| News & Notes Know your Seguin The following was published in
the August 30, 1929 edition of the Seguin Enterprise:
Seguin is 553 feet above sea level. There are appoximatley two square miles or 1280 acres with in the city of Seguin. Guadalupe County water wells are from 20 to 80 feet deep. Guadalupe County's chief mineral resources consist of oil, natural gas, brick and pottery clays, lignite and limestone. Seguin's poplulation is more than 6,000. Guadalupe County's population is more than 33,000. Seguin's mortality rate is eceptionally low, 9.4 per thousand. There are 11 towns in Guadalupe County - not counting oil field promotions. Women outnumber the men in Seguin but there are more men in the county as a whole. In normal times 26 new families come to Seguin to live each year. Nearly half the residents of Guadalupe County are engaged in agriculture. The normal annual rainfal of Guadalupe County is 30-36 inches. The latest date of killing frost in Guadalupe Count is April 9 and the earlist October 27. The average Growing season in Gudalupe County is 268 days. Guadalupe County citizens own 88.6 percent of Guadalupe County land. The area of Guadalupe is 703 square miles or 449,920 acres. Seguin has five barns. Rat Killing Campaign The County Wide
Rat killing campaign of the schools of the county started the past
Saturday. Encouraging preliminary reports have come in from many
schools of the county. The children are highly enthussiastic
about the work. While they are doing their best detroying the
past, we want to be certain to get together the money for the premiums.
We want to make the campaign worth while to the people and to the children and schools too. In the circular letter to the schools was the statement that if more than $350 was contributed that the additional amount would be used to increase all bounties. They would be made as large as possible. The first school to report in the contest was the Mexican School at McQueeney, which on Monday has 176 rat tails to its credit. Seguin Enterprise, February 4, 1921 Cars
Destroyed
Forty-one
automobiles, including several large trucks, were burned when fire of
unknown origin completely destroyed the storeroom on W. Ireland and
Camp Streets used by the Maurer Motor Co. for the storage of second
hand cars, Sunday at 11:30 a. m. The origion of the fire is not
known and the building was a mass of flames before the Fire Department
could reach the scene.
Gas in some of the cars caused a number of explosions. The total loss of the Motor Company will reach several thousands dollars. The building was owned by Peter Scheler who had it insured for $1,500. Seguin Enterprise April 30, 1924 1927 Classics
Excerpts from the
conversation of a modern girl:
I'd simply love a cigarette I'de simply love a coctail Thank you for the lovely flowers What an adorable gown I'd simply adore to go, my dear It's the most adorable place Honestly, my dear, he's simply adorable The whole evening was simply hectiv The whoe drive was too hectic for words You can't imagine what a hectic time we had. Seguin Enterprise, 1929 Two new highways Guadalupe
County was practically assured of two new highways when on Wednesday
County Officials and Resident Engineer Capt. Schlafli, were instructed
to preceed with the survey by the State Highway Commission.
One highway is to be surveyed south from Seguin to Stockdale and Karnes City and is an extension of the San Marcos Seguin Highway. It will be officially know as State Highway No. 123 The other is a new project between Seguin and New Braunfels. This survey will be run on two lines, one east and one west and will be known as State Higway No 46. According to Capt. Schlafli several surveying crews will be put to work and the survey completed as soon as possible. With these two new road prijects under way there will be four major highways under construction at one time in Guadalupe County. The major credit for the speeding up of the new work is to be given to Senator A. J. Wintz, who has been untiring in his efforts to secure aid for the county road building program. The survey of the above roads will be done by the State with out expense to this county. Seguin Enterprise June 07, 1929 |