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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1916
Page
8
State Comptroller H. B. Terrell estimated over 1 million dollars in inheritance taxes are due from 53 Texas estates since 1907. He said the state currently lacks authority to collect the tax and will seek legislative power in the next session.
The annual A and M promotion list names Jack M. Shelton of Brownwood as colonel, the top post. It also reorganizes the cadet corps into two regiments with two battalions each, each led by a lieutenant colonel, L A Kurtz of Seadrift and S R Craig of El Campo. Bryan and Brazos County cadets listed include J Edgeworth Webb, D S Buchanan, Douglas W Howell, Jno M Lawrence Jr, and Chas W Crawford with their ranks and units.
The state department received a second warning that bandits were heading toward Bouquillas in the Texas Big Bend area Ambassador Arredondo reported. He said definite information showed bandits advancing and Carranza forces would cooperate. Francisco Villa reportedly appeared in Jiminez after its capture by bandits per La Democrata.
A ruling from the attorney general allows unincorporated towns and rural districts in Texas to organize health districts and appoint a board of health. County commissioners may appropriate funds for organization and maintenance, reflecting rising public health interest across the state.
St Louis records an outbreak of infantile paralysis with one death reported this morning in the city. Public health officials rushed to track cases and residents were urged to seek medical care and isolate affected individuals.
Washington warns of a six week storm sequence from June 20 to July 31 with a second great storm from July 8 to 18 bringing tornadoes hail and heavy rains east of the Rockies. A gulf hurricane is anticipated with heat waves preceding, cool spells following, and advisory for oats and winter wheat harvests nationwide.
Hensarling Mercantile Co offers wagons and gear at or below cost. Listings include Bois D Arc and Oak felloes with prices for different sizes and gear only. Inquiries directed to Beaumont and Fletcher with sales terms “meet and either do or die.”
The Bryan and Brazos County Commercial Association board met Tuesday with eight members present. They read committee reports, postponed the quarterly membership meeting due to heat and absences, and referred camp yard improvements to the Trade Extension committee. The entertainment committee arranged a free trolley ride and a Dixie movie show for Texas rural letter carriers meeting in College Station.
Austin action from July 12 states that if a voter's chosen candidate name does not appear on the official July primary ballot it may be written in by the voter. The ruling specifies this write-in option applies when no official listing exists for the candidate.
J. W. Blalack and family and L. L. Grant and family of Wylie traveled through the city Tuesday morning en route home from Galveston where they spent several days. They left Collin County last Wednesday and reached Galveston Friday night traveling in Ford cars. They plan a brief stop in Marlin on the return trip.
Mrs. W. C. Lawson, who traveled to Galveston with Professor Lawson, underwent a surgical operation Monday at Sealy Hospital. A telephone report said she stood the operation well and was resting, with her husband remaining in Galveston to care for her for about three weeks.
Dr Bolivar J Lloyd formerly of the county and long time U S Public Health Service is now with the army on the Texas border He writes his father that he has been ordered to El Paso to watch for refugees who may have typhus smallpox or other infections He has been stationed in Seattle for years and was recently elected president of the Anti Tuberculosis League there The Seattle Times praises him as an authority on contagious diseases and notes a past posting in South America.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Beehle and son Willie and C. J. Snyder of Waxahachie spent last night at the Hotel Bryan en route from Galveston home. They traveled by car and have visited Galveston Corpus Christi and other South Texas points. Beehle, a roms enthusiast, says Brazos County road building will prove a good investment.
American backers have offered up to 50 000 for a return passage on the Germany bound liner Deutschland but all bids have been rejected by the company representative Mr North of North German Lloyd lines.
The commissioners court met Monday and approved the good roads work estimate after minor changes. $14,107.69 was transferred from the good roads fund to general contractors Merrs. Hayden and Bates. An engineering survey was ordered for a possible Tabor road reroute through the Alexander community to serve the local school. A Kaw paving bill for Anderson Street was held for investigation as the county pays one third of the completed work.
Chihuahua City July 12 reports say heavy fighting continues between De factoist forces under General Ernesto Garcia and General Villa near Cerro Blanco below Parral. Dispatches reach General Trevino describe the ongoing hostilities and movements in the region.
A lurid warning attributed to a Toledo Slade piece describes carelessness as a universal foe. It claims carelessness outstrips wars in destruction, steals vast sums, harms all social strata, and causes sickness and death across work and daily life.
E R Williams announces the deadline for school transfers by the county superintendent ends this month, not this week as previously stated. Bryan Texas July 8 1916.
Mr O P Hall manager of the Howell Grocery Company and his family returned yesterday after a three week trip visiting Austin San Antonio Waco Dallas Fort Worth and Mineral Wells He reports a most delightful tour and praises the crops in North Texas as splendid.
Mrs. T. O. Bass of Muskogee Oklahoma, visiting her sister Mrs. Hardy Newton, left yesterday afternoon for Houston where she will visit.
Austin July 10 An exhaustive investigation by the Bureau of Markets and Rural Organizations of the U S Department of Agriculture seeks a uniform marketing system for Texas. K B Seeds representative says work already done in the southeast and plans to study Rio Grande Valley and Brownsville areas where the unit marketing system is in force.
Washington July 12 A bill to appropriate two million dollars for relief of destitute Mexicans provides food and clothing under the war department and secretary of states direction. Representative Randall of California introduced the measure in the House today.
Dallas attorney Joe Utay speaks in support of Judge Nelson Phillips running to succeed himself as Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Utay cites strong local backing in Brazos County and recalls Phillips’s Bryan connections and A&M football past.
Redding California July 12 Lassen Peak erupts sending a column of smoke and powdery refuse to about 1000 feet above the mountain forming a flower shaped plume. Workers remodel the Mike estate building on North Main Street with S Co. Woiten to occupy the corner front as a saloon and restaurant rear with a negro barber shop in the front right corner. The Jones feed store has closed and the nearby grocery moved up the block.
Washington July 12 Ambassador Arredondo conferred informally with acting Secretary Polk on details of proposed negotiations to settle the border difficulties between Mexico and the United States. The main topic was selecting a board of commissioners representing both governments for the formal conference. Henry P. Fletcher may head the American commissioners.
High grade gravel for ballast on the Bryan and College Interurban line on Dallas street arrived this morning. Material from a Wellborn pit is described as very high grade, with an estimated 2000 cubic feet to be used. The completed track will rest on a solid foundation.
A Galveston News quote envisions an ideal bond where the patient trusts the doctor to cure him and the doctor trusts the patient to pay, framing a reciprocal confidence in medical care and payment.
The Bryan and Brazos County Commercial Association announces a regular first Monday Trades Day for Bryan starting September. The Trade Extension Committee, including J. L. Edge chairman and Allen Smith, aims to gather all local merchants for special bargains, promote extensive advertising, and set up a farmers trading market for horses cattle hogs and other goods.
The rise in automobile numbers in Brazos County has generated revenue through licensing. Over the past ten days licenses were issued to W. F. Davis in College Overlaw, White & Webb in Bryan, Dr. Henry Lawrence in Bryan, J. L. Kranek in Bryan, Joe Groginski in Bryan, the City of Bryan, J. W. Howell in Bryan, and H. S. Edge in Bryan with various vehicle makes listed.
Social and religious work for troops in Texas border concentration camps has begun under the Texas Young Men’s Christian Association. L. A. Coulter oversees branch installations with tents, phonographs, writing materials, magazines, chess and checkers, plus baseball and volleyball gear. The War Department endorses the effort.
Detroit July 10 President Wilson aroused great enthusiasm by urging business men to carry justice and fair dealing into world ports especially Mexico to establish American principle.
Season tickets on sale daily for the I and G railway cotton carnival special days. See to special days for rates and schedules and ticket agent locations.
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