Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 286, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1924 Page: 3 of 4
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PICKFORD
SPORTS
"jT ‘ ---iiif.i. .■-- »—-----— y-
In Florida WAters
AN ERN
joke mid
have.
no
Chorus
ESTABLISHED 18W
organization
better
than the old ones.
Ban
construction and not until 1870 was
a few hours demand.
tent. That year 128 miles ware-built.
FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS
grow
Wal-
This,
and
made
Sing me a song of Prexys
Of days long since gone by
Again I seem to greet him
And hear h-* kind reply.
team ol
U. cham-
Smlles of gracious welcome
Before my memory rise,
Again I bear him say to me
■ Remember Texas Ryes.’’
Gen« Darby with the phenomenal
average of more than 14 points per
game is so far ahead of the rest of
the conference field in goal throw-
ing that he can hardly be seen with
a spy • glask,' ■—
T£UL MIMTDCOME IN
TO METUISVEPY -
MHUTE"
UCAQ MS? I'M
• SPANklNG ,
T’M &HN6 >
MOW.FQECkLES ’
WENT AH’WOUJED
A tftoNE AT
ME AGAIN
or you,
or for
Electricity for your light or for power is not stored like
water ready to flow when the faucet is turned.
The TrexeVant-Cocfcran
ballas won the girl's A. A
pionsh.
It must be made to order—manufactured on the instant
g.ty. l
As at first written the song was
CORN FLAKES
Innar-tMdaJ iMatita ixreppa
win easily
be the favorite
the Farmers
Uurdl-
erj-has been declared ineligible for
further intercollegiate competition,
but he will represent Baylor iu the
Olympic tryouts.. ■,
fear that they might
Killefer, Alexander and
The man who used to diagpe”’
great4 football plays now diagrams
great plays of basketball. Only one
trouble, with diagrams for any kind
of sport, the other fellow may not
stay in the place where your diagram
puts him.
be played
island-team
practice Is
T. C. U. by nosing out Rice try one
point in two engagements just about
cinched tljp runner-up position. Ok-
lahoma, however, can take that place
by winning both games from Rice
Monday and Tuesday while T. C. U.
is fftsing its pair to the Aggies. The
latter, however, is not probable.
Guitar, the speedy Abilene pro-
duct, will probably be on the Sewa-
nee team this year as will a Hous-
ton high school star. - It will be re-
membered that Sewanee had one of
th# best freshmen teams in the south
The first game will
early this week with the
as opponents.. Batting
scheduled for tomorrow.
They buried treasure right and
Along the coast—’tis said—
But no one seems to find it now.
Twas lost by* men long dead!
One of the longest hikes of the
trip wae on the bill the last day of
the week.
I once did knot# a President.
Away down south in Texas;
And always everywhere he went
He saw the eyes of Texas.
selkthe land within a given period
of time. Before 1860 the Harris-
burg line sold 588,8ffo acrAs, donat-
ed by the State, for an average price
of 18c per acre, or for the sum to-
tal of 1106,800.00.
Unlike the ordinary business in commodities which draw
at will from shelf, store room or warehouse, the public
utility industry must provide its services fresh and new,
from second to second as demanded.
i i TRAINING NOTES
The new rubber bases have been
given a thorough tryout, and, if they
stand the spikes, may be adopted by
the Cubs. Elliott says he likes them
Thousands of dollars in equipment are invested in Bren-
ham and many employees are stirred into fiction ft
whether for an instant light to find your hat,
enough gas to heat the baby’s milk.
day
tom Chereof, this writ,
return thereon, showing
how you have executed the same.
Given under my hand and the
seal of said court, at office in Bren-
ham, this the 1st day of March A. D.
1824.
Green Morgan, Clerk, County
Court, Washington County, Texas.
The big boys in tne athletic world
are having a tough time these days.
Babe Ruth being ill with the flu
while Jgck Dempsey is still suffering
from a serious operation.
WANTED—Clean white rags
uer-Press office.—Adv.tf.
victory of that night made It mathe-
matically impossible for any team in
the cohference to tie o?*win from the
Longhorns despite the fact that Dal-
as critics declared that TC.XJ. still
had a chance for the championship.
Following Friday night's game Tex-
as had only three more to play and.
T. C. U. had already lost three.
Should the Longhorns have lost their
threfc remaining games, then they
still would have won the ”
their schedule call* for more games
than the T- C. U. schedule.
The Texas university basketball
team cinched the championship of
rhK V'ntrferei.ry, -fMday-iifght.—The
afternoon practice
the boys had a
their offerings to
the glass-bottomed
Among those who are becussed by
everylMMly must now Im* placed the
fellows who referee basketball
games. They are universally rank-
ed tliese winter days With baseball
umpires and boxing referee®.
Texas had a harder time winning
from Arkansas than she did from S.
M. V.when the dope wm» att the oth-
For
stale,
lace spent the afternoon playing
golf. Scores are suppressed for obvi-
*j, ibe. de^artgvunk.deals
«■ . .nfng Air
DEVELOPMENT OF
C^iUHlWAY
NET IN TEXAS
a symphony of hate-—a jazz tune'of laughter—-a
song of romance in ‘‘Rosita", a’ moit stirring
melodrama filled with scenes of intense, gripping
emotionalism.
A New.Mary Pickford Art
engineering. From the very
ieVturrUiat he defievered to the slit
dent body, his faVorjte
was, ".Mep and women of
versify, the eyes of Texas
you."
This statement became a
a byword about the campus, and In'
the spring of 1803, John L. Sinclair'
wrote tUe original "Eyes of Texas*
tor-the minstrel show which was '
given by the RMideiMs. - ■fhe^.xt .no i
tires engineers printed the song on
their banquet program. Alter presi-
dent Prather’s death in 1805 the
There being
Sunday, some
chance to make
Neptune from
boats, the ocean swell furnishing the
urge. ■ • ,
laid 1,669 miles. 1882 saw !
mites completed. The next
year was 1887 with 964 miles,
tin- rear 1881, Texas had 8,809
>- •» . . • V.'*. . >
miles of railroad That Mt to say.
within a period of 20 yeirs there
hs-l boeu constructed in Texas more
_ .... . The molt
- *- —- *
. ... ..... ............... -.. ... . .....
BT>tc>re iFav.ng for work
caught a four-foot eel
house veranda,
matin’s devilfish
shaw’® goldfish,
aquarium.
And where the waters once gave
way _..
Before the pirates' prow,
Some atheletcs from the training
camps
sallfiftl:
—W. A. PHELON
ORIGIN OF “THE
EYES OF TEXAS
' ARE UPON YOU
The university bt Texas Long-
horns and Texps Agiges meet in a.
basketball series ou Friday and Sat-
urday^ The series’ will mean abso-
lutely nothing in a championship
way but the Longhorns will be bat-
tling to establish a new record, .and
the "Farmers will be fighting to keep
Jifejtn frpm doing that-very thing..
• The Texas Aggie-Sewanee battle
at Dallas this year is going
tract more interest than was
case last season when about 10,000
fans saw the Aggies
•wanee will probably
this time, but when
are the underdog, fans will do well
to keep an eagle eye on their ef-
forts.
(By Walter Bplawn, Railroad Com
mlaslouer of Texas).
! Th-J second source of Stalo aid
! consisted of land grants. Beginning
’.with 1852 there was a brief period
| of special land grants to railroads,
i By the terms of these Acts, when a
|company^had completed 5 miles or •
•more of road it might receive 8 see
itlons of land for every mils of road
•tlmt ImtT been fthisl>e<£ iu 1854, a
flaw was passed providing that when
'ever a company hud completed
' mifcs of road acceptably, it should bo
WTlthwl to receive 16 section* of
land for each mile of road complet-
'd!. This Act was continued In for
untl.l 1869. Under it 40 new coin
panics wore chartered, but only 9
built sufficient mileage io obtain
land -from the State. The statute
\The.eyes.«.?. Texas are upon you
Alt the livelong day ;
I The eyes of Texas are upon you,
to at- you cannot get away.
the11)0 not think yon can escape them
At night or early niorn;
The eyeg of Texas are upon you
Till Gabriel Ulows hie horn.
Case No. 2300
THE STATE Or TEXAS
To the Sheriff or any Constable
Washington County, Greeting:
ED To cause the following notice
to be publlathed in a newspaper of
general circulation which has been lt resumed to «ny appreciable
continuously and regularly publish-
ed for a period of not less than one
year preceding the date of the no- In jggo, #53 mlies were built. 1881
ties in the County of Washington,! , ,
State of Texas, and you shall cause *as the banner year of. rallroa
said notice to be printed at least' construction in Texa< there being
once each week for the period of ten . n0»
days exduoive of the first day of l**d 1.669 miles. 1882 saw 1,096
publication before th# return day mites completed. The next best
hereof:
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
LETTERS ^JtfAttr ”y8HIP
The State of Texas,
County of Washington:
To all persons interested in
welfare of Lillie Zletlk, et al, Minors
Mary Zletlk has filed in the CoitnlK
Court of Washington County, an ap- than 8,000 miles of rosd.
Among the inalienable rights of
every man (especially congressmen)
is the privilege of making a monkey
of himself every now and then.
Austin. Texas, March 3—Although
students in .all parts of the country
(stand with heads bare andjs.ng “The
^--y’are C^Wt^rnu,’’ the
Thiaioritr -Wg^MW. rniverity of
Texas, few realise the real origin and
meaning of the song.,
William A. Prather came to the
University of Texas as president Ini Minors, which aai^ application will tie, much of It into
1899. He Bad been a student at “commencing" 10
Rosita’
Q fpani/h Momanc^
y G<kw7«z
TSCH PRODUCTION
The Tfexas Aggies split eV#n With
the Oklahoma Aggies, and that was
to be expected for while the Fann-
ers are going at top clip at present
the Oklahoma team is a powerful
Once buecaueers at lead and «teel
Instead of bread and meat——
i'lM-y raiihul up and down the Cays
And stung tlu' Spanish flre-t.
this week-end and we are picking
OAk Clift and El Pase to go to the
finals once more. Losano, all-state
forward with the El Pawoaus for
tbtf last two years is back again thia
season. ’ • ■
TM».
"Wight by a score of 27 t<
Guy Bush has been looking for a
pair of cork boots on the island.
Somebody convinced the Mississip-
pian that walking on the wftter was
exercise. . a.
p.ugey
off the club
with Kauf-
Trainer Lot-
quite an
NOO BAD, BAD 8O/«\DU
kNOD X SRAMUED VOO
FOQ tXhN6TUArNE»y
SAME 1MW6 NESTERDAY-
pm Germs 6000 and <
T|Q9> OP SPANWM6 '
t MX) bscaosh rr does-
\----- NO 6000. <
Walter Johnson is dickering for a
baseball team out on tho coast, and
declares he may not be with ’the
Washington team this year. If he‘three verses were forgotten; and the
does not return to the Senators the ■ chorus gradually evolved into the
* 1 - - —
majors'will lose one of its outstand-1 Alma Mater song of Texas Un.lyer-
ing figures
qu.ta a. clow In thia coatMt the
.Arkansas tmun played rings around
the Longhorns la .the firn half and
at that time were leading 39 to 8.
1 he fact that Texas was able to come
hack to pat over a win la a marked
tribute to. its fighting spirit.
| A^’^‘Pd.er has finally started tq
make a decent Impression on the
. scales. Most of ttfCTidy’s' toda^"llad’
their weather eye open for Owner
left yVrls,0>^ who was reportetl in .the
offing.
—is a good habit—and good habits are as easy to acquire
as bad ones. You can break your spending habit and learn
the joy of saving, by starting an account with us today.
Rankin Johnson has arrived
take charge oPthe Temple lean) 01 V Tay|
Texas nssoclution, and Rankin says'-'T .
he is going to havn quite a team
llVYj^i. *. ->---■-----J-~------ - - - 4 .v.T.-tvviArl.-L-iJ.
’“and Ijefe' wOn ftoberi day in April A. d' 1924, the sama
ft." 'Lee was president of that instl- l*‘iuK IWe 21 day of April A. D. 1924
„ ut the Court House jhereof, in Breu-
tution. He was a very courteous hara. at which time all pecans Inter?
slid gallant geiitlcman. according to ested in the welfare of .said Minors
r may appear und contest said appli-
i'ge At cation^if they ewe proper to dp
Hprem Fat) Not, but "
tore said court on tl
..t the n. .....
statement
the U»1-
are upon
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Robertson, Ruby. Brenham Daily Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 286, Ed. 1 Monday, March 3, 1924, newspaper, March 3, 1924; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1180991/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.