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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1908
Page
2
The text notes Pierce's attorney claiming a fair Texas trial is impossible, and suggests delays to face perjury charges. It contrasts Illinois offering free stone for roads and convict labor, and states Texans preserve more fruit at home than nearly any state.
Oral and written tests are conducted across all classes at Villa Maria Ursuline Academy. The music exam is set for June 6 with math exams on Monday and Tuesday after. Commencement exercises are on June 11, with tickets priced at 50 cents sold at Haswell's store to fund a new hall for the school.
In Boonville a Free Baptist Sunday school picnic will be held today in the pasture three and a half miles north of town with a 9 AM church departure. All invited to bring a basket as common folk engage more in government and taxation issues.
The Texas Woman's College graduation events at the First Baptist Church drew a large audience for essays, music, and the conferring of degrees. Scholarships and medals were awarded to Teaggers in literature and music with Judge Buffington delivering the commencement address on the rights of women within their sphere.
Peerless Cigar Co seeks a salesman in Toledo Ohio with $100 monthly pay plus expenses No experience required Read details in Toledo listing for a second hand refrigerator sale and phone number 217.
Across the former Confederacy June 3 events mark the birth centennial of Jefferson Davis. In Louisville ceremonies led by Col Bennett Young and visits to Davis birthplace in Fairview were noted, with Tennessee and Kentucky observances and graves decorated. Banks and public buildings closed in Mobile. In New Orleans the day featured exercises and states varied vo luntary observances from closures to school holidays.
Birmingham marked the 100th anniversary of Jefferson Davis birthday with a joint meeting at the commercial club rooms. Camp Hardee and Pelham chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy joined two Sons of Confederate Veterans groups for addresses and songs as banks in the city closed.
Montgomery and much of Alabama marked the hundredth anniversary of Jefferson Davis birth. The capitol where he was elected head of the provisional government in February 1861 was decorated with the colors of the lost cause and stores and business houses were similarly adorned.
On June 3 Austin observes Davis' centennial with every city department closed to honor the occasion.
William Jeffreys, awaiting execution in St Charles for the April 5, 1905 murder of dairyman William Wussler, says he will go to the scaffold with God’s strength and asserts others in the plot against him will follow. He notes the suicide of the man who arrested him as evidence retribution has begun.
Princeton, June 3. The twenty second wedding anniversary of former President and Mrs Grover Cleveland was quietly celebrated at their home. A large wedding cake bearing the inscription To G C and F F C June 2 1908 was presented by Princeton friends. Mr Cleveland is reported to be doing well though has not yet taken his customary afternoon drive.
Manila reports the deaths of government mining expert Harry Ickis and a guard who were murdered by two Moros while sleeping in a hut during a geological survey in a remote mountain area. Ickis, from Creston Iowa, and the attackers are described as Moro brothers whose father was killed by Spaniards fifteen years earlier.
Des Moines reports Judge S F Prouty beating Congressman Hull by an estimated 1200 plurality in Thursday's primary. Hull concedes defeat. he chairs the house military affairs committee.
Robert H Trou pel of Mamorenecy New York plans a horseback journey across the continent leaving Verdi California and passing through Denver San Antonio St Louis Washington and New York.
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