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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1929
Page
2
Ode ns Nix a Texas farmer was found guilty of poisoning his thirty year old wife. He faced the death penalty but was sentenced to ninety nine years in the state penitentiary. The state alleged an insurance motive and the confession was not introduced. The trial followed intense local tensions and mob threats.
A July contract proposes a milk concentration plant to be operated at Jacksonville in conjunction with Tyler Milk Company. Construction starts immediately with erection of machinery and a glass lined truck to transfer milk from Jackson to Tyler daily. The plant will process and concentrate milk for shipment and conversion to powdered milk, with operation planned by August 15.
From a small town, a 17 minute and 38 second wheat threshing feat is reported. The process included reaping the wheat, threshing, rushing to a mill, and grinding, with Associated Press notes.
Approximately six weeks will be required to install a new power unit at the city light plant. Max Fischer, construction engineer from St. Louis, will oversee the work. The unit adds 60 percent horsepower, lifting total plant output to 2170 horsepower and providing a reserve for emergencies.
Bryan baritone George Griffith studying with New York teacher Frantz Prostkowski won two scholarships at a master class in Kansas City. Impresario reports strong recording progress and predicts a bright future if he continues training.
H P Bord Valley Gin Company manager says the Lower Rio Grande Valley will produce more than 100000 bales of cotton this year after a field tour. Earlier estimates ranged up to 150000 or more, but boll weevil and root rot damage reduce expectations. Last year output was about 90000 bales, with bumper years like 1926 reaching 160000.
Old Sol blazed forth last week and gave Bryan the hottest day of the summer Thursday with the mercury at 99 degrees. The low was 68 on Wednesday. Rainfall was light with trace Monday, .145 inches Friday, and .1 inch Saturday. Temperature figures for the week follow.
Steep Hollow residents Jim and Pearl Handy of Houston visited Rev J W Dundy and family. Della Parker returned from Raywood to see brother Henry Parker and kin. Mr and Mrs R E Jones and daughter Pauline, Mr and Mrs W H Atkinson, and Ruby Foster of Bryan attended church. Mrs T A Hensarling traveled to Stephenville to visit daughter Emmett Moody Theron Hensarling and families. Fannie Holland of Bryan visited son G C Smith Ted Cook and family of Bryan and W B Cook of Houston at J M Cook’s home. Joe Barnett and wife visited Mrs Barnett’s sister Mrs Clifton Upchurch in Bedias.
Major R. J. Dunn director of the A M College band and noted Texas bandmaster leaves tonight for Dallas. He will meet the Dallas fair board and the music committee to plan music for the fair this fall. Dunn is a member of the fair music committee.
Beyam city bonds are regarded as gilt edged investments by bond buyers and once they reach this class they are hard to uncover. City officials have tried to purchase them for the sinking fund and other investment funds. A bond house noted buyers bury them and reveal them at coupon clipping time. Another said it would inquire but held little hope of finding sellers.
Liberty (AP) Bill Smith will hold his 60th birthday feast at his tourist camp on July 378. He expects about 2500 people to attend a barbecue event he has hosted for nine years as a "feast of brotherly love," with a fiddler from 14 miles away to provide music as the crowd eats.
Miss Ralphana Searcy reports from aboard the Carrisbbeam Sea on a month long cruise with university students. The group visits ports along South America and West Indies and plans to reach New Orleans via Guatemala and Cuba this week.
The article discusses biennials suited to English gardens including foxgloves and Canterbury bells requiring different soils lime for Canterbury bells and woodland for foxgloves. It recommends starting now to winter in cold frames and notes mullein Verbascum as a favored stately biennial with tall spikes. Sweet William is also listed as a biennial to renew yearly.
Mrs. L. Stephan died in Dallas at 9 10 this morning after months of illness following the death of her husband about six months ago. Funeral services are planned for Sunday. Survived by two sons George Stephan of Bryan and Charley Stephan of Dallas and a daughter.
The body will be brought to Bryan for interment in the family lot in Bryan cemetery. The funeral will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o'clock from the L. Stephan home.
Four members of the Davis household J T Churchwell Mrs Churchwell Mrs Geo T Davis and Walter Davis will start hydrophobia treatment tomorrow. A Davis calf died after a week of illness with the group having aided in handling it. Dr R F Chappell diagnosed hydrophobia and the head was sent to the laboratory for testing.
The passage argues a county can prosper and buy half its goods from foreign lands only if residents stop spending half their money elsewhere, warning that a town cannot progress far without investing locally.
Houston Neeley of Grimes county was jailed after firing at two brothers in law and fleeing in a car between Bryan and Kurten. He faces four charges including two counts of assault with intent to murder a weapon possession and a drunken driving count. The hearing is set before Justice J. T. McGee on Tuesday July 9.
Five waterspouts formed within twenty minutes off Galveston Island on June 25, observed from the jetties and about a mile offshore. Meteorologist L R Tamnehill described the first near to the east, lasting minutes, with the main column rising hundreds of feet and water churned at the base.
A. G. Stallings of Bryan, serving in the U S Navy, describes a routine of breakfast at 5 15 a m and daily duties aboard the U S S Milwaukee. He plans an eight year reenlistment, pension prospects, and a return to civilian life after a total 16 years.
J D Martin reports Oklahoma University in Norman is building a $1 500 000 program under President William Bennett Bizzell. He attended the National Hardware Association meeting in Oklahoma City as a Texas Hardware Association delegate.
A town where merchants advertise freely attracts many visitors from outside. local shops report increased foot traffic and a broader customer mix from nearby regions.
The antievolution measure resurfaced in the Texas House yesterday then faded again, drawing attention to its contentious fate amid ongoing debates and procedural motions.
186 acres six miles north of Bryan with a home one block from Ursuline Avenue and two lots south of Ursuline Avenue. Contact J. Mi Conway Bryan for details.
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