A Bicentennial Conversation With My Great Grandmother
A narrator recalls an afternoon with a 92 year old great grandmother who shares childhood memories from Illinois. She describes log cabins prairie grass storm cellars marriage at sixteen to a farmer from Indiana eleven births and a death, then contrasts past travel by horse carriage with modern jet journeys, inspiring pride in American heritage.
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America
Sarah
Illinois
Daddy
Momma
Indiana
Thank You Prayer for an American Citizen
A prayer from Licova News asks for guidance to be a worthy, humane, patient, and strong American citizen. It requests reverence for the nation, vigilance to honor founders’ dreams, and to embody justice and equality in work and service.
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Republic
Presbyterian Women Meet and Reunion Planned
Presbyterian Women Association met at 11 a.m. September 17 in Mrs. Jack Jones's home with 10 members. They lunch at M.O. Ranch then attended the Presbyterian Prayer Retreat afternoon session there. The Lorenz Wendel family held a reunion September 21 at Harper Community Park with 30 attendees from Fredericksburg San Antonio Kerrville and Harper. A reunion was set for late June or early July. The Radio Post offers wedding invitation services.
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Presbyterian Women Association
Jack Jones
Hunt
M.O. Ranch
Lorenz Wendel
Harper Community Park
Fredericksburg
San Antonio
Kerrville
Harper
Harper residents host visiting relatives and attend school event
Mrs. Roger Parker of Driftwood stayed overnight with Mrs. Walter Parker Sr. Dr. and Mrs. Jim Lewis and Mrs. Antoinette Acker of Odessa visited in Austin and Harper last weekend. They attended the Harper School fish dinner Sunday.
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Roger Parker
Driftwood
Walter Parker Sr
Jim Lewis
Antoinette Acker
Odessa
Austin
Harper
Harper School
Parker Sworn In as Harper Postmaster in Small Ceremony
George Buzzy Parker was formally installed as Harper Postmaster Tuesday morning. The ceremony, conducted by Acting Sectional Manager Max L Noe of Austin, drew family and friends including his wife Charolet, son Lowell Keith, mother Mrs. Carlos Parker, and grandmother Mrs. Olive Parker.
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Harper Post Office
George
Buzzy’ Parker
Buzzy
Carlos Parker
Lowell Keith
Charolet
London Palmer
Olive
George) Parker
Max L. Noe
Austin
U. S
George ‘‘Buzzy
Parker
Harper
Charolet Palmer
Lowell Keith Parker
Mr. Noe
Frank Staudt
George D. ‘Buzzy’ Parker
Harper Postoffice
Austin Postoffice
Paker
Staudt
Noe
George D. Parker
Noxville
Texas
Harper High School
U. S. Army
Floy Bode Company
Harper Lions Club
Woodmen of the World
Fredericksburg
Harper Pentecostal Church
Harper Volunteer Fire Dept
Lendon Palmer
Harper Herald
George “Buzzy” Parker
U. S. Postal Service
Robert ‘Bob’ Pape
Early Frost Sets Record Low in Harper
A record low of 32 degrees was recorded in Harper on Thursday morning September 25 with ice on auto windshields. Frank Staudt and Gene Bode reported frost on rooftops and a second frost event the next day as temperatures fell to 33 degrees. This may be the earliest freezing in the community's history, with a killing frost previously reported around September 28 in earlier years.
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Harper
Gene Bode
Pedernales
Frank Staudt
Staudt
Harper's Bull of the Woods Contest invites memberships
Harper's annual Bull of the Woods contest enters its 22nd year with two main prizes and four additional cash awards for top bucks and turkey gobbler points. Hunters in Harper area urged to join at local outlets including Bode's Feed and Supply and local Harpers.
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Harper's
Bull of the Woods
Harper
Harper Business
Bode’s Feed and Supply
J. W
Victor) Harper
Milton Wendel
R. E
Rollie) Peril
Frank E. Staudt
Sheep Dog Clinic at Harper Lions sponsor Sunday event
A Sheep Dog Clinic is set for Sunday October 5 from 2 30 to 5 p m at Harper Community Park Arena under the Harper Lions Club sponsorship. Rancher Eddie Hale of Ozona Texas will demonstrate stock dog work and invites visitors to bring their dogs. He will cover do's and don'ts of training and demonstrations will use his dogs as well as others. Admission is free.
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Harper Community Park
Harper Lions Club
Eddie Hale
Ozona
Texas
Hale
Mexican Supper Hosted by Harper Band Boosters
The Harper Band Boosters sponsor a Mexican Supper at the school cafetorium on Friday Oct 3 serving from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Adult plates cost 2.00 and children under 12 pay 2.00. Proceeds benefit the Harper Band Boosters before the Harper Longhorns vs Leakey game.
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Harper Band
Harper Longhorns
Local families visit from Kerrville Mountain Home and Junction
Kerrville and Mountain Home families spent the weekend at homes in Har p er while Junction residents shopped in Fredericksburg. Harper Postmaster George Parker greets assistant clerk Nadene Schrader with Max Noe of Austin. other locals include Linda Heinemann visiting from Austin and attending Texas A M Career Day in College Station with Mary Heinemann, then staying with Roy Heinemann of Waller before visiting Dan Krenek in Austin.
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Leon Maples
Bob
Kerrville
Harper
Ervin Wahrmund
Johnnie
James
Mountain Home
Melvin Conner
Charles
Junction
Fredericksburg
Henry
Nadene Barker) Schrader
George ‘Buzzy’ Parker
Max L. Noe
Austin
Harper Herald
Linda Heinemann
Mary Heinemann
Linda
Mary
College Station
Texas A&m
Aggies
Ulinois
Roy Heinemann
Waller
Dan Krenek
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Radio Post
Harper Locals
the Herald
Enterprise
Larry Kramer
Seguin
Alfred Kramer
BOY Scouts
Doss
Texas University-Texas Tech
Lubbock
Texas Longhorns
Friendly Sewing Circle
the Friendly Sewing Circle
Thekla Kramer
Theresa Kramer
George “Buzzy" Parker
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