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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1952
Page
2
Students at Harper School present work supervised by Mrs Ruth Carpenter highlighting classroom projects and school activities.
Harper school lunch menu for the week lists meals each day. Monday offers pork chops scallop potatoes blackeyed peas and milk. Tuesday serves beans in tomato sauce fried potatoes onions beets pickles cornbread cherry tobler milk. Wednesday features hamburgers baked beans pickles lettuce onions peanut butter cookies milk and bread. Thursday offers cheese fondue spinach English peas salad fruit jelly milk and bread. Friday serves fried fish Spanish rice tomatoes stewed prunes milk and bread.
Mr and Mrs E H Ellebracht hosted son Ellis birthday party January 8 in the school gym from 7 to 10:30 pm Attendees included Mr Rasco Mr Suffel and Mr and Mrs Hans Wachhals Guests enjoyed games 42 Shoot the Moon and Table Tennis Refreshments featured chicken sandwiches potato chips cheesios cake and iced drinks Report by Clara Jo Baker Also a note says DoD has begun inscribing Kore a on graves to meet national cemetery regs for war served in
Grades Three and Four thank home room mothers Mesdaumes Chester Itz Joe Heinemann Edgar Fiedler Ervin Jung G A Gibson Jack Jones M R Duderstadt James Jung for a gay Christmas celebration. The students plan folk dances for the Fed PTA meeting.
January 2 marked the start of the second semester with happy pupils and exchanged cards for Christmas. Several absences due to illness returned this week as Norman Maurer remains out and Wayne Lennon missed a day. Midterm exams filled the week while officers were chosen Norman Maurer Eugene Heinemann Abrar Jan and Sandra Spaeth. Howard Dean Strackheim’s ninth birthday and Charles Chester Jung’s hike day were observed with songs and greetings.
A quirky local column questions student attention before exams. It notes pupils daily quirks from long tongues to big ears, mentions Lydia Faye Bierschwale table tennis, Bobbie Gibson wearing a ring, and Janice Spaeth’s eyelashes. The piece also cites Cokes before study hall and six week exams affecting mood and health. The Stock Show mention hints at FFA boys.
A compilation of school notes from Harper High covering quirky student details. Mentions include Bobbie Gibson hair, J R Mayhugh Spanish, a birthday party, mid term notes, leather belt worries, vell hair, algebra tests, new necklace, turkey hunting date, basketball schedules at Comfort and Millersview, and assorted fashion items.
The Gillespie County group considers rewards of 25 for information leading to arrests in wildlife crimes and livestock theft. They review turkey restocking and an experimental plan to use domestic birds to bolster flocks. Enrollees total about 365 as dues begin at 1.00. Museum visitors include Anita Gould and Mrs. Maurer in Fredericksburg and Gonzales respectively.
Mr and Mrs Buck Baker of Kerrville visited Mrs Gordon Harper and family Sunday continuing an extended family gathering with relatives in the area
Gillespie County receives 59800.00 for soil and water conservation under the 1952 ACP. Payments cover terraces waterways sod dams and related practices. New 1952 peanut allotments must file by February 1 for grower status. Local shoppers and residents seen in Kerrville and at a ranch gathering.
Sen Johnson proposes to divert up to 1.01 acre feet yearly from the Pedernales River to irrigate 2.70 acres in Gillespie County. An application filed with the state board of water engineers asks for a reservoir that would impound 34.25 acre feet and serve Johnson's improved property. A hearing is scheduled for February 11.
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