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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1921
Page
3
The Animal Husbandry department in College Station Texas completed finishing work and moved to permanent quarters in its new building erected in 1916. The amphitheater style arena 164 by 64 feet hosts stock judging and events while offices and classrooms are arranged around the arena including storage rooms and future reading and locker rooms.
Dr J A Held led a revival at the First Baptist church last night as ten converts joined the church by baptism and two arrived by letter from Wheelock. Mexican missionary Rev William Ibarra, active in Brazos county, announced plans to organize a Mexican Baptist church locally.
Farmers in Tabor Texas accelerate preparations for the 1921 crop. A domestic science class for girls in grades 9 through 11 is organized by Mrs. Ammons at Tabor High. Mid term exams run three days. A planned basketball game with College Consolidated High School was called off when the visitors failed to appear. The Tabor girls team played Edge girls on Edge court. A community meeting to organize a B A I BLU is invited for Saturday night. Mrs. Joe Sample and Miss Mary Locke visited the high school. Mrs. Ernest Huggins of Bryan visits her parents. Prof. J L Cobb of Cottonwood School is ill. For sale: 15 smooth mare mules, 8-5 years old, 14½-16½ hands. six good old mules. one Jersey milk cow. one registered Duroc Jersey boar. Prices cheap for cash.
An ad-promotional note hawks Blue Star Eczema Remedy for French itch eczema ringworm tetter and cracked hands. Claims show it sold at Roman & Vick Drug with a product described as oreo.
Friday's Daily lists numerous residents and visitors in Bryan including J T Blintcliff of Austin arriving to study at A and M, Mrs B A Sims returning from New Orleans, and many others from Calvert Houston Rock Prairie and beyond visiting, working, or moving to Bryan for the term.
A Qing text describes 666 cold remedy sold by Koman and Vick Drug Store. One early morning dose on the tongue with water at bedtime is claimed to relieve a cold and ease constipation and headache in one night under a guarantee.
The Brazos County Red Cross board met in the First National Bank directors room to elect W H Cole to fill the unexpired term as chapter chairman after E H Astin resigned. Dr L O Wilkerson left as First Aid chair. Dr R A Sims chosen to fill that post.
County Clerk McSwain issued marriage licenses last week to couples including David Preciado with Cleofdas Farres, Jerry Nelson with Peggy Petty, Colbert Mayes with Elmira Williams, Robert Thornton with Velma Johnson, Sam Eldridge with Ella Porter, Hallrie Rosales with Edvarges Medina, James Hill with Adeline Jones, and Frank Bukowski with Annie L Power.
Brazos County tax collector Roy Hudspeth warns poll tax payments must average over 277 daily through January 31 to match 1919 totals as only 1223 voters had paid by Monday night. He urges prompt payments to avoid last minute lines seen last year and notes local cotton market stability.
C A Whittle argues farmers should pursue economy and efficiency to steady profits. Emphasizing higher yields per acre via fertilizers, good seed, soil prep, and thorough cultivation, he cautions against reducing acre output. He urges using crop-fed yields to offset high land and equipment costs.
Texas experiment station chemist G S Fraps reports cottonseed meal as a cheap fertilizer mainly supplying nitrogen. Recommended content includes at least 6.88 percent nitrogen 2.5 percent phosphoric acid and 1.5 percent potash. Mixed with acid phosphate it yields better results on phosphorous deficient soils.
El Paso county remains a regulated cotton zone after the state boll worm commission blocked a move to a non-cotton zone. Gins must sterilize cotton in the zone. A non-cotton status would have banned cotton and harmed local farmers earning over half a million dollars annually. The state would compensate differences for lost cotton income if switching zones.
Former Ohio governor Cox reports a marked improvement in President Wilson since summer. He says Wilson is heavier and more robust in every way after a forty minute White House visit. Cox called the meeting friendly and noted a possible Europe trip next June.
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