YOAKUM

YOAKUM

WEEKLY HERALD

   January 5, 1911                         .

 

News Of The Day

Col. Jim Deborah of Hal­lettsville returned home today after spending a few days in the city with his parents, the venerable J.L.P. Deborah and wife.

At the last meeting of the Choral Club Mrs. Dr. W.W. McVea was elected as vice president in the stead of Mrs. J.E. Lander, who moved away.

The Herald's new Linotype has arrived. The work of putting it in place will be done  as rapidly as possible. We ex­pect within a week or two to have it in operation.

Mrs. N. Kalvorisky has an­nounced the engagement of her daughter, Sara, to Mr. Chas. J. Miller, a business man of Philadelphia. The wedding will occur sometime in May.

The Woodmen Building As­sociation stockholders elected the following directors: J.M. Haller, Dr. W. Shropshire, Philip Welhausen, S.S.Stahl, W.P.Bourke, W.L. Burton, P.R. Goff, A. May, Jr. and A..J. Ross.

A 'Watch Party' was given by Messrs. Frank C. Linn and Dudley C. Miller at the Linn home, 118 Ranney Ave. At­tending were: Joe B. Swearing­ton, John House, James North, Harvey Newberry, George Hall, Ernest Elkins, Chas. Roos, Will Henry Shindler, Edgar Bailey, Leslie J. Hollman, Douglas O'Brien, Claude Douglas, Frank C. Linn, Dudley C. Miller, Robert Lee Ragsdale, Merrill Mead, Jim Holcomb,

Jim Frank Vick, Paul McDonald, Henry Humpreys, Felix K. Cain, Chas. Lander, Marlan Buchanan, Lucile Baby, Eumce Fitch, Lois Frye, Ethel Mae Johnston, Mattie Lee Jobe. Ethel Shindler, Walter Lee Lander, Minnie Lawrence, Florence Linn, Lucile Haller, Alma Vick, Theresa Babb, Bessie Leehin, May Belle George, Eloise Simmons, Patti Dodd, Gertrude Arnold

 

Misses Hazel and Jessie Doak and Katie Farrington enter­tained a number of their  friends at the residence of Mrs. A .G. Farrington. Those present were: Misses Sarah and Grey Green, Ruth Baby, Bessie Crouch, Beverly Palmer, Nellie Rae Renfro, Effie Jewel Snell, Bessie Brian, Kitty Vick, Willie Neely, Winnie Tatum; Masters

Julius Hagen, Raymond Allen, Edgar and Arthur Cain, John and Henry Olsen, Jake Burket, Harold Ferrell, John Perdom, Clarence Sansing, Clyde Ethridge, Gilford Whitefield, Cecil Farrington, Archer Neely.

Up to date the Yoakum Compress has mashed thirty thousand bales of cotton. This is

some three thousand bales ahead of the output at this same time last year.

Mr. J.P. Williams has recently purchased an 87 acre farm located near the Adams

school on the Sweet Home road.  He will build a residence on his land and move on to it about the first of February. The purchase price was $3,100.

 

 

Weddings

Mr. Ewald Poth and Miss Louisa Nelson were married in Houston at 6 a.m. this morning. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Poth, honored citizens of Hochheim Prairie community and is a well balanced young man. The happy couple arrived in Yoakum on No. I today and will make their home in this section.

Miss Minnie May and Mr. J.M. Pruelt married in Houston yesterday. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex May and the great grand-daughter of the lamented John May, who secured the patent to the land on which the city of Yoakum stands, it being the John May league. The groom is a cotton buyer, who headquarters are in Dallas, and the bride was in charge of the millinery de­partment at the Haller Dry Goods store. They will make Dallas their home.

 

Deaths

Mrs. Augusta Quast of the Sweet Home community passed to her reward at the age of sixty five years. Deceased was the life companion of Mr. H. Quast and lived with him in Lavaca county and on the same farm for thirty years. Besides the husband she is survived by ten children. The remains were buried in the city cemetery.

Joe Lee Arrington, the 2 month old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Arrington, died at the family home. The remains will be laid to rest in the city cemetery.

Herbert Schulz, the son of Mr. and Mrs. G. Schulz, who live on Hugo Street, died Sun­day. He was seriously hurt while shooting an anvil on Christmas Eve and never re­covered.

Mrs. Myrtle Neal Hill, wife of Garrett Hill, died Jan. I of typhoid fever. She was only 29 years old and the mother of a 3 year old boy. She was born in Mississippi, but came to Texas when she was six with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B.F. Neal.

Mrs. Frank Freeman, who lived beyond Hochheim in the Hammond community died Sunday. She was the wife of Frank Freeman and the daughter of Mr. McCaskill.

Mr. Henry Muecke died at his home Sunday. He leaves a wife and seven children to mourn his loss. He was buried in the city cemetery.

Mrs. Antonio Drozd, 72 passed away at her home near Sweet Home. She is a native of Moravia and came with her family to Lavaca County 29 years ago. Her husband passed away three years, and is sur­vived by four children, Messrs. John, Joe and Frank Drozd and Mrs. Johanna Pekar all of whom live near Sweet Home.