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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1928
Page
3
A Texas Visitor’s spoof letter circulated in Wharton mocks state boasts. It claims alfalfa baled into a stairway would reach the pearly gates and envisions Texas overflowing with vast land, cattle, and扩 bold exaggerations about geography and wealth.
Prairie View College prepares Evans Hall a new fireproof girls dormitory at Hempstead to ease housing pressure. W H Evans dean of men notes the 90 room building will house about 76 double rooms plus a barber shop and guest chamber. Dean Collins may headquart in Evans Hall under state funded project.
Burnett Texas August 10 Sap Cedar long cursed by stockmen for harming grazing land may prove a blessing and a major resource in tannic acid supply says J Faubion who studied using sap cedar bark foliage and wood. He notes tannic acid from oak and hemlock dwindles raising leather costs and suggests Texas cedar could provide an inexhaustible tannic acid source once used by Indians and Civil War pioneers.
LUBBOCK August 10 Texas Technological College reports continued enrollment growth after its first year. Horn says more than 1 000 students enrolled in 1925 and 956 this summer, a 59 percent rise over last summer. The total for the year reaches 2 210, up 30 percent from 1926 27. Two new buildings, the Science Building and the Engineering Building, progress toward completion for the new term.
A. P. reports Texas may harvest 5 137 000 bales from 17 595 000 acres. H H Schultz statistician of the Federal Department of Agriculture announced this August 1 crop condition. Harvest picking is active in the southern part of the state.
The Agriculture Department forecast August 1 conditions show corn at 3,029,561,000 bushels versus 2,735,617,000 last month and 2,733,708,000 harvested last year. Winter wheat is placed at 578,599,000 bushels, spring wheat at 228,350,000 plus 4,343,000 Durum. year-ago yields are lower across most crops.
A car moving at fifteen miles an hour uses half a horsepower to overcome wind friction.
The Texas Forest Bulletin urges rapid reforestation of cutover lands and protection of remaining forests. It stresses home grown lumber to cut freight costs, job creation, and land use conversion of idle acreage to forest crops. It cites the Texas Forest Service and personal responsibility to prevent fires.
J H Reed oversees jail meals in Brazos county. Boarders dwindle to two: Elwell Saterwhite, long incarcerated, seeks control or stake in the jail, and Ivy Dabney, a rookie inmate.
Kiwanis clubs from Texas and Oklahoma meet in Dallas for the Texas-Oklahoma district convention September 2 to 4. Governor Dan Moody opens Sunday. Attorney General Claude Pollard speaks on Kiwanis and Good Citizenship. International officials O. Sam Cummings Fred C. Parker and Frank C. Smith to address attendees. Dr. Marshall Craig will give an inspirational Kiwanis address and H. G. Hatfield will deliver the district governor’s annual message.
The International and Great Northern railroad seeks a franchise to install a spur on the west side of West Main Street 18 feet from the existing track and parallel to it, south of Twenty-eighth Street, after withdrawing a request for an east side track near the compress.
London reports via Resident Timor that Palorweh island in the Dutch East Indies was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption on August 4. Six villages burned, and the death toll is believed to near one thousand.
An Austin ad offers a $500 education for $150 promising stenographer, bookkeeper and salesman training. It claims January promotions boost career prospects and urges immediate inquiries to Walden's Business University, Austin.
E. O. Siecke State Forester told the State Board of Control that Texas would seek 125000 dollars annually for the forestry service, up from 65000. A 25000 dollar state share would be matched by private funds to buy a virgin pine tract for posterity. The department pushes research, farm forestry and windbreak programs, with federal inspection of cedar timbers under way to address erosion and silting impacts.
A meteorological network will reach twelve stations in the eighth corps area with Fort Brown adding a new station. Trained army observers staff the sites and the service supports military fliers via a wide radio network. An air traveler recently received periodic weather bulletins from 10 AM to 4 PM aiding a dash to Kelly Field. The notice ends with a local advertisement urging Eagle Want Ads for quick results.
In a Mexican border county election contest from Uvalde Sid Hardin of Mission seeks to upset Congressman J N Garner’s nomination. Hearings and evidence are expected to continue into September as Hardin claims political peonage led to illegal Mexican votes across seven counties.
A. B. Connor urged a comprehensive expansion of the agricultural experiment station system tied to A and M College. He requested $1,171,232 for the next biennium starting September 1, 1928, up from $691,197. Provisions include a new division of agricultural engineering with a $5,000 annual cost, plus $133,900 for cotton rot study, $30,000 yearly for loco weed cattle poisoning, and $82,300 for dairy product research.
City Manager J Bryan Miller says virtually all bids are in for materials and labor to erect temporary school buildings. The plan aims to have them up before the new term to ease existing facility shortages.
Judge J. T. McGee, justice of the peace and poet, notes that the marrying business is dull this year. He recalls performing many ceremonies last year but says this year business has been punk. He adds that, at least, those he marries tend to stay married.
Dr and Mrs Held formerly of Bryan and now of Mexia visit Bryan guests of Mr and Mrs George Adams. Dr Held pastored First Baptist Bryan six to seven years and recently returned from a leave in Austria. He is pastor of Mexia First Baptist and travels in a new Ford touring car given by a local member in appreciation.
Sid Hardin of Mission files a disputed petition alleging a Mexican border political ring influenced elections in Starr Zapata Webb Hidalgo Brooks and Cameron counties. He claims noncitizen voting improper ballot handling and miscounted or missing signatures while naming leaders Archie Parr A Y Baker Cam E Hill L E Tinkler W L Lipscomb Horace E Guerra and A M Bruni. Garner denies wrongdoing and blames moneyed interests tied to inheritance tax opposition.
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