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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1933
Page
5
Mrs FE Richard Cherry a noted Houston artist will be the guest speaker next Thursday at 12:30 for the Brazos County Federation monthly luncheon in Bryan. She will lecture on Art Appreciation and bring canvases to illustrate. The event includes a three course dinner and Easter decor.
Miss Bessie Mae Liehte named captain of Bryan High girls basketball for next season. Six letter winners from this season received keepsakes: Edna Smith Frances Kolodjeak Bessie Mae Lichte Ruth Weddington Nell Spells Josephine Merka.
The Young Men's Bible Class of College Avenue Baptist church held its annual banquet at the LaSalle Hotel featuring a program of music readings and ventriloquism. Mike Barron served as master of ceremonies. Performers included Calvin Terrell Gordon Mitchell and Miss Bessie Lou Wiley with comedian exchanges and a ventriloquist act by W C Alexander assisted by a marionette cadet.
Brazos county poet laureate and justice of the peace Joe T. McGee recalls his Tennessee childhood during the 1862 Shiloh fight. He describes family stories of distant artillery sounds and the battle from Shiloh Church to Pittsburg Landing, noting heavy Union and Confederate losses and Johnston’s death.
The rural education committee led by Mrs. B D Marburger of the A and M Consolidated School PTA distributed 100 coats over 500 garments about 75 pairs of shoes and 50 hats this year. They investigated conditions of rural homes and focused aid on tenant farmers while organizing lunches school supplies and Christmas gifts for needy families and children.
LevlLland April 11. John Bolf of two and a half miles north of town reports what is believed to be the county’s best 1952 cotton production. On nine measured acres he gathered ten and a half bales from the Sunshine Rowden long-staple variety. He cultivated the plot seven times before planting.
W S Howell Jr son of W 3 Howell of Bryan is favored for assistant secretary of state with support from Senators Sheppard Connally and others. He currently serves as first secretary at the American embassy in Paris since Feb 1929 and ranks high among foreign service officers. Col Alvin M Owsley of Dallas and H H Sevier of Corpus Christi loom for diplomatic posts amid Texas patronage discussions at the White House.
Rev. E. S. Bledsoe and George A. Adams announce the First Christian church committees. Elders include Geo. A. Adams and G. P. Bittle. deacons list Byron Alphin and J. Dol Benson among others. Finance, Music, Religious Education, Evangelism, Decorating, Social, Buildings, Ushers, and Publicity committees are named with respective chairmen and members.
The prompt presents fragmented text about selling using an eagle want ad approach. It reads like a terse classified note urging quick action and mentions a single branding cue Eagle Want au without clear names or places.
Wieser girls from across the United States prepare for the Seventh National 4-H Club Camp in Washington DC this June. Mary Grace Ramey notes a new simple 4-H green cotton broadcloth uniform with a sleeveless dress and extended shoulders, a detachable white collar, white silk crepe tie, white pearl belt buckle, and a longer twelve inch skirt with a snug jacket.
A 4 H member recalls the Texas Fat Stock Show exhibit featuring Hereford, Angus and Shorthorn cattle, Duroc Jersey and Poland China hogs, Rambouillet Delaine and Hampshire sheep, and Percheron draft horses. He notes breed traits, weights, grooming, and the pride shown by animals and attendants, plus a Ford truck construction seen at the event.
Miss Mildred Salley reports plans for a May musical to the Women's Choral Club of Bryan during a regular rehearsal and meeting at the Woman's Club building. The club voted to hold its next business session on the first Monday of the month. The meeting list includes many local members and the accompanist Albert Goodman. The next meeting is set for April 10 at 7 30 p m.
A writer describes testing and judging draft animals power and appearance. They note washing with a creosote solution, trimming and polishing horns, clean barns, separate stalls, and good feeding. The piece argues pure bred stock produce better animals and boys.
The Theater Club brings Wings Over Europe to Assembly Hall on Friday April 14. The British and American drama probes future control of atomic energy with a cast of eighteen men directed by Lieutenant K. S. Anderson.
About 100 Bryan men gathered six miles from Bryan on Highway 6 for a moonlit barbecue to swap fox hunting tales. They discussed Brer Fox and praised foxhounds, describing crosses of bloodhound and greyhound with bulldog influences. J. H. Bailey and T. L. Barnett attended from near North Zuleh.
The Bryan chapter of Future Farmers of America held its fifth annual father and son banquet at Stephen F. Austin high school. E. R. Alexander introduced guests from A&M and state education. Eli Hedke presented the chapter’s record showing a $1,230 profit and top livestock judging team placing at the South Texas Livestock Exhibition.
Mayor J. M. Kennedy announces Marlin Municipal Park System opening inviting residents of Bryan and Brazos County to visit anytime with no admission. The park features natural scenery shade lawns a lake with sparkling springs and abundant wildflowers shrubs and trees of Central Texas. Mr and Mrs E E Yeagerta returned from a short visit in Las.
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