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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1940
Page
4
The Fredericksburg High School weekly bulletin lists staff editors including Eddie Lindig as managing editor Norma Badhgo as organizations editor Julie Grote as classroom editor Marvin Crenwoelge in sports Clinton Stork and Weston Luckenbach as library work Albertine Immel as alumni liaison Annie Heep contributes to the 10a Petsch section and other notes from THE CLARION volume I number 4.
A concise overview traces Halloween from its origins on October 31 and the eve of All Saints Day to evolving customs in England Scotland and broader communities. It notes pagan and Roman influences, bonfires, jack o lanterns, and modern festivities transforming fear into fun.
Fredericksburg High School announces Halloween events next Thursday with senior candidates Lillian Kott Antion ette Herbert and Nellie Habenicht for queen and two duchesses from each class. Invites sent to Llano Mason Kerrville Center Point Comfort Boerne Johnson City Blanco Harper and St Mary's. The parade coronation and dances will follow in Fredericksburg.
A library receives a Prescott authored work detailing school bands. The listed students meet grade criteria with seniors Annabel Bernhardt Louis Braeu tigam Evelyn Feuge Louise Just Frances Kattner Lillian Kott Leo la Rusenberger Irene Neffen dorf Vera Anderegeg Lucille Heimann Marjorie Henke Vernell Proch Tosca Reichenau Edward Stein Dorothy Hahn Harry Stiehl meet the stated academic requirements.
Music classes study patriotic tunes and their composers with aims to sing from memory many marches. Art classes work on Acorn project and border design. Boys craft acorn animals while girls make acorn costume jewelry. Fourth grade English dramatizes How Andy Helped his Team. English classes welcome new weekly readers.
The first grades have been busy making Hallowe en decorations and one really ought to see their rooms. They are attractive and colorful. The second grades are making Hallowe en decorations and health booklets. Miss Morris 8A had two straight A students Robin Bernhard and Julia Hartmann. They are still studying the Arabian life. Miss Kellys class has been making health posters and getting ready for the Halloween Carnival.
English I classes are learning to take notes on what they read while English II classes study gerunds infinitives and participles.
English ITI classes learn to build better composition. English IV studies lyric poetry and the lives of authors. They are crafting outlines for guides to be used in speeches.
The first algebra class notes subtraction equals addition and the second class reduces a key ancient theorem called the bridge of fools. Students who grasp the prior lessons will have less trouble. Mr. Petersen organizes the Hallowe'en program in the public school auditorium for October 31 at 8 o'clock.
The home economics girls formed the Future Home Makers Club and plan a hot dog stand at football games. They will also sell coughnuts and coffee while the senior class sells cold drinks and peanuts. A representative will attend the spring Home Makers rally to raise funds.
The Spanish students practice counting and memorizing the days of the week months and seasons. They also study verb conjugation. In contrast the German class focuses on transitive verbs and related usage.
Betty McEwen remains in training at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio while spending the week with her parents. Texas Lutheran College students Elmer Luckenbach Maxie Ahrens and Victor Dittmar return home for the weekend. Fay Stein from the University of Texas visits family. Walter Schaefer, recently with a California steel firm, comes home. Walter Loudon Jr. of John Tarleton College returns for the weekend. Freddie Saenger, a St Marys University student, visits from San Antonio.
In the past week the typing class has worked on an assignment, with a one week deadline. Students favor these tasks as they can work at their own pace rather than take speed tests.
In a practical exercise the assesmanship class emphasizes thorough product knowledge. Each pupil selects an item to sell to a mock customer, preparing to know the goods including history manufacture packing transport and possible uses.
The roster lists Harold lkneese Calvin Herbert Daniel Neffendorf Arthur Reichenau and others with positions and ambitions. In a game against Lampasas the Hillbillies lead 12 to 0 at halftime as Dan Anderegg scores twice on a 20 yard end run and a 10 yard pass from Roy Langerhans. Lampasas adds a late touchdown with a good extra point to finish 12 7.
At The Palace a two film bill features Blondie based on the Bumstead cartoon strips with Tenny Simgleton and Arthur Lake. The second feature is Blazing Six Shooters starring Charles Starrett with Ind y Meredith and the Sons of the Pioneers performing several songs.
The listing highlights two films at the Palace. No Time For Comedy stars James Stewart and Rosalind Russell in a city misadventure about a bashful playwright and a famous actress with laughs throughout. Also shown is Befehl ist Befohls a German language comedy featuring Weiss Ferdl as a plump comic performer in a discipline theme.
Deanna Durkin brings a Universal production titled Spring Parade to Vienna before the Anschluss. The period romance set in the May 1890s follows a peasant girl who moves to the Austrian capital to work in a bakery and falls in love with a soldier. Co stars include Robert Cummings Mischa Auer and Walter Catlett.
Coaches Klaerner and Nix and several referees who have officiated Lampasas and Fredericksburg games believe the winner of the Fredericksburg Lampasas clash would likely claim the district. Friday October 25 the Hillbillies host Richland Springs on the local field.
The Southern Swingsters perform a dance at Tivydale hall this Saturday night with a post midnight leap year dance announced by management.
Oscar Lich family in Cypress Creek community maintains ample meat and pantry supplies through home demonstration work. Mrs Lich runs a four meat variety pantry with three pigs and a yearling beef, plus canned venison and chicken. The household plans a year round balanced diet with garden orchard poultry and dairy, keeping nine bushels Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, dried beans, canned goods, kraut, pickles, peaches and pine in storage. Irman Ross notes the pantry reflects preparedness for European meatless days and year round food security.
The Knopp 4-H club met with agent Miss E. Martin on October 21 to plan a Christmas party set for December 14 at 2:00 p.m. at the agriculture building. Yearbooks were handed out. Officers elected include Linda Kuhlmann recreational leader Ottilie Kuhlmann parliamentarian and Ruth Grobe clothing demonstrator. Attending members listed include Louise Kramer Elsie Loren e Dora Leola Dietrich Ruth Grobe Cecelia and Celeta Kunz Linda and Ottilie Kuhlmann agent Miss Martin and sponsor Mrs. Klett Diet rich reported Leola Diet rich.
The platform proclaims no man should be eligible for a third term, citing a century of custom and the founding fathers. Meanwhile, travels report Mr and Mrs Emil Hopf teaching in Marion Texas near San Antonio were weekend visitors, and Mrs Fred Nabers and son Jean Donald of Kerrville visited Harper over the weekend.
A Kerrville Mountain Sun brief lists inventory for a sale itemizing eight quarts of beets twenty three quarts of tomatoes six quarts of gumbo eight quarts of squash eight quarts of peach jelly and twenty four quarts of wild plum jelly for distribution or market sale.
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