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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1921
Page
2
Bryan Texas paper dated April 28 1911 lists second class matter at the post office. Managing Editor Lee J Rountree. Weekly Eagle served Grazos County at 159 per year and 100 for six months in Texas and 200 per year 125 six months outside Texas. Member of the Associated Press.
The notice calls on every Texas school with suitable grounds to take freely offered trees and establish a school enterprise by planting and caring for them. It emphasizes local initiative and ongoing maintenance as part of the program.
Bryan Chamber of Commerce adopts a resolution endorsing the A M College and its officers amid hazing allegations, condemning exaggerated charges and praising Representative Lee J Rountree for securing emergency appropriations. The group expresses confidence in the college and its leadership.
Austin Feb 12 Ed Hall Commissioner of Insurance and Banking resigns as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas Judge W F Ramsey says Hall was elected by a large majority and will be missed The resignation follows concerns of possible incompatibility with his state duties and Hall wishes to preserve his honor and good faith while remaining involved in promoting sound banking in Texas
The Banker-Farmer Congress for 1921 will be held at College Station March 3 and 4. A. & M. College representatives joined the Texas Bankers Association Agricultural Committee at the Adolphus hotel in Dallas February 12 to arrange the annual event. The program will emphasize round table talks and cooperative demonstrations, with a Farm Bureau cooperation proposal under study for cotton marketing.
The Kings Trail bed road in southern Brazos county north of the Navasota river has faced delays due to heavy rains since the contract award. Labor and material shortages also slowed progress. contractors expect to complete the concrete paving once weather improves.
Promotion comes to those who endure and excel at work. It favors the thoughtful, loyal worker who serves the employer’s interests and shows steady effort beyond pay. Merit cannot be scripted. it acts wherever duty is at play and the mind leads toward advancement.
A Wichita Falls jail delivery was blocked prompting concerns over costs and potential abuse of suspended sentence laws as authorities consider how emptied jails could reduce expenses and modify policy.
Dallas police chief urges women to carry pistols for self protection as crimes rise. Fort Worth incident highlights growing danger to women in the city and surrounding area.
A sober warning declares that those who rely on knocking and graft will fail in honest work, urging sound judgment and condemning the knocker as unfit for genuine progress.
The Waco News Tribune notes the proposed separation of the University of Texas from the Agricultural and Mechanial College will go before voters again. If rejected the paper jokes about sending one to Reno for six months.
The proposed district would include Grimes Brazos Walker Houston Leon Robertson Freestone Anderson Limestone Madison. Rep. Rountree of Brazos urges public input before lawmakers pass the pending reapportionment bill. Texas would gain one or more seats under the 1920 census federal law.
The Corsicana Sun publishes the annual chamber report led by President J. N. Royal and secretary C. N. Olsen. It urges reading the summary to understand the organization’s value, work, and finances, noting Royal’s Bryan roots and family connections.
The Houston Post urges adding shade trees to school grounds in towns and country districts to beautify yards and foster care for trees. It highlights the role of schools in teaching forestry and conserving timber resources, noting Texas A&M state station offers free trees to promote the cause.
Austin Feb 12 The measure by Lee J Rountree would shield newspaper confidences as attorney client physician patient protections The bill drafted by the attorney general would curb harassment by inquisitorial bodies and bar disclosure of confidences by reporters The Colorado version by Judge B Lindsay is noted as similar
Bryan prepares a new year round florist shop. Two glass houses will cover 30 by 100 feet each and sit between 25th and 26th streets east of the Catholic church. Coulter Smith serves as business manager and Forest Jones as traveling solicitor.
President elect Harding weighs recording his address on talking machine records and broadcasting it by radio from the naval wireless station on March 4. Thousands of wireless amateurs across the nation are said to be ready to receive the speech, a procedure already used by the station for wireless music.
A basketball doubleheader at College Station pitted Tabor vs Consolidated Schools. College won the boys game 15 to 2, while Tabor edged Consolidated in the girls game 21 to 18. Notable performers included Midge Batton and Alma McCallum. Tabor challenged Calvert high school next.
The Cotton Growers Sales Agency formed three months ago to finance shipping of low grade cotton to Europe disbanded today in Corpus Christi Texas. Twenty eight thousand bales in the agency's hands were returned to owners as Fred Reoberts said they could not extend a loan of fifteen dollars per bale for shipment.
Bryan High School girls basketball routed Franklin 40 to 7 on Bryan court Friday afternoon in a spirited game. Bryan, larger in size, showcased strong teamwork and enthusiasm as fans packed the stands. The Bryan lineup included Nannie Shel Waldrop and Mabel Van Pelt as forwards, Ruth Henry and Vernon Brown as guards, with Mary Henry at center. Bryan heads to Waco for a Friday night game on February 18.
The Tabor community at Tabor high school raised 63.85 from a Friday night box supper to be used toward lighting the building. A noted program preceded the sale including songs, readings, a burlesque sermon, a dialogue, and a Woodsworth quartet. cake sold for 5.00.
The Kurten basketball girls fell 18 to 3 and the Kurten junior boys lost 7 to unknown yesterday at Kurten as Steep Hollow teams won on the Kurten court. Return games are set for February 25 at Steep Hollow with WW. J. Stone, principal, refereeing.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church elected delegates to the annual state meeting to be held in Beaumont on March 8. Delegates are Mrs J B Priddy and Mrs Wade Cox, with alternates Mrs E Crenshaw and Mrs W F Gibbs. A suggestion to advertise in the Daily and Weekly Eagle.
Up-to-date Bryan residents donate about $800 to the starving in China relief. Churches urged free will offerings, but many already contributed to headquarters. Amounts listed include Presbyterian $225 and Methodist $200 among others.
Waelder lawmaker C K Walter says two malignant growths were permanently cured by Dr O A Johnson after extensive prior treatment. He endorses the doctor’s non surgical method and urges others with cancer to seek early care. Johnson reports successes with a non surgical approach and offers a free copy of his book Cancer Truths.
House Bill 242 reported favorably to authorize a $30,000 appropriation and committee for a monument on the state capitol grounds to honor Texas soldiers sailors marines and nurses who died in World War I with private donations encouraged and a later $250,000 fund-raising goal.
Messrs Elsie Francis Joe Locke J H McCullum and Chas Locke of Tabor depart for Truitt seed farm Waxahachie to buy long staple cotton seed for next season and plan a community meeting at Tabor high school to urge farmers to plant it. Found sow about 200 pounds brown with ears cropped. owner can claim damages.
An early morning remedy offers relief from constipation and headache with a single tongue application before bed. Roman & Wick Drug Store guarantees the remedy.
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