No. 1 No. 3 No. 2 No. 4 Leaves at Early Morning
Brief dispatch notes trains No 1 No 2 No 3 and No 4 depart. Times given 1:05 a m and 9:05 a m with east bound service indicated in the timetable style.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1898
Page
3
Brief dispatch notes trains No 1 No 2 No 3 and No 4 depart. Times given 1:05 a m and 9:05 a m with east bound service indicated in the timetable style.
Residents report visitors from Galveston Waco and Marlin. several rental ads and sale notices appear including rooms for rent a Columbus buggy and a second hand puckleboard. The city tax rolls show total property value 1 333 400 up 95 012 from last year.
A Madisonville Meteor report surveys farmer views on boll worms damaging cotton. Some growers note light impact and promising yields while others report significant harm. overall outlook suggests the county will produce more cotton than harvest capacity.
Reports from Bryan include Gibbs traveling home via Edna after the Madisonville reunion, Read John M Caldwell advertising a removal sale at Read's drugstore after August 1881, and G Parsons selling fountain drinks and candy. News mentions livery services at Gooch's and a Free Baptist revival with seven accessions.
Seattle August reports detail the loss of eight people when the river steamer Jessie belonging to the Columbian Exploration Company foundered in the Kuskokwim river Alaska during a storm on July 28. The barge Minerva, loaded with supplies, was in tow and Indians later recovered wreckage and supplies, with all aboard believed lost.
Dr Bacon Saunders of Ft Worth and GA McGregor of St Louis arrive alongside Sol Bellitz of Cincinnati A H Sneed of Memphis Frank Callbeck from St Louis W D Herring of Waco A Ritter from Philadelphia 8 M Boone of Dallas W A Wilson of Nacogdoches J M Morgan of Philadelphia Homer Lamkin from Caldwell arrive at the Exchange Hotel as a guest cohort.
Real estate sale note invites bargain hunters to view multiple houses and plots across several blocks including 5 houses on block 124 west of G S Parker’s gin, 1 house on blocks 6 and 7 in block 165, 2 acres and 85 acres of land within two miles of Bryan with good improvements.
Houston reports Private Walters of company A fourth regiment Texas volunteers died at the hospital tent.
A candidate seeks another term as justice of the peace in Brazos County Precinct 4 at the upcoming November election. The notice indicates intent to run for re-election.
The court heard a proposal to join Madison county to buy the Bundick bridge over the Navasota river and make it free. A joint committee will meet Aug 17 to assess condition and value with Madison County offering $250 of the $400 price. Brazos would contribute $150 and repair the main bridge if the deal proceeds.
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