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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1901
Page
2
The Methodist church Indies stage a Doll Bazaar at Webb Bros Store with dolls on display for sale. A doll to be named by vote will win for a Bryan girl, and ten cent votes are sold at the bazaar or voting box. Voting ends Tuesday noon December 24 with results announced daily in the Bryan Eagle.
Weather turns cold with rain turning sleet and a sharp freeze, while Harvey residents anticipate an early spring boon for crops. Bright Light church nears completion as students return to school after illness among Miss Hellie Jones and others. The Academy forms a football team under Prof. George Arnold, and T. J. Jones with family plan to settle near the area. Mrs. Berry Gandy visits Rock Prairie for her sister Miss Emma Jones, with Dr. George Lee visiting Saturday. Icicle signs off wishing a merry Christmas and New Year.
Kurten records very cold conditions with no Sunday preaching due to weather. J R Steward visited J R Zimmerman. Local families attended the wedding of Miss Mattie Zimmerman and Walter Edge of Cottonwood, with best wishes for a long life. In Pittsburg a Southern traction car derailed on Mt Washington, injuring several and wrecking a livery stable. all injured are expected to recover.
The column lists names of gentlemen and ladies as letters remaining for the Bryan post office for the week ending December 17 with one cent charge per advertised piece and instruction to say advertised when calling for letters. An accompanying Rex Dyspepsia Tablets advertisement from M. H. James in Bryan Texas promises refunds if not cured.
A naturalist returning from Central America reports webs six feet across with long brace threads. He notes spiders of monstrous size that could entangle birds. Meanwhile in Perugia a traveler reads English books by an author named Bart, actually the binders misattributing titles to Sir Walter Scott and Bulwer-Lytton as one author.
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