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50 YEARS AGO
Burrus sentenced Up the river Mary Burrus, 58, of Eagle Lake pleaded guilty in district court this week of taking another shot at her former boyfriend.
This was a violation of her probation and Mrs. Burus was sentenced by District Judge E.V. Patteson to not less than two nor more than three years in prison.
Woodard, Saul 4-H Gold star award winners J. R. Saul, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Saul of Columbus and Patricia Woodard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Woodard of Eagle Lake, have been chosen 4-H Gold Star boy and girl for 1975-76.
The Gold Star is the highest honor a 4-H member can receive.
Saul has been active in 4-H for 7 years and is an active member of the Colorado County 4-H Horse Club. He is presently serving as the club’s vice president.
75 YEARS AGO
Trustees to ask city to close block on Bowie Street during school hours The Columbus school board heard three visitors meeting Tuesday night in the band room at the gymnasium, before they acted on several matters more or less routine.
Of the seven-man board, attending was President W.H. Miekow, Hollis Massey, N.J. Mainer. W.H Harrison, Ernest Baumgart Sr. And Leslie King, member C.I Shult was presently briefly Superintendent Marley Giddens also was present.
Wheeler resigns as deputy sheriff; Semora new aide Chief Deputy Sheriff Buck Wheeler is resigning to take the foreman’s position at the Poyner Ranch, southwest of Columbus, he told a Citizen reporter here this week.
Buster Semora, who resigned as an Eagle Lake city officer yesterday, was appointed Monday by the commissioner’s court as deputy sheriff on the recommendation of Sheriff Harvey Lee.
Special train to run to Shrine Circus A special SP train will puff through Colorado County Nov. 8 carrying school children to the annual Shrine circus in Houston.
Colorado Valley Shrine members decided to charter the train again at a meeting at the Oaks Cafe Thursday night. The train will originate in Flatonia, and pick up children in Schulenburg, Weimar, Columbus and Eagle Lake.
Beer sale OK in Rock Island
A district court decision here Tuesday made it possible for beer to be sold in Rock Island for the first time in 13 years.
Judge Lester Holt’s decision specifically gave T. S. Kennedy the right to sell beer at this place in Rock Island. Mr. Kennedy had appealed from an order by County Judge John Hancher denying him that permission. Attorney G.F. Steger represented Mr. Kennedy.
100 YEARS AGO
Frnka against special session of legislature Commenting on the “King Call” for the assembling of the Legislature on Nov. 2, Representative Frnka, of this place, gave “out the following statement: “I will not be in Austin in response to the call. It is not valid and if the membership would really assemble at Austin on this date mentioned there is nothing that they could legally do. In fact, I know nothing about the call except what I have seen in the newspapers. Mr. King did not communicate with me relative to the call. If he has 80 signers to a petition to the call my name is not one of them as I am opposed to a special session at this time.
Good rains fall here Heavy rains fell here the first of this week totally 4.55 inches up to yesterday morning and the sky is not entirely clear yet. The rain is the first really good one in over a year.
Heavy rains reported as heavy as nine to 10 inches, have been reported at Austin, Taylor and all the way to Bastrop and warnings have been received here that the river is liable to show the effects of the heavy downpours.
Mexican woman hurt in car wreck Sunday A Ford truck loaded with household goods and Mexican laborers en route from Lockhart to Fort Bend County wrecked on the highway near Borden last Sunday when a Buick car passed it. As the Buick cut in ahead of the truck, the driver took to the ditch, turning the truck over and scratching its occupants.
County Fair
The regular Monday night meeting of the Fair association in Eagle Lake Monday night marked further progress in the coming Fall Fair. As one man puts it, “The Eagle Lake State Fair to be held in Colorado County on Nov. 10, 11 and 12, 1925. Things are looking mighty good for the largest and best Fair ever held in the County.
School enrollment shows increase over last year Three hundred thirty- two pupils have enrolled in the Columbus school this term as compared with 308 for the highest period of last year. The peak of enrollment will increase this number substantially; it is believed by our school authorities.
125 YEARS AGO
Roosevelt’s unreliability
The genial Teddy Roosevelt evidently labors under the impression that the people of Ohio are easy marks for deception, or he could hardly dare to make such bare-faced misstatements to them as he did in his speech at Akron. In discussing the demand of the democratic platform for the repeal of the tariff on trust products, he says “They pretend that the tariff favors trusts. They know well that the greatest trusts in this country, the Standard oil and the sugar trusts, are utterly unaffected by the tariff. They know well that the trust with which there is a most widespread and deepest dissatisfaction, the beef trust, is utterly unaffected by the tariff.
