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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1940
Page
1
In this New Year message the writer notes 1940 as a year of challenge and potential peace. It urges voter participation, paying poll taxes, and supporting honest capable public officials. The piece reflects on personal losses, hopeful resolutions, and well wishes for readers across the coming year.
Pecan Belt Nursery Co in Fredericksburg promotes high grade trees shrubs and evergreens for planting season with reasonable prices.
H H Fairchild is Sunday School Superintendent and Mrs J E Sylvester directs Baptist Training Union. Sunday School begins at 10 00 a m. Come to the church where every one welcomes you.
Sunday School at 2 PM each Sunday. Preaching Service at 3 PM on the second, third and fourth Sundays. Epworth League and singing at 6 45 PM on the second, third and fourth Sunday nights.
Mass on Sunday is at 10 o clock. On the 3rd Sunday of each month and on major feasts Masses are at 8 30 and 10 o'clock. Sunday School and all Societies meet immediately after the 10 o'clock Mass.
The column outlines church events for January 7 1940 with Sunday school at 1 a m preaching at 11 a m and 7 p m an 11 o'clock dedication of children baptism during the 11 o clock service and an invitation to worship regardless of readers views.
Walter C. Prebat, pastor, announces Sunday School and Bible class at 10 a.m. Divine Worship at 11 a.m. German service on the third Sunday each month. You are invited to worship and work with us.
Fragmentary notice mentions Mr and Mrs Alton Kneese and a family matter at an address later unclear. No clear event, date, or location is readable.
The Gillespie County agent filed an annual extension report covering 1939 activity. Highlights include 104 boys in 4-H, strong Chamber of Commerce and Fair Association support, 23 calves and 45 lambs sold at the local show, five of six calves at the San Antonio Show, 64 crop exhibits at the Gillespie County Fair, 74 days with 4-H groups, 103 farms terraced protecting over 1200 acres, 34 days at meetings, 18 days on orchard work, trench silos storage growth, and ongoing livestock and poultry guidance. The agent also aided pecan growers and orchard care amid growing local orchards.
At year's start expansion committee urged members to aid 5 nonmembers. By November 665 nonmembers received help in tasks from cheese making to canning. Home demonstration council funded club pins and year books for 4-H girls. Fall 1938 tours studied yards with about 80 participants.
A county official thanks organizations and individuals for time council and funds boosting extension work. He notes gratitude to county news for space in the extension publication and reports 35 homes and 33 demonstrators visited.
Men and women of the Evening Class in Vocational Agriculture met at Harper high school last Tuesday evening to discuss shrubbery and landscaping. An expert will demonstrate grafting choice grape varieties on wild vines to improve home and market fruit. The grafting demonstration will occur mid January at a local vineyard near Harper. time and place will be announced in the Harper Herald.
Rainfall in the Harper area for 1939 totaled 22.20 inches, below the 26 inch Texas Almanac average. Monthly readings are listed with figures for March May June July August September October November December and others, along with a single livestock sale note for a Jersey cow in Harper, Texas.
The 4-H club girls completed improvements in bathing centers and bedrooms, added furniture, linen and curtains, and refinished woodwork costing 202.15 dollars. They exhibited quilts, mats, rugs, towels and canned produce at the county fair, with numerous demonstrations and garden projects across the year.
Mrs Conley Neal 32 died in Kerrville hospital from wounds after her husband a Kimble County ranch man allegedly slashed her throat at their Junction home Saturday. Neal, badly injured, is hospitalized and to face murder charges after Sheriff J C Graham found the couple wounded. Funeral held at Noxville. she leaves four children Connie Jean 11 Don Worth 9 Louis Carlton 8 Charles Ervin 6.
John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs, reports a rising Indian population. The latest annual figures place the U S Indian population at 351,878, possibly near historic highs. The rise outpaces other racial groups, contradicting fears of extinction.
The New York World Telegram critiques American Communist jackals who echo Moscow lines and defend Russia’s actions while denying free speech. It asserts support for free expression even for despised opinions and warns that continued insults could erode Communist influence in the United States.
Werner Feller 18, son of Mr and Mrs Henry Feller of the Meusebach Creek community, was critically injured when a shotgun discharged while unloading. The accident occurred near Fredericksburg on his father’s ranch during a deer and turkey hunting trip.
A patriotic Catholic tract extols Holy Name Society members as he men who attend Mass monthly and rally yearly for disaster neither isms nor secular threats. It celebrates their pledge against profanity and blasphemy and loyalty to country and faith. It notes Priscilla Rosemary and the War nee Bros. film Four Wives opening at Rialto with cast called to set at 8:00.
The REA Farm Electric Equipment Show in Johnson City promotes profitable farm use of electricity. Demonstrations by REA and Extension Service cover grain grinding, powered farming tools, poultry lighting, automatic brooding, electric ranges, and home appliances. The event runs February 5–6 with cooking and lunch facilities, plus expert guidance from J R Cobb and Kathryn Harris.
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