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Newspaper
Llano News
Location
Llano, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1913
Page
5
The piece urges readers to attend church on Christmas Day to thank God for the past year, celebrate Christ's birth, and seek forgiveness. It frames churchgoing as a pleasure and privilege, offering inspiration and greater happiness for the day.
R. H Evans Company will pass controlling interest to Chas Shults of Llano on January 1. Shults has also bought the Ebeling Bank and plans to continue its operations and offer large cattle loans. Evans retires due to health and will move to West Texas to pursue ranching. He has led Marble Falls business for nearly twenty years. The Llano News notes holiday travel and a week off for Christmas, with updates on locals Henry Wachtman’s return from Kansas to visit relatives and plans for the new year.
Mrs Rufe Deats visits Llano at her parents home while James Wyckoff plans to stay. A Lampasas train wreck delays Llano and Marble Falls service causing six hour late arrivals. Flood washouts disrupt tracks, with normal service not expected soon. Sidney Beal Bluffton and Logan Connors Kingsland visit Llano for business and social calls. Maxie Fichtenbaum returns from state University for Christmas with family in Llano.
Churches in Llane plan Christmas activities including trees for Sunday school pupils and various programs. Baptist Church will host a musical program and Santa Claus distributing gifts. requests for tree gifts due Wednesday. Methodist features a musical program and a free will offering for town children. Christian Church hosts a tree and songs with recitations and welcomes participation. Presbyterian conducts a program with toy gifts for children. Lutheran schedules Christmas services Thursday at 11 am with a free will offering for the poor.
The Lana School Band gave its first public appearance last Saturday night to large crowds. Under instructor Hargon, the Shine school band organized two months ago has progressed rapidly. The music was well received and praised as nearly professional in quality. Prof. Davidson plans a future musical concert for school benefit.
A two member committee E H Qualls and C H Appleton raised funds for Santa Claus gifts by asking for twenty five cents from passers by. The effort yielded a neat sum to brighten needy children for the holidays. Oswell Cone returns home from the State University at Austin to spend the holidays with his parents. Solene Watkins returns from San Antonio to visit family through the holidays. Chas Thompson now of Texas City visits Liano for the holidays. Mrs J A Mackey visits with her son then returns to Lasipasas.
On January 6 1914 at seven pm the Llano Cemetery Association will hold its annual stockholders meeting at the courthouse. Each cemetery property owner is a stockholder and should attend to support the effort to restore funds and labor for the sexton. President J U Meilean urges participation to continue the community burial ground project.
At the Baptist church in Kingsland Rev. Z M Mizzell joined Albert G Banks and Altha Faris in marriage after Sunday services. The couple, popular in county circles, receive warm congratulations from friends. Also noted are local health concerns for Robert Oestreich and Otto Marschall, and a Teachers’ Institute ending with Dr. C F Darnall’s health lecture assisting teachers.
Reflect on those less fortunate this Christmas and give to bring joy to children in need. Small acts of kindness can ease sorrow, brighten their day, and return happiness to you as well.
The News calls for action on a Sandy Creek bridge on the Llano and Fredericksburg road citing heavy rains and frequent crossing difficulties. It argues the county must bridge this key crossing as others have been done and urges wide public support this year. The item also notes local car trader Lee Jernigan praising a 1914 Cadillac model and visitors from Wayne Bowman and Vander Stucken families preparing for Christmas travel.
Judge A H Willbern announced the Llano County clock parts have started moving toward the Llano courthouse in three shipments. We expect the thousand pound bell, weights, and clock to arrive in sequence with a machinist ready to install, enabling the clock to chime the hours soon.
John Goodman in charge of the reconstruction on the Ola Brown building recently bought by Mrs. Heard drives work at full speed. The site is regaining its pre fire appearance and upon completion Mrs. Heard will move her millinery shop from the Martin Jacobs building into the new structure. She plans to rent offices on the second floor.
John Talk suffered a leg injury when his limb was caught in oil mill machinery last Saturday. Dr Townsend treated and set the leg and he is improving and expected to return to work soon.
Gray Fowler returns from Oklahoma to spend Christmas with his parents and Llano friends. He reports severe Oklahoma cold weather, but says cattle are in good condition. He plans to stay several days at home.
J R Smith arrived back Monday after a trip to California to oversee the estate of his sister in law, who died several weeks ago.
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