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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1931
Page
5
Fall mood settles over Bryan with many youths packing for college and social calendars reviving. Club reporters urged to file timely notices as formal affairs, suppers, dances, and wardrobe plans take shape across town.
Miss Lelia Law Davis hosted a Saturday afternoon bridge gathering at her Dallas guest home with four tables and honorees Miss Dorothy Buford and Roberta Moore. High score trophy went to Miss Mary Jones and Nina Bess Astin won the cut prize as other guests joined in the revival of the social season.
Mr and Mrs Horn have lived in Abilene while he supervised Wilkerson Memorial Hospital construction. With completion this week he travels to Santo to represent Abilene Construction Co on a new school building project.
Allen Academy announces the appointment of Dr J N Moseley as senior headmaster for the coming school year. Recently from Denton he joins from North Texas State Teachers College with prior service as a top high school administrator. He earned AB MA and PhD from the University of Texas and will join Bryan with Mrs Moseley to begin duties at the academy.
Advertises 666 liquid or tablet remedy for headache neuralgia in minutes, cold relief first day, malaria in three days. Also promotes 666 Salve for Baby's Cold with implied fast action.
Panhandle Plains farmers rush home canning and storage as gardens expand by 60 percent. Communities report high demand for canning supplies and 4 H poultry demonstrators have canned thousands of quarts. Local groups like the American Legion prepare thousands of cans and pounds of beans to aid 100 families, aiming to reduce waste and feed neighbors this winter.
The Business and Professional Women's Club of Bryan and College will resume regular meetings on Tuesday September 1 at 6 30 p m after a dinner service. The club has over 40 members and is affiliated with state and national federations. New officers include Evelyn Grace president and a slate of vice presidents secretaries and committee chairs for the season with roles in program publicity membership legislative education emblem international relations finance personnel research health magazine transportation and more.
H. F. McDonald aged 56 died at his Austin home yesterday. He was a draftsman for the state land office in Austin for 24 years and is survived by his Bryan area siblings Z. R. McDonald and Mrs. Dana McShan.
Millican trustees and citizens plan a near rebuild with a new white two room school and a separate two room negro school by fall term. The existing five room building will be torn down except two rooms kept on site for Negro students. The remaining rooms move near the Baptist church across the railroad track for a modern two room white school.
Mrs. Robert F. Smith has returned from Huntsville and will be at home in College Park after receiving her degree from Sam Houston State Normal College with the summer graduating class. Friends congratulate her on the high standard of scholarship and the granting of her degree and teachers certificate from Texas' oldest normal college.
Community Rotary Club gatherings at Tabor and Kings Highway drew large crowds. Performers led by D Cargill and Leona McDonald presented music readings and dances with applause for violin guitar mandolin piano and ballet. county agent Beason urged attendance for upcoming shows at Smetana and Steeles Store.
W R McCullough secretary of the Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce arrived in Bryan after two weeks in Chicago attending a national school for commercial executives at Northwestern University Evanston.
J. H. Evetts, division freight and passenger agent for the Southern Pacific, based in Corsicana, was in town today as a business visitor.
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