Local Post Office Directory Note From Bryan Texas
Brief notice records a second class mail matter entry at the Bryan post office dated February 1 1906 with Carnes and Wallacer as likely agents or publishers listed.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1906
Page
2
Brief notice records a second class mail matter entry at the Bryan post office dated February 1 1906 with Carnes and Wallacer as likely agents or publishers listed.
W P Connelly, elected State Printer, arrived in El Paso on December 17 from Bryan. He and R Young bought and expanded the Miner and Manufacturer Printing Company plant, opening in recent days. He credited Mayor Charles Davis, W W Bridgers, S B Haepeth, and friends for support amid the vacancy after Ed Smith’s death.
El Paso announces that 45 year old printer Connelly will leave within a day or two for Austin to begin his new office. He will keep his El Paso printing place and plans to return after his Austin term. His son Percy T. Connelly remains in El Paso as the family moves. Connelly began printing in Atlanta in 1880s and spent years in Texas, most recently Bryan, before selling that business and his Bryan home.
The Westinghouse Electrical Company of Pittsburg has asked Dr. N H Brown for three graduates from the electrical engineering course. Nine seniors remain in the department and Brown can supply the men. Westinghouse indicates further college assistance will be needed soon.
In Butte Montana on Wednesday the Clark's Button plant suffered a major explosion that destroyed the engine house and smelting works. Senator W A Clark of Montana witnessed the blaze. repairs are expected soon with losses estimated at $500,000, largely uninsured.
Charleston West Virginia January 31 St Albans a town of about 1000 on the river was menaced by a Wednesday fire that drew help from Charleston. The blaze destroyed the opera house the Zerkiel store housing the Bell telephone exchange Herford's store Graves' grocery Mrs Webbs millinery and Rhoeces jewelry and several private residences.
A Delaware and Hudson local passenger train collided headon with a work train four miles west of Schenectady New York. One Italian laborer was killed and two passengers sustained probably fatal injuries. All of the sixty passengers suffered slight injuries.
Nellie Ballard announces her home as a showroom for a wide range of ready to wear garments and piece goods available through the Levy Bros agency in Houston. Interested ladies are invited to phone for arrangements and viewing.
Fort Worth Jan 31 Ochiltree county remains tangled in tax collection fights as new commissioners appointed recently are removed by the district judge on charges of conspiring to prevent taxes. The old commissioners were reinstated in their posts.
Members of the imperial Chinese delegation spent Wednesday visiting the congressional library and capitol. They attended the senate session, then visited the house of representatives after lunch in the library.
John Mitchell president of the United Mine Workers of America told the joint scale committee of central competitive districts that there must be a wage increase or there will be no agreement. He spoke in Indianapolis on January 31.
The executors of the Marshall Field estate report an Illinois value of 75 million dollars with 59 million in personal property.
Surveyors for the Texas New Mexico and Pacific railway are locating depot and shop sites in McKinney Texas as of January 31.
The Two Brothers saloon in San Antonio was robbed of 64 dollars. State Health Officer Tabor and his wife are in Germany. Grover Lane of Houston faces twelve forging charges. Simon Millinery in Galveston suffered a 10000 dollar fire loss. King Alfonso and Princess Ena reportedly will wed in June. Co E Gilmer, a young stockman, died at Cotulla. Sed Waters fractured three ribs in a Wills Point runaway. A man from Atascosa county was robbed of 20 dollars in a San Antonio wine room. Farmers Bank of Jett opens as a new Oklahoma chartered bank. A carload of Chinese, believed moved as furniture, smuggled from Mexico to Bakersfield. Speaker Cannon intends to oppose any reduction of southern representation. Lee Son survived a Brownwood runaway but suffered a fractured skull. Sam Fisher, accused of Ida Harris murder, received life imprisonment. Elbert Bivens, a young girl, burned to death at Bellville. A New Jersey bill seeks to forfeit Standard Oil’s charter.
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