The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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ALVIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY. AUGUST 16. 1912.
No. 3
Vol. XXII.
AN INTERURBAN WOULD BENEFIT EVERY CITIZEN IN THE ENTIRE ALVIN SECTION
STATE SCHODLAPFORTION- COL. WATTERSON NEVER ITEMS OF NEWS FROM LIST OF TEXT BOOKS
BENSON’S BUDS IT TOP
OKLAHOMA COMMUNITY1 TO BE USED IN ALVIN
MENT SG.85 PER CAPITA SPOKE
OF RERCENTAGE TABLE
In fact The home
oon.
FELL SEVEN STORIES
WITHOUT BEING INJURED
—Hawk and Greer.
The Stone & Webster system will
PERSONAL MENTION
to name a committee of
uring the State Fair.
carnival, at the Hotel
HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED
THAT SILOS WILL SOLVE FEED
Second year high school—Classics
1 Willi) TO MOTHERS.
A FEW POINTERS ON
Let them see and
•4
U. 0.0. BAZAAR NEWS
the parent’s heart and
or
MARKE ING PLANS
Til BE FORMULATED
; your yea bo yea. Thev
lave confidence in you.
n the early teaching of the
Grandmother Jones.
When this plan is evolved
submitted to a general
Frank P. Holland,
Ranch, Dallas; Sam H.
at no stage of the game
The score
n favor of the Buds.
It may be tiresome pounding
same proposition all the time
success comes from sticking to w
you start.
al weeks visit here to her
Mrs. W. F. Machen.
the
but
bat
Messrs. R. R. Parker, A. C. Wadt
J. H. Coward, Homer Moore, FI05WG
DeLand, Nolan Harrison, R. Lynch
and Milton Drake were among those
from Alvin to visit Galveston Sue
day.
Don't forget the baby show on tise
20th, the opening day of the baiaar.
Besides the many and beautiful
articles on sale at the bazaar, there
will be an art display of various
kinds of paintings and embroideries
Fire Marshall Blair had another
try out with the fire boys Tuesday
night. It consisted of taking onttbe
cart , running to the fire plugs, at-
taching the hose and turning on the
water.~'‘*Rje boys are becoming ex-
perts. *
At the a inal session of the Texas
Farmers’ congress just closed, a res-
olution wap adopted authorizing the
president
fifteen to tjrork out a plan for proper
distribution and marketing of Texas
products,
it is to be
meeting of the growers and shippers
at Dallas c
President Edward W. Knox of
Sail Ante ho has called his'com-
mittee to meet on August 15, during
the cottoi
Galvez, Gi Ives ton. He has named
the folloving fifteen representing
the varied interests of Texss from an
agricultural standpoint to constitute
this committee:
Fa1 m and
Dixon, editor Texas Farm send Fire-
s’,ue, Houston; Caro Sella, banker
and Farmer, Cleburne;
Doherty,
Colonel H»nry Exall, president Tex-
as Industiial congress. Dallas; P. L.
Downs, banker and farmer Temple;
J. M. Johison, United Sta!e depart-
ment of riculture. College Station;
A. R. Spn.gue, grower and shipper,
San Bauito;C. E. Coleman, grower
and shipp »r, Corpus Christi; S. K.
Mebane, president Truck Growers’
association, of Alvin; Wesley Love,
grower an 1 shipper, Jacksc nville, S.
J. Verhalf n. manager Stai dard Or-
chards, Scottsville;Fritz Erigichardt
grower and shipper, Eagle Lake:
Roy Cam; bell, sales manager South-
ernTexa® Truck Growers association.
Sau auivuiu, j on u r>. r
grower an 1 shipper, San M
when they leave it to go
the world its influence
Obi 300 12*—7
.000 010 000—i
SUMMARY
balls—Off Stede 1, off
be grave.
He is a husband and father, ai d
his wife and children were with him |
at the infirmary Friday afternoon.—
Houston (Saturday) Post.
Auther Evans, deputy tax ass »ecc,
after a week's visisit to his parents
here, returend to the county seat
Monday.
Editor J. E. Pate of the Willis Str
spent a while in Alvin first of th
week, and made the Sun an appet
ciated visit.
Tnere will be an important bazaar
meeting in U, D. C. hall Friday a/
ternoon the 16th Inst, at 4 o’clock.
Roy Cami bell, sales manager South-
nui 1 back 1 uvn viuwcib afuuiiaiiuil,
San Antinio; John B. Sheppard,
- - - b - 1----’Krcus.
All pupils who are six years old anti
less than twenty-one on or before
the first day of September of the
current scholastic year, and who re-
sides within the Alvin independent
school district, shall be admittdb
free of tuition to the Alvin pubke
school. Pupils not entitled to tui-
tion may be admitted to the schools,
when there is room, upon payment
monthly, in advance tuition as fel-
lows:
Primary department $L0C
Intermediate department LUO
High school department 2.00
Pupils transferred to the Alvis
school district will receive credit f<r
one-half year’s tuition.
The board has set September, f H.
as the opening day for session 1912-U.
William
3t. L. B. dt M. railroad;
H. I.. Tolar was a visitor in Hous-
ton Wednesday.
Tom Brasher, of Greenville, spent
Sunday in Alvin.
W. E. Davis made a business Lip:
to Houston Monday.
W. L. Haley took in tiie ante races
at Galveston Saturday.
C. H. Blount made a business trjs?
to the Bayou city Tuesday.
C. W. Benson Jr., was a business
visiter to Houston Saturday.
County surveyor Ted Atkinson
visiting home folks here this we<&
Young Edwards and Arthur E<V
wards spent Sunday last in Houston.
Lawyer J. S. Jackson made a pro-
fessional trip to Richmond Tuesday
Messrs. C. Z. Sedwick and Steve
Jones were Houston visitors Tues-
day.
Mayor M. L. Drake made a bu*
I ness trip to the county seat first 4*
the week.
John P. Booth of Manvel paasck
through Alvin on his way to Hous-
ton Wednesday.
Everett Askins, Bob Mahon arid
George Pennock made a trip to La-
marque Sunday afternoon.
Rev. D. P. Airhart, a former pun-
tor of the Baptist Church at tbtMl
place, spent a while in Alvin Tues-
day.
R. E, Mell vane of San Antonio «
large land owner in the Alvin un-
try, spent a while here first of
week.
and a number three hat usually
leaves the smallest footprint on
sand of time.
gumption, and his bandy-shanked,!
knock-kneed, pigeon-toed parts of I
speech, in fine his, obliquity of vis-|
ion in general—but I have got as
good as I gave, and, reaching home,
often turned my face to the wall and
Base on
Tuffly 3.
Struck o it—By Steele 9, by TulTley
2.
Three-La8e hits—Hansell, Gillespe
and French.
Two-bas > hits—Drake 2, Stelzing
and 8. Berson.
Umpires
Colonel Watterson ha® said many
a bright thing and many a true thing
but he never spoke more humanly or
struck a surer note in journalism
than when in a recent ad iress he
said:
“Can truly declare that 1 have
loved no man ess because he did not
agree with me. I may ‘cuss' him—
in our peculiar terms of 1 uscular en-
dearment—dwell upon the imper-
fection of his pop-eyed understand-
The Jess imine Buda put it all over
the Plumb >rs at Owen park last Sun-
day uften
boys had a a easy time from start to
finish, and
was tne results doubtful,
was 7 to 1
Steele pitched his usual steady
game, str > ingout nine met .allowing
five aerate 1 hits and one walk. I~
was accorc ed classy support by his (is < alculated that by viitue of Satur-
team maws. ----J I.j-..*------— —-*
the Buds getting nine hits, including
three threi -baggers and three two-
baggers.
Score by i inings:
Alvin ....
Plumbers
Tuffly was hit hard, day’s action, most of the committee
on schools of the state will run for
nine months during the comingyear.
The apnroprations becoming avail-
able on September 1, the beginning
of the new fiscal year. All members
of the board were present at the
meeting.
The last census gives Alvin school
district <506 school children, and at
$6.85 per capita, Alvin will receive
$3,534 60 school money from the sta’e.
L (lowing superscription:
“To Alvin Texas, I’d like to go.
That’s in the in the ‘Lcne Star
State,'you know.
And in the post office there I’ll stay i . - ,
Till Rev. (?. Fisher carries me l ” ’ ~ ‘ *’ ” * ~
awfty’ tai arithmetic, Krolms first book in
A town is as dead as it looks.
SBr°W;h is kePt P°or on account of having- to buy feed.
It soon gets monotonous when one
mar does all the boosting.
Trade excursions will bring more
results than a million circular ki-
te ru.
Prosperity follows publicity.
It’s easy to be pleasant—when you
are a booster.
A man with a number twelve shoe
-•* _ ------v _ .1---- L-x ----.* **,.*». xww. V... iuv
"• , proud parents of au eight pound ba-
the ; by girl, born Monday morning.
I Marjorie.
You mu it either rule y<-ur child-
ren or the,r will rule you. ft is bet
ter for th dr future happiness that
they be restrained and controlled.
Punish 1 hem when necessary, but
never in i.nger.
understand that the rod is used not
because y >u are angry, but because
they have done wrong.
When you tell them “no’’ mean
no, and le
will theu
The par mt that enforces absolute
obedience is more respected and far
more belo red than one that lets them
do as thej please. A spoiled child
walks on
makes it bleed with anguish in after
days.
Be a companion to your children,
entering i ito their joys anti sorrows,
then bom swill be the dearest spot on
earth, auc
out into
will rest upon them as a sweet bene-
diction.
Teach t le child to be neat for neat-
sake and not for show.
Begin t> teach them purity and
honor frera infancy, remembering
always that what the future man
woman is, nine times out at ten, de-
pends upc
mother.
The report comes from Austin that1
the next year’s school apportionment
in Texas will be $6.85 for each of the
1,0.9,000 children enrolled The ap-
portionment was fixed last Saturday
at the regularly monthly meeting of
th( State board of education. This
is the biggest apportionment in the
1 history of the state. The next high-
He est having been last year, $6.80. I t
I Cyr’s third reader, modern English
'lesson, The New Century speller,
M-B elementry arithmetic, Fryes'
first book in geography, E S music
course book I, writing book 2, draw-
ing book 2.
Fourth Grade — Our Country’s
fourth reader. The New Century
: speller, modern English lessons, M-
B elementry arithmetic, H <fc N men-
- tai arithmetic, Krolms first book in
The Stone & Webster system will J P. Neely of California, who is physiology, Dodges elementary geo-
construct an interurban terminal in I sojourning in Alvina few weeks, i tfraphy, Littlejohn's Texas History
Dallas which will rival the one in I eached at the Fairview school stories, E S music course book II,
Indianapolis, said to be the largest i Uou,!B afternoon, also at J. writing book 3, drawing book 3.
in the world. Tneoostof the st-llc-! RoTert " Sf‘bb»th evening. Fifth Grade-Our Country's fifth
ture is estimated at $1,500,000. i Mrs. C. Wiasnei and family visited reader, The New Century speller,
I at C. Fishers Saturday afternoon modern English lessons, the begin-
| We are a sociable class of people and nerg history of our country, M-Bele-
t do so much “visitir g and being vis-j
■ ited” it would worry you to read it
all, so we will refrain.
Mrs Moore returned to her home
in Palestine Wednesday, after seyer-
-lotner, |all, so we will refrain.
Mrs. Lewis Cole has been on the
sick list the past week, but is able to
be up and round again.
The men who have been working
with Lister Adams’ hay press have
returned to their homes, much to the
satisfaction of their wives.
Mr. a d Mrs. A. R. Martin are the
tality,(3) Popes essay on man, Whit-
— - ' ney and Lookwood’s English gram-
. Are the business peo- mer. Hallecks history cf American
ple of Alvin and the farmers of the Alvin ie,n history. hist0rioai note bo..k
country going to continue such a destructive Jart 11 ^’"’'s civil government,
* practical business arithmetic, ac-
policy? It is not wise. Let them show some counting and business practice, B
business sense and change it. Begin right now. I ch™’s^Xs^rcTee'ro^orl-
The time to prepare anything is before you are tion, e b music course book iv.
, . . i The above list of text books should
ready to use it. | be clipped out and pasted in some
mentary arithmetic, HAN mental
arithmetic, Dodges primary geo-
graphy, E S music course book II,
writing book 4, drawing book 4.
Sixth Grade—Stepping stones to
literature book VI, The New Cen-
tury speller, a modern English gram-
mer, Pennybacker’s history of Tex-
as, Ivanhoe historical note book part
VII, M-B grammer school arithme-
tic, H <fc N mental arithmetic, Dod-
ges comparative geography, E S
music course book II, writing book
4. drawing book 5.
Seventh Grade—Stepping stones to
literature book VII, The New Cen-
tury speller, a modern English
grammer, history of our country,
Ivanhoe historical note book part 1,
M-B grammer school arithmetic,
H & N mental arithmetic, Krokn’s
graded lessons in physology and 1
hygene, 2 Welborn’s element of agri-
QUESTION IN MIN COUNTRYIhsSS
| ster’s elementary composition,
■ 11 Montgomery’s English history, his-
torical note book part V, practical
“In time of peace prepare for war” is anold businessaritl’metl0’s<:c un,il’K ,nd
business practice, Wentworth’s first
> ■ saying but a mighty wise saying, which may steps in algebra, Davis physical geo-
"' be applied in many ways. Practically can the Rra^-V 2- welbof“’8 tX
J riculture, Collar and Daniel first
people of this section apply it to provide means yeariatin e s music course book
of sav ing their crops. It is too late to begin 1
It has been demon-;<l) A ta,e of two ci,ies’ <2> Sil&s
Wornar fR i Thn mornliAnt nf VAniftA.
| reference book. Next week we wffc
| publish the credits to be given
I for finishing each course indicated
above.
j We are not equipped for mid-tenr
I graduation, hence there will be wc
CPUnni 0 TUIC prpcinil mid tertn bnt the wotk
The Oklahoma settlement is but j|j|||j|j|^j | |||j jr | be so adjusted as to meet the
eighteen months old, but during that | needs of every pupil in the grade tc
time seventeen new houses have been i which he is assigned at the begm-
built, not all of these residents, how- Prof. R. R. Sebri g, superinten- 'ling of the term, however a pupil
ever, are from Oklahoma. Kansas, dent of the Alvin public, school, has ‘ may be promoted at any time that
Nebraska, Ohio and other states be furnished the Sun the following list I b© can give evidence of his ability to
ing represented. About 2(0 acres are of books to be used in the schools the ! do the higher work.
in cultivation and the farmers are coming session: The following rules recently re-
preparing for fall and winter crops,! First Grade—Cyr’s primer, Our adopted by the Alvin board of schodi
some int< nding to break more land. > Country’s first reader, Art Literature trustees W>11 be of special interest:
We are pleased to note the enterprise I first reader.
among us in the Jway of painting of' Second Grade—Art Literature see-
ing,his bow-legged lack of political I buildings, planting trees, etc. ! ond reader, Our Country's second
{ Mr. Day has recently painted his . reftder, writing book No. 1, drawing
■ house and is otherwise improving book No. 1.
his place. Third Grade—Our Country's third
. . , , , i reader, Ait Literature third reader,
We belong to the “booster’ ’crowd, j „ , , „ ...
C. Fisher confessed his ignorance ;
thought to myself as I fell off to of up to-date letter writing, when |
pleasant dreams, ‘I shouldn't won- he received a Utter the other day ;
der if that old rooster w«® about from a friend in Oklahoma with the
half right, after all.”
No man who has written much can
read without a keen appreciation of
its quaintly stated truth and frank
humor, and Colonel Watterson was
at his best when he said it.
James McGinney, a carpenter re-
siding at 5019 Washington avenue,
Brunner, is at the St. Joseph's infir-
mary the victim of a fall down a
seven-story elevator shaft at the Cot-
ton hotel. The accident is undoubt-
edly the most remarkable in the
history of high building construction
in Houstion and probably will break
all records in the point of height of
falling of a human being without the
fracture of a bone or perhaps other
serious injury.
The fall took place shortly after 1
o’c ock Friday afternoon, when Mr.
McGinney was working at the top of
thf sixth-story level on the tempor-
ary elevator shaft used for hoisting
concrete. Some loose structure up-
on which he was standing apparen>
ly gave away, and he was precipitat-
ed straight downward, landing up-
on his head and one sholder on the
concrete floor of the basement. The
fall included the entire distance of
six stories above and one below tie
surface of the street, and was un-
J broken, according to those witness-
ing the accident.
He never lost consciousness and
talked to the other workmen imme-
diately upon their arrival upon ti e
scene where they expected to find
him a lifeless and formless mass.
The Sid Westheimer ambulance was
called anu conveyed McGinney co
the St. Joseph’s infirmary, where it i
was found that not a bone was brok-;
en in his bodv and where up to a la e i,
hour last night it was .believed that
he will recover. He suffered bruises '
about the shoulders and a sea p |
wound upon the bead. It is believ-1
ed that interna! Injures exist but' the crOps are made.
these were not thought last night to r Warner, (8) The merchant of Venice,
•------- strated that forage crops can be successfully Jjockwood and Emerson's composi-
and abundantly grown. The trouble has been b“in
to cure the fodder and to keep the weevils from metic, accounting and business
destroying the grain. The silo solves that prob- eUlture, caesar’s Gallic wars by
lem. Several of our progressive farmers al- GanQi80n and HsriJy, e s music
course book IV.
ready have silos in use, and they have been Third year high school—Classics
BUILOINb IIP CITIES round to serve the purpose to a charm. Let
others follow their Example and we will cease onies, Whitney and Lockwoods
, ,, . , , . . ., . .. . \ English grammer, Blaisdell’s first
I to hear the eternal complaint that the country 9tepS in Asm and Br Authors, essen-
' tial in mediaeval and modern history
historical note book part IV, prac-
As the farmers should have silos, SO Should tical business arithmetic, accounting
., , , . .. ., . ., , . and business practice, B and S new'
the truckers see to it that they have a canning I)lane geometry, Maury’s new Mm-
and pickleing factory before the next crop is ■ flete deRcr*Ptive and physical geo-
* * ' graphy, hygiemcphysiology,Cicero 6
made. Think about it! Enough cucumbers, orations, E S music cource book IV.
tomatoes and other truck was left in the field i Fourth year high school—classics
(1) The vision ot Sir Launfal, (2)
to rot this season which, if we had the means Wordsworths intimation of Immor-
Some men are born great, others of saving them, would have paid the expense
welfare of their^ommunUy!^ ^°r Of building a factory.
Be modest in all things except
city building.
Some towns are small in size but
large in sentiment.
Civic pride is as commendable as
personal pride.
You can generally do as well in
your borne town as anywnere else—
if you try.
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Bailey, Charles B. The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912, newspaper, August 16, 1912; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1250517/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.