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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1941
Page
1
Lavaca County Chapter of the American Red Cross calls for workers. A Monday meeting at the Moulton schoolhouse will organize women to sew and knit garments with materials issued at the gathering.
The government forecaster says Texas will harvest 2,572,000 bales this year, the smallest in years, with acreage at a 35 year low. Last year Texas produced 2,766,000 bales, while national output is forecast a little over 10,000,000 bales.
Ten Confederate veterans attended the Camp Ben McCollugh reunion at Driftwood near Kyle last week. Their ages totaled 959 years with the youngest 91 and the oldest 103, as the line of veterans thins and the last survivor nears his reward.
The editor and lady thank recipients for a complimentary ticket to all LaVaca Fiesta events in Halletts ville on September 5 and 6. Governor Coke R Stevenson will officially open the fiesta with parades base ball rodeo anti aircraft demonstration crowning of the queen and more.
Coke R. Stevenson of Junction, Texas, inaugurated governor to fill the unexpired term of W. Lee O'Daniel who left to serve as U S senator after Morris Sheppard's death. Stevenson delivered a short address pledging effort to solve state problems and asking for citizen cooperation.
A Dallas report notes Texas women plan to petition the legislature to form a committee to establish a cotton hose factory in Texas. They argue Texas cotton fields are the ideal location and that cotton garments would aid southern cotton growers.
Reports from Austin say Governor Coke R. Stevenson may call an extraordinary legislature to re enact the road bond assumption law. Friends from across the state offer to meet him to solve the road financing problem. More than 200 counties face tax increases next fall because the bond is not re enacted.
The Moulton Lions Club received its charter at a banquet in the high school auditorium on Thursday night with about 200 Lions and visitors from Schulenburg Hallettsville Yoakum LaGrange Eagle Lake Gonzales Port Lavaca Seguin and Moulton. Roy Keaton Austin state secretary delivered the principal address. Vladike Boehm presided and accepted the charter.
The American Legion Auxiliary will serve dinner to the Lions Club on Thursday at the school house.
Vladike Boehm Victor Fehren kamp Jr. and Anton Silba left for Mexco Sunday morning on a sightseeing trip.
Mr and Mrs Roy Kotzebue and children Roselyn and Alexander returned Sunday from a visit to Pensacola Florida.
The house approved an 18 month draft extension by a single vote 2038 to 202. Mrs Emil Pundt Mr and Mrs Ed Pundt and son and Miss Ada Koenig visited Mr Arthur Krause and family in Columbus Sunday.
Mr and Mrs Walt Gillettt and daughter Annette and Mrs W H Brilling of San Antonio visited Mr and Mrs F L Filipp on Sunday. Mrs Filipp, who has been ill, is recovering nicely.
Lavaca County Red Cross chapter calls for volunteers to sew and knit for the relief effort. A meeting at Moulton school home on Monday August 16 at 3 00 p m invites residents to join. Production chairmen Harvey Renger and Virginia Limp will attend, listing county quotas for sweaters shirts dresses and layettes.
Arthur H Schodde writes from Dani s Field Augusta Georgia that he enjoys reading the Moulton Eagle. He is the son of Mr and Mrs H Schodde of this place.
The Sam and Will Moore Institute will open the 1941-42 scholastic session on Monday September 8 announced Superintendent Stanley F. Cernosek. The school board elected John Hancock of Garwood as athletics coach for the ensuing term. Several vacancies remain to be filled.
The Eagle reports 198 pounds of scrap aluminum were collected here for the national defense program. The drive was organized under Mayor Elo C. Fehrenkamp who served as local chairman.
Mrs W F Meiserschlaeger arrived Sunday to spend weeks with her parents Mr and Mrs G W Fisher. An employee of the Social Security Board in Baltimore she formerly was Miss Phyllis Fisher. She traveled with Mrs Emma Hirech Mr and Mrs Hugo Glatzert and Hue Lee of Moulton Texas Ollie Meiserschlaeger of Altoona Pa and Leonard Backef of Baltimore Md. The group enjoyed a Reynosa visit Sunday afternoon before departure. Mrs S F Campion and Mrs Meiserschlaeger left Wednesday for San Antonio to visit friends and relatives in the Alamo City.
Ed Hill and Mise Jewell of Kyle visited relatives in Moulton Sunday afternoon. Ora Willis Janszeo of San Marcos spent part of the week with family in Moulton. Mary Louise Niebuhr, who visited, returned to San Antonio. Vladik Ermis and family of Beaumont visited in Moulton and Shiver last week. Dan Darilek of Houston spent part of last weekend with his parents Judge A. J. Darilek. Mrs R Levik and son Rein hard of Altha Minnesota arrived Friday to visit. Mrs A Behrens returned to Round Rock after days with her sister. George Bargman of Gonzales and George Bargman Jr. of El Paso were here last week Tuesday.
Supt. S F Cernosek and Fred Fehrenkamp Jr traveled to Bay City on Sunday to bring home Theresa Cernosek who had spent the week with relatives there.
Mrs. Walter Hayes ordered The Eagle to be mailed to George Haas serving with Army forces at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Maryland.
Mrs Louise Helweg and Miss Anita Richter spent last week in West Columbia visiting Mr Henry Helweg and family and other relatives and friends.
The Texas traffic toll for the first six months of 1941 rose 7 percent to 843 deaths from 787 in the same period a year earlier. Counts show 514 highway deaths up from 429, counties down 32 percent, cities down four percent. Dallas and Fort Worth patterns influenced by safety rankings.
Ground was broken for a new Lutheran church in Hallettsville in a ceremony led by H. J. Heye the town’s last surviving charter member. The church founded in 1886 by Rev. C Geiger will be a cross shaped frame building with a concrete basement for socials and Sunday school. A celebratory dinner and homecoming accompanied special services by Rev. A D Klages.
Mr and Mrs Otto Zimmerman and sons Eugene Otto and Wayne Louis spent Sunday in Nixon. Ernst Zimmermann Sr accompanied them.
Mr and Mrs Louis Fehrenkump and daughter Miss Mabel Marie and Larry Bever spent Sunday in San Antonio with Mr and Mrs Harvey Louis Fehrenkump.
Mr and Mrs John Martinka and children and Mrs Hal Richardson of El Campo visited last week in the home of Mr and Mrs Frank A Cinadr. Miss Beatrice Cinadr accompanied them home for a visit.
A Cedar Springs schoolhouse dance Saturday night drew a large crowd. Aluminum ware admissions funded defense expenses. The 10c men’s admission helped cover costs, and an advertising error misstated the event’s defense purpose.
Mr Henry Janssen and gon. Willard, Mr. and Mrs. Joh Krum and baby of San Antonio and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hirsch of Witting visited Mr. and Mrs. FB J. Willberg Sunday.
The Agriculture Department projects this year's cotton crop at 10,817,000 bales of 600 pounds gross weight in its first estimate. This compares with 12,566,000 last year and 11,817,000 two years ago, with a 10-year average of 13,457,000. The Census Bureau reports 1966 running bales ginned by August 1.
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