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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1901
Page
5
Train No 45 arrives from Lockhart at 12 55 p m and No 46 from Yoakum at 2 40 p m. Waco to Yoakum shows No 42 from Waco at 1 05 p m No 44 leaves Shiver at 6 16 a m Yoakum to Waco No 41 from Yoakum at 2 39 p m and No 43 leaves Shiner at 10 04 a m.
July 1901 sets heat records as residents endure hot weather. News items note July and August heat, local business chatter, a few social mentions, and a call to attend Sunday Baptist services. Local ads promote A C Koepke’s shaves and Magnolis beer at saloons, with brief notices on travel and stock sales.
The death of a Stuttgart based grandfather leaves an estate of 490000 dollars in testate form. His son’s children, the Mair siblings, are likely to inherit under intestacy rules. One family member is already in Stuttgart to pursue the matter and will report back.
Last Friday John Sontag aged about sixty was found dead four miles south of town. An inquest returned sunstroke as the verdict. His son in law Thomas Hurt lived with him. Carpenter Gerhard Theilen-Gerdes, exhausted after a day’s work, died of sunstroke Saturday evening. Temperature reached 106 in the shade at 2 p.m. Saturday, marking a second sunstroke case in two days.
Shriver reports the first bale of 1901 cotton reached town last Wednesday after the Gazette’s issue. Raised by Filip Simerski on the Robt. Fitzgerald place, it was ginned by Berchenhoff and Dolejei, weighed 509 pounds, and sold to Eschensburgh and Blohm for eight cents.
The Shiner column reports the cotton gin starting with Berckenhoff and Dolessi on July 31 and Trautwein and Wolters on August 1. Plans to begin oil mill operations by August 19 are noted, plus seed buying and hull sale aims. The post office inspection praised the Seydier office, and two new cotton bales were received locally. A corner stone ceremony in Moulton drew several residents, while local trades advertise paints and summer goods. Marriages and town movements are listed, with typhoid illness affecting Rev. Oertel’s family and various townspeople visiting Shiner.
Eight lots with a four room house, well and corn crib offered at price unspecified. Terms: one half cash, balance in one and two years at 8 percent. Also two improved farms near Shiner Texas 120 and 160 acres with water and good grass, sold low with half cash and easy balance. Apply to D. W. Hoeurs, Shiner.
A lengthy church meeting continues at the Catholic church in Chicago with two reverend-divines leading services. F.cher M. Vaculik oversees arrangements. Beer from Magnolia and other brands is sold at several local outlets including Joe Maeba, Vm Jaeger, F. Thoelke, Jakob Vackar, A. A. Sinderwall, and Dilworth.
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