Mercedes Tribune (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. [27], Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 1917 Page: 9 of 10
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FIRST STATE BANK—GUAR ANT Y FUND BANK-DONNA, TEXAS
Capital and Surplus over $32,000.00=
We Want Your Business
CITATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS: -
To the sheriff or any constable of Hidalgo
County—Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon
Louis Kramer by making publication of this
citation once in every week for four conse-
cutive weeks previous to the return day here-
of, in some newspaper published in your coun-
ty, if there be a newspaper published therein,
but if not, then in a newspaper published in
the nearest county to said Hidalgo county, to
appear at the September regular term of the
justice court, precinct number one, Hidalgo
county, Texas, to be holden at the office of the
justice of the peace in the city of Mercedes,
Hidalgo county, Texas, on the first Monday in
September, A.D. 1917, the same being the 3d
day of September, A.D. 1917, then and there
to answer a petition filed in said court on the
1st day of August, A.D. 1917, in a suit num-
bered on the docket of said court No. 653,
wherein the Hidalgo County bank is plaintiff
and Louis Kramer and Julius Schumacker are
defendants, said suit being upon a promissory
note signed by Louis Kramer as principal and
Julius Schumacker as surety, and said note
being for the principal sum of $130.00, (one
hundred thirty dollars) ,* dated Mercedes, Texas,
October 5, 1916, due in ninety days after date,
payable to the order of the Hidalgo County
bank and made payable at Mercedes, Texas,
provides for 10% interest per annum from
date until paid and for an additional 10%
of principal and interest for attorney s fees
in case of default. .
Herein fail not, but have before said court
on the said 3d day of September, A.D. 1917,
this writ, with your return thereon, showing
how you have executed the same.
Given under my hand this the 1st day of
August, A.D. 1917.
W. F. STEDMAN,
Justice of the peace, precinct number one,
Hidalgo county, Texas. 24-4t
me NATIONAL CAPITAL
IMPORTANT EVENTS AS SEEN BY THE TRIBUNE’S
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
“IT MUST NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN”
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
The board of directors of Donna irrigation
district, Hidalgo county, No. 1, will at its
meeting to be held at its office in Donna,
Texas, on August 27, 1917, receive bids^ on
construction of main canals and laterals and
for the furnishing and installation of pump-
ing machinery for its irrigation system, in-
cluding about 760,000 cubic yards of earth
work, 1,005 cubic yards of concrete work,
(gates and check gates), and 370 acres of
clearing and grubbing, and for construction
of other irrigation works, including furnish-
ing and installation of pumping machinery,
material for and construction of field gates
and culverts, as per report, plans and specifi-
cations of its engineer on file in its office, of
which a copy will be furnished to any intend-
ing bidder, at price of $5.
Bidders may bid on all of said work as
whole or upon any one or more of sections
1, 2, 3 and 4 hereof as follows:
SECTION NUMBER ONE
Machinery
Two 48-inch direct connected Morris pumps
with 70,000 gallons per minute capacity each,
against a maximum static head of 24 feet.
Two Erie City four-valve Tandem compound
enginer with cylinder 17"x34"x30"'.
Two Erie City 350-horsepower vertical water
tube boilers.
Two Baraganwath syphon type condensers
and all necessary boilers, feed pumps, oil
pumps, oil burning outfit complete, auxiliary
boiler, extra heavy pressure flanged steam con-
nection, 8-inch steam line, heater and all other
necessary fittings for the above boilers and
engines.
To install the machinery and furnish the
foundation and construct the pits.
The concrete in the foundation and pits
amounting to 800 cubic yards.
To erect and furnish. material for a wood
frame corrugated iron building 50x100 feet.
SECTION NUMBER TWO
Reconstruction and Extension of East Main
Canal and Laterals
Reconstruction main canal, earth work,
92,408 cubic yards.
New construction main canal, earth work,
21,852 cubic yards.
New lateral^, earth work, 100,821 cubic
yards. /
Checks anc?, gates, concrete work, 163 cubic
yards. {
Grubbing, T6 acres.
V* bLQTION NUMBER THREE
Upper West Main Canal and Laterals
Main canal, earth work, 30,233 cubic yards.
Laterals, earth work, 68,517 cubic yards.
Checks and gates, concrete work, 81.3 cubic
yards.
Grubbing, 60 acres.
SECTION NUMBER FOUR
Extension of East Main Canal an' Laterals
Main canal, earth work, 142,879 cuic yards.
Laterals, earth work, 303,273 cubic yards.
Grubbing, 234 acres.
Bids must be in writing, sealed and filed
with the secretary of the board before 2 o’clock
p.m. of said date, and must be accompanied
by certified check, drawn to order of the pres-
ident, for five per cent of the bid, to be for-
feited to the district if the bidder should re-
fuse to carry his bid, if accepted, into a proper
construction contract, otherwise to be returned
to bidder.
The district and said board reserve the right
to reject any or all bids at the sole discretion
of the board.
Payment will be made to the contractor in
bonds of the district.
Done at Donna, Texas, August 2, 1917.
G. B. MERIWETHER, President.
Attest s
M. N. BAKER, Secretary.
Perhaps someone will recall those flam-
boyant placards of a year ago or more, which
read: “Nix on the war talk !” And then there
were the sentimental little dramasr~anu the
moving pictures, covering the topics of “war
brides,” and “war babies,” and the horrible
pictures of “blowing up New York.” Then
also, there were the “German spies” in every
nook and corner, and the dangers that Ger-
man-American citizens might eat up our back
yards. Among the other horrors that never
ne true was the “great danger that the
Slavs would overrun and conquer all Europe.”
Surely the imagination runs riot in war-time,
and many of the “dangerous facts” that con-
front America today will be listed with the
vagaries of 1315 and 1916, a year hence.
There is no scarcity of war-talk at Wash-
ington nowadays. In fact everything is “war
and rumors of war,” and to emphasize things
there is a band or orchestra nearly every-
where, and they never fail to play the “Star
Spangled Banner,” which is the signal for
everyone to stand up and for soldiers and
sailors to assume the rigid position of "at-
tention.”
A year, these dog-days, you could have fired
cannon down Pennsylvania avenue, with
little danger of hitting anyone, while the ho-
tel clerks rested comfortably in their corners,
with nothing to do. Its very different now,
since the town is as busy as a railroad eating
house at dinner-time.
Now in Washington, as elsewhere, one may
talk with whole hordes and crowds of people,
and the impression always is that most of
them do not know very much about what this
greatest of all world-rows is about. As a
personal issue the interest has been greatly
increased by the draft; but nine out of every
ten accept the situation in a strictly orthodox
manner just like the people who declare that
“if it is in the bible its soand the war
with the majority consists in “standing by
the president.” and in adding: “Germany
must be licked, democracy must prevail, and
this thing must never happen again.” To
this, a few days since, some added: “Did you
notice that two of those congressmen asked
for a declaration of peace terms.” The harm-
less little word “peace” seems to arouse a
purple hate among the war crowds, yet every-
one wants it, but with an “ah, but it must
be a real peace.” When pressed for; partic-
ulars they can only repeat: “It must never
happen again.”
All of which is good enough as far as it
goes, but that kind of shallow reasoning
doesn’t go very far in these darkest days for
civilization.
The statesman, with real ideas, has not yet
been elected to congress!
SOME OF THE FIGHTING PROGRAM
There are twice as many typewriters busy
in the war game as there were six months
ago. Thousands of new machines and opera-
tors are on the job, and they affox-d evidence
that it takes a lot of words, and a lot bf
paper, to carry on a war.
The telephone output has been doubled in
Washington and in other points of war ac-
tivities, demonstrating that it takes a lot of
talk to keep the plans of Mare from going
awry.
Every Sunday paper has one or more pict-
ures of Pershing and Joffre, and whole pages
of war views. At the newspaper offices so
many pictures are offered that it would appear
that the business of photography has increased
correspondingly with the output of guns and
powder since the war began.
Here is a sample long-distance telephone
conversation, from the the Washington end:
“Hello, Brunswick, New Jersey? Yes, 42,-
000 army aviation suits, send a sample and
cost figures to me tonight.”
“You want to know about prices. Oh ? I
can’t discuss that on the phone. I am to see
the other figures before I make our price, and
we will get part of the order. You know they
don’t take real bids here ; but the priee must
be agreed upon.”
And then the salesman hung up the receiv-
er, but a moment later called “long distance”
and asked to be connected with a manufac-
turer of clothing in New Orleans.
A senator, on the floor of the senate, the
other day, said there were two answers to the
demands for legislation, that were popular
in congress. One of these, he said, was the
disconsolate: “What’s the u^e,” and the other
method is to “put the responisbility onto the
president.”
There are specialists in everything in Wash-
ington. Some of the best men and women of
the nation are patriotically giving their time>
and talent to the government without pay.
But the general rule is different, and consists
in a hungry horde of people trying to get
“soft snaps,” where there is no danger of
bullets flying.
THE GREAT ACTIVITIES
Food control sounds like a war measure,
and so it is, but it is the outgrowth of mon-
opoly and speculation in necessities. The gov-
ernment, unable to protect the nation in the
past, has set out to accomplish this result in
war time, and will doubtless succeed.
Revenue bills, the like of which have never
been known, are going through congress.
Aviation plans, ships—big and little, coast
fortifications, cantonments, coal, railroads, and
the raising of armies, are among the big
problems of government. Then along comes
the prohibition question and woman’s suffrage
—and they are all tossed off the bat as though
they were matters of no consequence.
Congress one day had a thought—and that
was to the effect that there should be a com-
mittee of congress on war expenses. Then
congress had another idea to the effect that
there should be three food commissioners, in-
stead of a single Hoover. But the president
objected, and congress, as usual, rubber-
stamped his suggestions. This fact is no re-
flection on the president; but it is not a very
big boost for congress, when the whole coun-
try knows that its laws are first enacted at
the White House, and then concurred in by
the 531 “representatives of the people.”
WITH OUR CHURCHES i
Catholic Church Notice
Church of Our Lady of Mercy. Masses at
and 10 a.m. ; rosary and benediction at 8
p.m. every Sunday.' Oblate Fathers.
Presbyterian Church Notice
Services at the Presbyterian church every
Sunday. Sunday school at 9:45 a.m.; Chris-
tian Endeavor every Sunday at 7 p.m.; mid-
week prayer meeting every Wednesday at 8
p.m. A cordial invitation is extended to all
to attend these services.
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Methodist Church Notice
Sunday school every Sunday at 9:45 a.m.;
preaching service morning and event
second and fourth Sundays of eac
Epworth league every Sunday at 7 p.m.
are cordially invited to meet with us.
Baptist Church
Preaching at 11 a.m. and 8:15 p.m.; Sun-
day school, 9:45 a.m.; Sunbeams, 5 p.m. ;
Junior B. Y. P. U., 6 p.m.; Senior B. Y. P.
., 7 p.m. ; prayer meeting every Wednesday
gening at 8 p.m. A cordial invitation is ex-
tended to all to attend these services.
La Primera Iglesia Bautista de Mercedes
Preaching every third Sunday and every
Thursday night by Rev. George B. Mixim of
Brownsville. Sunday school every Sabbath at
9:35 a.m. The public generally is cordially
invited to attend all services.
Evangelical Lutheran Church
“I was glad when they said unto me, ‘Let
go into the house of the Lord.’ ” Ps. 122, 1.
Services: German, every Sunday morning at
10 o’clock; English, second Sunday of every
month at 7:30 p.m.; parochial daily school:
Religion and German taught in addition to
the usual subjects, no tuition fee. Bible class:
Adult English, second Wednesday and last
Sunday of every month at 8 p.m.; ladies’ aid,
first Sunday of every month. Paul G. Birk-
mann, pastor.
German Lutheran Ebenezer Church
Remember all Germans that we hold ser-
vices every Sunday at 10 o’clock a.m. Every-
body welcome. J. Herzig, pastor.
J. P. Cooper of Grand Prairie, a
property owner down on the other
side of Leeland, was in town Monday
and subscribed for the Tribune. Mr.
Cooper has decided that farming with-
out irrigation is entirely too doubt-
ful an undertaking when irrigation
can be had and is coming to this sec-
tion to avail himself of its advantages.
PIANOS
and Musical Instruments
New and Second Hand. Lowest
prices, easy terms.
EXPERT TUNING
Repairing and Finishing. Leave
orders with this office, or
drop a card to
J. B. VIANO, Brownsville, Tex.
C. W. RIGGS
ELECTRICIAN
All kinds of Electrical Work
Done at Reasonable Prices
TRADE COMMISSION
TO REPORT ON OIL
Maximum Price To Be Set Will De-
pend on Findings of Federal
Committee
WASHINGTON. — No attempt will
be made to fix the price of fuel oil
for government use until a report is
made as to cost of production by the
federal trade commission, which or-
ganization has taken over the oil.and
gasoline situation under terms of the
food control bill.
The Hoover organization will have
all it can conveniently do in meeting
the food requirements. Fuel oil, gas-
oline and other commodities are given
over to the trade commission, and the
trade commission, and the department
of agriculture is to deal with the na-
tional situation as it applies to fer-
tilizers.
Secretary Daniels recently fixed the
basic price for fuel oil at Port Arthur
at $1.26, and for gasoline at 17%c, the
true price, however, to be basqd upon
findings of the federal trade commis-
sion, which is expected within .a week
or ten days. The best offering the
navy department obtained for fuel
oil was $1.68 per barrel.
At a meeting of producers and re-
finers with the commission this week,
it developed that the navy department
basic price was too low. The out-of-
pocket cost of produ j- fuel oil was
shown to be $1.13 per uo,rrel, and 10%
allowed for overhead charges -brings
the cost to $1.24, practically the basic
suggested by the secretary.
The cost of gasoline plus 10% for
overhead and based upon crude oil at
$1.80 per barrel, was shown to be 15c.
The government computed the cost of
producing gasoline at 41% of the to-
tal in refining a barrel of crude, 38.8%
in producing fuel oil and 26.2% for
other products.
Oil men objected to the .conclusion
of the government that the gasoline
cost represents only 41%, which they
said was too low. Chairman Harris
indicated that while the commission
does not know that it will be called
upon to advise the government what
would be a fair price for gasoline and
fuel oil, if it was, it would recommend
a price to enable the small refiner
to make a fair profit, and to meet the
president’s specifications or prices for
dities.
POINTS THE WAT
Tlie Statements of this San Benito
Resident Will Interest Our Reader*
Our neighboring town, San Benito,
points the way in the words of one of
its most respected residents:
W. M. Gretzinger, contractor and
builder, Stenger street, San Benito,
Texas, says: “Some years ago my
back gave me considerable trouble
and I suspected that my kidneys were
disordered. I had pains across the
small of my back and it hurt me to
stoop or to straighten. I had heard
Doan’s Kidney Pills highly spoken of
so I commenced using them. They
gave me prompt relief and since then
I have had no kidney trouble.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for kidney remedy — get
Doan’s Kidney Pills — the same that
Mr. Gretzinger had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y.
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The wealth of America is increas-
ing beyond all precedent or parallel.
In the last seven years our national
income has increased almost 33%%;
in the last 17 years it has grown near-
ly 117%. Our foreign trade for the
calendar year 1916 reached the enor-
mous sums of nearly eight billion dol-
lars. Thus surpasses the combined
totals of 1911 and 1912, and is more
than two and one-half billions greater
than the returns for 1915. In the trade
figures of nations, there are no rec-
ords comparable to these. America
has prospered greatly since August 1,
1914. In the 36 months that have; el
apsed since then, our foreign trade
balance has attained the huge total
mous sum of nearly eight billion dol-
lars. This amount of money is almost
six times the national debt of the Uni
ted States as of April 1, 1917. The
government’s outstanding interest
bearing public debt on the above date
was less than one billion dollars prin-
cipal—only one-fortieth of the na-
tion’s present annual income. This
nation possesses one-third of the
world’s stock of gold—nearly three
billion dollars. The national assets
of the United States equal the com-
bined wealth of Great Britain, Russia,
France and Italy. America today has
two and a quarter times as much
wealth as Great Britain; four times
as much as France and eight times
as much as Italy. It is the richest
nation in all history.
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Masonic Lodge
Mercedes Lodge No. 1010, A. F. & A. M.,
meets second and fourth Tuesday nights at
8 p.m. All visiting Masons cordially invited
to attend.
JOHN LANGE, W. M.
T. J. FIKES, Secretary
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Improvements entailing an expendi-
ture of about $1,000 were begun on
the W. F. Shaw home in South Mer-
cedes Wednesday. The walls as they'
now stand are to he covered with me-
tal lath and stucco, the wooden foun-
dations are to be removed and re-
placed with brick and the porches are
to have concrete floors. Contractor
Oscar Cresswell is in charge of the
work, which, when completed, will
make of the Shaw home one of the
most comfortable and elegant in this
section of the country.
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