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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1955
Page
3
Joe Johan Mikush called the November 15 gathering to order as Mr Lindsey was absent and Mr Johnson led the session focusing on grass topics with reporter Joseph Dennis Pesek noting the event.
A summary of local notes includes Lucas Rehmet building a two story home on Moore Avenue and Second Street with F. J. Krueger as contractor. Various births and deaths are listed, along with town events such as mail routes reducing country post offices in Avaca County. Notable items include Cleo Gill claimed as the tallest girl on earth, and multiple local job changes and incidents including a runaway team in Hallettsville and a disabled hearse driver. The Novohrad Post Office was discontinued.
The Women's Missionary Society of Zion Lutheran Church met in the Educational building on Whcesday afternoon November 16 with President Mrs. Rose Helweg presiding. A devotional reading by Mrs. Julius Holm and a discussion of the Magazine Quiz followed. A clothing drive was announced for those in need and a gift package to the Mattadienst in Germany was planned. Treasurer Mrs. J. M. Meiners reported a balance of 123.23 dollars. The Christmas party is set for December 21 with hostesses Mrs. Adulus Holm and Mrs. Tom Beale. Cake coffee and cocoa were served after the meeting.
A fragment recounts Easy Roberts counting coins from a cookie jar 24.95 dollars in nickels dimes and quarters as a bag breaks on Main Street. Passers by help recover the coins and total ends at 25.05 with an extra ten cents found. It closes urging neighborly respect and friendship as a banking ethic from the United States Brewers Foundation 1955.
Ass'n members on page 1 say a farm program brings a real battle, urging unity as they voice frustrations from growers.
Mr and Mrs Edward Gene Boehm of Angleton celebrate the arrival of their first child a 7 pound 12 ounce son born at Freeport hospital at 3 am on Thanksgiving Day Rodney Joel. Grandparents Mrs Ba Boehm Jr of Moulton and Mrs Helen Albrecht are honored foster and great grandmothers, with maternal grandparents Mr and Mrs I W Speckers of Schulenburg noted.
Mrs. Rud Freytag is a patient in the Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio since last Friday and shows improvement. Mr Edmund Kram, previously at Renger hospital, was moved to Santa Rosa and is doing fine and soon expected home. Mrs Pratik Kouba was taken to Shiner hospital last Monday and is doing much better.
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