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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1901
Page
2
The Nav asota area has exported eight train loads of corn, seven by the Central and one by the Santa Fe, described by local citizens as the best corn shipped here in years, marking a notable uptick in agricultural exports reported by the Navyasota Examiner and carried by The Daily Eagle date August 28, 1901.
Special train via Bryan will sell round trip Galveston fare two dollars, Houston fare one dollar seventy five cents. Depart Galveston 8 PM Sept 1 or 7 AM Sept 2. Houston departure up to 10 AM Sept 2. Rev Jewell Howard reports prayer meeting tonight and Sunday services at the Christian church. Daily lunch 2 to 6 at J A Myers store cooking contest. Ladies invited. 80 Smoke Silver Crown and Little Havana cigars remain best.
Miss Anna Berryman will begin a music class in piano mandolin guitar and voice at the graded school in rooms formerly used for study. She thanks patrons for past support and hopes to keep existing students and attract new ones based on the quality of her work.
The public school announces an examination next Thursday and Friday at the school building starting at o'clock for new pupils and students who failed promotion last May. It urges all intended examinees to be present before school begins and to bring paper ink blotters and pencils. Signed T S Minter Supt.
Farmers in Brazos County held a meeting at the Bryan courthouse to organize a truck growers association. The Bryan Business League backs market gardening and urges more farmers to join, aiming for large early spring truck crops and carloads to attract buyers to local markets.
A private school announces it will open for the fall term on Monday, September 2, and invites public patronage. Also features two advertisement notices for Rex Dyspepsia Tablets and Quinoria with refund guarantees from M H James, Bryan, Texas.
A parade for the Twenty-eighth triennial conclave of the Knights Templars drew about 80 000 plumed knights and up to 100 000 visitors to Louisville. Commanderies from Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Indiana led divisions while Kentucky hosted the grand encampment parade route with police and wire protections. Ex congressman W C P Breckenridge welcomed attendees at the Girls High School before the encampment adjourned to a secret session.
A daring early morning hold up in Nashville ends with gambler Tom Johnson seizing a purse containing 4270 in gold and greenbacks from a banker who was counting tickets. Johnson fled but was chased by porters and caught by a policeman. the money was recovered and Johnson jailed.
San Antonio reports worsening famine in Zapata County with daily starvation deaths as food remains unavailable. Carrizo sent an urgent plea. shipments will take three days to arrive from Laredo, leaving ranchers and residents desperate before supplies reach the area.
A mob in Sapulpa and Stroud Oklahoma drove all black residents from town after an attempted stabbing incident. Homes of two black families were torn down and buildings burned. Deputies arrived in Sapulpa to quell unrest and arrest offenders with orders to send them to Muskogee.
At the Congaree River bridge site, two steel girders weighing 15 tons each fell from a hoist, killing four men and injuring three. Rain likely loosened rope supports. 75 people watched as the accident occurred, with a tugboat rescue of two survivors.
The Navy Department wrote Capt Forsyth seeking clarification of his remarks about the Schley inquiry and the naval command structure after a junior officer was placed over a senior one, a point linked to Sampson and the Spanish war. Cardinal Gibbons greets in Baltimore as crowds hear his addresses lead by Acting Mayor Henry Williams and Charles J Bonaparte. New York reports Southern Pacific plans oil burner tests to evaluate Texas oil as a ship fuel for its fleet.
Brooklyn navy yard readying for September trials of the new Gatchman gun at Sandy Hook. Immense targets costing about $15,000 mimic the Iowa battleship side with armor backed by wood and layers of plates. Inventor hopes two shots will demolish the $30,000 targets.
In Fort Worth on August 27 President Britton and party heard that the Cotton Belt Railway may relocate its headquarters from Tyler. A meeting of Cotton Belt officials and the board of trade discussed the potential move alongside terminal improvements.
St Louis Aug 27 Directiors of the Kansas City Memphis and Birmingham railroad within the St Louis and San Francisco system have elected B F Yoakum as president B L Winchell as vice president and general manager P H Hamilton as secretary and treasurer and L F Parker as general counsel direct from the meeting notes.
Dallas on August 27 reports the city council passing a first reading ordinance restricting sale of cocaine morphine opium and other poisons to prescription use only from licensed physicians. Nashville on August 27 notes turnpike raiders near Goodletsville attempt to wreck two bridges on the Dickerson pike using dynamite. abutments disturbed and two gate houses burned.
Argentine will participate in the Pan-American congress in Mexico City. George Young was killed instantly by a train in Milan Mo. John Cusick a young farmer near Butler Mo committed suicide. no cause is known.
The Millican column reports cotton picking gains as weather stays fair. Fundraising cream entertainment by the cemetery association raises 20 dollars. Local visits include Spann, Holiday, Sellers, Dunlap, Lamden, and White with several trips to Nearby towns. Religious services run in Baptist and Methodist churches with baptisms at Peach Creek and a protracted meeting under Rev. McClung and Rev. Skinner.
A travel advisory promotes summer vacations with stops at Galveston La Porte Seabrook or Port Lavaca. It notes all trains halt in Houston with connections to various railways for Rockport Corpus Christi and Aransas Pass. Local agents quote rates or write to Houston officials for details.
The Episcopal church convention in San Francisco on October 2 features the Sunset route Convention Special train from New Orleans departing September 25 with stops at Houston San Antonio El Paso and Los Angeles. Return routes via Ogden and direct lines. Fares range from 45.00 to 47.50 with sales Sept 19 to 27 and a November 15 option. Descriptive literature available from L J Parks and S F Morse in Houston.
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