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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1933
Page
3
A damaged OCR fragment describes local prices and notices from a town paper. Names and places are unreadable, with scattered phrases about rent and taxes. The readable portions suggest a brief public notice style item from a historical period newspaper.
The Bryan news column lists local visits and travels of residents including families from Bryan and nearby towns. It mentions trips to Chicago for the Century of Progress Exposition and Yellowstone, hospital stays in U.S. Veterans facilities, and gatherings with relatives. It also discusses farm policy under the Roosevelt administration and calls for renewed farm organization and support for the A and M and state colleges.
Reports show W Monk of Dow spending time in Bryan with R S Taylor and a sister visiting from this city. Several locals, including Wesley Bentley and Mrs. J H Al, travel to Dallas, Brenham, and Henderson for visits. School superintendent Samuels and others attend events. guests arrive from Fairmont Indiana and Houston with plans to return. Local officials and merchants are mentioned in routine travel and visitation notes.
Dr. W. H. Andrew pastor of the First Baptist church preached the summer school commencement sermon at Baylor college Belton. The service in Alma Reeves Chapel featured a college music program and 30 graduates in the women’s class. He traveled with Mrs. Andrew and son Billy Andrew from Bryan. heavy rains were reported in Bell county and area on Saturday night and Sunday.
The column lauds President Roosevelt and the Six Month mark since a study began, urging industry alignment and farmer organization to achieve a New Society. It frames the Roosevelt Revolution as a shift from an Acquisitive to a Functional Society with urgent relief measures noted as sometimes illegal.
College Station Texas July 29 winners in a baby chick raising contest sponsored across Texas by Universal Mills Fort Worth were announced during the twenty fourth annual farmers short course at Texas A M College. A total of 500 dollars in prizes funded the eight week contest based on weight gain per feed and chick mortality rate. Judges included Prof D H Reid C P Van Winkle and Prof R C Mowery. Winners listed include E O Greathouse Blackwell first Clifton A Galle Fayetteville second Mrs J A Davis Telephone third T C Boldridge Gainesville fourth J M White Valley Mills fifth L M Reynolds Austin sixth Mrs H A Greene Dallas seventh Jack Barnhart Gainesville eighth Miss Cave Burnett Decatur ninth Mrs K E Bonner Corsicana tenth H O Aman Teague eleventh and Mrs D F Jones Keene twelfth.
College Station July 28 Leona Imken Longworth Fisher county Katherine Morris Addison Dallas county and Doris Pledger Alief Harris county won first second and third in the state improved bedroom contest conducted among girls 4 H Clubs by the Extension Service at a Farmers Short Course banquet. District winners were named by Miss Mildred Horton state home demonstration agent with remarks from Mrs Bernice Claytor Director O B Martin and President T O Walton praising the demonstrators endeavor and noting prize donations from local supporters.
A. B. Jolley of Dallas County reports Dr. G. S. Fraps of Texas A&M says analyzed cotton stalks offer feed value like good prairie hay, depending on leafiness. Farmers may mow, rake, and use as silage or hay, with plowing required to prevent cotton sprouting. Stalks store in silos, barns, or stacked in fields.
Three Brazos county men Paul A C Lang A G Square and Howard Douglass were taken to Caldwell to answer burglary charges in a plantation store theft. Local officers recovered a sizable amount of merchandise. Three others alleged to have bought stolen goods may be charged with receiving stolen property per County Attorney Oak McKenzig.
Thirty First Baptist members traveled to Edge Sunday to hear Dr. W H Andrew preach. Rev J J Pipkin led the Edge church morning service with six new members added at the evening. The revival continues four nights through Wednesday. A group plans to return with Dr Andrew at 7 PM.
The twenty fourth annual Farmers Short Course at Texas A and M College ended with officers selected for the coming year by several groups. Among those choosing leaders were the Texas Home Demonstration Association, the County School Superintendents group, and the 4 H club boys and girls. Mrs Josie Englin of Hamshire Jefferson county was named president of the Texas Home Demonstration Association.
New Mexico man T G Jenkins brings a 1797 copper penny to the Eagle office noting it has rested in his family for about a century. The large heavy coin bears George III’s likeness and shows edge wear from years of handling by generations.
Mrs. Ben Anthony of Mineola retires as president at the closing meeting this afternoon. New officers elected Thursday include a vice president at large nine district vice presidents a secretary and a treasurer for a two year term. Delegates totaled 799 with over 40 000 association members in the state. County School Superintendents elected John eo Long Crockett and J. D. Wilson Wellington as chair and vice chair for the coming year. Four cup boys and girls formed a permanent organization with Paul Murrey Wills Point and Miss Thelma Schwarze Independence Washington named chair and secretary for next year. district organization to be perfected during the year.
J. T. Swanson president of the Navasota Chamber of Commerce and Swanson Grocery urges Bryan business and professional men to attend the district chamber of commerce meeting in Navasota on August 8 at 2 p m. The gathering will discuss the National Industry Recovery Act and aims to secure strong regional representation.
Dr. F L Thomas of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station reports the second brood of leafworm moths will be flying in Central Texas this weekend. Recent rains favor leafworm survival and mention of bollworms as a potential threat follows. Fleahoppers are noted to be increasing as plowing reduces cotton acreage.
An ad claims a simple home treatment for varicose veins cures leg sores reduces swelling and pain enabling ordinary activity. It asserts rapid recovery for most users and that the druggist won’t take payment unless helped, inviting readers to inquire at Jenkins Drug Store.
Exhibits closed the twenty fourth annual Texas A and M farmers short course with programs at Kyle Field and Guion hall. Demonstrations covered moccasins, rug making, cheese, syrup, tanning, cotton processing, meat, wool, dairying, poultry, and pest control, featuring lectures by Whitehead and others. The week ended with a Kyle Field evening of tug of war and dynamometer contests and a campus dance with the Aggieland Orchestra.
Beginning with the 1933 1934 term, all students at A and M Consolidated must present a smallpox vaccination certificate valid within five years. The measure was approved by the school board during the last term, and many schools already enforce it.
Three men were jailed Wednesday evening by Constable Horace Reed and Officer Les Norwood after a burglary at the J. Earl Porter store on a Burleson County plantation. A large haul including men's clothing silk lingeries hosiery and other items was recovered.
Albert Yeager, a Black man charged with murder in Robertson County, was found not guilty by a jury after a brief 15 minute deliberation. Lamar Bethea of Bryan defended Yeager and rested his case when the state rested.
Concrete pouring on Highway No. 21 west of Bryan is finished and the full stretch to the Little Brazos river is expected to be open this weekend. Speculation grows on a contract for Highway No. 6 from College Station south and about an emergency $4 per capita highway appropriation that could yield around $80,000 for this county. Local road advocates will push to secure the No. 6 paving funds and contract soon.
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