The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-05-09
CRY IsREvITIEs.

inc city council will meet this afternoon
In regular session. ''''' 'oou
The Woman's Foreign Mission of shearn
church Will have meeting at 4 O'Clock this
afternoon. u.s.
All the parks and pleasure resorts cor
tiguous to the city were ejeraily patroni1ed
yesterday.
=, war news was at & premium yesterday and
tne bulletin board fend completely lost his
inc sidewalk at the corner OF Bell avenue
bad condition.
There will be meeting of Lone Star I,odre
No. l. /. o. o. F.. in the Mason block To-
morrow evening at 1870 o'clock.
Mr., R r. Trip has been appointed night
eenElheer at the power house OF the Houston
city Street Railway company.
Yesterdays excursion trains to the Island
City afforded many busy Houstonians an op
portunity to enjoy quiet rest in Galveston
All the churches had fair congregations
yesterday, but the ponsly-disposed would
lose nothing by noting the fact that there s
always room for one more
The seventy-ninth anniversary of the in
stitution OF the Independent Order OF Odd
Fellows will be celebrated here tomorrow
evening at Turner hall with appropriate cere
monies.
Mrs Eliza Gmble was buried yesterday in
the German cemetery. The deceased leaves
a mother who is blind and little brother
who is s years old They are in destitute
circumstances
Those interested in city affairs should note
in their memorandum books the important
quarterly meeting Of the Houston Business
League. which takes place at O'Clock to-
morrow afternoon.
woman giving her name as Mable Kitche
was brought in last night from Richmond
and was taken to st, Josephs infirmary by
the police patrol She claims to have fallen
from a train and was injured.
The Claxton company gave performance
at Forest park yesterday, producing "A Texan
In Cuba u four act comedy drama. The
audience was very small, yet appreciatve.
Tonight the same bill will be produced
The petition before the city council for an
annual appropriation for the maintenance of
the Lyceum library Is an important one, as
II means either the perpetuation or practi al
abandonment of the only public library in the
city.
In the interest of the Crittenton Rescue
Home, Or. W s. Wheeler leaves this morn
ing for La Grange. Thursday night he will
talk in the Methodist Episcopal church In
Columbus. DR.. Wheeler reports good sue
cess so far in his work.
The meeting of the Houston Business
League to be held tomorrow afternoon at 4
o clock promises to be largely attended. As
was stated in Sundays Post. matters OF vital
Importance to the commercial interests CT
the city will be considered
The members of Dick Bowling Camp United
Confederate veterans, Wniie over HsV 10. eh-
listment for active service. will form home
guard and protect the famil. hearth stone
should all the younger and mere active men
be called into service and taken from home.
The funeral of Mrs. Alvird b. liodgkins.
who died on Saturday at the advanced age
OF 10 years. took place YESTERDAY afternoon,
and the remains were followed TO tneir las,
resting place I'm Hollywood cemetery by a
large number of Borrowing friends. The de-
ceased lady -. tho mother of Prof Hocg
kins of this ci0. who has the symrathy oil
host OF acqnaiiitances in his af'iction.