The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1926 Page: 5 of 8
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9
CITIZENS COLYUMN
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Bay City;
superin-
Irene
Edited by Superintendent Claire F. Pollard
“The Vanishing American,M
Number 20.
dian, which comes to the Grand Mon-
Markham ;
Wilson,
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Cotton Seed
but
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PEOPLE’S COTTON OIL COMPANY
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Texas
Here’s The Balloon
You’ll Want
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PATHFINDER
A
LOOK
$23.40
When figuring the cost
mail order tire be
to add postage,
sure
express or parcels post
charges, delay, mount-
ing.
HARDY-ANDERSON AUTO CO
MM
Put a stop
to it before
pyorrhea
develops.
The Care of Trees.
(By Carrie Larson)
Every farmer should have
Editors:
Opal Wynn, Ledding Christoffersen,
Lillie Sparks, Carrie Larson.
should
to
the
the
spent
their
Southwestern Bell Telephone
Company
Twenty-Third Dividend
The regular quarterly dividend of
one dollar and seventy-five cents per
share on Preferred Stock will be paid
on Thursday, April 1 ,1926, to stock-
holders of record at the close of bus-
iness on Saturday, March 20, 1926.
R. A. NICKERSON, Treasurer.
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29x4.40 Balloon
$15.00
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Edna Receives
Big Gas Engines
31x5.25 Balloon
Published Courtesy Matagorda County
dollars and fifty cents less for 1926-
----------------year. Parents
in securing
they will see that the names of their.
Do Your Gums
Bleed When You
Brush Your Teeth
Because it’s high in
quality and low in
price. Because it’s
sold and serviced
right here at home.
Leddie:
your long trips?”
Engineer: “I say I do, I’ve wrecked
two trains already.”
Leddie: “Oh, you darling!”
Carl: “I once loved a girl and she
made a monkey out of me.”
Opal: “My! what a lasting impres-
sion some people make.
Social News.
Mrs. Brandhurst and Mrs. Whitfield
have gone to Yoakum.
Mr. and Mrs. Morton of Boling vis-
ited here Sunday and returned Mon-
day morning to Boling.
Mrs. Mattie Perry of Eagle Lake,
who has been visiting her daughter at
Clemville, returned home Sunday.
Mrs. H. Winston returned home
from her visit at Houston this week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. N. Wynn attended
church at Bay City Sunday night.
Mrs. Hudson of El Campo is visit-
ing at E. S. Smith’s home.
Mr. H. S. Townsend spent the day
in West Columbia Tuesday.
Mrs. H. Daughters of Damon is vis-
All parent-teachers assocations and
mothers clubs are urged to elect their
delegates to the annual child welfare
conference which convenes March 15,
16, 17, 1926, in Bay City, Texas.
A most cordial invitation is extend-
ed to the public, and a good repre-
sentation from each community is an-
ticipated. Noted state and national
workers will attend. Much help and
inspiration will be gained by those
who avail themselves of this oppor-
tunity presented.
MRS, J. H. BARBER,
County Extension Chairman, Con-
gress of Mothers and Parent-
Teachers Associations.
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A huge 40-ton glacier boulder, dug
from the University of Wisconsin
campus, will be used as a base for a
tablet in honor of Dr. T. C. Chamber-
lain, the geologist who gave the
names to most of the glacial drift
areas in the United States.
i children have been handed in to the
I census taker. Every name omitted
! from the list means a financial loss
to the district where the child resides
—
County Trustees,
county trustees are to be
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When anyone starts the Charleston
in the auditorium of the Indiana State
University, one warning is given,
which if not heeded results in the
lights being turned off.
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Try Tribune ads for extra business.
CLEMVILLE GASSERi
Published by Courtesy of Bay City
Tribune.
(Long Distance Phone No. 1)
Wharton
It Is the Same
the World Over;
What Say, Boys?
Eighth and Ninth Grade Report.
Our science pupils are finishing the
agriculture book and are working on
our term theme which covers the
whole book. We are keeping a close
eye on our garden that was planted
last week. Each pupil planted tw i
cans each of tomatoes, cucumbers and
watermelons.
Carl Hiltpold has been absent from
school fcr three weeks straight. We
feel sorry for him when he starts back
to school, because we can hardly keep
up with the work that is piling up on
us by coming every day.
Leddie Christoffersen missed school
two days of last week.
rate would no doubt be lowered.
* * *
The assessment of the three rail-
roads entering Bay City were raised
heavily last year by that fool equali-
zation board in the city, and two of
them admitted that they had been
getting by “very reasonably,” but they
did not object to paying their propor-
tionate part, when it was presented
to them in the proper light.
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THE COUNTY COUR IER
Interscholastic league.
One week more and the time for
Devoted to the Interests of the Rural
Schools
of a
-
When in the market for Prime Cotton Seed
Hulls, in carlots, phone or wire us our expense,
for prices f. o. b. cars Wharton or El Campo,
Texas.
YOU MAY HAVE
PELLAGRA
AND NOT KNOW IT
EARLY SYMPTOMS—Nervousness,
stomach trouble, despondency, short-
ness of breath, burnins feet, con-
stipation, brown or rough skin,
tingling sensations, smothering
spells, diarrhoea, loss of sleep, loss
of weight, disziness or swimming in
head, general weakness with loss of
energy.
You do not have all these symp-
toms in the beginning, but if you
have any of them YOU MAY HAVE
PELLAGRA. My FREE BOOKLET,
“THE STORY OF PELLAGRA,” will
explain. My treatment differs from
all others, and is endorsed by a
State Health Department, physicians
and hundreds who have taken the
treatment. Write for Questionaire
and FREE Diagnosis.
W.C.ROUNTREE.M.D.
TEXARKANA, TEXAS
!
draft or money order,
Alvin: “Mattie can I kiss you?”
Mattie: “Piggly Wiggly.”
Alvin: “What do you mean?”
Mattie: “Help yourself.”
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Notice
If there are those, who have been
. . ------, we are anx-
ious to apologize for anything we
may have said, as in that case, we do
not take the position, that a man is
dishonest or lacking in his duty to
his city or school, if he was desirous
of discharging that obligation, and
was not financially able to do so, but
to those of you who could do this
little thing, and wilfully refused, be-
cause of a possible technicality in
the law, then we have no apology to
offer, and we insist that the proper
authorities do their whole duty.
* * *
We have talked to Mr. Erickson,
the president of the school board, and
he has advised us that each member
of the school board is of one mind—
that these delinquent taxes should be
collected, and that they will render
any assistance in their power to see
that this is done, so it seems to us
Three county trustees _____ „„
elected also Saturday, April 3: Pre-
now in office,
present in-
of Wm. Cash,
Creosene is a new,
improved, pleasant
form of home treat-
ment for pyorrhoea
infected gums which
banishes this terri-
ble disease by kill-
ing the germs, saves
frightful expense and severe
husband is
. ______ ____ ___________
superintendent, Zane Grey’s epic of the American Ia«
Northern, Markham; A. W. Phillips.
Markham High, Markham; I. T.
Taylor.
Midfields, Midfields;
Clement.
Palacios High, Palacios; C. F. Pol-
litt.
Pledger, Pledger; Mrs. Lillian Her-
man.
Van Vleck Rural High, Van Vleck,
superintendent, R. E. Coffin.
Lukefahr, Wadsworth; Miss Diva
Ray Patterson.
Lois Wilson, Noah
Malcolm McGregor have
The
* * *
Now listen, brethren, keep in mind
what we told you about the election
of directors for the Chamber of Com-
and that takes place
and in the near future
your
All school children should play at
recess and noon. They should not
sit around or study during that time.
Recesses and the noon hour are for
the purpose of exercising and playing.
The smaller children should have
one kind of games, and the larger an-
other. It will be all right to have the
same kind of game so long as they do
not play together. For the larger
ones are too rough for the smaller
ones.
When all are allowed to play to-
gether they usually quarrel or some-
thing and the smaller ones always
lose out.
If all boys and girls would play
more they would be more healthy and
would develop into better men
women, physically and mentally.
Husbands are all right in their
place but they don’t amount to a tin-
ker’s something-or-other on the Na-
vajo Indian reservation in Arizona.
The wife there is the whole show
and when friend husband fails to be-
have as his better half thinks he
should, she throws him right out of
the house. She rules the roost ex-
actly as she sees fit and when there
is marital trouble and the husband
is given his walking orders his only
recourse is to get friends to intercede
for him with his wife.
A henpecked Navajo
shown in
County Examinations.
Examination questions will be mail-
ed to the eight months schools in a
few weeks. The date for county
graduation will be set in due time.
True Love.
“Do you think of me on
I
No use of experimenting with cheap
unknown brands, or buying out of
town now. Here’s a quality product
of the world’s largest and best
known tire factory. Made to meet
nation-wide demand for a depend-
able, low pressure tire at a moderate
price. Guaranteed by the manufac-
turers and by us. We have all stan-
dard sizes—Balloons, Straight Sides
—Clinchers—at proportionately low
prices. Buy Pathfinders and save
tire money.
Education.
What do we have to go to school
for? so many children ask. They do
not stop to realize they are making
$7.50 each day they go to school, and
even some children, when you tell
them this they ask, where is it? I
never have collected any of it. But
every day they go to school is worth
that much to them, and when they
grow older, and failed to finish school,
they soon see the great mistake they
made.
ened. I thank you pupils for Chal-
mers schools.
| We would urge the census trustees
i to be very careful in securing the
i names of all children of school age
I this year that no one is overlooked.
n! The per capita apportionment from
_ i the state will probably amount to two
27 than it has been this
will materially assist us i_ ________o
i the full enrollment of the county if
City. We were very glad to have them
with us Sunday night at League.
Mrs. Joe McMeans visited her fath-
er, Mr. Pope, a few days last week.
Mr. C. G. Hamill, who is planning
to do some contract work for the Ry-
cade, was out one day last week.
Mr. C. G. Wheeler visited the field
last Friday.
Mrs. M. E. Meynard visited friends
in the field last Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Winston, Inez Town-
send and Mr. Bill Steinnqeyer spent
Sunday in Sweeny.
Misses Lizzie, Martha and Leddie
Christoffersen and one of their friends
spent a few days in Houston last
week.
A number of the big engines for
the Houston Gulf Gas Co. booster sta-
tion below Edna are being hauled out
this week. All told there will be 22
engines, each weighing 20 tons and
developing 160 horse power. A spe-
cial wagon had to be imported to
haul the engines out to the station.
This wagon is a huge affair, and
when they assembled it a 5-pound can
of axle grease was used to grease it.
The bridge over Dry Creek in the
southern part of town on the Edna-
Vanderbilt road had to be braced and
the flooring re-inforced before the
engines could be hauled out.
The steel frame work of the booster
station is being erected, and within a
few more weeks this work will be
completed. When the pipe line is com-
pleted the Edna booster station will
be ready for business. The pipe line
was supposed to have been completed
by the first of March, and according
to the contract with the Houston cor-
poration that will furnish the city of
Houston with natural gas, the Hous- "
ton Gulf Gas Co. will have to forfeit
$2000 each day from March 1 until
gas through this line reaches Hous-
ton.
The Herald has heard it rumored
that the booster station at Edna
would be equipped for extracting the
gasoline from the gas. We are re-
liably informed that this is not true.
The Edna station is purely a pump-
ing or booster station.—Edna Herald.
the procedure—so much for that.
* * *
We happen to know that every mem-
ber of the City Council is of the opin-
ion that this is the most important . v ~—
thing they have on their schedule of Tr-?rkJ! 1S !!Fht"
improvement, but in this case there
is the fact confronting them that
our “Pewee” lawmakers have not pro-
vided for a way to reimburse the city
attorney for any money he might ex-
pend in filing these suits and bring-
ing them to trial, as many of them
are non-residents, and in some in-
stances purposely.
* * *
So, let’s make up a purse and help
the City Council perform this duty,
and we want you to let this soak into
your old alligator hide, that you have
a duty to perform, as well as your
officers, and how can you expect them
to take the proper interest in your
affairs if you are so perfectly indif-
ferent to this deplorable condition,
and we happen to know that a lot of
you have stood up on youi’ hind legs
and howled like a hungry wolf be-
cause this matter has not been at-
tended to, but what have you done to
help the proposition, (except howl).
♦ * *
Listen, you pool' deluded sinners,
did you know that if we could collect
the back taxes in city, school and
county that your own taxes would of
a certainty be less, and would that
fact appeal to "you, if not then? We
are sure that your case is hopeless,
as that fact is as plain as the moun-
tain of sulphur at Gulf, and that is
some plain.
The School Census.
Springtime in the county superin-
i tendent’s office usually brings
that there is only one step that”can 1 rhor^ C^nsus’ ?ook
be taken at this time, and that is to 1 an^ual reports, coun-
begin filing suits, and we suppose all ■ F5, at* JL plaa s. for institute
they will have to do, will be to notify JI’ ph ”, etc” ad infHMtum. The
the county attorney to proceed with ® Pi • Sch?01 b™ught a
J . jreal breath of spring in when they
• sent a beautiful pot of blooming nar-
| cissus to the office. With such a
I beautiful fragrant reminder of child-
i hood, the springtime of life, sunshine
you a
pain.
Bleeding gums stopped in 12 hours;
soreness disappears in 24 hours; pus
clears up in two to three days; teeth
begin to tighten in ten days, and if
your trouble has not been completely
eliminated in three or four weeks, get
your money back.
- Creosene is sold by all good drug-
gists at $1.00 a bottle, or sent direct
from Creosene Co., Desk 4-W, Atlanta,
Ga;, on receipt of price. Guaranteed
satisfactory or money refunded. For
sale by
day.
Richard Dix,
Beery and I' ________
featured roles in the picture,
cast also includes 10,000 Indians.
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Noted physicians are now saying
the best treatment for flu is to keep
quiet a day or two. We think well of
the physicians, but do not hesitate to
say that any physician who marches
up to a flu patient, whose body 1®
frozen to the sheet, over whose hea$
big locomotives are running, dropping
red hot embers, and up and down
whose backbone big steers with frozen,
hoofs are prancing—we say any phy«-
sician w’ho advises such a suffering
patient to be quiet a day or two ought
to be shot.—Honey Grove Signal.
Tribune ads are business getters.
The Clemville senior girls’ and juu-
ior boys’ basket ball team motored to
Bay City and returned with victory
safely stored away. The senior girls
won by the uneven score of 24-2. The
boys’ game, however, was more evenly
contested but Clemville won by the
score of 8-6. We are expecting a re-
turn game with Bay City Friday,
March 12.
cinct 1, L. A. Bickham
precinct 3 C. Douglass
cumbent. The term ____ _____,
president of the board and trustee at
large, expires. Mr. Cash has been re-
quested to stand for re-election.
the county meet will have arrived.
Every member school should have a
copy of the county entry blanks. Be-
low find a list of the names of mem-
ber schools, postoffice, and name of
person remitting fee:
Bay City High School, Bay City;
principal, E. O. Hutcheson.
Jeff Davis Grammar,
principal, S. M. Mahew.
Wadsworth, Bay City; principal, W.
F. Pack.
Blessing High, Blessing;
tendent, C. E. Lucas.
Ashby, Blessing; Leia Coppage.
Cedar Lane, Cedar Lane; principal,
H. S. Crabill.
Citrus Grove, Citrus Grove;
Batchelder.
Clemville, Clemville; Guy N. Wynn.
Bay View, Collegeport; Mr. i’hos. P.
Hale.
Gulf High, Gulf;
Guy T. McBride.
Trustee Elections.
Elections foi' district trustees will
be held Saturday, April 3. Notices
have been mailed to each district that
they may be posted in the- proper
places.
merce, and that takes place next
month, and in the near future you
will receive youi’ ballot, so move
very cautiously in your selection of
directors and bear in mind a man’s
fitness for the position, his interest
in the community ,his willingness to
be of service, and the amount of time
he will have at his disposal for this
work, as the thing will not run itself.
* * *
We are very much of the opinion
that we could not improve on the
bunch offered last week; Percy Ham-
ill, Layton Moore, Fort Verser and
Frank Shaw Taylor.
* * *
But speaking of taxes, it is also a
fact that if all taxpayers were assess-
ed on the same basis, that we would
have lots more money to build shell
roads, or throw away in any other
manner, that we might decide, and
what we mean is, that we would not
have any large corporation pay more
taxes in proportion, than we small I
taxpayers, but we would if we had I
anything to do with it, have them pay I
what they are justly entitled to pay, I
and if this is done in this county, our I
iting at C. S. Daughters’ home.
Mrs. A. M. Sparks returned from
Lake, accompanied by her
mother who will spend a few days
here. vucic are muse, Wil’
Mrs. Potter of Bay City is spending unable to pay their taxes,
a few days with her husband, who is
working here in the field.
Mr. Means has returned from the
Bay City hospital.
Mr. Fred Dallas of Houston was
out in the interest of the Rycade Oil
Company Thursday.
Mrs. Green Savage spent a few
days with her husband on their ranch
near Bay City.
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hobbs are the
proud parents of a big eight and a
quarter pound girl.
The rig builders are busy erecting
another derrick which will start run-
ning real soon.
Mr. C. W. Pope was called to Port
Lavaca this week on account of the
death of a brother.
Mr. Joe Meynard and Mr. D. Pogue
have returned and are working here.
Mr. Means has been in the hospital
at Bay City a few days the last week.
The following are on the sick list
this week: Mr. Burney, Mrs. Burney
and Mrs. Frank Terry.
Mrs. A. M. Sparks, Mrs. A. W.
Sparks and Mrs. H. S. Townsen went
to town Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Townsend spent Sun-
day before last in Markham with the
Nathan Weaver family.
Mr. and Mrs. Armond and Louis
Smith spent Sunday, February 28,
with then’ parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Smith.
Mrs. Branhurst and Mrs. Smith vis-
ited in West Columbia Friday week.
Mr. and Mrs. Terry visited Boling
Saturday and Sunday, February 27
and 28, and brought Mr. and Mrs.
Morton back with them to spend the
should have some “i.FhtTkere before on to Mirando
trees planted on his place, not only
for the need and usage of them,
for the looks as well.
When you go to plant a tree
first thing you must consider is
climate, whether the tree is suited to
this climate or not and what purpose
you want the tree for, if you want it
for a shade tree you must plant a tree
that makes good shade, and if yon
want it for fence posts you must plant
that kind.
Trees should be planted about Feb-
ruary in all parts of the United States.
If it is a very large tree you should
trim all the large limbs off before
planting so that before the roots get
started growing again the top wont
starve the roots to death. Most peo-
ple when planting a tree will dig the
whole and put the tree and fertilizer
and pack the ground hard on top and
leave it real loose at the bottom, when
they should do just the opposite. Th y
should pack it hard at the bottom anl
leave it loose at the top so it will- hold
moisture.
If it is a dry year and the tree
about to die you can hold the moisture
by cultivating around the tree and
keeping the soil loose on top. But
you do not want to put any fertilizer
on it when it is dry, because it will
burn them up.
Trees are injured lots of times from
insects, especially trees that are in
the cities where there is so much
dust. So they should be watched
after carefully to prevent this as
much as possible. They can be spray-
ed with different solutions to kill
some of the diseases. For borers you
can use three pounds of lime, two
ounces of caustic potash, one ounce
of crude carbolic acid, and two gal-
lons of water, and spray the tree with
this several times.
Lots of trees can be pruned so they
will grow up the proper shape, but
this should be done in the fall or win-
ter. If a limb is cut off it should not
be cut off in the middle of the limb,
but it should be sawed off just as
close to the trunk as you can get it,
but you do not want to saw it off
straight, it must be slanting.
Some people are against planting
trees because they cost so much, but
it is not necessary to buy real high-
priced trees for ornamentals, so lower
priced trees will do just as well. It
may take it longer to grow up, be-
cause the other was larger when you
planted it, but it will do just as well.
Seventh Grade Report.
Alvin Sparks was absent from
school three days last week on ac-
count of being sick.
Doyle Kilpatrick was absent from
school one day last week on account
of being sick.
Mrs. W.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1926, newspaper, March 12, 1926; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304310/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.