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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1937
Page
3
Hearne prepares for a Democratic city primary to select nominees for mayor five aldermen city secretary city attorney and five Democratic executive committee members. filing deadline is midnight February 22 with chairman J M Dorrell.
Hearne Texas Feb 19 Funeral services were held in Wheelock for W M Pack 84 longtime Wheelock resident and father of W W Pack and Mrs W R Cross of Hearne He is survived by a large family and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
In Hearne February meeting at the high school auditorium, Madge Maxwell led the program with biographies of Edward Elgar and Samuel C. Taylor, a medley of Taylor’s works, early organists, and a social hour with sandwiches cookies and punch. Hostesses Gertrude Thomas Maurine Melton and Betty Lou German served. In the same town a Methodist Missionary Society gathering hosted by Mrs. R F Williams with Mrs F G Blake and Mrs Charles Rhea saw E Y Ely and J C Waltman lead the missionary study and a salad plate served to 31 members.
Hearne Inde p endent School District calls election for April 3 to fill three trustee seats. Incumbents H. V. Martin F. L. Wood and R. E. Cornforth due to leave office. no replacements announced yet.
A roundup of visits and homecomings in Hearne includes Clint Mullins returning home after nine months in Cameron hospital. Cecil T. Rhodes, 63rd district representative, spent the weekend with Hearne friends. Visitors also included J. B. Lauterstein and family, G. Hart of Bryan, H. C. Davis of Austin, Emory Hughes and children of Austin, Clemmie Cummings visiting with Dr. and Mrs. H. W. Cummings, and Brady Cole with Marshall, traveling from Houston to Monterrey and Mexico before returning home.
Program continues with memory, spelling, story telling and three A contest at College Station Friday. Events include junior and senior tennis, ground ball games, declamations, track and volleyball Saturday. Directors listed: Watts, Gage, Matthews, Edge, Powers, Orr, Neeley, Pearson, Kelley, Pollock, Brown, Dowell, Fuller, Grenshaw.
Negro rural teachers in Brazos County met in small groups at the county superintendent’s courthouse office with Pauline Watkins, Jeannes supervisor, to study curriculum improvement and activity units. All 41 teachers joined. Friday, C B Barclay discussed district conditions on WTAW, praising progress in instruction and library facilities and urging higher professional standards and better salaries for top teachers.
Licensed Brazos County beer dealers voted to enforce the state liquor law Strict rules stop beer sales after midnight Saturday and on Sundays They also ban hard liquor on premises and pledge to report violations and aid law enforcement to prevent under 21 sales and bootlegging The tenets were signed by all county dealers and urged public support
Gonzales Texas moves to build a Warm Springs crippled children center at Palmetto State Park near Gonzales. The foundation, endorsed by Rotary clubs and Texas and International Crippled Children societies, aims to fund the project via sea ls and local support while offering warm water pools and convalescent facilities for rehabilitation.
The Texas planning board appealed to farmers and ranchers and others to aid in a statewide conservation program for surface and underground water. The call came from Austin on February 19 as part of broader efforts to preserve water resources.
Mrs Johnnie R Peyton Jr received appointment as postmistress at Hammond. She is the former Miss Ethel Wallin daughter of Mr and Mrs A J Wallin of Steele's Store and a graduate of Stephen F Austin high school.
Charles E. Morgan and Reba V. Hobbs are issued a license along with C. B. Hasker and Gertrude Mc Cowan. Lester Colvin and Catherine Lacey wed as do James Toliver and Ruby Lee Jones. Seldon C. Thompson and William M. Krenek also receive licenses.
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