The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914 Page: 4 of 8
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VISITOR TO BAY CITY
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One Year ...
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
Don’t allow it
PEOPLE LIKE TO
Buy from Us
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And there are many Good Reasons
Next
HERE IS ONE OF THEM
BECAUSE
order for
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Chicken
COME AND SEE
R. F. ANDERSON
The General Store
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IN SUGAR LAND SILO.
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Our large fire-proof vault 1» free to the use of patrons and frienda
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On all
$15, $18 and $20 Suits
Your Choice for
twelve goats do the
WORK OF FOUR MEN
take
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Six Months
One Year ..
streets and see
pull yourself
DESERT ISLANDS OF THE SOUTH-
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Today is Thanksgiving
one
church
ful. Just
to bed
handle everything they want.
need and save the
half dozen or more stores.
how soon you
out of the mire.
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show,
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soon get
them.
your colors more
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right.
of Jolly moulds
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MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Published Every Friday Morning by Tribune Printing Company.
CAREY SMITH, Editor.
Sunday four hundred congre-
7 the Texas Corifer- j
good things said of
The splendid entertain-
visiting ministers will
of great benefit to the town.
flush everything
sailing along smoothly and men
succeed without much ef-
The time when nerve, push and
is needed is when
In other words, is
efforts should be
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Save money by getting best Louis-
iana sugar cane syrup direct from the
plantation. Bargain prices., Booklet
free. J. E. McGuire, Palacios, Texas.
W-tt
They give us an
trouble of hunting all over town
in every direction from human sounds, ,.ons throughout the scope of ter-
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ence will hear
Bay City,
ment given the
prove
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A line or two In The Tribune want
column win get you what you want.
Comptroller-elect H. B. Terrell has
announced the names of most of those
who will receive appointments in that
department when he assumes charge.
In the list we see the names of sev-
eral prohibitionists who will be as-
signed to some of the most important j
positions, and it will be observed that
the list includes many experienced
men of exceptional business ability.
Thus it is made ^vident that Mr.
Terrell intends' to give the people the
kbest service possible in this business
department of the State government.
| Mr. Terrell may not conduct the bus-
iness of the office just as the man
of extreme views would have it done,
but when his term of office expires
he will have the practically unani-
mous endorsement of tlTfe people of
Texas.
2 ■ t. son of Capt. R. H.
’ j served the State in this
under the Campbell adminis-
Will Wood enters. the office
practical knowledge of
needs of this department.
what they
and going to
Groceries, Household Hardware, Bran and Chops,
Feed, Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, Shoes, Gloves, Hats and Caps.
In a Letter to B. E. Norvell, a Metho-I
dist Layman Comments Upon His
Impressions of a Local
Enterprise.
The ensilage is conveyed from the
cutter to the silo by a powerful blow
pipe. The stream of ensilage striking
the goats in the rear keeps them mov-
ing rapidly forward to avoid the stings
of the mangled cane tops.
Round and round* the enclosure the
goats gallop out their treadmill-like
existence. They board and room in
the silo, eating their fill of the ensi-
lage and are on the job throughout
i the working hours of every day.
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HAY—HAY—HAY.
When sending In remittent ubsc’K^ays state whether new or
renewal. , naner give both old and new address.
When requesting change of address on pap , g --
' " SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
WEEKLY
Richard Harding Davis in all his
career as a war correspondent never
had a closer call than in his recent
experiences with the German army ensilage,
in Belgium. He was arrested as.
spy
An experiment that has proved
highly successful is calculated to in-
crease the prestige of the goat family.
Prior to the demonstration herein
related there has been considerable
prejudice against the goat. At best
he has never been considered an orna-
ment, and his utility has been more or
less involved in the umbrageous shad-
ows of dubiety. The ill-repute of the
I goat is of Jong standing. He has al-
ways stood as a symbol for total de-
pravity, as witness the separation of
the sheep from the goats. '
This episode dedls with utility rath-
er than morals, however, and consid-
ered under the latter classification
the goat has greatly risen in the esti-
mation of silo makers at Sugar Land.
In this capacity 12 goats are now do-
ing the work once performed by four
men.
A successful silo depends to a cer-
- tain extent on properly packing the
" . In a silo 20 by 40 feet in di-
mensions 12 goats have ben intro-
and treated as a spy, and onlyjcluced.
by the barest good luck escaped with
| his life. IL ' ” “x
j ticle in the
I Scribner.
tell them the news of the day when | f.gcal year 1916_17> $847,980.82.
The Legislature cannot afford (and
maintain its self-respect) to be nig-
gardly with the University.
more (
valua- (
Writing under date of November •
27th, Mr. J. S. Hogue, of Winfield, S
Texas, who was a lay delegate to the J
Methodist Conference that convened #
in Bay City last week, communicates •
to Mr. B. E. Norvell, president of the < >
Bay City Brick and Tile Works, an j (
expression of his impressions gained I < [
upon a visit of inspection to this
plant while here. The Tribune copies
the letter verbatim, and it is as fol-
lows :
When I was in your city at Confer-
ence, I visited your brick and tileIf"— 1!
plant and was surprised to find such |||
material in Texas; in fact the best'III
I have seen west of the Mississippi
River. I don’t think it can be sur-
passed in the United States for build-
ing block, drain tile and flower pots,
i don’t think it can. he excelled any-
where for a bright red color, ana I!
think I am something of a judge as
I have run a pottery and brick
plant successfully 35 years. I notice III
some small checks in one side of your j
brick. Don’t be discouraged about1
that; you will learn to overcome that,
in fact it don’t amount to anything
- as I notice they always have one edge
and two corners perfect so when they
put in the building they don’t
As to them being strong there I
question but that the trade will I
used to them and demand. I
You will soon learn to get1!
uniform and it will |
necessary to do so much. I
As to the tile, they are all I
You will have to put in a set
Ms for the flower pots.)
I had to leave your city1
the morning train, as I intended)
to go over the whole matter with you)
before I left. At any time you need I
an expert man in any branch of youi ,
business, I will be pleased to furnish j
address.
your own
I paid for, strive to pay
is in your name —
and watch the sun shine,
trust in your own t------
in your own s— -
ship- | quit squabbling and tattling on
be
Buckner Prairie hay, extra good,
econd cutting. Hay meadow fenced
—no stock allowed to graze on
[meadow, winter or summer. Write
Y. H. Stetson for prices on car lots.
I ?edar Lane, Texas. w-18-tf
to have good Banking Connections
is realized by all business, men, dur-
ing trying times. The First State
Bank is especially well equipped for
that prompt, efficient service which
insures satisfaction. We cordially
invite your business.
When times are
goes
apparently
fort, h
stick-to-it-iveness
times are hard,
the time when your
doubled and redoubled.
Will W. Wood of Rockport will be
1 fvxGx L town, the next State game, fish and oyster
short they may be commissioner, succeeding Bill Steiett.
Mr. Wood is a
is the greatest enemy to Wood, who s—
It means waste and loss , capacity
tration.
with a
Push your business.
to push you. _
Of course iTsTbad weather, but!
have you forgotten the hundreds of |
pretty days we have had? And don t
forget that they will come again.
There are two Hundred millions of
reserve in the banks of the North and
East. This is almost equivalent to
the Matagorda rice crop.
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human pleasures, human contact.
They are the places where the echo
of one’s own voice fairly reverber-l
ates; from which the never-changing
view is as monotonous as that of the
ocean. These desert islands are the
spots upon the plain where the tele-
phone bell never yet has tinkled.
Many of the farm houses in this
Vicinity are connected with the town
by telephone wires. When the baby
is sick the doctor may be called. When
accidents occur help may be sum-
moned. When the roads are deep in
mud and the weather is severe it is
unnecessary to waste time in
traveling back and forth to
When supplies run s----- —„
ordered.
Isolation
progress,
and discomfort. Cut off from the rest
of the world, Robinson Crusoe, with
all the wealth of his real island, real-
ized. nothing from his labor and in-
genuity. Women go mad under the
awful oppression of abiding silence.
Socially inclined as human beings
a”0 th"y can cope with almost any
difficulty and yet succumb to the
hopelessness of the desolation into
which no human voice may penetrate,
tlnng HiTpossibie.
The telephone has helped to drive
back those forces against which the
early settlers battled and so often
lost. Today we have country tele-
phones, built by farmers themselves
because they recognize the necessity.
Their wives cannot be left alone, vic-
tims to the gnawing oppression of the
country stillness. They cannot af-
ford to cut themselves off from the
world with which many of their com-
petitors in country life have estab-
lished a connection. They cannot
waste the time for needless trips to
town and the delay and loss occa-
sioned when conditions develop which
might be remedies by a few spoken
wo^’ds across the intervening space
to town. I
There are still many of these des-
ert islands in this section of the coun-
try. Too many human beings living
in the country round about are cut
off from the common interest which
develops as communication is estab-
lished. It is probable that many of
the desert islanders do not know how
easily they might overcome the hand-
icap under which they labor.
If they did they would be islanders
no longer. They would have tele-
phones and trade with'the town mer-
chants just as if-they lived in town ted financial aid as follows:
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Those Texans who know Mr. Chas.
Campbell, president of the City Na-
tional Bank of Temple, will join irn
cordial commendation of Governor-
elect Ferguson for the selection of
Mr. Campbell to fill the important of-
fice of commissioner of banking and
insurance,
sions of doubt as to
Campbell will be willing to
Temple and accept the post offered to I
him. That is a matter for him to
decide. The point of real interest and
importance is that Mr. Fergu-
son, seeking a fit man for a very im-
portant public pla&e, has exhibited
rare good judgment as well as appre-
ciation of the responsibility that rests
on him, by calling a man who is pre-
eminently capable and worthy,
doubt if a more intelligent and con-
scientious selection could have been
made. Furthermore, we do
pride and wratification in seeing
public man, who has first satisfied
himself as to the competency of men
■ he wants to call to his aid in the con-
duct of public affairs, make recogni- I
tion of friends—men whom he has |
tested and found true in that capacity.
It will be noted that he has put
competency and personal worthiness
ahead of all other considerations.
That should be the rule in all cases.
But when those requirements are
fully met we believe in standing by ’
friends and supporters every time. A
man who has public offices to fill
should know the men to fill them—
and we believe that Governor Fergu-
son will.
This is an admirable selection, of,
Mr. Campbell, and in this, as in »oth- |
ers he has named, Mr. Ferguson fur-
nishes evidence of his desire and pur-
pose to surround himself with capa-
ble and worthy men. John G. Mc-
Kay of Temple—as another example
of Mr. Ferguson’s sound judgment—is
to be secretary of state. It is a selec-
tion in line with that of Mr. Campbell,
and we could name others.
As the writer of this article has
never.aspired to any sort of office, un-
der Mr. Ferguson or anybody, per-
haps he is in better position to view
these matters in impartial spirit. But
in all candor we do feel that tire gov-
ernor-elect is exhibiting markqd care
and eppreciation of responsibility in
selecting the men who will help to
make his administration what it ought
to be.—Waco Tribune.
All over Texas, in the midst of ,
plenty we are perishing, so to speak. .
In every town, in every city, in every ,
hamlet and even in every country set-
tlement there are classes of people i
who “toil not, neither do they spin.”
These hordes of industrial non-com-
batants think the world owes them
a living and they live accordingly. For
this reason, in the greatest country,
laden with the greatest possibilities
the world offers, there is a constant
cry of hard times. That is to say,
the industrious has to feed the men-
dicant. It is not every man who ac-
tually begs that is a beggar. There
are others and, many of them. The
man who labors for a daily wage and >
spends unnecessarily more than that
wage, because he can run his credit,
is worse than a beggar. The business
man who lives beyond his means is
in the same boat, so is the lawyei,
the doctor, the banker. Society and
the lust for prominence has paupered
many a man and ruined more families
than all the vices human nature is
heir to mere i=>
who pays strict attention to his ac-
tual needs and requirements that is
in bad anywhere or at anytime. Get
back to life, live the life of simplicity,
consider nothing your own unless
—r for all that
and then sit back
. Place your
efforts, have faith
self, get down to work,
the
will
Bifls
I All Bound
I Round with a
j Telephone Line
In a Bell connected communi-
ty it’s not "how far is it to
I neighbor Perkins’?' But Is
neighbor Perkins’ ring three?
The ring of a bell and you have
I him. ,
In marketing, in matters of
I farm routine, in emergencies,
I the telephone adds to the farm-
I er’s ease and profit.
Are you connected with the
I Bell system?
| Asx our nearest Manager lor infor
I mation or write to
I THE SOUTHWESTERN
| TELEGRAPH AND
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It is to be hoped that the incoming
State administration will put every
effort foremost to not only protect
the fish and oyster industry along our
coast, but that it will be instrumental
in improving the present situation
along lines suggested by practical
fishermen and fish dealers and i
pers. That this industry can
made to yield millions in revenue in
addition to what it is now yielding is
beyond any possibility of doubt.
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PRAISES BRICK PLANT I To The Farmers and Home-Owners i
of Matagorda County
You owe it to yourself and the community to plant
Rhnibs and flowers, thereby making your property more
m! well as pretty and homelike. And you also owe it to yourself ]
and tie eoniSu’nny to buy al! your nursery stock from your home
nUF Weyha«ToomrpTet“Stock ot all the trees, fruits and flowers that
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builder ” It is free for the asking, and contains information that . < •
BAY CITY NURSERY CO.
SAM J. BAKER, Mgr. # [
Do you live on a desert island?
All islands aro not. surrounded by
Water. Some of them are encom-
passed in oblivion, obscurity, the
void of silence and the vacancy of
isolation.
The desert islands of the Southwest
are those distant farm houses cut off
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Mr. Jim Carter left yesterday for’
his home in Galveston. While here',
he was the guest of his sister, Miss
Bary Lou Carter.
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For Sale or Trade—Two scbolar-
ships in Bay City Business College.
Foot’ -r»i rvl-4- ta rifFI Arinlv
at Tribune office. tf-dw
GOVERNOR FERGUSON’S SAGACITY
He tells the story in his ar- ,
December (Christmas)
He was sent on his way to
Brussels with a ticket of leave across
which was written: “To be Treated
as a Spy.” The story is not without
its touches of humor, and it will be
interesting reading if the copy of the
magazine whfch Mr. Davis says he
will send, ever reaches the hands of
a certain German officer, called by i
Mr. Davis “Rupert of Hentzau.” “I i
hope the allies do not kill Rupert of
Hentzau before he reads it! After
that!”
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as
Under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
YTrfUrtiYwOTte°d‘ upon Tubemg
business concern will be readily ana wu s j
ThTpfp* win ea possible plane 01 legitimate
newspaper business. __ ______
the
Day, and
doesn’t necessarily have to be a
member in order to be thank-
walk about today and go
tonight thankful for all j on
have received and are receiving. Do
this secretly—it will go just as fai
Sacher ^answers aYFtprayers made to
Him in earnest, regardless of how
or where they are uttered.
Notwithstanding there is certain to
an increase of the student body,
in 1915-16 and each year thereafter,
a rate probably in excess of ten
per cent, the regents of the University
of Texas, because of the cotton situa-
tion, have asked the Legislature, for
1915-16, for no increase over this
year’s running expenses. But, antici-
pating a return to normal conditions
in 1916-17, two years from now, they
have asked for an increase of approx-
imately twenty per cent for that year.,
Bearing in mind both the general sit-
uation and the future needs of the
University, as determined by careful,
itemized estimates, the board has r.e-
_ | queoLcu — ----- -• For
Their wives would wear smiles and | f.gcal year 1915_16 $713,780.82;
they came back from the fields. Hap-1
piness and success would take the
place of desolation and failure. The
country and the town would pros-
per by just so much more.
Let’s have more country
phones.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1914, newspaper, December 4, 1914; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299684/m1/4/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.