The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 12, 1926 Page: 6 of 8
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The Denver Trip
Trucks.
FOR SALE
GRAND
Theatre
Just a visit or two or
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suggestions,
after it.
5
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Chevrolet Company
Making Rapid Strides
NOTED WOMAN
WILL BE HERE
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Patronize Tribune advertisers.
Rotary International
Office of Governor of 47th District
Sidney L. Hardin
Mission, Texas
Forty-Seventh District,
Southern Texas.
February 13, 1926.
50,000 MANOGLIA FIG TREES
---Write---
DE. W. E. FRUIT
Dickinson, Texas
Total.
11,588
21,791
28,636
81.523
Saturday, March 13th
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Saturday, March 20th
while
was
Wednesday and
Thursday
‘A THIEF IN PARADISE’
Saturday
A Great Tale of the
Race Track
‘THE SCARLET SAINT
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Our job printing cannot be beaten.
“flameTofdesire”
And a Sunshine Comedy
“SHOES”
March 29-30
LON CHANEY
“THE PHANTOM
OF THE OPERA”
Monday and Tuesday
REGINALD DENNY
“oh,Doctor”
Mrs. Edna Fox, Ameri-
can Social Hygiene
Ass’n Will Attend P.-
T. A. Conference.
Uhl
3,021
6,203
17,971
was made in 1925,
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it wn stop
that Chatter
Friday
“THE DARK SWAN”
--AND--
“WILD WEST”
Special to The Tribune.
COLUMBUS, Texas, Mar. 11.—Mrs.
J. O. Tanner, president of the fourth
district, P.-T. A., whose three-day con-
ference convenes in Bay City, March
15, announces on the program Mrs.
Edna Fox of the American Social
Hygiene Association, loaned by them
to the National Congress of Mothers
and Teachers, and in turn given by
them to the Texas Congress of Moth-
ers and Teachers.
Mrs. Fox will be in the state two
months. She talks on sex hygiene to
boys and girls separately and to par-
ents. Mrs. Tanner assures delegates
who attend this conference that they
may look forward to this feature of
the program as being especially good.
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The following letters have been re-
ceived by E. N. Gustafson, president
of the Rotary Club, and are self-ex-
planatory.
San Antonio, Texas, Mar. 5, 1926.
Rotary Club.
Dear Sir:
Enclosed please find copy of letter
from Sid Hardin, governor of the
47th Rotary district, with reference
to an autofnobile caravan to the In-
ternational Rotary convention at Den-
ver, June 14 to 18, which is partially
self-explanatory.
The writer visited the Rotary clubs
of the Lower Rio Grande Valley last
week and we find instead of them
sending 15 or 20 automobiles, as was
originally supposed they would do,
they will send around 100 cars and
we are sure of 100 cars from San An-
tonio and there is no question but
what the other clubs in the district
will make up 100, so we will leave
San Antonio on Tuesday, June 8, with
at least 300 automobiles in the cara-
van. The Glacier to Gulf Motorway
Association is organizing this cara-
van and we are asking that every au-
tomobile that enters the caravan
shall carry a pennant of* their home
town and state.
Mr. Hardin, governor of the 47th
Rotary district, will make advance
trip, with the writer, over the route
to Denver, to make plans for hotel
accommodations and camping accom-
modations for those who want to
camp. We are planning to take a
Mexican band of 20 pieces in a 24-
passenger motor bus, and expect to
parade every town along the route
to Denver, arriving there on June 12
at 3 p. m. where we will be met by
a similar caravan, over the Glaciei' to
Gulf, from Calgary, Canada, and we
will jointly put on what we hope will
be the biggest automobile parade ever
attempted in America. We think this
will be fine publicity for Texas, and
as a result of it, we hope to bring
thousands of tourists from the North-
west to Southeast this winter over
the Glacier to Gulf.
I want to visit your club soon, and
explain the caravan trip.
Yours very truly,
Glacier to Gulf Motorway Ass’n.
By D. E. Colp, Manager.
It’s S. D. this and S. D. that and
S. D. everywhere. Of course you are
wondering like all the rest what on
earth this S. D. really means or is?
Some say it surely does sound dumb,
others declare S. D. signifies sour
dough, and still others do declare it
surely denotes Sunday Dresses. Now
the best way to find out what the S.
D. really is, is to be at the Opera
House Thursday night when young
Roger Sheldon, hero in “Back Home,”
finds the S. D.
During the last four years,
the Chevrolet Motor Company
increasing its domestic and Canadian
business 100 per cent, it was expand-
ing abroad at the rate of more than
700 per cent.
Records of the General Motors Ex-
port corporation show Chevrolet sales
in foreign countries during the last
four years were as follows:
Pass. Cars.
11,588
18,773
22,433
63,552
Mr. D. E. Colp,
Chairman Texas State Park Board,
San Antonio, Texas.
Dear Mr. Colp:
The Rotary clubs of the 47th dis-
trict of Rotary International plan an
automobile caravan from San An-
tonio, Texas, to Denver, Colorado, for
the International Rotary convention
via the Glacier to Gulf Highway. This
is to give you official notice that you
have been appointed pilot of this car-
avan and I would be pleased to have
you begin now to make all necessary
arrangements.
We expect a minimum of 200 cars
to start the caravan out of San An-
tonio. We will extend an invitation
to the other two districts in Texas to
join us, if you think we will be able
to handle them.
Further replying to your letter of
recent date with reference to Mexi-
can band to accompany this caravan
by motor bus, will ask you to kindly
advise me what the expense will be
and how we can finance it.
With all good wishes and kindest
personal regards, I am sincerely
yours,
(Signed) Sid Hardin,
District Governor, 47th District,
Rotary International.
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S.D.! S.D.! S.D.!
Year.
1922
1923
1924
1925
The largest stride
Chevrolet’s record year, when the for-
eign business was nearly triple that
of 1924. Sales of trucks comprised an
even larger proportion c he foreign
business because the figures in the
truck column of the above chart rep-
resent only the one-ton Utility Ex-
press truck chassis, the smaller half-
ton truck chassis being included in
the passenger car totals.
The low operating cost of the Chev-
rolet and its relatively moderate for-
eign tax rate are regarded by com-
pany officials as being largely re-
sponsible for its increasing popular-
ity abroad where expensive gasoline
and high taxes are serious burdens to
the motorist.
To handle its increasing foreign
business the company now has an ex-
port assembling plant at Bloomfield,
N. JU, three European assembling
plants at London, Copenhagen and
Antwerp, besides receiving plants at
Barcelona and Hamburg where par-
tially-assembled cars are completed.
Part of the product of'the Chevrolet
plant at Oshawa near Toronto, Ont.,
also is sent abroad.
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South Texas on Eve
Of Big Development
A. W. Shannon came over from
Beeville last Friday and remained
until Sunday afternoon, when accom-
panied by his wife and son, who had
been spending a week here, he re-
turned. The highway conditions are
improving and the trip was made in
something like four hours. Mr. Shan-
non says that his section is feelipg
the effects of the development that is
taking place from Brownsville to Cor-
pus Christi and that he shortly ex-
pects to see land values in his county
double, as fore and more people go
that way. From Florida to South
Texas the eyes of homeseekers and
prospectors has been turned and with
ever increasing volume they are com-
ing in. This same story is contained
in a letter the Spectator man received
this week from a brother in Browns-
ville, which says values there are
going up and several new additions
to the city have been platted with
buildings going up on every hand and
an increasing demand for homes and
farms even at the high prices lands
command. Corpus Christi, too, ac-
cording to our best information, will
soon rival Palm Beach, Florida, train-
loads of prospective investors arriv-
ing there weekly. Acreage adjacent
to the city is in big demand and what
was $60 per acre land near the city
is now, in some cases, $250 lots in
new additions.—Wharton Spectator.
One of the best moves made by the
business element of Bay City in many
a day is announced today by the sec-
retary of the Chamber of Commerce
in calling for a business conference
to be held Wednesday afternoon for
the purposes of laying plans to get a
reasonable share of the vast amount
of trade at Boling. With the new
train recently put on by the Southern .
Pacific some three or four hours are
allowed in Bay City between arrival
and departure, and that will affori
shoppers ample time in the city every
day. But our business people can not
depend upon this train to do it all.
They can not afford to rest secure n
the fact that the train runs daily and ‘
hope for it to just bring the people 1
into their stores. They must go after <
the trade by a systematic, continued •
effort of time and money and stay <
on the job.
a few paltry dollars 'spent on spas-
modic advertising will not get the
results desired. It’s quite a task and
calls for the earnest endeavor and
efforts of the whole business element
of the city. Merchants who hold spe-
cial sales from now on should in-
clude in their territory Boling, and
make liberal provisions for thorough-
ly advertising there. But in doing this
they should send their best men into
that field, men who can meet and
talk business with the people. Don’t
send just anybody because you can
get them cheap. Send the best man
you have every time. These are only
however. The trade is
there, if we think enough of it to go
It means thousands of dol-
lars for the town, but some dollars
and some time will have to be ex-
pended. The fact that you have a good
store and a good stock will not do
the work. You must advertise and
get in personal contact with those
people, and then throw out the in-
ducements to them that will bring and
hold them. Don’t forget the nyntr?
called by the secretary of the Cham-
ber of Commerce for Wednesday aft-
ernoon.
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MOTHERS
Watch for symptoms of worms in
your children. These parasites are the
great destroyers of child life. If you
have reason to think your child has
worms, act quickly. Give the little
one a dose or two of White’s Cream
Vermifuge. Worms can not exist
where this time-tried and successful
remedy is used. It drives out the
worms and restores the rosy hue of
health to baby cheeks. Price 35c.
Sold by Bouldin’s Drug Store.—Adv.
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CABBAGE PLANTS — Wakefields
and Early Flat Dutch, 100, 40c; 500.
$1.00; 1000, $1.75, delivered. Culbert-
son B-ros., Bay City, Texas, phone 813.
12-tf
CITIZENS COLYUM
CITIZENS COLYUM
liver is torpid.
yumn,”
This question was asked
and
own
or
that
it
and
♦ * ♦
And wTe heard Old Pat Thompson
(the guy who invented public service)
Say that he was getting awful tired
Of being lied about and lied upon, and
that he was thinking very seriously
of resigning—buddies, that would be
a calamity for the city, and if you
permit it, you will have cause to re-
gret it.
We can’t keep out of politics, so we
Will not swear off any more, at least
this year.
now
Each
How Long a Line
Would 1500 Cars
Lengthwise Make?
They are all good workers, and
have the welfare of the city at heart,
and we mean they have all the neces-
sary qualifications to make the Cham-
ber of Commerce a going concern—
we
going or coming.
Make any other selections you wish,
but vote for these old boys, and we
do not think you will ever regret it,
but we sure don’t want them to know
who we are, as they might not take
it in a good-natured manner.
CITIZEN.
one day
The beetle was
The tree poured
* * *
Now, some of you birds may have
the misguided notion, that we are try-
ing to do these men a favor—far from
it, as it is the biggest kind of an in-
justice to hold them in office, and
force them to neglect their business
in order to render unselfish service
to the most selfish bunch of hombres
in Texas, and for this reason, they
all have a business of their own, and
it needs then* attention, and in this
respect they are different from some
of you—they attend to that, and let
yours alone.
* * *
If we do this we may be able to pep
the thing up a little, and, boys, it
needs it, and besides we don’t want a
few to do' all the work and hog all the
honors?
* * *
And while we are in the political
ring, let’s talk about some new direc-
tors for the Chamber of Commerce.
Some of these old boys who are on
the board now have been there so
long they can’t remember when they
got on it, and it’s another case of
becoming indifferent because of long
Service—it naturally gets old to them,
and as all of them are our friends, we
are going to ask a bunch of the old
ones to step out and let’s get some
new blood in the Chamber of Com-
merce.
* * *
We have understood, that unfor-
tunately there is no provision for re-
imbursing the city attorney for filing
suits and collecting the back taxes in
his bailiwick, and we, of course, know
that Old Charley Yeamans can’t pay
this out of his own pocket, but we do
know that his heart is in the work
and if some of you don’t proceed to
make up enough money to file these
suits, we are going to have to take
the matter in hand, and we have
heard from enough of the old stand-
bys to know that we can raise at least
$300 for this praiseworthy project.
* * »
like to “make a little medicine with
you.” If there is any doubt, that you
can not collect this back tax, why not
settle the question by testing the
thing out in the courts, and if these
delinquents are right in their conten-
tion that they should not pay this tax,
charge it all off and start over again,
even though they have educated their
people’s expense,
but of course some of them have no
children, but any one will agree with
me that they should have.'
* * *
To the Hon. Thomas H. Lewis, we
wish to dedicate the following: We
have so much confidence in your in-
tegrity and ability, that we are sure
that you will “go to the mat” with
this bunch, and you are the only one
who can proceed in the courts with
this duty, why we just naturally ex-
pect you to do that.
You might make enemies if you do
your duty, but we think you are above
all such considerations, but the point
♦ * *
If our memory serves us right, the
people of this city, and of this inde-
pendent school district, have been
promised that these taxes will be col-
lected, and we may be crazy, but we
think this little thing is going to hap-
pen—we are betting on you boys.
Patronize Tribune advertisers.
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spells of swimming in the head, poor
appetite, constipation and a general
no-account feeling, it is a sign your
The one really de-
pendable remedy for all disorders in
the liver, stomach and bowels is Hem-
bine. It acts powerfully on the liver,
strengthens digestion, purifies the
bowels and restores a fine feeling of
energy, vim and cheerfulness. Price.
60c. Sold by Bouldin’s Drug Store. —
Adv.
❖ * *
Since our last article in “The Col-
we have been advised that
our old war-horse, Seth Taylor, has
his resignation in the hands of the
City Council, so from here on out it
is up to you.
“Try to visualize an unbroken line
of 1500 motor cars driven on the road
35 feet apart—how far would the line
extend?”
by R. Lee Anderson, of Hardy-Ander-
son Auto Co., local Dodge Brothers
dealer as he looked up from a paper
on which he had been figuring.
“Dodge Brothers, Inc., are
building 1500 vehicles a day.
car measures, let us say, 15 feet from
bumper to bumper. If we should al-
low 35 feet as a safe driving distance
between cars on the road, this would
make an unbroken line of cars 75,000
feet long.
“I have not been able to find a road
map which gives the mileage across
Canada and through Buffalo down to
New York City but I have just check-
ed the distance from a railroad time
table.
“If the distance by road from De-
troit across Canada to Buffalo and
down the Lackawanna trail to New
York City is no greater than the dis-
tance by rail I figure that if their
entire production at their present
1500 car per day rate were spaced
out 35 feet apart a few hours less
than 45 days would be required to
make a line which would reach from
the factory in Detroit to Central Park.
“So great has been the demand for
the cars with their important new
improvements and at the astonishing-
ly reduced prices that it is under-
stood that the rate of production is
to be still further increased in order
that there may be sufficient cars to
supply the increased needs of dealers
during the coming spring months.
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ONE IN TEN
* * *
We think we are safe in saying that
we have a lot of good material in
Bay City, for directors, and we do not
believe it necessary to go outside of
the city limits for the directors. We,
of course, might get better material,
but it makes people talk.
* * *
We wish to make some suggestions
to you now, as in a few days, your
ballots will be mailed to you, and we
will ask you to consider a few names
from among the younger generation
foi' the positions above referred to,
and if you have some one in mind,
that would be better material—shoot
him, but we know these boys, and we
sincerely believe they would make
Wonderful directors.
* * *
But before we tell you who they
are we wish to ask the members of
the Bay City Chamber of Commerce,
when they meet next month, for the
purpose of electin directors, to
change that part of the constitution
which permits a member to have vot-
ing power in proportion to the amount
he subscribes, as this is undemocratic
to say the least, and we recall that
last year one director was elected
with only 13 votes cast for him, and
we have one large corporation who
is a subscriber who under the exist-
ing rules{ would have eight votes, so
you can readily see that if he was at
all friendly to two or three members
he might succeed in electing the en-
tire board, but that would not be the
will of the people.
* * *
And, again under existing rules and
regulations, the small subscriber,
who gives a dollar and under per
month, and there are many of them,
are not permitted to vote for the di-
rectors, and if you do not change this,
we would suggest to all of them that
they quit contributing—that’s what
sunk the tea boats.
♦ * *
The thing was undoubtedly in the
hands of some few men who thought
they could run the thing to suit them-
selves when they forced that clause
in the contract.
And we imagine the same bunch
that inserted that provision, in the
by-laws would insert it in the govern-
ment of the U. S. and the State of
Texas, and we would have a property
qualification in all our voting.
♦ * *
The above provisions in the by-laws
need changing—do it.
♦ ♦ *
Try these for directors:
FRANK SHAW TAYLOR.
LAYTON MOORE.
PERCIVAL HAMILL.
FORT VERSER.
They are all good workers,
When Christopher Columbus stop-
ped at Haiti on his second voyage to
America a dozen boys along the sandy
shores were playing ball.
They tossed about a crude pellet
that was soft and bounced, and awak-
ened the curiosity of the navigator.
Columbus took it back to Spain as one
of the souvenirs of his adventure.
Spain must have snickered a bit
when Columbus brought that pellet
instead of gold.
But that pellet was rubber. And
now, four centuries later, rubber has
become the center of a story of in-
ternational romance, tragedy and tri-
umph. It has become indispensable
to modern life.
It is rubber that has made it pos-
sible for the United States to have
millions of motor cars.
It is rubber that has made possible
most of the great electrical inven-
tions of the age because of its insul-
ating qualities.
When it rains it is rubber
keeps the entire nation dry.
Rubber bands, rubber erasers
countless other rubber products have
become indispensable to the world’s
business.
And it is Great Britain’s domina-
tion of the world’s rubber supply that
now is causing friction between the
two greatest nations in the world.
The secret of rubber’s discovery
lies locked in the drifting dust, the
remains of some crafty savage of the
Amazon. That savage sat
watching a beetle,
boring into a tree.
out a milky juice that drowned the
beetle and, something more, healed
the wound the bettie had made.
For thousands of years the trees
had stood there waiting for man to. children at other
watch a beetle.
The savage pecked curiously at the
tree. The rubber came off; a sticky,
pliant mass. He smeared it on his
body. The natural heat of his body
hardened it. He had a rubber suit.
It took McIntosh, centuries later,
to learn how to spread rubber be-
tween two layers of cloth and make
the raincoats which still bear his
name.
Other men, like Goodrich, Good-
year, Candee, Firestone, Sieberling,
De Lisser, Hotchkiss, Dunlop, Miller,
Brown, Works, Litchfield, O’Neil and
Seger have provided the industrial
impetus that has helped make rub-
ber the giant that it is.
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RIO GRANDE VALLEY LANDS
Texas investors buying in the Valley.
Get list of special bargains on cotton
farms and suburban citrus orchards.
Write S. G. Hutchinson, Room 6, Rich
want to know whether they arc Bldg., McAllen, Texas. tf
* * *
Some of you “critics” have one
qualification for holding a non-paying
public office—you have nothing else
to do, at least you do nothing that is
worth while, and we do not believe
that destructive criticism is a fitting
job for a grown man or woman.
* * *
We know what is wrong with some
of you guys—Old Seth put you on a
meter and some of the rest of you had
to pay your water rent. Ain’t it Heck
that he would do that,—we don’t won-
der at your attempt to crucify the
whole bunch.
Neglecting a little wound, cut
abrasion of the flesh may in nine
cases out of ten cause no great suf-
fering oi’ inconvenience, but it is the
one case in ten that causes biocd
poisoning, lockjaw or a chronic fet-
tering sore. The cheapest, safest and
best course is to disinfect the wound
wtih liquid Borozone and apply the
Borozone Powder to complete the
healing process. Price (liquid) 30c,
60c and $1.20. Powder 30c and 60c.
Sold by Bouldin’s Drug Store.—Adv.
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How Rubber Was
Discovered
♦ * ♦
Paris Smith and W. H. Poole are
getting ready to duck and run, unless
We can make them think it is cow-
ardly to run from these little “pe-we”
politicians that have been yapping at
their heels for so long—personally
we wouldn’t think of running from
that kind of little poodles, and if they
Will give it a little serious thought, I
am sure they will not relish the idea
.Of admitting the fact that they run
from these scandal-mongers.
♦ * »
These old boys have given more
time to the city’s business than lots
Of you have to your own business,
Will you then, in order to keep your
idle tongue wagging, force them to
leave the councils of the city admin-
istration, in order to escape the cal-
umny that you have daily heaped
upon them.
There is no job finished until it is
completed, until it is wound up, per-
formed and ended, whether it applies
to concreting the square or electing
the best kind of men to public office,
and because of this fact, we are still
after you to do your duty in the com-
ing city election.
* * *
We are sure that lots of you agree
with us in our statements as to the
present city administration, and their
past accomplishments, but what are
you doing about it—nothing, we guess,
but perfectly willing to let George do
it, and perhaps George won’t, then
what?
* * *
We made a lot of suggestions about
the city administration in our letter
last week, and now we want you all
to get busy, as the city election is
looming up in the near distance, and
the way we have things doped out it
won’t do to let any of the councilmen
quit, but listen you will have to do
something besides sit and think—if
you are capable of the latter.
* ♦ *
Some of the councilmen’s terms ex-
pire this year, and after the scandal-
ous way you have treated them since
they took office, of course they are
anxious to “shuck” the duties and re-
sponsibilities, destructive criticism,
and cussings that you have handed
them since they took office, so it’s up
to you to go to them and tell them
they must stay out on the battle line,
at least until we have taken Bay Ctiy
out of the mud.
, * * *
And that matter of the wooden
water mains will need attention, and
as they have made a start in the right
direction in replacing with durable
material, we must keep what we know
to be good.
* * *
Some years ago when they were at-
tempting to vote bonds in our neigh-
boring county of Wharton, to build
hard surfaced roads, one large and
prominent planter protested that they
did not need roads, that they could
hitch on more mules, and it would
seem from the attitude that some of
you are taking in the matter of pav-
ing, that you are using the mule idea,
or the mule’s idea, which?
* * *
And then again, there is the prob-
ability, that some of you will have to
pay up on this delinquent tax propo-
sition, and you think if you get rid
of the present city administration, you
can put in a bunch of non-working,
non-producing, non-taxpaying cheap
politicians, and you may.
* * »
We want you boys to stay in there
and collect this back tax, and this ap-
plies to the school board, and we be-
lieve you will, but if you refuse or
neglect this important duty, why—we
will join the hue and cry, and help
put you out of office, and we would
be justified in doing that little thing.
* * *
Now, Mr. School Board, we would
we are trying to make, is that there
is no excuse for you to put the matter
off any longer, if we can’t well—we
can’t but we can at least make a try
at it.
* * *
And as we are long on suggestions,
we want to insist that you do the only
thing left for you to do,—go to your
councilmen and ask them to refuse
to accept this resignation, at least
until you have had a chance to talk
to Mr. Taylor, and then talk to him
like a Dutch Uncle, and try to show
him his duty in the matter, as he has
a duty to his city and to his own bus-
iness—“To stay in the fight.”
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This is the guy that took “The Sick
Baby,” the waterworks system,
nursed it and tended it like it was his
(and he was not even its pa),
and what is it today—a perfectly
healthy, grown-up business organiza-
tion, and the biggest asset the city
owns today, except the present city
administration.
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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/m1/6/?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.