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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1917
Page
3
Daily snippets show numerous residents from Steep Hollow Reliance and nearby towns shopping trading and visiting Bryan. Notables include T P Hall J W Hicks Hi B McDowel and families from Union Hill Wheelock and Jasper take part in commerce and social events. Community church services and chautauqua activities appear amid bank updates and road travel notes.
A Cincinnati authority promotes freezone as a fast remedy for tender corns and calluses. He asserts the drops relieve soreness immediately and that the corn dries and lifts away without pain. He notes the small bottle is inexpensive and urges druggists to stock it for American women wearing high heels.
A Texas conference of mill men feeders and feed control service officials will discuss tentative peanut feed definitions and standards. Once final, labeled products must comply. James Sullivan and A Eb Conner will represent the service and station officials. Youngblood is in Washington.
Dr J H Eager of Baltimore spoke on missions and promoted the Judson Memorial Baptist church in New York. The service baptized thirty nine people in thirty five minutes, revealing the churchs mission focus and vigorous outreach to the surrounding community.
Dallas May 3 The Texas gunners in convention were warned by President Blaylock to guard their plants from dynamiting as if they were munition factories.
Advertisement hails Gets-It as a revolutionary corn remedy offering quick relief. Claims include lifting 6,000,000 corns and a clear difference from older methods, presenting Gets-It as the sole effective solution.
Health of the community is good and crops look fine. Visitors include Mr. and Mrs. Tom Johnson of Hearne with Mrs. Lee Kirby visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Boyder. Jessie Baker is called home to Navasota due to her father's illness. Union Sunday School, led by Hugh Dowling, is progressing well. Dymple motored to Bryan, D. D. White shows a new car. Dewberry gathering and wartime prep noted. Mrs. W. G. Neelley visited MilliCan.
The Tabor high school and four district grade schools opened last Friday with Hon. W. C. Davis delivering the address. An unexpected rain disrupted the program but did not dampen a crowd considered among the largest in Tabor. A later May meeting at the high school, under A. and M. college extension, began Baby Week activities with Mrs. Ritchie, Mrs. Broyles, and Mrs. Jackson steering planning. Mary Lock was elected president of the new group with Mrs. Wilcox as vice president and Mrs. Morgan Class as secretary-treasurer. No official name for the organization had been set.
Frank Clark corn breeding expert from the department of agriculture visited Brazos County with County Agent Beason E H Astin and Ed Crenshaw. They sampled stalks five feet high from Sid Smith's upland farm near Bryan and Jim Reed's farm in the Brazos bottoms. The stalks used seed of the Clark breed distributed by City National Bank to farmers to boost local corn yields.
Captain C. H. Mueller and Lieutenant W. H. Morris certified ninety two men at the Agricultural and Mechanical college recruiting office. Most are college or former students from Bryan area. Eighty members of the current senior class enrolled for training camps with reporting dates staggered from May 9 to May 14.
A patriotic and economic meeting in Calvert Texas fostered by the Mothers' club closed the business section and featured music by the Calvert Commercial band. Speakers included former Congressman Scott Field Rev E A Ingram and O D Baker editor Calvert Courier. The event led to the organization of the Calvert Conservation club.
W A Spitzer, a Birmingham painter, claims Tanlac restored his health after years of indigestion kidney pain and near starvation. He fell to seventy pounds and says four bottles ended his graveward decline boosting weight appetite sleep and strength. He cites medical bills and near death, noting Tanlac saved him. Adv notices Tanlac sold in Bryan and Wellborn.
Antoinette Rappold, a 15 year old schoolgirl, disappeared Tuesday on her way to school. The severely harmed body and severed head were found by a farmer in a field near Memphis. A sheriff's posse with bloodhounds hunted the area with no arrest by nightfall.
U S Department of Agriculture urges farmers to raise more hogs as a fast route to higher meat output. High prices and strong demand make hog production profitable, with hogs fitting into farm operations, reducing labor and costs, and aiding beef and dairy sectors. Emphasis on feeding from by products and skim milk, sanitary practices, and disease control to maximize profits.
The commissioners court met to fill vacancies on school boards across districts and to appoint a full new corps of election judges, some needed for potential enrollment duties under the selective draft act. At the May 14 session they will act as equalization board reviewing assessor rolls and reports from collector and treasurer. Election judges named include Millican Robert Fuqua Wellborn W E Graham College W B B Gandy Harvey M G Buchanan Kurten Jim Tobias Tabor John Smith Edge Ed Payne Steele's Store W P Moore Smetana John Kasarek City Hall Co B Saunders Courthouse John A Moore.
An advertisement by Jack Maltos of Copperopolis touts Foley Kidney TE as relieving severe kidney trouble with no recurrence. It claims symptoms of back pain nerves fatigue poor appetite and irregular bowels improve as the kidneys regain strength and activity. The product is sold by M. H. James in Dryan Texas.
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