City Directory and Officials List for City and County
A compendium of city officers including Mayor J S Mooring, Marshal T P Boyett, Deputy J D Conlee, and others. county officers led by Judge A G Board and Clerk G W McMichael. church listings with pastors, service times, and church hierarchies. local industry heads such as Bryan Cotton Seed Oil and Bryan Compress, with managers and officers named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J S Mooring
T P Boyett
J D Conlee
H G
Rhodes City Sexton
H J Jones
C L Baker
R G Tabor
8 Howell
M Parker
Walter Wipprecht
A J Buchanan
Ting
E L Shettles
Tor
Epworth League
Christian
Jewell Howard
Christian Endeavor
St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Herbert K Bowers
J D West
Three Communion Baptist
A M Stewart
Schooul
St Joseph's
Law Howell
WE Saunders
H C Robinson
RS Webb
Walter Wipgrecht
Local Masonic and Fraternal Lodges Meet Bimonthly
A compact notice lists Brazos Camp No 104 W of W Ave. Bryan Tent No 16. Bryan Lodge No 980 Home Forum. Bryan Lodge No 409 National Aid. Ivanhoe Commandery No 8 Knight Templars. Fraternal Union of America. W T Austin Chapter No 87 RAM. Meetings occur second and fourth or alternating Mondays or Tuesdays monthly. officers include Joe B Reed, W H Wal ker, W T Austin, Jack Garrett, H G Rhodes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazos
Ettle
Joe B Reed
Bryan
Ain Hs Mawhiney
T James
Joe B. Reed
Bryan Lodge
National
W E Saunders
H P
Local Notes From Smetana Area February Update
Sunshine lifts spirits as deaths occur in the upper community with funerals in Smetana cemetery. Schoolwork grows at Erwin school while corn planting plans form. births reported in Regman family. Community continues to host visitors and laments long illness and poverty after last year’s storms and boll weevil issues.
Neal Texas Correspondent Reports Local Health and Planting Plans
Neal Texas February update notes general good health with grippe cases. Corn planting will begin soon. Mr and Mrs J E Lane and children visited W J Dudley in Little Cedar while Lane traveled to Wallace Prairie Grimes County. Mrs Conn near Neal spent days in Bryan visiting daughter Carrie Gibbs. P H Dudley and family of Little Cedar were here last week. Mrs Lillie Conn visited Mrs White last Sunday. CORRESPONDENT.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Conn
Bryan
Carrie Gibbs
P. H. Dudley
Little Cedar
Lillie Conn
Health Edge
Texas
Cottonwood
Thomas
Hera Elliott
Liberty
B. Nickles EK
Galletan
E. Elliott
Dee Robertson
C. Presnal
R. Hudspeth
Wixon
Macy
Willie, Henry
Clarence Elliott
Sunshine
Cottonwood and Fickey News Roundup From Texas Localities
In Cottonwood Texas Feb 183 members report pleasant weather and corn planting. Local youths held a Valentine party near Edge. Mrs Mary Adams and Cora Morgoisted visited in the community. A debating society formed by local youths. Infant child of Mr and Mrs J D Castle died and was buried at Bickham. Fickey Texas Feb 18 reports fine weather and grippe illness among residents. Visitors from Ebenezer and Bryan noted.
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Smetana
Texas
Merka
Louis Slanina
Cottonwood
Edge
Mary Adams
Cora Morgeo
NS. A. Mott
Ebenezer
Mansel
Ida Hickman
Emma Brown
J. H. Thomas
Ed. Edge
Richard Davison
Wixon
Chas. Claydon
Rogers Prairie
J. D. Castle
Bickham
Lulita Fuller
Bryan
Fickey
la Grippe
Community notes from Cottonwood and Cross Texas
Local items report Mrs. Elliott's daughter visiting from Cottonwood and a large yet lively pound supper at Elliott residence with guests from Cottonwood Wixon and Macy. Spring weather brings gardening and planting corn as Rev Tipton visits and youths attend Miss Grissett's musical. several on the sick list show improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cross
Texas
Tipton
Ella Grissett
Jerry Iury
J. M. Peters
Heau Taylor
Neal
Tabor 1901 Weather and Local Notices
Tabor 1901 reports mild weather and farming progress with corn planting planned this week. It notes health concerns, chiefly chicken pox, and records the death of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Castles aged 3 months 7 days. The Bryan post office lists several names and letters awaiting pickup with a one cent charge per piece.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Averheart
Mittie
Bryle
Bettie Davis
Annie Dossie
Nela Hearne
Madge Holland
Belle Hutchinson
Mattie Holland
Belle Horger
Clarfeed Johnson
Mandy Kurtin
Mary Logins
Lizzie Nash
Eliza Olam
Bettie Shelton
Beaula
Smiley Mollie Washington
Louisa Walter
Annie White
Carrie Whitehead
Lissie Woods
Mary J Gentlemen Anderson
James Benbow
H Battle
LL Brown
AL Cooper
Randle Davis
Henry Davidson
Jenkins Mell
Kaider
Edd Nixon
JF Richarson
Wilbur Smith
H H Taylor
Jack Trance Fillip Walters
Bryan
Tyler Haswell
P. M
Mosby’s Raiders Heirs Inherit Massow Estate Rumor
A German executor claims Baron Robert von Massow left 2 000 000 to Mosby’s Raiders survivors of John S Mosby’s Civil War command. Estimates of survivors vary widely from 75 to 850. Some Texas survivors said to live in Dallas. other details unconfirmed. Capt George W Smith and Mr William Saunders recall Mosby era. Saunders doubts the report’s basis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert von Massow
Germany
John 8. Mosby
Mosby
von Moltke
Paris
New York
Dallas
Texas
Dallas News
Geo. W. Smith
Ww. E. Saunders
Bryan
The unspeakable Turk a portrait from London Telegraph
The London Telegraph profile depicts a Turk who shuns most work but military service and agriculture, seeks to leave provinces lost to him, and lives amid ruins. It praises discipline as the empire’s glue, notes pervasive laziness and fatalism, and credits tradition for stability despite modernization pressures.
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Constantinople
Asia
Belgrade
Sofia
Athens
London Telegraph
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City Directory
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J J Adams
R M Nall
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Dennis Ballard
P H Arrington
J W Howell
J Allen Myers
W T James
A M Rhodes
G M Bandon
J B Mike
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Frank Regman
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Boll Weevil
Joe Taylor
Ebengzer
Jack Ellison
Wheelock
Martin Smith
Gus Schultz
Mothe Bryan
Begonia
Laura Carroll
Florence Meredith
Anna Lambright
Tabor
Jeff Castles
Valentine
E. C. Elliott
Minnie Bullock
Rosa
Mamie Elliott
Will Henry
Richard Covington
Galveston
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R. B. Elliot
Gertie Warren
Effie Wilson
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Julia Brogden
G. W. Blanton
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