The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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County Directory.
THE SUN
NEWS
S
. Publisher
CHAS B. BAILEY
CORri^G
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY.
Next week we will have in a
a Good Line
SPRING GOODS
The Chui cites.
T. W. CARLTON
The Cuniiiiiiigs Bunk
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J2.60 a yard.
ROBERT INGRAM, PreMdeut
ERNESI STEELE, Cashier
Citizens State B&nk
League City, Texas
DIRECTORS
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G. W. Butler,
J. M. Alford,
Robert Ingram.
WE INVITE Correspondence from those in Need of Banking Facilities.
G. W. SHEFFIELD J)
W. I DAVIS
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Large Enough.
aor Is SO per cent.
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W. L. HALEY
Tin and Sheet Iron Worker
Bought at Rock Bottom Prices
Don’t Fail to See Them
Sealy Hutchings,
E. R. Girardeau,
Shade trees, shrubbery and lawns
are taking on their garments of green,
and song birds are trying to split
their throats with pretty music. The
strawberry season will be with us it/
a few days, and every one in the .^1-
vin country is perfectly happy.
From the number of candidates now
in the field for county offices, can any
one tell v> hat the harvest will be?
Ample Capital
Able Management
We know the wants of the Coast
Country People, and want their
business.
The Br>an Eagle says it you happen-
see any leading citizen in a re-
cumbent posture in some sequestered
spot, don t disturb him. He is hold-
ing his ear to the ground with a view
of running for office.
Frangipani's Valuable D scovery.
Count Mauritius Frangipani was the
discoverer of the process of combining
with odoriferous substances and there-
by presented us with a hundred aroma-
tic flavors, toilet waters Mid cosmetics
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assistant,
business.
Hardware, Furniture.
Agricultural Implements,
Stoves, Shelf Hardware, Tinware, Crockery-
ware, etc-
UNDERTAKERS’ SUPPLIES, Etc.
Sha't All Right.
Fldo— Does your mistress keep any
juts?
Mignon—Yes, a hue baa 4 and a babp.
JUSTICES OF PEACE.
Jesse Hobbs, Alvin.—Court second
Saturdays in each month.
ENVIED STORY TtLI.ER’B GIFT.
SEE US
BEFORK YOU BUY YOUR
Berry Crates, Fertilizers, Wagons, Buggies or Feed.
We have a good supply always oa hand.
Agent* SHAlU’LEN CREAM SEPARATOR
Prussian Stock Tonic—A Sure Cure for Distemper
Desert of Gobi.
The Desert of Gobi occupies a con-
siderable portion of centra] Mongolia,
but it is not a true desert, supporting
as it does nearly all kinds of animal
and vegetable life and forming no
small part of the pasturage of that
greatest grazing country of the old
world.
came tn and
The clerk sr.ld -
This county will not be represent-
ed nt the bot tamale convention
which meets in Waco to-morrow.
.’reaching
•.; Junior I
W p. in
rch.
Valuable Slate Deposits.
The moat valuable slate deposits In
the world are found in the central part
of the state. In the neighborhood of
the Pennsylvania quarries there are
houses whose walls are entirely of
slate. The blocks of which they are
made are smoothly sawed, and are
moat substantial.
Produce Bought and Sold.
WE MEET ALL COMPETITION ON PRICES.
We Are Here to Stay.
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Made Presence of Mind a Very Sc-
ondary Consideration.
C. K. Sober was showing a groii-
of Pennsylvania statesmen over bi
famous chestnut farm near Sb a.
kin.
“I have been told,” said an !n ■<; i
ance inspector, that on a good che.» i
pi t serve.!
shakes b)
ly and •
of th.;
Alvin siockhi•-•n have lost very few
raittb during the past winter, al-
though the wet weather for several
weeks was quite severe on them
Now ’hat the grass is coming, range
cattle will begin to fatten and in a
f$w week-* will be round and sleek.
Be sure to see if ’your name is en-
rolled with the precinct chairman of
the Taxp tyers' Union, if you wish to
vote in the primary Saturday. May 2.
Sunday school workers of al! de-
nominations are very enthusiastic
over the prospective State convention
to be held in Austin beginning Thurs-
day, March Wtfi. This convention
promises to be tire greatest ever hel i
in Texas, and will have the greatest
number of the leading workers of the
world to take part in the program.
Ever. Sunday school in Texas may
send as many delegates as they wish.
Cheap railroad rates, and reasonable
rates in the boarding houses and ho-
tels may be secured.
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Two Famous Russ an Writers.
A significant parallel may be drawn
between the work of two peasant
writers recently brought Into proml
cence—Maxim Gorky and Peter Ros
egger. Both are children of ignorant
parents, to whom education was a
self-accomplished task and literary
genius an Inherent qual ty rather
tn an a developed facu'ty. Gorky was
a child of the alums, Roeegger a sod
of the soil. Gorky rebels In pictures
of slum life and huxran viciousness
Roeegger's Inspiration leads him
along heights of Ideality and religious
ay stici am
OFFICERS.
E. 8. Atkinson, county judge
N. M. Gibson, sheriff
W T. Willims, county attorney.
J. I. Cochran, county clerk.
Frank LeRibus, tax assessor.
A. J. Strobel, tax collector
E. B. Cannon, county treasurer.
Francis Upchurch,district clerk.
J. Lt Chambers, county surveyor.
C.D.Jeswp, county superintendent
public instruction.
COM Ml SSI ONERS.
T. T. Shanks, precinct No 1.
S. ( . Patterson, precinct No. 2.
M. L. Drake, precinct No 3.
J. G. Smith, precinct No. 4.
Your bank book will show you have
it "na led down' in a secure place.
Keep adding to your first deposit, as
that’s the road to wealth.
Student Averages.
Taking into consideration all studies
available for the degree of bachelor
c. arts the average grade of the aver- 1
age student under ’.he average profes- '
am 'a Rb npr cent
------Keep a Full Line of------
Staple and Fancy Groceries 4
The hundreds of Mexicans from
San Antonio and other nearby towns
th it h i. gone to Wa?o and put up
chili i....» Ii<<t tamale stands, will no
doubt uo a land office business when
the anti-Bailey disgruntlers reach
that t ity to-morrow.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year ..... -----------------------•1-!®
Six Minth*.............—-----—
Threw Months......................................-.....
Always in Advance.
18COFAL Church
a m.—Rev N’.B. ;
ice on first Hnti-
thlrd Sunday*
ednesday night i
CHURCH.SOUTH
Preaching at 11 a.
School, 9:46 am.'
Society Girl's Dramatic Effort.
Mrs. Ivy Ashton Root, a niece of
the secretary of war, has written a
play around the Ilf* of Mosart. It will
have its premier in a few weeks. The
play, a poetic drama In five acis. deals
almost exclusively with the great com-
poser's life and its title will be aim
ply “Mozart.” A company to back the
production has been incorporated in
Albany, N Y The author's husband
la a New York lawyer.
Sneezing Evident of Strength.
Sneezing ha? been said by a. least
one great medical authority to be evi-
dence of a robust coaatitution. In
proof of thia he declared that people
in feeble health never do sneeze.
In the Alvin coast country it is not
necessary for any man to wait until
Opportunity hammers down his door
with a big club. There are opportu-
nities lying all around in this section
for all who will t ike IidUI afid only
half trj ___________________
SECURE YOUR MONEY by putting it
in a safe place. We can’t advise bet-
ter than to ask you to de[osit i with
The Paris Advocate -<ays a fool In
Fort Worth lost a bet on Texas weath-
er and as a penalty rolled a peanut a
bu -died yards with a toothpick.
Th-re’s one chance in a hundred in
betting on a jury or an election—but
none for the proponent on the weath-
er in these diggings.
In the Went.
Native-They say the train
been held up down the road.
Tourist—Indeed? Then there's apt
•c be considerable delay.
Native—Oh. 1 don’t know. They
•light to finish the job quick and let
iMir come ahead.
Or gin of Modern Law Terms.
A court of law Is a rerai»is;ence of
the time when justice sa'. In the open
court yard, and the "dock’* is from a
German word meaning a receptacle,
while the “bar” is a Welsh word,
meaning a branch of a tree used to
separate the lords of justice from
their vassals.
GTACS PROTESTANT KPI!
Services every Sunday at 111
Atcheson ha* communion servici
days a».d regular service on
Daring Lent, services every W<
METHOD.ST EPISCOPAL (
Rev A G Scruggs, Pastor --------.------
in and 7:30 p in . Sunday School. 9:46 a m . 1
Junior League. 3p.m ; Senior League, fl p m ; ;
“raver Meeting, Wednesdays, 7 30 p.m.
baptist CHURCH—RevD B Waite, pastor;
Sunday School, 9 45a. in . Preaching 11 a ni. {
and 7pm.: Sunbeam*, 2 80 p.m.; B Y. P. U ,
t>:30 p. m Praver Meeting, lhursdays,7 p-in. ,
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHUR' H - Rev.
W. I ( ates Pastor: Preaching every Sunday,
11*. m and 39p. m ; Junior l eague. 3 p m .
Epworth League. 6 30 p. in Serviees w held
in the Christian Chart;
Tborc is hardly a week now but
that we receive from ton to a dozen
requests for sample copies of The
Sun from parties in the northern
Rta:The Alvin coast country is
being well advertised and people are
becoming interested.
Hie Experience.
"Is it true that when people have
lived so long together they begta to
tLink alike?"
“I guess it is. I know I always make
a practice of thinking just as my wife
wants me to think ”
WHY THE GOODS WEIIt SO HIGH
Senator Foraker was talking aboi. j
Homemade Rosy Cheetu.
Gladys is an anaemic child, with
pale cheeks ard she is eight years old
Much to the annoyance of Gladys hw
playmates have made the absence of
color in ner cheeks the subject of con-
versation. even in her hearing. Evi
dently the young lady determined to
put a stop to criticism and appeared
the other day with cheeks glowing like
the rose uith a most beautiful and ar
tlstic pink. “Oh, Gladys, where did
you get the pink cheeks?” cr ed her
playmates in chorus. Casting down
her eyes the discreet damsel replied
‘Mamma told me not to tel'..”
Noble Heart the First Requisite.
Above all other things a woman
who would be charming must possess
a true and noble heart, full of love
and sympathy for her fellow beings,
and an intelligent nnnd, capible ol
seeing matters from mote than oat
standpoint. Any woman thus endowed
by nature un I^ninbly has within her
self the possibilities for ’.’..al woman
hood for from these cha-acterlstics
spring the many little virtues which
make a woman loved, admired and
needed by ’hose around bor.—Ex
ehane°
COURTS.
District court is in session second
Mondays in February and 1st Mon- |
day in September.
County court is in session second
Mondays in January, April. July J
October.
Commissioners’ court meets sec-
ond Mondays in February, May, i
August and November.
a politician whose erratic conduct had
•stranged him from his party.
“This man,” said the Senator, “wa»
showing a visitor over his new house
in Washington the other day.
“He exhibited the large drawing
loom. In white and gold; the spacious
dining-room, in mahogany; the vast
ebony hail, with its onyx pillars, and
then he led his visitor into the little
bit of a room off the bail—a mere
cubby hole, containing but a table and
two chairs.
“‘Not very large, eh?’ he said.
“Small and cozy. Isn’t it? Here I es
certain my political friends.'
“*Ahr* said the visitor, *tt will te
Usge dnough for that*"
Different Stories Told fcy the Mee
chant and His Mischievous Clerk.
An old woman once atked In a dry
?oods store to be shown :«>me silk.
1 young clerk showed her some, say-
ng: “We can do this for y<>u at |1.60
i yard.” The woman asl.ed for some*
:hing better, but the clerk replied ;
“hat they had nothing better. Where-
ipon the proprietor came forward and
>aid:
“You must excuse my
uadam; he is new to the
Here, madam, is a superior article.
If It were not for the
fact thst I bought it some time ago
we should have to charge you >3.75,
for, as vou are doubtless aware, ow-
ing to the recent epidemic aiceng the
silkworm*, the price of silk hrs in-
creased enormously of late." The cue
lomer ♦"Ok the silk. A few days late
the same old woman
asked for some tape,
glibly;
“Here is some that we, *“an let yon
have at ?R cents the Gosen yards, if
It wasn’t for the fact that we have
had it in stock some time we shedd
have to charge 25 cents for, as you
are doubtless aware, owing to the re
eent epidemic among the tape-
worms, the price of tape has gons
up enormously." it was then «Le hit
him with her umbrella.
GUMMINGS BANK.
( UNINCORPORATE D)
ALVIN, - - - - TEXAS.
S£Z>Mf/Cff£ SEDWKK
nut firm each tree yields $100 pro.'.
“That is in possible,” sak Mr. -
j ber, laughing. “That is qul.e ln’.;<i
I sible. It is such a whoppe- tha'
| reminds me of life in the west.
"A friend of mine sat one cold n
befor? the red-hot stove in a w?e“
saloon.
“At rhe bar a number of txll >*■
les were belr ; told. Every man .
an illufctratlor. to present of bls
bravery or aerosity or I.eth
Ism. One chap said: 'I was c.
cross.ng a long. high, onetra'i
road bridge on the ties when I
a train coming toward n:e. j ’
bridge was too narrow fo. me to d
to one side or the o'b* r cn 1 to ’•
into the boiling waters below
aartta death. In a fla.sh I gra:
situa'ion and started on a quR’
toward the locomotive. V.’i.'
| In a few feet of rhe r- - ■ ■ • ■*
I concentrated all my r. rvt
cle in one effort and h tpe ! st;
up Id tie air. The terrible lore
*nder me and I came down s-'i * •:
sound on the bridge,
death, but seriously
descent.’
“At the conclusion
groan went up from
and an old miner with a
said bitterly.
“ ‘What’s the use of pr<' u
mind when a man can lie like ii a
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Bailey, Charles B. The Alvin Sun. (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1908, newspaper, March 6, 1908; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1250645/m1/4/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.