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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1933
Page
2
Fragmented column lists items for sale and delivery deadlines. Mentions freight service, hardware store dates, poultry and produce, and general market goods with dates in November. Appears as a community notice of deliveries and price expectations.
A Brazos County Texas Red Cross chairman urges broad roll call and lists children under parent guidance, stressing enlarged membership for spiritual strength. The document also outlines labor code provisions for drug stores and wage scales across Texas and nearby towns, detailing hours, days, and pay changes.
The American Legion will offer School Awards this year for the best all around boy and girl in Bryan and College Station grammar schools. A full plan will be released soon in schools. Legion auxiliary provided refreshments and entertainment after the meeting.
Schedule won October 30 with posting by November 6. Group A allows 52–56 hours weekly with 40 hours max per week and 8 hours per day. Group B allows 56–63 or more hours weekly with 44 hours max per week and 9 hours per day. Group C details incomplete.
A central point will host a citywide drive parade with the fire department agents and equipment followed by city and parochial schools, R E Bond directing, then Lions and Rotary clubs. A. and M College big Aggie Band may participate with cadets. Whistles and sirens urged. Red Cross drive details announced by Rt Rev J B Gleisener.
C C Directors promoting a Santa Claus parade report progress as businessmen are canvassed for attendance at the Kyle Field annual football classic featuring MU and Aggie teams. They decline Retail Merchant Association duties and note the Chamber of Commerce budget details and Community Chest drive start November 13 led by Daniel Russell.
The American Red Cross urges broad membership to fund unemployment relief and national disaster work, stressing health for mothers and children. Leaders discuss a $500,000 beef canning project aided by R E A funds and Texas partners, plus a County agent driven relief approach and a community square dance to raise scholarship funds.
The suestion was extremely difficult, and the organization aided the College with TM appropriation more than expected. The chamber of commerce contributed $1230 and the College Community Chest gave $1660 for the work. Directors present included George A. Adams Jno Caldwell J Frasey W J Coulter J Webb Howell O S Johnson Ed S Martin W B McCullough I Manilof G S Parker Daniel Raseil and D L Wilson.
Dr. Cox outlines options for the vast retired acreage under Agricultural Adjustment Act plans. He cites potential uses including soil improvement, erosion control, grasses and legumes, and home use for farm families, with terracing and tree planting emphasized. He praises Texas Extension cooperation and urges county agents to tailor plans to local needs.
Classified ads list 240 acres near College at 10.00 per acre 570 acres on San Antonio highway unimproved at 5.00 per acre 98 acres on Wixon creek near Highway 21 at 3000 J Webb Howell sells 570 acres on San Antonio Road at 5.00 per acre 98 acres on both sides of Highway 21 Wixon creek at 30.00 per acre 7 acres north of Bryan with improvements cheap Includes six mules cultivators disc harrows and other farm implements by J Webb Howell.
W E Saunders was reelected library board chairman for the 25th time as the Carnegie Library board organized. Other officers include Mrs. Thos Lundin, vice president. Mrs. Lee J Rountree, secretary. and Prof. C M Bethany chairing the book committee. The board plans yearly improvements and will meet the first Tuesday each month. Members named: W E Saunders, Mrs Thos Lundin, Prof C M Bethany, Mrs A S Ware, Miss Margaret Zuber, Mrs R O Allen, Mrs Lee J Rountree.
The article calls workers from Masonic orders, Knights of Pythias, Knights of Columbus, Rotary, Lions, and others plus pastors to lead Red Cross Sunday on Nov 12 and drive from Nov 13 to Thanksgiving Day. Rev. Gleissner appeals to all named and public to solicit donations, with funds deposited in banks in the Red Cross name and donor lists published.
Mrs Nannie Rohde and her daughters Mrs Gabe Cazell and Mrs Henry Rohde Jr were injured when their car struck a cow on Highway 21 Sunday evening causing the vehicle to overturn three times They were all resting at the Rohde home on Washington Avenue and East 28th Street with various injuries including bruises sprains and cuts.
Funeral services list O. O. Henderson E. W. Crenshaw Sr. E. J. Jenkins C. M. Bethany T. A. Adams G. G. Lang son of Houston. Honorary pallbearers were the Board of Stewards of the Methodist church.
Frank Briggs editor of Farm & Ranch attends the state meeting at A&M College. Bryan hosts a weekend of visitors including Mr. and Mrs. C. T. Smith, J. Bryan Miller, Mrs. R. L. King, and many locals. Attendees include county agent Preston Goen of Hemphill and Miss Agnes Roberts.
The notice promotes a home remedy for varicose veins promising immediate relief without operations or injections and asserts you can resume normal activities. It urges readers to buy from Jenkins Drug, with unclear claims and questionable efficacy.
Mrs. J. M. Dawson of Waco will be the principal speaker at the Creath-Brizol Baptist Workers' Conference at North Zulch Baptist Church on Tuesday November 14. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. with lunch at noon. Other participants include Mrs. Roy Parten Madisonville and Mrs. L. N. Yeager Navasota among others.
Wade Cox was commissioned today by Gov. Miriam A. Ferguson as a special ranger. The event was noted in connection with Eagle Printing Company.
Mixed figures and names appear in a damaged financial page with sums 216,282.12 185,200.00 107,000.40 24,086.08 914,762.56 100,000.09 and 1,146,280.00. The text references a bank stock, fees, furniture, warrants, and a government meeting date, ending with a note about an error.
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