Local notes cite visitors, sales, and licenses in town
Sam Holden, Jno. B. Mike, Rev. B. H. Carroll, and others visited town from Tabor Waco Bethel Providence and LaGrange. Mulberry posts for sale and a grist mill upgrade. Marriage licenses issued to Toney Murphy Sylvia Warren and Green Stallings Lillian Howard. Palestine and Bryan teams play Kernole park at 4:30 pm. Local market orders and church services announced.
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Wim. Andrews
Bethel
Mr. Vernon
Exposition
T. T. Goodwin
Providence
John B. Mike
Rev
B. H. Carroll
Waco
R.S. Webb
Georgetown
R. M. Gordon & Co
W.J. Lawrence
Tabor
A. J. Tippit
Reliance
Toney Murphy
Sylvia Warren
Palestine
Bryan
Kernole Park
Green Stallings
Lillian Howard
Franklin
Sealed bids for eighty cords of split wood for Bryan Graded School
The bidder must deliver eighty cords of dry straight split wood by September 1, 1900. Bids are due by August L. The chairman M Parker reserves the right to reject all bids.
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Bryan
L. Wood
Town items and county notes from the Eagle
J M Rateliff reports crop prospects in Grimes and Walker Counties with sickness noted in Walker. Grand jury in Anderson fin released some suspects and indicted forty, with thirty-two felonies. Roads and bridges praised. rail line celebration planned. Parties include Major Reed leaving for temple and a social at the McConico home. Civil service success for C C Harrison. donations to barbecue and cemetery fund. Real estate offers, rental ad, and a Texas visit by Serah Tom Cook noted.
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J. M. Rateliff
Steep Hollow
Eagle
Grimes
Walker
Lake Grove
Union Hill
Prairie Plains
Grimes County
Walker County
Navasota River
Anderson
Alice Spell
Guy Maxwell
Dick Spell
Bryan
Joe B. Reed
Grand Recorder
Temple
A. O. U. W. Grand Lodge
Reed
Fagle
Grand Lodge
Lavinia
Hattie McConico
A. D. McConico
C.C. Harrison
Department of Agriculture
W. E. Harris
Gust Heye & Co
Galveston
Daily Eagle
Blue and the Gray at Atlanta Reunion Ends with Contested History Views
At Atlanta a Georgia Confederate Veterans reunion featured General John B. Gordon defending war history teaching to Southern children while General Albert Jay Shaw urged a united American narrative. Gordon argued both sides fought for their beliefs in the nation’s founding, prompting mixed reception and cheers for reconciliation. First Base in Houston marked the sale of the first bale of cotton, weighing 610 pounds and selling for 205 dollars to Weld & Neville after champagne toasts. In Brenham, Mary Muckleroy was fatally shot in her home at Hermann’s Switch by an unknown assailant. her husband was wounded in the same incident across the Brazos River.
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Atlanta
Georgie
John B. Gordon
United Confederate Veterans
Albert Jay Shaw
Grand Army of the Republic
Shaw
Gordon
General Gordon
Houston
Houston Cotton Exchange
San Diego
Tex
William Christian
Warner
Cotton Exchange
Weld & Neville
Brenham
Hermann's
Mary Muckleroy
Sheriff Lipscomb
Brazos River
Central Railroad
Wounded to Yokohama and Galveston News Briefs
Admiral Remey reports Taku quiet and up to thirty wounded will be sent to Yokohama hospital. Emil Batts, 55, found dead on Galveston beach. coroner rules natural causes. Galveston mayor receives secretary Long’s letter accepting Pelican Spit for naval coal station and urging congressional funding.
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Yokohama
Washington
Navy Department
Remey
Taku
Tien Tsin
Pekin
Regan
Noyes
Bookmiller
Lawson
Schoeffel
Ninth Infantry
Joly
Marine Corps
Yokohama Hospital
Galveston
Emil Batts
Ratts
Jones
Long
City of
Pelican Spit
Galveston Channel
Congress
Found Dead in a Back Yard in Trinity Tex
Dr. W. Pope aged 51 a longtime leading physician in Trinity was found dead in the rear of a drug store. Indications suggest he died in the early part of the night.
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Trinity
Tex
W. Pope
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J. W. Johnson
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Leon Bond
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Hico
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S. W. Buchanan
M. Pinski
New Orleans
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A. H. Wilkins
Miss Halley
Dallas
Rufe Sale
Calvert
Dr. Jones
Methodist Church
J. A. Freman
Marlin
Will Johnson
Fort Worth
Business College
Mrs. J. Webb Howell
Great Lakes
M. Parker
Solicitor’s Commission
Tyler
Haswell
Len Hudson
Conroe
Burt Norwood
West Texas
Courthouse Square
W. G. Taliaferro
Mistrot Bros & Co
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Garrett
Canada
Masters
White Crest
Cnc. M. Lawrence & Co
Bryan, Texas
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E. C. Harder
Bryan Water, Ice, Light &Power Co
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