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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1955
Page
2
The Round Up staff list credits Jennie Wilenecke as assistant editor and Ola Maertz as social reporter among others. Eugene Parker and Bobbie Benner serve as sports reporters with Lonnie Mayhugh and Donnie Phillips as typists.
Barbara Lennon daughter of Mr and Mrs Archie Lennon is a senior active in school life. She served as Junior Class president and has contributed to art and The Round Up publication. She played Mrs Abbott in the Junior Play and has five years on the pep squad along with two years in girls choir.
The final Sinclair Farm Show of 1955 will be held at Klein's Hall Spring Creek on Monday night March 28. The event resumes after a postponed program and offers free admission with attendance prizes. A home talent program recovery follows a member's death affecting prior plans.
Blanco River east of the city will gain a new dam. O N Leary and a crew work on a 6 by 70 foot dam for the Jim Irwin ranch. It will have a top drive way, close the road and river ford, include a 24 inch down drain and valve, and create a lake about 600 yards upstream when full.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Manske and others visited Miss Annie Grosenbacher at Roosevelt Sunday. Dr. and Mrs. Theo Holm and children also called on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Rahe, during the weekend.
Mr and Mrs Arnold Markwortt visited her brother August Fiedler in Fredericksburg where he has been seriously ill. Mrs Fred Gammenthaler and children spent several days at Big Springs with their husband and father Fred Bierschwale and returned to Harper Sunday night.
Mr and Mrs David Russell and daughter of North Carolina stopped over for a visit with Mrs Gene Harper and family Friday night and Saturday while traveling to California.
Mr and Mrs Jasper Massey and son of Kerrville together with Mr and Mrs Steve Forest of Boerne visited their parents Mr and Mrs W R Massey on Sunday.
Local residents report social visits across Kerrville Fredericksburg Rocksprings and Junction. Noxville saw 12 inches of rain over the weekend followed by a light freeze with minimal damage.
Fredericksburg groups prepare for the Easter Fires pageant with Gilbert Eckhardt guiding committees. Mrs Jack Lawrence leads the Rabbits with a large and varied group enacting bunny scenes at the Fair Grounds. Rose Mary Petermann heads the wild flowers with the Bluebonnets and the high school band joins with new numbers and a song from Austria. Teachers and students rehearse the Vereinskirche cross scene while St Marys Glee Club performs a Crown Mountain segment. Freddy Herman Sons lodge members portray early colonists as Girl Scouts assist with crowd management and egg distribution.
The Texas Society for Crippled Children mobilizes volunteers for the Easter Seal Appeal. Dr. Culberson commends workers and urges all Texans to request seals via local post offices, aiding crippled children and adults. Local outings include Scout involvement in Easter Fires pageant preparations in Stonewall and Fredericksburg visits.
state examiner C. J. Spike Zatopek says the drivers license office will be closed Saturday March 26 for an examin ers meeting in Corpus Christi. The office remains open on the first third and fifth Monday each month and every Saturday until noon.
Rev. D. W. Brown and B. J Mayhugh attended an evangelical rally and luncheon at the Blue Bonnet Hotel in Kerrville on Friday.
Mr and Mrs Erato Hopf and friends visited Erato s Hopf on Monday night. Their daughter Olivia returned to Austin with her parents, Mr and Mrs Oliver ter.
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