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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1934
Page
5
Mrs D B Carrington returns to Hearne after visiting Bryan with daughter and family. Numerous guests stop in Bryan from Kurten, Wellborn, Porter Arthur, Rosenberg, Houston and beyond for visits, business, or to see relatives.
The Bryan Boy Scouts under Scoutmaster M L Rees and J Coulter Smith will plant eggs and manage crowds at the Bryan Lions Club Easter egg hunt Saturday at 2 30 pm in Sue Haswell Memorial Park. four age divisions will guide the youngsters with prizes donated by Bryan firms. eggs will be stamped with firm names for prize redemption. Lions on the committee include Luke Patranella L L Pistole Charles Edge L Maniloff and J Coulter Smith.
Mrs John A Haley regent of Texas Tech and longtime West Texas resident announces candidacy for representative of the Eighty eighth District in the Texas Legislature starting with the upcoming election.
University of Texas archives unveil letters from 1857 to 1863 detailing the camel corps funded by Jefferson Davis. Maj H C Wayne oversaw imports as soldiers struggled with camels on the Texas to California route, reports say camels died or disappeared and rumors lingered even after sales to a circus.
J. E. Stanford was named state director of rural rehabilitation as the CWA ends April 1. He resigned as secretary of the Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce. A special committee will seek a successor. The post reports to Adam Johnson and aims to raise rural living standards via farm improvements and subsistence farming projects.
Friends of education in Texas join the Delinquent Tax Educational Campaign led by the Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce to collect past due school taxes. About $8 million was delinquent in 1933, boosting total unpaid school taxes to over $24 million, threatening budgets and staffing across the state. The campaign urges taxpayers to settle arrears before the end of the drive on Saturday.
Licensed to wed six couples in Brazos County were issued marriage licenses by County Clerk Clyde Goen. The couples include James Nally with Hazel Holmes, Early Boone with Bernice Pearce, and James T. Canady with Alberta Knox, all listed as negro couples.
Mrs. Eliza Jane Frame 68 died Tuesday night after a two day illness from a stroke. The funeral was held at the family home in Edge with Rev. T. C. Key of College Station officiating. Interment followed in Presbyterian cemetery near Edge. Survived by husband T W Frame two daughters Mrs W R Henry of Bryan and four sons Will Trannie Frame of Houston Burgess Frame of Bryan and A C Frame of Edge.
The Friendship Bible Class of the First Baptist Sunday School named officers for six months. President is Mrs G W Ross. first vice president Mrs Henry Ross. second vice president Mrs R C Berry. third vice president Mrs J G Chaney. secretary Mrs Lloyd Goodlow. treasurer Mrs Allen Carson. Bible teacher Mrs Albert Buchanan. assistant teacher Mrs H P Smith.
An unknown man who had stolen Stuart Cole’s car collided on College avenue near 29th Street with Lee Reese’s vehicle Sunday night. Reese escaped injury as both cars were badly damaged and the thief fled. Wesley Odom also caused a separate crash by striking a parked car in the same block.
Miss Frances Jane Branch, one of 14 UT arts and sciences degree applicants, was elected to Pi Lambda Theta, the national honor society in Education. She has been on the college roll of honor for four years and was initiated at the UT banquet. She plans to spend Easter weekend with her Bryan grandparents on West 24th Street.
J E Cook Harvey trustee bought a piano in Bryan for the Harvey school. The instrument will be used Friday night March 30 at 8 o'clock in the presentation of Mamy's Lil Wild Rose, a playlet to raise funds in the school auditorium.
Next Monday Judge W. C. Davis will open the April term of court in Robertson county which will remain in session for five weeks.
Interstate rail shipments of poultry and eggs totaled 169 cars in February, up from 167 a year earlier, per the University of Texas Bureau of Business Research. Shipments included 23 cars live chicks, 74 dressed, with 97 cars in February 1933.
The report notes 79 live turkeys shipped from Texas with only three cars of dressed birds sent out of state, mainly to New York City. Interstate egg shipments totaled 69 cars, up from 43 last year, while Texas imported 3 cars of eggs from other states, down from seven.
Edward K. Russell of Annona launched his bid for governor in Clarksville on a bone-dry platform calling for constitutional rewriting to achieve judicial reform.
R. Uncle Bob Williams, a veteran ex Confederate, is Cumby Hopkins county's oldest living resident. Born in Tennessee, he turns 95 on May 10 and came to Cumby in 1870. He served as justice of the peace, represented Hopkins county in the Texas legislature, and ran for governor in 1908 earning nearly 200000 votes. He remains active, walks without a cane, and reads with glasses despite impaired eyesight.
Miss Elizabeth Sloop of Bryan and a junior at Texas State College for Women will speak to Stephen F. Austin High School senior girls March 29 during her Easter visit. Arrangements were made with principal Wesa Weddington. Sloop is associate editor of Lass-O and member of the Athenaeum Society. Classes close March 29 for Easter break and resume April 4.
The Fifth Annual Round-Up on April 13 14 and 15 will draw visiting parents from across Texas to the UT campus. Ex-Students' Association invites bearers of the official letter signed by President H Y Benedict. Guests will tour nine new campus buildings and enjoy football exhibition luncheons Curtain Club play reception revue ball parade and more.
Bryan churches plan Easter services with special anthems solos and duets rehearsed this week for Easter Sunday April 1 at leading churches.
Washington report says James E. Ferguson must win ratification from Texas state convention next September to join the national Democratic Committee. The national body plans to require state approval before admitting him, citing a history of seeking broad party support.
A.B A. Mooney and Eda Belle Arrington residents of Brazos county have been licensed to marry by County Clerk Clyde Goen Ed Griffin and Louis Green Brazos county have been granted a license to wed.
The Baptist Woman's Missionary Society of District 15 will hold its annual meeting at Lampasas Baptist Church on April 4 and 5. The session opens with an executive board meeting, then the convention proper begins at 1 45 pm. Mrs Pennne and the young reader Mrs J E Derrick of Bastrop lead evening and morning sessions respectively. Lodging and meals will be provided.
Judge W C Davis spoke on Citizenship and Mrs Edna Abbott Shelton discussed health plans as 40 rural Negro teachers met in the district court room Saturday morning. They reviewed closing the school year and county wide seventh grade examinations. The meeting was called by County Superintendent Mrs W E Neeley and held monthly.
Hearne is awarded the Fall hunt of the Texas Fox Wolf Hunters Association, opening November 5 with over 400 dogs expected to participate. Officers include J. R. Lister of Houston as president, Phil L. Sanders of Nacogdoches as vice president, and J. W. Elliott of Mexia as secretary, among others across Texas.
The C M T C quota for the Eighth Corps area is set at 1178 students for this year. Five camps will operate during the summer with Camp Bullis allocating 493 students and Fort Sill 438. Fort Logan 182, Bliss El Paso 60, and Huachuca 51. About 40 percent will be in the basic orders course. Some counties still have time to send applications to fill allotments.
George Griffin of Bryan sang with the Seven Star Review on a CBS New York program heard Sunday night by his relatives. A star was absent, Griffin filled in, amid weather related static. Mrs. Griffin heard parts of the songs and others nearby caught brief portions.
Dalhart March 26 Tim Flores of the Stratford region east of Dalhart sold 118 steers at 23 dollars each to Roy McNutt of Hutchinson county and three cars of heifers to the Ludlow ranch in Colorado at 4.25 per hundred. L Hensley sold purebred Hereford cows at 50 dollars each and a purebred bull at 100 dollars.
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