Semi-Weekly New Era (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 59, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 8, 1918 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXIX.
HALLETTSV ILLS, TEXAE,
OCTOBER 8, 1918.
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NUMBER FIFTY-NINE.
MBS. MAE HODGE.
MRS. MARY DROST DEAD.
It ..was with Badness that the
many friend# here of Mrs. Mae
Hodge learned of her death last
Saturday. She has dear friends
and relatives in all parts of La-
vaca’ county; was born at Hack-
berry, this county 42 year* ago.
She was a daughter of Mr. .and
Mrs. Dave Hughes, both deceas-
ed, who were prominent citizens
of our county, for many years
living in Ilallettsville.
1 The deceased was married here
•to Robert. Hodge, 21 years ago
and with her husband lived in our
city for 10 years; then moved
to Huy (hty, also living at Gana-
. do, El Campo and Houston, mak
ing friends wherever they went
For the past 14 months Mr.
Hodge ami family have been
traveling About with the -hope
• of benefiting Mrs. Hodge’s de- j
elining health, but she grew
steadily worse until Saturday,
• Octr. 5, at SLSO a. m., when she
was relieved-of all pain.
Mrs. Mae Hodge died at the
family home in Houston, 1417
:San Jacinto r&t., after suffering
’ for ISmonths with a complcation
• of female dieeeases and dropsy.
The body was sent to Ilalletts-
ville, arriving there on the 10:510
train, Saturday night, and held
here pending the arrival of re-
latives from a (distance, the fu-
neral occurring in the City come-
• 4ery Spnday afternoon at>.2:.'30 promised ^i#
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the Baptist church conducting
the services. A large number
of relatives and fitiends were in
attendance.
Besides her grief-stricken hus-
band the deceased lady leaves bo
mouni her death four children;
Mrs. 'Maude Long of Victoria;
Ida Mae, Annie Mae and Bobbie
'Hodge. Also four brothers: Sam
MRS ALFRED ETZLER DEA1
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sadds
ADJUDGED INSANE.
Mrs. h^ary Drost, aged 32 Our people were
ycuma 2 months and 7 days, died Saturday morning when new# ofl
Saturday morning at themfamily the death of Mrs. Alfred WmBI
home in this city. fjf was received here from SfaiifrM
Trior to her marriage to Jos. She had undergone au operation!
W. Drost, in 1905, the deceased for gfll atones at the Sin I
was Misg Mary'Klevar, a daugh- Hospital, where she was recent-1
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Adam Kle- Jy taken, and though every efy j
var of Mossy Grove, she being fort was put forth to save her jj
born in that community. life, she passed away Friday T
Sad to say, both the deceased night. The body was preparlffl
mother and infant died in the for burial and brought to tMl
ordeal of child-birth and both home of her ,fatherdu-law, Mr. V
now rest in the Cathole cemetery Et/.lor, from which place the fun-
where they were buried Sunday eral occurred Monday morning 1
afternoon at 4 o’clock. at 10 Mock. Intermit wf
Besides the sorrowing husband held m the ( “tholie eeineie^i
and her aged parents, Mrs. Drost Revs. Mathis and Tolkuda o|.
is survived by six children, the Yoakum conducting the services,
oldest being 11 years and the Many and beautiful were tluU
youngest two years; and a large floral offerings, the mound bein„f
circle of other relatives and entirely hid beneath them. j
- - dg | Besides a sorrowing husband^
“ Hereby ».end „.,.t ^
iF’erdinand .lalufku, a young
from the Witting section
n#as adjudged insane yesterday
lorning. Young Jalufka was
ifted into the army from this
pinty but discharged on ao j
punt of insanity. He was then
laced in the Moody Sanitarium
San Antonio where he was]
Bj»pt until two weeks ago. He1
■kill be taken to the Asylum asi
Hou ns room can lie secured for
lim.
I MARRIAGE LICENSES.
John Marek and Mary Pudieh.
, Henry llueblefeld and Amelia
lozisek.
lenee we may to the bereaved.
children, the oldest four years 1
_ of age and the youngest only k j,
few months, also a father and ,j
Willard b. Russell, son of Mr. mother, they being Mr. and Mrs/j
and Mrs. II. H. Russell, who has Chas Christ, a brother, Henry?!
been in Washington, D. C., the ^nd three gisters, Misses Amelia,
past six months doing clerical Ann;e an(j Agnes Christ. A large
work for the war department, 0f friends will join in ex^>
came in Thursday night to Till lending heartfelt sympathy at 1
out bis questionnaire and will re- 1h(, untjineiy end of such a goejlf
main until called into the service ,and noble woman.
as he made no claim for exemp-(--—»■—
[tiou. He is also awaiting an ap-
pointment to the West Point Mi-
litary Academy, which has been
by Congressman
^ Otto Zappe returned Friday
om Galveston where Mrs. Zap-
ie was operated on at 10 o’clock
’onday morning in the John
9aly hospital for stomach trou-
ble. She is doing nicely at last
'ports and will remain in the
ispital about two weeks longer.
Jr. Zappe visited at Fort Crock-
,t and says all the Lavaca Co.
s whom he spoke to are well
ified and getting along O. K.
;w Otto Brogger, also Mrs.
and child who are there
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Why No Ride in a Real
Automobile ?
SOME LAND D1
H. Wachtc
„w-r*—T-Wn «•, a; racaaOj urdl
from
of $19,^f9|
of 196 acres
You get your money’s worth out of a Mitchell Car;
easy riding, economical, durable and most powerful car for
the money. Let us demostrate one for you.
NOLEN & SOBOTIK, Agents
HALLETTSVILLE TEXAS.
JUST WATCH US GROW.
New subscribers have been
added to t\c New Era list since
Willie l’rilop, Theo last report \s follows:
H. Brady, Ed Kresta jue j,’ubn
(Othold. He says there | £
of Spanish influ-j Alisa- Ar
lettsviile.
Miss
.1, • liobstowu.
R1 Nordheim.
ft a Moore, ill llal-
Neely, Sehu-
OUR COUNTY OVER QUOTA.
The Red Cross Chapter last
Saturday forwarded by freight
3482 pounds of worn clothing to
Newark, N. J., from where it
will be sent to help in the relief
of the suffering people of Bel-
gium and France. This clothing
was donated by the good people
occurs'from this district. “Ren ’ IVJ
as we know him is a deserving tke old
young man and will make good ^
wherever he goes. He says that ^or *
all able-bodied men in the gov- «ons«t
ernmerit clerical department, in for about $98 per acre,
the military ages, will be placed <*«*tan moved to New Bmlato
in n«Ss No. 1 and their places Mr. Waehtendorf sold hrs 120 F
filled by ladies or men physical- acre farm near Stacy school
ly disabled, as fast as they are "here he formerly lived, the pur-j ^ ^ Lorfing, brother of
Or military arrvire. irLrS
Thirty, at
parents, Mr. and
Long. Those who
fortunate as to enjoy
Tong’s hospitality were;
les Louise Bowker, Patricia
;sc,h, Georgia Young, Mary
[•Cutchan and Johnnie Ponton.
•es of east Texas; Chas. Hughes
of Haekberry; Ed Hughes, of
Goose Creek, and two sisters
Mrs. Annie Shoemaker of near
Sublime and Mrs. Mattie YVish-
ert, of Fisher county.
The New Era extends heart-
felt sympathy to the bereaved re-
latives.
Joe Strauss, a member of the
military police, at Camp Gordon,
Ga., came in Friday and spent
until yesterday morning here
with relatives. He was on his
way back .to Camp Gordon from
San Antonio, having delivered a
deserter from the army over to
the officers at Fort Sam Hous-
ton . Joe has been in the service
for over a year now and is look-
ing fine. Tie says the M. P. a
are sure making it hot for the
“bootleggers" everywhere.
Mrs. Mary Urbis of East Ber-
nard, arrived Sunday to attend
the funeral of her sister-in-law,
Mrs. Joe Drost.
paid .$75 per acre or a total of
Louis Klevar and wife were $9000.
here to attend the funeral of____
Mr. ‘KlcTar’s step-sister, Mrs.
week for Dubuque, Iowa, to at-
tend the Lutheran Seminary for
another term, and will take a
special course in the English
----- ———— - - . The Shiloh Beef Club close I
Joe Drost, which occurred Sun for tj,e season last Saturday language lie spent five weeks
day. Mr. Klevar and family the| i,ome 0f Henry Lorfing. L the county visiting relatives,
moved to Rosenberg last year })ul-ing the past six months they , ,
from the Mossy Grove neighbor- i>tltciierej 24 head of cattle, to- Mr- an(l Mrs- Frank
hood. lie says he is very well tailing 5326 pounds and sold the and 8011 Gustav, .uul otto hi
satisfied with his move as he mcat at 8 cents a pound. All >M*egcr returned last weoa
made 30 bales of cotton from member, were sati8fie(1 with thejfrom. Nada where they vis.ted| .Mrs G H Handy Jr., Hunting
- • - ‘ -elatives. buriz. In<l.
Fritz Sokol, * France.
John Mekyna, R5 Schuleuburg.
Miss Ida Gallia, Sweet Home.
Mary Thomas, R6 Ilallettsville
Carl Eissler, Yoakum.
Miss Lizzie Jirkovsky, Shiner.
Ed Roberts, Provident City.
Alf L Schmidt, France.
O C Smith, R5 Ilallettsville.
Mrs. Maggie Bishop, Besemer,
Ark.
Louis Wick, U4 ilallettsville.
Alphonse J Olsovsky, France.
Miss Mary Kulcak, R1 Moulton
J O Fjtch, R4 Ilallettsville.
F A femolik, R4 Yoakum.
•Jos V Rippel, R3 Shiner.
W M Knox, K5 Ilallettsville.
Miss 11 Moch, R4 Ilallettsville.
Joe Telich, France.
60 acres of Jand. outcome.
The Galveston News of yes- Hugh Gay and family spent
terday reports that Bonnie T. several days on the Clayton
Summers of Ilallettsville was ranch in Jnekson county, return-
killed on the battle front. The jn<, Sunday night. Frank Grafe
Houston Post gives the address carried the mail on route No. 5
as Ilallsville. The latter is evi- during Mr. Lay’s absence,
dently correct as -Bonnie T.,---------- ■— ---------:— ------
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Notice!
Summers is not from TTalletts-
ville.
The Local Hoard will issue a
call for 18 negroes from Lavaca
county beginning Oct. 16 and (
ending Oet. 18, they to be taken qjjj- CASH pHCCS
n * before selling’your
CHARLES FERTSOH
PAUL H. FERTSCH
LAWYERS
NOTARY PUBLIC
12 Legal business, Abstracts anti
iollections promptly attended to
I
Be sure
Arthur August of Camp Travis
was a visitor here Sunday.
Peoples abstract
1 COMPANY
i Ferd Lacy, Mgr.
tO get I Office in Court House.
| All abstract work given prompt
.ttention
I
burg, Ind
E L Miller, R7 Ilallettsville.
Joe Thornton; R6 Ilallettsville.
Jos Orsak, El Mdulton.
Louis Sobotik, Rockport.
Otto Christen, R1 Weimar.
Jewel T Russell, France.
Eugene Coffey, Camp Travis.
Miss Nannie Jo Lay, Provident
City.
Porter Garner, Camp Stanley.
Richard Conway, Camp Travis
was fixed at 2000 pounds, so our
county easily went over the top.
LAND x BARGAINS!
FOR SALE by C. C. TRIBBLE, Owner, YOAKUM, TEX.
480 acres on Chicoletc Creek, everlasting water,
$12.00 per acre.
1042 acres near Hope, house, well, windmill, 50 acres
in cultivation, near school, $15.00 per acre.
160 acres, 2 good houses, wells, windmill; 100 acres
in cultivation. School in front of gate, at $35 per acre.
3000 acres on Lavaca River, will sell 160 acres pr
more to suit purchasers.
160 acres red meSqtiite land; 160 acres red mesquite
land; 400 acres red mesquite land;472 acres red mesquite
land; 640 acres red mesquite land.—This land will trade
fof land in DeWitt or Lavaca Co., $35.00 per acre Cash.
Long time nntes five per cent . * * • '
155 acres near Dreyerj 2 sets improvements $90 acre.
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Eggs and Poultry.for. N. C. Boethel
Physician
CASH PRICES:
Eggs per doz 40c
Turkeys per lb 20c
Hens, per lb . 18
Spring chick-
ens, pound
You can buy fresh bulk stock
beet _ and rape seed at Gold’s
Grocery.
Robert Hodge and children re-
turned to Bellaire, near Houston
Monday after being here on the
sad mission of attending the fu-
neral of their wife and mother,
Mrs. Mae Hodge.
Mrs. W. R. King of San An-
tonio, spent last week here the
guest of her sister, Mrs. J. F.
Hotichins. .
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Darnell
of Yoaktim, visited here Friday
while on their return from Hous-
ton where they visited relatives.
Louis Sobotik of Breslau, last
week began work in the ship-
yards at Rockport,.
Willie Schindler is working in
the auto department at If. J.
II eye’s. *
Mrs. R. S. Laey and baby of
j Beaumont, arrived Friday and
are the guests of Me. and Mrs.
Ferd Lacy.
Mrs. Hugh Anderson and ba-
by of Yorktown, came in Friday
to visit relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Neu-
haus have returned to Houston
after a visit here with relatives.
Nolen Prodm
Office at City Drug Store.
Phone No. 3.
Hallettsville, Texas.
sidenee in old Engelking place
(fill attend to calls day or night.
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Lester Holt
LA WYER
[ OFFICE IN STRUNK BLDO.
Rooms formerly oocnpied by
R. B. Allan.
WHEN YOU
ARE DOWN IN THE MOUTH
REMEMBER
TO BRING US YOUR
BUTTER FAT, 49 cents.
WOKE LIKE
Helen B. Happy
*. AND BUY YOUR ICE CREAM FROM
HALLETTSVILLE CREAMERY
tfroHitto. nr
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Meitzen, E. R. & Meitzen, A. C. Semi-Weekly New Era (Hallettsville, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 59, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 8, 1918, newspaper, October 8, 1918; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037029/m1/1/: accessed April 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friench Simpson Memorial Library.