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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1908
Page
4
Railroad time cards show north and south bound schedules for HR T Co and G N lines. Local notices report Mr and Mrs Pete Winter leaving for Seabrook, Dr J F Eaves visiting Galveston and Mexico, and many residents returning from Beaumont and other towns with ads and rentals in Wheelock and nearby areas.
T W Parker left yesterday to attend the meeting of the State super intendents of public instruction to convene at Austin during the ensuing three days. Chase Hawkins a well known Knight of the Grip on the Central route was in the city yesterday on business for his Galveston house. Mrs J Driver returned from Courtney with her son Osborne who is ill. Ms Cora Griffin who has been seriously ill at Ballinger was brought home Sunday night and is still sick but improving. Miss Earlean Redding of Houston accompanied Miss Griffin home to stay awhile.
New proprietors Winter and Smith have renovated the Main Street gallery opposite the Central depot. The space is repainted upgraded and now offers high standard photo facilities. For August they offer special prices on all services. The firm also represents Anco Kodak and stocks a full line of supplies.
Encouraging bedside news from the hospital describes Mr. Jack Conway undergoing treatment in the Houston Infirmary for appendicitis. He was moved to Houston Saturday night and a successful operation was performed yesterday. He withstood the trip and surgery well and is reported to be improving steadily with rallying signs noted.
A salesman from the Singer Sewing Machine Company promotes a home trial of machines to prove honesty and promise superiority. T. A. Satterwhite, phone 105, represents the firm.
Ladies invited to view the latest fall veil skirts from New Voil. First shipment arrives with prices at 10.00 12.50 and 15.00. Located at 208 Wilson and Derden.
A Brazos county Farmers union meeting accepted R S Taylor's bid to erect a cotton warehouse in Bryan. The site measures 115 by 150 feet on union property in the northern part of town. Construction will use frame timbers and corrugated iron at an approximate cost of 3000 dollars.
Ladies offered the newest fall offerings in fine English voil skirts at Wilson & Derrr.
After Sunday services the First Presbyterian church extended a call to Dr E E Thell of Birmingham Alabama for the pulpit. If he accepts, he will begin duties around October 1st. A separate notice mentions a horse theft arrest of John Spencer at Reagan aided by Sheriff Nall through a postal card method.
In Lincoln on August 3 W J Bryan says his acceptance speech will be brief at about 5300 words. He will not delve into campaign issues at length, reserving deeper discussion for later speeches. Despite the heat he handles campaign mail. many messages praise the outlook and funds grow from Democratic papers reporting rising contributions.
Tokio Aug 3 M Tuuzuk late ambassador to The Hague has been created a baron. Mammoth Woman Expires McKeesport Pa Aug 8 Mrs Annie E Lynch is dead. She weighed 750 pounds.
Fort Worth dispatches report Mrs June Smith, formerly of Fort Worth, died in Lawton Oklahoma after a rock was used to crush her skull. J M Phillips, a Fort Worth relative, is said to have killed himself when surrounded by posses near Faxon. Both bodies sent to Fort Worth for burial. C A Steele arrested on charges of complicity.
The Lincoln Typographical union voted to make W. J. Bryan an honorary member with near unanimity. To balance concerns about politics entering the union Governor Sheldon, a Republican allied with labor, was also named an honorary member.
A Sunday riot near Manosatown at a H. C. Frick company plant ended with one man dead and about twenty five others seriously injured. All victims were foreigners, with Italians and Slaves reported as participants.
Garrett P. Serviss notes a Bud dhist legend where a Brahman disguised god tests animals. The hare offers grass, is unable to be eaten, and sacrifices itself by leaping into a fire to save others, becoming the figure in the moon.
A summer vacation excursion via I. & GN. R. R. offers a single fare round trip to major tourist points in Mexico. Tickets go on sale July 30 to August 2 with a 25 day limit and stopovers allowed. Inquiries to ticket agent I. & GN. R. R. 216.
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