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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1917
Page
4
The piece argues poverty is rare among farmers who possess land, livestock, equipment, and crops. It contends farmers can prosper despite wars and taxes, investing wealth as productive capital that benefits society. It notes some farmers have left farming but still keep a sense of “poverty.”
Governor Hobby selects George Kk Howard of Houston to succeed Churchill J Bartlett as secretary of state after Bartlett resigns. Howard takes office pending confirmation and will oversee state elections government and statutory duties.
Burleson county voters approved the local option election by 17 percent, defeating prohibitionist measures in a recent ballot. The result reflects broad support for reformist policies across the county.
Prohibitionists carried the Robertson county vote several days ago by a margin of 655, securing the local option victory.
Fred Fehrenkamp, with U S forces at Camp Bowie near Fort Worth, spent several days there last week and returned to Camp Bowie Sunday morning.
Enthusiastic preview of the Texas Woman's Fair in Houston from November 3 to 10. The event emphasizes home economics, canning, gardening, and welfare work with lectures by notable speakers, physician exams for the show for better babies, Red Cross demonstrations, and national service talks to promote efficient food conservation and household management.
The Eagle expresses gratitude to readers who paid subscriptions since the last report. Notable contributors include Ed Kalischko and Joe Sustr of Moulton, F C Koester and Jim Nachlinger of Moulton, August W Seudean of Moulton, and Ed Mikulik of Flatonia, among others in Hallettsville and Shiner.
Gonzales Texas November 1 thirteen saloons in Gonzales County shut their doors pending the January term court ruling after a September 8 election where the saloons were voted out by forty one votes. Bring us your job work.
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