Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-10-08
STATE NEWS.
Garland wants a bank,

water NOIhs.
Espuela, Dickens county, needs
5 good shoemaker.
The new Methodist church at
Cleburne was dedicated on the goth
inst.
The new machinery at the Pal
estine waterworks is being placed in
position.
Jesse Ketcham, of johnson sta
ton, was killed by a. log falling on
Tuesday.
Silver Valley is the name of a
: new post-ofice established in Cole
,sman county.
"A protracted meeting will be-
gin at the Methodist church at
Pittsburg next Sunday.
The new hotel at Espuela will
be thrown open in few days for
the reception of guests.
Work is progressing on the new
school building at Goldthwaite. 1t
>.wIll De a smug of beauty.
-rbe aal building at Grandbury
i coall,et,.,i aid. the machinery is
beng piaced IA position.
"A new. postotice named Laguna
has been established IN the Nucces
canyon With Julian Dugat as post
mas, Ell.
Work has begun on the Wichita
ia Is iron works, and material for
construction is being placed on the
ground.
The Bee says number of new
residences are going up in Beeville
of a substantial and neat type of
architecture.
Work on the artesian well at
Beeville is still going on, but as the
drill is in the hardest rock the pro,
gress is slow.
Ennis is no longer in the dark
ness. A test has been made Of her
electric light machinery, which was
altogether satisfactory.
Work has commenced on Mr.. J.
c. Bells new stone building at
Quanah. The building will be 25xS0
feet and two stories high.
The new church organization at
Espuela are arranging for series
of entertainments for the purpose of
increasing the building fund.
The new Baptist church at
Reagan is rapidly approaching COM
pletion, and will be ready for oc-
cupancy sometime in October.
The brick work on the new
schoolhouse at Cameron has been
completed. The new house is better
than the one destroyed by fire.
The Hallettsville oil mill COM
menced work last Monday. 1t took
longer than was expected to get the
new machinery in running order.
viii Butler shot and killed
Burt Nelson while they were out
hunting near Fort Worth Tuesday
They were 10 and II years OF age.
-Workmen are engaged in fin
ishing the new Presbyterian church
at Ennis, which will soon be ready
for service. 1t is handsome build
ing.
The new bridge across Flat
Fork, at Wilson crossing in Center
county, has been completed. The
bridge is 500 feet long and above
high water mark.
-Wm. Harris, section foreman at
Richland, was robbed Tuesday night
some one entering his room and
stealing his watch and pants. He
chased the burglar and made him
drop the pants.
Clarence o. Skipper, delivery
clerk in the Houston postofice, who
is charged with appropriating regis
tered letters, wPs arrested Tuesday
at AIorgan's Point in Louisiana
and carried back to Houston.
At the sheep camp of W. B.
Quinn, in LaSalle county, hester
Betrehan shot and killed an I'M
known Mexican dwarf, who ran into
the camp from the dark threatening
to murder the entire outfit.
The following Texas patents
are reported from the patent Office
at Washington recently granted :: |
Eugene E. Bateman, Marquee, sad
die jack; Montague Grotherton, Fl. |
Worth, rotary engine; Theophiles
c. Eberhardt, Cuero. apparatus for
handling cotton; Otto Gresekerl, |
Houston, parcel delivery apparatus.
-Four hundred and thirty-one |
bonds the par value of which was
1000 each of the Laredo Improve
ment company, were sold at auction /
In Galveston, where they were held
under hypothecation by the Calves