Brazos County Club Activities Look to Growth and Oats Planting
County club leaders plan a county wide meeting on Saturday October 8 to boost efficiency and self improvement among members. Farmers discuss group terracing replacing individual work while Cavitt Ranch owner pushes for a wool growers association and imports of hundreds of sheep. The note highlights Farm Journal prizes and trips to Washington for top club work in 1927, plus community updates and a weekend rainstorm.
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Commissioners Court
Brazos County
Sam Cavitt
Cavitt
Wheelock
Roads In Central Texas Improved Says Houston Man
Houston Post Dispatch correspondent Boyd W Gatewood writes that engineers praise the new highway commission accounting system as far more efficient than the old method. He notes division engineer John E Blair faces tough districts in Madison Robertson Milam and Milam counties with Montgomery county a stubborn hotspot.
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Boyd W. Gatewood
The
Houston Post- Dispatch
New Highway Commission
Commission
Highway Department
Austin
Texas
New York
John E. Blair
No. 17 Division
Bryan
Blair
Freestone
Leon
Madison
Walker
Grimes
Brazos
Robertson
Milam
Burleson
Madison County
Montgomery County
B. K. Patton
Shreveport
King's Highway Opens School Year With Cleanup
King's Highway school began September 26 with large enrollment. Mrs R B Hearne serves a third term as principal, with Mr and Mrs JoeRoac as teachers. Wm Bush resigns as trustee after 20 years, Adolph Kopetsky appointed. Trustees B W Hardin and Geo McDonald. Building cleaned, yard weeded, new well and pump, shades installed. Reba Kelly leaves for Hearne.
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King’s Highway
R. B. Hearne
Joe Roac
Wm. Bush
Adolph Kopetsky
B. W. Hardin
Geo. McDonald
Reba Kelly
Hearne
Rainbow Girls Install Officers For Assembly 41
Bryan Assembly No. 41 Rainbow Girls installed a new board of officers at an open meeting held last night in the Masonic building. The lodge and reception rooms were decorated with Queen's Wreath, autumn blooms, and a punch service centered a mound of flowers.
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Bryan
Order of the Rainbow Girls
Masonic
Rain bow Girls Install Officers At Social Meeting
Members and guests gathered for a social half hour as Miss Gussie Ballerstedt led the installation ceremony assisted by Mrs. J R Wright and Miss Marie Graham. New officers include Ellis Ballerstedt as Worthy Advisor and a slate of named officers with remarks from retiring advisor Ballerstedt and greetings from incoming Worthy Advisor Ellis Ballerstedt.
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Logan Berry Punch
M. R. Bentley
Rainbow Girls
Gussie Ballerstedt
J. R. Wright
College Station
Assembly
Marie Graham
Ellis Ballerstedt
Gussie Odom
Charity
Minnie Lee Ayres
Hope
Lucile Ayres
Marguerite Buchanan
Frances Davis
Kathleen Bullard
Lois Brown
Marjorie Cavitt
Mary Martha Black
Ethel Ferguson
Mildred McKenzie
Joyce Smith
Bess McGee
Ruth Smith
Jane Cavitt
Lee J. Rountree
Rotary Club Kerrville Meeting Highlights Mckenzie Reports
Oak McKenzie described Kerrville Rotary presidents meeting outcomes focusing on student loan funds and a new Aims and Objects committee to direct the year’s program. The session covered by Mrs. Waldrop new member, upcoming speakers, and a plan to visit A and M students aided by clubs. Nobel prizes note.
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Oak McKenzie
Rotary Club
Rotary
Kerrville
M. College
All International Governors
A. M. Waldrop
Black
J. S. Caldwell
E. P. Humbert
W. E. Farmer
W. J. Coulter
E. J. Fermier
Wilson Bradley
Beckwith
W. H. Holzman
Geo. A. Adams
C. L. Benson
Jao. W. Black
A. S. McSwain
W. I. McCulloch
J. L. Reese
H. T. Schovassa
M. E. Wallace
D. L. Wilson
H. H. Williamson
I. E. Warren
J. D. Wilson
E. E. McQuillen
Dad Short Addresses Baptist Class in Bryan
A. K. Dad Short of Houston spoke to the Business Men's Bible Class at First Baptist Sunday School in the Carnegie Library Bryan. He urged searching the scriptures for guidance and noted the Bible as a book of knowledge to solve present problems. The audience appreciated his practical insights and invited a return visit.
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A. K
Dad” Short
Houston
Bryan
First Baptist Sunday School
Carnegie Library
Texas
Mr. Short
Bryan High School Commercial Department Grows
Miss Mabel Zimmerman and Miss Mae Patterson join Bryan high school commercial department as Weldon Farmer, son of W. E. Farmer, plans to enter. The department enjoys public favor but faces severe crowding with no free space and 86 seniors this year.
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Mabel Zimmerman
Mae Patterson
Bryan High School
Weldon Farmer
W. E. Farmer
Bryan
Commercial
Bryan High School elects senior class officers for year
The senior class of Bryan High School elected officers for the year. President John Sidney Smith, vice president Margaret Grant, secretary Nelson Ful-... The school cafeteria reports increased patronage and the overall student body notes convenience in meals.
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Bryan High School
John Sidney Smith
Margaret Grant
Nelson Ful
School Class Officers Named In Yearbook Listing
The article lists student officers for each class including presidents vice presidents secretaries and treasurers. Notable names include Alvie Adams Jessie Myrtle Henry Kathleen Bullard Charles Green Ruth Johnson Christine Lichte Mary Jane Nall Leon Keneeny John M Barron Frances Thomas Mary Martha Black.
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Alvie Adams
Jessie Myrtle Henry
Joe Kelly Butler
Kathleen Bullard
Charles Green
Ruth Johnson
Christine Lichte
Mary Jane Nall
Leon Keneeny
John M. Barron
Frances Thomas
Mary Martha Black
Interesting Facts From A European Survey Over Years
A European survey compiled over many years highlights notable truths about culture science and daily life. It emphasizes enduring patterns in public opinion and societal behavior across multiple nations and timeframes.
Curious facts and quirky notes from a bygone page
Experts say lightning favors Poplar, Speech trees follow as targets. In Japan open windows violate police rules to deter robberies. The Hub nickname for Boston traces to Oliver Wendell Holmes, once a hub of the solar system. Sponges are animals, not plants. Hickory wood is best for gal club shafts, persimmon for heads after two years of seasoning.
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Japan
Boston
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Boston Statehouse
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Farm Journal
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Dudolph Kindt
R. R. Hearne
Grant
George
Sam McDonald
Claude
Cottonwood
W. P. Nash
Doris Fay Hearne
Cortez
Brunswick
J. Kaplan & Co
Oak M
Kenzie
Coats
Just
Bryan, Texas
Baptist
High School News
Globe Dry Goods Company
H. Bloch
Prop
School
All Musical Acces
Sories
C., J. Jancik
Griessers
HY. T. Schovaisa
J. Groginsky & Son
Bryan Piggly Wiggly CO
Ler
Ethel Skelton
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