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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1923
Page
1
Community notices express heartfelt thanks for kindness during illness and death of Hermann Lingnau and Martin Chaka. Messages praise floral tributes and support from Mrs. Kubena Rev Kopp and family. Bible Study Class convenes with Mrs Studeman. Baursville school hosts a June 3 dance for fundraiser.
The Moulton Home and School Club met May 9 1923 at the schoolhouse with Mrs Ed Studeman presiding. Officers elected for the next year include Mrs J T Jaeggi president and Mrs Erna Kotzebue treasurer. The treasurer reported year end balance 472.16 with income 786.91 and expenses 1156.46 while county meet expenses 211.75 and income 189.06 were noted.
German services in Moulton Sunday at 10 oclock morning Congregational meeting after services English services at 8 oclock evening.
A social gathering of the Moulton Home and School Club is planned with Mrs. John Mladenko hosting on Friday, June 1. The report also notes local movements including the Rehmer family’s return to Taylor after a visit and teachers Jaeggli’s and Arnim’s summer plans and California trip hopes. Colonel Alvin Owsley emerges as a potential Texas 1924 gubernatorial candidate for the American Legion.
A terse political maxim notes that adopting a tax equalization stance in a party platform could shape the outcome of the next presidential election. The saying suggests strategic guidance for party preps and voter alignment.
Major Thomas Scott Baldwin, famed parachute inventor, died in Buffalo last week. He was buried with military honors at Arlington National Cemetery.
The attorney general approved the Moulton school bonds and construction on the schoolhouse addition will start soon, signaling a new phase in local education improvements.
A. H. Worden, 40, Yoakum express agent, was killed at 1 40 p m when two loads of buckshot fired from a stateroom on a Houston passenger train struck him as it stopped in Yoakum Texas Fred Allen a traveling salesman for Baldwin Cargie Company Houston was held on bond 6000 after an examining trial Worden and Allen were longtime friends and hunters Worden leaves a wife and 14 year old daughter.
The Moulton Cemetery Aid Society held its May 2 meeting with Mrs Emil Pundt and outlines the June 6 gathering with Mrs Joe C Wagner. Other notes include family christenings, May festivities at Hermann Park Verein on May 27, and invitations to regional events.
Hermann Lingnau died at Hallettsville and was buried in New Ulm after a Lutheran funeral service. He was 48 as of death, survived by his mother six sisters and four brothers with immediate relatives listed. Dr Florence Siegfeld, president of the Chicago Music College, died at home in Chicago aged 81. he was a German native.
A class of fifty-one children received first Holy Communion during high mass at St Joseph's Church with Rev. Jos Kopp officiating. The procession from the parish school to the church featured a brass band and listed the participating pupils by name.
Sealed bids will be received by O F Knape president of the Moulton School Board until 6 p m Saturday June 2 1923 on the recently voted schoolhouse bonds of the Moulton Independent School District No bid to be less than par. MOULTON SCHOOL BOARD O F Knape Pres.
A historical note cites 12,239,114 car registrations in 1922 and 2,819,362 miles of highway in 1928. It also states forests produced about 1.5 billion dollars in goods annually.
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