The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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W. J. WARNER, Agent, Bay City
Automobile Races
July 28, 29, 30
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Have you done this? Probaby not for it is a good deal of trouble and rj
takes a good deal of time. ¥
I have a well printed and plentifully illustrated book giving a very Z
good description of the county that I will be glad to send to them
for you if you will give me their names and addresses. It costs you ®
nothing except the trouble of telephoning.
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Here’s the test: 300,000 Fords now in service. Run-
about $525; Touring Car $600; Town Car $800 f.
o. b. Detroit, with all equipment. Get catalogue
and all particulars from Jno. W. White, dealer, Bay
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It’s the car with the down keep.
The Ford’s surprisingly low firfl
cofl is matched by its low cofl of
maintenance. And six thousand
service stations—where all Ford
repairs are to be had at reason-
able prices-insures its conflant
and efficient service.
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Remnants of otir big sale on the above dates: Dress Goods, Ribbons, Laces, Domestic,
Table Linens, Curtain Goods, and remnants of every department in the store.
AND THEY ARE CHEAP; COME AND SEE
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The price of gasoline is going down.
For the first time in the history, the
public, therefore, does not have to
pay the costs of a trust “busting”
suit.
Mr. Frank aRndolph, publicity agent
for the Southern Rice Growers Asso-
ciation and a splendid newspaper man,
spent Saturday in the city in atten-
dance upon the rice growers meeting
which was held in the court house.
He made an address to the assemblage ‘
which was highly appreciated. ;
James Holcomb, on his way from
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Uncle John Ryman brought in a
specimen of corn this week that would
do credit to any State fair.
Mr. Fred Reiling departed Monday
for Kalker, Kansas, to visit relatives
for a few months.
C. M. Shipman made a business
trip to the county seat Monday.
Lots of new faces are showing up
around town these days.
Wadsworth is to have a band. The
young men of the town and community
met at the Catholic school house last
Wednesday evening and organized a
band with the following officers: Jo-
seph Ottis Jr., president; Tom Shaf-
fer, vice president; Matt S. Shaffer Jr.,
secretary; Herbert Goodall, treasurer;
and Mr. C. B. Gibbier, a man of years
of experience, as band leader and or-
crestra instructor. With Mr. Gibbier
as instructor and with the talent there
is in our boys, we are sure we will
have a good band in a few months.
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From Thursday’s Daily.
I Personals
Commodore Jas. W. Rugeley return-
ed today from a business visit to
Houston and Galveston.
Mrs. W. M. Holland and children
left today for Mineral Wells where
Mr. LeSage has pur-
a building site just east of the
A five-room frame house and one lot;
in good condition; close in; for sale at
a bargain if sold soon,
for good automobile.
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Mr. E. V. Abbott returned this morn-
ing from San Marcos where he has
been for several days visiting.
Bob Stinnett and Marshall Boney
spent yesterday in Wharton on busi-
ness.
Mrs. Lettie Mimel left today for
Lake Charles, La., on a two weeks visit
to relatives.
Capt. J. W. White paid Matagorda
a business visit yesterday. He has
just finished the moving of the old
court house in Matagorda and the lot
upon which it stood will be used for
a new public school building.
A jolly crowd of twenty-one took
dinner yesterday under the trees at
the plantation of Dr. Kit Williams, go-
ing out by autos. They were chap-
eroned by Mrs. Hy Rugeley. The
personnel of the party was Mrs. L.
LeTulle, Miss Emma Belle LeTulle of
Houston, the Misse's Hawkins, Miss
Henderson of Joliet, Ill., who arriv-
ed Thursday as guest of the Misses
Hawkins, Rowland Rugeley and little
Henry Rugeley, Miss Janie Stewart of
Alleyton, and Dr. and Mrs. Curtis and
two sons of Gainesmore, Dr. and Mrs.
Kit Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell
of Houston, who are' their guests.
They stayed all day and thoroughly
enjoyed the occasion.
JVIr. and Mrs. J. H. Griffin of Mal-
akoff, Texas, are in the city guests of
Mr. W. L. Lankford. They express
themselves as being well pleased with
Matagorda County, and will probably
make' their home among us in the near
future.
The big fishing party has returned
from Palacios and report fairly good
luck. Had it not been for Prof. Scott’s
appetite the other members of the
party would have brought one or two
back with them.
Prof. R. E. Scott came up today from
Palacios. The summer normal is pro-
gressing splendidly and the professor
says he is enjoying himself ever so
well.
Mrs. P. G. Huston will have with
her at luncheon tomorrow Mesdames
James Mayfield of Tanglewilde, Thos.
B. Peareson and Homer Darst of
Richmond.
A good foundation, insofar as pre-
liminary work is concerned, has been
laid for the library and it is to be
hoped that the ladies will keep up
the good work even though the weath-
er is warm.
If Prof. Persons continues his work
on the court house lawn and is given
wide enough scope he will soon have
it in a most attractive condition. Al-
ready the flowers which he planted
this spring are doing well and look-
ing very pretty.
Mr. and Mrs. Thos. B. Peareson of
Richmond are in the city the guests
of Mr. and Mrs. P. G. Huston.
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From Monday’s Daily.
Mrs. R. J, Capps continues very ill
with fever.
< Born, Saturday, to Mr. and Mrs. Bir-
ney D. Brasfield, a six-pound girl.
Mr. G. E. Baillod, of Wellington,
Kansas, is visiting his daughter, Mrs.
Birney D. Brasfield.
Mr. Homer Darst of Richmond, is in
the city, the guest of friends and rela-
tives.
Will Blair returned yesterday from
Houston where he has been for a
few days on business.
Mrs. Leopold Schwartz and daugh-
ter, Miss Hattie, are in Galveston where
thev will remain for the summer.
Mrs. Paris Smith' is spending the
week in Palacios and attending the B.
Y. P. U. convention.
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Mr. John Ottis, of Wadsworth, was
among the rice men here' Saturday
and was made a delegate to the Beau-
mont convention.
Mr. S. C. Hagan, of Wadsworth, was
a business visitor to Bay City Sat-
urday and attended the rice growers
meeting.
Miss Izora Toupes, who is here at-
tending the summer normal, left Satur-
day morning for a few days visit to
her home in Bay City.Palacios Beacon.
Mr. J. R. Whittaker of Bay City
motored to this city Monday and spent
the week with friends here.—Eagle
Lake Headlight.
Henry Gaedcke, Payne Walker, Perry .
Moore, and Sam LeTulle returned Sat-
urday from a several days outing at
the’ mouth of the Bernard River.
Col. Sol J. Cleveland has bought for
Mrs. Cleveland and Miss Norma, a
handsome six-cylindar Oakland five-
passenger touring car of Barnes and
Creech. The colonel says it is a dandy
and slip upon a mouse.
A. P. Verser was in Saturday from
his Allenhurst farm and says he is
busy now gathering spuds. The crop
made fairly well and Messrs. Verser
and Johnson will have several car-
loads of choice potatoes for the mar-
ket within a few days.
Mr. Stanford Blankenship, packer
in the Lorino Bros, fish and oyster
house, had his left arm broken just
below the elbow Wednesday evening.
While throwing the clutch on the en-
gine it slipped and struck him on
the arm, fracturing the bones. He' had
it dressed and is getting along very
well. Mr. Blankenship’s age, (about
60) will make the healing slow and
painful.—Matagorda News.
District Attorney W. M. Holland has
been in Galveston the past few days
and made good work of his prosecution
of the case against Mose Robbins, the
negro who killed Mr. I. T. Blake, a for-
mer citizen of this place. Robbins re-
ceived the death penalty and Mr. Hol-
land is said to have made the speech
of his life in his efforts to convince through the city yesterday on his
the jury of the merits of the case; way to visit his brother at Lake
against the negro and the enormity of Austin,
his crime.
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I To Loan on Improved Lands |
At 8 per cent interest, 5 ears time. If i
; your security is satisfactory we can make |
i you a loan promptly. We buy and sell ven- |
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There are now in course of con-
struction three handsome and costly
brick veneer residences in this city
and we have it first hand that the
fourth one will begin shortly.
He is Lewis Laundry, and has commenced j this, in addition to the many,
Holcomb, formerly j work on a building for his machine I frame buildings now going up.
shop and garage. [town is certainly moving.
What have you in the way
of a farm to sell and take as
part payment therefor a 180
acre black land farm in Collin
Country? This farm is first-
class in every particular, one
mile from a good town, price
$160.00 an acre, incumbered for
about $5,000.00. I will take as
much as a thousand acres of
land, but it must be priced at
what it is worth.
SAM PRIMM, Owner
Austin Building, South Side Sq.
Bay City, Texas. 4td-ltw
From Tuesday’s Daily.
Mrs. Horace Fell of Chalmers was
in town yesterday. 1
Mrs. F. G. Ludwig of Houston is vis- 1
iting relatives here '
Mrs. V. L. LeTulle is attending the '
B. Y. P. U. encampment at Palacios.
A. W. McNabb, of Matagorda, is in
the city attending commissioners’
court.
Hon. Thos. B. Peareson of Rich-
mond is in the city attending district
court.
Commodore Jas. W. Rugeley left yes-
terday afternoon on a business visit to
Houston and Galveston.
Miss Pauline Huebner is the guest
of Miss Lois Moore for Mrs. Sholars’
dance at the Moose Hall this evening.
Mrs. D. P. Moore and daughter,
Thelma, who have been at Mine tai
Wells the past six weeks, have re-
turned home.
Judge and Mrs. Wells Thompson
and neices, who have been spending
several days in Palacios, have returned
home, arriving here this morning.
Ed P. Layton, of Matagorda, spent
yesterday in Bay City on business.
Miss Ellen Freiderich, who had
charge of Moore & Reynolds millinery
the past season, left yesterday for her
home at St. Louis.
Miss Emma Lee Sweeny and Miss
Adren, who have been in the city for
the past few weeks visiting Miss Cath-
erine Holland, returned to their home
in Richmond yesterday.
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From Wednesday’s Dally.
Misses Mary and Effie Secrest are
visiting at the home of Mr. P.
Secrest.
Mrs. Maude Green and two sons,
Baxter and Ari, of El Campo, are in
the city visiting Mrs. Green’s parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. T. Davis,
will visit here for two weeks.
Judge W. M. Holland, Deputy Sheriff
Bert Carr, Mack Faickney and Coch-
ran Willis paid Angleton a visit yes-
terday going via automobile. Judge
Holland says that he is perfectly sat-
isfied that the authorities have the
negro that killed Mrs. Seitz.
Mr. P. F. Robidoux, of Matagorda,
spent today in Bay City on business.
A. H. Wadsworth spent yesterday injthey will visit for several weeks.
Matagorda and Wadsworth on busi-
ness.
Capt. J. W. White and G. L. Berry
were business visitors to Matagorda
yesterday.
J. R. Whittaker and E. B. Wells
spent yesterday and last night in
Wharton on business.
Mrs. C. P. Zipprian, proprietress of
the Butter Hotel of Wadsworth, spent
yesterday in the city.
Mr. Goodwin Sterne of Matagorda
spent yesterday in Bay City on busi-
ness.
Mrs. B. E. Norvell and children left
yesterday for Palacios where they will
visit for several days.
Capt. Blair of Palacios
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Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Ayers have re- Tribune and enjoy a summer trade you
turned from a pleasure visit of ten have never enjoyed in the summer
days in Dallas. They stopped over 'time before.
in Granger and attended the Ham-Ram- | The rain last night refreshed things
say revival for a couple of days. Mr. 'considerably, but not enough fell to
Ayers says the Granger revival was a do any good to amount to anything
big success with about 275 conversions, j other than to help out lawns and gar-
den spots.
Architect J. E. Large of Bay City
was in Bloomington Tuesday confer-
ring with the school board with re-
jgard to the' new school building.
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The raising of the Bay City Machine
Shop building, formerly occupied by
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visit to his sister at San Marcos to j preparatory to the erection of the new'
Yoakum, stopped over, a day in Lock- ; hotel which C. L. J. Sisk contracted
hart. He has been in business at to Jones Bros.
Bay City but we understand will soon chased
open a business at Yoakum, lie io
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of Lockhart.—Lockhart Post.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, July 18, 1913, newspaper, July 18, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299636/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.