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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1935
Page
6
The Fun Fest musical revue at Stephen F. Austin School Friday night drew strong crowd support and entertainment praise. Director E Vergne Adams reports a net profit of 82.10 after expenses, to be used to purchase new band instruments.
Bryan high school girls join 150 Texas schools invited to the annual high school play day at Mary Hardin Baylor April 3 and 4. Ten girls and a sponsor from each school attend for one night and participate in a splash party pageant athletic events and a tumbling exhibition with no interschool competition and color teams made from different schools.
Bryan and College Station youths will again try for the kite tournament. Sponsored by the American Legion and the Bryan Lions Club, the event offers 31 awards across two divisions Boy Scouts and non scouts with prizes for various kite types and a grand prize for the most kinds.
Members led by Mrs Ed Martin collected 81 books for the Brazos County rural school library. The gift covers a wide range of subjects. Mrs H P Bain traveled to Ward over the weekend on business and returned last night.
Elizabeth Pool daughter of Mr and Mrs Carl L Pool of San Antonio a senior at Texas State College for Women will be queen of the 1935 Cotton State Show and Pageant at A and M College April 5. She was named queen by the C ISA student council upon invitation from the Agronomy Society.
Dr. Charles E. Friley former dean of arts and sciences and registrar at Texas A & M. College was promoted to vice president of Iowa State College at Ames Iowa announced via Des Moines Tribune March 26. He left A & M in 1952 to head Iowa State’s Industrial Science Division and is brother to Mrs J Webb Howell of Bryan Texas.
Mrs. W. E. Neeley accompanied by a delegation from Bryan and Brazos county attended a welfare and social workers conference at Prairie View. Present were R. C. Neal, E. H. Knox, Laurelia M. Holden, Pauline Watkins, Sedalia Wilson, Fanny Graves, Edna Harris, Blanche Davis and others. The theme was The Economic Status of the Negro. More than 1,000 attendees were noted.
A baptismal ceremony was held Monday night at 7 30 at the First Baptist church. Dr W H Andrew pastor officiated for Mexican candidates from the Baptist Mexican Mission. The Woman's Missionary SocietyPersonal Service committee sponsored the service.
Henry Grelen must appear in Houston on April 1 to serve on the federal grand jury. F. J. Atkesson and Marvin C. Atkins visit Bryan greeting area businessmen. Mrs. Sam E. Eberstadt informs of her mother Mrs. F. H. English’s illness but reports improvement. Kings Highway figures Kopetsky Bounds Skyball trade with Bryan merchants. Haupts become parents of Luella Ruth, 6 pounds 4 ounces, both well. Wilcox of Tabor visits Bryan for the day. Aline Smith and A. E. Carrier visit Mr. and Mrs. J. Sidney Smith. Yeovens travel from Giddings to Bryan on business. J. S. Williams family visits their daughter Mrs. W. W. Ware and Bruce Duncan. Sleeper and Kelly of Waco stop en route to Lake Charles for the Robert E. Lee Pilgrimage. Beason from Huntsville visits. Robbie Dell Colley of Alvin returns for weekend with former Houston Post reporter now teaching in Alvin. Prof. C. M. Bethany visits brothers and sister. Gussie Branch of Austin plans weekend with Frances Jane Branch at grandparents home. Mrs. J. W. Black, Mrs. W. A. Scott, and Theodor Mahler attend Southwestern University music conference in Georgetown.
Austin April 3 Announcement confirms the approaching marriage of Senator W K Hopkins of Gonzales to Mrs Alice Wyatt formerly of Waco. The wedding is set for April 27 in Austin with a Mexico City honeymoon planned for June due to legislative duties. Mrs Wyatt is the secretary to State Treasurer Charley Lockhart.
Fort Davis April 3. Deer are plentiful on W T Bill Jones ranch in Jeff Davis county. He reports 15 does and fawns drinking at the horse trough near his barn. Bucks are seldom seen. some say they hide or are scarce due to hunting. All agree female deer are a nuisance eating scarce grass.
Robert Stiles of London England traveled from New York by air to Dallas and then by car to Bryan to be at his wife Mrs. Stiles bedside, as she has been ill for several days at Bryan hospital.
Raymond Todd, a newly elected county commissioner, reports a Friday night abduction near Bryan. He says two men forced him to drive, siphoned fuel, and warned they had his license plate number while observers recall a damaged exchange and a prior similar sighting near Madisonville.
Rev. and Mrs. E. Stern Phinney arrived in Bryan Monday afternoon and were warmly welcomed by Free Will Baptist church members. Phinney is the new pastor and will begin duties this week. The couple were married in Bladenboro North Carolina on March 20 and then visited Bryan. They found a newly furnished parsonage ready for them and received cordial greetings from the community.
A brief notice reports yellow second sheets produced at the Eagle Printing Company, detailing production specifics and potential distribution notes.
A druggist advertisement claims Star-Sulphurous Compound in drinking water will keep chickens and turkeys free of germs worms lice mites and other pests. It promises healthy egg producers and strong chicks at a small cost with money refunded by Roman & Vick Druggists.
Miss Elizabeth Sloop of Bryan has been chosen by Texas State College for Women journalism students to represent them at the joint meeting of the Southwestern Journalism Congress and Southwestern Student Press Clubs in Baton Rouge Louisiana on April 12 and 13. Sloop edits the Daedalian Annual yearbook and is a member of Theta Sigma Phi. Marvin G. Osborne leads the journalism program at LSU and serves as president of the Southwestern Journalism Congress.
District 15 meet activities span Friday in Bryan and College Station with literary events in Bryan and athletics at A and M College. Tennis eliminations start Friday 10 a.m. at A and M. debates at city hall and Carnegie library. finals 7:30 p.m. Travis auditorium.
About 100 cows mostly red and off colors with more than 30 calves by side. Cows of good age with white faced or mottled faced calves except four. Sired by registered Hereford bulls. Cold blooded cows. Contact R. L. Batte in Cameron, Texas.
Sheriff R W Nunn warns Bryan and Brazos county residents to lock up assets as petty theft rises. He cites about 60 auto tires stolen in the past month in Bryan and College Station, with chickens, mowers, hoses and other items also taken. Thieves likely operate in gangs, selling loot in Houston Waco or Dallas, and many items are hard to trace. Residents should secure property behind locks to deter theft amid rising crime.
About shortages drive people to wrongdoing as theft is used to obtain food, materials, and occasionally alcohol when relief aid falls short. The appeal to survive under hardship highlights scarcity and social strain in the period.
Mrs. W F Davis president of Bryan Review No 120 and Mrs. T H Haltom returned from the state WBA convention in Corpus Christi where more than 400 delegates and visitors from across Texas attended. The event was praised for numbers and business. delegates enjoyed a Rio Grande Valley excursion with a luncheon at Casa De Palmas and visits to Brownsville and Matamoros. Ty Cobb spoke at the luncheon program.
Ernest Thornton and Miss Mary Ella Hedge wed. J. D. Vincent and Miss Theola Parsons receive license. Samuel Thos Cooker and Miss Mary Beatrice Henson obtain license.
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