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Newspaper
Brookshire Times
Location
Brookshire, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1925
Page
6
Jesus takes Peter James and John to a high mountain where he shines bright. Moses and Elijah appear and a cloud declares Jesus as the beloved Son. The disciples fear, Jesus calms them, and they are told to tell no one until after his resurrection.
Mr and Mrs T J Baker of Pattison travel through town Monday morning on their way to Houston. Rev M J Seaer and wife from Sealy visited Pattison Sunday evening where Seaer preached at the Lutheran Church. Monday marked Texas Independence Day with holiday closures at the school bank and post office. Alma Edmondson teaching in Nacogdoches visited home this week. Jimmie Day and wife were in Hempstead last Wednesday. Tom sells genuine Mebane Cotton Seed at 1.75 per bushel F O B Brookshire. sacks hold three bushels and 100 lb sacks. J W Avery is taking orders.
Sheriff summons Henry D. Foster unknown heirs of Foster Ellen Vial unknown heirs of Ellen Vial Mary E. Chase unknown heirs of Mary D. Chace to appear at the 80th Judicial District Court in Hempstead on the first Monday in April 1925 for a title and possession suit No. 3329 filed February 26 1925 by Venice Grace against the named defendants for Lots 3 4 5 6 7 in Block 23 in the town of Waller Texas with publication in the county newspaper for four weeks prior to return day.
The St George Hotel in Dallas offers 170 rooms and 60 baths in a central business district location. Rates start at $1.50 per day with a large lobby and spacious parlors for resting. Proprietor CHAS. HODGES promotes homelike amenities for travelers.
W D Mills operates as notary public at Farmers State Bank and promotes job work services. The compact notice emphasizes reliable document handling and local service.
In a College de France paper Professor Melllet argues Columbus did not discover America, saying the continent was known to others long before his voyage. He notes limited study of indigenous languages and finds coincidences between California and Polynesian vocabularies and cross‑regional similarities in tools and objects. He concludes navigators sailed vast oceans.
The advertisement touts a 112 page color seed book featuring garden and field seeds with 1925 prices and culture directions. Hastings Seeds offers six free seed packets to 1935 customers and invites readers to request the free seed book by mail. Max Wander and family were in Houston last Sunday.
Tom Hicks sustained a sprained ankle the day before while wrestling with Tom Gas ner and was taken to a physician in Wallis on Thursday for treatment.
Dance at Aurora School House on the seventh with good music. Tickets fifty cents. Everybody invited.
A Scottish farmhouse guest, told by an attendant to take a gun and shoot, meets a schoolboy while walking to a lane. The boy gleefully says the headmaster is coming over the hill, prompting a comic exchange about what to shoot.
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