The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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ALVIN. TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 18, 1919.
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Volume 28.
Number 43
Train Crew Have Attacked By Five Expect To
of the
a Alvin
o drill
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What Is More Important
TO YOUR TOWN
OR COMMUNITY
Than a Lumber Yard?
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and
oil
Alvin
Pearland
Train Crew Have Attacked By Five Expect To Drill Death Comes To
Narrow Escape In U-Boats On Trip Five Oil Wells In Mrs. Hattie Yates
Fred Ertel Victim
Of Painful Accident
Former Roadmaster
Hurt In Accident
Card of Thanks
We desire to thank our many
friends who so kindly assisted
u 5 in any way during the sick-
ness and death of our beloved
mother, also for the many beau-
tiful floral offerings.
Mrs. Gladys Moore
Mrs. Anna Crouch
Hugh Yates
mally
eat to
vis-
veil
Ivin
ifor
’ claimed
' between
J. W. Grant, president
Grant Sub division Oil C< rnpany
of Pittsburg, Pa., is in th
country on a business ton r. Mr.
Grant states that his con- pany is
making arrangements
five more oil wells in th 3 terri-
nas-
xas,
ing
.ck.
No.
ree-
the
rip-
the
fol-
Angleton Audienc >
Hears Major V inn
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and
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fl evoted to the Interests of Alvin and Vicinity
district deputy grand maste for
district number eighteen, w hich
is composed of Pearland L edge
No. 821, Angleton Lodge
927, Alvin Lodge No. 453, I
port Lodge No. 951. This ii
first time that this commi: sion
has come to an Alvin man a: d is
quite an honor to the local order
and also to Mr. Pierce.
T. F. JOHNSON. Manager Alvin Yard.
i
Four Yards in Brazoria County:
Angleton
Sandy Point
■s
but all these leases could now
be disposed of at a handsome
profit. There are reports of
$500 an acre being offered, but
these lack confirmation.—Hous-
ton Chronicle.
The discovery of this field, on-
ly sixteen miles west of Alvin
has stimulated, interest in the
oil excitement and there is al-
ready rumors afloat <>f a revival
They are mostly in developments here-
A little want ad in The .
Sun will buy, sell or trad,
you. Try one.
Program at U. I)1C.
Theatre Next \^eek
to be
ths Blue Ridge district, but as .the well. Mr. Overly disposed
this well is situated almost in of additional leases he controlled
the nudd e of the Basset Blake-I on the day before the well came
ly farm of 6000 acres and it is I in on a basis of $160 per acre,
difficult to get anything close in.
Practically the entire 6800 acres
have beer, leased to the various
oil companies on a basis of $100
per acres. The Gulf, Texas,
Humble and other large com-
panies have practically all the
acreage. There are a few small
tracts scattered through the
farm coming over from previous
subdivisions which have not yet
been leased.
France, speaks of his trip to the just completed west of
which is now’ shut dowr
does not necessarily pro}'
there is no oil here,
says he has just as mucl
dence now as he has evetPhad in
the Alvin country eventuBly be-
coming a great oil produclg ter-
ritory. I
Appointed District
Deputy Grand Mister
J. W. Chancellor, grand
ter of the I. O. O. F., of T<
has commissioned J. T. Pi rce,
tory, besides the one th< y have
town.
This
| e that
Mr.| Grant
confi-
According to r. statement is-
sued from the production de
partmen* f the Gulf Company
Tuesday morning, the Blue
F.dge well, on the Basset Blake-
ly farm, near Almeda, is good
for 1003 to 1500 barrels per day.
At that time the well was shut
in on account of lack of storage.
First reports were that the
oil was of high gravity, but ac-
tual tests show it around 24.
There is considerable activity
in attempts to secure leases in
Some may say “The Schools,
the Bank or the Gr ocery Store.”
But how could you have any of
these without the Lumber Yard
We have Everything to Build Anything.
was a little one-sided scrap we
had with five submarines the
day before we landed at Brest,”
is the way Herbert Booth, who
recently arrived home from
Cotton Acreage
Record Breaker
Alvin Boy Alvin Terril ory Tuesday Morning
Thousands of dollars damage /'’About the
, U « 1 - , 1 I • H . I— A,. A 4? f Anrt n ' ll C. nr.S O Hit I til
Following is the prograi
given at the U D C. 1 fteatre
next week beginning J onday
April 21st:
Monday — Shirley Ma: on in
“Comeon In.”
Tuesday —Lila Lee in " inch a
Little Pirate ”
Wednesday— Marguerite Clark
in “Wildflower,” also ccmedy,
Fatty Arbuckle in “Rpugh
House.”
Thursday — Marguerite Clark
in “The Amazon s. ”
Frid y—Special feature night
and distribution of pr sents.
Dorothy Dolton in “Vie e La
France.”
Saturday—Chas. Ray in
Law of the North.”
The above is an except
fine program and a rare t
all lovers of good movies.
De-
new
Again the grim reaper has vis-
ited our midst and claimed one
more of our loved and cherished
women, this time it being Mrs.
Hattie M. Yates. The news of
her death, which occurred Tues-
day morning at one-thirty o’clock
came as a great shock to Alvin
people. Mrs. Yates was appar-
ently in good health and retired
Monday night showing no signs
of s'ckness. She awoke during
the night and complained of feel-
’ng ill. A physician was sum-
moned but in spite of all tha
could be done for her, died a few
minutes later. Heart trouble is
given as the cause.
Funeral services were con-
ducted Tuesday afternoon at the
I City Cemetery, Rev. C. M
| Myers officiating, where a large
concourse of sorrowing friends
and acquaintances had gathered
to pay their last earthly respects
to the departed one.
Mrs. Yates has been a resi-
dent of Alvin for twenty-six
years. She was born in the
state of Ohio, August 31st, 1857.
When a small child she went
with her parents to Kansas to
live. March 11th, 1879, she was
united in marriage to W. H.
Yates, who died December 11th,
1900, leaving her with three
small children to raise to whom
she was all that any mother
could be For twenty five years
she has been a member of the
Methodist Church. A devoted
mother, consecrated Christian
and the possessor of a strong
personality, her long journey of
sixty-one years upon life’s high-
ways is marked with milestones
of good deeds, sacrifice and ex-
emplary living, that have en-
deared her to all our people.
The deceased is survived by
three grown children, all resi-
dents of this city: Mrs. John
Moore. Mrs. Mather Crouch and
Hugh Yates.
Cotton Seel
Pure bred Mebane cotton seed
at 2.00 per bushel at our ware-
house in Almeda in bulk,
livered at your station in
bags,$2.15. Special price on carj
Address Nichols & Kirk-
Fred Ertel, the owner of the
Peerles Printing Co., had two
fingers on his left hand badly
mangled Monday morning while
feeding a job press. His wounds
were dressed by Dr. W. K.
Jones. While the injury was
a very painful one it is not con-
sidered of a serious nature. The
tips of both fingers caught in
the press were almost entirely
severed by a sharp perforating
rule.
Monday night Major ; ’. R.
Winn, spoke to a large croe d at
the court house in Am?
The major was at his be:
it was an enraptured aueflence
that listened to his vivid def
tior. of the days just before
armistice was signed. Th<
lowing people from thisfccity
went over to hear him: Mm and
Mrs. R. D. Williams, Mr||and
Mrs. Fred Much, J. S. Ja|
Mrs. F. R. Winn, E. L.
Miss Lula Long, Mr. and M
H. Peak, and Dr. W. E-
Some idea of what is going on
in the farming districts sur-
rounding Alvin may be gained
from the following. These fig-
ures were estimated from the
amount of seed that has already
been sold to growers:
Cotton—6000 acres.
Corn— 4440 acres.
Forage—400 acres.
Peanuts—400 acres.
Cucumbers—350 acres.
Sorghum for syrup—50 acres.
Velvet beans—10® acres.
There is a notable increase in
farming operations, not only in]
the small tract, but in the large i
tract. A few years ago a tractor
in these parts would have creat-
ed nearly as much excitement
' as an airship, but to-day there
are at least eighteen or twenty
' operating. This means farming
on the extensive scale, and at
no time in the history of this
section has there been so much
raw ground broken as there has
been this year.
The Alvin of today is not the
AKin of yesterday. A new era
is in the making, built on a
foundation that will stick, name-]
I ly cotton, corn, pigs and pea-
nuts, and other industries, per- ‘
I haps not as important, but nev- as big as a man’s arm
ertheless money producers.
Strawberries are moving at a
I lively clip. The crop is small,
I i but growers who have them are
''receiving handsome returns.
News was received in this city
Wednesday of a serious motor
car accident on the Matagorda
district of the Santa Fe near
Bay City, in which Mr W. H.
I Kluever, roadmaster of Sealy,
was a victim Mr. Kluever was
transfered to St. Louis Browns-
ville and Mexico train number
2, at Bay City and brought to
Alvin, where he was taken off,
given medical attention by one
of the local surgeons, and sent
to the company hospital on Santa
Fe train number 13.
Mr. Kluever was formerly
stationed at this place as road-
master and general foreman, and
his many friends will regret to
learn of his unfortunate acci-
dent
Notice
I am now representative for
th-? Ford Motor Co. in this terri-
tory through Sam McNeil, agent
at Angleton, and orders may be
left with me at the Alvin Auto
Company. pots.
Walter Shave, Prop. I Patrick, Arcola, Texas.
NEW JIL WELL BROUGHT IS IT
ALMEDA SIXTEEN MILES WEST
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nr ■ llllll n num trnn nmnrin Thousands of dollars damage i ‘About the oily thing ’hat
If A UN klllUllk Ihllll nnnnr I n and th? ki,l,nr fhout fifteen happened to break the mono-ony
Ul nLlIlli iLullU luUU UnllilLLu head of fine cattle, was the tollI _our W across big P‘>nd,
-- I claimed in a head -on collision I
in one acre tracts. | between Brownsville freight,
The Gulf well is situated upon I trains numbers 87 and 89 early]
the E. J. Overly lease of 600 Sunday morning. The accident
acres. Mr. Overly may be just-] occurred a short distance north
ly considered tnfe discoverer of I of Danbury.
the Blue Ridge field, for he; According to the story told by
pounded away for four years Engineer Sanders, a thick fog
when every other developer had ]ay across the track and he did
given up hope. Mr. Overly had not see the approaching south-
as an associate J. E. Browne bound freight until it was too
for several mon^s. He finally |ate to avert a collision, and the
turned over his] lease to the crews of both trains escaped al-
Gulf, reserving a]n added royalty most certain death by leaping
ami 20 acres entirely free near just before the crash came.
the Blue Ridge district, but as.the well. Mr. Overly disposed An oi| car directly behind
number 87 was thrown into the
ditch bottom side upwards and
one car containing cattle was
literally smashed into kindling
wood.
Hundreds of people from all
parts of the surrounding country
visited the scene of the wreck
during the day. A wrecking
crew arrived a few hours after
the smash up, but it was not un-
til Monday morning that train
service was again resumed.
war zone.
Herbert is the son of Mr. and
Mrs- J. A. Booth- He volun-
teered May 15th, 1918, going to
a government aito mechanical
school at Camp Mabry, Austin,
where he remained two months,
later transfering to Battery E,
131st Field Artillery at Camp
Bowie, Ft. Worth. On July 17th
was moved to Camp Mills, Mew
York and on Julj' 31st sailed for
France. The day before land-
ing at Brest, August Llth, the
fleet was attacked by five U-
boats, three of which v/ere sunk
after a short figh:, the remain-
ing two escaping. After the land-
ing at the port of Brest, the ar
tillery finally were located at
Camp Corquidan, where they re-
mained until the armistice was
signed. Three of the seven
months that this popular Alvin
boy stayed in France were spent
in the hospital with a severe at-
tack of flu folio red by pneu
monia.
Herbert says the trip and ex-
perience has been worth a great
deal to him, but nevertheless he
is glad to get back to familiar
sig.its and faces and further
, adds that a fellow never appre-
ciates the old home town until
he gets away and roughs it like
so many of the soldier boys have
doing fdr so many long, weary
months.
We are all glad to see Her-
bert back and welcome him
home as the Spartons of old,
“with the shield of victory.”
Visit Gusher At Almeda
Mr. and Mrs. John Dagg
W. B. Chambers and daug! ter,
Miss Katie Chambers, were
itors Tuesday at the new oil
brought in at Almeda Mon lay.
Mr. Chambers states that v hen
' they were there a stream o:
was pin-
ing out of the pipe and shoe
nearly to the top of the der
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Twiford, James L. The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 1919, newspaper, April 18, 1919; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1245511/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.