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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1933
Page
1
The Eagle editor notes unfavorable reaction to Bryan’s water supply. Citizens fear mineral content will corrode cast iron mains and threaten health, especially for children, with some even considering pumping water from wells or using water for auto radiators. Action is urged promptly.
Miss Mary McDonald daughter of Mr and Mrs R M McDonald Normangee underwent a tonsil operation this morning at Wilkerson Memorial Clinic. Miss Imogene Webb returned from a week with her sister Mrs L W Storms Jr at Conroe. Mrs R S Webb is spending the day in Houston.
All students planning to attend Stephen F. Austin high school this year assemble in the auditorium at 8 30 Monday morning. After a short assembly, registration by classes follows. Seniors and juniors register in the morning. sophomores and freshmen in the afternoon.
All teachers in Brazos county rural schools are set to meet Saturday at 10 in the county courthouse to discuss the coming year. Supplies will be distributed and plans reviewed as Allen Farm, Edge, and Millican schools prepare to open, with most white rural schools expected to be operating within a week.
Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce directors approve a resolution urging Governor Ferguson to restore most educational personnel salary cuts and to push the issue through the Legislature. They back graveling the San Antonio Trail to the Brazos river and name a one man committee to pursue the project.
Mr and Mrs J R Simpson and children left Galveston for Bryan to escape the forecast storm described as the worst to enter the gulf by the Weather Bureau at 1 am. The family visited in the home of Mrs Simpson’s sister Mrs J K Walker, who recalls the 1900 Galveston disaster and flood. Both women survived hardships then and emphasize safety first amid new threats.
Cotton growers from Brazos Bur leson Grimes Milam Robertson and Washington counties met in Bryan to back a 25 000 000 acreage limit to affect all growers in proportion The Brazos Valley Cotton Cooperative Association members pledged support to administration plans and urged attendees to attend a Dallas meeting the next day
Bryan residents attended the Wheelock service for John B. Cavitt 70 a pioneer Texan and uncle of local Cavitts. The ceremony at Volney Cavitt Cemetery featured Dr. W R Hall of Corsicana officiating and a Bryan First Presbyterian quartet. Cavitt, lifelong Presbyterian elder and former Texas Presbyterian College trustee president, died Sunday at 4 30 am leaving three sisters and several nieces and nephews. He never married.
Relief in Brazos County is reduced to essentials with only in kind aid and no cash payments. Persons under 70 must be certified unable to work to receive relief, and most must work in cotton fields. A white woman with a baby exception was allowed aid. Workers are paid in kind at 80 cents per hour for common labor.
John Taylor of Normangee charged with murder after the fatal shooting of Henry M. Black, 80, Macy merchant, during a dispute over barbed wire. Taylor released on 2500 bond, jailed in Brazos county, preliminary hearing set. Black dies instantly. Taylor allegedly fired after Black reached for his six shooter. Funeral services scheduled for Black at Franklin cemetery Tuesday.
The Southwest Telephone Company will lay 7 000 feet of underground cable and wire new buildings at the A and M College. Marvin Atkins says the duct system for telephone and electric wires from the chemistry building east is done. A Dallas foreman arrives Thursday to supervise three weeks of local labor.
The Bryan Lions Club endorsed the Bryan Boy Scouts Court of Honor set for September 29. Lion President W. M. Sparks named a committee to organize the event. Lions Coulter Smith and E. R. Bryant joined the troop board, with W. H. Andrew chairing planning for merit badges and promotions. The club approved a $100 loan to a student athlete at A. & M. College and outlined the 1933-34 budget.
The official canvass of the August 26 special election shows repeal of the 18th Amendment failed by 52 votes in the county while beer legalization passed by 49 votes and Brazos county local option won by 140 votes. The tallies: repeal 796 for 848 against. home rule 949 for 376 against. bonds 883 for 662 against. 3.2 beer 790 for 741 against. homestead exemption 1231 for 257 against. local option 785 for 645 against.
Petitions calling for a special election to decide on proposed public works were circulating in Brazos County today. The plan includes courthouse remodeling with a jail atop, purchase of a county poor farm for paupers and prisoners, and建 buildings in each precinct to house road machinery and a caretaker.
Funeral services were held Monday at 5 PM at the First Baptist Church in Navasota for Mrs Emma Thomas a longtime member who died Sunday night after a stroke. Interment followed in Navasota Cemetery with Rev W N Purcell presiding. She was 51, survived by two brothers five grandchildren and several Bryan relatives attended.
The First Baptist church of Hearne moved into its new 32 room educational building for Sunday School with visitors from nearby towns. The enlarged auditorium and renamed church plant position Hearne as having one of the best facilities for its size in the region. Rev. C E Bullock, long time pastor, preached at Bryan’s College Avenue Baptist Church. W S Barron noted Bullock was the last to preach before Roy S Holloman began his eight year tenure, as W B Breazeale will start his new pastorate next Sunday.
The Bryan Press Company reports a total of 8877 bales of cotton weighed this year up to Monday. The current total is well ahead of the same period last year as cotton arrives earlier and faster than in the previous season.
Domingo Rios a Mexican national was charged with drunken driving and had a Tuesday hearing before Justice J T McGee. He was held to the grand jury with bond fixed at two hundred dollars.
Funeral services were held for J. F. Cobb 74 a veteran dry goods merchant who died Monday in a Temple hospital Rev W O Wright led the service in the Masonic cemetery Cobb longtime manager of the J F Cobb company is survived by his wife and a son E M Perry of Navasota attended the funeral and met friends in Bryan on their return
Dr. T. T. Walton, Bryan physician, is reported to be getting along fine after an appendicitis operation Sunday morning. He suffered an acute attack at about 3 a.m. Sunday with only slight warning. The operation was at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Mrs. John P. Jolley wife of a former county commissioner died Monday at Lockhart. She leaves a husband and ten children including James Jolley who plays for the Wichita and Denver Western association baseball teams.
BPWC announces a year of meetings led by program chair Miss Stella Stuart with topics including The Woman Who Sells on Sept 28, Women in Education on Oct 26, an outside speaker on Art on Nov 28, a Christmas party on Dec 21, Health on Jan 4, History of Texas on Feb 1, The Old Forts on Mar 1, Public Relations banquet in April, Art exhibit in May, and Election of officers in June.
In Austin on September 4, discussion among Texas lawmakers points to eleven major subjects for the special Forty-third Legislature session, with many predicting a 60 day run. Governors and courts are noted in the article regarding the scope of bills outside the governor's call.
Damage and loss of life flood in Brownsville Bay City and surrounding towns as 80 mph winds rattle the coast. Power water outages hit Brownsville Harlingen and nearby cities while Raymondville is reportedly wrecked and roads 75 miles around Brownsville are impassable.
Mrs A L Mondrick and son and Mr and Mrs J W visit Bryan relatives after leaving Brownsville on the second storm warning. They still hear nothing from Brownsville despite repeated efforts by wire. Albert Bullock's family shares the same lack of news from Brownsville where his daughter Mrs Jim Green resides. Another daughter Mrs Gayden White, in Miami, survived a previous hurricane without injury.
The oil tanker L. J. Drake bound for South Pass Louisiana yesterday had First Mate Johnson seriously injured amid Gulf winds. Coast guard intercepted message describing a fractured leg a broken arm a broken nose and internal injuries.
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