by MYRTLE HEIDEMAN
Aah, country living! There’s nothing like it. The other morning, I looked out my kitchen window and what did I see? A flock of nine turkeys trotting across the front yard, chasing bugs and each other. I also have a family of raccoons - a huge female and two beautiful half grown pups that come to the front door every night for handouts.
No! You may not come and hunt.
Several hogs have also been trapped and sure do taste good. See what I mean about country living?
I lived in town one summer and worked in a laundry, working the mangle and folding sheets (we did the sheets for the Lockhart Hospital). Have you ever folded a sheet while another one was coming through the mangle for you and your co-worker to fold?
Worse than folding a fitted sheet now.
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Rev. Dr. Donald Muchow held Sunday morning worship service at St. John Lutheran Church, while Pastor David Geske attended a Wendish Festival in Serbin, Texas.
We have a part-time piano player, Pamela Fisher, to help our long-time pianist, Gladys Sorrells. Although she has been here for several weeks now, we wish to welcome Pamela to St. John.
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Our prayers and best wishes are sent to Debbie Sorrells, who is in an Austin hospital in the intensive care unit. She does not have a broken back as was reported to me last week, but she suffers from a staff infection in her back, according to her mother-in-law, Gladys Sorrells.
Prayers and best wishes also to Chuck Wilson, who has been hospitalized and is seriously ill.
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Sympathy is extended to the family of Beatrice Petrosky Schmidt Daugherty, who passed away at the age of 96 in Rowlette, Texas. Funeral services were held Monday, Sept. 24, at McCurdy Funeral Home in Lockhart. Beatrice was a former resident of Uhland and Lockhart.
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Oops! Adelene Wisian did not move to the Legend Nursing Home but to Regent Care in San Marcos.
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All citizens of Uhland are reminded of the meeting at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28 at City Hall (the red schoolhouse).
The tickets for the drawing are ready to be picked up. The Harvest Festival will be held at the Uhland Community Center Oct. 6, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The public is invited to come and enjoy the country store, arts and crafts, cake walk, children’s games and the turkey and dressing lunch, with serving beginning at 11 a.m.
Tickets are for the handmade queen-size quilt, $100 cash, a meat pack, box of sausage and other prizes. St. John Women’s Guild sponsors the event. For booth space or for information contact Vickie Schawe at (512) 398-6622.
