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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1903
Page
3
Schedule notes a northbound passenger train No 104 with a 4:25 p.m. departure and its connection with the main line GN running east and west. It mentions arrivals and the next morning 8 a.m. departure times for the opposite direction.
Train timetables list Houston departures to Bryan with arrivals for Nos 7 8 5 1 and from Bryan to Houston on Nos 2 4 6 8. Notable times include No 7 at 7:00 a.m. and No 2 at 1:55 p.m. with a Hempstead connection at 12:30 p.m. for an Austin link.
Weekdays general delivery registry and money order service opens 8 a.m. closes 6 p.m. Mails for midnight trains close at 9 p.m. Sunday hours show 10:30 a.m. opening and 4:15 to 4:45 p.m. closing.
Local notices list rooms for rent through Mrs. T. P. Wooten. The column records various visitors and movements including R. J. Ford’s trip to Hearne, Sheriff Nunn and Constable Baker to Millican, Beau Chatham from Hempstead, W. W. Hare from Selma, N. C., visiting J. M. Hare and District Attorney W. B. Hudson and wife arriving from Franklin, B. B. Throop of the Houston Post in town, and Miles Derden returning from Shawnee, Oklahoma due to ill health.
Dr D H Clark and others visit Bryan with Beal and Hickiman family members in town. Misses Agnes and Louise Ettle depart for Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Listings note seven room house with land for sale near Allen Academy. Church pipe organ delivered and to be installed. A Texas legislative committee visited A M College to study needs. Several residents delayed by bad weather depart home. John T Conn of Nashville is summoned to Madisonville for family illness.
The list shows letters for the week ending February 16 1903 for gentlemen and ladies including Alexander Viler Brewing Mrs Aerandez Pat Barnet Mattie Bailey J F Braly Eliza Bryan J V Clark Mamie Cohen J Day Elinor Bilis KB Jo Daniels Annie Glass Ed Dyort Lendra Grimes Geo Ewing Jennie Harrison Gus Fitzgerald Jos Gunes Simis Kean LP Haley Texamaj Martin Allen Howard Minnie Morens T B Ivery Georgia Normal Thos Johnson Mrs Olaham J M Johnson Mattie Pierce Frank Lewis Delia Lee Margaett Looway Lillian Motherms Eler Mitchell Mrs Mary Miller Alice Rendia Varma Richards Lavina Patton Lizzie Polk Lucy Polk Annie Polk Addie D Richmond Harry McCall Ophelia Visinte senior Reed Valine Wade B W Spencer Della Jeffers James Stewart Miss A L Williams James Mills Annie Welf Warren Mitchell Nannie Moncenso Cologara. Above list of letters remaining in the Bryan post office for the week ending Feb 16 1903. A charge of one cent is made on each piece of mail advertised. When calling for these letters please say advertised and give date. Tyler Hasweun Postmaster. wu
The Eagle reports a street rumor that Rock Island lines, after gaining control of the H T C railroad, have purchased the Madisonville extension of the I N G N and plan operation in connection with their business. The paper offers no confirmation.
Notice to all former Alabama citizens to mail their names and old Alabama place or county to H. G. Benners Greensboro Ala for a souvenir. Also report of Mrs. C. W. Hutson and Mrs. T. A. Moore visiting College Station yesterday.
Alabama Senator denies a published dispatch claiming he made a $1,000,000 pay-off allegation about the Colombian president. Morgan clarifies he did not accuse the president of receiving that sum and defends his remarks on executive sessions as repeating past crimes, amid no debate on statehood.
The House approved a Senate bill to amend the railroad safety appliance law and extended the Fowler currency bill as a continuing order. Other actions included authorizing $125,000 for Sabine lake channel work, extending proof deadlines for a Colorado co operative colony, and permitting a river bridge in Alabama. A water use for electricity in Alabama was defeated 65 to 47, and a Kiowa Apache land settlement was not opened.
Washington February seventeenth. President Roosevelt told visiting senators he hopes the senate confirms Dr. D. W. Crum as collector of the port of Charleston. He has no intention of withdrawing the nomination and urges definite action.
Edward Knaplan of Chicago was shot by Edith Martin at a Detroit resort on 102 Gratiot avenue and she then killed herself. Knaplan, dying, said a quarrel preceded the shooting as Miss Martin had shown fear of him in prior visits.
Report from Fort Worth dated February 174 notes a snowbank near Grapevine County reaching twenty feet in depth after a cut Monday.
W. J. Jackson froze to death near Kaufman Texas as snow piled up to six inches at several north Texas locations. An unknown man was killed on a freight train near Wills Point. Two men, claiming self defense, surrendered. Seven tramp suspects accused of robbing safes in Kansas Oklahoma and Indian Territory were arrested at Oklahoma City. Rev Flowers a colored man was assassinated while seated inside a house ten miles from Hugo I T. He was shot through a wall crack. Tracklaying on the Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma road from Stevens Kansas to Oklahoma City begins March 1. Oklahoma county work is to be finished by April.
New Orleans Mardi Gras Carnival February 24 travel offers round trip fare. Sunset Route tickets on sale February 17 to 23, return by February 28 with extension to March 14. Two daily trains from El Paso and San Antonio and three from Houston with Standard Pullman and excursion sleeping cars, free chair cars and day coaches. No transfers. trains operate to Union Station in heart of New Orleans. See local agent or address M L Robbins, T J Anderson, G P And T A, Houston Texas.
The auction sale of town lots at Maypearl on the I and G N railroad's Fort Worth division is postponed. A future date will be announced, and interested buyers may contact D J Price at the Palestine Texas G Pal a J and G N RR depot in Maypearl for pre sale purchases through Smith Land Improvement Co.
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