The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1926 Page: 5 of 8
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THE COUNTY COURIER
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The employe who is thrifty for himself will be
thrifty for you. His good habits benefit your
business, just as his bad habits injure it.
Edited by Superintendent Claire F. Pollard
Devoted to the Interests of the Rural
Schools
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One watch cannot do it all
Mr. William W. Grimes died at his
home on the Gaedcke farm north of
Bay City today and will be buried to-
morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock with
services at the cemetery.
He was 70 years of age and is sur-
vived by his wife and several chil-
dren.
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Are you forcing your strap watch to serve
on all occasions, formal as well as informal?
Do you expect of it that highest accuracy
which only a pocket watch can give?
Or is the full burden placed on your
pocket watch, making it serve even for
sports, and in summer when you wear no
vest—regardless of the inconvenience to you?
In either case, you are asking too much
of your watch. For complete watch ser-
vice, a man must have two timepieces—a
strap watch for convenience and style, and
a pocket watch whenever the vest is worn
or whenever highest accuracy is essential.
Let us show you our large assortment of
the newest styles in both types of watch,
dressed in the celebrated Wadsworth Cases.
They set the fashion for watches today.
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The Markham basket ball team won
the county championship in that event
in the game played with Gulf at Bay
City April 23. Markham will gradu-
ate her high school class June 3, of
’•the nine pupils making up this class,
Sseven are boys.
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SI: Guy N. Wynn, who has so success-
fully managed the Clemville schools
■for three years has been elected to
the principalship of the schools of
Louise, Jackson County. We regret
to lose from our teaching force a man
of Mr. Wynn’s sterling integrity and
high ideals. We have found him a
teacher of progressive ideas, of stu-
dious habits and of a receptive mind.
He is always ready to co-operate in
those plans for the upbuilding of not
only his own school but of the edu-
cational standards of the county. We
wish Mr. Wynn well in his new home
and congratulate Louise upon having
secured his services.
/CONFIDENCE in the concern
KJ with which you deal—that
is the biggest thing to consider
in your purchase of a used
Ford car; and upon that basis,
you should naturally buy from
an Authorized Ford Dealer.
Miss Eva Berg, Miss Elva Rae Pat-
terson and Miss Beryl Bell make up
the faculty for the Wadsworth
for 1926-’27.
Several districts are planning to in-
crease their taxes next year to meet
the need of additional funds for carry-
. ing on their schools. All honor to the
public spirit they evidence.
Some Straight Thoughts.
“Today the schoolhouse is
measuring rod of progress.”—The Bet-
ter Schools League, Chicago.
“Sincerity and truthfulness are the
heartblood of education.” — Henry
Fairchild Osborn.
Kiln Dried Rice Bran, Polish and
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Bay City Rice Milling Co.
The first paper was made in China
in A. D. 75, from the bark of a mul-
berry tree.
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Every one who lives any semblance ' Avenue on Town Line Road, neVr~ML J H1'01-6- Fancy Blue Rose vades.
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William W. Grimes
trailer and tractor
6000 single motorcycle
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Five farms, comprising 72 acres, are
still in existence on Manhattan Is-
land.
Happiness or
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ins making it work for us
step toward forming the
° which botk may be
save p
quired to use the tools which great
discoveries in science have given us,
to hold our national ideals, we must
not fail in the support and constant
improvement of our school system.
Both as the cause and the effect the
maintenance of our complex civiliza-
tion now depends upon it.”—Herbert
Hoover.
The “Dad” and Mother Owens relief
fund has now reached $195, thanks to
the charitable spirit of Bay City
people.
Taylor Brothers, undertakers, came
nobly to the rescue of the fund in a
most generous cut on the funeral ex-
penses and for which the committee
responsible for getting the money
necessary thanks them most sincere-
ly. This account has been paid, but
there are other expenses to meet, so
the subscription list will be held open
a few days longer. Remember, good
people, every dollar counts.
The fund now stands:
Previously collected
Today’s subscriptions:
R. F. Anderson ,
A. C. Steagall ’..
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of the term just closing.
before the department of education
when the plan for county examination
and county graduation was launched
four years ago.
The first honor student of the class,
judged by the one examination grade,
is little Miss Pearl Malone of Pledger.
Pearl won first place in the county
meet this year in junior girl rural
declamation, also won first in the dis-
trict meet at Houston. Miss Melva
Ewing of Van Vleck won second hon-
ors, having made one point lower
than Pearl. Melva is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Ewing and by the
record she has made during the entire
year, richly merits the honors she has
earned.
We hope to organize our plans for
next year’s graduation in such a way
as to show more distinction to the
honor students than we have in the
past.
contentment can not
act of accumulate
County Graduation.
The regular graduation exercises
for the seventh grades of the various
rural schools of Matagorda County
were held Friday night, May 7, at the
Methodist Church in Bay City. Be-
cause recent heavy rains had ren-
dered many of the country roads
practically impassable, just half the
number of graduates were able to at-
tend. The Harmony Club of Bay City
in their observance cf musical week
having arranged a musical program
for Friday evening co-operated with
the county department of education
by combining the two programs and
so made a varied program and an in-
teresting evening. The first and sec-
ond grade pupils of Bay City ren-
dered a cantata, “Spring,” interspers-
ed with solos anc recitative numbers.
The graduation class then marched
in in formal manner to the platform
and sang the class song, “America the
’ Mr. Wm. Cash, president
of the county board, in a few well
chosen words, commended the boys
and girls who had “held on” and so
nobly attained the goal for which they
had striven, the county diploma. The
Coveted diplomas, tied with the gold
ribbons (the county color), were de-
livered to the following pupils:
Bay View Consolidated School (Col-
legeport)—Mamie Murry, Bessie Jen-
kins, Eloise Freasier, Julian Jenkins,
Mae Dickinson.
Van Vleck—Mamie Chambless, Ruby
Luna, Elsie Rainey, Eva Smith, Hor-
ace McCree, Melva Ewing.
Clemville — Annie Posey, Lucille
Wynn, Doyle Kilpatrick, Ruth Gates,
Clyde Hickey, Selma Hiltpold.
Wadsworth—Lillian Bowers,
othy Moser, Tom Petrucha,
Help your employes to have Bank accounts
here. One employe with a Bank account is
worth to you two without bank accounts.
The latest dispatches from Wash-
ington indicate that it is highly prob-
able that congress will enact into a
lawr the Sheppard bill, providing an
appropriation each year for five years
for the purpose of exploring and lo-
cating the potash deposits of Texas.
Secretary of Commerce Hoover
manifested his interest in its passage
by the house, by address in the com-
mittee in charge of the bill, which has
already passed the senate.
Germany and France, which two
countries have control of the potash
producing territory of Europe, and in
consequence hold virtually a monop-
oply in potash, have the United States
at their mercy.
The conditions which resulted from
the German supply of potash being
cut off by the world war brought the
danger of the present situation to the
people in an actue, fprm.
For a nation which intports $200,-
000,000 worth of a commodity which
is almost indispensable to the basic
industry of this and all other coun-
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to the cost of what commodity of two
other nations beyond the sea, is a
perilous situation.
It should not exist when geologists
who speak whereof they know, tell us
that Texas has greater deposits of
potash than Germany ever saw.
It is indicated, rather than definite-
ly stated by the dispatches that the
congressional appropriation may be
conditioned on Texas appropriating
for the same purpose.
A member of the legislature from
Harris County advises the- Chronicle
that he has in mind in event a special
session of the legislature is called, to
lay the facts regarding potash before
every member of both houses in the
form of a memorial asking support
for an appropriation. -
A suggestion has been made by one
Houston citizen deeply interested in
this problem, that prizes be offered
the oil companies or drillers who are
operating in those sections of Texas
where potash is supposed to abound,
these awards to be given for every
concrete evidence of potash produced.
For the government to make a thor-
ough examination might mean many
years delay and millions of dollars in
expenses. Every oil drilling outfit in
West Texas could be induced to hunt
for potash while drilling for oil if
there were some substantial reward
to the discoverer.
Great fortunes will be made by pot-
ash discovereis in Texas. Discovery
of the product will also mean much
for the world’s good.—Houston Chron-
icle.
AUSTIN, Texas, May 13—Texas au-
tomobile license plates in 1927 will be
green with white numbers, it was
determined today when the board of
control ,on recommendations of the
state highway department, awarded
the contract to the S. G. Adams
Stamp and Stationery Company of St.
Louis for $9.29 per thousand pair in
envelopes and delivered.
W. J. Cooley & Co., of Memphis,
Tenn., was awarded ;.the contract for
20,000 chauffeur badges for 5%c each.
The contract awarded the Adams
Company includes
auto license plates,
commercial motor vehicle
plates, 12,500 pairs
plates, 12,500 single dealers’ plates,
12,500 ' ' " ' '
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Closing Exercises.
The following schools will hold
closing exercises this week and next,
for their high school classes: Van
Vleck, Wadsworth, Bay View Consol-
idated and Clemville.
“No nation in the world’s history
has so devoutly believed in, and so
deeply pledged itself to free univer-
sal education. In this great experi-
ment, America has marched in ad-
vance of all other nations. To main-
tain the moral and spiritual fibre of
our people, to sustain the skill re-
Best and Cheapest Stock Feed on
the Market
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More than two million persons a
day, or about 2 per cent of the entire
population of the United States, are
unable to attend to their regulai’
duties because of illness. The aver-
age time lost for each person is eight
/lQ1ys a year.
Before being revei,— ._x_
tribe an Amazon youth must place his
arms in hollow bamboos containing a
The baronial estates of Sweden are
being divided and sold to farm work-
ers in an attempt to stem the tide of
emigration to America.
Worry about overweight sent 225
women suffering from mental disor-
ders to Bellevue Hospital, New York,
last year.
colony of large tucandeir ants, whose
sting is excessively irritating. If he
stands the pain without complaint he
is adjudged a man.
The temperature of the moon at its
noontime is 250 degrees Fahrenheit, i
or above the boiling point.
The National zoo has acquired a
tuatera, a lizard whose history is
traced back to the days of the dino-
saurs.
Many iincy buttons are made from
” . The fluid is separated from
the cream and soured, either natur-
ally or 1
and then converted into criold of gala-
lith.
Millions of pounds of excess meat
were dumped on the English market
recently by rival American and Brit-
ish firms, battling for trade suprem-
acy. Prices were cut almost in half.
A Chinaman may at the same time
be a Taoist, a Buddhist, and a Confu-
cianist, the three religions being
closely allied.
Java is one of the most distinctly
volcanic regions of the world, having
14 active volcanoes.
the best teachers can i
broken images of the truth
they perceive. Speech which goes
from one to another between two na-
tures, and, what is worse, between
two experiences, is doubly relative.
The speaker buries his meaning; it is
for the hearer to dig it up again; and
all speech, written or spoken, is in a
dead language until it finds a willing
prepared hearer.—R. L. Steven-
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Tom Petrucha, Oscar
Mangum, Susie Coleman, Leona Waits,
Zaddie Waits.
Great Northern—Amy Ulland,
Kuchar.
Pupils from the following named
schools were absent but their dip-
lomas will be mailed to them:
Citrus Grove—Dayton Lee Parker.
Hasima—Lurline Reeves.
Bernard-—Ruby Keith, Roy
drep.
Cedar Lane—Patty Burford, Fran-
ces Stevens, Edna Worthy, Imogene
Worthy.
Pledger—Pearl Malone, Lucille Hob-
bins.
Midfields — Willis Michna,
Melbourn, Bob Trull.
We feel much gratified over the rec-
ords made by the pupils in the gradu-
ating class for the term of 1925-26.
Perhaps in no preceding year have
the papers evidenced as nearly the
same standard of work on the part of
pupils and of teachers as have those
of the term just closing. We feel that
iwe arb beginning to realize the ideal tries—farming—to be £t the?; mercy
George Harrison Phelps, Inc., are
making arrangements to move their
I radio station from John R. and Row- i of clean-
The problem of education is two-J ena Streets to a point 22% miles from ' for fancV and
” first to know, and then to utter.' Detroit, one-half mile west of Gratiot ””
r one who lives any semblance Avenue on Town T.inp Road noQv* 1X/H-
of an inner life thinks more nobly Clemens. They have acquired* twb ' ed at 6 5-8c to 7c, choice 3-8c f5ed
and profoundly than he speaks; and acres of land for the site in the
impart only | country, ideally located for this
which, pose.
The two steel towers will be
feet high and 34 feet square at the
base, which is of concrete construc-
The radio station will house the
radio equipment and the operating
staff of two engineers, who will both
be on duty while broadcasting is be-
ing done. Living quarters of ample
accommodations with all modern con-
veniences are provided for me engi-
neers and their families.
This building is one story high and
Spanish in design. The architects
were Albert Kahn, Inc., of Detroit.
Harold Elliott, chief engineer of the
present station, is installing the ap-
paratus. The building is constructed
of hollow tile, stucco finish and red
tiled roof. The landscape gardening
will coincide with the architecture of
the building.
The equipment of the station will
be of the latest construction. The same
wave length will be used—1110 Kilo-
cycles, or 270 meters. Calibration will
be governed by the latest scientific
development—Crystal control oscilla-
tor calibrated by the U. S. Bureau of
Standards, Washington, D. C.
The station will operate its
powei- plant and has its own private
telephone system connecting with the
studio, which will occupy the same
building it is using at present at John
R. and Rowena Streets. This building
will be remodeled in its interior when
the George Harrison Phelps advertis-
ing offices are moved to their new
quarters at Jefferson Avenue East and
Joseph Campau, and rehearsal rooms
and enlarged studio space will then
be available.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 14, 1926, newspaper, May 14, 1926; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304323/m1/5/?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.