The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1926 Page: 3 of 8
eight pages : ill. ; page 20 x 13 in. Digitized from 16 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
I’ I
Found Baxter Changing Hie Clothes.
But, If
general plane
■ hie
lie looked out
"I can't buy
You'll have to show
If H’u all
exploi-
than suspected the
remained silent,
standing. Cox
Thw latter
£
I
Delates, if my source in not au-
I then tic, if It is not sufficient. I do not
i figure that I have anything to sell.
■ But I want to know where I stand be-
; fore I submit facts and figures."
| For a moment they re;
i the elder seated, Caleb t
! patently appraising Mm
; spoke first
1 "How much do you want?"
I "One hundred thousand dollars and
recognition of myself as the origina-
tor of the plan. 1 do Dot expect to in
any way displace Mr. Hinckley. 1 have
• not hia experience. Quite probably I
| luck his ability. Rut I should want
I an appointment as consulting engineer
I on be work, and pubi’clty us the pro-
ject < r."
..... .. Ki*
Cox beat a little tattoo with his fin
gers or the desk top.
of the window.
“I'm not the Crystal Springs com
pany." be said finally,
pigs in pokes. “
me more of your project.
you say 1 have no doubt we can come
to terms."
“I have stated my terms.**
"You'll have to take a chance wtth
us, Warner," Cox said with a smile.
"We are not exactly highway robbers,
we westerners And we don't mind
paying for Information. But I can't
thousand dollars? You are
I am not vla-
I am prepared
to show you anil your engineers a coin-
I Into this particular method
I tation
source
Cox smiled and pushed aside some
* papers carelessly.
"If that Is so," he answered. “I will
i give you one half a cent per gallon for
I "Ten
j not liberal. Mr. Cox.
ionary In this matter,
t.. <t>K,w von and vonr i
to the
It Wu
Ho
the
His
The
ttiou-
do what
*d him alon
sick.
I’m bitter
She was tw»
the devil to
mater's gone
>k at that."
I good boy.
by!
"Do you know what she did?" h<
naked truculently. “Mortgaged ever;
I bean she had to cutch thia million
| aire. Flayed her last cent on the re I
1 won She had the right to
she liked with my father’s
dor the will, but It was un
that she was to look out
pay all around.
I and so s my Incom
He picked up a
cate to suit her play. No doubt she
told him what a wajward youth I,
was. When I wouldn’t stand up to the ;
wedding we had a sweet row about
I thut and 1 boiled over a bit—she calm
I ly told n»e she was broke. Said her
j trousseau had exhausted her bank ac-
|count and her capital. Yesterday aft
1 ernoon this check came to me tn h
| letter from her. 1 tore the letter up
Ho|ted !’d settle down to something
serious and Inclosed a check from her
j husband. Said she didn't expect lo
, see tne for some time. They were go-
1 ing to travel extenaively.
(TO BE CONTINUED. >
■'.Soon as I got down to Del Monte
I saw what her game was. And 1
vnan't welcome. The bridegroom-on-
the-hook looked at me na if he expect
odtsticai way. Caleb.
I I have ti right to be.
four when she married my father and
I she never Intended to be a mother
Thought It 'ud spoil her figure. I've
beard her any so. 1 was only a kid
. when I overheard that, but It Ilin
i ndn&tvd things a lot. I knew then why
j I never had a mother like other kids
II was an unfortunate accident. A
snuke has more affection for its eggs
than she ever had for me.
“1 tell you. Cal’, the way she acted
round that old fool would make you
With the airs and graces of a
young girl. Fa’ zh ! She wanted me
to go back tn Golden. J looked ton
much like an animated birth certlfi
cate to suit her play
hint uhat u u-i
yields the precious briar bush. Spain
has but little, Italy hus about run dry,
aud that It is In Corsica that the
It is raid that French aoll no longer i llsh briars.” And as such a pip*
beauty can Ih» fashioned only
root which is in the region of a hit;
dred years* growth. It Is not to be j
Scarcity of Material Makes “Briars” Costly
■;.x*:x-:x<x->x:xjc<-x:-x<-x-:x*:x<xyx«X':-x;-Xvz:x>x*>x-’-XAX'>x->x>x<-
It Is
and cap
fn-
“And
my
<• side.
at him
flaring
“ROMA
IN HIGH LIFE
lu limit."
prn<
Man
the
It
direct.
piping, pumping?”
Pumping?
over his bath
settled
before he
■w, grape
mean v.. ,i
formation
wo million
e», with <
>wn
■ re :
Even the I
outer page a face looked
Mvmed familiar, though,
ent. he could not place It.
id did
swiftly, backing
“Ah! Pumping? it isn’t on this i
Ride of the bay, then?"
The question came
a swifter glance.
i told me yourself that
velopnient on th
•ally developed
i
There are many othe
dt.
of hts golfing abilities.
G.
iat good position
*.r
Masi
and
you k
It I will
It
a
big
on
shoulder,
the
CHILO’S BEST LAXATIVE ;
\A
the trick
\
.” he fi
But
Is consfl-
Ing If
mid plan
died
go."
•hll
bo
later.
are
Grimes Still Good
•re from
were
&
he
—&
p
Course Pronounced Fit by
George Sargent, Pro.
SCIOTO COUNTRY
CLUB NOW READY
vee the po
f.Mid and
This
■diction
i order
so bard."
“And If you tak
York you
rebuilt It Is <
than the form*
more difficult because
it Is severe without
"Oh - if you c
I think I could
to letting Tomn
Everything be
ter went out to
•V) Years
ill that
. Stew.
Get •
zs'Box
Burleigh Grimes. one of tne few
remaining sptttmllers In the National
league, la tnore than holding his own
tnis year with the Bruuslyu I<vu»«ra.
He is winning games with much reg-
ularity.
Ch.psW -H»« Old BlocJ
NT JUNK>R»-UHk» Wt
On*third th« recuiar doss. Made
of tha Mtns iagredlantR, than candy
For children and
krakQLD BY YOUR DRUQGISTas
"My Big Brother, Jack Colebrook,”
»te almost at the st«rt. "fronts !
n and Is no end of a j
I shotted him that picture
-the one taken In the punt that
r up the Thames—and he hasn’t
■d It yet. Fancy he must have j
•V “1
from
!eJth
wdla E.
ible Compound.
than good. TI
L.
fiat- i
Colebrook, however, gazed the
Intently at Nel’'a photograph |
that he really must write :
■veeklv budset to her.
my duty." he teld Tommy, "to ,
let your slater know ail that we are
doing here and juat how you are pro- j
greasing.”
“I can’t tell you how Neil would ap- 1
predate It." said unsuspecting Tommy 1
And Nell did enjoy those letters i
that came with Increasing hulk and I
regularity—once they had been an- i
Bwered. Chicago had taken on a new I
I beauty and her work greater comfort ■
In fact all things Id the world as-
sumed charm, nnd .«e!l, fnr the first
time In her life, followed the shipping
column of the paper, always with the
hope that the niM<ls from Australia !
might Ih? a day earlier.
A photograph of t fine, big man be- [
side her brother Tommy stood always
nnw on her desk and drew nianv a i
a.so used t ,ie baoativ** W ah!j and
it beneficial ’’ -Maa Gcaim i c L.
a kt, I03 David 8t., Greenfield, Mi
Valuable for Woaknw
"I have found Lydia E. I'Ink
VegoUblo Compound a valuable medi-
cine for weakness."—Mhs. J. A.
Pietsch, Box 3»7. Lancaster. Ta.
Hundreds of letters like thoao
received hy the Pinkham Medicine
Lynn. Mass. Grateful women
Pennsylvania to Washington,
Texas to Illinois and from Rhe
land to Nebraska say that their
Las improved since taking Lyi
Pinkham’s Vegetal
1 CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP IS I
i
me like b reni
fine chap.
of you—
Sunday
returne<
forgotten It.’
But Jack Colebrook hadn’t forgot- !
ten the picture of Nell at all. In fact I
ft was on his shaving stand nnd there ,
whs many a time when, gazing at It 1
admiringly, h« had come near cutting ‘
Ids own face.
He questioned Tommy about Noll’s j
hair, her eyes, whether ah* was ni
rled, or engaged, nnd whether
thought Rhe would fancy Australia.
To all of th»ae questions Tommy rr
piled wtth brotherly disregard
tery.
more
and decided
a long w<
"It Is n
if ty vl/? r
TO-NffZHT
Tomorrow Alright
KEEPING WELL--An N? Tebf.t
(a »«t«tabla apariant) takaa at
tilght w«l help baap you w«Jl, by
touln« and etran<tbania< your dl-
gaattwn and aJmiloaMoa.
Its holes lengthened and one
ened, nnd other changes made,
is the basis for Sargent's pre<
that superfine golf will be In
for the national open.
Rdoto Is the
it looks easy.
has been taken of Its gentle, naturally
undulating terrain and its long water- 1
course so as to bring out the best
golfing skill.
The reconstructed Scioto course Ip.
6,075 yards In length, measuring the
Individual holes from the center of the
tees to the center of the green. Par
for the course Is still 72, although as
ddered to t>e harder
ayout, for which par '
ALLY'S FOOT-EfiSE
for Tired F<»e« H Can I Ma Heat
v in the fn i-batt). gently
1 Sjr 'he ’-’Ing and
UlkwT walk in comfort. It
| I u»kea (U tllCltOQ
fyrxn UM abos. Bold everywtwra F- FRll
Faxnnkr aud • Foot-Fane Walklug Doll,
•dtVeaa. AUX* 8 FOOT-I AM. l« E^. N. 1.
Buddy Ryan Insisted on
Writing His Own Wires
Sig Hurt, fighter of the bantam class
back In 1805. later a politician, and a
handler of fighters, waa In 1904 mana-
ger of Buddy Ryan, famous waiter-
weight. Sig doesn’t think all fighters
arc dumb, but he thinks they have
thulr peculiar!UM.
Hart nnd Buddy had gone to Port
Huron, where Buddy was to fight Mike
Ward. At the hotel as Sig and Buddy
parted to go to their rooms before the
fight. Hart turned to say:
erij auMtri flint teloemtn vou usunllv
•’It’S only that I dislike having you
so terribly far uway from me. 1 know
It Is a fine chance for you and If you
Just get a nice big Brother who will
••lire for you us I have—it Won’t seem
got
golu • In that direc ■
kept Silent.
CHAPTER IX
Mi
Sox
s mother In good 'liu-
io financial supplies
lavishly nnd easily
tuigwnce and spoiling,
■nuine love for each
' the gossiping woek-
not Vedior's Pioneer
un ttem that caught
mention of the Bax-
=ked.
Mnry
I.” said F.ar.t
pest, but sb
His prelim-
and
‘mid not guess, and did not
the name of the girl referred
d Caleb whistled under his
Progress
ent «wlfUy.
ntinns ended anil the >
od and blue printed. Ca- j
■ Ids model. From the ;
••ndeflc survey he panto- I
nl«- enlargement of the
I lie Caliente plain and
surrounding district, in-
run down to Del Monte
• nil to Mm mother. Duty,
use, Caleb surmised as
i ignored by Dame Gossip,” ran
-::(|.h. •that Ted Baxter, who.
liar been hanging up some
scores In the golf touma-
i the Del Monte links. Is not
i at the Insinuating chatter
>' in suggesting that he may
I’drr a stepfather. Gossip
• rife in thia direction before,
intent ions awin to be serious,
’•■d that young Baxter may
the example of his stepfather.
A double wedding is not en-
>i:t of proHpect, according to
■ claim to have watched ’Ted’
falr-greena In the early
:• with h certain detnolaelle
■ Inherited a fortune from in-
i' sely connected with the luin-
•:.».<1 Joh I didn't write
'!i.ng usually shows up If
bii k. If you're not, why.
■ ere Ir to it.”
:ied. Cnleb saw him look-
plcture gallery on the bu-
Morgan? That's
picked np the sll-
<quir»>d that tan. 6m*
■ girl. I told you ynn’.t
I”.. mater’s due at De
•row,” Le u>;.t on.
ieed her to help tne
■y won’t ex-
o swing this
Inferred, that
Morgan sees this Item,” he
if, "she is likely to stir
I wonder how Ted’s stock
pr<>M|a«rlug?"
I Baxter had not told him the name
nf .t-Hreft with which he was spec
Pm'lng But he noticed the girl the
kvxt lorntng as he viRRwed through
|r< outer office to Cox’s private room
p m''.-ointment she w.«a not <n tai-
’’ !' '"'hex hnt in a lighter, fuller
►”•’—• Her face whm Rfartllngly I
Wt*1 ‘where she rouged her checks I
bud redden^ |M,r ||pa dark i
hi« ' r;n.-s beneath her eyes emphn- I
J';’ ' ' r L’lnm-e und, for a moment.
'••It It full upon him He I
t that H half besought, half I
zed him not to speak of her to
Ind lhen lha t.annfh v-aw anL I
T^e Water Bearer
We’ll
I!XF
CHAPTER VIII—Continued
—12—
Major Leaguers Can
Qualify ns Golf Pros
Though gulf baa been banned
by a number of the major
league managers, and on some
By J. ALLAN DUNN f
Author of ”A MAN TO ' US MATE" !'
"RIMROCK TRAIL"
THE \I V’IN SUN. Oldest Paper Published in Brazoria County
sec
cky
r, hia tone
across
“he turned nway as C
•* vc*pt the Beaver Lake
"n*r naked Cox. rising to
His brown contracted nnd
hardened a trifle when Caleb
corny to make a
"! ■ ik nut. I’ve
:' "Q Instead."
said Cox shortly,
■mmittai ar the tteh
'hl.c shoved the cigar box
I tineat Kpeclmens are found. It is tne
I r.u.t of the Rhriih that matters. In
I North Africa the light and sandy toil
I renders the texture of the woudy root
I rather porous, and this "briar" i« used
for cheaper grades of pipe.
jt| • «n‘>lva Cv.t»,a iiu w < •
tight to gain hold tn the roc
A Corsican briar rx»t i. ay weigh 15
or 23 pounds when It Is brought rough
' tn the factory, but when cut down this
I will give no more than a dozen blocks
lor urv ♦ !■•'■■ p
I two really tip-top tiawicM "be*'. Lng-
put the tips of all ten nt b'«
CHILDREN'S
NL'RSE RESUMES
HER DUTIES
Pir?ise» Lydia E. Pinkham’.
Grove's
Tasteless
r.hiH Tanin
A - Ad
(
■
1.
d
Ma
1
! i <
h J
>|
'‘ii
1
11
i
costly.
Manchester Guardian.
1
Motr>
.s.
Restores Health, Energy
and Rosy Cheeks, soa
Famout Mountain
Iron mounmln in one of the undated
knnba af the
in Ml
\ and tell
? HI •‘gn
■ on toward the eltsvatur.
st Fr«nc>4* mountains I
fa county. Mo. It Is S? 1
tniiefl south of ML I^tnis. on the
Mountain railroad, «nd Ir 1.078 feei
in elevation ab-ive the tw»a and 20'* fee:
aDove ntft adjoining valley. 1 ma namn
tain •.•pwfttlM deposits of Rjtecntar
lieroatito iron >ra.
Try the Wew
CiiHcura
Shavlnfl Stick
«nd F-n.oii.ent
1 send to your mother. B.u
! her everything la O. K.
“All right," said Buddy, and went
Sig went In
j to write the telegram when he felt a
! «ug on hl» prm Ti was Ruddy.
“Walt n minute, sig." said the boxer,
j "1 want Im »4Gd 'hat felpgrstu.
! er knows my handwriting."
I Bnddv was strong for details whlel
] nwy explain how he rase to tltufar
| MJlrfUIR
glance during a buHy day. In other
words. Nel! had fallen In !e*e with
T«mu>y’- Big Bn Liter.
“Tcmmy," mild Colebri.ok, "do you !
think y<.ir could carry on h«re for n
few months while I slip over to th#
StHi.-x iii.d t.ring l.rttk that sinter oi
youn»? I have finally persunded her
the* wo can’t get along without her—
whnt do you say. Little Brother?"
Til «ar the same." laughed Tom
my. "ar.d tlwt you'll soon be my j
brvtuer-iu-iKw—Bru* K."
rnsby
ST1® I
3
d
th tl
wl’
n by
aptnli
••>
and
tors
Is Winner
r
i
* r ' ■
■ .
Iter C. I
can teni
ch will I
Golfer<
!
Jt. Lou*' Bro*
gtrike* th*lf 1
pitcher »-i
B, DOROTHY DOUGLAS
A Genuine Big
Brother
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Beck, John P. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 18, 1926, newspaper, June 18, 1926; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1250548/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.