Molton Postoffice In Molton Texas Gazetteed
Filed as second class matter at Molton Texas Postoffice on Friday February 18 1916. The notice marks entry in the local paper as official mail matter.
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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1916
Page
4
Filed as second class matter at Molton Texas Postoffice on Friday February 18 1916. The notice marks entry in the local paper as official mail matter.
The Austin American reports that Texas has enacted a compulsory education law requiring children ages 8 to 14 to attend school. The act sets 60 days in year one, 80 in year two, and 100 thereafter, with attendance officers and penalties for violations. South Carolina follows an optional district approach. Georgia Florida Alabama and Mississippi still lack such laws.
Local greetings and visiting notes from Shiner Route One contain social calls at the Tampke and Paty households, a mask dance preview at Rocky Site park, and a birthday surprise for John Paty. Regional updates mention aerial mail plans for Alaska and a Lincoln birthday anniversary.
Northerns cooled the week as farmers wrap up plowing. Families Priesmeyer Meyer and Krause visitants travel between EiCampo Orange Grove and nearby towns. Local social life includes a masquerade dance at Henkhaus hall and the East Henkhaus Butcher Club planning a first slaughter on April 8 amid lagrippe cases.
Two carloads of well drilling machinery arrived yesterday to be used in drilling for oil near the city within four miles east. An oil company is being organized and work is expected to start shortly after arrangements are completed.
The Extension Department released a circular titled How to Grow Sweet Potatoes. Farmers can obtain copies by writing to the Director of Extension at College Station, Texas.
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