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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1923
Page
1
Paris January 3 British and French plans diverge as premiers resume talks. French ministers urge adoption of the reparations plan as minimum and threaten to report lack of agreement if not accepted. Bonar Law plans to press for simultaneous discussion of all plans.
The Colored population of Bryan and Brazos County formed a Good Cheer Association on November 26 with 27 members to spread cheer at Christmas and alleviate hunger year round. Officers include Clarence Johnson president and T P Peterson vice president. Committees cover soliciting and distributing. Funds totaled 34 dollars and 60 cents. fruit provided to 24 families at Christmas. groceries to 3 families. one family given wood.
Lynn Sample of Tabor engaged in trade with Bryan merchants today, illustrating ongoing commerce activity in the region.
Mrs N B Tucker and guardian Mrs Tucker hosted the Camp Fire Girls of Navasota for a Bryan outing to the Palace Theatre to see Dust to Dawn. The party then danced at Mrs L H Tuckers home before returning home. Guests included Elizabeth Lord Kilpatrick Hennie Levy Jannette Sangster Doris Daniels Ela May Bell and Bryan visitors Ray Wilson Poy Wilson Henry Buchanan Edgar Fover Monroe Griffin Emory Franklin.
Representative Lee J. Rountree departed for Austin to attend the upcoming legislative session meeting next Tuesday. He was met at Valley Junction by Hon. 9. D. Baker of Milam County and son A. C. Dunn of Falls County.
Shesa of College visited the Eagle office today, meeting staff and discussing campus affairs. The visit highlighted ongoing collaboration between the college and local media on community events.
Brazos Grimes Countymember Lee J Rountree leaves for Austin to serve in the Thirty eighth Legislature. He outlines four priorities education flood control taxation and a constitutional convention while urging a statewide nine to ten month school year and a broad river basin survey funded at two hundred thousand dollars.
The Baptist Workers month meeting is set for next Monday January 7 at 10 o clock in the Baptist tabernacle. Representatives from all Brazos County churches are urged to attend to round out their quarter and plan the first quarter work and possible reorganization. A devotional service will be held and discussions will cover missions and minister care with a special ladies program in the afternoon.
The Woman's Missionary Society of the First Methodist church met to plan the year's work with Mrs. J N Goodwin presiding. Mrs. J B Priddy was elected local work superintendent and the group set monthly meetings and three group sessions.
The Brazos County Commissioners Court approved official bonds for new and returning officials elected last November. Attending were County Judge H O Ferguson and five commissioners plus new officers Oak McKenzie Clyde F Goen D J McDonald and John Sabo. Deputy Sheriff H T Welles filed as constable of precinct 4 and all old officers filed new two year bonds including Roy Hudspeth L E Morehead A S McSwain H C Jones J W Barron Dora Wilson and J W Hamilton.
Mr. R M Nall marked his 69th birthday on Sunday with gifts and well wishes from family and friends. He remains in good health and active, tending to his farm in the eastern part of town.
Anderson, who fled the Texas penitentiary and led forty inmates in a sensational break, surrendered in Los Angeles after six weeks on the lam. He had been sentenced to twenty five years for bank robbery in Texas.
J Dixie Smith took the oath as Harris County District Attorney in Houston on Monday with a victory prayer in the DA’s office. Officials sworn in included Earl Adams Jr first assistant and other assistants and investigators in a ceremony presided by Judge Chester H Bryan.
Hon J Dixie Smith visited Bryan and delivered an eloquent address to the College Masonic Club. He is a prominent Texas Mason and an officer in the Grand Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star with many Brazos county friends.
Mrs Phoebe E Hearne aged 66 years 8 months 7 days wife of the late Joe L Hearne died at her home Tuesday January 2 at 5 am after several months of declining health. She leaves two daughters Mrs John Nunn and Mrs J H Bammel two brothers and a sister. Funeral services will be held at the family home Wednesday at 10 am conducted by Dr John A Held with interment in Bryan city cemetery.
Miss Blaudames De Stieguer will not return to Bryan to resume her role as teacher of expression at the school after spending holidays with her father in San Marcos. Friends describe her as charming and talented, noting two years of holding high esteem and friendship in Bryan.
I K Howell of Fort Worth and Bud Hunt of Georgetown arrived Monday to buy cattle. They traveled to Iola and Bedias in Grimes county and will ship cattle to pastures in South Texas.
County Clerk McSwain reports new marriage licenses in Brazos County since the last Eagle item. Couples include Jim Henry Lightfoot with Addie Sedge Clifton Law with Ruby Buckner Cornelius Watson with Ada Waller Stanley Mason with Maggie Simmons James Neal with Birdie Watson Robert McMurray with Mary Turner Pinckney O Neal with Ida Mae Graham Joe Rafino with Sammie Philopello Robert Williams with Alberta Doig McKinley Haskins with Jessie Petty Will Nicholas with Addie Johnson Albert Peyton with Essie Wilson.
The Dallas Manufacturers Association urges Texas to become a cotton mill hub. It notes Texas produces a large share of cotton and Mohair but has few mills, despite abundant coal and oil. The piece calls for energy and initiative to create cotton and woolen factories locally.
Texas January 2. W. W. Boyd, game fish and oyster commissioner, releases annual report urging a Panhandle game refuge, new freshwater hatcheries, and saltwater breeding zones to reduce seineing and relax restrictions elsewhere. Quail numbers up though mountain sheep and antelope decline. doves scarcer in North Texas, plentiful in South. quail reintroduction from Mexico boosts populations in the El Paso valley. Floods last spring killed deer while many were driven to high ground and shot by local hunters.
Secretary Sam Eberstadt of the Chamber of Commerce reports a pleasant visit to his mother Mrs Anna Eberstadt in Jefferson. He says he enjoyed the old home and Kindred friends and is prepared for 1928 activity.
In Decatur Texas on January 8 a county farm agent is urged to visit a farm three miles north of town where the household asks for help with a flock of laying hens. The letter asks what to do with a demand life time and humorously notes the hens cannot cackle after they lay.
Dallas Texas Jan 3 A fire destroyed the main boys dormitory at Buckner Orphans Home six miles southeast of Dallas. One boy Frank McElroy seven is missing after a night blaze. An assistant matron Bessie Bumpass was slightly cut breaking a glass door to call for help. Property loss estimated at 75000 dollars.
In Austin on January 1 George B. Terrell urged a new Texas Constitution with three aims tax equalization for schools tenant home loans and major overhaul of the judicial article. Senator A E Wood favored a constitutional convention while Senator H L Darwin argued against calling one saying the plan would fail in the Senate and many legislators share his view.
Governor Pat M. Neff addressed a crowded City Auditorium in Navasota, focusing on the Texas Penitentiary System. He outlined prior talks on education, law enforcement, roads, tax, and constitutional needs and announced plans to speak in Liberty on industrial Texas. Notable attendees included Dr. W. B. Bizzell and state penitentiary superintendent J. A. Herring.
The wedding of Arthur Louis Huebner and Effie Meads LeGrand took place at a Houston Lutheran Church ceremony at 2 45 PM on Sunday. The couple, both from Texas, will reside in Bryan with the bride’s parents after a reception at O H Huebner’s home in Houston.
The Extension Service club hosted its annual midwinter party at Carnegie Library last evening with all Extension Service Department members of A. & M. College invited. A full account will appear in the Eagle later.
George Rountop living near the Jones Bridge nine miles west of Bryan was bound over on two bonds after a preliminary hearing before Justice J. W. Hamilton. A December hearing on selling intoxicating liquor resulted in bound over to district court on 500 dollars. The hearing this morning for manufacturing intoxicating liquor set a 300 dollar bond. Rountop posted bail and was released pending district court trial.
W P Carroll of Harvey arrived in town on business today and was seen meeting local officials and merchants during his visit.
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