2 u V | - 4 x RY Nae 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. ————et—a eee. 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. 2 $ \ 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. el gem 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 A †Bh jis: R t Tp A { nantly ay Yin, 7. 4520 A bo! 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. ——————t—— 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.