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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1925
Page
10
Classified ad fragment notes sale items: Lone Star Cotton Lead priced at 2.75 per bushel delivered. Also for sale or trade a small farm home place in town with 12 lots and a 7 room house and amenities listed by H. C. Miller. Ad rate 5 cents per line, minimum twenty five cents.
Classified notice offers dry post oak card work for sale at 6.50 dollars delivered to Shiner Texas by G. W. Cooper with address Rt. 1 Dilworth Texas. Item appears as a rural classifieds listing with delivery terms and contact details.
Louis Wagener was a business visitor to Hallettsville on Monday. John C Thatcher of Rock Island is visiting the editor’s home.
Wm Zappe comes back from the plains to spend Christmas with his family while Mr and Mrs Alfred Merseburger are currently residing in Oklahoma City Oklahoma.
Mr and Mrs R Valenta Mrs S J Holechak and Miss Leonide Schuhmann spent Sunday in Waelder visiting contacts and enjoying a quiet outing with close friends and neighbors.
A Christmas present to readers as no Gazette is issued next week. Two papers issued this week in a special Magazine section feature a colored front page with Santa, his pack and reindeer, and a baby boy in nightclothes hanging a stocking by the fireplace.
The Girls Bridge Club met Saturday at Miss Elsie Dziewwas’s home. Four tables played as Christmas decorations and poinsettias added cheer. Alma Canon won first prize while Ruby Rogge placed booby. Refreshments delighted guests. Miss Dziewas received help from her mother Mrs Perry Wendtland of Yoakum.
Two hospitalized youths in a free ward wake to Christmas bells and singing from back-of-hospital radio station. The high school radio class installed headphones, bringing surprise cheer as Bill and Jack hear the broadcast and talk with the student technicians.
Edwin Brosch will arrive this week end from St Louis where he is attending the University of dentistry.
Chas Muecke and family from Westhoff joined Mrs. Gus Metz of Rosebud for a Sunday visit at the Walter Muecke residence.
Elmer Schulze Milton Shelley Canon Marvin Wagner and Otto Emken, all State University students, are expected home for Christmas.
United States destroyers docked at Venice on Christmas Eve as American sailors wandered the narrow Piazza San Marco streets. The three ships lit with red and green bulbs glowed in the harbor, and a deck Christmas tree shone brightly. One sailor longed for home, claiming Springfield beats this town, craving an American Christmas dinner and family.
Mrs Mabel Brown of Houston visited the order of Pythian Sisters Saturday December 12. Mr and Mrs Meinert came from Columbus with the Grand Chief, guests of Mrs Alvina Wolters. Mr and Mrs Bumgartner of Schulenburg joined the session Saturday night. The meeting was informal with floor instruction on secret work. Coffee cake and sandwiches were served. Mrs Brown made a favorable impression on members and visitors.
A Christmas message recalling the birth of a Babe and the life of a loving Man. The text honors the divine and human union in Christmas, urging readers to feel the light above the manger and the warmth of love that makes the day holy. May Christmas bring joy.
A reflective piece by Christopher G. Hazard from 1996 portrays the annual community Christmas tree as a unifying symbol. December events, diverse crowds, and the courthouse spotlight frame a shared celebration of liberty and democracy under one evergreen banner.
Mr Fritz Rogge celebrated his 80th birthday with a family reunion at his Shiner home last Thursday afternoon December 17. Relatives attended from Floresville and Witting, sharing cordial welcomes and plentiful eats as they toasted the honored gentleman. The Gazette extends congratulations and best wishes for many more anniversaries.
Mr and Mrs F J Luedecke prepare to relocate to Seguin in a few days as he leaves Lavaca County where he ran a gin business and stood among the county’s foremost citizens. The Gazette, longtime subscriber and patron, will continue to follow the family to their new home. The paper expresses regret at their departure and wishes them health happiness and prosperity.
Victor Schulz expects to arrive in time for a Christmas dinner with home folks, signaling plans to celebrate the holiday with family.
Herbert Zappe returns for the holidays from Texas Dental College in Houston, arriving to spend the season with family and friends.
On improved black land farms, EH J Motis, lawyer, invites land note purchases and magazine subscriptions. Neuman Building Yoakum Texas lists contact. Messages note Richard Strauss Jr and Erwin Discher expected home tomorrow from St Edwards College and Rice Institute. Also mentions Miss Leonida Schuhmann. Ring 108 or see him personally.
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