Millican Texas Notes Weather Oil Talk And Social
Millican Texas correspondence reports drought relief with potential oil interest and lists residents traveling to Bryan Beau mont Ennis Hockley Moscow Grimes county Wellborn and Houston. Local events include a scholarship medal award at school, a wedding, cemetery work, a Providence church sermon, and a well attended fish tank picnic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millican
Texas
Harry Burger
Chas
Gainer
Bryan
Will Danlap
Beaumont
Williams
Ennis
J. P. Skinner
E. P. Miller
Hockley
Sam Beene
Bud Mills
George Smith
Hugh Neal
Wellborn
Sam Dunap
Kurt
Lon Holliday
Houston
Nelson Herrington
Mattie Dodson
J. H. McGregor
McGregor Smith
K. T. Williams
Two I grains fall in Edge Texas over weekend
Edge Texas reports two mysterious grains fell Saturday and Sunday evenings with light showers in between. The health of the community remains good. Visitors include Miss Ruby Reed of Bryan visiting Miss Nina Henry. Locals Mrs. Lou Elliott sick. Fannie Carter visiting son Cliff Carter. Rev Loftis preached at Liberty Church.
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Edge
Texas
Ruby Reed
Bryan
Nina Henry
Gertrude Dobbs
Matt Anderson
Macy
Church At Liberty
Carrie Newman
Lou Elliott
Fannie Carter
Cliff Carter
Mark Wilcox
Abbie
Liberty
Rev
Loftis
Cottonwood notes and community updates in May
Palmer visited Prof Scott Cottonwood on May 19. A rainfall refreshed the area. Mrs Annie Locke and children near Karten. Henry Shaw visited his grandparents Mr and Mrs Shaw. Church attendance was high. Meatt visited J K A on Saturday. Revival services planned May 24 between us wood and Wheelock. Nora and Lou Thomas helped their brother near Wixom. Scott's school closes. a picnic will honor the school. all invited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottonwood
Annie Locke
Karten Suncar
Mlittle
Henry Shaw
Karten T
Shaw
Meatt
J. K
On Wood
Wheelock
E. Funley
Burleson County
Isses Nora
Lou Thomas
Wixon
Scott
Fire halts at Cross Texas town as rain aids relief
Report from Cross Texas dated May 20 notes twelve hours of rain breaking a fire outbreak. The paper mentions the Hays family son recovering after a day of illness and Henderson still confined to his room. It closes with condolences for Mrs. Massey and the community’s sympathy.
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S, Tex
Rey
P. Hays
Henderson
Rain Lifts Texas Spirits as Weevil Talks Begin
Rosprim Texas May 19. Rain fell here last Sunday and offered welcome relief. The boll weevil is the topic of discussion as farmers assess damage and fight for control measures amid improving conditions.
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Texas
Flood Toll Rises in East Tennessee Destruction
Thirteen dead are reported with 18 proven dead after floods in upper East Tennessee. The list includes Green Suzong, Mrs. M Carson, Rankin, Mollie Talley, Mrs. Sarah Greek, an unknown man, all of Elizabethton, Samuel Duriam and wife of Wetauga, Milton Boyd of Wallace Virginia, Henry Muasik of Sullivan County, and three children of Joseph Hill of Ripley’s Island.
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Knoxville
Upper East Tennessee
Green Suzong
M. ©. Carson
Rankin
Mollie Talley
Sarah Greek
Elizabethton
Samuel Duriam
Wetauga
Milton Boyd
Wallace
Flood Devastation Strikes Multiple Rivers Across South
Reports from Knoxville Roanoke and Charlotte detail widespread damage from heavy rains and swollen rivers. Dozens of bridges wash away farms flood towns and eight lives lost as the Doe Wautauga and French Broad rivers surge toward record levels.
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Knoxville
Doe River
Elizabethton
Doe
Wautauga
Elizabethan
Holston
Greene County
Jefferson
John Riley
Chuckey River
Leeper
Tennessee
Southern Concert Company at Grand May Night
An advance notice advertises the Southern Concert Company appearing at the Grand on Thursday May 50th for a fine program. The lineup features Ora M Averitt pianist and accompanist, Adelaide B Oliver violinist and mandolinist, and Mr Oliver tenor from the Texas quartet. Also featured is Mr S A Kincaide baritone reader and Y M C A official. Bryan and Houston notables named with schedule May 30th matinee 3 pm and night 8:30 pm.
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Southern
Ieatice
Ora M. Averitt
Church of the “Apnuneciation
Houston
Averitt
Adelaide B. Oliver
Georgia
National Educational Association
Charleston
South
A. Kincaide
Texas
Kincaide
Texas Quartette
Artemus Ward
London
Artemus
Bryan Grand Opera House
Monroe Edge Real Estate Ad Seeks Mineral Land Investors
Monroe Edge advertises buying and selling land including coal mineral lands. Offers Bryan property with multiple houses and lots near depots, schools, and churches, rooms and cabins, boarding houses, and country tracts in Brazos, Grimes, Madison, and surrounding counties. Mentions oil districts and easy-term sales, plus city lots near Bryan and Ennis, Llano, Kurten, Wellborn, Calvert, and Kurten.
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Bryan
Free Baptist Church
City
College Road
Jeff Franklin
Allen Academy
Oil Mill
Apetty Park
Bon Ten
Wixun Creek
Madisonville Road
Madison
Grimes County
Pryan
Madisonville
Wixon Creek
Pasure
Brazos County
Rage
Kurten
Wellborn
Calvert
Ennis
Ryan
Llano
Llano County
Texas
Monroe Edge
Leper Lazaretto Plan Sparked Parish Uproar in Jefferson
In New Orleans on May 23 the state leper board bought a large Jefferson parish plantation opposite the city to house a lazaretto. Citizens from Jefferson and St. Charles parishes protested and some threatened arson and gun violence to stop the transfer. On Wednesday night the proposed home and other buildings on the site were set on fire and burned. The matter will be reported to Governor Heard.
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New Orleans
State
Jefferson Parish
Jefferson
St. Charles
Heard
Trans-Mississippi Congress Set for Cripple Creek in July
The twelfth Transmississippi Commercial congress will meet in Cripple Creek Colorado from July 1 to 20. E R Moses of Great Bend Kansas chairs the executive committee and issues the official call. Delegates are allotted to governors mayors counties and business organizations with limits, and ex officio delegates include governors congress members and former presidents.
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Cripple Creek
Colo
Transmississippi Commercial Congress
E. R. Moses
Great Bend
Kas
Transmississippi
United States Congress
Congress
The Stonehouse Murder
Rev Joseph Stonehouse of the London Missionary Society has been killed in China. Rev George D Wilder of Tien Tsin reports about ten of Stonehouse's murderers have been arrested and tried.
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Boston
W. S. Ament
D. D
Pekin
American Board
North China Mission
George D. Wilder
Tien Tsin
Joseph Stonehouse
London Missionary Society
Confessions Linked to Missionary Killings in Fall Affair
Reports from Sherman and various Texas towns detail a confession in a North China missionary murder case, with one member aiding the killing of an American Board missionary and his wife. The group involved in the Stonehouse affair is not yet punished. Nearby updates cover railroad grading, court cases, oil fuel tests at the insane asylum, a fatal freight-rail accident near Eskota, dam repair estimates, farming labor shortages, and a veterans meeting in Fort Worth.
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American Board
Terrell
North Texas Insane Asylum
Corsicana
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Red Cross
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