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VOL. I.
College Station, Texas, Tuesday, January 7, 1919
No. 50
BETTER STAPLE
OF COTTON IS
SOUGHT
EXTENSION SERVICE AND BU-
REAU OF MARKETS EXTEND
* CO-OPERATIVE WORK
AMONG FARMERS
During the next two months Walton
Peteet of the Extension Service and
Alec D. Hudson of the
Markets, who is co-operating with the
Bureau of
Extension Service, will spend most
of their time on the road enlisting
the farmers of the state in a move-
ment looking to the planting of a bet-
ter stapled cotton and to organization
for the purpose of marketing this cot-
ton to better advantage. Branch of-
fices of this service will be established
in twenty Texas counties this year
and these offices will probably be es-
tablished in those' counties where the
largest interest is manifested among |
the farmers and the largest spirit
of co-operation shown by the business
interests of those counties.
The itinerary of Mr. Hudson, while
incomplete, includes the following
speaking dates: Jan. 6-9, Robertson
County; Jan. 10, Weatherford; Jan.
11-14, Matagorda County; Jan. 15,
Sherman; Jan. 16, Bonham; Jan. 21,
San Angelo; Jan. 22, Sterling City;
“Jan. 28-29, Van Zandt County; Jan.
30-31, Bowie County; Feb. 3-5, Carls-
bad, N. M.; Feb. 6-8, the Pecos valley
in the vicinity of Barstow. The re-
mainder of the time is unassigned.
Mr. Peteet’s incomplete itinerary is
as follows: Jan. 3-4, Refugio County;
Jan. 6-7, San Patricio County; Jan. 9-
10, Hill County; Jan. 14, Athens; Jan.
5 \ 16-11, Cherokee County; Jan. 21, San
Angelo; Jan. 22-23, Coke County; Jan.
24, Ballinger; Jan. 28-29, Angelina
County; Jan. 31, to Feb.:1, Grimes
County; Feb. 7-8, Williamson County.
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LONGHORN QUINTET WINS
Texas University defeated the
School of Military Aeronautics of
Austin in the first basketball game of
the season Saturday by a score of 22
to 15.
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ATTENDANCE'IS
SHOWING UP WELL
ENROLLMENT AT NOON YESTER-
DAY HAD REACHED 600 MARK
—MANY OTHERS HERE
OLD MEN PREDOMINATE
Comparatively Few New Students
Enter for Second Term, But Re-
turn of Former Ones is
: Gratifying to Officials .
Actual enrollment for the second
term 'of the current session had
reached the 600 mark yesterday at
noon with a good number of men on
the Campus who had not formally
signed up for their = work as yet.
There is every indication that by the
time the work of the new term is well
under way the attendance will have
gone considerably beyond that mark.
Comparatively « new students are
noticed among the number, but when
it is recalled thatthe mid-winter com-
mencements of the High schools of
the state-—which schools are the chief
feeders of A. and M.—will not be held
until the latter part of this month or
the first of IFebruary, there was no
reason to expect many new students at
this time. The cream of the old stu-
dent body is back, however, along
with many men of other years who
have been in the military and naval
service, and the College officials are
gratified with the showing made.
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SIECKE ADDRESSES FORESTRY
: \ EXPERTS
E. O. Siecke, state forester and head
of the Forestry department of the
College, was one of the principal
speakers before the meeting of the U.
S. experts in forestry and men of the
South vitally interested in that sub-
ject at Jacksonville, Fla., last Friday
and Saturday. Mr. Siecke led the dis-
cussion on the value of publicity in
educating the public to the necessity
of conserving the forests that have
been cut and burned over.
‘Tuesdays.
FLORAL TRIBUTE
PAID T0 MRS.
SBISA
BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS INDICATE
AFFECTION OF FRIENDS FOR
LONGTIME CAMPUS
RESIDENT
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Some of the most beautiful floral
pieces ever seen at a Campus funeral
were in evidence at the funeral of Mrs.
B. Shisa Sunday afternoon, betoken-
ing the affection and esteem in which’. .
this longtime resident of the Campus
was held by those who knew her best.
The most elaborate design was a
mantle, the contribution of the Cam- -
pus community.
When the body left the family home
for St. Joseph’s Catholic church in
Bryan where the services were held,
the College band headed the procession
across the Campus, playing an ap-
propriate funeral march, and many
friends were in line. Still others were
in waiting at the church where Rev.
Father J. B. Gleissner conducted a
beautiful and simple ceremony, point-
ing out the beautiful life Mrs. Shisa
had’ lived and assuring the loved ones
left behind that the separation here
was only temporary as they will meet
her again in the world above.
Following the ceremony at the
church the body was laid away tem-
porarily in the Bonneville vault in
the Bryan cemetery, pending a pri-
vate funeral that will be held upon the
arrival of Mrs. E. W. Kerr, the only
daughter, and her family from Ha- |
vana, Cuba, later in the week. :
A niece, Mrs. Bonfila of Laredo, ar-
rived Sunday afternoon just in time
for the funeral. oa
- The family has received many mes-
sages of condolence since the death ;
of Mrs. Shisa became known.
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CHANGE IN SCHEDULES MADE
Section 181 will report for Biology
201 for theory on Tuesdays, Thursdays @
and Saturdays at 10, instead of Mon-
days, Wednesdays and Fridays at 11,
and for practice at 2 instead of 1, on
F. B. CLARK.