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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1929
Page
7
Rev. J. J. Tatum visits the Eagle office to introduce a royal guest, a queen bee shipped through the U S mail in a protected carrier. The container uses candy to seal and screen wire to ease queen acceptance among hive frames. The piece explains hive roles, drone laziness, and how a strong queen ensures proper eggs and worker balance.
Records show last week in the area no rainfall and the highest temperature of the year at 94 on Sunday while Wednesday 67 marked the weekly low. The largest 24 hour swing was 22 degrees on Wednesday and Sunday. Hereford reports the state’s largest single wheat field under one fence at 6,000 acres.
Prof. E A Kemp principal of the Bryan negro school and a leading negro educator was fatally burned at his home while trying to ignite a coal oil fire. He died about 2 AM after sustaining severe burns and inhalation injuries. Burial set for Thursday at Pleasant Grove Baptist Church with Rev. A S Keeling to lead. He had led Bryan's negro schools for two decades and built up the system to state prominence. He is survived by his wife and relatives.
A Bryan resident reported Sheriff J. H. Reed said Brazos County was dry after two raids. Two suspects, a man and a woman named Sofronia Franklin, were arrested for possession and sale of intoxicants near the cemetery. Arrests were made by the sheriff, Chief of Police Martin, Night Officer Cheatham, and Constable Horace Reed. another offender, Will Joncon, was detained by Martin and Cheatham.
The text praises Pasteur and his antiseptic methods to prevent infection from wounds. It explains washing wounds with a modern antiseptic to prevent bacteria like those causing tetanus and typhoid. It directs readers to obtain Borozcoe from Roman & Vick.
June 11 meeting notes show auxiliary representation requested for a Nevada instruction school on June 18. Plans for a July barbecue fund raiser, dues change to 25 cents monthly, and a Phileman program were discussed. Local visits included Ir a McGregor family and others from Arcadia Bryan and Texas City, with several members returning from travels and summer study.
Prospect residents enjoyed sunny weekend weather as fields begin to stir with cotton. Health nurse Ella Bandelin visited. neighbors from Bryan Goose Creek and Iola joined Sun day School and family gatherings. Several locals noted visits, dinners, and a splintered lip from a crank accident. others report sick lists and river flood areas near Navasota and Brazos.
Every woman knows burns and scalds are painful and slow to heal. The ad promotes Liquid Horogone and Liquid Rotorzone as instantly relieving pain, preventing infection, and ensuring speedy healing, urging readers to keep a bottle in the medicine cabinet.
In Brazos County farming notes highlight large bell pecan yields on the F. W. Locke farm and the need for followup work to top-weld trees. Terracing interest grows as heavy rains hurt soil. demonstrations urged. Community clubs plan practice at the county agent's office. Alfalfa in the Magic valley shows strong payoff with multiple cuttings. Canning guidance warns against boiling-water processing for monocid foods. pressure canning advised. Brazos takes third in the state Living Room Contest, with Komar of Kurten earning honor for Brazos.
Mrs E O Leicke president of the Ninth District P T A has called a meeting to form a City P T A Council in Bryan. The city groups presidents and secretaries plus one representative from each P T A will be invited to organize the council. The gathering is set for Wednesday afternoon June 12 at 4 30 at Mrs Albert Buchanan's West 24th street home.
County Clerk Jess B. McGee issued seven marriage licenses on Saturday. The couples were Manuel Amaral and Edna Pittman, Jesse McCallum and Anna Adell Mundine, Joseph Banks and Marie Oliphant, Cy Williams and Cola Mae Woolridge, Kim Jackson and Elizabeth Castles, Pedro Cassirios and Micaila Herrara, Lester White and Rosetta Hawkins.
The Brazos county approach of Pitts Bridge damaged by recent high water will have a 60 foot wooden span installed. District Engineer J E Blair and the state highway department approved the plan on Monday. A longer steel span will be shipped later, stored, painted, and used when future improvements are needed.
Burney Goosby longtime Bryan resident and barbershop owner died suddenly at his home after leaving his shop at 8:30 PM. A Republican political figure and community friend, he was known for his 4 AM bugle call and service to the Chatham machine works era. Funeral services set for Sunday at 3 PM at Shiloh Baptist Church.
District Engineer J E Blair said the state highway commission will advertise a contract for June 25 to resurface Highway No 6 from College Station to the concrete near Navasota. Right of way acquisition is in progress and most property owners are signing agreements.
Mrs. Charles Murray seeks to identify the owner of a white 16 inch dog that bit and scratched her and her daughter yesterday around 9 o clock as they entered the Brazos county court house. The dog reportedly had a fit and may be mad. Mrs. Murray wants a veterinary rabies examination of the animal.
The largest privately owned irrigation system in the world supplies the Mercedes and Wesla ABOT BRYAN 129456 sea sections in the Rio Grande Valley.
The Earl Graham Post No 159 American Legion endorses a county fair with Brazos County Fair Association formed by directors A S McSwain Jess Cook and C L Baker Jr to recruit more members. A mid September date is likely with Sue Haswell Memorial park as a possible site and plans include educational and domestic science exhibits and boys and girls clubs. The July 4 barbecue was also discussed and a long meeting with many post members and visitors concluded with a toast and plans for the fair.
The Dallas based organization with a state charter approves a plan to contract with individual farmers for selling their cotton. M H Wolfe is named general sales agent. Farmers become members of the association and deliver cotton for warehousing or shipment to Dallas Houston Galveston or other designated points.
The proposal details owners of cotton agreeing to deposit $2 per bale from sale proceeds with the association. It allows the association to deduct handling costs from this sum and uses the remainder to fund a permanent financing and marketing system for cotton handling, under directors’ discretion.
At College Station the sixth annual Texas county school superintendents conference will July 29 to August 2 at A and M College. L A Woods and Mrs B B Sapp head arrangements. Discussions cover rural and county school organization funding financing and improving county programs.
Farmers in the Brazos bottom report a fair corn crop despite extreme wet weather. County Agent C. L Beason delivered ears from Buster Wallin's farm showing prime roasting ears that have already “made” this season amid discouraging spring conditions.
Root rot damages at least 274 cultivated plant species in Texas per a Texas A and M Experiment Station bulletin. Resistance exists in 135 species, mainly grasses such as wheat oats corn sorghum rice barley. study by J J Taubenhaus B F Dana and S E Wolff from Temple substation.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Williams of North Zuleh were seen shopping in Bryan today during their visit to the city.
Mr and Mrs R W Hewitt arrived in Bryan from Stratford near Dalhart in the Panhandle. He will study summer school at A and B College and teach vocational agriculture. He notes dairying poultry and livestock are displacing the old all wheat farm plan and diversified farming proves profitable.
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