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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1902
Page
5
Train No 45 from Lockhart arrives at 12 55 pm. Train No 46 from Yoakum arrives at 3 10 pm. Train No 42 from Waco arrives at 1 05 pm. Train No 44 leaves Shiner at 6 18 am. Train No 41 from Yoakum arrives at 3 03 pm. Train No 483 leaves Shiner at 7 04 pm.
Mayor Louis Trautwein Treasurer C B Welhausen Secretary Ed J Mair Marshal T J Burkett Aldermen Robt Eschenburg Earl Fry Ed F Wolters Aug Schramm C B Welhausen The City Council meets on the first Monday in every month.
Eucaline is praised as a great winner while Mr. and Mrs. Ed Thulemeyer paid Freyburg a visit last Sunday. The Gazette endorses a 20 cent special school tax and favors education in every vote. Local ads promote baths, slippers, muslin under wear, mowing machines, and mention Richard Strauss returning from St Louis College at San Antonio.
At the Woodmen regular meeting Yoakum Camp members O Olsen A Jones and Olen spoke. Olsen praised Woodcraft and led as former Yoakura Camp commander. Corpus Christi feast drew large Catholic turnout in Shiner with Rev Hudecek. Also notices of lost glasses rewards and local business ads appear along with county capital visits by local men.
A notice from H. Faro Sr. states that the business purchased from Flato & Son will continue at the same location under new ownership. The firm invites continued patronage and public support for the lumber business in the community.
The Ladies' Cemetery Association will meet at the Opera House next Friday evening at 3 o clock for the regular annual election of officers. The meeting also marks the third anniversary of the society with a complimentary tea. Friends of the society are invited to attend.
W. M. Atkinson, candidate for district attorney from Gonzales County, traveled through the city last Thursday en route to Wilson County for primaries. He reportedly carried every box in Guadalupe County during the primaries. Our Five and Ten Cent counters offer valuable articles after seeing good values. S. A. CaRNeEs a Co.
Mr E A Froelich opens a new racket shop beside Koepke's barber shop offering bargains in farm tools. The advertisement praises Genuine Buckeye power and all steel rakes as durable for twenty years with care. Escnenser G B LouM sells them. Charley Herder returned from San Antonio after attending a business college and left a dollar for a year’s Gazette subscription.
A new and stylish Crockery and Glassware line is now on offer from Cannas & Co. The advertisement claims superior quality and unbeatable prices, inviting customer attention.
Local items note visits and moves including Mrs M L Bidson and Mise Mamie returning from Beeville and Theo Schuhmann and Mrs W O Mewes traveling to Austin. Several residents move or subscribe to The Gazette as 18 votes are cast on a school corporation measure and crop conditions show good progress.
Henry Dreyer Sr of Sharlottenburg returns from Wharton where he testified that so called land sharks tried to deprive his late brother's children of their inheritance but their schemes failed according to the Haletteville New Era.
Advertisement urges buyers to choose Simmons Liver Purifier in a tin box as the genuine original product, warning that many imitations exist and stressing the purifier is manufactured by A C Simmons Jr Medicine Co.
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