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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1902
Page
3
Northbound No 10 at 10:20 a m. Northbound No 3 at 1:27 p m. Northbound No 6 at 2:15 a m. Southbound No 2 at 2:00 p m. Southbound No 4 at 4:16 p m. Southbound No 6 at 2:46 a m. Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations.
I G N schedule lists northbound passenger No 104 leaving to connect with east and west movements at 1 44. Southbound No 101 arrives at 7 10 p m No 102 leaves for San Antonio at 7 30 a m No 103 arrives from San Antonio at 4 00 p m.
R G Tabor went to Marlin yester i we Miss Adele Dodson visiting Courtney. Mrs M Proctor invites inquiries for house rent 212. Mrs J G Harrison of College visiting Waco. Wells Kirkland of Houston visited Bryan yesterday. Clyde Donn and Glenn McCorquo dale left for Vinton La. Mrs Will Rhodes and her daughter of Denison visiting relatives. Hing phone 242 for bicycle repairs. Earl Beard and J A Tobias of Rusk county visiting Ella Ramsey near Bryan. Franklin Brossell markets refrigerated meats at their own plant. Miss Mamie Todd returned from Dim mitt West Texas. Dr Long treats eye ear nose throat at Wilson Jenkins drug store 238. Mr and Mrs Jeff Conway left for Lufkin after visiting here. Howell Bros sell fresh roasting ears and peppers at 212. Contests for premiums at the fair discussed. Jerome Harrison of College inspecting oil pumps for Southern Pacific. Cary Lowery resigns post office job to attend A and M College. Mrs N H Carr returns to West after visit to Rev S C Martin Steep Hollow. For Sale two driving horses one saddle horse. Apply to Dr J N Goodwin Wellborn or Bryan 217. Franklin Bros offer refrigeration and meat hauling. Mr D L Foster had a runaway with watermelons, was thrown out but not seriously injured.
The Bryan Eagle calls Bevan business men to a vigorous systematic campaign as the fall and winter trade approaches. It argues that past advertising, including wage list ads and circulars, built Bryan’s patronage and must be renewed to keep or grow business. The piece links local ads to town prosperity and warns that reduced advertising signals shrinking commerce.
A large grove revival led by African Methodists closed after three weeks with 72 additions, 62 by baptism. Notables included Rev. R. Deal of Palestine and Revs. A. Gordon, W. C. Boyd of Martin, and others. About two thousand attended the closing service amid orderly conduct and local lunch stands thriving. A separate notice warns trespassers after railroad tank leasing.
Ten counties report for Choctaw chief race showing T. W. Hunter ahead by about 300 votes over Green McCurtain with a 266 margin at two headquarters. Mountain counties Cedar through Boktoklo remain to hear from, race deemed close and likely to hinge on official count.
From Winita Oklahoma Aug 8 returns show the treaty adopted by a large majority. Early districts Delaware and Coowees-coowee are expected to push the overall margin beyond two thousand votes.
Wilberforce Ogden, 21, son of Newark businessman William Ogden, has been missing from his father’s Chatham home since Monday. Friends search day and night, draining rivers and ponds and exploring swamps. He recently left a Vermont seminary after illness and melancholia, partially dressed and with medicine bottles emptied, with sightings near Afton and the Orange mountains before vanishing.
A 17 year old black youth named Benton was lynched near Homer Louisiana for alleged criminal assault on a 4 year old child of D W Fortson. Benton was captured after the crime, tied to a tree limb, dragged by a horse, and shot multiple times. The child is reported to recover. In Portland Oregon a $4100 reward for Harry Tracy’s body faces delays as claimants and potential court action complicate payment.
Lee Smith, a man traveling with his mother and brothers, died after being struck on the Katy rail line at the first bridge south of Sterrett Denison reports. He went onto the right of way to gather grass for his team when the accident occurred.
Rawlins Wyoming August 8 Democratic state convention nominates T J Beck for governor with platform backing popular US Senate elections compulsory labor arbitration municipal utilities public utility powers interstate commerce overhaul and anti free transportation by officials. Oklahoma City August 8 Mayor Jones buys Arkansas Valley and Western railroad stock for eastern capitalists who plan road to Enid via Red Fork and Creek nation.
San Francisco Aug 8 Robert Downing the actor has obtained a divorce from Eugenie Blair his stage wife. He testified that she deserted him in November 1898 and the decree was granted on his and his daughter's testimony.
Rome August 8 The pope notified European reigning houses that no more dispensations for consanguineous marriages will be granted and urged royal personages to wed outside royal families to curb degeneration.
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