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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1929
Page
7
The People’s Column notes Fire Prevention Week nationwide with focus on eliminating fire hazards. Bryan residents are asked to review hazard letters mailed to property holders and return them to city hall by Saturday. The city has a good fire-loss record this year and urges greater individual care in cooperation with the Chamber of Commerce and authorities.
Nat Washer of San Antonio was elected chairman of Texas new nine member state board of education in its first meeting. Mrs Noyes Smith of Austin named vice chair and M N Marrs state superintendent of public instruction ex officio secretary. The board will consider school finances, establish new institutions, athletic needs, and appoint a five member textbook committee. Bryan attorney F L Henderson attended to assist in organization.
C. H. Pugh of Houston and H. H. Young of Houston visited Bryan today. Young, a former Bryan resident, was greeted by friends. T. B. Warden of Houston discussed road programs with Jno. M. Lawrence, Brazos county good roads chairman, offering assistance. Mrs. Polk of San Antonio and Mrs. Watkins of Houston accompanied by Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Ricks.
First and second year vocational agriculture students at Bryan High will compete for cash and trophies at the American Legion Fair in Bryan on October 31 to November 2. W. E. Leverkuhn announces score cards will judge entries with first year awards of 30 and 10 dollars from local clubs and 20 dollars for second year awards. a third year distinction may follow.
A special meeting of all officers and teachers of the First Baptist Sunday School along with class presidents and secretaries will be held tonight at seven fifty at the church. The educational director H P Black calls the session.
Candy Armstrong pleaded guilty in district court to stealing turkeys and was fined 50 dollars by District Judge W. C. Davis. Quincey Armstrong, indicted in the same case, was freed as the case against him was dismissed.
Atlanta dispatch reports the tropical gale near the Virginia Capes today added six more deaths to the seven blamed on the Bahamas last week. Victims include a drowned man, a carpenter crushed by a falling building, a woman electrocuted, a man struck by a downed wire, and two Black individuals who died on highways.
Senator W E Thomason announced the Old San Antonio Road association will meet in Nacogdoches during the Nacogdoches County Fair week. The meeting date is set for Thursday October 24 and Nat Patton of Crockett serves as association president.
The Bryan Chamber of Commerce Fire Prevention Committee will meet Thursday at 10 in City Hall to plan next Tuesday's program. Eugene J. Sanders of the state fire insurance commission will speak to the Chamber, schoolchildren, Lions and other clubs about fire prevention.
Engineers in Augusta Georgia say they have checked the levee danger north of the city and the floodwaters from the Savannah river would be confined to about 100 blocks in the lower section. Waters backing up from the breach four miles below town threaten that area as residents had been urged to move to higher ground.
Denison resident L. D. Gaffey has single handedly begun and continues a two story concrete business building 50 by 120 feet. For nine years he toils at odd hours using mental blue prints and serving as mason carpenter plumber electrician and more to complete the structure. He has molded over 3000 cement squares for the walls.
The $1 150,000 Webb county concrete highway from Laredo city limits eastward over 11 miles to the Webb Duval county line will be completed soon, contractor Henry B. Zachry announced.
A two story private sanitarium in Dallas burned down last night. No patients were inside during the blaze. City officials launched a probe into the cause of the fire.
Members of the Pastors' Association and their families enjoyed a barbecue supper at Sue Haswell Memorial Park in College Station. Roy S. Holloman and Rev. M. L. Hollis led the six o'clock dinner featuring barbecued pork beef and lamb, fruit salad and ice cream, as the first dinner sponsored by the pastors organization. Attendees included Rev. and Mrs. R. S. Marshall Rev. J. Tatum Rev. M. L. Hollis and others plus Walter Johnson and Mrs. Lee J. Rountree.
Earl Graham Post 159 American Legion will meet Friday at the First Methodist church to discuss plans for the Brazos county fair. Committees will be named for fair duties. The event runs October 31 to November 2, with Judge A S McSwain urging all Bra zos county legionnaires to attend and help ensure a successful Legion sponsored fair.
College Station Oct 2 Bryan College Station fans urged to buy football tickets for the Texas Aggies game against the Sweens Greenies in New Orleans on Oct 5. James Sullivan A and M business manager urged early purchases. A special train with six coaches is planned leaving Bryan Thursday evening and arriving in New Orleans Friday morning.
Chicago October 2 The national Grain Marketing Corporation a proposed twenty million dollar venture aims to cooperate with the federal farm board as it extends marketing aid to grain farmers William Settle chairman of the organizing committee said the project may become a working reality within a week
The cotton market closed lower with futures off 15 to 20 points. New cotton prices were quoted from 18 to 19 cents.
COLLEGE STATION Oct 2 Prof James E Pearce University of Texas will speak at the annual fall banquet of the Social Science Seminar and the Science Seminar on Monday Oct 7 at 6 50 PM in the evening. The discussion covers anthropology and human problems and the relevance to mental operations and racial migration. Reservations advised by Saturday noon.
Port Arthur October 2 officials of the Sabine Towing Company owners of the tug Bafshe say two hydro planes will search for the barges drifting in the gulf each with a crew of seven men The barges were cut loose when the tug's engines failed The Bafshe has been located and is being towed into Mobile for repairs
The Brazos County Singing Convention announces its 45th annual session at Reliance Church on Sunday October 6 led by president Jess E. Hensarling. Gospel hymns will be sung by rural church choirs with visiting singers from Houston Navasota Madisonville Iola Normangee Brenham and others. Morning and evening services with noon dinner from attendees lunch baskets.
New York report notes the Mayor James J. Walker office lines were tapped. Experts found a broken padlock on the main terminal box and a short wire linking the mayoral phones to an abandoned line running through the aldermanic chamber.
Lady Isabella Howard wife of the British ambassador will host Prime Minister MacDonald and his daughter Ishbel during their Washington visit in October reflecting official hospitality arrangements.
A K Short of the Federal Land Bank urged Texas residents to unite for soil and water conservation to avoid fertility loss. In Bryan, he spoke at a Chamber of Commerce meeting where plans for countywide sessions were announced. Capt George W Griner highlighted Bryan’s improvements and the A and M stadium project.
Rev. R. S. Marshall of the First Methodist church heads plans for Loyalty Week starting Sunday October 6. Daily services at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Rev. J. N. R. Score of St. Pauls Methodist Houston will deliver sermons all week at 9:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. and speak to children at 4 p.m.
In Marion North Carolina the United Textile Workers and non union workers clash at Marion Manufacturing Company cotton mill. Two killed and 15 wounded during a riot that began at 1 AM when pickets formed outside the mill gate and a fusillade broke out after shift change. National guardsmen were dispatched to Marion.
The mill court of inquiry in Borger began an anticipated four hour session into the slaying of District Attorney John Holmes. The inquiry also weighs charges against a peace officer Brigadier General Walters and Governor Dan Moody are mentioned as having sufficient soldiers to protect witnesses.
BRENHAM Oct. 2 G G McNeese cists manager Southwest Telephone Co. worked normally for months with a neck fracture unknown until an X‑ray revealed the vertebra injury. He fell against a chair causing the fracture and will wear a brace for about two months per his doctor.
R Mi drews presented the M Lodge in Lockhart with three gavels from an old boyhood post in Virginia, dating back more than 100 years. The gavels, made of light wood, come with historical significance for the local Masons.
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