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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1914
Page
7
Washington October 12 The census report shows 5.1 percent rural illiteracy in Texas and 1.g percent in cities and towns Texas has 282,904 illiterates with 229,695 on farms 122,728 boys and men and 106,967 girls and women unable to read or write.
Publication notice notes weekly Friday release with a yearly subscription price of 1.50 in advance. The item is entered in the Postoffice at Moulton Vexas as second class matter.
Baby boy welcomed by Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Henkel. Flatonia Argus notes Mrs. Nordhausen’s Houston trip for sister’s specialist care. Red Cross drive reaches $123.75 as of report by Dr. P. Renger and committee. Local visitors include Mrs. Emil Krause in Uvalde and John Niemeyer in Shiner. Breslau merchant H I Stulken plans new mercantile building by January 1.
In a special session held Tuesday October 13 the commissioners court authorized William Blakeslee to sell bonds for bridge repairs. The August 12 1914 order authorizing $1900 in bonds for the Boggy Creek iron bridge repair is rescinded. Also approved is a bridge contract balance of 37950 and scrip payable November 25 1914 totaling 1425.
Texas produced 870 934 tons of sand and gravel in 1913 valued at 445 908 pounds. Sand uses included glass molding building engine paving and railroad ballast. Gravel alone exceeded 500 000 tons valued at 287 000 dollars, according to US Geological Survey data.
Texas ranked 18th among states in lime production for 1913 per a United States Geological Survey report. Texas produced 45,897 tons valued at $255,893 with an average price of $5.57 per ton. Minnesota originally held the position. The state had no lime plants.
The Houston Chronicle celebrates thirteen years with a forty four page souvenir edition issued Wednesday October 14. It contrasts old Houston with the modern city and notes hundreds of new buildings. The Chronicle just installed a Goss press, the largest newspaper press between Kansas City and the Pacific coast.
Governor Colquitt was informed by Secretary Daniels that the battleship Texas will reach Galveston on November 7 instead of October 31 as previously announced. The change shifts naval schedule and regional preparedness plans.
Thirty thousand copies of a bulletin titled A Study of the Rural Public Schools of Texas are being distributed by the Extension Department of the University of Texas. E. B. White and E. E. Davis collaborated on the survey, with distribution handled by Marian E. Potts, Package Librarian, as hundreds of applications pour in.
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