Lone Star State Industrial Notes
Temple reports eight miles graded for hard surface under a $600000 bond issue. Dallas lists 350 Texas Immigration Bureau reps urged to buy 10 cent cotton bales and recruit five neighbors. Moberbie forms Wheeler County Development League to boost lands and attract residents. Waco Cotton Palace bureau plans an active campaign to crown this year’s event. Austin Governor Colquitt signs warehouse bill to aid farmers in avoiding cotton collapse. Fort Worth Farmers Union says Radford and Lewis join a presidential-directed push for a $4000000 loan to Southern farmers for distress cotton financing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Worth
Farmers Union
Peter Radford
W. D. Lewis
Washington
Wilson
Treasury
McAdoo
Teachers Notice On School Months For 1914 15
The message from William Eilers, Co. Supt, outlines school month endings for 1914 15. Reports are due September 14 for three weeks start September 21 for two weeks and September 28 for one week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ae Alines Tbe Oesoeviard
William Eilers, Co
Kotzebue Family Returns Home After Visit
Mrs. Wm. Kotzebue and her children returned to Flatonia Monday following a pleasant visit with relatives here.
Noted visitors docked in town during midweek
Mrs. Doebring of Flatonia visited her daughter Miss Betty Doebring in the city between trains on Tuesday. Mr. G. J. Bohnenkamp and family and Mr. J. W. Nachlinger and family spent Sunday with Shiner relatives. Dr. W. O. Luedemann Paul Breymann and Ed Hajek of Schulenburg paid Moulton a brief visit Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doebring
Flatonia
Betty Doebring
G. J. Bohnenkamp
J. W. Nachlinger
Shiner
W. O. Luedemann
Paul Breymann
Ed. Hajek
Schulenburg
Moulton
The Silo In The Panhandle
Panhandle farmers embrace silo farming after soil stability and a Amarillo test show silage secures fat production. Local crops including kaffir sorghum milo maize and feterita yield well when silaged, prompting many to plan pit silos as a future staple say Amarillo Texas city manager P. E. Boesen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amarillo
Panhandle
P. E. Boesen
Texas
Moulton School Board Plans Rural School Opening
The Moulton Independent School District board met at the opera house with President A F Kotzebue presiding. Treasurer John Bucek’s report was approved and August Papacek named janitor at the Sam and Will Moore Institute replacing Mrs Faltisek who resigned due to ill health. The rural school will open Monday October 5. The meeting adjourned after no further business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moulton Independent
The Friends That Love Us Poem Fragment
A lyrical meditation on enduring friendship. The verses praise friends who stay through good times and bad, cling in storms, and brighten hardship with songs and roses. It vows that true friends remain remembered when others forget and remain near as troubles grow.
Shiner News Visitors Gather at Local Homes
Ed Nieman and family from San Antonio and Carl Fuess of Cuero visited last week. Will Hartman of Dallas also stopped by. Mrs. Martha Potts and children from Elgin visited the Pfaenders. L Striebeck and family from Witting hosted by H H Striebeck. he had an appendicitis operation recently. Lillie Wolters hosted the T C Club with Mrs Trautwein and several guests. September 22, 1914.
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Ed. Nieman
San Antonio
Carl Fuess
Cuero
Will Hartman
Dallas
Martha Potts
Elgin
A. Pfaender
Birthday Anniversary Honors Mrs Fehrenkamp With Family Party
Mrs. F. T. Fehrenkamp entertained relatives and friends Friday September 18 for her fifty fourth birthday anniversary. Fruits cake and coffee were served and the jovial gathering ended with best wishes for many more birthdays. Attendees included Elo C. Fehrenkamp Edward Boehm C M Kotzebue William Schmidt G J Bohnenkemp Mina Krause F Ullmann J W Giesbers G Rapp E Westerhoff V Rehmer J J Kotzebue A F Kotzebue J W Nachlinger Ad Baur L J Fehrenkamp Antoinette Koehler Hilda Schmidt Alma Giesbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. T. Fehrenkamp
Elo C. Fehrenkamp
Elo C. Fehrenkamp, Mesdames Edward Boehm, C. M. Kotzebue
William Schmidt
G. J. Bohnenkemp
Mina Krause
F. Ullmann
J. W- Giesbers
G. Rapp
E. Westerhoff
V. Rehmer
J. J. Kotzebue
A. F. Kotzebue
J. W. Nachlinger
Ad. Baur
L. J. Fehrenkamp
Antoinette Koehler
Hilda Schmidt
Alma Giesbers
Miss Koehler Visits and Flatonia Dance Event
Miss Antoinette Koehler returned to Houston Tuesday after a delightful visit with friends Moessie Fred Krause and Hd die Kolar and Misses Bessie Mia denka Sophia Krause in Flatonia Sunday Miss Ottilie Lorke returned to Austin Tuesday after visiting Mr Joseph A Dietschke The regular monthly dance at Henkhaus Saturday drew a large crowd with the Henkhaus band providing music for the occasion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Antoinette Koehler
Houston
Moessie
Fred Krause
Die Kolar
Bessie Miadenka
Sophia Krause
Flatonia
Mise
Ottilie Lorke
Joseph A. Dietschke
Austin
The Reward of Courtesy in a Town
A visitor impressed by a town’s courtesy helps attract a manufacturer. His praise spawns a factory relocation that brought 150 employees, showing how words shape a community’s future and inviting readers to learn the lesson.
Sophia Krause Celebrates Seventeenth Birthday at Tomasko Home
The seventeenth birthday of Miss Sophia Krause was celebrated Saturday, September 19, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tomasko. Refreshments were served to numerous guests, including Mesdames Tom Shandera, T. H. Leslie, Jno Bruvkenhoefer, V. Rehmer, J. W. Naclinger, G. J. Bohnenkamp, Knape, R. Albrecht, R. A. er, Edmund Meyer, John Mladenka, Chas. Krause and Miss Antoinette Koehler.
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Sophia Krause
Frank Tomasko
Tom Shandera
T. H. Leslie
Jno
Automobile Man H Potthast Visits City With Maxwell Cars
H Potthast a leading automobile man from Weimar spent Sunday in the city traveling in six 1915M Maxwell cars. He had just received a carload of these Maxwell vehicles.
Emergency Statute To Aid Farmers In Texas
Governor Colquitt signed an emergency warehouse bill creating state owned cotton warehouses. Texas becomes the first state to aid farmers by legislative act during the European crisis. The extraordinary session passed the measure with a two thirds majority. it becomes law now but may be replaced by a permanent statute next January.
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Austin
Colquitt
Texas
Emma Parr and H B Jones Wed in Hallettsville Parish
Miss Emma C Parr wed Mr H B Jones at the Parr home with Rev J A Stevens officiating. A two course luncheon followed in a festooned dining room with violin and piano music. The couple honeymooned in San Antonio and will reside near Ezzell after a short stay.
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P.W. Parr
Emma C. Parr
H. B. Jones
J. A. Stevens
Eagle Lake
San Antonio
Ezzell
Hallettsville New Era
Buy A Bale Movement Promotes Cotton Purchases
The Texas led Buy-A-Bale campaign urges citizens to buy a bale of cotton to support farmers during the crisis. Woodrow Wilson reportedly approves the plan as a patriotic act and lenders are urged to rally behind the cause.
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Texas Cotton Club
Texas
Woodrow Wilson
New Advertisements In This Issue
The Eagle highlights new ads from Boehm & Sons Molasses C H Potthast Automobiles O B Eilert School Shoes W K Richter Sodawater in this issue.
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Boehm & Sons
C. H. Potthast—Automobiles
O. B. Eilert
W.K. Richter
Sodawater
Local families visit relatives and go on trips
Mr and Mrs John G Mueller returned Monday from Seguin where they visited Alvin P Mueller and family. Mr and Mrs William Schmidt and daughter Hilda and Mr and Mrs Adolph Baur made a trip to Weimar on Sunday September 13. Mr and Mrs Wm Schmidt and Emil Schmidt were at Columbus Sunday visiting Henry Riesing family. Miss Adela Cordes left for Austin to enter the institute for the blind after visiting former teachers and classmates.
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John G. Mueller
Seguin
Alvin P. Mueller
William Schmidt
Hilda
Adolph Baur
Weimar
Wm. Schmidt
Emil Schmidt
Columbus
Henry Riesing
Adela Cordes
B. H. Cordes
Austin
Institute For the
Miss Cordes
Industrial Congress Sells Contestants Cotton in Dallas Plan
The Texas Industrial Congress endorses the buy-a-bale movement to relieve distress cotton. It aims to act as a selling agency for contest cotton, storing or warehousing receipts, finding buyers at 10 cents a pound, middling basis, among 1500 member business men in Dallas and beyond. It urges contestants to store cotton and cut acreage in 1915 to grow corn and forage for meat demand.
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Dallas
Texas
South
Texas Industrial Congress
Congress
The
Texas Battleship Texas Ordered to Vera Cruz Mission
Secretary Daniels announced the battleship Texas would be sent from New York to Vera Cruz to relieve an Arkansas class vessel and then visit Galveston within weeks to receive a silver service from the state of Texas.
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Washington, D. C
Daniels
Texas
New York
Vera Cruz
Mexico
Arkansas
Galveston
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lone Star State Industrial Notes
Temple
Texas Immigration Bureau
Mobbertie
Wheeler County Development League
Waco
Texas Cotton Palace
Guy Haltom
Moulton, Texas
Shiner News
Eagle
Industrial Congress
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