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50 YEARS AGO
Local ’76 taxes to hold steady There was good news this week for Columbus area taxpayers.
While the prices of everything else continue to rise, local taxes for Columbus area property owners will hold the line in 1976.
Motorist stops to help; steps into a problem
Richard E. Cook of Houston was enroute to San Antonion about 5 a.m. Wednesday, July 16 when he stopped to assist two men who apparently were having car trouble on I-10 about three miles east of Weimar.
But Cook soon realized that he was helping two men on the run from the law with a load of stolen merchandise allegedly stolen from a drive-in grocery store in Houston.
75 YEARS AGO
Lone Star degrees awarded to two in local FFA chapter Two members of the Columbus Future Farms of America charter have received Lone Star farmer’s degrees; it has been announced by H.A. Schroeder, advisor.
The boys are Raymond Foerster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Foerster of New Ulm and Deand Vehghas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Venghans of Zimtmerseheidt.
Aug. 20 SP scheduled reveals at railroad request hearing A new schedule for SP trains through Colorado county will go into effect Aug. 20, it was revealed at the Texas Railroad commission hearing in the county courtroom Friday on T&NO’s request to discontinue two trains between San Antonio and Houston.
Railroad Commission Examiner C.F. Petet, conducting the hearing, said he did not know when the Railroad commissioners will rule on T&NO’s request.
100 YEARS AGO
Store building burns The town was alarmed early last Friday morning by a blaze which endangered the entire northern portion of the business section.
The large wooden store building belonging to E. W. Horne of Houston, which was vacated by Obenhaus & Hastedt meat market some months ago burned to the ground.
Columbus school may teach business course That the Columbus High School curriculum may include a business course covering bookkeeping, typing, shorthand, business English, business law and business arithmetic next term has been definitely given out by Supt. J.H. Wooten. The course will be open to all people over fourteen years of age and will take one hour of those who enter the course.
125 YEARS AGO
This seats the magicians
According to the Washington correspondent of the Boston Transcript, the department of agriculture has taken steps toward acquiring the right to use a recent invention, a kind of mutoscope camera, designed for a kind of picture making never heretofore attempted
The evidence strengthens
The evidence of President Dowe of the Commercial Travelers’ National League, as given before the industrial commission some days sine, furnished some strong and convincing arguments against truants and monopolies, and his statements have been widely commented upon.
