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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1902
Page
2
The Eagle reports busy secretary and manager Mr. Simpson coordinating truck growers efforts. He has loaded a car with boxes and crates for the Brazos county association, with portions sold in Millican and Rosse and others reserved for members. Demand remains high as deliveries continue and outside sales loom.
A Texas association aided by Mr. Simpson solved a cash and logistics problem to supply growers. Boxes costing about 800 dollars were moved with a compress building donated by Walter Wipprecht. First shipment of snap beans sold in Dallas netted 53 cents per third bushel box to truck grower J. C. Lloyd of Reliance, boosting member morale.
Resolutions from L. A. Ross Chapter U D C express deep sorrow over the death of Mrs. J. J. Adams in Bryan. They praise her leadership as executive head for two years, her cooperative labor, and her church and community service. Members will wear mourning badges for 30 days and the resolution will be published in local papers and sent to the family.
Mrs. Rhoda Ann Martin aged 82 years and 23 days died at 7 30 am in the home of her son in law in Bryan. She came to Texas in 1848 with her husband who fell in the Civil War. She leaves four daughters and two sons and many grandchildren. Funeral at 10 o clock in Bryan with burial in the city cemetery.
The sixth grade expresses gratitude to the Mutual Improvement Club for historical pictures now adorning their walls. The displays depict key moments from the American struggle for liberty, including the Declaration of Independence, Trenton, Princeton, Yorktown, Montgomery, Burgoyne, and Washington.
Dallas has become a reserve city, with its four national banks named reserve agents for 200 banks across Texas and neighboring territories. In April six Texas banks were organized, bringing total since March 14, 1900 to 125 with capital of 1.613 million and bonds deposited 1.323 million. Oklahoma reports 51 banks with 1.44 million capital and 482 thousand bonds. Indian Territory shows 42 banks with 1.335 million capital and 364.8 thousand bonds. Washington.
Mrs Martha Hix of Greenville Texas died between 1 and 2 am Tuesday at the home of her grandson Joe Zinnamon in Cedar Grove. The Hunt County resident, believed oldest woman in the south, was 102 years old and passed after a brief choking spell following retirement the prior night.
A. H. Schoffield, half brother of former Lt. Gen. Schofield, killed himself in El Paso Texas May 1. The bookkeeper for Copies Lumber Co and Baptist church secretary hid behind lumber and fired a large caliber revolver bullet through his brain. A note to his wife offered no reason. Coroner's verdict: death by own action. Schofield had come from Missouri three years ago.
Application for writ of error filed in Austin by the attorney general for the state. Texas v Waters Pierce Oil Co on appeal from McLennan. State lost on trial court facts and the Third Court of Civil Appeals affirmed on law. Court held anti trust acts of 1889 and 1895 unconstitutional.
A small tornado tore through Crawford causing damage to Seeley Farley corn shelling machinery and unroofed the round bale gin and seed houses. It damaged the Santa Fe depot briefly, then moved north leaving scattered wreckage but little further harm.
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