendel
Margaret Tatsch
Luther League Federation
Crabapple
J. L. Farris
Jourdanton
R. A. Allen
First Baptist Church
Herald
Harper Baptist Church
C. J. Whitewood
Maurice Bell
A. J. Kinsey
Fred Whitewood and Sons
Junior
Brown
Kerrville
Phil Rogers
Mrs
J. J. Rogers
Albert Whetstone
of Goldthwaite
Henry Markworth
Willie Meier
Mutual Lumber Co
Will Edward
Harpe
W.fa
Bein’s Hall
American Eagles
Klaerner’s Park
L. A. Crenwelge
Mer
Stehling’s
Dad
Reedertekeburg, Texas
Kerr County Motor CO
Kerrville, Texas
Bill
Texaco Service
Joe P, Kaiser, Mgr
H. Welge Lewis
Edwin Tatsch
Carl Oehler
Grocery & Market
BR Atrochmienia
Wm. Strackbein
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