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Newspaper

Harper Herald

Location

Harper, Texas, United States of America

Date

Nov 17, 1939

Page

2

Local Shoppers and Movers Reported in Hill Country

Mrs J A Peril and Mrs Dean Hopf and baby were shopping in Kerrville Monday. Mr and Mrs Tommie Kneese of Reservation have moved to Fredericksburg. Mr and Mrs W O Grosenbacher went to Fredericksburg Wednesday. Thin ice was reported in different localities of Harper Tuesday morning.

J. A. Peril Dean Hopf and Baby Kerrville Tommie Kneese Fredericksburg W. O. Grosenbacher Harper

Junior Music Program Presented by Local Club

A junior musical program organized by the Music Study Club will be held at the public school auditorium on Tuesday evening November 7 starting 7 30. Admission is free. Featured groups include the high school band the glee club and the G S Marys and Berman bands with their respective leaders and numbers. Also listed are performers from Misses Henke Prochnow Juenke Renick Stein Norman Becker and Dooley among others with piano accompaniments. Local community notes and visitor remarks conclude the brief.

Music Study Club Virginia Harrison Glee Club J. J. Moritz B. Moonlove Dorothy Henke

Sulak Suggests Lawmakers Work Without Pay for Pensions

Senator L with letter to Governor ODaniel proposes legislators donate pay to old age pension fund. He urges the governor join, stay in Austin without pay until pensions funded, claiming $10 per day could support over a thousand aged for one month with federal matching.

L. J. Sulak la Grange O’daniel Sulak Austin

Wiring Rural Electric Lines In Pedernales Coop Area

Johnson City reports changes to REA wiring loan rules allow applicants to install as few as one outlet per room with $10 financing minimum. The plan, aided by Congressman Johnson, offers up to 80 percent financing at six percent, for up to five years, plus appliances financing through the Electric Home and Farm Authority. Halloween observed with kids and discarded junk around shops.

Johnson City Pedernales Electric Cooperative, Inc J. Warner Pyles Rural Electrification Administration Pedernales Electric Cooperative Lyndon B. Johnson Electric Home and Farm Authority PEC

Teaching children to fear or adapt to danger

Desca Hale advises parents to help children understand their environment rather than instill fear. Threats to enforce behavior can create lasting fears of authority and danger. She urges cautious, not fearful, upbringing and notes examples that heighten anxiety, contrasting it with calm guidance.

College Station Desca Hale Extension Service Miss Hale Jack

Food for Thought Visitor Quips About Green Plate Idea

A comic exchange unfolds with Mrs. MacHeater insisting a meal includes “something green” while her husband retorts with a biting joke about silverware. The scene highlights light domestic humor.

Food For Thought

Harper County Hunting Leases Soon Exhausted

Hunting leases are nearly filled in Harper County as openings vanish while the young turkey crop remains very small this season.

Harper Country

Mason Erection of Public Fire Station Marks Modern Park

The WPA funded two story fire station in San Angelo began July 1 and will finish in January. Stone brick and concrete form the 42 by 48 foot building with 40 workers on site. Architect L H Gaskins designed the structure costing 20000 dollars paid by the county and the WPA. The project recycles material from the old Cooksville mill ghost village two miles away.

San Angelo Cooksville L. H. Gaskins WPA

Koch in Town for Austin Mutual Insurance Visit

H. C. Koch visited town on Monday representing the Austin Mutual Life Insurance Company in a business trip.

H. C. Koch Austin Mutual Life Insurance Co

Queen Esther Circle Bazaar and Mexican Dinner

The Queen Esther Circle of the Edison Street Methodist Church will host a Mexican Dinner and Country Store on Thursday evening November 9 beginning at 5 pm in the church basement. The public may buy a complete Mexican dinner or items like chicken sandwiches cakes pies and home made candy. Entertainment will include chorus singing and other musical selections.

Queen Esther Edison Street Methodist Church M. E. Church North

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