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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1908
Page
5
Train schedule notes for H and T C and G N lines list arrival and departure times for north and south bound services. Entries include No 5 North bound at 1 38 pm No 2 South bound at 12 46 am No 9 South bound at 3 40 pm No 102 North bound at 1 2 54 pm No 101 South bound at 4 14 pm.
Numerous locals and visitors are listed as being in the city yesterday or recently, including J. B. Barnes of Tabor, Martin of Bethel, Higgins of Rosprim, Bullock of Harvey, White of Wixon, Tom McCallum of Tabor, J. H. Reed of Harvey, Misses Irene and Madeline Dillard, and many others. The notices also mention business visitors, travelers to Dallas and Houston, and various property and lumber sales led by A. J. Wagner & Co.
Jas Mitchell and niece Deed Weddington returned to Fort Worth with plans for visits. Clarke Winslow and wife left Galveston after visiting relatives. A W Boyder hosted by D D Dawson with Maggie Dawson accompanying return to Wellborn. R H Brogdon plans to move his family to Beaumont. Jno M Caldwell returned from Houston with samples of Pichard china. Rev J B Turrentine led a successful Wixon meeting. 22 joined Methodist and 5 Free Baptist. Sunday school organized. community revival noted.
Delegates to the county convention were read at 3 PM after canvass of returns. The committee of Mooring Holden Lipscomb prepared lists for state senatorial congressional and judicial conventions with one vote per 500 primary votes.
The report was unanimously adopted by the committee and the convention discharged the committee. Jno. M. Lawrence Jeff Castles P. H. Arrington served as the main participants with alternates John Kosarek J C Blume and Ed Crenshaw. The convention then adjourned.
Mr. Jack Conway, in precarious condition for a week, was taken from his home to town then to Galveston with Mrs. Conway Dr. G W Emory and Will Brewer. In Galveston he will be treated in a private sanitarium and, if conditions permit, an appendicitis operation may be performed.
Constable Baker reported a Friday night drag out led to five or six more inmates in the county jail. All detained are colored and charged with various misdemeanors. More arrests followed yesterday and the full docket should reach the next session of justice court. Reverend Ferguson closed a revival at Wellborn with six accessions to the Free Baptist church, five by baptism, in a well attended service.
NOTICE MEMBERS There will be an important meeting of the members of the new lake club tomorrow afternoon Monday at 3 oclock at the law office of W C Davis All members are requested to be present S H Dunlap Secretary Wanted Three rooms for light housekeeping by couple with one child two years old References given Fm required Phone No 20 Jenkins Drug Store
Chicago police believe the abductor in Veronica Cassidy’s disappearance may be identical to the killer in Eleanor Maud Fuller’s 1902 murder in San Francisco. Cassidy, 12, left with a man calling himself F L Blair after answering a newspaper ad. Fuller was lured by a similar ad and murdered by Charles B Hadley.
A movement in Marion G Aug 1 launches public fundraising to build a mammoth U S battleship. Owen Gray of the Grand Army of the Republic post at Larne urges the national government name the vessel Grand Army of the Republic to honor Civil War veterans.
President Roosevelt and Secretary Wright decide the cadets dismissed from the United States military academy for hazing will be reinstated with punishment administered by the academy's disciplinary method.
Two armed pirates rowed to the Alaska Packers association fish trap near Point Roberts south of Bellingham Washington August 1. They disarmed the watchman bound and gagged him and carried off 5000 salmon valued at 2000 dollars. They also released 25000 in addition to the fish and escaped.
At dawn Virgil, Tom, and Robert Jones and Joe Riley were dragged from Russellville jail and hanged from a tree on the Russellville pike. A note warned Black residents to stop attacking white people after a white farmer James Cunningham was killed by his Black tenant Rufus Browder. The lynching followed the suspected crime and lodge endorsement, with Browder later moved to Bowling Green and Louisville.
A summer vacation program offers a round trip fare to all principal tourist points. Tickets go on sale July 30, 31 and August 1, 2 with a 25 day limit. Stopovers allowed at pleasure. For routes rates and sleeping car info contact the ticket agent I. & G. N. nk 216.
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