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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
6
London reports a general strike in Budapest halting transport as Austria-Hungary faced growing demonstrations and calls for immediate peace. Dispatches note conflicting signals from Brest-Litovsk talks and a potential peace move with Ukrainian groups amid mounting upheaval.
Austin Jan 21 The central investigating committee debated proposals to place Texas agricultural affairs in the extension department of A and M college. Hopkins urged combining agricultural and marketing in the extension department while West Brook offered a different amendment. The discussion touched on federal control, state administration, and potential changes in current allocations and duties.
Judge John I. Guion of Ballinger, head of the A and M college board, has called a January 28 meeting at College Station at 9 o clock to consider bids for a Prairie View agricultural building and new facilities at Grubbs Vocational School Arlington and the Junior A and M college Stephenville. The projects total about 300000 dollars. Other board business will be transacted. Board members include J J Hart San Antonio vice president E H Astin Bryan A B Davidson Cuero J R Rubens Fayetteville W A Miller Amarillo F M Law Houston H A Breihan Bartlett and John T Dickson Paris.
Rt Rev Bishop N A Gallagher of Galveston died this morning after days of illness. He was 72, served 50 years as a priest and 37 years as bishop of Galveston. Funeral from St Marys Cathedral in Galveston Thursday at 10. Catholics mourn the long serving church leader.
R E Jones and Miss Buna Rei singer Francisco Garza and Rosa Alvarez J Aubrey Tobias and Arliel Law Henry Seale and Miss Florence are among the couples referenced in this fragmentary marriage notice noting names and spouses.
A Texas note from January 21 outlines guidelines for classifying married men under the selective service law. Major John C. Townes Jr. urges boards to avoid automatic class 1 placements and to require clearProof of adequate family support, stressing that pay alone is not always sufficient. He also clarifies rules for recent marriages and the burden of proof on registrants.
Co. W. Ferguson of Houston brought to the A and M college experiment station one hundred pounds of seed cotton with exceptionally good staple. He had it ginned on a small station gin to preserve seed purity for breeding. The article urges Brazos county farmers to use the station to select and improve planting seed for profit as demand and premiums rise for better staple.
Chicago packing house workers urged government control of the meat industry at a hearing before the president's mediation commission. They argued national necessity extending beyond Chicago to all packing plants, with attorney Frank P. Walsh urging action now to prevent calamity.
Local residents and visitors stop in Bryan and surrounding areas with many names and places noted from Hamilton to Houston. Mrs Lyall returns from Ontario. others travel from Pitts Bridge to Brazos bottom,Danville to Marlin and beyond for family visits and business. A prayer meeting and church notices close the column.
An advertisement promotes a cash sale of all kinds of feed from Ring 42 and G D Tucker. The offer emphasizes low prices for immediate payment.
The Central Texas Baptist association women from Brazos and Robertson counties hold the first 1925 meeting of the auxiliary at First Baptist Church Bryan. Mrs. George A. Adams presides. Dallas's Mrs. A F Beddoe and Waco's Mrs. H W Byars attend as speakers. Luncheon downtown and overnight hosting arranged. full program lists devotions, talks, committee appointments, and round tables with leaders from Calvert Hearne Franklin Bremond and other towns.
The death notice for Mrs Mendola names her Bryan daughter as Mrs W C Boyett rather than Mrs J C Boyett. A second daughter Mrs Leonora Wallace of Kansas City could not attend the funeral. Pallbearers included R M Nall.
Mrs Mary Grace wife of Robert Grace died Tuesday at 6 am after illness of several days with pneumonia. She was 19, formerly Miss May Burroughs, daughter of George and May Burroughs, raised in Steep Hollow. She was a Methodist and lived a devout Christian life. Survived by husband and parents. Funeral held Wednesday at 10 am from the home with burial in City cemetery.
Prof H E Hayden Jr associate professor of biology resigns after seven and a half years to accept a biology post at the University of New York. He is regarded as scholarly by the faculty and was a Princeton student under President Wilson and studied at the University of Virginia. His father was Rev H E Hayden of Wilkes Barre Pa a genealogist historian and Confederate Army private.
Wanted wood choppers. Will pay $1.00 per cord for post oak pole timber. Within a half mile Wellborn area. Apply L. M. Gandy Wellborn. D-218-W-lpd.
The Daily Eagle reports Bryan oil mill manager J Webb Howell says the fuel administrator’s order to shut down plants to conserve coal does not affect the oil mill because it is food producing and uses lignite coal costing 1.60 a ton, which is not part of the national coal reserves. Ice factory manager George Stephan says his plant is likewise unaffected, and will close for the rest of winter with spring reopening reducing coal demand. The article notes the government’s strong push to conserve coal for the war effort and hints at further sweeping orders.
Forecasts warn of continental disturbances from January 25 to 29 and multiple waves bringing warm and cold periods. Severe storms expected east of the Great Lakes and on the Pacific slope with notable precipitation. War and market manipulation notes warn farmers to sell while prices are high. Washington reports a charter agreement for Dutch steamers to avoid war zones and aid Switzerland.
Lieutenant A F W McManus United States Army retired arrived to serve as assistant instructor in military science and tactics at A and M college. He has served in Cuba and the Philippines and at Peacock Military Academy in San Antonio, his longtime home since retirement.
Born January 16 1918 to Mr and Mrs Manley Keith Kurten a boy. Born January 15 1918 to Mr and Mrs Clint Manning a boy Macey.
The ad states catarrhal deafness stems from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous lining and cannot be cured by local applications. It promises a constitutional remedy with Hall's Catarrh Medicine acting through the blood and offers a $100 reward for any untreatable case, with circulares free from Cheney & Co Tolando, Ohio.
The Waco price interpreting committee met at the chamber of commerce for the fourth time to set wholesale and retail prices on staples. Items include potatoes 2.25 to 2.35 per 100 pounds wholesale and 3½ to 4 cents per pound retail, flour 95 percent wholesale 2.75, sugar 100 pounds wholesale 8.20, bacon and hams with various wholesale and retail rates, lard compound, corn meal, head rice, rice flour, and two corn varieties with specified per can prices.
William Ludwig, a retired Port Arthur merchant, says six years of indigestion and kidney trouble left him weak and reliant on a walking stick. He credits Taniac with restoring his health, gaining fifteen pounds, normalizing his kidneys, and eliminating his cough. He notes he can eat freely and sleep well and no longer needs the walking stick. The product is sold in Bryan, Wellborn, Edge, Allenfarm, and Tabor locations.
President Wilson told Senate Democrats he will use all his influence to beat the bill creating a war council. The measure was introduced today and the president vowed to battle it to a finish at the capitol.
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