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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1902
Page
4
Northbound Nos. 1 8 6 and southbound Nos. 2 4 6 listed with Nos 8 and 4 as fast trains at principal stations. Times shown include 10 18 a m 11 17 a m 2 17 p m 1 51 p m 4 22 p m and 2 50 a m with stopping indicated.
Train schedule reads Northbound passenger leaves at 7 00 a m and 4 30 a m with connections to main line east and west Southbound passengers arrive at 7 00 p m and 4 00 p m.
Local notes list residences for rent and two room rentals at the Eagle office. Visitors include Dr. J F Eaves from Millican and W C Dodson from Waco, with others returning from Navasota and Waco. An announcement seeks a white farm hand and a 16 year old boy. a piano recital by Bertha Kunz Baker is planned for January 22 at the opera house.
T J Shepard from near Macy reports the community will seek a new post office as they prepare lumber for a school house at New Caney. Clara Braatz travels East to study millinery for spring stock. Charlie Simpson builds two story blacksmith shop north of town at Macy and Whelock roads, naming the site Sipewater after a spring.
John W. Hartman and Wilhelmina Alschier wed last Saturday at Rosebud Texas in the home of Mrs. Ruth Porter with Rev Burgen officiating. The bride, once of Temple, is noted for millinery work with R W Phillips of Rosebud and Hartman runs the firm’s hardware division. The couple visit Hartman's relatives as they begin married life.
Brazos River Bridge company holds annual stockholders meeting at the secretary’s office in Bryan Texas at 3 o clock p m Monday January 13 1902 G S Parker Secretary Andrew Shelburne critically injured in a railroad handcar accident near Fountain s switch on the river line and pinned on barbed wire by a passing handcar. Methodist ladies host a doll show and buggy parade January 18 from 3 to 5 p m with a fish pond for children and doll display prizes to be announced.
Misses Sallie Atkins of Rock Prairie and Lula Post of Madison county visited here Saturday. Mrs. Appie Wheeless and family visited relatives in Easterly and Lake Station the past week. Mrs. M. E. Carroll visited there last week. Mrs. Schultz and daughter Clara went to Bryan last week. J. L. Wheeless and wife visited D. B. Carroll and wife Thursday.
El Paso hosts a winter carnival from January 14 to 18 1902 featuring a Mexican bull fight Mexican American band contests cattle and flower parades and an Oriental midway. Cheap H and T C rates to the border offer a good chance to visit, with travel details from local agents or T J Anderson in Houston Texas.
Hotel arrivals list includes EXCHANGE A O Carr Paducah Shumate Waco J E Frisk Hempstead L Sellers Millican C W Carr Houston H D Harrison C F Carter New Orleans L A Marcott MS Dickson Dallas J C Viller Chicago W B Stone Shreveport Geo W Steiff Houston A L Bowers J T Harris Palestine AS Rutherford Austin S Holstein San Antonio TUCKER HOUSE W R Christian Memphis W Reg ister Taylor Mark Wilcox Bryan J T Robertson Killeen CR Weaver Wm Wagner S McClanahan J H McClanahan Palestine J McA Black Cross. Everything new and up-to-date and three first-class barbers at the Union Barber Shop. Give us a trial 50 W. A. Cones Mgr.
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