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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1933
Page
1
A Bryan Booster column urges drivers to beware roaming cattle and mules on county highways. It argues stock should not be pastured on roadways as traffic grows, noting risks of accidents, injuries, and vehicle damage from livestock obstructions.
Miss Bernice Blackwell is confined to her home with a bad attack of asthma. Mr and Mrs Geo L Sampson of Nacogdoches visited Bryan and College friends over New Year weekend and left today for Dallas for a business trip. Mr and Mrs Geo Stephan and daughter Gloria Glyn returned from visits to San Antonio Monterrey and Saltillo Mexico. Mrs Laura Gooch and Mrs James Randolph of Navasota motored to Bryan and visited friends returning home this afternoon.
County officers mostly won re election and filed bonds on Monday. Sheriff J H Reed started his third term, Roy Montgomery began his third as treasurer, and A S McSwain was sworn in for a third term as county judge. Several other officials also took oaths and new or continued terms.
Wallis Price, son of Mrs Lola Price, received a deep leg cut above the ankle while hunting with friends near Wellborn on Thursday. The wound bled severely. five stitches were required and tetanus serum given. He was taken to a local hospital and is now at his grandmother Mrs A Straub’s home. He hopes to return to school Monday on crutches.
Fire crews respond to a Saturday night incident at 31st street and old Parker avenue where a defective flue caused a fire that damaged the roof of a structure. No injuries reported.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation funds assisted 129 people in November and December totaling 1377.95 with expenditures on labor and relief. Overhead included a Longview trip, bonds, bookkeeper costs, and office supplies. Future aid would follow the same pattern if a January–March grant of about 27000 is approved.
Perry Payne was elected representative from Stephen F. Austin High School Future Farmers of America to the district meeting in Huntsville on Saturday. The group met at the high school Monday night to discuss plans for a father and son barbecue and reviewed members projects from the past year.
Mrs J L Brock president of the Fourth District of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs travels to Austin to join the Board of Directors meeting at the federation headquarters. She will also visit her niece Mrs Gus Hubbard Myers during the trip.
In Kurten the meat canning display took place at the Gilpin home with 12 attendees. An animal weighing 300 pounds live produced 76 cans valued at 20.85 dollars, an increase of 10.90 dollars after meat and canning expenses.
A Sunday School teachers' study class led by Rev. L J Blackwelder will meet Friday evening at 7 30 at the Free Will Baptist church. He says the sessions will continue each Friday evening. Teachers and anyone interested are invited to attend.
Paul Stokes, renowned statistician and economist from Indianapolis affiliated with the National Retail Hardware Association, will speak at the Texas Hardware and Implement Association convention in Dallas January 17 18 and 19. He analyzes thousands of hardware and implement trade figures and will discuss current economic conditions and merchandise price trends affecting Texas merchants.
The E and E Yeager Hardware Company announces a receivership sale of the Cole Hardware stock from the receivers. The sale starts Saturday January 7 and runs through January 21 at the old Cole Hardware building. A full line of hardware, everything in the stock, will be offered.
Mrs. Lee J. Rountree, chairman of the correction division, traveled to Austin to join the Board of Directors meeting at the Permanent Headquarters building. Accompanying her were Miss Josephine Crute, Miss Miriam Crute, and Herman Harlan for a historic session to be archived.
Mrs. W. E. Neeley, county chair for Junior Red Cross in Brazos County, earns commendation for enrolling about 500 pupils across eleven schools for 1952-33. Enrolled schools receive magazines, calendars, posters, and cards to boost program participation.
Mrs Minnie Fisher Cunningham editor of the Extension Service will meet with the presidents and reporters of both the girls and women's clubs of Brazos and Grimes counties in Bryan on Saturday January 7 to instruct them in how to report club activities to newspapers. Miss Blanche Brown Brazos county home demonstration agent and Miss Maudie Holt Grimes county agent organized the session and will announce the meeting time later.
In Shelby Ohio James Miller his wife and five children died when a kerosene lamp exploded while they lit a fire. The flames engulfed three beds where the family slept. Miller told his father in law the blaze started from the exploding kerosene. In Midland Walter Hood 40 and his three children and his brother Jack's child died in Barstow Ward County when gasoline on a wood fire exploded. Mrs Hood and Mrs Jack Hood were badly burned and hospitalized.
Carl Orr son of Mr and Mrs J O Orr of Edge suffered a severe foot injury when an axe struck the top of his right foot and cut a tendon and bone. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment and is reported as doing as well as could be expected.
An unidentified man about 60 years old was killed by an inbound train as he walked along the tracks in Dallas on Monday. Officials did not release his name pending notification of relatives.
Miss Tabitha Milner, daughter of former A and M College president Col. R. T. Milner, died Saturday night at the family home in Henderson. Funeral services were held at 3 p.m. today, interment in Henderson. Surviving are her mother Mrs. R. T. Milner and brother R. T. Milner Jr. She was active in Red Cross and civic work and contributed historical pieces to the Dallas News.
Gainesville January 3 The Gainesville ginner Charles J Johnson could not reach his Era community farm due to four inches of rain. He had 82 turkeys offered at six cents a pound but bought a replacement turkey for ten cents a pound for Christmas dinner.
Funeral services for Ross Scardino, 76, will be held Tuesday at ten oclock at St Anthony s Catholic church Bryan with Rev B Brain officiating. He died Monday afternoon after a short illness. He is survived by his widow a son Peter Scardino and two daughters Mrs Jasper Bonner and Mrs Joe Ricker all of Burleson county. The family long resided at the old Scardino home at Pitts bridge across the Brazos river. Interment followed at Mount Calvary cemetery.
The Brazos Red Cross reports flour distribution to the needy poor from April to December 1932. Two shipments of 23 046 pounds each totaling 46 080 pounds aided 474 families in Bryan and county, estimated at five persons per family, totaling 2 370 people helped. The effort is carried out by the local Red Cross chapter with Good Cheer of Bryan.
All Baptist churches of Bryan and College Station were represented at the Creath Brazos Baptist Training Service meeting in Bedias Sunday at 2 30 pm. The next session will be at First Baptist College Station on the first Sunday in April.
Seth Holmes, a Negro, is lodged in the county jail charged with burglarizing the store of Jim Darwin and stealing tobacco and other merchandise. A hearing before Justice J. T. McGee will occur within days. Holmes already has a five year suspended sentence from the October 1930 term after a jury convicted him of transporting liquor.
By Blanche Brown Rural women in Brazos County lead food preservation efforts helped by extension work. Bryan merchants sold 101000 tin cans, 41 pressure cookers, 28 sealers, 1692 glass jars as part of a statewide rise. Twenty one thousand three hundred six quarts canned by 90 home demonstration club women and girls valued at 4857.34, plus 3739 quarts by 29 other families.
The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce will host its annual banquet at Texas A and M College Sbisa Hall with Bishop Clinton S. Quin of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas as principal speaker. Houston choir director Walter B. Jenkins will lead the musical program.
The Gryan city fire department sees a close attendance prize contest between Bill Blazek of Company 1 and Frank Cash of Company 2. They are tied with Blazek already earning a medal and potential bar, while Cash would receive a medal if he wins or ties for first. A full report on fires will follow after January 10.
Mrs. G B Wallace received word from her brother Arch Smith that the Clay farm in Brazos county burned Friday night destroying the house and all its contents. The family was not injured but left with nothing.
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