REMEMBER WHEN?
50 Years Ago
Dec. 14-21, 1971
A new church was in the planning stages for the Sacred Heart Parish of La Grange. The new building was to be a brick structure with a concrete floor built on a pier foundation. The interior would be constructed of brick and wood with a large stained glass at the main entry featuring the Sacred Heart. The steeple, which had lines and design similar to the old building, would house the bells from the old church. Some of the stained glass and many other appointments from the old church were being reused and blended into the modern setting.
Paul Edward Gause was one of 18 students graduating with high honors from Texas A&M University. A chemistry major, Paul was the son of Captain and Mrs. L.L. Gause of Rutersville.
Funeral services were held for: Mrs. Viola A. Czichos, 79, of La Grange; Mrs. Angeline Jurecka, 58, of Fayetteville; Mrs. Anna Matthijetz, 76, of Winchester; Willie Sacks, 80, of Round Top; Mrs. Emilie Evanicky, 49, of Ellinger; Mrs. Dorothy Eckel, 54, of La Grange; Alwin G. Baumbach, 76, of Halsted; Mrs. Emma Herbrich, 86, of Winchester; Mrs. Julie Kramr, 93, of Fayetteville; and Mrs. Ira Mae Meinen, 69, of Round Top.
La Grange Noon Lions Club members were reminded to bring their wives as guests on Tues., Dec. 21 for a special Christmas dinner at their regular meeting. A program of Christmas carols was to follow the luncheon with a drawing of prizes for the ladies.
There are many traditional ways to mark a 40th wedding anniversary, but Mr. and Mrs. Owen W. Feist chose their own method of celebration. The Feists, who were married Sept. 2, 1930, wanted to share their joy with relatives and friends. They decided to handmake ‘Chrismons’ decorations for the Christmas tree at St. Paul Lutheran Church. Originating in the Lutheran Church of the Ascension in Danville, Virginia, in 1957, ‘The Crismon Tree’ was adorned with Christian symbols made from styrofoam, sequins, beads and other gold materials.
H.E.B. Grocery Store of Corpus Christi completed the purchase of the four-acre tract at Jackson and Travis Sts. from Associated Milk Producers Inc. The location was to be the site for a new supermarket and Perry’s store.
The Bull, Inc., a new western store in La Grange, opened at 635 E. Travis St. Owners of the new business were John Wilson and Doug Ankenmann. Mrs. Connie Anders and Mrs. Deven Watson were the salesladies.
It cost three out-of-county men $1,200 to harvest a doe illegally in Fayette County on Saturday morning. Game management officer (formerly game warden) Leroy Bennetsen arrested the trio in the Ledbetter-Waldeck area around 7 a.m. The subjects from McAllen, Perryton and Houston were charged in Judge Harvey Albers’ justice of the peace court. Each was fined $200 for illegally killing a doe, $100 for not having a hunting license and another $100 for shooting off a public road.
When Ted Keil Jr. went to the O’Neal Morris farm three miles south of Flatonia to feed his cattle on Friday morning, he found the barn door locks broken. An investigation revealed that a 1968 Ford 2000 tractor with an attached sidewinder shredder was missing. Sheriff’s deputies said tire tracks indicated a lowboy trailer pulled by a truck with dual wheels carted off the machinery. The lock on the main ranch gate also had been broken.
Marvin Schilling presented Mrs. Ted Schutz of the Frisch Auf! addition south of La Grange with a Deluxe Dressmaker Zigzag sewing machine that she won in a store drawing.
The Knights of Columbus was holding a social at the Plum Dining Hall on Mon., Dec. 20 at 7:30 p.m. At La Bahia Hall, the Ray Krenek Orchestra was playing for a dance on Christmas Day that started at 8 p.m.
In a referendum, Fayette County peanut growers voted almost unanimously in favor of marketing quotas.
Trustees of the La Grange public schools amended the school budget with an increase of $21,472 to cover new expenses for instruction, instructional resources and pupil transportation.
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