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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1891
Page
5
Local items report cotton and timber deliveries, repairs on West Main street, rising boarding-house patronage, and carpenters arriving for the McFadden compress. Updates include a sick child with typhoid, a meningitis case improving, and a mad dog incident near Sealy. Public notices cover church activities and a planned baseball challenge between Gay Hill and Brenham.
Texas water works report a bold spring found and connected by pipes to the pump house, supplementing their low supply with water pumped from the spring. Turre to host a big dance at Mrs Dailey's near Independence next Friday night. invitations issued to local youths pending good weather. A negro woman cut weeks ago by Allen Wilder remains precarious. Dr Spann doubts recovery. Allen Wilder awaits outcome in county jail. Mr L Z Hannises departs for extensive North Texas tour aiming to expand his territory beyond prior efforts, nicknamed Kiber's Hustler.
The town plans for Brexxam include electric lights this fall and steps to secure an artesian well. Citizens expect the artesian water to boost growth as much as major investments. A local tale notes increased spending and merchant smiles as a rough phrase appears in town chatter. The Galveston Oil mill seed house has been relocated east of the Santa Fe track near Union depot and is being rebuilt by carpenters.
Mr Henry Kuanner of Gay Hill reports his daughter, in good health, died suddenly last week from a cramp attack. The girl was about ten years old and had shown no prior signs of illness before the final hour.
Me Wa Hawerwanxn runs a neat lunch counter offering hot coffee sandwiches cakes and doughnuts for travelers on the train. A hunting and prospecting party to Bee County west of there returns satisfied with old Washington County. Residents say countryfolk expect quality and Washington County men are used to something fine.
After grading papers from five counties in the 12th Senatorial District, Senator Maetze selects W T McCall of Thompson Station Fort Bend County for the Prairie View Normal School scholarship. Local notes cover courthouse lightning rods and court bids for bridge work nearby.
Washington County dealers offer McElree's Wine of Cardus and THEDFORD'S BLACK-DRAUGHT. The sprinkler system, stalled by dust, will operate regularly now after Mr. Gee secured water rights and terms with the water works to halt dust in dry goods districts.
A Brenham man named John Wheeler was struck by a train near Paige and lost his leg in an amputation performed by Drs. Williamson and Becker. The paper reports on an arson trial of Mr. Levy, Abe Harrison’s market moves after the McKinley tariff, and county-rights sales by J. D. Carroll. Also noted are a newspaper acquisition, a young death, public debate on convict labor, farming methods by J. T. Hattstox, a list of marriage licenses, and a mad dog causing hydrophobia concerns for a child.
The preliminary arson trial of H Levy began in county court before Justice Curry. Frankie Levy testified in writing after being brought from Columbus, admitted receiving letters from the defendant but said they were burned last Saturday. The session drew a crowded crowd and ends with prospects of further witnesses, including a detective, Thursday morning.
The Commissioners Court canvassed results showing amendments to sections of the state Constitution and local control defeated. Amendments to Art. 6 Sec. 4 and Art. 7 Sec. 5 and Art. 16 Sec. 11 all carried by strong margins, while local control failed. Representative race saw S G Ragsdale leading with 367 votes. Col. Wm Bode received eight. The note comments that county favored prohibition neither party appeal nor high turnout.
A serious charge of arson leads to the arrest of H Levy, a Cohen Bros clerk, in the county jail. He posted 1000 bond for a preliminary hearing before Justice Curry, linked to the December fire at Cohen Bros store. The owners say Levy lacked a store key the night of the blaze.
The Brenham San Antonio and Hallettsville Union Sunday school convention of the A M E church met in this city Wednesday with Rev B W Roberts presiding. Katie Neal gave the welcome, Prof Harris and Prof CO Hunter spoke, delegates gathered to share notes on teaching methods and expanding church work through Sunday schools. The meeting drew a large crowd and was regarded as interesting.
Father F M Huhn, manager of the Colored Orphan Asylum and Industrial School at Independence, faced county court charges of ill treatment of 19 inmates. Evidence described a private property deed, child labor, scarce books, and marks on backs, with the judge reserving decision for further investigation.
In Chappell Hill daily cotton intake reaches about forty bales as gins stay busy despite picking delays from weather. In the Brazos bottom worms ravage young cotton post flood, attacked with London purple while old cotton remains mostly immune.
The commissioners awarded two bridge contracts to R K S Farmer as the lowest bidder. One bridge on the Brenham and Graball road 18 miles below here will span 31 feet. The second bridge on the Graball and Washington road 21 miles from here will span 50 feet. Judge L Kirk and Mr R S Farmer examined the sites Wednesday.
State notes report slow work on the Galveston jetties and highlight multiple Texas items including a Greenville cotton seed oil mill soon to operate, a fatal shooting near Trickham, a silk farm plan at San Antonio, a large Methodist revival in Columbus, and endorsements of alien land laws by the San Antonio Farmers Alliance. Other items cover Hunt county schools, a watermelons shipment trip, an ambush shooting of Geo. Swan, accidental self injection by A. Curtis, wages at New Birmingham Iron and Improvement, several bank details, artesian wells, pest remedies, and a round of local crime and civic actions across towns like Belton, Brenham, Round Rock, Abilene, Gonzales, Mt. Vernon, Oakwood, and Henderson.
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