Beautiful People Hilda and Bill Berger Visit Texas Hill Country
The article extols Hilda Berger and her husband Bill as generous contributors to nature and art. It highlights Hilda as a writer, painter, and organizer while noting Bill’s orchid breeding and two thousand Bluebird houses built. It also mentions Kohoutek sightings and UT McDonald Observatory data gathering as a global scientific event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Wren
Hilda Berger
Hilda
Bill Berger
Texas Hill Country
Purple Martin Capital News
Bill
LBJ
Henryetta
Okla
Kohoutek
University of Texas’ McDonald Observatory
Hazel Green nature notes on Kohoutek and birding loss
Community letters recall Kohoutek’s brightness and the 1910 Halley comet, hope for a revival in February 1986, and mourn the passing of Connie Hagar the Texas Bird Lady at 87. Edits reflect birds, habitat, and calling for feeding wildlife during winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Haley
Kohoutek
Connie Hager
Texas
Edwin Way Teale
Audubon Magazine
Conger Neblet Hagar
Rockport
Austin
Connie
Jack
Kay McCracken
Corpus Christi Caller
John Donne
New Businesses Open or Planned for the Square Area
Two new stores are entering the Square area without formal openings. King's Feed Store on Ranch Road 12 north of Wimberley is open, and a Western Auto Store on Cypress Creek is to open mid next week with Ed Ryan as manager. A rumor hints at a dress shop coming, while a poem about feeding birds follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
King’s Feed
Homer Martin
Ranch Road 12
Wimberley
Western Auto
Hints From Millers Wife On Wash Day Instructions
A letter-like item offers step by step chores for wash day from fire to starch and airing, with numbered tasks such as heating water, sorting fabrics, and drying on grass, plus a local obituary note for Eloi Otto Hyltin, longtime Wimberley School custodian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wimberley
Hyltin
Eloi Otto Hyltin
Wimberley School
Woodcreek
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Nature
Hazel
Jenny Wren Berger
Primitives
Kyle Rd
Dear Lake Gate
Bunkhouse
Simon Gregg
Ford, Inc
State Farm
John A. Anderson
Guadalupe and
Colorado
Sts
San Marcos
Hays and
Caldwell Counties
State Farm Fire and Casualty Company
Bloomington
Hearing Aid Service
H. R
Tex
Mayhala
Company
Mustang
Bass & Smith
N. Guadalupe St. San Marcos
Horace D. Bass
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