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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1921
Page
1
Hood's Texas Brigade meets at Bryan in 1921 with Rotary luncheon and a tribute to Gen. Hood. The Wednesday session names Bryan as the 1922 reunion site and praises the brigade's valor in Civil War battles under Lee and Hood.
A Bryan Texas reunion of Hood's Brigade marks the 50th anniversary with an all day program on Main Street between the Carnegie Library and the Queen and Dixie theater. The Bryan Concert Band performs as veterans, families, and guests enjoy dances, songs, and tributes.
President Harding asked Representative Mondell to seek general congressional approval for a favorable expression on world disarmament. The message stresses a broad, non specific endorsement from Congress and highlights a desire for unified support.
Special to Bryan Eagle Dallas Texas June 29 Dr Henry North Graves last survivor of the party who buried the Twin Sisters relics a pair of cannons used in the Texas Republic died at 8 50 Tuesday morning Graves born July 20 1816 in Plains Hill Tennessee moved to Texas 1260 he served as a dispatch rider in Forests Cavalry and later garrisoned Galveston Island He is survived by three children and a brother and was married to Susan Davidson
Sbisa of College is in Bryan on business. Miss Altha Edge leaves for a house party with Dr. S. C. Richardson in Eastland Texas then visits relatives in Cleburne Dallas and Fort Worth before returning home. A D Jackson of College called on the Eagle. Dr W B Bizzell Major Ike Ashburn and Coach D X Bible of College were in town today. M P Elliott and G P Edge of Cottonwood were in Bryan today.
Staff writer C. D. Waide of the Houston Chronicle visited Bryan to cover Hood’s Texas Brigade proceedings and attended the No tary luncheon. He is a Houston Chronicle staffer based in Austin during the legislative session and will return for the July special session beginning July 18.
Treasury officials told the Senate finance committee that about 1 billion dollars in interest on Allied debts had accrued for European debtor nations up to May 15. The administration seeks broad Treasury funding authority to manage the owed interest and principal.
Austin Texas June 29 The state board of education plans to maintain the next year’s school fund apportionment at 14 50 per capita the same as the past year. The meeting will be held in July. Also notes visits from Miles Lebo and Roger Q Nall with remarks on Miss Ella Richardson’s improving condition at Bryan hospital. The piece recalls the earlier crime at Cook Point and sentencing of Charles Sanders.
In Jersey City the Clergymen's Community Club filed a bill with Prosecutor Garvan to halt the July 2 bout arguing promoters conspire to pervert boxing law and violate the Crimes Act. Affidavits and witnesses are ready for grand jury action. Also reports note vast media turnout and Dempsey's final days of training in Atlantic City.
President W B Bizzell returned from Austin after conferring with Governor Pat Neff on A and M College appropriations. He said Neff aims to get opinion on emergency education legislation and that heads of state institutions support adequate funding to sustain public schools and higher learning. Local figures noted a general belief that revenue will be provided to maintain efficiency.
The note extends Southern hospitality and thanks to U D C members and Bryan Eagle for kindness and full reports. It also lists burials of Hood’s Brigade veterans in Bryan Brazos County including A C Britt Whitney Montgomery John Stacy Capt J S Mooring James H Astin John Gee and J N Henderson and Alonzo Holliday in Millican and Dallas respectively.
Judge Hugo Friend overruled the defense motion to squash indictments charging White Sox players with conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series. The ruling keeps the cases moving in Chicago on June 29.
Allied authorities in Constantinople disclosed a Turco Bolsheviki plot of large scope. Arrests were made including the alleged leader Augenblick as part of the crackdown announced June 29.
A Weather Bureau bulletin reports a tropical disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico centered northeast of Vera Cruz and drifting slowly northwestward. The bulletin notes the storm’s northward movement as of June 29.
Miss Ray Montgomery leaves for Yellow Stone Park Wyoming to spend the summer. She has visited the national park before and expects a more enjoyable return due to her familiarity with its beauty. She will resume teaching in Bryan schools in September.
Detroit June 29 fifty delegates of the disabled veterans of World War I warned the socialist party that the veterans are ready to fight again to defend the flag against sedition disloyalty and treason in their national convention today
Abilene June 29 W C McCombs tax assessor of Kent county was instantly killed by lightning near Clairmont Sunday according to word received here today.
Dallas Texas June 29 Judge PipPen of the Criminal District Court overruled the defense motion to stay proceedings in Gaines trial. Selection of a jury was begun immediately.
The 1896 Houston Post notes Senator D A Paulus of Hallettsville traveling to Bryan for a meeting of the A and M College board of regents. He is said to have encountered Major W R Cavitt upon arriving in Bryan.
Dallas reports Federal Judge Wilson denied the writ of habeas corpus to halt the trial of Charles Gaines charged with murder in the post office robbery. Defense plans to appeal to the United States circuit court of appeals.
Judge W. G. Taliaferro arrived from Calvert on a brief business trip and to reconfer with former Hood's Brigade veterans.
In San Antonio on June 9 the Ku Klux Klan publicly visited the Protestant orphans' home in West End. Three men delivered a letter and a $100 donation to matron Ida Blass, then left in a curtained automobile. The letter urged newspapers to publish copies and warned of a rising effort to protect the innocent and weak.
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