Local notices crowd Bryan with visits and sales plugs
Ian Try Lemp promotes Falstaff beer at Read's Drug Store as J H Allen and Whit Doremus visit Hearne and Houston respectively. Advertisements urge Blue Ribbon cigars at Read's and Lewis Mike’s cigars at the Exchange hotel. Photographs from Farmers Congress sell at Carter's Studio while Rev Shettles lists Methodist services. Local residents from Macy Brazos bottom Leon county Navasota Wheelock and Madisonville are noted among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Mike
Exchange Hotel
E. Grieser
Eddleman
Frank Wilson
Brazos
Texas Tobacco
Read’s
Tip Holloman
Leon County
Navasota
Jewel Howard
Christian Church
Bryan
Madisonville
Third Regiment
Lamar Bethea
Lufkin
Kate Hodge
Carter
Bryan College game misreported. Bryan gains win 18 to 11
The Eagle misdated the Bryan College baseball result, giving the College the victory though Bryan led 18 to 11. Net receipts were 34.75 dollars, later donated to the cemetery association by Mr. Mike Derden.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
Eagle
Mike Derden
Ladies
The
Cemetery Association
College and
Social gatherings enliven Bryan area with dances and parties
About twenty youths enjoyed a tackye at Mrs. F C Zennati's home with Marvin Baker and Miss Kittie Upright winning first prizes. Claude Walker hosted a party for Miss Cora McMillen and Misses Stella Higgs and Bertha Higgs with fifteen couples attending. Irma Collins and Ray Montgomery entertained ten couples for George Norrell Jr. at the Mitchell home. Methodist ladies held a cake party raising about 15 dollars. J A Myers hosted a lawn party for Alice Myers and Lucy Wilson drawing two hundred guests. Milton Parker and Jack Gordon's gathering for fifty couples featured music, dancing, games, and a authors guessing contest with prizes to Miss Hettie Smith and Ben Read. Refreshments followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F.C. Zennati
Marvin Baker
Kittie Upright
Tom Cammack
Jessie Andrews
Claude Walker
W. H. Walker
Cora McMillen
Franklin
Stella
Bertha Higgs
Irma Collins
Ray Montgomery
Claude Mitchell
George Norrell Jr
Houston
Methodist Church
J. N. Cole
J. A. Myers
Alice Myers
Lucy Wilson
Bryan
Milton Parker
Jack Gordon
Hettie Smith
Ben Read
Hotel Arrivals and Local Notices From 1901
A mixture of hotel guest names from Houston to Chicago listed in arrivals, plus local classifieds including sale of display cases, cotton bale news at Caldwell, Postal Telegraph Co move to McDougald’s drug store, job ads for a 15 to 18 year old in a dry goods store, a Dum’s 5 and 10 cent store ad, and a rental request for a seven room house east of the railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. McCoy
Sol Mabry
Thomas Tarver
James Webster
Quince Lewis
John Robinson
Jas. Tarver
Jim Walker
Lee
R. A. McCoy
Macy
John M. Caldwell
Burleson County
Bryan
Caldwell
Caldwell News-Chronicle
Postal Telegraph Co
McDougald
Maddox
Care Eagle
Dum
Zennati Block
E. A. Berry
J. A. Myers
Also Mentioned on This Page
China
Victoria Dinner Ware
Dansby
Ian
Lemp
J. H. Allen
Hearne
Smoakers
McDougald's
Tf Whit Doremus
J. F. Parks
Read's
Huyler’s Candy Depot
McDougald’s Drug Store
E. J. Beard
Town
W. M. Echols
Tim Echols
Farmers’ Congress
E. L. Shettles
Franklin Bros
Sanders Bros. & Co
MacDougald’s
Carrie
Clara Jelough
Teibeut Skains
Wheelock
Ernest Colson
Iola
J. L. Alen
Yourit
Bryange
Thompson
Burt
Christian Endeavor and Epworth League
R. M. Wilson
Jewell Howard
Hudspeth
Bryan and Macy Road
Henry Hudspeth
Guy Harris
Bob Nichols
Morning Eagle
E L Fountain
A T Reynolds
Longview
J V Matson
Hubbard City
M W McCraw
New Orleans
J T McGuffey
Walter Jackson
Brookhaven
Geo. EK Thomas
St Louis
W H Diggs
Cincinnati
M C Cornell
Baltimore
Geo Mansfield
Chicago
Geo H Persons
B Hellman
la Grange
Claude V Burkhead
Waco
Central
A. J. Seaton
E C Colson
W F Riley
Dr. Meads
Edge
Roe Edge
Burton
J R Foster
J W Mathis
Reliance
R L Wright
Austin
L P Maddle
Neal
Joni
Ms. Lawrence & Co
Nabors Brohers
K. H. James
Ithe
Hite Nansook
Ss Ladies Fancy Umbrella
M. Bonneville
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