RT-C ISD Offering Sports Summer Camp
ARMINE News
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Cedar Creek Schuetzen Verein received donations from the Carmine Chamber of Commerce and the Carmine Lions Club for the purchase of new chairs for the Carmine Hall. Marie Loewe, left, Secretary/Treasurer for the Lions Club presented $2,020 and Marlene Waak, center, President of the Chamber presented $2,000 to Stuart Markwardt, right, President of the Carmine Hall at their May meeting. -
RT-C ISD Offering Sports Summer Camp
Sports Summer Camp Schedule is on the
website. The contact number is (979) 9666118.
Strength and conditioning and summer skill work are both free and held Mondays through Fridays, June 5-July 14, for incoming seventh through twelfth graders. The first one is 8-9 a.m. and the second 9-10 a.m. Registration is not needed for these two. They will be off July 3-7.
The deadline for registration for the following camps is July 10 to receive a T-Shirt and cost is $60. Basketball camp is July 17-19 for incoming first through twelfth grades. Volleyball camp is July 26-28 also for first through twelfth grades and baseball camp is July 27-29 for incoming second through eighth grades.
Check the website for times and more information.
Graduation Ceremonies were held May 26 at the Round Top Festival Institute. The ceremonies included eighth grade promotion and senior graduation.
RT-C baseball team’s season came to an end when they were defeated by Fayetteville in the regional semi-finals game.
FFA Banquet was held May 18.
Salad Supper
The Martin Luther Lutheran Church Women of the ELCA are having their annual Salad Supper and Program on Wednesday, June 7 in the Fellowship Hall. The theme is “Butterflies.” Ladies of the area and children are invited to attend the event which begins at 6:30 p.m. The meal is a salad potluck.
A Piece of Carmine History Services offered-Part 4. Well Digger, Wood Wagon, Plumbers, Electricians, House Builders, and Cattle Hauling In the late 1800s and into the next century, Oscar Wagner drilled water wells with mule power to drill into the ground.
In “A History of Carmine” by Tony Buban, H.A. Weyand hauled wood for people with his team of oxen in the early 1900s. He was believed to be the only man to own a team of oxen in the area.
Walter Fuchs was a plumber possibly in the 1950s – early 1970s who had a rig truck which was used to lower galvanized pipe into a well. It was 20 feet high to be able to lower a 20-foot length of pipe, one at a time. He did some repair on water pumps and general plumbing.
Branch Neutzler had a plumbing company in the late 1950s until he died in 1972. His shop was at what is now 125 Augsburg Ave. He put in septic systems and sold water pumps, which he worked on. He also had a rig truck for putting in and taking out pipes.
Lloyd Gerland and Edison Bergmann worked for Neutlzer. In the later 1950s Gerland began his own plumbing company. He did pump repair, plumbing for houses, installed pumps, and replaced traps, and drains. His son Dennis helped him. He worked into the end of the 1970s.
Emil Albers was the first known electrician in Carmine. When electric service came to Carmine in 1928, he wired homes and businesses.
Henry Sanders was an electrician in the 1950s and 1960s, in addition to working the store at the location now known as 138 Sylvan.
Fred Schultz was an electrician in the 1960s. His shop was in the Hoppe Store Building at the current address of 108 Thigpen. It was called B & S Sales & Service Co.
Edrol Wagner and Charles von Minden had a business known as C & E Electric. They did electrical repair work, added wiring when needed, and also repaired ice machines. Their shop was at 138 Sylvan in the 1990s.
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By NANCY EILERS
Carmine News Correspondent
William O. Neumann built many houses in Carmine, along with the tall building at 125 Augsburg Ave., which was built in 1918. He was the superintendent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA) when they built the original rock building for Carmine High School in 1938. (The Round Top School and the Carmine School had not yet consolidated) Gus Harzke was a carpenter, probably in the 1930s.
Walter Fuchs was a builder possibly in the 1950s to the early 1970s.
Kermit Hinze built houses in approximately the 1960s to the 1970s.
In the early years of Carmine, cattle were hauled on trains to Ft. Worth. Possibly in the 1930s (maybe sooner), Harold Weyand started hauling cattle with a trailer for auction sales, and continued until about the 1970s. Melvin Schoenst started hauling cattle with him when he was 16 in the early 1960s. His brothers Fritz and Roger also hauled with him. Melvin continues to haul cattle.
Watch for Part 5.
Carmine Heritage Committee The Carmine Heritage Committee will not meet in June. The next quarterly meeting will be Sept. 6 in the museum at 10 a.m.
Carmine VFD
Carmine Volunteer Fire Department regular monthly meeting is May 25 at 7 p.m. Volunteers and interested persons are always welcome to attend.
If you plan a controlled burn, call the Fayette County Sheriff’s office at (979) 9685856 to give them your name, location of burn, and telephone number.
In Washington County call the non-emergency number at (979) 277-7373.
MLLC News
Saturday worship with Holy Communion is at 6 p.m.
Sunday School is Sunday at 9 a.m.
Sunday worship with Holy Communion, observing Trinity Sunday is at 10 a.m. The Rev. David Tinker is the pastor. Meals on Wheels
Senior Citizens Meals on Wheels with Combined Community Action meet every Wednesday at Martin Luther Lutheran Church Mission and Ministry Building located at 250 Augsburg Ave., Carmine, TX 78932.
Come early to play dominoes and enjoy the camaraderie. Hours are 9 – 11:30 a.m.
Food usually arrives about 10 a.m. and is for pick-up only until 11:30 a.m. There are 5 meals in a box along with milk, dessert, and bread. Cost is a donation of $10, which makes it $2 per meal. It is for seniors age 60 and up.
To sign up, come by on any Wednesday morning to fill out the paperwork. For more information, contact Marilyn Wagner at (979) 277-4134.
Recycling Trailer
The recycling trailer is at the Carmine Hall on Thursdays from noon until 4 p.m.
Accepted are clean no. 1 and no. 2 plastic (please separate them), dry newspapers, telephone books, magazines, cardboard, paper, junk mail, all colors glass, steel food cans, and aluminum cans. Attendants are available to help unload.
The trailer is in Ledbetter from 8:30-11 a.m., also on Thursdays, behind the Ledbetter Fireman’s Hall.
Visitors’ Center
Carmine Chamber of Commerce Visitors’ Center at the restored Train Depot is open on the second and fourth Fridays and Saturdays of the month from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Birthdays
Birthday wishes are extended to Bryan Miller-May 31; June Makowsky, Delores Pohl, and Abby Wunderlich- June 1; Josh Finke and Hayden Garlin-June 2; Vilette Finke-June 4; and Cole Garlin- June 5.
Have News?
If you have news for the Carmine column, you may email me at w5ten@industryinet. com or call (979) 2783645, or send it to P.O. Box 95, Carmine, TX 78932.