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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1911
Page
2
Cross Plains votes planned on issuing bonds totaling 45000 dollars for a new public school. Citizens urged to support a special school tax tomorrow and to enlist friends in the effort. A note on Texas battleship completion and irrigation land in Mercedes appears among other fiscal items.
Plans have been filed for a fifty five story building in New York. It will be 750 feet high, or thirty eight feet higher than the Singer building, the present tallest building in the world.
The people of Shiloh County approved a special school tax by an almost unanimous vote. The article urges Moulton to follow Shiloh's progressive district example in tomorrow’s vote.
Washington announces that the battleships Minnesota Mississippi and Vermont will visit Galveston from May 30 to June 5 opening an opportunity for Texans to view the big fighting ships during the visit.
A ten cent tax on one hundred dollars of property valuation would fund nine months of free schooling for children in the Moulton independent district. Voters are urged to support the tax to back education.
Renters who pay tax on personal property may vote in the school tax election to be held tomorrow at the J. R. Matula building beside Koester Bros. voters must meet eligibility to participate.
The income tax has been utilized by states including Missouri Indiana Maryland Georgia Mississippi North Dakota Kansas Colorado Nevada Washington Ohio Illinois North Carolina Alabama Iowa South Dakota Oklahoma Montana California Tennessee Michigan Kentucky South Carolina Wisconsin Nebraska Texas Maine Idaho Arkansas Oregon. Ratification by five more states will complete adoption.
Texas land remains the cheapest globally by productive capacity yet shows rising value. Homeseekers from older states and Europe flood in, and idle lands are being settled as the search for homes in Texas becomes easier now than in the near future.
The Dry Farming Special tours Texas with Department of Agriculture officials and other agriculture leaders. Farmers come for miles to attend lectures and demonstrations as agricultural trains grow in popularity and aid in production and marketing.
Copy for change of advertisements on this page must be in this office not later than 2 p m Monday.
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