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Newspaper
Shiner Gazette
Location
Shiner, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1902
Page
5
In effect August 18, 1901. Lockhart Branch trains 45 from Lockhart at 12 59 PM and 46 from Yoakum at 3 10 PM. Waco Branch trains 42 from Waco at 1 05 PM and 44 from Yoakum to Waco. Train 41 from Yoakum at 3 03 PM and 43 from Shiner at 10 04 PM.
Covey directory lists mayor treasurer secretary and aldermen including Robt Eschenburg Earl Fry Ed Wolters Aug Schramm and B Welhausen. City Council meets on the first Monday of each month.
J F Wolters announced appointments of chairmen for each hater county in the district for the coming years. Gus A Heilig of LaGrange named secretary with Albert P Hinton of Columbus and Lad V Vannk of LaGrange as assistant secretaries of the executive committee.
A large crowd of boys and negroes searched the burned grocery and millinery stores on Friday morning. B. P. Stephenson’s safe, in the building occupied by C. C. Henderson, was opened by Stephenson and its contents found intact. The safe held valuable papers belonging to Stephenson, initially feared ruined by the blaze.
Frank Hodonek foreman at the Flatonia pie mill suffered serious damage to two fingers of his right hand when splashed by liquid in a cake press yesterday around five in the evening.
A Mexico dispatch discusses public and private schools in Chihuahua led by Don Alberto Vicarte. Salaries for district directors and teachers are listed, with pupil discipline banned by European norms. The letter, from Emilio Juergens, also notes two Bay City printing offices running day and night and the Eagle Lake Rice Company’s incorporation with a $300000 capital.
F C Culpepper of Old Sweet Home, in his 90s, has been ill for weeks but shows signs of improvement. A Shiner party including Joseph J Kutach and the Strauss brothers visited town for land business. Judge D A Paulus reportedly hosts a chicken house with eight turkeys, though a turkey invasion occurred last week while the judge keeps the house.
The county court jurors for the term beginning Monday September 1 are Ed Timm Aug Tesch H Hollmann M N Richardson W H Drill Chas Schroeder Aug Kuhn Jr Joe Hoffer C L Buethel Fr Matula W P Bullard A Kilause C Hildebran H Vallentine D Obhold Wm Martin Ad Hohertz Ad Pechachek Vallentine Galli Alfred Baessler KF C Kasse P Kohlich J J Jones Jr W M Robbins.
The passage contains assorted editorial jottings and a publisher’s subscription offerings for the Gazette at Shiner Texas. It quotes Roosevelt as a warlike figure, mentions racial and political references, and lists various magazines with prices and addresses for subscription.
State Revenue Agent Cunningham warns tax collectors and attorneys to pay occupation tax under Article 8015 Rev Civ Stat 1895 and to report nonpaying attorneys to the county attorney or district attorney, with lists of names and amounts due forwarded to the attorney general for action. Similar orders issued to all tax collectors statewide.
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