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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1907
Page
7
Railroad timetables list No 3 and No 5 northbound and No 2 and No 6 southbound services. Local residents including R. P. Hood Tay Foster J. T. Eat oysters at Fidenburgs and Waco visitors are noted. New goods from Webb Bros. including hats dresses and shoes appear alongside updates on births marriages and school appointments.
Commissioner P. H. Arrington reports from Bryan street fronting Buchanan-Moore Co that Lee Thompson finished the 115 foot Wellborn and Koppe Ferry road bridge. It is described as good and substantial.
Supt W C Lawson announces assignments for East Side and West Side public schools. Names include A W Kinnard high school principal English and Mathematics and J D Willis seventh grade. Wesa Weddington Lat in and History. other teachers for grades from first to sixth. Last year’s distribution mostly unchanged with room reassignments to accommodate vacancies.
In Little Rock on September 5 the Farmers' National Co operative and Educational Union set middling cotton at 15 cents with a monthly 0.25 cent rise to 16 cents by January. Long staple 27 to 45 cents. Wheat 1.60 a bushel, corn 50 cents, rye 1, barley 1.59, oats 35. A sliding scale only for middling cotton. A strong immigration restriction resolution urged Congress and state legislatures to curb undesired foreign arrivals. Old officers re elected unanimously.
Clarence Byrne, freed after thirty days for letting his daughter die without medical care, publicly repudiated the Christian Science faith at a testimonial in a church. Byrne arrived in New York from Kansas City a year ago.
In Alam o creek overflow following heavy rains, Mrs Louisia Hill Carabajal and her seven children drowned. Crops damaged sixty thousand dollars. Also reported, A P Keagheh of New Orleans died suddenly at sea aboard the Conners from cerebral hemorrhage. buried at sea, date Sept 3.
New York aboard the La Lorraine Eva Palmer drew attention in Paris style by wearing sandals and a purple Directoire gown with no lingerie or stockings. She calls it a restoration of common sense in dress and says she is a New York girl wearing the costume for comfort and health, not to join any sect.
Ferdinand Penny Earle, the New York artist who sent his wife to France to secure a divorce so he could wed another, was greeted by a hostile Monroe crowd. He was hauled from a carriage, dragged through mud, and struck after seizing a whip. cries of punishment echoed as officers intervened and took him away for explanation.
Ledalvin Mauppin a Clay City Kentucky navy Yeoman married Helen Curren on Tuesday and planned a ten day honeymoon. An order to report for duty ended the plans and likely drove Mauppin to take his own life. The bride is prostrated by the tragedy.
Washington reports the president authorized the secretary of the interior to appoint Sub Chief Tiger of the Creek Indians to succeed the late Chief Pleasant Porter as head of the tribe. The action follows Porter’s death and elevates Tiger to tribal leadership.
Prince Dabro of an old Egyptian family, visiting New York, said he will travel to Texas to study cotton production. He noted cotton growing has become one of Egypt’s key industries and spoke fluent English while being hosted by Henry Clews.
The body of J. P. Ledbetter, a drug clerk long missing since Tuesday, was found in a Colonial hotel room in Birmingham. A morphine dose was taken with suicidal intent, and a note to his wife and three children expressed farewell and hope they go to Heaven. Friends suspect mental distress contributed to the act.
Dallas County clerk issues thirteen marriage licenses on Wednesday. The act marks a line in county records as couples seek legal union. Names and details were filed at the clerk’s office for record purposes.
In Sherman on September 5 the Bevan versus Missouri Kansas and Texas case over engineer J Bevan killed in Milford wreck May 12 was settled by agreement. The plaintiff Maggie Bevan received ten thousand dollars. In Dallas on September 5 R Kanomos a Greek man was assaulted by African Americans and stabbed in the back with the blade penetrating the following.
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