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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1949
Page
7
The American Legion post in Waelder Texas opened its new brick building on Front Street with a program Saturday night. The post purchased and remodeled the building for its activities and meetings.
The distillation column is a powerful tool used by chemical engineers in the laboratory, pilot plant, and commercial plant to separate liquids. It enables production of whiskey or gin, pure alcohol, gasoline, and other products from mixtures and fermentations.
The Texas cotton crop is forecast at 5,900,000 bales with 10,725,000 acres harvested and a yield of 264 pounds per acre. The national 1949 crop is projected at 16,034,000 bales, about 1,000,000 more than last year, per the agriculture department final report.
A Colorado A. and M. student, supporting himself through college, develops a five acre Fort Collins area farm and sells about $400 worth of eggs annually. He cleans the eggs in his wife’s combination washer, pleasing customers on his route.
A collection of light vignettes recounts Henry W. Grady proving ads draw attention, E. B. Sothern’s stage debut misstep, Grady’s journalism pride, a Union cavalry colonel’s odd orders, a centerfiet money payoff, and George Bernard Shaw rediscovering his own book with a humorous exchange.
The U S Savings Bonds offer 4 dollars for every 3 invested in 10 years as a way to provide financial security for children. The piece appeals to holiday shoppers and notes the offering by the U S Treasury Department.
The National Board of Fire Underwriters warns hundreds of Christmas fires occur yearly from flammable decorations. Use flame proofed cotton, aluminum foil at tree base, and US tagged electric lights. Avoid paper decorations and candles. consider glow in the dark ornaments with no wires. chromium plated pipes and valves noted for maintenance ease.
City orders ban on shooting fireworks in the business section of Moulton during Christmas and New Year holidays. Violators will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Elo C Fehrenkamp mayor Zat Johnson chief of police.
Louis G Janszen of Hurnt Texas spent days in Moulton visiting relatives before heading to Corpus Christi to see his sons. C J McGinnes of Cedar Springs grows peanuts and sold 480 dollars worth from nine acres this year.
New York state hunters target between two and three million woodchucks annually in widespread harvesting efforts across woodlands and rural areas this season.
The National Safety Council reports hundreds of motor ists crash into the sides of trains each year. In every case the railroad remains in business, underscoring the persistent danger and the railroads’ resilience.
Cpl Edwin Pundt stationed at Salina Kansas arrived last Thursday to spend Christmas with his parents Mr and Mrs Ed Pundt. He plans to go overseas after the holidays.
The American Bakers association reports 30,000 bakeries buy over 180 million pounds of raisins and more than 2.4 billion pounds of cane and beet sugar each year. Bakers consume over half of the nation’s annual raisin production.
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