The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1918.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY.
VOLUME 75—NUMBER 11.
SALE OF WAI FLOUR
LET’S KEEP THINGS GOING
60,000 BAGS OF RICE
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STEP NECESSARY TO CONSERVE
SUPPLY ON HAND.
NEWS ITEMS FOR MATAGORDA
COUNTY FROM CAMP TRAVIS.
Eeaumont, Texas, March 3.—One of
the largest rough Hee deals recorded
on the local market this season was
closed Saturday when the firm of B.
RICE FAST LEAVING
HANDS OF THE FARMER.
Mr. Stuart Lewis, of Austin, is in
•the city for a few days on business.
RYE FLOUR IN VICTORY BREAD
TO STOP AFTER MARCH 31.
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RICE MILLERS DECLARE 2 CENT
INCREASE IN FLOUR JUSTIFIED
BY DEMAND AND SHORT SUPPLY.
Price of $7.25 a Barrel Was Fixed
for the Lot—Will Be Sent
to the Allies.
Council Modified Ordinance to Aid in
Food Production.
Town Customers May Bay Twelve
Pounds and Country Custom-
ers Twenty-four Pounds
at a Time.
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ON FARMS ANO ACREAGE
PROPERTY—WITHOUT DELAY
ROWLAND RUGELEY
BAY CITY.TEXAS
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PUBLIC SCHOOL ESSAY CONTEST.
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ONION SETS PLENTIFUL.
A new industry which will utilize
tons of oyster shells for fertilizer and
chicken feed will be started in the
near future by the W. G. Thornhill
Fish and Oyster Co. at Matagorda.
Machinery for this new industry
has been ordered and will be in
working shape within the next few
weeks. Tons of fine shell from which
oysters have been taken are available
and will be turned into a valuable by-
product.
The Big* Saw Mill Can Be Had and an . next year’s crop.
Oil Mill Needed.
Tons of Fertilizer and Chicken Feed
Will Be Ground..
I take this method to thank
my friends for their good will and
well wishes, and to assure them
that it was with pleasure I tried to
give them the best and all I had,
as their public servant for the last
seven years.
I also wish to remind all others
of the fact, that I have at all times
attended to my own business only,
strictly and absolutely, and have
endeavored to confine myself with-
in the bounds of the old maxim of
doing unto others as I would have
them do unto me.
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SENATE RATIFIES RESOLUTION
FOR A DRY AMERICA.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
The judges were Mrs. Emmet Per-
ry, Dr. Gill and Mr. R. J. Alsup. The
successful contestants read their pa-
pers before the entire High School
j this morning at the opening exercises
with the killing of his wife, formerly I and their work was enthusiastically
Mrs. Ellen Partain of this county. j received. W. H. Butler, Supt.
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Austin, March 1.—By a vote of 16
to 8 at 4:45 o’clock this afternoon,
the senate passed to engrossment the
joint resolution providing for ratifi-
cation of the national prohibition
amendment.
The Bee substitute for the joint res-
olution ratifying the federal prohibi-
tion amendment was defeated in the
senate by a vote of 14 to 8, three
pairs. The substitute provided to
submit the question to a vote of the
people.
The house passed under suspension
of rules the bill designed to curb the
social evil in army camps, after it
had been amended so as to broaden
its scope.
Austin, Texas, March 4.—The recla-
mation and conservation bill, which
has been in preparation by Represen-
tatives Tillotson and Hardy, will be
introduced in the,housb:of represen-
tatives Tuesday. This is the measure
designed to provide outlying of con-
servation districts to comprise the
water sheds of the principal streams
of the State, and the organiaztion of
reclamation districts. It will apply
under the amendment voted by the
people last August.
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Hon. John W. Gaines left Sunday for
Bryan to assist the State in the pros-
ecution of Em Sapp, who is charged
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Dr. Ernest Boston, eye, ear, nose
and throat specialist, has located at
Palacios, having recently moved from
San Marcos. The Tribune directs the
attention of its readers to Dr. Bos-
ton’s professional card in this
Jennings, La., February 28.—The
high water mark was reached here
Wednesday when about 1100 bags of
rice were sold, which practically takes
every bag of rice out of the hands of
the farmer.
The Socala mill and the Levy mill
of New Orleans, , represented by A.
M. Arthur, purchased from L. N. Dag-
gett of Elton 2500 bags and from T. H.
Winn of Lake Arthur 3500 bags and
other small lots at Thornwell aggre-
gating 1000 bags at $8 per barrel. The
Socala mill of New Orealns, represent-
ed by John R. Tiges, purchased 5000
bags from Longman Brothers and J.
M. Henderson at $8 per barrel.
While the 1917 rice crop was con-
siderably short in production, on ac-
count of the salt water situation, the
splendid prices obtained have put
more money into the hands of the
farmer than could have been antici-
pated at the beginning of the season.
The acreage to be planted for 1918
will undoubtedly be large, and the
land to be planted is in excellent con-
dition, but the outlook for fresh water
in the rivers and bayous at this time
is anything but promising.
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Bakers may continue to use r\4
flour as a wheat flour substitute in
victory bread until March 31, but not
beyond that date. In making this an-
nouncement the United States food
aadministration advised the bakers
using rye flour as a substitute to se-
cure other wheat flour substitutes to
take its place, as no further exten-
sion of the period within which rye
flour may be used as a substitute will
be granted.
In the baking regulations issued
February 1 the use of rye flour as a
substitute was limited to the period
ending March 3. The decision to
grant an extension to March 31 vzas
reached because in some sections of
the country where other substitutes
are not yet available rye flour can
be secured.
Sincerely,
R. A. Kleska.
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WILL UTILIZE OYSTER SHELLS.
The rice acquired by the govern-
ment several days ago at Pierce,
Wharton County, was purchased from
A. P. Borden. Mr. Borden sold it
voluntarily, accepting thd price fixed
by the government representatives.
When apprised that the government
wanted the rice, Mr. Borden promptly
replied that it could have half or all
of it.
Speahing of the sale, State Food
Administrator E. A. Peden said that
Mr. Borden is a patriotic citizen,
broad guaged and one of the State’s
big planters.—Houston Post.
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HOGS ALLOWED IN TEMPLE.
Houston, Texas, March 3.—Effective
immediately and until further notice,
sales of wheat flour by retail to
town consumers will be limited to 12
pounds, and to country consumers 24
pounds, according to instructions
wired tonight to all district food ad-
ministrators in the State by Federal
Food Administrator E. A. Peden for
Texas.
This step was necessary to con-
serve the fast diminishing supply of
wheat flour in the State and takes
the place of the old regulations,
which permitted a city consumer to
purchase twenty-four pounds of flour,
while anyone living within 30 miles
of a market was permitted to buy a
30-day supply at one time and those
living more than 30 miles from a mar-
ket could purchase a 60-day supply.
Merchants are expected under the
new ruling to sell only to their reg-
ular customers, but the new ruling
does not apply to bakers, hotels, res-
taurants cafes and boarding houses
holding bakers’ licenses.
The district administrators have
been instructed by Mr. Peden to give
wide publicity to the new regulations
and to report promptly any violations.
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That the increase of 2 cents a
pound in the price of rice flour to the
wholesaler, which was evidenced in
■ the market immediately after the
government recognized this product
as a substitute for wheat flour was
justified by the demand and the sub-
sequent extreme shortage of the sup-
ply of rice flour, was the basis of the
argument presented by W. P. H. Mc-
Faddin, B. A. Steinhagen and other
local rice millers yesterday afternoon
before the local price interpreting
committee of the federal food admin-
istration.
The millers declared that the de-
mand for rice flour has been so great
that they have been unable to secure
sufficient “screenings,” or broken rice
to make the flour. Better grades of
rice, they pointed out, were entirely
too expensive for making rice flour.
Investigation into the price of rice
flour was instituted by the commit-
tee upon the request of Federal Food
Administrator E. A. Peden of Texas.
The result of yesterdays’ hearing of
the rice millers will be forwarded
to Administrator Peden, no action be-
ing taken by the local committee.
Disposition of this matter and the
changing of prices on several commo-
dities constituted the chief features of
yesterday’s meeting. The price of all
varieties of rice was increased from
1 to 2 cents a pound, the price of
cabbage was reduced 1 cent and the
price of onions lowered a half cent.
Announcement was made that re-
tailers will hereafter be required to
sell only three pounds of substitutes
for five pounds of whole wheat or
Graham flour. On wheatless days, the
committee announced, no dealers will
be permitted to sell anything made of
wheat flour. This not only means
light bread and rolls, but includes
crackers, cakes of all kinds, noodles,
macaroni, spaghetti, wheat hearts,
cream of wheat, shredded wheat or
any other wheat product.
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RECLAMATION BILL TO
COME UP TUESDAY.
Judge W. C. Carpenter has just re-
ceived a letter from James Z. George,
district food administrator, informing
him that Harvey C. Stiles, demonstra-
tion agent at Crystal City, advises
that there will be millions oij. onion
plants in tha t section left over after
their present crop has been planted.
Judge Carpenter is now engaged in
advising his deputies throughout the
county of this fact.
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Read The Tribune advertisements.
Let’s keep things going in Bay City!
Let us all get together and land I
two important industries which
now
to hatch.
| One of these is the big saw mill
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Mr. George Gautreaux, of
Travis, is in the city for a few days’
leave of absence.
Sums of Five Thousand Dollars or More
are
in incubation and all but ready ; of cotton and peanut
! than the oil mill.
Temple, Texas, March 4.—As a war
measure designed to increase the pro-
duction of food in Temple, the city
council has modified the ordinance
prohibiting the keeping of hogs on
private premises and has enacted reg-
ulations under which same will be
permitted, the owners to secure per-
mits from the city, giving the location
and number of head being fed and
complying with restrictions as to
size Gf pens and construction of feed
troughs.
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with a pay roll of $2000.00 a month.
All that is needed to land it is just:
a small amount of effort on the part
of the people of the city. Remem-:
ber it wants to come and will prove
the best lick put in for the town in
a long, long time. So much for that.
The other project needed above all
things else is a cottonseed oil mill
and never was the time better than
right now for it. This county pro-
duced enough seed last year to make
it a paying and a going concern. And
it, too, has a pay roll. Pay rolls
build cities, and stabilize them.
There is nothing better.
The oil mill should be ready for)
E. Quinn & Co. sold to the McFaddin
Rice Milling Company 5500 sacks of
rice grown on the Ed. Paggi farm
near here at $7.75, most of the offer-
ing being of the Louisiana Pearl va-
riety. A small portion of Japan in-
cluded in the lot brought $7.25.
deal involved $40,000.
This was the last of the company’s
1917 crop. The entire season’s pro-
duction of this plantation brought
$82,000.
In 1915 I purchased 10 shares of the preferred stock of a cor-
poration and received 10 shares of common stock as a bonus. Has
the value of this bonus a taxable status?
No; but when the stock received as a bonus is sold the entire pro-
ceeds of the sale are income subject to normal and additional tax
and should be included in your return rendered for the year during
which the sale is made.
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-Wag: .Roy (Red) Joice has just re-
turned from a visit home. He, like
all others who go home, had a nice
time.
Wag. John E. Ambort and Prvt.
Arthur M. Sparks are about the hap-
piest fellows in the company now.
Their wives are in San Antonio now,
and after retreat John and “Bud” are
hard to find.
The supply company was in the big
parade last Friday (Washington’s
birthday). The parade was through
the streets of San Antonio, and about
20,000 men took part in it, all from
Camp Travis. Thousands of civilians
looked on and admired the achieve-
ments of the soldiers of a few months’
training.
The supply company is a part of
“The Texas Brigade”—180th Brigade,
which received a Lone Star flag a
few days ago from the ladies of San
Antonio. All men in this brigade are
from Texas, and, of course, appreciate
the flag. It will be taken with them
wherever they go.
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$40,000 INVOLVED IN
ROUGH RICE DEAL.
Washington, D. C., March 1.—The
food administration has taken over
between 50,000’ and 60,000 bags of
rough rice held in storage at Pierce,
Wharton County, Texas. The price
fixed for the rice was $7.25 per bar-
rel.
This is the last rough rice of any
consequence in Texas, only a few-
small lots being still in the hands of
the producers. This rice will be mill-
ed to be delivered on the contract for
50,000 tons of rice recently let by
the government for export to the
allies.
There is only a small amount of
rough rice still being held in Louis-
iana. There are about 300,000 bags
left in Arkansas, an dit is probable
that, the government will soon take
over some of the Arkansas rice.
. o There is plenty of
capital here to build it—idle capital
which can be brought into play for
the benefit of its owners and for the
I good of the town.
There is no one thing which will
promote and encourage the growing
crops better
Once established,
its effect on the future of these two
crops will be tremendous. Put up
the oil mill and see how true this
statement is. It has done it in other
places so why shouldn’t it here?
No time should be lost, for the mill
should be in operation this fall. It
will add its thousands to the town
and make the permanency of Bay City
all the more certain. It will, also,
prove to be a concern of great con-
venience to our local stockmen. There
is not a point in Texas more ideal or
with a larger territory to draw from.
Do it now. Don’t wait for outside
people and outside capital—do it
yourselves and let’s keep things going.
The time is ripe right NOW.
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‘THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS”
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, March 8, 1918, newspaper, March 8, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1294484/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.