The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1915 Page: 2 of 22
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Bay City, Texas
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SPECIAL PRIZES
more
Old Time
MUI. ORDERS HAIIOLR PROMPT ATTENTION
Fiddlers Contest
All old-time fid-
dlers wanted at
the Grand Opera
House Thursday
June 24th
EM SAPP FACES
CHARGE OF MURDER
OF MRS. PARTAIN
jurors
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lives.
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NOME POSTSCRIPTS.
While at this time the resignation of
tile government’s premier is to
Lake is I •• deplored, it conies as another one
jf those sensational episodes which
has characterized the life of W. J.
Bryan for the past twenty years. Just
when the United States was beginning
i to appreciate the peace preachings and
Send in your name at
once. Address
Levy Bros. Dry Goods Company
HOUSTON, TEXAS
Thursday Night,
June 24th, 8 o’clock
Man mid Citizen
Malady Buffies
|LEO FRANK IS FOSER
PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY
lodge licability has never been countenanced.
• The theory is good, but many good
go before stern facts and
We all love peace and we
like to see it preached and practiced
even in the remotest avenues of our
There is perhaps no greater
oh earth than Mr.
Wilson, but he is facing conditions
now when pence lias no virtue and no
He Is facing stern
$198 Cotton Shirtwaists at
$2.95 Silk Shirtwaists
$2 98 Raincoats tor only
$1 50 Cotton Petticoats at
$2.98 Silk Petticoats at
$2.98 Wash Skirts for
$7 50 Silk Skirts for
$19.50 Wool Coat Suits
$10.00 Palm Beach Suits for ...
$15.00 Silk Dresses fpr
$7.50 Lingerie Dresses for
Children's Hats to $5.00 for
$1.00 Boudoir Caps for
Pattern Hats to $25.00 at
phia. Was he feeling
tremor at that time?
cr's at $1000.
TJoth Watts and Havard were mem-
bers of the original hunting party in
Liberty County hist
Mrs. Sapp was killed.
at that time that the gun held
Richard Watts was acicdcntally dis-
charged and that the bullet killed her.
Attorney C. W. Howth, counsel for
Bapp. arrived here this morning and
Is preparing to file an application for
5 writ of habeas corpus for the pur-
pone of securing the defendant bond.
i Company's garage.
| complained to his
$3.98 Silk Kimonos for
$2.98 Crepe Kimonos at
$1.49 House Dresses at
Womon’E $3.50 Shoes
Ail Women's $4.00 Shoes
All Misses' $2.00 Shoes
25c Flaxons for only
50c Shrunk Linen for
90c Linen Damask for
81x90 Pepperell Sheets
Lonsdale Domestic for
16 yards Amoskeag for
All Gloves at 25 jier cent off.
All Jewelry at half price.
Pierce ...
to attend the election I well have
of officers of tlie Palacios lodge Tn-'other ism, belief or hobby. Mr. Bryan’s
Mr.'peace preachments are all theory. In
Baker Is district deputy grand master fact, it is so theoretical that its prac-
f >r this order and visited the
in that official capacity.
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We know it will be to your advantage to come as far as 150 miles to attend this sale
than save the cost of your trip on the merchandise you buy. ~
from retail stores in Houston amount to 20 times yctn railroad fare
by the Retail Merchants’ Association.
Three hundred miles of electric rail-
roads to be supplied with power by
nearby waterfalls, are being built In
the Pyrenees.
A novel sketching tabic for artists
is supported by a single leg. to which
an umbrella also can be clamped to
| provide shade.
A New England woman Is tne in-
ventor of a dusting cloth that resem-
bles a large mitten and is fastened to
' the wrist with elastic.
Artificial sponges arc made by
treating paper pulp with chloride of
' lime, adding common salt, drying and
pressing into desired forms.
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If business la dull, stimulate It with
early in the'
rush I
’oval to his chief in the crisis,
has repeatedly demonstrated
that he is not a war lord.
war with horror. His note to Ger-
many necessarily had to lie firm—it
would have been un-American other-
wise, but even hud it been conciliatory,
Mr Bryan's precipitated action would
Mrs. McGregor is , indicate that Mr. Wilson was prepar-
i Ing for war. The effect of the resig-
J. Baker. Ed. Savage nition lias had that effect. No one
went to Paia-! denies it, ami it could have just as
been avoided. Like any
He wont on back'
to work, but was soon rushed back ;
to the hospital and died in a few mo-
’ Dr. Jones could get
in 'dicnl assistance or a consultation.
The case is very rare, so we arc
informed, and lias baffled the physi-
cians of the city. Mr. Fell literally
choked to death without any apparent
cause, \rlifical means of respiration
were resorted to and his heart kept
active for twenty minutes after he had
stopped breathing.
Owing to the prominence of the
family and ills own enviable popular-
ity, ills dentil was a distinct shock to
everyone who knew and loved him, for
lie was one of those lovnble charac-
, tors one so seldom meets in life Al-
ways affable and gonial, kind-hearted,
whole-souled and liberal in all things.
He was a friend to everyone and
everyone hlr. friend. He was a man
amongst men and of sterling charac-
ter and worth. Ho was a citizen the
< ty and community can 111 afford to
lose.
Horace Fell was born in the city
of Chicago thirty-nine years ago next
October. He was married to Mabel
E. Brown at Logansport. Ind., on Jan-
uary 21. 1903, where they lived until
November, 1910.
Mrs. Fell’s parents,
H Mrs. W. M. Brown, to Collegeport and
from there to Bay City. ■ him as far as Houston.
| Decedent wns a member of the K.
of r. and Masonic lodges, the Brother-
h >od of Locomotive Firemen and En-
| gineers. and a member of the Bay City
Methodist Church.
The remains were prepared for
shipment, taken to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Amos Lee, and shipped this
morning via Southern Pacific to Rcm-
: Ington. Ind., where they will be in-
| ferrod in the family burial grounds.
I Accompanying them to as far as
Houston were several Masons and
. members of the K. of P. lodge. From
there on to Remington they will be
[accompanied by Mrs. Fell, her mother
I and Miss Marruerlto Griffith nf Chat-
i mors.
Atlanta, Ga„ June 9.—The Georgia
prison commision today declined to
recommend to Governor Slaton a com-
mutation of tlie death sentence of Leo
M. Frank, convicted of the murder of
Mary Phagan.
Commissioners E. L. Ramey and
lightning, tlie city, in I R E. Davidson voted against a reconi-
. Judge T. E.
I Patterson voted in Frank's favor.
The commission "submitted its re-
I port to Governor Slaton shortly be-
J fore noon, its contents immediately
being made public by tlie governor.
The matter is in the hands of
Governor rflaton. The recommenda-
tion of tlie prison commission is in
no way binding upon the governor.
I who, it was stated, will conduct fur-
ther hearings before making his decl-
I s’on.
i Prominent Lodge
Dies Suddenly
Physicians.
Report of Commission.
Tlie majority report of tlie commis-
sion was as follows:
"None of tlie grand jurors who i
found tlie Indictment: none of the I
I trial jurors who heard the evidence
under oath, nor the prosecuting at-
torneys have asked that the sentence
i'o commuted. The judge who presid-
ed at tlie trial and who had the right
to exercise tlie discretion of fixing tlie
' penalty at either life imprisonment or
death, imposed the latter sentence
I and overruled a motion for a now
' trial.
“Several appeals were taken to
both tlie Appellate Court of tlie State
and tlie Supreme Court of the United
I States, all of which were denied and
! the judgment of tlie lower courts af-
firmed, thus assuring tlie defendant
of liis legal and constitutional rights
Tt fur-
appears that there lias boon no|
or of |
prevented the
Mrs. M. E. Green and children are
tn the city visiting relatives for a
few t'avs before leaving for their now
home in El Paso.
Invigorating to the. Pale and Sickly Yhe Quinine That Does Not Affect The Heed
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Standard general strengthening tonic, , TIVE BROM'
■s TASTE!,I Ssehfll Tunic, duves out Quinine
..aging i
look for
at El Maton on official business.
Mrs. (Dr.) S. R. Sholars Is spending
si veral days witli her mother in Mata-
gorda.
Mr. Tom Thompson of El Maton. ac-
companied by his daughter, spent to-
■ioy in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. E. I,. Perry have re-
turned from a delightful trip to Hous-
ton and Galveston.
Kathryn Poole lias as her
Miss .Mary Lathrop of Mar-
shall and Miss Norine Gardner of Pa-
lacios.
Messrs. John Sutherland and R. O
Middlebrook spent the day in
gorda and at Big Hill.
The county commissioners are at
their labors as the county's board of
equalization ami arc discharging the
>>orl< rapidly.
Mrs. E. DeCoux and children of
Houston are in the city for a few days,
the guest of Mrs. DeCoux's mother,
Mrs. J. S. Brady.
Mr. B. E. Norvell lias just returned
from u business trip to Galveston
where he booked a number of orders
for drainage tile.
No man should bo compelled to keep
his premises dean by force of the
mayor's proclamation. Civic pride
should get him busy.
Never before has the rice crop look-
ci bettor. Now for good weather and
I nlenty of water. A cool million will
blow our way this fall.
Mr. and Mrs. Tims. TT. Lewis. Mrs.
l'-ed S. Robbins and Mrs. A. A
Moore motored to T.ane City yesterday
Io visit with Mrs. Cox.
Depute Sheriff R. R. Rogers of
Corpus Christi arrived this morning,
coming hero for a man wanted on a
procedure that
petitioner from
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Francis Ramey left this morning for
Marshall. Texas, where he' will be a
student at St. Joseph's Institute for the
coming year. Mr. Ramey accompanied
theories
Many of our statesmen high up in! conditions,
political affairs see no reason for a
war with any nation and consider tlie!
w orst that could have happened at this [
ti ne the resignation of Mr. Bryan, re-
gardless of his personal feelings,;
wiiich many claim might to have been
racriflced at least until the crisis had ! power. He is facing stern realities
passed. land conditions wiiich tlie resignation
----------- ! of his right hand man only makes
“Just sit steady and don't rock the "K,r,> skious the situation. The whole
boat” — Woodrow Wilson at Philadel-1 ’»>:itt< r Is to be deplored.
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Mr. P. Jepson has left for Nebraska
on a visit and to see about his land
interests there. He will be gone about
a month.
under tlie laws of the land
ther
technical proposition of law or of
has prevented the
having his guilt or!
innocence passed upon by a jury of
his peers and by the highest eonsti-
t ited appellate authorities, and no
new evidence or facts bearing upon
his guilt or innocense having been
shown, wo see no reason for taking
[this case out of the ordinary rules of
! law and justice, and feel constrained
to interfere with the enforcement
the orderly judgment of the
courts.”
J? TV | if | t’ounty.
personals
Fr >m Wednesday’s Daily.
What became of the Civic Club?
The city needs a
vival.
Mr. Ray Bigelow left this morning
for Wharton.
Mr. Joe Price, stockman
cios, is here today.
The grand jury adjourned yesterday
after a ten days’ session.
Mr. and .Mrs. F. von der Harr left
this morning for Houston.
Mrs. Horace Fell of Chalmers spent
the day yesterday in the city.
Constable Joe Mangum spent today, |{(,v q p
1 from Sweeny
interesting and
lie will return this afternoon and con-
tinue the service for a few days
longer.
Mrs. Clint F. McGregor and little
daughter of Houston are in the city,
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Wil-
son, before leaving to spend tlie sum-
mer in West Texas,
a sister of Mr. Wilson.
Messrs. Sam
and James W.
cios last night
wireless yester- filiations that will reflect upon the
United States, it matters not what Mr.
The j Wilson may do. Even after the note
sent from Palm Beach, had been dispatched it would have
! been better, and as a patriotic citizen
Falls returned today i tie should have sacrificed his indlvid-
w here he is holding an I ual opinion in order to have remained
successful meeting
E. E. Sapp now faces his third mur-
der charge. He and ills younger
brother, Lou Sapp, are now in t'
Hardin < ounty jail at Kountze, having
been denied ball by Judge Llewellyn;'"1™ 'I'lrln* >l’e morning he stated
In the Ninth District Court in their
habeas corpus hearing on tlie killing
Of Richard Watts in Big Thicket, Har-
din County, on January 7, 1915.
The brothers are also charged with ,
the inorder of Frank Havard in Big
Thicket on January 25. In their ha
Beas corpus hearing on this <liarge,
allowed bail
F. E. Sapp’s bond
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j Mrs Young .Cornelius of Markham
| la in the city \ today, the guest of,
if'iendr.
ERl, are just a few offerings selected at random from Levy's 28th Anniversary Sale. C?
they represent but a small part of the total number of bargains—but they give you a fair idea
Rev. .Mr. Stevens of Eagle
here today.
Ford Penny was a busines
*.'> Markham today.
.Mr. A. R. Leckie went to Palacios
today on a business trip.
.Mr. S. C. Hagan of Wadsworth paid I attitude of Bryan lie springs tlie sensa-
big business re- j t||(. a imSjness call today. | tional and deserts his chief just as he
| .Mr. Ernest Abbott and family went did Champ Clark at the Baltimore
to Markham this afternoon. convention. It is not tlie going of Mr
Mr. and Mrs. Young Cornelius pass- Bryan that hurts. Other great men
cd throng the city today en route! h ive come and gone, but the govern-
liome at Markham. I tneiit goes on forever. It is the time
Judge and Mrs. W. ° ----- '
ceivod a message
day from their son, Lane, who is on
his way to Annapolis via water.
message was
”Torlda.
Rev. O.
tc those working with him that he felt j
a peculiar sensation in the throat
[and treated it once himself. When
lie complained again about difficult
breathing those with liini insisted that
! he go to tlie hospital. This he did.
| but Dr. Jones could not discern any
dangerous symptoms and udmlnister-
by Judge f"r his relief,
was ,
fixed at $7500 and his younger broth-;
I im'nts, before
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Liberty, Texas, June 9.—E. E. Sapp:
Was indicted by tlie grand jury in tlie!
local District Court several days ago, |
Charged with the murder of his wife,
Mrs. Ellen I. Sapp, during a hunting
trip near Romayor, tills county, on
November 7 1914.
While tlie indictment was returned i
Severn] days ago, it was
public Tuesday afternoon,
no foundation to tlie rumor that an-
other party was indicted with Sapii ,lllllK K,','i,ll|s'
for the same killing. ’’’ell from
n orning to help get out some
] work at tlie Bay City Auto and Sales
y1(J Comiiany's garage. He had not even
I,,"! complained to his wife. Once or
Because of its tonic in<l laxative effect. I.AXA
Ttw bromo QUININE is betterthan ordinary
and does not cause nervousness nor
in head. Remember the full name and
■ the dure nf E. W. (5ROVE 25c.
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When the news of Horace Fell's
death flashed over tlie city yesterday'
I afternoon like t.h. city, 1..
| its entirety, was stupifled and dumb- i ’’’entlation for clemency,
tounded. It was unbelievable because
|of tlie fact that only a few moments!
.Ipr’or to ills death he was at work,
land in his usual cheerful mood, at
t!i< garage, and no one suspected any-
lle came in witli Mrs.
Chalmers
out
AT LEVY’S
J. H. Wolfe & Co.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1915, newspaper, June 11, 1915; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346176/m1/2/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=0: 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.