The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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ilHL ALVIN SUN
ALVIN, TEXAS. DECEMBER I, 1911.
ALVIN CF VVEi
i*
in
sion of contracting ct-
Mr. Johnson fells of Work
s to bo organized
On
That Has Been Done.
J sorrel
a
such questions a* they
ciation can be seen by
iot m
observer at Galveston
AH
It
onr
MUSTANG ITEMS.
You Doii’i Have to Di
Fair View News
Algoa News Notes
on
The ladies aid society of the 1‘res-
report of the convention
NOTICE.
I
Last year’s pecan
J*
Mr. A. W.
met with fib >ut twenty boy sco its on !
All custotr ers'still owing us
remit, for w< *“*• - ‘ '
against thus
Texas hss more^
all the rest of the U
bined. .
Several scholars were absent first
i of the week on account of the bad
t weather.
Ladies
Mi. and Mrs. I). L. Dilliner,•'assist-
ed by Mesdnmes Baffleld, Austin
and Craw, entertained the ladies
Aid society <
pal Church <
The Dillii g
Houston.
The election of officers was the fea-
ture oC the meeting, although other
important matters were transacted.
After the lustQess meeting coffee
and refreshments w*iie served, and
all fortunate
J’ghtfu! hosj
winter.
Ar. especially attractive feature of
the exhibit sent to Chicago fr >m the
Pearland-Alvin district by the Alli-
son-Richey company and rhe citizens
of Alvin is a Satsuma «»rar.ge tree
loaded with ripe oranges fn m the
E 8. Stockwell orchard at Alvin.— I
Houston Post.
giving in spite of the cold w sathtf.
Reporter.
Balptist Church.
Rev. D. P. j
First Baptis
tendance at
vention winch
Waco seven 1 days first of the week,
requests Th > Sun to state that he
will make a
work next Bunday morning at 11
o’clock, and the membership o? the
church is request' d to be present.
There will be a meeting of tho^e in-
terested in t )6 organiz .tion of a new
Fruit and Truck association nt the
IL D. C. hail Saturday afternoon,
immediately after th- meeting railed
for the dis -ns-i . .. T
cumber aer sge fora pickle factory.
Mr. Wade
iiew manager of the new association,
will be pre st
as to the oifanization a:<d the date
nn which it
January 1st J1912 Mr. Medlin will be
located al
will takeup this work at chat ti ne.
The new h
erative with
and is not i
This wiR-jji
a nfl
The new Rice hotel at Houston, an
eigh^en story building w 11 cost 2,-
IF .
/ —„
night and pi t them through
tice drill. 'Ihe boys are
organized.
plied for, an 1 they have mon-y on j Fair View school house,
hand to pay f
etc. They v ill meet to night *t the , and a nice sum raised,
city hall. All sonnts aro roni'.satfld ' likoa t.. See n>n ilttln
to be presen
Vol. XXI.
NEW IRUIT AND
TRUCK ASSOCIATION
D» ctor
of virgin prairie land, with here and
there a ranchman.s house and a
branding pen. and now and then a
patch of corn or potatoes, could be
se-bu. The advance guard of civiliza-
tion. the hardy pioneei, the show mu [
S. Arai,president of the Alvin Jap-
a
not a[pr. ciated by the planters, large gathering of the Algoa Fruit
i Following Is an interesting address of the methods of cultivation.
' delivered before the Gulf Coast Nur- ' chief reas
| sery Men s association, which met in 1 of planting inferior nursery stock by
the meantime come out
and hear a discussion of the matter
Saturday afternoon.
a cell after taking his pis]
I then with anothcf*nitraw
I escape.”
of $10,175.
sufficient to give
erm.
1 he Weather
The past seek has been the cold-
est of the pa it month and the month
a 1 through was the coldest Novem-
ber oo record. J i th© years which
ante.dated o liciai weather observa-
tions then may have been colder,
and doubthi
says he has
bers here an 1 this last is the coldest.
The weather
confirms thin, even going back to the
year 1871. V *sterday morning which
ushered in Thanksgiving Day regis-
tered the lowest temperature-
we have to any about it is that it is
getting entirely too monotonous.
is all righ'fTnt change for awhile
but this thing of wearing overcoats
every day ai
er that can b
lasted long <
prove of sue i weather one little bit
and the weal her man might as well
so understand.
------ — — grazing of cattle, cheapness being the cheif qualifi- Growers Association Monday at 8 p.' you shall be entitled Ui reee^fl
Thousands upon thousands of acres | cation sought when buying nursery m. Mr. Aral told of the origin of the -annually > p« r cent of ?
, land, with here and stock, wer* able to weather the storm mandarin orange iu China, its trans- whHe^aid'disaNhtv1* v
-1- — - •- ur, c hail.u UII.I u „ a — —ill. .... 1.1.... rm.. 1,. • . . v n/wv .. m . *k-. _ . fl
' enjoyed ’jrkey dinners yesterday.
* • »
; Many of the children, and high
sc ho >1 pupils went to the foot ball
gain s Saturday and yest- rd ay to
che •r for the high school beys.
healthy and prolific annually of a
good quality of fruit. He knows it
costs us more to grow this class of
Quite a number of students wen
present at the basket ba 1 gam<
Thanksgiving afternoon between the
high school girls and the I’bilathes
team of the First Methodist church
it was an exciting game and enjoyed
by all.
d piling on all the cov-
e rated up at night has
trough. We do not ap-
We have holiday to-day on ac-
count of the teachers being in at-
tendance at the teachers' associa-
tion in Houston.
,s *"
s was. Mr. Linderman
seen eighteen nevem-
Mr. I. N. Wilson, president of th<
I school board, was a visitor Fuesdar
I for the purpose of looking ofter tin
| beaters in the several rooms, which.
I aru very unsatisfactory fur heating
Alvin permanently and
this work at chat time.
usociation is to be eo-cp-
i a $1 00 membership fee,
u stock company. Five
per cent brokerage i« to be charged
for the main enance, and all expenses
of the association are to be run on
this amount, including manager’s
salary.
Mr. Medlin has addressed the, "
g owers of Alvin at two previous Jcars
da es ou tl is subject and ha met j
with splendid encouragement from
large numb r of ^rowers.
All are im ited to attend this meet-
ing and ask
may think proper in the premises.
A copy cf i he by-laws and rules of
the new ass<
calling on IL L. Tolar,who is ii> tem-
porary charj e of the clerical w««rk.
The new association will be open
for member ihip about the first of
January. In
Report cards for November were
ren out Monday and fnesday
Next time we receive our cards, a
promotion card will accompany
idem—if we pass.
ipe land than
hd States com- ij»sty«ai b pecan <•
B ( approximately 2,25u.||
f the Methodist Episco-
n Thursday of last week.
. ----------„ home was beau£>fully
\ decorated w th a varjely-of meH. hy-
paTiii from their own
yard. About twenty ladies were pres
ent, including Mrs. T. P. Majors of
Alvin District AviiIia
Fund.
The special scb"ol
vin ’u-.l-, endert
the ear 1911-12 a
in ti - .-J
l.Hid, ba.c d j’l a M
*
vVe will probably rec;
fund from the county, alB
more, g’ving a total for •|
The unity club is arranging a nice
the Baptist church lawn last Friday program for their next meeting
a prac- i December ttth, it which a box supper
now fully I will be held for the purpose o* raie-
A charter has been ap- ing money for the Christmas tree at
they have mon-y on (Fair View school house. We hope
for badges, pennants, | this meeting will be well attended
, as everyone
All scouts are requested ! likes to see the little folks enjoy
. i themselves once in awhile.
• J The ladies aid society of the 1‘res-
: byterian churcu held their monthly
Airhart, pastor of the! .. .
> . , . | meeting with Mrs. J. p. Pfatf last
church, who was -n at-' . .
c* i <> «. Thursday, and all expressed them-
the htate Baptist con-' , . . . t j . ..
, selves as being delighted wi.h the
was in session in . . . , . .
! treatment received in her cozy coun-
try home.
Major L. Winston went fishing last
Tuesday with Lis son, Ed, ani two
of the boys. They brought back
quite a string of fish as evidence of
their success. J. J. W.
A special^frmn
rht week stated: ““Sheriff^]
is just in receipt of a tele.jri^B
the sheriff at Fredericks, )kiaJ
fie hau a negro who fills th® dm
tiou of the negro v. ho fired tlM
shot that killed Mr. Tot
Septemb- r two ye-.rs ago. Rm
>t J
Mr. Irving, of the Ag icul oral and
i Mechanical college, visited
'school last Wednesday.
| The Star Literary society will not
hold a meeting this evening. An in-
I terest ing program was i
We had do chapel servi os Wed-
nesday morning on account of the
cold weather and no stove being up
, in the chap-d.
• - - • -- ----- --- j •<•••<•,• ft V«» tV ”1 V » «M. 1 111S |
mostly as an ornamental, is today of course subjected the tree to loss of i
on ■ ot the leaders o the citrus var.e- hardiness well as to the ravages of I
ty. On a recent trip through tiet dr^ad- »< disease known as mal-j
Ncrti and East I find that Lhe kum- uee>vnj.,, iuutiut. Tins distasu hto
q’jat,or fruit-cocktail, as it is best been (he i uin of many profitable or-
ku >w:i h°re, has become an indispen- shards where the sweet stock came
sal-le breakfast f »od, its only rival jU contact with the soil.
be-ng our Duean grape fruit I R wa5 untjl th(j w)i(ter wn
Ina recent conversation with the' hRt we leirned the value of high
superintendent of a preserving com- budding fol* hardiness as in that very
pa ly of Houston, whose seventy-odd trying winter the mercury dropped
branches extend throughout the cit*; to in some instances as low as 12 de-
rm. belt, he advised me that>grees Fare|uheit. Previous to this
they had not yet been able to supply • one cf our members bnd advanced
the di mand for preserved kumquats,. the theory that if the orange be bud
Magnolia figs,and crystalized Satsu- ded higher up on the st<-ck, thereby
ma oranges. This concern shipped giving it the advantage of more of
in th ? year of 1904 something like j the hardy trifoliatta the scion
500 cars cf preserved kumquats, : woujtl be influenced to a greater ex-
Magnolia figs and crystalized Satsu-: tvnt for dormancy during the critical
mas, which lends Itself most adm . | winter monthi, hence a much bar-
ab’y fur crystalirrtion, Ita akin peol- jjer tree. phi, theory wm put to »
lug- off like a kid glove and the seg- j severe test during the winter of 1911
ments are readily separated without alld proved to be a practical succes?.
the spilling of a single drop of the The trees thus budded invariable es-
deiicious juice. | caped inju. y, while many of th* low
The culture of even the most fa-! budded trees were injured to a great-
mous of our fruits was scarcely | er or less extent. This demonstra-
ttu ught of in the beginning of the • tion led to the budding of all stock
pr seat century in this section, and ( fr< m four to eight inches above the
he who was bold enough to express a ground by the leading nurserymen |
hope for snceess in this line was j and members of this as3ociati<»n.
looked upu i by the masses as aj Only those nurserymen who set a
dreamer. K bad been bred in our - high gtandard and mantained it dur-!
very blood and bom- that this section jUg the trying time when quality . auesn Nursery Company, spoke to
of tbt state was fit for nothing in the ' wftS
world but the
Plan F—Tg age 60 j
r-ason of accident, sic!
ease, the member shall b -ou
ly and permanently dis.ibli
I erformimg or directing any
labor or business, or shall I
dent suffer the loss cf an< aU
leg or the sight of one e^gfl
receive in one sum, one wB
. - certificate If he suffers jM
was fortunate in securing Mr. Arai both arms, both legs or
he shall
sum, the whole ainount^^E
icate. Ins
Plan G— Wnen you^^^H
ir. ana are. u. a. uacK. -. a. .x 7j- VOUr payments sh^K|
, , you shah receive semi^^HI
City ar. visiting Algoa irclianis ium of five per cent of
At the Austin conference of^the
Methodist Episcopal church, I eld in
Ft. Worth, Rev. A. A. Tharp was
returned to the Alvin charge. Area
dia circuit to be supplied by Rev. E.
A. Hoyt.
I. 0. 0. F. Banquet Prograin.
Following i-s the program to be
rendered to-morrow night at the
»dd Fellows banquet:
Music by the Woodward orchestra.
Address by Rev . Frank Lanehart.
Music r>y orchestra.
Address by speaker of Pearland
lodge.
Double quartet byChristian church
choir.
Address by district deputy.
Music by orchestra.
Address by John M. Moore.
Music. Refreshments.
All odd fellows, both active and
ancient are invited to attend the ban-
Commlttee.
and horticultural lines were well that the ancestry be proven thrifty, for this lecture, and has some good both uyes
rewarded. * ----
Trwft, all who have engaged in
horticultural pursuits have not suc-
ceeded: it is only fair to state that in trees and is willing to pay the dlffer-
the beginning as many failures as > euee, knowing full well this slight
successes resulted. This, however! difference in first cost Is the very
wae to be expected, due to several • last thing to be considered. He de-
reasons, one being through general | mauds that not only the trees he
Ignorance of soil adaptations to the buys, but the nurseryman from,
various fruits, and knowing nothing ' whom he buys show^a clean record.
J. R. Middleton from Mad.sonville
| has been visiting Z. P. Evans and
family this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Ensign, wl> are on
their way to Los Angeles.C ilifornia.
ro Epend the winter, are visiting
her brothers, Mr. and Dr.Peebles for
a few days.
Earle Middleton who has been ot.
the sick list, it* now up and able to go
I to school.
Miss Grace Pierce who has been in i of the negroes who
Houston for the last tw*o months,; Ernest Barbee and pusiw®
has returned home.
The Mustang school clos-<l Wed-
nesday evening to give the teachers
an opportunity to attend ti e teach-
ers’ state convention in Houston
Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
We hope ?veryom? enjoy» < Thanks- JollD .• i •
o’! vinw in «nit«> of the eold w *ath< Ofllll |)
bees to oruaniz^B
Alv: . r ]
Maccabees have several
insurance:
Plan D—Whole life pr. Qom
I you become totally and . .,ni
oleabled from sickness t g,
speaker at each o? its meetings—the
last Saturday in every month.
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Jackson of Kan-
sas (
They have a fine young orchard here until the whole am<i
and are looking forward tu the time your cettillcate is L‘i j
when they can make Algoa their Pla»«jT and C— oj
I. to age 6»> and 70, haMO
home. Maccabees also i^H
Mr. »nd Mrs. J. W. Corder of New <'ui»nroeniHe»re»jm
, t. . . for 76 cents per
York are here inspe ting their 2ft- ber win
acre fig and orange grove. i month, accordii^^R
For informat^M
Tin
, however was the result WHS absent from school Fn- • ‘f the required acreage I;
day. She went to Pearland to visi ‘ "
hnmefolks.
lation to Japan about 800 y are ago,
the production of the seedless Satsu-
ma by the Japanese and finally its
Introduction into the United States.
„ - . Mr. Arai also spoke on cultural
m tn, lured by our delightful climate, | cidedly profitable and the latter as methods, care, etc., of the orchards
onr mitd winters and er.olintr breezes a..Today he wants to and things generally interesting to
of summer, came and made this his J know if the trues or plants we offer the orange grower®. The association
Aid Entertained.
„„jlease; Piano Contest
Intend to enter enit | j>r Duke has made arrangements
KwraBir MtlT WrigW Brother.. J to * ?4UO p,Bno W1<1 »1I(XI ,a ,,th-
■ -— » -- , er Prises tQ the moit popular Young
An EastUnd county farmer has Lady of community Call at the
just harvested more than 3,000 ■ Duke drug store and get particulars
bushels of pcanut» from an el’hty- Some one is\ure to get these prizes
acre tract. j absolutely free
.Conference Appointm nts.
Following are ttie appointments of
paslors to charges in Brazoria coun-
ty, made at the annual confert-ncu of
the Methodist Episcopal church,
South, held at Marlin, Texas, and
which concluded its work las Mon-
day :
Rev James Kilgore, presiding
elder of the Houston district.
Al vic Station—-Rev. I. F. K?y.
Alvin Mission—Rev. A. S. (’ebb.
Angleton—Rev. M. F. Daniel
Brazoria and Velasco—Rev. W. P
Hines.
Cedar Bayou—Rev. W. A. Manley.
Colombia—Rev. C. E. Clark.
Iowa Colony—Rev. J. E. Corky,
supply.
Clemens State Fann—Rev. A.
M'dhvln, chaplain.
CHICAGO LAND SHOW ruit Industry
Discussed Bv Orcliardist
trict is receiving some valual !e pub-
licity at the laid show nowb^ing.
held there.
C. R. Richey, secretary and treas-
urer of the Allison-Richey Land
Medlin, whois to be the | company, is in Chicago with theex-
J vln community, and known as the
Pearland-Alvin exhibit. He makes
very flattering reports of the results '
that are being derived by this sec-
tion of the gulf coa=t country from !
the land show. A wir« yesterday
stated that the attendance upon the j
■«how was about 25.000 daily,and that
hundreds were registering at the
Pearland-A Ivin booth every da v. The
show has been in progress one week .
and has twe more weeks to run. —-w-------------------- -----... — ,---------„
Mr. Rlehey advises that several Al- in on Friday, November 17, by i those who were ignorant of what it
. c irloads of people nave engaged res- . L. M. Johnson, a nursery man of took to constitute a tree fit for plant-
ervations on bis company s private o ‘ . .
. . Bay View, Galveston county. ing to their orchards,
cars far the next two excursions as a
| result of the exhibit. -MR. JOHNSON’S ADDRESS. Upon the few pioneers demonstrat-
1 Mr. Richey telegraphs that the oc-! Fifteen summers witti as many ing that tin orange, the kumquat,
culnr demonstrations of Texas prod- wint* rs, some memorable ones, have magnolia, fig, papershell pecan, etc ,
nets made ar the great Chicago land j come rnd gone since the Gulf Coast • espepi illy adapted to the soil ’
show are having a telling effect, and Nnrserv Men’s Association sprang !*n<^ climatic conditions offered by
will be the means of selling many-kt > existence and about nineteen p^is section and that the culture of
tracts of land in this district th:s years since the citrus industry began j ,lles’i v«*> ‘«ties was immensely pro-} Aj| the are revj, ,Fjue. r0
Ita life In a eomronro:-.! T"M7 *H«>e mM-tarm naalaMIw’ to b.
acaln. While thi« ipr.ee ot time, as j ’Umnietod to Mich an extent that tin- tMg month
tjnie goes, doesnotmesn much, nine- I professions nurserymen could in no-1
teen years has wrought some radical j W’8P *m‘PPV the deman. Hence tiie ■
changes in the gnlf coast country. ' kflux of a liost of adventurers who'
very apparent, indeed, to the pjon.1 had nef*h«r the knowledge of horti-
eers who are with us today. culture, the patience necossar., nor
Nin^teonyeare ago them were l.«Je’’e’;,h'd^ire P"^oce » h,>-’h-
thM roll dozen orchard. In the gull I K,rade ,rP" '7", '° nam”- I fhe hou'ee"
co»,t .ection on what one could re- ,t’1«"ters »"»« '’■ '>’<■>■ b-M Un- ,h“ houM-
Sard a, a commercial acate ch(^v I rt»r impression that the making
am mg which w. re the few n(.rps ,«'» "'>ryr. tree was simply a me-1
each at Alvin, Teague Cltv and I y™ ion, consisting nt cut-
Fri so da wood. * ■t,ns ft from a tree of the desired
' ,, , . „ i variety and inserting it any old place
Tralnloadaoi the luscious Satsu-1 on tH,„ (M(a sb)ck ARarc8ulti
ma are today en route to the orange j whe„ the||, trpeg rpR(.h6(1 fhe b(1
hungry market, or the North »nd msnT of them w„r„ fomi(1 to
Eant later to be followed by the I „„ting |n ,he J|He, that go J
r?l'nj 7»?n*P’ahe k?”,1q,,at ,n:d po,n' i make up a liighgrad e tree. Some f i gjv<
elo. in the production of a l of which ; th „fr„r bp( |iard t„ mak w .
we now nval both California and in (h<> d||e to lack of»roc( '
Florida, hardier and superb,r ’train. ' pruulng jn t|)e
nursery rows, were ’
having been prodneed mongr.b-
ou' sweet seedling with the harJv it # • « - < -«
• I shy bearers of inferior fruit. Often
r .o a a. trees were entirely destroyed f
The kumquat, the commercial vol- (rom being budded or grafted so low
ue of which nineteen years ago »«< a8 to p|ace the union underground
appreciated but by few and growt, when planting to the orchard. P !'
-f course set
hardiness as well a? to the ravages of
waaa^. cwi. au- I tivci r» iwirUltt UH g I O’’'' Ig. CU
rendere d last bers and will also make n , • •><
| Friday. S< me visitors wen present tu.the growers of Alvin at
» ♦ » i ing country for a contr
Miss Anna Mary Pol!, of the ninth j fh* ir cul . for picklii g j .posei
s» ciud
iltingsiation will be p H in 3^
> handle the entire crop ffl
•timing year and for future
The proposition is to piy
ill cukes grown, also b* ns,H
’ >es, etc., with a guar in' • bofl
ind thi comp vciy, fni-ut i"gp^H
u.ce on t . ir part.
The science of grow ng
ets will b discussed, sb
he season can be extent
mnage per acrei crca?
The price to be paid fo
■e better than the av o|
!i the growing of cukes in Al
my time in our past i xy lied
ill be shown that from A68|
er acre has been «>btain|
s< f ivered S'-ctiu1.- U.an j
ind the price thnH^.-htlie 1
■■■ill avei.igu .ilti.ut
rice obt dued in
The pr< position
be B.ioiiP-ss Ip agued|flB|HH
nportanoe. as it meMMB'eufl
or your money
ing markets.
Coins ou , to this meeting,-j
. )U do n< p.-.r' ,t iI ttc ii, ,f.
• * instructive and you will da
:ain son iuformatl : ftrfitl
•f value to you. J
t c. : > v J
... B. CURTIS, S< eretarji^H
enough td enjoy thede-
.itality of ths occasion
voiced the ntin ent of a woH spent
afternoon, al ter w filch the sick r >ums
were reimn bered with the nany
beautiful flo ires.iised for decoration.
A Guest, jquet.
1 ——•......
Boy Scouts of America
Riel ie and Mr. Davis ;
and are with us today. The planter
has learned in the dear but infall-
ible school of experience that it costs
more to grow thoroughbred than
| mongrels, but that the former is de-
our mild winters and cooling breezes } decidedly not.
..... .....v... ...... ...o , know ii me uees ui piHiiut
home. His efforts along agricultural } bim are thoroughbred, and demands
1 * ’ ’ ‘ ' 1innu urn ro wu 11 I . ■ ... -.___■ _ ______ .
| A meeting that will b' < gr
* portance to yoarself if . «>u
' School w as dismissed We dnesday | grower, and to the J
(evening until Monday on account of generally, will be h-?ld
i Thanksgiving. Many of ti e papi s hall. Saturday afterna
Within Last Twenty Years Rapid
Progress Has Been Made—
'public school doings I proposition lOi
i News Items Reported By One of}
the Seventh Grade Students. '
School iaas dismissed W' dnesday jgrower, and to the A;
la- i. l|. I)]
2, at 2:30 o’clock, which
are urgently requested to attend j
i articip.'Hv- in the dise.u.s:on. t j
Tho P r*p-Rooker M i fa etui
' a. of San Antonie, •' h>l
; iekling md canning mpanfl
Texas will b<* represent 1 by tl
Mr Pric- on that dat<, v ' o will
Hver a ’• ctnre on gto1 ”’’ig cum
hibit placed by his firm and the Al-j
nt and will give detiils
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Bailey, Charles B. The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, December 1, 1911, newspaper, December 1, 1911; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1250820/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.