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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1891
Page
9
Brenham reports Santa Fe excursion trains to the exposition grounds and busy cotton trade figures with near 2000 bales traded on Friday. Speculation on naturalization papers rises as alien land law prompts citizenship filings, while locals plan sales, a new laundry opening, and social events amid varied community updates.
The wedding of O E Newson of Eagle Lake to Jessie V Brooks of Chap pell Hill was held at Chap pell Hill Methodist Church with Rev E W Tarrant officiating. An evergreen floral arch framed the ceremony before a reception at the bride’s home and a 3 am departure train to Galveston for their honeymoon.
In Camptown at Mt. Rose Baptist Church the wedding of Prof. D. Abner Jr. and Ella M. Wheeler took place with a banquet hosted by the I O C F. In court, bonds and several trials were reported including a not guilty verdict for William Berry in Spann murder case and a hung jury in the West Kemp matter. An electric light plant is planned for the McFadden compress with a 15 October turn on.
Plans for a new Baptist church are approved and builder Cordray is contracted to start work soon. Some young members oppose the proposed site on the old church lot, favoring Mr Gee’s Market and Vulcan street corner lot, though the chief objection is a roughly 21500 outlay for the new plot.
The Brenham Light Guard met Friday night and recommended H F. Bruno to Col. Smythe for the Second Regiment regimental quartermaster post. The only other business was accepting an invitation to join the German celebration on the 6th inst. Also notes on a cottage finish on West Main Street, a district court motion in a Lawson McSpadden assault case, typhoid fever in Fritz Harms’s family, Lee county cotton prices, Nerrie Jamison’s return from Alabama, Pleasant Hill school opening with Prof. Richard Huebener, Burns college enrollment near 60, and butter sold by the yard in Cambridge England.
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