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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1932
Page
6
Brazos County Boys and Girls Club urges reports for the Live-at-Home contest sponsored by the Lions Club and Chamber of Commerce. County agents sent scorecard blanks to farmers and farm women to report on ten items or their best achievement. prizes include $10, $50, or $150, with surplus going to Good Cheer.
The American Cyanamid Company introduces granular acrocyanamid with 22 percent nitrogen in pellet form for easier handling. Local notes mention optimistic farm data, 4-H member Louis Corgey plans for another corn demonstration, and county agent Benson offering bunches of bananas for top 100 percent reports. Reports due as farm population shifts noted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The Prospect box supper on Saturday November 26 at Prospect school drew a good crowd and raised 11 dollars to buy suits for the boys and girls basketball teams. The Prospect boys soon face Bowie school of Bryan at Prospect Friday afternoon. Local visits include Mr and Mrs Sidney White of Houston with Mr and Mrs Steele McDonald over Thanksgiving. Prospect school plans a free Christmas program on December 3 open to the public. Mrs A Straub and Herman Eidson visited Lola Price’s family in the week end.
Friday activities at the cemetery drew a well attended crowd. Mrs FE J Payne hosted a youths party Friday night. On Sunday the Moore family surprised Grandma with a birthday hipage. Mr and Mrs V C McDonald and Mr and Mrs Mats McDonald visited. Mr and Mrs Chas Payne and John also appeared Sunday.
Payne family members travelled to Galveston and report Eunice Griffin and Finney Payne recovering in Galveston clinic with hopes for Christmas home. Edge girls organize a basketball team and a singing Sunday afternoon December 4. Community meeting Friday.
Lowry Martin announces the Texas tax advisory committee of the Texas Press Association. The group includes J. W. Carpenter, George B. Dealey, Louis C. Elbert, J. N. Edens, W. S. Farish, Wilbur Hawk, W. O. Huggins, John A. Hulen, Frank Huntress, E. J. Keist, F. W. Kirk, Peter Molyneaux, Shearn Moody, J. E. McDonald, T. H. McGregor, S. W. Papert, Gus F. Taylor, L. A. Woods and other officials. The panel aims to study tax issues and press for prudent government expense reductions. An early Austin meeting is planned to organize and set action.
San Angelo records a sale of polo ponies with George Miller of San Antonio buying most of them. Prices ranged from 75 to 200 dollars per head as the animals were nearly finished polo stock.
Census Bureau reports 14 949 bales of cotton ginned in Brazos County from the 1982 crop prior to November 14 counting round as half bales. This compares with 22 754 bales shipped and ginned to the same date last year.
The 1932 Bryan City Directory by James E. Clifford & Co. catalogs 176 pages of local information. It notes 67 Johnsons the most common surname, with Smith 63 and Jones 57, and includes city government, churches, schools, post office and police details alongside a rich, cosmopolitan nod to Bryan’s diverse residents.
Mrs Mary Hunt Affleck a Brenham Texas poetess and DAR leader died in Galveston at 3 30 p m She was born in Danville Kentucky January 20 1847 and later lived on her husband s Brenham plantation Surviving are two sons T D Affleck Galveston and J H Affleck Austin Funeral services were held at the First Presbyterian church in Brenham She was a familiar figure to Bryan residents and local reunions of Head s and Green s Brigades.
Bryan residents joined relatives and friends to attend the funeral for C. S. Allen of Calvert at the Allen residence. The procession included H. H. Newton Pat Newton Mr. and Mrs. J. Webb Howell and others. Allen, father of Jack Allen a former Bryan businessman who married Mildred Newton, was killed Monday by a freight train in Calvert.
The First Quarterly Conference of the First Methodist church will be Sunday December 4 after the 11 o'clock service. Rev. F. E. Few presiding elder of the Huntsville district will preach and also preside at the conference.
A historic claim from Dr W B Caldwell notes a Pratt County record of over three thousand births with no maternal or infant loss in fifty years of practice in Illinois. The advertisement touts Syrup Pepsin as a mild stomach stimulant for children and a general pick me up for adults, urging readers to ask for Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin in stores.
In a BFYPS league boys game at Bowie school the Methodists edged the Presbyterians 28 to 25 after a late rally by Presbyterian guards Parker and Tardy. Adams led Methodists with strong second half scoring while Bryan paced the losers in points. Girls game saw College Avenue Baptist beat First Baptists 26 to 14 with Mathis and L Godwin strong guards for College Avenue.
Heavy importations of bananas continue to reach Laredo from Mexican plantations. Bananas cross by train and truck and are moved northward. The holiday trade is expected to boost December shipments as fruit remains plentiful in Laredo.
A fragment notes retail banana pricing around five cents per pound and twenty cents per dozen, with a summer example from Laredo where bananas sold at about three cents per pound.
In Canyon on November 29, two banks began closing at noon daily due to frequent robberies nationwide. The Hise National Bank had previously been robbed of about $15,000 less than two years ago.
In Longview, George Teague and his wife, aged 60 and 55, died within minutes of each other after she sought aid for him during a flu attack. She collapsed from shock and a heart ailment, mirroring a prior wish they expressed to pass away together.
Laredo reports increasing vegetable shipments as the market movement from the district is set to grow heavy by early December. Freight and farm traders anticipate more loadings and broader distribution as the season progresses into December.
A garbled ad promotes Allenra a rheumatic remedy claimed to ease excess uric acid and relieve pain. It asserts dramatic quick results within 18 to 48 hours and urges readers to buy from Jenkins Drug Store or any live druggist. It mentions cures for neuritis sciatica lumbago and neuralgia.
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