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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 04, 1932
Page
3
The Home Demonstration Club Market opens May 7 with marketing guidance for women in producing and selling goods. Emphasis on variety to boost sales, with tips on grading, standardizing, and display to attract customers and improve profits. A late summer irrigation demonstration by A. Rye is planned for Thursday afternoon to show tile and concrete tile system benefits.
Millican Steele of Allen is mentioned from his home in Allen. Mrs James Dr Harris of Navasota is noted. Miss Todd is on the sick list but improving. Roger Symms recently had a miscellaneous at Mrs Rob’s home. Virginia receives many gifts and well wishes as a large crowd gathers. Services and visits fill a Sunday with relatives from Mart and Houston joining Mrs Ella Dun. The Methodist church pageant Sunday night spread a Day message about mothers’ wishes. Hendricks of Navasota has died. sympathies extended to his wife and children. Sallie Norwood visits fighter Mrs Chas Crawford. rain delays roads but aids crops and gardens.
The graduation exercises for the seventh grade and high school were held Friday with large attendance. Community activities included a rain day, crop work, and 4-H Club meetings at Blanche Brown's and Mrs. Nash's homes with herbarium preparations and flower displays.
Patrons of Consolidated School at College are invited to bring first grade entrants to the College Hospital at 9 o clock Friday morning May 6 for free examinations of vision teeth and other remediable issues. The aim is to correct handicaps before school begins.
The community notes a three act senior play by tenth graders and a postponed commencement moved to Friday night due to rain. Rev J J Pipkin unable to fill Sunday, will return third Sunday. Residents attend County Singing Convention and other events. marriages and travels are noted along with subsequent club meetings and dip day adjustments.
Harvey Mr. and Mrs. N. Cole motored to Fort Worth last Thursday and spent the day. Quite a few from here attended the singing convention Sunday at Kurton. Mrs. W. C. Raines and Mrs. D. L. Peters and daughter Mildred Jane, accompanied by Mrs. Howard Lee and Susie Mae Mitchell of
Residents from Bryan and nearby communities visited relatives and friends across Col lege Wellborn Madisonville Dallas and Dallas area. Notable gatherings included O A Jones Rebecca Jaanita Chester Jones W B Rom an and families Basil Mitchell Gordon Mitchell Susie Mac and more. The note ends with gratitude for recent rainfall.
A strong prospect of a statewide grasshopper outbreak in Texas, except the eastern portion, follows a report to county agent C. L. Benson from R. R. Reppert of the Texas A and M College Extension Service. The spread encourages immediate control measures using poison bran mash, with a detailed recipe and application guidance.
Funeral services for Steve Scarmado of Burleson county were held today at 2:45 from his uncle Luke Scarmado’s home and at St Anthony’s Catholic church at 3 o clock. Rev B Brain officiated with Mc Culloch Dansby in charge. Interment followed at Bryan Catholic cemetery. He was 33 6 11 and survived by his widow and one son Carlo Thomas Scarmado plus eight brothers and one sister.
A M Consolidated announces second six weeks honor rolls and honorable mentions across grades one through eleven. Names include William Bilsing Jim Gabbard Mary Beth Winkler Sam Rhea Gammon Eloise Vezey Woodrow Gandy and several others with numerous students earning honorable mention.
Plans are being prepared for paving on Highway 21 east of Bryan with a potential contract awarded in the next months. The two sections are rushed to completion while paving east of Kurten and west through the Bottoms remains unlikely. Gravel may be laid on these sections to improve winter passability and strengthen shoulders after grassing.
At St Joseph's parochial school pre school clinic on Wednesday twelve infants received diphtheria toxoid and forty school pupils were immunized by Dr John W Black. County health nurse Mrs Edna Abbott Shelton said typhoid vaccine is now available enabling immunization for city children and preschoolers.
Layne-Texas Houston Company wins contract to drill a new city well at an estimated price $800 below the last city well. Project expected to start without delay and is described as superior in type.
Nathanial McGee, a Black man from the Kurten community, is charged by Mrs. R R Knowles with stealing a yearling steer. He posted bond and the case will be heard by Justice J T McGee in the near future.
Edna Ladewig of Shiner and Marie Matzner of Fort Worth have been chosen to represent Texas 4-H Club girls at the sixth annual National 4-H Club Camp in Washington D C June 15 21 Their trips are funded from profits of the 4-H club refreshment stand at the Farmers Short Course The two join previously announced representatives Howard O Daniel Tulia and Orth Vowell Bowie Each has earned substantial yields from gardening and poultry projects with Matzner reporting 761 56 in the past year from crops sold in Fort Worth market and a garden under acre and a half in size
Mrs Seth Barwise and daughter and Miss Myrtle Astin arrived in Bryan from Fort Worth for a visit with Mr and Mrs E H Astin on South College Avenue. Mrs Mamie Baldwin left Bryan for Rockport after visiting cousin Mrs R S Webb Sr on College Avenue. Mrs E L Murray drove from Houston to visit her parents Mr and Mrs J B Stevenson Sr and Mr Murray will join for a Sunday visit. Miss Evelyn Tate of Ennis, a student at the State University Austin, spent a day in Bryan. J Frank Dobie honors R H Seale of the Brazos in his preface to On the Open Range calling him a Texan of the old breed. Mrs S L Boatwright spends the week in Austin visiting her mother Mrs Sallie Knox. James Bowers, Baylor student, returns to Waco after visiting Rev and Mrs Holloman. Robert E Green of Rockford IL and sister Mrs L B Matlock of Texarkana travel via Bryan en route from Houston to Dallas and visit Mrs Lee J Rountree. Mrs Matlock has a son at Rice Institute. Miss Doris Reynolds of Franklin visits Bryan at the home of J Tom Smith on East 26th Street.
Dr. Charles E. Friley dean of Arts and Sciences at A and M College will give the commencement address for Hearne public schools on Monday evening May 30. Dr. W. W. Melton pastor of James Street Baptist church of Waco will preach the sermon Sunday May 29 at 11 o'clock in the school auditorium per Supt. E. T. Robbins. Clean cotton jars wanted at The Eagle Office. Must be clean and without buttons.
Reports from the state board of education meeting in Dallas say Dr. T O Walton president of Texas A and M College advised seeking roughly the same appropriation for the next two years as was approved by the 42nd Legislature. Reducing funding would curtail the college’s efficiency, officials say, though detailed figures are not yet set.
Inclement weather reduced attendance at the Bowie pre school health clinic held Thursday afternoon at Bowie School. Only ten children were examined. Dr. Henry Harrison Jr and Dr. Lamar Jones will assist at a second conference in Prof Bethany's Bowie office from 3 to 4 pm Tuesday to examine children from remote Bryan areas before the autumn school entry. Mothers are urged to bring all eligible children ages six months to six years, especially those entering Bowie first grade.
Grimes County ships nineteen cattle cars in one day routed on the Missouri Pacific from Navasota to Oklahoma. The shipment was organized by W. C. Yeager of Iola and featured Navasota men E. E. Yeager Ss. D. Marett Worth Barry B. T. Bledsoe and J. P. Terrell.
Edna Ladewig of South Texas builds a poultry business with 893 chicks yielding 792.40 in 1931 and 1 345.71 over three years. She hatched 318 of 340 Wyandottes and 575 of 600 White Leghorns, practices modern poultry management, and cans 252 quarts of fruit. She also maintains a Jersey cow and engages in club activities at home under Miss Mae Belle Smith.
Vegetable products valued at 76.70 dollars reflect a homemaker’s garden effort. She sews, landscapes her yard, and improves her bedroom under the guidance of Miss Erma Wines home demonstration agent, with savings at 306 dollars.
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