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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1902
Page
2
The item notes community happenings in Moulton with sign requirements for publication, local visits by Gerhardt Mueller and Johanna Fischbeck, and Paul Cherschke’s frequent journeys to Baursville. It mentions completion of the school-house addition ready to house a hundred pupils for the next session NEkv.
Orin L. Winters born December 25 1811 in Giles county Tennessee was the fourth of thirteen children. He married Susannah Elroy in 1834 and moved through Texas settlements from Winters Bayou Walker county to Lavaca near Moulton then Dell Caldwell county where he died April 17 1902 at age 90. Survived by two brothers, four daughters and two sons with many grandchildren great grandchildren and distant kin. He witnessed Texas grow from scattered settlements to a booming state and remained simple, faithful, and respected until his death in Moulton.
Two city teams the Soney Boys and Kissie Boys met Sunday evening in a lively match. Kissie Boys won 19 to 16 with Wm. Tomasko as umpire and Oak Grove’s It. Mueller captaining the Soney Boys. The Honey Boys set to face the Stenkhaus team next Sunday for a $10 purse.
Epittor Eagle reports from Oak Grove on visits by Miss F Gerloff and Ed Niemann, cotton opening and boll weevil issues, Otto Granwald health tour, a local race at Sauer track where Oak Grove won a $2 purse, and residents like Mr Gerhardt Hinrichs, Miss Emilie Koenig, and Mrs E K Buesing hosting events.
Local notes report Aug Ahrens fireman of the Southern Pacific visiting Freyburg. A newborn for Mr and Mrs D Koopmann is healthy. W Boetecker and sister from Waco visit an uncle. Rain blessed the area last week. July 28 ginner Schmidt shipped the first bale of cotton for the season.
O J Koehler plans farming and cattle trading near Flatonia after selling his farm. Raymond Sladek, Schulenburg salesman fluent in three languages, joins J H Appelt and rents a cottage with his family. A lightning strike at LaGrange’s Koenecke disrupts a wire and lights, tallying outages while Henry Koenecke recovers. W T Bagby battles illness near typhoid fever. A newborn girl arrives at the Waltershorf home as parents fare well. The Herald editor praised home trade but criticized bill heads rubber stamped with firm names.
Augusta Kunkel returns home to Paige Bastrop county after visiting relatives. F D Jaroszewski and D Oaken visit Paige and Yorktown. Weather described as very dry with no rain. Bertha Schmidt returns to Sweet Home after a visit to Gonzales. Miss Norma stops in with John Thigpen family. Aug Nehring visits Sweet Home. Chas Hirsch Jr. marks 58th birthday. John Tigpen and family visit near Smother's Creek. Henrietta Kuehn sick. Wm Jaroszewski visits Sweet Home.
Nature’s sunsets show color’s reach as light turns rose over a clouded zenith. The piece notes endless hues from crimson to gold, with blue upper sky peeking through. Also mentions courtesies from E. K. B. Handle and F. W. Arnim, George von Lienen weighing 140 bales of cotton, and a new A. Baur & Son advertisement.
A sharp boycott broadside argues against patronage bias as merchants who use staples betray the policy. It condemns rubber stamp tactics and urges consistency as customers switch to mail order houses like Montgomery Ward Sears Roebuck.
From Baursville notes mention A Baur adding a new building to outhouses with Janssen Bros as the contractor. Fritz Fischbeck and Wm Pietsch fished on the Guadalupe river returning hungry. Frauen Verein 18 hauls sand to the graveyard. Peach preserving molasses making and cotton picking are the order of the day amid dry weather prayers for fields. An advertisement praises New Discovery coughs and colds medicine with testimonials and trial bottles offered.
Sarg Antonio Vanham of Uval de Co lists 1300 acres on Peach Creek known as Pretty Prairie priced at 19 dollars per acre. Call on F M Neevey.
On June 19 a Sperrel ball faced horse with flax mane about 12 to 14 hands was reported missing near Nickel. the animal bears a br left hip mark.
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