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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 25, 1914)
«-D- ^o- a-a- tt-o- <V-T} •0-0 ■Q-0- •o-o ■0-0 -0-0 o-o oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo You Are Especially Invited To make our store your headquarters when you come in town. Leave your grips and packages with us while you take in the sights. This store has been College headquarters for the past 19 years. We make a specialty of catering to College trade, and carry in stock, at all times, the very latest up-to-date styles in Young Mens Clothes, Shoes, Hats and Furnishing Goods You take no chances when you trade here. You are sure to find the styles right and the prices right. We make a specialty of College Pennants and carry in stock a large assortment of Pennants and Pillows of all principal schools and colleges. A. M. Waldrop & Company BRYAN’S BIG CLOTHING STORE ~ ~ i ■O-O- •BO -O-O- OO oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo oo ture of the fluid in the Bryant process was 220 degrees F., and even a higher temperature could have been secured, albeit, naturally, the higher the tem perature the more the oil in treatment was topped. Hence 220 degrees F. was considered by Mr. Bryant the proper temperature, the nature of the fluid treated being considered.” FATHER OF EIGHTY-SEVEN. The family record for longevity and one that would immensely please Theodore Roosevelt, has , not been beaten since Robert Parr, the great- grandson of the celebrated Thomas Parr, died in 1717 at the age of 124 years. His father lived to celebrate his 109th birthday, his grandfather reached 113, while his great-grand father was 162 at the time of his death. If a longlived family of Wis bech, named Stockdale, cannot in the mere number of years compete with the Parrs, it assuredly holds the record for golden weddings, of which five have been celebrated in the fami ly within comparatively recent years One of the most notable instances of prolificness is that mentioned in the Harleian Miscellany of a Scotch weaver and his wife, who were the proud parents of sixty-two children, fifty of whom reached their majority. Fortunately, four gentlemen in the neighborhood each adopted ten chil dren, the remainder being brought up by their parents. Large as this family was, its fame pales before that of a Russian, one Ivan Wasilit, who was the proud father of eighty-seven chil dren. He was married twice. By his first wife he had sixty-nine children, in the following order: Four times quadruplets at a birth, seven times triplets and sixteen times twins. By his second spouse he had twice trip lets and six times twins.—Copied. DIRECTOR YOUNGBLOOD GETS HONORABLE MENTION. We observe in the Chicago Daily Tribune for November 6 an article giving an interview with Director Youngblood of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations. In the interview he tells of the success which the ex periment stations and other agencies for progress in the State are having in persuading the farmers to abandon the “one-crop” system and to diiver- sify with cattle, Sudan grass and food crops. The young farmers in particu lar, he states, “are seeing the light.” FOUND—Reasonable prices on pen nants, banners and pillow covers at Room 7, Foster. THE VERSION OF A FARMERSVILLE EDITOR Wednesday afternoon a big husky looking bunch of high school boys came here from Celeste to play foot ball with the high school boys of this place. The Celeste boys were quite a good deal heavier than the locals and wore a good deal more rigging tied on their heads and faces, but it seem ed that they were no more skilled in the art of knocking down and drag ging out than the Farmersville boys. We do not know enough about the game to write it up intelligently, but the ramming and jamming of the two teams proved interesting from start to finish. They had the referee and linemen, just as we read about in the big games. Both teams would line up on their all-fours with their noses to gether; someone would yell “Seven come eleven,” or something like that, and the two teams would ram each other. The man with the ball seemed to be the one they had it in for, and the whole bunch was trying to knock his block off or do him some other bodily harm. This ramming and jamming would continue for fifteen minutes and they would call it a quar ter. Then they would all lie down and pant like a drove of fox hounds and get up and go at it again. This procedure was kept up for an hour, and then they. were all at about the same place as when they started, so the game was called a tie. Those who know football and witnessed the game pronounced it a fine exhibition. It was said that the forward pass and runs, line bucking and field kicking were of very fine quality. We liked the game and will see the next one pulled off here. COMPANY FOOTBALL SCHEDULE. The following is the schedule of the games to be played by those teams that failed to play on the date set for the regular game or whose score was a tie when they did play: November 24—L-M vs. G-H. November 28—E-F vs. C-D; I-K vs. G-H. December 5—G-H vs. C-D; I-K vs. L-M. J. R. JARVIS, Chairman Schedule Committee. STANDING. L-M 1.000 E-P 750 C-D 500 G-H 000 I-K 000 It can’t leak—mat Moore’s Foun tain pen. Come and see at Room 7, Foster Hall. H. Y. MOH SENDS MESSAGE. We have received from Dean Kyle a copy of a letter written to him by H. Y. Moh, our popular Chinese student of last year. The letter is written from 84 Bubbling Well Road. Shanghi, China, and contains an ac count of his work since leaving here. In it he states that he has been busy organizing a cotton mill which he intended to capitalize at $500,000, but because of the European war he has been forced to content himself with taking charge of one under con struction and worth only $300,000 and being equipt with only 10,000 ring spindles. But, he states, he hopes to increase this to 25,000 ring spindles. In connection with this mill he has leased 60 acres of land for the grow ing of cotton, and his brother has re signed from the position of chief of police, and the two have entered this work to avoid politics. They are liv ing in a three-storied house of West ern style in company with their aged mother. Those of us who have the privilege of knowing Hy Moh will always re member him with pleasure because of his genial nature and ready wit. FIRST MEETING OF M. E. SOCIETY The first meeting of the M. E. So ciety was called to order by the presi dent, F. A. Homann, on Friday night, November 20. A very large percent age of the M. E.’s were present, which shows that the old pep is re appearing in the department. After the minutes had been read by the sec retary, the society was addressed by Prof. Fermier. The first part of his talk was devoted to a description of the meeting of the A. S. M. E., which took place during the early part of June in St. Paul. The next part was on mechanical stokers for locomo tives. This was well illustrated by means of reflectoscope which the de partment recently acquired. The so ciety had the good fortune of having as honorary guests a number of E. E.’s who got out of their meeting in time to hear Prof. Fermier’s talk on stokers. After the lecture the society attended to several business items. The society then adjourned. A good program has been announced for the next meeting which will take place on December 4. I sell everything in the “Holeproof” and waterproof line • also several makes of fine shoes. S. D. Hervey, Room 17, Mitchell. Trade with our advertisers. DR. ALGIE BENBOW DENTIST Office Over First National Bank BRYAN, TEXAS CHARLOTTESVILLE WOOLEN MILLS Charlottesville, Va. Manufacturers of HIGH GRADE UNIFORM CLOTHES For Army, Navy, Letter Carriers, Police and Railroad Purposes. And the largest assortment and best quality of Cadet Greys, in cluding those used at the United States Military Academy, at West Point and other leading military schools of the country. Prescribed and used by the Cadets of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas They’re not short-lived The Jerseys In 1913 eighteen Jersey Cows were officially tested which averaged 12 years and 7 months of age. Their average milk production was 8617 pounds. Average butter fat, 387 pounds. One of these cows was over 18 years old. Longevity, Constitution and Economic Production are Jersey characteristics. 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