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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1921
Page
6
The Bryan Weekly Eagle lists publication details for Grazos County with rates and dates. It shows the paper based in Bryan Texas with an April 28 1911 post office entry, editor Lee J Rountree, and Associated Press membership. It notes subscription prices 1509 per year in Texas and 200 per year outside Texas.
Poem by Edgar A Guest argues promotion favors those who think and work beyond clocks. It praises constant effort, loyalty to the employer, and selfless dedication over mere earnings, noting true merit rises from duty and intelligent, steady labor.
The Wichita Falls jails were emptied to save costs and reduce abuse of suspended sentence law. The proposal draws sharp reactions from officials and residents alike.
A sharp warning against unscrupulous knocking and graft in business. The piece asserts that communities relying on underhand tactics will fail in the eyes of honest citizens, urging wise conduct for true progress.
Article notes the plan to again submit the divorce of the University of Texas and the Agricultural and Mechanical College to voters. If the decree is rejected, the column jokes about sending one of them to Reno for six months attributed to Joe Webb of the Waco News Tribune.
The Austin pending plan would make the eighth district cover Grimes Brazos Walker Houston Leon Robertson Free stone Anderson Limestone Madison. Rep Rountree of Brazos County seeks public input before the bill is approved. Texas would gain one additional congressman under the 1920 census federal law.
The Corsicana Sun publishes the annual Chamber report led by President J. N. Royal and Secretary J. N. Olsen. It praises their work, finances, and value to the community, noting Royal’s Bryan connections and family ties to local residents.
In rural and small town settings trees enhance school grounds and pupil pride. The piece urges planting and forestry education, noting dwindling national timber and calling on the public schools to foster tree culture for future generations. The Texas Terple experiment station offers free trees to qualified applicants.
A statewide appeal asks every Texas school with space to obtain freely offered trees and establish a program to plant and maintain them as a school enterprise. The initiative emphasizes student involvement and school betterment.
The Kings trail road improvement in Brazos county north of the Navasota river has been slowed by persistent rains and labor and material shortages. Contractors are at work and expect completion once weather permits, with detours via fields during paving. County Judge H O Ferguson cites 120 rainy days in 320 working days since the contract.
Austin Texas February 12 The proposed bill by Lee J Rountree seeks legal protection for confidences shared by newspaper men with sources. The measure, drafted by the attorney general's department at Rountree's request, mirrors a Colorado draft by Judge B Lindsay. Newsmen say secrets from governors to criminals are safeguarded and should shield reporters from harassment and compelled disclosure.
Bryan plans a year round florist with cut flowers, plants, and stock from local city florists. Two glass houses will be built between 25th and 26th streets near the Catholic church, 30 by 100 feet largest, with Coulter Sigith as business manager and Vorest Jones as traveling solicitor.
President elect Harding weighs recording his inauguration address and transmitting it by radio phone from the naval wireless station in Washington to thousands of wireless amateurs across the country. The station already occasionally broadcasts wireless music to amateurs.
The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce adopted a resolution defending A and M College officers and denying brutal hazing based on an investigation by the Texas Senate. The group commended Lee J. Rountree for legislative work and pledged confidence in college governance.
Tabor high school hosted a double basketball night with Tabor boys losing 12 to 15 and Tabor girls winning 21 to 18 against the Consolidated Schools from College. Referee Rev King Vivian oversaw the games to a large cheering crowd. standout goal throwers were Miss Midge Batton and Miss Alma McCallum. Tabor challenged Calvert high school for a future matchup.
Corpus Christi February 12 The Cotton Growers Sales Agency formed three months ago to finance shipping of low grade cotton to Europe disbanded today Twenty eight thousand bales in the agency s hands were returned to owners Fred Roberts said the agency found it impossible to extend a loan of fifteen dollars per bale for shipment
Austin Texas Feb 12 Commissioner of Insurance and Banking Ed Hall has tendered his resignation as a director of the Federal Reserve Bank at Dallas Judge W F Ramsey announced Hall resigns after careful consideration and will remain Commissioner while expressing desire to support sound banking in the state The board cited incompatibility concerns but praised his service and noted close relations between the two posts will continue to be fostered
Bryan High School girls basketball won 40 to 7 over Franklin on Bryan court Friday afternoon. The Bryan squad, larger and energetic, showed strong plays amid cordial spirits. They plan to travel to Waco for a Friday night game February 18 and feature Nannie Shel Waldrop Ruth Henry Ruth Newland and other listed players.
Tabor community at Tabor high school held a box supper Friday night that raised $63.85 to be applied toward debt for the building’s lighting. A strong turnout and program featuring students and neighbors backed the event as Brazos County’s Labor community prioritizes the school as a center for recreation, discussion, and progress.
The Kurten basketball girls lost 18 to 3 and the junior boys fell 7 to 6 to Steep Hollow on Kurten court. Return games are set for Steep Hollow on February 25, with W J Stone at the Steep Hollow school serving as referee.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Methodist Church elected delegates and alternates to the state society annual meeting to be held in Beaumont on March 8. Delegates are Mrs. J. B. Priddy and Mrs. Wade Cox with alternates Mrs. Crenshaw and Mrs. W. F. Gibbs.
The Banker Farmer Congress for 1921 22 will convene March 3 and 4 at College Station Texas after a Dallas meeting February 12. The program will feature round tables demonstrations and cooperative finance plans between bankers and farmers with Farm Bureau input and Texas A&M participation.
Up-to-date Bryan residents donated about 800 dollars to the starving in China relief effort. Churches collected free will offerings. Presbyterians gave 225 dollars, Methodists 200, First Baptist 125, Free Will Baptist 100, First Christian 50, St. Andrew's Episcopal 10, Pride Light Free Will Baptist 4.10.
Hon C K Walter of Waelder former Texas legislator states cancer is curable after being freed from two malignant growths by Dr O A Johnson Kansas City cancer specialist. He recalls initial failed treatments and urges others to seek Johnsons non surgical regimen detailed in his book Cancer Truths mailed free from Suite 560 1524 Main Street Kansas City Missouri.
Austin bill seeks $30 000 appropriation to erect a state capitol grounds monument honoring Texas soldiers sailors marines and nurses who died in World War I. The measure, reported favorably by the Appropriations Committee, invites private donations and envisions a $250 000 total funded tribute after plans are approved.
Messrs Elsie Francis Joe Locke J H McCullum and Chas E Locke of Tabor depart for Truitt seed farm near Waxahachie to buy long staple cotton seed for next season and will hold a community meeting at Fabor high school to urge farmers to plant it. Found sow about 200 pounds brown color call owner pay damages Peter Dominik Route 3
An early morning tongue application followed by a water swallow at bedtime is claimed to relieve constipation and headache in one night. Roman & Vick Drug Store guarantees the remedy.
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