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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1933
Page
1
The column urges support for the American Red Cross highlighting relief work for hunger cold shelter medicine and disaster response. RT. REV. J. B. Gleissner chairs the Brazos County Red Cross roll call soliciting contributions.
The Civil Works Commission orders maximum employment with 30 hour weeks at 30 cents an hour. Bryan street gravelling slated with 150 plus workers over two months, two 75 man shifts. All job seekers must register and pass medical tests at City Hall under Dr. Harrison and Dr. Searcy, with examinations optional through private physicians.
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fox of Houston return home after a pleasant Armistice Day visit with Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Fox on West 26th street in Bryan. Miss Minnie Rucker leaves Franklin after a stay with Miss Clyde Stuart. KE Yeager couple are in Dallas on business.
Governor Miriam A. Ferguson named members to two Texas committees on November 10. The farm debt conciliation panel includes R. J. Murray as chairman with 11 other appointees from Lubbock Beaumont Cameron Brenham Bryan Austin Dallas and more. A compensation claims board for pink bollworm eradication cases named Fred Davis of Austin as chairman with R. J. Murray and Joe E. Edmonson also serving on the panel.
Sylvan Childress, a negro, charged with fatally stabbing Ethel Williams, a negro woman, was held to the grand jury without bond by Justice J. T. McGee. They had lived together in Wheelock. she left him three weeks earlier and was found dead after he allegedly killed her in Bryan last Tuesday. Jesus Garcia, Mexican, held to grand jury on robbery for stealing 170 dollars from Joe Agilar, a fellow worker, after breaking into his trunk. he was captured at Navasota and the money recovered.
First Baptist church youth group in this city rehearses Away in a Manger under H. P. Black with assistants Mrs. Evelyn Sanders Williams and Mrs. W. F. Munneryln guiding practice for a Christmas season presentation.
Texas cotton pilgrims travel from Rheine through Westphalia to Cologne and Mainz. The trip follows a rail route from Rheine near the Dutch border to Mainz, where Gutenberg developed movable printing. The journey describes the Rhine valley’s vineyards castles villages and cliffs, reflecting a civic voyage away from cotton business.
Cotton production administrator A. Cobb spoke before county farm and home demonstration agents on the 1933 and 1954 cotton education campaigns during this morning talks at College Co. A. Cobb outlined aims and methods to boost yields and farmer education.
Mrs. J. L. Brock president of the Fourth District and Mrs. Lee J. Rountree chairman of the Division of Correction left Sunday afternoon for Austin to attend the Thirty-Sixth Annual Convention of the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs lasting through Friday. The executive board met at 10 am today ahead of the formal opening at 9 am Tuesday and permanent headquarters are to be opened at 8 pm tonight. Rountree will present the Division of Correction report Thursday afternoon during the session on Public Welfare led by Mrs. S. G. Reid.
Funeral services for Mrs Samuel Trant pioneer resident of Martin's Prairie Grimes county were held Sunday at 2 PM at the Free Will Baptist church with Rev C B Thompson officiating Interment followed in the local cemetery She died Saturday after a short illness Survived by three children E S Trant Mrs Charles Conlee and Mrs P E Smith Attendees from Bry an included P J Trant Emmett Trant W P Trant and Mrs George Foster
Mrs. Lee J. Rountree editor of The Eagle has been appointed chairman of Congressional District of Texas No. 10 to join the National Beautification Committee of the United States Good Roads in Texas. The appointment was made by J. A. Rountree director general of the United States Good Roads Association as part of a push to beautify Texas roads for the Texas Centennial.
Texas Extension Service workers led a five day statewide conference at Texas A M College focusing on cotton data farm production credit grain standardization cooperative groups and dairy product codes. Speakers included C W Griffin Bassett Orr E R Eudaly C A Cobb James M Huston Cobb spoke to women agents and to Huntsville-bound officials before continuing discussions.
Steve Slama of the Bryan highway shop suffered a broken rib and cuts when a car carrying the Slama family collided with a cotton truck on highway 32 near Buffalo at about 5 AM Saturday. Mrs Slama was knocked unconscious. their sister was thrown from the car, but the children and others were only slightly hurt. The car overturned several times and was demolished before being brought back to Bryan to the Shima home in Cole addition.
Dr. Thomas F. Mayo librarian at A and M College told the Lions club that the nation will shift to a leisure society with an education of consuming time. He predicted a large rise in voluntary entertainment as work hours shrink and urged teaching leisure as a formal subject.
Texas may gain a $20 million Work Relief allotment to fund the Snook to Somerville road project with a new link to Highway No 6 near College Station. State Senator Albert Stone has pressed a special committee and Civil Works Chairman Westbrook for data as Washington weighs the extra funds. Proponents urge action to connect Roan's Prairie area to No 6 and create jobs by constructing the route.
Fire originating from the kitchen stove about six Friday morning leveled the farm home of Mr and Mrs Seab Keith. Some belongings were saved but most of the structure and contents were destroyed. The house, a local landmark, dated logs over fifty years old and its insurance status is unknown.
Funeral services were held Friday at 10 a.m. at House cemetery in Edge Brazos county for Reason Bynum who died Thursday at the family home. Rev. C B Thompson of Bryan officiated. He was 61 years old. Survived by four brothers and one sister.
Humble Oil drills second well near Ferguson Crossing in Grimes County across Navasota river. Location 600 feet southeast of first well on Mary Henderson land. roads bridges and timbering under way. More bunk houses rise as crews from Conroe join. First well core shows rock salt crystals near 4200 feet.
Mrs Albert Goodman Mrs Evelyn Sanders Williams and Mrs C W Simmons were among a large audience in Houston city auditorium to hear the Houston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Frank St Leger with Madam Paola Autoni of Dallas as socialist. Five other concerts are scheduled this year with the next in the first half of December.
Constable Horace Reed and Mrs Reed are the proud parents of a son named Thomas Horace Reed born Sunday morning. The newborn is the youngest deputy of Sheriff J H Reed according to Braxos county officials wife.
State Board member Allen Smith a Bryan business man known as the Texas Turkey King is named to the Texas Farm Debt Conciliation committee. Governor Miriam A. Ferguson calls the committee to meet in Austin on Tuesday to seek adjustments of farmers real estate obligations.
Mrs J P Dobyne presented her arrangement of An Abandoned Elopment at the Bryan Little Theater meeting in the Woman's Club building. Committees reported with names including Miss Betty Syptak Miss Jane Elliott and Mrs Mills P Walker. Directors and stage managers for upcoming plays were chosen with dates November 20 December 4 and December 13.
John Richard Robert Carter and Lewis Taplin, four negroes, are jailed in Burleson county charged with stealing cotton from a gin at Snook. Constable Horace Reed arrested them Friday morning after an investigation. They confessed after officers questioned them about the two cars and loose cotton found at the Eden gin.
The Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce directors announced a Santa Claus parade set for December 15 with Kriss Kringle as a lead participant. Merchants pledge strong support and local stores will stay open in the evening to accommodate Christmas shoppers from Bryan College Station and surrounding areas.
In College Station on Friday night about 120 courtiers and 1,400 spectators watched Miss Margaret Higgs of Bryan crowned queen at the fifteenth annual rodeo and pageant sponsored by the Saddle and Sirloin Club. King A B Kyle of Whitney led the event with a college livestock program benefiting from proceeds.
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