September 8, 1908Ben Matthews is fixing up the seven-room Diesbach cottage on Juan Linn Street in comfortable style as an annex to the Denver Hotel. more >>
September 5, 1908 J.H. Waldrop and Miss Harriett Coward, two well-known residents of this county, were quietly married this morning at 6 o’clock. Judge Tobe Wood performed the ceremony. the groom is at present engaged at farming and was at one time city marshal of Victoria. The bride is the daughter of R.V. Coward, who lives in this county near town. more >>
September 4, 1908 F.B. Lander, J.K, Hexter, Charles G. Levi, E.G. Hicks, James Welder and C.S.E. Holland will go tomorrow to Port Lavaca where they will board the Naulauhka for a cruise to Port O’Connor. They will return Tuesday. more >>
September 3, 1908 A representative of the Advocate called upon Supt. A. V. Cox today, and in reply to our request for information regarding the school work of the session of 1908-1909, replied as follows: “The most important feature of modern life is the singularly extensive development of the schools. General education characterizes the recent decades for the modern age and distinguishes the period from all earlier times. Someone has said that at the present time education is like a great steamship, or a fleet of steamships, laboring hard in the trough of the world’s sea for want of proper machinery and of sufficient coal to produce power and to utilize properly for speed.” more >>
September 2, 1908 The beautiful home of Hon. J. D. Mitchell, one of the senior trustees, was open last evening to entertain the trustees and teachers of the public school in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Lefevre, V. B. Proctor, in most fitting words and manner made the presentation of a magnificent solid gold-lined loving cup, which bore the following inscription; “1899-1908, Arthur Lefevre, from the trustees and teachers of the Public School of Victoria, Texas, as a token of their esteem and in recognition of his successful administration as superintendent of Dallas schools with the loving esteem and gratitude of every citizen of Victoria of every citizen of Victoria. more >>
September 1, 1908 Mrs. J.W. Henderson, accompanied by her sister, Miss Marguerite Pickering, returned to her home in Beaumont this morning after a visit to relatives in this city. more >>
August 30, 1908 The Well-Fargo Express Company’s office will be moved to the Jordan building on Main Street. A Goldman, the owner of the building new occupied by the concern, will make it his office. more >>
August 29, 1908 W. H. Smith, J. J. Welder Jr., R. H. Welder and others have purchased Nat Fitzgerald’s entire stock of hardware, wagons, implements, etc., with the exception of buggies, harness and saddles, and will continue the business on a larger scale at the old stand. The business will be incorporated and other departments added. The new firm will take possession at an early date. Mr. Fitzgerald will continue in the buggy, harness and saddlery business and materially increase his stock. He has not yet decided upon a location, but has several places in view. more >>
August 28, 1908 Paris, Ky., Kentuckian-Citizen: After an absence of 41 years, George Kern from Victoria is here the guest of Col. A. T. Forsyth. The life of Mr. Kern read like a romance. He is a native of Paris, son of the late Jesse Kern, and at the outbreak of the Civil War entered the Confederate service, at the age of 14 years, as a private in the regiments commanded by the late Col. W.C.P. Breckenridge. At the battle of Charleston, Tenn., Mr. Kern was captured by the union forces and transported to Rock Island, Ill., as a prisoner of war, entering prison life in October, 1863. On a dark, dreary night, the ninth day of September, 1864, one of the surgeons detailed to look after the health of the prisoners, drove within the prison walls. Unobserved, Mr. Kern – then 17 years of age – secreted himself on the running gear of the vehicle and in this way escaped from prison. more >>
August 26, 1908 City Board of Equalization composed of L.A. Fritz, C.S.E. Holand and Albert Ernst has been in session the last six days and will probably complete its work Saturday. Generally the session lasts five days, but more is required this year on account of the assessor observing the full rendition law, being so ordered by the Council, though cities and towns are not required to comply with it. The board will not make any radical increase or reduction in the assessments. more >>
August 23, 1908 Houston Chronicle: With the previous fixing of a minimum price upon cotton as a means to an end in that the distribution of the crop may be extended over the entire season, and the fat years averaged against the lean, the farmers of Texas will not this season attempt a “holding movement” unless the price is below 10 cents. This statement is made from the highest authority and is said to cover the situation as it stands today. more >>
August 22, 1908 Lost: A ribbon watch with an elk’s head pendant mounted on elk’s tooth and bearing initials “R.J.P.” Finder will be liberally rewarded by returning to Denver Hotel. more >>
August 21, 1908 A gentleman who arrived here last night from Houston is said to have been arrested and fined $25 for drinking beer on the train. He found himself alone in the rear coach with the exception of another gentleman and thought it a good opportunity to partake of some refreshments, but the other party proved to be the sheriff of Fort Bend County. more >>
August 20, 1908 W. Johnson, a prominent businessman from Greenville, who is an intense sufferer from rheumatism, arrived here yesterday to take a course of the famous mud baths at Miracle. more >>
August 19, 1908 Marshal Diebel was hooked in the muscular part of the right arm this morning while he and Deputy Marshal Smith were impounding a cow. They were within a short distance of the pen when the cow became unruly and it was necessary to rope her. Mr. Smith roped the animal around one horn, and the marshal had dismounted and was more firmly securing her when he received the injury, which is not considered serious. more >>
August 18, 1908 The City Council last night, after a warm discussion, sustained the mayor’s veto of its action at a previous meeting recommending that assessed values be fixed at the same figures as last year and that the same rate of taxation prevail. Aldermen, Dunlap and McCan alone voted nay. Several months ago a resolution introduced by Mesrs. McCan and Dunlap recommending that property be assessed at its full value and pledging that the tax rate would be reduced accordingly was passed by the Council, and Mayor Schneider said that the Council should hold to its original action. He declares that Mr. Fischer had exercised commendable judgement and discretion in assessing property under the full rendition law; and that there was no state tax to contend with, and that in fairness to all classes of taxpayers, the council should observe its pledge to the people. more >>
August 16, 1908 On account of the marvelous cures effected by the following article from the Welcome Guest, Portland, Ma., will be of much interest to our readers: There has been much wonder lately expressed throughout the world at the remarkable cures effected by mud baths. But at last the secret is out, for it has been discovered that the famous mud springs in Europe and America are heavily charged with radium, and that is it this radium which produces the wonderful cures. It has also been learned that the Indians, since the earliest days, have bathed in the mud springs of Indians, and there in the depths of mud many an aged brave lost his rheumatism. more >>
August 15, 1908 Galveston News: In a letter to H.H. Haines, secretary of the Chamber of commerce. C.S.E. Holland of Victoria confirms the recent dispatches from that city to the news that a transportation line has been established to navigate the Guadalupe River. The steamboat Naulahke has been purchased, and the company is now contracting for the construction of several light draft barges. Within the next few months the line will be in operation. The line will be run between Victoria and Aransas Pass, connecting there with the Galveston. Corpus Christi steamer line shortly to be inaugurated. This will give Victoria a water route to Galveston - a thing she has been seeking for several years. more >>
