The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1931 Page: 6 of 8
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Alone for 26 Years,
Wife Gives '—P Hop*
Seattle- The inauranv* of n
man who h.i* been mnwing
year, was sought by Hrs. Mai
uaret M. Olla, wife of Utut.
Frank 1. Otis, misslnf since he
left New York for San Francis-
co lu ItflXk
Mrs. Otis bellows her hus-
band Is dead and »c*k* his
Insurance, with Intsgvat.
When?
1
Gentlemen 75c
Wednesday Nite
October 21st
Music by
Doc's Harmony Four
of Alvin
splendidly.
what it »Hi
discovered
olsoa Ivy.
1 know a man who took a small I
place In Westclm«ter for the summer
while Ids wife and children went on s
European trip. He was delighted to
see a green vine growing by the wall
of (he little garage and put up some
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Ti*y Mummy Found
Vernal, i tah A strange discovery,
the mummy of a mature person only
.12 inches In height was made in Hufn
canyon recentIv by Lee Rnvder and
E. S N..e
San Antonio, headed a small
■ ion which found a collection oi
bones, primitive knives, and other In-
dian relict.
Miss Vivian Carson copied many
paintings, In as near the original cel
ant M pOMtMn Which were found or.
the rock walla of thy »,avee and bluffs.
Texas Caves and Bluffs
Give Up Indian Relics
l».) Klo, Texas.—The eaves and
bluffs of the ragged I’ecoi and Devil's
river country near here have yielded
• i-.iihh ui, *.•■<■'•*.gisi * believe
will do mm h in furnishing valuable *
data about the early Indian Inhabl- i
tanta
Mi«.« Emma Etilrlelx, principal of
the Mark Twain high achnol and di-
rector of the Witte Memorial museum.
expedl-
•f akuiie.
s’rings to help It climb. W hen his
family returned the vine had done
The children
It was po
A butcher on Park avenue slapped a
. igaicDe ..ut of a w.-man* mouth arid
a Judge later slapped a twenty-flve-dol-
lar fine on the butcher After this, as
far .ia the butcher is concerned, ladies
may amoke.
i t\ J»J1 Bell Smdl.at, V—WNI1 Srrvira.
Survey Shows Cost of
Living Has Dropped
Washington.—-The cost of living tuts
dropped 0 3 per cent since last De
comber, it was revealed In a Labor
department survey completed in fit
cities The survey Included food,
clothing. rent, fyel, light and houw
furnishing*. Food showed the big-
gest decline of a" the Hems. It was
down 13.HI In the first six months of
this year. Rents are down 9.1 per
cent and clothing la down 4G per
cent.
Where?
Ladies Free
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Emmert’s Hall
Alvin, Texas
Refreshments
Cake and Lemonade
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P* like rtartmg in a
F**y for. don’t forg
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class dues ti
fto woner they are p
fr* »*d the class will
I Also, let us study a
P» week we uke i
|*usi’ and I know w
pto AT
I Bore ia * spring f
b* ”*ht test yourself
| 8re how long yc
I A history book wi
a A Spanish gramnr
I *• sleep.
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ft .uiy way,
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Mau to mak- ;t thus
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p* b» on our tr a^urt
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arrived aru
for the t rea*ur? ■
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L.; do their part
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Brazoria County’s Oldest New
THF ALVIN SUN Alvin and
Alvin. T«xh«.
apapei
Mexican Services
Houston
OPIE
‘‘The Common Law”
JEPHSON
Those who COCDC to the
(UNCLE JOE>
For All Kinds of
Insurance
H
Sponsored by
me fairly regular visit*.
ALVIN ODD FELLOWS
LODGE No. 453
was as preuy !
expensive plants '
Political
Announcement*
FOR COUNTY ATTORNEY
RICHARD J. HIGGINS. Angleton
E. c HILL. Angleton
the Tax Payers’ Union Primary
May 7th, 1932
FOR SHERIFF
Tf J. RUSSELL. Freeport
DAN ROBERSON. Angleton
formed to rva
»nd the kin
•'» those of
■f* t^0*4
i
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“re Jl WJ
I h.HTV > ft, IM au tx
of NEW YORK
FOR COUNTY TREASURER
MRS. M. €. D. STRATTON. Angleton '
! boys.
.MARTIN. JR. Angleton ,,f th< hands, and a good one.
L. R. JOHNSON. Angleton
when possible, shall be glad to have 1
thi.- young people’s societies of th«-
various churches and any who will
to bring the gospel in song at any of
these services.
Coming to the Grand
Constance Bennett is the star
Pound No. 1
in Wert End.
We have in
mals listed below ....... w
20 days and then be ,'oj
bidder. Pound fees »-
Conte and da1B
“For Sweet Charity's Sake"
666
liquid or tabliti I
-?’***•• • Haada.h* or ^’••ralfii J
». ebock, 4 Celd t^Xvi
check. M.l.rt. |B
bidder.
50c per day.
stock and si.vc chatg. T
movlton, I
c>ty MuU
...... :
Hr has .one banks'
in both Spanish and English. | salve for Bab.', r.y
City Pound NoGee
The elevated train* in New York
run past some flats which have flre-
escapea on the front of the buildings.
The platforms of these Iron stairways ,
form little terraws ft* the-inhabitants.
On one of them, north of Fifty third
,R End, .<
Recently I learned something In this
connection 1 never knew before. They
tell me that, if you wet a sponge and
sprinkle It with bird seed, you will
soon find It covered with a fine, green
grass I never had any Idea that bird ■
! uo'ihl sprout me day Lin go
Till* Abbreviated
The -'gtr"! • sms of I ongfelicWa
j^.etr. “Th* Bridge.' was Th* Bridge
Over the Charles ” The
concerns the small stream
Public Library Hours “Sundown Trail” At
the Grand Saturday
sent out by the Houston Evangelis-
tic Temple, to preach at the Ship
Channel, the Ramsey, Blue Ridge
prison farms and other places,
preaches each Sunday afternoon and
on each Friday night at the North
Side school house. The services be-
gin at 7:80. At present the Sunday ______
I services ar ■ announced on Friday .
night ar no definite hour can yet be ,
-------j Public announcement will
be made later.
What might Im» termed kitchen gar-
dens sre plentiful in the city. I saw I
In one place s lovely hanging vine, i JAMES A
Some one had put a sweet potato in s
suspen.-tad hy >
piece of wire. The Jar was partially
filled with water and the potato vine
Lad overflowed the top and hung in
long streamer*. It w«s as pretty as
many of the more *
carried by florists.
One trouble shout my planting any i
seeds is that there are some pigeons |
fr< in ■ roof down the Slreet which pay i
me fairly regular visit*. I found one I
of them recently Investigating a box
of eurtb on the perch. My wife had i
Intended to plant soiueihlng in It. but
had not yet done so. The joke was I
on the pigeon.
.irn-t, .<,,11.1, in orelionry bushel ba» ] Subject to th, action of the voter, in
ket filled with earth Growing there j
la one tall sunflower and two stalks
of corn. Every time I see it 1 wonder :
If those people originally came from ;
Kansas.
FOR COUNTY COMMISSIONER tl"' R*° P,the l'lfturi • ‘"T11’ r°m-
■MARR I r./.cWMinuv .on •!. v. llrnhe 1
Alvin Precinct N«- 3
C. W. MASSEY, Pearland
Th* Library ii open on Wednes-
days and Saturdays from 2:30 un-
til 5;.10 p. m. , )jke t<> ..n|llter„ tbl, ,jU1 whom Raymond T. Richey, and Mioionary
he works every day. The open
range develops a caste system, but it
is a system based upon daring and
ability, and the veteran puncher is
quick to resent the slightest tinge of
| patronage or .-uggestion that he is in-
I ferior in station to any man living.
That’s on«- reason why Tom Keene
| hatd riding hero of "Sundown Trail’’ |
the RKO Pathe western romance i
I coming Saturday to the Grand The- , ranged.
| atre, is so popular with the film cow-
' u—i. To them he i^ just Tom, one
He
i puts on no airs, does his share and
more of the hard riding and accepts
! his quota of the chances every screen
, cowboy must take without a murmur
1 knew one owner of a penthouse I
who actually has some good sited trees I
Kiting In deep tub* on hl* terrace which Reston Ilea.
He dug then, up himself on a trip to
the mountains. Another terrace has a
framework, which supports clematis
vines. The owner told me he was go-
ing to try honeysuckle, but didn't know
bc«- keel! It would do In ft>i* cltma’e
Personally, I should like a canteloupe
or watermelon vine.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE
of Braaorie and Matagorda Countiat
Subject to the action of the voters in
the Democratic Primary in
July, 1932.
A E ,M KSTERS0N, Angleton
Rev. Paui^, Camarillo,
Your Amvricon cowboy doo. not j interpreter for Eyangolirt
Hum.. E.r . Li..,.h
The Luntaii ear la f
only certeln sounds
, sounds w* can h*Hr
Rev. Camarillo covets the prayers 000 alr v,br*no»«
and cooperation of all Christains in
Alvin. He is especially interested in I
the children and young people and
i | suppose many of u* have, nt some
* time or other, planted orange, lemon
’ or grapefruit seed*, i’hey spring up
Into a tiny forest of miniature tree*.
They tell me that one can raise to- ,
inato vines, but that In this case th* I
seeds must be dried first. Just as seed
corn Is dried. Those who come to the
city from far away furms ofien raise j
green things In a little box on a win '
flow *111. It reminds them of home.
mon Law’’ coming to the Grand
Theatre Tuesday and Wednesday, (5
.October 13th and 14th.
In tni* feature Miss Bennett plays >
j a sophisticated girl who has late 1931
' ideas about love and marriage and
h single standard of morals for men
and women. The story has the
Paris art colony a.- a background.
Pau! L Stein is the director _
brilliant array of supporting star* fl,
includes Joel McCrea, Lew t ody, fl,
reference Marion Shilling, Robert Williams, A
along Hedda Hopper and Paul Ellis. S
Faye v
Effect on Industry I* Not Yet
Fully Realized.
TEXAS OIL FIELD
LARGEST IN U. S.
Official* figure*
is 474 men. worn-
eat ,
aup<
Chinaman’s ‘English”
Wing Him Freedom
David Chin, Chinese lauti
v. - nrr., in .! |t> Mn >
< 1'iiiphiiiit '>r Miss Muri,- Mix
Giant Memori .! to Be
Completed in 1935
Portugal
Baby Pheaxanta Seek
Help From Pedestrian
Harrisburg. Pa Grows were swoop
Ing from n fence toward a railroad
track, itpparenfl.v attacking an enemy
A pedestrian Investigated and found
the crows were nttneking a covey of
ph, wants apparently only a few davs
old.
Four of the tiny birds ran to lb*
man for protect ion Nix others had
been peck.-d to den’h by the cr >ws.
The man turned the pheasant* over
to the hi.- gam* commission
drilling cost* sre thus
considerably lower
The thickness of the Woodbine sund
varies from a few feet on ti e eastern
a‘d( if the firl 1 l> '> r 7<> fret thick
about t« - ttuira we*t < ' ilie eastern
limit Of ! ‘ • • t P-r I ' ■ -p | ■ 1 1
Llslcti Portugal - Work Is pt«><ee>l
Ing ot: ' ■-•I stntiie < f the Mat
quia of I'oiT.tml. the (Imiilnatlng point
«al figure of the Eighteenth century,
which v*ill be erected on the Rotunda
square, nt the end of Llbrr'y avenue
It Is calculated that II w be -tn
plet.'d tn 1935
The . ..in pu ' jf the ......... on
which work Is now pi ocreding. shows
the rnnrqui* and a Hon It Is In broii/r
nnd wi>) designed by the sculptor
f'ram l»co Santos shortly before bls
death. Nine meters In height, It will
weigh 32 ton*, and the br> n/e for It
will he obtained by melting it wn 15
cannon. The head of the in.-irqtila
w ill be one meter eighty trnlinir'e, s
and Inside his shoe there will he room
for a man to lie down To mold the
statue it will be nr.-eKsary to make
a plaster cast In seven pieces. This
work Is being done In the "nteller ’ of
the sculptor* Mlmnea de Almeida and
Le- p-Mu de AlmehH.
«»• . i n
ntaivrii vaiapet i vws
Witt Be Sold to Grads
Cambridge. Mats. Hlsturlc Apple
ton chapel nf Harvard university must
give vv ty to n new n,< "t,-rial house of
worship, but its old pews ml) not he
destroyed.
The pews will be sold privately fae
ulty member* having first preference.
The Harvard Yale I’rincaton club of
Chtcage. itm reported •• k- the fie1-!
for er:il of th* pews
Dallas, Texas —The new East Texas
oil field la *<> vast that six of the larg
pool* lu the United States couiu be
terimpoaed upon It.
K study of the geo! gy and e<o
n«rid< Irnportarw* of the fivld reveal*
that Its immense sixe. the consistent
result* r>r drilling and its effect upon
the Industry hav* hot yet been real
Iced by II,, moat experienced and far-
sighted otl men.
A ii :ip of the fi.-id show* that the
M’l ' p | ••■-I Is •<» large that the
ll<i of New Mexico, hereto
fore cvn-’idrred of immense propor-
«- ‘ ••i-'ked Into It. “'ith
plenty of room left over for the Okla
homa t'lfy and Nein’tiole pool*
The long, narrow Ketiieman Hilts
(<*ellf.) field v«--uld *’ret«tt« length
from ti;H t.ov.-i rea> >>ea <>f the .Joiner
pool of Ku-k come y and extend
through the Kilgore pooi into south-
ern Gregg county There would be
plenty of room left to stow away the
latra and llvndii.ks pools <f west
Texas
fle.doglst* have learned that tbl*
tremeiidoiK mi prodmlng are* thou
aai' ls eo n millions of year* ago, was
a iiuge *vii I be e.iriti s < <insfnnt mU
taliui'S left it high and dry. bearing
the remi’t s of trillions of minute
shellfish
It is i*‘.F bodies of these shellfish,
lying at an approx I unite dep’h of 3,5(10
feet, that have turned Into oil.
Oil comes from what geologist*
know as Woodbine sand. Io this par
ticulur field. The fact that Ibis send
occur* at almost the same depth In
all parts of tl.c field has tritmted
In a Iat4>- r
exploitai Lui
Boston
dry man
court on i
well that lie had used obscene Ian
gun.-,- In her presence.
’’Have you arnthh.g to »av • de
man '--l .1ml-e I i-'.ih AdL.w <>f the
defendant
' ’ " b:i'l J,I, tn v tn sav I . ng a
Strain*- comb nation of Chiru-**- and
English, he n.ldr* --ed the court ex
«-1l...i: v (..i . ..... ,,.e«
"Nut gullii ” said the judge when
f’liln had finished “Th* defendsnt
may Lne used <»!•-• < or language, hut
If he tint i i h could understand It "
Figures Show Suicides
Increasing in Germany
Beilin - The number of suicide* I*
Berlin Ii Increasing
show In throe monthi
en. and children committed suicide
<h ,n”r* th“n f,,) i’er •’’•nt "ere
xueu
1 C*e hundred and eighty eight wer*
to the prime of life M-*re than one
hmulred IjnJIvIdual* were over sixty
years of nr<*
This year’s figure* almw an liureas*
of more than 12 per eent over the eor-
' responding months last year
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Beck, John P. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, October 9, 1931, newspaper, October 9, 1931; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1249802/m1/6/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.