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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1908
Page
1
A community newspaper emphasizes local reading matter and town life as primary. Short notes cover soil bacteria and aeration, chick enclosures securement against rats, Nevada wild horse control on government land, and poultry roost pest control tips.
A farmer family comic song about a mother persuading her husband to join the Farmers Union. The narrator Elizabeth Ann explains how the county picnic and speeches inspired the family to support unionism and pay dues. Hollis C. Franklin is credited as the National Co-Operator.
A voice argues labor’s dignity and marching toward union. It questions class privilege, links farmer work to national wealth, and urges mutual protection, organized action, and patient hope for a decisive Union victory. Written in a patriotic tone from Wilton Arkansas.
W. Little writes in the National Co-Operator urging farmers and workers in the South to join a growing Farmers' Union. He argues unions can balance power against capital, criticize the warehouse system, and envision a future with a new commercial order and a bloodless, decisive victory for labor. He notes cotton pricing disputes and calls for quitting purchases from opponents.
In Indianapolis news coverage a dominant husband argues responsibility for frost damage to a geranium bed he says his wife covered to protect it. The report emphasizes interpersonal blame within a domestic incident.
A Province Tribune reflection notes farmers appear least engaged with future plans for agriculture, suggesting mixed reactions and uncertainty about proposed reforms. The quote implies farmers may be wary or skeptical of upcoming policy directions and their impact on livelihoods.
The state treasurer argues that a financial surge last year proved the wisdom of the law and supports the plan yielding forty thousand dollars annually.
Sam Sparks state treasurer submits for the year ending August 31, 1908, noting that the state depository law keeps over 1 million dollars circulating in banks and earns more than 40 thousand dollars annually. He cites 1.4 million on deposit previously locked in the treasury and praises the law's wisdom. Attorney returns from Austin Sunday.
City Attorney W R Wilson returned to Houston after securing Attorney General approval for four bond issues totaling 225000 for storm sewers 225000 for sanitary sewers 100000 for water main extension and 150000 for the Houston ship channel. Bonds to be engraved bids sought and sold to highest bidder meeting city requirements.
The Houston carnival began under favorable weather with extensive street illuminations and bright signs on business houses. The royal procession included a band, cadets from A and M, Texas and alumni groups, and marines, as Mayor Rice received the city keys at City Hall.
in Limestone County Texas jurors found Mrs Pearl Goode guilty of second degree murder and set a twenty five year penitentiary sentence. The indictment was returned by a Limestone County grand jury and the case moved to Waco on a change of venue with the trial starting Monday the 6th ult.
Lisbon reports that French and German ministers pressed Portugal over killings of French and Germans by natives in Portuguese Guinea. The government concedes it cannot quell the revolt due to troop shortages, but has secured temporary peace by reducing taxes.
Safeblowers who are believed to have used nitroglycerin secured $106.50 at W. H. Lucas’s retail grocery, 600 North Broughton street, Sherman, Tex, early Sunday. They wrecked the room interior, causing about $500 in property loss.
Austin papers report J. H. Walker, after eight years in state government, will become chief clerk under Robison at the general land office starting January. Walker has lately run a Dallas real estate business. Speculation continues about J. J. Terrell’s future role as chief clerk under Robison, who now serves as Terrell’s boss.
President Roosevelt chose Edmund Heller, a 26 year old from Riverside, California, from many applicants to accompany him on a wild Africa expedition next March.
The large Boeckmann farm near Seguin, five miles north, was sold for roughly $90 per acre. The sprawling property totals over 300 cultivated acres of rich black land and will be divided into smaller farms by buyers. It was owned by E. von Boeckmann, a presidential elector on the recent Democratic ticket.
Ginners' report for the county through week start records 47 415 bales ginned with about 11 000 bales received at Luling. Cotton picking continues in the fields and the general grade is very low.
New Orleans reports sensational charges by Tulane against Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge alleging Coach Wingard recruited three players from Susquehanna University and others from Indiana and Michigan who were ineligible under intercollegiate rules. Baylor University will face Baton Rouge on Tuesday with Texas players visiting.
Jesse O Wheeler editor and proprietor of the Brownsville Daily Herald died Sunday at his residence in Brownsville of heart failure. Funeral to be held Sunday afternoon at his old home in Victoria.
Alexandria compress manager releases figures on boll weevil ravages. Season 1906-07 receipts through Nov 3 totaled 17 175 bales, 1907-08 5 697 bales, this season 2 579 bales.
In Brenham Texas Washington county cotton farmers left the area this fall due to boll weevil damage. Most are traditional cotton growers with little knowledge of diversified or scientific farming and prefer shifting to other sections to try modern methods elsewhere.
Reduced railroad fares for the University of Texas anniversary spark travel to Austin. Current terms offer a fare and a fourth within 100 miles and a fare and a fifth beyond that distance.
In Houston Texas on Saturday trustee Chester Bryan sold the bankrupt general merchandise stock of Green A Wood of Navasota. About 65 percent of the stock brought in and roughly half a percent was realized on the remainder.
In Luling Texas the open season has brought several deer kills in the sandhills and reports say the area is more plentiful in deer than in years past. Small game of all kinds is also very plentiful.
San Jose resident William Hatfield, in jail on unspecified charges, expresses a hopeful farewell greeting, while county officials anticipate an arraignment the next morning. Prosecutor Free has twice postponed, and no new evidence has emerged to justify continued detention.
The Texas British Association of San Antonio will celebrate Edward VII birthday on November 16 at Red Men’s Hall on Soledad Street with music and speeches. The king was born November 9. this marks the sixty seventh anniversary, observed a week later by the association.
Calvert Texas reports abundance of game this season with locals yielding plentiful quail and ducks, attracting sport lovers to fields and waterways.
Former Tennessee senator and Tennesseean editor Edward Ward Carmack was shot and killed on Seventh Avenue in front of the Polk flats by Robin Cooper, son of Col Duncan B. Cooper. Robin Cooper was wounded. Col Cooper did not fire. The event is tied to post primary politics and Carmack’s sharp attacks on the Democratic machine.
In Houston a thousand UT and A and M supporters filled the stands as the varsity beat the Agricultural College 24 to 8. During halftime celebrations Will Trenckmann, a University of Texas student from Bellville, was slashed by a knife on head face and neck with a two inch lip cut. assailant未 apprehended.
At Caldwell Texas on Sunday Sheriff L W Henslee killed James Hunt Merrin as the northbound Santa Fe train pulled into the depot yard. They exchanged words near a bus then three shots struck Merrin with two bullets in the chest and one in the arm. The sheriff surrendered to officers afterward.
Two white men, Tick Moore Jr. and another man named Shannon, were shot Sunday afternoon at Press sawmill point west of Nacogdoches Texas. The assailant is said to have been a negro.
Charles W. Morse once valued at over 20 million dollars swore under oath he has no money or security left with which to pay his debts. The new financial setback follows prior prominence and wealth.
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