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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
1
Henkhaus community hosts a large barbecue and dance at the new dance hall dedication drawing visitors from nearby farms. About 200 tickets sold at night with the Henkhaus Liberty band providing music. Local families and guests joins in social visits and birthday celebrations at Heinrich home nearby.
The text outlines daily and seasonal limits for quail, doves, buck deer, and wild turkeys. It lists additional birds and animals allowed in all seasons, transport rules with affidavits, and bans on sale or eggs. Night hunting is forbidden with lamps. Open-season hunting allowed within residence counties or land controlled, without a license, but not beyond adjoining counties.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt wounded by a bullet as he left a Milwaukee hotel. The assailant John Schrenck of New York was arrested. Doctors say the wound is simple and Roosevelt can resume his speech tour in about ten days. The note also records local visits and a Violinist Miss Bansemer and tenor Oscar Neff in a Devault Company program at the opera house.
Reports show 400 acres planted with Columbus long staple cotton in Colorado county yielding near bale per acre at 174 cents per pound. G A Robertson & Son bring a 3 million foot gas well to Trickham and seek to pipe gas to Coleman Santa Anna with possible Brownwood extension. Franchises for interurban Austin Lockhart planned. Automobile makers pledge one third of one percent of gross returns in 1913 to good roads, creating about 15 million dollars.
Poem excerpts emphasize unity and shared journey under love as guiding law. It frames brothership and sympathy as the path, with the Homeland and Bethlehem star imagery signaling hopeful guidance despite hardships. The piece reads as a morale boosting article fragment from a 20th century periodical.
District Clerk E T Long notes P T Graves will attend November 6 to handle final naturalization petitions in district court. City sewer work on court house square contracted by W D Faust of Gonzales. H C Youngkin homestead of 15 acres near court house sold by Jobo and S Youngkin of Yoakum. tract to be divided into city lots. Moving picture shows asked to start at 9 p m due to the dynamo outage causing recent darkness.
October 14, 1912 notes several visits among Baursville Breslau and Shiner residents. Mrs Boening visited Shiner while D Fisbeck Julius Hrock Ed Boening and C Blohm are mentioned in Breslau and Shiner. Arthur Pfuhl and Fred Gertner with families took trips to Shiner Hallettsville in a Sunday gathering.
Card from Moulton Home and School Club thanks supporters of the play Texas Under Six Flags staged Monday night October 14. Special thanks go to the Moulton Band for marching in the parade and performing at night. Mrs. E. Studeman, President.
Mrs Jno Baur and her young daughter visited relatives in Alpine before leaving for Meyersville on Sunday. Mrs Jno Bucek hosted the Social Club last Thursday, with a pleasant afternoon and delicious refreshments. Attendees included Mesdames Studeman, Buescher, Krause, Papacek, Kotzebue, von Lienen, Boehm, Albrecht, Pundt, Rehmer, Brunkenhoefer, McMaster, and Miss Ella Schleyer. The next meeting will be at Mrs Jno Brunkenhoefer’s home.
The Moulton Home and School Club held its October meeting at the Sam and Will Moore Institute. Mrs. E Studeman was unanimously elected to replace resigning president Mrs Jno Bucek. Zena Peterson and L A Meiners were added to membership. A bazaar is planned for November 15 and dues were abolished. A committee to recruit new members was named.
William Eilers, Hallettsville County Superintendent, invites Boys' Corn Club members to a corn show on October 28, featuring lectures on corn growing. Attendees may earn diplomas and listen to speeches as part of attendance. Thirty seven prizes from one to ten dollars will be awarded, and free seed corn provided for next year. About 150 to 200 boys expected to join.
North winds refreshed the area this past week as J. E. Henkel of the Columbia Piano Company visited for business. Local families, including Mr. and Mrs. Edward Haas and daughter, and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mueller, traveled from Hallettsville and Peach Creek for family visits. A crowd attended a barbecue and dance at Henkhaus with favorable reports. Eppyr. October 14, 1913.
A charity play titled Texas Under Six Flags presented in Moulton featuring sixty local talents under Prof and Mrs Z A Hall. A large crowd attended as the parade earlier drew strong interest, with proceeds supporting the Moulton Home and School Club.
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