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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1899
Page
2
A collage of schedules and public notices from Hearne and Bryan 1899 includes railway timetables between Hearne and San Antonio with northbound and southbound departures, a Sam Houston Normal exam announcement in Bryan, a Manila Battle event ad in Houston, a July 1899 rail special to Houston, a precinct 4 populist meeting notice, bids for Allen Academy, and university staff notes.
Local notes report Rev R D Wilson revival at Baptist church with three conversions and possible resumption Sunday. Walter Burns of Houston among refugees. Mrs C M Proctor offers millinery. J H Wilson lists two mules for sale. Brazos River Navigation Convention postponed from July 3 to July 27 due to washouts on several railroads.
Watermelons plentiful and flu like fevers noted at Harris Schoolhouse. An ice cream party was held at Capt. J A Hester's, with a large crowd and plenty of cream. Miss Lillie Lemon of Bryan visits. Miss Bertha McMillan of Marlin visits the Robinson family. A neighborhood singing convention draws a good crowd and reports fine singing and dancing. Insurgent.
A morning rain blessed the area and crops look fine. Rev A M Stewart of Bryan is conducting a protracted meeting this week drawing crowds from Rock Prairie and Bethel. Horace Farquhar returned home from eastern Texas. E E Sander Jr visits his father. Frank Sandle becomes Cypress night operator. C M Sandle tests Marlin’s hot water for health. Mrs J P Royder visits relatives in Hockley. Adam Royder lodge No 778 Masons hosted a supper and officer installation. Railroad painters work on the depot this week. Rob Roy.
In Cross Texas crops are nearly all laid by. W P Franklin has baled prairie hay. G W Maxwell and wife visited on Cobbs Prairie. A protracted meeting is under way at Pleasant Grove church. Mrs W C Outlaw has been very ill for ten days. Drs Barlow and Williams treat her. G J McClung was sick but improving. Jerry Sybell visiting relatives in McGregor. Passenger from the laid out Bey train transferred by handcars yesterday.
Sealed bids are invited for five mule teams with drivers to work scrapers and plows on the sand hill one mile this side of Navasota bridge or on the Bryan and Madisonville public road. Bids to be opened July 15, 1899. Right to reject any bids reserved. Bidders must furnish feed for hands and mules. Bids received by W R Johnston and W L Turner.
The Eagle offers a full line of legal blanks including Affidavit to Account and to Fact, Mortgage forms, Deeds, Power of Attorney, Land Note with Vendor’s Lien, Release of Deed of Trust, Vendor’s Lien releases, Transfer of Vendor’s Lien, Promissory Notes, and Real Estate Leases with various prices for single and bulk quantities. Prices range from 5e to 10e per item with bulk discounts available.
A ticket chopper at Park Place station of the elevated railway pockets a red rose from a hurried passenger's corsage. Brakemen mock him as a tired mother and her hungry-looking child claim the lost bloom. The scene ends with the man sulking while bystanders watch.
Two Frenchmen Count de Pradere and Albert Andrieux petition Spain for permission to explore the Bay of St Simon in the River Vigo to search for galleons laden with gold and silver sunk on the return from Mexico in 1702. They claim invented submarine apparatus and expect swift action, recalling a prior failed Vigo search by M. Duclerc.
In a playful exchange, Mrs. Caller compliments a rug for the dining room while Mrs. Sapmind insists it is not a rug, prompting light banter about why one would call a druggist in Boston.
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