The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 16, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, May 4, 1906 Page: 1 of 4
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THE ALVIN SUN
ALVIN. TEXAS. FRIDAY. MAY 4. 1906.
VOL. XVI.
NO. 2
TJHE piyipl Sd|\L
MADE
IT
A
3H-FEREUT
c
(UMiiou Skates.
pei
iy f<
TO THE PL'BMC.
1
n a string.
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
in
Evening, general
Ar Old Postmistress.
that
barking
annoy
said
it.’
\o Sunday skating.
DENTITY WAS DISCLOSED
County Directory.
The girl.
Oppo-
Kailroad Schedule.
Passenger Trains In and Out of Alvin.
Clean Beds Polite Attention,
i tho
warrior
consented
to
up
h
a
Why didn’t you
Typewriter Topics.
writ er.
Tribune.’
A L V I N,
T E X A 8.
It took
<• haul
in February. May,
•vein her.
50 YEARS’
EXPERIENCE
c
Superb Floor.
Noted Below will be Continued Until
JUSTICES OF PEACE.
Jesse Hobbs. Alvin.—Court second
Saturdays in each month.
COURTS.
District court is in session sec »nd
Mondays in February and 1st Mon-
Trains
have Al
< cincr No. 3.
inct No. 4.
F. A. Haar.
THE
gl.MHR I’. STOCKWELL,
Lawyer.
F. Af. Speak a.
YARD,
8
50
5
up a year.
I jXt Vi
withdrawn at
who wish tbe
subscript ions
Rein't tiv'iii
Exchange Hotel,
lines. Our
la $2.7
and must
placed. ’
ary tickets.
COMMISSIONERS.
T. T. Shanks, precinct No. 1.
S. D. Gumpton, precinct No. 2.
S. K. Mi ba:i<*. pr<
J. G. Smith, preci
Office in Woulfe Building.
Angleton, *- JTexas
GET THIS BEAUTIFUL
COLORED PICTURE FREE.
THE ALA IN SHAVING PARLOR
Cs i "rick Bieck,
OTIS 111 .V\. Proprietor.
T FOli
Houston Ci- -eda Laundry.
bis own version of his
bloody struggle.
One day. finding
EXTRA TRAIN'S—SUNDAYS ONLY.
Trains leave Alvin for Houston at
8.00 a.in.. 9.50 a.m.. anti 10.50 p.m.
Trains leave Alvin for Galveston it
9.40 p. m.
Limit of Sad Whisky.
The correspondent who writes wish-
ing to learn when cider reaches the
condition called "hard” is informed
that all cider'which is not vinegar, but
which is unf t to drink on account ot
Its rank and bitter taste, is hard cider
—bard to swallow, because of its dis-
awgreeable flavor. The n an who can
become intoxicated on hard elder
would drink himself to death on such
whisky as is told in Bangor to-day. and
Bangor whisky is about the limit of
badness—Bangor News.
Every*
In a discussion of this movement lar to pay 1
she said recently: I I<
‘ rf the horses already docked were
out of the way we should have no
trouble in putting a s:op to docking
Last British Whaling °ort.
Dundee Is the only port .n the Brit-
ish isles that owns whaleships. To-
ward the end of the century before
When Gray wrote his famous lines
to the effect that “full many a flower
is born to blush unseen and waste ils
sweetness on the detert air," he gave
to the world something that is treas-
ured.
line up in the Hall of Fame quoted ■ con ven ion at Louisville, Ky.. in an- '
the familiar passage and flattered
himself that it meant him. But
since the Peruna and Duffy-Malt-
Wbiakey columns have come into1
vogue and the newspapers, the man
who blushes unseen i« a chump. A
t stitnonial and a photo puts him be-
fore the world.
; a satisfactory basis to the road and
1 to tlie patrons of the line also.
insiincts of a brute.
stay on that t
■g’.;’ alone? You’ll never get a goo-1
if you act like that.”- ..>nsas
fellow who is ever a little ways; sL I* *s said
ahead; who pays for what he gets j that she never missed a day from
and wh>se bills are always signed, i the office during the 53 y ?ars she was
He’s a darned sight more important | postn istress. She
than th\» man who is behind. Al! we administrations of 13 presidents —f her
editors and merchants and the whole Fillmire, Pierce, Taylor, Buchanan.
commercial plan, are indebted for Johns »n. < rant. Hayes. Garfield. Ar-
existence to this honest fellow man. : thnr. Cleveland, Harrison, McKin-
He keeps us ail business* and his ley and Roosevep—and also tinder
town is never dead, and so we take; two governments, the Confederate
^our hat.- off to the man wl.o is ahead. | and the United States, before ai d
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable,
N. F. THOMAS, Proprietor.
Finest Turnouts iu the city. Traveling men sent to any part cf the
county. Gentle horses for ladies to drive.
Offers you Clean Room
and seats you a. a table as ' lean as the “drifting wow,” supplied
with seasonable well cooked food, at popular hotel priceR.
Mrs. T. J. STUD'AX, Proprietor
Afternoon, for Ladies. Evening, gerrral admission.
Saturday-—
Afternoon, for School Children,
admission.
Afternoon S« s«ions,:i to 6 p.m. Evening Sessions, 8 to 10:30 p.m.
Exclusive use of the rink will be given to parties of four or 4
more any we k day from 9 to 12 a. m., except Saturday, it regu- •>
lai rates. This is principally for benefit of beginners.’ Morning
I
t
,ade Marks
f /rvrvr-. Designs
'TTVY” Copyrights 4c.
Aurone sending a sketch and description may
< ••■MN.rtn n <;-ir opinion free whether an
■ ■••.tl-iii wpr-bitMy -uteniable. Comrnunlc*-
• i . nt rietly < ■nlMentinl. ibin<:bor>keil I’ntenC*
s-nt true, oldest aifoity forae<-unng patents.
Patents taken - ,i.?h Munn A Co. reeelva
notict, wit;.out < Imr.-e, in the
Sdentific American.
X handsomely ilJnstrafM week ». Ijirvest clr-
■-illation of any Fciv'it it,.' journal. Terti.s. S3 a
year ; 1-iir months, SL Bold by *11 newsdealers.
p,,r' MuNN & Co.3s,B™“,“ New York
Branch Office. <35 F EU Washington. I>. C.
Rebuked for His Carelestnesb.
‘ **I had a peculiar dream last nigut,
, Mary,” said a Kansas City rai -uad |
J man to his wife yesterday. ”1 di -tin
|ed I was appointed agent for our :ine
I tn San Francisco al double the salary
I'm now getting.”
I "How fine,” said his wife with
: smile.
’ Yes,” continued the man, "and I
stalled for San Francisco to take th-
place. At a small station in Kan-.i<,
where the 'rain stopped, I saw a dog-
fight going on and stepped off the
car to witness it. The train went
on without me and I woke up before
1 could catch another.”
The wife’s smile change to a lock
of keen disappointment. “Henry,” she
Rereading Business Letters.
While there is some question about .
the advisability of using it the stamp !
Reread” is fremtnntlv seen nr. i
the letters of the man who signs the I
©C-* TV nv rj©
\ ALVIN ROLLER RINK 1
of mr movement ii the past, r.o soon-
er buy a pair of showy carriage
horses with docked tails than they
d«sert us and go o-tr to the enemy.”
She smiled sadly
story.” she said.
“Wiite owned a dog. Black, who lived
r.ex door, came to him and said:
“ Look here. That -log of yours
howls so much at night that my wife
and I are going mad for want of sleep.’ ,
■■ ■Is that so?’ said White. I hadn't |
g. I think you must I
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Ye*r SI
Six Mo Hhe — --
fgree Months -
Always In Advance.
Wanted In Wyoming.
From Everybody’s.
Many a man who failed to At thoInternational Sumlay school: stalling this, end anxious for the
Nuisance Turned Out Largely a Mat j
ter of C vnership
Mrs. Russell Sage is one of the ;
most active workers in the movemen' i
to abolish ’he do< king of the tails of
ho-ses.
his wife. ‘I have Itought it from
White and I am going to chloroform
it.’
"A; otner week and White, the dog’s
former owner, said to Black:
“‘You haven’t ch oroformed
In this county, until it was discon- dog yet, have you?
error on to the operator, whether to
blame or not, and is also likely to
leave the imbression that the house
has a bea^y correspondence. It is a
sign of shiftlessne*;s rather than an
indication of extensive business, and
should he discouraged,
the business concern
antes the practice misses the mark if jord8 and most of the British const!
he thinks it is a stamp of magnitude ; tution, whether he would abolish t’ie
even If he dews a large amount of busk , decalogue. ’’Certainly,” cried the vali-
ness, and we would suggest that more ant Merry.
Status of Indignant Lady Made Per-
fectly Plair.
Th^r ■ was .n Brocktor. Mass., some
twenty-five years ago, s shoe inanu-
facturir g concern, whoa? firm name.
P. fc N Copeland, was al nost a house-
, hold word. At one time the wife of
after t oe war. Thia office should have ; one of members of the firm had
been continued anyway until the ii'e ordered a hat at H. W
of this old lady had been run
.4. J. nine HFl El, l> . Edito r a nd Prop
CHAS It. HAILEY Publisher
In an audible whisper, "Jock, what in ‘
ters after they come from the type thunder's the decalogue? ”—New York*
writer.—Typewriter Topics. | Tribune.’
modest
speak.
“We'd get up in the morale’ at
■ 5 o’clock,” he began, “an’ have break-
* Begin fight in' at 6, knock off at
Begin shootin' agin at 1, krock off
at 6 an’ ate supper, an’ turn in to
Every day the same old thing;
Money to Loan Upon Improved Farms.
Vendor Li- n Notts I roug i‘ and extended. 10years time, 8 % interest,
privilege of paying after two years. We issue interest hearing cer-
tificates of deposit. Correspondence solicited.
TEXAS DEPOSIT & LOAN COMPANY, - ■ Houston, Tens.
. (L S. Cl’M MINGS, President. E M. PARRISH, Vice-Pres. and Manager.
JOHN <>’. TOD. Vic.-Pres, and Counsel. O. K. CALDWELL Seeretarv
<JEO. HAMMON. Treasurer.
, —v Then turning to his near- ,
help be employed if the present force es. neighbor on the platform he asked
does not permit of rereading the let-
City Meat Market,
s. <». Proprietor.
Choice Juicy Steaks, Veal, Pork and Sausage alwayg on hand
site Postoffice. Alvin, Texas.
Following is a raster of the officials
of Brazoria county, and dat< < when
the several courts are held:
OFFICERS
A. E. Masterson, county judge.
F. M. Harvin, sheriff.
E. N. Krause,county attorney.
J. L. Cochran county clerk.
Geo. H. Sweeny, tax assessor.
I’. M. Hartley, tax collector.
E. B. Cannon, county treasure r.
Francis Upchurch, district clerk.
.1. I.. Chambers, county surveyor.
R. It.Fo-ttei, county superintendent
public instruction.
Wcr Journalists.
In Paris so^-e patient person hai
been collecting statistics about wom-
an journalists. Tnere are 600 of these,
he declares, who live by journalism In
England, as against 2.193 la th* Unit-
ed Stages axd 1.200 in Germany, or
the latter 2” pet cent .’eal with Utera
ture, 18*4 per ceat with political econ-
omy, 10 pet cent with pedagogy, 8’A
per cent with science. per cent
with fashions. 5 per cent with history,
4^ per cent with domestic economy.
4% per cent* with bousing problems
and ner cent with politics. The
same statistician asset t® that the in-
comes of these women vary from 1.000
francs ($200) to 6,000 francs (|1.200).
*’ ’V-Tiy. no not yet. Black answered.
The 'act is we hav? grown rather
Mountain, fond of the critter, he is so playful
and nffectionate.'
“ ‘B it doesn’t his
you?' White asked.
" ‘No, I haven’t noticed
Black.
"‘Well,’ White grumbled, ‘I can’t
or that brute’s *ontlnual yowl-
Story cf a Medford V7 : . i->
Capt. James C. D. Cl.. '
latwreace I.ight Guards ■ '
Mass., was a speaker a’
camp fire of civil and Sp.i..:- «
! veterans, and related the <>: owi .
story:
A Medford man. a quaint character
of Irish birth, returned from 'he civil
war with an undisputed n cord of
hard and meritorious servlet In the
army.
i The .’■ounger generation hetring of '
' bis braver]*, tried unsuccessful y to get '
- bis own version of his part in the ■
Trains let -*e Alvin for Houston at
2.2U p.m..5.35 p.m., 8.25 p.m.
Trains leave Alvin for Galveston |
at 7.05 a.m., 7.45 a.m.. 8.30 a.m., 2 20
p.m.. 8.25p.m.
going north on Main Line j
vin at 8.3t> a.m.. 7.10 p.m.
HOME LUMBER
Haas A Spears. Props.
Dealers in Calcasieu Long Leaf Lumber, Sash, Doors, Paints and Oils.
Agents for DEVOE’S Celebrated Ready Mixed Paint.
Many Homely Truths CsvdsnsW Int®
Short Paragraphs.
The verbal wisdom of ths CMasss
has become proverbial •«<,
ateiy enough. It shows tafaelf frew
nentfy in their proverbs Mlttg
there have already beea ktiMttr'
■ntn English, but hero ars • (»«*»•
from a collection by Hsfr Brswa *•
\: rra. published in Heldslbsrg, vblrh
may be welcome:
"It is better net to be <haa asi ’•
be anything.” ”1 spentates « the
dawn of virtue.” "Even ths Si^bsst
tower stands on the ground. ’ “Maa
he knows evcrytMnc, but we
! m knows better." "Even the »aa
saii with emphasis, "you have the ; 'Hn of the ffrst-c’s».s has poor rein
o brute. Why didn’t you -’ The carver c< l<eU trvw
tr n and .et that dog- ■ dole, he laiesrs lot wgU
, wl’ - they are made et” “A <M Ml
• r ef is io- ger than s peer of Joy * AM
I so on.—T P.’s Weekly.
Two Trains ot Strawberries.
' A special from Tyler in Wednes-
day’s dailies says: TLere were 38
solid carloads of strawberries, grown
io Smith county, shipped out of here
lust night over the Cotton Belt. The
cars contained on an average 465
crates and were sold at the sheds
from $1.25 to $1.65 per crate,
two double-header trains
them, and the trains w ‘re given a
speed limit of nearly thirty mi,les an
h< ur. All southbound passenger
trains took sidings for th* se trains.’j;
The express shipments were the ' " r- *s the old
heaviest of the season, and more
The Gulf Coast Line.
A Temple special states that just I
at present a great deal of new equip-1
ment is passing through Temple de- <
stined to the St. Louis. Brownsville
and Mexico railway. One thing no-
ticeable about this equipment is the ;
large number of refrigerator cars
1 which is going to the new line, indi-
dicating that the road expects to do
an immerse amount of fruit and
truck business, and better still that i
it will own its own cold storage cars ! O1,.,
to enable it to handle the business on One <Ia>- finding himself esieged
by a number of persistent questioners.
I u-iirrir&v* ti„
woman born in Texas is still living—
j she now has a population of over
3,000,000.”
j There was a pause of bewilderment
j for a moment, and then a voice from
the galleries rang out clear and dis-
tinct:
“Send that woman out to Wyom-
ing—we need her.”
This From a Scotchman? ! fast.
... ,0® o.<muH | Jam«*s Merry, a well known Scottish 1 12.
’’Not Reread” is frequently seen on ironmaster ami owner of race horses. ’
lb- letter? the =e= “he =!gr.?. th? | once decided to run fur parliament sleep. Ev
mail. This shifts the responsibility of He stood as candidate for Glasgow, that's ail "
He posed as an extreme radical, and j
was prepared to abolish everything in 1
sight, as a short way to reform. At
one of his meetings where the heck- j
ling of candidates was the feature,
as in all Scottish elections, he was
The head of asked, after he had disposed sum-
who counten- ' mffrily of the crown, the house of
| thirty-four ships.
! the industry is due chiefly to
scarcity of “right" whales but the
turning point of the decaj was taken
when cotl gas was discovered and
there wat a fall in the importance of
oils as il;un inants. But each season
Dundee sends her whaling fl?et to the
arctic. So few are “right" whales .
within the circle now that the Dun- '
; dee experts know them all. ft Is said,
i Wags aver that the Dundee harpoon-
• ers have names for each one of them.
Mau 3Otli: C
• Monday—
Night S-ssioii for Men and Boy:. Basket Ball, /
I do, Peuni.-. I>raw Gould. Fancy Stnnte, Hot key, /
Loup the Loup, md the new Pa achute Descent »
may be indulged, but our jesj>onsib lity will be lira- $
ited to rebuilding, n case the Rink is demolished. \
Tuesday— A
No Skati ig. W
Weilnes^lay— J
Afternoon, for Ladies. Evening, general admission. A
Thursday— G
No Skating.
' Friday - . j
3
A res. n ations should 1 e secured at trie rink office ii advance.
w Admission, . |()c
Use of Rink Skat-s, 15c
v Admission, ami Use of Floor to skate owners, 15 c
• | is mat so. sai
from l.i i lab six not!.--d his how’^i
two from Whitehouse ,:e n »«taken.
' "A week
With favor-]
| WISDOM IN CHINESE ^ROVtRSL
I . ..... . , safety cf the hat, begar. to demur.
• whereupon Mrs. 1
' swer to roll call of states, reports drawing herself
! xvere verbally given by the various ■ saM; ‘ I guess y
! state chairmen. When the Lone
Star state was called, a brawny spec- '
i imen of Southern manhood stepped '
• out into the aisle and with strident:
voice exclaimed: “We represent the .
. . "“IU l**»' v“u luc vcutui? uciM.e jionuays nt reoruai v and 1st Mon-
: great St ite ol T *xa< The first white : ;ast near y all the east-coas ports had day in September.
“ whalers of their own. L.mdon had County court is in session second
The falling off of Mondays in January April. July and
*• ’ “ * the October.
Commissioners' court meets sec-
ond Mondays
August and No’
whereupon Mrs. Copeland turned, and.
f up haughtily erect,
“I guess you don’t know who I
am. I'm the wife of P. ft N. Cope
land.”
Robinson's.
! and, upon calling for it. vas met by a
! strange salesgirl.
The la: proving satisfactory, she
was about to depart with I’, without
j more ac o, the bid to be -leDt. as was
her cut tom. The girl, not under-
LIVERY AND SALE STABLE
Gentie Driving learns. Hauling done on short notice, Prices to sun
the times. Call and see us. Special attraction givea
to boarding horses. Stylish Turnouts.
.1. C. kiiiibroiigli. Prop., Alvin, Texas.
Splendid Reproduction, in Sixteen
Tints, of a Celebrated Painting. ,
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I in the process. It is made on fine.
heavy paper, and will make, whan
framed and hung, h magnificent or-
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its genuine artistic merits.it posseses
an uncommon interest to every
American, as the central figure in it
is George Washington, standing at
the portal of his \ irginia home,
bidding adieu to the bride ami bride-
groom. The color work is highly or-
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are the character representations,
costumes, etc.
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SUBSf RIPTION DE PA RTM ENT.
The Republic, St. Louis. Mo.
Brockton's Good Water Supj ly
I The following is told of
' Hancock's ccusin in Mr.lne. This
' cousin had never seen the modern
conveniences of our city home:, and
found that In the bathroom, mn-h to
his surprise, he could get bot, hot I
jyid cold water f>*oni the samt fan
cet. While out driving, “Port”
showed him the reservoir which sap-
7”"1 his bathroom with v ater j
"Well If that don't beat all!” said ‘
the visitor, “gettin* hot and cold I
water from the same pond.”—Boston I
Herald.
Ail notices of entertainments, sup-
pers. etc., where an admission is
charged, (including programs,) here-
after appearing i: The Sun. will be
ehargea for at the rate of 5 oeuts per
line. Cards of thanks and resolu- i
tions ,* respect will be charged for than a carload were snipped in this
»t «««*•«; also obituaries over 12 Twentv-one of the thirty-
v.r price for funera: notices
>rhalft*nx, (no less printed,) 'eight cars were grown in the vicinity
t be paid for when order is .
We expect no compliment- ’ *• ’
’ 1 from Swan
I — passed and Black cams
! and two from Troupe. \\ ith favor- ■ |ioro,? one (]ay with the objec tionable
; able weather there will be shipped I cog
out tomorrow night sever d ears in “have bonSM ,his c”r’’ he ?o,d
In every newspaper we pick up we j ‘‘x<',fiS night s shipment,
are sure to find a lot of gush about I
the man behind the gun; the man be-
hind the buzzsaw and the man behindj Henderson limes,
the son ; the man behind the time and
thaeap behind the tents, the mi>n i continued a tew d»yx ago. » as nn old
behind the kodak and the man he-1 P»»t >ffice called Iron
hind the fence: the man behind his : Fifty-three years ago Miss Lizzie
whiskers and ths man behind his Ev.rett was appointed postmistress
fist, and everything behind Is enter- then and has held the position ever
ed on the list. They skipped another, sines. She was 31 years old when
of whom nothing has been said, the I she entered the service, and is now 8;eep
little wavs 184. It is said by those who know inc'
’ L . _s i | Mrs. Sage smiled again.
“In the case of ours dvos it Is one
thine; in the case of others it is a dif-
served under the i ferent matter.” she sa d
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