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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1900
Page
2
Connelly Palmer and Carnes publish a local notice at the Bryan post office classified as second class mail matter. Subscription prices are ten cents per week and forty cents per month.
The report mentions wet fields delaying plowing for farmers. Mrs. William Dunlap visits her daughter Mrs. C. 5. Gainer of Bryan. Miss Eula Lewis was ill last week and could not attend school. Mr. H. C. Meekins shows slow improvement after illness. Rev. J. P. Skinner preached both services Sunday with favorable reception. Dr. Harris came from Navasota to treat infant Monnie Lewis who is very ill. Dr. R. W. Meredith, returning from Virginia, brings eight fine horses and plans Milli can as home. Ed Farquhar traveled from Wellborn on business. CORRESPONDENT.
From Crops. January 7 notes the health of the county section is very good with most moving completed. Farmers are ready to begin preparing their land for another crop as soon as conditions allow.
Rev J Barnes faced misfortune as multiple hogs were bitten by a supposed mad dog. Several hogs showed pocular symptoms, two died, and Barnes killed the dog in the hog pen. Mrs Sam Dian of Liberty community is reported seriously ill.
Prices from Bryan yesterday show cotton middling 64c, strict middling 6, good middling. produce includes eggs 10c, chickens $2.00 per dozen, beeswax 16c, turkeys 40 to 50c each, honey 8c, lard 74c, butter 12c, bacon 64c, Irish potatoes $1.00 per bushel, sweet potatoes 60c, onions 3c, dried peas 2c, corn 40c per bushel, hay $7.50 per ton, wood $1.75 per cord, cotton seed $10 per ton. Wool 12c, hides green 4c, salted 7c, dry 8c. bones 20c per 100 pounds. Cattle cows $15-$20, yearlings $10, hogs 34c per pound gross, sheep $2 per head.
Cotton Seed Hulls priced at 4.00 per ton delivered for the next few days to clear space for more seed. 33 Bryan Cotton Seed Oil Mill.
Edgar T. Neville scouted for Krause Taylor which will perform nightly next week with a Saturday matinee. Monday opens with A Home Affair offering free admission to one lady with each paid ticket. The program includes The Virginian All a Mistake Neck and Neck Rip Van Winkle The Lightning Rod Agent Monte Cristo. The Krause Taylor company is popular in this city and will play at popular prices for amusement lovers.
Oliver Scott brings a strong six to the Denver Grand on the 11th with a colorful program. The audience filled the house early and the performance features cakes walks buck dancing coon medleys and rag time ball. The show is already a local hit and expected to draw large crowds all week.
John R. McLean the Democratic nominee for Ohio governor spends much of the year in Washington. A daily visitor at the Cincinnati Enquirer Washington bureau, he uses a private wire to stay in touch with editors and the paper’s office often dictates editorials in person. He is five feet nine, well built, approachable, once an athlete, and now battles gout from a life of easy living.
Notice declares a special meeting of Houston and Texas Central Railroad stockholders to be held January 19, 1900 in Houston to authorize a first mortgage on the Waco Northwestern Division extending Bremond to Ross. The mortgage covers up to twenty five thousand dollars per mile for up to thirty years at six percent interest to fund payment, completion, improvement and operation. E. W. Cave, Secretary.
Leech farmers sow meadows with 15 000 leeches per batch and rely on water and blood from livestock or slaughterhouses. Miss Mary Kingsley recalls swamps infested with leeches. France and England used 30 million annually. an Australian company exported 2–3 million yearly. A Paris investor claimed 15 to 1 returns, and Morocco’s leech monopoly once sold for $100 000.
Eight travelers checked into a Kansas hamlet hotel after a train ride. Each registered as professor, judge, or general. The landlord read the names and quipped that most folks would attend the circus tomorrow if the weather is pleasant.
Boston plans a careful reconstruction of Faneuil Hall using original lines and remaining materials. A new roof and steel supports will strengthen a structure long in disrepair while preserving the hall deemed the Cradle of Liberty.
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