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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1923
Page
6
The Columbian Mutual Life Assurance Society of Memphis plans a new tower, the Memphis Skyscraper, set to appear completed in June 1924. Construction began in April of the same year and the building is owned by the society.
Exclusive photograph shows the standard types of headstones to mark graves of soldiers who fell overseas in World War I. One stone, suitably inscribed, designates each fallen serviceman's resting place on foreign soil.
In Austin, the Texas Senate finalized two appropriation measures, departmental emergency and miscellaneous claims, trimming the emergency bill by 8,000 and boosting the miscellaneous claims total to 829,700. The capstone vote stood 16 to 7 for a 327,000 departmental package, with cuts and amendments debated as lawmakers eyes potential further reductions.
The Fur Merchants Sales Company auction in St Louis opened Monday and closed Friday with sales totaling $2.2 million. Kolinsky rose 5 percent from last October while Siberian pelts advanced 50 percent, raccoon 10 percent, and welf 15 percent. Fitch price declined about 25 percent and monkeys 15 percent.
Estherwood and Jefferson Davis Parish lead with substantial planting as favorable weather drives rice seeding. About 75 percent of acreage is planted in Estherwood area, 60 percent in Jefferson Davis Parish, while the southwest shows roughly a 30 percent reduction from 1922 totals. Some large growers have cut acreage by about half.
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