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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1903
Page
3
Local news item roundup shows residents traveling to Yoakum Shiner Flatonia and Gonzales. Public school opening October 7 and stores offering sales, along with farmers reporting a short cotton crop in Lavaca and oil mill activity. A baby girl was born to the Priesmeyer family and local deaths include 80 year old Joseph Huebner Sr near Shiner.
Classified notices and local notices from Moulton Texas including wants for 2000 or more bushels of corn at 35 cents a bushel, sales on linoleum 70 cents per square yard for 30 days, land for sale near Moulton, and community events such as barbecues, dances, and institute reports.
Henry Krause of Moulton Texas reports a major fire in San Antonio early Tuesday morning destroying Scholz's Palm Garden and badly damaging the Wolff & Marx department store. The blaze caused $250,000 in losses and two firemen were shocked. one firefighter, Kerdel, fell from a roof suffering severe injuries.
Miss Barbara Kral died at her home in Flatonia at noon. Her remains were interred in the city cemetery today. The cotton crop this season is shorter than last year with boll weevil damage noted in the region. Mr. J S Humphreys of Midland Bridge Co was in Flatonia on business. Mr and Mrs W H Wheeler visited Hallettsville to be with Mrs Wheeler's father, Arnim, who is ill.
Freda Herold died at her parents home on the Cunningham place near Hochheim on the 12th from fever. She was the daughter of August and unnamed Herold family, remembered as a bright caring young woman with many friends. The Times extends sympathy to the grieving family. The article notes Yoakum Street Fair’s importance to the area and mentions County Commissioner R B Thrift and Senator D A Paulus traveling to Austin on business related to county road and bridge matters.
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