• Originally published July 29, 2008 at 2:16 p.m., updated July 29, 2008 at 2:16 p.m.

July 30, 1908

Charles Humrichouse from San Antonio is here in the interest of the co-operative creamery, which will make a market for all cream shipped in from other counties. After a through investigation, he found that Victoria will make a great creamery point. This factory will make only the famous Elgin Creamery butter, demanding the highest market price and paying the farmer the highest possible price for his cream. In a co-operative creamery, the farmer secures a good investment and increase products, also an increase of value.

Victorians of every sect will regret to learn that Dr. Sessler has accepted the pastorate of the Jewish congregation at Sumpter, S.C. He will leave on Aug. 15. Dr. Sessle is a gentleman of high character, and has made himself exceedingly popular with all classes during his brief residence here. The Sumpter congregation is one of the largest and most selected in the nation and the learned and worthy gentleman is greatly honored in being chosen as its leader.

July 30, 1933

Advocate files for July 1933 are missing.

July 30, 1958

Port Lavaca: Mary Meyer from Six Mile and Jeanette Teal from Point Comfort won first places in the annual Calhoun County 4-H Club Dress Revue yesterday. Miss Meyer won first in the senior division and Miss Teal won first in the junior division. Jeanette Kabela from Six Mile and Sandra Teal from Point Comfort were second and third, respectively, in the senior bracket, while Patsy Boone was second in the junior group and Susan Toalson third. Miss Boone is from the Point Comfort Club and Miss Toalson from the Jefferson Junior Club. Other junior and senior winners will participate in the district revue on Aug. 8 in San Antonio.

July 30, 1983

About 1,500 pounds of a Class 1 hazardous waste spilled in Victoria were picked up Friday by Southern Pacific Railroad and was on the way to a disposal site in Robstown. But questions still remain as to how the herbicide came to rest in about a 15-foot area against the fence between the Victoria Service Center and the railroad tracks on North Street. According to an employee at the Poison Control Center in Galveston, the substance known as diuron, is “relatively low in toxicity all things considered.” Its major effect on humans who inhale it is an irritation of skins, eyes nose and throat. An amount equal to at least a half cup would have to be ingested before serious harm could occur to humans, according to Buddy Stanley of the Texas Department of Walter Resources.

Nine Latin American foreign ministers met Friday in another effort to defuse mounting tensions in Central America and touring presidential envoy Richard Stone held out the possibility he may visit Nicaragua. Stone, in the second week of a tour of the region, left San Jose, Costa Rica, for Bogota, Columbia, on Friday morning.

City officials expected cleanup operations to be completed by late Friday at the landfill site south of the city. City Engineer Richard Voigt said they have “learned a lot fro the experience.” The landfill, like the remainder of the county, was inundated with up to 13 inches of rainfall two weeks ago, leaving standing water in the pit trench where garbage is deposited, and preventing the daily covering of garbage for about nine days.

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