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Newspaper
Brenham Weekly Banner
Location
Brenham, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1879
Page
3
The calaboose will be moved about 35 feet east on Monday to create an alley through the jail block for fire access to the new engine house from east and west streets. City council approves 20 cents per day for feeding prisoners. sheriff gets 30 cents.
The Presbyterian church on Main Street west of the Santa Fe crossing will be a 40 by 60 foot frame building at about 4000 dollars. J W Webb has secured the contract and has begun work on the site.
The Texas Greenbacker issued by Stallings and Dixon Brenham appears Friday as a seven column paper with half printed in Brenham and half in Dallas as a patent inside. The Baxxer offers support, while not agreeing politically. Community notices include Campbell Giddings new grocery in Connell’s building west of the Opera House and free city delivery. Local crime, rail and church progress, jail counts and school enrollment are reported along with weather, grain receipts, and Santa Fe grade work.
Inde pendence Sept 79 issue reports on courtroom crowding by black residents, a knife fight over gambling, a bee-tree accident injuring John Mitchell, thefts of horse gear, and community updates. It notes church, college, and school events, rainfall between Independence and Brenham, a drought affecting a gin, and local rail line planning near Mills.
Journal notes from Nelsonsville and nearby communities record cotton ginning outputs by Lewis Manley and Lindeman, local prices, and plans for the C and M railroad survey to Brenham. News covers temperance circles, rippling gossip, weather, camp meetings, a barbec ue at the Baptist church, and remarks on public sentiment toward a teetotaler figure.
D W Bloomburgh and Co announces new stock of fall and winter dress goods silks serges bunting cashmeres trimming and other items just received with latest novelties at competitive prices Brenham residents are invited to view the largest and best selected stock in town.
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