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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1910
Page
2
For weeks we have prepared the store and gathered seasonable merchandise from markets far and wide to please the people of Moulton and surrounding country. Our mammoth stock offers new styles and correct weights and measures at low prices with friendly service and a profitable visit.
A department showcases a larger stock of children's misses and ladies street hats plus infants strawcaps. Ready to wear hats feature the latest creations from top markets. Call to this department. come early while selections are complete.
A catalog note advertises ready to wear white waist blouses available for 75 cents to 3 dollars 50, with options open in front or back embroided or plain. Fronting for net shirt waists and matching net also sold by the inch in three grades to create stylish waists.
The store eases into spring with a larger stock of laces embroideries and trimmings including Valen ciennes laces 5 to 25 cents per yard and matching embroideries. French organdies torchen and linen laces trim white and linen coats while corsets aim to fit small and large customers with spring stock priced from 1.00 to 3.50.
Dress goods of all descriptions emphasize wash fabrics with a 50c yd silk usting. White goods include Lineweave a high mercerized cloth that resists fading. We will load another carload of shuck corn this week Wednesday to Saturday. shell corn bought anytime. Bring cane millet seed eggs butter bees wax for top prices.
Readable catalog style item list notes small pillow tops at 25 to 75 cents each and a hand made table cover 24 inches square. It mentions mercerized cord and domestic fabrics with prices per yard and examples like Everett Classic Ginghams and Mackivaw Twills.
In transit sugar carload offers a low price advantage as orders advance with higher costs. Buyers urged to lock in this price before purchasing sugar from competitors who charge more.
A collection of political mentions notes O B Colquitt as a likely Texas governor candidate and Lavaca county support. March 16 is set as clean up day. Includes Mississippi senator Leroy Percy victory, state births and deaths, and various legal and political items from Alabama and federal affairs.
W Foegel and Miss Elmaioore reunited in marriage at Laredo last week. The bride is said to be the largest woman in the world. A Colquitt on was organized in Houston Tuesday evening with a large mothership. Hon Jake F Wolters, chair of the Anti Statewide Prohibition Organization of Texas, spoke. Hurrah for Jake.
The report notes over 1,600 new Confederate pension applicants since the last quarter. The next quarter’s capitation will be about $10, with $11.25 for the current quarter. Approximately 12,000 pensions will need provision in the forthcoming apportionment.
In New Haven circuit court a naturalization applicant answered Who is the head of this country with President Taft is the head man, but Roosevelt is coming back. The remark came during testimony when he was asked who leads the United States.
In Lyons Burleson county voters approve a 20 cent tax on each hundred dollar property valuation for school purposes by 31 to 0. Hurrah for the people of Lyons. The article urges Moulton to follow Lyons example.
The Texas Supreme Court notes music has a refining influence on children and, when added to curricula, will quickly show positive effects. It predicts music will become essential in schools and a music teacher will be employed in every school.
Captain Godfrey Reese Fowler an insurgent army officer in Nicaragua was wounded at Tipitapa. He is grandson of the late John H Reagan and hails from Palestine Texas. He served a term in the state legislature and on Governor Campbell’s military staff and previously fought in the Philippines during the Spanish American War.
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