Tick Eradication Key to East Texas Dairying Gains
Mr. Pickering argues tick eradication underpins East Texas dairy herd improvement and dairy product competitiveness with Northern producers. He cites USDA data showing far higher profits from breeding for 500 pound butter fat cows than from smaller yields. He sees opportunities in stockers, feeders, and baby beef if fever ticks are controlled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Texas
Pickering
Mr. Pickering
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Play at Steep Hollow School Featured Deacon Dobbs
Friends and patrons are invited to an evening program at the Steep Hollow school house on Friday at 8 o'clock. The feature event is the play Deacon Dobbs. No admission charge. The entertainment is prepared under teacher supervision and coaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steep Hollow
Deacon Dobbs
Highway Short Course Details At Texas Engineering Meet
The annual highway short course organized by the civil engineering department presents sessions on interpretations of new specifications highway location sub grade studies in Texas and concrete paving designs. Featured speakers include E P Arneson J C Carpenter H F Clemmer Roy W Crum and F E Giesecke with sessions led by J T L McNew J J Richey and H K Bishop. The program runs April 8 to 10 with a banquets and no tuition charged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Richey
J. T. L. McNew
Pres. T. O. Walton
J. E. Pirie
E. P. Arneson
San Antonio
Texas
J. C. Carpenter
U. S. Bureau of Public Roads
Fort Worth
J. B. Early
State Highway Department
Austin
Gibb Gilchrist
F. M. Davis
C. C. Todd, Jr
Bryan
National Park Roads
H. K. Bishop
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads
Washington
D. C
Highway Research Board
National Research Council
F. E. Giesecke
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
Roy F. Green
Western Laboratories
Lincoln
Nebraska
T. B. Warden
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Fever Tick Eradication Talks Shape Local Dairy Policy
The section urges eradicating the fever tick before milk production profits. Lions Club Tuesday program led by W E Leverkuhn due to Leo Kaplan out of town. Miss Lillie Kaplan performed a piano solo and reading, with Jay A. McDaniel joining Montgomery Ward as a new member and welcomed by H L Durham. Visitors included Ed F Pickering, W R Wills. Lions present totaled multiple members and guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sol
Lions Club
Lion Joe Kaplan
Lion W. E Leverkuhn
Lillie Kaplan
Lion Kaplan
Jay A. McDaniel
Montgomery, Ward & Co
McDaniel
Lions den
H. L. Durham
Ed F. Pickering
Miss Lillie Kaplan
W. R. Wills
R. V. Armstrong
R. Bryant
Harry J. Durham
M. My Erskine
E. Ebersteadt
R. C. Franks
H. O. Ferguson
Howell
C. B. Holzmann
Lamar Jones
Jno
M. Lawrence Jr
Reunion of 1895 A and M College Class Listed
Houston banker A S Adams and others from Texas and Louisiana to attend a reunion for the 1895 A and M College class on April 5 and 6. Planned events include a noon banquet by F Marion Law and a faculty dance and Sunday dinner with a barbecue in the evening. The roster shows 28 living members and the deceased or lost members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Adams
Houston
Geo. A. Adams
H. P. Jordan
Waco
A. P. Duggan
Wichita
Kan
Littlefield
Texas
West Texas Chamber of Commerce
R. C. Watkins
New Orleans
Southern Pacific
Louisiana
F. Marion Law
A. and
M. College
A. T. Anderson
Oligy
S. A. Belden
San Antonio
A. W. Bloor
Sam Houston
C. E. Burgeon
Hollywood
Cal
R. W. Burleson
San Saba
W. J. Coulter
Bryan
Hiram T. Coulter
Rockdale
Hines Clark
Crowell
R. L. Dinwiddie
Uvalde
A. H. Fitzgerald
Gonzales
A. C. Farmer
Junction
W. F. Hutson
Bracketsville
F. M. Law
F. A. Lowery
Magnolia
P. FP. Mills
Clifton
H. F. McDonald
Austin
M. B. McMillan
Milwaukee
Wis
H. B. Martin
Dallas
W. McCarty Moore
A. F. Mourland
San Angelo
W. A. Polk
Fort Worth
A. T. Wright
Wink
G. R. White
Brady
J. R. Holman
FE. B. Mouser
D. D. Wells
Monster Project For Irrigation Be Started Soon
Edinburg reports construction of 142 miles of concrete canals from a $5 500 000 bond issue for Hidalgo County Water Improvement District No 12 will start within 90 days. The plan aims to irrigate 78 000 acres, with a main pumping plant on the Rio Grande 50 miles south of the first land, and officials say water will serve the whole district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburg
Hidalgo County Water Improvement District No. 12
Rio Grande
Water District
Local doctors study new cancer treatment findings
Baltimore March 26 Dr John Colt Bloodgood of Johns Hopkins announced a committee from the County Medical Society of San Francisco will study the recently announced cancer treatment by Drs Master B Coffee and John D Humber of San Francisco. The national commission assigned to conduct research will not take action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
John Colt Bloodgood
Johns Hopkins University
County Medical Society of
San Francisco
Master B. Coffee
John D. Humber
National Commission
Barron Home Visits After Long Texas Legislature Session
W. S. Barron, speaker from this district, returned from Austin after the fifth extra session. He spoke with legal and other friends about the session’s rush to pass much in a short time, noted discussions on a Moody third term, and explained a clause in the prison bill that could fund a new industrial unit. He reiterated plans not to seek re election.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Barron
Dist
Austin
Barron
Court House
Moody
Texas
Free Conference
Graves
Baronn
Rep. Graves
Capital
Francis Victim of Psittacosis While Studying
Dr. Ed Francis of the United States research program is recovering at Walter Reed Memorial Hospital Washington DC from Psittacosis or Parrot Fever contracted during laboratory work. He previously contracted Tularemia and Malta Fever from disease exposure and helped outline treatments for those conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis
Mark Francis
College Station
Ed Francis
Walter Reed Memorial Hospital
Washington, D. C
United States
Malta
Moody Approves Compensation for Pink Bollworm
LAMESA March 26 A letter to Gov Dan Moody from a South Plains representative notes approval of the pink bollworm compensation law. It provides reimbursement for farmers and cotton growers expenses to fumigate lint and sterilize seed under quarantine belt rules. The amendment covers costs previously paid by cotton owners and applies to counties in the lower South Plains pink bollworm district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lamesa
Carl Rountree
House of Representatives
South Plains
Dan Moody
East Texas Chamber Opens Houston Branch at Rice Hotel
The East Texas Chamber of Commerce opened a Houston branch in the Rice Hotel to serve the southern territory. Henry W. Stanley, director of the merchants' service bureau and the public health department, will head the office and conduct merchants' institutes in the region for several months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Rice Hotel
Houston
Henry W. Stanley
Merchants’ Service Bureau
Public Health Department
Stanley
Merchants
Life Sketches and Texas History Readings at Huntsville Event
Roll call answered with Bits of Texas History as Mrs DeMaret reads Home of Sam Houston at Huntsville Texas. Other papers include Life Sketch of Gen Sam Houston by Miss Elizabeth Dickenson Texas Blue Bonnet Song by Mrs 5 M Hunter and golo presented by Miss Mary Jones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. S. Ross
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Albert Buchanan
Egbert Jones
Geo. A. Adams
F. L. Henderson
Chas. S. Gainer
R. H. Harrison
Texas
Elizabeth Dickenson
Sam Houston
D. C. DeMaret
Huntsville
5. M. Hunter
Golo
Mary Jones
Roll Call
Traveling man praises Bryan after West Texas sand storm visit
A LaSalle Hotel resident traveler says Bryan is good to live in and recalls a West Texas sand storm on a recent trip. He notes keeping his routine during the storm as he travels across the state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan
LaSalle Hotel
West Texas
Sand storm tale thrills Bryan on prairie visit
The narrator invites readers to Bryan to witness a real sand storm and recalls a bold claim about prairie dogs digging holes thirty feet in the air, expressing delight at being in Bryan.
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Bryan
Local guests visit Bryan with mixed travels
Fred Brock of Angleton guests of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Adr_iance of College Station while E F E Bryan Jr of Philadelphia visits his brother Travis B Bryan. Brock and Bryan traveled to Bryan together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Brock
Angleton
Guy Adriance
College Station
E. FE. Bryan Jr
Philadelphia
Travis B. Bryan
Messrs
Brock
Bryan
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