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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
3
Shipping schedules and train numbers mix with city society notes and vendor ads. Attendees include R. P. Hood and Tuy Foster in town, J. T. Eat oysters at Fidenburg, and Webb Bros. promotions for hats, dresses, and shoes. Many brief city mentions cover visitors from Waco and Dallas, sales of honey and potatoes, and professional notes from Dr. Cavitt to Rev. Andrews.
Commissioner P. H. Arrington reports Lee Thompson has finished the first bridge on the Wellborn and Koppe Ferry road. The 115 foot structure is described as good and substantial. Also note on Dr Shoop Health Coffee imitator claims and a store offer from J M Lawrence & Co.
The Eagle reports the public schools appoint new staffing across East and West Side schools. A W Kinnard remains high school principal teaching English and mathematics. Wesa Weddington becomes Latin and history assistant. Willis moves to seventh grade. Ada Beard sixth grade. Leila Suber fifth. Sunshine Cole fourth. Estill third. Annie Dearing second. May Burtis first. West Side adds Bethany sixth grade. Stoddard fourth and fifth. Fletcher second and third. Virginia Watkins first and second. Last year’s assignments largely unchanged. Fifth grade at East Side moves to first floor freeing space for seventh grade. Weddington takes Willis’s former room. Willis’s former room becomes high school reading room.
The Farmers' National Co operative and Educational Union set middling cotton at 15 cents with a quarter-cent monthly rise, long staple 27 to 45 cents, No 2 wheat 1.50, corn 50 cents, rye 1, barley 1.50, oats 35. A sliding scale applies only to middling cotton. They call for laws to curb immigration and re elected old officers unanimously.
Clarence Byrne, a healer released after a 30 day sentence for allowing his daughter to die without medical care, publicly repudiated the Christian Science faith at a testimonial meeting in a church. Byrne had come to New York from Kansas City a year earlier.
Albuquerque reports heavy rains caused Alamo creek in Sierra county to overflow. Mrs. Louisia Hill Carabajal and her seven children drowned. Crops damaged about 60,000 dollars. In New York, A. P. Keagheh of New Orleans died suddenly aboard the Conners from cerebral hemorrhage and was buried at sea on Sept. 3.
New York headline maker Eva Palmer arrived from Havre aboard La Lorraine wearing a Directoire purple gown with sandals and no lingerie. She defends the outfit as comfort and health, denying sectarian ties and insisting the style is a return to common sense.
New York reports Ferdinand Penny Earle the artist returns to Monroe after sending his wife to France for a divorce. A mob crowds the station, drags him from a carriage, beats him with a whip, and calls for rope and feathering before officers escort him away. He says he is willing to explain his position.
Sedalvin Mauppin a Clay City Kentucky yeoman in the U S navy killed himself while on leave after marrying Ellen Curren in Annapolis. They planned a ten day honeymoon but Mauppin was ordered to report for duty, a sudden break in plans that authorities say unhinged his mind. the bride is prostrated.
Washington reports the president has authorized the secretary of the interior to appoint Sub-Chief Tiger of the Creek Indians to succeed the late chief Pleasant Porter as chief of the tribe.
Prince Dabro of an old Egyptian family will travel to the United States and visit Texas to study the cotton industry. He noted cotton raising has become one of Egypt’s most important industries and spoke about his stay with Henry Clews.
The body of J. P. Ledbetter, a noted drug clerk, was found in a Colonial hotel room on Thursday after he had been missing since Tuesday. A morphine dose with suicidal intent preceded his death, and he left a note to his wife and three children bidding them farewell. Friends suspect mental distress.
The county clerk issued thirteen marriage licenses on Wednesday, marking a notable batch in one day. The list includes names of couples and the local registry office processed the filings with standard documentation.
R Kanomos, a Greek resident of Dallas, was attacked by Black youths and stabbed in the back with a knife. The blade penetrated the body, leaving the victim seriously injured. Police investigations follow the assault.
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