The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1927 Page: 4 of 8
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Entered at the i'ustoffice 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.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business.
SI BSt RIPTIOV RATES:
WEEKLY TRIBUNE
and great
monarchy.
and resolutions. S’ ;
up with the agencies mentioned
start
ment.
Islilng cotton fields next year, by start -
ing now.
pecan
to the
Both lots of rice are said
Standard
Rice Milling Company of Houston, the
birthday.
Then
ten acres.
Availing themselves of what btllle-
it
the
Beau Briiminel In Rags
Jack Mulhall, featured in “See You
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the
Header
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Rice Market
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE FAITH IN PAPER
BY TRIBUNE I’RINUING COMl'ANY
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Perfect
diomondj
in a range of
mounting! at
because of lute
within a
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for
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proved to be on a pur with the best
wus , derful cotton crops that The Tribune W1
has published-in the last two weeks. Gib
nuts.
Poor little King Michael, 6-year old.
Powerful Musso-1
enough,
flclal.
offer an alternative:
law adequately punishing any
who fails to vote right in an elec-
tion.
As predicted by tills paper at the
time President Coolidge mad ■ his la-
conic statement in regard to his can-
didacy for the presidency next year,
there Is even now a concrete well luid
plan to force the candidacy and. con-
sequently, the presidency upon him
How far the movement wil get re-
mains to be seen, but it dors appear
certain that neither party can impri ve
there is no grander <
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who
across
von
has
box" refused to function.
It was learned that Perrigo
them to some real activity for
' real development.
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new experimental sorts, and nursery
grown trees are being set out in reg-
ular orchard form on land heretofore
crops alone.
Private Experiment station.
The enterprise soon proved to be a
private pecan experiment station for
this part of the state, especially as to
varieties, about forty-three different
varieties having been fruited on the
should be a real and sincere move
launched right now to get as near
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‘Free Energy’ Box Fake
Imestliratioii It e v e a I s Hoax liter
“Electricity From Air” Device Ap-
parently Kun a Motor t ar: Batteries
Found by Probers.
The biggest and best planned fake
of the last decade blew up with a bang
Monday when the Kansas City Star,
the Better Business Bureau and the
Id tie sky commissioner of Missouri
launched an investigation of a fantas-
tic device which the inventor. H. E.
Perrigo. declared drew electricity from
the air.
Investigation revealed the device’s
energy emanated from small but pow-
erful storage batteries, cunningly
concealed.
Perrigo, still asserting his invention
would work, said he would
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least fourteen years. The reived from the growers and the
he has realized, it was esti-1
this immediate territory for the crop
of 1928 Our greatest liability Is to be ’
found in our idle acre and our great-
est chance to Improve, and to build
up the town and surround territory is ■
to be found in getting those Idle acres
turned to cotton growing Year in and
year out, all season considered
good or bad. Matagorda County
localities where farming is more often directions and did their first work in
a disappointment than not and bring I the spring of 1915. Later in the same
some of those people here?
not so difficult. I.. . , ...
are those who deal in real estate and
consequently, know who Wants to
for at.
amount
mated.
close to $40,000.
( selling
tainly looks like he will be "sitting
pretty" in no very distant day.
While it may not be a good idea to
"put all eggs in one basket,” it is well
to note that Mr. and Mrs. Kemper pos-
sessed only an average farm and that
they developed a very valuable pecan
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Ledger, "adequately punishing any
man who falls to vote at an election
without sufficient excuse." That is a
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ton can be added to this immediate
section next year, provided the proper
efforts are put forth now. not in De-
cember or January. Reports of dis-
1^1
The mayor of a Wyoming town
posted this sign: "Dogs not permitted
to use this fountain for drinking pur-
poses," Whereupon the Louisville
Courier-Journal suggests to the state
highway department this warning:
“Chickens that walk on the highways
do so at their own risk.’’
to the car and landed his prisoners on
the sidetrack in Wharton. A deputy
went after them the following morning
and brought them before Justice of
the Peace E. AV. Turner on a charge
of attempting to escape from the offi-
cers. —- Eagle Lake Headlight, 24
Years Ago.
! ed than are necessary in the usual
farming operations, esepeially for
these pioneers who knew not whether
■ the end would be success or failure.
essary, to get one. They thought tliat
tlie only good investment was in in a
savings bank account, and seeing the
profit in stockholding in private en-
1 terprises, millions of people have be-
come satisfied stockholders, notwith-
standing that millions of others have
lost because they were not scared by
the cost. It Is safe to say that, both as
to necessities and as to luxuries, there
is very little fright at the cost, the
people having a conception of the rel-
ative worth of the cheap and the high
priced.
. Comes the airplane, with its future
cost probably greater than that of all
other innovations. The early locomo-
live went snorting and smoking over
the land like some engine from Hades,
and farmers climbed trees to escape
it. Folks trembled as the "horseless
carriage" rushed through the streets
at the almost fatal speed of 1U miles
an hour. Demonstrate the safety and
practicability of the airplane and the
American people will scare not at all'
at the cost.
Thrift is a virtue, but one of the
great, big facts in human progress is
that the American people have not
been scared at the cost when they saw
that they could get their money's
worth.—Houston Press.
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Production of New
Ford Car Soon To
Start, Company Says
Invest in a fine diamond
—or a Grucn Guild Watch. You will find
both here—for both are of supreme quality,
and where one is found, the other also is very
often found. Because we specialize in fine
diamonds and other merchandise of a high
and lasting value, we have been chosen as
members of the Gruen Watch Makers Guild.
Quality is contagious!
was met when a severe hail storm
struck the grove on April 8, 1925, and ■
completely stripped all new growth
and small twigs and even beat loose
the bark on the exposed side of limbs,
thus destroying the crop and giving
the trees a great setback. But let us
now consider the financial returns of
the enterprise.
Returns Gratifying.
The record of the grove, which has
been kept accurately from year to
year, Is interesting. Yet. because of
the great difference in the size, age,
variety and soil and spacing. It is
hard to calculate from this grove as
a model what should be expected by
others now developing a similar grove
or an orchard.
In 1923 the crop front the ten acres,
together with a few trees scattered
i outside, was 2000 pounds of dry nuts
j in round numbers, making due allow-
‘ance tor shrinkage in weight after
gathering. This was from 370 trees,
young and old and of every variety,
counting every tree that bore a single
nut. In 1924 the crop was again ap-
proximately 2000 pounds. In 1925
the crop was dstroyed by hall, but
there would no doubt have been a
good crop because of the great scarc-
ity of the nut case bearer, and native
trees outside the hall area bore well.
In 1926 the crop was about 2000
pounds, though all nuts of the Halbert
variety had been destroyed by scab.
Thus it will be seen that the average
annual production of this mixed grove
is about 200 pounds per acre.
Colored Home Demon-
stration Agent, Who
ill 4 ***v«--4 -
Course of All County
Agents in Prairie
View, Leaving Mon-
day, August I 5, Is Do-
ing Great Work.
Denton Pioneers Are
Finding Their Early
Highly Re-
Iplete solution so
are introduced.
The Halbert variety was the first
We could well afford favorite because of early and prolific
and cold cash dollars bearing. However, the location being
be secured for the remaining 80 per in sending out the news of the won-1 low and damp, this susceptible variety
_• » ... •• —.i«-r..i — .u_. n-i.- was soon attacked by a scab, a fungus
Isease affecting leaves, twigs,
sometimes destroying the
crop completely. Consequently.
r are
ing in the back of the car seat and
discovered tile batteries Perrigo
denied existed.
olentlv excited, pounced upon the in- good and buyers from :h'
The death of Gen. Leonard Wood
was a real misfortune to the nation |
Here was a great American who had
achieved splendid things, had rendered
extraordinary service to liis country
in military and administrative capac-
ities, had been a friend and adviser of
three presidents, wan one of the most
broadly equipped men of ills time, and
yet hud encountered bitter opposition,
even hostility, in ixitli military and
politiea! life. Fundamentally ho was
a soldier, witli a soldier's attitude to-
ward duly. He took his disappoint-
ments tlie failure to go to the front
in Hie World War and the failure to
get tlie presidential nomination in
1920 in heroic fashion, and his griev-
ances never affected ills service, which
ini luded the reorganization and sta-
bilising of Cuba and the successful
administration of tlie Philippines, witli
nil the difficulties and abnormalities
involved in liotli posts.
Up there in DiiL.is they are starting
for tlie hundredth time a cotton price
controlling campaign. Tills happens,
at least, once every year; often more
than onee. but tlie emt is always the
same The price of cotton once or
twice has been helped by some move-
ment or another, but it has never lieen
controlled by the producer, and we
doubt, seriously, that it will ever be.
There are millions of acres of cotton,
millions of bales and more than a mil-
lion engaged in producing and gather-
ing and preparing it for market. The
whole mikes up an organization or.
rather, a conglomeration, unwieldy
and too big to be < ontrolled. But
these annual agitations afford a pas-
time for a few idlers who want to
attract attention or se< me a job, anil
that's all it amounts to
fords a
land, president of the Kansas
Chamber of Commerce and newspaper
men, Perrigo had demonstrated his
"free energy" device Saturday, ap-
parently causing it to propel a motor
cur. Tlie amazed party realized that
if the thing really worked as
seemed to it would revolutionize
world.
Billions invested in electric power
plants and transmission lines would
lie useless. Engines and motors, as
i well as gasoline, coal and other fuel
amounts
lots. '
liam Pitt, formerly vice president of' |1P had to don ragged attire
now in the testing state, it was said.
Road performance of the new car
is highly satisfactory, the company
said. The new automobile is capable
of attaining a speed of 65 miles per
hour and can be driven for hours at
an average speed of more than 50
miles per hour without discomfort to
driver and passengers and without
harm to motor ami other equipment,
it was stated.
The new car consumes less gasoline
and oil than any of the company's
previous models, it is claimed. Quick
starting and acceleration also is
claimed.
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ing couple residing in this city, began choicest proved varieties of the neigh-
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appointing crops over a broad area of!
the state are 1 .
Not only that, but the news is being I
I spread by word of mouth. Those who1
[ are traveling about see conditions as I
they are and they know the conditions
here are far better than in most of the
other counties in the state. Now, if I
this were only an occasional happen
ing things would be different, but it
' so happens every year and so, witli „
our thousands of acres of fertile and tins were to lie had at that time on the
productive soil, why do we not spend ' methods of budding and grafting pe-
Austin. Aug. 15.'—The state will sell
oil and gas rights on 567.920 acres of
gulf coast land to the highest bidders
September 30, Land Commission J. T.
Robison announces. One-eighth of the
royalty will he retained by the state.
No bids under 10 cents an acre will be
considered.
The land is distributed by counties
as follows: Calhoun, 101,739 acres;
Chambers, 149,100; Galveston, 145,-
300; Jackson, 3837; Matagorda, 150,-
380; Nueces, 17,564.
Measure vacation hours with a smart
Gruen Strap Watch
Wherever you go, your Gruen strap watch
will win unqualified admiration. And the
watch itself, exquisite tn design, yet sturdy
in construction, fitted with a movement
embodying the highest ideas of guild crafts-
manship, will delight you with its depend-
able timekeeping service.
While the editor was in I^ane City
tills week a good joke was told him I
»n Deputy Sheriff Bob Brisco. As ,
Rice farmers of Texas, Louisiana
and Arkansas are seeking ways and
means of pooling 20 per cent of the ' verlising the agricultural possibilities
present crop in the hope, that, by so
doing, a minimum profitable price cun
Deputy Sheriff Boh Brisco.
i Lane City has no caliboose. Deputy ■
Brisco has been using the Cane Belt ‘
: box cars for a bastile. A few Satur-
day nights ago he had nine negroes In !
his "moving cabooese.” During the
cotton growing counties in Texas, and night a train came along, coupled on
the best work before everyone now is
to try to see to it that he is directly
responsible for two or three hundred
acres more next year. Lot's go and
get this going.
matter what anybody thinks of mo."
He took that oath He has kept It.
nt'u nut'll nun w >•••
■ - - (rruiill- j
ally both Mr.' and Mrs. Kemper be-1
came experts at budding ami grafting
ami larger trees were worked, and;
now unsuitable varieties are being re-
' worked to tlie best proved varieties or
born to greatness! I’
linl. celebrating his 45th
witli achieved greatness. Then n
greater than either, one of the magnif-
icent characters of his time, preparing
to celebrate his 80th birthday, Paul
von Hindenburg, with greatness thrust
upon him
Recall Germany of two years ago.
A young republic, in whose midst
monarchism, communism and rebel-
lion seethed and sought a leader who 1
would start Hint young republic on the
road to suicide Tlie financiers of tlie
world watched in deepest anxiety. Tlie
business concerns of the world with-
held their orders. The governments
of the world feared, distrusted and;
kept their hands on their sword hilts.
There was Germany's "strong man."
von Hindenburg, warrior and mon-
' archlst born and reared, known by
his people for Ills courage, determlna-'
Detroit. Aug. 12.—Production of the
_ 1 new Ford car will start within the
j county will take advantage of the op- next few weeks, it wus announced to-
1 portunity of the efficient instructions ('aY ,'H‘ Ford Motor Company. The
' given them by this colored home dem-|new ■no,lyl has- been perfected and is
onstration woman.
EAGLE LAKE OPENS
RICE MARKET
and
nut
....... ...... all
county than a book full of whereases trees of tills variety are being re-
, s’*PP°8e connect «<>rked Io others. Several more va-
-—cies mentioned and rieties are being re-worked because
some real agricultural develop- of characteristics such as light pro-
Suppose we turn hundreds of duction. poor quality of nuts, or late
our surrounding grass plots Into floor- ripening, especially
ripening, the grove being
mile of the Oklahoma state line.
Both Costly and Profitable.
While tlie growing of so many new
BY I.. D. ROMBERG
At Itenison. Texas, those who doubt
14.00 ! the wisdom of planting fine pecan
' 7 ~ trii ., or of top-working native trees
would total not less than
Yet he had declared he was
no stock. The individual
amounts contributed “to finance the
‘ rutiug" ruiig- j
Most of the
in $2000 and
‘and pushed through such national de-
! velopment as tlie world had never be-
‘ fore seen. They laughed at the
"horseless carriage,” and as soon as
they got a conception of what it meant
■ they mortgaged their bedsteads, if nec-
If those of our people who are looked
upon as thj) moving spirits of the
town and (founty will take time from
their manifold duties to look about
them, they will find much to encour-
| vuuuq, All., Ill AO
This paper candidate for the state legislature,
believes that all of 10.000 acres of col-• contained only seventy-five words.
supply and den,..ml eontroh the price, said. In aii the history of earthly j V’^hap" the greatest dlscouL^ent
The cotton c rop this year in this of courage and loyalty,
county should lend encouragement to ' the Marshal
any effort that might lie put forth to moved
The , France and Belgium, is President
of this section. 1" '
to spend a thousand cold cash dollars J bearing.
New Orleans .Aug. 13.—Receipts of
r*ce continued large Thursday,
discouragements ! amounting to 4610 sacks, with a total
. nlor„ f,.jth na f,,r tl,e season since August 1 of'
I shall keep it, so help me God. no Uenee“:i"nd perseverance were requi/ against 5084 at the same time;
■ urtmt nnvhn.1v Ihtnkn nt mo”, . . - | last SCOSOn. Receipts Of Cleat! rite
from interior mills were small, 642
pockets. Sales by New Orleans mills
‘ increased sharply, amounting to 7874
pockets, of which 7617 were Blue Rose
at 4 1-8 to 4 3-8 cents, old crop, and
50 Lady Wright at 6 cents, with 207
pockets of screening at 2 1-16 to 2
3-8 cents per pound. Sales for the
season are 20.252 pockets, against
10,018 at the same time last season.
Bran is quoted at $22 per ton at mill
and polish at $33 per ton.
There were small amounts of rough
rice for sale in the open market, but
disagreement, between buyers and
sellers as to prices made trading dif-
ficult on the floor of the exchange.
While small recessions have appeared
in clean quotations, holders of rough
are not anxious to take
amounts without recessions.
Wet. weather is still causing delay
in arrivals of new rice, but appears
not to be doing any particular dam-'
age. as rice arriving is in excellent I
condition.
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Gulf Coast Mineral
Rights to Be Sold
tlon. martial capacity and loyalty to
service for the cause of i
To him came the junkers, '
the monarchists, all those who still ■
held that Might Is Right and they
asked him to become the republic’s
head, for their own ends. He said:
“They want me to bo president of
the republic I am not a republican.
I am a monarchist. But they tell me
.that the best way for me to serve the i i
fatherland is to run for president. If
I am elected. I must take a solemn
oath to uphold the republic.
"Well, if I take that oath, I shall I
take it fully and sincerely, without '
mentral reservations of any kind, and
BY R. M. HARKEY,
Secretary-Manager Bay ( ity < hiimber
of ( oniinerce.
Very few people in Matagorda Coun-
ty really know what this colored
woman has done in the past seven
years of her work witli the colored
people of the county.
During the past year she lias en-
rolled 322 colored boys and girls in
club work of all kinds. Two hundred
and eighty-seven of these club work-
ers finished and made a final report
to her and she is taking this report to
Prairie View next week. She Is also
taking with her about 20 boys and
girls that are going there for further
instructions in all classes of club
work.
The colored girls have been taught
sewing, cooking, raising of poultry
and domestic science ami many of
them have become very efficient in
their line, through tlie able instruc-
tions of their teacher. The boys have
had quite a great deal of training in
tlie raising of corn. pigs, chickens, etc.
These club workers come from
around Markham. Clemville, El Maton.
Cellar Lane, Bay City and other por-
tions of Matagorda County. The dem-
onstrator is to lie complimented very
highly tor the good work that she is
now doing and to say she is giving
complete satisfaction goes as she is
now spending her seventh year in this
county.
Many of the colored farmers have
availed themselves of the work she
is doing and the county as a whole
should feel glad that our commission-
ers appropriated a little of the tax
money tor this work. It is to be hoped
that the work will go on in tlie future
and that more of the school boys and
cent. Last years’ "carryover"
heavy amt has affected, ami is still
affecting, Hie 1927 crop. By retiring
20 per cent, and it is said that if it is
successfully retired, it will lie for
good, the rice growers hope to get in
control of tlie market and keep it.
successful, of course the plan, which
will lie watched witli interest, will lie
continued year after year. Those en-
gaged in the present movement are
well pleased with tile progress so far
made.
ments .these steps from tlie trodden one. He said a moderate price device,
path also yielded valuable discoveries, the size of a Pound can of coffee,
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! old standard variety that is still con-
sidered among the best in the grove. 1
Tlie Burkett pecan when budded here
had probably never borne ontside of
its home county. Now it is consid-
ered one of the very best in the grove.
I Among other comparatively now va- ‘
■ rieties that have made splendid rec-
ords in this grove are Western Schley.
Clnrk. San Saba. Improved. Onliwon,1
and Welty, also native Texas varieties,
and younger trees of several other
sorts, promise to come into high
favor. "That Napier and the William- I
son came in a complete stirprise," said severed the connection between
Mr. Kemper. "And the Mai ler bore device and the battery the " '
fully and the nuts were well tilled and
“ j very thin. Why. the Williamson we
had always heard was a shy bearer. ,
| Now we’ve found out the old tree
stands on a bluff and all of one side ,
! of the roots is washed out and ex-
posed. It stands up here c:„„v t,.
Ardmore.”
Among other varieties whose per-
formance is being anxiously awaited ’ development and the patenting” raug-
are: . t
ener bearing heavily elsewhere; Cline.
I Bowers, and Altmann, a trio of very'
large Texas nuts: Supreme-Risten,
.Golden. Nuggett. and Commercial, ex-
tra thin-shelled and high-quality nuts.
This year the San Gabriel, another
very large pecan, and some other va-
. have been top-worked into
bearing trees for quick testing.
An Uphill Fight.
Naturally, the development, of the!
grove was slow and <
I were many. a. <1 much more faith, pa-
in mentioning the names of tlie Boy
Scouts troop, who passed their life-
saving tests in swimming and who re-
ceived merit badges, Tlie Tribune yes-
terday omitted the name of three who
were entitled to mention and added
one. George Wainner, who has not
quite gotten through
Those to lie added are Robert Ander-
son, D. R. Chapman and Kermit
Meyer. J(
There are now six instead of tlie
four as mentioned yesterday. They
are. the three just mentioned and Neils
Thompson. Israel Kogutt and John
Frick.
We are pleased to make tills correc-
tion and will be qu illy as well pleas-
ed to lie able to add a dozen more to
the list tomorrow, for everybody, espe-
cially every boy. should be a swimmer
and a life-saver.
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FOUND: Two automobile
between Bay City and Markham,
at Texas Co. office.
acres
Impos-
devoted to field
what one real estate firm has done at i
El Maton and what one man lias done
at Midfield, believe we know what a
number could do, if we would only get
down to work and do it. This*town|
lias organized and spent big p-—
on a number of things and it can well
afford to organize and put big money
back of a continued campaign of ad-
increase the acreage next year. ' ,
crop we have here is, perhaps, the Hindenburg, who for two years
most perfect to be found in the state, kept his oath, no matter what any-
and shows conclusively that, wher- ' body has thought of him. By the help
ever and whenever intelligence and > of God. as he told the republic’s ene-
hard work are employed, there Is mles, two years ago. he has untiinch-
never any doubt about the outcome, ingly kept his oath, and today Ger-
But, aside from any discussion, there many s fast rising to her high place
“ ’ among the nations in art. commerce,
__ industry, finance, peacefully acquiring
25,000 acres more planted to cotton in national prosperity and happiness.—
Houston Press.
Referring to vast spendings on autos
; and road building since 1900, one of
our writers opines: "It is very fortun-
ate thing tiiat the American people
had no conception where the auto
would lead them, for if they had, they
I would have been scared off by the
a »» cost.”
A , OL . Tlie American people are never scar-
Attend ohort off by the co.-t. They sometimes
1 hesitate because they do not under-
stand. Once knowing what the thing
is. they spend to the limit, thousands
of them to the limit of mortgaging.
They scorned the first railroad loco-
motive and stuck to the canal and ox
cart. When they saw what a railroad
! meant, they mortgaged their country
Cotton af-
iruiitul field t' i speculator | no matter what the enemies of the
and gambler, but after all. the law of republic who made him take it have
supply and demand • ntrols the price, said. I”
t ill liny
example
ter than 1
von Hindenburg,
terrible "line”
» ....... , . , . . U4AUB. * uxA'/iuj.Ai.’nun.AAL
some of our time and money in those cans and top-working, they followed that jt wou|{| |)e wen for many of us
ill 1 . . > ..... . ..... a .If., . I <1 a r I t 11 Ail !• Fi Viit A 11* If I fl
bring the spring of 1915.
■opie here? This is year they secured the help of a vet-1
In every town there erun propagator. Judge Charles L. Ed->
wards, of Dallas, from whom they
„iiw learned much that was not to be tin-1
move or who want to better their con-!derstood frornybuiletins alone. <
dltion. A contact can be made and
ought to lie made witli these agencies
and the fac s about this county placed
before them. And this ought to start
now. To Increase the cotton acreage
in this immediate vicinity 10,000
above what it is now is not an
, , ...... slide task. Fact is, it should not be e
upon the present administration, pres- difficult one. Those of us who know
ident and cabinet. Not In tlie history
of the country have tlie affairs -if tlie
nation been more ably administered
anti this belief seems to lie general
amongst the rank and file of liotli
parties as well as the leaders thereof.
would be of little value, for Perrigo
- declared his little box would do every-
var'ietles resulted in” some disappoint- thing without, cost except the Initial
ments .these steps from tlie trodden one.
n tllHO vieiiieu vuiuuuie uinvuvri ivn. ........ ■ ■ — <...................... . " - .. ... ...j
fact. Sovereign is perhaps the only would heat and light a house and fur- - office of the Texas Rice
money p|nre fO date, and it seems tlie variety
m well problem will never come to a com-1 .
-------- . . |))ng npw oneH would work, said he would detend
; himself by demonstrating his device
in court if he was prosecuted.
Visioned a New World.
Before a party including Lou Hol-
City
' girls in the colored schools in the
manee is neing auxiousij a»aueu . ..... .... p.
: Squirrels’ Delight, an early rip-{ ed from $25 to $5000. Most of the in Jail” at the Colonial, a First na-
’ ' ’ '• ' ' Were in $2000 and $1000! tional picture, is one of the best dress-
The largest investor was Wil- ed players on the screen or off. But
t».. u-.; -tA._3 ag an un.
the Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Com- employed job-seeker in this delightful
pany.
(Eagle Lake Headlight!
The’ first two lots of rice for this
season were offered for sale at the
j Growers’ As-
nish energy for cooking besides. 1 sociation here yesterday afternoon by
Found 11 Storage Buttery. ; Chumney & Von Lcngerke, tlie assoeia-
Wliile tlie authorities were invest!-! tlon managers. |
gating tlie device Monday night, an1 Twenty-five hundred barrels of
inquiring reported of the Star thrust Early Prolific of Poole A- Gertson ami ,
his hand down behind tlie upholster- 5500 barrels of Lady Wright ot Thomas |
Bros. & Wintermann were the lots
had ; offered.
Perrigo became vi- ■
menu> exi iten, |)uuuve<i upon me 11,_ i
vestigator and fought to prevent dis-!
He still declared the batteries Eagle Lake Rice Milling Company, the
had nothing to do witli the operation 1 Pritchard Rice Mill of Houston, ths
of the dvlce, but after the battery men | Pfeffer Mill of Houston, tlie
1 the Rice Milling Company of Bay City and
“energy the Buy City Rice Milling Company
I were here and put in bids for the two
had lots. Up to the time of going to press
been selling shares in his "invention" no confirmation of sales hud beeu ,-e-
years. The ceived from the growers anti the asso-
ciation managers were unable to give
prices quoted in bids until sale offered
are confirmed or rejected.
Prices received for the above crops
ranged from 50 cents per pound
wholesale for the entire crop to from
50 cents to $1 50 per pound retail for
the individual varieties, most varieties
bringing from 75 cents to $1 per
pound retail.
An Example for Others.
The Kemper grove has become noted
in this section and has been visited
by many, and its influence hus been
such as to put Grayson County to the
fore in pecan development in North
Texas. Those who were not
enthusiasts when they came
Kemper grove were so when they
; left.
A neighbor just to the south of the
'Kemper farm is top-working several
hundred native trees and will plant
splendid rewards, the entire remainder of the farm of
"|1*1
Kemper, a thrifty ami forward-look-! orchard form.
411 ft I llltpiC | C.71'11111, 111 > Ilin Vzswj, i/v x i » ....... . — . . ~— va. . .......
to take note of the agitation for the | boring experimental grove, and it cer-
growing of fine, soft-shelled pecans.
b' lng^ published dully. |tlien in their pioneer stage. Having
a farm with some native sprouts and
trees growing on it and more land
suitable for planting, they gave the
idea careful thought. It appeared to
a worth-while enterprise, and it
was decided to begin by top-working grove on a piirt of it. To them goes
the native growth on a plot of about muc|j credit for their constant perse-
i verance toward a greater farming fu-
ture through the development and
growing of our native soft-shelled pe-
cans. Their accomplishment is one
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 20, Ed. 1 Friday, August 19, 1927, newspaper, August 19, 1927; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1309819/m1/4/: 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.