Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1890-09-04

to the Banner to come forward ana
settle. We need the money.
HANDSOME colored posters adver-
Using the Dallas state fair and expo
sition have been distributed around
town.
MIR. Fritz HARMS, who resides
five miles south of town, says that
the rain Friday afternoon did not
extend to his place.
A coffin was shipped Saturday
out eight miles IN the country on
the Washington road for a colored
woman named Ferguson.
ATTENTION is directed to the
change in the advertisement of
Messrs. A. & Il. Harrison the well
known and popular dry-goods men,
MISS ELLA PENNINGTON entertained
the @Our Crowd Club" at the Pen
nington House Saturday night.
Those present report an enjoyable
time.
IT is rumored that there will be
an electric plant in Brennan in a
few weeks, and the BANNER is as
sured that thereis considerable foun
dation for the rumor.
Mr.. R. E. PENNINGTON removed
his office Saturday from the north
side of the courthouse square to
the Office of his partner, Mr.. j. D.
Campbell, on the west side of the
square.
TIE hay crop of the county is re-
ported about used up already. A
prominent farmer on Saturday said
he had none and he predicted that
corn would sell for one dollar a
bushel before long.
HENRY RoDE, who was arrested
and fined last week for beating his
wife on the Becker place northwest
of town, and who was remanded to
the county Jail in default of pay
ment, was released on Saturday.
Mr.. JAS. RANKIN, foreman of the
BANNER was accidentally thrown
from buggy while out riding Sun
day evening, and got his shoulder
knocked out of joint, from the eff
fects of which he is carrying his arm
in sling and unable to be on duty.
ATTENTION is called to the an
nouncement of Mr.. T. J. Await as
an independent candidate for sheriff
of this county. Tom is a Washing
ton county boy, to the manor born,
and, if elected, viii make all efficient
officer.
PARTIES who have friends visiting
them, will confer a favor on the re-
porter by sending in their names,
that the paper may show them the
courtesy of a personal and that their
friends may know of their move
ments.
ELIZA SMITH filed suit in the dis
trict clerks Office Saturday after
noon against her husband, Chas.
Smith, for divorce, and at the same
time applied for a writ of injunction
to restrain him from disposing of
the property.
Mr.. o. II. P. GARRETT has retired
from the position of editor of the
BANNER, and is succeeded by Mr.. |
George Tucker, late of Laredo,
Texas, who will have full control of |
the editorial department of the pa
per- the proprietor devoting his
time to the business management of
the Office.
ALLEN WILDER, colored attorney
and prominent republican politician |
of this county, who formerly repre-
sented it in the Legislature, died at |
Houston Friday night last and was
buried at Chappel Hill Sunday. His
death is universally deplored by the
colored people among whom he was
a leader.
Nh. J. N. BROWN, president of the
First National bank, will begin the
construction of one of the finest |
residences in the city between now
and Christmas. 1t will be erected
on the site of his present residence,
and will only be surpassed by Col.
Giddings' residence. The contrac-
tors, who have been idle for some
time, are preparing to figure lively
in bidding for building it.
ANOTHER OLD SETTLER GoNE.-Mrs.
Mary Wendt, mother of Mr.. G. F.
Wendt, of Greenvine, died at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Foehnert, in Latium, on Wednesday
night, August 2sth, aged "a years.
Deceased came to Texas in 1852,
stopping temporarily in Austin
county, after which she removed to
Washington county, where she con-