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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1906
Page
2
After the Sunday afternoon service at the Baptist church the city’s Sunday school workers will gather around 4 30 p m to form a visiting committee for the church and community.
Leaders plan the religious census with four district divisions and a committee of canvassers. E B Lomax J L Edge J M Hare and Dr W H Lawrence lead districts with lines at H and IT C railroad and Anderson street.
The plan outlines immediate work to increase church attendance and enlarge membership through a religious census of the town's white residents and expansion of Sunday schools and churches.
The department of entomology receives the gold medal from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis for its card system of rates and records, insect rearing cages, and boll weevil display. The medal, weighing about three and a half ounces, was minted in Philadelphia. The obverse shows Columbia and a youthful maiden with Stars and Stripes, while Napoleon the bee symbolizes France. the reverse features an architectural tablet and two dolphins, crowned by an eagle.
A witty exchange centers on marriage and careful speech. A woman states the suitor must think before speaking, and the young man replies he fears he will never propose. The brief dialogue captures social wit in concise dialogue form.
A brief quotation exchange about kissing by telephone contrasts patience with modern notions. Patrice remarks on the odd sensation likened to a dollar in the mind while Patience suggests a playful dialogue about affection via telecommunication.
Dr W T Poe of Choctaw near Sherman loses a coat with 110 dollars on his porch in Sherman Texas. In Lampasas Texas on April 14 a farmer H Baker is thrown from a wagon wheels pass over him but he escapes with minor injuries after a cedar post wagon rolls.
A Denton resident, R. H. Duggan, reports a hen has adopted a litter of kittens. The tabby cat serves as the foster mother and nurses the kittens while they rest beside the straw nest.
Mrs. Austin, 73, of Warren County Tennessee, visiting her son F. A. Webb in Pilot Point, died from wounds after her clothes ignited by an open fireplace. News from New York reports the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad company has bought the projected Colorado Southern, New Orleans and Pacific line from Houston to Baton Rouge.
W H Milliken a millionaire oil operator from Pennsylvania was arrested in Cleveland Oklahoma on charges of cutting down trees to clear land for his derrick He was bound over to await further proceedings.
In Marlin Texas on April 14 H S Adam a white man accused of criminally assaulting a negro woman was discharged on a preliminary trial and left town. In Greenville April 14 Professor J T Lamm was arrested for attempted criminal assault in Kaufman county and taken to Kaufman.
Dallas reports the Farmers' congress will convene July 10 11 and 12 on the Agricultural and Mechanical College grounds at College Station. The event follows the usual arrangement with the same venue.
Comanche Oklahoma Territory reports the ice factory will be completed and in operation soon. Sherman notes the grand jury returned 148 true bills after a two week session.
Georgetown Texas April 14 John ten year old and his brother Carl living four miles from town witnessed the public hanging of Tom Young on March 20. The boy attempted suicide by rope to the rafters of a barn but the rope broke. He is in paroxysms and not expected to live. Young was hanged for assault and murder of an orphan girl.
Stor en reports that independent custom houses will be owned and operated by livestock growers in Kansas City, South Omaha, St. Joseph, and Chicago. A cooperative commission company with $100,000 capital is planned, shares at $10, limited to fifty shares per bona fide stockman.
The Indian appropriation bill reported by Senate Chairman Clapp lists major increases for construction and repair of schools, new schools and hospitals in Indian Territory, and funds for Kickapoos in New Mexico and Oklahoma. Amendments include prohibiting army officers from serving as Indian agents and setting up tribal court districts and court schedules.
Fire of suspected incendiary origin swept Rodessa Louisiana during a wind storm, destroying the general merchandise store of A C Pitts and four other shops and the post office. The blaze left a total loss of about 50 000 dollars in the business district forty miles north of Shreveport.
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