Turre and Day Observances and Global News Highlights
A national Tuanxsaivine Day celebration is noted as part of devotion to God. The Russian Second Pacific Squadron sailed from Libau on November 16 with seven cruisers and five destroyers. Texas Cotton Growers' League forecasts crop output under 11 million bales. Aron Brooks Parker opens a solo law practice in New York. Texas attracts attention with rapid settlement and investment. A District of Columbia school dispute concerns a mixed blood child and federally influenced schooling. The editorial urges progress over obstruction with a cattle pen metaphor.
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Second Pacific Squadron
Libat
District of Columbia
Federal Territory
Beginning of Creation Followed by Advertising Satire
An exchange parodies creation by noting God made the heavens and earth, then mocks editors and advertisers. The dialogue imagines a snow day and characters who reject or accept the home paper, ending with a quip about a man who takes none.
Subscriptions and State Budget Provisions For 1907
The article notes a subscriber who refused delivery and outlines state department appropriation estimates for the upcoming legislature. Totals show 398,715 dollars for executive, comptroller, treasurer, adjutant general, land and drafting, education, health, insurance, and railroads, with figures for mansion, records space, and other offices. The bill must fund government through August 31, 1907.
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Executive Office
Comptroller’s Department
Treasurer's Department
Adjutant General
State Rangers
State Revenue Agent
State Department
Attorney General’s Department
General Land Office
Department of the Land Office
Educational Department
State
State Health Department
Insurance Department
Railroad Commission
Cut Officers Salaries Reduced by County Court
Halletsville November 19. The County Commissioners Court fixed official salaries for the new term: Sheriff and District Clerk at 300 annually each, County Judge at 100 annually, a 500 cut from the previous 600. Judge-elect E. O. Meitzen likely earns under 700 annually from all sources. Thrift named purchasing agent. Mikulenka supervisor of the DorrTen OF Lone. Lamkin to serve two years as attorney and advisor to the court and assist the County Attorney in suits against the county.
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Halletsville
E. O. Meitzen
R. B. Thrift
J. M. Mikulenka
Lone
J. C. Lamkin
Henkhaus News notes visits and marriages in 1904
Local items report Mrs. Schoenvogel and children visiting Yorktown, Krause family in Mouleton, Wendel siblings in town, and several visits to Victoria county and Scharlottenburg. Chas Oaken and Wilhelmine Reuel wed. John Elstner and spouse celebrate golden wedding with Hallettsville guests and music bands.
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Epitor Eagle
Henry Schoenvogel
Yorktown
F. W. Krause
Mouleton
Shiner
W. A. Wendel
Linda
Burg
Heinrich and
Ducho
Victoria County
Fuchs
Old Lavaca
F. D. Jar
John Elstner
Near Town
Hallettaville
Steers Haul Through Gonzales En Route to Seguin
Mr J T Thompson of Big Hill passes through Gonzales with 150 head of fine steers en route to Seguin for feeding. One hundred head originate from the John Rainey ranch on Peach Creek.
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J. T. Thompson
Big Hill
Gonzales
Seguin
John Rainey
Peach Creek
Gonzales Lnquirer
Potatoes, Turkeys, and Moves Mark Local News
The 1904 item notes a strong potato crop with a neighbor yielding four hundred bushels. Miss Jessie Thornton heads a well attended public school. Families move toward better locations or northwest as boll weevil pressure and hard times recede. Turkeys sell at eight cents per pound amid news of Cot ton premiums from Gonzales. Mrs Evie Griffin Cooper wins a prize in a local drawing.
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Jessie Thornton
Bailey
Moulton
Willie
Mary
S. & W. Moore Institute
Stewart
Messrs
Cooper
Hines
Gonzales
Mistrot
Evie Griffin Cooper
Mr. Mistrot
J. E. Quebedeaux
Thomas Pogue
Denton Creek
Flatonia
Mesdames
Hugh Bailey
Evie Cooper
Raska Burnoe Marriage Recorded In Williamsburg Area
The wedding took place Tuesday afternoon at the bride’s parents’ home uniting Louis Raska of Williamsburg and Frances Burnoe of Mon serrate. Raska, brother of Peter Raska, works for John Williams and is well regarded in the community. The ceremony celebrated a promising match and wished the couple years of happiness and prosperity.
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Louis Raska
Williamsburg
Frances Burnoe
Monserrate
Mr. Raska
Peter Raska
John Williams
Mr. Cottahead
Halletsville Herald
A. Morkovsky
Sam & Will Moore Institute
Dillard Golden Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs William Dillard celebrate fifty years of marriage on the twenty third of the month. They were wed in Lavaca county on November twenty three eighteen fifty four with Miss KK H Adams as Mrs Dillard's maiden name. Rev W B Davis officiated the ceremony. The anniversary will be observed quietly with close relatives over dinner.
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William Dillard
Honor Roll of Readers Supporting Our Fund
The following readers have contributed since the last report including Jno Hoepfl of Oak Grove Jake Maerz of Keck Theo Pohler of Moulton and K B Moeller of Moulton. Their generosity sustains our program and is gratefully noted.
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Jno
New stock of rugs and linoleum offered by local company
Local notices list new stock of rugs and cocoa mats plus two rolls of twelve foot wide linoleum guaranteed for twenty years. Church meeting announced for Thursday afternoon December 1 at the Lutheran church. Carpenter F J Krueger contracted to erect a residence for Joe Bohuslav. Mesdames Guenther Buescher guests in Cuero. Rev Hudecek in Shiner earlier this week. Also a near new residence and lot southeast of S and W Moore Institute in Moulton with cistern and sizable jut for Mrs W F Urner Rockdale Texas.
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H. J. Simank
S. & W. Moore Institute
Moulton
W. F. Urner
Rockdale
Texas
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