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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1917
Page
1
Paris reports war minister Paul Painleve cannot form the new ministry to replace Ribot due to last minute withdrawal by socialists Albert Thomas and M Varrière. He told President Paincare he will continue efforts and asks for more time for reflection.
A Houston citizens board report on a mutiny and raid by negro soldiers criticizes the police for being too harsh in places but praises their efforts to quell the disturbance. The document cites race prejudice and lax camp supervision as fuels for the riot and notes soldiers ignored civil and War Department rules.
Mrs Gobina Banjo died yesterday in the Smetana community and the burial took place there this afternoon at 4 o clock. Rev Father Gleissner of St Joseph s Catholic Church officiated. She was born in this country 29 years ago, daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank Regmund. She leaves a husband several brothers and two children a three year old and a two week old baby.
More than a thousand exemptions from military draft citing indispensability to war industry were on file at General Crowder's office with more expected. The petitions appeal to the president as final judge in such cases.
Dawn M. Walsh Jr and Theo B. Liman student aviators were killed when their planes collided five hundred feet above the ground.
Associated Press reports in Austin that Governor Ferguson’s prior testimony, including materials from the March inquiry, was introduced today.
The Brazos county public school teachers gathered at East Side High School for a week long county institute under County Superintendent Powers. Prof. A H Lehdigh spoke on soils and soil improvement while Dr H F Musselman presented lectures on building an educational program on a life basis and on the future of democracy.
From Monday's Daily Eagle the county commissioners opened their monthly session with plans for courthouse improvements road and bridge projects a petition for a new western county road and other sundry matters on the agenda.
Cotton receipts logged by Farmers Union warehouses include 1108 Lawrence, 1772 Brick, and 1862 total 4237 units across their facilities. The figures summarize inventory activity for the period.
Amsterdam dispatch notes the German reply to the Pope's peace proposal will accept the plan in principle, with no details. The Weser Leitung adds the reply will not be submitted to the Reichstag's main committee.
Right Hon. Viscount Reading, lord chief justice of England, arrives today at an Atlantic port aboard an American ship from Great Britain, accompanied by Lady Reading.
Col C J Crane US Army retired returns as commandant of cadets at Texas A and M College in College Station. His long career includes service from 1881 to 1916 in the Twenty Fourth Infantry Ninth Volunteers and Porto Rican regiments with assignments in San Francisco Iloilo Cebu Fort Sam Houston and duties at West Point Fort Thomas and Laredo. He and wife reside on the college campus.
Saturday arrests by the sheriff’s force charged Tate Dave Jones Jeems Cald well John Walker and James Robinson with misdemeanor theft of cotton seed valued at 45.70 from John McCallum’s seed house at Tabor. The seed, moved toward Bryan, was scattered along a route and traced. capture occurred before the seed was disposed of.
A death certificate for Eva A Loftin aged 2 years 11 months was filed Tuesday by Dr W A Smith Millican with County Clerk Ferguson. She died August 29.
Paris dispatch says French troops attacked in the Cham pagne region and overran the first two German lines, entering the third position. The war office reports all Germans in those trenches were killed or captured. British lines near Hargicourt were repulsed after German assault failed.
H O Ferguson county clerk records multiple oil land leases to J D Adams and a trust agreement among J D Adams J P Douglas and Frank Sievert for Blanche L Petroleum association. The group aims to drill near Bryan on Wixon creek with an eight eighth royalty and four cents a ton coal, finances via 25000 capital stock, and plans five year terms with potential extensions.
Austin report states Acting Governor Hobby plans no repeal of Texas state educational laws. He reportedly rejects the lawmakers petition to submit repeal, citing desire to preserve statutes from prior sessions. Attorney General Looney says the creation of new educational institutions was within constitutional authority.
In London at an Empire Parliamentary luncheon, Andrew Bonar Law told Medill McCormick that Germans show genius in military arms yet err in human affairs. He said their biggest mistake was driving the United States into the war, a factor that aided the Allies.
Dallas voters chose dry by about 1500 despite 6 precincts unfinished. Final tallies show dry 10 516 and wet 8 564 with roughly 19 000 votes cast from a 28 000 registration. Saloons will close October 20 in Dallas County Texas.
Ft Worth thirty miles from Dallas plans a local option election on October 1. Business leaders in both cities argue that prohibition gains cross-border support only when both remain dry, and Dallas going dry is expected to help Ft Worth backers secure decisive victory with broader economic and moral backing.
E. L. Parks received a telegram Monday evening stating that Gonzales went dry in Saturday's local option election, confirming the result of the community vote on alcohol sales.
San Diego reports the gasoline schooner Anvill was escorted by a U S warship and captured off the lower California coast Sunday with more than thirty alleged draft evaders and enemy aliens aboard.
The Food Administration Grain corporation, Delaware chartered with Wilmington HQ and $50 000 capital, is granted a Texas business permit. Headquarters will be in Galveston. The charter cites the August 14 1917 executive order to boost production, conserve supply, and control food and fuel distribution. Incorporators are Herbert Hoover, Edgar Rickard, and Curtis H. Lindley of Washington DC.
The adjutant general's office orders Brazos county exemption board to supply 86 white men. The local board has 46 men passed for physicals with no exemption claims, but those men await acceptance by the adjutant general after district board action.
The Associated Press reports Petrograd on December 12 that Kerensky is about to take the post as commander-in-chief of the Russian armies.
The Tabor school gains a new county road reducing travel by several miles. County commissioners granted the petition after viewing the site. Cost includes barbed wire fencing and small bridges about $200 with right of way donated.
The Associated Press reports Finance Minister Nekrasoff says Korniloft troops marching toward Pskoff and Dno have been outmaneuvered by loyal provisional government forces and their retreat is cut off. Generals Denekine and Valueff have joined Korniloff, after an earlier report claimed Denekine’s arrest.
Associated Press reports on September 12 that Major General Conch Bruvovitch is named commander-in-chief of the Russian army, succeeding General Korniloff. details emphasize high command change in the eastern front.
Petrograd reports Alexander Guchoff an Octobrist leader who allied with General Korniloff has been arrested and placed under guard at Pskoff.
Petrograd reports the provisional government declares a state of war in Moscow town and surrounding district, outlining intensified military measures and elevated security. The move follows rising tensions and strategic concerns in the capital region.
Argentina responds to the German legation by sending passports for Count Luxburg, whose whereabouts are unknown. The government demands explanation of Luxburg's coded messages to Berlin routed via the Swedish legation.
Berlin reports 8,900 prisoners captured in the Riga engagement. The official statement confirms German gains amid ongoing operations in Latvia during the campaign.
London reports casual ties for the week ending today at 626. The data records the weekly total of casual ties across British markets, reflecting changes from prior periods and indicating ongoing market activity.
A historical ledger notes Brick warehouse 1407, Farmers Union 1136 and Lawrence 1850, totaling 4393. Bryan spa basis middling records 20 ¼ cents per unit.
A Bryan business firm yesterday sold goods totaling over 200 dollars to residents from north Grimes County. The buyers traveled by automobile, and the sale highlights the impact of improved roads and bridges on regional commerce. The piece muses on Bryan becoming a trade Mecca for the area.
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