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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1926
Page
1
The Bry an column details two neighbors who received identical letters about Mr. A. The note, captioned This is your worthless friend Mr A, was written to damage character. The author condemns the anonymous writer as spineless and unfit for a community of honorable people.
Dan Moody's campaign in East and North Texas draws support from oil and liquor interests, as Lynch Davidson alleges. Moody denies attacks on his labor record and plans stops in Gainesville Sherman Texarkana Mount Pleasant and Marquez amid a grandstand collapse incident with no injuries.
A D Jackson publicity director of the Experiment Station Department at A and M College of Texas and his family returned by car from Crystal City Texas where they spent a week during his vacation. He was accompanied by his wife and children Joe Dug and Ina and his mother Mrs D S Jackson who will visit then go to Wood County. He reported abundant corn following a spinach crop with little irrigation and a fair expected yield around 40 bushels per acre and noted citrus orchards and non frost down conditions in the area.
J. R. Harrison of near Tabor brought a massive beet to the Eagle office. Planted last winter and blown down by Monday night’s wind, the beet measures 6 feet tall, 41.5 inches around, has 27 tops and weighs 38 pounds. If anyone doubts Brazos County’s crop, stop by the Eagle.
Walden's Business College plans an open house next Friday afternoon and night. It will be an informal reception inviting the business public to visit Bryan's new school.
Miss Mary Locke president of the Tabor Welfare Club reports a lovely rain in Bryan on Monday evening aiding corn. The crop is entering the roasti ear stage and looks as good as it could, with crop projects advancing across the Tabor community.
Paris reports Joseph Caillaux agreed to join the Briand government as Finance Minister as a new cabinet is expected to be completed today. The move signals a sharp shift in the French political scene.
Paris report states Aristide Briand succeeded on June 22 in forming his tenth cabinet. The development marks a significant reshuffle affecting French government leadership and policy direction.
Four unmasked robbers tormented victims with burning newspapers and plundered officials and guests of the Indiana Club near West Baden Indiana. They escaped with about $6000 in money and jewelry. two women were among the victims.
Mrs Louise Calvert aged 38 and mother of three was condemned to be hanged in Manchester for the murder of her landlady. The trial indicated robbery as the motive.
Gloster Jefferson, a Black man, lies with a fractured skull after a one sided street fight in the colored section. Cicero Wilson is jailed, charged with assault with intent to murder. Witnesses say Wilson and Jefferson clashed after a church outing, Wilson striking with a shotgun.
In Rockdale on June 23 Governor Miriam A. Ferguson narrowly avoided harm when the speaker's platform at the fair grounds collapsed just after she stepped forward to speak. Her son Jim Ferguson aided briefly. Dor rance Ferguson and Eugene Smith were present. The crowd was told no one was hurt.
More than 60 000 students from parochial schools participate in the higher education day of the Eucharistic Congress at Soldiers Field Chicago. The congress concludes with colors ceremonies today and winds up Thursday in Mundelein North Chicago.
Dr. L G Jones will return to the A and M College of Texas in September after a two year leave to study for PhD at Cornell. Prof. E O Siecke and H J Eberly will survey the cedarbrake region in Edwards Plateau District. A Bryan party enjoys automobile travel through the Magic Valley into Old Mexico and back by late July. The group includes Mr and Mrs C F Lahatte Mrs B H Knox and her daughter Madeline Knox and Miss Mary Lois Boyett.
Don Lee of Dallas representative of the Portland Cement Company is in Bryan today greeting friends. He is an ex student of A and M College and is well known in Bryan and Brazos County.
The Tabor Welfare Club sponsors a picnic supper on the grounds of the community center and auditorium on Friday July 9. Candidates in the race will speak and have special invitations to attend.
Sam Eaves, one of Bryan's oldest residents, recalls Bryan's founding in 1865. He recounts initial settlements, the old Booneville post office, the 1867 railroad arrival, and early businesses including a Texas Bakery store and the first rooming house. Additional family members and local landmarks are noted as part of the town's dawn.
H P Fall, East Texas banker charged with the double murder of Mr and Mrs Camden Sanborn, hanged himself in the county jail. Sheriff Mangum found the body after a brief conversation. Fall had suffered a stroke earlier and had been hospitalized before returning to custody.
The Edge community picnic will be held at Cedar Creek grounds on July 2 all day with a noon basket dinner, a rodeo and a baseball game. Free ice water provided and attendees urged to bring well-filled baskets. The date is next Friday week.
J. J. Hunt of the Western Sheep and Wool Company, Lawrence Kansas, is in Bryan between trains en route from Hattiesburg Mississippi to Sweetwater. He notes Mississippi has over 250000 sheep and good wool. he formerly lived in Bryan and worked at Texas A and M College in the Sheep Department. He owns thousands of sheep near Sweetwater and will visit them.
Mrs. D. G. Hamilton, 58, died after slashing her throat at her daughter’s Sherman residence. Her husband, 61, attempted suicide with the same razor but was stopped by the daughter who has been hospitalized for mental illness. The incident is attributed to mental disorder.
Aimee McPherson of Los Angeles is identified in Douglas as the drowning evangelist. She alleges she was abducted from Ocean Park, taken across the border into Mexico, and tortured by five captors who demanded ransom.
John Sabo, president of the Kurten Community Club, returned from Tyler by way of Madison County and the Trinity River. He observed washed ferry banks, ongoing replacement work, and extensive truck farming with tomatoes, plums, peaches, rice pecans, and persimmons. He noted coarse sand hills, scarce corn, and Smith County’s cotton output, and he praised Kurten soil as equal or better for growing crops.
Cotton futures closed 6 to 15 points down as local spot prices stood at 16 3 4 to 16 1 4 cents.
Lions Club heard a recap of the Good Will Tour of the Allen Academy Band. Sam Eberstadt presented how 81 towns were visited and 434 pieces of music played, costing about eight hundred dollars. The tour drew letters to Prof Nat Allen and spurred interest in Bryan.
L. S. Ross Chapter UDC of Bryan invites the citizens to a 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. reception on Thursday on the lawn of Mrs. R. Q. Astin’s home at West 26th Street. The event honors Colonel and Mrs. John B. Hood of Matagorda Plantation Mississippi and Hood's and Green's Brigades UCV. Officers and members will attend to greet the honored guests during Reunion times.
Wayne Wheeler returned to the witness stand before the Senate campaign funds committee after a private session with members. He faced detailed questions about the Anti-Saloon League's finances and political activities.
The weather bulletin reports partly cloudy conditions for tonight and Thursday for Bryan and vicinity in New Orleans.
Fort Worth veteran James Briggs arrived in Bryan to attend Hood's Texas Brigade annual reunion at the Masonic Hall. He travels alone, plans to stay through July, and recalls Birmingham and Vicksburg trips with fellow veterans. Briggs cherishes a pine cane carved by Joe Johnson and a 1907 Navasota ribbon memento to gift to Brigade mascot John Bell Hood III.
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