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Newspaper
Harper Herald
Location
Harper, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1968
Page
2
Sunday School at 10:00 a m Worship Service at 11:00 a m Evening Worship Service at 00 p m Brotherhood meeting every first and third Wednesday night at 7 30 p m Everybody welcome
Sunday schedule lists Mass at 7:30 and 9 in the morning with a joint St Anthony’s and St Ann’s meeting. Wednesday features 8 oclock mass and Confraternity gathering. Mission set for September 15 to 19 invites all to attend any service.
Sunday 11:00 a m church services with 10:00 a m Sunday School. Congregational meeting to immediately follow the service.
D Wayne Rogers is Sunday School Superintendent. Worship at 11:00 AM. Women's Association meets every third Thursday at 2 20 PM. Session meets every third Wednesday. Mr and Mrs Jack Konig and son of San Antonio visit with Mr and Mrs Richard Roeder and children from Austin for the weekend. Children remain for a visit until school starts.
Mrs Gene Carter of Corpus Christi spent the past week with her father and visited her mother who is a patient in the Fredericksburg Hospital.
The Methodist Church announces a First Tuesday monthly 7 00 p m Official Board meeting and a 2 30 p m Harper Circle of the Woman's Society of Christian Service. Mr and Mrs Richard Harlan and children of McAllen visited over Labor Day weekend with Mr and Mrs Tommy Harlan and G D Lennon. For sale portable stock spray at Flog Bode Service Station contact Mrs Fred Nabers Harper Texas.
The Harper Herald describes a modern Hill Country Memorial Hospital with 34000 square feet, 24 hour monitoring, private rooms or double rooms, an obstetrical suite, newborn nursery, centralized heating and cooling, electronic nurse calls, and an adjacent Emergency Suite and X Ray area. Local doctors and nurses are asked to help plan, with committee members listed as Alien Keller and C. O. Balser.
The bereaved family expresses deep appreciation for acts of kindness and sympathy shown during illness and after the death of their wife and mother. They thank Rev. A A Gitter Msgr Ehlinger Davids Funeral Home Schaetter Funeral Home pallbearers choir St Ann's Society those who brought food and lunch Mr and Mrs Lee Schmidt and all who helped including for flowers cards and memorials.
Visitors included Morris and Francis Roeder and their sons Johnnie and Wesley from San Antonio, Mark Ashley of Hollywood, Johnnie and Frieda Zettle, W. J. Hawke, Bennie Hendrix of Houston, Sonny Roy Baumann, Rose and Corrine Roeder of San Antonio, Mrs. Mary Roeder of Fredericksburg, Jake Roeder and family of Fort Worth, Alois Baumann and Charlie Moritz of Fredericksburg. A barbecue lunch followed with dove hunting, horseback riding, and ranch sightseeing in the afternoon.
Reader appeal for subscription to the Herald with pricing note of three dollars annually hints at ongoing promotions or renewal drives. The fragment suggests urgency but lacks full context or dates.
At 11 a m services Rev William Campbell presides with Holy Communion, then President Johnson and his wife and daughter tour Fredericksburg Oak Crest Park in a new Ford sedan. It is the first visit to the church since Mothers Day on May 12.
M G Bud Smathers departed August 24 for a month with the Methodist Mission Program in Bolivia. He will study the Montero project near Santa Cruz where a demonstration farm and Vocational Agriculture Institute aid settlers in food shelter and sanitation. In Fredericksburg he leads Soul Conservation Service for Gillespie County Soil and Water Conservation District.
Mesds Chester Moses and Floyd Boatright visited Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Buerschwale hosted. Alvin Blount of Houston and family stayed at the Tarr ranch hunting cabin. Mrs. Roy Deaton and her son Roy visited Dryden relatives for the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Barker and boys and Mrs Lydia Bierschwale spent Wednesday in San Antonio as guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Skipper and their children. Mrs. A A Wendel and Mrs. Hugo Sattler with Mrs. Martin Anderegg and Mrs. Max Lange visited the August Kirchoff family on Sunday afternoon.
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