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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 14, 1929
Page
1
A local column urges citizen action on roads mosquitoes and vote bonds for road projects. It criticizes the school board over pay disputes and laments local governance while noting an illegal election and a Texan fined under the anti mask law.
Field manager for the Kirby Production Company arrived Tuesday to arrange boarding for the crew to start building a derrick in Brazos on Dave Vaughn Jr. farm. Drilling to begin in a week or two as The Texas Company surveyors map lease lines and prepare development on their leases.
Hemstead society notes list T R Gribble visiting his parents in Harrold. Many locals and Houston guests, including Mrs T R Cooke and Mrs Agnes Cooper, travel to and from Houston, Austin, Cameron, Dallas, and Galveston while relatives and friends host weekend visits and extended stays across Navasota Altair Waller Brenham and New York bound tours.
News arrived Friday evening that Mrs. Mary Seidel died in Dallas while visiting her granddaughter Mrs. J. E. Herschel. Born December 23, 1855 in Austin County, she lived near Bellville and had a large local family. Funeral was Sunday at 4 PM in the M. E. Church with Rev. J. C. Atkinson officiating. interment in Pattison.
We thank friends for sympathy kindness and floral offerings after the death of our mother and grandmother Mrs Mary Siedel H Siedel and wife E Siedel and wife J E Herscher and wife
County Superintendent J. C. Smith and his daughter Reba visited our town Monday afternoon. Cotton Seed advertised by A. G. Harrison in Brookshire Texas, offering a few bushels of Acolla Cotton Seed at a reasonable price.
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