The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1938 Page: 2 of 8
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Alvin, Texas, Friday, July 1'
The Alvin Sun, Alvin and Brazoria County's 01 jest .Newspaper—Established 1890
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THE LIVES OF A RFNGAL
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“COCOANUT GROVE”
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NO COVER CHARGE
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Now Playing — Terry Jone* and His
Ail Girl Band with BIG FLOOR SHOW
THEATRE NEWS
"SWISS MISS
SUNDAY and MONDAY, JULY 17-18
YOU’LL GO CRAZY
Over this uproarious concoction of mirth
and m«dness . . . ! !
THEATRE
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by them, t<
tativt of
county gr<>
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UiVi a view
TUd tea
lune
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The inimitable,
beloved comedian-,
Hartly, make their
ring apjwarance on
TUESDAY, JULY I9th
‘ COCOANUT GROVE"
with Fred MacMurray & Harriet Hilliard
< ira.'uate I.
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business,
ies have
menta at
s< d their
FRIDAY, JULY ISth 5c & 15c All D.,
Laurel and Hardy -in-
“ SWISS MISS"
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Iwtek- va'iU!
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I who ha'< he
IChrift’r h<”1r
■ IJepartment of the
>ily of Texas
Mr
Mr
nurseryman. who I
vin Plant Fanns, i
annual meeting '
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who u*
Ride the Bus I
NORGE E
211? Ch
night
SATURDAY. JULY 16th
First Feature—
HOPALONG CASSIDY -in
‘ ‘ HE A R T Of ARIZONA ’ ’
Second Feature—
"TIP OFF GIRLS"
with Mary Carlisle and Llcyd Nolan
from Hrn
William
hi- bar
liam Boyd, Ru.
Billy King play
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The Ser'
ip.n cnan>
weekend. J
where
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daily,
e busy
ground.
as the
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room
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the A
Neithei Sponsored
nor Financed by
Any Special Interests
A. V.’j
Leaves for HOUSTON
7:50,10:50 m.
2:50. 5:50 and
10:35 ]> in.
features'
Tone,'
Sir Guy
Alvin Improvement*
The following are
important improvement
recenty been made in
The Alvin cream* ' \
led its capacity for n
the most .
that have
Alvin.
has doub
■aking but-
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I your •
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I
E. M Heffron, manager of the
local Piggly Wiggly, is at work
again after a short vacation.
Monday afternoon at
farm of .1. S. Jackson,
mey, when a small fire
ginated in a defective
Nr. and
We« <«>lu
the non”
and father
la,;, Sunday I
Mr and Mr-
Mr and Mr-. 11
' I
An«l About Alvin
Four Year; .Lidt'o of the ('ounty
( ourt at Law of Harris County
the action of the grand jury
lnrr*a«*d Sales at Postoffice
j The stam|is sales including
, rent for the suarter ending .
30th. in the Alvin posloffice
j 11X21.10 For the same quartvi
in 1907, the ah.-u amounted tn
FRIDAY, JULY 22 Bargum Da.
“ The Lives of a Bengal Lancer "
Gary Cuopcr and Franchot Tone
Th n Mor* Alvin Boys
Defy Th* Kaiser
Herbert Le. ch left
Plant of E
iletcd in the
capacity of
k-- in a
7:45,10:45 a. m.
2:45, 5:45 and
10:45 p. in.
Go the Carefree
Convenient Way/
TEXAS BUS LINES
Rufe Davin has
Pair’’ and “Ten Ea.«;
composed by gag <nan .
The Alvin fig preserving plant
has been overhauled and its ca
parity increased.
The Alvin Groc«
new concern opened
Both lumber con
made valuable inm
■ their yards and in
// loUHa.
YQ’JNG
ImcCMA
iv in a position to take care
of nil private parties
LORETTA YOUNG and JOEL McCREA are slurred in
20th Century-Fox's "Three Blind Mice,” featuring PAUL-
INE MOORE. DAVID NIVEN. STUART ERWIN and
MARJORIE WEAVER showing Wednesday and Thurs-
day at the Alvin 'i aeatre.
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The trouble,
college prof<M
club oride on
staid home town
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*-*•. |1,33«».77. The mcn-ase tl i> year i “Vi\aciot.b Lady " in which Ging-
oxer la t ■ $4» l 39, so ays Pof.
• j master M S Freni h
Bryan I h* Nomine*
William J Bryan was nomin
j ated for president on
nl.v„,'™™„„„
Personal Mention
‘ Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Kimmon.-
' arrive-} from Shreveport. La .
tjhis week on a visit to relative-
i and friend'
Hiram Hobbs of Clifton. Texas. I
J i- here n ' isit to his father.
> Judge Jesse Hohba, and will re-1 , , ,
, !,.« .evurxl week. . 'ul '•"trer and nr.r
A R. Rin ks. • nroniisine vounit I enough, la similarly
friends of Mr? I
who has been !
tick for several weeks, will |
Had to know that she is fast. I
able to be up.
Lloyd X"1
rmb< red a
NOTICE wind courtahi]
' ! trettld Hkv to corr« -pott<; with ■l!
someone in or near Alvin who |marna®*’
needs a piano and could continue
'payments uf $1.50 per week, lol
• i |x- . n I have beautiful! j . ... vv.. f,.w M ,„n
•rt:' piano I will n possess show that can bu’a-t of the a
and eedd to for the smail balance ■ •ortment of „wing Junes heard m i
due. For further information as ! the new Fred Ma.-Murray com
j to where piano may be seen, *dy, “Cocoanut Grove," the new ' 1
write M. Wolfe. Credit Depart film that comes Tuesday to the
nient, Brook Mays Piano Con. Alvin Theatre Pu« R-- v.
r>. Ma.n, Houston M-.cM-irraj, radio .r:,K-U. - Har-
49-2ttrieU Hilliard, the Yacht Club i
The bu» station is now Io
caled in Watt Davis Ina
Agency on Hardie afreet, in
Alvin Hotel building.
ED AKER, Agent
Call No 9 for
bus inft rniation.
■rsonal and Social N*w»
Mr I. A. Roberts and
R. Dietrich,
te Bank w
i < «iii:r .ii-stick
<sinri Of Civil Appeals
First Supreme Judicial District of Texas
For the physical equipment of
e biggest outdoor spectacle
ice the advent vf talking pic-'
re., Paramount’s "The Lives of
! a Bengal Lancer,” to be shown
Friday, July 22nd, at the Alvin;
Theatre, over four thousand uni- I
. forms, two thousand horses and
thousands of rifles were employ-
ed
The picture, which
Gary Cooper, Franchot
I Richard Cromwell and
j Standing, was four years in prep
i aration for the screen and em-
' ployed twenty thousand people.
Hilije and ;
well No 1, is ar
Teams and labor, r
placing same on
readv to start a
machinery arrive
petted daily.
I 'l'tii' Years Mayor of tht
< 'ity of Houston
Letters have been received
j here from Alexander Davin, son
j of Mi and Mi- George Davis |
! of this place, who i« now at th*
I Naval training camp vii Mare Is- ,
I land. He say-: “I am out among;
them now and take it from me.
it sure is some place." He . well ,
; pleased with that branch of the '
j service and says he h«' seen
more lately, than he ever did be •
fore in his life.
1 There are four other
on the
er Rogers and James Stewart ar-
: co-starred.
' Stewart is cast as a botany in
structor in a small university who
. , ... .. T* nn,t‘visits New York in quest of his
ballot law night by th. domocra-, ,,|.ybo E|| ;
tic convention in notion at Dan- The latter I, on hi. ..mi-annnal I
! big-city spree, and this tim< he is;
**-ngage<I in a sit-down strike at.
, a night club for the purpoae of ,
u inning the attention of Ginger*
Rogers, featured entertainer.
Stewart finds his pleasure bent
cousin, hut in «o doing he falls
I re. j despernetly in love with the beau-,
tiful dancer and singer, who. 1
>ung I am»’“n«|y enough, is similarly at
---- practed to this j*erious-thinking
young profoaeor. A dixjy, whirl-
-----‘*U‘P of several hours
with their sudden
stock.- by half
Th,. $25,000 bi k
H Hill will be con,|
near future.
35.000 bricks
Contractor H
lawyer of Angleton, a
dance at the opera i
last Saturday night
Mr« R H Haves
Sheffield. Mi Meta
Mis- Helen Buller. \
at College Station thi
Dr and Mr- J W
the happy parent® of
baby rirl which
home last Friday
The many-
Minnie Franks,
quite
be
improving and
oil -tove, endangered his entire '
dairy plant and buildings.
G*» Company Report*
70 Service Lines In
The Houston Natural Gas Com-
ly had installed by the middle
thin week. 45 meters and 70 ’
vi< e lines fui nUbst ribers for;
m-v natural gas in Alvin
Alvin Florist Attends
Fort Worth Meet
returning
and mid-Victo-
parents, form the basis of
(To aucceed Judge R. A. Pleaarnta,
who is not seeking re-election)
pilal at Tempi*, Texas.
Ittl. M; Bertha Froberg.
daughter of Mr and Mr- R M
1 Froberg, observed her Xth birth- ■
day Wednesday by a Majestic 1
i I hr at re party in Houston, as the ,
gue'V of Judd Mortimer Lewi .
! and the Houston Post-Dispatch.!
; by virtue of her membership in
j their birthday club.
This club membership allowing i
two tickets to th*- Majestic on the ;
< hildrer.’s birthdays, little Bertha
. took to Houston, as her guest,
tiny let-u Matsushita to share
her theatre party.
! boys, Rufe Davis and Harry i
! Owens and his band, they number,
; six in all, and come from the pens ,
of .'ome of Hollywood’s better
koowii composers.
I Heading the hit parade are
"Says My Heart” by Lan* and
Loesser, and “You Leave Me,
I Breathless” by Fried and Hollan-
der. Harry Owens, who penned;
last year’s hit number one. I
”>weet Leilant, besides appear-
ing :n a featured part in the new
i film, has written two sma<*h new
musical hit“Cocoanut Grove"
;.nd ‘‘Dri-amv Hi»wni;an Moon,”
i comic num
"Two Bits a
«y Lessons"
Jack Rock.
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Poynor, John S. The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, July 15, 1938, newspaper, July 15, 1938; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1252203/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Alvin Community College.