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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1907
Page
2
The Houston Chronicle building plan lists eleven stories plus basement with ground area 72 by 140 feet and a 128 foot height. It features a 150 foot chimney, 100000 plus feet of floor space, fireproof construction, three elevators, utilities, and room for over a thousand workers.
Posts report a bank organized in Edna with capital of 30000 dollars. Vandalism and fires devastate Mineral Wells and Bisbee with losses up to 100000 dollars. Miss Elispet Ney dies in Austin aged about 60. Three Prager children burned in Houston. Burnet county anti saloon victory by 259 votes. Texas rail miles total 12717. Cieburne bond issue 75000 for school. Irene West of Muskogee inherits 500000 in Texas rice fields. Lithograph stores found near Leander with cement bed. Calvin predicts fifteen cent cotton in Houston address. Ottine reports Brown Oil well near Somerville. US Army College grads 38 at Fort Leavenworth. Hood’s brigade veterans reunite in Navasota. Navarro antis win by 12 votes. Lone Star and City breweries deny merger links. 1000000 acre land deal in Queretaro pending. San Angelo forms 60000 stock company for stone works. Texas County Superintendents’ convention set for July at University of Texas. About 4000 insane patients and 300 epileptics in Texas asylums plus 100 lunatics jailed. A J Bell San Antonio and others buy Dobie ranch 27000 acres for colonization.
Sam Stoeltje was on the sick list recently. The Lutheran Frauen Verein of Scharlottenburg plans an ice cream supper at the church on July 24. Theo Dierksen and wife depart for a two month trip to the old country. Dierksen is a Germany native who came here three years ago. Hulda Claus toured Carmine and other places. Westpfal family visited Nordheim. A Witting dance drew a large, satisfied crowd. Some residents joined an excursion to Galveston Waitp West.
The week features good sweet potato prospects and hay work amid hot weather. Local social life includes a dance at Witting with E. Z. band music and visits from residents of Moulton, Breslau, Henkhaus, and Oak Grove. Several residents travel to Caldwell. health news mentions Fritz Packebusch's mother ill.
The Hallettsville public school plans to elect a first assistant to fill Lizzie Siegel’s vacancy after Callie Komakofsky resigned. A requirement for the new appointee is teaching Bohemian alongside English. The date is June 30, Hallettsville Texas. The county road supervisor pay debate follows repeal of ex officio status and $300 yearly salary, with total prior road supervisor pay at $1,200.
Washington reports the Chester, first United States built scout ship, part of a three ship class funded by Congress. Costing about 1.5 million dollars, she tops 24 knots with four 5 inch guns and a matching minor battery. The vessel is designed to sustain speed in rough weather and over longer periods than prior ships, marking a step in American naval development.
A note discovered in a Barrowford mill bale details a request from J A Lafoon of Clipper Texas seeking a correspondence with a young woman aged 16 to 23. The letter states it was written in Clipper on December 20 1906 and asks the finder to respond with their name and where found.
Tue Eacie argues that letting the people elect postmasters would prevent the post office department from being controlled by officials more driven by political interests than public service.
Senator A C Culberson of Texas will deliver an address at the J D Sayers camp Confederate veterans reunion in Bastrop on July 27. Missouri Governor Fouk notes many Democrats more worthy than he for the presidential nomination next year.
The Houston Post reports Hallettsville native A. P. Bagby Jr. has left six years as chief deputy in the county tax collector’s office to join the controller’s office in Austin. J. W. Crouch of Alvin was in Mullt on the latter part of last week.
Ottin Halamitschek and family are now residents of Moulton after moving from Otine. August Ellinghausen of Shiner visited Moulton for business last Thursday and Friday. Funeral attendees for Fred Boening at Hochheim cemetery included Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Boening, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Mueller, Mr. and Mrs. Aug. G. Mueller, Mrs. Jno. G. Mueller, Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Mueller, and G. H. Raymond of Moulton.
Updated federal rules include a substitutes for special delivery stamps using ten cent stamps with Special Delivery markings, a six month record of mail weight by postmasters, rural carrier pay raises, a higher head tax from two to four dollars under the new immigration law, and the debut of a ten dollar gold certificate showing Michael Hyllegas, first U S treasurer.
Julius Kotzebue left for Gonzales on Wednesday to visit friends and will travel to San Antonio before returning. Tuer Eacie also calls attention to a new advertisement by Jno. Baur appearing in this issue.
Texas patents granted this week and reported to Tue Enaux by C. A. Snow & Co., patent attorneys, Washington, D. C. including George B. and J. H. Young El Paso corn popper August F Luzzi Cleburne spring heel Alponso hing and others for various devices such as dressing commutators grain fender knee pad and box related items with multiple inventors and locations mentioned.
See Sap ticket agent about low rates to coast points including Corpus Christi Aransas Pass Rockport and Portland all listed at 3.00. Tickets on sale Saturdays through August 31 with return limit on Monday night. Friday sales extend to August with coast prices 5.50 to all four points and return limits set. Daily on sale to coast with resorts at one and one third fare for round trip and 60 day limit.
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