The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1916 Page: 2 of 12
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right in the city on city lots.
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the work. The farmer gets
into quick touch with the
distant dealer and shipment
is made at once. His Bell Tel-
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ing.
lows 25 cents,
face, doesn’t it?
THE FOLLY OF BIDS ON PUBLIC
PRINTING.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
WEEKLY
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Jack rabbit sausage would, no doubt,
be all right if one did not have to
run so fast to catch the makings.
THE HOUSEWIFE GETS
HER MONEY’S WORTH.
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^cotton continues on its downward
path and the scenes amongst those
caught is described as indescribable.
what
come
wake
Remember the soldier boys Christ-
mas. The express company will car-
ry any box that will go through the
express car’s doors for $1.00 a box.
Get your things together by the 22nd
as that is the last day that anything
will be accepted.
Christmas Day, we take this means of
’ our friends that we have
fully made up our mind to remain
with the family on that memorable
occasion.
fails to knock it less than 75 or 100
yeards you haven’t thoroughly tried
your car out. If after this test your
car lights right side up with engine,
chassis, carburetor, self-starter and
all other things in good shape you can
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The Austin*. American carries in its
market reports quotations on rabbits
and ’possums. How’s that for jour-
nalistic enterprise.
Speaking of those things in this
world which need reform and which
are taking their toll of life, happi-
ness and contentment, how about the
demon automobile, an agency that is
more destructive of life than some of
the malignant diseases? But we never
here of reform in this instance.
There’s a world
the world and
cheaper things
^ie very worst rest assured that you have given your
note for a fairly good automobile.
foods if she is to
her money.
There is always
every line, and it
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Time was when the housewife prac-
ticed loose methods in purchasing her
foodstuffs.
But not in this age of the high cost
of living. Today she practices busi-
ness methods, and she makes it a
point to get her money’s worth.
In her selection of foodstuffs she
devotes much thought. She studies
the food market and familiarizes her-
self with the different brands of foods.
When she strikes the right article
she sticks to it. She wants the best
at the lowest cost and she gets it if
she follows the right method sof se-
lection.
The housewife should give, eSTPfuk
consideration to the baking powder,
tea, coffee, flour and other
get full value for
4ATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE!
Published Every Friday Morning by Tribune Printing Company.
CAREY SMITH, Editor.
Something breaks down.
The plow or the mowing ma-
chine. The nearest supply
depot may be miles away,
and delay means loss.
Villa had better be careful how he
bothers the border. Those West Tex-
ans have gone to eating jack rabbits
and they would just as soon go into
the tanning of Mexican hides for
shoe leather as not. When a fellow
gets in the habit of working his hash
machine overtime on jack rabbit meat
most anything goes, and he doesn’t
care much what it is, either.
The Hbo Hoos or Houston have
planned to concatenation for the holi-
days. A concatenation in Houston is
composed of a score or more of old
Toms and some young Toms, a big
dinner, a hilarious old time and a
bunch of headaches the morning after
the night before. For the lack of a
better name they call it a concatena-
tion.
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By way of enlaring the children’s
vocabularly, our village school teach-
er is in the habit of giving them a
certain word and asking them to form
a sentence in which that word oc-
curs. The other day she gave the
class the word “notwithstanding ”
There was a pause, and then a bright-
faced youngster held up his hand.
“Well, what is your sentence, Tom-
my?” asked the teacher.
“Father wore his trousers out, but
notwithstanding.”
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After all has been said and done
civic pride is the thing that builds
cities out of towns, and the more uni-
versal this commendable quality the
more rapid will the town reach the
city class. Talk is fine, sometimes,
but the words put into action is what
counts. Friendly rivalry amongst
neighbors in home beautification can
do more to create the right kind of
civic pride than anything else. Once
neighbors get to fighting (?) between
themselves to see who can make the
prettiest home surrounding that parr
ticular neighborhood takes on an en-
tirely new appearance and causes oth-
ers to sit up and take notice. Civic
pride costs nothing much, for if one
knows how to do the question of
money to do with is largely solved.
Spruce up some about your premises
and start the ball to rolling in your
neighborhood.
A splendid way to test out your
new automobile both for speed and
endurance is to take it out on some
road that runs parallel to a railroad
track, steam her up to high and get
ready. Then as soon as you see an
express train coming let her out slow-
ly at first and gradually increase your
speed in an effort to beat the train
to the nearest crossing. That will
test the speed. As to its endurance.
If you are a little ahead of the train
when you approach the crossing grad-
ually slow up so that you may have
your auto square on the crest of the
track just a second before the pilot
of the engine reaches the crossing.
Be sure you give the engine a square
It is said that the responsibility of
the Mexican trouble is now resting on
Carranza’s shoulder. Sho’ has got
some perch, hasn’t it?
Congress, after an investigation,
has decided that print paper is en-
tirely too high, that there is no short-
age in raw materials or supplies on
hand and that the making of it costs
less in 1916 than it did in 1915. That’s
all good and well, but the thing that’s
interesting the newspapers is, what
is congress going to do about it?
That dadbinged case of chills
fever not only made the collum wob-
ble, but it kept us from telling a
bunch of stories to the kiddies of the
Eastwood school. If the kiddies of
the Eastwood school will forgive me,
and the date is agreeable to them we
! will tell them stories on Friday, Jan-
| uary 5, at 2:30 p. m.
j That same case of chills and fever
' kept us from going on a hunting trip
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We haven’t much patience with the
man who sends away from his home
town for the goods and wares he
needs merely because he can get them
cheaper. Suppose he is a business
man, how would he like for all his
neighbors to do as he does? How
long coujd he stay in business? Sup-
pose he is a professional man, how
would he like for all his clients to be-
come suddenly imbued with the same
ideas and habits he indulges in, in-
sofar as his services were concerned?
How long could he pose as a success
in his profession? We maintain that
a man can afford to pay one dollar
for an article when purchased at
home from home people, and from
those from whom he derives a liveli-
hood, rather than buy the same ar-
ticle away from home at seventy-five
cents. True he is temporarily out a
quarter, but is it not worth it to hi^i
nui^iis business to have things suc-
■^ound him?
fc^niy in
fctmg
Marshall Hicks, of San Antonio, led
the democratic electors in the num-
ber of votes received in the Novem-
ber election. We do hope this will
not cause Marshall to “come out” for
governor, for the accident could have
struck anyone else just as well.
Let’s see, it has been more then a
month since Pancho Villa died the
last time, hasn’t it? Since Marguia is
printeries in the city !now after llim of course is natural
the same view of the !t0 expect him to die regularly-until
i Christmas, any how.
Also, and listen at this! The Over-
land-Houston people were on the point
of starting for Toledo, Ohio, to visit
“Now, the Overland factory, and Overland
salesmen from all over Texas, and the
rest of the country, are spending this
and the Overland-
wanted ME to go
•ntered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
.j erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being•
brought to the attention of the publishers.
ue paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business.
There is much misuse of the term
“Christmas spirit,” for, if it is the
right spirit it should obtain every
hour in every day for three hundred
and sixty-five days, and be no more
binding or magnanimous at Christ-
mas time than it should be on July 4.
The man or woman who waits for any
special occasion to force open his or
her heart to the appeals of charity is
lacking that great Christmas spirit
which is exemplified by Christmas
habits and customs. Be as charita-
ble one day as you are another and
you will enjoy one long and contin-
uous Christmas.
One of our solicitors called
Bay City merchant the other day^md
tried to induce him to run a Christ-
mas ad. After considerable talk the
merchant told the solicitor that he
did not believe in advertising.
■ “Why,” he said, “I spent 60 cents
on an ad last Christmas and if I ever
got any results frem it I could not
tell it.”
Yes, dear Augustus, this actual^J
took place right here in progressive
Bay City
They have singled out the j
printing expense as no bids are :
asked on any other supplies that we |
know of. Perhaps we are mistaken, i
but don’t think we are. If every pa- |
tron of the
would take
printing business that the city coun-
cil takes, it would not be six months
until every printing establishment in ’
the city would have to close its doors, ;
but fortunately there are scores cf
Houston speaks of the possibility of
the early building of a large case and
can factory for the Pierce-Fordyce
Oil Company. Why not? Why should
there not be built in Texas, our own
tanneries and shoe factories, our own
cotton mills and factories for all that
is made out of timber? Why not our
own smelters and foundries so that
all our iron ore can be made into
everything from a plow point to a
cook stove or a steam boiler? Why
not our own oil refineries for
manufacture of all the high grade by-
products of this great raw produrt?
Why not hundreds of enterprises for
all the things we are sending our
millions away for, from toothpicks for
the table to limousines for milady?
Isn’t it strange that we do not do all
these things, especially when we
know that we are burdened with raw
materials, have plenty of freight fa-
cilities and longer terms of labor per
annum than they have in countries
where they do do all such?
other question is, when
wake up?
trous to the
working day in and day out for the i
town. They have singled out the |
It seems that the peanut has re-
warded us fully and properly for our
efforts spent last spring and early
summer, in that they are selling at
$1.00 to $1.25 per bushel, and good
hay at $14.00 to $16.00 per ton.
One of the greatest steps to be tak-
en now to insure a good crop next
year is the locating and buying of
good seed, should one not have them
on hand. If you have good peanuts,
see that you save plenty of seed, and
should you have to buy, try and lo-
cate good, clean, hand-shelled seed.
Poor returns for peanuts is often due
to poor seed.—Francitas Bee.
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We did not refuse the appointment
to the vacancy in the Federal judg-
ship, occasioned by the resignation of
Judge Maxey, on account of our age.
We desire to make that fact quite
County Demonstration Agent F. J.
Craddock of Denton reports to the ex-
tension service of the A. and M. Col-
lege as follows:
“I had two pig shows last week.
The best big, shown by Raymond Wil-
liams, Denton, route 4, weighed 470
pounds, was , farrowed January 28,
1916, cost for feed $18.45, or 3.92
cents per pound. The pig sold for 9c
per pound .yielding a clear profit of
$20.85 after deducting $3.00 ,the cost
of the pig.
Herman Buckner, Lewisville, route
2, showed second best pig which
weighed 420 pounds, cost $15.70, or
3.72 cents per pound, sold for 9c and
yielded a profit of $19.10, after de-
ducting $3.00, the cost of the pig.
Herman got first premium at Lewis-*
ville, $14.00; second premium at Den-
ton, $12.00; $5.00 from his teacher
and sold his pig for $37.80, a total of
$68.80. Herman is 11 years old.”
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PEANUTS MAKE GOOD.
The Bay City Tribune sagely in-
quires if we are better than our gov-
ernment. Surely not; for it we were,
what would be the use or sense in
having a government. And govern-
ment to be of any avail must be in
advance of the masses governed in its
ideals and requirements. Because
professed Christians fail to reach the
standard set by the scriptures, can’t
be made the pretext for revising holy '
writ downward. Law and government
have but one purpose and object and
that is to compel people to do those
things which as citizens and neigh-
bors they ought to do voluntarily.
Selfishness is the one thing alone that
makes government among men neces-
sary. It is not claimed- nor expect-
ed that Selfishness can be legislated
out of human kind. But because this
is true is not a reasonable excuse for
abolishing government or ceasing to
strive to make it better.—Palacios
Beacon.
Our good friend, the Beacon, did
not quote the editorial containing the
query. When the government makes
it an offense for its newspapers to
carry a certain brand of advertising
and turns right round and becomes a
party to the very thing it forbids its
subjects to do, that is, carry through
its mails the very same kind of ad-
vertising it prohibits, we think we
are getting ahead of our government
some in morals, at least. Our inten-
tion in making the previous comment
was not to abolish the government or
any part of it, but to call the atten-
tion of our readers to a part of the
remissness of our government.
That machine gun scandal at Wash-
ington will not down. The latest ef-
fort to suppress it comes from the
secretary of war who declares the
incident closed and says it shall be
no further discussed. If the secre-
tary of war can stop that talk, he will
prove himself to be a wonder.—Aus-
tin American.
This paper has always contended
that there are too many things kept
secret at Washington and that the
public is kept entirely too much in
the dark. Turn on the lights and let
the people have full knowledge of all
that’s going on! Take into consider-
ation how little the people know of
what Washington is doing on the
Mexican situation. During the recent
campaigns, State and National, there
went up from all over this land elo-
quent resolutions endorsing Presi-
dent Wilson’s Mexican policy when
there was not one voter in a million
knew a thing on earth about what the
president’s policy was. Nor do they
know until this good day. Isn’t it
ridiculous? What could be more so?
week in Toledo,
Houston people
along as their guest, just on account
of my weird beauty and sunny dispo-
sition, but I had chills and fever!
Ding-bust-it! Think of a whole week '
spent in the society of such men as
George W. Graham, Clarence Man-
ford, and their associates. And with
Mr. Willys, the man who has mixed
sentiment and business, to the better-
ment of both. The man at the head of
ten thousand employes who have nev-
er had a labor grievance. The man
through whose twinkling eyes one can
see the twinkling lights of ten thou-
sand comfortable happy homes, where
love awa’ts the worker at the end of
o . each day! Well, I lost out, and I am
of this country, will begin to (too good a sport to waste any time in
realize what disasters can be wrought repinmg; but a couple of days illness
through unwarranted weaknesses at sure con make one miss some big op-
administration headquarters. portunities.—Judd Mortimer Lewis, ‘
tiemen, R. E. Scott and R. F. An-
derson of Bay City. Professor Wolff
of this city went over and in one hour
Saturday morning they killed the limit
of ducks, and that is what cured me.
I received six of the finest, fattest
ducks I had ever folded my face
those subjects, and as soon as the around, from the bag of Mr. Anderson,
European war is over a settlement and I was forced to get better in order
will be demanded. Mexico will be^to get duck,
called upon first and after it will
have been ascertained that there is
no responsible form of government
there they will say to us:
United States, under the Monroe Doc-
trine you are responsible for the acts
of your neighbors on your side of the
hemisphere. What have you done to
protect our subjects and where are
they? We want them back and theii-
properties„ restored to them or full
reparation made. Mexico is unable
to make us a satisfactory settlement
and you have allowed our people to be
murdered and their properties con-
fiscated. It is up to you, so come
across.” There .will be no time for
note writing then; and the United
States will find itself face to face
with the most serious problem our
deal, for when it strikes your car and country has ever had to deal with.
It is all right to say it is none of our
business, but when other nations be-
gin to tell us that it is our business
the real thing will have to be met,
and we, (
doesn’t matter what is paid for ne-
cessities. If the tax rate of a city
is $1.00 and the city in debt it is just
tne same if it was $1.00 and the city
ahead $100,000, if that $100,000 is idle
- and is not applied to the lowering of
: taxes. These are things you should
i bear in mind when any official tells
you he is saving the tax payer money.
Bitt back to bidding on public sup-
plies. We claim that if it right and
' proper to ask for bids on something
the law has already fixed it is right
to ask for bids on everytihng, espe-
" r when items purchased reach
into the hundreds of dollars. In the
i meantime we don’t want anybody
; coming to us with the specious plea j
i that he has saved the tax payers or
; the city any money until he comes
i with a lower tax rate or lower rendi-
, I tion permit, or both, because of the
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jment is strictly punk. We are one of
! the tax payers, a fairly good one, we
and think we know whereof
we speak.
Here are' the known mineral pro-
ductions of Texas. How many of
them are being developed as they
should be? Salt, zinc, lime, iron,
mica, lead, coal, gold, silica, silver,
copper, kaolin, basalt, cement, lignite,
gypsum, granite, bismuth, asphalt, sul-
phur, graphite, itchthyol, fire clay,
petroleum, brick clay, manganese,
quicksilver, molybdenum, natural gas,
building stone, fuller’s earth, mineral
waters, besides many rare earth met-
als. Millions of wealth in our own
confines! Millions of opportunities
for investment of capital! Enough to
employ thousands of expert men and
to open up vast territories of unde-
veloped country! Put these same re-
sources in the North and East and
a great flow of wealth would
from them. When will Texas
up?
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In order to avoid the embarrass-
ment incident to several hundred in-
of ' vitations to egg-nog and dine out on
others who believe the printing busi- .
ness is a necessity and accord to them • informing
their well-earned and legitimate
profits. If the council, however, prac-
ticed along all lines the same thing
they do on printing which, by the
way, is the smallest item of expense
they have, all well and good, but we
do not think they do. The printing of
the city all told will not amount to
more than $250.00 per annum. The
largest item of this is the delinquent
tax list, the publishing of which is
guaged and regulated entirely by law.
The council must have bids on all its
printing and at the same time buy all
other supplies on- the open market.
Bids were asked at the last meeting
for the publishing of the delinquent
tax list which at the legal and lawful
rate would have amounted to perhaps
$75.00, a little more or less. At the
same sitting of the council when it
was ordered that bids be received on
this item a feed bill for the teams of
the city was allowed for $165.00. Bids
on this one month or two months’ feed
bill? We did not hear of it! Just
prior to this a fire auto truck was
ordered for the city (no bids, mind
you) and we believe $1800.00 was paid
for it. Any bids? No! Now we do not
mean say the city got bit, or did
anything wrong in buying this truck,
but it does look to Us that if the council
is so particular to get bids on some-
thing already regulated by law and
amounting to less than one hundred
dollars, they could have done as much,
at least, on a purchase involving the
expenditure of the snug little sum of
$1800.00, or the feed bill for the year,
or the blacksmith’s bill, or—well doz-
ens of other things they do not call
for bids on. They claim they want
to save money. Sure! that’s right
s-’Ve all you can; but it seems that all
that is being saved is at the expense
of the printer. But who are they sav-
ing money for? Say, for instance, the
printer takes the delinquent tax list
for 3 cents an item when the law al-
Looks good on the
But, wait. When the
delinquent tax payer goes to settle he
must pay 25 cents just the same, and
so, who has the city saved any money
for? They have no legal right to cre-
ate a fund of the difference between
3 and 25 cents, and it does not lower
any one’s taxes. It does not save the
delinquent tax payer, the man who
ifcgallv needs it, one cent, for he has
the 25 cents publication fee
^Lm&. even though the printer
Bh^thing. No, the counc1!,
Ih^not saving a soul
a profit,
B^^nse of the
^L^iayer.
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As long as there are automobiles
there will be some fools always at
the steering wheels. Friday at Fort
Worth a couple of men, in full pos-
session of their senses when not
“driving a car,” tried to butt two
street cars off the track. Result: One
i dead and the other will lose lose both
legs. At Beaumont Saturday three
ordinarily sane men tried to outrun
a railroad motor car to a crossing and
reached the crossing just in time to
secure the quick transportation of two
of them to eternity. Of course, auto-
mobiles are great things and there
are thousands of careful drivers, but
on the other hand there are entirely
too many “Smart Alecks” in charge
of the steering wheels. A school for
sane driving ought to be a mighty
good thing, after which should come
the calabouse or jail for reckless
speed fiends.
“If Given Free Hand Villa Will
Protect Foreigners,” says the head-
line; and just to prove that state-
ment’s truth he continues to murder
an American or two every day.
course those men and women have
been told to stay out of Mexico, they
have been warned time and time
again—but still, they are Americans.
And American lives should not be
taken by any force in any country
without due reparation being made.
The United States is laying up for
itself a vast deal of trouble and the
storm is going to break the minute
Europe settles affairs at home. We
shall pay dearly for every life of a
foreign national that has been taken
in Mexico. Incidentally we shall
learn from the acts of England and"
Germany and Japan just how a self-
respecting nation defends its own.—
Houston Post.
The Tribune has been telling its
readers these very 'things for four
j years, but there are yet many who
! think the United States, not even for
> the sake of protecting its own citi- : planned for us by those splendid gen-
zens and the interests of those citi-
zens, has any right to interfere in
Mexico. They do not know that ev-
ery foreign power that has citizens in
Mexico or, through those subjects,
property interests can hold the United
States responsible for the safety of
The purchasing agent of the State i
government is congratulating himself ,
and the taxpayers upon the fact that ■
by making contracts far ahead, he \
has saved Texas $284,000 upon pur-
chases during the past year. That is
all well and good, but there is an-
other side to it. What of the men
who made those contracts and are
standing those losses? Do the people
of Texas rest any easier for the i .
knowledge that the State is profiting -
at the expense of private individuals?
—Houston Post.
Purchasing agents either do not I
think of the welfare of enterprises,
industries or ihdividuals, or else do not
care whether they exist or not. Here
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upon saving an enormous sum on the
printing bill and the result is disas-
very enterprise that is i
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.
<hen sending m remittance for subscription, always state whether new or
renewal.
hen requesting change of address on paper, give both old and new address.
one best brand in
is the housewife’s
duty to find that brand.
Some women prefer one kind of
baking powder while other women
-demand a different kind. There is
one baking powder that has been on
the market for years—Calumet—
which apparently from its steady
sales and increased popularity, hits
the happy medium and pleases every
housewife no matter
mands.
In purchasing foods be sure that
you practice caution and you’ll get
the best.
That $100,000 fund for advertising
rice is all right provided it is spent
in the right direction. The chances
are, however, the high-powered mag-
azines and not the papers read by peo-
ple who are the most in need of rice
as a diet, will get the lion’s share
of it. The way to reach the real buy-
ers is through the country press.
Resolve now to plant several
orange and grapefruit trees in your
yard and begin to raise all of this
class of fruit you may need. It is
a shame that Bay City does not pro-
duce all the citrus fruits she can use
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