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St. Rose Church Picnic

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Schulenberg, Texas 6.11.2017  
We another good picnic at the Knights  of Columbus Hall in Schulenberg, right alongside Hwy 77 just south of the city downtown.  This KC hall was large and they had a very efficient serving line.  The food was really good, consisting of fried chicken, sausage, sauerkraut, green beans and smashed potatoes.  All with dessert for $9.00

Here is a photo of the inside with the many people enjoying the outing:

Since this is a fundraiser for the church, they also had a silent auction and a regular auction.  The items in the auction were those that were donated to the picnic by individuals and by local companies.

Outside, there was a really tuneful Czech band:

We listened to the music for maybe 30 minutes and then the band took their break.  We sat next to a couple who were visiting from Fort Worth, the lady having grown up about two blocks from the church, so it was a homecoming for them.
While we ate our lunch, we sat across the table from a local couple and quickly got into the topic of food and how to prepare certain dishes. She and her husband do a lot of cooking and canning.  Dee has their name and address and plans to communicate with them on the matter of recipes.  They claim that deer, raccoons and bugs are a big problem to their gardens.
Next to us sat a couple who were from High Hill.  Their last name is Bayer and they knew of name of our friends who live in Fulshear.  The name Bayer is common in High Hill and so is the name Baier in the history books of the area.  Betcha its the same family, having made the German name Baier easier to handle in English.
I asked them if they knew about Abbotts Grove School and showed them the photo of the marker.  The man said the school building had been gone for some years.  As a kid in his "three room" school at the Catholic Church in High Hill, he recalled their ball team walking to Abbotts Grove school and playing softball against their team.  That would have been in the 1950's,  I would estimate.
Chose to return home via High Hill, so here is a photo of the inside of the High Hill Catholic Church;












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