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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1925
Page
8
Mr J M Bullock Jr of College Avenue has entered a largemouth bass weighing seven pounds four ounces and measuring 25 inches with a 17.5 inch girth. The fish was caught at Bryan County Club Lake Texas on June 22. The entry is officially notified to the Eagle.
Mount Vernon New York July 23 George S Mason a Baltimore public school teacher remarried to Mrs Mary Wood Mason after a five minute long distance telephone courtship. They had divorced fifteen years earlier and sought a second chance with the same partner. Mrs Mason remarked they were young and foolish at first but older now and hopeful.
Robert Shroyer aged 28 was whipped at the post by Sheriff Albaugh in Frederick Maryland. Ten lashes were laid on with a blacksnake whip in the county jail with three witnesses and a physician present. It was the first whipping of a white man in the state in several years.
A detailed schedule for a poultry short course at Texas A and M College runs July 27 to August 1. Sessions cover baby chick care, incubators, caponizing, breeding stock, feeding, and marketing with multiple instructors and farm locations listed through the week.
Texas attorney general opinion states three quarters of gasoline tax revenue, starting Sept. 1, 1925, goes to the state highway fund and one quarter to the available free school fund. The ruling, responding to S. H. Terrell, cites Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth legislature acts and resolves questions about the projected $9,000,000 two year total.
War Department through the adjutant general issues warrants of non commissioned officers rank in the O R C to Allen Academy graduates. First Sergeants include Murdock M. Baker Naeme La George B Zimpleman Austin Albert E Koehler Dickinson Amos Ball Bryan Hershel Burgess Gilliland Williams D Dunnam Jr Fosteria Edward H Clark Mr Calm Glenn Lewis Thorndale, Sergeants Wilbur Park Jackson ville Harold Pausewang Mar Corporals Randall Briscoe Trinity Singleton Bryan Jr Beau mont Byron Economidy Galveston William Kelly Houston Louis H Kilbourne Oklahoma City Okla Clyde Le Gear Sanger Adam Levy Galveston Claude MacFatridge Roxton John H Modisett Shepherd Edwin Nami Cuero Henry Schuh Port Arthur Warwick Whitley New Waverly.
Weatherford July 23. M B Kouns Jr aged 15 was bitten on the hand by a rattlesnake while pitching wheat bundles around a thresher. After striking another snake he immersed his hand in kerosene until a physician arrived and he was expected to recover.
A June 30 general revenue fund balance of 588 258 is reported by State Comptroller S H Terrell. June expenses totaled 160 068 for state government UT and branches 78 353 A M College and branches 96 008 College of Industrial Arts 148 598 e l e c m o s y n a r y 87 162 judiciary 103 488 rural aid 2 337 miscellaneous 602 548. Deficiency certificates issued in June for sheriff fees 5 991. Available school fund 1 926 238 permanent school fund 900 602.
The record lists several state funds with amounts including highway fund 359 1 755, Confederate pension fund 162 219, textbook fund 244 830, special game funds 104 845, rural sanitation special funds 6 249, social hygiene special funds 1 249, and child hygiene special fund 1 780.
In San Francisco on July 23 a white tombstone without an epitaph was sold to "the lady in the red suit" for her father-in-law at the police department sale for 5.50. Two burly officers helped load the stone as she commented that tombstones now cost about 75 and she considered it cheap.
Cameron reports its first bale of 1925 cotton ginned at the Weems gin by R. O. Harper of Calvert road near Jones Prairie. The 486 pound bale sold for 26 1 2 cents per pound, bringing Mr. Harper $168.84. Ginned at 3 30 p.m. Wednesday, this bale arrives 30 days earlier than last year.
Mrs. Nancy Moore Colglazier of San Antonio visits her parents Mr. and Mrs. John A. Moore. She is welcomed warmly by friends during the reunion.
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