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50 YEARS AGO
Council votes 2% motel tax
The city council voted unanimously Monday night to impose a 2 percent tax on motel and hotel bills incurred here by the traveling public.
The tax will take effect Aug. 1, with the first quarterly report and payment due Aug. 31 from those who operate motels and hotels within the city limits.
Car and pickup collide: child aged 12, killed A 12-year-old Columbus girl was fatally injured Thursday, July 10 when she was thrown from a pickup truck in which she was riding.
The victim was Lisa Grumbles, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H.V. Grumbles. She was dead on arrival at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston after being transferred there from Columbus Hospital.
75 YEARS AGO
Draft call expected within few days A draft call for any undetermined number of Colorado county men is expected wi thin the next few days, according to Draft Board member Sam K. Seymour Jr. Who talked with state draft officials early this morning.
He said that there has been no draft call as of yet, however.
La Grange Negro in jail here on burglary charge Floyd Williamson, La Grange negro, is in jail here under $500 bond awaiting action on the grand jury after waiving examining trial yesterday on the charge of burglary.
Williams is charged with breaking into James Pettus’ tailor shop in Eagle Lake June 26 and stealing $150 to $200 worth of clothes.
100 YEARS AGO
Eight take teachers’ examinations here Friday Those taking teacher’ examinations here last Friday were Miss Frances Carey of Weimar and Miss Enola Sheck of Eagle Lake and Miss Gisela Trojan of Columbus, building to permanent primary, Miss Lois Carr of Schulenburg, John J. Hopkins, Jr. Of Garwood and W.E. Rodgers of Fayetteville, building for 1st grade, Mrs. Kate Hopkins of Garwood, building to permanent.
Masons hear lecture Columbus Masons last Monday heard addresses by M. B. Terrell, Grand Master Guinn Williams and Secretary Wilbur Keith of the Masonic Educational Service Association.
The party arrived here at noon and was entertained at lunch, after which they repaired the lodge room where members of the local lodge and visiting brethren from Eagle Lake and Wimar had convened.
125 YEARS AGO
The Glorious Fourth in Manila The “glorious fourth” was celebrated upon American possession almost from the rising to the setting sun. The following account was set out from Manilla: There was a great celebration of the fourth of July here today, with fireworks, balls, speeches and decorations everywhere.
Microbe Hunting
Chicago News: The urban population of the world may reasonably draw much encouragement from the Boston Board of Health’s report on bacilli and telephones. The board’s expert selected a number of public telephones, swabbed the transmitters with sterilized cotton “carefully prepared and guarded from outside bacilli,” then rubbed the cotton on solidified serum, incubated the serum and introduced it into some Guinea pigs.
