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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 28, 1902
Page
7
The timetable lists Northbound trains 104 and 8 with connections to the main line and southbound trains 101 102 103 and 2 4 6. It notes that Nos 3 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations with arrivals and departures at listed times.
Local announcements list visiting residents and travelers in Bryan and nearby towns. Names include Miss Eloise Lusk, Mrs. W. G. Taliaferro, Ira Gooch, Mrs. J. R. Garner, Mrs. Leon Bookman, and Mrs. Ackerman with others passing through or returning from visits to Houston, Calvert, Grapeland, Lexington, and Navasota.
Miss Sue McLelland restarts her music class on Monday September 1 offering piano violin guitar and mandolin. She explains illness prevented personal calls and notes this is her thirtieth year teaching in Bryan linked with the graded school. All patronage appreciated.
Proposals to bid by 8 30 p m Friday Sept 12 for painting city hall or repairing per plans on file in the city secretarys office. Right to reject bids reserved. Notices warn parties who cut grass and blocked drains along streets to remove obstructions or face fines.
Written examination for new pupils and former pupils who failed promotion to be held at the public school building on the last Friday and Saturday in August starting at 8:30 each day. Pupils should bring ink and materials. T S Minter Superintendent Bryan Texas August 18 1902.
Miss Virginia West resumes music instruction at the graded school for the new year beginning with the opening of school. Public patronage is solicited.
The ladies of the Christian church hold a cake sale Saturday August 30 at Mrs Paul Bradleys from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Funds support church activities and community outreach.
President Roosevelt toured Portland Augusta and Me receiving floral tributes from crowds of about 250000. He spoke eight times delivering brief remarks at Lisbon and Brunswick and was greeted by Gov Hill at Portland. At the Blaine mansion in Augusta he spoke forty five minutes from a platform near the historic Blaine residence.
Washington reports that the battleships Connecticut and Louisiana, approved in the last naval appropriation, will feature 45 caliber main turret guns, the longest and most powerful to date, boosting range velocity and penetrating power while allowing muzzles to extend overboard and reduce side blast interference with secondary batteries.
Denison Texas August 27 There was a strike at the Katy shops as machinists helpers in the roundhouse machine shops spring gang and blacksmiths helpers walked out demanding a 25 cent per day raise. An ultimatum was sent to William O Herin Parsons motive power chief and when not met workers quit Monday night. Some black workers refused to take the places of striking men, an unusual feature of the dispute.
Coulter announces a two day sample sale on Thursday and Friday August 28 and 29 at 229 45 W Coulter. Local shoppers urged to attend.
J. Allen Myers advertises Darling and Bucks cook stoves with a trusted, long standing range. Store at 231.
Excitement grips the Panther Creek coal district at Summit Hill Pennsylvania as daybreak sees strikers mobilize to bar non union workers. Major Gearhart dispatches two companies of soldiers by trolley from Manila Park to deter any outbreak and maintain order.
A fire in Honey Grove Texas on South Sixth street destroyed three business houses. Most contents were lost before firefighters contained the flames. Insurance had been canceled about two weeks earlier. total loss not yet tallied.
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