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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
2
Telegram from Representative Gainer in Austin reports the Sackett resolution for separation was defeated in the Senate today. The move to submit the A&M College and University divorcement resolution to the people is thus destroyed. Austin date noted as March 18.
A list of practical farm tasks for the month including field drainage with terraces, barnyard mud control, calf care, school visits, club participation for youth, reading farm papers, drying cotton, securing cooperative fertilizer purchases, sheltering unused implements, stump removal, maintaining the wood pile, and building a King road drag to improve muddy roads.
B F Clark a Bryan vegetable dealer was found dead in an outhouse with a discharged 16 gauge double barrel shotgun nearby. An inquest returned a death from gunshot wounds the cause unspecified. Clark born September 4 1875 in Tennessee was 40 years old and had lived in Bryan since youth. He left a note of suicide after saying he would shoot the duck on the tank.
Quitana Weaver of this city died leaving a widow and three young daughters Mil dred Marie and Vivian. He belonged to the First Methodist Church and was a Woodmen of the World member. Friends in Bryan and Brazos County express sympathy. Funeral services are at 3:30 tomorrow at the residence with interment in City cemetery.
City Engineer A. S. Adams started two weeks of work with the street gang on Caldwell Street to drain and grade the thoroughfare. The project, begun at the Dallas avenue intersection and extending east along the interurban track, aims to address long standing complaints and improve the road condition for residents and users.
London reports the government considers using women to replace men in war service. Labor unions express concern over untrained nonunion workers entering wartime roles as Miss Mary MacArthur urges first consideration for 40,000 union women unemployed. She warns guarantees on substitution conditions are needed.
Since the Fritz Fuchs farm gusher near Thrall was brought in three weeks ago, Williamson County has 225 oil leases filed on 25 000 acres. Leases range from 2 to 175 dollars per acre with one eighth royalty. Covering Milam to Bastrop and Travis counties, about 250 000 dollars has changed hands in land sales and leases. A new fifty thousand dollar townsite has been laid out at Thrall and a newspaper begun there.
The remains of W V Kestler died at his Waco home arrived in Bryan on the southbound Houston and Texas Central local train accompanied by family. Services were at 10 30 this morning from the Buchanan home under Brazos Union Lodge 129 Masons with Rev C T Tally officiating. Interment followed at Steep Hollow cemetery with many friends and Masons present. Pallbearers were E W Crenshaw A K Brown F L Webb J D Martin Lamar Bethea and Joe B Reed.
Mr. Farmer we bought too many plows planters and cultivators and must sell them. If you have cash we will make the price at Hensarling's offering seed potatoes as part of the sale.
Dallas March 18 Pat Nagle of Kingfisher Oklahoma testified before the Federal Commission that landlords prefer farm tenants with many children and in one case evicted an aged farmer without children to make way for a young family. The hearing also covered usury in tenancy and whether exploitation extended to city labor. Witnesses included J Tom Pagitt collector of Coleman County ranch and W L Thurman former Socialist organizer.
John Com pere Lattimore 52 longtime Waco public schools superintendent died after being struck by a car while bicycling at Sixth and Columbus streets. Survived by wife four children and mother with two brothers and five sisters including state senator O B Lattimore. Funeral details not provided.
Notice from Dr Anna Gaines organizer of the Texas Farm Women’s Council inviting communities in Brazos County to organize farm women into units. Free assistance offered. Address Dr Anna Gaines Caldwell Route 2.
A called meeting at City Hall with Mayor Harris and Aldermen Haswell, Levy, Vick, and Wilson discussed arrangements to borrow funds to cover the costs of sinking a deep well for the city of Bryan.
The Bryan council approved a nine thousand dollar loan in nine one thousand dollar notes at six percent interest. Principal is due April 1 from 1916 to 1924 with annual payments secured by a mortgage on the water works. Monthly set aside of one hundred dollars from net plant earnings will repay the debt. taxation cannot fund payments. The city will not bore into the old 300 foot well to avoid damages and will let a new well contract be issued promptly.
Mrs. Mary C. Read wife of Dr. Ben S. Read died at her Bryan home at 8 15 this morning after weeks of illness. Born in Virginia November 1 1850 she was 64 4 19. Survived by husband two children Mrs M F Dansby and Ben 8 Read Jr a brother T T Goodwin and sister Mrs McCraw. Funeral tomorrow at 4 pm from the family residence with burial in City cemetery.
Austin March 20 The Senate adopted the conference report on the penitentiary bill. The House rejected the conference report on abolishing the fee system. The Senate is ready to adjourn, but the House attempted a reconsideration on the fee system, with both chambers expected to adjourn about three.
The Inter state Commerce Commission today formally reopened the hearing at Washington as requested by four principal express companies. A date will be set later for the hearing.
Senator James Hamilton Lewis urged the U S to choose a definite foreign policy. He warned that keeping the Philippines could force large fleets and risk global conflict with Japan, England, France, and Russia, while retreating to isolation might shift power in the Pacific and endanger the Panama Canal.
The 1914 cotton crop totaled 15 873 000 running bales of lint or 16 102 000 equivalent 500 pound bales per Census Bureau. December 10 Agriculture estimate was 15 966 000 equivalent 500 pound bales. Figures compare with prior years and include 121 000 bales expected after March canvass and 77 000 round bales. Linter cotton and ginning data shown with state production context.
The record lists 500 pound cotton bales, exclusive of linters, with state-by-state totals: Alabama 1,750,000 Arkansas 1,015,000 Florida 80,000 Georgia 2,713,000 Louisiana 447,000 Mississippi 1,244,000 Missouri 81,000 North Carolina 925,000 Oklahoma 1,261,000 South Carolina 1,524,000 Tennessee 382,000 Texas 4,584,000 Virginia 25,000 all others 63,000.
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