Local notices and personals from Bryan area
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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1909
Page
4
Railroad time and local notices list train schedules and daily happenings. Entries name residents visiting, selling goods, seeking help, and court actions with Hempstead and Bryan connections.
A severe wind and rain swept Bryan Tuesday night with cyclonic gusts over two hours. Awnings collapsed at several businesses, a cedar tree was broken, the Standpipe leaked, a residence caught fire but neighbors saved it, and a shed was hurled to a garden with chickens unharmed. Multiple tenant houses were blown down and a family member slightly injured.
Special report notes fair conditions in New Orleans, with colder air expected overnight through Thursday. Forecaster Cline indicates a drop in temperatures and clear skies as a regional pattern shifts.
Government expert Mr Quicksall of Waep addressed farmers and business men at the county court house. He urged a science based, thorough approach to farming, stressing deep fall plowing, early seed bed preparation, careful seed selection, fertilizers, and early cultivation to boost corn and cotton yields and farm wealth.
Bryan residents can hear Dr. B F Riley speak on The Holy City at Carnese Hall Friday evening March 26. The lecture promises wit humor and historical facts from his recent Holy Land tour offered for 25 cents, presenting a vivid sense of biblical sites and life.
A display of Cuban products travels in a Pullman car on the H and T C lines near Bryan station. It is open to the public en route to the Ukon exposition in Seattle. Admission is 10 cents, with school classes charged a few cents per student.
A local notice advertises a selection of fresh fruit cakes and candy by Mrs Otto Loehme. The item list suggests homemade bakery offerings from a home kitchen or small business setup.
A western disturbance moves southeast across Texas bringing light rains from the lower California to the Rio Grande Valley. The Coast to Fair weather area remains in the East with mostly fair conditions in the Northwest. Temperatures rise except in Nebraska Kansas and near the South Atlantic Coast with frost in the extreme eastern Cotton Belt. Texas reports warm, mostly cloudy skies with rain at Del Rio and San Antonio.
W P Stewart acting section director notes rivers may change Brazos and Colorado pathways no major flood threat identified though adjustments to water flow are under review in the region.
Special to Bryan Morning Eagle Bridgeport Conn March 24 Fanny Crosby famed blind hymn writer turns ninety today at a relative's home in Bridgeport Letters of congratulations pour in from across the country Crosby has been blind since age six She attended the Institute for the Blind in New York and taught there for a decade She authored about 4000 hymns including Safe in the Arms of Jesus Jesus the Water of Life Will Give and Jesus Keep me Near the Cross She also wrote ballads lyrics and words for cantatas She remains active in religious work and recently attended revival meetings in Springfield Mass led by Dr J Wilbur Chapman and Charles Alexander
Howell Bros. shipped a six month old Berkshire boar weighing 156 pounds to Mr. C. G. Woods of Hearne. The animal is subject to registration and was placed on Woods farm in the bottom.
The Woman's Club met at Carnegie hall on Wednesday afternoon and elected officers for the coming year. President Mrs L L McInnis. Vice President Mrs John E Astin. Recording secretary Mrs J Webb Howell. Corresponding secretary Mrs S R Henderson. Treasurer Mrs M Francis. Critic Mrs T R Butte. Parliamentarian Mrs J B Hines.
County Clerk Boyett reports Brazos county vital statistics for December 1908 and January and February 1909. Total deaths were 11 and total births 44.
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