The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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Plant Cotton
Plant Cotton
ALVIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1920.
Numbei 44
Volume 29.
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PINK BOLL WORM
Publicity Fund
ALVIN’S PROPORTION IS $800
It is Your Fight
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IF FINANCE COMMITTEE HAS NOT SEEN YOU, SEE THEM
VOLUNTEER
O. G. WELLBORN, Chairman Finance Committee
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Slap Good Roads
Even the price of telephone
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Farmers Meeting Saturday
Fight To Preserve
Cotton Industry Is
Gaining Momentum
Farmers Rejoicing
Over Arrival of Rain
Calling For Funds Angletonians Again
To Finetnce Fight
Malting Headway
At Manvel Oil Well
Phone Service Takes
Jump of Fifty Cents
Don’t Let a Few of Your Neigh-
bors BEAR ALL the EXPENSE
Work at Acton Well
Progresses Steadily
From His One and a Half Acre Patch
Mr. C. W. Van Dyke Sells $1175
Worth of Strswlierries
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Strawberry Industry
Not Dead With This
Live Algoa Farmer
day afternoon at 1
o’clock. The speakers for the
If any j occasion will be Marsene John
in Galveston and Dr. F. R.
Winn of this city. Following
There is nothing of any special
interest to report from the oil
well b ?ing drilled on the Acton
place south of town, aside from
the fact that work is progressing
steadily.
Whi e no information has
reached us to the effect that the
compa iy has succeeded in clean-
ing ou the old hole left by the
Elberts Oil Association it is
quite i robable that this work has
been completed and the drill is
going down toward the dees
But where there is i stratas.
At a mass meeting at Angleton on April 22nd it was decided to
raise a fund of $5,000 to fight the Pink Boll Worm propaganda to a
finish, even to the extent of bringing about a CONGRESSIONAL IN-
VESTIGATION of the outrage being inflicted on our people by the
Federal Horticultural Board.
Another Ford Crank Victim
Ivan Perry, son of Mr. Will C. ! ager and operators of the Alvin
Perry, had the misfortune to ' station would, be raised. If ....,
break his right arm while crank- one is entitled to a little more’
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The injury while very painful velope it is certainly he force
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it will keep the young man from earn it and more besides,
his work far a n. mber of weeks. 1
That the growing of straw-
berries is still one of the most
profitable crops of the Alvin
courtry is exemplified in the re-
cord of Mr. C. W. Van Dyke, a
farn er living at Algoa, one of
the thriving little towns near
this city.
From his one and one-half acre
patch Mr VanDyke sold up to
last Friday $1175 worth of ber-
ries and is still picking. Healso
has five acres in cucumbers,
five acres in tomatoes, all in tip-
top condition and is plant ng
forty acres in cotton. It looks
like a great year for this wide
awake farmer. For many years
he h; s been a resident of South
Texas and has not become cis-
court ged in the face of many
discorra'g em e n t s, emanat ng
principally from the department
of agriculture, and deserves to
win.
The Sterling Petroleum Com-
pany is making rapid progri ss
at their on well near Manvel.
This est was begun last week.
The drill site is located about
seven miles from the Blue Rid^e
field ;.nd within about four miles
of thr Newby well in Secton 23.
The company is capitalized at
$600,<i00 with the following per-
sonnel of officers: John W, A al-
ker, oresident, an experienci d
oil mt n of Houston, Texas; \V.
F. Berger, vice-president, des-
natch >r G. C. and S. F. R. R.
Co., Galveston: C. P. Collins,
second vic’-president, prominent
i hay n an of Alvin, Texas; H. N.
Morrii, secretary-treasurer,
postmaster and agent G. C. ar d
S F. Manvel, Texas: W. H.
Oatley, field manager, experi-
enced driller, Houston. Texas;
J.M. Moore, bank director. Mar-
vel and A G. Fish, chief des-
patcher G. C. and S. F., Galves-
ton, Texas
Mar vel is situated in some of
the most promising oil territory
of South Texas and it is confi-
dently believed by oil experts
that a deep test will prove up
the fie:d.
Brazoria County will have TEN or more men
in attendance at the coming Special Session
of the Texas Legislature to SAFEGUARD
YOUR INTERESTS.
The voters of the Angleton
district have again announced
their intention of staying in the
i mud by defeating the good road
atJ bond issue e ection held in that
city last Saturday. Tbe result
was not surprising as it has be-
come a sort of a habit among the
residents of that part of the
county to stave off good roads
and an old habit is mighty hard
to break. But where there is Istratas. The Brazoria County
life there is hope and maybe: Oil and Mineral Company is un-
some day our good Angleton Ider contract to drill this well
Campaign Is Launched At Meeting
In Angleton Friday To Save South
Texas From Calamity
Brazoria county has joined
forces ar d has plunged into the
protection of its cotton industry
with all the vim and earnestness
at its command.
Such was the result of an en-
thusiastic meeting held at An-
gleton last Friday at which re-
presentatives from nearly every
locality and voting precinct in
the county were present-
Committees were appointed
and are now hard at work in a
campaign of education to show
North Texas and other cotton
states that the so called pink 1
boll worm is not an J never was i
a menace to the cotton industry. i
A fund oi’ $500 was raised at the
meeting to open the campaign
and a drive for $5000 to carry
the fight to a finish is now un I
der headway.
Up until the present year Al-
vin and the surrounding country
has been the only part of the
county to feel the disastrous
effects of the worm outrage.
Now legislation is in sight that
will spare no part of the county.
The situation is serious, there is
no doubting this fact. The life
of our biggest industry is at
stake and the wellfare and hap-
piness of thousands of our peo-
ple concerned,
There are some who may say .
it is no use to lock horns with '
the government. This is not our
purpose. All that the people of
the areas affected are asking is
for an opportunity to be heard in
this matter, to present their side
of the stor y and to be heard by
powers willing to judge the case
from the evidence produced, and
not from the whispers of those
who are cssting covetuous eyes
upon political jobs.
The best men of the county
are now enlisted in the fight.
We have a wakened to the fact
it is going to be a hard battle to
thwart a calamity to our county.
When the legislature meets in
May for final action on this
matter Brazoria County will
have ten or more of its repre-
sentative and best posted men
in attendance. They will goto
Austin with enough evidence,
facts, which if heard and given
any consideration at all, are
sure to have an important bear-
ing upon the proposed legisla-
tion. Hundreds of pages of
matter could be written showing
why non-cotton zones are not
necessary or will prevent the
spread of the pink Loll worm, if
it is here. These facts are be-
ing put up in printed form
and sent to various interests
in the state,
It is hard to prophesy just
what actior. the legislature will
take when it meets but we can
say that that august body is go-
ing to learn more about this
pesky worm before the delegates
from Brazoria County return
home frem Austin it ever dream-
ed could be written or said about
a ham-less little creature of the
anirral world. And the best;
part about it is that it’s all real
truth, solid clear through and as
plain as the nose on your face.
Put up a dollar or
,, • , n c • two. There is a good chance to
Memorial Day Services ...
J win and the
Memorial Day services will worth while
beheld at the U.D C , Hall Sun-1 tke committee
is 50c a month on both business
and residency phones strikes us
as very reasonable and affords
nc tangible reason for complaint.
I We understood Mi. Wells to also
I say that the salaries of the man-
whether you are a farmer, a merchant,
professional man or a banker
Perry, had the misfortune to [station would; be raised.
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ing a Ford car Monday noon. | weight in the monthly pay en-
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was not of a serious nature but the phone office for they surely the service the graves of the
1 2 Confederate veterans at the
Ne v ate is effev re May 1st. - cemetery will be decorated.
the county will surface its roads ever before in the history of the
.... j. The Sterling
progressive communities and add Petroleum Company is drilling
at Mauvel west of Alvin, the
i Arcadia Oil Company will soon
test ou: the territory east of us
A meeting of the”Farmers Pro- and w< understand a well is soon
tective Association will be held to be pit down in the Chocolate
• in Alvin Saturday night May 1. Bayou country.
A re-organization of the associa- i vin a company
We cannot permit
m. Iit,; neighbors w 11 awake to the ad- 3,500 feet unless oil is found at
' > and possibilities of a shallower depth.
having hard surface highways.' There is more; reason to be op-
The rain of Monday was a 1 A drive for a fund of $5000 is
service in Alvin is soon to re- blessing to this section. Farm under headway in the countv
ceive a boost in price. Monday ers are wearing smiles a mile; with which to fight for the pres-
morning in company with local long and the outlook for that ervation of the cotton indust-y.
manager R.lD Wi liam-, Dis tremendous cotton crop is better; Alvin’s quota has been placed
trict Manager L. P Wells of now than it has been in weeks..; $8C0. It is true that Alvin has
Houston visited practically all of Many grow’ers had their ground already contributed a large
the business houses and explain ready but the dry weather was amount in the past three years
ed why there must be an in- holding up planting and with; for the same cause, bur it has
crease in price of the service, the season well advanced some not been money thrown away.
He stated that the Alvin station anxiety was felt. The rain | it js going to take money and
has not paid its way the past troubles are over for the time' lots of it to carry the fight to
year, and would continue to lose being and no time will be lost in the finish,
money unless’ the rates were in- getting in every available acre1 ourselves to be made the goat
creased. There is no denying of cotton. Cucu mbers, berries,I forever and unless we i
the fact that it costs a great tomatoes, corn, -and all other some kind of a showing when; van^age®
deal more money to operate the manner of growing vegetation the legislature meets in May ,ve .»«><;
local station now than it has iri| were benefited by the rainfall will go down when the first guns the meantime the balance of timistii* over the oil outlook thai
the past and the increase which• and have taken a growing spurt. are fired Put a dollar or C J 7 ’ / ’ , ' ---c- -•
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progressive communities and add
victory will be I to the glory and position of the
Don’t wait lor grand old county of Brazoria.
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two-thirty, ge a volunteer for the cause
O. G- Wellborn is the chairman
of the finance committee and . ; 3 — • ill », r> , xr ,1. * *1
will receive v our contribution in Alvin Saturday night May 1. Bayou country. North of Al
. A re-organization of the associa- vin a company is drilling al
T. „ - ,, r- • , tion is to be discussed and everv Friendswood, and with a well
The Jades of the Ep.scopal member and all otkers interest-_ going < own in the cente-of this
Church will serve lunch at Dr. | ed in the cotton situation are circle, lopes run high for an oil
Remley’s office Saturday. urgently requested to be present, strike in some of these tests.
possibilities of a shall iwer depth.
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Twiford, James L. The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1920, newspaper, April 30, 1920; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1245709/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.