The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1899 Page: 4 of 4
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Transacts a general banking business.
Solicits Accounts of Farmers, Merchants = Stockmen.
Collections promptly made and remitted.
Brick,
Barb-Wire,
Blacksmith
Supplies,
Wagon
Material,
Iron, Steel,
HERE IS WHAT WE HAVE
TO SAY:
—Sonic of the river fishermen brought
sonic buffalo to Bay City, Saturday, that
weighed 30 to 40 pounds each. The;
nl»o brought cat fish, both large and
small.
—John F. McNabb, of Matagorda,
was visiting the family of his son Allan,
in Bay City, several days this week. He
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TH» ONUV PAPBR PUULISHeD IN
MFTXOORDA COUNTY.
:!vc> hugely. Refreshments were
at the Layton hotel.
Rough and Dressed Long
Leaf Yellow Pine, Sash,
Doors, Blinds, Laths
Estimates Furnished*
BAY CITY. TEXAS.
Pumps &
Fittings
Stove Pipe,
G a Iyar ia*d.
Ventilated
Flues, Farm
Impterh’nts,
Entered in the Post Office nt Bay City, 'l ex
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CUT-RATE SALE!
Man’s
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H. K. OGDEN,
Painter & Paper Hanaer(
MATAGORDA, TEXAS.
All work done cheap but in first class style.
WI handle Randolph’s wall paper, the
best made, and always have new samples.
Send me a plan of your house and what you
want done, and I will submit an estimate.
DEALER IN
LUMBER
Peacock’s
School for Bous.
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My Entire Stock of Dry-Goods, Clothing,
Boots, Shoes, Furnishings, and Notions
Must be Sold bu March 1st.
Having bought out the entire inter-
est of W. C. Brown in Bay City, we ex-
pect to carry the best line of
Sadfllerv & Harness Goods
Ever brought to this country. If you
don’t believe us, call and see for your-
self. And if you have any repairing to
do, don’t forget that Alex is at the bat.
All we ask is that you watch this space
and call often to see
Yours to please,
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(?n<’-Q»rtr/(’r 0/ a [tylillkvi Cellars.
Pine and Cypress Lumber, Sash, Doors
Blinds, Pickets. Cisterns, Shinnies
Barb Wire, Lime, Etc,
Exclusive Agents Matagorda and Wharton counties of the famous Aurmoto
Wind Mills. Estimates furnished. Your trade solicited.
Wharton Texas.
WM. E. AUSTIN,
For 10 year* District nn<I (o.Clrrk.
LAND AGENT
AND
Abstracter of Titles
Complete Abstract of all Deed Records,-
Probate and District Court records of Mata-
gorda county. Lands bought and sold on
commission, defects in titles corrected. Prop-
erty rendered and taxes paid for non-residents
BAY CITY, TEXAS
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And Standard Sewing Machines,
WHARTON, - - - - TEXAS.
THE TRIBUNE.
IKE TOWELU Pranrletor.
J. L. LADD, Editor.
Issued every Saturday.
TEXAS.
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l ot particulars, see' IL Jackson, Capt. W. E. Moore, W,
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him 74 rnta. inrtw
rupee The AmerlJ
ton then entered u|
The Alabama Populists have propos-
ed that if democrats will give them as
many members of the new constitu-
tional convention as they now have in
the legislature (seven) they will disband
their party and re-unite with the demo-
cratic party, so that the white people
may present an undivided front in stale
politics. It is believed that their propo-
sition will be accepted. And then watch
the Rosenberg X-Ray man tear his
shirt!
iGive us your job printing.
To net New York Wholesale Cost. Larg-
est Stock in Matagorda Co., and All New and
seasonable. Don't miss this sale! It will pay
you to come 50 miles to take advantage of it.
M. DITCH,
BTwY CITY, .... TEXAS.
GIFFORD MERCANTILE CO.,
SUCCESSORS TO G; C. GIFFORD,
HARDWARE
F. 7/./ n 'KEYS, Pres. H. L. RUGELEY, Vice-Pres.
JIY. RUGELEY, Cashier.
BAY CITIBANK,
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Correspondents:
W. L. MOODY SCO., Galveston.
AMERICAN NAT ’ L BANK, Kans. City.
KOUNTZE BROS., New York.
ire talks shoes to
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El on our front page.
—Newspaper advertising is not
experiment in any sense of (he word.
It is n common sens?,.business trans-
action. Returns the fust week or the
first month arc not always encouraging,
but it is sticking to it that brings succt as.
No business was ever built up to a suc-
cess in one week or one month. Contin-
uous advertising in the right medium is
the best, safest and surest road to busi-
ness success.—Brenham Press.
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They Never Die.
G. M. Magill once told us that when
he was in the real estate business in
Beeville, long before Bay City was born,
or even dreamed of, he advertised in
some northern papers, and that to this
day he occasionally gets answers to
that advertisement.
The advertiser who thinks that his
advertisement is dead when it has ceased
tn appear in the paper, is mistaken. It
Two jvery striking illustrauo.— .ma
truth are given by The National Adver-
tiser, as follows:
The Scranton (Pa.) Republican tells
of a medicine man who advertises to
cure certain diseases. One day a wo-
man came to him for treatment, and
got $150 worth of it. The doctor asked
her how she had heard of him, and she
said her husband, when taking up an
old carnet in Buffitlo, hud found beneath
it an old newspaper in which he saw the
doctor’s ad.
Fourteen or fifteen years ago a bright
young man opened a bookstore in Har-
lem. He put a small advertisement in
a magazine. To this clay be sometimes
heats from that advertisement, although
he ran it only a few times and has been
out of the bock business since 1892.
—The Bay City Epworth League has
elected the following offi-ets for the next
six months: President, I. G. Lords;
First Vice-President, in charge of de-
votional department, Rev. Z ich Payne;
Second Vice-I res., in charge of charity
and help department, Edgar P. Rugeley:
Third Vice-Pre.., in charge of literary
department Win. Cash' Secretary, G. M.
Magill; Tivasuier, Mrs. I. G. Lords.
Two young ladies applied for member-
ship and were receive.!.
-—And it came to pass that after be
had advertised his goods there came
a great multitude from nil the regions
around about and did buy of him. Ami
when his competitors saw it they marvel-
ed among themselves, saying: "Howbe
it this man is busy, while wc loaf about
the doors?" And he spoke unto them,
saying: "Verily I say unto you. this La the
age of push and rustle, it's easier fur 1
camel to enter the eye of a needle 'han
for a man to flourish without advertis-
ing.”'—Printer's Ink.
—From nt. eminent physician of
St. Louis, the Chronicle gets the fol-
lowing directions for maintaining good
health and long life' -"Sleep eight hours
every night, mostly on the right side:
keep a bedroom window open, take a
tepid bath on rising, and exercise gently
before breakfast; avoid intoxicants. cat
mu. h fruit. live much in the open air,
f.equcnll) change occupation, often take
short holidays, limit your ambition,
beep a placid temper, and watch damp,
drain*, and drinking water."
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On account of my health I must seek an-
other climate and will sell these goods
Al N.Y.Wholesale Cosl!
HERE ARE JUST A FEW
Sample Prices':
Men’s Shoes at 80 Cents and up.O
Ladies’ “ “ 40 “ “
Genig^aj^g ytVW rwCr1'-^5^11T>-
Marked Down!
B. J. DANTZLER,
Monthly Sfoch Safes.
In the town in which the editor of
The Tribune was reared, the first
Saturday in each month was known as
stock '.ales day. On that day the farm-
er w ho L.-.rl a few fat hogs, or stoi k hogs
to sell, or a milk row, a bunch of yearl-
in New ings, a coh. a pony, a span of mules, or
any other stock to toll, brought them to
town early.
l ikewise, the men who were looking
for a cow, a few sheep, a span of mules,
or a bunch of yearlings, and the men
who had some idle money that they
wanted to invest in something that would
promise them a profit, all wended their
way to that town on the aforesaid first
Saturday in each month.
By ten o'eloi k the business streets
were packed with people, afid soon the
voice* of the auctioneer* could be heard
proclaiming the merit* of the property
they were offering, in stentorian tones;
and this was kept up, oft time*, till the
gathering darkness shut off the sales.
But, by no mean* all the stock went
at auction. The occasion brought the
seller, the buyer, and the stock together,
and many deals were privately agreed
upon without the intervention of the
auctioneer.
A* the year* came and went these
monthly stock sale* grew and expanded.
People who were breaking up house-
keeping, offered their household goods
at these sales; and farmers who were
about to emigrate sold off their surplus
grain. Lay, farming implements, wagons '
and buggies, etc., to the crowds that
gathered at these sales.
—To escape the ten per cent pen-
ally, tnxe* must be paid by next
Tuesday.
—How many foolish things we do
with no better excuses than that others
tlo them !
—Miss Ada Rugeley has returned
from a visit of several weeks to friends
in Richmond.
—Ex County Judge, J. G. Barbee and
T. L. Taylor of Wharton were in town on
business Saturday.
—The 11JC4U-U.C: idence of Coirnad.-| i a»z
tastern of Bay City, is
•J nearing completion.
—Rev. W. J. Collier preached two in-
teresting sermons in Bay City last Sun-
day and Sunday night.
—E. J. Sojourner, of Houston, form-
erly of this county, is visiting relatives
and friend* in Bay City.
—Many thanks for all the nice things
said about the enlarged Tribune.
are pleased to have pleased you.
—Now put up the fiddle and the
bow, and get out the shovel and the
hcc.aaul make that spring garden.
—Ex-Gov. Dick Hubbard will lecture
In Ma.agorda, on Friday night of next
week, on "Shams in Church and State."
—A. C. Bell has cut up his tract of
Caney land into 20, 25, 30 and 40 acre
lots and sold it to colored men on long
time.
—G. W. Baker, constable of Bay City
precinct, whose leg was broken early
last fall, has been out on crutches dur-
ing the past ten days.
—Bro. G. Frank Baldwin, of the
Wharton Star, spent a few days w ith
Hay City friends this week, and honored
The Triiium. with a fiatetnal cull.
—One of J. M. Sims’s lioises
was driven to the Matagorda ball i y
Bob and George Williams, bad to
left there under medical treatment,
cut one foot badly by pawing at a wiie
fence.
—Mr. Fullwood and family h oe il -
lumed to Hay City, from Galveston ami
arc now domiciled with his father-in-law
I. G. lairds, but he expects to build upon
his two acre tract adjoining G. \\. Bene-
dict's place.
—Texas Farm and Ranch, the fine 1
agricultural paper in the south, and
The Matagorda Counts Trihuni .
the finest newspaper in the county, both
one year for $1.75, cash down, and there
are no flies on this bargain.
—Louis Huebner, one cf the best
road overseers in the county, was rust-1
ling the hands, Monday. He proposes
to begin work on the Matagorda road McNabb, who have been very dangcr-
at the court house and put it inorder ou . y sick foi suae time, seen now to
a* far south as the limit of his section , be on the safe ro.id to recovery.
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F"Tuuary 24 -Z
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ArobablUtv
I of tiw 00 Doings.
up ate has yet passed sr.y
Caney Cullings.
News still scarce.
Several drummers have been doing
Caney this week.
I )r. Box and lady, of Coulterville, were
on Caney Wednesday.
Mrs. S. T. Matthews is visiting friends
in Matagorda this week.
Mr. Brown, of the west side, was on
Caney this week, buying corn.
Mr. and Mrs. James Mayfield, o( Gal-
veston, arc visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. F,
Holt.
Mrs J. S. Adams left, last week for
her old home in Georgia, where she will
reside in the future.
Something near 50 bales of cotton
have been shipped from Caney this
week via Matagorda to Galveston.
Dr. Rugeley was called to Caney
Thursday, to see Mrs. E. S. Rugeley, Sr.,
who is reported very sick, at Ed. Ruse-
ley’s plantation.
W. N. Jarrard, of Houston, represent-
ing Howard F. Smith, !'and Mr. 1’ettit,
engineer of Sorrell's gin, at Wharton,
were in town Thursday.
The youngest child of Mr. Bobo, living
on the plantation of John Matthews, met
with quite a serious accident Tuesday.
While chopping with a hatchet, it acci-
dentally cut its finger off. Dr*. Foot and
Simons were called to attend the little
one. Rustler.
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D uring the past week U.S. Senator*
have been elected as follows: Stewart,
to succeed himself from Nevada; John
Kean to succeed Smith, from New Jeisey;
C. D. Clark, from Wyoming; and the
deadlock in We»t Virginia was broken
by the election of Nathan B. Scott,
Republican and present commissioner
of interned revenue. Deadlocks con-
tinue in the legislatures of Nebraska,
Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Delaware,
Montana, and Calif^nia. In the last
two states, bribery has been disclosed,
involving U. S. Giant, Jr., son of the old
general, in L al. The election of senators
should be taken out of the hands of leg-
islatures and confided to the people.
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isjilit recovering from
grippe.
—Our neighboring city of I iln.i con-
tinues to be a center of exciting sensa-
tions. This week she is stirred up over
the appenrani e of several cases of scarlet
fever within her boundaries.
— Landlord Sisk hasn’t moved out of
the hotel vet. Lagrippe laid him up
for several days, and he ha* since had
an important trade pending that max
hold him in Bay City permanently.
Sheet Music, E-
10c. per Copy, Postpaid to Any Address
SEND FOR CATALOGUE.
ftsa>"’ Latest “hits” in Copyright Muic, 25
and 30 cents, postpaid. Orders Taken for
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Anything known in music supplied al Way-
Down I'kices.
AMIIIY'R BARGAIN MTOItE. Alvin, Tr*.
■I.. J. Sisk, who w as In bed a
■t days last week with lagrippe,
^kii c on Tl.ui 'd.iy, after baving
bout town fei several day*
writing he is suffering quite
!■—< >ur Hie IcIY for Matagorda Wed-
nesday noon, to attend the grand ball
He had on 11 button hole boquet, b id
bis coat tails lined with sheet inn,
and tii* (ace was protected bj n base
ball catcher’s mask. The one device
was to protect him'.iif fiom savage
house dogs, and the other was a sale
gum.I against sentimental maidens who
might mistake him for Hobson and at-
tempt to assuult his iiiby lips.
During the late compaign, the Velas-
co World and many other professed
Democrats of that town and a few in
Bay City, bolted their party nominee
apd surported Hawley, on the ground
that being a Republican, and the only
one from Texas, Mr. Hawley would
have an overshadowing influence in
procuring from a Republican congress
big appropriations for Velasco harbor
and Colorado river improvement. But
behold, Hawley gets nothing for the
Colorado, and only a survey for Velas-
co, while Tom Ball, Houston’s Demo-
cratic congressman gets $317,000 for
the Buffalo Bayou ship canal! Don't
our Hawlcycratic friends begin to feel
that they have been made victims of
misplaced confidence?
Jno. W. Gaines, Jr.,
ATTY.-AT-LA W.
BAY - CH Y, - TEX.
Boes a General Law Practice, Civil
Litigation n specialty. Office in Wright
Building, on North Side Public Square.
STOVES.
And House - Furnishing Goods.
—■That the White Man’s I’nioir. hive
the hearty sympathy of the present l< g-
ialature, was abundcntly itcnmstiatcd
thin week. Representative Mastei «<>n
knot ked out a bill to permit financ ial
guaranty companies to become sureties
on official bonds, by showing bow it
would defeat the purpose of the Wl.ile
Man’s Unions in the black counties.
ALL OVER THE COUNTY.
—Adverbs.!
—Wake up nil over!
— Inhnlc some fresh air!
—Shake off your lethargy!
—Look on the bright side
—Invite some new cuitomer*.
—Take on new business activity.
—Expand the area of your trade.
—John McCall i* down with lagrippe.
—Let us infuse new life into our town
end county.
—To cure the blues, subscribe for
The Tribune.
—Next Tuesday is the last day of
grace to taxpayers.
—The Bay City gin wind* up the
— 1 tii.’e3<rtl>r’l’|dc'' lut» 10 j
Payne, Wharton, Texas.
—Old newspaper* for sale at
office at 20 cents per loo”
—Rev. Zach 1’aync will fill the Ba)
City pulpit tomorrow night.
— Don’t waste time being unhappy
over the things you can't get.
—C. F. Simons ha* opened a barbet
shop in the J. T. Bond building.
—II. F. Ilei'dcrion an I Miss Iona
went to Pierce's station, Tuesday.
—Judge Hamilton made a business
trip to Pierce Station, Wednesday.
—Our Ike define* courtlitip as a beau
knot which marriage pulls into a hard
knot.
—The heaviest ruin wc have had for
n year fell on Thursday night and
Friday.
—Miss Ethel Slociinib, of Cameron, i.
aisiting Miss Inna Henderson for a few
months.
— "Wtm times arc dull and people
arnaVer. >rti,in|{» ,.ly, jllbn Wan-
ing should k r.ry t|mc thllt .,(|vcrti,_
nine nut of every - ., Nint.|y.
advertise most when there is hast
of it, instead of looking upon advcitis-
ing as the pana<c.i for their business
—Wc are authoritatively informed
that I.. 1*. I-'entheretonc is now
York to arrange for the money to com-
plete the railroad all the way from Gal-
veston t<> SanAntonio in short order.
\\ c with him the fill lent measure of
success.
— The srientifir definition of a kiss is
••the anatomical ijnxtaposilion of two
orbicularis 01b muscles simultaneously
contracted,*’ But our Hob tays this is ull
fudge; that there is no science about
kissing; that it is one of the endowments
of nature.
ills.
«—A Texas editor heard that one of
the merchants »>f his town who had
never advertised, was at last va ry busy.
Rushing down to the store to an ert tin
the cause of the unusual activity, he
found that the men.haul had the itch
and a Waterbury watch, and when he
wasn't scratching he put in his tunc
winmng the watch.
—— In order to preserve the good name
of our town, and t<> prevent nur boy*
from growing up in sc hools of \ i« r some
of the substantial residcnls of Bay < iiy
and the sinroimdin., cmmtiyare I dkin,,
of organizing a law and order league.
Why wouldn’t the Business
League, suggested in another
answer both purposes?
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bill* of importance. In fact the houiie*
remain in aeeiion but a few hour* each
day, and adjourn to give the member*
opportunity to do committee work.
Here i* where the important work i»
done. The committee, are killing the
bad, foohxb, and bi*^^>«eb bills, »o a*
to prevent the con*um;Xlon of valuable
time by debating tlRin jn ppen »e«sion.
Important mM*<^e* likely to pas* are
the repeal of the Jester amendment to
spend 1 per cent of the permant school
fund annually; the increase of the school
tax; provision for additional building* at
the State University and the state agri-
cultural college, and the enlargement of
the three state insane asylum, to that
they can accommodate a thousand more
patients than at present, thus relieving
the state of the disgrace of inhumanly
confining insane people in county jails;
the transfer of all the public land* to the
school fund; reducing the legal rate of
interest; and revising the method of as-
sessing and collecting taxes.
Among the Important measures pro-
posed arc the following; Making notes
void unless endorsed "assessed” with
the assessor’s signature and seal; to
abolish the court, of civil appeal, and
increase the number of supreme jndges;
requiring bank cashiers to give the ar
sessor a list of depositors and ainoun
on deposit by each on the first day <
Jan., of car |t year; making the theft <
2olbs. or more of seed cotton a pend
tenliaiy offense;’ providing a verdii
th'cc men to hang a jury; providing for a
state industrial college fur girls.
Two important resolutions arc under
consideration, one by judge Kittrel,
provides for a committee to ascertain
how many saloons in Texas have
gambling 100ms or devices in connec-
tion with them. The other recites that
whereas, the railroads of 1’exas are now
assessed at an average value of $7,650
per mile, while the average value sworn
to by their officers in their injunction
suit against the commission is $40,000
per mile; therefore be it resolved that
the duty of assessing railroad* for tax-
ation be taken from county assessors
ami conferred upon the railload com-
missionets who shall raise all assessments
to correspond with the values in said
affidavits, and certify such values to the
several county assessors to be entered
upon tlfWr books.
The legislature elected Gov. Culber-
son U. S. Senator to succeed Roger Q.
Mills, on Wednesday. Neither the
republicans nor the populists put up a
candidate against him, and he received
every vote except three. The lone re-
publican member of the house and two
of the seven populist members voted
for personal friends. Waller Burns, the
only republican in the senate made n
speech seconding the nomination of
Culberson, as did one of the populists ju
the house.
Gov Sayers delivered hi* first message
(excepting his inaugrual message) on
Tuesday. A brief outline of it will be
found on the second page of THU TRItfe
unk today. r
In the lower house of the legislature
there arc 44 lawyers, 29 farmers, to ed-
itors, 8 teachers, 8 merchants, 5 physi-
cians, 3 stockmen, 2 real cslatc agent*,
2 lumbermen, 1 drummer, 1 retired
incrcli..nt 1 cotton buyer, 1 shoemaker,
and one member puts himself down as
lawyer and teacher, and another goes
him one belici by record'"" himself as
teacher, preacher and farmer.
—Baidu* Ryman, of Matagorda, re-
turned. Tuesday, from a trip to the San
Antmio rou. try in search of a car load
of blooded bulls. He ,n«pect(d ■ evcr.il
lots and sol pi ices on same, but did not
closeadc.rl. However, he may still
purchase by mail.
—The negroes, dogs and 1105 s (aged
5 to 50) of Bay City, had two or three
day* of exciting sport, thi* w eek, cap-
turing jack-rabbit*, Each da)'':, catch
numbeicd 15 1017. and it r-- hoped that
the subutliun gardens will now be free
from the .1 ;htly raids of the innic-ciitcd
bunnies.
J.'c. PAYNE,
.ER IN
Jnd Feed.
f., Furs, and Pecans.
(Waters-Pierce oil Co.,
, - - - Texas.
Matagorda Melange.
Everybody come to the lecture Fri-
day night, Feb. jrd. 1899.
The young loll-* are making grand
prepataiion* for the dance.
Capt. Tom Kyle arrived in our town
Tueidayfrom Poit Lavaca.
F. M. Robbins made a flying visit
to our city Wednesday on business.
The carpenters are putting the fini^li-
ing touches to the Stewart residence:
CapL Harry Burkhart is spending a
few day with the old folks, and says tie
will remain.until after the ball.
Sheriff Moore was among us Monday,
rounding up the delinquent taxpayers
for the last tune, before the to per cent
penalty will be addc<^
Mrs. Baltis Ryman Sr., died Sunday
morning, and was^Miried in the cemetry'
at this place on Monday. She has been an
invalid for quite awMIe and her death
was hot unexpected.
Capt Ed Baker wfll have to get quite
a move on himself and the schooner
Essay if he intends to be back in time
to take in the ball. He was delayed
twenty-four hours on account of head
winds,
J. S. and George Sargent returned
from Galveston on last Saturday, whither
they had been attending the Stockmen’s
T convention, and report having had a
I good time, but say no sales were con-
l summated or prices made for this year.
n£L The candidates elected say they
W'-1’ promised to give a supper in con-
when ttiBji'h. Ibe-ball, and 1 dare say
supper as announced in the last week's
i:suc of The Tribune.
The people of the entire county will
certainly miss a grand literary treat if
they fail to attend Ex-Governor R. B.
Hubbard's lecture in this city on Friday
night, Feb., 3rd. His subject will be
"Shams in Church and State.” In the
language of the Galveston News “For
vividness of conception, fervidness of
emotion magnetism of manner and im-
pressii cncss of delivery, Gov. Hubbard
might safely contend for the palm in
American oratory.” Jixipixcutk.
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JFiMZey Peacock. Ph.R.
(Univ. CPi.)
Two men teach 50 boys and young
men. Prepare for college or for busi-
ness. It is a select school. We have
enrolled this year pupils for 43 differ-
ent towns in Texas mid Mexico. From
Matagorda county we have enrolled
Catlyslc Williams. Frank Hawkins,
J. B. Hawkins, Edgar Hawkins, J.
A. Bruce, F. C. Bruce and Hamilton
Moore. Additions to the school build
ing have been made this year.. 5>'|
tloca miles from;'^ con- |
ciplix " ,d’,n '■oumnz in- I
> .*»ry daj work o» trad*. It '
—Rey. J. H. Ilirkhcad, t'.<e Episcopal
minister of Matagorda, will hold divine
service* at (he Bay City church tomor-
row, at 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m. unless pre-
vented from coming by the roads 01
weather.
I. G. Lords, of Bay City, is represent- j
ing the Austin Nuscries, one of the old-
est and best in Texas, and he requests
you to hold your next fall orders till he
calls on j'ou, which will be some time
durin g the summer. tf.
Get your letter heads, note heads, till
heads, statements, envelopes, cards,
posters, dodgers, receipts, etc., etc.,
printed at The Tribune office. Our
stationery, our work, and our prices will
please you. Call and sec samples and
get prices.
I have just received a nice lot of Ten-
nessee Triumph seed potatoes that arc
given up to be the best seed to plant in
this coast country. N. H Rowi.KTT.
Bay City. Tex.
A Special Call.
To my old customers:—Having closed
out my entire business at Hay City. I
herewith make this call. I will leave all
my accounts with A. R. Benge for 30
days, and all accounts not paid by that
time will be turned over to The Bay
City Bank for final collection.
Yours Respectfully.
W. C. Brown.
—A writer in Home and Fann st. tes
tha' he has known many severe colds
and even incipient consumption cured
b)' deep breathing. Several times a da)
stand erect, throw back the head and
shoulders, expand the chest and slow))
draw into the lungs as much air as the)
will |K>ssiSI) contain, and thi n a* slowly
let it out. repeating several timcs.it each
trial. I'rof. Bramlett, now city superin-
tendent of the Fort Worth - i hools. once
assured the editor of Till. Tkliil'M
that he had cured himself of consump-
tion by this simple means.
—Mrs. C. M. Moody and Mrs. /Allan
Ashby Anglings.
Kirk Moore is over collecting taxes.
Mrs. Huth Wallace is lititing friend*
in Bay City.
Mrs Kirk Moore is visiting relative*
here this week.
Mr. J. L. Pybus attended afternoon
services Sunday.
Mr. Horace Yeamans came over from
Cash's creek Monday.
E. Wylie ha* been repairiug the cot-
tage of Miss E. I. Moore.
After one week'* absence 1‘ania is
again at her post of duty.
Invitations are out for a dance at Mr,
E. Dawdy's 'Tuesday night.
Schooner J. E. Pierce brought up a
load of merchandise Friday.
Mr. Will Wallace and Bob Sisk were
over from'Bay City last week.
Everybody is well pleased with the
enlarged paper, i'ansa’s best wishes
are with the editor.
Miss Lucy Williams returned home
Saturday, accompanied by Miss Mattie
who will visit several days. I’ansa.
..g counties,
for a distance of many miles, to sell or,
purchase property at these sales. The
hotel* and restaurant* were crowded.
I he merchant* in every line of business
always had to engage an c.xti.i force of
clerks fur the stock sales day.
Why can’t BayCi;y profitably inaugu-
rate an enterprise of this sort?
The expense will be of little < onsc-
quence. A few c heap pens and a pub-
lic registry where the property to be of-
fered may be listed and advertised, sums
up tin; expense.
But organized effort is
What is everybody's business
business.
Tut. Tribune is of opinion that the
lime ha* come when Bay fit) should
have a Business Men's League for the
purpose of promoting all such enter-
prises intended for the advancement of
the common wcllfaie,-and to secure
harmonious and co-operative action in
such enterprises.
To start these forces into activity, wc
suggest that G. M. Magill, D. I1. Moore,
’I'. J, Hamilton, N. M. Vogelsang, and
Henry Rugeley act as a committee to
consult the town null community and if
in their judgment adi isnblc, call a public
meeting for the organization of such a
Business Men’s League as has been
suggested.
Wc mention these five gentlemen be-
cause they represent the most c.xtcnsii e
property interests in the town, and wc
have not so much tut mentioned the sub-
ject to any one of them. But wc hope
that they will act upon this suggestion,
and we arc sure that our
shared by the public.
--- TS ♦ N*
— Billy Williams has filed suit in the
district court against Max Klein for
$996. It seems that when Mr. Klein
bought the Williams stock of goods the
agreement was that the goods should be
invoiced at cost and then Klein should
pay just half the total amount, in twelve
equal monthly payments, and should
give twelve notes for same, one of which
should become due on the first of each
month, for a ) car. ’The goods invoiced
$996. and were moved into Mr. Klein's
store. Then Mr. Klein tendered his
twelve notes to bear interest from ma-
turity. M1. Williams declined Io accept
them, claiming that they should bear in-
terest from date. Klein refused to ac-
cede to this condition, whereupon Wil-
liams brought suit for the full amount of
the invoice.
—A youth about twenty years old,
having a broken 'eg arrived in Bay City,
Sunday, traveling in a carl drawn by a
bony little mustang. He said that he
was a brick mason and had fallen from
a scaffold, in Brownsville, and btoken
his leg. Befoie the injured member
had firmly knit, his money gave out,
and he started in his cart to make his
way back to hi* home in Georgia. Just
before teaching Bay City his leg bccjfue
so much swollen that he was compelled
to remove the plaster cast, and he was
destitute and in a bad fix. With char-
acteristic ben|voltnce, Landlord Sisk
took the boy in and cared lor him a few
days, and made him up some $18 worth
of subscription books to sell, .tbd sent
him on Ills way rejoicing.
—We had expected to have a repre-
sentative of Illi Tribune at the Phil-
lips-Moore wedding at Ashby chapel
on Thursday; but the rain bluffed our
Ike off. However, we presume that the
wedding took place just the same as if
he had been there, and wc extend our
congiatulations to the happy young
people, and wish them long lite and
and lot* of it. Mr. Phillip* stands de-
servedly high, and the bride is one of the
most charming ladies of our county, and
both tire exceedingly popular. Bon
voyage, says The Trihuni .
- 1’ly Bay City attendants upon the
Matagarda ball report that it was
indeeila grand affair. The attendance
was I ligc. the music, furnished by Prof,
t f ': bend. " i- tun-, and all <
tin an
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• UaSCRIPTION RXTBS
One dollar a year in advance, or a ilullar and
a half on credit.
Payments Acknowledged this Week.
Mra. H. A. Coston, Mr*. Bessie Balder,
1 Capt 11. Cookcnboo, Mose Jackton,
f - - — ----.*■
A. Smith. Dr. Clay Moore, Dr. KugeM
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Ladd, J. Linn. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 28, 1899, newspaper, January 28, 1899; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346116/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.