The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1925 Page: 2 of 8
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OLD FASHION COUNTRY STYLE
MUD SLINGING.
FLORIDA AND THE SOUTH.
Col-
I
Mrs.
Ed.
Harmon
brother,
and
conven-
Aransas Pass,
Sept. 17/—•
Texas,
C.
9—Presbyterial business;
served
the
at
Program
D. P. Moore Co.
Bay City
. . Texas
As a Special Feature of Our
50th Anniversary Sale
Y
We Are Going to Place on Sale
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Friday, Sept. 25th
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for
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Be here next Sat., Sept. 19
The First Bale
Bargains Galore for Every One
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Bay City Bank & Trust Company
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Don’t Fail
to Get
Your
Grab Bag
A Numbered
Ticket in
in Each
Grab Bag
S
COLLEGEPORT WILL OPEN HOME
TO VISITORS.
Local
and
Miss Mary Johnson has returned
to her home in Louise after a visit
T. E. Slone,
has been followed by thousands
of other bales, throughout the
length and breadth of our great
State, and “King Cotton” reigns
supreme.
500
Grab Bags
To Be Sold For, Each
There
when
in
of
1
D. P. Moore Dry Goods Co.
Bay City, Texas
I
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Advertise,—it pays.
These Grab Bags contain Men’s, Women’s and C h i 1 d r e n’s Shoes, Women’s Hats,
Womens Ready-to-Wear, Piece Goods, Notions, Men’s and Boys’ Shirts and Blouses,
Men s and Boys’ Hats, Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Hose, Women’s House Dresses,
and many other useful items- You’ll be surprised at what you will get in one of these
Grab Bags for 25c. Get yours early Friday, September 25.
Rev. G. W. Fender,
Synodical executive secretary
Arlington;
RADIO COOKS EGG
THROUGH ICE CAKE
459
10
$2.31
5
. The following is the Library
i port for month of August:
| Books issued .
I New borrowers
Fines collected
Books donated
MRS. T. A. WILLIAMS,
Librarian.
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State
influ<||.;e
FOR SALE—Ford ton truck, late
model; in first class condition. Wm.
Phillip Johnson, Van Vleck, Texas.
18-19d-18w
New York, Sept. 17.—Cook-
ing an egg over a cake of ice
by wireless was one of sev-
eral demonstrations of myste-
rious radio power given today
at the radio world’s fair. The
egg was placed on a frying
pan on the ice. The pan quick-
ly became red hot through ac-
tion of waves that penetrated
through the ice.
The trick was done through
the so-called wireless lamp,
the inventor of which also lit
the bulb through a man’s
head.
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i
Texas sugar farms,
employed on Mr.
Mr. Eldridge is thought not to have
favored the prison
provided for in the bill. T' ~
son and Mr. Eldridge have oppor-
tunity to discuss such things in a
friendly fashion since Jim is attor- '
ney for Mr. Eldreidge’s railways.”
If Mr. Whitman is, as Collier
states, a native Texan, he should
know that his states does not lease, i
let or hire convicts to private indi- I
viduals or corporations for farm or
any other kind of labor, nor has it
for a period of near 15 years. It
might also interest Mr. Whitman in
his quest for the truth to know that
on the farms in which Mr. Eldridge
is directly or
by Mr. Carl Michaelson and Mr. Al-
• best Brinkmeyer.
Rains have interfered with har-
vesting of crops all over the College-
port section this week.
The new Cushman engine is being
'tried out on the binder at the Rich-
mond farm, successfully.
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FOOTBALL TEAM ENTERTAINED.
Citizens of Collegeport are plan-
ning to entertain royally the dele-
gates to the meeting
Whatever your needs m a y be
during this busy season, you
will find at this bank ample ser-
vice to help you promptly and
to your best interest.
Do not overlook the friendly
service and worth-while assist-
ance this institution offers every
customer.
In each of these Grab Bags there will be a duplicate numbered
ticket, one-half of which you will retain and the other half placed
in a sealed box. After all the Grab Bags have been sold next
Friday at 5 p. m., one of the tickets will be taken from the sealed
box, and the party present holding the corresponding numbered
half of this ticket will receive $15.00 in merchandise. Be sure
to get your Grab Bag and keep your ticket.
at what is happening in this
because of its reflected
upon their own commonwealths.
There is still vast space in Florida
to be reclaimed and an enormous ter-
ritory already beginning to be .pre-
pared for civilization to be ocucpied.
We are just at the threshold of this—
Florida’s new day, but it is not with-
out reason to believe that even be-
fore Florida reaches its zenith of
wealth and prosperity many a South-
ern State, through which these thou-
sands of tourists and visitors pass on
a
and new
( From the Miami Tribune.)
A recent visitor to the Tribune of-
fice from one of the Gulf States indi-
cates his belief that the present tre-
mendous development in Florida is
beginning to influence real estate and
business conditions throughout the
southern tier of States bordering on
the Gulf of Mexico. In the State of
Mississippi particularly, gulf prop-
erty, he stated, has trebled in value i
in !
that i their way to Florida, will receive
new impulse, new wealth
In his article which is given first ; to make so radical a change in
page prominence by Collier’s, Mr. I prison system. T
Whitman says “There is a Mr. W. T. ! sent her convicts to prison to punish
Eldridge, who is part owner of some , with no thought of reconstruction,
small Texas railways and some large I
Convict labor is
Eldridge’s farms.
■ —
I
relocation plan
Mr. Fergu- Aransas Pass fishermen sold 75,000
i pounds of shrimp yesterday to the
| San Patridio Canning Company of
j this place, it was the largest catch
i in the history of Aransas Pass. Fish-
I ermen reported great sellouts of
I shrimp in Aran’sas Bay, some over
1 a mile long.
I The San Patricio Canning Company
commenced operations about July 1,
and handles only shrimp. Eight full
carloads of shrimp in tins and glass
| were shipped to New York during
jthe last two months, in addition to a
. ~r; 7 ” ~ Marge number of express shipments,
indirectly interested. I TT . ,
c, . , 1 some sent as tar as Honolulu,
during the past 10 years, not more ; ________q
than three or four acres have been I
devoted to the raising of sugar cane. ;
Cotton is the principal crop and the
soil is tilled exclusively bv free labor.
Sugar cane is grown in South Texas ■
along the Brazos River. This cane i
is srown bv convict labor on state
owned farms and by convict labor on
farms leased by the state from pri-
vate individuals. Mr. Eldridge is not
interested, directly or indirectly, in
any of the leased farms. Mr. Whit-
man perhaps did not know this, but
it appears he should have investigat-
ed before shouting from the house-
ton in a national magazine.
He states that it is thought that
Mr. Eldridge opposed the relocation j
of the prison system, but does not j
say who thinks this or why. Per- •
haps he put this extra dig in just to |
round out the paragraph that other- |
wise would have been too short. Sev- i
eral of these prison farms are located j
in Mr. Eldridge’s home county. They .
are anything but an asset to the com-
munity. They occupy a fertile belt
along the Brazos River and because
they are state owned deprive the
county of the tax revenue that would
be collected were these plantations
owned by individuals. The towns and
trading centers derive no benefit
from these fertile fields because they
are prison farms. It would seem
that Mr. Eldridge, who has his home
countv at heart, would rather favor
wishing them off on some other com-
munity that might be so foolish as
to want them.
It also might interest. Mr. Whitman
to know that Mr. Eldridge is a pion-
eer in the prison reform idea. If he
reads Texas newspapers,’ Mr. Whit-
man will doubtless recall that several
years ago the press of Texas made
extensive editorial comment on the
i “Eldridge Plan.’’ Expressed in a
prob- covered by the Nation and the world.
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LIBRARY REPORT.
(Texas Commercial News)
Wilson Whitman, writing in
lier’s of September 25 scores the Fer-
guson administration rather soundly.
This of course is a writer’s privilege.
When one becomes a public offer one I
has to expect these things. Panning ■
public officials seems the leading in-; ceive a portion of the profits from
door sport nowdays. Even such great, his labor. After all expenses had
leaders as Wilson and Bryan had to been deducted of the money remain-
submit to this kind of humiliation. I ing the prisoner was to receive one-
But why does Mr. Whitman, who is j half. In the case of a married man,
described editorially by Collier’s as | the prisoner’s share was to be paid
a native Texan find it necessary to to his wife and children who had
smear mud over the name of other .been deprived of the father’s support
good men and his native state, seem- while the state extracted its pound
ingly without having taken the trou- of flesh,
ble to investigate the truth of his as- ______________ _____
sertions, just because he is peeved at.. Eldridge plan to have become
the Fergusons? . I Texas had not advanced far enough ' inevitable that this period of discov-
_ _i her ery of the manifold .2
In those days she Southern States will gradually extend !
itself until the entire South will
profit. While Floridians will j—
ably contend that nowhere else in
this country can be enjoyed such cli-
mate and ocean privileges as exist
the year around along the east and
west coast of this State, there is no
doubt that all of the States from Tex-
as to Georgia, bordering the gulf, are
capable of very great advances, if
touched by the wand of such finan-
cier developers as are at present put-
ting Florida on the world map.
There is a feeling more or less cur-
rent through the States of the South,
as well as in certain Northern por-
tions of the country, that wealth and
population has been drawing away
fmm other sections of the country
with Florida as an objective. This is
quite true, but the enormous range
of the country from which money and
population has been attracted to
Florida leave little cause for undue
alarm on the part of any one section.
Furthermore, the Southern States
particularly, have reason to rejoice
11
The football squad of Jeff Davis
High School were entertained with a
— —at the Masonic hall
by a group of Bay City citizens.
Honor guests were the High School
faculty, the Pepperettes and the
school board and several other ladies
and gentlemen. In all there were
about 75 in the party.
The ladies of the Eastern Star fur-
nished an exceptionally fine menu
consisting of oyster cocktail, fried
chicken, salads, etc., and good pld
1 fashioned apple pie which is dear to
■ the heart of every boy and man.
I C. A. Erickson acted as toastmas-
|ter, and, in his usually graceful and
pleasing way, contributed no little to
the enjoyment of the occasion.
Yells and songs and talks by mem-
bers of the team, the pep squad and
other guests made up the program
which was greatly enjoyed by all.
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Tthe time to vaccinate the dogs
lar, ne ver fail September weather,
northehrs. Ants and summer are
at this time and the will be discussed
Slavery was abolished in Brazil in
1888, there then being about 750,000
slaves in the countyr.
few words this plan was similar to
the “Honor Farm” now operated near
Sugar Land on which one hundred
t convicts with sentences ranging as
! high as 15 years have been located
for nearly a year without the restric-
tion of guards, locks or dogs. The
Eldridge plant went a step further
and advocated that the prisoner re-
. ■
progress is
a sense, a signal of new
Florida at present life and opportunity for the entire
has the center of the stage, hut it is ' Southland. There will doubtless
- come a day when every Southern
riches of the State will date a new spirit of enter-
prise in their own borders from the
years when Florida was really dis-
re-
J
WOMEN’S PROGRAM.
Wednesday Forenoon.
8.30—Worship service, Grow in
Grace, Mrs. W. J. Morrow. Houston;
■welcome, member of local auxiliary,
superintendent of Junior Church;
greetings from board and Synodical
secretary; presentation of visitors;
Growth in Presbyterial and
Work, Presbyterial secretaries
delegates; Growth Through Use of
Literature, Mrs. H. C. Rogers, secre-
tary of Literature; World Service
Program, Mrs. B. A. Hodges, Synodi-
cal president, Waxahachie.
11—Prayer and adjournment
communion service.
Wednesday Afternoon.
1:30—Joint meeting! with Presby-
tery; Young People’s Work.
2:30—Hymn; prayer for mission-
aries on the field; open forum, How
Can We Grow Into These Plans? (1)
Young People’s Program. Miss Brels-
ford; (2) World Service Program,
Mrs. T. C. Morrow; (3) Making
Budgets Live, Mrs. W. T. Inkley; (4)
Enlarging Our Membershin. Mrs.
Harveson; (5)’ Practicing Steward-
ship, Mrs. W. J. Morrow; (6) Inter-
cession Necessary, in Our Society, in
Our Lives; special music; Grow in
Knowledge, Presentation of Study
Books for the Year, secretaries of
each division; resume of young peo-
ple’s conference and Synodical, Mrs.
H. A .Newman; Houston Presbyterial
Woman and Young People in Action,
Goals for 1925-1926.
prayer; executive |
and a considerable development
building along similar lines to _____
found at present throughout Florida !
is under way. 1 aggregations of people.
In a Nationwide way the people of Florida’s triumphant
this country are turning their eyes to therefore, in
the Southland.
Saturday, September 19, will be a banner day at this sale. New merchan-
dise has arrived and been placed in the sale at prices that will astonish
you. The hearty response during the first week of our Anniversary Sale
has been very gratifying, proving that the folks in this community appre-
ciate the great values we are offering. COME and get your share of
these bargains.
*
It would have required a
constitutional amendment for the
j a law.
Wednesday Afternoon.
1:30—Address. Program of
Presbyterian
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SHRIMP INDUSTRY ON
COAST FLOURISHES
| Don’t forget the football game to-
1 morrow between Wharton and Bay
City.
first theme was announced to be in-
spired by a statement made by
Grandhi, the great nationalist leader
of India who spoke of Christianity as
an “Irresistble Spirit.” What makes
real Christianity irresistible will be
the thought of the sermon. The eve-
ning theme will point out the issues
of life that are certain and must be
understood by the man who would
of Houston get the most out of life.
Presbytery to be held at Collegeport j Mrs. Tom Hale, who was taken to
September 22 and 23. People of the the hospital at Bay City Saturday, is
community have opened their homes |much better.
and the visitors will be entertained |
old fashioned country style embel-
lish with such sports and pastimes . with her sister, Mrs.
as the seaside city affords. land aunt, Mrs. P. A. Richmond.
The convention will conclude with’
a boat ride and breakfast on Thurs-1 J8SSe Sloane, visited in Collegeport
day morning which will be free to
all out-of-town delegates.
The two branches of the
tion will have separate programs
which are as follows: |
the i
Church for Christian
Education and How to Apply It in
Houston Presbytery, Rev. B. A.
Hodges. D. D., Synodical field secre-
tary of Religious Education. Waxa-
hachie.
2—Presbyterian business; report of
commissioners to General Assembly;
report of delegates to Synod; reports
of temporary committees; miscella-
neous business; recess.
5:30—Supper.
Wednesday Evening-.
7:30—Popular meeting, conducted
by the Woman’s Presbyterial Mis-
sionary Society, Miss Mary Robin-
son, president. Houston, presiding;
Presbyterial hymn. congregation:
music, 'Collegeport choir; missionary
story, Junior Church children: wor-
ship service, Grow in the Knowledge
of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, .
Mrs. H. F. Goff, 'Collegeport; music, .
Colleeeport quartette; address. Mrs. (
B. A. Hodges, Synodical president, ,
Waxahachie; missionary offering; (
report of committee on resolutions;
benediction and adjournment.
last week.
Mrs. Tom Fulcher is visiting her
daughter in Bay City.
Several friends visited in the Rich-
mond home Sunday evening and were
Tuesday, September 22, 7:30 P. M. successfully entertained with music
Invocation, Rev. N. G. Nunn, Gar- (
wood; scripture reading, Rev. J. P.
Green, Ph. D., Houston; sermon, Rev.
T. A. Davis, Port Arthur; constitut-
ing prayer, Rev. J. E. Ferguson,
Houston; roll call; reception of mem-
bers from other presbyteries; elec-
tion of moderator; report of commit-
tee on arrangements; adjournment.
Wednesday Forenoon.
8:30—Devotional service, Rev.
R. Nugent, Ph. D„ Texas City. . XJLIgI1 OCUUU1
were
9—Presbyterial business; reading dinner last night
of minutes; appointing of temporary |
committees; report of stated clerk
and treasurer; reports of permanent
committees and trustees; reports of
special committees.
11—'Sermon,
D. D.
of National Missions,
communion service. Rev. A. G. Fitz-
gerald, Anson, Rev. A. B. Haynes,
Miami.
12:30—Dinner,
church.
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Though more than a thousandA
kinds of fossil insects have been dis-
covered near the base of Pike’s Peak,
no trace of the common house fly
has been found.
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Vitamine “C,’’1. the preventive of
scurvy, a disease which used to be
a terrible scourge in the old days of
sailing ships, has been isolated
crystalline form from the juice
cabbage.
4:30—Hymn;
session.
Delegates will begin to arrive from
the several counties of South and
East Texas Tuesday and will be as-
signed to the various homes of the
community by the reception commit-
tee. Supper will be served to all
visitors Tuesday evening at the
church.
No Time For Riches.
Rev. H. Paul Janes announces for
his sermon themes Sunday morning,
“The Irresistible Spirit,’’ and after-
noon, “No Time to Get Rich.” His
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1925, newspaper, September 18, 1925; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304277/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.