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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1933
Page
1
The Bryan Booster urges rural women and girls to foster native shrubs and ornamental trees in home yards. Using native plants improves beauty and helps prevent extinction from careless gathering and land clearing.
Miss Evelyn Goodwin of Nacogdoches returns home after a brief visit in Bryan and with her brother at A M College. Rev Charley Bullock and Mrs Bullock attended revival services led by Rev W W Rivers. W J Lawless of Kurten urges enforcement of stock law after cattle and horses run at large. Miss Ozella McElroy of Hearne visits Mr and Mrs Elvin Todd. Mrs George E Adams improves enough to be out.
John Brooks Stevenson died at his Oak Grove Avenue home Sunday night from wounds after a shotgun he was repairing discharged. Funeral services were held Monday at his residence under Brazos Union Lodge No. 129 A F and A M with Dr L B Elrod and Rt Rev J B Gleissner officiating. Grave services were by the Masonic Brotherhood at Bryan City Cemetery. He was born March 9 1867 in Westminster Maryland and was 65 years old. He came to Texas in 1882 as a machinist.
The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce plans a banquet at 7 15 pm on Thursday Jan 19 in Sbisa Hall Texas A and M College with Bishop Clinton S Quin of Houston as chief speaker. Walter R Jenkins will sing and lead mass singing. Harry Estill to perform.
Brazos County Federation of Clubs will hold a Thursday afternoon business meeting at the Woman's Club building. Elections for the coming year will be conducted during the session. No luncheon will be served this month.
Paul Phillips 39 of Dallas died en route to Bryan hospital after a car struck a concrete culvert rail on Highway No 6 near Wellborn. E R Peters of Waco suffered back and neck injuries and remained hospitalized with no broken bones. Both men had been employed at Orange and were en route home when poor visibility caused the accident. Phillips’ body was sent to Dallas on Sunday.
Harry Washington charged with assault with intent to murder in the Gus Donatella shooting was held to the grand jury by Justice J T Mc Gee with bond at 800 still unsettled. Seth Holmes also held to the grand jury on a burglary tied to the Jim Darwin store break in. Holmes previously received a five year suspended sentence for liquor transport.
City officials began employing men Monday using January relief funds from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. More than 400 heads of families are on file with County Judge A S McSwain and City Manager R G Williams. Sixty four hundred dollars have been approved for January and February relief work in the city and county. The majority funds will provide work for unemployed men, with a few dependent widows receiving aid.
SAN BENITO Jan 10 By winning a suit for a client who had left the country J O Prentiss non flying attorney now owns two airplanes. The planes were involved in a dispute between two aviators. The defendant left the region and gave a bill of sale to the attorney, who received possession after the verdict.
Joe C. Lloyd mourns the death of his brother Jim Lloyd a former Brazos county citizen who died in Floydada Thursday morning at age 70 He was born near Kurten and lived in Brazos county until 1912 then moved to Big Spring Floydada and farmed He had been ill nearly a year Surviving are his wife Mary Lloyd three brothers Doe and John of Bryan and Dave of La Junta Colo a sister Mrs W W Hammons of Abilene and nine children four daughters and five sons.
Mrs Minnie Fisher Cunningham associate editor of the Texas Extension Service spoke to presidents and reporters from Brazos county clubs in the courthouse grand jury room at 10 Saturday. Miss Blanche Brown organized the meeting to teach best methods for preparing reports and publicity for newspapers.
Fire gutted an office and storeroom on the first floor of Texas A and M College civil engineering building in College Station. Damage to the building, furniture, drafting equipment, and laboratory records estimated at 3000 to 6000 dollars. Origin not determined. fire reported about 3 30 this morning.
The Texas Hardware and Implement Association holds its annual convention with a style show in hardware and other new products. The Crystal Ballroom Baker Hotel hosts January 17 18 and 19 with manufacturers displaying new ideas and trends for merchants to evaluate and purchase. This year the big show is in Dallas and aims to bring the latest goods and prices to retailers.
Searcy, a well known Bryan and Brazos county figure, is under arrest in Abilene after an indictment for theft of more than 50 dollars. He faces McLennan county charges for stealing six watches from a Waco jeweler, three recovered on his person. Authorities plan to bring him to Waco after Abilene proceedings.
Extension Service expert Miss Inez Derryberry says shrubs root easily and offer inexpensive yard decoration. Fall is best for cuttings, spring workable. club demonstrators prepare 20 feet of sub irrigation tile for beds and plan to share cuttings during home demonstrations.
John Burger was hit in the forehead by a bullet fired at a dancing party. Police say Jim Welsh, Burger’s sister’s husband, fired the shot and was jailed. Burger, treated for a scalp wound, returned home. County Attorney Oak McKenzie filed charges of assault with intent to commit murder.
A complete plan by landscape artist F. W. Hensel for Smetana school grounds has been approved by Principal B. L. Henderson and county agent Miss Blanche Brown. Work will be done by students and staff with native materials, including courts and diamonds, native trees, and a stone gateway. Construction starts soon with no external funding.
The annual banquet hosted by county agent C. L. Beason and demonstration agent Miss honors Brazos county agricultural heads. Held Monday at 12:15 p m at the Beason home, the event served as a social gathering without a fixed program. Guests included Dr D H Reid A D Jackson Fred Hale J Webb Howes Edgar Jones Travis Bryan H H Williamson George W Johnson W R McCullough M T Payne Mrs Lee J Rountree Miss Sadie Hatfield J E Stanford Judge A S McSwain Commissioners Guy Boyett Will Conrad Fred Wehrman and R Pat Patterson and Dr W H Andrew.
From the Dallas News files dated January 9 1883 the record notes 120 paying students and eighty state enrolled at A. and M. during the previous year.
Mrs. Mary Gentry Griffin wife of W W Griffin died Tuesday January 3 at 5 45 pm after double pneumonia and influenza She had been an invalid for over twenty years and bedridden four years after a hip fracture Surviving are her husband four sons two daughters and a host of relatives Funeral was held at 3 30 pm from the W W Griffin home with Dr W H Andrew and Dr Thomas Gordon Watts officiating Interment in Bryan city cemetery Flowers covered the grave Active pallbearers listed with numerous honorary names.
Claude Melver of Madisonville, inspector for the Agricultural Credit Corporation, spoke in Bryan about loans granted to large Brazos Valley cotton growers. He noted several applications pending and said he operates from the Houston office. E. H. Astin serves as a director of the Houston branch.
Through Ben S Smith manager of the Houston branch of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation a loan committee is named for local crop production loans. Members include G Sam Parker Travis B Bryan N Deheoe and J N from First State Bank. Loans require crop security plus mortgage. All loans receive equal consideration. adequate security is primary.
Bryan merchants donate three molds for sub-irrigation tile to Brazos county clubs and individuals and a pair of scales for Bryan Farmers Market. Molds were by Parker Lumber Company and Lock McNeely. pipes by Parker Astin Hardware. Parker Astin also supplied scales.
J L Adams age 65 and Taylor Moore age 12 both of Cameron were injured Saturday when Adams car rear end collided with a cotton truck on the Bryan Hearne highway. Adams suffered a broken nose and Moore a gash under an eye. Patrolmen reported a wheel off the pavement caused the stuck truck and the crash was ruled unavoidable due to weather.
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