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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1897
Page
7
Freight business shows progress while railway shipments and stock groceries expand. City leaders meet in special session as church additions rise and circuses approach Brenham. Elections return from several towns. dances, picnics, and barbecues entertain locals. Notable marriages, appointments, and student recognitions accompany grim accidents and daring acts.
Mayor Wilkins presided as Ed. McFarland a Chappell Hill resident was fined $1 and costs for drunkenness after sleeping on the sidewalk. Nelson Parker paid $1 and costs for disturbing the peace. Will Fortune’s drunken and disorderly case was continued. Hiram Robinson and Chester Ferguson were exonerated on disturbing the peace charges.
City council held a special session to examine bids for Watrousville school improvements. Six bids were opened with a high of 3840 and a low of 605 by Wm Griffin, whose bid was accepted for adding two 24 by 30 foot rooms to be ceiled and painted. Work starts today and must finish by the first Monday in September.
Delegates to the Texas Conference Ep worth League meet next Tuesday are already filing names. About a hundred are expected. Names listed include Sempronius Minnie Reese Maggie Tottenham Oscar Crump from Fulshear H C Boone Pauline Rosenbush S D McJunkin Eagle Lake Rev E C Kieth Mattie Mersfelder Chappell Hill Andrew Anderson Moselle Toland Ettie Brandt. County Treasurer C F Herbst reports cash on hand 1274.55 in Common fund and 112.14 in Road and Bridge fund totaling 4524.00. Several local residents plan a Vegua hunting trip, joining Barry Sayles, leaving this morning. A disturbance at Bellville depot left Jack Minton with two facial and chest cuts after a quarrel with Long.
A humorously grandiose plan imagines a great ice chute from the Arctic reaching the Gulf states at five cents per hundred. The project envisions a fifty foot wide main chute with sixty mile per hour ice flow ending near New Orleans and possibly reaching West India Islands. The improbable scheme alarms local ice interests as a jury of view is appointed and county bills are listed alongside various road and farm expenses.
Regular session of the commissioners court approves bills for hacks coffins and horses paving for bridges road materials and farm purchases. Action includes granting J J Willburn second class road 30 feet wide and creating overseers J H Foster and a road petition changes. Also grants Andrew Jackson second class road and licenses to practice law upon moral character checks.
The new cotton season starts with first bales in most states except the Northern tier while Texas markets freely. Prices and demand look favorable and manipulation is minimal. Brenham reports about eighteen hundred bales received. government data show crop conditions improved versus last year. Local quotes average 73 to 8 cents per pound in trade. A mix of local notes follows including health, social events, and personal updates from Carmine and surrounding area.
A Sunday afternoon runaway near the waterworks ended with all occupants of a Bohemian family ejected but unharmed. The wagon tongue was broken and the wagon wrecked. The article also notes a satirical Klondike menu listing odd items with inflated prices from the Atlanta Constitution.
The Brenham Summer Normal pupils adopted two resolutions tendering thanks to Prof E F Taylor and Prof G F Urbantke for their untiring efforts. The note asks local papers to publish the vote of thanks. W W Lackey and G W Kopp were presidents with A Roberts as secretary.
County clerk records show transfers including S B Pier executor to C F Hellmuth and J G Wesendorf for 566 acres valued at 4999.53 dollars and A G Dever to J H Simon for a Brenham lot valued at 40.09 dollars. Other deeds list J J Page to Ed Buster for 40 acres and Lula W Sloan to M B Hodge for a Brenham lot at 2890 dollars.
Caldwell city council passes ordinance shifting bicycle traffic off sidewalks. Peter Coleman in Harris County Jail faces attempted criminal assault charges. indicted by Waller County grand jury. Jail keeper Anderson read indictment Saturday. Coleman proclaims innocence. John W. Greer, 70, near Pattison, injured after being thrown by a horse. may prove fatal. Greyhound chased a rabbit causing fright. T W Drew of Macy Brazos County reports a neighbor’s game chicken killed a whelp wolf with a gaft.
Wehmeyer Bros advertise a milder cream cheese of finer quality than others and Bosse and Wirrpecker offer new sour kraut for sale.
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