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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1930
Page
2
Miss Lucy Givens led the Tabor Girls Club meeting from 1 to 2 pm Tuesday as plans for a new club room progressed. Officers elected were Lydia Francis president Ritchie Cooper vice president Mary Nichols secretary Laura Barnes reporter Anna Wilson.
High butter costs reduce consumption and push buyers toward oleomargarine for table use and cooking. The article notes butter’s high fat soluble vitamins, compares fat content with oleo, and warns dairy producers to adapt through efficiency and better breeding to maintain profits while rural trade considers the shifting demand and market pressures.
Fair conditions Sunday afternoon drew many to Sunday School and church services. Notable attendees included Mr and Mrs E J Beard and daughter Margaret. The preacher was absent but D J McDonald led the lesson as Mrs Robert English and Mrs Herman Carroll visited their Beal relatives.
Bryan Chapter members met at Stephen F. Austin building to plan a possum hunt near Kurten next Friday and a practice judging trip to Temple this week. Raymond Buchanan and Clo Hedtke will provide refreshments while W C Raines arranges dogs. The group aims to prepare for the Smith Hughes dairy judging contest at A and M College and to organize a local basketball team.
Kings Highway Miss Minnie Nash visits family while several others spend weekends with Nash and Mangis relatives. Eighth graders Maple Stell and Lena Ndosad publish poems The Coming of the Day and At the Close of Day with nature imagery.
Mr and Mrs Tom Monk and children of Navasota visited the Burrows home Sunday. Nannie Mae Williams remains confined to her room after a fall two weeks ago. Mrs Lewis Black has been ill but is recovering. R Y McFerrin stays in bed, drawing concern from friends. Uncle Bob is missed in his usual places. Mrs Emma Bradleys returned from Galveston after visiting her daughter Mrs Tom Stousland. Mrs Bill Symms came home from Richton where she had stayed with her mother Mrs Sidney Mills who is ill.
A Millican correspondent notes visitors from Bryan and Houston during the weekend and praises sunshine aiding travel on rural roads. He laments mud holes, urges local gravel fixes, and condemns importing labor while urging home labor and economy. The piece closes with a quip referencing Bill Arp about cooling off in the garden.
Mrs S C Moore and son Bobby of Dallas visit sister Mrs O L Andrews. Mr and Mrs E L Churchill of Houston visit J D Jones and family while Miss Pearle Jones of Westfield and Miss Maude Jones of Bryan spend weekend with parents. Rebecca and Jamita Jones visit grandparents H T Todd. Rev R L Brown fills regular appointment. Farmers enjoy brief sunshine after several days. May Byrd Hensarling ill with pneumonia. Jacky Boy Holland sick but improving. J E Cook and daughters Florene Beatrice visit Bryan relatives. Mrs Ira N Kelley and Miss Jerry Hodges from Carrizo Springs visit Kelleys. C A Jones of Allen Farm visits father O Q Jones. Mrs J T Dyess in Bryan. Mrs J Dyess attends Bryan Saturday. The few sunny days have raised farmer activity.
Feb 13 in San Benito a Kiwanis Club sponsor will establish the town of Rio Hondo as its first civic club. The San Benito Kiwanis Club spearheads the formation in this lower Rio Grande Valley community.
The governor pushes for a 1.5 million appropriation to support summer schools and state institutions while urging tax shifts away from homes and farms. He argues private extraction of Texas natural resources taxes residents, aiming to replace ad valorem taxes with levies on incomes and resources to fund education.
County agent C L Benson and Home Demonstration Agent Lucy Givens report on corn planting methods including water furrow and Williamson row systems to prevent sand packing. They note terrace repair, February as farm inspiration, Washington and Lincoln anniversaries, and local 4 H progress with clubs at Knob Prairie and Tabor. The piece urges soil renewal, feed crop emphasis, and farm relief readiness.
Tremont and Company offers to pay $1.50 under Ft. Worth top for corn fed hogs weighing 150 to 250 pounds. They move 10 to 15 cars weekly and invite sellers to compare prices before selling elsewhere.
Miss Gladys Bullock of Bryan and Holland Boring of Austin quietly wed at the home of Miss Bullock’s sister, John Smith and Mr. Smith College, with Rev. R L Brown officiating. The couple plans to make their home in Austin and left on a night train.
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