The Bryan Weekly Eagle from Bryan, Texas • 1

it BRYAN TEXAS THURSDAY AUGUST 2 1923 DXx 1 A I BRY AN RECEIVES IRST 'BALE COTTON! tninssiM nmSS 1WMR1 (II Ml SSSJMSML IN MSTORY Of SOUTH IS REPORTED COURT'' nUUot AWtlflUL I Ur ZjUUU (om Daily) frc4rsktion bSis tary Hester of New OrleansXotton Ex 1 (Navasota Examiner Review) mujlin It was ginned reDOrts a very profitable meet OCVreua JUri from a diversion lor toe icveuw ww this warm weather instead of serv ehair BRAZOS COUNTY DAY AT SHORT COURSE Mrs Tucker on Tuesday as 4init fnr the evenine meal ing supper lunch and Grove it mere io supper a son and company 7 left this morning for New Xorlc CLOCK ana a more cr trcicuy 1 change Announces Annual ugusvi That Carry Over is Only 2573000 Bales This Year Against 4879000 Year Ago PRESIDENT HARDING CONTINUES TO MAKE PROGRESS IN IGHT to accept the appoint governor as a member court of civil appeals 1 VA 4 i i JL T3vn rpAS Da) the best wishes of hi? BARDECUE TO EATURE RURAL PROGRESS MEET HELD IN THORP SPRING The middle day of the Rural Prog ress Conference at Thorp Spring will be featured by a big barbecue A Davidson and Will Hale of the committe on arrangements announce that a great crowd is expected for the second day of the conference Thia conference is being held under the direction of A and College and Thorp Spring Christian College co operating 'The conference is be ing held for the purpose of training rural leaders Church people of thl71Vlf section are taking very much inter est in the conference as well as the medical and professional fraterni ties The opening session will be held Thursday morning August 2 beginning at 10:30 a President A Holton of Thorp Spring Edu cational College will make the open ing address followed by an address by Dr Edwin Earp County Ag ent Watson who has just re turned from A and al College brings news that quite a number of specialists from A and College are to be held during the confer ence SAM WILSON LEAVES OR NEW YORK TRIP TODAY Sam Wilson of the Sam Wil (By Associated Pr ss) SAN RANCISCO Aug 1 The official statement issued at 10:20 this morning by the five doctors attending President Harding said Mr Harding was' still much exhausted but main tains his bouyance of spirit The 'president is faily comfort able this morning after a few 'hours1 sleep it is said'Hia5 breathing is less labored there is little cough The lung con dition is about the same as yes terday His temperature is 99 pulse 114 respiration 30 While progress isbeing made every care ils "necessary to assume' freedom from further compli cations the statement added MRS TUCKER SPREADS SUPPER PICNIC ASHION at home took picnic spread it out at Oak Lake near the water's edge where the pond Lillies grow in the cool gentle breezes and all her i aii thorp tn sunner uuarucis wssww Automobiles conv Csi meal could not have been spread ried chicken all kinds of sand wiches stuffed tomatoes pickles dressed eggs ice tea ice cream cones cake and fruits This plan was much appreciated by those who make their home with Mrs Tucker and will be adopted as a once a week occasion during the hot weather Those around the table were: Mr and Mrs Roman Mr and Mrs Strange Mr and Mrs Mesdames Tucker Lee Rountree Jimmie McKenzie Misses Margaret Stephens Ruth Lloyd Ethel Sellers Baby Alice Sue Roman' Julia Ann Strange Messrs Billie Edmondson Robert Kellner Jess Cook Richard Ratcliff Sbisa Ernmel Dr Har rison LAWRENCE RONT COMPLETE Th Lawrence Wholesale Grocery Company has completed its new brick front In addition to the front it has added a permanent awn ing which does much to increase the attractiveness of the establishment npin mi home of the circle: chairman Mrs McAdgms Circle No 6 met with the chair man Mrs Dyer Mrs Cooper led the devotional and the mission ary lesson $850 was reported the circle treasury as a contribution to the Orphan Home collection snouid She received as a prize a 11 "i 1ft ural tfintlftd rnioanng rank oj gin Thu being the fir it bale delivered to house or gin in Bryan he will receive the $25 bonua offered by the Chamber of Commerce At the time of going to pre the cotton had not been old 1 Mm 'Tom Rusk'county by one daughter 3Iiss with Mrs Dave Jolly at her home on soutn avenue Mrs Park led the beautiful devotional program which i i La nrvnLr the second cnapier in vuo Winning'' being studied at $1450 was reported as i 1 donation to the cash for Buckner vrpnuu were: Boat Webb Vvominpr RfiViewY i a ovz The following statement was issu ed today by the oil operators who are putting down the test well near Carlos: resuming operations on July 16 good progress "has been made and the formations encoun tered have been good indications for oil very soon The present forma tion is gumbo which has proven to be very thick however it is expect i ed that it will change very soon The I new driller 0 Bevers whose I home Is in Montgomery Texas has I expressed himself as pleased with the entire situation in general and feels quite enthusiastic over the pros pects Mr Bevers has had about fif teen experience at drilling and formation work and came on this job highly recommended Trustee Confident Cuthrell trustee who is in full charge of all operations feels very confident that he will succeed in making a commercial oil well the first one in Grimes county and very i soon at that He is looking forward with great interest: to a visit next week' by the people who are financ ing this development in Grimes county and the geologist who made the location They will come from ZVI1L Winnie fl 1 II CSOtH iJKiauuina V1HUWW There are numerous visitors uv lhcu Ai ort ibv nnw who come from all parts of the county and watch with interest the operations of the well The general public is invited to visit the well atall BASE BALL GAME AT SMETANA LAST SUNDAY Last Sunday afternoon another baseball game was scheduled be tween the Smetana and Edge teams but the latter failing to show up an interesting game was played by the Smetana regulars against the mar ried men of that community who de feated the regulars by a 'score of 12 to 18 in a five inning A phe nominal hit was made by Joe Wehr man for the winning side Batter ies were: Tony Kalin and rank Socalo for the married men and Louis erchers and Mike Corona for the regulars BAPTIST CIRCLES IN SPLENDID MEET NU5 MONDAUTERNOON Weekly meetings of the Woman Auxiliary of the irst Baptist church were held on Monday afternoon at 4 Mr Higg Chairman where he will spend the month ef 7 August studying the styles and pur chasing stock for his store Mr TA iLjs son has been going to New York for many years and his experience in the past proves a great asset to his customers DIRECTOR 0 WALTON WILL ATTEND KURTEN VICTORY CELEBRATION Walton director of the Ex tension Service A and: College has accepted an invitation to attend the Kurten community meeting ri 7j? day night celebrating the community victory won at College on County last week Secretary Eberstadt of the Chamber of Commerce will pay the prizes off in gold The meeting will be held in the open air Griesser kindly furnishing a Delco plant for lights Lawless and son Will of (were in town today Speaker on Dimly Lighted Lawn What the Klan i and What It I Klan Members Hate Nobody But Merely Seek the Preservation of American Principles (By Associated Press) NEW ORLEANS' La Aug The smallest 'carry over of cotton Into the new cotton year since the South became an imnortant producer of the staple was announced the annual report for August 1 issued today by the New Orleans Cotton Ex ehanSe through its secretary Hester The vrid Jrrr over of American cotton is placed at 2 a io 000 bales against 4 879000 bales a year ago the report added The consump tion of American cotton during the placed at 12631000 bales against 12829000 during the pre ESTIMATE ON COTTON YIELD WASHINGTON Aug 1 Cotton production this year is forecast at 11516000 bales from its condition of July 25 which was 672 per cent normal the Department oi' Apiculture an nounced today The condition indicates a yield of about 1439 onrO Thp condition of the crop in Texas is (1 in bv the Extension Service Club of Bryan She also won second for the best story 01 should dress Norma Ruth Hill of Edge won third place for canning work She received as a prize a Burpee canncr boiler explosion KILLS TWO IN OIL IELD AT MIRANDO (By Associated Pres) LAREDO Texas July bid Mickle 27 years old of Devine Texas and Wesley Mosfield 22 years old of Hondo Texas both oil field workers were instantly kill ed yesterday when a boiler exploded well near Mirando City IRST BRAZOS COUNTY BALE ARRIVES MONDAY 1 (rom DailJ) The first Brazos county bale and the second brought to Bryan arrived morning It was grown by liam Balknite colored nine miles west of the junctions of the little and big Brazos rivers The cotton was grown and picked by his force anfl brought in in the seed The ungin ned bale weighed 1582 pounds and Balknite and he had 600 pounds more lying in his field and two bales more open There being no gin running in Bryan theicottoix1ha5 not been ginned and it is no the in tention ofthe owner sellHt until it has been trnvxr nrnf itahlft meet anu icpviw ing at the A and Colege this week of county agricultural agents club boys and girls and farmers and farm women The attendance at the meeting was better than usual and the program was entertaining as well as educational The extension service ot tne a and College has greatly increas ed the number of county agricultur al and county home demonstration agents within the last twelve months and an unselfish service is being rendered the agricultural inter ests in more than two hundred coun ties of the state As evidence of what the people of the community in which the college is located think of the work being done by that institution more than fifteen hundred people of Brazos county thronged the college campus on Brazos County Day More than i 1 a three tnousana peupie near registered at the college during the week It was clearly taught throughout the week that the policy of the extension service is not to force a and program of agricul MILNER ORMER PRESIDENT COLLEGE DIED AT HENDERSON (rom Daily) Robert Milner edito riel writer of the Ruk County Newt and formerly pretident of the A and CoIIeye died today according to a wire from the Rutk County Newt to the Eagle BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH COLLEGE STATION July Robert Milner news of whose death has reached here was presi dent of the A and College from 1908 to the summer of 1912 He was at one time state commissionei of agriculture then a member of the board of directors of A and from which position he was chosen as head of the institution Under him the school had a marked growth and was recognized by the War De partment as a military college of the first rank Col Milner succeeded Dr IL Harrington and was suc hv Dr Bizzell after an interval of two years during which Dean Puryear was temporary presi dent In 1915 Col Milner was em i thn Rrvsn Chamber of PLUJ vu 'J Applause commerce to lead the fight for tne and Texas University by a vote of the people Col Milner is survived bv his wife who lives in Henderson 1 Tabitha Milner and two sons milner Jr and Drink Milner 1 rnNCNIAL CROWD GIVEN WATERMELON EAST ON was BANKS BRAZOS WVkK circles of the A watermelon feast on the moon lit hnnks of the urazos river av I 1 CUlitl IUWV1VU bridge Saturday evening was one ot jIome present at the meeting the enjoyable affairs of the past I Mesdames week At seven automobiles wright Robert 8 Vebb conveyed the congenial crown ji i guests of Mr and Mrs Jack Boone Soul Winning Topic vkmu I 0 With UlS nut tn the little Dracos iavca vircie the water is deep clear and cool and Luln Mrs Horace Dansby with a most inviting for a swim after these good attendance After an long hot summer days A swim cn ing devotional service led by Mrs joyed melons iee cold in generous Danaby the missionary lesson from quantity were cut and eaten ended Winning was cond ucted by a party vith nothing else to be Mr8 Sanders The contnbu wished fori This outing was a com tion of circle No 2 to Or pliment to the young lady employes phan Home was reported $30 in casn of the Brvan Telephone Company and clothing valued at $12 An ap who were given the privilege of hav predated visitor of the hour was tne ing one invited guests Those enjoy geniai president Mrs i ey ing this hospitality were: Mr and sons whose presence is always a Mrs Jack Boone Mr and Mrs Hat and inspiration to the circles as vey ender Mrs Turnham of visits ope in turn gl Those pres Stanford Misses Billie Deason Mat eut Were: Mesdames banders tie Sue Waite Bertha and Lena Dansby Lock McNeeley Beal Ethel Sellars Ella Mae and Grant Lavender Claud Bu I Annie Mae Stewart Mary and Jane hanan Miss Eliza Beard and Mrs i McGee and little rances Boone persons Messrs William Boone Regan War Mrs Held Hote i 'Prlmnndsnn of Houston I A TnlrV WHS hOStfSS to Mimms Emory ranklin circle No 8 seven members being Peak Henry White Jr of Hous ont Mis Brandon con ton Jessie McGee and Sam Temple ducted the devotional and the mis man Isionary study $2950 was 1 muiN I cash donation to the Buckner LOCAL PARTY GO ISHING han Home contribution Those (rom Mondays Daily) Pent were: Mesdames oun i Mr and Mrs Roy Stone ir BaJ HlggSi Saunders' Dodson Mrs Buchanan Brandon Wilson and Miss Corrie Suber ri I Held and Miss Lillian How turned Sunday from a camp Jno A Hem a ing and fishing trip to thq Guam i Enjs was hostess to ths lupe and Comal rivers near Nei mevUn of Circl(1 Xo 4 Miss Nan Thniinfel8 in th devotional and SENATOR DAUGH hj APPOINTED TO THIRD COURT CIVIL APPEALS "TT held on Tuesday evening at the AUSTIN Tex July The res ignation of Baugh of Brown wood as state senator was tendered to the governor today and accepted He resigned ment by the of the here develop such constructive programs CIO A4IV meet their needs and to assist all farmers organizations with their edu cational work Good reports were made of the soil improvement work begun on an extensive scale by the farmers particularly of Northeast Texas last fall The county agent will help enlarge upon that work this fall It would be worth while to send a large delegation of Anderson county folks to this annual meeting at the A and Palestine Herald MRS TATUM IS INJURED GURGEN ARK (rom Daily) Earl Tatum received a telephone i message this morning from his sis ter Miss Bernelle Tatum from Gurgen Arkansas wnere sue wicu her mother Mrs Tatum were en route to omble Arkansas that his mother had been injured at 6:15 this morning while changing cars at Gurgen Mrs Tatum has a fractur ed hip and wrist caused by falling Just as she was about to step from the train it made a jerk and threw her to the ground with the above re sults Mrs Tatum and daughter Miss Bernelle left Bryan Monday for a visit to relatives at Womble Ark The extent of the injuries can not now be ascertained but Mrs Tatum will be moved to the hospital Ark at once Ul medical treatment This news will ccme as a shock to the many Bryan friends and they will anxiously await further developments hoping for a speedy recovery BILLIE MAYIELD IS SUED OR DlVUnut (rom Daily) HOUSTON Tex July Mrs Billie Mayfield who was married last Thursday in Richmond Texal filed suit for 'divorce here today The petition1 was filed in the eigh tieth district court and shows that the Mayfields were married July 19 1923 and separated July 22 1923 The allegation asserts Myafield was of the duties and obli gation of his maritial The crowd of about 2000 persons which attended the nublic meeting under the auspices of the Ku Klux Klan on the Court House lawn Monday night was addressed for ab out half hour beginning at 8:15 by a representative of the Klan fftom another city: The audience stood or sat on the grassy iXn and gave the speaker good attention One light at the east entrance to the Court House dimly showed his features There was no other light nearer than the street corner PJung ing into his subject the speaker said Ladies and gentlemen I am glad to be here toniht to talk to you about the Klan I ama Klansinan but you know me and I do not know you from off Continuing the speaker endeavored to correct the misapprehension which he said many of the pub were under as to the nature of the Klan The Klan he as serted is an organization for the good of the country and while it does nt admit foreigners Jews or Catholics to mem bership it is not because it hates them or considers its mem bers better than they The Klan he assured his hearers does not hate anybody Object of Klan Explained Having made plain to his hearers I what the Klan is not he next pro ceeded to tell what it is The Klan i he said is an organization for the preservation of the supremacy of the white race the inculcation of the principles of Americanism and above all for the protection of the purity and sanctity of the home The home is the basis of virilization and without it courts and churches would of no avail he asserted On the roads near ort Worth he told his hearers Klansmen nightly ride up and down to protect the pur ity of girls who are out with men ot morals and Klansmen watch over the behavior of A and CoL lege boys near Bryan when they are in company with girls it seeks ev erywhere to preserve the priceless purity of womanhood fivc per cent of the Pro testant preachers of the land are Klansmen and of those who are not Klansmen many cannot get into the organization because of loose morals Umn" thnv are foreign ycvnw asserted the Klan representative At another point in his speech he as serted that half the (male) public school teachers are Klansmen The speaker closed with a eulogy of wo manhood and of the part that the Ku Klux Klan is playing in maintaining 1 H14tv zs fnn A1Y1 4Z greeted the remarks of the speaker separation of the A and College 1 I Vl 1 ITwivnvclftf hv A Votft OI especially wren ne ruenvu greatness of the A and College i and when he had closed his speech ollowing his speech a generous number of ice cold melons were serv ed to his auditors by helpers at the truck After eating the melons his audience dispersed SPILLER MANAGER EDEN GROCERY CO Spiller who has been in charge of the mailing room of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Sta tion has accepted the position as manager of the Eden Grocery Store in Bryan effective August 1 Mitchel who has been Mr Spiller's assistant will succeed to the position resigned by Mr Spiller Mr Spiller is well known in Bryan and vicinity having been connected with the A and College most of the time since 1903 during about ten years of which time he was the mailing clerk of the Experiment Sta tion He is not without mercantile experience however having con hndnnsa of his OWT1 at UH ion Hill for some years and he was with a large grocery concern in Houston for some time BRAZOS COUNTY GIRLS WIN THREE PRIZES IN ARMER SHORT COURSE (rom Daily) Two Brazos county girls took three prizes at the Short Course according to announcements in Guion Hall riday night Paulind Beard of Edge won first for the best school dress gold thimble given BRYAN WEEKLY EAGLE A ri 1 By the associated PRESS) j'" i NCARn ROBSTOWN tural development of any particular nnvilU organization upon the peo CANNOT ORGET BRYAN of the state but rather to help llf TUE Tn All EAH develop such constructive Programs AND THE DAILT fcAllLt as the many communities think best 1 Eagle Co Bryan Texas Dear Mrs Rountree and Co i Workers: I guess the Eagle is not a game bird but I am mighty: hungry for Eagle so I am enclosing some mbney for which please send me that much worth of Eagle of the Bryan 1 Daily variety I can not re sist dropping a few words in addi tion to my order for the paper I have just been wishing that old Brazos were beginning just such a harvest as is under way here ThesMexicans are invading te coun try by train and truck loads and the gins are humming with the greatest cotton crop I have ever had the privilege of seeing This is in deed a great cotton country With be't wishes to the Eagle forces and everv one in Bryan I am your friend A ORD Tex as Mr ord will be rememoerea vy Bryan friends as a successful teach er in Bryan high school and with a ainohrie 1 it iw" rr i ijuvj friends for success in his new field of labor as superintendent of tjie Robstown pulblic chools BITTEN BY SKUNK DEVEL0PSJ8AD WOUND At an early hour this morning Miss Dell uller of Cottonwood was bitten on the left foot by a skunk The member began to swell rapidly and fever to develop and she was brought to town to the home of her sister Mrs Sam Kauffman for med ical attention Serum for rab bis has been order from Austin and will be administered upon arrival BRYAN AND HEARNE METHODISTS STAGE DASEBALL CLASSIC Methodists played Hearne Methodists a snappy game of base ball in Hearne riday coming back with the small end of a five to two score Batteries for Bryan the first five innings were Will Walker pit cher and Mai Hall catcher xne last four innings Will Hudson pitch ed and Horace Beard caught Bry an visitors seen at the game were: Will Walker Mai Hall Joe Hudson Sargeant Jones At ill Hudson Guy Boyett Sam Crenshaw Roscoe Cole Horace Beard Ranson Cole James Robert Dunn Vance Withers and family Nor ton Henry Buchanan Edgar Cvsri Jri and Richard Newland" Wade Cox was umpire Walter Holden watched the side lines Jim Beard was time keeper and Walker was rooter The Bryan boys are loud in their praise of the courtesies extended by the Hearne people ON" VACATION Mr and Mrs Bentley and Wesley Bentley left this morning in I their auto for a trip to Stillwater Oklahoma to visit Mr Bentley parents They will be joined tn Dal 5j las by their daughter Ann who is there on a visit to Mr and Mrs Hayes former uryan ciuzeus Mr and Mrs 1 Bentley and family to return to Bryan im about two weeks EAGLE RECEIVES MELON Tho Eagle expresses its thanks for a fine 50 pound melon presented to the force on Saturday by Har ris Route No 1 Mr Harris said he had two acres of these melons which had proven very delicious and profitable and that he has a num ber to market yet 1 I ri 'ri ri Yl 1 1 ri.