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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1902
Page
2
Northbound trains No 8 and No 6 run fast with limited stops while Nos 2300 and 4 stop at principal stations. Southbound No 2300 and No 6 depart at 4 16 p m and 2 46 a m respectively with Nos 8 and 4 fast and limited stops.
Local news items list visits by B Seigle to Galveston and others in Marlin and Houston, arrivals from Navasota for cotton, and multiple social notices. Mentions Oscar Hall of Leon County in the city, Florence Ware of McKinney visiting Alice Myers, and Col. Lanham’s city visit with Adams. Also ads for cotton seed meal at McGee's Feed Store, and Franklins Bros refrigerated meats. The Bryan Light Guards plan a Wednesday meeting. Lost horn notice. various families visiting Marble Walls and Waco.
The railroad tank leased by private parties is closed to the public. All persons are warned not to bathe or trespass on the grounds. Violators will be prosecuted. M. Parker, President. H. A. Burger, Secretary.
For Rent one two story brick building on Main street and one brick building with three vacant fenced lots on Bryan street. Eight rent houses in Go city limits for sale. Apply to 217 Mrs. Z. Bonneville.
Manager Mike announces the theatrical season opens at the Grand on Monday night September 1 with the Marie Fountain Theater company in a week long engagement. The Houston press praises the company now touring there. Manager Schwarz praises the opening crowd and the show. Improvements include a new drop curtain and refurbished dressing rooms. Forty attract ions booked to date for the coming season.
The letter to the Eagle from Judge Ford complains of hours of continuous steam whistle blasts on the I and G N railroad track that disturb sleep and disrupt life in the southern Bryan neighborhoods. He cites San Antonio and other towns with ordinances banning whistle blowing within city limits and urges Bryan to adopt such an ordinance quickly.
An important regular meeting of the Business League will be held at 8:30 at E. of P. hall. The election of officers and discussion of levee plans for the Brazos river make attendance essential for all members and interested persons.
A pair of youthful highway robbers terrorized the Monterey road near Linvale and Gilroy, raiding Heples store at Coyote for cartridges, wounding a bystander, and escaping toward Stevens store before a posse halted them. One robber was fatally shot. the other surrendered after a running gunfight. The incident ended with arrests and a dramatic suicide by the surviving bandit.
A Sunday morning wind storm in Kansas City Missouri lasting about thirty minutes caused shattered plate glass, torn signs, demolished awnings, and uprooted trees. Rain and lightning damaged buildings, with fifty two mph gusts for seven minutes and 0.45 inches of rain in fifteen minutes. Fire department restored damage as warehouses and structures across the city and nearby Kansas faced extensive roof loss.
New York Aug 11 Mrs Eliza Young longtime stage actress died Sunday at the Actors Fund home in West New Brighton Staten Island. She fell two weeks ago breaking a hip and was nearly 92 years old.
News in Brief reports Texarkana will have a trolley system as a new company forms with $100,000 capital. Other items note Marion Martindale escaping Anson jail by a wall hole, Tyler building a $6500 school, 17,000,000 Russian children deprived of schooling, a Nancy Hanks monument dedication at Lincoln on Oct 1, and a Waco fly plague harming stock.
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