Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1891-06-11

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ty Thursday.
The opening ball at the Park
hotel at Lampasas Springs will be
given June 10.
Miss Dora Fowler, of Paris, ac-
cidently shot herself just below the
heart with pistol Thursday.
Peach shipments from Tyler
are growing larger and larger every
day, and they command good
money.
Some of the farmers of johnson
county will commence cutting wheat
this week. The prospect is still
very fine.
Some IF our farmers are laying
by corn this week, and report their
corn as high as their head.-Cook-
vile Banner.
The ice house belonging to the
Santa Fe raiload. at ElPaso, was
burned the 1st The ice was very
little damaged.
The Greenville compress and
manufacturing company have closed
for the season, up to date having
compressed 1888 bales.
Masked men near Runge took
out negro by the name of Jim
Ware one night recently and ad-
severe fogging.
Men of science declare that the
orange was originally a berry, and
that It's evolution has been going on
for more than a thousand years.
Greer, Rusk, Coryell, John son,
Rockwell Washington and
Hunt counties and the San Gabriel
county report crops never better.
Crops are looking beautiful in
Delta county, and, with no unforeseen
Detailing, they will have
the best crops seen in that section
for many years.
There is about one thousand |
acres of land within short distance
Of Sherwood under irrigation, and |
/ lot more can be utilized and peaced
1nder irrigation.
The orchards in and around Es-
;acado are ladened with fruit of all
linds and promise a larger yield
han has ever been known in the
central plains.
Two lads by the name of Dee
and and McMahon were out near
Brady practicing with Winchester
Thursday, McMahon accidently shot
Brady through the body.
"A number of wheat fields in the
'icinity of Estacado look exceeding
y promising. Win Hunt has rye
hat is over three feet high, well
headed and is still growing.
-Paigett, the San Antonio en-
'ezzler of $4,000 worth of funds
rom the sale of Banker Sullivans
heep ranch who fed to Nova Scotia,
las been released on a writ of ha-
'eas corpus.
MIR. Fl. N. Jacobs, six miles
lorth of Greenville, has crop of ,
wheat that measures five feet high
nd Is remarkably fine. 1t is expect
d to yield twenty-five or thirty
'ushels per acre.
Farmers will soon be making
ay. Hunt county annually cuts
bout $4,000 acres Of prairie hay in
edition to millet and other
cultivated grasses. The only county s
4 Texas cutting more prairie hay
han Hunt is Kaufman.
"A San Antonio dispatch says
hat W. G. Bowen, the editor of the
'otula Ledger, wrote up the man at
hose hands he lost his life, A. T. s
lice, a day or two ago, as a horse
lief, COW thief and undesirable citi-
en- generally.
All farmers of Grayson county
gree that the outlook for crops is l
etter than at any period during the
asst twenty-five years. The corn
rop is assured, while the indica.
ons are all favorable for cotton. I
The bottlers of Texas are c
repairing to organize a State Bot
ers' protective association. The
me and place of meeting have not '
cen decided upon. Those inter
sted can obtain any information v
esired by addressing j. D. Elliott,
aris, Tex.
The compress company of a
-oney GROVE is shipping the heavy a
back to the foundry to r
ave it repaired from the damage
y fire. They are going right
mead with rebuilding the compress, t
hich will be all o. K. for the next a
'asen. Is