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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1936
Page
2
Local society items list visitors and travelers among Bryan residents and friends. Names include Mrs. Mary Katherine Shell Georgetown and Miss Kathleen Mangum Austin with breaks to Houston Waco and Dallas. Several families return from Abilene Georgetown Navasota and other spots for the holiday.
The piece argues long ago winters were harsher, supported by meteorology cycles. It notes a possible coming winter cycle, impacts on vehicles, and the need for antifreeze as a precaution. It cites J B Kincer of the Weather Bureau and urges early steps by motorists and transport sectors.
Lamar Williams reported that two javelinas were brought down by the hunting party that left Encinal last Sunday. His father Deputy Sheriff Offa Williams hunted in the same area last year and killed a large javelina whose head now decorates Sheriff Roy Nann's office.
Laura B. Hart former grand matron of the General Grand Chapter Eastern Star died Monday in Austin. Funeral services set for Wednesday at Porter Loring Funeral Home in San Antonio with burial there. R S Sears resigns as bookkeeper for Parker Astin Holow Co to join Masury Paints and will remain in Bryan for now.
The Monthly Business Review of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reports October gains in the Eleventh District. Retail department store sales rose 16 percent from September, wholesale firm sales up 9 percent, and construction activity up with building permits and contracts higher than both September and last year. Agricultural conditions were generally favorable with cotton improving while other crops faced some declines. Bank deposits and reserves rose, and loans increased year over year.
F L Henderson city of Bryan attorney spoke to the Lions Tuesday noon on rural electrification as a New Deal community betterment. He argued Bryan should lead the project to protect municipal utilities from outside firms and cited nearby Mumford as evidence of rural line expansion. Chas Wilkins of John Tarleton College, Stephenville, acted as registrar.
A guest list at Texas A and M College shows a committee appointed by President S M Brown to seek Christmas season activity. The group includes E J Howell, Fred Hild, W FB Paulson, Earl Tatum, I Manileff and Bill Wimberly. The panel will report at next Tuesday's meeting. Cadet Holland of A&M provided music. two numbers were sung. An investigation into a $2,000,000-a-year restaurant shakedown racket broadened to a national scope as Justice Phillip J McCook plans commissions to hear restaurant union leaders in Chicago San Francisco St Louis and Cincinnati.
In New York on December 1 authorities probe Restaurant Racket amid inquiries into alleged illicit activities. Investigators focus on sanitation practices and possible connections to organized crime.
Mr and Mrs Herschel Baker of Abilene and Mrs Florence Andrews of Oklahoma City are mentioned as sides are being summoned to Grandma Baker. The brief states they have been alerted to join in a family matter.
Rebecca Baker lies at her Bryan home as family members gather at her bedside. Her daughter Mrs. M. L. Johnson resides with her, while another daughter cares for the Bryan community as she is known locally.
Mr and Mrs R W Bullard of Bryan traveled to Waco on Monday for the death of their cousin Will Smith. Funeral services were held there that morning and the remains sent to Dallas for burial. The couple then returned to Bryan.
An explosion of dynamite at a southern York county slate quarry near Delta killed seven men on Monday. Six victims were mangled beyond recognition, two of them brothers, in the devastating blast near the Mason Dixon line.
J. F. Parks, Jr. of Dallas is appointed as educational director and general assistant to the pastor Dr. F. B. Thorne at Houston Second Baptist Church. He has been active with Gaston Ave Baptist Church in Dallas and will begin January 1. Parks is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Parks of Dallas and a well known figure in Bryan, nephew to E. F. Parks and Mrs. J. W. Dyer and Mrs. John Moore of the city.
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