The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1915 Page: 8 of 22
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CONFIDENCE IN WILSON
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The two essential things in business success
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“Capital” and “Credit.”
EIGHTEEN LEGISLATIVE ACTS
PITIFUL SCENES ARE
SIGNED DY FERGUSON
WITNESSED IN MEXICO CITY
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This Bank invites a call from young business men
who are ambitious to “Forge Ahead in Business.”
We
believe that we can be helpful.
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BAY CITY, TEXAS
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Capital, $ 1 00,000.00
I’alaeios. Texas, June
Surplus - $25,000.00
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lation of money; CREDIT is gained through financial
Mexico City, Saturday, May
For the last three days the sessions bills
on
line railways
known ns the
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All are invited to start
count with this bank.
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Earl Rogers,
Rice,
Nora
Wcmack,
Checking accounts are not for
business houses alone, but for
farmers, professional people, sal-
aried men and women—for all
who have money dealings.
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man prominent in the
county, having been in the race for
crusty judge several years ago. Quite
a number of the citizens of Goliad left
for the scene on receipt of the news,
among them beiag County Judge Pass-
moore and Justice of the Peace Shap-
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The placing of trash and filth in
any street alley or drain ditch la In
violation of city ordinances Prove
your good citizenships by observing
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The marriage of Mr. Willie Shultze
and Miss Minnie Rickaway was sol-
emnized in the district court room at
the court house this afternoon at 2
o'clock. Judge S. J. Styles officiating.
The contracting parties are resi-
dents of Clmnville.
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Monogram stationery, all latest
shades and styles, made according to
your at The Tribune office.
leal because, to a large extent,
i [planted. Even States as productive
•s Morelos and Guanafuata are calling
i lor corn, while armies turn their cav-
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It’s the safe way. The modern
way. The way which leads to
an ever-increasing bank account.
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1st Yours truly, J. T. Robison
Commissioner General Land Office.
nnd 175.000
act.
Goliad. Texas, June 3.—Irwin Mc-
Donald, aged 50 years, commissioner
peace of precinct
was found at an early hour this
I morning hanging iu his burn, life hav-
I ing been extinct for several hours,
a part of what Is needed, she ri»' det endent resided In Weesatche,
herself an<1 waa
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---- I * WILL S. HOLMAN
Attorney-st-Law
will practice in Appellate, Su-
pretne and Federal Courts
Office in the Courthouse
Bay City, Texas
Each has forty years to advantages were carefully
to him by Mayor Campbell and other I
members of the party.
Senator Sheppard left at 3 o'clock
in East Texas.
. pectlve
i which tr
chase
I obtain
Land that
mountainous
| counties may
|' ondition of living on it.
He seemed I
to feel that Houston would possess a
cat advantage a port in being
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free r 1 — — — ——»,, ■,
d laml under
issed by the r<
hist Legl -Iatur
he school land
butlon about
for sale
you should consider the princi-
pal needs of
bo that
' trading purposes. Sale w'ith or w ith
lottlement Is fixed bj' counties
I Such land as is supposed to be sun- water
ceptlble of agriculture will
sule to those only who will
I ICtlial settlers on It. There
miring friends wherever seen. When
asliod for an expression on the possi-
ibllitieB of international entangle-
ments arising from the Lusitania in-
cident. he said: "I think comment
suould be reserved in deference to the
president until after his message is
made public, and I would not like to
say anything right now."
"Do you regard our diplomatic re-
lations with Germany as being
strained on account of the controversy
regarding submarine warfare?"
, "Not in the least. Our diplomatic
relations with Germany at present are |
< ntirely cordial, and I would not like |
to make any forecast as to the future
until, as I have said before, the presi-
dent. in whom I have the utmost con-
fidence. has concluded his negotia-
tions."
LISTS OF SCHOOL LANDS
terms l ast Tc:
r .'ps- attended
Whenever You Need a General Tonic
Take drove’s
The Old Standard Grove’s Tasteless
chill Tonic is equally valuable as a
General Tonic because it contains the
well known tonic properties©!QUININE
__„ and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives
irticul Srrave as yet been Malaria. Enriches the Flood and
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ditches,
yards.
tiyns can be had at the engineer’s of-
fice, Ruthven Bldg., Palacios, Texas.
Sealed bids must be filed with county
cierk before 10 o’clock a. m., June
14. 1315. G. A Rracher.
wt Engineer.
Relating jo the
regulating the
’ ’ -s; providing for posting of
1 .'tiers ef sides made under deeds of
trust: extending the tiim < payment
of principal that luis become duo on
f iles of puldie free school lands;
‘hanging tin time of holding court
.1 the thirty-third district; declaring
prairie dogs a nuisance: concurrent
1 evolutions memorializing Congress to
law providing for the return
so-called cotton tax paid by
States: creating the Point
school district: Greens-
County line Independent
t'hool districts: road laws for Coman
<he and Montague Counties.
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ing exercises of (lie Palacios Baptist
: Academy are being held this week I
and next. On Sunday the haecalau-i
rente sermon w ill be preached by Rev. |
On anything you need
Building Line. You will find
that for Quality and Price we
cannot be beat......
[ Our strong fire-proof vault free to the use of our customers.
1 Austin, Toxas, June
and one concurrent.
of the Bo-called national convention were signed today by Governor Fer-
ln the chamber of deputies building Kuson. but none of them will become
have been scenes of the wildest dis- laws until bo days after adjournment
order. Not only the galleries, but at t1"' Legislature. The Important
'l times the floor and speaker’s tribune general measures signed by
have been rushed by hordes of hungry
imm, women and children.
The shouts of "We
without this powerful a
in successfully playing " I I IE GREATEST GAME
IN THE VLORLD.”
should do more
be
becom
will 1
| some 00,000 acres of this class.
■h the chance for the one without
Heretofore those
five miles of thr-
ill be ready for distribution about Senator Sheppard was passing,
uly 1st. .As the land will be for -ale through the city and decided to stop
leptembor 1st. this will allow pros- over in order that he might inspect
purchasers two months In Houston’s water front and terminal
they may desire to pur- facilities. When recently litre Sen-
who wants a list may ator Sheppard manifested consider-
writlng to me at Austin, able Interest in the deep water prop-
i-. situated in the rough osition and expressed a desire on his
portions of the western next visit to look carefully into the
be purchased without natter of facilities. He sent a mes-
Such land is “age to Sterling Myer Thursday an-
I unfit for agricultural purposes and is uouncing lie was coming and asking
g'nerally so broken by mountains, 'hat arrangements be mad.' ttiat he
ruck hills, canyons and gorges as to might inspect them carefully.
!>•• unfit for humin habitation. The At 9 o'clock Friday morning Sen-
smooth land there has been sold It utr sneppard, in company witli
some would want It for Mayor Campbell, Sterling Myer and
A. S. ('leveland, went to the Turning
liasin and looked carefully into the;
front and facilities. He ex-1
for pressed himself as not only being'
wonderfully pleased, but amazed at
the immensity of the proposition. He'
This was especially gratified that the peo- I
a pie of Houston had so much confl-1
home. Heretofore those who live! d< nee in their Ship Channel, as was
within five miles of the land could evidenced by the voting of bonds re-
buy it by living on his other land. Not ccntly, first to the extent of $1,250,-'
| so now. The purchaser must live on 0 IO and latterly to the extent of $3,-j
the land he buys when it is sitnatei. 000,000, for the ultimate improvement
in a county where such tracts of land of the dock, wharves, etc.
be sold on condition of settle
The settlement purchaser pays great advantage as a 1
one-fortieth cash and three per cent i.),),, to furnish free wharfage,
nterest; the purchaser without settle- (lockage, free warehousage.
ment pays one-tenth cash and five per pilotage and free water, all of which 1
leant Interest. Each has forty years to advantages wore carefully explained j
pay the balance,
builder favored.
The list of lands will give more in-1
formation and will ho ready about July for point
Senator Morris Sheppard was a vis-;
itor at the organization meeting of
the South and East Texas Develop-
ment League during the morning ses-
sion. The senator is in fine health
Unnts the l ulled States Io Place Em- and was surrounded by a group of ad-
barge on A ruts.
day following the regular commence-)
ment exercises will be held with I’res-
IHot cheeked their vain
/search fir food.
"been kept busy carrying off women
and children, and lu some cases old
men. crushed or overcome In these
tnanlfestatlons.
I’cn thousand persons gathered out
ride of the chamber today and nearly
300 were carried off on stretchers.
Acting president. General Roque Gon-
ealez Garza, appeared before the con-
, ventlon delegates mid a portion of the
,.'mob to tell them that the treasury
was empty, the field laid waste by
the contending rovolntlonarios and
t'uit the only hope for the coming
winter wns that all Mexicans Im down
their arms nnd begin the tilling of
* the fields Repeatedly the crow’ds
‘ answered him. saving, “Give us corn
• Our women nnd children are dying
i ef hunger.*'
11 A comparatively small suppb
| Jbtalncd from the foreign relief
mitteo and this assuaged flic
of the day.
Crops everywhere arc short and in
all but five of the 27 States of Mexico "
there Is absolute want, with the new
harvest many months away and myth-’
leal because, to a large extent, tin-1 ,
c( the
(Southern
j independent
I borough
Plies Cured in 6 to 14 Days
Wtoor dregs 1't will refund money it TAZO
. '^et-rv—'-r.-"re nnr c««e of Itchlnr,
1 A'tind Bleed Ing or Protruding *•'(■.■' 11 jiu Uiiiri. i,
*1 su,.1 learned
invra v* »» . .........— _ —•
into anything green to be found
kill cattle and other farm animals
■ their hides.
■ Is estimated that unless relief
Bes from the outside more than.’*'""
1)00.000 people will be in danger of,
Irvatfon. In normal times it re-)
Ires approximately I.Si'0.000 tons ..........-
1 corn to feed these 13.000,000 an^ Justice of the
rmers and grain dealers say this A0’ 1
must be obtained in the United States.
[but *.« Mexico has no money to par —
for evci 1 r_.. --
will he compelled to throw
k>n the charity of the
^according to these authorities.
measures
governor are:
1 ’i he governors bill making an
want. (.Oin > I'CofThitIon of $1,000,000 for
drowned all others and even the show • ""ntry schools, one half of which is
of bayonets mid the firing of the sol- ''’1l"'I1,Ied for the first and the
xilers over tlie hands of the mob have half for the second fiscal years:
mid piteous t!:,lveston drydock hill which author-
The Red Cross has l'l,‘ sn,,‘ to .1. J Lune, of certain
submerged lend in Galveston Hay up-
whiih to build drydocks mid ma-
Senator McNoalus’ bill
Interurban merger hill
which authorizes interurbans to eon
solldute with other interurlimis; liill
"stnblisliiu"' new Texas State school
for tlie bill'd mid carrying an appro-
priation of $300,000. $225,000 to be
expended the first mid $75,000 the
second fiscal year; act. reorganizing
jibe tweutv-thlrd judicial district mid
eienting the Eighteenth District Court
coni|ios('d <>f Harris and Waller
Counties; validating the sales and title
sold under rid Spanish mid
Mi xlean land grants,
signed are:
Jail guards
huslncs:
AFTER-DINNER OEIIGHT-THE MUSIC DE THE VICTROLA
At times when jou like to sit still in a lis-
tening frame of mind lhe Victrala is at your
instant command to render your favorite
sek<!lions---grar.d opera, violin, orchestra,
piano, bard, ragtime—any music that suits
jour taste. Step in and let us play some
cl lh< m t jou, and we’ll show you the
variouz styles of Victors |$IO to $100]
and Victrolas |$l 5 to $200]— easy terms,
if you like.
THOS. GOGGAN & BRO.
1 K Grsc*. Manager, Hay City, Toxas
Ing the belligerents with munitions of.
war. This is wrong. I think, and (
should cease; not one pound of war;
mnterlnl should be allowed shipped j '■ voring the address,
from the United States to nny of the i ' graduates as
v nrrlng nations- rut off all deatb-de'il- Hiilver, Robert
The other bills li er supplies mid thev could not pro- 1 " iHlain Ashley,
pay of long the war hut n short while. I
butcher | not believe our ships or citizens should 1 Mary
. 0 so foolhardy ns to rush Into this
war zone with contraband goods. I
believe there should be an embargo
|il,'iced on everything American even to
her citizenship, unless it be food sup-
plies for the widows, orphans and oth-
er sufferers of the war. Were such ’»■ ie.s m>o ..... — -........—
steps taken this awful carnage would, successful years in the history of the
id necessity he short lived | school. President Wolf is making an]
I plead not for nny of the warring effort to raise the school to a junioi j
nations, but appeal to American men
ind women nnd above all to the Chris-
tian world to do al1 In its power to end
this terrible conflict as speedily as < tl A 1 H Ai l" Nil 1 - (OL1.EGEPGB F.
I-mirible mid to forever keep our skirts;
clear of warfare. Our young men are
needed for < ther and better things
than to be murdered and our woman,
hood i.i to, sacred and dear to the
hearts of all American- to be made to
suffer, endure the pains, anguish and
privations ol cruel warfare.
W. G. Thornhill
Matagorda, Texas.
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The Tribune will gel the business
for yon if yon will give it a chance.
1. Eighteen
resolution
If you want to be proud of every
letter you write, let us do the work
for you. It will pay y0I1 t0 |nreay.
The Cor tmissionors’ Court of Mata-;
gorda County will let contract No. 1 |
if Matagcrde County Road District
No. 6 June 14, 1915. at Bay City, Tex-
as. tor excavating and grading three!
and one-half miles of road and outlet
Approximately 16,790 cubic I >| AKKiED
Detailed plans and specifica-
''’rom the Houston Post.
During the past eight or nine months
many of the citizens of the United
States have criticised President WII-
ron very severely for the attitude of
lhe United States in this foreign war.
while on the other hand others speak
for him and the administration the
b'ghest praise. It Is’ a fact beyond
question our president is more closely
in touch with the situation and condi-1
tioiiH than any other persons, conse-
quently more capable of Judging.
The president Is "our flag:” Amor- '
leans should “rally around the flag. ’
and see that not a single star or stripe
becomes soiled. All Americans, both
sexes, should stop this argument as
to which nation Is to blame for the
present European conflagration: there
is evidently a cause, both sides feeling
Justified In the wholesale slaughter of
:he nations’ fairest sons or there would
b" no war.
Every American should constitute
himself or herself a commit tee to find
the memis to stop this wholesale mur-
dering: It lies with ns. seems that ours
is the only neutral nation now supply-1 Mr l'''11,‘ of ",,s Cit- an(l on W"rtn"s’ I
{ : MsmwsssmsmssssoM
’dent M. M. Wolf of the academy de-,|
There are 11 lit-1 »
follows: la'Roy 1 |
Allen, Earl Rogers, I ’
pro-! " 11 Dani nsniey . J. J. Rice, Carroll
j (Io Siei'hens and Misses Nora Hayes.
' Dwyer, Eva Womack, Vivian
Titnni. Mabel Hamill. Graduates in
voice and piano, Miss Bernice Taylor
nnd Miss Nora Hayes: graduates in
expression. Misses Ella 1). Hatchell
and Mary Chappell. Miss Mattie Chap-
pell is the only post graduate in mu-
sic. This has been one of the most
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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/m1/8/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=270: 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.