The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, March 1, 1940 Page: 2 of 8
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1890
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school prin-
Mr. Haigh and fanrly have mov-j--
How do* it f" INEZ CROW.
Mrs. Baron is seriously ill.
Ford wa:
LIVERPOOL
doing
MEMBER GULF COAST PRESS ASSOCIATION
Claw Matter
tn
Accredited Tear Im
be.
been operating a machin- shop
TEN . . TWENTY . . . THIRTY YEARS AGO
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Hern:
in
H
Mrs.
|w
Geo. Laigh visited in the home ot
Charles L. King conducted
1 WILL BE AT
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•d u ith her r
Hotel Alvin
Wednesday
March 6th
DANBURY
Mis.
DR. EMMA
SLAUGHTER
OPTOMETRIST
Pustejovski, who
and
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of ,
Who
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Mr
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Vernon Shaw, nephew of Mrs '
1’..n t •>. **(‘1 unnhlx »<> nt.
PHONES Office M4I
Mrs Verne Pentecost entertain- j
Mr*
Marcel
INSURANCE AGENCY
for all kinds of
INSURANCE
Also Real Estate and Rentals
'1
Stt-W-*!
Fii—ffiiiglBMM
I resident of Ath*-
H* I survived
Father Of Alvin
Man Succumbs
(Studio at heiM tf
Mr*. R T. fUbiMot
MEMORIES OF THE PAST
TAKEN FROM THE FILES
OF THE SUN
SIDEWALK
SOUVENIRS
We Do
McA.han Ride Office Fb*»
■..< n
R. I
c
and
the
who
; Rena Booth
lace, Todd Furnace and Ma. Fur-
Mrs. E. C. Lynch and Mrs. Henry
Clement attended . funeral in Al-
vin Saturday.
Mr and Mrs Frank I orr of A!
vin were in Liverpool Tuesday
Miss Hula Jamison of Angleton
home Tues-
E. C Mason. Manx
pal. is ill with th* i
vlfe of New
H Clement
Jack Harrison
Attnrney-at-La*
Wellbem
mi monthly luncheon
y the Chamber
sday. Clyd<
ary host
creamery and a teat made of the
engine as a fire extinguisher. An-
other test will be made later.
Mm. Ben Hott is Hl in
ton hospital.
Jimmy Pierson and Billy Evans
were in Austin Tuesday to witness
the Texas U and Baylor basketball
B-»oth
Webb
ORAN SHIPP looks
and wan. fighting a case
too busy to go to b*-d with it.
L. Croix la in
serving on the jury.
AT Vol R grocers
SEE (XH PON ON
PAGE 7
ELSIE MAE C LARK. Reporter
The revival which has been held
ended Wednesday night
J. S. Jackwn
Lawytr
O<U Fr~-lke In •» (***
Offlre: IM«" lUJf.
Brazoria County
Abstract Compi
Anjleton, Texas
Established tn
1 ID I TM
tF.MKI I
■kford.
Alvm'i
jxjpular
. w f, n
o the hun-
There was
i flu and pneumonia.
The deceased resided in Eustace
at the time of his death, hut was .1
for many years
four sons, Jack
lens. Edwin
and
Mis* Doris Holcomb of Houston I
visited in the home of her patents. I
B Holcomb over
as its
the '
'W
•fur u
t*d Clement of
ing on friends
Sunday.
ton* cu»n is
KAHN & LEVY
Furniture
f-whv R..»h p
I* the Pi auk i
Helen
Auder
^Galbreath »
- Tl;,!',
M ■
far Washington D
has an appointment
Ten Years Ago—-
About fifty Alvin business men
Why
look
“ d.ed
•rnoon.
c i
Harr
Sunday afternoon. Mr
> was 83 years of age,
Saturday night follow
of New;
gue«t of
irtln. Jr., I]
COMFIFTE HOME
OUTFITTERS
vne-v r: rf’iTUL
REFRIGERATORS
fll? CBureb «-
GaheatoD. Te«s»
r Ba.
.. nt i
■BALI H'
IRlMiX XXlJ
hie student
too! colors, ■
JEPHSON
(LITTLE JOE)
rratrmi,,
PIANO
IOWA COLONY
William Johns was in Houston
on business one day this week.
to the yr
and frills made
gentlemen's drrsi
Mrs Marietta Kershner of Hous-
ton wus here on business Wednes-
day
MaiTIMft |
•a^BSUalM* I
| w/'r*
| coom"»
and Mrs Grady Voungblotxl
‘ ty visiting the ,
former reai-1
8IN( F. !W Jr
M 5
$1 50
200
91 00
$1 25
Alvin and immediate vicinity, Brazoria and
Aubscription payable tn advance, as
post oGIce department
Leon W. Charlitoo
>rs of the Mag (
n i urn | in th,, literary Dept
issued every Friday at Alvin.
“ -xas. as Second
March 3, 1870
AR TH I R EVANS hopes to be a
big butter and egg man. and fror.i '
all indications he has a s ,el| start ■
He "pays off” the Sun, and sheep- i
ishly admits hr had to borrow his .
W. O. Clement and
'Gulf visited at th* W
| home. Monday.
in the home of Mr
Dann.
Jordon of Hous-
and l°n visited h**r father, J. W Moore,
Saturday. Mr. Moore has b»-rn ill.
Patsy j
‘ in Manvel for Lee Gub» rt and fam- ;
. ily.
' hist<
Mrs. J. A. Rawlings visited in the , ‘n*
home of Mr. and Mrs Harold Casey I ’
i m Alvin Saturday .
Louis Alexander has returned to I
imide in Manvel
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VISITS PARENTS
Mr and Mrs R. W. Springfield
of Martindale visited hia parents
Rev and Mrs George Springfield
during the week-end.
Frank Peterson and family of
, Chocolate Bayou have purchased
! the Stacy place and are now living
! then
i Verne Pentecost, was unable to at-1
tend school in Alvin last week duel
I to illness.
Prompt Service on
Abatracts and Maps
of Brazoria CoudQ
We navK a lari
ferent maps L
maps of the C
>1
HAR1
LSrothj, Boet
*’» 'rying. •
t httk girl?1
Smail girl
j Mr. and Mrs. B
: the week-end.
Almas Hamby of Houston visit
ed here Sunday
and Mrs. R J
home of
Fred Wolf.
Pretty Mary Pi
anna* shown at
movie theatre, The Grand,
treat of unusual merit
dreds who witnessed it
tot standing room left during th«
night performance *
Mrs. Oscar Hobb*. Mr and Mrs.
Oscar Van Norman and
were visiting in Liverpool Sunday.
THE ALVIN SUN
AND NEWS
Alvin and Braserla <ount> . (Hde»l Newspaper—EaUU»H*hrd ISM
MRS JOHN P RECK. Publisher
ROBT. I BRAY, Editor and Manager
Services for T B Green, lather
of Jack Green ot this city were
held in Athens at the First Christ
ian church,
who
Mr and Mrs F
Dickinson were ci
and relatives her*
Miss Hch|
Workman
t
i
II
| | John Wilson. Grady Youngblood.
"♦ T Richardson. II 1
pale G. F Webb Jr.
flu. and
>ot much headway ha* been
made at the Acton oil well dur-
ing the week. The failure of a rar
of fuel oil to arrive bar reoultrd
in a trinparary *hut-down. The
car is long overdue and just a*
soon a* it i'Oiiwv operation* a ill
be resumed.
nen and
Marguerite
Madge I nell
il, we offer .
Confucius say Lady who buy
cheap how- g» t long run for money.
of the most uniqu*
nt entertainments ever given
, in was on Monday of last
at the home of Mi. and Mrs.
MR*. VAN NORMAN. Reporter
I H. G Clement and Mrs Sue An-
(demon and children of New Gulf
spent Sunday in 1. verpool.
James Edward Jones of Trammel |
; has been visiting tn the home of:
Mr and Mrs. Emery Ford for the|
' past two weeks. While here he has |
j He was co-founder of the first hos-
pital in Houston, the Houston In-
I firmary. was first physician In
X-ray machine. |
Mi. end Mr* John Wilson!
«|M»nt th*' week-end in Luling visit- >
ing Mi Wilson's parent*.
Ari*- Hi Pielie Sunda;
D E. Christi family,
denis of Manvel
The rceitai given at *hc I l»
' Hall laid night by Mis* Kuth
Simms under the au«picrv of the
Arion Quartette, brought out a
crowded house. Mi** simm* wax
at her br*t and received several
(iicorr*. Prof. Wnsm i* beyond
the |ir*-adv*-nfurc of a doubt a
ma*ter pianoist. hi* touch i* ex-
cellent amt the volume
depth produced wondrrfu ,
quartette w a* really good,
though at ore time the voice*
climbed *o high that their
descent cao*«-d a ripple ot laugh-
ter throughout the audh-nrr.
The lat«t It
••Rasrf
Technique
Chiraprartie
Univcnal
Health
Earl Hullin* 21 years. «f Ihts
< ity, was almost instantly killed
Sunday morning at Burkburnett,
where hr was employed in the ml
fields.
Sunday:« th* Enk
,c... * day
< P '-trickland.
tent <»f Alvin public m hoot*, on
hU return from Atlantic < Tty, X
.1. where he had attended the ho
tional Fxlia atioiial A*mh iafion of
Miperintendmt*. gives an inter
>*tlng report.
OR. S. H FRIDNER, M.r
DR. M A MUNSTER
OPIUM,TSM,
2J24 Postoffice XL Dial !-MH
Trust Building
Th«- Alvin Sun, Alvin and Brazona (.-ount/s Oldest Newspaper—Established
------------------------- —. • •
rd at her home Tues ay afternoon
with a two-t&bie bridge uarty. After
the games delicious apple pie and
coffee were served by the hostess’
to the following plovers: Mesdamr*.
-...... . ’ \ 1.1
Jack Easterwood I« vi Kridner. W. !
) Ballard, and ‘
•ere callers Tuesday
Vi-ra Reml* y had th*- mis-
to spinin her ankh- Mon
xfr* Dr Hunt met with a -ad
Ha-cidcnt whde on her wa* to Al
vin l*»t Saturday. It see. * there
■ re some very bad mudhoir* be-
tween Alvin and < hocoiate, in
fact almo*l iinpaiMlblr. Air*. Hunt
got out of the wagon to walk
aero** one of these plac*'*. and in
getting m ros* fell and broke her
arm just above the u rist
don’t the road overseer*
alter such pbert*
Mir* Louise Croix has returned
home from West Columbia. « h< re
she has been visiting in the home
of Mr and Mr* R I Croix and
family.
, E. A. Croix Friday night.
I Mr and Mrs. James Bass have I
returned from Whitesboro, where
they were called by the death of a
J near relative.
ELEANOR KMITd looks the pro- '
v< rbial sleepy-head the morning |
after a session at University of
Houston We wonder how any one !
gal can hold a job. go to college j
three nights a week, be scout troop!
leader, handle a Mexican girls club, i
and top it off on Sunday ayem with .
a Church School class
Miss Maudim* Callihan shopped ‘
in Houston Friday
Published weekly
Rntered at th* Boat Office at Alvin. Texi
Under Act of Congress on
Mary Manvel residents have been j ini*
to Houston to see "Gon* With th<*P*,s
Wind ' Among them are Mr and I
Mrs E I. Croix and Fay Ellen
Crainer. who attended
THEORY — RAR nUBflM
PREINSTMArevru
irge nuatSer of M
for sale, induM
aps of the County at "5c ■■
. 00 Abo ■ < Df-rdiip mars«
' the Count} and variousM
in the countv, as well as sa
of the various towns Write ■
for full Information.
—--------4
Ml** Mrrvl Madey. daughter ot
Xtr. and Mr*. Kalpti F Maley of
Tex a.* < It), and Horace \A Wood
ward, sou of Air and Afr* |< AA
Moodward of Alvin, urrr united
• n marriagr \A *-«ln*-*«l«) evening
us thr home of the bride'* |ia-
-r.ntn. lb(mh prencut ftoiu AiUu (
were Afr and Mr*. K
ward. Mr and Afr* K
children.
Rolw rt I
AA oodw ard
| fol coffee she
11'relic’s wagon
.« (round package of pj
The next thing she w
I be a grindstone
Mr nnd Mrs John B Peneteaux
of Houston wen- week-end guests
at the G E Webb Jr. horn*-
Mesdames J. W l^-wis, Robert
John (.Callihan and G. E
Jr attended Brazoria Home
Demonstration Council at Angle-
ton Monday afternoon
Twenty Years A«o —
lh* < nmiction of Ivie Mickle,
negro, at Angleton ia*t week, on
thr charge of murdering Conduc-
tor Edward Howard at Galvrs
ion <m November 15, 1H17. make*
thr xecond time th* negro ha*
been given thr death pciialtv in
thi* <a**-
s. Richard Wallace Red of Alvin, six
,s. grand children and one great grand!
child.
Dr.
understand that SHERROD IM
RANT is practically pining away on
account of M < MeElA KEN’S
VISITS PARENTS
Strait Kimmons of Houston ;
was a guest Tuesday of his pa-
rents. Mr. and Mr#. E C. Kim- i
Mr. Blakei died Tuesday Hr
has been living with one of his
daughters Mrs Henry Skucius.
BUSJ-'',ESS AXnW
SKhsIe,
Allan Stevenson ha* hern
awarded the local school winner
of the National F*mm < *<nte*t
Second place goe* to Mis* Hc**J»-
liar new* and Mi»« idady* Prnnork
win* third pltetr
Mrv>fRS
Miss Aiiern Muskr. a htgh school ff.nd£j - w
teacher, has been ill. May she be s i #. «. h*r •*« i
in school again soon. | with_ her daugMer^"}’
in Brazori*
Alvin Veterinary
Supply
PHONE i:« •( X**
tey D. I—*"•
U ((<>.,<1-
t v\ Bren
F.liiabeth
•A oodw ard.
and
of Ah in M M at At
and Bruce of Eustace
daughter. Mrs J. B
Pittsburg.
Mr and Mrs. Jack Green and '
, son. Jackie, returned to Alvin Mon
i day night.
Mr. and Mrs J. B Martin and
family motored to Bastrop on a
j fishing trip Sunday afternoon.
\\<>rk on the shell walk to in-
put dow n on the south »idr of
(lardon street from Dav I* A
Sheffield'* earner to Hvr Point*
will In-gin in a few day*, or as
*nnn ■* thr nrervxarv grading . an
be done, which will b«- looked
after by the city.
Mrs Bird Pritchett, who has j
been seriously til at her home, i
lapsed into a coma Monday and I
was taken to a Houston hospital,
when she passed away at 7:30 p.
m Tuesday night Her many
friends extend their heartfelt sym-
pathy to the family.
wife's chicken money to do it.
MANVEL
MRS. G. E. WERR, Jr . Reporter
Mr. and Mrs S. E. Hay and Mr
and Mrs. Earl Hay of Houston •
w*ie Sunday visitors at the W G.
Mai) Ellen Hoiniocx WHS taken
to n Galveston h. -jifiil In-f Wed- ■
nesday. She is reported s.-riuusly
ill
Forty Years Ago
<O|.I.F<.> NOTES
Th*- new scholars tor this week
are H.-r.a Sheffield, in the musical
dcpaitim-nt. Bonnet Ragland. Mrs
R C Shirley and Klough Hilburn,
Z j
Fxlward* ha* |Hircha*ed
AAalcott’* store building
no* occupied bv S J Korf Toni
*ay« hi* hu*lne** demand* more
room, and he want* to get over
on Mall Street, lit will make
some big improvement* in the
store building before moving In.
A KITS Al NT
Willie Rudolph of Marlin was
the time the building is toady. The | the week-end guest of his aunt
laundry will be hx-ated on the i Mr* John Mohr and family. Sun-i
same lot just west of the cream- day Mrs Mohr and daughter, Ann)
-ry and the building will be covei-' motored to Port Boltvc: with Mr ,
•*d with sheet iron | Rudolph
A fen day* ago thr erfj coun VISITS IN ALVIN
cil rrocHed a chemical f.rr Mrs l» N Johnsen
engine on thirty day* trial. Tuva- j York City was a Sunday
day afUrtHKHi a InmFire uae | ncr KSter. Mrs. A. L. Mai
built on the lot north of the 1 and family
Mrs Emery Ford was a Houston; Mrs. Olto Knape d,ed at her!
■visitor Ft iday home Tues lay afternoon. Her two!
oldest boys, O. G. and Carvel, at-1
Mrs. Ted Newman of Texas City j tend school here Our deepest|«i
visited in the home : Mr and Mis sympathy is with them.
Geo. L. Laigle Wednt sday. ; ------- - -■ O - ■ ■■
Dr. Red, Pioneer
Physician, Dies
Mrs. E. W Pryor ha- ‘ e«n ill fo: Qii/4/-IgxnIV7
the past week □UUUvllIj
E A. Croix is building a hom* 1
-- - . I Funeral
UP TO 52O FOR YOUR OLD STOVE
when you trade it in on a new
electric range
68LF STATES ITILITIEJ COMMMY
I The <>bl, long horned, red. town!
■ < ow. that our grocerymen think s<»
[ rmu h of has developed an appetite
went into .Mi
Monday and ate
parched coffer
w ill tackle w ill I
MeAT or fowl cooked
so tender ... so juicy it melts in
your mouth . . . Vegetables fairly
popping with rich, healthful min-
erals. You can cook a whole deli-
cious meal at one time, electrically
the waterless way, and for so
little you'll be amazed. Only on
ELECTRIC range can give you ALL
these advantages cleanliness,
speed, full automatic control, econ-
omy, coolness and healthfulness.
You'll be a better cook with a new,
1940 ELECTRIC range
-1 utnt vi*1
Leslie Wolverton of Helena, Mon-
tana. is with his mother and
father due to the severe illness of :
his father, M. T Wolverton. Mr
| Wolverton is in Houston at the
Memorial Hospital
here many years succumbed Mon j the funeral
day He ip survived by his wife, in Forest Park c,Bdburi*lJ
six sons, and five daughters. Inter-[direction of the p•#!
ment in the Danbury cemetery, j neral Home 13
Angleton Funeral Home conduct !
ing.
! They are
I Parker: Miss H
Clark Red Jr.. .
R.-d. Walter Scott Red and David IRVING BRA7(iRl.A C0B7Y
Ikjuglas Red. all of Houston and’ «»*/■■ »**>*
1 . (.....I tj - j Al.
Friends honoted Mrs. Frank,
Str.znek and Beit Hensley Monday I
night with a birthday party at the I
Blue Bird Inn Row-nberg Play i
Boys furnished the music for danc- !
The regular monthly meeting of !
the Manvel P.-T. A will be Tues- I
day March 5. at the school house n*on*
I Mrs. Tom Corrigan daughter and
daughter-in-law of Texas City
Aagl-on this I
services for Y>r S. C. j
Red. pioneer in Houston's medical
lory and one of the city’s lead-
figures during hi* 53 years’
residence, were held Monday ini
the First Presbyterian Church in
Houston. Dr. Red. who was 78,
lied suddenly Sunday at his home.
A founder of the Harns County
Medical Society. Dr. Red served
s president and as president of
Texas State Medical Society.
KITUiTRn’l ION RATF>* 'In Advance:
Brazona County, by mail, one year
All other countie* and Mates, by mall, one year
• Month* in Brazoria County
t Months out of county
Wuh a circulation covering A
adjoining •ountie* Si
required by the p
Thirty Year* Ago
The new laundry building is be-1
ing rapidly pushed to < oinph tion. I
The new machine! y ha* been order- •
ed and will probably be here by !
Mis Mike Cameia anti son. Joe,
Mis* "I Miami. Flotida. are visiting thi*
ladie "”'k *'»h Mr and Mrs. Sam Green
Philip H. Brown, oil man. has
Elma been seen often lately around the
writ in colonial at Prescott Survey on Chocolate
hair The Bayou
diverted back
when knee pant’, laces
up part of the
and polonaise
i part of fair
Mrs. Amelia Arnold of Ganado is
visiting in the home of Mr and
Mrs E. W. Pryor this week.
Mr. and Mr*. J. B Martin -ind. -
family molor.4 to Planter,' Hk- re- ('"nary. w.. ftnl
renlly and \lsited in lh. hom, ot) Houaton to ow n an
Mrs Martin s father Fred Wolf. I »"«1 brought ambulance UTtlce to.
'.the city He was also the founder
! of the first nurses' training school
| in that city.
Dr Red was the father of eight
i children, all of whom survive him.
Kcthenne Red
Lei Red. Samuel
Geot, Plunkett
Mr. Haigh and fanrly have mov-j----
ed to Angleton. He and his daugh-'
ter. Helen, work for the Brazoria tl
Mr. and Mrs AIL rt Croix visit-1 County Equipment Co.
ed in Pearland Sunday in the
home of Mrs. Maude Triplett
„J| Rena Booth. Ora
mmons, by the Philathia Vaughan and L*st*-r Spiogue visit-
’• First Baptist Church '-d Lestci Sprogue in Houston Sun-
i -rn< a < ia*s. The ■ nter- ’*«>'■ Mr Sprogue'* condition is im-
bting a colonial t t-cep- proving.
distinguished guests
t<- and Martha Washington
Wash Harris and Mi:
were pre
with powdered
s' mind* wer
CUN
□ets
A few 4 the Alvinite* miupying
the hard hoard seats in the court
house at Angleton this week were ’
Burrell H ilnams F Camp.
Parker. A L. Ireland. W
Isaacs. Geo Haggard and W
Ponder.
YOUR
SUCCESS
Socially and in * bu*uu*i *M |
jour SUteeM depend* *
deal on accurst*- vi4o* Jfaj'
! H H. Ford and Mr Wek h of j
i Houston spent Sunday visiting
| Henry Clement and enjoyed an
• oyster dinner
Mrs Hiller* of Dickinson is visit-
J. W Hil-
suprrintrn
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