Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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rains as
ass Progress
Volume 1 Number 24
Aransas Pass, Texas, Friday, September 24, 1909
By Will H.Vernor
Developing the City of Aransas Pass
nearest
Something less than a year ago
Burton & Danforth purchased
some 8000 acres of land along on
the mainland at this place. They
realized that with the opening of
the pass between Mustang and St.
Joseph Islands making a passage
from the gulf to the most perfect
harbor, there would of necessity
spring up a shipping point of
mean importance at the nea
point on the mainland.
When the land )iad been pur-
chased, the next step that was
made was *o have it surveyed and
divided into tracts for the accom-
odation of their clients, which was
done, making some 6000 lots and
truck farms, which were sold on a
ready market to people all over
Texas, Oklahoma and other states:
Contrary to what has been said by
jealous and unreasonable rivals,
much of the property was sold to
local parties, and a large propor-
tion to people who had been
here in person, or by proxy, and
had looked the matter over.
The results of the sale, and how
well it was thought by the public,
is shown by the fact that about
50 per cent r|iore business was
offend to the sales company than
they could supply, and as a result
was returned to those who desired
to purchase.
Practically four months have
passed since the sale was closed
and the last lot was sold, and the
time draws near when it shall be
divided and delivered to those
who made the purchase. The
Progress does not know at exactly
what time the opening will take
place, but expects it will be some-
time between the first of Novem-
ber and the beginning of the new
year. Mr. A. D. Powers, who is
general sales agent for the com-
pany and who will have charge of
the delivery of the property to the
purchasers, is now spending a time
in Oregon, where he is delivering
some property on a like sale, and
he is expected to be at home
about the first of October. Before
leaving, Mr. Powers stated to the
Progress that when he returned,
announcement would be made of
the opening date, the office and
working forces of the company
would be put right to work mak-
ing all preparations for the coming
event, which would occur at the
earliest possible date.
It is expected that several thous-'
and people will be present at the
opening. The event will be ad-
vertised to a large extent through
the communities where the con-
tracts were sold, and by the num-
ber of people who have expressed
their intention to be present when
Brick Factory Organized.
The Progress is informed by
Prof. Stukes that the Aransas Pa ss
Cement, Brick, and Shingle Com-
pany has been organized, and tha t
a charter for the new company
will be asked from the state with-
in the next few days. Practically
all the stock of the new concern
was subscribed by local parties as
soon as it was placed on the mar-
For the Benefit of Methodist Church
Next Thursday evening at 8:30
o’clock, the people of Aransas
Pass will have an opportunity to
learn that though this town is
comparatively small, there is no
lack of musical talent among its
inhabitants. For the past two
weeks rehearsals have been in pro-
! gress for the musical to be given
ket, and all that now remains is to , on that date for the benefit of the
bring in the machinery, establish
the plant and go to making brick
and other products for the local
and foreign trade.
The capacity of the brick plan t
will not be small, by any means,
it is starting off with a creating
power of some 10,000 brick, 1000
pressed building blocks, and 8
squares of concrete shingles daily,
which product will aid materially
in the building of Aransas Pass.
The concrete shingles to be
manufactured by the new concern
are something practically new on
the market, but are said by promi-
neht builders to be the coming
material for building purposes as
it is practically fireproof, sheds
water better than the wooden
shingle, and at the same time is
Pass might well expect the largest
crowd of 'people she has ever
seen, f Many of them on arriving
will have come to make their
homes, and the Progress, in pre-
dicting that the town would have
five thousand people by the first
of the year, will leave to its readers
and the coming events to see just
how near its prediction will be to
coming accurate.
The Ladies Invited.
Mrs. T. F. Ford announces that
she will have an “at home day
for the benefit of the Aransas Pass
ladies, at the Bay View hotel on
next Tuesda^, September 2>8th.
During the afternoon the ladies of
the town are invited to meet with
Mrs. Ford in the parlors of the
hotel, where they may have a view
of the city from the balconies of
the hostelry, and mAy become bet-
There is much work the ladies
could do along this line, which
will be done by no other agency.
T’ne city has been endowed with
two nice parks which should be
improved and beautified, ther
cemetery association might re-
ceive benefit from such an organ-
ization, and in keeping the town
cleanly and beautified, there is no
agent like the womens’ civic im-;
provement clubs.
the big deal comes off, Aransa s j less expensive to use in the con-
struction of modern building.
A square represents approxi-
mately the same surface as would
be represented by one thousand
of the wooden shingles, f and the
capacity of the new plant being
eight of these squares, besides its
product of brick and building-
blocks, should make the project a
paying one to the stockholders, to
say nothing of its inestimable val-
ue to the town from a building
standpoint.
Prof. Stukes has thoroughly
tested the sand and other material
which will be used in the plant,
and declares that the product will
be superior to any manufactured
in the state, from the fine washed
sand which appears on the near-
by islands it being possible to pro-
duce a very high grade or orna-
mental mantel brick, and other
fancy products.
It is expected that the
The program follows:
1. William Tell (Paraphrase)
__________Rossini.
Mrs. D. A. Peoples, Miss lone
Patterson.
2. Gipsy John_-Frederick Clay.
Thomas Powers.
3. Solo_____________Selected
Miss trooke.
4. -Down the Vale_-Frank Moir.
Miss lone Patterson.
5. The Death of the jabber-
wock__________________________
Thomas Powers.
Part II.
Grand Fantasia----Epstein.
Mrs. Q. A. Peoples, Mrs. A. B.
Phillips. '
2. Goodnight Beloved, Good-
night-______-____-_____-- Oliver.
Thomas Powers.
3. Song of the isrooke________
not only oh account of the worthy j ---------------------Golabeck
cause in which this is given, but j Mrs. D. A. Peoples,
because they are surer to" derive 4. O, that we two weie a IVIay-
from it a great deal of pleasure, ing--------------------— -- Smith.
Remember the date, Thursday ( Miss lone Patterson, Thomas Pow-
evening September 30th at 8:30 in j ers.
the dining room of the Bay View 5. i ne Professor at home . —
hotel. Admission 50c. i-------- -------------------.- Bliss.
M. E. Church, South. The con-
gregation of this church fully ap-
preciates their need of a new or-
gan, so under the direction of Mrs.
D. A. Peoples they have chosen
this means of raising the necessary
funds. Mrs. Peoples is perfectly
capable of performing this im-
portant mission, being a remark-
able musician herself and having
taughc for many years in some of
the best schools of the South-
west,
All are strongly urged to attend,
Advertised.
Let the ladies therefore remem-
ter acquainted with each other j ber> ^ *he suggestion is deemed a brick concern will be in operation
worthy one, let them all join to- within the next thirty days, and
through such meetings. On ac-
count of the community being
new, most of the ladies being
strangers to each other, and some
of them not having such appoint-
ed homes as has been their cus-
tom, many of the ladies who are
new comers to the little city have
not become as well acquainted
with each other as might have
been under different conditions,
and it is for the purpose of over-
coming these obstacles to a cer-
tain extent, that Mrs. Ford invites
gether, not as strangers, but as a
community of workers like the
men, and all pull Together for a
more beautiful and cleanly city.
Mrs. Ford will be assisted in re-
ceiving the visitors Thursday, by
Mesdames, Woodcock, Vernor,
McDaniel and Emery.
the ladies to come and meet with
her and become become better h|s denomination,
acquainted with each other. bis worh> ancl -hat
In this connection the Progress . .
^ lzed at this place, which starts off
Galled A Minister.
Rev. Dr. W. M. Doggett, Presby-
terian evangelist for the Presby-
tery of West Texas, is spending a
time in the city in the cause of
As a result of
of Rev. H. M.
Perkins, a church has been orgari-
would offer a suggestion . .
,1. .r i 1^1 i i with ZZ members, and under very
ladies it such might be pardoned. a .
The men have become cemented
together as a body simply from
the fact that there has been work
for them in building a town. Let
the ladies join in the movement,
if it should suit them, and organ-
ize among themselves a civic im-
provement club, which would
certainly give them someteing to
do, and would at the same time
give them every opportunity to be
flattering conditions. J. R. Burt
was elected as ruling elder of the
church, and after a canvas of the
members, states that a call has
been issued to Rev. H. M. Perkins
as minister at this place. Bro,
Perkins has the matter under ad-
visement, and it is hoped by the
good people here, will accept the
call. In such event, he will at
once move his family to this
pUce, and actively engage in
acquainted with each other, building, up his charge.
while the location for the plant
has not been definitely announced,
it is supposed that the locatton
will be somewhere between the
Sap depot and the Bay Front.
The sand for the manufactory
will be. brought in by bar-ges from
St Joseph and other islands, while
preliminary arrangements are now
being negotiated with the Sap for
a spur from its main track to carry
away the finished product. The
plant will also make arrangements
by boat for its products ,feo be
shipped to points up and down
the bays and gulf coast.
Widely
Possibly? not a town in the en-
tire southwest, if in the United
States, that is as well advertised as
Aransas Pass. From the rock-
bound coast * of Maine to the
golden gates of California it has
become known as the :oming
Baygide News Letter.
Saturday all Bayside turned out
to the city park and held a fish and
general jollification. The dinner
was served under a large company
and everyone indulged in a
“spuare.’ After dinner JndgeBrown
gsve a short address and then the
deep watercity of the guif.cowfc crowd adi„umed *° Sfe* 8””1
where ‘ Montana Pete rode a
and the advertising she has been
receiving has not stopped by ans''
im-
Mr. Hawkins states that
mediately after the Burton & Dan-
forth opening, stock in the chan-
nel and dock company will he put
on the market, and in the sale of
this, the place will no doubt re-
ceive a great addition to the ad-
vertising she has already had.
For the present, the dredge boat
keeps steadily at work on Harbor
Island, has already made some-
thing near a mile of the distance
between 'Tarpon and this place,
and they are making seme good
time on the work. It is expected
that the additional dredge will be
in to help out the No., 7 within the
next few weeks, and then it will
be only a short time until the dis-
tance between this place and Tar-
pon is cut down by more than,
half, it then becoming possible to
go right straight through the
Island. ' •
Those in authority state that
work will never stop en the
dredging until the channel has
been completed to a depth of 25
feet, and the width increased in Attention is called to the ad of
proportion. When this work is the M. Moore dry goods com_
finally accomplished, there is little pany) whlch appears ^ this issue.
doubt that Aransas , ass *nfl , Parties; who have be^L to'1 Rocfe-
reahze her fondest dreams by port £r0m thisplaee to attend the
seeing the large steamers coming sale state that many bargains are
right into receive and discharge j ofi:eredt and the crowds’are corn-
cargoes. ^ . -ng jnto tbe store daily tp share m
the good things. The judicious
A. W. Brown is at heme from i use of printers ink will always
bucking mule bare back. There
followed foot races, wrestling,
matches, swimming and diving,and
the day was topped off with a big
dance at the School house in the
evening.
The “Wave” is again in service
and looks like neW.
Miss Bentley returned to her old
home in St. Louis Friday but ex-
pects to return soon with her father
and they will make their permi-
nent home here.
Mr. Sornson and party of Hous-
ton were over in the Sornson
launch Sunday looking over the
country.
Good rams on the 13th and
16th.
Messrs. Heard, Swift and Car-
penter were visitors from Woods-
boro Sunday.
1 he Summer boys and Mr. Grey
were down from Refugio to attend
the fish fry and dance Saturday.
Bert Hombery and Mr. Rogers of
Refugio have been camped at St
Marys for several days fishing.
Patience is a virtiire too* little
cultivated. It is a wounderlui vir-
tue, more to be desired than tile or
fame or power. Patience with tittle
things of life, the fretful pin pricks
and brair, jaga of every dad life,
that only sting for a momepts.
How senseless we become when
we fret and fuss and fume over Kansas City and other northern bring the buyers.
trivial affairs, that have no bearing points, where he has been looking j ---—"
upon health, happiness, principle after business matters for several Mrs. J. T. Farris arid daughter
or eternity. Let’s quit it, and try weeks past. He looks to be in have arrived from Sandia to join
to be njore sensible and manly.— good health, and has evidently ■ tne professor, who is principal
Cleburne Enterprise. been faring well. He Aransas'"Pass public school
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Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1909, newspaper, September 24, 1909; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974139/m1/1/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.