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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1929
Page
1
Governor Moody urged Wisconsin Governor Kohler to delay restricting Texas real estate sales to Wisconsin citizens. He warned the Wisconsin board planned a January 1 ban, calling it discriminatory against Texas and asking Texas to be heard before action.
A letter from Albin Brandesky of Deming New Mexico asks for help identifying the manager at Bryan airport and expresses preference to work in his hometown rather than elsewhere. He notes his aviation training and signs his full name with postal box details.
Miss Tiny Ross and Wilma Ross head home from St. Louis to celebrate with their parents Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Ross. Ralph Slowell, a Texas University student, plans a Christmas reunion with his family. Elizabeth Howell, teaching in Charleston Illinois, to spend the holidays in New York with Vivienne Howell. H. P. Smith and son Herbert Stewart to travel by auto to Poplarville Mississippi for the holidays. George S. Fisert praises Bryan as a well lit town.
Bryan chapter No. 222 Order of the Eastern Star will host Rainbow Assembly members and guests at the Masonic lodge room after the Rainbow meeting on Friday night December 20. Eastern Star and Masons urged to attend and stay for social features announced by Mrs. Thos. Lundin.
The Latin students of Stephen F. Austin high school met Tuesday afternoon December 17 and organized a Latin club. Officers were elected Consul Ann Bentley pro consul DavisGrant scriba Shirley Johnson quaestor William Nash nuntius Farle Tardy. Miss Alberta Scott sponsors the club. Meetings occur every other week with pupil programs.
A liquor crazed man shot residents in Romney West Virginia causing three deaths and three injuries. Justice of the Peace H C Inskeep 50 city jailer Ben Miller 55 and Ben Wolford were killed while an 11 year old girl and two women were wounded.
In a pre Christmas rush County Clerk Jess B. McGee processed five marriage license applications. The couples listed are Jesse Martin and Ida Mae Ranson, M. Gregory and Louise Gregory, Jesse Steen and Altha Thurman, Hugh Sessions and Jessie O. Phipps, and William G. Cloud and Frances Wilkes, all residents of Braxos County.
County Agent C L Benson will travel to Edge on Thursday to conduct a terracing program. He will be assisted by Vernon I Miller of Arlington representing the Martin Ditcher Co.
The cotton market rose about as much as it fell on Tuesday with futures finishing 10 points higher. New cotton posted a small gain quoted at 16 1/2 to 16 4/4 cents.
A northwest wind sent Texas thermometers plummeting with Bryan reporting a low of 31 last night and others in Childress Wichita Falls Dallas and Nacogdoches dipping to 18 to 26 degrees. Tonight again colder with a high in the 30s and freezing weather likely.
Washington case report from December eighteen indicates the House Roads Committee has reported the Dowell bill proposing an annual rise of federal highway aid from seventy five million to one hundred twenty five million dollars.
More than fifty Masons from College and Bryan attended a banquet hosted by the A and M College Masonic Club in the college banquet rooms. Tom M. Bartley delivered an excellent address on The Symbolisms of Masonry. Guests of honor included T. M. Larthes and Frank Oldham of Waco, Dr. C. A. Searcy of Bryan, and I. K. Liechte, secretary.
Miss Lucy Givens home demonstration agent for Brazos county and L. Benson county agent attended the District 6 conference in Houston with George W. Johnson and Sadie Hatfield as district agents. About 35 agents specialists and staff members were present for the session reporting an interesting and profitable meeting.
J. Bryan Miller city manager and S. E. Eberstadt secretary of the Bryan and Brazos County chamber of commerce traveled to Houston to join the annual Houston Chamber of Commerce banquet. J. Webb Howell and Mrs Howell also went to Houston for the event with Charles Schwab set to be the principal speaker at the dinner.
Brazos County commissioners invite bids for sale of county road bonds totaling 250000, approved by voters on September 28. Bonds are to be sold at par plus accrued interest, with bids due January 5, 1930, to fund rural road improvements and start work early next year.
Special to The Eagle reports fair weather with a cold wave across Bryan and vicinity, temperatures 10 to 16 degrees tonight. East Texas will be fair with a severe cold wave tonight at about 26 degrees, then rising to a fair Thursday. West Texas also fair and colder tonight from 2 to 20 degrees, with a gradual warming forecast for Thursday.
Rev. E. C. Morris of the Free Baptist challenged Bryan Lions Tuesday to push progress through citizenship not just buildings. He praised public facilities and urged perseverance. The club pledged 25 to the Bryan Municipal Band and welcomed Paul Dansby as a new member.
Dr A L Mondrick ranch five miles from Brownsville on the Point Isabel road yields 146000 pounds of citrus this year from 16 acres. The 82 acre property is cleared with 16 acres in 5 and 6 year old trees valued at low cost with 10 percent investment return. Mondrick plans further citrus planting this fall and winter and envisions a vacation retreat for his family.
Welix Nelson of Waco was selected to lead the Allen football team as captain for the 1930 season. An outstanding end this year, Nelson is expected to develop into one of the school's greatest ends. Coach T F Wilson notes eight letter men may return for the 1930 season.
The Philathea Class of the Free Baptist church held a Christmas party in the Sunday School room Tuesday evening. Mrs KE Morris, wife of the new pastor, was an honor guest as members exchanged gifts and enjoyed games and a Christmas tree. Present were Mrs F C Morris plus Grace Tinger Mary Edge Gladys Edge Lada Mae Mason Lemma Dowell Lena Mae Cheatham Jessie Myrtle Hensarling Lottie Syp tak Elsie Syp tak Ella Jancik Glada Mae Trant. A holiday themed refreshment plate closed the evening.
Within the next day or so Dr. B. A. Sims will occupy his newly built offices in the rear of the James drug store building. New furniture and floor coverings are being arranged to make this suite one of the most convenient and best equipped in the state section.
Houston reports Mrs Kate Rumsey of McKean county Pennsylvania will receive half of the late H B Rumsey of Houston estate valued at 100000 with F B Rumsey of Dallas getting one eighth after commissioners partitioned the properties.
In McAlester Oklahoma the Old Town Coal Company mine disaster leaves 57 bodies recovered after 62 miners were trapped by an explosion. Nine unidentified bodies lie in two rows as friends view remains. Convicts from the state penitentiary will dig graves for a wholesale burial amid gas and wreckage delays.
Readers of the Weekly Eagle are invited to study a special advertising page from 39 Bryan merchants. Those who find errors hidden in ad spaces may win a merchandise or service prize worth $1. Participants must submit the page with marked errors to the Eagle office. the first 39 qualify.
Two couples Wallace Henry and Grace McDonald and John Moya and Jaanita Salos filed notice of intention to marry and applications for marriage licenses with County Clerk Jess B. McGee on Monday.
Census data show Brazos county ginned 11 177 bales of the 1929 cotton crop before December 1, counting round bales as half. This compares with 25 992 bales ginned by the same date for the 1928 crop.
Frosty north wind today in Brazos County slows budding fruit trees after yesterday's bloom, potentially preserving next year’s crop. Orchard owners face delayed growth but may benefit from reduced frost damage this season.
Elwell Satterwhite has been jailed since March 12 1928 after a statutory offense conviction. The North Carolina Court of Criminal Appeals granted a last state appeal for a rehearing, affirming the case. Judge Bethea and attorney Mathis plan another motion as the fight resumes.
In a wartime style report from Laredo on December 18, Mexicans across the border lose duty free imports at the border, affecting retail trade. The measure follows retaliation moves and possible diplomatic shifts, with talk of moving consulates and heightened tensions near the Nuevo Laredo crossing.
Washington reports the state department is asked by Governor Moody to press the Mexican government to reopen the consulate closed after threats against former President Calles. A potential reestablishment of commercial ties at Laredo is considered, but action remains undecided. In Austin Stimson was asked to pursue the matter with Moody.
Beaumont reports Fin National Bank will pay all employees five cents of their annual salary as a Christmas remembrance. The bank had declared a three percent extra dividend for shareholders, to be paid December 20.
A one room house occupied by Lilah Robinson was burned down in a fire soon after today. The blaze was attributed to a disabled fire. The residence stood on East 29th Street within the city limits with the loss estimated at a value not stated.
Three Dallas county murder cases reversed and remanded by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals after indictments failed to allege malice aforethought. The decisions were issued Tuesday, the same day the indictments were found defective for not stating the required mental element.
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