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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1905
Page
2
The Morning Rag le notes Gainesville liquor dealers posted rewards for violators of the Sunday law. A Texas crime report states Lester Renfro pleaded guilty to wounding Miss Lucy Brogdon in Beaumont and received a 99 year sentence.
Bids to supply labor and materials for painting frame cottages brick flues sash lumber and repairs at A. and M. College are due by 4 p.m. Thursday Oct 12 1905. Specifications available in the office of H. H. Harrington 264 President. The right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
H G Larsh of Oklahoma, in charge of rural free mail delivery, is surveying five potential routes in the county. He estimates routes of nine to twelve miles each, to operate daily from Bryan around 10 a m and return in the evening. The map will show every patron and the service aims to ease travel for town and country residents. The effort gains support from local business leaders led by a committee including T R Batte and Tyler Haswell with Postmaster J A Myers backing the plan.
J A D Robinson asks Brazos County farmers to prepare strong agricultural exhibits for the October 17 to 20 fair in Bryan. He notes spring floods and hot weather hindered yields but urges selecting top products from farm, orchard and garden and to bring what they can, early if possible.
Millican Texas October 8 A dispute at a local festival near Allenfarm between Jim McKinney and another colored man named Osborne ended with McKinney slashing Osborne with a razor while Osborne struck McKinney on the head with a six shooter.
List of Ladies and Gents with names including Mrs Austin Lula Cobb Alice Fuller Kate Knox Delia Lewis Homer Perry Sallie Polk Georgia Roberson Mandy Stephen son J C Wilson Mary Ward Rebecca and Brown Walter Boatwright Geo Beelmanskie Henry Caldwell W F Chatman Dave Coburn Thos Crews J E Hardie Spence Jami son Moses Martin Altee Smith Nellie Tinker W C Yardley Jim Williams T R White Annie May for Austin post office.
R. T. Boyle left Sunday for Marlin where he purchased a business house occupied by a hardware firm. He went to arrange the papers. Two members joined the Baptist church by letter and one by letter to the Methodist church. H. E. Manley and wife of Benchley were in the city Sunday.
Screams of Miss Ena Adams and Miss Rena Cox drove off an unknown man in Thornton Texas on October 9. Guards on the railroad north of town fired several shots at a fleeing figure. blood was found on a fence where he passed, and a man presumed black fled along the tracks.
In Bellville Texas on October 9 widow Mrs Meyer of Industry accuses Gableman of tying her husband with a rope and placing a horse to kick him to death. The defendant denies intent claiming the death was accidental after the entanglement occurred.
Lester Renfro the Negro who burglarized a Beaumont residence was sentenced to ninety nine years in the penitentiary. The assault charge stemming from a cutting of a young woman was dismissed and Renfro requested immediate imprisonment. A separate item notes a $500 money package vanished at the Hast Waco depot en route to the First National Bank of Houston.
The Massachusetts Democratic state convention nominated General Charles W. Barnett for governor and supported tariff revision, free coal and other raw materials, and municipal ownership of utilities. A Bryan-backed substitute was voted down as Watson faced jeers. In Tokyo Alice Roosevelt passed through en route to Nikko, greeted by officials and riding in an imperial carriage.
Advertisers and readers are informed of studio posing by Alonzo Carter and new framing lines at Carter's studio. Leila Griffin has moved to Macy to teach in public school. W P Connelly returns from Denison and north Texas. P S Grogan and R W Marshall of Hearne visit the city. J W Brogdon back from Houston. C B Jones from Harvey and Beau Chatham heading to Mart.
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