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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1905
Page
2
The executive board of the Bryan association is called to meet at the Baptist church in Bryan Texas at 10 a.m. on November 7 1905 to attend to business pertaining to mission work in our bounds. J M Butrick Moderator
The 1905 No-Tsu-Oh carnival runs November 13 to 18 in Houston featuring daily horse racing with top national racers. Races include running trotting and pacing events, with a grand display of wholesome, mirthful fun and new track novelties to attract crowds.
L C Sellers, operating a Millican drug business, made a general assignment for creditors naming G W Dunlap as assignee. Papers filed Saturday night in the county clerk office. Assets include stock of drugs and twenty one head of cattle valued at 1109.14, cattle mortgaged to City National Bank of Bryan. Liabilities total 1668.14 to numerous creditors including Doremus Butler and many drug firms across the country. Mrs T E Mower visited from Corsicana returning with son Robert Mower who fractured both arms in a Saturday night fall. he expects to resume studies soon.
Opie Read, renowned South story teller, appears at Grand Opera House on November 8 in a engaging program. He promises to end his lecture tour for ten years with a $10,000 yearly contract to write a play annually. Readers are urged to attend while opportunity lasts. The issue also notes the Galveston death of Robert Elmar and a Chicago murder at Chenoa, Illinois, plus Texas Press Association dates and a Spokane bout where Holly Mellody defeated George Peterson for $14,000.
H. and T. C. announce a round trip fare sale with one fare plus two dollars in October for Eureka Springs and Hot Springs. Ticket sales on October 20 21 22 with a final limit November 4. Also note a separate financial line referencing National Baptist colored account and a coal business statement from Bryan Ice, Storage & Coal Co.
Waste oil on Buffalo Bayou near Glenwood cemetery caught fire on Sunday and grew into a large conflagration. A breeze spread flames about fifty yards northward, with flames leaping up to a hundred feet and burning trees along the bank. Thousands gathered to watch the blaze as smoke billowed skyward.
Juliet the loness breaks from a cage on the fair grounds and slips onto the Pike causing a panic as three shots are fired and a noose is used to restrain her before returning to her cage. In Dallas a saloon fight ends with Charles Barclay shot through the liver intestines and bowels dying at the city hospital after three bullets hit him.
Farmers in Terrell Texas report a second watermelon crop planted in August and aided by favorable fall rains. The late harvest surpasses the first crop with high quality fruit produced with minimal cultivation.
Dallas report from October records a street dispute two miles from Garland between Charley Huesley and another man over 15 cents, ending with Huesley being shot.
Pittsburg reports five coal company officers perished at Hazel Kirk No 1 mine Hazelkirk Pa while two weeks after an explosion a group including superintendent John Hornial foreman Dan Griffith and fire boss Henry C borne entered the mine to check for ongoing fire Andrew Roder escaped but burned Andrew Roder was injured and survived the attempt to reach the fire location.
City of Mexico report says the African Gold Fields' syndicate has secured an option on the Peregrine mines of Guanajuato for 2,500,000 dollars and has paid a substantial down payment toward the proposed purchase. Five new yellow fever cases reported in Pensacola as of Sunday evening.
Miss Ethel Anderson dropped dead at Texarkana. Mrs. J. B. Currie died at Paint Rock from burns. An unknown negro was cut to pieces by a train near South McAlester. A new jail at Kountze costs 20000. Depot under construction at Farmersville costing 10000. John Culpepper, aged man, found dead near Iredell. Oklahoma Farmers' Union to publish semi weekly paper. A Yale University Texas club with nineteen members formed.
E J Jenkins assures Eagle readers he will refund money to any Hyomei purchaser not cured of catarrh. The outfit includes an inhaler, medicine dropper, and Hyomei bottle, sold for $1 with extra bottles at 50 cents, and Jenkins emphasizes lifetime inhaler use and adherence to directions.
About 70 acres in cultivation with a 10 acre hog pasture and good water. A four room main house and a two room tenant house. Located about 15 miles north of Bryan on the mail route with 50 acres of rich black sand. Asking price 10.00 per acre. Also 35 acres cultivated with a four room house and a good well priced at 640.00. A five room residence with about two acres near a school house priced at 1300.00.
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