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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1955
Page
7
Local ad notes free gift wrap with every purchase at City Drug Store in Brookshire. Phone number 26 listed for contact. Items and pricing not specified.
Local ads list a clerk job at McNeil Hardware Co in Katy dated 11 26 11 and various sale items. Listings include farm feeds from Huffinton Ranch program Sealy Farmers Co op with prices, animals for sale a black five year old midget Shetland pony and a horse with bridle, a deer gun with Remington 870 pump and scope, a Norge refrigerator and washer trade in offer, a 16 ft plywood flat bottom skiff with live well, and Xmas cards at Edmondson Drug with contact details for Harvey Johnson and others.
Classified notices seek quick buyers for 200 acres rice land priced at 170 dollars per acre and various other farms. Sealed bids invited by December 8 1955 for Brookshire townsite lot and Pattison school land sale with bid rejection rights. Independent Houston Post distributor seeks customers in Cypress Fairbanks Katy Brookshire Pattison area starting December 1955.
Katy High School opened basketball with a 59 40 loss to Needville in the A game and 92 14 in B. Gibbs led Katy with 12 points and Garcia 10 while Needville’s Acebo had 12. In Cypress Fairbanks Katy won 88 59 in A as Garcia 26 Gibbs 25 led the Tigers. Katy lost B 14 27 with Miller 8 points. The team to host Needville Tuesday then Brenham Thursday at Blinn tourney. The junior high open in Missouri City Tuesday. Rain helped pastures but more rain would aid dry fields.
Several homes and businesses for sale plus 96 acres in the Brazos bottom Simonton region. Properties include a brick building lot merchandise and fixtures, a grocery and meat market in Katy Brookshire, a five room house to move at 3000 dollars, and a four room home with lot and improvements at 2600 dollars. Contacts include Halden Longenbaugh Katy and Carrie Randle Brookshire General Delivery.
Radio ad notes a 6 30 am show on KTHT 790, weekdays. It promotes Christmas gift shopping and invites appointments at City Drug Store in Brookshire with the listed phone number.
Wanted listing mentions a used wind mill about 6 ft and a tower 15 to 20 ft with unfamiliar names Erwin and Pflueger and a Texas address 830 W Temple St. in Austin area dated 12/8 tc.
A woven cotton tweed suit by Alix of Mism adapts to many occasions. Cotton fabric keeps it comfortable in heated rooms, while the tweed texture suits cold weather. The National Cotton Council notes it as a versatile asset for year round wear.
Katy Band entered a marching contest in Texas City on December 3. The band earned second division, first time in nine years not in division one, with judges scoring I II plus and I. In twirling, Barbara Schoenemann Eileen Robichaux and Madelyn Freeman won firsts while Athene Bundick earned II plus. The twirling quartet received all plus. On December 10 at Rosenberg, fifteen Katy Band members will audition for the All District Band.
Pattison FFA Quiz Team won the Area Contest at Blinn College to advance to the State Contest in Huntsville. Paul Mueller led with 126 points, Douglas Harrison 121, Woodrow Mikeska 115, and the team total 862. Hempstead took second with 361 after a prior district loss due to a grading error.
Brooksihre Elementary will start Christmas vacation on Thursday December 22 at 3 p.m. Classes resume on Tuesday January 3.
In a light moment at school, a teacher asks if Jerry is chewing candy or gum. Jerry answers he is soaking a prune to eat at lunch, prompting amused reactions from classmates.
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