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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1929
Page
8
The column urges daily talk of happiness over complaints. It counsels readers to spread positive thoughts as they go about their lives. The piece suggests happiness may come from strangers or daily interactions and will grow with persistent optimism.
The article notes Mrs. H. I. Williamson is spending the week in Temple under hospital observation due to several weeks of ill health. It also mentions Charles Finley, son of Dean Charles Finley of A and M College, visiting his grandparents Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Wood at Palm Court apartments and returning soon to be a high school student at College Station.
Mrs. J L Cobb awoke to flames cutting off the stairs in her South Washington Avenue home and descended via a sheet rope from a second story front room. The interior and furnishings were destroyed with an estimated loss of 4500 dollars, partly insured. The adjacent house occupied by L E Sykes suffered scorching but was saved from major damage.
The cotton market fell again with futures closing 18 to 20 points down. New crop cotton prices declined to 18 1 4 to 19 1 4 cents.
Texas A and M opened its 1929 training season at College Station with 52 of 59 invited players reporting. Twelve holdovers from last year including Captain Tommie Mills and Ralph Dorsey led the veterans as two lettermen were absent. Coach Matty Bell supervised two hours of morning drills and a two hour afternoon session under hot sun. Forward passing and line work highlighted day one as four teams formed for intra squad play.
Coaches from A and M College Allen Academy and Bryan High discussed football's role in youth development at the Bryan Lions Club meeting. Matty Bell praised football for building discipline and teamwork, noting 51 of 55 invited players attended first training at Kyle Field, with rest expected soon.
The bulletin forecasts mostly cloudy skies with local showers for Bryan and vicinity tonight and Thursday. East Texas will be cloudy with showers, while West Texas expects occasional rain tonight and Thursday and warmer conditions in the southern part.
In Oregon 25,000 men fought wildfires as officials closed all 14 national forests to curb arson. A blaze neared Portland while another devoured forty square miles of high value timber in western Oregon.
The Rye Boys and Girls 4-H Club heard talks on good roads last night. Speakers outlined benefits to citizens and a round table discussion followed. John M. Lawrence J. D. Martin Walter Wipprecht and W. S. Barron addressed the gathering.
An official communique from the Manchurian government announced that fighting between Russian and Chinese troops at frontier points in eastern and western Manchuria had ceased Monday.
A. H. King of Throckmorton and Bob Barker of the senate and commission visited Bryan on Monday and dined with Speaker W. Barren and W. Howell. King outlined a two prison plan for Texas with locations in the east and west while Barker headed to Austin from Huntsville. Barron indicated no final decision but noted the first prison would likely be built in this section.
A letter from Mrs. Stephen Chamness executive secretary of the State P T A praises Bryan P T A workers for their correspondence course work. She notes about 300 lessons to be graded with 150 from Ninth District women, calling the membership earnest and inviting graduates to the State Convention in Waco in November.
Thirteen passengers and the crew escaped with their lives after the air liner Romar es forced to land at sea. The plane rests in 60 feet of water and salvage teams cannot raise it.
Teague city manager F. F. Sims and Mayor S. W. Robinson visited Bryan on Monday to inspect the electric power plant. They gathered data on costs and profits as Teague plans a municipally owned light and power facility to replace the existing high line from the waterworks plant.
The Senate today formally ordered an investigation into the activities of American ship building corporations at the unsuccessful 1927 Geneva naval limitations conference.
C. D. Waggoner president of the Bank of Telluride was arrested eight miles north of New Castle Wyoming after admitting he engineered fake telegrams to secure 500000 credit from New York banks. He said the move aimed to protect Telluride depositors and claimed no one else knew of the manipulation.
Corsicana official J. F. Sullivan division superinten dent B S Holliman Ennis commercial agent J H Evetts Corsicana and G W Martin Southern Pacific local agent met Bryan businessmen to discuss a possible flag stop for the Sunbeam between Dallas and Houston. Navasota College Station Hearne and Mexia flagged stops noted. The visitors praised Bryan as progressive and promised cooperation.
In New Braunfels on September 11 the jury to try Mrs Rebecca Brad ley Rogers for the December 1926 Farmers National Bank of Boea holdup and $1000 escape was completed after 152 veniremen were examined.
W. E. Leverkuhn chairman of the Lions rural committee will organize help from Lions to provide entertainment at the Tabor meeting Friday night.
Rear Admiral J H Dayton relinquishes command of the American naval force in European waters and applies for retirement after forty years of service.
In Flushing Holland on September 11, the Belgian steamer Estela collided with the German Indria in fog on the Scheldt river. Fourteen sailors are believed drowned with only two rescued from the sinking vessel Estela.
City School Superintendent H. L. Durham announced that all students entering Bryan schools must be vaccinated before the start of the term on Monday Sept 23. The board passed a resolution and enforcement will be strict. No student will be admitted without a doctor’s vaccination certificate.
A charred body found in the ruins of a summer cottage near Battle Lake is believed to be Congressman J. Kvale of Minnesota's 7th district. The cottage was destroyed by fire last night and found today by a neighbor who returned to fix fences.
Poll returns from Senator Williams of San Antonio indicate one hundred House members and twenty one senators will be needed for a quorum in a brief special session. The plan would admit young wives of Confederate veterans to the pension rolls by lowering the age limit from 75 to a younger threshold.
Interstate Commerce Commission approves 7 cent per 100 pounds cut for grain from Kansas City to Gulf ports by Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe and Chicago Rock Island and Pacific. Reductions take effect yesterday.
Col. C. C. Todd received a message from Vicksburg Miss informing him of his brother A. Miller Todd death. A Miller Todd aged 55 was a graduate of A. and M College in 1894 and had worked along the Mississippi river as a government aer. He was stricken with apoplexy during the morning and died suddenly. Col. Todd left on the afternoon train to attend the funeral at Vicksburg.
Governor Dan Moody named J H Walker chief clerk of the general land office to succeed the late J T Robison. Walker has served 21 years in the land office, starting in January 1899. His son Mills P Walker is a Bryan resident and long time public official in Texas.
Marion Halsell credits the Be an Weekly Eagle for the successful sale of used cars by Halsell von Company in recent days. Halsell said sales have been good from a field this was moderately reached through the columns of your weekly.
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