The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 56, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 11, 2021 Page: 4 of 46
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LETTER TO THE EDITOR
CHUCK
TODAY IN HISTORY
day’s Main Street and Goose Creek expedition to Dr. Whiting's place.
ment has a higher location with a plagued by mosquitoes, fleas, and
again in spite of the unfavorable
SEE CHANDLER • PAGE 9
Irving Berlin
READER ADVISORY BOARD
JoAn Martin is a retired teacher
with five published novels. Reach
Accounting
Circulation
little settlement is beautiful. The
next morning we continued on our
This area is all beautiful forests and
fruitful prairie. Mrs. Nash’s settle-
all the way north to today’s Cedar
Bayou Lynchburg Road. Goose
Creek Bay is Tabb’s Bay, Mrs. (Han-
from the knothole. Keith’s ph-ph-
b-b was a sound Ralph had been
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impressions of Goose Creek. (Nich-
olas) Clopper’s Point is today called
Morgan’s Point and Dr. Harvey
Whiting owned the land between to-
JOAN
MARTIN
in it in one of them makes a pass at
my legs. And oysters that cut up my
feet. Mr. Parr my former prisoner
at Fort Travis welcomes me very
hospita-bly but in his house I am
ROBERT
MEIER
After his service as Captain of En-
gineers in the Texas Army, Edward
Harcourt contracted yellow fever
and died at the residence of David
Kokernot on San Jacinto Bay in to-
day’s Wooster in September 1836.
While mapping Galveston Bay from
February 8 to July 17,1836 he main-
tained a journal which was thought
to have been destroyed in 1945. But
over a century after it was written,
Dr Louis E. Brister, Professor of
German at Southwest Texas State
University, discovered the journal in
winds, but we were forced to spend Butler, and the Watchmen otherwise
the night at Clopper’s place. We nothing new here. I did go visit the
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Liz Cheney’s courage cheered
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system.
National Nurses Day fell on May 6 and
is the first day of National Nurses Week,
which concludes on Florence Nightin-
gale’s birthday May 12.
Nurses Week is an opportunity to pay
tribute to the selfless work and dedication
of our heroic nurses.
Nursing has existed in some form since
the dawn of humanity. During the 1800’s
Florence Nightingale founded a training
school for nurses that led the way to im-
prove sanitation and nursing practices.
Map drawn by Edward Harcourt. He shows where Harvey Whiting lived as well as Whiting’s daughter, Jane Brooks.
Note that he labeled Hog Island as "Blodgood Island”. The William Blood-good land grant is where 1-10 crosses Hwy 146
but Bloodgood actually lived in today’s Wooster.
Col. Harcourt, captain of engineers ...
ants. The point of Bolivar is low
here with no sign of grass and it’s
very narrow.
July 13. Arrival in Galveston
where three new prizes were lying
at anchor. Among them to Fanny,
She showed that books for boys
didn’t have to be junior versions of
men’s adventures.
More recently, gross books appeal
to boys such as the Captain Under-
pants series.
I dare any boy to decline such a
book and he will learn to read in
spite of himself.
What’s trending
@baytownsun. com
Here are the top-10 most-read articles on baytownsun.
com for the week of April 26-May 2 as detennined by the
number of page views:
1. Police beat for Tuesday
2. Two challengers to join GCCISD board; Lee regents
unchanged (Saturday online)
3. Unwanted repair work dispute leads to assault of
county commissioner (Tuesday)
4. Teacher comment prompts probe (Saturday)
5. Police beat (Thursday)
6. Goose Creek hires three head coaches (Saturday)
7. Car show benefits youth football program (Tuesday)
8. Grand champion steer nets $21K at youth fair (Sat-
urday)
9. Highway flooding lawsuit adding clients (Thursday)
10. BPD seeking murder suspect (Thursday).
The most-read articles for the year so far are, “City: Wa-
ter service back online today update,” (Feb. 18); “Man in
custody in shooting death, police say,” (Jan. 14); “Goose
Creek cancels school through Thursday; Baytown, High-
lands under boil water orders,” (Feb. 16). - Mark Fleming
that in 1860 he filed a land claim in
the Liberty District.
“July 9. Yesterday evening I came
Through her teachings and contributions to nursing she
proved that it was more than a profession, but a noble way
to care for patients most basic needs.
The days of Florence Nightingale have passed but her
legacy lives on daily in today’s nurses. Nurses today
are highly educated medical professionals who work as
a team with healthcare professionals to provide compas-
sionate health care to anyone in need.
Nurses play a significant role in the medical team. They
are the eyes and ears for physicians and advanced practice
clinicians, serving as the patient’s biggest advocate along-
side the rest of the health care team. Nursing education
begins during the initial encounter between patients and
fam-ilies and continues until patients and families return
home.
Nurses play a significant role in monitoring patient
care. Whether in a hospital or clinic setting, nurses are
the people that monitor and chart patients’ vitals and keep
track of health issues and medications that the patient is
currently experiencing.
Many times, we hear nurses say that being a nurse is
not a job but rather a calling that has led them to their
profession.
I invite you to join me in saying a special thank you
to our hardworking and compassionate nurses who, to-
gether, are helping to make our communities safer and
healthier for all of us.
4 Uhe Waptown Sun
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Tuesday
May 11, 2021
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On this date:
In 1816, the American Bible Society was founded in
New York.
In 1858, Minnesota became the 32nd state of the Union.
In 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sci-
ences was founded during a banquet at the Biltmore Hotel
in Los Angeles.
In 1935, the Rural Electrification Administration was
created as one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New
Deal programs.
In 1946, the first CARE packages, sent by a consortium
of American charities to provide relief to the hungry of
postwar Europe, arrived at Le Havre, France.
In 1953, a tornado devastated Waco, Texas, claiming
114 lives.
In 1973, the espionage trial of Daniel Ellsberg and An-
thony Russo in the “Pentagon Papers” case came to an
end as Judge William M. Byrne dismissed all charges,
citing government misconduct.
In 1981, legendary reggae artist Bob Marley died in a
Miami hospital at age 36.
Thought for Today: “Life is 10 percent what you make
to sleep that night on a featherbed, it Mile Grove. Pushing through the
was unbearable. The setting of this muck again; there are a lot of sharks
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We’ve lost Leon Hale and Larry
McMurtry, but I was saddened more
by the passing at age 104 of Beverly
Cleary. Who?
Maybe most adults don’t remem-
ber how important she and Judy
Bloom were to those of us teach-
ing reading to elementary students.
Young boys considered reading way
down the list of fun activities at
school or at home.
My homework assignment was
simple: READ! To most of them
that homework translated into “No
homework, Mom!”
I am re-cording here for my refer- wanted to get underway, but found
ence, are as follows: We visited that our boat was stuck fast be-cause
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growing up, Matchbook cars and cycle to secure an asprin for Keith her at Josbook@mindspring.com or
Hot Wheels beckoned them, when he falls ill. Cleary’s magic is www.josbooks.com.
CHANDLER we had to drag the forced us to land that afternoon af-
--------------boat through the ter all, about eight miles to Edwards
shallow spots that Point. We had to go home on foot,
were grown up in sea grass. We Following the shore, we scared up
were overtaken by nightfall, but dis- several deer, turkeys and partridges,
nah) Nash owned the land south of beautiful view of the bay. We ar-
Business Hwy 146 on the east side rived at Spillman’s place where we
of Goose Creek, Edward’s Point is were likewise warmly welcomed
San Leon, and I don’t have a clue and supplied with provisions. The
who R. A. McGaghren was, except evening of July 7, we got underway
life superheroes
With the global COVID-19 pandemic, we have all seen
— some of us up close and personal — just how vital
nurses are on the front lines of the nation’s health care
Clopper at Clop- of the low tide. We labored for two
per’s Point. Confu- hours to get it afloat again, and our
sion in the channel, feet got all cut up by the oyster and
and we sailed into mussel shells. So, we spent the night
Goose Creek Bay, in the boat, and the next morning
which was interest- we were sur-prised to find it afloat
ing to see. The trip again, and cheerfully we got under-
became wearisome, way. Very soon the wind changed
however, because and, together with the high tide, it
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Beverly Cleary that her stories feel like real life and
wrote “The Mouse it works that the mouse and the boy
and the Motorcy- speak the same language.
cle” and by so do- Cleary knew what she was do-
ing she welcomed a ing. She was writing directly to the
generation of boys boy reader, showing that she knew
into reading. When exactly what his feelings were like.
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back from a short expedition: it was caught a goat with her kids. A strong Roder family at the custom house in
tiring but interesting. Unfavorable head-wind forced us to sail into Red the evening. I picked up my provi-
winds prevented me from going Bluff Bay where we found an aban- sions and sailed on.
to Galveston on the fifth [of July], doned house. I learned a new way July 15: Back to Edwards Point
Consequently, I hastily decided to of making a fire, and an interesting again. There I find Captain Alexan-
sail to Spillman’s Island for provi- style of cooking with pot shards. We der Henry of the schooner San Ja-
sions. The events of this trip, which caught a pig, etc. In the evening we cinto....
Third grade is a crucial year for waiting all his life to hear.
the process of learning to read. Most The boy and the mouse become
children are eight or nine years old. friends and the big quest comes
No longer fearful of the hazards of when Ralph has to ride the motor-
Hagen, Germany in the possession covered Goose Creek. We went up but I became extremely tired from
of a descendant and translated it into the creek some distance, and were pulling the boat behind us.”
English. wannly welcomed by Mr. [R.A.] July 12. Departure for Galveston
The following entry describes his McGaghren. Although I was obliged passing by Havana point to Seven
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