Bryan Residents Praise Texas Lead in High Schools
The Bryan Booster notes Texans enjoy more high schools than any other state, despite smaller populations in some rival regions. It argues the primary duty to provide education to the youth is being met in Texas and Bryan, inviting quiet pride in the state’s school development and access.
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Bryan
Texas
Lone Star
North
New York
Pennsylvania
Hindis
Ohio
Miss Dorothy Griffin Visits New Orleans Friends
Dorothy Griffin returned from a weekend visit with a party of friends in New Orleans. Groesbeck visitors included PM Robert Hunt J H Gilbert and Mr and Mrs J H Sanders and children. Mrs Lescher McGregor and her son are visiting her parents in Bryan and will stay several days after living in Dallas.
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Dorothy Griffin
New Orleans
Lae
Robert Hunt
J. H. Gilbert
J. H. Sanders
Groesbeck
Bryan
Red Cross Forms Committee To Distrib ute Cotton Cloth
A Brazos County Red Cross committee led by C Bethany and Wilson Bradley will organize methods to distribute cotton cloth from national headquarters to the needy. Members from churches PTAs health and home demonstration groups and veterans organizations plan to meet Thursday at 10 in the Red Cross office City Hall to map outreach and speed shipments to those in need.
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Red Cross
C. Bethany
Brazos County
Wilson Bradley
Bryan
College Station
American Legion
City Federation of Churches
Good Cheer Association
J. B. Priddy
M. M. Erekine
Guy P. Bittle
John E. Astin
D. L. Wilson
Walter Holmes
H. B. McDowell
John K. Parker
R. B. Grant
Locke McNeeley
Cyril Luker
City Commission Discusses Better Sanitation Here
Bryan officials debated sanitation improvements at a Monday night meeting. Proposals included extending sewer lines on South College avenue, pit toilets, a garbage incinerator, and a filtration plant. No formal action was taken. George A. Adams and D. L. Wilson actively participated.
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Bryan
South College Avenue
Night watchman slain in Texas Gulf Sulphur shooting case
A conspiracy to kill and collect 5000 insurance led to a man and woman jailed on murder charges. D. W. Browney, night watchman for the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., was shot as he sat in a pasture automo bile near Moses Bluff. Barrow admitted firing from behind Browney. Mrs Browney planned the scheme with Barrow.
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Liberty
D. W. Browney
Texas, Gulf, Sulphur Company
Browney
B. Barrow
Anahuac
Moses Bluff
Barrow
Murdered watchman found shot at Moss Bluff base
Doc Brown ey, 62, night watchman at a sulfur company base near Moss Bluff, was found dead in his car at 2 a.m. Monday. Footprints 20 feet behind suggest a shotgun attack. An inquest ruled murder and Sheriff Lowe expected an arrest soon after reports of a clue in Anahuac.
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Liberty
Doc Browney
Moss Bluff
Here
Pat C. Lowe
Justice of
T. B
Priest Discusses Patriotism and Vocations at St Joseph’s School
Rev. D Urbanovsky spoke to St Joseph’s students on Patriotism and Vocations urging love for God and country and duty to plan for maturity. Ameri can Legion member Harry Estill then spoke on Americanization linking Armistice Day to unity of nationalities.
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D. Urbanovsky
St. Joseph's
Harry Estill
Post
The
American Legion
Estill
Marie Martinsen
Brazos Reserve Officers Train In Mock Invasion Tactics
College Station on Sunday saw Brazos County reserve officers and Texas A&M military science cadets enact a bloodless battle over a supposed invasion from a rival state. The five hour field problem involved infantry and artillery concepts, ending in an armistice for a critique session scheduled midweek.
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Brazos
College Station
Brazos River
Texas A. & M. College
Brazos County
County Court Totals Vote Cast Tuesday
Brazos county officials tabulated a total 2801 votes for president with Roosevelt leading at 2588, Hoover 195, and Thomas 18. Governor race shows Ferguson 1659, Bullington 1036, Armstrong 1. Amending votes favored homestead tax exemption up to 3000. Centennial amendment least support. University and other measures listed with yes and no tallies. County court met in regular session and approved routine business.
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Brazos County
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Hoover
Thomas
Miriam Ferguson
Orville Bullington
Armstrong
Brazos
County Commissioners Court
Public Health Nurses Attend Dallas Institute and Conference
Brazos County public health nurse Mrs Edna A Shelton and Brazos County colored nurse Sedalia Wilson returned from Dallas after attending the Texas Public Health Nurse Institute led by Mrs Violet Hodgson and a Staff Conference of the Bureau of Child Hygiene at the State Department of Health. Mrs Shelton calls the week pleasant and profitable.
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Edna A. Shelton
Brazos County
Sedalia Wilson
Dallas
Texas Public Health Nurse Institute
Violet Hodgson
National Organization of Public Health
Bureau of Child Hygiene
State Department of Health
Shelton
Bitterweed Threat Fades as Grass Reclaims Range
West Texas reports say choking out the bitterweed by grass across the range country near San Angelo. The weed devastated flocks last winter and the previous winter, thriving after drought and overgrazing left grass scarce.
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San Angelo
West Texas
Bryan Girl On TV Glee Club Names Soloists
Miss Helen Minkert of Bryan was chosen as one of three soloists in the University of Texas Girls Glee Club, with Gilbert E F Schramm announcing the selections. Minkert, a first alto, also joined the glee club’s second quartette alongside Laura L. French of Austin and Jane Stone of San Antonio as the other soloists.
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Austin
Helen Minkert
Bryan
University of Texas Girls’ Glee Club
Gilbert EF. Schramm
Minkert
Glee Club
Laura L. French
Jane Stone
San Antonio
Band Concert and Address by Earl Grisham Post
A Bryan crowd attended Friday morning’s hour program of music and speech at Main Street between 25th and 26th Streets. Allen Academy band, led by Richard Bond, opened with a concert, then Judge W C Davis gave a patriotic talk on wartime service and outcomes. The program closed with taps. Friday night the Legion post held a dance at the Legion Home with Rosebud orchestra.
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Bryan
Earl
United States
Davis
Legion Post
Legion Home
Rosebud Orchestra
Prospect Girls Use Texas Shrubs To Screen House
4 H club girls at Prospect meet to screen their house view with wild shrubs. They collected youpon cedar sumac Spanish mulberry and coral berry plus privet plants from nearby woods and planted them with planning soil work. Emily Hine was elected president and Gracie Huckaby secretary treasurer for another year.
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Flossie Mae Wilson
Prospect Community
Emily Hine
Gracie Huckaby
Tax Assessment Lower in Brazos as Rate Falls
Brazos County Tax Assessor Frank Worsham completes yearly work reporting total property assessment for taxation at 9,367,357, close to the 9,000,000 target set by the county commissioners. Last year’s total was 10,838,991, making this year’s assessment 1,471,634 lower. The reduced assessment brings a lighter tax burden with a lowered rate this year.
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Frank Worsham
County Commissions Court
Beef Cutting and Canning Demonstration Friday in Brazos County
A beef cutting and canning demonstration will be held Friday in a vacant building beside Cole Hardware. Eleven teams from rural Brazos county will participate, each team comprising two men and two women, representing their communities.
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Cole Hardware Co
Brazos County
Bryan youth among score who won trip to Chicago
Twenty Texas 4-H Club boys earned trips to the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago, with nineteen funded by Santa Fe Railroad and one by Armour and Company. Winners include Johnnie Spreen Brenham and Tony Noto Bryan for corn, plus other demonstrators across crops livestock and dairy. The Texas delegation is led by M T Payne and others, leaving Fort Worth November 25 for a December 4 return from the International Livestock Exposition events.
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College Station
Chicago
M. T. Payne
Extension Service of
Texas A. & M. College
Santa Fe Railroad
Armour and Company
Johnnie Spreen
Brenham
Washington County
Tony Noto
Bryan
S County
Homer Tippen
Richmond
Fort Bend
Preston
Chandler
Hemphill
Sabine County
Anthony Woodward
Lubbock County
Randall Gartmann
Robert Lee
Coke County
Milo
H. C. Armstrong
Knox City
Knox County
Jack McClure
el Paso
Cotton
Ancel Miller
Amherst
Lamb County
William Hill
McCulloch County
Marvin Maberry
McCaulley
Fisher County
J. C. Cordill
Hale Center
Hale County
Willard Schults
Hallsville
Harrison County
Thomas Porter
Hillsboro
Hill County
Johnnie Helms
Clifton
Bosque County
Ellis Bishop
Haslet
Tarrant County
Swine
J. T. McDaniel
Kress
Swisher County
Sammie Hoerster
Art
Mason County
Texas
Mr. Payne
H. H. Williamson
Extension Service
J. F. Dinan
Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railroad
Galveston
Fort Worth
Dee
Former Brazos Residents Lose Daughter by Death
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buchanan formerly of Brazos County and Steep Hollow mourn the death of their young daughter Carolyn Joy Buchanan at Silverton after a brief illness with diphtheria. Fred Buchanan is a son of the late R. L. Buchanan.
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Aiedieger and
Brazos County
Fred Buchanan
Silverton
Carolyn Joy Buchanan
R. L. Buchanan
Steep Hollow
Funeral Service Held Saturday For Tabor Woman
Mae McCallum 86 died Friday at her family farm home in Tabor after years of illness. Funeral services were held at Alexander Methodist church with Rev. L C Lilly. interment in Alexander cemetery. Born in Scotland she came to the U S in 1866 and lived in Brazos county over 66 years. Survived by three sons J H McCallum Tabor T J McCallum Tabor and A J McCallum Austin and two daughters Mrs N H McWhorter and Mrs M E Thompson both of Tabor.
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Mae McCallum
Tabor
Bryan
John McCallum
Alexander
Scotland
United States
Brazos County
J. H. McCallum
T. J. McCallum
New Hiway South Now Being Used in Grimes County
Grading and bridge work on highway No 6 from Bryan to the Navasota river bridge at the Grimes county line is complete. The road is in good condition and many motorists are using it during dry weather to view the new route. Four miles opposite the A and M college, planned as an experimental road, are being graded and nearly finished. Culverts and small bridges were completed months earlier to fit the grading.
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Bryan
Navasota River
Grimes County
A. and M. College
Intend to Marry Notice Filed in Brazos County
Jesse Hunter and Lessie Mae Cummins of Brazos County filed notice of intention to marry with County Clerk Jess B. McGee on Wednesday. The filing marks the couple’s formal plan to wed in the county.
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Jesse Hunter
Lessie Mae Cummins
Brazos County
Jess B. McGee
Funeral Held For Little Crenshaw Bay Child
The nine month old Mark Crenshaw died at 4 30 am at the family home on the Kurten highway three miles north of Bryan after a three week illness. Rev. R L Jackson of A and M college conducted the burial at Steep Hollow cemetery. Survived by parents Pete and Mrs Crenshaw and four siblings Virginia Ruth Adell Ernest and W T Crenshaw Jr all of whom are small children.
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Pete Crenshaw
Kurten Highway
Bryan
Mark Crenshaw
R. L. Jackson
A. and
M. College
Steep Hollow Cemetery
Virginia Ruth
Adell
Ernest
W. T. Crenshaw Jr
October Cotton Consumption Rises in Washington Report
The Census Bureau reports October cotton consumption at 502,244 bales of lint and 57,955 of linters, up from September 491,655 lint and 61,308 linters, and above October last year’s 161,023 lint and 62,315 linters.
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Washington
Season Opens For Deer And Wild Turkey In Southwest Texas
Deer and wild turkey seasons open today drawing Bryan area hunters to Kerrville and surrounding counties. Kerr, Mason, Gillespie and Comal counties expect heavy hunting as deer kills rose 25 percent in 1931 versus 1930 while turkey harvest last fall surged nearly 200 percent.
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Bryan
Texas
Kerrville
Kerr
Mason
Gillespie
Comal
State Game Department
More Cash Comes To Swell Funds At A M College
Late contributions keep coming in to the A and M College Community Chest and boost totals. Teaching departments reported complete collections, while the Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service faced delays due to staff travel. Smaller salaried workers provided notable support with several departments still tallying final amounts.
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A-M College
A. and M. College Community Chest
Community Chest
Agricultural Experiment Station and Extension Service
Casey and Sparks
A. and M. College
Buildings and College Utilities Departments
Plans Set for Texas Associated Press Editors Meeting in Bryan
The Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association will convene in Bryan and College Station Sunday and Monday. About forty members plus spouses are expected. The vanguard arrives Saturday, with first business sessions Sunday morning at the LaSalle Hotel. Mrs. Lee J. Rountree and J. F. Casey lead planning for reception and entertainment including a barbecue at Chance plantation.
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Texas Associated Press Managing Editors’ Association
Bryan
College
Vanguard
Chamber of Commerce
War on ticks in Brazos County almost won
The Brazos County Commission ers Court asked that Live Stock Sanitary Commission and the Federal Government release the county from tick quarantine. 192 premises will remain for dipping after December 1 with varied hold times for infections found June to August. overall more than 98 percent of cattle are slated for release by January 1. 130000 head inspected monthly this year by 17 inspectors under Dr W C Brown.
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Brazos County
W. C. Brown
Bryan Resident Mourns Death of F M Black Leader in Education
Dr. John W. Black and family returned from Houston after the death of F. M. Black a longtime Houston educator and junior high school pioneer. Houston schools closed for funeral services and the Black Battalion pep squad stood at the graveside as high school glee clubs performed. Surviving are his wife three daughters mother and several siblings.
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John W. Black
Houseton
F. M. Black
Black
Houston High Schools
Houston Junior College
Houston
Texas
State Texts Book Commission
Black Battalion
Central High School
Frances
Alberta
Lucille Black
J. A. Black
Dallas
W. H. Norman
San Antonio
W. G. Gillespie
Annette Black
7 Black
John Black
Bryan
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Associated Press
Cuba
Camaguey
People’s Column
B. F. Delameter
Military Department of the College
Roosevelt
Legion
Prospect
Crenshaw Bay
Brown
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