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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1902
Page
4
A train timetable lists northbound No 1 at 6m to 10 20 am northbound No 8 at 1 27 pm northbound No 6 at 2 13 am southbound No 3 at 2 00 pm southbound No 4 at 4 16 pm southbound No 6 at 2 4 am Nos 8 and 4 described as fast trains stopping only at principal stations
A flurry of visitors and residents travel through Bryan with numerous calls to hostels and city services. Names include Chancie Kernole Miss Fannie Patterson L. J. Cox John S Williamson Chas N Williamson Miss Mary Lincoln A Harris Pr R H Wilson and J C Allen as well as callers from St Louis Houston Waco Pine Bluff and Louisiana. The city notes sales ads and upcoming events including a corner stone laying at the Methodist church and a Bryan Wheelock baseball game schedule.
Three weddings occurred Sunday near Iola in Grimes County. W. E. Wren of Bryan married Mrs. O. C. Camp at Boon church with Rev. Richard Guerrant officiating. Elder H. E. Kelly united Miss Ethel Woods with James Woods daughter at the Woods home, Elder M. R. Kelly performing the ceremony. A third couple was wed, names not learned. Mr. and Mrs. Wren returned to Bryan and are at home to friends. Mrs. Wren had previously lived in Bryan and friends welcome her back.
The next sale of lots along the I and G N line will be at Penelope Hill county ten miles north of LeRoy August 14. The railroad offers a round trip fare of $2.00 from Bryan to Penelope with tickets on sale for trains arriving the morning of August 14. Limit August 14.
The Methodist ladies host a Tacky Party for children on Friday August 8 at Mrs. Jim Webb's from 5 30 to 8. Admission is 15 cents or two for a quarter with prizes to be awarded. Also Baptist ladies serve cream and cake August 6 at Mrs. Henry Kohde’s from 5 to 8 30. Admission 15 cents or 25 cents for two. Everyone invited. Dr David F Houston president of A and M college arrived from Austin Sunday night. Madame Rose and Madame Mary Ignatius of Ursuline convent went to Galveston yesterday. Prof H Ness returned from Wootan Wells. Charlie Hill arrived from Borden county. Rev I Z Morris of Ft Worth is in the city.
Regular meeting of the Knights of Pythias lodge tonight at 8:30 o clock. Members are requested to attend. R. W. Howell, C. Omitted title and initials.
Dallas Aug. 4 The Dallas Commercial Club and Dallas county commissioners invite state leaders and all interested in highways to a Good Roads Convention in Dallas on Sept. 30 during the state fair. Governor, legislators, judges and local officials may attend with special rail rates. James Wilson of the U S Department of Agriculture is to be invited to speak. press urged to publicize the call.
In Manila cholera is easing while provincial reports show a heavy toll. Last Saturday 605 cases and 525 deaths were recorded in the provinces. Since the outbreak began, the archipelago tallies 21,408 cases and 16,105 deaths, with estimates 28,000 total deaths. Forty eight Americans and 18 Europeans have died in Manila.
A fierce storm in southwestern Iowa Sunday brought hail across eastern Pottawatomie and western Cass counties, ruining corn fields along a several mile strip. In Avoca a lightning strike destroyed an elevator owned by the Des Moines Elevator Co, with losses estimated at fifty thousand dollars for the building and its grain.
Captain W M Brown a Virginian and Confederate veteran and Washington and University graduate died in Austin. He served in Texas commerce after the war and was elected a controller in 1881, later holding various trusted posts and occupying a desk in the controller’s department at death. He was married to Miss Dill of Austin who survives him.
A Sunday blaze in Lancaster Kentucky destroyed the Hotel Garrard the opera house W A Arnold’s livery stable nine horses and twelve vehicles Burnett & Co. shoe and clothing establishment and F P Brisbie’s drug store Years loss estimated around 50000 with insurance about 20000
News in brief reports a New Orleans electrical workers strike victory raising pay to 3.00 per day, Denison raspberry earnings of 300 per acre, a Granger man’s double suicide during temporary insanity, Trinity county going dry, a Waco boy’s fatal pony accident, Ardmore hotter than 111 degrees, lawyer Tully Cornick’s Knoxville death, Pedro Alvarez’s 12 year sentence for assault in Gonzales, Navarro county cotton receipts, a Magnolia lynching attempt, grasshoppers in Denison, Alhambra hotel fire in Atlanta injuring two, Chicago grave diggers striking, New York mosquito control plan, Steve Walton’s arrest in Austin, McLennan flood losses, Corsicana’s new compress opening by Sept 15.
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