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About The Daily Bulletin/Reveille. (College Station, Tex.) 1916-1938 | View Entire Issue (April 12, 1922)
Vol. V. he Daily Bulletin ‘ College Station, Texas, Wednesday, April 12, 1922. No. 156 NEW HOMESITE IS BEING DEVELOPED Midway Place is New Residential Park on Bryan-College Road Near Country Club. Under the name of Midway Place Homesite Company an organization has been’ perfected which has pur- chased the property across from the Bryan Country Club from Mrs. Doane and O. E. Saunders. This de- velopment, to be known as “Midway Place,” will be made an attractive, first class residential park with com- plete modern conveniences. The first sale of stock for $10,000.00 has been completed by Messrs. O. E. Saunders and J. W. Batts. The stock- “holders, composed of a prominent group of College and Bryan men have met and elected the following direc- tors: E. P. Humbert, secretary. E. B. La Roche, chairman. F. C. Bolton. W. W. Kraft. A. H. Liedigh. A. Mitchell. R. L. Pou. Competent legal advice has been employed in perfecting details of or- ganization, so that each stock holder will be amply protected and all legal requirements conformed with. Appli- cat on for incorporation is now in the hands of the secretary of state. A second stock sale of $10,000.00 has been authorized by the directors and will be started immediately. An attractive layout is now being made and as soon as completed streets will be laid, lots staked off and sewerage put in; electric lights and water are now available. By early fall, or sooner, the development will be ready for its first homes according to the rromoters. Those who are boosting the project state that the property insures its success as a home site. They point to the paved highway on one side of the property the interurban line on the other, the proximity of the Bryan Country Club and say that land all a'ong the Bryan-College road is in- cre.sng in value. They say that (Continued on Page 4) PUPILS WIN IN DISTRICT MEET Four Consolidated School Children Qualify for State Meet to Be Held at Austin. Four pupils of the A. and M. Con- solidated Rural School qualified to enter the final meet of the Interscho- lastic League which will be held in Austin May 4, 5, and 6, as a result of the district meet held at Navasota last Friday. - Those who qualified were Howard Mitchell, Turner Walton, Douglas Uzzell and Vera Fairleigh. ; Howard Mitchell qualified by win- ning first place in tennis singles, Tur- ner Walton by winning second place in the discus throw, Douglas Uzzell by winning second place in the mile run and Vera Fairleigh by winning | first place in the junior girls’ decla- mat.on. Ten pupils of the A. and M. school ! entered the meet at Navasota. They | were shown many courtesies and alt enjoyed their visit to the town very much. All particularly remember the pic- nic lunch that was served at noon, and which was prepared by the women of | Navasota and the expense borne by the Navasota Chamber of Commerce. The school recently won all first places in the county meet held at Bryan. | AGGIE MUSIC BROADCASTED OVER WIRELESS TELEPHONE The music of the Aggie saxaphone quartet was broadcasted over the na- tion Monday evening from the A. and M. radio station. The request had come from a num- ber of sources recently for a broad- cast of Aggie music and the four saxaphone artists complied. Those who played were: George Fairleigh, T.E. Hubby, A.R. Threal- gl and W. B, Clin>, Jr. Dr R. V. UNIFORMS LAUNDERED. Remember if you want your R. V. Uniform to look its best give it to “Tiny” Keen he will be responsible for the rest. 67 Milner. CIVIL ENGINEERS INSPECT PLANTS Return to College After Inspecting Engineering Projects in North Texas. After spending Thursday and Fri- day of last week in Dallas, and Sat- urday in Fort Worth, inspecting a large number of industrial and engi- neering plants the members of the senior civil engineering class have returned to College and report an in- teresting, instructive and enjoyable trip. Dean J. C. Nagle was with the party during the two first days and so were Professors B. D. Marburger and T. A. Munson from the beginning until it was disbanded at Fort Worth on Saturday night, except for a part of the first afternoon in Dallas. They will appreciate being asked why not then. It was certainly not due to the interested inquiries of the policemen who wished to know the meaning of the congregation at a Commerce Street corner while waiting for an Ervay Street car, not to the breath- less inquiry of a certain small boy who wanted to know “which whip- ped ?”’ Immediately after arrival in Dal- las on Thursday morning the Texas Portland Cement Company, through its big hearted sales manager, H. C. Koch, and a group of his assistants and others connected with the company entertained the party with a special breakfast, fit for a king, at the Ori- ental hotel after which the party was taken to the cement company’s mill in West Dallas where the young men in- spected and had explained to them, the several processes of manufacture, from the quarrying of the stone and clay through the crushing, mix- ing, roasting and grinding operations to the sacking of the finished product ready for shipment. : After leaving the cement mill the party was shown through the Mas- sey Concrete Pipe factory and the Wyatt Sheet Metal and Boiler Works, returning to the city in time for lunch- After lunch the party inspected the Austin Brothers Bridge Company’s plant and Austin Brothers fabrication plant, where they found a nest of old
