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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1931
Page
8
A 1930s style guide urges housewives to stock an emergency pantry with ready made desserts and quick meals. It offers tips to extend servings, use canned fruits, pimientos, and ready desserts, plus two fast desserts and a ten minute lace wafer recipe designed for quick company meals.
Nacogdoches December 1. Joe Harris, a noted East Texas fox hunter with a pack of fox hounds, also maintains a dog cemetery. When a hound dies he buries it with care, placing a wooden memorial and a brass thermy above the grave.
Local ad section hints at buyers and sellers, encouraging readers to place entries for goods and services. The notice title evokes a help wanted or want ad vibe, inviting participation in the classifieds across items of interest.
Millican residents hosted relatives over Christmas with numerous trips to nearby towns. Families welcomed originators from Houston, Beaumont, Mart, Smiley, Goose Creek, and Galveston. Highlights include a Millican ceremony as Lee Norwood and Irene Crawford wed in College Station, and localized greetings, illnesses, wagon travels, and a school Christmas program.
Steep Hollow residents Mr and Mrs W H Cargill and their son Wayne of Pasadena are visiting in the home of Mrs Car.
Misses Eunice Mae and Lillian Hill of A and M College visit Edge this week. Bryan residents Wallace Henry and family spend weekends with Edge acquaintances. Numerous relatives attend gatherings at W C Hill, E J Payne, and Payne households. Eve party at Mrs FEJ Payne's December 26 draws local youths and visitors. The Eagle notes cotton rag trade.
Willacy County irrigation becomes a reality as water from the Rio Grande starts flowing into the district’s reservoir system. Hidalgo and Cameron County Water Control District No. 9 began delivering 15,000 acre feet to fill units for floodwater storage and next summer's distribution. The Willacy district, largest in the valley, plans 160,000 acre feet total capacity across 128,000 reserved acres with more than 52 miles of levees already completed.
Katherine Parker, a fourth grade student under Miss Julia Schovassa, is listed on the Travis Elementary honor roll for the past six weeks.
A Bryan dispatch notes social calls and visits from Georgetown Williamson county and Houston with Mr. Yearwood of a Hereford herd, Will Conlee's hamburger shop move, and several Bryan residents hosting guests. Also covered are upcoming weddings, travel plans, and local business openings including Lilly Creamery preps and Wariner Implements setup.
Mineral Wells officials recovered the M. L. Parker automobile stolen from Bryan and brought it back to Mineral Wells today. The returning men checked the county jail inmates Dewey Carnes Royce Carnes and Odea DeHart but could not identify them as the youths who had held up two Mineral Wells men and seized a car around the time the Lawrence machine was left abandoned. The Mineral Wells party returned home Monday evening.
Waco will host three statewide agricultural groups through Tuesday to Thursday. The Soil and Water Conservation conference convenes Tuesday at 10 a.m., the Texas Jersey Cattle Club meets Tuesday to Wednesday, and the Texas Agricultural Workers Association opens Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Hilton Hotel with a reception and multiple speakers addressing conservation and farm industry topics.
The gathering will adjourn following reports from committees and the election of officers. Dr. F. JA. Buechel and the Bureau of Research are referenced in the agenda as part of theEconomic service discussions.
The Justice Department moved in the Supreme Court to fast track hearings on Judge Clark of New Jersey's ruling upholding the Eighteenth Amendment. The government asked reversal, arguing Article 5 leaves no ambiguity and urging early sessions to settle the law. The brief contends the constitution’s ratification cannot be altered by political science principles and notes uncertainty in enforcement of prohibition laws. The Court may hear Jan 5, with possible dates through Feb 24, and the government sought earliest convenient date.
Dee 31 Marshall man Behn Cook just turned fifty five and vows that happiness in marriage comes from give and take. He and wife observed a dinner for the occasion as Mrs Cook and daughter Mrs George Signne of Dallas join in. The couple, long residents of Marshall, also note celebrations and visits from Bonwell Newton family returning to Fort Worth after Christmas in Brazos County near Millican. The Eagle buys clean cotton rage.
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