The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1926 Page: 5 of 8
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Highway Designated
From Gonzales to Edna
paid by citizens of Longview, Wash-
ington.
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Notice to Subscribers
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Tuna fish caught in Japan weigh as
much as 750 pounds.
Send in your remittance as soon
as you receive the statement.
TRIBUNE PRINTING CO.
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An annual hospital fee of $15, tn-
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the commission for granting this
designation and to Mr. Paulus for his
untiring efforts in their behalf.—Yoa-
kum Times. »
The state highway commission at
its regular session on the 13th desig-
nated as a state highway the road
from Dreyer, Hochheim Prairie sec-
tion, Kokernot to Yoakum, thence by
way of Hope to Edna in Jackson
County. This gives the Dreyer, Ko-
kernot and Hope sections highway
facilities and at the same time makes ■ diate attention, for we are going to
a very important connecting link in j the trouble and expense of mailing
On May 1 we will mail to all sub-
scribers in arrears a statement show-
ing amount due us on your subscrip-
tion. We take this occasion to ask
you to give the statement your imme-
IdClllLlco <1x1 a. ctL tile oaluc lixiac hiuuvo . uiato ,
a very important connecting link in j the trouble and expense of mailing
the state highway system, shortening them out for the money that is due
the distance between Gonzales and
Yoakum territory to Edna and adja-
cent territory by about 40 or 45 miles.
This highway will be improved just
as soon as the courts determine how
the legislature provides for issuance I titling them to medical treatment, op-
of district and county bonds. Attor- J erations, and hospital room service, is
ney Henry Paulus of Yoakum repre-
sented the applicants before the high-
way commission when this designa-
tion was made. The people of this
entire territory are deeply grateful to
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Your Credit Is Good
For that
Graduation Gift
W«<fi worth
. Cart
Boys’ Watches
in the newest
patterns
$14.00 Up
Wrist Watches in
the newest
shapes
$12.50 Up
Diamond Rings,
beautiful white
gold and platinum
mountings
$15.00 Up
There is nothing more appropriate than a
good Watch or Diamond. You will find just
the right thing in our well selected stock.
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W.F. TETTS
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Jeweler and Optometrist
WARNING!
Harty Building
The amount of lots and lands will not increase,
but the VALUE will.
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Check us up and prove to us that you know we
are correct, by selecting your town lot or a
home. We have some sure enough bargains.
MAGILL LAND COMPANY
Also General Insurance Agents, and Bay City
Life Insurance Association
A Home Institution for Home People
Phone 86
Notary Public in Office
To buy either BUSINESS or RESIDENCE
LOTS in Bay City ahead of the OIL and
LAND development that is scheduled to come
to our city and section, you will have to buy
SOON.
THE FIRST EXCURSION
Official Announcements
Are Encouraging as to
Coming of First Home-
seekers.
successfully
and
three
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Mrs. F. E. Gray, of Trinity, is here
visiting Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Ewing.
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A recent survey made by the Fed-
eration of British Industries showed
that the United States, with seven per
cent of the world’s population, has 65
per cent of the world’s total produc-
tion or resources, such as coal, petro-
leum, copper, steel, wheat, cotton,
lumber, automobiles, railroads, etc.
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Jaynes, of Collegeport,
City
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“Safety First” Wins
Laurels at The Grand
COLLEGEPORT, Texas, April 30.—
Official announcements from the of-
fices of the Collegeport Fig Orchards
Company, both here and in Spring-
field, are to the effect that Dr. Van
Wormer will bring as guests a train
of homeseekers from the North, leav-
ing May 15 and arriving here about
May 17.
Dr. Wm. W. Van Wormer, president
of the Fig Orchards Company, said
that the trip had been advertised in
approximately 100 or more dailies and
weeklies in the Northern states and
that response indicated that the trip
would be made as scheduled.
S. B. Sims, local manager for the
Fig Orchards Company, has been using
every effort to get orchards in shape
to take full advantage of the plentiful
rainfall this spring. In quickly con-
ditioning the soil he plans to conserve
the moisture and thus produce a
bumper yield.
North Cable, in charge of the land-
scaping, is putting the streets and
sidewalks in shape to give the visitors
the best possible view of the town-
site. Mr. Cable has
planted several hundred palms
oleanders with a loss of but
trees.
A move was initiated last week to
provide a special day of welcome for
the visitors. Full details will not be
worked out, Homer Goff, secretary of
the Chamber of Commerce, said, until
the wishes of Dr. Van Wormer have
been made known in the matter.
An error in newspaper reports last
week regarding the presentation of
the annual Mothers Day pageant was
corrected this week with the an-
nouncement that the pageant would
be presented Sunday evening, May 9,
instead of May 2.
Elaborate plans for costuming and
lighting the pageant have been made.
Lighting effects are in charge of Dean
Merk and Milburn McNeill; decora-
tions, Mrs. Matt Pierce; in charge of
the Solomon Episode, Mrs. L. E. Lig-
gett and Miss Lena Corse; in charge
of other episodes, Mrs. Pierce, Mrs.
Emmitt Chiles, Mrs. E. A. McCune,
Mrs. T. G. McNeill, and Mrs. H. Paul
Janes.
Music for the pageant will be in
charge of Miss Dorothy Crane, Homer
Goff and H. Paul Janes. Male quar-
tets, mixed quartets, solos and instru-
mental solos and orchestra selections
will feature the musical program.
Collegeport Junior Church is pre-
senting a Mothers Day program Sun-
day morning, May 9, in the form of a
dramatic presentation of the story of
Moses. Mrs. H. Paul Janes, Misses
Gladys Mae Frazier and Minnie Lee
McNeill will be in charge.
Sermon subjects for Sunday, May 2,
will be, “Learning to Be a Man” and
“The Direct Route,” according to Rev.
H. Paul Janes, pastor of First Church
of Collegeport. Both of these ser-
mons tend to be practical, Mr. Janes
said, and will deal with the practical
problems of life. Unless Christian
programs of living work more success-
fully than any other they are no good,
the minister said. It is the aim of
the above mentioned sermons to be
practical.
“Safety First,” the high school play
presented at the Grand last night, de-
serves much praise. There has never
been a better home talent play seen
in Bay City. This is specially note-
worthy when one considers that many
of the student actors and actresses
made their initial appearance last
night.
The director, Mr. Key, is to be con-
gratulated on his hard work and his
wonderful results. The returns which
amounted to well over the hundred
mark are to go to the athletic depart-
ment for next year.
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» A tablecloth once owned by Kate
Douglas Wiggin contains autographs
of one hundred fifteen notables, in-
cluding Mark Twain, Henry Irving,
Carl Schurz, Richard Harding Davis,
and Annie Louise Carey.
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Tribune ads are business getters.
Rev. Paul
was a business visitor to Bay
yesterday.
Our train schedules
P. S. GLENN, Ticket Agent
Gulf Coast Lines
are quick and convenient.
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Hot Springs, Ark.
The ideal place to rest up before your summer business
rush.
Low round trip rate excursion tickets on sale Saturday,
May 22nd, with final return limit May 31st, 1 926.
Is Farming in Texas
Safe?
(Houston Post-Dispatch)
“If the women let go, America will
be disastrously wet,” one of the wit- ■
nesses before the prohibition hearing
Five hundred bankers of this state
have agreed with the Texas Safe
Farming Association that it is not
and they have agreed to co-operate
with that organization in a tremen-
dous effort now underway to make
farming safe.
The Texas Safe Farming Associa-
tion was organized three months ago
by 100 business men who have made
a success of their business undertak-
ings and who now desire to see the
farmer make a success of his. With
the slogan of “Better Cotton on Few-
er Acres and More Feed on More
Acres,” the association has launched
an intensive campaign to induce the
Texas farmer to raise his own feed
instead of sending millions of dol-
lars out of the state every year to
buy the food and feed that could be
raised abundantly on Texas soil.
The association also is advocating
a reduction of cotton acreage, but its
leaders point out that it may be im-
possible to get a reduction of acreage
this year and that if the farmer has
enough food and feed on his own
place for his animals and family then
the cotton income will be virtually
all profit, even if cotton price is only
12 cents, as predicted by George B.
Terrell, state commissioner of agri-
culture.
The first intensive work of this or-
ganization has been done with bank-
ers and credit merchants, according
to the first report of the association’s
work just released. The bankers and
credit merchants were selected as the
class which at this time has the most
important and intimate contact with
cotton farmers as to the planting of
crops. A serious letter was addressed
to members of the Texas Bankers’ As-
sociation, acquainting them with the
purpose of the organization, inviting
comment and requesting co-operation.
Of the 563 banks which replied, more
than 500 were in accord with the pur-
pose and policy of the association and
announced that they would take active
steps to persuade their farmer cus-
tomers to plant enough food and feed
to maintain their families and farm
establishments.
Col. Clarence Ousley, formerly as-
sistant secretary of agriculture in the '
Wilson administration, and formerly
head of the extension department of
A. and M. College, was named director
of the association.
Colonel Ousley and members of the
executive committee of the associa-
tion have addressed many public
meetings of chambers of commerce,
Lions and Rotary clubs and similar
organizations, as well as county-wide
meetings of farmers. The director
has traveled many hundreds of miles,
interviewing bankers and business
men and promoting organizations to
encourage safe farming.
A pamphlet containing a simplified
argument on the business of farming j
has been issued in colaboration with
the extension service of A. and M. Col-
lege, the editors of Farm and Ranch,
Progressive Farmer, and the South
land Farmer. This was distributed i
directly to the farmer by bankers
and credit merchants to the number
of 160,000.
As a result of this intensive activity ■
with bankers and credit merchants, I
Colonel Ousley stated that the as- •
sociation “had been instrumental in 1
setting in motion a very powerful in-
fluence for safer farming.”
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Women and Prohibition
in Washington said last week.
The impression is general that the
great majority of women are support-
ers of prohibition. The woman suf-
frage and prohibition amendments to >
the Constitution were linked together '
being proposed. Most of the men who I
in the public mind when they were
cause they feared the woman vote
opposed woman suffrage did so be-
would abolish the liquor traffic.
But, after all, were their fears alto-
gether well founded? Does prohibi-
tion find such wide support among
women as has been generally sup- (
posed? What is the record of women'
since they got the vote? j
There are three women who are
members of congress, and every one
of them is wet. About the only time
the country ever knows of Mrs. Con-
gresswoman Kahn, or Mrs. Congress-
woman Rogers or Mrs. Congress-
woman Norton is when one of them
arises to express her sympathy with
the liquor forces and to denounce pro-
hibition.
There are two women who are gov-
ernors of States. One of them is the
wife of a former governor who
throughout his public career was a
champion of the liquor side, and she
herself finds one of the sources of her
fame in the extraordinary number of
bootleggers she has pardoned out of
the penitentiary.
If prohibition finds its chief support
among women, why is it that so many
young women of th eday demand their
escorts carry hip pocket flasks and
why is it that so many hostesses in
“society’ ’flagrantly violate the pro-
hibition law by serving liquor at so-
cial gatherings?
Doubtless, it is really true that the
majority of American women are in
favor of prohibition. But they have
not made their influence felt in re-
cent years as they did when the fight
was on to the outlaw the saloon.
Young women who have reached ma-
turity since the dry law went into ef-
fect are, as a rule perhaps, not as
ardent in opposition to liquor as their
mothers were, because the educational
movement in prohibition has lagged
and they have not had the experience
of going through prohibit^ caDP
naie-nq that the oiuei wu«nen had. It
not .itararal that, under the dr-
oumstances, many of them should not
have the depth of feeling upon the is-
sue that older women have.
Though the dry women may be in
the majority, it is apparent that there
must be more organization among
them, and they must pay more atten-
tion to voting, if they are to make
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Report of the Condition of
Fir^t National Bank
At the Close of Business on April 12, 1926
335,678.61
$988,160.54
3
$988,160.54
$100,000.00
62,701.91
24,200.00
801,258.63
$480,833.24
97,666.37
36,888.96
5,500.00
14,500.00
17,093.36
$ 34,537.97
150,000.00
151,140.64—
Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits
Circulation
DEPOSITS
Loans ---------------
Bonds and Stocks-----
U. S. Bonds
Furniture and Fixtures
Banking House-------
Other Real Estate------
Bill of Exchange------
Call Loans -----------
CASH
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XTOU can purchase a used Ford car from an
Y Authorized Ford Dealer with definite knowl-
edge of condition, backed up by a liberal
guarantee.
It is only logical that you should look to the Ford
Dealer for your used Ford—your assurance of
exceptional value; honest representation as to
condition; courteous treatment as long as you
have your car and a fair trade-in allowance when
you are ready for a new Ford.
Go to the nearest Authorized Ford Dealer and
see the selection of used Ford cars he has to offer.
Bay City Auto-Sales Co.
authorized ford dealers
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Condensed Statement of
CITIZENS STATE BANK
$477,167.34
Total
LIABILITIES
$477,167.34
Total
Loans and Discounts
Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures-------
Other Real Estate
Bonds and Stocks
Interest in and Assessment for Guarnay Fund—
Other Resources
Cash and Exchange--------------------------
Customers Bonds--------------------------
The above is correct.
GEO. R. BURKE, Cashier.
$ 50,000.00
4,912.77
386,254.57
36,000.00
$209,241.97
48,382.00
23,563.78
55,970.72
11,434.05
1,158.85
91,415.97
36,000.00
OF BAY CITY, TEXAS
As Rendered to the Commissioner of Banking of the State
of Texas, April 12, 1925
RESOURCES
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Capital Stock----r- -.
Undivided Profits 1----
Deposits
Liberty Bonds Deposited
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Small Blaze at Sn.
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Patronize Tribune advertisers.
A small blaze caused by a g«.
burner attracted the fire depart.,
to the W. H. Stinnett Confectionery
6 o’clock this morning.
The fire was soon extinguished and
no damage was done.
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Note the change in the school of
missions program for tonight. Rev.
W. D. Ryan will address the school
Thursday afternoon and night and
Miss Ellie Traylor will give her ster-
eoptican lecture, “Latin American Im-
migrants in America,” tonight.
good the reputation women have of
being the terror of the liquor traffic.
In the states where the wet-dry issue
will be active in the elections this
year, unless the women turn out and
vote in larger numbers than has been
the custom in recent years, the wets
may make substantial gains.
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Dray horses passing through a big
puddle of water in a Boston street
suddenly jumped about in lively fash-
ion short-circuited electric conduct
had given the puddle a charge of 120
volts.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1926, newspaper, April 30, 1926; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304320/m1/5/: 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.