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Newspaper
Bryan Weekly Eagle
Location
Bryan, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1936
Page
5
Hearne Texas season ticket sale underway for six home games. Pep squad handles sales with funds helping the athletic department buy new uniforms and equipment. Tickets available at three local drug stores.
Delegates from Hearne attended the Robertson County Baptist Association Workers Conference held at Henry Prairie Baptist church. The program focused on The Gospel from Romans 1 1 18 with devotions, sermons by Rev W A Dollahite Rev J E Mason Rev I H Willingham Rev Vernon Miles and Rev Mark Richards. Luncheon served by Henry Prairie women. Catholic Women unit to meet in Calvert Sept 16 after illness postponement. Mrs Evelyn Harding Mrs Fred A Klapper and Miss Margery Weston visiting in Houston area.
F G Blake announces a supper meeting of the East Texas Chamber of Commerce in Hearne on Wednesday Sept 16 at 7 30 p m. President Thomas E Ackes and managers Hubert M Harrison and Curtis Morrison speak on objectives and county meetings to enhance personal contact and an enlarged program for the coming year.
Thieves stole a spare wheel and tire and a front wheel from W. C. Allen’s Chevrolet sedan while parked in the Allen family garage on Magnolia. They also took a wheel and tire from Miss Julia Slagle’s Ford coupe on Magnolia and First streets. Local officers are investigating the incidents.
William J. Lawson former Hearne Chamber of Commerce secretary and Huntsville Chamber of Commerce secretary has been named executive secretary of the Texas State Park Board and will begin duties in Austin on Sept. 16. Lawsons appointment announced by former Governor Pat M. Neff.
Hearne High Eagles under coaches Cochran and Rogers tune up at Wood Field for Friday night 8 o'clock opener with Rockdale High Tigers. After three weeks of practice the grid squad shows real fitness and assigns plays quickly with lettermen at each position.
Cooperative groups in Texas and Oklahoma obtain Resettlement Administration loans to buy 83 pure-bred sires and other equipment. More than 2300 farm families use such loans for livestock and farm machinery, including 16,952 milk cows and 137,812 head of poultry.
Field notes detail Wilson Brock as a standout left end with 170 pounds, Jerrold Summerlin switching to end at 152 pounds, and a heavy line including Fats Sanders 150 and James English 178. Backfield options include Woodrow Hughes at quarterback Demetre Palmes and Sock Underwood at halfback, with Duke Beasley at fullback. The article also mentions the marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Hardcastle officiated at a Baptist parsonage.
Announcement from Hearne reports the marriage of Miss Virginia Rikard daughter of Mr and Mrs B F Rikard to Earl Hardcastle son of Mr and Mrs Dennis Hardcastle in a ceremony held Saturday night in Hearne Texas confirmation of the wedding was published Monday with details of the families involved.
The state highway department crew led by H. W. Dyess and C. B. Thames began straightening Highway No. 6 north of the Southern Pacific station. The road bed will shift west about thirty five to forty feet to remove two long traffic hazards. Work starts near the North End Service Station and will join Market Street at the old I and G N crossing. Citizens say the change will improve safety for travelers. Mrs. J. M. Schepp returned from Houston after a visit. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hester, new Hearne residents from Ennis, live in Terry apartments. Mr. Hester works for the Southern Pacific. Sam Little Jr. and Murray Har grove of Houston visited with Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Collins.
Rome reports Italy told Great Britain it must insist on adequate diplomatic preparations before the Locarno conference to discuss European security. Italy had accepted in principle an invitation to a disarmament parley amid German Rhineland rearmament. A preliminary interallied talks invited Italy and Germany. Germany accepted.
Henderson reporter recalls farmer J. W. Vinson who found a turtle on his road more than 25 years ago and carved the date on its shell. He recently found the same turtle again, the date 9 5 10 still visible.
Houston homicide report notes August killings total fourteen, highest since July 1934. Capt. George Peyton states five white and nine Black victims, with eighteen slain in July 1934.
Gen Francisco Franco announced government high command pledge of twenty five thousand reinforcements to the Talavera march on Madrid. Rebels encamped west of Talavera seek to link Castile and Andalusia as they push toward government lines at Orio and Bilbao.
Mrs. Macon Bradshaw left Sunday for Longview after visiting Mrs. A. B. McSwain. Aline Williams resumed music classes at Steele's Store and Mumford after a three month vacation. Esther Marie Rochelle headed to Denton for studies at Texas State College for Women. M. W. Bergeson and wife moved to Corsicana for his role at the State Home and visited Bryan. L. R. Taylor and family shopped in Bryan. Mrs. C. R. Storey of Montgomery, Alabama, visited her mother. The McSwains visit Longview with Storey en route to Montgomery. Alonzo Ross and son Pete returned from Carthage after visiting Mrs. A. Bill Walker. Jim Martin spent the weekend in Bryan on the way to Dallas for Presbyterian Seminary.
Hidalgo County health officer Dr. D. R. Handley says this summer’s dry weather cut malaria cases by preventing standing water where mosquitoes breed. He notes the moisture shortage lowered transmission opportunities and fewer reports of malaria.
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