The Texas Aggie. (College Station, Tex.) 1921-current, July 18, 1924, Image 5
WITH THE GANG. Dr. Joe Reed 22, Veterinary Med- icine, who is doing a splendid busi- ress over at Huntsville was a visitor on the campus recently. 3 k kk W. H. “Red” Thompson, Brenham Cotton Mills is attending the six week’s cotton classing school at the College. “Red” says he went to A. and M. so long that he can not be Lappy elsewhere. * kk Ex-students could take a few point- ers from F. C. Bowen, a Junior signal corps student. Bowen recently was in New Orleans and sent back from there the names of two old A. and M. men whom he had uncovered in his travels. Everywhere that boy goes he finds some old A. and M. man and notifies the office. * kk ¥ M. L. Malone, Deaton Hotel, Corsi- cana, wants to keep up with his gang through The Aggie. * kk R. C. Eargle 24, is going to Sche- nectady, N. Y., to be associated with the General Electric. Eargle’s home is in Fort Worth. Recently he ran across R. M. Turk, an old A. and M. man at Hillsboro and interested Turk in the Association. Eargle’s New York address will be 13 Park Place. * kK George M. Lewis ’24, is still at Ft. Worth. He says he has not quite de- cided just what he wants to do as yet and in the mean time has been taking a bit of a vacation. * kk Had a line from William A. Alex- ander the other day. He is with the Bright Ice Cream Co., Wichita Falls. * * kX Walter Heinen of Kerrville sent in a check for the first installment on his note. . xx T. C. Holloway, 1103 Frst Nation- al Bank building, El Paso, wants to be remembered to all Aggie friends. He sent in a check. x % % Malcolm Graham is making the Galveston Artillery Club his head- quarters these days down on the Treasure Island. Malcolm extends an invitation to visiting Aggies at Galveston to call on the Galveston A. and M. men. Especially the Ag- gie Club which has its luncheons on every Friday noon at Rogers. k % x . H. H. Walker ’24, C. E., is making Ballinger his headquarters these days. His address is box 606 Bal- linger. Walker says that he has been turning to James E. Pirie ’04, for a sort of shepherd or guide but that Pirie is thinking of leaving Bal- linger. Walker, together with some of the old timers in Ballinger is go- ing to organize the Runnels County A. and M. Club. x ® C. A. Medberry is going with the Texas Portland Cement Company the first of July, as chemist. * % 8 J. W. Martin ’22, is with the Mun- jcipal Gas Company of Dallas, in- stead of the Lone Star Gas Com- pany. x & * A. C. Keith ’22, is now with the Fort Worth Laboratories, Ft. Worth, Texas, instead of Bureau of Stand- ards, Washingotn. «% E. J. Howell 22, will serve as commandant of the John Tarleton Junior Agricultural College at Step- henville in addition to his teaching next year. Howell has a philosophic sort of disposition and should get away nicely in that rather tedious duty. * ® ® R. F. “Bob” Orth ’'22, who has been with the Western Electric Co., at New York City was in Texas the latter part of June on his vacation. Bob came down by boat to Galveston from New York for a visit with his parents and Bill Orth at San An- tonio. He also came by College for a little visit en route back to New York City. He is leaving the Wes- tern Electric people and will be with the accoustical engineering section of Johns Manville, Inc., at 296 Mad- ison Ave., New York City. x * * Had a good letter with check en- closed from A. L. Jennings at Kosse last week. * * % J. H. Langston, over at San An- tonio sounds off and sends in a check for the Association. * kx * Fatty Felt, Dallas, is engaged in promoting a sort of shock absorber for Fords. He sent The Aggie a check last week for advertising car- ried in that publication. * % =» Had a nice little note from C. R. Faltin of Comfort the other day. * * * . W. T. Donoho, with the Santa Fe engineering offices at Galveston keeps up his affiliation with the As- sociation. Had a letter from him last week—check enclosed. P. S. Tilson, of Tilson Laborator- ies, Houston, and Mrs. Tilson are seeing the Pacific Coast country this summer. Their intinerary includes Los Angeles, San Francisco, Yellow Stone Park, Salt Lake City and other interesting places along the way. * x Xx Carlton Meredith, geologist and engineer at Dallas is keeping busy these days. x kx Xx Ben D. Leuty ’24, writes from Bartlesville, Oklahoma, that he has met an exceptionally live gang of A. and M. men in that little city. Ben has gone with the Empire Com- pany at Bartlesville. He says: “I came up last week for an interview and went to work immediately. I am rooming with Theodore Goss '22. I attended a luncheon last Friday of the A. and M. Club. We had a good time and a good feed both. There were thirteen Aggies present”. That’s the way to initiate the new fellows. k ak Xk Know Jake Hirshfield of the firm of Hirshfield and Anderson clothiers at Austin? Jake is a com- paratively “old timer” in Aggieland. Last week he sent over a check for $100 to be used for the Association Loan Fund. “I want to have a part in this work”, he wrote. He sent his regard to ‘Charlie Todd’ Ed Kyle and some of the others who were in college when he was here. His offering came unheralded and insofar as any one here knows no one ever had made any sort of an appeal to Hirshfield. Thanks Jake. x Xx *x Lee Hugon is at Bowie now with the Texas Power and Light Co. Lee was until recently at Waxahachie. His permanent address is at 901 East Broadway, Gainesville. * x 3 Manuel Leon Ortega ’20, sends a salutation from the Capitol at Washington to the Secretary of the Association. Ortega is touring ex- tensively. * kx * W. H. Armstrong, with Smallman and Bryce, contractors at Birming- ham, Ala., is on a visit to his home in New Jersey. This is the first va- cation he has had since before the war. Bryce, of his employing firm, is an old A. and M. man. *k kk xk P. L. Downs, Jr., of Temple, is chairman of the committee which condiicts Camp Temple, a camp for boys held under the direction of the Y. M. C. A., of that progressive lit- tle city. * % * Jimmie Roseborough has got his hands full these days overseeing a one thousand acre pecan farm near Medina dam. Jimmie has charge of this project, one of the biggest pe- can projects ever conducted in the United States. His address is at Lytle, Texas. * ¥x Xk A. S. Orr ’24, is now with the Gulf Refining Co’s. laboratories at Port Arthur. He says that town looks like the A. and M. campus. He is at 147 Third St., Port Arthur. * % Xx R. L. Burney ’06, of the firm of Walsh and Burney, contractors at San Antonio is grabbing off many contracts this year. They have the University of Texas stadium con- tract. Just recently they were awarded the contract for the con- struction of a seven story office building in Abilene. * % * Had a letter recently from W. “Rube” Whipkey. Rube is at Colo- rado, Texas, in charge of a printing business but is planning on getting back into the construction game in which he has had much experience. After graduation Rube served as a sort of superintendent of buildings and grounds for the College. Later he . went to Paris as City Building Inspector, where he supervised the reconstruction of that city following its disastrous fire. k kx * DeHaven Pitts ’24, is with David S. Castle Co., architechts-engineers at Abilene. His mail address is 430 Hickory St. Pitts already is active for the Association. He wants to belong to an A. and M. Club at Abi- lene and he is taking the lead in its crganization. The office sent him a list of Abilene Aggies. He and Bugs Morris and Judge W. J. Bryan will have to awaken that gang out there. Lengthy “Fowler” ’22, is with that firm too. * %* 2» Had a long letter recently from Leon L. Arnold. He is located at Vernon. Arnold says he has been a tow-hog and wheat farmer on a large scale since he left College. However the going has been rough. Prospects for a comeback are good for this year, he states. * % * W. S. Bizzell ’22, City Engineer at Jacksonville, was at College last week for a visit with his parents. Sangster reports plans well under way for the organization of the Cherokee County A. and M. Club. Louis H. Powell, of Chicago, pres- ident of that club and a director in the Association advises that he has located a couple of Aggies in the Windy City. Lee Hall who was here from 1895-through 1899 is in the same building, on the same floor with Powell. They had been seeing each other for years and did not know that they were fellow Aggies until the ring brought them together. Hall is Assistant Manager of Express and Mail Traffic Department for the San- ta Fe Railway system. His address is at room 906 Railway Exchange Building, Chicago. He formerly liv- ed at Sherman. He has promised Louis to be out at the next luncheon of the Chicago Club. Powell also reports that L. S. Hobbs ’16, who formerly was lo- cated at Dayton, Ohio, is now in Chicago. Hobbs is with the Strom- berg Motor Devices Co., of 58-68 E. 25th St., Chicago. His residence ad- dress is Hyde Park Y. M. C. A., 53rd t., and Dorchester Ave., Chicago. Hobbs also has promised to be on the job at the next luncheon. ¥® ¥ xX Had a letter this week from Dr. Oliver O’Bar, recently elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Association with headquarters in St. Louis. Polly Krueger prob- ably will go to St. Louis within the next few weeks and at that time he tnd Dr. O’Bar are going to organ- ize the St. Louis A. and M. Club. There are a number of A. and M. men in St. Louis. k kx ok W. T. Swink, Olney, sent in two names of old timers who have not been aligned with the Association and the College in recent years. Swink also had some encouraging re- marks with reference to the Asso- ciation and THE AGGIE. * ok ok R. B. “Bob” Easton, of Sinton, has been out of college just a month. However he already has done a good piece of work for the Association by sending in the names of a number of old A. and M. men in his vicinity. k kk E. Y. Harpole, “Fire Chief”, is another member of the class of 24 who is doing some magnificant work in Houston. The Chief is associated with Batsian’s printing concern in Hoouston and is doing well there. His address is 716 McKinney Ave. Harpole has sent in the names of a half dozen lost Aggies. *k & # William V. Stone, of Port Arthur is now in New Mexico installing a gin at Hatch, N. M. This gin will take care of some of the splendid cotton grown in the Rio Grande Val- ley. Irrigation made possible by the Elephant Butte dam is responsi- ble for a tremenduous increase in cotton production there. x x John M. Wilson, 918 West Gram- mercy St., San Antonio, was here in 76-79. He is interested in the Col- lege and the Association and is ex- tremely sorry to have missed the commencement reunion with the old timers. kk k %x J. B. Lamkin, of the class of ’23, M. E., is back in Texas on a visit from Topeka, Kan., where he has been taking training in the Santa Fe shops since his graduation. Lamkin lives at Huntsville and during his visit there he drove over to the Col- lege. He lived with “W. H.” Tubby Andrews for several months in To- peka. land engineering department. He is in Texas at his home in McKinney now for a brief visit. * kk % Don Lee, the smiling vice-presi- dent of the Association passed thru College last July 1, en route to Dallas via flivver for the Fourth cele- bration. Don just can’t miss one of these A. and M. meetings and if he is in 100 miles of an Aggie party never worry he will be there. * %k * W. H. “Red” Thompson of Bren- ham Cotton Mill fame, is on the cam- pus taking a little course in cotton guessing. Red still likes the Textile game and says he is going to stick to it in some of its phases. * % *% L. G. Rich, with the school of ag- riculture at the John Tarleton Agri- cultural College at Stephenville is now in the summer school at A. and M. Rich has called by the office and states that he is planning the organization of a real live Aggie club in Stephenville. * Xx =» Manuel Leon Ortega ’20, writes from Mexico that he has just com- pleted a tour of “these here United States.” He states that he saw D. X., in New York, and that he ran into A. and M. men everywhere. He says that he will visit the College in October. * * 8 Had a letter from Charles A. Bur- meister ’08, at 1702 Lamont Street, Wahington, advising that his father has decided to make the race for State senator in his district. Mr. Burmeister will oppose Archie Parr of San Diego. City. Tubby is with the Rock Is- M. Club is functioning in a sort of R. T. Milner, Jr.,, “Bob” as he is known to that host of A. and M. men here from ’09 to ’14, is with the public schools at Henderson. Bob writes that he is willing to go to any extent to help out A. and M. and the Association of Former Students of the College. « * 8 Drink and Francis Milner and Dr. Ball are spending the summer in the mountains in Colorado fishing. They had the nerve to send THE AGGIE a post card recently showing a snow capped mountain in the back ground and a beautiful lake in the fore- ground. They spoke of Mountain trout, also, but did not send any. * ® =x Ed Hamner ’16, writes in from Indianaoplis that he could hardly answer one or two of the questions cn the questionaire sent out by the Association. He says that as for dis- tinctions he led all comers except Dough Rollins in the race for cer- tain activities that Volstead has made impossible now. He also furnished the chief source of complaint at S. M. I’s. Ed J., is manager of the Hartford Insurance Co’s., livestock department at the Union Stock Yards at Indianapolis. He has been with them for some years. Of late he has not visited in Texas very much which has been a distinct disappointment to his many friends here. * % » V. V. Parr, the much loved Cadet Colonel of years gone by, never fails to do a good turn or speak a good word for the College. V. V., is now at Seymour doing some very impor- tant investigation work for the U. S. Department of Agriculture with reference to ranching. He has sent The Aggie a copy of the Southland Farmer of June 24, Houston, giving the results of some of his investiga- tions with reference ‘An Economic Study of the Costs and Methods of Range Cattle Production in Texas.” Mimeographed copies of the entire report may be had from the Secre- tary of Agriculture at Washington or by writing Virgil. He says that he attended a meet- ing of the Sheep and Goat Raisers at San Angelo recently and that there he saw Arthur G. Harrell and For- rest Runge. Harrell is at Fort Stockton while Runge is at Christo- val. Both are doing well. R * % * Wm. V. Mowlan of the city engi- neering department at Corsicana sends in a name or so of prospective students. 3 . * * % Carlton Meredith, eng'neer and geologist with offices in the Kirby building recently has been on a trip to West Texas. During his jaunt he saw Jack Shelton who is doing some fine work with the Gainesville Chamber of Commerce. The hop- pers have been very busy in Cooke county and Meredith says that Jack was helping the farmers feed the hoppers arsenic during those days. * % * Col P. L. Downs of Temple, is in the East vacationing it a bit. His secretary advises that he will be ab- sent from the bank for about two more weeks. * 0» Dillon T. Stevens writes from St. Louis, W. N. Matthews corporation, that he sees quite a few A. and M. men there. Wade Burleson, Gra- ham Hall, and C. E. Green are among those who recently were in Mound Dillon says that the A. and “one horse fashion” but that the gang is going to get together and work out a real organization. He says that he wants any Aggie who may be passing through St. Louis to get in touch with him. * % Old Dudley S. “W. B.” Moore of the Lampasas High School sends in the news about the location of Ag- gies in his county. Wrinkles is go- ing to Kerrville to ‘“Doleful Doc’s” coaching school. He says, however, that he is sending two good track men to A. and M. this season. Dud- ley has had a successful two-years in his teaching and coaching work at Lampasas. * kx *x Martin Giesecke, of the Liberty Flour Mills, San Antonio, says that he is lining up two or three good ‘men for Aggieland this fall. Now is the time for all loyal Aggies to follow ‘in his footsteps and get the pick of their towns lined up for A. and M. * Had a good long letter from C. C. Mason who now is dean of the Sch- reiner Institute at Kerrville. Roy Neeley will be out there with Mason next year. The Kerrville boys have organized a good Aggie club in the Hill country and will keep the fires burning out there. * x 8 A. K. Stanley of Beeville, sent in his questionaire, check, and a good inspiring letter. He says that his training here in agriculture has been of great help to him but that he be- lieves that over and above all other training is the training a man gets here in the making of manhood. “What are the prospects for foot- ball this year’, queries D. Burns of Lamesa. “I certainly hope that they are bright and that the team can go to Austin and draw first blood in the Longhorn’s new stadium, beating them a million to nothing.” D also states that prospects for a good crop is West Texas are bright this year. * % * T. M. Ragsdale of the Amerada Petroleum Co., at Tulsa, Okla., sends in a check and a request for informa- tion. Ragsdale is planning on re- entering college with the view point of taking his degree. Just now he is engaged in geological work. He sends his regards to Polly and wishes him well as the new president of the Association. x * Oscar Gray is still handling pe- cans at Waxahachie. * % ® Arthur H. “Mutt” Jungman has a brother in College now. J. Frank Jungman went to Rice and finished his course there but Mutt says that he had to come to Aggieland to finish it up. Mutt is with the Southern Pacific engineering department at San Antonio. «ce Gus A. Saper, he of the Heavier- Than-Air-Type of man and who was the champion African domino player of the College in the year of ’14-15 was back on the campus this week. “Fat” is now associated with the Furman Co., Commerce and Shep- herd Streets, Houston, as sales man- ager. They make all sorts of ex- tracts and supplies for creameries, bakers, etc. No extracts sold to in- dividuals “Fat” says. * Xk J. A. Peterson ’14, M. E., who is now a member of the Mechanical Engineering staff of the College is in Galveston this summer. He is working with the Galveston Gas Company. * & * John Cape, who hibernates in San Marcos sent in best wishes and a check recently. * %k *% Ray E. Dixon, who opposed Dutch Hohn back in the dark ages for Sen- ator and who ran a hot campaign which inspired the recent song hit, “It’s Three O’clock in the Morning,” is doing well at Spur, where he is with the Texas Agricultural Experi- ment Station system. The Senator gets back on the campus about twice yearly. * * 8 John C. Calhoun, “Caruso’ who is with. the Electric Paint Co., head- quarters at Houston, visited the Col- lege this week. * kx = George W. Turner and “Big Dick” R. O. Wilson, both of the engineer- ing offices of the Santa Fe at Temple are red hot missionaries for the As- sociation. In Brownwood they hun- ted up John M. Beck, ex-’20, who is with the Citizens’ National Bank. They also visited County Engineer Kelly over in San Angelo. *x ¥*x * J. H. Briggs ’04, who edits Trap Rock Chats for the Texas Trap Rock Co., of San Antonio, and who boosts A. and M. constantly was run into recently while returning with his family to San Antonio after an even- ings drive to a nearby town. The force of the collision overturned their car and Mr. and Mrs. Briggs and their children were caught beneath the overturned ear. A charge of driving an automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquors was filed against the driver of the “other car.” Briggs and his family escaped serious injury in some mir- aculous manner. %* kk % Had a wire the other day from Capt. M. J. (Mike) Conway, U. S. A,, who now is on duty with the R. O. T. C., at Fort Snelling, Minn. Mike reports everything as ‘sitting pretty.’ * * * J. M. Thomson ’13, Ag., Aggie- land’s sole representative at Eau Claire, Wis., is on a visit to Texas and came by the College Monday. Thomson is sub-district manager for the Veterans’ Bureau in Wisconsin. He has about 300 men in training, ninety of that number being stu- dents of agriculture while the re- mainder are industrial trainees. Thomson’s home is at Florence, Tex- as. This is his first visit to the Col- lege since 1914, and, to quote him, he “almost got lost among all of the buildings now on the campus.” * * * Ben E. Cabell, D. H., graduate, is now with the Blanke Manufactur- ing and Supply Co., of St. Louis. Ben’s headquarters are in Dallas and he makes College Station monthly. x %x *% A. C. Taylor and Andrew Van Tuyl, both of Ft. Worth, are with the U. S. Bureau of Roads with head- quarters at Fort Worth. +» Aubrey Legg has been given a nice promotion by the Texas Power and Light Co. He has been trans- ferred from Dallas to Waco where he is commercial manager for the T. P. & L. Co. First Lieutenant Wofford Duncan of Killeen, “Little Hubie’’ Braunig and several other A. and M. men are on duty with the Texas National Guard regiments at Fort Crockett, Galveston. Duncan recently com- pleted the course of training at the Infantry School at Fort Benning, Ga. * kk D. D. “Danny” Clinton, is county agent for Burleson county with head- quarters at Caldwell. Danny is also scoutmaster for the Boy Scouts at Caldwell and is doing a fine piece of work over there. *k * * Fred Bramlette with the Texas Portland Cement Association makes San Antonio his headquarters. Fred recently saw June Bivins over at Longview, and reports that June is ‘rearin’ to go for the Association. x ok * W. C. (Bill) King, Lieutenant T. N. G., is looking over the bathing beauties at Galveston this week while he is ostensibly making the Guard encampment at Fort Crockett. %k kk A. C. Frazier, “Little Hick”, M. E., is chief draftsman for the South- ern Pacific shops at San Antonio. Frazier is doing so well that they have him conducting some teaching work in drafting. * kk ok Gordon E. Roberts, ex-’23 is with the Santa Fe engineering depart- ment at San Bernardino, California. His address is box 440. BIRTHS. Lela Frances Hagan. T. E. Hagan, of Hagan Brothers Nurserymen, Arlington, reports the advent of Miss Lela Frances Hagan into their family recently. She is the second child. The first member is nearly three years old and accord- ing to T. E,, is of the “Ox Ford” type. Hagan expects him to hit the Kyle Field gridiron in due time. Hagan and Dan Kiber are bud- dying together these days at Arling- ton. Dan is teaching in the North Texas Junior Agricultural College. k kk William Hughes Seyle. Master William Hughes Seyle is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Seyle of Houston. He came into this world on July 11th. Roscoe is with the engineering de- partment of the I. & G. N. and is getting along splendidly in * that work. He frequently visits the Col- lege on his rounds. * % Harry C. Davis, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Davis, an- nounce the arrival of Harry C. Davis’ Jr., on June 28th, 1924. The young man came into the world at the home of the parents at 5302 Lewis St., Dallas. His dad was an M. E. grad- uate in the class of 1922. ——— ee BEAUMONT A. & M. CLUB. Sixty-three ex-student of A. and M. College, largest number of “ex’s” ever attending a regular meeting of the Beaumont A. and M. Club, en- joyed dinner and a diversified round of talks and laughs at a meeting of the club on the night of June 16 in Hotel Beaumont dining room. With a large number of visiting ex-students at- tending, and also numerous boys just home from a session at the College, the affair was one of large propor- tions which kept diners long past the dinner hour. : Two present students heard were E. O. Buck, who will be a senior next year, and Elmer Nichols, a freshman of the past year, both telling old students what A. and M. is doing and what are some of next year’s plans. W. T. Strange of Ardmore, Okla., un- til recently principal of an Ardmore school, a former student of A. and M., injected spice in the program with his lively and humorous recitation of reasons why he was going from the “peedoggie” profession into that of selling “nerve g#trengtheners.” His talk drew much applause. Another interestigz speaker was Dunlap Johnson, newly elected coach of South Park College, last year’s coach of A. and M. teams, and ath- letic star of the last several years, who told of his plans for South Park in the coming season. Selman Hay- wood, who was official representative of the Beaumont Club at the recent commencement exercises at the Col- lege, reviewed the activities of the A. and M. Ex-Students’ association of Texas for the last year. There are 15,000 members, he said, in the asso- ciation. A total of $78,000 has been pledged by members of the associa- tion to the Student Loan fund, which is designed to aid worthy youths who wish to borrow money for schooling which they will return after gradua- tion. Don Lee of Temple, who has been in Beaumont on business, was another interesting speaker and vis- itor. The club passed a vote of apprecia- tion to The Enterprise for “fair and suare handling of A. and M. athletic news,” during the last year. A few minor business matters were disposed of. The club will meet again the first Monday in July.—~Beaumont En- terprise.