The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1913 Page: 6 of 10
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HOSPITALS FOR SMALL TOWNS.
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DELEGATES TO RIVERS AND HAR-
BORS CONGRESS BUSY.
Want Log Raft Removed
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points on waterways improved by the
Government to thus guarantee free-
dom from monopoly in the utilization
of the transportation facilities afford-
ed by the opening of the wmterways
to transportation. This subject was
brought up by ,Mr. Cullinan at the
meeting of the congress a year ago
and discussion which came before the
delegates.
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factories, hard wood manufacturing plants, silo factories, wagon, carriage and implement factories,
kinds of factories including cotton mill. Because of railroad and transportation facilities. >?
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Other Committee Selections.
Other Committee selections were:
On nominations, Lindsay Waters of
Harlingen, and on Credentials, R. M.
Brown of Wharton.
For membership upon the National
Congress roster of officers Roy Miller
was chosen vice president for Texas
and the following were named for the
boardof directors: Judge W. S. Hol-
men of Bay City; J. S. Cullinan of
Houston and Mayor Lewis Fisher of
Galveston.
In discussing questions that would
probably come before the resolutions
committee, Colonel Gresham declared
he would oppose a move that has been
started to commit the Rivers and Har-
bors Congress to the conservation pol-
icies of Gifford Pinchot and his fol-
lowers and to involve the organiza-
tion in the water power controversy
which split the recent Conservation
Congress. Mr. Gresham said he be-
lieved it would be a great mistake to
turn the congress aside from its ori-
ginal purpose of further navigation
projects, and in this he was loudly ap-
plauded by the Texas delegates, and
horses,
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mules, poultry, home gardens, fruits,
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Teams Rented at Reasonable
Prices—Bus and Transfer
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Project of Improving Sabine River
Turned Over to Louisiaua and
Improvement of Colorado
Demanded.
Representative Burgess
Judge Barbee and R. M.
Wharton, who made the arguments for
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instructed to oppose such a proposal.I of the engineers upon the proposal
to remove the raft of logs which ob-
terminal Wants Open Debates Before Congress structs the Colorado River between
He is also anxious to have Con- stream to navigation had been with-
gress enact legislation that will re-' drawn and stressed the benefits that
lieve the War Department of the [ would accrue in the way of lower
waterway improvement work now im-' freight rates and increased commerce
posed upon its engineers. ‘ if the stream were opened. The dan-
Before the rivers and harbors en-
gineers this morning Senator Shep-
pard and Congressman Dies submitted
brief arguments in support of the ef-
forts being made to have the Sabine
River cleared for navigation from its
mouth to Logansport, La. ■ The chief
argument wTas made by Leon Locke
of Lake Charles. The engineers occa-
sioned some surprise by stating that
they considered the Sabine River as
being wholly a Louisiana stream.
This left the ma’or portion of the
work with the Louisiana Congress-
men, who were present advocating
the freeing of the stream from present
obstructions.
if the stream were opened,
ger of overflow from the increased
growth of raft also was emphasized.
The board reserved its decision.
The Board of Engineers today sub-
mitted to Congress their report upon
the proposed deepening of the old
Trinity River in Chambers County. It
is pointed out that of the 30 miles of
the stream, 22 miles are susceptible
of navigation by light draft boats, but
the engineers declare a further deep-
ening of the river is not advisable
nor worthy of further consideration.
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CHARMINGLY ENTERTAINED.
The G. T. C’s. were charmingly en-
tertained at the heme of Miss Frances
Poole Friday afternoon.
Darkness came only too soon for
these industrious girls, for they were
very busy making Christmas gifts.
The Misses Poole, Hill, Woolsey,
McLendon and Brewer contributed vo-
cal and piano selections to the en-
joyment of those present.
The members were requested to
meet with Miss Brewer Wednesday
at 4:30 o’clock.
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Exclusive Agents and Owners of 1000 business and residence lots of the Oi*^inaltown of Bay City. You can buy them on the
EASY PAYMENT MONTHLY INSTALLMENT PLAN
exceedingly cheap and when we begged them to buy and offered any kind of terms.
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the congress open up its meetings to 1 Bay City and Wharton. It was point-
debates and discussions upon the floor ' ed out that all year navigation is pos-
in preference to the present policy of'sible from Wharton to Matagorda and
limiting the meeting to the reading Judge Barbee declared the people
of papers and the making of set j would share the cost of removing the
speeches by delegates and prominent: raft and shoals if the Government
men. He declares interest is ebbing ' would undertake the work. Mr. Brown
and the congress will cease to be pro- , declared, the opposition which the ir-
ductive of results unless something. rigation canal people had previously
is done to arouse more general inter-, entertained toward the opening of the
est.
In the December Woman’s Home
Companion Charlotte A. Aiken writes
an article entitled “The Small Town
and Its Hospital.” The editor of the
Companion precedes the article with
the following note:
“Here is an idea for public spirited
citizens: At Christmas time, when
all the world is giving gifts to their
nearest and dearest, why not join
together in giving your town the
Christmas present of a well-equipped
hospital? Such a movement, once
started, will find ready response.
Some will give money, others will
give work—you will need both. But
everyone will give something, and it
is this spirit of good will that makes
the founding of such a valuable pub-
lic institution particularly appropriate
to Christmas.”
Following is an extract from the
article: “Already the rural hospital,
the well-equipped, successful hospital
in the small town or village, has ar-
rived in some localities and is com-
ing in a great many others. Many
of the reasons which have led to the
establishment of hospitals in larger
cities apply with equal force to small
towns. There are a large number of
homes in the country which are un-
suitable for the care of the sick. The
farmer’s wife has usually her hands
so full with her daily duties that
the care of a case of severe illness
in the home becomes a strain to which
she is unequal. Then in every com-
munity there are accidents from ma-
chinery, and injuries from building op-
erations, and such things as really "■'
need the best possible provision. Ap-
pendicitis is not at all confined to
city people, and every rural locality
can count up a considerable number
of cases which have resulted fatally
when, if they had been within easy
reach of a local hospital, a timely op-
eration would have saved a life. Pneu-
monia has a long list of victims in
every country, and statistics tell us
that typhoid fever is more prevalent
in country towns and rural commun-
ities—according to the population—
than in large cities.
“The great difficulty of securing
suitable domestic help in homes of all
kinds has had considerable influence
on the establishment of small hospi-
tals. After all, a hospital is just a
sort of co-operative enterprise which
makes housekeeping for the sick
easier and the best modern methods of
treatment can therefore be much more
easily obtained.”
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iJAs these successful settlers come in and build homes and develop this Bay City empire, there must come to
her logical location more railroads, coastal Interurban lines, a cotton seed oil mill, a cotton compress, a modern
hotel, sky-scrapers, apartment houses, first class colleges and private schools. Also packing h
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Washington, December 2.—With the
arrival of the Texas delegates to the
annual meeting of the National Rivers
and Harbors Congress, matters per-
taining to waterway development took
on a new life and by the time the
Texans had sought their beds tonight,
much had been done in the way of
making their presence in Washington
known. The work began with two
hearings this morning before the
board of engineers for rivers and
harbors and ended with a caucus of
the Texas delegation at which organi-
zation for the work of the congress
was perfected.
The caucus was held at 5 o’clock
this afternoon and in. addition to the
delegates was attended by Represen-
tatives D. E. Garrett and John N. Gar-
At this meeting C. S. E. Hol-
land of Victoria was elected chair-
man of the delegation. Walter Gres-
ham of Galveston was made a mem-
ber of thej resolutions committee and
J. S. Culinan of Houston was suggest-
ed for member-at-large of that com-
mittee. Mr. Cullinan was chosen for
the reason that the Texas delegation
enthusiastically indorses his proposal
to make certain public ownership of
terminal facilities at all
including cotton mill. Because of railroad and transportation facilities.
Then must also come to Bay City large WHOLESALE HOUSES and great implement and automobile distributing houses. A »*tural
center for commercial men to work out from and they will have homes here. Bay City and her surrounding territory is younger
today than fifteen years ago. Property is cheaper and safer today than then for now Bay City is an established RAILROAD AND
COMMERCIAL CENTER. It is useless to put up a proposition, to offer a golden opportunity to anybody, unless they are capable
of thnAGng for themselves and acting.- If you want to make money, if you want to save money, if you want a sure thing, if you
are a live |f you have the vision, if you want a home, our Bay City lot proposition is still open to you. If even interested, see
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When they were so
People have said the same
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their minds, profit from their experience, wake up and get busy. Others never
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development just now starting in covering the whole Bay City Trade Territory to be brought about by Di-
versified Stock Farming which means not only cotton, corn and rice but improved, and more hogs, cattle,
all kinds of feed crops with the Wonderful
the I would accrue in the way of lower
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 1, Ed. 1 Friday, December 5, 1913, newspaper, December 5, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299656/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.