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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1949
Page
5
Sherman Weaver owner of Bend Steak House in Katy advertises cattle and all spraying work by R A Buster Roberts phone 6211 Katy Texas. Experienced and dependable.
Local ad announces Extravagan za Pangburns candy 90c at City Drug Store Brookshire Texas for a limited time and offers DuBarry Derma-Sect cream at half price. Classified seeks farms homes and businesses within 100 miles. Milton Ivey Katy phone 11 notes “50 years this area.”
The State of Texas issues a citation to Willie Mac Seay to appear and answer the plaintiff W G Seay in district court, Hempstead, Waller County. The petition filed July 7, 1949 seeks dissolution of the marriage, with grounds including cruelty and separate residence for over a year. The defendant must respond by August 22, 1949.
A late night visit to Steve Beasley's Sewing Machine Store in Sealy Texas sparks a grand fall opening. The store touts glossy Singer Sewing Machines and an electric knee control with a price of 100 dollars, offering a choice of button holer or steel. Auto check-up service invites car owners to preempt trouble.
Frank Wyatt Weathers is sweet sixteen. Ernie Wilpitz and Olen Thompson homes host visits. For sale NORGE refrigerator 279.00 plus KM speed mixer. Goynes Hardware Katy carries pumps John Deere drill fertilizer attachments. NEW 1946 Chevrolet School bus 85 passenger Miller Motor Katy. Closeouts cash deals 5.98 electric fans 4.95 washers 144.50 etc. North Houston Exterminators pest control M. M. Peters owner Katy with two year termite guarantee.
Joe Pattison and Willie Ray Bartlett visited playland park Friday night and had a grand time. Delores Stasny is visiting Dot Greer in Kingsville. Miss Willie Pearl Taylor and Mrs A M Taylor were in Houston Thursday. Mr and Mrs John Wilson and family are sporting a new Ford sedan. Mr and Mrs Floyd Pahen and daughters have returned home after visiting Mrs Pahen's parents in Nebraska. Mr and Mrs A M Taylor and daughters were in Houston Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Douglas Whatley and daughter returned from a Corpus Christi vacation. They had a lovely time but were glad to be back home. Mrs T R Jones was in Houston Monday with her sister who underwent an operation. Mr and Mrs Johnny Weisl of Houston visited Mr and Mrs Charlie Trettin, Mr and Mrs Theo Ehlert, Mrs Annie Glueck and Willie Ebel Sunday. Gene Wilkinson visited his sister in Highlands last week.
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