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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1930
Page
1
Local Bryan merchants outline a 1930 program focused on agricultural development in Brazos county. They stress dairy expansion, a strong regional market for farm products, better sidewalks and an airport, plus the 1929 good roads success as a base for employment and new money in trade.
Miss Etta Peters returns to Bryan after a joyful holiday visit with her mother and relatives in New Baden. Richard Grant, medical student at Texas State University in Galveston, leaves Thursday for the city after a Christmas visit with his Bryan parents. Tyler Haswell drives to Houston to join Mrs Haswell and their daughter Mrs Ara Haswell Giraud for a day with friends, planning to return to Bryan by auto.
Fort Worth recorded two fatalities on New Year’s Day. Norman Beach, 56, died at the wheel from acute indigestion while Willie Perry, a Black man, was shot by an unknown assailant. In San Antonio, M. A. Snell, 30, died and another was injured after poison is believed to have been ingested.
ENNIS Jan 1 Thomas Stutts 27 of Dallas was killed instantly when his car rolled over near Ennis and pinned him beneath it.
Fast Texas Fair tonight preceded by general rains. Colder tonight. West Texas Fair tonight and Thursday. Colder tonight.
Paisley authorities ordered a mass funeral for 72 youth victims of a theatre fire. The city council, noting many families are poor, planned interment in a single grave to ease the burden on relatives.
Funeral services for Mrs Mary Reed Mitchell will be held Thursday at 8 from the Boyett home in College Station. Dr Thomas Gordon Watts and Rev R L Brown will officiate. Interment in Bryan city cemetery. Active pallbearers include Luke Patronella Columbus Seale Guy Boyett Griff Cloud and others. Honorary pallbearers listed.
An explosion at the Pillsbury Flour Mills elevator in Enid Oklahoma killed Robby Lee Mizar a sweeper. Several thousand dollars in damage was reported as the blast was likely caused by dust.
Rev. and Mrs. R. L. Brown mark ten years guiding the Baptist program at A. & M. College. Student groups and Cottonwood and College churches presented gifts including a silver service and an electric waffle set. A pounding party at the parsonage and a $75 gift from the College congregation accompanied a $50 monthly salary raise from local church members.
The city and private interests in Bryan combined to push a record year for construction in 1920 with total new building value around 539 100 dollars and overall year total near 1 000 000 including Texas A and M College projects. The city spent about 190 000 on a new wing for Bowie school Travis elementary and a municipal building while the First State Bank and Trust Company erected a 125 000 dollar bank home. Other notable projects include Johnson and Rohde building by James Sullivan Hy Schovassa business quarters and Woolworth remodel by Marshall Dansby. The Palace theater and many new homes and cottages added to the skyline led by the George A Adams home.
A dynamite bomb in a Christmas package exploded in the kitchen of the Hall home in Seathleasant Maryland. Mrs Nora Hall was killed and seven other family members were injured. Police believe the bomb was concealed inside the package.
Cabinet leaders Secretary Mellon Finance Commerce and Agriculture forecast continued progress and prosperity for 1930. They praised the sound finances and intimate ties between the government and business, industry, and farming to help the country meet future problems.
Brady January 1 Good feed crops boosted McCulloch County prosperity last year says B F Gray vice president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank who was named banker chairman to work with the state extension service. The state bank examiner called McCulloch County the best in his district during a tour of inspection.
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Marwill hosted a New Year’s Eve gathering with Mrs. Rosa Stubenraugh. Guests included Lang Spell Hogue L. Ke Warren Jacob Fauch Katie Daly Tom Daly and H. B. McDowell. Three tables of bridge and a watch party followed by refreshments and dancing marked the night.
Lumberton North Carolina January 1 Deputy Sheriff Hoke Smith who yesterday raided a distillery capturing 5000 gallons of beer and several hundred gallons of whiskey is in a hospital believed fatally wounded from bullets fired by one of four men who shot him while the other three held him.
Plans are considered today for forming the West Texas Athletic Conference with preliminary steps taken yesterday by Texas Tech Simmons University Howard Payne College Abilene Christian El Paso School of Mines and West Texas Teachers College indicating a committee to organize the new league.
A relative was jailed after A. J. Durham was fatally shot at his farm near Lamesa yesterday. Neighbors heard shots, found the house, and held the relative until police arrived. Durham and the suspect were reportedly alone in the home.
The Travis elementary school building in Bryan was officially dedicated with a bond-funded $90,000 facility aimed at educating local youth. Speakers from business, civic groups, and education praised the project as modern and suitable for Bryan’s size, with twelve classrooms, a kindergarten, cafeteria, gym, library, and teacher facilities.
Waco January 1. A. Welker Kanady and his wife were charged with robbery with firearms and kidnapping as an accomplice. Dr C G Swift Jr and Lawrence Teague said they were seized Saturday night and transported across north Texas in a terror ride. Kanady reportedly told Fort Worth police his motive was robbery.
BIG SPRING January 1 T. J. Mc Kinney Howard county farmer has twenty nine cotton crops and twenty seven feeding crops over twenty nine years. He diversifies with 600 white Leghorn hens and three Jersey cows. He raises three to six hogs yearly for meat and lard. He owns 640 acres valued at 40000 dollars bought from the state twenty nine years ago for one dollar per acre.
Riley 12 confessed slayer of his parents and was returned to Ellis County Jail after a brief escape from a wall breach at the Ellis jail. Accomplice J W Estep 25, held on theft, was captured after breaking with Riley. The boy is charged with killing his father and mother and wounding his brother on a farm near Italy.
Mrs J E Wright 38 was jailed and charged with murdering her husband shot fatally at their home near Houston. She contends he died by his own action.
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