Family of William Seraphim Gabel and Anna C Eresch
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Top row L to R
William John Gabel 1896-1963 • LKYC-YNR
Albert Peter Gabel 1897-1957 • LKYC-YJH
Ernest Anthony Gabel 1899-2000 • LKYC-YJX
Clarence Benedict Gabel 1901-1983 • MKYH-CQM
Irene Anne Gabel 1902-1997 • LKYC-YG9
Bottom row L to R:
Marjorie Rose Gabel 1911-2005 • LKYC-YF8
Anna C Eresch 1871-1942 • 9V1T-1BQ
Francis Joseph Gabel 1905-1977 • LKQP-QMW
William Seraphim Gabel 1870-1957 • L6FW-KZ8
Eulalia C Gabel 1908-1994 • LKYC-Y6X
Transcription of article above:
FIELD T0 MOUTH: 30 MINUTES
W. S. GABEL, BELOIT. KAS, CLAIMS A UNIQUE RECORD.
He Ate Biscuits Made From Wheat Grown on His Farm in Just One-Half Hour of the Time the ____* Was Cut
A unique “world’s championship” held by Will S. Gabel of Beloit. Kas., secretary of the Mitchell County Statewide Fair Association, who this week is visiting the American Royal Stock Show. Mr. Gabel claims the world’s short time in transforming standing grain to “light” biscuits. His record is thirty minutes flat. There have been numerous endeavors In this particular class he says Gabel’s record was made with the aid of his motor car. And the wheat in the process passed through all the ordinary stages—the field, header box, thresher, mill and bakery—all in thirty minutes.
“Some of us farmers got Into discussion as to how quickly this could be done,” said Mr. Gabel yesterday. “It arose over an article In a farm journal which stated that someone had done It in just an hour. I thought I could beat that, despite the fact that my farm was a mile and half from the mill.
THREE MINUTES FOR GRINDING
“I made arrangements with the harvesters. millers and an uptown baker. The header entered the wheat field on my farm at 3:14 o’clock in the afternoon—this was a few weeks ago. After one minute we gathered the heads from the box. carried them to a threshing machine which was under full steam in same field. After another minute the wheat was threshed. About half a bushel sacked. We placed it In the motor car and made quick time to the door of Beloit Milling Company’s mill, a mile and a half from my farm.
“The mill hands grabbed the sack and poured it into the feed pipes just above the rollers. In three minutes it was crushed and sifted. At 3:29 o’clock we hastened with the flour in the motor car to a bakery, three blocks away. Fourteen minutes later the baker. G. H. Miles pulled from the oven the smoking hot light biscuits, all ready to eat. It was just 3:44 o’clock when the first bite was taken. or half an hour to the minute from time the grain was standing in the field.
SPOILED ONE BATCH OF DOUGH
“l think we could have beat that record had the baker been more expeditious. He insisted on weighing and measuring each part used, and had to make a second batch after getting too much baking powder in the first one. Had the oven been real hot to begin with the baking would have taken but three minutes instead of ten, which would have reduced the time seven minutes, but I cut that hour record In two and was satisfied.”
Mr. Gabel says he has investigated carefully and is positive that he established a world’s record. A Nebraska farmer has a record of sixteen minutes, but he ground the wheat in a coffee grinder in the field and baked it in the field. This record is outlawed, because the grain did not pass through the ordinary processes and the product wasn’t real flour.
Bill’s comment:
Biscuits in 30 minutes without a microwave!
- Go to the store
- Buy ingredients
- Go home
- Make a batch incorrectly
- Make another batch
- Bake it
That’s at least 3 hours.
*Engela’s comment. Trying to decipher the missing word in the sub header it might be “Garb or Garbe. Garbe is another word for sheaves of grain.
The wheat is hand cut with a sickle or scythe, then gathered together and tied, (or machine cut with a mechanical reaper-binder) then stood in the field so the heads of the grain stalk don’t touch the ground, and left to dry. That unit is called a garb or garbe. When a dozen or so garbs are stacked together it is called a shock also called stooks. There are some great photos of garbs on Wikipedia.
Grand / Dickinson Theater, Beloit, Kansas, approx. 1914
March 19, 1914 According to the Beloit Gazette William Seraphim Gabel will build the “Gabel Opera House” that will seat 1000 people on the site where the old Bee Hive Store stood. It was to be leased to Ed Burgan for 5 years for live theater and movies.
August 13, 1919: According to the Beloit Gazette William Seraphim Gabel son returns from whose recently returned from service, purchased the fixtures from Ed Burgan, and is now running the Grand Theater. W. S. Gabel owns the building.
May 26, 1920: Beloit Gazette says that William Seraphim Gabel and his son William John Gabel have been running the Grand Theater in Beloit and “Gabel Amusement Co.” leased the New Theater in Washington, Kansas. William John Gabel will be the manager.
Beloit (population 3,315) and Washington, Kansas (population of 1,406) are 80 miles apart.
Expanding the Brand
Big Sale – One Mile West of Beloit
PUBLIC SALE
I Will sell For
W. S. Gabel
on his farm 1 mile west of Beloit, on Main street road,
Monday, Sept, 13
Commencing at 1 o’clock p. m., the following:
One good Jersey milk cow, two yearling bulls.
Eight head of shoats, weighing from 80 to 100 pounds
Farm Implements, Etc.
Five dozen 1-2 gallon fruit jars; 8 stone jars, from 2 to 6-gallon, 1 5-
gallon Daisy churn, 1 6-qt. ice cream freezer, I power washing machine, 1
Beatrice cream separator, good ås new, 9×12 wool fiber rug, 1 linoleum
14x1G ft. good condition, 1 linoleum 12×14 ft., good condition, 1 30-gallon
oil tank with pump, 1 steel oil barrel 1 3-ton Avery truck, first class con-
dition, 1 3-H.P. lnternational gas engine, 1 18-in, 6-ft. stock tank, about
20 tons good alfalfa hay, in parn, 1 good single buggy, 1 stalk cutter, 1
garden cultivator, 1 walking plow, 1 drill for re-planting corn, several rolls
good hog wire, from 26 to 36 in., 1 Monarch range nearly new, general
clean up of all miscellaneous articles around the place.
TERMS—Cash or bankable note.
T. P. DOWNS, Clerk.
H. H. VANAMBURG, Auctioneer.
So was it time to retire from farming? Maybe it is time to concentrate more on the theater refered to as the Gabel Opera House when it was being built and then later as the
Beloit Gazette – January 3, 1923
Death of William’s Mother
Beloit Gazette – December 5, 1923
Beloit Gazette – December 26, 1923
The Democrat Opinion
May 16, 1924
McPherson, Kansas
The Big Wreck
July 19, 1940
William’s son, daughter in law, and three grand children involved in a serious accident in Utah.
On a side note, the article mentions that William served on the executive board of the Beloit hospital.
Transcription of wife of William Seraphim Gabel’s wife August 1942
OBITUARY
Mrs. W. S. Gabel— Anna Eresch Gabel was born Dec. 11, 1870 at Aurora, Ill., to Mr. and Mrs. John Peter Eresch, and died at the Community Hospital at Beloit, Friday, Aug. 14, 1942, at 11:05 a.m. following an illness of several weeks. Mrs. W. S. Gabel was aged 71 years, 8 months and 3 days at the time of her passing, which followed several days of intense suffering. She passed to her heavenly reward after everything possible was done to relieve her condition, and after a farewell visit with her eight children, who came from many points to be with their mother.
The deceased came to Beloit in 1878, ahd she spent all of her life in this community with the exception of the years 1920-24 she resided at Atchison, Kas. At St. John’s church in Beloit on Jan. 14, 1896, occurred the marriage of Anna Eresch and Wm. S Gabel of Beloit, a union that held happily for more than 46 years. Mr. and Mrs. Gabel became the parents of eight children, all of whom survive their mother, and were together last week for the first time since 1916.
The children include Wm. J. Gabel, Waukegan, Ill.; Albert P. Gabel, Kansas City, Kas.; Ernest A. Gabel, Topeka, Kas.; Clarence B. Gabel, Long Beach, Calif.; Irene I Spencer, Montebello, Calif.; Francis J. Gabel, Los Angeles, Calif.; Eulalia Magette, Beloit, and Marjorie Hill, Beloit. These with the husband, W. S. Gabel of Beloit, eighteen grandchildren, and one brother, Peter Eresch of Beloit, have the sincere sympathy of the entire community in the loss of their loved one.
Mrs. Gabel was a faithful wife, devoted mother, a true friend, and a good neighbor. She was a home-loving woman, who enjoyed working for her family, and was always about—the welfare of members of her household. As a devout member of St. John’s church, she took part in other church organizations including the Altar Society and the Catholic Daughters of America. Mrs. Gabel was also a member of the Woman’s Civic Club, and was in activities of other organizations of the community. She will long be remembered as a highly respected resident as well as an ideal helpmate and mother, and a sincere Christian woman.
Funeral rites held Monday morning at 9 0’clock at St. John’s church with the Rev. Wm. J. Butzer in charge were largely attended by relatives and friends of the deceased. Interment was in St. John’s cemetery. The following served as pallbearers John Matheis, E. C. Carrico, Fred X. Wessiing, Ferd Krobst, Ferd Bergmann and Henry Heidrick.In addition to Mrs. Gabel’s sons and daughters, other out’ of town relatives here to attend the services included Dr. Leo Graff, Britton, S. D. ; Marie Eresch, Topeka; R. L. Gabel, Riley, Kas.; Mrs Alice Weeke, Ottawa, Kas., an Mrs. Rose Culp, Grand Island Nebr.
Earlier generations can see spellings of the name as Gobel and Geibel.
Early 1949 – Four Generations
William, William J Gabel, Charles Gabel Edwards and Carol Edwards.