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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1922
Page
8
An article argues that teachers can gain a 50 percent salary increase while reducing their burdens by becoming more competent, improving their work conditions and efficiency. The piece emphasizes professional development as the path to better pay and fewer difficulties.
Advertises stenographer positions with steady all year employment in railroad or bank offices. Claims former students have enjoyed high grade work, with earnings enabling upscale living and home ownership through surplus wages.
An invaluable auxiliary to all practical accomplishments will be available at a nominal price to those who take advantage of the special rates offered.
The Smetana community gathered Friday night for a Brazos County Poultry Association program, with 500 attendees from farms within five miles. The event featured speeches by poultry leaders, performances by Bryan Junior Band, and demonstrations on breeding, feeding, and showing poultry, including detailed notes from J. E. Covey and J. McNeel Jr. on breeding stock, incubation, and care.
Mr Will M Jones owner of a Route 6 Steep Hollow poultry farm gave an informal talk on how his 12 hens sparked his large flock and winning amateur prize at the Brazos County Poultry Association show in 1916. He offered practical grooming advice from show positioning to washing and feather care and warned about common disqualifications like clipped wings and squirrel tailed chicks.
A detailed account covers S. B. poultry progress from 1918 to 1921 with hens, sales, and net gains, plus a note on future plans. It also documents a Bryan meeting on education, urging nine months of school, urging Governor Neff to call a special session to address Texas school funding shortages and a petition signed by attendees.
Local notices report visits and travels of residents including Mr E H Astin in Houston Mrs T A Taylor from Austin Mrs O M Ball of College and Walter DeWitte among visitors in Bryan from College Also Walter Armstrong from Tabor community was in town and Augusta Jones of Houston returned home. The West Side PTA announces a meeting at 3 30 p m and many residents are listed with business outings and farm activity.
Jerry P. Campbell of Houston reports dramatic relief from chronic illness after taking Tanlac. He describes prior severe pains and headaches, two surgeries, and poor appetite, noting he now eats freely, lacks headaches, and feels strengthened. Bryan retailer N. A. Stewart sells Tanlac.
Voter notices list candidates for county offices in the Sixth District including Luther A. Johnson for Sheriff L E Morehead C L Baker Oak McKenzie Clyde F Goen Jim Darwin Roy Hudspeth Ollie Smith A S McSwain Dora Wilson D J McDonald and D E Bobc Eck Smith M Risinger J T Sawyer George Edge John Sabo Frank ERC Cc M Degelia Chas Di Stefano J M Moore Precinct 4 candidates H T Wheeless and Justice of the Peace L D McGee
C R Gardner recounts a Bryan community trip to Huntsville Penitentiary to donate books. The group faces rough travel, meets Capt Coleman and Chaplain Dickey, tours the prison, and delivers about 400 books with plans for 35,000 more. Local supporters including Bryan churches, the Eagle, and City Manager McAdams are thanked.
The Bryan Telephone Co. offers rural lines to the County Agent to aid agriculture in Brazos County. A training school for club leaders led by C. L. Chambers is set for May 1 at the Extension Service building in College Station with a tour to Smetana, Tabor, and Edge. President Astin pushes a county livestock show to showcase registered stock, hogs, and poultry improvements, while local farmers note rising standard bred poultry and hog gains. An A&M Educational Rally in College on April 28 will connect 4 vocational students with club members from across Texas.
District Agent J E Stanford returns from Bonham Texas where he was on business for the Extension Service. He recounts an interesting experience involving hiring a county agent for Fannin County and enjoyed it greatly.
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