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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1909
Page
2
A digest lists a February 12 1909 notice from Moulton Texas a Lincoln birthday commemoration and local incidents. It mentions hazing suspensions at Agricultural and Mechanical College and political debates over Maine removal funding Taft inauguration prep Texas education conference in Austin March 5 6 and Kansas train drinking prohibition legislative notes.
Mrs E A T Wickesnease of the San Antonio Club Opera House association proposes a fourteen story steel structure near Alma plaza and Crockett street at an estimated cost close to a billion dollars. A bill in the legislature would require one permanent poll tax exemption from the tax collector. The 20000 ton battleship Delaware was launched at Newport News shipyard for about 7000000 dollars. The American fleet under Rear Admiral Sperry sails from Gibraltar with sixteen battleships, after leaving Hampton Roads November 16 1907, to cover about 45000 miles before returning February 22.
A new pamphlet from the commercial secretaries’ headquarters in Austin compiles the names of all house and senate committee members with duties and Texas resources. It cites costs for courts and state government, tax assessments, school funds, debt, land, minerals, railroads, and employment projections.
In Hallettsville Texas on February 7 W E Appelt Frank Appelt and Oscar Appelt closed a contract with an Oklahoma City syndicate to sell about 13000 acres of land. The $150000 deal covers upper Jackson county near the Lavaca county line and will be colonized by northern settlers. Possession is to be given April 1.
Sterling P. Strong of the State-wide prohibition committee urges legislators to wait before acting on platform pledges He argues liquor interests are not greater than the Democratic Party and defends representing constituents and their instructions. He condemns delegates at a State convention as embezzling power and calls for people to rule.
Lavaca Commissioners Court met in quarterly session and approved a new road law assigning each precinct commissioner as superintendent of public roads. Each official will receive 300 dollars annually to oversee road maintenance. Adolph Darilek has relocated to the Kubicek building on Front Street and invites friends to visit.
Field operations are active and corn planting planned as rain is needed. Local residents including John Miller, Chas and Jos Jurek, Ed Hajek and Mary, Henry Friedrich and wife relocate fields. Social life features a masquerade ball in Witting with about 75 couples and a trip to Moulton to see Buster Brown. Community notes cover visitors, gatherings, and local business trips.
Hallettsville will start movies as the opera house is leased and shows begin Monday night. The San Antonio Aransas Pass Railway plans a spur to the Farmers' Union warehouse, aiding cotton loading during peak season. Depot additions include a baggage room and a 30 foot freight department extension.
Indianapolis publisher Promises 16 pages of piano and organ sheet music for twenty five cents or silver and postage. Includes Rud Knauer’s Flight of the Butterflies and The Girl Ive Seen. Names of three or more performers required to receive postpaid mailings.
Dr Gordon Adama of Hallettsville traveled to Moulton on Tuesday and Wednesday for professional business and left for Flatonia on Wednesday afternoon. Dr F W Lebetter of Shiner, a dentist, made his regular weekly visit to Moulton on Wednesday.
The Roll of Honor lists subscribers remembering Tun Eacur since the last report. Names include Konstant Rehmet, A F Kotzebue, Boehm, Koester, Frank Jaksch, G J Bohnenkamp, B Lackmann, Emil Pundt, Jno Eilert, F C Mueller, Mrs John Richter, Henry Breitschopf, Selzer, W T Bagby, Henry Fisbeck, Wm Steinmann, Hugh Nolan and others across Moulton Nusery Hallettsville Van Vieck Schulenburg Everett.
The Eagle reports new subscribers since the last list update including Otto Krause and F. Neskorik of Moulton, plus Hugh A. Nolan of Everett, Washington.
Neighborhood Notes report plans to begin work on Yearum’s new school house at an early date. K Morris of Ohio purchased the Hallettsville creamery plant for 3500 dollars. A Flatonia Eastern Star lodge organized with fifteen members. mayor J H Booth of Gonzales injured in a runaway accident. Hallettsville merchant R D Zumwalt filed for bankruptcy in Houston. A Rocky Creek railroad bridge near LaGrange partially burned. cause unknown. Yoakum reports San Antonio and Aransas Pass shops back to nine to ten hour schedules after weeks of shorter hours.
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