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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1926
Page
6
The piece argues 250000 hogless Texas farms and 950980 Southern farms lack chickens. It treats poultry as essential, joking that a farm without poultry is an absurdity and comparing it to a golf courseless club or a hospital with no room. It laments farmers abandoning poultry and extols fried chicken as vital.
The item notes cotton at six cents per pound eggs six cents a dozen butter nine cents a pound and calico fifty cents a yard with whiskey at 25 cents a gallon. It jokes that wealth came easy if you saved a quarter for a gallon and “load up” then the world was yours. It also mentions road maintenance funding and a looming Christmas, urging early shopping and hints at future travel by railroad and air.
The Boy's and Girls' Club of Shirock met Friday November 26 1926. President opened with songs. Mr. Benson announced poultry show plans December 9 to 11 and many members will exhibit. New officers were elected for next year led by Vera Adkins president and Allen Gandy vice president. Meeting adjourned to December 8 with list of attendees.
Herm n Henderson arrives in Chicago at 9 45 this morning. The Texas club boys report a good time and plan to serve products at each banquet. The first night features a small jar of figs and the second night grape.
Herman Henderson of Kurten and twenty Texas prize winners attend the fifth National Congress of Club Boys and Girls in Chicago from November 27 to December 3. The Texas delegation, in distinctive five gallon hats, enjoys tours and a Santa Fe trip while presenting G L Noble with a Texas Angora goat hide rug as the state promotes its image in the Windy City.
A letter from R. M. Harkey of the Navasota and Grimes County Chamber of Commerce notes large turnout expected for the Poultry Show in Navasota. The message cites the poultry directory announcing December 9th 10th and 11th and confirms participation.
A formal invitation seeks poultry growers to bring birds to the Navasota exhibition. The message promises newspaper publicity and encourages growers to send chickens for exhibition purposes.
Kurten residents are reminded the Evangelical Lutheran church will hold services on Sunday December 5. The article notes the church schedule and local attendance details.
Special to the Bag Boone Prairie reports Ben Bowlea and family of Houston spent the weekend with friends and relatives here. Cat Miles and sisters Estelle and Daisy visited relatives. Will Maxwell and parents hosted visitors from Odds. Nellie Duncan and Sarah Ellison teachers at Coal Branch, visited the Duncan family. Ruby Lee Duncan, teacher at the school, spent the weekend with her parents at Wheelock.
The passage notes several visits by local youths to relatives including Mrs. Anna Sweingler and others. It reports a Tuesday ball game against Pettaway ending 17 to 9 in Pettaway's favor, adds the team had no ball and no practice, then promises better performance in the future.
A Saturday night party at Mr. Lee Dowdy's scene drew many to a box supper planned for December 12 at the schoolhouse. Proceeds will benefit the school. all are invited and promised a good supper.
All pastures in the Na vasota Bottoms and around Hall's Lake are posted according to law. Hunters and others are warned to keep out. Notices signed by MRS J C Koppe and Fred C Herrling.
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