Local Visitors and Notices Highlight Saturday City Scene
Miss Florence Locke visits Houston while many Reliance residents, including Mr. W T Horton and Mr. George Lightsey, come to the city on Saturday. The page lists rents and sales, shop notices, and local arrivals with names like J N Cole, R K Chatham, J P Gilpin, Thurman Smith, and C G Parsons, plus business and civic updates.
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Florence Locke
Houston
W. T. Horton
Reliance
Tom Lee
J. N. Cole
George Lightsey
D. C. Lightsey
Albert Buchanan
Harvey
Grace Morgan
J. C. Griffith
S. W. Meredith
Millican
J. P. Gilpin
Kurten
Jim Conwey
Thompson Creek
Jim Cooper
Wellborn
John Stasney
Rock Prairie
A. W. Shelton
Brazos Bottom
Claude Buchanan
Kurton
J. Webb Howell
Maggie White
Wixon
Lee Andrews
Henry Seales
Benchley
W. B. English
W. H. Morgan
Chatham Homestead
R. K. Chatham
Mattie Lightsey
J. M. Reed
W. L. Powers
Clayton Prairie
A. W. Wilkerson
Pinkie Ferguson
Parker School
Messrs
Thurman Smith
G. C. Smith
Arrington
W. D. Yardley
Cotton Receipts and Ginners’ Report For 1908 Season
Market week shows total wagon receipts of 610 square bales against 786 last week and 1,106 the week before. Warehouses Lawrence 8,473 5,613 Brick 3,749 5,783 Union 3,477 Total 15,429 9,396 round bales ginned to date 1,514. Counting round bales as half, season total 16,186 against 9,389 last year. The census ginners report dated Nov 9 1908 records 8,199,781 bases for season, up from 6,128,562 in 1907 and higher than prior years. Outturn to date 1908 exceeds 1907 by 981,739 bases.
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Lawrence
Union
Census Department
Federal Government
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia Dies in Paris
Grand Duke Alexis, uncle of Emperor Nicholas II, died in Paris on Saturday from pneumonia. The former supreme naval dictator retired from office after twenty four years. He had visited the United States in 1872 at about age twenty two, extending his stop from New York to Louisville for four days amid social honors.
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Nicholas
Paris
Grand Duke
Alexis
Russia
United States
New York
Louisville
Kentucky
Fight for Local Option In Every State
Des Moines dispatch reports the American Anti Saloon league central district votes to push local option campaigns nationwide until success. P A Baker of Columbus criticizes the league as becoming a semi ecclesiastical police force. The group travels from Des Moines to Danville Michigan to oppose Speaker Cannon’s bid for re election. Seven Negroes Arrested in Dallas for Wolford murder. one man released amid rumors of a confession. In Granbury two highwaymen attacked D C Mills and robbed him of 50 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
American Anti-Saloon League
Central District
P. A. Baker
Columbus
Danville
Cannon
Attempt on Heney shocks San Francisco
In San Francisco Francis J. Heney special assistant in the district attorney office was shot and wounded by Morris Hass an ex convict who admitted he sought revenge for Heneys exposure of his past crimes Ruef the bribery trial defendant was placed in custody and Haas awaited punishment in Ingleside jail Attorney General Bonaparte voiced shock at the incident and praised Heneys services to justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Francis J. Heney
Morris Hass
Heney
Haas
Abraham Ruef
Ingleside
Ruef
Lawlor
Baltimore
Bonaparte
Francis Heney
Department of Justice
Boatswain Lays Open Axe Tragedy Aboard Liverpool Ship
New York report details James Layson boatswain on a Liverpool sailing ship who struck superior officers with an ax and, refusing arrest, leaped into the sea and drowned. The vessel sailed from Port Talbot to Quimbo Chile. captain and crew involved as the crime sparked a panic. In St Louis, H Clay Pierce met lawyers over Texas perjury cases and receivership.
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New York
James Layson
Liverpool
Port Talbot
Quimbo
Chile
Cable
Layson
Robert Blackall
Williamson
St. Louis
H. Clay Pierce
Fridsy T
Watera-Pierce Company
Texas
Federal Supreme Requit
Dallas Girl Missing
Dallas merchant A. Roffman reports his fourteen year old daughter has been missing since Wednesday. Police have been notified.
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Dallas
Roffman
Dalian
Merclant
Silliman House to Open for Guests on November 9
The Silliman House formerly Hamilton House will open for guests Monday November 9 with rates of 2 dollars per day and special rates for regular boarders. C F Terrell proprietor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silliman House
Hamilton House
C. F. Terrell
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Ountain’s
E. J. Fountain
James Adams
Tabor
H. P. Dansby
Steep Hollow
Ring Vick
Horace Cavitt
Boston
W. R. Cavitt
Hill'saddition
Judge Hudson’s
East Side School
Nannie Berryman
Drummond
Harris School House
Harder
G. A. Foster
J. M. Bullock
Baptist Convention
Fort Worth
H. B. Stoddard
J. W. Eager
D. D. Eastham
Italy
BE. C. Harder
T. A. Bullock
Bullock & Jones
Galveston
Waco
L. M. Hewit
O. C. Charlton
Texas Woman's College
H. S. Nabors
C. G. Parsons
Corsicana
J. J. Riley
W. H. Shelby
F. A. Capps
City
Bryan
Cavitt
Deer Park
Guy Bittle
H. & T. C. Depot
Emmet & Maloney Prescription Druggists
Cotton
Ginners’ Report
Apj
Frank Wolford
Oee Black
Granbury
Tex
D. C
Mills
Neri
This County
Silliman
The
First National Bank
Bryan Roller Rink
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