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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1921
Page
6
The Bryan Weekly Eagle lists subscription options for Brazos County residents and outside the county. It provides rates for daily and weekly editions by carrier and mail, with prices for one month six months and yearly terms. The paper publishes on Thursdays and delineates Texas versus non Texas pricing.
The column urges clemency for Clara Smith-Hamon in a high profile case and critiques public condemnation. It contrasts hotel theft with highway banditry, calls for reform not prisons, and blames Federal Reserve Banks for economic misfortune while urging work and responsibility.
The speaker argues high marketing costs and profiteering by railroads raise prices from a one cent peach in Sulphur Springs to a 3500 percent markup at the consumer. He urges peaceable reform of business practices before further price gains hurt all.
Approximately 1760 Houston SP shop employees face an 80 percent force reduction by March 23. The cut is temporary, not a layoff, and applies across crafts with reinstatement preference to former workers. From 2200 to about 1400 remain employed. broader retrenchment may extend beyond shop workers.
In Texas fruit and truck growing areas a recent temperature drop caused freezing weather with snow and sleet in parts of the Panhandle and West Texas, though readings in areas where crops are advancing did not fall below 40 degrees last night. The local weather bureau reported the milder reading in southeast regions.
Fort Worth March 22 The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association announces a merged leadership slate under President W W Turney El Paso with a 50 member board. New appointees come from Southwest Texas and nearby states while govt officials are excluded. The consolidation details were released by A C Williams assistant secretary. A future eleven member committee will set up a livestock selling agency and draft incorporation under the cooperative marketing act known as the California Marketing bill passed by the recent Legislature.
Mrs. Maggie W. Parry, chair of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs Home Economics Division, endorses University of Texas Home Economics Week March 21 to 25. Lectures, exhibits, budgeting discussions, and demonstrations target homemakers seeking better knowledge of home economics and citizenship.
Mrs. Otho Mathews of Hearne visits her sister G. H. Davis as part of a local social note.
Governor Neff used a line item veto to reduce the emergency appropriation from 1 088 205 to 714 285 delaying or removing 47 items totaling 371 920. Major vetoes include 107 500 to pay state bonds and 90 000 for an extension building at A M College. He cites non emergencies and waste, urging these items belong in the general bill or be dropped.
Washington reports a Dallas conference proposal for March 28 between traffic officials and shippers of fruits and vegetables from the lower Rio Grande and Eastern Texas to secure a rate reduction. The aim is to move that traffic profitably amid a 109 percent rate rise since before the war, with ripple effects across California and Florida producing regions.
Miss Hedwig Knnker of the University of Texas confirms phosphate nodules in the midway Eocene formation near La Coste, 21 miles west of San Antonio. If commercial, the discovery could reduce reliance on imports and aid Bermuda onion growers, truck farmers, and cotton planters statewide.
Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce board discusses building a 4 000 bushel potato curing plant with 10 cent curing cost per bushel. Three citizens pledge 500 dollars each toward funding. Officials review road work and telephone service plans as meeting adjourns.
Governor Neff weighs signing an 8.4 million dollar appropriation for University land and endangering 4 and 8 million dollar Rural and Common School Aid bills. President Vinson urged veto to preserve other education measures. Neff may defer action to a June special session with days to decide.
Rockdale Texas March 22 Ablaze from a gasoline tank explosion rats fled from H G Sanders barn Milam county farmer and ran into a cotton storage warehouse with ten bales of cotton setting it afire The barn and contents valued at two thousand dollars were destroyed Insurance covered the cotton but not the barn or contents
London reports a new seaplane design that can fly or cruise as a warship. Two units are under construction to aid vessels at sea with winged support, larger and stronger than prior sea aircraft, each crewed by seven and armed with five machine guns. A separate classified line notes a separator for sale in good condition at M. M. M. care the Eagle.
Dallas March 22. Ida Valera Ott, once convicted of killing her husband Andrew Ott in Dallas in December 1919, is back in Dallas county jail after being found in Shreveport LA. She had failed to post bond on appeal from a two year Texas penitentiary sentence and was out on $5,000 bail.
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