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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1929
Page
7
The article argues that farming must integrate with broad commerce through cash and credit systems, rail transport, and education. It highlights weak local markets, reliance on barter, and the need for year round cash flow via improved marketing, coordinated by farm extension groups and the annual School of Marketing Progress at A and M College.
The article recalls heroic acts by soldiers and Colonel Bowie in the Texans fight for liberty. It honors courage at a dark moment, noting the brave line drawn and the ultimate sacrifice for freedom. Joe T. McGee signs the reflective piece.
The Bryan Lions Club staged a lively program led by Bill Bones Wimberly with surprise sketches and games. Lions Watts Erskine and others read poems and jokes, while Sam ate crackers to win a candy prize and Harry Durham recounted a misadventure in Cleveland. The event featured several club members and guests, including Jno Lawrence Jr and Bill Wimberly, with details provided by Lions Ehrstatt Snyder and associated attendees.
Owing to illness County Attorney W. E. Neeley cannot attend court this week. Attorney F. J. Henderson serves as prosecutor in his stead. Neeley has been confined since last Thursday and is expected to recover. John J. Merka, a prosperous Independence farmer, reported killing a 700 pound Poland China hog during a Bryan outing.
Federal officials and UT and Cotton Belt representatives discuss cooperative marketing as a joint effort with the Agricultural Extension Service to raise farm income. They stress education, quality standards, local bases, and the need for cooperation to meet public demand and expand markets.
The Tuesday performance drew door receipts of 265.25 with expected profit around 200 after expenses. Money will cover baseball equipment balance and new sweaters for athletes while intermission specialties by Miss Woodruff pleased the audience. The program featured music by the Serenaders from A and M College and a lengthy student cast list led by Mr Sims and Captain Brown.
Mrs. W. W. Daup attended the Women's Executive Board meeting of the Diocese of Texas in Houston. She was reelected for a third year as secretary of the central organization that oversees all women's work across the diocese.
Brazos county Texas farm boys at Bryan high school join a three year vocational agriculture course. Twenty two students aged 15 to 19 enroll in the first year and travel up to 20 miles to class. They begin with egg production tasks and terrace planning learning by field practice on a class member’s farm.
Students study terrace theory then team up to help local farmers with terracing and culling hens from flocks. They evaluate soil fertility and crop varieties, order seed for community use, and plan to pool cotton by grade and staple length. A certificate awaits those who run grading machines and complete projects.
The note states that methods to improve soil fertility will be studied later this year with the aim of applying findings to farms in Brazos county.
J C Stabler at Magnolia filling station on 26th street freed his wrists from locked stocks again. Fire department stocks with a master lock could not contain him, and he reportedly has escaped other confinements including being chained and submerged in the Brazos river.
The February meeting featured Miss Lucy Givens discussing care and feeding of baby chicks. Most members attended though Dora Palasota and Katherine Lazarone were absent, with Lorena Andrew new to the group and more enrolments expected.
The infant child of Mr and Mrs A Hutchins died Saturday afternoon at the Hutchins home. The parents left Sunday for Beaumont with the remains and the funeral service was held there from Roberts Undertaking parlors at 6 oclock. Mr Hutchins is shop foreman at Wilson Motor Company.
Justice J. B. McGee married A. J. McMillin and Mrs. Neva Archer of Houston Sunday afternoon. After the ceremony they departed for Houston.
Brazos County farm update by County Agent C L Beason and Home Demonstration Agent Lucy Givens covers Arnold Murray’s two acre club plot with one acre corn and one cotton. Benson to assist planting corn using Williamson method for soil and fertilizer checks. also notes soil responsiveness near Steep Hollow school. Extension agronomist BE Miller warns against cotton seed meal for nitrogen, urges balanced fertilizer and manure, and stresses keeping fertilizer checks. Bulletin C-18 offers sweet potato disease treatment tips, plus terraces being rebuilt by local farmers preparing for spring rains.
Dr J J Taubenhaus head of plant pathology at A and M College Experiment Station attended a conference in Austin to halt cotton wilt a new disease unlike cotton root rot Others at the conference were George B Terrell commissioner of agriculture and J M Del Curto state entomologist The plan calls preventing seed from affected areas mainly Mississippi and Louisiana entering Texas Seed will not be allowed unless certified wilt free A survey by A and M College and the department of agriculture is under way to gauge the disease in Texas
Attorney Mack Bennett of Nor mangee visits Bryan this week for the trial of Jim Kittleband charged with the murder of Henry Walker at Midway Madison county on May 28 1928.
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