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LaGrange girl victim of fiend Miss Valeria Zapalac, a 17year old daughter of Henry Zapalac, a butcher of La-Grange, was shot to death and her younger sister, Minnie, 15 years old, criminally assaulted and seriously wounded on the highway east of that city late Tuesday night.
William Langdon, 25-year-old son of Dr. Wm. H. Langdon of Chappell Hill, is held for the crime.
Columbus school takes county title
By their victory over the Oakland team at that place last Friday afternoon, by a score of 10 to 4, the Columbus basketball boys annexed the County title for this the second consecutive year, having won from Weimar and Garwood in previous games.
This gives Columbus school 20 points toward the all-round county championship of the athletic and literary contests to be held in the county meets at Eagle Lake on March 25th and 26th and also entitles the team to enter the race for the District championship which will be played among the county champions of Colorado, Fayette, Lavaca, Lee and Gonzales Counties.
Planting pecan trees in courtyard Ten fine pecan trees were set in the Courtyard this week, and in about five years there will be twice as many candidates for County Commissioner as ever before. The trees were purchased from the Pearfield Nursery and are of high-quality stock and good-sized trees.
The old walnut trees are dying out, it is said and the pecans are planned to replace them. AS they are not set in close proximity to any ornamental trees, it is believed that no controversy will ever arise over whether they shall be allowed to survive.
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State releases $100,000 grant to opera house
The Texas Historical Commission announced Friday a grant of $100,000 to the restoration of the famed Stafford Opera House.
The opera house was one of 19 state preservation projects awarded grants-in-aid totaling $522,801. The local project was by far the largest of the 19.
The funds were granted on a matching basis. R. F. Rau., president of the Magnolia Homes Tour Inc. which owns the opera house building, said funds are available to match the grant.
39 suspects are indicted
A Colorado County grand jury returned 36 indictments Monday, including 6 for alleged narcotic violations.
Four suspects indicted by the grand jury were arrested at an I-10 rest stop 2 miles west of Columbus in mid-November with an estimated $80,000 worth of narcotics in their possession.
The arrest came after officers witnessed a transaction involving an estimated 40,000 methamphetamine tables, known on the street as “mini bennies.”
Cranek to head H-GAC
County Judge Lester Cranek was elected president of the Houston-Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) Friday night. The election was held at the H-GAC’s annual dinner meeting in Galveston.
Houston Councilman Homer Ford was elected vice president and Mayor Benny Howard of Richwood was elected secretary- treasurer.
Cranek succeeds County Judge Roy Holbrook of Galveston County in the H-GAC’s highest executive post. Cranek formerly had served as vice president.
