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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1934
Page
3
The Texas Hood’s Brigade veterans likely will miss their reunion next summer as most members of the 7th and 5th Regiments have passed. Captain Roberts, Texas Brigade veteran and Hood’s ally, died recently after a long service life including battle experiences at Gettysburg and Appomattox.
The document recalls Hood's Texas Brigade in major Civil War actions including Seven Pines and Malvern Hill, noting Texans fighting valiantly under Generals Hood and Jackson. It references the regiment's long opposition, loyalty to the Confederacy, and soldiers' sacrifices amid heavy odds and battlefield retreats. It also discusses postwar cotton policy debates and price fixes affecting U S cotton farmers, the Farm Board, and fiscal measures through 1934.
Tall ships may favor Port Isabel after a marine claim of sixteen feet of water over the bar and docks extending six hundred feet. The Texas Gulf ports list includes Port Arthur Galveston Texas City Houston Freeport Corpus Christi and now Port Isabel as gateways for oil cotton sugar wheat sulphur citrus and vegetables. A coastwise centennial trip could visit each port with shore tours to historical sites. The commentator urges booking passage now.
Two escaped Tucker State Prison Farm inmates Bus ter Yates and Curley Smith were recaptured near Murfreesboro Arkansas after kidnapping and detaining five boys for the weekend. Fendley Sutterfield who fled with them escaped capture.
Mrs Willis Van Devanter, wife of U S Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter, died in a Wiesbaden hotel Monday from a heart ailment, the report from Germany said.
Brazos County Boys and Girls Club and Extension Agents urge farmers to plant oats rye barley vetch Australian winter peas and Italian rye grass to cut feed costs and prevent soil wash. They cite terracing hill lands as a remedy and highlight cooperative cattle appraisals and club reports at Rally Day with Millican leading the exhibit effort.
The county meeting will convene at the Third Baptist Church at 9:00 a.m. Rev. E. Diggs pastors the church. C. H. Waller of Prairie View College will be the principal speaker. Topics cover county farmers welfare and county fair information.
The council met Saturday at 10 o’clock in Laurelia M. Holden’s office. It was agreed P L Anderson, who took a mattress making course at the farmers short course, will give a demonstration this month. Dates to be announced.
Rain has already aided plowed fields and the agent urges farm people who received rain to plant a fall garden. Six garden demonstrators again use cold frames to grow cabbage tomatoes beets and other seeds for early fall plants. Seeds suggested include cabbage carrots collards Irish potatoes kale lettuce spinach mustard and turnips. Call the home agent's office for more details.
The Roans Chapel 4-H club girls met at Jessie Hines home for a method demonstration on removing old paint from a dresser to re varnish. Fifteen girls attended and showed great interest in this month’s program.
Sept 5 local notes report S E Davis and family of Fort Worth visiting C M McGregor and family. Lord of Fort Worth also called on N M McGregor. J A McGregor of Houston spent weekend with the McGregors. C E Seely returned with her sister to visit after illness. D C Cowen and son R C vacationed in Caldwell with Jack Cowen. Alma Metcalfe and Houston Smith of Bryan attended. Milton Sawyers returned from vacation in Baytown with Lonnie Dixon.
Little Annie Mae Redman of Wellborn visited her aunt Mrs Chas Crawford last week. All school pupils are returning from vacations and start to school Monday. Mrs Baker and daughter Libbie visit Riley Baker of Baytown. Attendees from the community joined the Bryan funeral of Walter McGregor. Mrs Bill Symns and daughter Joyce Ruth visit Mrs Mills of Thornton.
Edge readers cheer the recent rain that allows fall gardens to be planted. Local events include Rev J J Pipkin’s sermon on Sunday and various visits by Edge residents to nearby towns. The Edge school opens Monday with Aubrey Dowell as principal and a team of primary teachers led by Mrs Yancy.
Mr and Mrs P K Trant and children Robert and Blocker visited Buffalo on Sunday meeting Mr and Mrs Alfred Crocker of Palestine. The group enjoyed a park picnic under the trees and shared dinner together Mrs Crocker is remembered in Bryan as Miss Glada Mae Trant.
Texas youths form a subsistence group to attend Texas A&M by sharing food costs and house expenses. Members from Grimes Madison and Orange counties rent a near college building with a motherhouse keeper and a donated used truck for transport. Each member must have 75 in cash and 10 monthly for expenses with organizers from Orange Grimes Madison counties and the college assisting.
Set and Mrs. C M Haliburton of Reliance were shopping in Brylan today, enjoying a day out and visiting local stores. They browsed merchandise and chatted with shopkeepers during their outing.
Nederland head coach Johnnie Koneeny and assistant J. R. Sikes train the Bulldogs twice daily as they rebuild after a near perfect season. Co captains Earl McMahon and Johnnie Arnold lead five returning lettermen including Clarence Richardson O D Bailey and Woodrow Babb. A new line and replacing Ashton Daigle pose challenges with twenty men in early workouts.
Joe Holick of College Station was in Bryan today visiting local sites and meeting residents.
George Walker of Tabor visited Bryan today making a brief trip to the city and calling on local residents and shops during his stop.
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