Moulton School No 2 Social and Local Visits List
Farmers plow as Moulton School No 2 records a Sunday of family and neighbor visits. Willie and Fritz Heerssen visit Freyburg sister Mrs Herman Stiechler. Hutt, Zavesky, Wel fel, Huff, Hartmann and others spend Sunday with relatives. December 5 1916.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Fritz Heerssen
Freyburg
Herman Stiechler
Ella
Hilda Hutt
Mary Zavesky
Sophie Heerssen
Maxe Darilek
Viasta
Rose Welfel
When Men Must Obey Farm and Ranch
The article argues obedience is essential to health, law, and social harmony. It emphasizes honoring parents and respecting authority as foundations for self-control and successful adaptation to society. It calls for timely obedience to avoid personal and communal disorder.
Mansfield Goes to Washington for Congress Session
Congressman elect J. J. Mansfield and his family left Friday for Washington to begin the congressional session. Mrs Mansfield and two daughters will spend the winter with relatives in Baltimore, Maryland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eagle Lake
Texas
J. J. Mansfield
Washington
Mansfield
Sam and Will Moore Institute News Program at Opera House
On Wednesday night the Sam and Will Moore Institute presented a student program for the school. The lineup included Turkey School and If We Would be Thankful by various grade pupils, Old Glory song by high school girls, and Roosevelt Etlinger Fun in a Photograph Gallery. Total receipts were about $34.00. The school closed for Thanksgiving Day with everyone enjoying the holiday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam
Will
Opera House
ren@réd
Turkey School
Tommy
Roosevelt Etlinger
The True Christmas
A reflective verse on Christmas meaning beyond gifts, urging kindness love and aid to those in sorrow. The poem encourages comforting words and sympathetic acts to bring light to lives far from the light, echoing the season’s holy lesson.
Shiner to Have Fine Municipal Light Plant
Shiner Texas council has closed contracts for machinery for the municipal light plant to be installed. The plant will be one of the best equipped in the region and arranged in duplicate to prevent outages. Current setup includes a steam engine boiler and a 65 horsepower crude oil engine with a Westinghouse dynamo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shiner
Texas
Westinghouse
Burgess Returns to Washington From Texas Visit
Congressman George F. Burgess, after a several weeks home visit in Gonzales Texas, returned to Washington. He will not return for the holidays and will stay in the capital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gonzales
Tex
George F. Burgess
Washington
Local notes from Yoakum and surrounding towns
Mrs M C Kubitz visits Dr James D Gray family in Yoakum. Julia Chlastak returns from Fayetteville. Families Bucek Kotzebue and Schindler travel to La Grange. Ethel Prichard of McAuley visits H W Huff family then leaves for Cuero. Mrs Benno Hoppe and children back to Smithville from visit with Boehms. Emil Pesek of Novohrad for Franklin Life Insurance checks business then to Shiner. Lutheran Sunday School plans Christmas program as Moulton boasts large Sunday school. Alfred Balhorn leaves for Yoakum to join Wells Fargo Express.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Emil Pesek
Novohrad
Franklin Life Insurance Company
Shiner
Catherine Novak Dies after Long Illness at 43
Mrs. Catherine Novak wife of Lorenz Novak Jr of near Old Moulton died Saturday after a long illness. Funeral services were held Sunday at Moulton Catholic cemetery with Rev Te Neubert presiding. She was 43 and survived by her husband seven children one sister Mrs Jim Cherney and five brothers Joe Frank Charles John and Jim Wagner. The Eagle offers condolences.
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Catherine Novak
Lorenz Novak, Jr
Old Moulton
Moulton Catholic
Te. Neubert
Jim Cherney
Joe
Frank
Charles
John
Jim Wagner
The
Eagle
Mrs John Krueger Hosts Birthday Gathering
Mrs John Krueger entertained many relatives and friends Tuesday afternoon for her birthday anniversary. Delicious refreshments were served. We wish Mrs Krueger many happy returns of the day.
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John Krueger
Free School to Open and Attendance Begins in 1917
A. F. Kotzebue, president of the Moulton School Board, announced free school will start Monday December 11 with compulsory attendance beginning Tuesday January 2 1917. J. R. Matula supervising drilling for Moulton Development Co eight miles west of town reported progress and that the well is now thirteen hundred feet deep. Drilling to resume Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A F. Kotzebue
Moulton
The
Eagle
J.R. Matula
Moulton Development Company
Here
Asquith Resigns Premiership and Global Briefs
Herbert Henry Asquith resigns as British prime minister. A local option election is set for Travis county on Thursday December 21. U S ambassador to Germany Gerard sails December 5 to resume duties in Berlin. Charles Evans Hughes will practice law in New York. Romanian capital Bucharest encircled by Mackensen and Falkenhayn forces. Greece declines premier ship by Dr W A Dimitracopoulos. Thomas Campbell wins Arizona governor seat by 38 votes over Hunt. Republican campaign spending totals about 2.441 million. Democrats near 2 million. Prohibition passes in Montana by 28 386 votes. twenty five dry states existing. Mint director backs coinage of 2 1/2 cent pieces. Texas Industrial Accident Board logs 2302 November accidents with 16 fatalities. Bloomington Indiana reports Gentry Bros circus sold for 60 000 to Newman and Austin. A&M College of Texas awards 100 000 auditorium and 75 000 admin building contracts. The sixty fourth congress opens in Washington with two hundred bills noted. four focus on food embargoes. Yale builds a new organ with 163 stops at 50 000 cost. only Liverpool and Breslau organ boast more stops.
Shiner Route Three Community Notes and Visits
Farmers seek rain amid busy plowing as locals report visits and arrivals. Henry Miculka Emil Pustejovsky and families return from Range by auto. A moving picture show lights Evergreen school. Hugo Raab and family relocate from Shiner. Community attendance at Novohradom dance and Thanksgiving events noted. December 5 1916 Spori.
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Henry
Willie Miculka
Emil Pustejovsky
Frank Koenig
Wm Woehbler
Joe Veselka
Aug. Krause, Sr
Frank Meyer
Evergreen School
Fred Morris
East Bernard
Anton Miculka
A. C. Pfeil
August Krause
Wm. Woehler
Frank Koester
Moulton
Vincent Pavlicek
Shiner
Hugo Raab
Novohradom
Jim Ermis
Yoakum
Spori
Texas Schools Enroll in Interscholastic League Growth
More than eight hundred schools across the country and small Texas towns join the University of Texas Interscholastic League this year, up from three hundred forty four last year. Organizer RE Shurter aims for two thousand schools as the season peaks, with at least six thousand Texas schoolchildren likely to participate in League supervised events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
University of Texas
Supt W Eilers to Fort Worth for State Teachers Meet
Supt William Eilers left Wednesday for Fort Worth to attend the State Teachers Association. He visited Moravia Hackberry Rocky Velehrad Novohrad and Greige schools the past week and reports good work in all schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Eilers
Fort Worth
State Teachers’ Association
Wm. Eilers
Moravia
Hackberry
Rocky
Velehrad
Novohrad
Greige
Hallettsville Herald
December Apportionment in Texas Public Schools
State Superintendent W. F. Doighty announced a December apportionment of 1 dollar per capita for Texas public schools. With 1,223,245 students, this distributes 1,213,245 dollars, the second apportionment of the year, bringing the total to 2 dollars so far and a yearly per capita total of 7 dollars with 85 dollars yet to be apportioned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Tex
State Superintendent of Public Instruction
W. F. Doighty
Texas
Jack Rabbit Sausage Plant Planned in West Texas
A West Texas town will host a new jack rabbit sausage plant to process most of Texas rabbit crops. The promoter's identity and exact location are withheld per a request to the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture. Samples will be served at the upcoming rabbit dinner in Austin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
West
Fred W. Davis
Thanksgiving Day Observed With Citywide Closures
Joe C. Wagner announces his new residence in the southern town area will be ready soon. The city observed Thanksgiving Day for the first time in its history with mercantile establishments and schools closed. Thanksgiving services were held at the Lutheran church at ten in the morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe C. Wagner
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Gus. Huff
Rud
Sweet Home
Otto Huff
Chas. Hartmann
Willie Hartmann
Kinsfolk
Otto Heerssen
Miss Henrietta
Mrs. A. Pfuhl
Chas. Welfel
Joe Culak
Minnie Hartmann of
Dever
Wm. Schodde
Chas. Zavesky
Jim Reindl
Brom Boys
Joe Zavesky
Shorty
Moulton, Texas
Roxas
Sam and
Will Moore Institute News
Oxokoxoi
Yuletide
Burgess
Studebaker
M. C. Kubitz
James D. Gray
Julia Chlastak
Fayetteville
Kindred
John Bucek
Julius J. Kotzebue
Ed. Schindler
la Grange
Ethel Prichard
McCauley
H. W. Huff
Near Town
Cuero
Benno H. Hoppe
Smithville Thureday
Edward Boehm
Alfred Balhorn
Wells Fargo & Co. Express
Hatty
Hee
Herbert Henry Asquith
Great Britain
Travis County
Mr. Gerard
United States
Germany
Berlin
Charles Evans Hughes
New York
Mackensen
Falkenhayn
Bucharest
Roumania
W. A. Dimitracopoulos
Greece
Thomas Campbell
Arizona
George W. P. Hunt
Prohibition
Montana
Texas Industrial Accident Board
Fotal
Bloomington
Indiana
Gentry Bros
J. D. Newman
J. B. Austin
Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas
Sixty Fourth Congress
Yale
Europe
Liverpool
Breslau
Amelia Lockmann
Lockmann
Shiner Gazette
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