Local brief notes from Texas towns
Culled from our exchanges list brief items from various Texas towns. Mentions include visits and arrivals overseas, military commissions, agriculture earnings, Salvation Army fundraising, funerals, army service, and business changes as reported by local papers in Shiner LaGrange Flatonia Hallettsville Schulenburg Eagle Lake San Antonio and Weimar.
Spanish Influenza Fails to Fall at Camp Travis
Camp Travis reports no deaths in first week of influenza fight due to strong sanitation measures. Precautions include isolation, public education, and a large base hospital with mobilized nurses and supplies. Brig Gen Estes proposes entertainment plans to raise morale and recruits 200 musicians to fill five bands in the Cactus Division.
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Camp Travis
United States
Mammoth
Jack
Dulls
Estes
Cactus Division
Culak School Notes of Family Visits and Local Events
Culak School period reports crops near harvest and plowing fields. Guests include Paul Kuehn sister Jillie Charles Zavesky wiator Mary and Annie Schach erl with Jim Reina sister Emma. Otto Huff family from Sweet Home visited Gus Huff family. Anton Svoboda hosted Sunday gathering. Attenders went to the Flatonia Fair. Rudolph Huff received a health note from Otto Marburger somewhere in France. October 7, 1918.
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Paul Kuehn
Jillie
Charles Zavesky
Wiator
Mary
Annie Schacherl
Jim Reina
Emma
Gus
Huff
Mies Hilda
Henry Etlinger
Otto Huff
Sweet Home
Emma Reindl
Ella Huff
Rudolph Wulartmann
Dreyer
Jus. Huff
William Schodde
Anton Svoboda
Flatonia
Rudolph Huff
Otto Marburger
France
Jimmy
Shiner Social Visits Highlight Weekend Activities
Mr and Mrs Fred C Krause visited in Shiner Sunday. Mrs Henry Etlinger was in Shiner Monday afternoon. G N Mueller returned Wednesday from Cuero. Mrs Edna Valenta visited relatives at Nordheim Saturday. Mrs Ida Looney and daughter visited Shiner relatives the latter part of the week. Mrs Charles Krause was in Shiner Sunday visiting her daughter Mrs Frank Tomasko.
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Mack Whitley
Navidad
Whitley
Hallettsville Herald
Fred C. Krause
Shiner
Henry Etlinger
G. N. Mueller
Cuero
Edna Valenta
Nordheim
Ida Looney
Charles Krause
Frank Tomasko
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the City Bakery
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Xokex
Stroman
Moulton
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Texas Gas and Oils
Irvaloko Awa
Kid. Studeman
Fritz Presun
LaGrange
John G. Hollmann
A. M. Kotzebue
Medical Corps of the Army
Flatonia Argus
Henry Kilers
Salvation Army
Louis Knezek, Sr
Frank
Emil
Louisa Boehm
Schulenburg Sticker
Ivan Walter
Houston
T. J. Balhorn
Colorado County
Ivan
Terry
Eagle Lake
Fannie Schrubar
Dubina
San Antonio
J. S. Rypple
Charles Fahrenthold
Emil Boehm
Chas. Fahrenthold & Co
Joe
Weimar Mercury
Culak School
Kopecky Drug Co
Joe C. Kopecky
Boehm’s
Kesmeskelsd
Jackson
Hy. J. Koester
Lucas Rehmet
Ballard
Jas. F. Ballard
ST. Louis, MO
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Kotzebue Drug Co