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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1891
Page
7
Local report notes a new boiler in the pump house at the Santa Fe yards caught a leak when the engine suction hose burst during a regular monthly fire drill. The incident interrupted operations briefly but was contained by the crew.
The Wednesday night event hosted by Mrs. Seward honored Miss Sue Attie Clay with a pink themed social. Invitations were selective, decorations, gowns, and favors followed the pink motif, prizes awarded for the progressive euchre game, with Laura Seward and Austin Bryan taking top prizes.
A party of prominent Dallas residents will travel to Austin to present an oil painting of Jefferson Davis to the Texas State Capitol. The six by four and a half foot work by Prof. McArdle depicts Davis with the Constitution and a telegram bearer in his left hand, symbolizing decisive action. The presentation aims to adorn the state house with a prominent image of the Confederacy’s leader.
Reports list smallpox in Plantersville and Courtney while fires burn saloons and residences in Terrell Aubur y and Jacksonville. Incendiary damage hits a gin house at Anderson. Kochlymph treatment aids thirty patients in San Antonio. Judge president of Waco State Bank dies at 79. Bill Lambert, a noted horse thief, is arrested at Conroe. Armour writes he has no intention of coming to Texas.
SESE EREE ES A Present To Our Subscribers. We announce that arrangements allow free mail delivery of the American Farmer to any subscriber who pays arrears and one year in advance or to new subscribers paying one year in advance. The American Farmer is a 16 page journal of national circulation promoting agricultural education and economy.
The State of Texas to all interested in the Jennie Burt estate. T. O. Hynes as administrator filed a final account and petition for discharge in Washington County Court. The hearing begins at the next term March 1891 at Brenham Court House. interested parties may contest. Published 20 days in Brenham Banner.
The State of Texas commands the sheriff to publish this citation weekly for four weeks in Brenham Weekly to summon George Edmunds to appear at the next Washington County District Court term starting March 2 1891. Plaintiff Mary Ann Lizzie Edmounds seeks a divorce on grounds of abandonment and cruel treatment filed February 12 1890. Witness Clerk A M at Brenham February 16 1891.
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