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50 YEARS AGO
Industry Will Locate Here Plant to Build Oilfield Tanks Smith Industries, Inc. of Houston, an industrial manufacturing and service company, has purchased an 83-acre tract east of Columbus for an industrial plant which will eventually employ more than 150 people.
The announcement was made Tuesday by Joe Welch, vice president of Smith’s oil and gas division.
“We have purchased the land,” said Welch, “with the intention of constructing a 51,000-square foot industrial plant. The operation will be a direct extension of our oil and gas program here in Houston.”
Smith Outlines Plans to C of C Officials of Smith Industries Inc. told the chamber of commerce Tuesday night they hope to have their plant at F.M. 959 and I-10 in operation by October.
Nate Kendall, president, said the company will break ground Thursday for the development of a 27-acre site on which the company will build 600-foot-long building.
75 YEARS AGO
House Numbers?
They’re Still Available Here
A chamber of commerce project of numbering Columbus houses and marking streets with their correct names is nearing an end but C of C’s Civic Improvement committee hopes it isn’t.
Scores of Columbus homes have not yet been numbered by their owners, although the numbers of the homes have been assigned.
Skull Creek Philosopher Figures Out a Solution for the Farm Surplus Problem-Lay Off a Year Dear editor: Seems like every time 2 congressmen, 2 farmers or 2 businessmen get together they talk about the farm surplus and any time an editor runs dry of ideas he writes about it too.
As I understand the problem, we farmers are so good at farmin we’ve outdone the automobile manufacturers, refrigerator makers, atom bomb makers and the other experts and piled up a surplus nobody knows what to do with.
100 YEARS AGO
Headlight Law to Become Effective June 18
Austin, April 29 – The automobile headlight law passed by the legislature at its recent session will not become effective until June 18, and the list of approved headlight devices will not be available until about that date, according to Reed Granberry, head of the bureau located at the University of Texas which is now employed in testing the various devices.
Long Drought Broken A slow soaking rain fell here Tuesday, a light rain falling that morning and a good down pour late in the evening, The gauge at the Mrs. W. E. Bridge home showed a 60-inch rain.
Although this was not near what was needed it was sufficient to cause many farmers to begin planting cotton and some corn and fodder crops will be planted.
126 YEARS AGO
Where the Farmer Stands.
With few exceptions the farmers in all parts of our country are opposed to expansion. They know that expansion means a large army and that a large army means more taxes.
The following extract from the leading agricultural paper of Ohio, the Farm News expresses a sound view of the question, and is a pretty fair sample of the manner in which the agricultural people are taking all over the Union.
Senatorial Extras
If the taxpayers of the country could cast their eyes over the annual report which the secretary of the senate is every year required to make, their orbs of vision would be opened in astonishment at the items.
Not only do the good people-in the light of the accounts presented by the secretary – supply articles which senators absolutely need, but furnish means by which the senatorial persons are manicured, shaved, treated to hair tonics, perfumes and afterward drenched with lemonade made with lithia water, for which the senate receives a rebate on all bottles returned.
