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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1934
Page
5
Marguerite Le Hand, longtime confidential secretary to F D Roosevelt, accompanies the president’s inner circle during decades of service. Also featured are Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Steel and banker Gates White McGarrah, plus George Arliss the actor and track star Glenn Cunningham, highlighting career rises, honors, and public roles.
The dean of the White House staff travels with the president on his vacation cruise. His voice is described as directing and suggesting much like a gang boss, though via bellowed expletives.
COLLEGE STATION July 10 Texas A and M horticulturist J F Rosborough urges farmers to plow up and prepare garden plots now to catch rains for an early fall garden. He notes onion sets, Swiss chard, Irish potatoes, pinto beans and radishes as dependable early crops and advises destroying dried tomato vines to prevent disease.
Del Rio reports A. M. Gildea, friend of Billy the Kid, recounts the early killing of a blacksmith named Windy in a Fremont era scuffle. Gildea, a Tombstone resident, says Billy fled to Fort Grant after the shooting and later sent a horse to a gambler. He also notes Gildea’s frontier experiences and Mexican service under Madero.
County Agent C. L. Benson called all county committeemen to his office for a conference to begin measurements of land in cotton acreage reduction contracts. The same committeemen who took the contracts will perform the land measurements with help as needed. Producers must certify compliance with contract regulations, indicate rented acres as an average area planted to cotton, and confirm no sale crops are grown on rented land.
County meeting covers tenant share claims under contracts, managing share tenants, and dispute settlement methods. County Agent Benson urges settlements rather than Washington letters. Houston E. Smith outlines Bankhead act allotment basics as targets and deadlines approach. Attendees include Seale, Mooring, Sims, Vargas, Corgey, Locke, Armstrong, Payne, and others.
Gordon Watts presided at First Presbyterian Church funeral service for the late Vick family patriarch. Mrs. J. Webb Howell sang Abide With Me as flowers and friends honored his memory. Interment followed at the Bryan cemetery beside his life partner. Surviving are three sons and several grandchildren with several siblings and half siblings listed among mourners. Out of town relatives from Houston Dallas and San Antonio attended.
Eagle Printing announces sale of yellow second sheets for typewriters. The notice lists available sizes and prices with quantities limited. Customer orders recommended by mail or in person at Eagle Printing Company.
Members of Earl Graham Post No. 159 met Friday night to discuss the 4th of July celebration. They called it the most successful event from every point of view and credited the tent addition for extra shade and enjoyment. The next meeting will include officer elections and plans for the October county fair.
Funeral services were held in Arkansas City Kansas for Raymond Harris youngest brother of Mrs Robert L Jackson of College Station. Harris was accidentally killed by a train while on duty in Oklahoma City Oklahoma Thursday. He was the first of ten in his family to die. His mother Mrs D B Harris had just returned to Arkansas City from a visit with her daughter Mrs Jackson. Rev Jackson traveled after the message to attend the service.
Chicago dispatch reports approximately 1.64 billion dollars added to farm market values for cattle hogs and sheep in six months ending mid 1934 The cattle value rose by 1 394 billion hogs by 174 million and sheep by 72 million The gains exclude about 107 million in hog processing taxes noted by the Institute of American Meat Packers The upturn cited stronger consumer demand and lower marketings.
Johnnie Hampton and Annie B. Chandle have been issued a license to wed by County Clerk Clyde Goen. The couple plans to marry in the near future following the formal approval recorded by the county clerk.
Local notes detail social visits and travel among Bryan residents and nearby towns. Many names and towns appear including Kerrville Houston Corpus Christi Hattiesburg Shreveport Dallas Mexico City and Fort Worth with motions to East Texas State Teachers College Commerce and various family ties and illnesses noted.
Advertisement notes a 50¢ size medicine that relieves and prevents periodic pain and related disorders. It claims no narcotics and that it is a modern treatment addressing the cause. Persistent use promises permanent relief and it is sold by all druggists.
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