The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1918 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 75—NUMBER 40.
BAY CITY, TXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY.
WAR RELIC TRAIN
GENERAL LIST CLOSES EASY AT
NET DECLINE.
ercising the privilege of conversion
to
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SECTION.
federal
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ill Be In Bay City Night
of October 2nd
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Rallies Come After Early Breaks With
Quotations Later Easing Off on
Trading in Spot Offering.
SATURDAY, OCT, 12, LILERTY LOAN BOND
TO BE LIBERTY DAY HOLDERS, NOTICE
MERCHANTS WILL RELEASE
MEN TO HARVEST RICE
PRICE FIXING ISSUE IS
AGAIN STRONG INFLUENCE
I committee, in co-operation with
! ” ' > bureau of education
1 and the public school authorities.
| “Let the peoplels response to the
fourth liberty loan express the meas-
ure of their devotion to the ideals
among
This served to steady
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will
op-
re-
still there’s a great deal in the field/
to take the bad weather. Two or three
weeks more of good weather will be
worth a great deal to this section.
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TEACHER SHORTAGE
IN TEXAS SERIOUS.
Mayor Sholars and Sheriff Johnson
are asked to coroperate by digging
up the idlers and pushing them into
the rice fields.
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every iieigjLiuurjLKJuu j
direction of the'
secretary of the treasury and the im- I
CAPT. GUYNN’S COMPANY
TO HAVE ENCAMPMENT OF
A WEEK AT SCHULENBURG
TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY. — -------Z I" “Z
“THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOB OUR FRIENDS’’
Mayor and Sheriff Plan to Round Up
Idlers and Send Them to
Fields.
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To Holders of 4 Per Cent Bonds of
the First Liberty Loan Converted
and 4 Per Cent Bonds of the Sec-
I ond Liberty Loan:
The privilege or conversion which
arose in consequence of the issue of
4 1-4 per cent bonds of the third lib-
ery loan will expire on November 9
and under existing law cannot be ex-
Holders of these
do appoint Saturday, the 12th day of > for 4 4.4 per cent bonds and in reg-
istering, their bonds.
W. G. McAdoo.
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Many of our subscribers are com-
ing right along with their subscrip-
tions and getting in good shape before
the order to drop all not paid in ad-
vance takes effect. There are others,
however, who have not done so and
the few days remaining should be
heeded. Act now, today, if you want
the paper, but don’t fall out with us,
if you lose out. It’s the government’s
business, you know!
president’s proclamation follows:
1 “Ever the great principles
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SAVING FRUIT PITS.
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HEAVY RAINS FALL
OVtlR WIDE
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President Psues Proclamation Ask,
ing Universal Observance.
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Austin, Texas, Sept. 19.—As a re-
sult of a survey made by State Su-
perintendent W. F. Doughtoy as to the
needs of Texas schools for teachers,
he announced today that school prin-
cipals are needed in Angelina, Hall,
Camp, Clay, Cooke, Freestone, Harde-
man, Hudspeth, Karnes, Kaufman,
Leon, Shelby, Smith, Upshur, Victoria,
Waller Counties.
High school teachers are needed in
Angelina, Freestone, Grayson, Hall,
Hudspeth, Lipscomb and Victoria,
and grade teachers are sadly needed
i nAngelina, Aransas, Bowie, Camp,
Clay, Goliad, Grayson, Hardeman,
Hudspeth, Johnson, Karnes, Kauf-
man, Marion, Stonewall, Sutcon and
Upshur. War conditions are the
cause for this great need for school
teachers in Texas.
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• The Depth Bomb, Which is Included in This Exhibit.
This bomb is playing an important part in the transportation of
Unsited States troops overseas. It is carried on the torpedo boat
destroyers which act as convoys to the troop ships, and are used
in warfare against the German submarine. This weapon has been
responsible for the sinking of more than one submarine which
has attempted to frustrate the moving of United States troops.
Aircraft has become an important factor in modern war-
fare. Some of the most sp1 id and daring exploits of young
i Americans who are defend’ o the principles upon which this na-
; bion was founded have been made possible by means of the aero-
plane. Can you picture a heavy battle plane, equipped with a
Lewis machine gun and carrying several terial torpedoes, each
I weighing as much as 250 pounds, and a crew of five or six men ?
Lewis machine gun and carrying several aerial torpedoes, each
.warfare is among the interesting features of the war relic train,
ias is the aerial torpedo.
charcoal has proved deficient,
the necessary charcoal can
made from the pits, or stones,
peaches, plums, prunes, olives, etc.,
as well as from the shells of hickory,
walnut, Brazil, pecan and other nuts.
As the time is short, and the matter
of the utmost importance, it is abso-
lutely necessary that the collection
of this material begin immediately,
and I am writing to you in the emerg-
ency to ask you to give this matter
your prompt and serious attention.
In regard to the method you will use
to get this work before the public,
with the least possible delay, I leave
to your own judgment, but would
make this suggestion, that the minis-
ters of all denominations be asked to
make an announcement after every
service of the importance of every,
one saving this material, no matter
how little of it is saved by the indi-
vidual. The co-opt Mion of all or-
ganizations is desired. Shipping di-
rections will be given when I am no-
tified of a shipment being ready. Re-
port progress. Yours very truly,
E .A. Peden,
Federal Food Administrator for
Texas.
Orange, Texas, Sept. 19.—After an
extended discussion of the extreme
need of more help on the Orange
County rice fields, the Orange Retail
Merchants’ Association has decided
on a plan whereby the merchants will
each agree as to how many men they
will release to help carry on the har-
.rTSLSl™ ^ndjour hopb for its future, add vigorou s work ln the living present
A heavy rain, which appears to
have been general oyer a wide scope
of gulf coast territory, began falling
here last night at 12 o’clock and con-
tinued, steadfastly for several hours.
It began with quite a wind from
the west and a heavy downpour, after
which the wind veered to the north-
east and the rain settled down to a
steady slow one.
The change in the weather
prove to be a setback to farming
erations as much cotton and rice
main ungathered in the fields.
Rice farmers were well along with
cutting and but for the rain would
have been in the midst of the thresh-
ing season next week. A large num-
ber of cotton farmers had gathered
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People of Schulenburg to Meet Ex-
penses for Encampment of
Capt. Guynn’s Company.
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To District and County Food Admin-
istrators, Ministers and Newspapers:
Houston, Texas, Sept. 19.—We
notified by the officials of the war in-
dustries board of United States that
there is a scarcity of good charcoal
which is urgently needed in the man-
ufacture of the best gas masks which
are used at the front to save our sol-
diers from painful death.
It appears that the ordinary wood
. i charcoal has proved deficient, and
and stored much of their cotton, but Li. ± «,
_x,„ ...... . n’ uui/that the necesgary charcoal can be
of
battlegrounds. It was at Verdun that thenvision of the “White
Comrade” spurred the tired and war-worn soldiers of France on
to fiercer resistance against the foe, and wh&re wsjth their backs
to the wall they fulfilled their vow, “They shall not pass.”
Another object of particular interest at this tflne is
New Orleans, Sept. 19.—The price
fixing issue was again the strongest
influence in the cotton market today-
and claims from Washington that the
fight against government control had
been lost depressed values through-
out the session except for a short pe-
riod in the early trading, when cov-
ering by shorts caused a short-lived
reaction. The qlose was at a net loss
of 57 to 57’ points. The market early
acted oversold and bulged on its tech-
nical strength. Heavy selling came
on . this hard spot. After a short pe-
riod of active trading the market be-
came dull and fluctuations narrowed.
Little attention was paid to weath-
er conditions or spot accounts. On
the whole the weather was favorable.
Spots were soft, local quotations los-
ing 50 points.
men in tEe field of battle properly equipped to endure the hard-
ships of the business he is engaged in.
Thai; “an army fights on its stomach” is fully recognized
when an inspection is made of the methods by which the soldier
carries his rations. Food and ammunition are the two greatest
factors toward the successful outcome of a military expedition.
And these, or a portion of these, the soldier carries with him as
he moves from position to position along the new lihe of battle.
Food and ammunition and men will decide whether America is to
remain a free Republic or if she is to become a victim of German
kultur. The men are forthcoming, to swell the million and a half
now in France into the army of four million, which General
March has declared will be sufficient for the defeat o£ the ene-
my. The men have given their fighting power to this end; it is
up to the rest of us to lend the government the means for feed-
ing and equipping these four millions and speeding the day of
peace.
There are other exhibits on the train that appeal to the pa-
triotism of all American citizens. Every man, woman and child
tshould make it a point to see these war relics. The week before
the trains were made up in Dallas hundreds of people visited
the building in which the objects were being assembled, and
viewed the trophies. The Minnenwerfer gun was placed on dis-
play outside the headquarters of the Dallas Liberty Loan Com-
mittee and liad about it a group of interested spectators every
hour of the day.. The greatest enthusiasm is being manifested
throughout the district regarding the visit of the War Relic
train. An efficient corps of speakers and attendants accompany
the trainuwhkh will be made up of four cars. There are two flat
cars, carrying the large gun, trench mortar, etc., an automobile
car to show the smaller relics and a sleeping car for the speak-
ers and attendants.
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its discovery until now. and of their
determined purpose to defend them
and guarantee their triumph.
“For the purpose of participating in
Liberty Day celebrations, all em-
ployes of the federal govei’nmeut vesting as long as they are needed,
throughout the country whose serv-
ices can be spared may be excused
on Saturday, the 12th day of October,
for the entire day.
“In witness whereof I have here-
unto set my hand and caused the
seal of the United States to be af-
fixed.
“Done in tbe District of Columbia
19th day of September, in the
year of our Lord 191S, and of the in-
it was used in that terrific drive of .^dence of the United States of
’ ' ■ - America the one hundred and forty-
l third. Woodrow Wilson
1 “By the president:
“Robert Lansing, Secy, of State.”
Washington, Sept. 20.—President
Wilson today proclaimed Saturday,
' October 12, the four hundred and
1 twenty-sixtn anniversary of the dis-
covery of America, as Liberty Day, tended or renewed.
■ and called upon all citizens to cele- 4 per cent bonds lost nothing by ex-
I brate it o stimulate a generous re- ercising the privilege of conversion
!sponse to the fourth liberty loan. The and gaiin 1-4 per cent interest per an-
i num.j' Holders of 4 per cent bonds
for should not wait until the last mo-
’ which we are fighting take fresh hold ment to exercise the privilege of con-
i upon our thought and purpose and version but proceed to do so prompt-
make it clearer what the end must ly. Delay will result in overburden-
|be and what we must do to achieve ing the banking institutions of the
I it. We now know more certainly country and the treasury department
than we ever knew before why free by making it necessary to handle all
. men brought the great nation and conversions at the .last moment, and
j government we love into existence, may result in the loss of the privi-
i because it grows clearer and clearer lege of conversion altogether.
what supreme service it is to be Holders of coupon bonds are
America’s privilege to render to the strongly advised to request issue of
world. The anniversary of the dis- registered bonds in order to protect
,1 covery of America must therefore tiienjselves against the risk of loss,
1 have for us in this fateful year a pe-1 theft and destruction of their bonds,
culiar and thrilling significance. We Official department circular No.
! should make it a day of ardent re-14, .with forms of application, has
dedication to the ideals upon which been distributed to Federal Reserve
1 our government is founded and by Banks and banks and trust companies
which our present heroic tasks are' throughout, the United States. These
inspired. j institutions are asked, as a matter of
: “Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil-; patriotic service, to assist bond hold-
New York, Sept. 19.—Derails of
yesterday’s rumors of price fixing
were followed by rallies after an
early break in the cotton market to-
day, but prices eased off again in
the later trading owing to reports of
increased spot offerings. The gen-
eral list closed easy at a net decline
of 43 to 51 points.
There was selling by Liverpool and
the South and also considerable sell-
ing for Wall Street account, but the
offerings were well taken at decline
with trdea interests, including brok-
ers with Japanese connections
the buyers.
the market, and prices soon rallied
on covering which was promoted by
denials that any prices had yet been
settled upon in case price fixing was
undertaken and reports that the first
subject “to be considered by the com-
mittee of the war industries board
would be the matter of allotting high
and low-grade cotton.
It is believed last year foreign buy-
ers obtained an unfair proportion of
the higher grades and it is proposed
to induce exporters to take a bale
below for every bale above middling
this season. Toward the close there
was increased selling by the South
and a renewal of liquidation.
Prospects for cold weather in Ok-
lahoma were a factor on the "mid-
day rally. It is reported that gins in
Louisiana will suspend operations for
the week beginning tomorrow.
1 ptured German Rifles, Grenade Throwers and a Granteweyfei
inhow the material which the Hun uses when he launches
his conquest for world domination.
A Chauchat auto rifle machine gun, along with its magazine,
ammunition carrier and other accoutrement of the French in-
fantryman displays the sort of firearms used by the “Blue Dev-
iils.”
The complete equipment of the American soldier as shown
jin this exhibit will give the people who stay at home a fair idea
*of the expense .the, government must shoulder in_ .putting our 1
as Liberty Day. On
- that day I request the citizens of ev-
I ery community of the United States,
jcity( and countryside, to celebrate
j the discovery of our country in or-
! der to stimulate a generous response
, to the fourth, liberty loan.
“Commemorative addresses, pa-
o > harvest home festivals or
■' ' ' — ' * other demonstrations should be ar-1
Lr „ a i n A- ’tt ” +•!,” 4- ranged for in every neighborhoodi LABOR SCARCITY IS BEGINNING
ly—courageously, as Americans always fight. Here the counter-; , >
” J ° (under the general direction of the! TO BE FELT,
attack of the American forces turned the tide of war m favor of secretary of the treasury and the im l
the allies and since that time our forces have steadily pushed mediate direction of the liberty loan’
their line forward. * committee, in co-operation with the
Your boy may have been with the American forces that [TTnited States
started that never-to-be-forgotten repulse of the German shock
troops on the spot that has been the scene of many a titanic
struggle since the time of the andients. Maybe it was youi
neighbor’s boy or some other boy from your home town. He which have guided the country from
may have been one of the group who captured a machine gur
crew of the enemy troops.
At any rate it will not be difficult for you to visualize the
activities of your home town boys in that great American victory
when you inspect the
Minnenwerfer, or Trench Mortar Gun,
captured by the Marines in t at engagement, which is attracting
more attention than any otht r object on the Liberty Loan War
Relic Train, making a tour of the Eleventh Federal Reserve Dis-
trict in connection with the Fourth Liberty Loan Campaign.
Second in interest is ....
The Great French “Seventy-Five,”
the big gun used first at Verdun, where it “gave the German thel tl^
surprise of his life,” as a returned war veteran puts it. It bears
the marks of camouflage as i
the Hun, which the French armies met and held at that famous
spot which will go down in history as one 4>f the world’s great1
Capt. Milby E. Guynn’s Company I,
Eighth Texas Infantry, National
Guard of Texas, will have a week’s
encampment at Schulenburg, begin-
ning next Sunday, September 22,
properly prepare for federal inspec-
tion on September 28.
Each man is expected to bear his
own expenses from his home to Schu-
lenburg and return, but the people of
Schulenburg will take care of the en-
tire company while encamped there.
Capt. Guynn has issued the follow-
ing letter to all members of his com-
pany in regard to the encampment:
“All officers and enlisted men are
ordered to report to company head-
quarters at Schulenburg on Sunday,
September 22, at 11 o’clock a. m. for
the purpose of attending one week’s
encampment oft he company and to
properly prepare for federal inspec-
tion on the 28th of September.
Each man will bear his own ex-
penses from his home to Schulenburg
and return but the generous people
of that city will take care of the en-
tire company while encamped there.
Each man will bring with him the
following articles: Sufficient cloth-
ing to last him for the period. Prop-
er amount of bed clothes in the way
of quilts and pillows. One each of
the following? Knife, fork, tea spoon,
table spoon, tin cup, tin plate, drink-
ing cup, cake of soap, face towel and
bath towel.
If possible, include in the clothing
equipment either a complete regular
army uniform or the following: Black
hat, dark trousers, white shirt, black
four-in-hand tie and tan shoes
(These are to be worn at he .federal
inspection in order that all may pre-
sent as near uniform appearance as
possible). ’
No excuse for absence but serious
sickness will be accepted and in case
one is ill and absolutely physically
unable to be present, he will be re-
quired to furnish a physician’s certif-
icate of such fact to the command-
ing officer of the company.”—Eagle
Lake Headlight.
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COME AND SEE THE GUNS
CAPTURED BY OUR BOYS
AT CHATEAU THIERRY
j son, president of the United States, jers in exchanging 4 per cent, bonds
j do appoint Sa+"iw. ; „ . - . ■ - - ’ ■
FRENCH ‘SEVENTY-FIVE,” AERIAL TORPEDO, DEPTH October, 1918,
BOMB AND OTHER WAR TROPHIES MAKE UP
INTERESTING EXHIBIT.
Perhaps no other battle waged in the great World War will
ever be as deeply impressed in the minds and hearts of the j
American people as that, one fought at Chateau Thierry, when seants,
the American soldier covered himself with glory fighting fearless- j
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 40, Ed. 1 Friday, September 27, 1918, newspaper, September 27, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1294513/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.