Grimes County Notes Hit the City Scene
Local items list visitors from Madison, Wellborn, Steep Hollow, and north Grimes. Highlights include a school board meeting, tax and insurance notices, rental ads, and plans for a new press site with railroad reps.
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A. W. Royder
Laura Royder
Wellborn
A. J. Raymond
Allen Hopkins
Alman James
Madison County
Dallas Andrews
J. E. Rice
J. H
Wm. Campbell
R. V. Kernple
Theresa Steiner
Houston
Nellie Rohde
W. J. Meads
Alice ‘Meads
Thompson Creek
R. E. L. Upchurch
Bedias
Leity
Grimes County
John B. Hines
Smith Building
Todaro
Lobello
Bryan Street
Unclean alfalfa seed warns farmers on weed contamination
Dr O M assessor of botany at Texas A M College warns farmers to choose alfalfa seed carefully to avoid Johnson grass seed clover dodder and Russian thistle. He notes hulls concealment and distinctive seed shapes aiding identification and urges vigilance due to pest spread across Hemphill Wilbarger Limestone counties.
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College Station
Tex
O. M
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Hemphill
Panhandle
Wilbarger County
Vernon
Limestone County
Groesbeeck
Ball
Galveston News
Bishop Ward to Lecture at First Baptist Church
The lecture by Bishop Seth Ward of Houston will be delivered tonight at 7 45 o clock at the First Baptist church to accommodate a large crowd. Ward lectures before Allen Academy students under the Y M C A auspices. Pupils from other schools and the public are invited with no admission charge.
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Seth Ward
Houston
First Baptist Church
Ward
Bryan
Allen Academy
Academy
Local notices and exchanges list events and sales
Advertisements show sugar for sale at one dollar a 20 pound bag and a pressing club offer. Lost spectacles with a reward note. Frank Battle from Atlanta arrives to supervise National Packing Co. work. Kings Daughters tea to raise funds at E J Fountain store. A. T. Stewart promotes Kitties Concert Band appearance. Dr. Andrews leaves for Ennis. teachers institutes planned. cattle trades noted. Alonzo Carter sells Eastman kodaks in Germany with London sales link.
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A. T. Stewart
Kitties
C. F. Andrews
Ennis
District Court Room
Eagle
Earl Porter
Caldwell
Ss. W
Buchanan
J. A. Forehead
Foreman
W. H. Walker
Alonzo Carter
Eastman Kodaks
Germany
London
F. E. Giesecke
Charlottenburg
Jackson's Close Call Lynch Threat on Fifth Avenue
Pittsburg reports describe a mob of several hundred on Fifth Avenue attempting to lynch C A Jackson, a Black man, after an incident with a newsboy. Jackson was beaten, his clothes torn, and he was later captured and jailed by police as the mob surged with cries of kill the negro.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
C. A. Jackson
Central Police
Aidi
Fifth Avenue
Jackson
Brownsville Inquiry to Begin Next Monday
Senate military affairs leaders conferred with Taft on the Brownsville affair probe. Witnesses from the discharged negro battalion will first testify at Brownsville then travel to Washington for the concurrent court martial of officers. The panel will start with enlisted men and non commissioned officers as witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownsville
Washington
Warr Ren
Senate Committee On
Foraker
Taft
Senate
Senators criticise Hitchcock as Senate considers land and river bills
Washington January 31. Senators Carter and Heyburn led criticism of Secretary Hitchcock. The body planned February 20 to vote on excluding Senator Smoot from Utah, approving a $2,000,000 plan to confine the Colorado River, and routing Panama railroad management to the Isthmian Canal Commission. Western senators supported the secretary’s land patent review order amid calls for stricter ground examinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Heyburn
Washington
Smoot
Utah
Colorado
Panama Railroad
Isthcanal Commission
Senate
Montana
Mnin
Anothe
Indian Appropriation Bill Boosts Funded Amount
The Indian appropriation bill reported to the Senate includes 14,306,182 more than House passage. The increase funds trust money held for Indian tribes, with the committee arguing tribes can manage affairs and the government should stop paying interest on these funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
United States
Gun falls on him actor Rockefeller dies on stage
Chicago on January 31 reports John D Rockefeller an actor was killed when a Gatlin gun used in a matinee fell on him fracturing his skull. He was 45 and from New York. In Topeka the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway agreed unanimously to issue 98 million dollars in bonds to finance improvements and line extensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John D. Rockefeller
Chicago
John D. Rockefeler
Rockefeller
New York
Topeka
Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company
Dispensary Doomed in South Carolina Legislature
Columbia, January 31. The house voted 74 to 48 to abolish the state dispensary. The senate backed the policy by a 50 to 47 majority, signaling the dispensary is doomed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
S. C
House
Senate
Car and Train Collision Near Sherman
Sherman Jan 31 A street car and a Central train collided in a fog here. Several passengers on the car were injured and the vehicle wrecked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
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Georgia
Ferndell
Se & Sanborn
INGER
T. C
A. m. Hy
G. N
H. Adams
Yester
Lloyd of Kurten
DeHart
Harvey
Tabor
Bros. Ce
A. Worley
Hillsboro
Whatley
Waco
M. Adams
South Texas
R. Goen and Son
I. B. Todeey
Franklin
Madison
Strawberries At Fountain’s
Fountain’s
Texas Bakery
Otto Boehme
R. C. Ayers
Dallas
J. T. Hanway
Gaston
Ayers
Vice-Press National Bank of Dallas
Fourtain
Jno. M. Caldwell
T. C. Railroad
Planters’ Compress Co
Will S. Higgs
Bishop Ward
Baptist Church
E. J. Fountain
Bryan Pressing Club
Hunter & Chatham's
Carnegie Library and Exchange Hotel
Wagner & Brandon
Frank Battle
Atlanta
National Packing Company
Parsons & Bay Bottling Works
J. R. Taylor
Kings’ Daughters
Hitchcock
Tynon
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