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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1926
Page
1
The column adapts John B. Ratto's Chautauqua address urging loyalty to truth and communal duty. It defends church and school funding, taxes, and civic groups, condemns mail order houses against community welfare, and elevates local merchants through shared responsibility.
Herrin Illinois faced military control after a municipal election erupted in factional Klan and anti Klan violence. Six people died and over twenty were wounded as inquests and coroner’s juries were organized amid riotous voting.
The truck driver was kidnapped as two armed men stole sacks of mail on the way to an Indiana Harbor bank from the Federal Reserve. One sack was believed to contain $37,000 in bank notes.
J. A. Hill, Jr., of Corpus Christi, stopped in Bryan on Tuesday afternoon with his wife and baby while en route to Nacogdoches to visit her parents. A former A. and M. student from the classes of 1916 and 1917, he left to serve in the war and did not return to finish his course.
V R Smitham of Bryan named tentative city manager for Lufkin by the city commission. He is 35, an A and M College city manager course student, and a Lions Club member with engineering experience in highway and hydraulic work. He will assume duties June 15 after meeting with Lufkin commissioners.
In agricultural engineering news, farmer Mr. Hill of Corpus sold an 1800 acre farm last week and has moved to Corpus Christi. He makes his first Bryan visit in over a year. His brother Wilmott Hill is a junior at A and M College pursuing textile engineering.
Capt J F Lucey of Dallas lectured to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas students on the oil industry. He described drilling methods, standardization efforts, and the rise of scientists in oil firms, noting U S methods dominate globally and predicting further depth in wells and staff growth.
Cairo April 14 British airmen press a tireless search for Captain Estevez and his mechanician missing since Sunday after their plane from Spain to the Philippines was forced down in the desert. A note on the craft said they began walking toward the next village while two other planes continue the flight.
Detroit April 14 The Maccabees will advance more than 5 million dollars in real estate mortgage loans to support home building in 1926. Over 1 million in Texas reserves and 8,053,000 nationwide. Last year loans totaled 5,279,000 as the fraternal society expands its home ownership policy. The order reports record gains for 1925 with 22,562 new members and 27,948,000 in insurance written, assets at 26,961,369, and 159,326,000 in benefits since 1878. A new 2.5 million Maccabees Building in Detroit will house the headquarters.
A Houston family visited their 17 year old son at the Juvenile Training School in Gatesville. The men took the boy from the car after permission to see his mother, sped away, were pursued at McGregor, and jailed on a complaint by Superintendent King. The boy was returned to the school.
Mrs George G Griffin returns from three weeks in Corpus Christi and Beeville with relatives and stops in Houston to visit her son George Griffin on the way home.
Rain began at 7 o clock and continued to noon, totaling .35 inches on the Eagle Printing Company gauge. The reading confirms a light to moderate shower profile for the morning period.
The regular meeting of the Extension Service Club has been postponed to Thursday, April 22. President and officers announce the new date and urge members to note the change.
General Andrews testifies before the Senate Prohibition Committee that illicit distilling is a growing enforcement problem. An exhibit whiskey still sits in the committee room as hearings move toward a wets and drys decision. He says limited sale of non intoxicating beer could aid enforcement.
Mrs Anna A Eberstadt mother of Secretary Sam Eberstadt of the Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce died at 3 25 o clock at her Jefferson home after a 10 day illness from a dislocated hip. Secretary Eberstadt and other relatives were at her bedside when death occurred. No funeral arrangements had been made.
Rev Bruno Martinelli formerly head of the Italian Methodist church in Bryan spent the day on business and left on the afternoon train for New Orleans. His wife died March 19 in New Orleans. He is now pastor of St Marks Community House in New Orleans and leads Italian Mission Work at a $150 000 church plant with a nurse and staff.
Allen Academy baseball thrashed visiting San Marcos Baptist Academy 12 to 1 on Allen Field. Bethea pitched a one hitter with 14 strikeouts over six innings, while Gilchrist allowed 10 Allen hits. A double and an error produced the visitors' lone run. The teams scheduled a rematch at 4 PM if weather allows.
R B Walthall and W T Gaston of the State Board of Control with Hood Pitts arrived by early morning train from Austin to finish a balance check of the institution's physical property. They previously completed about half the work and this trip aims to finish the remainder.
The Interstate Commerce Commission authorized Southern Pacific to acquire control of the Dayton Goos e Creek Railway by purchasing its capital stock and approved leasing the line to the Texas and New Orleans Railroad.
The Census Bureau reports March cotton consumption at 634,593 bales of lint and 60,532 of linters, up from 583,407 lint and 58,821 linters a year earlier, signaling a modest rise in overall use.
PORT ARTHUR April 14 Another victim was added to the Gulf Venezuela disaster death toll when the body of Leslie Brownell of Galveston was found floating near the scene, raising the total dead and missing to 29.
A Floydada man and two sons are jailed after the killing of Harvey Snodgrass, 50, in front of the First National Bank. Dan Shipley, 52, Mae Shipley, 30, and Frank Shipley, 28, face murder charges. no formal statements have been issued. Both families have lived in Floyd County over 30 years.
In New Castle Pennsylvania on April 14 Frank Koch a 64 year old wealthy merchant killed his friend Mollie Harris with a truck then shot himself on a country road. His body with a bullet wound was discovered today.
Eastern Texas visitors attended the Methodist Woman’s Missionary Society sessions with reports and elections. J. W. Mills of Houston was re-elected president. afternoon tours to Bryan and A and M College followed lunch at the Episcopal Parish Dining Room.
Attorney General Dan Moody will rule on whether Washington's medicinal beer may be sold in Texas after receiving a 12 ounce bottle sample from Pabst Brewing. The label claims tonic benefits for nursing mothers and various ailments though not a cure. L C Sutton, assisting AG, holds the sample and will respond likely tomorrow.
County Agent C L Benson reports fine cabbage and onions grown by Miss Gussie Endler of Kurten. Onions weigh about a pound and a half each, cabbage heads near five pounds, among the firmest exhibited this season. Endler avoids premature seeding with careful seed selection and fertilization. Farmers could yield 300 to 500 dollars per acre from onions. cabbage yields vary but can be abundant.
City management receives notice from 1-G. N. Railroad that asphalt material has been ordered to repair grade crossings on 27th street Baker Sterling and Congress Avenues. Officials say they are tied up in Houston and will not reach Bryan soon.
Cotton futures closed today 3 to 5 points higher as receipts are quoted around 16 3-4 to 17 1-4 cents.
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