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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1941
Page
7
Four generation Kaiser celebration held Sunday in Harper with Mr. and Mrs W M Kaiser and their children grandchildren and great grandchildren present. Attendees included Rev A A Gitter Mrs Anton Loth Ad Loth and Harold Dietel among others.
Auto registration for 1941 begins with plates on sale now and valid on public roads by April 1. Gold on black plates for standard vehicles and reverse colors for farm and commercial trucks mark new plates, issued without color differentiation previously. Titles required by 1942, Gillespie County ranges listed for passenger, truck, farm, trailers, dealers, and motorcycles.
E F Ultmann writes to Farmers' League members urging stronger action in 1941 to raise farm family incomes, oppose corporate farming, and unite farmers under a broader national effort. He cites tax, truck load, and farm legislation battles and calls for broader membership and delegates to the Yoakum convention.
The Harper Volunteer Fire Department hosts a Saturday night dance on February 8 at Benn's Hall. Music is provided by the Texas Playboys. The department asks for community support from Harper and nearby areas. Mr and Mrs Gem Wenig traveled to Junction on Wednesday.
The author argues U S policy should remain noninterventionist and focused on peace, open markets, and freedom of the seas while avoiding entangling alliances. He warns that a two ocean navy is needed and that staying out of Europe and the Far East may best preserve U S interests and curb communist risk.
Divine worship held at 10 o clock every Sunday and on Holy days. An early Mass at 8 30 on the third Sunday each month and all Holydays. Weekday bell rings 7 30 a m Mass at 7 45 a m. Discussion Club meets second and fourth Sundays at 1 30 p m.
Sunday school at 10 a m led by H H Fairchild superintendent. Morning service at 11 o clock. Evening service at 7 15 p m. W M A Mondays at 3 p m. Prayer meeting and teachers meeting Wednesdays at 7 15 p m. G A s and RA s Fridays at 7 15 p m.
The notice lists Sunday school every Sunday at 10 and church services on the first and third Sundays at 3:00 p.m. and 11:00 a.m. Night services are at 7. Worshippers are warmly invited to attend.
Sunday School on the 1st and 3rd Sundays at 10:00 a m English services on the 1st Sunday at 11:00 a m and the 4th Sunday at 7:30 p m German Service on the 3rd Sunday at 11:00 a m Luther League meets the 2nd Sunday at 7:30 p m Woman's Missionary Society gathers the 3rd Wednesday at 2:00 p m We invite and welcome you.
Harper High gains six additional instructional units to total 25, adding car training wood work welding and metal work. The Harper district area grows from 85 square miles to about 360 square miles since July 1 1989, boosting resources and scholastic reach.
Harper High School expands from social to vocational studies with 800 enrollment, added buses, and consolidations in Kimble and Gillespie counties. The district opened a nucleus for a large central high school to serve Hill Country, with a federal defense school program pending for ages 17 to 24 in trucking, aviation, and electrical trades.
The Harper Future Farmers of America stock show drew 20 entrants last Saturday with judges R R Tippet and Cecil Clendenin. Prize money from local businesses funded prizes. four animals were donated by Chester Brown, Clint Brown, Carlos Parker, and Spencer Whitewood. Winners across categories included Alfred Honig and Morris Bode in the mutton class, Billy Brown in buck lamb, Vergil Lennon in aged buck, Chas Schmidt in ewe lamb, and Junior Whitewood with Robert Kensing in long hair billy kid.
A new Hill Country Livestock Protective Association was organized with 11 committeemen from Gillespie and neighboring counties. Membership is fixed at 2 cents per acre per year and limited to livestock owners in Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Mason, Llano, and Blanco. The temporary chairman Ben Kneese led the assembling and seven new amendments were adopted to the constitution and by laws.
Mr and Mrs Rudolph R Staudt marked their fiftieth wedding anniversary with a Notre Dame Church ceremony and a noon family dinner at 612 McFarland Kerrville. They wed February 3 1891 in Fredericksburg and have ten children and 23 grandchildren. Relatives and friends gathered from San Antonio Houston Fredericksburg Morris Ranch Comfort Boerne and other cities.
A Fort Worth wedding united Arthur Lee Sellers and Misa Marjorie Lowe in a Friday eve ceremony on January 17 with Rev. L H Davis officiating. The bride is the daughter of F W Lowe of Fort Worth and the groom, son of A W Sellers of Fredericksburg, formerly of Harper.
The Home demonstration club will meet at the home of Mrs. Pete Baethge on Thursday Feb 15 Miss Martin will be with us at that meeting Please attend and bring along a visitor Own I P Gartrell of Mason has purchased the J J Roger ranch located nine miles northwest of Harper Mr and Mrs Rogers have lived on this ranch for the past general years Mrs Carl Ochler and Miss Wilma Barnett and Grace Davidson were visitors in Fredericksburg Monday and H M Wendel Sorens Wendel Gir and Albert Lange made a trip to Fredericksburg Wednesday Mr and Mrs J B possion sale
Flag Bode and P. J. Be lease the W. O. Grosenbacher Service Station and Hardware Store and operate Willy Automobiles along with Crosley radios washing machines and ghel vadore refrigerators inviting public visits to the establishments.
J. R. Peril, a college student in Alpine, suffered a throat infection and spent several days at Keidel Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg. He returned home Monday and is reported much improved, with friends wishing him a speedy recovery.
A Catholic discourse argues for immortality as intrinsic to soul identity and moral law. It asserts the soul’s undying nature, a universal moral order requiring reward or punishment, and the need for an afterlife where virtue and vice are justly judged.
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