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Newspaper
Bryan Morning Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1907
Page
2
Item from Bryan Texas reflecting on the inland waters movement and local remarks. It mentions honey ponds flitter trees in Brazos county and remarks on the thirtieth season ending due to fruit supplies. Also notes scent of bouquets and memories of the thirtieth.
The governor cautions supporters that re election should reflect merit and the people hold the offices. He says if his administration merits praise he can be re elected but emphasizes the offices belong to the people.
Critics who attacked Sayers and Lanham over platform pledges denounce Campbell for pursuing convention demands. Railroad interests resist legislation, arguing losses, while others demand exits from the business, slowing public faith in their zeal for reform.
The Texas Experiment Station releases a comprehensive bulletin compiling all ninety four college bulletins since 1888. It presents a mass of useful crop information and will be distributed free with application.
Surviving soldiers recall a song sung in camp or on the march by Wheeler's cavalry. Two stanzas praise Southern girls from Tennessee Alabama and Georgia with lines about marriage, peaches, and farm produce, ending with a chorus about marching toward a Georgia girl with blue eyes.
Dr. O M Ball of the Texas Experiment Station warns farmers against buying inferior alfalfa seed that fails to germinate and may carry noxious weeds. The A and M College offers free seed testing. Cotton yields suffer from boll weevil damage and poor seedling stands after deep covering and heavy rains. Prof. Bennett advises very light or no seed covering for early plantings.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas introduces a two year course to aid farmers. It targets young men unable to spend long study on practical farm work and covers soil study livestock judging breeding and management farm crops and dairying plus practical English composition. Thirty students from across the state enroll in the program while nearly four hundred students attend the college.
At Agricultural and Mechanical College, six hundred cadets form small sections to study the Bible weekly. Student teachers learn from chaplain Rev. Nathan Powell, with the Students' Young Men's Christian Association directing the effort. Authorities support the program to foster Christian morals and high ideals.
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas houses a $825,000 textile facility where two teachers dedicate full time to showing every stage from bale to finished cloth. Textile Engineering students handle all steps from pattern making to loom operation, preparing Texas youth to oversee growing cotton mills with local capital.
I W H Cole appointed as administrator of the estate of N H Cole deceased by the Brazos County Court on November 1 1907. All claimants must file within the legal period. Residence and post office address Bryan Brazos County Texas. W H Cole administrator November 26.
Notice warns that all trespassers, regardless of person, will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Signed by W. R. Cavitt.
Property listing offers 1476 acres in the Moses Hughes survey near Edge. Roger Boyle place two blocks from Main Street on the west side stated with price and terms noted as $1,800.
Property listing offers half acre with improvements one block east of the owner. Adjoining are two small farms of 50 and 46 acres, both cultivated and well improved, located three miles west of Bryan on Sandy Point road.
A sketch of Townsend Percy, a noted speculator who rose and fell through fortunes. His mother humorously taunted his extravagance with witticisms about driving four horses for a year, later quipping about his six horses seven carriages and eight dollars amid financial strain.
A traveler praises the best dinner in Applegate but must add except the mayor. The landlord says the phrase and the stranger answers except nothing. He is fined ten pounds for breaking the town law and declares himself the biggest fool, except the mayor.
This seasoned farmer advises beginners to start with a pair of fowls, invest wisely, and study every point to improve year after year. He cautions that poultry income rarely meets family needs and that progress comes from long experience and careful mating.
A reflective passage urges simplifying life by removing clutter and focusing on the essential. It likens problem solving to reducing equations to simplest terms and emphasizes identifying core roots and real needs.
Dr. Geo. B. Butler Professor O. C. Charl ton F. M. Law and others have gone to San Antonio to attend the pastors conference and the Baptist State Convention. Mr. Law will deliver an address before the pastors conference.
Chas Edinburg offers bulk Galveston oysters at 75 cents per hundred with Berwick Bay select at one dollar and Berwick Bay extra select at 1.25 per hundred. Special attention for Thanksgiving and holidays. Your patronage appreciated. 287
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