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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1901
Page
4
The great annual reunion of ex- Confederates will be held in Dallas next April and preparations have begun to make it a grand success. Also noted: seven killed and seventy five injured in the recent U S football season, acorns in Lamar county sold for feed, and a fraud soap stand scam warned to readers.
Mr. R. M. Connor of Bryan to wed Miss Bessie Harvey of Hempstead this afternoon at the bride’s mother's home. The bride, a Hempstead public schools teacher, is praised as cultured and refined. Connor, a Bryan cotton company manager, is well known and highly regarded in the area. The reporter learned of the plan yesterday at the depot, and officials join in congratulating the couple.
A stranger finished a house to house canvass in Brenham and swindled housewives out of perhaps $100, drawing police attention. The incident underscores a street scam that exploits trust and local residents. Investigators urge vigilance and report any similar contact.
Mose Westbrook and Neil Montgomery shipped ten cars of cattle from this county fed on cotton seed hulls and molasses mixed. The feeders report very satisfactory results. The cattle head to the Northern markets.
Hoyt's Comedy Company opens a week long season at the Opera House starting Monday night December 23. Raymond and Miss Claire Summers lead the company with a repertoire of comedies and dramas promising clean, up to date performances. Prices 10 20 and 50 cents with matinee 10 and 20 cents ladies free Monday if with a paid reserved seat. Entire change of play and specialties each night. Advertising mentions Silver Crown venue and local merchants Dunn Daly Taylor Cox A McKenzie's. Read Caldwell's holiday ad.
At a New York meeting of the Westminster Presbyterian church members indorsement and advocacy of a proposed constitutional amendment to outlaw polygamy nationwide. Rev. N. E. Clemenson of Ligon Utah spoke of polygamy seen on his street and Mormon practices after Utah statehood. He warned Idaho faces greater danger due to lax Mor mon attention and celestial marriage. Mrs. W. P. White has spent years in missionary work.
Notice to the Public. Fireworks including canton creckers Roman candles and all kinds will be strictly prohibited in the business part of the city and around the cotton yards during the holidays. City Marshal T. P. Boyer announces enforcement under Bryan ordinances and state laws. The rest of the text reviews a magician at the Grand opera house and a variety act by McWatters Tyson’s company with Herrmann’s first appearance.
Houston and Texas Central railroad announces low excursion rates from all main line and branch points to destinations in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Illinois, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Colorado, and major centers of Mexico. Tickets on sale December 21 22 23 with a thirty day time limit from sale. Contact agents or S Fr Morse P.T. M or M L Robbins G P T A Houston TX.
Smoke Silver Crown cigars praised as the best 5 cent cigar in the state. No 10 cent cigar outdoes Silver Crown. Dunn & Daly and Taylor & Cox sell them. Mr C P Hobgood of San Marcos rents a building from Mrs C M Proctor and will open there March 1. Proctor will move millinery stock January 1. Hobgood also rents Mrs A B Carr's cottage in front of the Hartman house and will reside there. For Rent store on main street Zannatti block apply to James Dum.
Advertises Quinoria claimed to cure chills fever or malaria in four days at 50 cents per package. Mentions M. H. James leading druggist Bryan Texas and Wilson Jenkins Dry Co with a call for prompt pickup of packages.
The piece recounts a woman’s claim that a local schoolhouse was attacked by a mob and accuses the Mormon church of political control over seven western states. She asserts their marriage system of colonizing doubtful states would expand to thirteen states, making abolition of polygamy impossible without civil war.
New York reports Herbert Squiers secretary of the U S legation in Pekin arrived on the Barbarossa from Bremen. He acted for the government with the Chinese foreign office in minister Conger’s absence and is noted for owning a valued art collection outside China, estimated around 200000 dollars, mainly rare old porcelains.
London reports the king and queen will spend Christmas at Sandringham with many royal family members. A shooting party will gather Monday as fashionable society heads to the country. Despite the South African war and mourning, the nation plans celebrations with renewed zeal.
Oakland California December 21 John J Valentine president of the Wells Fargo and Co s Express died at 1 30 o'clock this morning after a period of illness that had been expected for several days.
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