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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1970
Page
3
In Harper Texas the Harper Herald notes church services at 10 a m Sundays with Sunday School and worship. Luther League meets on the second Sunday, Junior Lutherans on the second Wednesday, Women meet the third Thursday, and Brotherhood gathers the first and third Wednesdays. Everyone is welcome.
In Harper Texas the First Pentecostal Church invites worshippers with Sunday services at 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. plus 6:30 p.m. Evangelistic service and Wednesday Bible study. Masses at 8:00 and 9:30 on November 29 with a School of Religion. December 4 masses at 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. All are welcome. Catholic wait times noted.
Local residents report a sequence of Sunday gatherings. Mr. and Mrs. R F Manske hosted in Fredericksburg while Mr and Mrs Robert Maurer entertained. Visiting friends included Mr and Mrs Ray Bierschwale and several Fredericksburg attendees.
Mr and Mrs Fred Jones and family visit Houston from Pan American Air Lines work. Mrs Hollan Waller ill moved to Peterson Memorial hospital. Cold spell brings 9 to 16 degree temps with high winds Sunday into Monday. Numerous local visits: Lange, Kerrville Langes, Klein family, Haschke, Dittmar, Klaehn, Wendel, McGinley, Mayeaux, Harper family, Nowotny, and others. Thanksgiving plans noted and a Gift Tea honors Hollis Walker with several local guests attending.
A tea at the Lutheran Parish Hall honored Mridal Showe wats dollis Walker on Sunday from 2 to 4 p m. Attendees included Jes os Meetheney fomtgins Duder taudt and many others, with tea served on a table laid with a cloth and an arrangement of electric arth coun. Guests and Misses were noted among the attendees as gifts were placed on the gift table.
San Angelo specialist urges farmers to start complete farm and ranch record keeping in January 1971. Emphasizes investing in a simple record book, desk and drawers, daily or monthly entries, and using inventories budgets and production costs to guide decisions and tax reporting.
Gillespie County In soil and water conservation notes Carl Mazinke pilot knob community added a long terrace to an existing system to curb erosion Wel don Prehn supervised layout Johnny Rausch plans coastal bermuda grass on steep cropland to reduce erosion Oswald Priess favors Madrid clover with small grain for soil building grazing and hay. farm records urged as essential management tools.
Texas faces a 489 man December draft quota as part of a 7000 nationwide army allotment. Local boards will assign by random sequence numbers 1 through 160 for December inductions December 1 to December 17. Extended and Second Priority Groups will determine early 1971 calls under Executive Order dated September 26 1970.
Pecans prove a strong cash crop in Gillespie County with prices up from last year and a projected yield exceeding 300 000 pounds. Values may approach a quarter to a half million dollars with additional income from deer hides and hunting season activity boosting local commerce.
Francis J. Walch of Radio Station KNAF toured the western and northern portions of the county on opening day. He taped interviews with hunters and local business owners, praising the deer and turkey season and Fredericksburg's appeal to visitors and tourists.
On November 10, twenty one Pecan Creek 4-H Club members visited the Pilot Knob Home Demonstration Club at Pilot Knob Club House. Tom Kirchoff of the Department of Public Safety presented a defensive driving program. Refreshments were served by the Pilot Knob group.
Buzz Bierschwale, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Bierschwale, died Saturday night at the We Bierschwale ranch. He had celebrated his 10th birthday on Sunday and was the grandson of Mrs. Lydia Bierschwale and Mr. and Mrs. Phil Maddox of Melvin, attending Harper School.
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