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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1922
Page
3
Local notices list numerous residents and visitors. Ross Priddy returns from Southwestern Methodist University in Dallas and plans summer study at Southwestern University Georgetown. many neighbors and relatives travel, visit, and attend commencements, with brief notes on health, arrivals, and departures across Bryan, College Station, and nearby towns.
List of Democratic candidates for Congress Sixth District and county offices including sheriff county attorney tax assessor tax collector county clerk treasurer and superintendent, with names such as Luther A. Johnson L E Morehead Clyde F. Goen JIM Darwin Roy Hudspeth Ollie Smith A B McSwain Dora Wilson D J McDonald and others plus precinct four constable and justice of the peace nominees.
Springfield Missouri woman describes severe back weakness nervous fatigue and nightly unrest. She credits Cardui with strengthening her and restoring health after persistent illness. Her husband arranged the remedy and the doctor approved the noticeable improvement. Cardui advertised as available everywhere.
Allen Academy Employs B H Moore athletic director and Charles Hudson coach to develop all sports. Both study under top national directors this summer, Moore at Penn State and Hudson at Illinois, returning ready to apply modern theory and practice for a strong next school year.
Miss Laura Bell Roten is appointed Home Demonstration Agent for Brazos County by the Extension Service at Texas A and M College. The position, effective last Tuesday, results from active local, chamber, and county cooperation and places the agent in the Chamber of Commerce rooms with County Agent C L Benson. Roten, raised in the country, trained at Baylor, Sam Houston Normal, and Peabody College, has taught rural schools and worked with Home Demonstration in several counties, most recently in Wharton.
Mrs R W Howell and her husband traveled to Galveston Sunday where she will receive care at Sealey Hospital under Dr Marvin Graves. Remarkably she stood the trip splendidly with Jennie June remaining in Bryan. Leila Brewer and Glenn Flynn of Houston are Mrs Howell's mother and sister. Mrs S M Waldrop of El Paso, wintering in Bryan, left for home after visiting relatives.
Miss Frances Christian longtime Bry an resident and devout Presbyterian church member died Sunday afternoon June 11 after twenty years of illness. Born in 1846 in Alabama she lived in Mississippi before moving to Texas with sister Mrs M D Graham over fourteen years ago to stay with Major and Mrs L L McInnis. Funeral held Monday at 10 am from the McInnis home with Rev W N Sholl officiating and burial at City Cemetery pallbearers C G Wetter D L Weddington R L Brogden E H Astin F L Cavitt Travis B Bryan.
Millican residents report on the Boys and Girls Agricultural Club meeting with County Agent Benson and Miss Roten, new lights for the club, a Millican baseball team with Leo Poole as manager and Carroll Jameson as captain, and an upcoming game against Wellborn. Also noted are visits by A P Deering family, Arthur Edwards and family, a sermon by Rev A C McCarty, a church ice cream social and pie supper to benefit the baseball team, and anticipated county candidate gatherings.
Mrs Maggie W Barry, chair of home economies for the General Federation of Women's Clubs, travels to Bozeman Montana for the State Federation meeting and then to Chautauqua New York for the General Federation biennial June 19 to 30. She will report on home economics work and address Chautauqua women's clubs. She is tied to the extension service at A and M College.
A vintage land sale notice offering black loam or sandy soils with various rainfall, land forms, and crop potential. Promises easy terms for real farmers, with raw lands available without cash payments to improvers and extended financing. Includes contact for H. M. Madison and George F. Lupton in San Antonio, Texas.
Mrs. E. O. Siecke of College Station came home this afternoon from Nebraska where she had been since last Christmas for medical treatment of car trouble. She is thought much improved and will bring relief to many anxious friends.
Frank J. Blazek and Edward Phillip, two prominent citizens of Burleson County, were in town on business Saturday and they also urged their sister Miss Ella Blazek to join them for a local event.
Hon. Leonard Tillotson president of the First National Bank at Sealy outlines flood control history in Texas and argues for broad state action. He notes 1913 floods, Brazos Valley Improvement Association, and creation of a conservation and reclamation amendment to enable large districts, levees, reservoirs, and cooperation with federal programs for irrigation and power.
Associated Press report from Ft Worth says Charles Smith was shot and killed at Baird, about 100 miles west, late yesterday. Ira Pratt, a switchman, surrendered on the charge.
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