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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1935
Page
1
A Texan column urges voters to oppose repeal of prohibition on August 24. It argues against strong drink citing biblical passages from Isaiah and Hebrews and warns that repeal would not return the old saloon era.
Councilman Roy Vick and son Bill, Joe White, and Police Chief K T Tillis returned Monday night from a vacation through West Texas and into old Mexico. Mr and Mrs Orin Williams and daughter Dorothy Louise of Houston are visiting relatives here. Mrs Offa Williams went to Navasota to be with her sister in law Mrs J Walter Smith who is ill.
J Webb Howells reports a pleasant 3300 mile trip with Mr and Mrs Howell returning to Bryan after a three week journey. They visited Colorado Springs Denver and Carlsbad Cavern where 740 visitors that day included 434 Texans from 26 states and two foreign countries. Texas Rangers provided crowd security and company during the cavern visit.
G C White a salesman for Bryan Motor Company won Ford’s prize of a free trip to the San Diego California fair and $25 cash for sales in June and July. He is the Group 2 Houston branch winner and will depart September 3 for a week or more with all expenses paid.
Joe Dick Hooker of Carthage a former Texas A and M student and well known in Bryan was killed when a truck struck him on the highway south of Calvert shortly after 1 am. He was with F L Henderson and Winnie Henderson returning from Dallas. The truck owner from Gainesville was hauling a loaded trailer to Houston. Hooker was a textbook salesman and rural sociology graduate of 1930, survived by parents and two brothers. funeral plans were pending in Carthage.
Rev. J. P. Locks, chaplain at the Texas penitentiary in Huntsville, visited Friday with Rt. Rev. J. B. Gleissner and Rev. T. J. Valenta in Bryan. Locks had prepared two for the death chair, one on Tuesday and another Thursday, and will prepare another on Wednesday of next week.
New Orleans August 17 E F Creekmore general manager of the American Cotton Cooperative association says cotton cooperatives will lend farmers 10 cents a pound on this year crop deliveries until government crop loan policy is decided. A Brazos Valley Cotton Co op wire from Tom Field in New Orleans states the same offer pending government loan announcement.
Brazos County prepares to celebrate the completion of its major road program with concrete highways across the county and the Division Highway headquarters building. A barbecue is planned between Sept 1 and the date set, inviting the State Highway Commission personnel, Division 17 staff, county commissioners, city officials, and others who contributed to the project.
Barney C. Lowry, brakeman on a Missouri Pacific freight, was found murdered in a pasture north of Penelope. He had been shot twice stabbed once and severely beaten. Police suspect hoboes attacked the train rider and threw him from the moving train as he crawled for help. Lowry lived in Mart and was the son in law of C M Cummings. His funeral arrangements are not yet known.
W. W. Griffin of Bryan returned from Weatherford area after a week with his son Dick Griffin and family in Sweetwater. He notes a bumper season with peaches watermelons grapes and vegetables and cites a Weatherford neighbor who sold 1000 bushels of peaches to buy a new car leaving ample for canning.
Mrs Dona Carnes on vacation in Colorado wired greetings from the summit of Pike's Peak to the Eagle and friends today.
Mrs. J. H. Dowell 52 and daughter Merle 11 of Normangee Madison County were drowned when a sedan left the Town Bluff ferry and sank in 10 feet of water. Survivors include Hubert Skinner and Vaughan Dowell who escaped after breaking a window and swimming to safety. Bodies recovered within the car. funeral home pullmotor used without success. The victims were en route to Jasper to visit relatives and return home Monday.
Bry an fire department reports forty fewer alarms by this date than last year with 27 alarms including two grass fires. Officials credit prevention efforts and fireproof roofing for the drop, predicting lower premiums if the trend continues.
Cc M Elwell former supervisor of schools in this district moves to Austin to become director of research and statistics in the Texas Department of Education. He will relocate his family by September 1 after a two week state tour with Superintendent Woods covering 3 500 miles and addressing about 20 000 people. His Bryan headquarters and successor here are not yet announced.
Mrs Edna Abbott Shelton Brazos County public health nurse is seriously ill in John Seelye Hospital Galveston. She was taken there Monday by her husband and a neighbor after falling ill Sunday afternoon while completing malaria survey plans in Harvey community. Her condition was described as serious by the attending physician.
The fire department was called to the home of Mrs. Ben Knox at 3310 South Main at about 12 50 Sunday to extinguish flames caused by defective wiring. The fire did little damage.
RB Smith longtime Texas newspaperman attorney and former Wood County judge died in Quitman after a short illness. Born December 29 1852 in Bowling Green Kentucky he arrived in Texas at 15 and worked on the Galveston News. He founded the Brazos Pilot later Bryan Eagle and in Wood County organized the Winnsboro Free Press and the Wood County News. Survivors include his widow and two sons Sal and Richard. Funeral arrangements awaited arrival of a son from California.
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Machos, married in a civil ceremony by Justice A. J. Buchanan, received a blessing in a 7 a.m. service at St. Joseph's Catholic Church conducted by Rt. Rev. J. B. Gleissner.
County school board members met at the county superintendent Mrs. W E Neeley office to approve budgets for the year and were photographed for Texas Outlook. The 1935 36 trustees listed by district include Templeman J L Allen W W Loftin Milli can C M Sawyer C R Crawford A T Langford and many others across districts such as Peach Creek Providence Harvey Steep Hollow Reliance Kurten Woodville and more with numerous named trustees.
Bryan submitted a graveling plan for eight miles of dirt streets with metal culverts to district WPA officials. City Manager Williams said the project, scaled to reduce local outlay, would become a $22,000 program with the city paying about $1,600 if approved in Washington.
Tuesday noon Bryan Lions Club featured seven brief member talks and a classification talk titled Motor Oil by L. L. Pistole. F. D. Fuller led the program and promised a future pep talk. Wm. Sparks won the attendance prize as a board meeting set for next Monday at 8 in R. C. Franks’ office.
The 1985 A and M College of Texas Cotton Study Tour Party led by Associate Professor J S Mogford has finished a two months study of cotton conditions in Portugal Spain Egypt and Italy. They report American cotton consumption below normal across European countries due to higher prices from a 12 cent export tax making U S cotton $5 to $7 50 per bale pricer than Brazilian Argentine Egyptian or Indian cotton. Taxes and duties in Italy and Spain add to the gap.
Alvin Karpis, labeled public enemy No 1, threatened Hoover in a letter received a month earlier. Federal agents have hunted him since the $200000 Edward Bremer kidnapping in St Paul last year. Karpis last seen escaping the Atlantic City trap last winter.
A meeting for boys and girls ages nine to sixteen is called for 2 PM Thursday at the College Avenue Baptist Church. Rev. Breazeale and Rev. Phinney say the drive urges children to deliver door cards and asks women with cars to transport participants. The leaders frame the event as the youth’s part in keeping Texas from repealing prohibition.
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Presnal returned from Jacksboro with a purchase from the Johnson Brothers Ranch. The Johnson brothers claim the world’s largest herd of double standard polled Herefords and Mr. Presnal hopes to build a herd of these cattle in coming years.
Ford car owned by Frank Ritchie, timer for Parker Astin Hardware, was stolen from Bryan street near the store Monday afternoon. Officers believe they are tracing the vehicle and Constable D. D. Jolly went to Waco Tuesday.
The final 15 mile gap on highway No. 9 between Amarillo and Lubbock has been paved and opened to traffic. The stretch from Happy to Tulsa received a caliche base and asphalt topping and has been under construction since March.
In the Waco Legionnaire tribute, Mrs. B. J. Hardman former Bryan resident and former Miss Zonnie J. Seale is praised for directing the unit as president and earning re election for another year. She was named as delegate to the national Legion convention in St Louis September 23 26 with expenses covered by the local unit. The honors reflect work with Jas A Edmond Post No 121 American Legion Texas.
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