Shiner News notes local visits and school opening
Miss Ysabel Faltin returns home to Comfort after a visit. Mrs C Amsler and Mrs Joe Hughes with son Thomas depart for Comfort for an extended visit. Earl Burkett of Yoakum visits. Edwin and Mrs Wolters return from Galveston. Public school opens September 16 with teachers listed. T C Club hosts Progressive Forty two. prizes to Mrs Hughes and Miss Mae Hughes. Guests attend, including Mrs J D Gray and others. Reporter, August 20, 1912.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. Amsler
Joe Hughes
Thomas
Earl Burkett
Yoakume
Edwin F. Wolters
Galveston
YT. J. Ponter
Berta Thornton
Sophia Amsler
Anna Koch
Francis Ledbetter
Hilda Trautwein
Natalie
T. C. Club
Mae Hughes
J. D. Gray
Lou Martin
Edmund Wolters
Minnie Schmidt
Mathilda Hollmann
Ysabel Faltin
Edith Schaeffer
Schulenburg
Edgar Wolters
Bell county votes in local option election August 31
Brief items note a Bell county local option election set for August 31 with both sides optimistic. Other notes cover Emperor Francis Joseph's 82nd birthday, political nominations, overseas dignitaries, railway orders, and wartime figures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bell County
Francis Joseph
Thomas R. Marshall
Hannover
Bremen
Galveston
Texas Cotton 89 Percent of Normal Report
The Federal Crop Reporting Board places the national cotton crop condition at eight percent lower than last year. Texas remains the only state with better conditions than a year ago and holds the highest condition percentage. Texas acreage is about 10,927,000 with a 89 percent of normal condition. U.S. total 13,000,000 bales, Texas 4,263,000 bales, Texas expected to supply 32.7 percent of 1912 production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
Federal Crop Reporting Board
United States
Texas
Union
Industrial Notes Spur Regional Growth Across Texas
Gainesville ships four carloads of Elberta peaches at thirty cents per bushel. Houston breaks ground on a $250000 gas reservoir. Palestine notes 165 fruit and truck cars shipped this season, up 800 percent from a 17 car prior record. Wichita Falls reports July oil production at 10832 barrels, 182 active wells. San Antonio sees over 40000 cubic yards poured for Medina Dam, with completion soon. Mt. Vernon ships over 200 peach cars in two weeks, largest on record. Brownsville reports Standard Loan Company purchasing 15000 acres near McAllen for division into small farms. Galveston records 642 immigrants in July, 21 deported. Austin Texas mines output in July at $1510000, coal 50000 tons, oil 1000000 barrels. Palestine Danish colony developers tour Anderson county real estate, favorably viewed. Beaumont refineries process 1600000 barrels in July, Magnolia lays 66 miles of pipe Ft. Worth to Petrolia to finish mid August. Falconurias land sale: $175000 for 9000 acres near Midway and Alfred for eighty acre farms. Brownsville Lometa canal near Mission begins dirt work to irrigate 8000 acres, part of broader Mission canal system.
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Gainesville
Houston
Houston Gas & Fuel Company
Southwest
Palestine
Wichita Falls
San Antonio
Medina Dam
C. H. Kearney
Mt. Vernon
Elberta
Brownsville
Standard Loan Company of
Kansas City
McAllen
Hidalgo County
Galveston
Austin
Texas
Anderson County
Montana
Beaumont
Magnolia Petroleum Company
Ft. Worth
Petrolia
Falturrias
San Antonio and
Aransas Pass
Midway
Alfred
Wade
Governor Issues Election Proclamation for Texas Vote
The Texas governor issues the general election proclamation listing nationwide and state races including 142 representatives and 55 district judges. It calls for four constitutional amendments authorizing city charters, longer prison commissioner terms, six year regents terms, and a five cent tax for Confederate pensions and the Confederate Home. A Texarkana Senate vacancy will occur when Horace W. Vaughn resigns to take his seat in Washington next March.
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Railroad Commission
Supreme Court
Fourth Court of Civil Appeals
San Antonio
Seventh
Eighth Courts of Civil Appeals
House
Dallas
Harris
Boards of
Regents
The
State University
Educational, Eleemrosynary and Penal Institutions
Texarkana
Horace W. Vaughn
Congress
Washington
Free Illustrated Lectures From University of Texas
The University of Texas Extension Department offers free illustrated lectures for all state residents. It provides ready made lantern slide lectures on art school buildings ornamentation and more. Rural school lecturers promote better schools and social use of schools. Write to the Director of Extension to request a lecture or advice.
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University of Texas
Compulsory Education Debate Noted In Texas Platform
The Texas Democratic platform endorses a law granting school boards power to compel idle children to attend school while recognizing some children may work under child labor rules. The move aligns with potential future labor-law changes and aims to broaden compulsory attendance automatically as restrictions expand. The public notices mention residents visiting families, a birth, a move, a regional education conference, and birthday celebrations in Lavaca County communities.
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Galveston News
Water Notes and Local News from Yoakum
Waterworks updates describe pump house completion a 6000 gallon per hour force pump and 4000 gallon tanks on Moore avenue with 6000 gallons per hour pumping efficiency. Local social items list visits and a Yoakum wedding between Ludwig Kaiser and Florence Hoover officiated by Rev. Wolfedorf with good wishes from the Ear Lx.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton Waterworks Company
Moore Avenue
Front Street
Wm. Woltsdorf
Yoakum
Ludwig Kaiser
Florence Hoover
Wolfedorf
C. F. Kaiser
Sarah Hoover
Mr. Kaiser
Preparing Teachers in Texas Universities
The University of Texas cites a massive demand for teachers from Texas schools, receiving about six hundred calls in the last year. Over 350 education students study in regular sessions and more than 500 in summer courses, with many teachers using summer study to improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
University
Schools of
Austin
Something Each Day Poem by George Cooper
Poem urges daily small acts of kindness words and thought to brighten lives. It emphasizes daily smiles and deeds that bless lonely hearts and strengthen others and ends with attribution to George Cooper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Cooper
Social Club to Meet Mrs Kotzebue Next Wednesday
The Social Club will meet with Mrs. Wm. Kotzebue next Wednesday afternoon the 28th inst. Cotton is opening rapidly due to the extreme heat and dry weather. By Wednesday night 2932 bales of this season's cotton had been marketed in Moulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Kotzebue
Moulton
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