July 2018 To The Householder Issue 120

ROBBIE ROUND UP Rounding up the news from Robertstown, Point Pass, Bower, Brady Creek,

Emu Downs and all the WAY TO WORLDS END

ROBERTSTOWN WAR MEMORIAL COMMUNITY CENTRE

Email Address: robbie5381@hotmail.com Phone / Fax 85817209

Website: www.communitywebs.org/rwmcc

Opening Hours… Monday to Friday 9.00am –5.00pm

Banking available Monday-Friday 9.00am –4.00pm

A.G.M`s….. Robertstown Hotel Social Club

Sunday 22nd July 5.30pm at the Hotel BBQ TEA

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Robertstown War Memorial Community Centre

Wednesday 25th July, 2018

7.30pm

At the Community Centre

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Robertstown & District Community

Management Inc.

Monday 6th August, 7.30pm at the Peace Hall

Guest speaker will be Heidi Hodge ( Community Engagement &

Rural Research Manager for Flinders University) who will report

on the results of the Health Survey conducted in this area and

inform us about the Mid-North Knowledge Partnership.

All Welcome

History and Memoirs of the four

Geranium Plain Schools from

1894 to 1947

Continued from last month

It is hard to remember seventy odd years ago—a lot of water has gone under the bridge since then. I remember punishments.

You either got the cane or you stood in the corner at the front of the class. We had picnics and on Arbour Day we planted trees

around the fence of the school yard. The games played were marble, hopscotch, rounders and a game called “ Sheep, Sheep

Come Home” of course todays folk don’t even know what that was. It kept us warm on cold days anyway. The teachers I remem-

ber are miss Atkinson and Mr Bradley. Mr Bradley is never to be forgotten . My parents offered to have him stay at our place .

When my father went to pick him up from the train at Robertstown, he sure got a shock. Not only was it Mr Bradley,

but a wife and two children— what now ! Anyway, fortunately we had a rather big spare room, so they all had to sleep in one

room. After some time a neighbour made a couple of rooms available at their place, a lot nearer to the school. I think it was

Noskes.

MEMOIRS OF FORMER GERANIUM PLAIN STUDENTS— THE FOURTH SCHOOL

Alwine Bonney (nee Wolf) Alwine Wolf (now Win Bonney) was about 12years old when she moved from Bower to Bright, with

her parents Friedrich Wilhelm Wolf and Johanne Rosina Helene Wolf and brother Bert and sisters Ella (Wittwer) and Doris

( Dreckow). This was in 1918 and Win attended the Geranium Plain School, completing her education there. Education was com-

pulsory until 13 years of age. She walked across country to school in a south– easterly direction, via Leditschke property. There

were always dairy cattle in the paddocks. Win left at 8.00 am each morning and she went along she met up Alf,Ted and Ida Led-

itschke, then Bill and Martin Heinrich, then Clara, Freda and Albert Lehmann ( children of Harry Lehmann) who lived nearer to

the school. The girls wore straw hats. The school was a galvanized iron, matchboard lined, one roomed building, with a tiny

wood stove for heating in the winter. The stove was square, stood on legs and had a metal plate on top, but she cannot recall

anything being warmed on the plate. The teacher was Henry Hudson, he came to Geranium Plain straight from Teacher’s Col-

lege. He boarded with Bill Heinrich`s family who built a little room for him for privacy, just off the verandah. Teacher Hudson had

a motor– bike, but he walked to school. He spent much of his spare time at the Broad families’ homes, on account of the pretty

girls there. One hot day, during the recitation of the oath of allegiance, Eddie Wittwer fainted and fell flat on his face in the ever

– present dust . The children had to take their own drinking water to school, since the rainwater tank was used only for hand

washing. It was a galvanized iron tank. Win’s sandwiches contained either jam or meat and butter. A guinea (one pound and one

shilling), or $2.10 in present currency, was given to pupils who had good attendance records. School games were “dusty all

games” in the yard without bushes, shrubs or trees. “Hide—and—seek” was played around the school building. The boys played

marbles. Some gums were planted one Arbour Day, but nothing grew. The boys tried to get a vegetable garden going. There was

a library at the school and the children were permitted to take the books home. In Win’s day no– one rode horses to school, it

was dark when Win arrived home from school. There were on chores for her then after school. Teach Hudson tried to teach the

girls sewing from a book. This book was printed in blue ink, hand written and roneo’d like a Gestetner copier. Later on Alma

Ruediger was the first sewing teacher at Geranium Plain School. She would walk the 2 miles from her home to the Wolf home,

have a drink of water, then walk onto the school, give the lesson, and then reverse the procedure. Win’s sister Ella was the next

sewing teacher and her sister Doris was the third sewing teacher. The families who were at school at the same time as Win

were: the Hauslers, Heinrichs, Lehmanns, Leditschkes, Semmlers and Wittwers, as well as Harrold Schmidt and Linda Vogelsang.

The Wolf farm had a lovely pug and daub shed with a deeply thatched roof. It was very cool building and all the jam, preserves

and flour were kept in it. The jam was kept in earthenware jars and four gallon kerosene tins, and the flour (in its bags) rested

on tins. Oddly enough there were no mice or rat proplems with this food, but flies and rabbits were pests. Continue next

month

Foodie corner ham and vegie slice

Ingredients

6 eggs

60g plain flour

1 cup zucchini grated and drained

½ cup sweet corn kernels or 225g

can, drained

1 cup grated carrot

¼cup chives chopped

100g chopped lean ham

50g grated reduced—fat cheese

Method

Preheat oven to180°c

Beat eggs and flour together until smooth. Add zucchini,

corn, carrot, ham, and chives and combine. Pour into a

dish lightly sprayed with oil. Top with cheese. Bake for

30—40 minutes until set. Serves 4.

Items of interest from June Community Management June Meeting

1. Regional Council of Goyder are revamping the town entrance signs & required feedback from the

meeting.

2. Biggest Morning tea raised $ 281.00 for Cancer research.

3. Football Club now have nets behind the goal area.

4. Sub-committee to work with crane restoration consists of Adrian Menzel, Fred Lang & Dennis Brown.

5. Council gave $100 to Francie Heinson to attend the U.N. Youth Pacific Project in East Timor.

6. Council won a Division of Excellence Award for the Eudunda By-Pass.

7. Bowling Club-house exterior is currently being painted.

8. Pre-School grounds has a new nature play area.

9. All computers at the Community Centre have been converted to Windows 10.

ROBERTSTOWN GARDEN… The garden behind the RSL memorial has now been planted, mulched & watered with a

dripper line. The varieties are…

Back row:— Purple Fountain Grass= Pennisetum macrostachyum ( this is a sterile variety

so doesn't`t spread seeds)

Middle row :— Caprosma Pacific Sunset ( glossy red centred & brown leaves) alternated

with Caprosoma Pacific Sunrise ( glossy hot pink & chocolate brown highlights on leaves).

Front row :— Nandina Moonbay = Nandina Domestica ( foliage turns red in winter).

Behind the memorial are 5 roses “ We will rember them” WW1 1914-1918, a gift from

France to Australia. Flowers are yellow with orange/red edges also a Gallipoli Rosemary=

Rosamarinus officinalis. Rosemary is for remembrance. Further to the left of these plantings

are 2 RSL Spirit of Anzac Grevillea ( these commemorate the first major military action

fought by Australian & New Zealand forces at Gallipoli & many other conflicts since then.

These plants were selected for their drought tolerance, low maintenance, colour & display as

well as RSL significance, especially near the memorial. Further details on labels can be

viewed at the Robertstown War Memorial Community Centre.

A.G.M.

ROBERTSTOWN PEACE HALL

TUESDAY 11TH SEPTEMBER, 2018

7.30 pm ALL WELCOME

COMING EVENTS for July 2018

SOUTHERN SAINTS…… Sat 7th S A Country Champs. Renmark, Sat 14th v Nth Clare...Clare

Sat 21st v BSR...Eudunda, Sat 28th v Blyth/Snowtown… Eudunda

Monday 2nd C. M. Inc. meeting at Primary School 7.30pm

Sunday 22nd R/Town Hotel Social Club A.G.M.

Wednesday 25th Yak “n” Snack Bower Hall 12 m.d.

EUDUNDA / ROBERTSTOWN LUTHERAN PARISH JULY 2018

Sunday 1st July Robertstown 8.30am H.C. Eudunda 10.30 am H.C. ( Guest Speaker Pastor Stephen Schulz)

Sunday 8th July Peep Hill 8.30am H.C. Eudunda 9.00am LR Robertstown 10.00am LR Point Pass 10.30 am H.C.

Sunday 15th July Geranium Plain 8.30 am H.C. Neales Flat 8.30 am LR Robertstown 10.00am LR Eudunda 10.30 am

HC. Point Pass 8.30am LR

Sunday 22nd July Eudunda 8.30am H.C. Peep Hill 8.30am Point Pass No service Robertstown 10.30 am H.C.

Sunday 29th July Eudunda 8.30am H.C. Point Pass 8.30am H.C. Geranium Plain 9.00 am LR Robertstown 10.30 am HC

Neales Flat 10.30am H.C.

ROBERTSTOWN / EUDUNDA UNITING CHURCH SERVICES FOR June 2018 Sunday 1st July Mr. K. Thomas 10.00am Hostel

Sunday 8th July Attend Lutheran Service

Sunday 15th July Mrs Jennette Mickan 9.30am Hostel

Sunday 22nd July Mr Ken Thomas Robertstown 9.30 am

Sunday 29th July Mr Andrew Partington Eudunda Hostel 10.00am

Jokes

Why do football coaches bring suitcases along to away games? So they can pack the defence!.

Why don’t grasshoppers go to football matches? They prefer cricket matches!.

Where do Martians drink beer? At a Mars Bar!

‘Catching crooks’ by Laura Norder.

‘The Hungry Giant’ by Ethan D. lot.

Trivia

Every day the average person sees at least one thing relating to milk.

Worth your salt’ is actually a term taken from Roman days when soldiers were paid in salt, which would be exchanged on the

market for cash.

Elephants mourn the death of other elephants , often gathering the remains (bones) and depositing them in one area.

Australia through time

Monday 24th July 1950 For the first time since the Ice Age, South Australia’s Lake Eyre - normally a dry expanse of crusty salt— is

almost completely full of water. According to Adelaide University Professor of Geology Sir Douglas Mawson several consecutive

wet seasons have lead to the unusual phenomenon. Two local farmers, who cruised 15 miles into the lake in a flat—bottom

dinghy, have reported seeing waves 2 feet high

ONLY TICKETS AVAILABLE ARE WITHOUT MEALS

Latest News from the Goyder Region This is a weekly news items of events happening through out the Goyder Region , available on your computer. To

receive it, call the Regional Council of Goyder on 88920100 and register your email address. A great way to advertise

your event for free.

As from the 1st of July 2018 all dogs and cats must be microchipped with the owners current details. Penalties apply

for any dog not microchipped at that date. Remember to contact Council as soon as you have had your pet

microchipped so that the Council can update your records with the number. You will receive through the post

( late in July) re– registration forms and a grey plastic disc for each dog you own. Once you have received the paper

work , you will go ON LINE and complete the registration for each dog and payment via a credit card or a debit card

ON LINE will complete the transaction. Council staff are available to assist those dog owners who do not have access to

the internet facilities to register their dogs. Call into either Burra or Eudunda offices assistance or information.

SHOE BOX REPORT

Our little group “Robertstown Lutheran Fellowship has completed 24 boxes, which will be sent to

Cambodia in time for Christmas 2018. it is thanks to people who have helped with monetary donations

($10.00) for each box to reach its destination , also for empty shoe boxes. It is an ongoing project, so we still

need empty shoe boxes, Christmas cards, greeting cards, calendar pictures and wrapping paper for 2019. If

anyone has surplus wool or fabric it will be put to good use. Some of our local girls are knitting teddies or

making cuddly toys to add to the boxes. In each shoe box , for a child age from 2– 14 years, we put a set of

clothes, beanie, school exercise book, sharpener , rubber, pencils, tooth brush, comb, soap, face washer,

plus a toy to play with. For more information contact Desma Wilksch on 85817215

Bower Progress Association

YACK`n`SNACK

At Bower Hall @ 12 noon for

a meal and a chat

Wednesday 25th July

Wednesday 26th September

Cost $15.00

You may bring along a sweet

or salad to share if you wish

For bookings or a chat please call :

Ann 85810597

Chris: 85817139

Lesley Anne 0400 557 613

NETBALL RESULTS 2018

2/6/18

A1 Eud/Rob 38 v Sth Clare ?

Player Award: Lisa Ah Chee, Georgina Pfitzner

A2 Eud/Rob 34 v Sth Clare 43

Player Award: Bek Kilby, Molly Bruhn

B1 Eud/Rob 43 v Sth Clare 28

Player Award : Chloe Montgomerie, Lucy Engel

B2 Eud/Rob 44 v Sth Clare 31

Player Award: Abbie O`Brien, Steph Heidrich

C1 Eud/Rob 31 v Sth Clare 32

Player Award: Kira Stacey, Kayla Steinborner

C2 Eud/Rob 36 v Sth Clare 39

Player Award: Mikayla Ramsey, Georgia Ashman

15 Eud/Rob 70 v Sth Clare 10

Player Award: Sophie Nietschke, Jaz Williams

J1 Eud/Rob 42 v Sth Clare 32

Player Award: chayne Drage, Claire Schiller

J3 Eud/Rob 9 v Sth Clare 23

Player Award: Issy Schiller, Hollie Preston

J4 Eud/Rob 1 v Sth Clare 32

Player Award: Maddy Mosey, Zoe Miller

J5 Eud/Rob 1 v Sth Clare 13

Player Award: Charlotte Nietschke, Zoe Neal

16/6/18

A1 Eud/Rob 49 v BBH 36

Player Award: Amy Mosey, Lisa Ah Chee

A2 Eud/Rob 38 v BBH 25

Player Award: Courtney Schutz, Phoebe Schmidt

B1 Eud/Rob 38 v BBH 31

Player Award: Alix Mosey, Maddy Lemm

B2 Eud/Rob 20 v BBH 43

Player Award: Abbie O`Brien, Paige Vandenberg

C1 Eud/Rob 22 v BBH 35

Player Award: Kira Stacey, Tiarna Roocke

C2 Eud/Rob 42 v BBH 35

Player Award: Tanya Jenke, Georgie Ashman

U15 Eud/Rob30 v BBH 21

Player Award: Decota Curran, Kimberley Mc Donald

J1 Eud/Rob 33 v BBH 23

Player Award: Temika Tschirn, Breea Schutz

J3 Eud/Rob 13 v BBH 13

Player Award: Hollie Preston, Elisha Mosey

J4 Eud/Rob 2 v BBH3

Player Award: Regan Mosey, Kayla Krause,

Milly Roebuck

J5 Eud/Rob 4 v BBH 10

Player Award: Caitlyn Cameron, Shayla Scholz

23/6/18

A1 Eud/Rob 41 v Min-Man 28

Player Award; Jess Geister, Kelsey Nietschke

A2 Eud/Rob 30 v Min-Man 45

Player Award: Ivana Suen, Demi Schulz

B1 Eud/Rob 26 v Min-Man 44

Player Award: Leesa Flanagan, Amy Mepstead

B2 Eud/Rob 60 v Min-Man 43

Player Award: Steph Heidrich, Julia Schutz

C1 Eud/Rob 17 v Min-Man 35

Player Award: Hayley Roocke, Steph Alsic

C2 Eud/Rob 33 v Min-Man 35

Player Award: Meg Champion, Ashley Power

U15 Eud/Rob 35 v Min-Man 36

Player Award: Olivier Schiller, Kimberley McDonald

J1 Eud/Rob 46 v Min-Man 27

Player Award: Alex Handke, Ebony Noack

J3 Eud/Rob 6 v Min-Man 27

Player Award: Isabella Batki, Matilda O`Brien

J4 Eud/Rob 1 v Min-Man 14

Player Award: Regan Mosey, Jaz Williams, Maddy Mosey

Lilli Pfitzner.

CLASSIFIEDS JULY 2018

Newsletter Sponsored By Barossa Area Fundraisers for Cancer; Bower Progress Association; Denise’s Hair Care; Country

Fabrics 'n' Things; Eudunda/Robertstown Netball Club, Kadina Electrical; Keller Fuels; MR & RJ Lehmann; Neindorf

Fencing; LH Perry & Sons Pty Ltd; Rowan Ramsey, Fed. MP; A R Rhodes & Co; RJS Electrical; Robertstown Bowling Club;

Robertstown CFS; Robertstown Day Centre; Robertstown Hotel Community Social Club; Robertstown Primary School;

Robertstown Uniting Church; Tothill Olive Grove; Landmark Pfitzner Kleinig; Viking Livestock Transport;

Tschirns Mechanical; Dan van Holst Pellekaan, State MP; Lokananda Yoga Meditation Centre; Elders Rural Services;

“Wild Woodland Toys”; Mid- North Mobile Welding; Robertstown Peace Hall; Robertstown Hotel, Web South; Eudunda

Robertstown Lutheran Parish

Robertstown Community Centre

For many of your business stationery needs

* * * Australia Post * * * Centrelink Access Point - able to sight proof of identity

* * * Photocopying, Laminating, Business Cards, Labels etc.

* * * Photos reproduced, enlarged etc. * * * Slides printed or converted to DVD format

* * * Video Tapes put on to D V D`s * * * Vinyl records & cassettes

* * * Vinyl transferred to CD`s * * * CD/DVD to CD/DVD copies

* * * Library available when Community Centre is open

* * * Craft shop ‘ Robbie 5381 ‘ Tea / coffee available

5381 CRAFT SHOP ………...Goods for Sale

Home made….. Chutney—Pickles— Tomato Sauce— Jam

Large & Small Honey

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Pottery Items—Bracelets & Earrings— Assorted Greeting Cards

FOR SALE AT THE POST OFFICE…….

White board markers, x 4 $ 4.00 Strong Lead Pencils $1.50

Sheet protectors 100 A4 $ 6.00 Glitter Glue x 5 $4.99

96 page lined book $ 1.00 Mini Glitter pens x 20 $6.00