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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1891
Page
5
Vernon visitors and a new baby mark a busy week. Easter services delight parishioners while dances, operatic events, and a reenactment set the town talking. The Brenham Light Guard drill is postponed and crime losses prompt vigilance as a store burglary ends with a messy escape.
At a March 30 meeting in Brenham the Central Committee elected J. D. Campbell chair pro tem. H. Becker and B. Bryan joined the committee. Subscriptions for the veterans dinner were assigned to a social committee of several women. Rankin added to the soliciting group. The panel invited schools colleges Brenham Independence Chapell Hill fire companies and military groups to attend the veterans celebration. A. Harrison, Secretary.
Tur martins signal season as winter ends and weddings are planned for P H Swearingen and Minnie McCraw at Austin First Baptist Church on April Th. The crowd learns fruit fears are unfounded as cold snaps spared most crops. A Brenham oil mill stock meeting and Texas Veteran Association finance effort call for local support and subscriptions. A house fire at Mrs. Willie's Hughes residence yields significant loss with no insurance.
Macflins and Hall announce a rail road show in Brenham on Wednesday April 8 with afternoon and night performances. Admission is 50 cents for adults and 25 cents for children. A street parade starts at 10 o clock followed by a grand free balloon ascent and parachute jump at noon.
The week ending April 1 1891 saw marriages granted to Henry Baer and Mina Seeler E Johnson and Minnie Harris David I Haywood and Rachael Walker Wm West and Sylvia Steward L Walker and L Colbert.
The passage envisions Brenham growing into a city with a railroad to deep water at the Brazos mouth, a cotton factory, an oil mill, an artesian well, and electric lights, portraying an era of industrial progress and urban development.
Wednesday in district court no session due to Judge Garrett's absence while the grand jury continued. Seventy three indictments to date including forty nine felonies and twenty four misdemeanors. Twenty trials produced seventeen convictions and three acquittals. Notable are double cases with about ten defendants for twenty trials. Lee Hughes, death-sentenced for wife murder, was the only defendant with more than one indictment.
Mr A T Threadgill owner of Palace of Beauty purchases Dr J D Rogers drug shop on the northwest corner of Court Square. Threadgill, a jewelry dealer on Sandy Street, is noted to have previously run a drug business in Navasota and may oversee both ventures. Meanwhile a Tuesday night altercation at Eldridge Williams left Henry Allen injured, Dr Williamson attending, and Emmett banged up. Sheriff Teague and Jupee C C Gastert traveled to Giddings for a habeas corpus matter in the John Carlisle murder case.
A collection of humorous witticisms and observations includes lines about lawyers diet and pranks, debates about debt and credit, and maxims from Brooke Rochefoucauld and Michaelangelo. It notes German divorce rates, female workers, and a British consul arriving in Galveston in May.
A jittery panel of remarks crosses politics and society from a Philadelphia press dig. Notes touch on religion, education, race rights, editors, and scholars with mentions of Kochs lymph in Montreal, Jay Gould mortgage, and a Dallas or New Orleans hotel grip.
A San Antonio area case reports chronic catarrh lasting ten years cured in twelve months by internal Peruna treatment only, without sprays or gargles. The letter asserts widespread cures and notes other catarrh linked ailments respond to Peruna, with directions and free pamphlet offered. Also reports on Austin college wing, a trestle accident near Farmersville, a silver vein find near San Antonio, crop notes from Haskell Free Press, and Sherman mayoral debate.
Tomeed was killed by Patrick Woodring in Kentco amid a growing fence dispute. Love was shot in the head and died instantly. Woodring, under bond for killing J. W. Anderson last June, had been jailed in Franklin for practicing medicine without a license after serving as a Baptist preacher in Madisonville.
Advertisement from Southern Antidote Co promises a painless permanent cure for opium users at the home, claiming medical science offers no relief. Also notes a fire incident in Navasota with Jo Clark barely escaping, and reports Pearl Starr captured near Quannah with a male accomplice and other thieves.
The notice extols Hostetter s Stomach Bitters as a safe thorough tonic to open pores, regulate digestion, and refresh the body during warming seasons. It also reports The Baptist Association in session with about thirty delegates, moderator J L Jennings and secretary E R Freeman.
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