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Semi-Weekly New Era
VOLUME XXV.
HALLETTSVILLE, TEXAS,
NUMBER TWENTY-EIGHT
liESER VOIR A U<7FPTED.
At 10 o’clock Sunday morning,
before a large gathering including
the mayor and all the city officials,
the water was formally turned in-
to thg new reservoir for the first
time. The work has been In oper-
ation since February 28, and costs
$1450. The contractors were W. ft.
Connelly and C. W. Finnev of
Yoakum Mr. J. J. Connelly, rath-
PROF. WILLIAMS SELECTED.\ SENATORIAL CANDIDATE
-- I NOMINATED.
At a meeting of the school board
Friday, Prof. B. K. Williams, of
Yoakum, was unanimously elected
superintendent of the Hallettsville
Independent School District in
place of Prof. K. A.’ Jones, who has
Accepted the spperintendency at
Sulphur Springs.
The new superintendent comes
very well recommended, having
erofthe senior member of "the four terms principal of t».e
nn, superintended the work and ' oakum High School m which ca-
fe. tmght
A npletion
it to a most successful
'he cement was supplied by the
1 ^ 'ettsville Dumber Company
pa city he
utation as an efficient instructor,
lie has also been instructor of
summer normals and will
a\% the tin work, such as ventilat- again be one of the Normal facul-
or^ ic by our local contractor, M. ty at Cuero this year. He is aged
F * u Five railway cars of sand about 35, was born and reared In
\nd 2-avel were used and two cars DeWitt county in the Terryville
of (•< ^Vnt ‘ community, and has a family, his
° Th %>\A teservoir was of stone' wife being formerly a Miss Gep-
with v hnk covering; the new one hart, of Hope, Lavaca county, so
is reinforced concrete all through. he is not-a stranger to this section.
with a sanitary coveflng of screens j ---
and ventilators that will prevent j Contractor A. V. C. Moore and
all foreign matter from entering > forPe th is week completed the work
th*- water. The plahk has ! f putting the concrete floor,
been scrap-heaped'and everything including} auto pit, drainage rack
is now, of the most up-to-date, san-1 an(j doorway approach for the big
itary character. TJje old reservoir i novv garage building erected by IT.
bad a four-inch concrete ring and Haverlah. and to be rented to J.
it was raised three feet three inch-; p Houchins, who will on or about
es with heavily re-enforced con ^ 16th of -Wine open up therein
Socialists of the Eighteenth Sen-
atorial district met in convention
here Saturday, and nominated E.
R. Meitzen, editor of the New
Era, for senator from this district,
as a candidate in the special elec-
tion to l*e held oil July 19, to select
a successor to ex-Senator D. A.
\Paulus, resigned. Mr. Meitzen
had previously been nominated by
mail referendum, being the un-
lias won statewide rep i animous choice of the party mem-
bership.
The following resolutions also
Crete., Its capacity of 30,000 gal- what hi* sajTs will he the most mod
Ions was raised to 38.000, while prn and complete garage between
thp hew reservcdr adds 38,850 gal Houston and San Antonio, inclus-
ions extra. ing lathes, drills, gasoline engine.
This makes an increase of about There will be on sale gasoline,
40.000 extra gallons and with 80.-, an(J all accessories for auto
000 gallons in the standpipe the ei- owners, also an apparatus for fur-
tv of TTallettsville will have^a wat rushing free “air” to all comers,
er storage of 160.000 gallons NN. A. Harris, an expert mechanic.
As well as this there is a late of Cuero. will be in charge. He
24 hours. As well^gs this there is a and bis wife arrived hero this
new siphon system from the hot* week, stopping at the City Hotel,
tom of the new reservoir to the hot- Miknlrnkn. at present
tom of the oW that keeps the water, Bartlett, and
fravpinu? motion mo pro- ' _ n , ,
\.rr(s statniation [tuu t« ..»• pelntftfl hv Collector 8. Ii. Ben-;making it more ami mu
to pure drmk.ng wa er T ,,. rtand J p collector In place .....- ~r
„,pe wall he cleaned seonred and.^ Mr resiKnpd. and
previously adopted by mail refer-
endum) were unanimously ad-
opted ;
We, the Socialists of the Eigl^t
eenth Senatorial District, make the
following declaration of principles
and our nominee for Senator Is in-
structed to make his campaign,
aud if elected, take his tand in fav-
or o fthe issues set forth herein:
LAND RESOLUTION
Whereat the Good Book deelar-
cu uiat the (Jok* . 0 Join!nine +,>
man over all the earth and that the
TWO NEW ROUTES.
Postmaster D A. Paulus, has
been busy working for the estab-
lishment of two more rural routes
out of this city — Nos. 7. and 8. He
has just received a letter from Con-
gressman Burgess in which the lat-
ter promises to exert himRelf in lie-
half of the routes.
The proposed route No. 7 is to
extend to the Vienna’s seetion
while No. 8 is to take in the Rabb
farm and Sublime vicinage. The
postmaster hopes to have the routes
in operation by the fall months.
The examination of rural car-
riers which takes place here next
Saturday, while for the main pur-
pose of Rejecting a carrier for the
vacancy in Rohte 6, will also no
doubt put two applicants on the1
“eligible” list who in the order of
their average are in line to take'
charge of the two new routes if,
(hey are established within a year's 1
time. I
COUNTY COURT.
The jury for the third week was
discharged yesterday morning,
there being no further jury civil
or criminal cases.
Criminal leases.
Joseph Konarik, aggravated as-
sault ; jury asseses his fine at $25.
Tom O’Rrinn, carrying pistol;
pleads guilty and court assesses his
fine at $100
NEW READERS.
Joe Malinak, charged with aR-1
sault with intent to murder, grow-!
ing out of the cutting o* Dick
Timm which occured in front of
New subscribers to the Semi-
Weekly New Era are as follows;
B. F. Johnson, Ezzell.
Miss Lillian Friedrich, R 6, HalJ
lettsville.
H. McCrumb, Vienna.
Paul Appelt, R. 3, Hallettsville.
Miss Agnes Machac, Rosenberg.
Mrs. M. J. Nolen, Alice.
Jim Cervenka, Sweet Home.
Joe Morris, Sweet Home.
J. V. Harvey, Hallettsville.
Fred See, Shiner.
A. ft. Meyer, Yoakum.
land should not be sold forever Kalin’s Drug store Thursday af
Hud ternoon, gave bond late that cven-
Whereas these laws have been jng jn f}1(1 sum 0f $750 with John
violated aud the vast masses of the Dornak, E. Bonorden and E.
common people are suffering ae- Fertseh as sureties. Timm was able
eordingly as witness the enormous to out agajn Sunday and will be
increase of land tenantry in Tex- ] right in a few days,
as, that has now reached such pro- Carl Dufner, son of Mr. and
portions that one quarter of a mil- ivirs. Joe Dufner, of near town,
lion land renters are without who recently secured his certificate
homes and only 27,000,000 acres as M. D. at thg Tnlane university
of the vast state of l’exa^ is cultiv jj-j New Orleans arrived home Fri-
ated according to the Utiited day. He will leave in a few weeks
States census and the Texas Wei- for Shreveport where be will for
la re Commission, while there are a year or more he employed in the
over 100,000,000 acres of fine till' charity hospital, thus' getting
able land held out of cultivation pratioal knowledge of his
by alien and other land monopo- professior before banging out bis
lists thus increasing tenantry, mak- “shingle.” *
e h
Miss Mary Burkett, of San An
tonio, visited her brother John Bur
kett here last week.
painted in the next few weeks„and
thus we shall have the most sanit-
ary water supply of any city re-
gardless c*f K17P in the South
Of course it must be understood
that the fact of this increased stor
age capacity means only that
there will be jjhough water held in
reserve in ease of emergencies
such as fires, adding greatly to
the fire protection of the town,
and making it easier to keep the
standpipe full of water. It does not
mean that the water supply will
be greater than before as the flow
of the city’s three wells remains
the same, i. e. a daily total of 103,-
824 gallons. As the average amount
of water consumed by the water
users of the city each day amounts
to 90,000 gallons this does not
leave any very big margin, by th*:
time the dry seasons sets in with
its^ added consumption, for inst-
ance in the case of the gins here
which use together about 8000 gal-
lons per day. Last year during the
exceptional dry weather for about
ten days the consumption nearly
exceeded the supply and had it not
lieen for stopping various big leak-
ages there would have been a fam-
ine. Which would mean that water
begin work as such on the first of
August. Mr. Mikuelenka was for
a number of years both deputy
tax assessor and collc^to** of Fay-
ette county, was also at one time a
candidate for tax collector there,
being defeated bv a close margin
and is a most able and experienced
young man, who speaks three lan-
guages. He has a wife and one
child, and will move here with bis
family during the next month.
The Moravia school which al-
ready has the reputation of being
tin; largest rural school in the
county, will soon be in the rural
high school class, that ft to say
if the local tax election soon to be
held carries. Prof. F. Schoppe,
the principal, thinks that there is
no doubt win recognition in bis
it does tbe present special tax of 5
cents will be increased to 10 cents.
Chas. Kuratko, for some time of
the clerical force at Frank Shinr
ekV stores'll as accepted a position
as clerk at the First National Bank,
beginning June 15. Mr. Kuratko
is a bright and active young man,
speaking two languages, who will
no doubt win recognition in his
almost prohibitive
for a man of average means to
buy a home, thus blocking pro-
gress, destroying homes, paralyz ~ ...... ~ ~
ing industry and all to the end ‘"’ZP* <luest.on, and
that a few covetous land owners , ' /,cr,<!“ thc Commissioner of
l.....nhielied huvond the wildest InternaI Efvc"“ £1“
dreams of avarice more and more. j* “ m0"th8,“f 19,2 that 4 '“V
And whereas this deplorable 1)00 l"*™1" «f l*er wereconsumed,
condition calls for immediate re- an "',Tons<! of '.800,000 barrels
nmdies by all patriotic citizens of ov" the previous year, and
our state, therefore be it Whereas other ratoucating
Resolved that we, the Socialists
of thc Eighteenth Senatorial dis
trict pledge ourselves to use at
honorable means to secure an am-
endment to the state constitution
that will tax all land, held out of
cultivation or for speculative pur-
oses in lange'bodies to the limit or
to its full rental value.
And be it further resolved that
we instruct our nominee for
ator in this district, E. R. Meitzen,
H R CLINK SCALES DIED.
H. R. Clinkscales, one of the
prominent farmers of the Golden
rod section, died at Houston, of ap-
pendicitis, the early part of tho
week. He was taken to that city
lqgt Friday to undergo an opera-
tion, but at the time of his going
was very weak and we did not learn
whether he underwent thc opera-
tion or not. Mr. Clinkscales was
well known throughout this section
of country. He had resided up on
the Goldenrod prairie for many
years and was a man of consider
able means. He leaves to mojirn his
death a wife and five children. The
body was brought back to Louibe
and carried out to the family home
from which the funeral apd inter-
ment took place.— Ganado News.
MORE AND BETTER BREAD.
users must not run away with the new POH'l|on
idea that there is plenty of water
and to spare. Engineer Buchanan
and thc city fathers have been
wrestling with this problem con-
siderably, with the result that in
the not distant future there will
G. F. Korges, a substantial citi-
zen of the Witting community, was
here yesterday. He states that be
and his family expect to move to
the old Blakesless residence in West
End which Mr. Korges bought
drinks have increased in propor-
tion, thus proving that prohibition
doFs not prohibit and
Whereas the antis with thpir
“regulation” have never shown
fliat they can minimize the evils of
. the liquor traffic, and
Whereas the tap root of all the
i drink question lies in the profit
that is made in the manufacture
sen- an(^ 8a^e 8ame> therefore be it
Resolved that we strain every
to do allTn his\Yov*'er"to'"have"such ' nerve to solve the problem by lay-
an amendment to our constitution 1Tlf? *!° to J.00t ^ ^ ^*1*
adopted and we further pledge our- j * .la* ''' in * profits that are de-
selves to wage an unceasing fight n^e< ^om ,lt8 manufacture and
upon all enemies of human pro., sale, and 1^ it furthpr
gress that will block the pathway j Resolved that we pledge our-
of such an amendment either by | sl* v<:8 ,0 a la nnr P°'ver to take
working against it or refusing to j 13-cent profit out, of a 15 cent
suDDort it drink and thus reduce liquor con-
: sumption to a minimum.
WON AN’s SUFFRAGE:
Whereas we hail with satisfac-' poll tax
turn the fact that womanhood Where as., the ballot should be as
has received the ballot in eleven fl,r
states in the United States and we
are delighted to know that in ev
Don’t worry about - the hot
weather as I have just received a
carload of the finest flour that
ever leached Hallettsville, which
enables me to sell you the bread
so good and cheap that it will not
pay you to do your own baking.
Give me a trial
4tJ6F Chas. Eissler.
The Baker.
MRS. WILH ELM IN E HILLJE
in the death of “Grandma’!
llilije at LaGrunge Sunday after-
noon at th** residence of her
daughter, Mrs. Rudolph Klatt, at
the ripe age of 82, this seetion lost
one of the oldest and most honored
ladies. Mrs. Hillje lived in this city
for many years, but about five
years ago moved to LaGrange to
I make her home with her daughter.
The body was prepared for burial
and the following day brought
to the home of CTlias Herder and
wife of this city, for interment in
the family lot at the Odd Fellows’
cemetery at 4 o’clock that after-
noon. Rev. Paul Piepenbrock, pas-
tor of the Lutheran church, per
formed the burial service, which
was performed partly at Mr. Her-
der’s residence and the remainder
at the grave. Dm* to old age, Mrs.
Hillje had been in ill health for
Some time, but the end was not ex
pected so soon. She was a grand,
good woman, one to whom this sec-
tion owes much. Coming here at an
early age, her sweet, pure life left
its impress upon not only her child-
ren but all those with whom she
came in contact. Quiet, unassum-
ing, of lovable disposition, she won
the hearts of all those around her,
and there are many, in this section
who mourn thc death of this belov
ed, good woman. She leaves three
daughters and three sons, as fol-
lows: Mrs. Gus. Seydler, of El
Campo, Mrs. Rudolf Flatt,, of La
Grange, Mrs. Anna Reissner, of
this city, Louis nillje, of Han An
tonio, Ferd. Hillje, of Ilalletts-
villc, and Win. Hillje, of this city,
besides a large circle of grand
children, relatives and friends.
Mrs, Wilhelmine nillje was born
in Pritzwalk, Provinz Branden-
burg, Germany, Oct. 28, 183ft and
came to f Texas in 1850. She wns
married to Mr. John Fred. Hillje
Fvelsbnru In 18-K*3 -ml three
yeare later they moved to High
ITiTI and 1892 they came to Wei-
mar where . her husband died in
1893. Our heartfelt sympathy goes
out to the bereaved ones in the loss
they have sustained.— Weimar
Mercury.
free as the air.
Whereas the poll tax laws have
I a tendency to curb the ballot mere-
ery civilized land and clime our j 0,1 the basis ofjiroperty and thus
sisters are making a successful!
either be meters put in to put - a some weeks i\go from A. Meyer-
stop to the leakage and waste hoff.
that is going on in the premises of
many consumers, or arrangements
will have to he th pump* an old
Mr. Frank Popish and family, of
Yoakum, came in yeRt.erday for a
will have to be to pump-an old '■’“‘p*.
well thc water of which does not visit with relatives
rise to the surface. Perhaps both
reforms will haVe to be made and
within the next twelve months, as
both would be wise.
IVfayor Tippett and Aldermen
Young, Buss, Moreland, Samusch,
and Kahanek were all delighted
restrict human freedom and
Whereas the poll tax in-opera-
tion in the State of TexaR has
worked so well to this end that on
an average only one ballot is cast
enhe the reactionary Bourbon, who i t° every 17 1 2 people or six bal-
would seek to keen our nolile wo-1 Pe°ple- therefore be it
fight for the inalienable right to
full and unrestricted suffrage,
and
Whereas we view with iinpati-
brought out that according to the
verdict of many traveling men and
others, Hallettsville is the best
lighted and watered city of its size
in Texas. Also that the water and
light plant is in a better shape now
with the work of Mr. Connelly and than it has ever been. Among oth-
his assistants, the mayor making a
short speech to him for his skill
and ability in the task and Aider-
man Buss stated that the work was
er late improvements there is a
large now lioiler with a capacity of
nearly twice the size of the Old one,
with two old boilers in reserve. Of
throughly satisfactory and up-to- course, our progressive city fath-
datg and done4 at a remarkably eirs and city engineer are not satis-
low cost, in which view all others
concurred.
A luncheon was then served
with refreshments in which all
fied by any means. Thoy are con-
tinually planning and at work ad-
ding to the usefulness of the plant,
in which they have had eapecial
toaWhi participated gnd a general success during the past year or
Aieeuleion ensued in which it wee
two.
would seek to keep our noble
manhood on thc same political
plane as the convict, the idiot, the
Indian, the Chinaman, and the
pauper, and
Whereas all scientists agree and
all human experience proves that
our women are braver than men,
brainier than the men and infinite
ly purer in all the relations of life;
and
Whereas if women had the ballot
for a hundred years they could not
have done worse than have the
men, therefore be it
Resolved that we favor an am-
endment to our state constitution
that will giw to women full and
unrestricted suffrage.
mo*ANTI RESOLUTION
Whereas for several years our
state has been rent with discord
Resolved that we unequivocally
denounce the present poll tax pro-
vision in the Terrell Election Law
and demand its repeal at the ear
best possible moment.
• • •
Following his nomination, Me
Meitzen stated that not for the
purpose of personal success but
simply and Bolely because he
wanted to see the great and vital
issues set forth in thc fofegoing re-
solutions put before the people he
would make as strong a campaign
as his limited time would allow.
He stated further that his only op-
ponent, Dr. T. E. Clark, of Schn-
lenbnrg, would be invited to divide
time with him in joint debates on
tho Neds of 1«*nd suffrage, and oth
er issues mentioned in, the above
resolutions.
Commissioners Court adjourned
Saturday after citing some 250 tax-
payers who had, so the court finds,
given in their property to the as
sessor at far too low a figure. The
court meets again to finally *pass
on this matter on June 22, all of
said property owners being cited
to appear then The commission-
ers, we understand, may devise
some method or rule whereby in
the future most of this work of
adjusting too low assessments be
done before it comes into the
hands of the commissioners. They
think they should not be the only
“goat” of taxpayers whose asses-
ments are thus increased.
Among those at the fun-
eral of “Grandma” Hillje Mon
day afternoon were Rudolf Klatt
and family, of La Grange, Fred
Hillje and wife, Louis Hillje, wife
and son, E. E. Hillje, of San Anto-
nio, Ferd. Hillje and family, Ar-
thur Klatt and wife, of HaHetts-
villle, Gus. Seydler and family, of
El Campo, Mrs. Aug. Herder, of
Schulenburg, Mrs. Luedtke, Gus.
Eschenburg, wife and daughter, of
Shiner, Mrs. J. F. Howard, of San
Antonio, MYs. Cornelson, of Schi^
lenburg.—: Weimar Mercury.
Quite a serious mishap befell Mr.
nenrv Dreyer ."Sr. last Monday
while inspecting thP work of a pile
driver at the bridge over Boggy
Creek. He had his hand on the top
of a cedar post, when the rope hold-
ing the weight gave way and drop-
ped on his hand, mashing all of the
fingers of his right hand. Mr.
Dreyer is at present under
treatment in the hospital and is not
thought that it will he necossary to
amputate the hand. Mr. Dreyer has
the sympathy of numerous friends.
—Shiner Gazette.
The Hallettsville Hardware Co.,
this week received a solid ear load
of windmills, preparing for the
late snnpmer and fall trade.
SCHOOL CENSUS.
Mr. S. G Tarkington, of the-
school hoard, has completed the
scholastic census for the HallettR-
ville Independent School District,
resulting as follows:
Thc total number of white child-
ren of school age are 419 and there
are 265 colored.
Of these there arc 225 male and
195 female whites and 144 male
and 127 female colored.
By nationalities, there are K)5
children of German, 162 Ameri-
can, 99 of Bohemian and 3 of Mex-
ican parentage.
There were ten applicants for
teachers’ certificates before the
County Board of Examiners Fri
day and Saturday, 10 whites ami
one colored. Misses Netite Don-
nelly and Tallula Hardwickc ap-
plied for second grade state certi-
ficates and Roy M. Cannon was ex
amined on three subjects, “build-
ing “for a state first grade; them*
three papers to he graded by the
State Board of Examiners. Upon
the recommendation of the Board,
Superintendent. Eilers issued sec-
ond grade county certificates to
Misses Tillie Strauss, Anton Pnst-
ka, Mrs. Emma Doolan, A. L.
Sprinkle and Ed. Kacir Profes
sors T. J. Ponton of Shiner and
F. Schoppe of Moravia are the
hoard of examiners.
The Hallettsville team again
covered itself with glory Sunday,
by defeating the Moulton nine
with a score of 5 to 9, Greer and
Appelt being the battery. Features
of the game were a home run by
Greer with three men on bases in
tbe first inning, Hallettsville mak-
ing six runs in that inning. Kuy-
kendall made a three-base hit.
Paddleford was umpire. The Moul-
ton boys were good losers exp rear
ing themselves well-pleased with
the treatment accorded them.
The Odd Fellows have elected
the following officers of tbe en
suing six months: 8am Reiehman,
noble grand; Dave Landa, vise
grand. The secretary sad Inis——
hold over until the end of the year.
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