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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1957
Page
4
Multiple small ads list services and goods in Katy and Brookshire Texas. Mentions include Mansfield Tires Delco Batteries repairs Beard en Repair Shop tractors and combines, roofing and remodeling, dry cleaning, cattle vaccines, buying house and small acreage, rags, gift items for Father’s Day, secretarial chairs and office supplies. Public notices show phone numbers and addresses.
A mixed list of items for sale and rental notices from Katy and Sealy Texas includes a 1954 Olds 88 for sale with options, various furniture sets, tools, and appliances, 10 gallon milk cans, a 6pe motor, a Duncan Haynes mattress operation, a 1952 Maytag stove, and rental ads for a two bedroom house and a floor polisher. Also notes Perpetual care plots at Memorial Oaks Cemetery and calendar sales at The Times.
Five room brick homes on Fifth and Gresham Streets in Brookshire and near Katy. Listings include attached garages, vinyl blinds, attic fan, and pan ray heater. Lots sized 100 by 140 feet. Morton Road area 100 by 175 feet priced 545 to 745 dollars with owner financing. Katy properties include movable houses, multiple rooms, and lot options with varying prices and terms.
The notice lists renewal requests and names including N C Galloway Kilgore W D Blanton Katy Gas Plant Gilbert Jackson Houston Tennie Motheral Katy Mrs Lottie DeVol Katy C H Hilliard Kingsville LaVerne Sible Katy Mrs E J Black Katy H B Ballard Kat O L Fielder Paradis La Pattison FFA and asks readers to mail a $2 50 subscription payment to The Times.
Waller County reports watermelon disease with Genois fungus and Anthracnose causing brown leaf spots and soft melon flesh. Control dusts with copper dust or spray with nicotinalus zinc sulfate mixes. hand-apply, power sprayers work best. Also notes cotton pest threats bagworms thrips and recommends chemical controls and extended planting deadlines.
The KG's play Bellville at Katy this evening in a double header with two age groups 8 9 10 and 11 12. On June 20 they face Katy Kats and both teams aim to beat No 1 ball.
The Sam Houston Area Council will send over 400 Scouts to the Fourth National Boy Scout Jamboree at Valley Forge Pennsylvania July 1 18 with more than 50 000 participants. Brookshire figures include Lee Bollinger Elmo Brock Jr Danny Griffin and Jimmie Griffin from Troop 370 plus assistant Scoutmaster J C Johnson. Doyle Johnson will join Katy Scout Troop for a week at Camp Strake.
Lola Self reports Misses Lola and Marion Avis visiting Houston. Kenneth and Mrs Bartlett plan to move to a new home. Carl Bentley family hosted relatives in Houston. Tot Dozier attended the Dallas Post Office Convention. Miss Greer from California visited after fifty years. Mrs Hunter Tis spent the week in Waco with her mother.
Mrs George Longenbaugh visited Mrs Vernon and Mrs Ford McCauley in Hon.
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