The Alvin Sun (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, March 16, 1934 Page: 1 of 8
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THE ALVIN SUN
Trading c<
Alvin and Brazoria County's Oldest Newspaper"
Advertising Built cn Results
Authenticity
VOLUME Il-
in its -14th Year
ALVIN, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1931
!..y Morning
Established 1890
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Here S eem Good
2nd Performance
IN ANGLEION
CREEK MEETING
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and
locati.
Ram
ity Meet will be
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Rebekah Lodge Has
formulated
sent
j Thursday for
the
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From San Fr
Ware - Craft
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tn
a*en mvde to date.
PEOPLE DOWN TOWN
el
batance
of
pri-
g»&-■ ■'
I
the anas ,»n her
Ratn»«y -t»j>
Min Artin D.
Little Theatre Has COuNTY
BEGINS FRIDAY
Athenaeum Club To
Meet Tuesday P. M.
Club Presents List
of Books to Library
Track Meet Will Be Held in
W. Columbia Mar. 24
District C. E. Meet
To Be In Beaumont
Alvin Roy* Fntertain Wifi
i hiriy-M mute Minstrel
Hitchcock Dance To
Be Saturday Night
Jchn Osborne Is New
Alvin School Trustee:
Ike Daniel Honored
at Cleveland Dinner
Play To Be Presented in
High School Auditorium
> the
IT. *•’.
, Alta Loma Store Is
Looted Sunday Night
Cucumbers May Be Shipped
in Car Lots This Year
Alvin Eastern Star
Entertains Tuesday
Mini Him
body. ha:
Wa
“The
nw! W. : fr.-stod
After that three
?d J
Ros
Ap
. Latest Produc-
ts* Excitement
around
Alvin
Science Lecture To
Given In Houston
AlViN
enter ol the G«R Coast
Huh citv -f 4 er-jn tier
Braxoris, Galveston, Ft bend.
and Harris.
1
to encourage produc-
ding to the belief of
E.
Hums at the B. T. Higginbotham
a sh r* • 1 * ’p.
Tuesday night the Alvin Chap-
ter of the Easters Star will have
meeting
■eds Chief
ALVIN
‘’City of Homes \ Natural Gas,
Electricity, Pure Water, Sanitary
Se.vers, School! fif'd
Churches
and an
Drug 8
Pau! l»lh
way. have
American Legion
Have Celebration
«•«.- kvuprt: pie ii
home in Alvin
ILL !S
OFFERING FREE
RENTAL BUREAU
‘hl hour was held and
I \
crowd.
Mayor Asks Citizens
To Keep City Clean
A musical program will be pro- I
vtded for th* entertainment of the
guests and refreshments will be
served during a social hour to fol-,
low this.
The drainage project submit1 >-d
ly Council to th'.. C.W.A.
ii wa» approved by that
now been a.* nearly tom-
the work of the C.W.A. is being
• urtailed, and further work in the
city discontinued.
1 am sure that
will agree that a
follows:
reading;
‘‘Seed.-*.
Growth”;
“Flowering
American Legion Has
Patrick's Ball
LeNoir
Lottie
Germination
. John
will include spell-
iy ground ball,
ilia, typing, arithmetic, thre
The Freeport, Angleton, Brazo-
ria. and West Columbia lodges
will be gue-t- of the Alvin Eas-
tern Star at this entertainment
Mrs. Delight Groves will be initi-
ated into the local lodge at this
The sixth anniversary of Alvin
Port No. 129. American Legion,
will be held in the Legion Hall nt
7 o'clock, Tuesday evening, Mar
All members and Auxiliary
To ■ v,
ton Drilling Company
Beddoe No. 1. AU tfc
die H&Uil
Railroad
were as
Amoid,
Steve m,
and
i Richie.
Mrs. Jim
Roberts, "Plants that sheuld be
f planted in March’’.
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__________ __ _ Commercial Club Is
Initiation "Service Organized In Algoa
ILbuei.7 bloke into Roger ,
Grocery and General Merchandise,
Store in Alta l«oma Sunday nigh’,
taking cigars, cigarettes. arid to-1
bacco to toe value of about $C>5..
Entrance into the building was
the Angle
crowd attending the last Leg.on of Rosenberg, as their gu<-«t of
dance, will furnish the mu.de. honor at an entertainment begin-
Dancing begin:
until 12:30.
■ on of the
-t well, No. I
M nvel field.
f the beat pm
in, interest in
th,- field has
her ccmpanie*
this area.
Manvel oil
to be curbed
iy larger cot. -
loose and go
Mins Eiva Loir Ware
George David Craft, both of Al-
vin, were quietly married Saturday
gained by boring holes in the side afternoon at 4:80 by Rev.
wall until a hole big enough u>
hv crawled through could be torn home. After
influence Built on
and Bra:
survey.
music.
it 8:30 xnd lad* Ding at 7.80 in the Masonic Halt
Tin* <« Mrs Stubblefield’s annua1
———— , official visit to the Alvin lodge.
She will be accompanied also by
a number of the state grand offi-
has devised i fro
for the nn oinodati
dents in Alvin am
era who have hen
The piny to be given Tuesday both
night i; -aid to be colorful, mory Seho
attractive costume* being worn by held
the large cast of characters. ,n«L
Th- Fir.-t Church of Christ. Sri
er.ti-t, of Houston announce* «
free public lecture on Chris
Science by Peter V. Ross, C.S.B..
to i»u Lid «.t the City Aud'1”?'••rn
at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
March 18. Mr. Ross fa a number
of the Board of Lectureship of
the Mother Church of Boston.
Mr. Roa.s wiil also deliver a lec-
ture at Beaumont wl ich will b-
radiocast ever KFT’M from 7:20
to R p. m The public is cordiaLy
Houston Sunday afternoon.
Shell Gels Lease cn
County Prison Farm
model firemen’s pen-iot
onsidcration by the Tex-
Algo'n citizens have recently or-
ganized an Algoa Commercial
Club the purpose of which is to
boost the interests of its commun-
*1*'. A club slogan cites Algoa as
“the best factory site between
Houston and Galveston".
Officers of the club are: H. R.
the president; R. Brown, vice-
■ . .. ... I .... . XJ M V’ 11.. ....I. ......
nave been maile thr»‘
vice. Scott Benson,
i* chairman of the I
ie third
the w
30 Have Registered; Many
Placeme:.i* Made
Athei aeutn
the t
meeting Tn dny afternoon at 3
o’clock. Mr>. Paul Holloway will
b< ho«t<*> and leader of the pre-
gram.
Mrs. J. W Vogan will .-iwak on
"The Gifte-t Mother of Civiliza-
tion". “Lund of Romance and
History" will be the subject of u
L»ik uy Mix Jim Edw”"*« Mr*
J. E Rui-ge will di-'cn-. “Mus-o
iini’’. Mrs. J. J. Dodson will con-
clude the progmm with a book re-
view.
Chief King «uc<
Ictcalf of W est
Chief MetcaU wi” named
ite to a conference at Luf-
; C/AiLEND/\R ;
I of Weekly Events ;
Today, Mar. 16- ‘Forty-two’ par-
ty. .ponsored by ’Jetty Par-
ker Bible Class, in basement
of Methodist I'hurch this «v- ,
ening.
Local public school decla-
auditorium at 7 43 p. tn.
Royal Neighbors meet with
Mr . T. J. Goedh at 2 p. n».
Mossday, Mar 19 - - Meeting of
Junior Study Club in Citj
Hall at 7:00 p m . subject
“Th., Gorman
Ifctho&t Mnioaaxr Su
rlrK-’e r>,.>nfU|y «y-Jal 3{ A. J. 2
Rohr-rir.on home at ?:80 p. m
• Mer. 20 Athenaeum
Club rrret* st X p. m. witn
Mrs. Paul Holloway, subject :
“Itely"
Ike Daniel, new superintendoat
' of the locnl Gulf States- L'tilitier
offi
»y
with him.
For this . nice having ( .<■
rental property are asked to givu /
their full cooperation to the hou.<-Z(,
ing committer A complaint haw /.
been registered that many w.<•
have ma<' .muds through thli
bur.au have faile«l to notify tlvi
housing committee or leave word’
at the Red Cross Drug Store. They
•re asked to notify th* committor
as soon ax they have rented their
property in order that note may
be made of thi- on their card, thus
saving both those who desire to
rent and the housing committer
much trouble.
e fur
pring flower show at the
club meeting Saturday afternoon
A few plans fur the show w< ie
Ldiscttssed.
^kl’arts on the program
Mrs
Miss
Their <
; Mrs.
Shrubs?J
be held. The junior ward decla-
mation rente
High Sihooi auditorium at
Friday evening.
Th
part few months in and
I Angleton, returned to
r an extended stay.
The American I.egion is giving
a St I'atrirk’x Pal! in the Legion
»’ ii’ Saturday night. Fahy Cad
trey’s 9-pi< ce orchestra, which
Cuke" Prospects LOCAL FIREMEN GofC. luncheon NEW COMPANV
ATTEND GOOSE Wi" Be Tuesday o;L CREW
Meeting to be Held in Meth- 58 Til T Til 10 UlTElZ
z odist Church Basement I HlW A’Ltn
(yn
;hly luncheon.
from various commit-
heard al the luncheon
Tuesday and the president, George
E. Stanton, will bring up severd
matters of business.
Star vuisrkiasMK
In City Hell at 7 p. m.
Chamber of Commerce ktn
tfkeoM ill tasetiirtiC of Metho
«»st Church at 12 noon.
&* kgi.dature.
Chi.-f W E Baumgartner of
Texax City was elected vice-presi-
dent and J E. Means, president
of the Goose Creek volunteer fire
department, was elected secretary
treasurer.
Trustees elected are Theodore
Baxter of Alvin. Joe Capron of
, Rosenberg, Paul J. Herman of El
Campo, Chris Isensee of I-a Porte
and P. H. Garrett of Pasadena.
Gooie Creek Win*
the hose laving
for wella
in the Manvel area were inatte this
week. Turnbull and Irwin wiU
drill its Peter Maru'chin No. 1,
Producers Prospecting Corpora-
t, and Bur-
it* A. F.
hree of the
ton. Trxau,
Company
_______:__I
Morri* ThoiAptoa comLig fh' for the benefit of hi < friend*
DeWit’.' Store with a tuz ‘round bw the fired store Mr«.
:f grcccr..-. and Uburiug it> $»th Gilbert wzdkimr down th*
ft with ail arm full uf gi-owr-1 . _. .... . .
. . . . Teachers of the Hmmetfr
“2"Ln. S-h-ol -
" be given at Hetwk’’ Hall Satur-
day night. Proceeds of the cn- ?
fertaHsseftt «r?!! be fer the;
The Shell Petroleum Corpora-
tion today was awarded a five-
year oil and gas lease on 857.8
acres of the Ramsey state prison
farm in Brazoria County bv the
board for lease of Texas prison
lands.
Tr.o Shell bld, bighc.t of fl.*
submitted, offered a ca-h bonus
ef $20 an acre and an annual
rental of $2 an acre, together
with an oil bonus of 4105 an acre.
In - vent of oil production, the
lease would return the state $10, ,
C72 .XvliiJie of «* ruyull) of on*-.
Cighth at Oil Siii! gna pKiuuriion
- retained for the state
■ Ti.< tfcbd l.arv.l iD Lift
| of Oy-tcr Cr- ‘t In th
farm.
Th* board took undei t
atton on* bid of $1.21 an acre of.
, fvrvd for the lease ot 1,0.. ’<
ncres of the Darrington pri.en
farm, also in Btazoria Ceuiiiy.
New Crewe
The Burton Oil Company sent
two shifts of five men each from
East Texas to the Mnnvel field
this week end another shift of
five mon is expected to arrive to-
day, Friday, to complete the crew
The derrick has been erected on
their location and th* company
expects to begin drilling next
week.
The Texas Company al»o
in a new crew this week, thts
making four crew* of Texas Com-
pany men operating in the Mar
vel field.
The geophysical crew of the
Stanolind Oil Company whith
here labi
id High
Clergymen Ask Shell
Foi Road To Campon-.
Rev. Geo. W n&.
Rev. John Shea; ar.d R. F. Me-j
iinty went to Angleton Monday ^<:e
to 7tion
The Rebekah lodge held initia-
tion services and a social meeting
in the Oddfellow Hall Monday
night. Between thirty-five and
forty persons were in attendance,! *ly'
with twenty fi^c out of town! U
guests.
The West Columbia team initi )
ated the two candidates for t..,.
Alvin lo.lv. . Mi . Kuby H,.ux „f' : Mr-. K. H.mvon, «r-
AMn »nd Mr. SwalmU of liar-1 r, Ur> ■ "ni1 T C
|,ury : urer. The club directors are R.
. ... ... . Ryn.al, J. C. Cooper, R. Brown,
A fuvhl hour wa* held and re- _■* _ ’ , ,, ,,
: T. C. Scrutgs, and H. R. Boyuw
iinl plant, who was recent-
nf erred from Cleveland,
the honor guest Friday night
x- at a Cleveland Lhi.inbor of Cori-
merea dinner.
The dinner was a surprho af-
fai. for M. Dani. 1. He drove to
C ir ve! and, accent pan ied by 11 oy
Feekhan, presumably on business
following a telephone call whi?h
requested him to come. At the
dinner, which was attended by
150 eitiscrui of Cltvcland, his
the deputy grand matron of Di*- Chamber of Commerce friends
».m popularly by • t-.-l So. I. Mra. Eli.. Stubbtofiokt pro..rnt,.() hira with > gvnuino vol
—— —s ...... j;„_ .L i__w t___ .L-— - .e
skin gladstunc bag.
Mtmbi-r< of the
Club will bav» ‘'Italy" a:
subject of study ,»t il. t
rs. asking them
One Act she’’ •. c piece of din. road
1 be he'd leading from the highway to the;
in the High Schoo! auc’ torium n* Gulf Coast Cnion Camp Meeting
7:45 Friday. March 23, the vol grinds near Chocolate Bayou1
ley ball, baseball, and tennis, will No definite promise was given.
but reports are that the prospects
will be held in tl.e for th” road an* good.
It has been announced that the
date for the annual camp meet-,
County Track Mee* will be mg for this assn iation has been
| held in We t Columbia Saturday, poxtpoi.. i from June 11 and w li
The final contests of begin on July 9. IL
program
r. T. «.m~, .... eut «i the Alvin Bsiuv ....i..* mm
we make «... U» cluewl w,d fe.. h,hop. miMw »n ■ S'.eprw beauli Jinan, M.-Ii. In u>».. uri
mart friendly ehy in the eoa.i box. ...ui talkie, wttk J. W. F„JfM Im.. r„.t tow, Htthta i„, btl 0, ^4, in
... ii.l. . i:.m1 »»::! —-* c.i- Bab Monarch 1.. v ...» her Air ZSd v.-nb* »&.■«■ » - - ......-
A *. I
4 ■’ and parting regretfully with a bill ing into kind of a spring J,mrrr Bryaa and Hak»y Mathew* he music and a iro”d time.’
,:t^t wm hi. Gia Ur*.. th.. whir* w rariad with ejacu *.wo new •umk<-ic-a charge &*« 37w fvt mwI
t. ■ Kunmon*. Mayo: . r,ka. Company oil field at Man Inlioo. cf Hey :>ey how’m I du sale*. Mnd 15<- for
The following book* have re-
cently been presented to the Ath-
enaeum
Study Club: "Henry thr Eighth”,
by F Hackett; “Anthony A<1
verse", by H Allen; "A House
Hout on the Styx”, by J K’
Banks; “Marie Antoinette”, by K.
Anthony "Moon and Sixpence
by W. S. M.tu*i
ter", by W. D.
Human Mind", b
ger; ‘'Story of !
el Munlhe.
owing”, bv M. O’Sullivan: “At
an Intrigue”, by A. Batson;
•‘South w,>id“. by N. D.
Masefield: "Red S*a Night-", by
"W . J. Makiii; “Sti'MHg<- Interlude",
by Eugene O’N< ill; and “The Man
March 24. The final contests of begin on July 9. Rev. Geo. W.
th. County Meet will be held in Springfield, program chairman
Angleton Saturday evening at -tates that already a few plan.<
7:45 in the High School auditor are being formulated for the
ium when the extemporaneous meeting,
speech and declamation contest.’
will be heard.
Christian Endeavor Unions in
Brazoria County are looking for-
ward to the fouith annual district
convention of thn Southeastern I
Library by the Junior District Christian Endeavor Union
which will br held in Beaumont
April 13. 14 and 16. A large dele-
gation from this county is expect
od to attend the convention
Carl Riesel, president of
Southeastern District C. E.
limm. Erie Ua chairman of the recreation d*pa»t-
Edmonds; "The nient o* the Galveston Brazoria
to. K A. M- r.nin C0Ulity Union, has had a lar^c
San Michele", by par( jn formulating the program
r thn convention.
The theme of the convention U
A'itne.-u>inr For Chri t" and the
' motto ir "I Will Re Christian ’
Christian Endeavor Unions %r
urged to *en<j in the names of
their delegates xnd register now
Lodging and breakfast will bu
provided and a series of interest-
ing programs and entertainment’
aia listed on the convention pro-
eve ry citizci
oud w ork was
performed, one that will be
lasting benefit to the city.
seeompli «b«’d by proper
pemsion of the work, seeing that
the ditches were properly run ar.d
. proper level* made, also that the
' ditches were neatly cut so ax not
to have a lot of unsightly ditche*
in front of the Dronortv.
Now since this has been done
1 am asking that each property
owner and all others help to keep
these ditches opt'”. Just a little
help from each one wiil accom-
plish this result. Do not allow
trash to accumulate in the ditcher.
Trash and other rubbish shoo'd
not be burned in the ditches as
thnt will clog them. Maj we all
••kc a pride •* .•» nr'nt '**
tie city, which can be had only
by all doing their part in keeping
the front of their property clean.
Wc mu.t reapect other people'*
property, whether vacant or occu-1
pied, in not piling rubbish on ____________T , _ .
W.. *e*d we hnv<> h«*d »h" M-s. Jim Star-a psttlr.. Up U-
cf mr.-t t th. . iJ rf"far3t:.'r,.i;irri Mr*. T.
owner* far which we thank tham, wond> rwL’.hy > • rh>
20.
members and their families ace
invited to be present. In case
there is a friend who any memb-r
wishes to invite please turn his or
her name in to the Adjutant prior
to Sunday. March 18. All persons
who receive an invitation will be
requested to present their invlta-
In the hose laving contc -1 tion at the hall door in order that
Goose Creek was winner. laying a check-up can be made on all
the hose in 15 seconds. Felly and w-ho attend.
Pasadena tied for second place H. J. Ehlers, Post No. 102
with 18 seconds. It was th* sec- American Legion, cordially invites
ond time the Goose Creek firemen all members and their families to
have won the cup. T he Pasadena attend the Ninth District Convex-
team has won it four times. Uor. at I-a Grange, Texas. Sunday,
After the busine-s meeting, March 18. A good time is prom- spent several months
Chief King of Goose Creek spoke bed at La Grange and the boy*; f*li «n(* h»fl been operating tne
to the firemen in the City Audi- up there admit that things are ‘ ' * *****
tornim and gave a fire fighting ready,
demonstration, telling how to deal
with oil fires. Goose Creek Boy
Scouts, under direction of Dan
McGary, gave first aid demonstra-
tion*.
tei
. v. and pi. a
■ Flower Show Date ti.r. ™ ti fn .-.i- in i :/ r
Set For April 28tii - . 7
»^n the Angleton High school buiflf Rt
Saturday. April W. wn- M •• "V 7:45 p m' II G‘
the date for the Alvin Garden iThe Countv Meet will be roW\ ,nf
Club’s -pring flow< r show at the tjiued <’xt Thursday. March 2*'‘ "
Angleton, with the One Act **h<
mem-, school trust*-*#, who ha* recently •
bers of the Alvin volunteer fire moved to Bryan, was accepted at
department, Theodore Baxter, the meeting of the Board of True
Johnnie Rollins, and Arthur t*-es for the Ah in I’ubl'c Schoo
Clark, entertained with a thirty Munday night. John Osborne w:
minute negro minstrel. A uanca appointed to fill Mr, Ely's urn
completed th. evening’s entertain- pirtd term. Various other jr
inent. ' ters of routine business were
— ------------- ) ter.de< to al the meeting.
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