23 Jan 1908
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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
1
A Pittsburgh distributing depot touts the Pittsburgh Perfect fence as the best field fence made of all galvanized steel wires. It claims to be the only fence welded by electricity with every rod guaranteed perfect and no moisture traps in wraps.
One of the little twins born to Mr and Mrs August Mladenka last Thursday is twelve days old. Joe, the 18 year old son of Ms Franz Meyer, died on Saturday and was buried Sunday in the local cemetery. The text notes the family and burial details with imperfect transcription.
A list of signatories from Lavaca County urging Rudolph Valenta of Shiner Texas to run for tax assessor and promising support at the upcoming election. Names include Merrem Welhausen Wolters Berckenhoff Ruhmann Brosch Hely Huebner Mikulik Mazac Macha Lue Krueger Vackar Vincik Heak Vincik Wendtlandy Krers Mergenthaler Kausen Kram Kempe Blohm Henkhaus Gebrels Holchak Schmidt Flato Lichey Wolters Pannewitz Eschenburg Tietjen Trautwein Koniakovsky Schmidt Habermacher Malinak Milatta Welhausen Weber Kunetka Garbade Baca Pustejevsky Deutsch Merseburger Pfeil Wagner Mladenka Striebck Mittanek Meier Hurta Kurtz Hoyt and many others.
Advertises ready cash for eggs with large North and East outlets. Urges farmers to sell to ensure mutual profit and calls for CARn business, promising highest market price in spot cash.
State v Paul Orsak pleaded guilty to abusive language and was fined $1 plus costs. State v Baz Lovell found not guilty after jury trial for abusive language. State v Spence Bozier found guilty on abusive language with $5 fine plus costs. State v Frank Knebel and Emil Mager v Frank Anlauf involved jury trials. Mager won $10 and costs for damage suit.
The Knights of Pythias lodge in Halletsville Texas confers the rank of esquire on J F Houchins and installs new officers. Members and wives join a Park hotel banquet where Rev Mr Miller along with W T Bagby W R McCutchan and D A Paulus deliver talks.
J W Ragsdale and F Hillie have returned from Ottine where ongoing efforts continue to find oil. Numerous local investors are backing the venture. Current work is under contract with the Heywood Oil Company.
Essay argues fortunes should arise from service to society. It posits a natural law: rewards match welfare contributed, grounded in divine order observed in nature. The author uses imagery of Earth, sun, and rain to urge go and work, linking prosperity to industry and effort.
The J. H Boyer Co presented Ten Nights in a Barroom at the Opera House last Thursday. Merrell as Joe Morgan gave his best ever performance and Miss Mayerstead the soubrette delighted the crowd. Lela Stanley excelled in her specialty. all actors impressed despite a small, cold audience.
The Twentieth Century Club met at Mrs. L. E. Chovanetz home for a German History lesson. Afterward a guessing contest and a kitchen themed quiz awarded Miss Berta Thornton both prizes a inkstand and an ornamental cushion. A lunch of sandwiches and hot chocolate followed.
The program lists topics such as cultivating perception Agassiz's method memory and perception brain cells two theories of memory images association of ideas primary and secondary laws and an explanation of dreams All visiting teachers invited to attend and participate in the event.
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