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JUNE
BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS
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Where Italia’s Crew Fights For Life
U/HKRE ITAMA
The Presi-
302 residents
and
^SOCIETY
N PH ARIACf
insas,
Brule is satisfied.
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and ere
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SWEDISH “AIR-TAXIS'
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they visited
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wegian
on the
these
which
weeks
Police
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Are Invited
we are U
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rchestra wil
the Music
dy Invited
nearest
of 1928
Ware’s old
relatives.
Mrs. Chas.
Charles, Ji
one-seater
two-seater
have duel
two-cylin-
LITTLE RIVER IS
AGAIN UNDERGOING
BOOM EXCITEMENT
id. AH ItaJ
L—Adv.63 6t
won’t sup-
in Novem-
said.
Banner-Press.--------------"---—--
The time limit to get places op the
ticket for state offices ended J tone 4.
Rev. G.A. Schlueter, of Ft. Worth,
who has been teachnig in the Summer
I School of Theology at the Southwest-
ern Unlver«Hy, Georgetown to Mto
.to teeth at the Epworth
By ERIK BERNDSEN
United Press Staff Correspondent.
COOLIDGE’S VISIT
CAUSES FLUTTER ON
BRULE MAIN STREET
MCNARY THINKS
HERBERT HOOVER
IS SYMPATHETIC
cake
game.
CHILD KILLED BY
ANOTHER TRAGEDY,
NOT-LOADED GUN
I. Car hale
and Miss
Mrs.
away
from
from
west wil
in Novem.
PROMISES MADE
BY REPUBLICANS
INSULT FARMERS
By ROBERT MOOREFIELD
(United Press Staff» Correspondent)
RECOVERING FROM
OPERATION
EPWORTH LEAGUE
INSTITUTE OPENS
HERE ON MONDAY
lli'ldlinn to,.
‘K. 19.25 75
I16.W
43.00 t>
JUNIOR BASEBALL ”
TEAMS WILL PLAY
AT 1:30 SUNDAY
turned out in full
with their hands
stood
i, an<L
desperate. The above map shows the course
of the Italia’s flights from her arrival in Spits-
bergen until -she came down a derelict toiJhe
'niidsf of the Ice wastes. At left, a pfioto ef
Nobile taken just prior to his departage
Italy. —I
MRS. WILL HERMANN GIVES
THREE BRIDGE PARTIES
LEAGUE ENJOYS
SOCIAL GATHERING
to 40c.
,rst grade, fl.
. Buchr°°
of t*
ramn*”
is of d*
Joe Zeeii, who for several years
has conducted a fruit and vegetable
store in Brenham, has moved bis
stock to Somerville and will continue
the business there.
"-AESOP W
de of Show ■
15 and »
1 15. and 3*
30,000 ACRES OF
MISSOURI FARMING
.LANDS FLOODED
SEARCH FOR CREW
OF ITALIA MAKES
SOME PROGRESS
and common
Rev. George Miner of Houston is
in the city and will givewm illustrated
lecture Sunday night ;< the Fourth
Street Methodist Episcopal church.
COUNTY COUNT MEETS
MONDAY
SUSPECTS HELD IN
BIG BANK ROBBERIES
AT KANSAS CITY
Meanwhile, at Cedar Island Ixidge.
Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge were getting
ettled comfortably in their woodland
lome. The President was well pleas-
ed with the peaceful one-story house,
cool and fragrant with lilacs. He also
derived mu. It p'easure from a tour of
the secluded grounds* in which E. M.
Mmbert, superintendent, pointed out
the favorable trout pools on the es-
tate.
of Brule are not
fact that Mr.
than two tnin-
inincorporated
'eave the mo-
Kings Bay, Spitzbergen, June 16.—
(UP). —Two dog teamp mushed
through the frozen Arctic today
We wish to call special attention to
the night sessions. Dr. Morriss from
Dallas will be the speaker. These
meetings will be held on the lawn be-
tween the two college buildings and
are open to everyone. We want to
urge the attendance of the folks from
the city churches.
compare favorably with any
mill in the state. As she has
to Brule, the
summer White
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. De Ware and
children, Charles Allen and Rose-
mary, have returned from an auto-
mobile trip to Jefferson, Mr., De
iance,
of the f"*51,
at BrentaaJ
Ask the* •
, It’s » *
The management of the institute is
very grateful to individuals and busi-
ness houses in Brenham for their fine
co-operation.
I
Signed, B. E. Breihan.
Oft Friday tvflrfBg the 4lb Street
Intermediate League had a social
gathering on the Church lawn. b
During
FORAGE BOUGHT FROM
JACK GREEN
(United Press Report)
Washington, June 16.—Senator Nor-
ris issued a statement today asserting
that both candidate and platform
agreed on by the republican convention
will be a sad disappointment to every
progressive citizen. He asserted the
farm relief plank adopted at the con-
vention is “a direct slap at farmers,
and after eight years of promises the
party Raders insult intelligent farm-
ers with more promises.”
would
cotton
visited nearly all the cotton mills in
Texas, this report is extremely grati-
fying to officials of the South Texas
^Cotton Mills.
In the robbery. TtStice^safd they had
uncovered evidence pointing to
men as being the same gang
robbed the City Bank several
ago of $50,000, then escaping,
also recovered revolvers, shotguns and
niachipe.gunjjgfd. jn-the rubbevy.- They
cisserted'all those field are police char-
acters.
County Court will convene in’ re-
gular session Monday morning, with
Judge Sam D. W. Low presiding.
Dockets are rather light, with ho
very important cases to be tried.
kbJ 45 ; ~ _
REPUBLICANS CLOSE
Invention; will
^oo farmers back
(United Press Report)
New Braunfels, June 16.—Herbert
Pennington, aged four, is dead of bul-
let wound in the abdomen, accident-
ally inflicted by his eleven year
brother. The boys were playing
thought the; gun was not loaded.
million persons
pronuncia-
as though
real estate
rocketing
boom that
fathers are
sons
Allen T. Gilder, who saw that the
'eaky roof of the church was reshingl-
'd, paced in front of Webshing's ho-
tel with the beautific solemnity of.
on c ,'Wh6 se “’worTcTs "wiTT Hoiric? "TFenify.
Denny, rcstauranteurj** stacked up
three fTizeeu thick coffee cups and
waited for patrons. Mrs. A. J. Web-
ster speculated on possible rentals in
her spacious 10-room house.
The fact tlflit President and
Coo'idge were some six miles
at Cedar Islnad Lodge, resting
he fat'guing train journey
Washington, and that Mr. Coolidge
(ready was casting his line into the
ver, caused hardly a flutter.
The 302 residents
force. Babies stood
in J heir mouths, their fathers
with their hands in their pocket:
Brule’s younger feminine set quarrel
ed as to the exact shade of the Presi'
dent's hair. . - ■
The steamer Braganza, chartered
by the Italian government, arrived to-
day at Brandy Bay and immediately
put out a landing party that consisted
of a dog crew with relief for the men
who have been isolated in- the polar
wastes since May 25.-
=i=:^l!F^r8gSTKS~cFFw T expected to'
meet a relief expedition from the Nor-
steamship Hobby some place
territory surrounding Brand
Less than a month ago Brule was
unknoiNl. Today
were debating its proper
tion; (It is ■ pronounced
rhymed with school). Its
boom, which sent rentals
700 -per cent, shames the
made -Florida famous, and
telling their sons to tell their
that on such-and-such a day Presi'
dent Coolidge came
town
House
The fact that the President would
>a»'. along Main street again today en
route to his executive offices at Su-
•erior, however, did cause a flutter.
Crowds began to collect about the
hree town pumps, talking excitedly.
Presidents do not parade along th<
Main street of Brule every day.
I Stcond y, the South will be told
£>v«rnor Smith is a “wet.” The Re-
r^*can party, by its new dry plank,
F* ,uri*ed further toward the dry
, f. and the indications are it will be
vltra-dry party before the cam-
•8” is far along, especially if the
r’*blicans can make t|)e Jabel of
“Talk that the farmers
>rt the Republican ticket
tr is the ‘bunk,’ ” Tincher
rhey have always got relief from the
epublican party, and they know they
ill gat it again.
s,ick to their opponents. There
br a strong effort to reap the
11 of dissatisfaction among some
*rn democratic elements report-
* exist over prohibition and reU-
1 '’sues Special drives are under-
rcady inJCfiXM. Alabama
The
concerned with the
Coolidge spent less
utes in the hamlet’s
limits, tha’t he did not
tor car which crawled along its main
street at a snail's pace, and that Mrs.
Coolidge did not come to Brule at all.
It is enough Jhat the President came
to Brule, and thus
(United Press Report)
Kansas City, June 16.—Four men
anc one womhn are held by polk* to-
day to connection with the 420,060
E. C. Schroeder, local agent for the
Texas Oil Company, is a patient It
the' Brenham Hospital, where he to-
cent y underwent an operator Many
friends win be glad to Itora Uto be to
Eggs, 18c.
Hens. 12 and 13 cts.
Fryers. Leghorns
stock, 18c.
Fryers, Plymouth
Island Reds, 22c
Fryers over 3 lbs.
Ducks, 10c.
Old Rooster, 5c.
Blitter, 20c to 40c.
Buttef TaT, Btst g?a<fe," 38c:
Butter fat, second grade, 33c.
COTTON
.Good middling, 2060
Strict middling, ^0.50
Middling, 20 25
Strict low middling 1975
Ix>w middling, 19.25
Cotton toed, $38 00
• Cotton seed hulls. IIAOO.i
Kehnert, 'Mb.'June 16—Two breaks
in the east wing of the St. Francis
river levee, five and six miles north
of here, early today flooded*approxi-
mately 30,000 acres of Dunklin county
farm lands and sent bttween 150
and 200 families here for safety.
"Prcvi&uS rains" ~ffie~ pasf few days
we led the river, causing the break
at two a. m. Warning previously had
been sent. It is believed no casualties
occurred. " *
Stcckhohn, June 16. (United Press)
—Sweden will soon begin to manu-,
facture “air taxis” on a mass basis.
A new type of small machine has just
uixii develop by a factory at Storvik
in the northeastern province of Ges-
trikland. Two standard models have
beert^tlecided upon, one a
port biplanC, the other a
monoplane. Both machines
control and are driven by
der motors of 33 H. P. Each plane
and engine weighs but 150 kilograms.
Misses Julia Routt and Mary
Crockett of Chappell Hill
among the visitors to Brenham
urday morning.
COTTON
"K 20.60
K -’0 50
twelve
lune 16, is the last i
Mrs. Will Hermann was hostess i
for a scries of lovely hospitalities this 1
week, entertaining different group? I
of ladies with beautifully-appointed <
......bridge parties. Tuesday afternoon, 1
les will make last
Wed. night and Thurs. afternoon*
LAST CHANCE FOR
CAND1DTES FILE
PLACE ON TICKET
4 WEATHER ♦
❖ East Texas—Tonight and Sun- ♦
•> day, partly cloudy, probably lo- ♦
<• cal showers. ♦
•> West Texas—Tonight and Sun- ♦
day, generally fair. ♦
in gulaV weekly meeting.
by | Miss Hcrmine .Miesner made high
hail score, and was rewarded with a pret-
of ty little summer dress that site great-
ly appreciated. For seebnd prize Miss
Du’a Janke' received a lovely
vanity.
Delicious angel parfait and
were served at the close of the
(United Press Rrnntt)
Medicine, Kans., June 16.—A ter-
(United Press Report)
Aboard Steamship Hobby-—June 16.
—The Hobby succeeded in breaking
loose from ice which held it a prison-
er several days and is now^en route to
North Gape, where it expected to
reach the steamer Braganza.
Capt. Riser Larsen, succeeded yes-
terday in making a starf of his sea-
plane on another reconnoitering flight
in search *of the Italians cr?w. He re-
ported dense fogs forced him to re-
turn immediately. Nobitej radioed he
was drifting five-eighths mile nearer
Northeastland during the night.
Forage for the first quarter fiscal
year 1929, was purchased from Mr.
Jack Green by the Quartermaster
Suppy Officer, Ft. Sam Houston,
Texas, which consists
and bran. This forage
every three months, the
forage are sent, out by
master Supply Officer,
are made by them. This organization
uses forage to the amount of about
$800 every three months. It is hoped
that the forage supplies will always
be bought IqcnJly.
Troop “A” Reporter.
Bv CARL D. GROAT .
„ . , Press Staff. Correspondent)
a, Cit'. Mo., June 16.— The
of tfie Republican convention
'.w *
Of the' country today after
bating Herbert Hoover arid Sen-
(’.urtis, o£J<ans?.s, : as
ficance, but to the 302 residents of
ITftW ihe^day" of M r.-Coolidge’s arri-
val was something of infinitely more
importance than the Fourth of July,
Washington’s Birthday or the week-
ly band concert night.
Mr. and
and (on,
Yvonne Reynolds, of Houston, arriv-
ed in a car this afternoon to spend
the week lend, with Dr. and Mrs. Ar-
thtur Becker.
Miss Martha Grote was hostess to
her bridge club this week, entertain-
rific hail storm which cut a path ten ing members and a few additions
miles wide and fifty miles long, friends most delightfully at the re-
caused a million dollars damage
Barber County, it is estimated
farm bureau agents today. The
beat down fifty thousand acres
wheat and grain nearly ready for har.
vesting. .__
eastern candidates and Vice-president
Dawes were scratched off the “possi-
.bUityrjtoLixcB °L
the convention’s final session yester-
day noon. .
Demonstrations for Curtis and for
his beautiful daughter, Mrs. Mona
Curtis Knight of Providence,. R. L.
marked the session.
- Mrs. Knight, asember of the Rhode
Island delegation, wto odt nf aeveml
Captains report the ’names ' of ~tlie
members of your teams to Comrade
Gurka at the.~Cavalry . Rost or—to
Commander Gajeske in -order that
vour teams will be registered.
How about that fourth team? Did
12 ol your boys get together and or-
ganize it. We want that fourth team
>y Sunday. We wanf 50 boys out for
nse ball Sunday afternoon at 1:30
o’clock at Fireman’s Park. We must
get through by 4:00 o'clock as the
3rc-.h:i’n Cavalry team and the Salem
earn wil) play a game at 4 o’clock.
Don't forget to get your blanks filled
iii and signed and'handed in tc Com-
rade G: oss.
Junior Baseball Comniitti^.
Our4 Epworth League Institute and
Mitristcrs' Conference believes to
have nutters of sufficient interest and
value, e\ en . for - othyi, and. for that
reason « e wiih to pass the loltowmg
.hii.jmnwd - ffaivrauat1
to Comrade W. W. Gross at the post
office, filled in and properly signed.
We niust have these blanks executed
before we can organize teams. Team
^'ssissippj.
** convention closed at 2:22 P.
Yesterday after Curtis had been
**th 1,052 votes. Candidates
"••ed against him were with-
rn ***fore the final balloting.
*« • landslide for him. The call
* •'»« wu hewfcd to the inner
(United Press Report)
Little River. June 16.—This town is
undergoing another boom as a rescult j Daring the evening different
of Ray Collins, conservation umpire, games were played and delicious to-
lifting the drilling han since discovery freshments of ice cream and soda
of a pool near here. Bunk bouses, eat- were served. The entire evening was
mg h—srs. sharks are springing up enjoyed by everyone. » .-t lb,
Tht farmers are to be *told that
Hoover has promised constructively
o work out a relief program insofar
t • • • ''
s it lies within the party s power to
Io so. They will be reminded of Cur-
fa’ vote for their McNary-Haugen
ffi.thpwdi—bv.—luty- of . party-.regtd—
rity, he declined to vote to" override
President Coolidge’s veto thereof,
(hey will also be told that the party’s
election of a vice-president from the
lenter of the farm belt means that
ae Republicans are really deeply in-
erested in the farmers’ plight.
The strategy already being mapped
nt for the campaign calls for an.in-
Ssion of the border political states
nd the democratic “solid south," and
*1 special wooing of the farmers in
I* Dakotas, Minnesota and Illinois.
If. as Republican leaders anticipate,
i0*' Alfred E. Smith of New York
I named as the democratic presiden-
®l candidate at Houston, the fight
'ill be carried sharply to the demo-
Mic camp.
Chairman Moses of the convention
>W an indication in his introduction
F*ch Wednesday of the party’s plan
• this direction.
,n the first place, the Republicans
"’nd to set up a cjiarge of “Tam-
toy corruption” and point to &aft-
•# scandals recently uncovered in
^•many’s stronghold, New York
INSPECTOR REPORTS
CONDITIONS FINE AT
LOCAL COTTON MILL
^-<jb»erva-tk'*’;ai’ni?y be regarded
fhe' tactics " to *%e wn-
elements.
With three of General Nobile's men definitely
missing and possibly lost, one known dead and
two others seriously injured, and the re-
mainder of the explorers divided fatd’tW par-
ties drifting on an ice floe off North East Land,
the plight of the expedition is now considered
" <i«t*r*atloMl UloatratM Navat
ther beautified with gorgeous pink
hydrangeas and other summer blos-
soms that are blooming profuse!^in
the Hermann yard.
At the Tuesday party Mrs. Howard
Wood made high score, and her prize
was a _ beautiful hand-embroidcKd.
luncheon set. Tlie player with, low
score received a lovely hydrangea.
Wednesday evening Mrs. August
Lindemann was the lucky player and
for high score she was rewarded with
a beautiful embroidered towel, while
as conso’ation for her bad luck Mrs.
Sam Toubin was given a cluster of
pink hydrangea blossoms.
Members of the Thursday Bridge
.Club and a number of additional
guests "enjoyed Mrs. Hermann's hos-
pitality Thursday afternoon. Mrs." A.
A. Hacker captured, first prize, Mrs.
Henry Tucker of Waco made second
highest, score, and Mrs. Fred* Ruland
was high among the club members.
Each of these tid es received a paii
of beautiful silk chiffon hose, and
Mrs. P. J. Lemm Was fully consoled
for her low score with a pretty pin),
hydrangea.
On each occasion a de'icious salad
course with refreshing iced tea and
delectable confections Were served.
' P. J. Lemm and little son, P. J. Jr.
have gone to Marlin for a visit tc
Mr. 1/mm’s mother and other tola
fives.
scent years. .
Nominat.cn bf Senator Curt.s yeh-
. tiled-as the crowning
in brmgim- back to the party
k harmony which had been disturb-
d seriously by the feud between the
and Hoover. Curtis’ observa-
directed at Hoover early this
JJk had stung the Hoover leaders,
ame of whom earlier had talked pri-
,tt|y of. a ‘‘gratutious insult.” Cur-
ie’ slightly veiled suggestion that the
[epublicans would have to bt on the
if Hoover were named was
gotten in the search for unity.
Curtis, from the farm belt, is ad-
Bttedly a big bid to keep farmers
rom quitting the ticket in view of
heir leaders’ disappointment at de-
convention’s platform.
"Poly” Tincher of
originally nominated
mis for president, predicted today
it this gesture to the
igg good party results
qmusual sign!- come in on Monday. The young (to-
pic's work begins Tncsday -morau^g.
Morping watch at six, and first class
at 8:15. The ministers also have their
morning hour of study and devotion
at the Fourth Street Methodist
Church at 6:00 o'clock, and then meet
again at eight at the ’ church for a
i course in IJyninuJugy under Dr. Beck
froip Fort Worth. Other hours of in-
terest to the ministers of the city will
be matters of systematic study for an
hour, 11:00 to 12:00,
All Junior baseball players and
such boys who still desire to join the
local Junior Lraijue are requested to
assemble ht 'the Fireman’s Park' Sun-
"1'7 Ibr Tiaseball "gajhes. An inanageri/
are also requested to ” be present to
take charge of .jljfir teams. AU boys; .
Any one who is a candidate or
wishes to become a candidate for any
county office, and has not yet filed
an application for a place on the tick-
et, is hereby notified that it is time
to gel busy, for tpnight
o’clock, Saturday, Ji
minute that such applications will be
received. So today is your last chance
to get on the ticket.
It has been rumored that at least
one or two cand
furnishings, needs little additional .
KANSAS SUFFERS
FROM $1MOOO
HAIL.I^AMAGES ENTERTAINS bridge club
Mrs. Mary M. Wise, representative
of the state department of labor, was
in Brenham today in the interests of
her special work of making a survey
of living conditions of cotton mill
employees in Texas.
After inspecting the South’ Texas
Cotton Mills Mrs. Wise reported that
she found conditions very Satisfac-
._ ------ toryi an(j that living conditions and
of odts, hay | surroundings of cotton mill employees
is purchased
bids on this
the Quarter-
and awards
(United Press Report)
Washington, June 16.—Senator Mc-
Nary, author of the McNary-Haughen
Farm Relief Bill, asserted after a
conference with Hoover today, that he
found the nominee “sympathetic and
anxious to relieve distress of our fartn
population.” McNary asserted the con-
ference sought that’ seven million far-
mers might secure farm legislation in
the next, session of congress.
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