The Bryan Weekly Eagle from Bryan, Texas • 4

BRAZOS COUNTY TOWN WITH WONDERUL HISTORY fegiSS' 'PjgUj IUMB THAT WEB HAPPEN" 7 rw Store ''bustling town of Millican thi family up tuned i ox nt mis irr't besf result' BY Hh 7 Ira Bell Tunson Eli reeman Sarah Henry Manuel Banks Berthina Bell Max Bingen Mrs Edith Christian 'George was enjoyed They til so MILLICAN ONCE TERMINUS CENTRAL RAILROAD AND ONE THE LARGEST TOWNS nidmied to be getting along moining and and and Eva W11 (By Associated Press) SOULON Wis Dec Neil Aasen inventor of the hand grenade used extensively in the world war is dead at this home here his other Inventions are the deep sea bomb and the airplane bomb Waiter Lang wferiis accompanied1 till it Lawless The site of Sanger first store at Milliean when the little city was the terminus of the Houston Texas Central Railroad Kurten uszw 17 inset MSij Uu1 1st SSOKI saw s6 Tb I 71 et wsMt so root isertui This house facing the highway at Millican is nearly one hundred years old pil'd by Hob rancis We are in dot glad to Wi'kome After the usual preliminaries at the Club luncheon per iod Tuesday 'President Rip Er skine announced that since Lion Armstrong chairman of the pro gram committee could not be present that Lion uller would act in bis place Lion uller introduced Sam Jr who is spending the holidays at home' and Mr Hoyle entertained the Lions with his banjo by singing a num ber of popular melodies which elicited encores after each piece Lion Miller then made his clas sification talk which proved both interesting and entertaining Space will not permit a Complete reproduction of his talk but among the high points the follow ing was most impressive: this time of the year I know that you are all interested in the subject of taxes and where and how your tax money is spent He then gave figures showing the expenditures fot each department of he city 'and' saidthat thefewere publish ed in the Daily ifcagle last July He next said that the figures quot ed had not included expenditures for public service which if paid for in taxes would amount to 11 cents on each dollar collected This service he explained is fur nished free of charge to the Mu nicipal Department by the Public Utility Department arid includes street lights fire hydrants' and water used during fires Miss Bernadetta J'ridt'l who is teaching nt Rye is spending the holidays with homefolks Miss Elizabeth Hohn of Houstpn is a gdest at Dr Odom's home during rhe Christmas holi Lion Miller In A Classification Talk At Meeting and Mrs (By Violet Short in Dallas News) To the tourist who passes disough the little town of Millican there is nothing significant or re markable about the place of possi bly a dozen stores with houses dotted over the landscape except perhaps a huge 'sign with an ar row pointing to Galveston1' Millican is just soniany feet above sea a fact proclaimed by ti the depot and is sofar from the (text large town I is on the highway between Dallasmd Houston fifteen niiles south of the Texas A and College Millican is not a town just growing up an upstart of a village which came into existence as a tri bute to the age of gasoline when new filling station was needed It is a town that has been a town that is now asleep 'and dreaming of the resplendent glories of the past of the bustling little trade eenfer it used to beand of the old South our grandfathers knew Milliean was qpce one of the larg est towns in Texas long ago Millican Boys Come to Texas In 183J the five Millican boys as they then came to Texas and each took grant of land in the new poultry that was just then trying to be a Republic The spot upon which the town of Milli van now stands was given to Dr Millican and the nucleus of the little town that was to be was his immense two story log house This house served as a stage landing a hotcl a' residence a restaurant in fact almost everything needed in a new town The 'old log house was destroyed only a few years Mr Johnnie Kopi spentChristmas day in Brynr the guest tf her daughter Mis Will Hall Misses Cnrrolita Akens and Maude Robinson of? North Zfclch are guests of Mrs Will Henderson Miss lorme Lung is visiting in Bryan the gue of Tom Cloud and wjfe Dr W' and daughters? Mis'es Alice n'nd Gussie were busi ness visitors ir Brian Saturday A1iie Hearne and wile of Bryan well guests ef Mrs Jamis Inrg Sunday Jes Gilpin Sr and family spent 'Sunday with the family ofZ Jones at RcIiAnve Otto and family have ago The town of Millican how ever did not grow up in a day It Just existed until suddenlythe railroad a giant octujlus that was taking the country reached out one of its long arms up from the coast past Houston past Hemp stead and shunning OJd Washing ton the first capital'of the new Republic of Texas paused at NavsotaaTidthen 1crept on and stopped at Millican That town became the terminus of the Cen tral Railroad which is now the Sanger Bro Erect irt Store Immediately Millican became the center of trade Goods' were brought to be shipped to the south There? was a weird ox train that came at irregular intervals from Dallas and the northern of Texas Each week long trains of oxen burros and the lonesome trails out to Brown wood and the West with goods and supplies and when the trains re turned they were loaded with pelts to be traded for more supplies Each week the loud blast of the horn would announce that the stage coach was returning from the interior loaded with passen gers who would board the train to go Millican then was the trading center of Texas In 1865 Lehman and Isaac San ger opened a' store there by th' name of This lit tle business was the father of the great Texas firm by tlie same name An old settler of Millican is authority for the statement that the first store carried the 'sign lour Bowie Knives and Pistols for Padgitt Bros the saddlers op ened their first shop at Millican In fact Texas has many firms that are nationally know which" had their origin in this little city Aftermath of the Civil War During the war between the States Millican sent many into the ranks of the gray When ask ed if there were any Yankees in Millican during that time Harty Peverely who is oldest in habitant stroked his white mus tache and said I guess when you are counting Yankees here during the war my father was one He came to this place in '59 But when war was declar ed he said that any country was good enough to live in was good enough to fight for' He was in the Southern ranks four years and fought for the Confederacy" The freeing of the slaves brought its tojl of hardships to the landowners Negro the old plantations were left deso late and a town 'came into existence There was some trouble of course in the adjust ment to the new condition In Miss Dal Earnest i Is Operated On or Appendicitis and son by Milton of (laoSe The Engle is iufmm from the vity jail that there vi rc 10 iliunk other inmatcr nf th 'd in ututton during the I'hri Un'a InltTlvy whirh is certainly oiUMiid and rhap nets a new pre dent in anmls of Uruz i' county County Attorney Oak McKenzie say he dues not recall a Christmas in his regime with this Vi tion that font il ni rests too liberal (Tiii tmns eelebrn tt esTv'iAiL'AUvPWCtlW I IW Vf '1 cki i Ut tcowimcM ntto xmtAcucto ruous ssurw 'wx i tAWAi W1OS faOKlUbT I 4 Special to the Engle) KURTEN Dee Ant Krohn and ten Curl and daugh Mn lara oforth: Hi ending the Christmas holidays with tlieii' relative' Philip Erdlcii Sr and Miss Gussie Endler? I Vester Tol ias of Itob tuvn i'i visiting his aunt Ah'sdames John! Hearne and Henry Kurten Dolph i ti'ilcui of a Houston busineys ollege and sis ter Misst'May Conrad of Houston are visitii'ig "their parents IXmryi Coni nd and wife Miss Mary Luu PrinzH keeper for the Howell Lumber Co has for her Christmas guest siibs Anrelien Bottler ot 1 hese young ladies are tin holidava with Miss parents Mr rinzel" Mir Minnie lEndler Saturday froni an extended visit to her sister in Houston Miss Annie Melzer of Bryan is the Christmas guest of her Jiruth 'efs at this pla Tlrtgcns in turned Wednesday Sun rancisco California where she has boeiva' 'guest of her aunt Mrs Gus Hai man for the pnst fourteen Stallings Route 2" liv ingi in the Alexander "community recently butchered two very fine hogs One tipped the scales 419 and the other at the 500 paund 'mark rcm'these hogs the usutd large amount of sausage fine hams and bacon was made in addition to 32 gallons of pure lard Only recently Mr Stallings butchered'a large hog weighing close to 400 epounds which he made up? into lard and sausage and placing the largest part of it on the mar ket receiving more than $50 for the finished product Stallings makes it a custom to raise large hogs and never hap less than three to butcher each fall i Incidentally he has not purchased a pound of lard in the more than 30 years he and JMrs Stallings have been houskeeping Cook "of Steep Hollow community were among the busineaa visitors irr Bry an today iv ui itillg relitive 4ire Beruadtla idelh visiting iftndi: rclauvckTn Rev Ribiniur uched fot the Missionary Bap' ts on Sunday (putt a crowd attended despitehi' rdd Aveather (S'pecid to the agle) STEE1 E'S STORE De Everyone in the Store and Stone City' community is back at work after a vacation during the Christmas holidays The school gave a program last riday night which bv everyone present had a Christmas tree enusinfi much excitement among the children Old Santa Claus appeared on the scene about 10:00 and seeing just a few candles on the tree became' angry for he said 'he' could not ee without good candles The teachers tried'to ex plain why so few candles were us ed and finally got old Santa in a good humor He was so glad to see us once more that he actually tried to hug and kiss each one He might have known his beard was too Jong But listen folks! bld San ta Claus was sure good to these boys and girl of this community bringing them jiist lots of good things The teachers wrote and told him how good the'e boys and girls had been And believe me old Santa never forgetsAhc good boys aud" girls at' We are wishing Mm good luck airil that? he will come again next Christmas 1 Mis's Clair Woodard has return ed after a visit at Corrigan and Houston among rela'iv 's She reports having had wonderful I Christmas Miss Muy t'hurefi is also back after xi'iting irf Goose Hitt and Runn Whatever it Was in the Soup It Certainly Had the Kick Ah Rjght I Stallings Raises Big Hogs Car Registrations orBrazosCoimtv iy The following is a' list of the new cars registered since the last previous publication according to the records of County Tax Collec tor A McSwain: Monroe Sitses Benchley Atkins College Station Hunt Bryanj rank Konecky Benchley Mary Stasny Bryan George Turner Bryan Louis Cockerham Iola Elmer Reed Bryan there was a race riot and the lives of the people were endangered Bryan a town twenty miles up countijy sent aid and the disturb ance was soon quelled Not be fore however there was a great loss of property and about seven ty five negroes killed Except to: a few injured the white popula tion remained safe Discussion of thi rrot even in Millican? today seems to be taboo The old set tlers are strangely reticent regard ing it Millican was in the zenith of hei glory from 1860 to 1866 At that time railroad decided to push further inland and to more country so it was extended to Bry an nd swith the railroad: went a large of popula tion Houses were set upon flat cars and moved to the new rail road terminus Thpn tha fnllnwinfi VPRT thft olid bhiwf ell ttpotrrthe liHle eity Theje came an epidemic of yellow fect People died like flies Bo fore they hardly knew what was upon them 300 had perished unde 1 the? scourge As that was before the day of germ theories innocu lation and scientific sanitation the people who could do so left town taking their families and posses sion? in wagons Those who could not feave did the best they could When 'an entire family would die ofthe dread fever their house was burn to the ground to prevent the spreading The old stone cisterns the stalk old chimneys and the 'abandoned houses which have now fallen in to ruin can be seen from the high way and are mementos of the dread year of 1867 And then Millican fell into a genteel decay Except for the one or two fill ing stations little heed is paid lo the throngs that passs it by for the larger towns There is just enough ade in Millican to keep the sleepy little stores going while there is little of the present there is much of the past Once inside of one of the old fash ioned houses with an old fashioned garden time goes back fifty years back to the days of our grand: mothers? Millican still boasts of its tall walnut high boys its giant canopy beds made soft by the feathers of many geese its straight high bucked chairs and its gen ial hospitality Millican is a relic of the Old Sbuth untovched by the scythe of time CHANGE SCHEDULE important change inpas Lat Thursday night a wtk ngo the teachersof th'is commun ity entertained their night pupils by serving them hot coffee and punch All had a good'time and said they wished Christnins ctfflt again i yj kjr a sj en he holidays in Madisonville Stolen: of the teach ers of the Steele Store community during the holidays one pair of trousers one belt one coat one and a few minor things The owner would appreciate the jpe' turh uch urtii'le when' 'the tires of After he gave what he believed to berth qualifications of a eity manager carefully plaining that he did not feeL that be measured up to this high ideal but that it was his goal'' He tnen gave the code of city managers and closed by reading poemwhich was very imprtsshe con cerning this being your city Lion talk was brim full of information and those have not read his annual report containing these figures should ask him for a copy which no doubt he will gladly lend you The trouble with nioit of us is that we know too? little about our city affairs We could appreciate the "Service rendered ui if we would only take sijincient interest to keep with what is being done Sholl In arewell Lion Shell was their introduced and madeAiis farewell talk He said that he had been one of the original seven charter members who met in the Bryan Hotel some time ago and organized the Bry an Club He dwelt upon his pleas ant associations and invited the Lions to visit the Lions in Durant sayirg that there were something like fifty representative Lions in this city and that they met in the Preoby tei inn church Those present were as follows: A Searcy Coulter Smith uller Lamar Jones Harry Edge E'Neeley Geo WGbi ner Iunt Erskine Put Newton Vitopil Bosque Patronella erguson Jr Bryan Miller Hoyle Jr Hoyle Sr Hensarling Sholl and Mrs Hoy Danforth pianist Miss Hermina Borlsklc has 're turned home after a pleasant visit in Houston with friends and' rela tives 1 i'the epidemic lnl8C7 nresident of irst National Bank" of Bryan" when we: passed through coming to Texas from Georgia in May 1868 We reached Bryan about sundown and to the Prima Vista Hotel ept by Mrs Jack Shaw where lbs Emory Apartments now are le Atelk i Brvan was then the termi nus oPthe Railroad 7 the railroad got to Bry an when Millican was the end of the tracks all the freight? bound for north and northwest Texas 'was unloaded and hauled to' dif ferent point in the State wag ons The daily stage cqach line ran from Millican from the time the road got there in 1867 to ail points in north and northwest Texas Old Time Merchant firm of Sanger Brothers launched its business in the town of Millican as well a's'did a num ber of other prominent jobbing and forwarding 'concerns but who have long since gone out of busi ness or moved op up the railroad Sanger Brothers as far as I know is the only firm remaining in busi ness who followed the from Millican to Dallas "When we passed through Mill: can and Bryan in 1868 we were en route to Waco as our objec tive Millican? was then a little town of about 1200 inhabitants Having guoj agricultural coun try surrounding it it maintained its commercial superiority or su premacy for a number of years As late as 1875 or J876 there were'cnumbcr of merchants doing busi ness in that' little town Among them were: Peverly Sons the erguson Store Geo McMich ai 1 Abbott Tyler father Steele Bros' 'and one or two of the Knox boys Pioneer amilies "Among the farmers at that time were Burrows Andy Edwards and Geo Dunlap all of whorii stilb reside at Millican Sam Edwards who afterwards moved to Lampasas Pool Middleton whose sons are now "in business in Bryan at this time and a number of others whom I 'do not recall just now I do recollect the name of Dr Scott whose old residence still stands on the' west side of town near the Methodist church Al len Myers also lived at Millican nt one time father while ac tively engaged in farming also niinistered to the spiritual wants iiflie community and did an im mense ariiount' ofi good' in sowing the seeds of righteousness among the people with whom he lived While he had to supplement his meagre income as a preacher by farming and thus mingling more or less with the commercial world he maintained his integrity to his dying moment and enjoyed the re spect and confidence of all who knew him Miss Erin Simpson and Mr Byron Simpsoft both of Mil lican are their grandchildren Might Have Been Butcher said Mr Boatwright moved to Millican though I had been there and went into the market business with my brother in law where we continued the business for a couple of years The business was' profitable and but for the Sunday work I might have been a butcher to this day Smith" whose sons and daughters are now living there is the man from whom we bought cattle Not only from him but from Jeff Roberts a long time icsident of Bryan and also from Jones who still lives near Bryan on the Bridge road where ho has lived for the last 11(1 or more Two sons of Smith still live at Mjllican Walter Smith and Silas Smith also married daughters" AMC Kings Highway Dec An old Christmas tree was held at the Highway school on December 24th: That pleasant weather made it possible for everybody to be present The pupils presented a very clever pro gram under the direction of th en able teachers 1 Immediately after tho program "in pops Santa and he was gorgeously arrayed in red ard white leaning on a cane After a splendid talk he turned over the distribution of gifts to Mrs Hearne assisted by Leonard Bush Adolph Kopetsky and Williams Santa was in a' terri "bleTiuiry to get to Wheelock but some one gave him a mouth or gan arid he just stood behind the tree and played one tune after a'n other until? everybody was ready to go home We fear the old fel Tow is getting absent minded and hope he was not late to his ifther appointments ollowing is a pro grahfT Christmas song by primary grades Hanging up the Chrisr mas' Stocking by Eupice Denman I am Miss Christmas Eve solo by Lthel Mangis chorus by Dorris Hearne Adelle Curik Leona Mc 7 Donald Willie Curik telle Starke and Martha Lys Old Time Santa by Reba Kelly Up to Date Santa by" Mary Kopetsky A Christmas Want Supplied a play by Erwin Stroud Willie Lys Della Sudek Arminda Bush Lena Novo sod 1 Willie Milburger Wilmo Starke and" Bernice Bershire song by senior pu pils This Christina's Spirit play (by Williams Wade StarkeWillie Novosod Helen Milburger and Albert Kindt Little Town of Bethlehem song by senior pu pi Is Learning a Christmas recita Sam Manning Christmas pantomine Leona McDonald D1 Hardin Zelda Bre8hire loyd oster and Willie Curik a Best wishes to all for aprosper ous and happy New Year jail Empty On The Christmas Holiday Season senger train schedules will becomV effective on" Intcrnatignal Great Northern Co' January 3 Ask your jocal ticket agent for full Marriage Licenses or BfazosCounty The following is 11 list of the marriage licenses the last previous publication accord ing to the official records of County Clerk A McSwain: Isaac Edwards and Corine King DockJenkins and WillJamEttaJack son Carl Deork and Elsie Ellis Maxie Smith and Neoma Ludd John Nelons and Alharta Kizel Wv Green ranklin Route 4 and Exula Crosslin of Axtel Route 1 Encebia Gomez and Lorenzu Sanchez Charlie Burns and Letha Watson Albert Murphy and Hen rietta McIver Manuel Mitchell annie Dosier Harry James Willie Kindle IL? LangRuth Dixon Alfred Ross and Hornsbcrry Austin Isam and lie Henry red Lee and" Mary Elam Louis Gutierrez and Ydu bije Herrera Lon Locke ami Evelyn Crawford William Trigg and Minnie Jenkins Warren Bin ford arid John Eva Mack Buster Wallin and Catherine Stuckley David Byrd and Clara Bennett Philip Beverly and A McMur ray Colis Gregg and James Anna Sanders August Straub and Mrs Mattie Eidson Albert Rychlik and Inez Skains Charlie Thompson and Susie Houston Julian King and Celia Mormon Dock Brown and Arlieve Patterson Sammie Pollard and and and and Smith and Blanche lowcrsjiJini Stallion and Alberta Hunt Peter Dearodo and Lena Mule Lo gam and Emma I Chenault Win Wilcox and Lizzie Bearl John White and Gertrude Muco ranklin and Nannie Gillespie' Robert Hatchett and PeaiLltooU Will Robinson and Luedeller Butts Carleton and Vera Alic Ball Inventor of Hand Grenade And Air Plane Bomb Dead record was wb a negro by ho name of iliiani iriiuird who fjvi'i at Wellborn' e' mmuni'y cut Ms wife with a porket lnifi during glo fe'tivity in that section It' ms (hat an argument of kind arose and Kinnard Zuhh are ionized his mth ry He was i 1 I' 1 in to nryun nnu guvv uouu 'iweil the next of district iirt trying misdemeanor' The gro woih'at'i was brought in to Wilkei on 'dun1 the wound was d'i'ssd 1' under tood that the renrrpTemL io TiygTnVhtvd' asrault Houston spending August Miss lal Ernest mamiger of the Meii'opolilail Beauty Parloi for Liivindgr: Avas operated on a' tl 0 oh lock on Tuesday after noon at the Koine of Hamil ton on tVest 26th Street for ap pendicitis Doctors Searcy and Wil lZ1i nt A CEOWLY AND a A i fr' WeriGM 'TMl's IX I I lb wiim 1 Pi? Ui 's' iTj rf a r'r JjJ MU' 't A sA 5L 1 tK Z'v A' 1 7 TKMAL 'VW ci 'S ta Postoffice at1 Millican 7 A 'frt A tone cistern Millican All that remained of a home after vAy" xY S'' I oral 1 Ynr jBiwTirn fSiWyftSaKy There are picturesque ol es will as houses in the once 1 1 num mi II I 1 Pi I I I a 1 I A a I JZV iV Ill i A ill jil" 1 0 fl lTL JU Wp8pR pq ii 'iifeb I Tjwv ii I 1 61 OB I ill 'Z7l tn iMMlli! NY 4 4 r'lYl 'I 'W Wv 4.