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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1920
Page
3
A Brazos County chamber meeting appointed a committee to gather the cotton crop and protect local labor from agents recruiting workers. A mass meeting adopted resolutions urging residents to defend labor and asked Texas press to publish them, naming numerous local officials and business leaders.
Cotton receipts rise despite heavy rains with Lawrence warehouse 261 bales Farmers Union 100 Eden square 47 Eden round 97 total 408 square and 97 round. Market quotes middling 32 1 2 cents per lb wood $20 ton ear corn $1 per bushel alfalfa 33 per ton prairie hay 20 per ton Johnson grass Bermuda 24 per ton oats 1 per bushel eggs 35 cents dozen chickens 25 30 cents lb hogs 12 cents lb cattle 8 8 12 cents lb.
J D Martin of Parker Astin Hardware Co received telegrams from the Texas Farm Boys Special after a visit to South Bend Indiana. The telegrams praise the hosts for a memorable reception and for sharing useful information during the trip.
Dr Hicks, famed for predicting the Galveston storms, forecasts a West Indiana hurricane entering the Gulf of Mexico in late August. He hopes the storm stays within the gulf.
Citizens are urged to inspect their premises for standing water and dump out containers that breed mosquitoes. Deputy director John Daly Jr notes home yards are hard to inspect, urging residents to act and call the complaint bureau if needed.
The Uvalde Rock Asphalt Company workers have been repairing the Bryan to A and M College paved highway. They expect to finish in two days if labor holds. The road had many holes with jagged edges making travel perilous and rough. Public relief follows their completion.
Sheriff L E Morehead received a Detroit police circular offering a $1000 reward for Eugene Leroy alias O J Fernandez alias Oscar Wood, the man wanted in the murder of his wife whose body was found in a trunk at the New York Express office.
The Star of Texas commands the Sheriff of Brazos County to publish weekly for four weeks a citation summoning John Wilson to appear at the Brazos County District Court in Bryan on September 20 1920. The petition filed May 19 1920 by Pearl Wilson seeks dissolution of marriage, costs, and related relief. The document is dated July 31 1920 and signed by Clerk J W Barron.
The Bry and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce Board met at 10 AM with President E J Jenkins presiding and S E Eberstadt at the desk. Debated the August 25 trade trip and decided not to hold it. discussed cavalry encampment and road improvements due by December 1 with officials including Mayor Lawrence and Judge Maloney.
J. D. Steele of Millican, a diversificationist long noted at Brazos County fairs, visits Bryan to display pears of the Keifer Garber LaConte and Bartlett varieties and pump kin yams. He notes his crop is strong and stresses farming at home amid high prices.
The U S Civil Service Commission will hold an exam on September 11 at 9 o clock at the Bryan post office to hire a clerk carrier for the U S mail service.
The state of Texas summons Walter Stewart in Brazos County District Court for a divorce filed by Jessie Bea Stewart. The petition alleges abandonment since 1917 and seeks dissolution of the marriage and custody of their child Lula Stewart born from the union. The case number is 8855 with a return date in September 1920.
Miss Ethel Evans secretary to H H Williamson of the U and M Extension reports a Texas Boys Special journey. She describes stopovers in South Bend at Oliver Chilled Plow, a lunch at the Country Club, Notre Dame visit, East Lansing's Michigan State College, and a planned Ford plant tour before Niagara Falls.
The message from Ethel expresses a final farewell as she closes this period, acknowledging thoughts in her mind and bidding farewell for now.
C E Stanford and J J Stanford visited the Eagle with green cotton bolls from C E Stanford’s Oscar Kurten farm in Kurten showing damage from a new boll worm. A live, inch long green worm was found in a boll. samples will be sent to the State Entomologist in College Station for identification. The bolls resembled those from Joe Kopecky’s Little Brazos report.
Tabor August 10 The singing school taught by Roland Crenshaw at Cottonwood closed Friday. The Cottonwood revival ended Sunday night with Rev Wallace of Franklin preaching. Baptismal services were postponed to the first Sunday in September due to rain. Paul Wiley visits, Will Presnal returns from Martin treatment improved. Tennie Worsham visits Alma McCallum, Crosses from Steep Hollow drop in. Carpenters start work on high school dwelling for teacher and family. C E Bobo of Bryan and wife visit McCallums.
In this department shoppers find affordable mens wear and boys garments. Special pricing features silk dress shirts at 2.65 and blue work shirts from 0.65 to 1.48. Boys knee pants and knee suits offered at a range from 0.65 to 5.50 with unions and overalls also highlighted.
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