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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1928
Page
3
A former students reunion for Hood's and Green's Brigades, originally set for June, is rescheduled to July 10 and 11 in Bryan amid scheduling conflicts. The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce announced the change, noting other committee activity and attestations of local support.
Commodore Bullock, convict in the five year past shooting of Sheriff L E Morehead, and once confined in a Little Rock sanitarium, was captured by Sheriff J H Reed at Coley Powers home near Steep Hollow. He had returned to his old home and was allowed to visit friends before being jailed and returned to Little Rock. The court had earlier adjudged him insane.
At College Station on June 11 the A and M College of Texas opened its summer session with increased enrollment across programs. Cotton and three short courses report higher than last year, with 19 registered in the cotton study, 68 in the public utilities short course, and 29 in the cottonseed operators course. The college hosts a $20 000 cotton seed oil mill for instructional use and the sessions run from June 11 to June 20 for the mill course and June 11 to July 21 plus July 23 to September 1 for the general terms.
The Woman's Missionary Society met in groups Monday afternoon. Group 1 discussed completing study work and planned summer service with more sick and stranger visits and Bible study. Group 5, led by Mrs. Dulaney, read Psalm 91, heard about world Christianization, and stressed domestic Christian work.
About 35 applicants sought licenses to sell pure cotton seed at the final meeting of the state board of plant breeder examiners in the department of agriculture. The board includes Dr. E. P. Humbert College Station R. T. McDonald W. D. Farris Ennis and R. T. McDonald. The applicants wish to be certified as pure seed breeders.
Bass 15 drowned in lake on golf course at Glen Garden Country Club. This marks the fifth drowning this summer in the area.
Sheriff J H Reed and a posse seized 75 gallons of whiskey, 50 gallons of wine and two 50 gallon copper stills on Lee Cortemeglia's farm near Bryan Junction after a search warrant. Cortemeglia was arrested on a manufacturing liquor charge and placed under $3,000 bond. Stills and liquor are in the local jail.
Mrs Sterling Hale of Campbdell is free on 1050 bond after an examining trial on a murder charge in the death of Jack Burke 31 who was fatally wounded in a shooting Friday Hale waived the preliminary hearing in Greenville June 12 Associated Press
More than forty county councilors will gather in LONGVIEW to plan the East Texas Chamber of Commerce annual membership drive. The 4 p.m. meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Building will end with a banquet at a local hotel, with R. M. Kelly directing the program.
Funeral services for Mrs. Willie Ann Ramsey aged 71 were held in Bryan from the home of her son Charles N Ramsey on East 23rd Street under McCulloch Dansby. She died Monday at her daughter S O Payne's Union Hill home and is buried in Boonville cemetery. Survived by seven children and seven grandchildren, the family praised her faith and character. The service was conducted by Rev J J Tatum with Rev Roy S Holloman assisting. pallbearers named Sam Barcelona J E Warren Willie Johnson John Schlortz Navasota M Coleman Caldwell.
Mrs. F. D. Perkins and daughter Mrs. Florence Perkins of McKinney travel via Bryan to Galveston and then New Haven to attend Yale graduate John Astin Perkins class of 1928. He earned top architecture honors with a fellowship in New York, competing against Yale and other leading schools.
Henry Locke, Bryan businessman, was unanimously elected president of the Bryan Lions Club for the coming year. W. S. Howell nominated and praised Locke. The club also voted on first second and third vice presidents with W. L. Howell H. L. Durham and Bob Armstrong. The group agreed to cover President Ty Cobb's International Lions convention expenses in Des Moines Iowa July 10 to 13. Locke will take office July 1 and a program included gifts and speeches from several members and guests.
John Kroleky died at his daughter's home Sunday evening after a long illness. He was 81 years old. Survived by daughter Mrs. Louis Plazek and two sons, Lee of Reliance and Tate of Rock Prairie. Funeral at 3 PM from St. Joseph's Catholic Church with Rev. J. B. Gliessner. burial in Mount Cavalry Cemetery. Interment under Dansby Furniture Co. direction.
William O Alexander of Gulf age 25 graduates first year at Allen Academy with honors and the distinguished service medal for a second year. He started work at 16 after family finances failed and later attended San Marcos Baptist Academy and worked as a bell boy in Raleigh Hotel. He later labored for Texas Gulf Sulphur Company from 1918 to 1925 before returning to education, guiding Allen Academy activities and aiming for Baylor or SMU to study law.
C Stallings son of H C Stallings of Bryan has been in the Navy for five years and is visiting friends and relatives in the city. He has served along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, South America, Central America, Nicaragua, Honolulu and other places. He favors Honolulu most and dislikes South America and Nicaragua.
E J Fountain farm manager Tobe Alexander reported Sunday night that a Mexican intruder entered a farm house and robbed it. He said the suspect headed toward Bryan. Brazos County officers joined Burleson County deputies in the lookout for the robber.
The Martha Sunday School class at First Christian church held a miscellaneous shower for Miss Gladys Dowling as she leaves Bryan to attend Texas Christian University in Fort Worth. Hosts were Mrs. E N Holmgreen and Mrs. H O Ferguson. gifts expressed affection for Dowling who thanked everyone.
Rev and Mrs Charley Bullock of Hearne returned home after a visit in Bryan with Rev Bullock’s mother Mrs 3 B Bullock at her home on South College Avenue.
The jury in the Johnn Jenkins case, charged with the sale of intoxicating liquors, failed to agree and has been discharged.
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