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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1903
Page
3
The post office hours are listed for WerEK Days with General Delivery Registry and Money Order services from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mail for midnight trains closes at 9 p.m. Sunday hours run 10:30 to 11 p.m. and 4:15 to 4:45 p.m.
Passenger timetable notes No 2 Northbound arrives at 11 00 pm and No 1 Southbound arrives at 4 15 pm. The fragment shows arrival times for two trains in the schedule.
Local brief roundup lists visits and travel by residents: Dr. G. W. Emory in Navasota. James West headed to Pine Bluff Arkansas. Lucile DeMaret visiting kin in Navasota. Albert Worley and Jim Christian to Houston. Rev. and Mrs. E. Shettles back from Marlin. John Finley to Mexia for alumni banquet. Bremond and Mexia trips by Col and Mrs. Rhodes. Mrs. J. H. Shope visiting from Waco. Hanways return from New Orleans. plus coupons, store items, and a blood orange note.
Miss Bessie Lee Williamson visits Miss Maggie McDougald in Brenham while Mrs. W. J. Branch and children relocate to Fort Worth. Dr. James F. Page and Dr. Claude Searcy travel and study, with several local visitors and departures noted. The public school closes and high school graduation is set for the opera house. Deco ration Day delays at the post office. local social rounds include Medina sisters and Madisonville visitors.
Bryan residents and visitors attend Allen Academy commencement. Notables from Calvert Huntsville and Galveston travel for the event. Ed Tally advertises a new carriage stand and late night phone service at 301 Exchange shaving parlor. W. Wilson sells round trip tickets to Houston for May 30 1903. A plan forms among ex Confederates for a Friend-in-Need style fraternal group with a meeting at the Brazos county courthouse.
A list of guests and their home cities including Robi Boggs Corsicana John H Riveire Waco W R McCormick Galveston Mrs J J Jopling A McLarty and family Madisonville M Plyler Huntsville L 5 Sey mour New York J F Page Texas Fred Shefska St Louis W 5 Adams St Louis C F Jackson Sherman J 8 Linn New Orleans T W L Morris I G N TP Priddie R H Dunn Montgomery Tucker Jim Henry Galveston H John Dallas Sam Paul Waco K S Ayers Palestine W Stescher Marlin B H Shannon Belvon J Hadldy Waco Central Gresham Mead Houston Jay Millard Marlin T A Donnelly St John Arcade Columbus Kisinger Harvey Wall Dyer Bastrop
A Brazos County notice calls U C V No 124 members to meet at the Brazos County Courthouse on Saturday May 30 at 2 PM to organize a fraternal order. By order of Commander J J Adams and Adjutant W G Mitchell. A Navasota special reports George Malcom a Bryan man cut on the throat and face brought to Navasota by Interurban Great Northern train. Constable C L Baker assisted. no arrest reported. Malcom remains critically injured. he claims attack by four or five and injuries by multiple assailants.
Mount Vernon New York May 28 Lawyers who settled the estate of Rev Joseph Albinger pastor of Our Lady of Victory church report he left 57000 with 30000 in gold in New York safe deposits and the rest in real estate He was known as a miser and wore ragged clothes while living in Mount Vernon.
Sir Thomas Lipton sails from Gourock with Shamrock III Shamrock I Erin and an ocean tug cruiser totaling 170 crew. Crowds bid farewell with flags bands and whistles as the cup challengers depart toward Sandy Hook.
The Mobile bay quarantine board refused to adopt Louisiana health board recommendations to confine disinfection of vessels from Cuba to sailed baggage, sticking with Galveston conference rules and opposing the mosquito theory of infection.
The Posenet Tagblatt reports a river ferry near Dembro capsized on the Warthe with forty five children aboard. Eleven children and the ferryman drowned in the incident.
A telegram from Prof. Percival Lowell in Flagstaff Arizona reports to the Harvard College Observatory that Slipper observed a large Martian projection on May 26 at 15 35 GMT. The feature's position angle was 200 degrees and it lasted thirty five minutes.
In Los Angeles on May 28 the Presbyterian general assembly held two sessions on home missions and aid for colleges. Both reports reflected long and productive debates and discussion.
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