Graded School Promotions And Rail Schedule Update
Promotions are listed from First to Second grade for both boys and girls with teachers noted. Additional lists cover Third to Fourth, Fourth to Fifth, and Eighth to Ninth grade progressions. Also announced is the I G N Fort Worth division May 31 schedule change with night trains, through sleeper, and specific Lewis time cards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Lou Brogdon
Pearl Kern
Fort Worth
Galveston
Gaverton
Denver
Colorado
Bryan
Lewis
First Legal Execution of a White Man in Bowie County
In New Boston Texas on May 30 1902 J B Smith was hanged for the murder of J C Whitener at Nexarkana. Whitener was killed after a whispered remark during a domino game. Shutt friend of twenty five years faced a death penalty after trials and petitions for clemency were denied. Rev Percy T Fenn accompanied him and said he made peace with God. Smith prayed and asked forgiveness from Whitener’s widow before his execution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Boston
Tex
J. B. Smith
J. C.whitener
Nexarkana
Whitener
Shutt
Pers
Lanham
Percy T. Fenn
St. James Episcopal Church
Haven Whiteners
Jefferson
Drama of Death in Kemp Trial Ends in Quick Execution Sentence
Henry Johnson, a Black defendant charged with criminally assaulting Jennie Whitworth near Kemp, was found guilty in a dramatic session in Kaufman Texas. Judge Dillard sentences him to death by hanging, to occur tomorrow between 10 and 4. Johnson appeals to no one, stating his readiness to die.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Johnson
Kaufman
Tex
Kemp
Jennie Whitworth
Court House
Terrell Rifles
Johnson
Temple of Justice
Dillard
Also Mentioned on This Page
Cofferm
United States
Claude Andrews
John S. Caldwell
Guy Dansby
Harold Deaton
Leo Garner
Berry Johnson
Henry Lehmann
Stephen Labelle
Austin McGrady
Howard Mead
Monroe New
George Pletzer
Randolph Penn
Gholson Rhodes
Arthur Wallis
John Williams
Frances Bennett
Helen Boyer
Louise Caldwell
Ora Carroll
Pearl Court
Bessie Dean
Tida Hamer
Ruby Hamilton
Sarah Maringo
Robbie Nicol
Deed Weddington
Mary Zimmermann
May Burris
Ransome Cole
John Hanway
Leon Labelle
Frank Operstein
Burnie Smith
Albertine Wilcox
Ethel Gelber
Mary James
Katie Koch
Alline Lewis
Ruby Mosely
Roy Taylor
Laura Weaver
Annie Dearing
Nat Allen
Edgar Buchanan
John Conway
Harry Estill
Spencer Ford
Frank Higgs
Willie Koch
Ernest Nitch
Albert Rhodes
Thomas Spell Girls
Hattie Sue Brown
Mary Dobrovolny
Maggie Dawson
Elsie Douglas
Madeline Hanway
Fannie Hamilton
Minnie McCorquodale
Lillie Belle Smith
Mary Shelburne
Nora Youngblood
Ruby Zimmermann
Apple Fulkerson
Erwin Bone
Bertrand Connelly
Robert Caldwell
Herbert Franklin
Edgar Henry
Wylie Higgs
Lawrence Parker
Matt Riordan
Jim Stevens
Joe Todaro
Ida Boland
Lena Beard
Sadie Batte
Louise Batte
Bessie Barron
Ira Maude Camp
Gene Dennis
Marcella Hurt
Ludmilla Hyck
May Hellman
Audrey Lewis
Susie Lomax
Laura James
Vivienne Martin
Willie Mead
Charlotte March
Alta Powers
Lillie Reed
Isabel Wilcox
Margaret Zuber
Cordie Fletcher
Ben Lomax
J. M. Oneal
Bowie County
Howell Brothers
Call
Texas
Tyler Haswell
OSE
Ghoses
Bryan Steam Laundry
the City National Bank
R. G Tabor
Ken York, Sureene Yor
D. McCorquodale
Guthrie
Okla
Harrison
Salt Creek
Lincoln
Neb
Berryman
Opera House
Methodist Church
Eee
Franklin Bros
Rabi Gwens
Bryan Ice, Storage & Coal Company
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