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is Company Will wide Presssure Cookers Again Free Local housewives will can more fo6d this year than ever before. This was the opinion expressed by Winnell Simmons, home servica 4 rector for the Houston Natural Gas Corporation, when she visited Freer port Thursday of last week, and spected the pressure cookers which the gas company will again make available to home makers on a free lean basis. Mrs. Simmons reports the cookers in good condition and ready for immediate use. She urges that those who wish to borrow them visit or telephone Hie gas company office in the near future and make their reservations well in advance.

De. tailed instruction sheets concerning the proper use of the cookers will be supplied upon request. Tested canning recipes are also available. Although gas company's free loan pressure cooker program is only in its second year of operation, 2,255 housewives have borrowed the portable-sized cookers to can in 11 their own horns more than 120,000 pints of vegetables, fruit, meat and poultry. Now that ration points have been i restored to many canned foods, and the government is making a plea to patriotic housewives for stimulated home canning to relieve the nation's food shortage, it is anticipated that Si home canning will reach a new peak.

Mrs. T. P. Gunnels of Santa Monica, is guest of her father and mother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.

T. P. Gunnels of 1030 West Second. Orizombo (Continued from Page Two) THE FREEPORf fAWS, Mothers of all ages are doing their hit these wartime years to hell' the Peace. A tribute is due this year above nil Mother's Day is your chance to let her know think she's fobs.

three guards to land him safely at his home on Orozimbo Plantation. A few years after Orlando's return home, the death of his father occurred; some years later his mother died, thereby leaving to Orlando, the eldest son, the duties of overseeing the plantation. In the family burial ground, under the drooping oaks, to the right of the home, may be seen the graves of these early Phelps and his beloved worked so faithfully to make this primitive spot in the Cradle of Texas, a hospitable and thriving plantation home. Here, too, may be seen the graves of the faithful slaves. A beautiful stone marker erected at the grave of Dr.

Phelps states that: "Doctor James Aeneas Phelps was Hospital Surgeon at the Battle of San Jacinto, born in Mississippi, came to Texas in 1822. Died in 1847." Orlando Phelps lived his entire life upon this plantation. His family consisted of six children, all of whom were born at Orozimbo. In the War Between the States he was commissioned Colonel in the Confederate Army to enlist recruits from Brazoria County. After the close of this war, he resumed his duties of the plantation much in accord with the management of his father.

His death occurred in the Mansion home. His daughter, Minnie Phe'ps Vasmer, had his remains interred in Glenwood Cemetery Houston, Texas. This once active plantation sharec the fate of many others; it has gradually declined from that period; i has become the property of severa owners. The homesite comprising som four hundred acres, is now owned and occupied by a colored man. His home is built directly over the foundations of the two former first, a log structure and the second, a two-story Colonial Mansion.

The present durable six- room bungalow is constructed of, much of the lumber and bricks of its predecessor, the Mansion. The remains of the stack chimnpv and outlines of several brick walks are plainly seen by the visitor. At the of the house is a jug cistern; tn the side in the foreground an men dug well, walled with brick. These pioneer improvements are in a remarkable fine state of preservation. In poing over the area which i' embraced in the foregrounds of once nrominent home, the visitor is prinped w-h its attractive Fitting.

There numprous spe- of the statelv shrubberies, yet to survive: the centurv old nts seem tn call one to their pro and inviting arms. On the a.ut'M Rranite thp "Santa Anna Prison one reads the following "HTTIP of T)r. A. A of Old Three Austin's fnlonv Hosoital of tV Texas Army at San Jacinto. Santa 1 was detained a prisoner, from to November, 1936." Delight Mother With a New Dress Pi-iced From Marvelous Gift for Mother a Charming Dress! Choose hers from our superb collection of youthful "Suit Dresses, Redingote- Effccts, Casuals, in Gay Prints, Dark Sheers.

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