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9 The Bryan Daily Eagle NUMBER 2W (By Aocitl Presi) VOLUME XL REUNIONS HOODS AND GREENS BRIGADES OPEN TUESDAY ir We should all 4 Governor Greets I Is Total Loss about estimated the value visitors son San who has successfully com Shelf ift Teague Mr and Mr and of has WELLINGTON BOY DEATH IN AUTO Aggie Makes Good At Northwestern uneral Services Held or Geo Neu HOME BURNED ON SATURDAY MEETS ACCIDENT BUNKER HILL CITY VISITED TEXAS CROWD JOHN RYCHLIK LAID TO REST AT WHEELOCK Business Leaders Meet At Stockholm MESSAGEROMTOm JAPANESE TO CHANGE ATTIfflDE 1920 laid Mr ULLER MASSACHUSETTS AND MOODY TEXAS GREET EACH OTHER BRYAN HOMES ARE EXTENDED TO BRIGADES ATER GIVEN WELCOME AT THE CITY HALL PARTY GOES SIGHTSEEING Local Delegation Returns rom Baby Chick Convention Press) 27 Wood Airplanes Making National light company of Pall bearers were mem Miller Wirtz May Run Next Year or Jobs Suicide Attempted In Noted Cathedral TEXAS NEWS BRIES Chichen Snake Brought To Bryan Along With Eggs BORN IN BOHEMIA BUT CAME' TO UNITED STATES WMEN A SMALL BOY Mrs Rebecca Deason aged 79 years 11 months and 6 days died Sunday at noon at the home of her daughter Mrs Atkins in the Rock Prairie community 10 miles southeast of uneral services Monday afternoon from the residence cemetery at 4:30 HOUSE INSURED OR $5000 AND URNITURE OR $2500 LOSS HEAVY (By Associated Press) BOSTON June Governor uller today greeted Governor Moody and 125 men composing the good will delegation from Texas whichis touring the East A vis i to the state house and a call up on the governor were high spots of the day The forenoon was taken up largely with sightseeing trip about Boston after a welcome at the city hall Japan Said to Be Now Ready to avor British Proposal to Discuss Concerning a Capital Ships Which Were Settled at Washington Conference in 1922 Painter Shoots Wife And Self Captain Leach Antonio arrived Saturday During the next two days Bry an will be honored by haying members of the and Brigades in the city who are here to atend theirannualreunionslt is not only the duty but also the privilege of Bryan citizens to ex tend every possible courtesy to these old heroes volunteer the use of automobiles to the veterans to enable them to go wherever they please over the 7 city and whene ver they please This is just one of the many cour tesies that should be extended While his (By Associated Press) COLOGNE June 27 The fa mous Cologne cathedral was dese crated today by a young man who attempted to commit suicide with a gun Worshipers rushed to the doors when they heard the shot but air entrances were barred and order was soon restored The youth was taken to a hospital with a critical wound in the head The cathedral was closed im mediately and is being reconsecrat ed in ceremonies beginning at mid night 1 Should an unforeseen incident prevent reconsecration now it would have to be postponed for eight days and a special edict ob tained from the pope desecration is believed to be the first in the history of the cathedral CORPUS CHRISTI June Eleven are due to call at this' port within the next two months to move Texas cotton to European spinners AUSTIN June Lieutenant Governor Miller and State Senator Wirtz plan to take the field toge ther for Governor and Lieuten ant Governor respectively if things work out well it was learn ed definitely today Miller and Wirts all day yS (By Associated Press) STOCKHOLM June 27 ourth1 general conference of the International Chamber of Com merce which is being attended by about 1000 business men from 44 nations opened today in the pres ence of King Gustave The Amer ican legation is headed by Owen Young Mathew Kimes Is In Sheriffs Care The Weather (Special to The Eagle) NEW ORLEANS June or NO ONE IS AT WHEN IRE BREAKS OUT ABOUT 9 (By Associated Press) DETROIT June 27 Taking off at one minute intervals 14 air planes of various type got away from the ord airport today on the first leg of a 1827 air tour which will take the planes to all sections of the country by Buf falo (By Associated Press) GENEVA 27 Reported thougu not confirmed today that the Japanese delegation in consequence of fresh instructions from Toyko is now disposed to favor the British proposal to discuss at the present naval conference 7 questions concerning capital ships which were settled at Washington confeference in 1922 The beautiful new home uf Dr and Mrs SAN ANTONIO June 27 United States District Attorney John Hartman in a statement here promised wholesale prosecu tion of dealers in paraphernalia for making home brew Two mer chants here have been convicted for the offense under section 18 ofthe Volstead act SHERMAN une 2 Rev Ev erett King pastor of the Cen tral Presbyterian church here has endorsed the work of the Sherman Little Theatre stands on its he said has proved that it has a permanent place in the life of our Tentative plans have been made to build a home for the theatre (By Associated Press) GREENVILLE June 27 WoMi threaten to become a pest in thia neighborhood and an or ganized effortis to be made to ex terminate them Their depreda tionshowever thus far have caus ed minor damage such as kiling small and carrying them off YOAKUM June The horse mils! be making a A ftnTt which' manuf actures harness here announcss plans for exten sions to its plant John Rychlik aged 69 years 4 months and 15 days died at the family home in the Wheelock com munity Saturday and the funeral was held Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock with interment made in the Wheelock cemetery Deceased is survived by his wid ow five sons and two daughters: rank Alberti Willie Ed and John Rychlik and1 Mrs Harry Berger and Mrs Clinton Smith all of Brazos county Three broth ers and two sisters also survive him John Rychlik was born in Bohe mia and "when a small lad came to and to Texas where he has been an upright and helpful citizen throughout his life Braz os county has been his home for the greater part of that time and his friends and neighbors attest to his worth and worthy living among them Loyal to law and order and a consistent Catholic in faith and practice John Rychlik lived a life of good influence to all who knew him A loyal member of Lodge No 158 of Bryan his com rads directed his funeral services at the grave with Rev ather Gliessner officiating uneral arrangements were under the di rection of Paul Dansby with Dansby urniture Bryan bers of lodge as fol lows: Kohout Blazek Albert Novak Jacob Schramek Holacek Tom Schovajsa A chicken snake decided that he would be in style and take a summer vacation tour too but the torrid sun was too much for him Curious to know what caused the ex cessive heat but instead of turning to a pillar of salt he was executed in the business section of Bryan Sebe Keith a prosperous farmer of the Kurten commu nity brought a wagon load of chickens and eggs to mar ket that he checked up on and a 53 inch snake that he had not checked up on While parked in front of Webb Bros store the giant snake raised up and decided to inspect the business sec tion of Bryan He found a cold welcome however and met a vicious death by a num ber of alarmed assailants 1 had known that snake was riding with me all the ANOTHER RISE IN THE RIO GRANDE RIVER A AND COLLEGE RADIO fKUUiAM OR STATION WTAW A and College Radio program for Station WTAW Tuesday noon The Emergency Hfico Tnnnitn SnrOtt Vocal Solos Mr Williams might interest you to know that the writer has had the pleas ure of meeting: one Arthur Bay? less a 1926 graduate of Texas A pitted the requirements for the de 1 gree of Master of Science in Land Economics at Northwestern Uni i writes Bentley Chicago Illinois received a fellowship at Northwestern in the department of Economic Research in 1926 He has done part time work outside of school and completed his grad uate work in one year No onebut an Aggie could accomplish such a task and a graduate of Yale or Harvard would be justly proud of such a Young Bentley is a brother of our fellowtownsman Bent ley and has visited in Bryan is now in Chicago Illinois employ ed in the sales department of the American Seating Company The Brazos County delegation to the State Convention of the Texas Baby Chick Association at Brenham all returned home Sat urday evening with the exception of Mr and Mrs Boriskie who wen ton to visit friends at Yoak um Texas The Brazos county delegation all report a very interesting and valuable meeting to the Baby Chick producers of the State Sherwood of College Station received a pleasant surprise in be ing unanimously voted a presentf $10000 for his services tothe Baby Chick Association during the past year The Brazos county del egation at the convention were: Mr and Mrs Sherwood and son Robert Mr and Mrs Boriskie Reid Holm green Munnerlyn and Kazmeier driven the wagon the laconic remaar of Mr Keith (By Associated Press) SHREVEPORT La June 27 Dancey middle aged painter shot his wife three times and then entered a room in his home lock ed the door and shot himself through the head today He had been estranged Dancey is report ed dying and his wife in ate rious condition (By Associated Press) LAGSTA Ariz June Mathew Kimes Oklahoma outlaw who was captured here last week was spirited out of the county jail here today by Sheriff John Rus sel Okmulgee Oklahoma and started for the scene of his alleg ed banditry in Oklahoma by auto mobile Bryan were held on at 4 and at Bethel conducted by Rev Roy Hollomon pastor of the College Avenue Baptist church of Bryan Interment was in the Bethel cemetery under direction of the McCulloch Dansby company funeral directors Mrs Deason was born in Mis sissippi July 20 1847 came to Texas at an early age and has been a resident of Brazos county for GO years She is survived by 5 sons and 4 daughters Gus Deason Bryan Lee Deason Beaumont Texas Deason Sabinal Tex as Ed Deason Houston Texas and Deason Port Arthur Texas Mrs Pate Harvey Mrs Joneb College Station Mrs urr Bauegechite Miss and Mrs Atkins with whom she made her home at Rock Prairie HOUSTON June A story of a rescue at sea has just reach ed Port Houston Captain Berg of the Norwegian motorship Topeak reuorted on arrival of his vessell that he took eight mn from wreckage ofthe for mast schooner Jesse Noise of Bos ton off the coast of Newfound land while the Topeka was enroute from Galveston to Norway on its I Thneka Caotain ittSL A Berg said had passed the wreck age but he happened to look back and saw distress signals One of the eight men was delierious Mr and Mrs John Gregg of Pit' abridge Brazos Valley spent the week end in Eryan as guests in the home of their daughter Mr and Mrs Hugh Looney Hundreds of friends from over Teias gathered this morning at 10 at the family home in Brenham for the funeral services for George Neu who died Satur day at Sweetwater Mr Neu was taken ill while aboard the special train enroute to the Texas Press Association meet at El Paso and was taken from the' train after suffering a sroke of paralysis while enroute Georgs A Neu was born in Brenham December 20 1878 the son of Mr and Mrs Jacob Neu After attending the Brenham High School and Blinn Memorial College he secured employment with Hohlt Company in Brenham he worked 17 years In 1912 he formed a partnership with Joe and Will buy ing the Brsiiham Banner from Cot JohnG' publishing the Banner as an afternoon daily and weekly In 1913 he and associates bought the Brenham Daily Press a morning publication from George Tucker publishing his pa pers after that as the Daily and Wekly Banner Press In 1913 he organized and incor porated the Brenham Banner Pub lishing company and with the ac quisition of the Daily Press the business grew so fast that soon larger quarters were necessary A lot on Main street was purchased I a large two story brick buildingwith basement was erected and was (dedicated on August 11 when the corner stone was with impressive ceremonies Neu had acted as manager secre tary and treasurer of his publica tion since he and associates pur? chased it Mr Neu left Brenham Monday June 13 to attend the convention of the Texas Press Association at El Paso but was stricken while en rou: and was taken off the train at Sweetwater where he died His remains will be brought to Bren ham Sunday and the funeral held here Monday morning burial in Prairie Lea Cemetery Mr Neu was an active member of the ourth Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Brenham a member of the Brenham fire de partmtnt Club and Cham ber of Commerce He is survived by his wife who was Miss Minnie Moers of Hous ton one sister Mrs William Niebuhr of Brenham three broth ers Prof Neu of Austin Prof Neu of California and Herman Neu of Sinton He at tended every meeting of the Texas Press Association since he joined it ind the breeding places of mos quitoes and destroy them some good ways of doing this are: Drain small pools and puddles Clean out and straighten ditches and clean and slope ditch banks Destroy all buckets cans dis carded tire casings bottles etc (hat arc capable of catching water Oil water barrels and ponds and ditches of water that it is imprac tical to drain Oiling should be done once a week and also after every hard rain Grassy marshes where an inch or more water stands in the grass are 1 especially in need of oiling Stock watering tanks ponds and underground cisterns should have winnows placed in them Mrs Sandifer of is visiiing her grandsons Sandifer and Mrs Jack Sandifer in Bryan and will thoroughly enjoy the annual reunion of Texas Brigade Her husband Sandifer was a member of Brigade go ing out for service with the first company from Waco Texas A cablegram from Miss Martha Rivers Alien and Mrs Martha Willis members of the Armstrong touring party from Texas for sum mer travel in Europe brought the good news Saturday afternoon of their safe landing at Liverpool England after a pleasant voyage Miss Lillie Belle Gilpin is recu perating at the home of her aunt and unde Mr and Mrs I A Cloud in this City after undergo ing a slight opt ration upon her ankle at Bryan hospital recently BOY SCOUTS ARE ASSIGNED TO ACCOMPANY CONED ERATE VETERANS As the remaining veterans of Texas Brigade and Green's Brigade of the Confederate Army are assembling within our gates today to participate in annual re union the people of Bryan and Brazos county open to them their homes a extend a sincere wel come It is a whole soul typically Southern hospitality they offer these heroes of the Gray with the wish that every minute of the time may be to each of them a pleas ure in comfort and happintas Bryan as the permanent meeting place of these two Brigades of the Confederate Army has thus had bestowed upon her an honor enjoy ed by few cities and her people delight to prove to the veterans and visitors who attend these an nual reunions their appreciation of the honor of being thus chosen as the home city of the twp Bri gades Every incoming train brings to the reunion at this time and each one is met by committees of men and women of Bryan who extend the glad hand of welcome and the helpful hand of strength to the feeble ones who come The Bryan Chamber Of Commerce and the lo cal chapter United Daughters of 1 the Confederacy with their com mittees have nlanned well for the pleasure of all who attend this union and with the entire cit izenship delighting in the pres ence of the visitors nothing can hinder it being a most enjoyable meeting tend the meeting at the Carnegie Library A Bryan Boy Scout will be as signed as a special attendant for every veteran and whenever or wherever he may want to go his Boy Scout Wijl be for him ears and if necessary Every automobile in Bryan will be sub ject to the call of these Boy Scouts and the people are hereby put on notice so they may understand and respond to every call for these I When a Boy Scout with his aged friend hails a car stop and take them in and drive them to their destination It is a service of love of honor and appreciation It is a privilege which every Bryan nntnmohile owner will delight to participate in during the two days of the Reunion now going on Let every body have a part in making 1 of this the fifty sixth annual re union of Hood's Brigade and the forty seventh annual reunion of 1 Brigade the most enjoy able and satisfying yet spent in Bryan The following Bryan homes will enter ain visitors during the re union: Mr and Mrs Brown Mr and Mrs' Kern Mr ftnu Mrs Barron Mr and Mrs Beckwith Mr and Mrs Young Mr and Mrs Buch anan Mrs Tucker Dr Lawrence Trant Mr and Mrs Dansby Mr and Mrs Lawrence Mr and Mrs John Boriskie Mr and Mrs John Lawrence Mr and Mrs Barron Mr and Mrs Rey nolds Mr and Mrs McDow ell Dr and Mrs Cline Mr and Mrs John Conlee Mr and Mrs Sim Cooper Mr and Mrs tv rr and Mrs Nash Mr and Mrs Edge Mr and Mrs' Parks Mr and Mrs Gunter Mr and Mrs Albert Buchanan Mrs Allen Mr and Mrs Coulter Smith Mrs orest arley of Austin will be the guest of Mrs Astin Miss Katie Daffan Of Ennis life secretary of Texas Bri gade and Mrs Libbie Wad? Cam 1 eron of Dallas life secretary of Brigade Col and Mrs oster of Houston Col John at the Hotel Bryan as the special guests of the following who have gm sts the following who have donated hotel reservations for the occasion: Mrs II Astin Mr and Mrs Tyler Haswell Mr and Mrs Webb Howell Dr II Oliver Mr and Mrs Wilson Brad ley Mr and Mrs Howell and Mrs Doane of for the reunion lie is a guest in the home of his friends Mr and Mrs no A Boriskie and a roommate of his friend James Briggs of ort Worth Capt Leach stopped over in Austin enroute to bryan for a few days visit to the Confederate Home While there he witnnessed the marriage of Calhoun age 92 and Mrs Annie Elizabeth Pollard age 81 Calhoun is from the Confs derate Home and Mrs Pollard from the Confederate Home couple left immediately on a honeymoon trip to San Capt Leach said LAST WORD ON MOSQUITO CONTROL GIVEN HERE (Bv Associated Press) BROWNSVILLE June 27 rise in the Rio Grahde which reached: Rio Grande City yesterday and which caused more appre hension that the first be cause it comes with the low er part of the river already at Jbankfull failed to develop into threatening proportions reports todayindicated Le vees on the American side of the river are holding al though breaks are re ported on the Mexican side of the stream A Cleveland Ohio newspaper came to our desk this morning and it carried a splendid picture of Gov Dan Moody Hon Claude Te er Cullen Thomas and II Astin who are with the Texas Goodwill Special touring the North and East Mr Astin has a smile that come off so we know he likes his company the Gov Moody who is standing along side of him The many friends of Rev Day will be glad to know that he was able to be carried to the night service of the irst Baptist church Sunday in a wheel chair IJe en joytd it thoroughly and the mem bers of the chureh and his other many friends in Bryan and com munity were delighted to have him out with them again even though unnble to walk He is re cuperating well from his recent accident bungalow John Black was totally destroyed by Are Saturday nipht the aze being discovered about 9 There was no one at home at the time and the origin of the fire is un known Insurance to the extent of $5000 was carried on the house and $2i00 on the furni it i iuir of the furniture was approxi mately $7500 and included much furniture that had belonged to their parents Nothing was saved The entire community joins in extending sympathy to Dr and Mrs Black in the loss of their at tractive home and household sav ings of a lifetime Pioneer Woman Dies On Sunday Mr and Mrs John Edge receiv ed a telephone message last night from Denton where their daugh ter Miss Altha Edge is attendingsh ter Miss Althea Edge is atending summer school at 1 A telling of the serious illness of Miss Altha and advising them that on account of her serious condition she had been taken from the school hospit al at Denton to Baylor hospital at Dallas Miss Hettie Edge left on the night train for Dallas to be at the bedside of her sister Many friends of Miss Edge in this her home city are hoping for her speedy and early recovery Misses Camilla and irginia Marrs of Marble alls who came over to Bryan for the Sunday eve ning sacred musical at the Hrst Baptist church returned this morn ing to their home The Misses Marrs were guests in the home of Mrs Webb on College Ave nue during their visit to Bryan Mrs Webb is entertain ing at dinner this evening at 7:30 at her home for Miss Lou ise Johnston of Georgetown and Mrs Lee Rountree Rrs Johns ton has been the guest of Mrs Rountree for the past week (By Associated ort Worth June son Nelson age 15 son of Mrs A Nelson of Wellington met death Sunday when struck by an auto mobile driven by Norman Vni'nian tfilrl Hia nnlirA NaIrOH from behind another automobile terday ate the Wirtx home CONEDERATE VETERANS ARE ARRIVING IN BRYAN OR SESSION Soldiers of Gray to Be Welcomed to City by Mayor Bradley and Officials of Various Or ganizations Meetings Are to Be Held Tues day and Wednesday With members of the and brigades ar riving in Bryan on every train all plans are C0Pee the entertainment during the two day session of the Cno federate Veterans to be held here Tuesday and ednes day according to Mrs A Buchanan The ing will be held Tuesday morning at 9 first of an elaborate program will be heard The loc luncheon clubs will entertain the veterans Tuesday and Wednesday at noon The entertainment features are in charge of Mrs Lee Rountree chairman of a committee from the Bryan and Brazos County Chamber of Commerce who will be assisted by Sam Eberstadt secretary Many noted speakers from over the State will appear on the prog ram Local Merchants are asked to hoist their flags to morrow and Wednesday to volunteer the use of their cars and the Boy Scouts are asked to accompany the veterans President Webb Howell of the Chamber of Commerce has postponed the meeting from Tuesday until Thursday on account of the reunion The full program ap pears on another page of this issue Larly Arrivals for DOCTOR BLACK Annual reunion Traffic In Babies Is Discovered In New Orleans La NEW ORLEANS June ollowing the surrender of Mrs IToidgins midwife after having been sought by police for alleged sale of a three weeks old baby for $75 to a woman oper ative of a Louisiana Society for Prevention of Cruelty of Chil widespread investigation pf maternity hospitals by dis trict attorney 'officer today got under wav revealing traffic in Bryan ahd vicinity: Tonight and fcabies which came after years of Tuesday generally fair Investigation by the society John Roberts of Acadia presid nt of Texas Brigade arrived today and while here at tending the reunion is a guest in the home of Hon and Mrs Barron Among the early arrivals for Texas and Brigades reunion Miss Katie Daffan of Ennis life secretary Tex as Brigade Mrs Libbie Sade Cameron Brigade Col and Mrs II Wright Austin chaplain Brigade grand son and grand daughter Jane and George Wat kins Mrs Ellen Berry Mrs Jno Berry LaGrange Col Brad field chaplain Texas Bri gade Judge II Browning life commander Green's Brigade Cap tain Leach Sati Antonio Hood's Brigade Mrs Wm Edge winh Muse Dallas first vice pres ident Texas Division Mrs orrest arley Austin president Texas Division United Daughters of the Confederacy Captain Mathis of Reli ance is among the early arrivals for the reunion of Tixas dit Brigade 'v Capt Mathis served in the 10th Battalion of the Georgia Artillery He is 89 years young He caine to Brazos county 49 years ago and bought the place he now lives on and has been living on it continu ously since that day After 61 years of happy married life he lost his wife six years ago here for the reunion with Jim Mathis Mr and Mrs A Jackson and Mrs Lee Rountree and Curtis Vincoa director of publicity A and College went to Brenham today to attend the funeral of George Neu president of the Tex as Press Association and publisher of the Brenham Banner who died Saturday at a local hospital at Sweetwater Others present rep rtsinting the Press werel Sam Harbin of Dallas secretary of the Texas Press Association Ed A Carlock vice president of the As sociation Schwenker Bra ry Mr and Mrs Richard of Beeville Aiken Crockett Albert II Lukdr Grape land John Cooke Rockdale Benllarigel La Grange and Ar thus ijerevr ux uuuowu Miss Jean daughter Mi anrl EUffCne EdgO 1 returned from Houston whero she enjoyed a couple of weeks by and near the sea BRYAN TEXAS MONDAY JUNE 37 1927 nciopl JArAN WILLINb I JUIH IH nc uidAnmamcRi i lmn I aboutRR AN A I.

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