Texans Near the Top in Texas Stock Judging
Telegram from W. Forest reports the Agricultural and Mechanical stock judging team in Chicago places Texas near the leaders. Prizes are possible for the Texas team. Prof. J. D. Crosby visits College and speaks on agricultural education. Dormitory natatorium and veterinary hospital contracts signed. Stevenson-Kenyon of Dallas subcontracts to Fell & Armsworth of Waco. Total cost about 80,000 dollars.
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W. Forest
Chicago
Texas
J. D. Crosby
Department of Agriculture
Washington
Alvord
Crosby
Terrell
Tex
Prairie View
Harrington
Stevenson-Kenyon Construction Company of
Dallas
Fell & Armsworth
Waco
Local Social Notes and Real Estate Move In Town
Miss Kate Harris travels to San Antonio after visiting Mrs. W. T. James. Miss McInnis and Miss May Herbert Wilson return from visiting Miss Bessie Seale at Benchley. Morris Furniture Co. relocates to the Zennetti Block from the Exchange hotel area. Mrs. J. W. Johnson, Mrs. J. W. Doremus and Mrs. F. B. Garth attend the State United Daughters of the Confederacy meeting in Austin. For Rent five room house near east side Graded School apply to Mrs. Mary Lawrence. 310.
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Kate Harris of
McInnis
May Herbert Wilson
Bessie Seale
Benchley
J. W. Johnson
J. W. Doremus
F. }. Garth
Austin
United Daughters of the Confederacy
East Side
Mary Lawrence
Elks Plan Dance for A. and M. College Football Team
Bryan Lodge of Elks awards appreciation to the A. and M. College football team with a December 13 social at the Elks Club. The event includes a dance and luncheon and features appointed committees for arrangements invitations reception and decorations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan Lodge
Elks
A. & M. College
J. A. Myers
A. W. Wilkerson
A. M. Waldrop
Lodge
O. E. Saunders
O. S. Johnson
R. W. Howell
T. K. Lawrence
W. 8. Howell
H. C. Robinson
Tyler Haswell
Geo. A. Adams
Wilson Bradley
Jnc
B. Hines
J. A
A. A. Farley
J. E. Butler
J. R. Astin
J. W. Carson
Luypheon
Chain
Jessie Garth
Nellie Smith
G. M. Brandon
Lucy Beard
Geo. W. Smith
F. C. Oliver
L. L. Stevens
Methodist pastors form group in Dallas County
Governor Cummins vows no prize fights in Iowa during his term. Clarence Gyred found unconscious beside Paris county courthouse in Texas and dies. Freight wreck near Bridgeport, Texas kills J. B. Stemmons of St. James Minnesota. Clay B. Stratton, 32, lumberman and alderman of Cleburne, Texas, dies.
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Dallas County
Cummins
Iowa
Clarence Gyred
Paris
Tex
Bridgeport
J. B. Stemmons
St. James
Minn
Clay B. Stratton
Cleburne
Confederate Daughters Texas Division Meet in Austin
The twelfth annual convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy Texas division convened in Austin for a three day session in the senate chamber. Officers preside, welcomes delivered, credentials report shows 55 chapters represented with 17 proxies and 120 delegates. Ouster suit against the Pullman company in the Twenty sixth district court was continued due to docket congestion with several Pullman officials present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Austin
Daughters of the Confederacy
Texas Division
Senate
B B. Throop
Albert Sydney Johnston
Joel H. B. Miller
Southland
F. W. Smith
Throop
Maddox
W. R. Hamby
John B. Hoodcamp
B D.aCrton
University of Texas
Shaver
San Marcos
Daughters of the Republic
Kate Gerais Weaver
Waco
Mesdames Roberdeau
Brownlee
Baugh
Crawford
W. E. Austin
R. Dibrell
Cornelia Branch Stone
Galveston
Seabrook Snyder
Houston
Weaver
Lillie Shaver
M. Wheeler
Victoria
C. J. Hamil
Longview
John Reagan
Palestine
Pullman Company
Twenty-sixth District Court
Pullman
Taft Arrives in St Petersburg Amid Curiosity
Secretary of War William Howard Taft and his party reached St Petersburg from Moscow and were greeted by officials and crowds. Taft planned to visit the Duma but late arrivals prevented attendance. Russian papers denied any shift in policy and emphasized friendship with the United States.
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St. Petersburg
W. H. Taft
Moscow
Staion
Cofwer
Count Konitz
Taft
Hotel de Europe
Douma
Russia
Rusia
Vladivostok
Amerca
Sanitary congress opens with twelve republics represented
Twelve American countries attend the third international sanitary congress in Mexico City with Dr. Eduardo Licero urging an extended fight against tuberculosis. Dr. Walter Wyman for the United States says the meeting can push western Hemisphere sanitary measures forward for world health. An evening banquet followed at the municipal palace with remarks by the mayor. Fire fatality in New York on Bleeker Street leaves Herman Steigert dead and three firefighters overcome by smoke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of Mexico
Third International Sanitary Congress
Treasury Department
National Palace
Ramon Carol
Eduardo Licero
National Board of Health
Walter Wyman
United States
Western Hemisphere
Superior Board of Health
New York
Bleeker Street
Herman Steigert
Train Wreck Near Marion Kills Engineer with Wreckers Suspected
An east bound Southern Railway passenger train derailed near Marion Alabama after striking a broken rail. Engineer Frank Little was killed with the fireman fatally injured. No passengers were hurt despite evidence of wreckers. Blood hounds were not on the trail. Taft Visits Kremlin in Moscow on December 2.
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Montgomery
Southern Railway
Marion
Ala
Frank Little
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Hon. W. R. Ta
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Loss Bros. & CO
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Brandon
Baltimore
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