The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1926 Page: 6 of 8
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Class Party
BY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
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Pure Kasch and Mebane Cotton Seed for planting.
Price, $1.60 p er bushel at Bay City. These seed
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Is Overproduction
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Next to Good Health
a Good Car
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AT SAME TIME
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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE OIL FIELD NEWS
IS NOT SO GOOD
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the field is extended from the
ent producing area, very little
production is looked for, oil
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to practice extensive
oth^r Cotton on a large scale,
three-bale men are not going to
crowd production.
But how about the one-bale men?
The local prizes in some cases will
reward the one-bale men. And if
their tribe increases sufficiently, acre-
age reduction becomes increasingly
necessary. In the More Cotton on
Fewer Acres contest the thing is au-
tomatic. Success crowns the efforts
of the man who reduces his acreage.
Indeed, that success is so very great
and depends so amazingly upon large
applications of labor and thought to
small parcels of ground htat it is a
dull man indeed upon whom the les-
son is lost. *
A good car is like good health—up-
keep is not expensive. One’s earning
capacity is at the maximum, there is
a full measure of recreation. A man
is free of many limitations which oth-
erwise restrict him.
Automobile transportation opened a
bigger, better life to everybody. That’s
why so many millions own cars to-
day.
The new Bodge Brothers cars will
take you far beyond your present
horizon. May we show them to you?
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men of the President Roosevelt.
Some of them, too, were gifts of the
generous American people to mem-
bers of the crew of the storm-con-
quered Antinoe. The gifts of money,
totaling thousands of dollars and
raised by tree will offerings of the
dollars of the well-to-do and pennies
of the poor in New York City, will
be devoted first to relieving the
needs of relatives of the two men
who lost their lives in the rescue
work, Master-at-Arms Uno Witanen
and Boatswain’s Mate Ernest Heit-
man, both of the President Roose-
velt, and second to rewarding the
personal bravery shown by the
Roosevelt’s boat crews, under First
Officer Robert Miller.
Story of the Flashlights
Th a fnn» -n.ci nashlights which
are among the valued tmnhies of
oie rescue that thrilled the whole
world, are mementoes of a remark-
able incident in the picturesque
modern drama of the sea. One of
them bears the name of Arthur
Evans, radio operator of the Anti-
noe, and is a special gift from Cap-
tain Fried to that resourceful young
man who, when the Antinoe’s radio
failed, maintained contact between
the two vessels during four terrible
nights by blinking Morse code mes-
sages with a small flashlight. Cap-
tain Fried is taking this handsome
and powerful new flashlight, which
throws a clear, white beam a dis-
tance of 500 feet and which can be
seen in signal work from a distance
of more than six miles, to Plymouth,
to be presented to Evans there.
The other three silver flashlights,
each suitably engraved, are gifts
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war that American
exports fell fifty thousand tons dur-
ing the first nine months of 1925.
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Shortly before Columbus discovered
America, sugar sold for $2.75 a pound
in London.
There is a shrine opposite the con-
sulate of the Kashgar oasis in Chi-
WPKP orniAn-i
Retail deliveries of 18,516 passenger
and commercial vehicles by Dodge
Brothers dealers in the United States
during the month of February, ac-
cording to official figures released by
the factory at Detroit, establish a new
record for delivery during winter
Compared with 14,485 de-I
during February, 1925, the '
gain is 28 per cent.
Compared with the excellent record
of 14,943 deliveries during the period
from January 2 to January 30 this
year the gain is 24 per cent.
Week after week his year, as a re-
sult of public recognition of the ex-
ceptional value now offered in Dodge
Brothers products with their recent
improvements and their greatly re-
duced prices, records for previous
weeks and for corresponding weeks
of all preceding years have been
broken.
Deliveries between January 2 and
the end of February this year,
amounting to 33,459 vehicles, compar-
the State of New Jersey.
LL the world loves a hero.
When the steamship
President Roosevelt, of the
United States Lines, sailed
from New York for Ply-
mouth, England, on her latest voy-
age, she carried with her a veritable
museum of gifts from the mightiest
and the humblest people of two con-
tinents—gifts which will memorial-
ize for all time the Roosevelt’s
rescue of the officers and men of
the British freighter Antinoe.
A silver loving cup from the King
of England, pennies from the school
children of New York, a gold watch
from the Associated Press, a silver
cigarette case from Captain Tose,
of the ill-fated Antinoe, a Navy
Cross presented to Captain George
Fried, of the Roosevelt, by the
President of the United States, a
scroll from the City of New York
and another from the Stato at New
Jersey, four silver flashlights pre-
sented by one of the largest manu-
facturing companies in the United
States—these and many other tok-
ens of the love that the people of
the “Old.’’World” and the “New”
have in their hearts for pure hero-
ics, were borne by the Roosevelt.
And some of them will be on display
in a special trophy room of the
famous ship as long as she sails
the seas. When the proud vessel
is no longer fit for the tremendous
battle against wind and wave, these
trophies will be given a permanent
place of honor by the United States
Line. ,
Great Gifts and Small
Some of these presents, of course,
were personal gifts to the brave
Captain Fried and his officers and
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J • Foreign production of tobacco, es-
Factory shipments during February pecially in the Balkans, has increased
nave surpassed those for any previous so much since the
month in Dodge Brothers history in
wiseacres to wag their spite of the fact that February has
The Texas Company has two I fewer days than any other month,
in 5 -------- Production which is now greater than
1500 per day is soon to be increased.
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The dulcimer is the first musical
instrument mentioned in the Bible.
when reworked these wells
markable for volume of oil and long
life.. Gulf Coast salt dome oil fields
are temperamental but in the long
run produce more oil per acre than
fields in other parts of the country.
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Dodge Brothers
Break All Records
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Capt. Fried is here shown
with two powerful silver flash-
lights, suitably engraved to
commemorate the rescue of the
crew of the Antinoe. One of
these hand searchlights is a
gift to Capt. Fried from the
th« n.hsr is
Capt. Fried’s gift to Arthur
Evans, radio operator of the
AhUFIW.
of the manufacturer who built them
especially for Captain Fried, First
Officer Robert Miller and Fourth
Officer Frank Upton, of the Presi-
dent Roosevelt. Upton, it will be
recalled, was in charge of the
Roosevelt’s radio and picked up the
wireless messages which brought
the Roosevelt plunging through the
storm to aid the stricken Antinoe.
It was Upton who also maintained
“Lemal contact with Evans on board
the Antinoe these four howl-
ing nights when only winking
dots and dashes from Evans’ tinj
flashlight assured the officers and
men of the Roosevelt that the starv-
ing, half-frozen and helpless seamen
were clinging with a last desperate
hope to the battered hulk that had
been their proud ship.
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Huge Gas Pressure and
Fine Sandy Shade Are
Blamed For Trouble.
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On Friday evening, March 12, at
six thirty oclock, Mrs. A. S. Morton
entertained with a dinner at her
home, honoring her Sunday school
class.
About seven o’clock a delightful
salad course, cake,
mints were served.
Music, stunts and games were en-
joyed until a late hour.
Those enjoying the hospitality were:
Tetts, Rev. C. Pugsley, Dr.
pro- ' Russie Moreland, Florence Clements'
j Frances Vest, Constance Langham,
year factory Lucile ~White, Katherine Vaughan,
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States and Canada established a new and the hostess.
The entertainment was enjoyed by
all, thanks to our wonderful teacher.
A GUEST.
Rainfall in the wheat-growing sec-
tions of Texas will have much to do
with the production of cotton in Texas
this fall, we are told. Whether there
has been precipitation enough to pre-
vent the plowing under of wheat
lands for cotton planting will shortly
become a question of considerable in-
terest. Last year the dry winter
made a cotton field out of many a
wheat “patch.” Similar conditions
may do it again.
Some find occasion for fear lest the
multitude of prizes offered for more
cotton induces a larger yield. It is
a fact that local prizes are more nu-
merous this year than ever before.
Indeed, counties which have rarely if
ever before taken interest along this
line are this year enthusiastically
promoting intensive cultivation. The
question is whether the man who is
trying to raise three bales on each
of five acres will incidentally raise
as much cotton as he has been rais-
ing on his other land. The answer to
that is easy. The man who puts
enough work on five acres to raise
15 bales on it is going to be too busy
---1.3 cultivation of
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There is no argument in the world
against local prizes for More Cotton
on Fewer Acres—not the shadow of
an argument. But there is this point
to be remembered. The “Fewer
Acres” part of it must not be forgot-
ten in the county campaigns. Fewer
cotton acres on each farm and more
cotton to the acre isn’t going to hurt
any county, and it isn’t going to hurt
Texas. Bu if it doesn’t rain enough
on Texas wheat and oats to bring
them to a stand we are going to have
to watch acreage reduction rather
sharply it looks like.—Dallas News.
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More Flivver Signs.
The Pathfinder recently published
a list of funny signs carried on the
rear of Fords. Paul Barrows, a
Waukon, Iowa, reader, adds some that
he has observed in the Middle West:
“Hesit 8.”
“Viber 8.”
“Exasper 8.”
“Spoon Holder.”
“Chicken, here’s your coop.”
“Baby, here’s your rattle.”
“Shake, rattle and roll.”
“Sister, you’d look tough without
paint, too.”
“Laugh, but I paid cash for mine.”
“Four wheels; four brakes; four
more installments.”
“Darling I am growing old.”
“I rattle in my rear-end, but I don’t
strike.”
“Mrs. Frequently.”
“—So we took the $50 and bought
this.”
“Capacity, 500 gals” (one at a :
time). ;
“Tack finder.” (
“I ain’t gonna run much more.” j
“True love never runs smoothly.” i
“Dangerous, but passable.”
“Sound value—Can’t you hear it?” 1
“There’s beauty in every jar.” <
“For sale, $1.98; while it lasts.” i
“Willie’s nightie.”
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at the same time build up
stocks in the hands of dealers in
ticipation of the heaving selling
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early spring Dodge Brothers, Inc., iA- S. Morton, Nellie Jewell Harris^
have been breaking all previous pro- ! Russie Morels"^ ----
duction records. j Frances Vest,
During February this year factory Lucile White, ______
shipments from their plants in United Marie English, Mary
States and Canada established a new
high record of 29,335 Dodge Brothers I
motor cars and Graham Brothers
trucks, a gain of 34 per cent over Jan-
uary this year and of 46 per cent over
February last year.
ed with 23,410 for the corresponding
period last year, show a gain of 43
per cent.
Signed, unfilled orders for future
delivery of new cars taken by dealers
during the week ending Saturday,
February 27, amounted to 6305, a gain
of 145 per cent over the week ending
January 2.
In their efforts to keep pace with
The new oil field at Boling, Whar-
ton County, which started off with a
rush scare two months ago, furnishes
a new choice of morsel for the dope-
sters to roll under their tongues.
Every well in the field, all four of
them, ceased flowing just as suddenly
as they were brought in and, today,
not a barrel of oil is being produced
from that field.
The wells all stopped flowing prac-
tically at the same time and that
caused the
heads.
wells, No. 3 Taylor, the discovery,
flowing 1500 barrels natural, and No.
4, producing 3000 barrels. The At-
lantic has one well, No. 2 Taylor,
which came in a gasser and spraying
about 300 barrels oil. Sinclair had
one well, No. 1 “Grandma” Taylor, a
large gasser, making around 1000
barrels oil a day.
The oil companies take an opti-
mistic view of the situation. Boling
field is noted for its large volume of
high pressure gas. Too, it shows an
unusually fine sandy shale around
the pay depths. Hence the conclu-
sion that the wells simply sanded,
merely a coincidence that they sand-
ed at the same time. The presence
of a huge gas pressure serves to
force the fine sandy shale through the
screen mesh and thereby plugs the oil
flow. Soon as the gas pressure abates
it is claimed that the wells will be
better oil producers. Well crews now
are engaged in cleaning out the holes.
This condition is not an unusual
occurrence in coastal fields. Oil men
remember that sub-surface strata
slipped in the Goose Creek field,
bending the casing in wells there, but
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The news from the Boling Dome oil
) field this week is not so satisfactory.
The Sinclair well was screened sev-
• eral days ago and Tuesday came in
- for heavy production, which gave way
[ in a very short time to a heavy flow
l of gas. Coincident with the making
> of this well, production of the others
was adversely affected, and when the
. gas flow succeeded the oil, our in-
formation is that not a well in the
field made any oil, and that to fire the
boilers on the several rigs that were
operating it was necessary to con-
nect up a gas line with the new well.
In addition to this, the Oxford drill-
ed into salt on the Hooper, we
informed. Work on other rigs
on uninterruptedly.
Leasing took another tangent dur-
ing the past week and some fancy
prices were paid, but just now the
whole situation seems to be sort of
“up in the air.” That the main pool
has not been located is the general
consensus of opinion. That it will
be located appears a certainty. There
are too many companies holding high-
priced leases that call for drilling to
leave any chance of failure in this
respect.
The heavy rains of Tuesday night
and Wednesday morning made one
big slush pit of the whole field and
working conditions have been bad as
a consequence, but there is no l ?t up.
Boling field is a busy place.
Yesterday’s Galveston News car-
ried the following article on the Bol-
ing situation: “The Texas Company’s
discovery well at Boling Dome. Whar-
ton County, No. 3 Taylor, and also
No. 4, which, together were produc-
ing around 4450 barrels, have sanded
up, leaving the Atlantic Oil Produc-
ing Company’s No. 1 Taylor and the
Sun Oil Company’s No. 1 Taylor the
only producers in the field. The for-
mer is making around 400 barrels,
Kasch yielded last year 39 per cent lint 1 1-16
Photos Bain News Service
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a gift to Capt. Fried from the Associated Press. At extreme right and
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CAREY SMITH................................................................................. Owner and Editor
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1926, newspaper, March 19, 1926; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304311/m1/6/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.