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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1905
Page
2
The item notes Texas population at 3,455,300, up 406,590 since 1900 and 81,318 over last year's estimate. It lists other city populations and mentions a May 11 ship immigrant voyage from Bremen to Galveston. Also reports an Ok tornado kills 100+ and injures many, plus a note on voting age law and state politics.
The Oak Grove column reports a four year old Alma Wenske injured by a foot wound needing medical care. The community discusses Sunday visits, rain helping high lands and corn tasseling. Local residents are noted including Linbrogger, Sauer, Mueller, Neumann, Fehler and others with brief movements and farm dealings.
Lavaca County discovers a 1744 acre school land tract in Erath County valued around 20 dollars an acre, revealing a 1394 acre addition beyond the 35 acres previously thought. The issue will be reviewed by the Lavaca County commissioners court for a thorough investigation. The report also notes related local updates from Gonzales and nearby towns.
Seifert reports an honest man found a cotton hoe in his patch and asks for its return to avoid pursuit. The column also notes visitors from Shiner, court attendance, and local farm sale chatter including Hermann Char selling land to John Hoepfl for 45 per acre.
A fragmentary digest notes diverse trivia including a glass floored warehouse in France, Chinese language prevalence at 382000000 speakers, a brief English bachelors tax repealed, global river water discharge near thirty six cubic miles daily, Rhine river traffic surpassing any single railway, women now employed as scenic artists at the Imperial Theatre in London, and America’s first street lighting in 1697 ordered by New York State Council for households to hang lanterns.
Commissioners court awards painting of twenty six bridges to Tolleson Bros for ten dollars per bridge and paint supply to R L Eschenburg at forty five cents per gallon. A public weigher position is filled by B F Arnim after late election qualification lapse. Truck Growers association ships onions and Irish potatoes. Rev Henry Bernstein of Houston to lecture at the synagogue on the 23rd.
Last week farmers worked hard in the cotton fields while residents from Schulenburg and nearby towns traveled to Fayetteville for the Saengerfest. The Washington school closed for two weeks and crops showed healthy growth with no boll weevils reported despite recent heavy rain. Eliza and Gretchen Fritz Noikemper attended the festival with Mrs Noikemper.
Louis Fehrenkamp visited the county capital Tuesday and W A White of Nickel traveled to Cuero at the start of the week. Mr and Mrs O Halamitschek of Ottine were in town Tuesday and Wednesday. Nora Brown arrived from Houston Sunday. William Brosch recalled Tar EaGue in the city Wednesday. A dance at Henk haus is set for next Sunday with Moulton Juvenile band. Mr and Mrs D Niemeyer now of Shiner came Tuesday. Frank Tobolka and Mrs Tobolka visited from El Campo Tuesday to spend time with Frank Nachlinger. If you need printed stationery Tue Kac invites orders for letter heads and related items.
Honor Roll lists donors Henry Krueger Will Jaeggli Eva Hairgrove Mre Rad Albrecht F Meiserschlager Henry Balhorn Brosch and others in Moulton and nearby areas. Hermann Park Verein plans a Sunday meeting to elect officers for the year. Flatonia visits Moulton in a tense 2 to 0 contest. Sam and Will Moore Institute closes May 25 with commencement May 29 led by John M Green and F P Guenther.
El Campo serves as the hub of the rice producing district in Texas. It ships hay, corn, cotton and various trucks to the United States. The city hosts a rice mill operating ten months a year around the clock and an AI soda water factory.
A Beeville dispatch says Cadiz county bugs, larger and beetle shaped, feed on dead cotton pest bodies and may threaten the bull weevil. The insects swarm on Mrs Darby Foxs farm and several specimens have been sent to Dr Knapp in Houston for classification.
Frank Bobuslavy, a Molton native, came back Sunday after a pleasant stay in Mexico. He left for Houston on Tuesday as heavy rain drenched the region. The text questions legal enforcement in Texas and notes a ball at Darilek Nachlinger’s was canceled due to bad weather.
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