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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1935
Page
3
Brazos County 4-H club notes and soil erosion program details include enrollment for the Texas Centennial farm and home contest with prizes, committees named for terracing work, and deadlines for 4-H reports. County officials urge farmers and farm women to participate and get reports in promptly.
Benchley News notes Sunday visits from Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Peyton and children to W. H. Peyton s family. Alma Rice of Altus visits relatives S. R. Rice and others host travelers from Hearne and Bryan. many, including the Rambo, Haltom, Rice, and Henry groups, attend gatherings, showers, and a ball game. Henry reunion planned for Sunday October 20 with expected large turnout and speakers.
Harvey residents spent Monday visiting Mrs. J. P. Gilpin who is ill at Wilkerson Memorial Clinic. Ruby Merle Dyess is recovering after appendicitis. Harvey folks attended a singing convention at Reliance on Sunday and plan to meet again next May. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Cook visited Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Hensarling. The Kelleys visited friends Saturday night and Sunday. Mrs. N. C. Cole and Mrs. W. S. Jones visited Mrs. Aubrey Jones.
A Rye club meeting featured A D Jackson chief of the publications division at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station urging signs directing traffic through the community next year to showcase farming and home improvement demonstrations. Mrs F L Sloop county rural school supervisor praised local school work. A special meeting was set for Thursday to plan the American Legion county fair. Dickie Holmgreen son of Mr and Mrs EB Holmgreen has recovered enough to be out after five weeks illness.
Austin reports rural resettlement families become eligible for NYA high school aid. Eligible youths aged 16 to 25 may receive up to six dollars monthly for part time work while in school. Applicants must come from relief or works program families and attend eligible non-profit or parish schools with certification by resettlement managers.
Zion Lutheran Church of Kurten will hold its annual Mission Festival on Sunday October 13. German language services at 10 30 am with Rev W E Dorre of Houston and 3 pm with Rev T Bornemann of Galveston speaking on why Christians should support mission work at home and abroad. A basket dinner will be served at noon on church grounds. Public invited.
Madisonville October 8 two people died in a highway collision near town when a car struck a truck. Miss Wilma Jean Reding 20 and Jay Bozeman 41 Madisonville businessman and former peace officer were killed. Reding skull fractures and multiple injuries. Bozeman suffered multiple fractures and internal injuries. Rev C F Andrews Baptist minister conducted Reding funeral. Reding is survived by parents sister and brother. Bozeman survived by wife two daughters and father. Two truck passengers were severely injured and hospitalized in Galveston.
An old advertisement urges relief from nocturnal urination and morning fatigue from poorly functioning kidneys. It promotes Warner's Compound formerly Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy, claiming a physician’s prescription basis, a doctor’s affidavit, and money back guarantee after the first bottle if no relief.
Tuesday and Friday notices list local people visiting, traveling, and moving in Bryan and nearby towns. Highlights include Rev. Tim Valenta called to Cameron for his brother Tony Valenta’s pneumonia, L. D. Weinhart’s Iowa visit to Bryan, the move of Mr. and Mrs. George Ogee to Haswell cottages, and various trips to Tyler Waco Houston Fort Worth and other places.
Weekend sale at Heatly Furniture Co features numerous used items including 1-2 piece living room suites from 39.50 or 29.50, 1-4 piece bedroom sets from 37.50, 1-8 piece dining room suites 39.50, walnut finish dining suite, 2 oak dressers 7.95 each, daybed with mattress 12.50, breakfast room suites 8.95 each, gas ranges 17.50 and 24.50, eight burner oil stove 9.50, plus trade-in allowances on new furniture and stoves. Phone 490.
Danish magazine describes Barbara Hutton as possessing a monotonous voice and overbearing lips, quoting a Copenhagen interview aboard a ferry with Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow. The dialogue repeats questions about wealth and Danish stereotypes, with interruptions by the count and sharp retorts about being the richest woman.
Danish interviewer notes real objections came from Count Haugwitz Feventlow who shielded Countess Barbara. Editors say close circles explain the countess is expecting a happy event and Kurt wished to protect her nerves by keeping interviewers away, though his conduct was still deemed shameful by Danish press.
United States Senator Tom Connally announced he would leave Tuesday for Seattle and sail October 16 for the Philippines to attend the inauguration of the islands first president. His son Ben Connally, a Houston attorney, will accompany him as part of a party of American officials led by Vice President Garner Speaker Burns and War Secretary Dern.
Washington October 8 The department of agriculture announced a cotton crop of 11 464 000 bales was indicated October 1 25 000 less than indicated a month earlier.
A new melon variety named twin mellow dew melon was discovered by pioneer grower M. L. Todd on his Pecos area farm near Pecos. The find occurred in October, signaling a potential local agricultural breakthrough and new harvest prospects for the Pecos region.
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