Train schedule excerpt for northbound and southbound services
Northbound Nos 1 8 6 operate at 2 54 pm and 24 am respectively while southbound Nos 2 10 4 6 run at 4 16 pm and 24 am. Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations.
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1903
Page
3
Northbound Nos 1 8 6 operate at 2 54 pm and 24 am respectively while southbound Nos 2 10 4 6 run at 4 16 pm and 24 am. Nos 8 and 4 are fast trains stopping only at principal stations.
Local notes report Will R Thomas traveling to Houston. D Mike Jr advertises a small house for rent via Mrs R Kernole. J M Mike returns to Huntville and Chas Stillwell visits Cameron. District Attorney W B Hudson attends Franklin court. Allegretti can dies shipment arrives. Franklin Bros advertises daily meat sales. G Parsons buys People's Drug stock. WwW N Crews of Smetana visits the Eagle. Mrs J B Brewer leaves for Houston. W E Meredith visits Kurton and Mrs Reed after deputy Marsha l W A Reed. Miss Mattie Tabor heads to Calvert for T J Garrett funeral. Mrs Stephens and Miss Lottie Pickett from Liberty stay at Ursuline convent. Rev James M Kirwin of Galveston to lecture at opera house tonight. Norwood's Store showcases black silk robes and ornaments.
A mixed set of notices includes sales at Norwood’s with large pearl and jet buttons, shoe arrivals from American Girl, farm land for sale near Bryan, postpak posts and cord wood for sale, and remarks on local incidents. Also listed are travel moves, a robbery arrest in Grimes county, a lost account book, minstrel show at the opera house, and a note on Mr. and Mrs. Hortman’s travels plus a meat dealer’s boast about Frank lin Kros.
President E V Zollars of Texas Christian University will lecture at the opera house January 16 at 8 o'clock with H G Collier of Waco providing music and tickets on sale. Knights Templar Ivanhoe Commandery plan a January 13 meeting to invest O E Saunders W C Borel W J Branch and A P Hamblen. Mike promotes the return of the Who What When minstrels for one night January 9. Rev J M Kirwin will lecture on Europe at the opera house next Thursday. Ursuline Convent sends complimentary tickets to the lecture. Mayor election results from Waco show Allen D Sanford defeating J W Riggins with Sanford's Bryan supporters pleased. Tom Davidson reports Sanford won by over 1100.
Four burglars stole a horse and sleigh from a livery stable near Eagle Wisconsin. A posse of four citizens pursued them. one robber was fatally shot, another captured with nitro glycerin and burglar tools, two escaped. Waukesha officers alerted, woods to be surrounded.
Berlin reports the joint reply to Venezuela proposes settlement out of court after each power receives 335000 dollars. The German government prefers negotiations through Minister Bowen and maintaining the blockade instead of arbitration at The Hague.
Vice Consul General Edward P. MacLean is critically ill with acute pneumonia that began with a light cold two weeks ago. Pneumonia worsened Tuesday evening and doctors call his condition dangerous. Deputy Consul General J. Allison Bowen is on sick leave in the United States, leaving Consul General Gowdy short of key officials during a difficult period.
Mobile Alabama January 7 news reports a highly contested municipal election. Charles E McLean former sheriff defeated Walter F Walsh the incumbent to win the mayoralty while all other municipal offices were filled.
Lansing reports Senator Russell A. Alger of Detroit, now serving by appointment, was nominated by a Republican caucus to fill the unexpired McMillan term. Alger, a former Texas Ranger, is assured election on Jan. 20. Sedalia notes Colonel Thomas P. Hoy, 78, died, a veteran of Mexican and Civil Wars and a Confederate officer wounded at Corinth.
George W. Hall general superintendent for the Kansas and Oklahoma Central says the line will be built. A survey is under way for a Missouri Pacific route from Peru Junction Kansas to Kirkland Texas via Guthrie Oklahoma.
Bismarck January 7 Senator H C Hansbrough was chosen by the Republican caucus to succeed himself as United States senator from North Dakota. The nomination was unanimous. The legislature will cast the formal ballot of election January 20.
Mazatlan Mexico reports an average of over ten deaths daily from the plague. Lazaretos are full of patients and a general gloom has fallen on the community as business stalls.
A Monterey special reports the Guggenheim smelter strike ended through Governor Reyes efforts in Laredo Texas on January 7.
In Cleburne Texas on January 7 A J Barnett was sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary after being found guilty of criminal assault on his stepdaughter Ruth Walker.
Waco Texas January 7 reports the death of I Lowenstein a well known local merchant who operated in the city. The notice notes his prominence in business circles and his passing.
Mexican government relieves Mazatlan distress. Denton Texas to lay cornerstone of girls industrial school on the 10th. Texas stockman W. J. Dawson dies near Mount Vernon. Beaumont painters strike for 50 cents extra per day. Lake Charles painters strike for 3.50 per day for eight hours.
Capt. T. J. Garrett dies at his Calvert home after long illness. Nearly eighty, he was a prominent Bryan area figure and former eminent commander of Ivanhoe Commandery Knights Templar. His son John T. Garrett and relatives mourn as a large Ivanhoe delegation attends the Calvert funeral.
The Brazos River Bridge company calls a stockholders meeting at the secretary's office in Bryan Texas on Monday January 12 1903 at 2 30 p m for directors and other business. G S Parker Secretary Prewet Bryan Dec 30 1902. 30
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