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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1929
Page
4
Officials discuss marching orders for a city pageant with contest selection, registration, and badges for merchants and chambers of commerce. A big dance, refreshments, and hospitality events for visitors are planned with arrangements for ice water, seating, and coverage by press.
A fragment discusses dairy cattle nutrition noting calcium deficiencies in feed and the need to tailor rations to each cow. Mr Wipprecht emphasizes watching individual size and preferences, comparing cattle care to human needs and stressing overall good management.
Local business and farming leaders discuss dairy development across Texas and the Southwest. They stress organized dairy circles, youth clubs, extension services, and educational outreach to shift from cotton to diversified farming. Tick presence is seen as a handicap but manageable with immunization. despite ticks, dairy progress relies on winter pastures and home grown feeds, with Brazos County cream receipts noted as rising.
The article argues winter milk shortages due to dry cows and high winter prices, urging farmers to grow winter grazing crops and store grain seeds. It calls for education, financial agreements, regulation, and broad cooperation to establish year round dairy production and viable markets, noting Bryan and Brazos county could lead with concerted action.
J P King resigned as president of the Woman's Work and Mrs R J Holbert of Navasota was elected to fill the position. Other officers named include Mrs J R Dunn associational chairman of personal service and Mrs S M Hunter associational director of mission study. The all day meeting included Bry an attendees and numerous visitors from Jola and Navasota, with a church supper at noon.
Captain Hawkes spoke to cadets at Allen Academy then flew to College and onward to Houston. He piloted the big plane used for a record breaking transcontinental flight, with several records inscribed on the fuselage sides.
The district interscholastic meet of district No. 21 will be held at Brenham High School on April 12 with about 450 pupils attending from eight counties Austin Brazos Burleson Colorado Fayette Lee Waller and Washington. The executive committee includes Arthur Niebuhr director general Superintendent W. W. Few Supt F C Wellborn Supt J C Smith Supt M H Ehlert Principal EF Walls Frank W Allenson Miss Ludie Davis.
We thank the Edge community for beautiful floral offerings and kindness during the illness and death of our beloved daughter and sister Winnie. The people were kinder than we can express. May the Lord bless them. Mrs. C. H. Rhodes and children. For rent 140 acre pasture 2 1 2 miles east of Bryan. See Mrs. P. Kos h.
Classified notice invites readers to place want ads with Fagle to sell any item. Advertisement highlights quick, reliable service for disposing goods through the newspaper marketplace.
Members of two Bryan fire companies held their annual elections naming officers for the year and delegates to the state convention. Protection Company No. 1 elected Pip pin as foreman and Warren as assistant foreman with Warren, Noto, and Blazek as delegates. Chemical Company No. 2 chose Jenkins as foreman and Baker as assistant foreman with Baker, Jenkins, and Berger as delegates.
Joe Cotropia, a Bryan High School junior, outlines a five acre cotton project in Brazos Valley. He selects New Boykin purebred seed, plans soil bedding, planting late March, and early cultivation. Expected cost about 27.50 per acre with potential lint yields of 400 to 500 pounds per acre and net income near 255 if cotton sells around 18 cents per pound.
Brazos County Health Board with sixteen members met to review January and February reports by Miss Ella Bandelin and Nurse Ethel Butler. They noted low smallpox vaccination among county children and authorized Dr Humbert to study enforcement laws for a countywide vaccination drive. Letters to schools urged May Day health programs.
Port Arthur March 14 The will of Emil Nelson left his entire estate estimated at 20 000 to Walter M Hannagrif of Lake Charles due to their lifelong friendship. The will was made 10 days before Nelson's death.
Named public weigher J B Priddy of Bryan by Brazos County commissioners court. Court also approved a slate of routine bills and expenditures.
Burleson county farmer Leroy Tice eluded pursuers by crossing the Brazos River and reaching A and M College before police brought him to jail. He fired on Clarence Barron wounding him seriously and Y M Barron slightly. Barron kin and deputies braced for a dawn search as armed men lingered near the Tice home.
Seth Taylor an overseer on the Ward Mooring plantation was shot about two weeks ago by a negro named Whitfield. He was on the street Saturday evening apparently recovered from his wound. Whitfield, whom officials say is not located, was named in charges filed this morning. A Brazos bottom resident said the negro was taken with cramps while attempting to swim the river.
The last grand jury for Beaumont’s two district courts is in session as a new criminal district court was created. The existing courts, the fifty eighth and sixtieth, will handle civil cases only.
Brazos County resident Frank Dobro vonny has created three charcoal kilns near A. and M. College turning green timber into a saleable product. He supplies barbecue pits and ironing uses in Bryan. He notes the process requires three days and nights and says the venture is more profitable than cotton farming.
A petition circulated by the Robertson county Chamber of Commerce asks the commissioners court to provide a county home demonstration agent. Judge J Felton Lane of the Hearne Democrat will sponsor a yard and garden contest with $25 from Lane and $10 from the Shakespeare club, with other groups expected to participate.
Mammy Rowe, an elderly woman near Bryan, reports her pony severely maimed as half its tongue was cut off with a sharp weapon. Sheriff J H Reed investigated near Wixon Creek eight miles east of Bryan but found no suspects. The animal may not survive and could be killed to prevent starvation.
The sixth week petit jury list reports to report Monday March 18. Names include J C Cloud T C Wade August Straub C H Andrews J L Burt John Fickey J T Denina J W McCulloch E C Wiese J J Bolmanskie Joe Bond J H Murphy A L Smith W H Buchanan D A Broadway M Schulman Frank Borak H H Broach H G Stallins George Smith Ed M Sims Elon Stewart Aubrey To bias B F Moore Roy Nunn W M Sparks N H McWhorter C C Cobb A J Operstein John O Conner W I Cole W L Terry Jim Darwin R H Carroll Ed Carll John M Lawrence.
Mr and Mrs J W Payne returned from Dallas and East Texas trips to visit Mrs Payne s mother and other relatives including multiple kin in the region.
Glenn Stephen daughter of Mr and Mrs George Steyhan of Hirgan has been confined to her bed at her parents home since last evening for unspecified illness.
East Texas Chamber of Commerce registration committee met at Bryan to plan a canvass of area towns. Plan visits include Navasota Brenham Cameron Caldwell Calvert Franklin Madisonville Palestine Hearne Marlin Normangee Huntsville. Committee members listed: E H Astin D L Wilson George Chance W R Fairman M L Parker William Wimberly J H Conway A S Locke W K Gibbs R S Webb Jr John S Caldwell H Williamson Sam E Eberstadt.
Work on the water extensions on Twenty first Street from Washington to Ursuline Avenues and in Pletzer to Ursuline Avenue has been completed. A six inch pipe is laid. Next, the Tabor extension from Twenty ninth Street to Jones will use an eight inch pipe. Extensions were made at the suggestion of the state fire insurance commission and will reduce the key rate for the city as inspections pass.
The College Avenue Baptist Church will hold a revival from March 31 to April 14 led by Rev. J Howard Williams of First Baptist Corsicana. Williams, described as an unusually attractive preacher, will deliver sermons with more details to follow. The public is invited to attend. Franklin quote noted.
News reached Bryan of the death of Mrs. M. E. Sandel at the home of her son Amos Gates in Navasota. Survived by daughter Mrs. H. H. Young of Houston and three sons Nall Sandel Gates and Mack Gates, with services held in Navasota conducted by Rev. R. F. E. Day and burial in the city cemetery. Relatives from Bryan attended.
The First Baptist Church Senior B Y P U staged a Sunday evening program at 6 30 focusing on The Life of Ann Haseltine Judson. Sophronia Carrington presented a chalk talk while the choir sang Throw Out the Lifeline. L B Locke led devotionals and Mrs T A Kelly introduced the program.
La Grange reports Mary Ermis aged 99, the county’s oldest woman, buried at Plum Cemetery after passing away recently. A fragment mentions someone from El Paso noting the Juarez battle sounding like Chicago, claiming it proved no more fatal.
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