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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1898
Page
2
Bryan Texas notices show endorsements for state offices including Sayres Browning Finley Finger Robbins Mayfield Kendall Brown Brooks Henry Henderson Scott and room for district attorneys. Subscription prices per week 18 per month 40 with editors Connelly Palmer Carnes Malcolm Cannes.
Health is poor in the community as cotton picking remains the main work. Mrs. Jimmie Massey and her daughter Verna are on the sick list this week. An ice cream supper is planned for Friday night with good turnout and entertainment.
From the Sunset community many attendees listed including Misses Nannie Shealey Cora Minnie Mary Morgan Ida Price Agnes Register Cora Bertha Lindsey Paralee Jones and Messrs Jess Tom W Hicks Albert Bullock T Smith From Kurten Misses Mollie Matson Anna Sheppard Ola Wilson Messrs Henry Mott Clarence Shepard Jim Gloud and Tol Tobias From Wickson Jennie Freeman and sister John Scott The group formed a singing society meeting every 2nd and 4th Saturday nights Whittington serves as president and Walter English as vice president A large crowd also attended a negro baptising at Wixon creek last Sunday afternoon with many whites present.
Health is better this week as Boll and cotton worms plague farms in the community. The Singing choir met Sunday evening and elected new officers for the coming year. A large ice cream supper at the Manley home followed by visits from Jim Stuart returning from Grimes County. The community mourns Mrs. Lee who died Friday at 3 PM. Willie Hammons of Grimes visits relatives this week.
The Cottonwood column reports hot dry conditions and ongoing sickness in the community. Clara Gallatin is again on the sick list while cotton pickers expect better pay from chicken money this fall. News is scarce and readers may not need more updates for months.
Sickness and heat slowed news but cotton arrivals rise while visits from Rev. J.M. Adams Mrs. C B Gainer and others brighten Millican. Local clergy preached at Baptist and Methodist churches. Several residents travel for schooling and health as sick list slowly improves.
Thompson Creek area reports good health with no illnesses known. Preaching was held Friday night by Rev J A Wadsworth and Saturday evening with Sunday at 11 o clock by Pastor F M Rollins. Jessie Peters of Bryan attended prayer meeting. W J Meads, sorghum molasses maker, finished with 1008 gallons produced. Singing choir and singing class schedule posted for upcoming Sundays.
A list of guests arriving at the Exchange Hotel includes J Aronson M F Murdock J H Hawkins P T Potts H C Harrison C W Carr E Friedenhaus Gus A Bruck C Fl Maxfield J R Satterly A C Miller O L Steele Navasota W Brooks Peoria Il D Roman E E Shumate W V Mc Master Ed H Hardin Waco Walter A Parker Raleigh N W McCall Calvert E R Adams Dallas J A Gill and wife Texas J G Harnson College J J Conkling Dayton Geo T Lock West Lake Abe Edel Galveston.
The piece proclaims truth as the eternal cornerstone of all that endures. It places Truth-God at the central star of creation, with creative energy forming light and law stamping its omnipresent trace across heaven and Earth, and guiding beyond despair.
General Wheeler has authorized General Edelbert Ames to probe Camp Wikoff conditions. He aims to identify faults, leadership, and delays including transport, medical supply, and hospital crowding while noting tensions among rough riders and regulars. President McKinley’s stance and possible changes are anticipated. Ten soldiers died at Camp Wikoff on August 31.
Washington reports a new yellow fever case in Franklin traced to a physician who attended earlier patients though not considered grave. In Belton Texas a jail break frees convicts Joe Carter and W F Riding by tunneling under a sheet iron floor. Texarkana reports Mrs Prathrow shot head by husband while fishing. she unlikely to recover. Middlesborough Kentucky records a jealous murder suicide with Mrs Burrows shot through the heart.
Judge J S Straughan rules bail denied for Henry Williams and his wife who were jailed by Justice Young on a charge of murdering Austin A King on August 8 in Stephenville Texas.
Middlesborough Kentucky reports Charles Burch captured after he and Ben Johnson killed Deputy Sheriff Nat Cloud and Cadle a bystander at New Tatwell Tennessee The incident stirs excitement and there is talk of lynching Johnson.
New York on August 31 reports all opposition to the Corbett McCoy fight has disappeared and the contest is certain to take place with seats selling rapidly.
Edna Texas August 31 report states P F Ward of Caran Caliia was killed on Sunday. The brief item notes the fatal incident occurred near the town with investigators expected to follow clues. The deceased was identified as a local resident with no further details released.
The article celebrates Mexico’s September fifteenth and sixteenth holidays, noting Diaz’s September fifteenth birthday and Independence Day festivities with the Battle of Flowers and mass flower parades. It promotes train tours to Mexico City via I G N R R with special fares and stopovers, urging inquiries to local agents and D J Price in Palestine, Texas.
City officers including Mayor C Awa Marshall and Secretary H G Rhodes listed alongside county officials. Churches and fraternal orders are noted with service times, meetings, and officers for Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Christian, Catholic, and numerous lodges and orders such as Knight Templars and Masons.
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