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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1927
Page
19
Community debates a new school building with education officials defending the plan. Arguments cover funding, site choice, phased construction, and long term tax concerns while trustees promise expert oversight and better facilities.
The board votes a 25 cent tax increase to total 75 cents, raising 60 000 dollars. They will remodel the old school house into a four room primary building and use 52 000 for a new two story high school with ten classrooms an auditorium and basement science rooms. The Grammer School plan from New Braunfels is chosen, with steam heat and modern sanitary toilets.
Property listing reads 2-Pied For Sale in Park addition near Rout 2 and directed to apply to Mrs. Wm Huebner. No additional details provided.
Homestead property offered includes 100 acres with wood and water and 300 acres in pastures near Nickel High School. For more details contact Mrs. F. F. Wood, Gonzales Texas Rt 3 Box 99.
For sale offer posts a stationary Ford motor and a corn crusher. Interested buyers should apply to Edmund Kram.
A call to vote on December 20 for a new school building in Shiner. The current plant is condemned and too small by at least five rooms. Six classrooms exist, with limited space used for study halls, experiments, and storage. The notice urges visiting on a cold day to see heat and space deficiencies and to support a comfortable, modern schoolhouse for all students.
A short classified notice seeks a servant girl for general housework with contact by P O Box 212. The brief ad provides no further details beyond the box number and job type.
Wm D. Green posts all lands of the Green estate in Gonzales and Lavaca counties as closed to hunting and trespassing unless a written permit is shown. The notice serves as a legal warning to the public and potential visitors.
For Sale listing of farming implements feed and household goods with stock. Apply to Jim Mauric Shiner Route 1. Also for sale a child's desk and chair with an electric train and forty foot track. Apply at this office. 6tf
For Sale items include a 1925 or 1921 Ford Touring in good running condition. Also listing sawing cordwood and hauling hulls with transfer haul via Q. S. T. Meyer and Herman Schroeder. Other ads: Jersey cow fresh in milk to Willie Westphal Shiner Rt 2 and a Poland China boar for service with Frank Kolacny Rt 2 Yoakum.
Have your cars washed and greased at the Texaco Filling Station. Free Crank Case Ser vice. Have modern equipment and Prompt service. Part of your trade will be appreciated. Emil Heerssen.
Local ad listing weekly specials includes 16 lbs sugar for $1.00, 5 string broom for 59 cents, 48 lb sack Gadiola flour at $1.90, 10 oz Royal Excelsior Dates at 15 cents, 1 gal Plate syrup 60 cents, and 3 minute Oat Meal priced at 9 cents. Store contactables include Emil Bonorden.
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