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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1904
Page
2
Local notice lists subscription price at 1 year in advance and five cent per line rates for local ads. It urges signed copy by Wednesday morning and highlights community quips and a brief earthquake report from Lima Peru. Bruce W. McAarty praised as editor and proprietor.
A Wisconsin class battleship crew fired 10 shots in ten minutes at a 16 by 10 foot target and hit nine times from 2000 yards. Alabama gunners scored 13 hits in 15 shots at the same range, demonstrating exceptional accuracy with 12 inch guns in target practice.
The Garland News reports the paper’s tax editor spent Monday at home with his wife and children in Dallas absent. He believes if more husbands share house duties once a year, they would value their wives more, noting women lack such a rare respite.
A young woman asks the editor to expand on the theme of insufficiency. She urges clearer coverage and fuller treatment of the topic in upcoming pages.
The Engle Lake Headlight notes a riddle using the word enough. It says take the third second and first letters to form the first word and the sixth fourth and fifth letters for the second word yielding a phrase that signifies not enough for some young ladies.
Readers note a jumble of opinions about Japanese and Mongolian military capabilities. The quotes praise landings at sea and on land and speculate on further conquests, citing hopes that a so called Yankee of the Orient can land and subjugate the Caucasian.
The Wes sick list quip reflects newsroom timing while national politics swirl around the Panama treaty. Republicans push a loyalist line in Congress as Democrats weigh issues and the canal project faces criticism for dishonesty and disregard for international honor. Bryan's Commoner quote frames the critique.
Mr Burgess donated twelve varieties of vegetable and melon seed distributed at the recent meeting. Members report good Irish potato acreage though rain is needed. Corn is planted and growing. cotton planting starts next week as tobacco experts plan a survey of Hallettsville lands to promote a new industry.
Delighting in planting weather outlook, corn up, cotton planting begun, rain needed. Sermons at Stonewall and Moulton Institute with Bro Roland. Some mumps illnesses. Reber of Lang in critical condition. Vera Juebedeaux returns from Houston. Mrs. Bailey and Mr. Walker Duff wed at Moulton Baptist church. Social visits noted among local families.
Halletsville march 2. Businessmen formed the Lavaca County Tobacco Company with Simpson as president and William Blakeslee as secretary. C J Hudgins of Pensacola Fla. to supervise planting and curing. Plans include 35 acres of Cuban tobacco and a few Sumatra wrapper acres plus additional pilots nearby. The effort aims to prove Lavaca county's promise as a tobacco district.
The Truck Growers Association of Halletsville asked Congressman George Burgess to supply a proportional share of cotton seed for planting, based on its 150 members. The request came after the distribution list had already been sent to the Agricultural Department.
A California widow urges the postmaster general to issue a mourning stamp to match black bordered stationery used by mourners. She argues a red stamp clashes with her envelopes, but postal officials doubt the idea will be considered, joking about a white stamp for brides with a Cupid motif.
Miss Lizzie Buchanan left San Houston Normal at Hunteville due to ill health but achieved a first grade teaching certificate before moving on. A double burial of Alfred and Bessie Manning of Victoria counties was held today, their death at the same hour. A. B. Noble’s family suffers illness with four children down from la grippe and two cases pneumonia developing yesterday.
Mayor J D Bunting M Cockrill and E A Arnim returned from Alouston with Col S C Grimshaw to secure a pottery plant for Flatonia. The plant will cost 100000 dollars and hire at least 150 workers. Flatonia to furnish 100 acres of land and take 10000 dollars in stock.
Town business men have subscribed about 81800 of 2400 needed to cover boring expenses. Rudolph Stoeltje will supervise drilling. Water scarcity delayed testing but recent rain may push ahead.
The correspondent recalls talks in the Congressional lobbies about Allied support for Britain and the Japanese conflict. Senator Knute Nelson swears for Japan condemning Russia as tyranny while Senator Teller leans toward Russia, noting their numbers and momentum, yet expresses doubts about Asia and American worries.
The Post Office Department receives many suggestions from the public on postage stamps. Most ideas relate to stamp design and value preferences.
The Katy railway offers a free round trip from Texas to St Louis during the World's Fair to one who submits a new original name connecting the fast Galveston and San Antonio to St Louis service. Contest entries must be mailed to W G Crosn Dallas Texas P O Box 620 Dept 2.
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