CA1455

Museum of North Texas History, Wichita Falls newspaper collection (via cousin Clint Wood)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1455)


Newspaper clippings relating to Avis family

3/7/1909
J. D. Avis sold two hundred head of steers today.  The deal is said to have involved a consideration of $6,000.

12/10/1908
Piner Avis and sister, Miss Lillian, left this morning for Sherman where they go to attend a play given by the Kidd-Key students, in which their sister, Miss Katie Lou, will have a leading part

undated
Society of Wichita Falls is to have a mid-summer wedding, the announcement of the engagement of Miss Lillian Avis to Harry Baum being made yesterday.  The wedding date will be July 17.

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Miss Lillian Avis and Harry Baum, whose marriage has been announced to take place July 17, were honorees at a dinner given by Mr. And Mrs. Carter McGregor.  The diners included:  Miss Avis and Mr. Baum; Misses Simpson and Lillian McGregor; Messrs. Jake Avis and Bobbie Burns and the host and hostess.

undated
James D. Avis, old-time resident of this city, and prominent in Masonic circles here for many years, has been accorded an honor that comes in very few of the many who enter Masonry.  He has been appointed a knight Commander of the Court of Honor, the highest degree in Masonry with the exception of the thirty-third.

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When friends received news that Burch (Mrs. Piner) Avis was a great-grandmother they asked her how it felt to have attained this status.  "Great, of course," she said.  "Why do you think the "great" is in front of grandmother?"  The baby is Carolyn Ann Woodard, daughter of the Jim Woodards of Houston . . . The Rev. Bruce Weaver says he is pretty sure there will be ice cream in heaven (not pie in the sky) and it will be made by Presbyterians.  To be served with Methodist fried chicken no doubt.

7/3/1909
Tuesday evening Masters Cecil Crowell and Mannie Avis entertained a number of their friends at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Avis, 1011 Austin.  The lawn was beautifully decorated with Japanese Lanterns.

9/14/1915
A man is under arrest on charges of attempting to pass forged instruments.  It is alleged the man tried to pass the checks at the Avis Hardware Store after he bought some goods.  Piner Avis became suspicious of the would -be-customer and phoned the bank to learn the name on the checks did not have an account.  He then called the police.

10/21/21
James D. Avis, old-time resident of this city, has been accorded an honor that comes to very few Masons.  He has been appointed commander of the court of honor.  It is a step between the 32nd and 33rd degree in Masonry.


3/7/1942            [other sources indicate this is from Wichita Daily Times, 3/7/1942, p. 5]
PIONEER WICHITAN DIES IN CALIFORNIA
    Word has been received here of the death of Frank Avis, 76, pioneer Wichitan and an uncle of five Wichitans, at his home in El Centro, Calif., Feb. 22.
    Avis had resided in El Centro many years.  He was an uncle of Mesdames Lillian Baum and James Baker, Piner and Dave Avis, and W. L. Palmer, all of Wichita Falls.  Funeral service and burial was in El Centro.
    Other survivors include his wife and several sons and daughters, all of whom reside in California; two sisters, Mrs. Bell Hodges, Los Angeles, Calif., and Mrs. Mary Palmer, Hereford, Texas.  Avis' mother was the late Mrs. M. C. White, Wichita Falls.  He was a brother of the late Jim Avis also of Wichita Falls.

4/23/1917
Miss Ruby Avis' picture will adorn the beauty page of the 1917 Coyote as the most popular girl in Wichita Falls High School, she having received the most votes in the popularity contest just closed, conducted by the Coyote management.