Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-12-26

S church had an entertainment al
the opera house. There was a
concert and entertainment by
the children ofthe M. E. church
at Eldridge hall.
p STILL BRIsK,-Poultry "pro-
lifricators" are still doing a brisk
business and many a fat turkey
5 and chicken has disappeared
from the owners premises with
out consent. Several parties
complained of losses yesterday.
THE lumber mills at Beau
mont and Orange being unable
on account pillow water. to fur
nish ties to fill their contracts
= with the Santa Fe railroad, the
i company has now made ar
r~angements to get ties from
Florida.
CHRISTMAS TREE.-The Epis-
copal church Sunday school will
have their Christmas tree at
Klaeden's hall on Saturday
: evening, the 27th inst, the Bren-
{ ham Greys having kindly ten
dered the use of their armcry
free of charge.
NoTIcE.-The American BIZ
bic society has moved its head
quarters from ]. S. Norton's to
c. G. COUGHS store house, Bren-
ham, Texas. Mr.. Couch is now
the agent for the society and
will take pleasure in waiting on
; the public.
MEAN.-Last week Ike Hill,
, of Mill creek, staked his mule
out and went to bed to dream
of the coming holidays. In the
morning he found the stake rope
cut and his mule lying dead in
a neighboring ravine. The
: mule had been shot three times.
New BUILDING Or Satur-
t day ground was broken for a
new and elegant two story bus
1 mess house, to be built ofbrick,
S on the lot Immediately in the
!. rear of the opera house. Col.
D. c. Giddings is the owner of
the lot and is having the house
built.
. AccIDENr.-About two weeks
ago a thrce-year old son of Mr..
/, Uekert. who lives near Burton;
: was playing in the yard where
. hog-killing was in progress.
S The little boy fell into a pot of
boiling water and was very Sc
verely scalded and is still in
bed.
CHICKEN THIEVES The
! BANNER learns that several gen.
tlemen have during the past day
/. or two been robbed of their en-
tire stock of Christmas turkeys
and chickens. Parties having
fowls in their possession had
better watch them with a jeal-
Gus eye and a loaded shotgun.
ROBBERY Sunday night a
thief entered Payton's machine
shops and stole all his dies
and stocks and also the shop
clock, not forgetting to carry off
the key which was snugly hang
ing on a nail near the clock.
The thief evidently had an eye
6 to being on time in the future.
PENNINGTON HOUSE. = This
old and popular house has just
E been thoroughly overhauled,
repaired and painted. The
: landlord, E. Pennington, is as
r polite as ever and is now pre-
pared to entertain his guests in
the best style.
e "JoAk" ON HEMpsrEap.-
5 During the past few days halfa
dozen or more ladies and gen.
n tlemen from Hampstead have
S been in BRENNAN buying holi-
day goods. The reason for
this is, Brennan offers induce
ments in the way of extensive
assortments of goods and low
prices.
s EVERYBODY was talking about
e the weather yesterday. About
daylight a fresh rorther arrived
and it kept getting bluer and
colder all day towards noon
the thermometer reached the
freezing point and the light
Z drizzling rain turned to ice or
7 the sidewalks; at 9 o'clock the
a mercury stood at 2o 0.
LECTURE CoURsE.-We learr
IS that arrangements have beer
/ nearly completed for a cours,
e of lectures TO be given in The
e new Presbyterian church. There
P will be three lectures at inter
n va's of two or three weeks, thu
y first to be delivered very sool
after the dedication of tn
h church. The names of the lee