The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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TO OUR»COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNT* AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNT*
TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE. ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT
YOU Ml 71 M MBER •>.
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BAY CITY. TEXAN, FRIDAY. FITIRI \R*
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
'PEANUT’S GOOD POINTS AS
CORPS OF FIELD WORKERS
STEADY Al MARKHAM
BANK HAS REOPENED
George Harrison. Who Preceded John
Cotton Oil Mill at El Campo Ready
I
Preceded
Allens,
Austin,
Who
Advance Seed and Install Ma-
of .Study Was Held
Built the First Town of Houston.
ehinery for Products.
* estenlay.
Done.
Joiful Demonstration.
When a suit was filed in a Houston
Markham is coining right
was at-
we
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an
transactions.
Among tile others who
was
village here.
was
got his
of the
A noticeable di-
We hare received a handsome treat
H.
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BAY CITY COULD
Li
Asked
Will
Be
Com mlssioners
Clemtille Man Is Surprised to See So
g
Keep I p Work.
Much Staff < (imine from
•s
Colorado.
January 31
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SAVE GIN SWEEPINGS.
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Patronise T-Jbuna advertisers
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Soil Addressed by Expert Au.
thority on Truck Growing.
TALKED CONVINCINGLY ON
MARKETING PROBLEMS
ENDORSE WORK OF
PROFESSOR PERSONS
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it
vaults,
counts
its
actual
with
Dixon's speech made a pro-
ImpresRlon and Is well cal*
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SKATING RINK MOVED.
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FINE TREAT OF OYSTERS.
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atrninlne order <if the former cotn-
ml««loner.
was the concluding tea-
Farmers' Short Course
Doors Opened for Bealness Tuesday Men Who Get Their I.Ring From the
Morning Heralded by Loud and
title to "two sitios" of land.
years later the Allens and others who be ruined by bad weather conditions, nil be
subdivided Houston and were its real
With R. W. Persons,
agent,
-“P who could possibly plant assisted Simon Lewis, one of
a small acreage, investigate the Jews, in the golicltng of funds.
Sixth Officer of the House of the possibilities of the
Chamber of Deputies of Texas. Com
missioner of the Supreme Government
of Mexico.”
of
$39,000;
Col. Holt Beversl years ago claim-
ing that certain taxes levied wore Il-
legal and unconstitutional refused to
The State brought null
appealed from
ie sima result ,
it to the Supren g
Just refused ths ap.
has been much neglected
In other words, Ute audience
LOSES LONG FOUGHT TAX SUIT.
IUUUU 1 ill pi cnniuu anu ••• —
1 ciliated to prove of inestimable value
Diversified to our people at this time,
to try. It|
prosperity for a section whore
R. J.
The Hopkins skating rtnk has been
moved to the LeTulle building on
Seventh Street formerly occupied by
citrus-producing States and not only
In this nation but in foreign countries,
his investigations Including first-hand
researches in Southern France and
Spain. Mr. Dixon, who has Just re-
cently returned from California, en-
lightened the audience by explaining
the cultural methods employed In the
'successful growth of citrus fruits in
that State and the protective measures
adapted to safeguard the crops against
t or unsold.
Bay City could well support a cream-
ery, which is profitable it well con-;
ducted. Colorado has made a success
of creameries as well as canning es- found
tabliahinents. Our Southern people ------
seem to want big things,
industry is the slogan
means
it is carried out.
its tour studying oyster beds, by
Better not
eat them give them to some of your
enemies. These oyesters. not over 1*
can be saved better tfian any other
on
G. Thornhill, of Matagorda, in the
j way of some of those "contaminated”
' oysters.
They are (or were) the finest and
best flavored we have ever tasted
and substantiated, in every particular. '
the claim that Mr. Thornhill has made1
for them, which is to say that there
are none grown anywhere any better.
Mr. Tliorm.nl, in a note to us, lias
this to say:
pay them.
and won. Col. Helt i
court to court with th,
•nd finally took
(Jonrt which has
MfcaHon-
had last, perhaps some growing industry were discussed in
our this year's crop will an intelligent if not exhaustive man-
new ground, the old being ner.
A diversity of subjects pertaining
to farm problems such as confront the
en-
persojts
present at the afternoon session. Tills
- hours aud every
moment of the time was occupied in
a profitable discussion of the truck
John Austin In July 1824, was given ; Cotton Waste Lint Valuable In .Mak-
a square of land. Each side was 7080 ] ing Explosives Now.
( varas long. A vara Is 33 inches.—
Chronicle.
SUPPORT A CANNERY
j iitiuK lURuuici ur n
literal contingency
mir furitf a I li nr a wl
lllatagotda Bounin tribune
Supreme Court Sustains Fish, Game
and Oyster Commissioner In
Ntieces County Tase.
The right of the fish, game and haps
oyster commissioner to close up cer- ject than any man in Texas
tain passes connecting bodies of salt made a thorough study of the question
SUIT JUST FILED BRINGS TO PEANUT’S GOOD POINTS AS IMPROVEMENTS ARE
LIGHT A BIT OF HISTORY CROP DESCRIBED TO FARMERS
I
to
has al-
of a writ of error from the judgment
starting of the lower court, thereby affirming
I the se-ison several weeks late the the action of the court and the re-
| local oil mH! will continue its run
| wel throueh February.
125 bales
to
weeks
Promises have been made good.
What s.mie said was not possible has
been accomplished. The Wharton
National Bank's doors were thrown
open for business at 9 o’clock Tues
day morning, and
done at the old stand.
'I’lte opening of the bank
tended with quite n
considering age and other drawbacks
that saddled on them by the powors-
that-be.
We have an abundance of this stock
t(> supply nearly all Texas, and they
are now growing as fast as you
saw' cabbage plants grow.
The people of Matagorda
.
Out of the fund of Ills rich oxpor*
' ience, Col. Dixon discussed soil pre*
paratlon and cultivation ns it relates
to the growing of fruits and vege-
| tables, explaining in detail those
tilings necessary to be done and ad-
monishing his listeners against those
tilings that should be left undone.
From a scientific standpoint, he (11s-
soils. moisture. Insect pests
I and remedies, the range of the dis-
cussion being very wide and all-em»
bracing.
I On the subject
gave
wholesome advice which If remem-
bered and heeded will redound to
their advantage when once the Bay
| City Truck Growers Assoicatlon
reaches the operative stage.
Col.
It is planned at. the next meeting ------
to have an agricultural expert make Methodist Minister \sslsts in Solicit-
a talk on the subject of peanut grow- |ng.
ing, that the farmers may have all ------
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to
.‘■■kill and
has its own
drainage
course, make these farms
ton oil mill of which lie Is manager more acceptable and more convenient
would furnish seed for planting at for those living on them.”
cost, allowing the farmer to pay for In speaking of things in general,
same in tile fall, and further that Mr. Anderson remarked that the whole
they would install machinery to take country seems to be enjoying a great-
care of all the peanuts grown, and er degree of prosperity and that the
either contract for them at a stipu- people are in much better spirits.
la ted price or purchase them at the -------o—o
NATIONAL JEWISH BELIEF DAY,
It having been uectocu io end Of a season it is
the greater part of the afternoon to | much of the crop is lost
! ... .--(-H nt fruits Sil m H. 11___.....II
GULF PASSES I I’HF.LD. I)txon of Houston was Invited to ad-
and he readily
general talk that
On grower in this part of tile State
new and comfort- gaged Hie attention of those
discussed able tenant houses have been built. | — "
j the subject were E. C. Brogdon, .1. C. We have every farm laid off with good session lasted three
-- — — > --r mid splendid drainage
\ t peanut and ar-
Irange to plant as large an acreage as j
could be taken care of. He said he
j believed the peanut industry for more
; important to the country than any at the hands of our good friend. W.
j one would believe.
Every man In Matagorda County
who is personally interested in truck
growing and its one concomitant
problem, that of profitable marketing,
should have heard Col. Sam. H,
'Dixon's speech at the K. of p, haR
business is being 111 tl’Is city last Saturday afternoon,
i This speech
I turn of the
demonstration of conducted liy a field corps of agricul-
good feeling which found vent in the Hirai experts last Friday and Sutur-
firlng of anvils, the discharge of the 1 day, and the attendance at the last
sheriff's six-shooter and the session of the course was fur better
‘than at any previous meeting and
with fairly representative
coco-
and
products
angle of
ground completely.
was one of the most comprehensive
other ap- and illuminating speeches ever made
on the subject, and coming from so
expert a source it found favor and
lodgment in the mind? of h's 'nteni*c-
ly interested listeners
Emphasizing the supreme import-
ance of organization (of the co-opera-
tive and nut the “dress parade" kind)
Col. I n\cn ‘.old those farmers who
Tom I are ‘tut on the threshold of embn'k<
president; E. Pig in comtncn'al truck growing that
president. i :f they hoped to accomplish anything
The direc-j and make a i.ucecss of their undertake
lag they would have to resolve on
sticking together in a solid fraternal
phalanx, having a common purpose |a
view and a community and mutuality
of interest that would enable them
to overcome every obstacle. Like th*
bold spirits composing the revolution-
ary party In the American colonies la
1775, it was absolutely necessary to
subscribe to the sentiment enun-
ciated by one of tho slgneru of ths
Declaration of Independence, and
that sentiment was, “Wo must either
hang together or httug separately," a
r that confronted
our forefathers who strove success-
fully to throw off the yoke of op-
pression imposed by King George and
ills ministers. If the truck grower*
of Matagorda County would succeed,
declared tho speaker, they must or-
ganize and hang together, a valuable
the marketing qf
from every pos-
tin' subject, covering
I n fact it
house show that when Joint Austin ar-
rived, in 1824, something like lit years ady.
ahead of the Allens, he found tiiat
George Harrison, who had preceded jf the farmers would agree to grow accompanying
him some time, already owned land a sufficient number of acres the cot- which, of
here.
“Ley Del Toro'’ Odd Law,
More curious than the foregoing,
perhaps, is the “ley del toro” that
bobs up in one of the early transfers.
The owner wished to relinquish right
to a piece of land, so, with certain
ceremonies, he renounced all right to
it under this “ley del toro,” which is
translated from the Spanish as “the
law of the bull."
It comes from the subtle idea of,
"turning the land back to the cattle." |
Then the new settler could take it up. ■
water along the coast with one another | not only in this State but in other
or with the open warters of the Gulf,
San Marcos, Texas, January 29.—So'to fishing and oyster gathering, was
valuable has fiber become in the sustained by the Supreme Court yes-
manufacture of explosives that terday in the case of C. W. Gibson
sweepings from the lint rooms of gins vs. W. S. Sterrett, formerly commis-
and oil mills are carefully saved and sioner of the fish, game and oyster
utilized now. department
The San Marcos oil mill has al- The court refuael application for
the Sisk Grocery Co. ' This building, ready save more than
being one of the largest in the city, sweepings. Owing
gives the rink all the room required.
lohu Austin, A. C. Allen, James S.
Holman and a number of other pion- '
eers, dead a half century or more,
an interesting chapter in early Hous-
ton history was revealed. Records of ]
the transfers of the land in question
go back to July 20, 1824.
high sheriff’s six-shooter ami
ringing of the burglar alarm for an man nt any previous meeting and was
hour. Everybody shook bauds with fairly representative of the group
everybody else, and some took coco concerned in that branch of ugrlcul-
cola and some took toddy ■ tore that has been t *■
The reporter of the Spectator stood here.
around for 35 minutes, in which time was composed almost exclusively of
deposits to tho amount of 118,000 “ ‘ *
were made aud witlidrswals amount-
ing to $S4 took place.
The first person to ask for iter
money was an old black mammy from
the bottom, who when site found she
could get the actual money upon ap-
plication, left it on deposit and went
out murmuring that she Just wanted
of marketing he
his audience the benefit of very
was
a neat
Farming I nder Fine Headway and Profitable Session of Fanners’ School (
Much Building Being
I The Supreme Court has refused an
WILL OCCl’PT NEW QLARTER.H. application for a writ of error In th*
------ tax suit brought by the State against
As soon as the work now going on Col. J. F. Holt,
at the LeTulle building, formerly oc-1
cupled by the Dixie Theatre, is com-'
pleted one part of the building will
be occupied by P. G. Secrest, the same
being fitted up i ■ . uly for his bun-
ineas.
The buildin:
store rooms, but w<
who Is to Jr t’
fiber
of explosives
ject. During the discussion of the The National Jewish Relief Day
qualities of the peanut product the observed here yesterday and
fact was mentioned that the peanut sum was collected for the sufferers
oil was very valuable for cooking, and of foreign countries.
it is planned to have a "peanut version from the usual system I""
lunch” at the next regular meeting, haps, was in the fact that Rev. J. F.
To the official papers which made F. J. Hardey, who presided, urged that Carter, the local Methodist minister,
the tiling legal lie signed liis name every one who could possibly plant. as«iwt«><1 Simon
“Don Estevan F. Austin. Empressario, even l ------- ------- .— —
House of
men who dig their livelihood from
the soil, and the object of this meet-
ing was to learn from expert sources
how to make that livelihood mor*
remunerative.
in a speech of two hours duration,
Col. Dixon, who is the head of th*
marketing bureau of the State depart-
ment of agriculture, discussed truck
to know for “sho” that she could get!growing
It if sho wanted it. | the
The bank opened Its doors with slble
$242,7X9.88 of actual money in its' the
which with loans and dis-
ot 1X1,41.9,24 and
proved assets of $14,291.14, made a
totul of $3t>8,541.23; and liabilities as
follows: Deposits and outstanding
drafts payable on demand. $38,867.89;
time certificates of deposit, $296,-
873.37: capital. $30,000; surplus,
$3,000.
The men who will officer the batik
uro A. A Mullins, president;
Brooks, first vice
Hawes, Sr., second vice
and R. J. Wright, cashier,
torate contains the names of the fol-
lowing. in addition to the three first-
named genetlemen: Donald Duncan.
M. S Floyd, T. Gordon, G. A. Har-
rison, R. B. Huston. Geo. H. North-
ington, Sr., J. A. Robertson, and
J. Schley.- Wharton Spectator.
IVierd Rites liver Deal.
in those days when a settler took
up land strange rites were necessary.
A description of the title-giving, ou
record, shows that Don Estevan took
John Austin by the hand and led him
over the land. Then, “without ob-
jection from anyone,” to quote the ■
old papers, they together “shouted
loudly, pulled grasses, threw stones,
planted stakes and performed other
necessary ceremonies."
Yet all this was not without its rea-
son in those days. The government
expected anyone going out to ac-
quire wild land to raise all this com-
motion for a purpose. It was to cafl
the attention of anyone who might
be in tile neighborhood. If commo-;
tion was raised anyone claiming the
land would then appear and make
known his rights in the matter.
Out on the prairie, far from haunts
of men, "shouting, pulling grasses and
throwing stones” was the only method
known of attracting the notice of any-
one in the neighborhood, it was far
more likely to get results than posting
a notice when no one was near to
read.
El Campo, Texas, January 26.—The Markham is coming right along," wi,l> B. W. Persons, the county
get-together meeting of the farmers sal(l Mr. a. M Anderson yesterday, 'iemonstration agent, presiding, a
evening at the "Our farms are fn better shape now farmer's and stockman s short school
of the most in- than they have ever been at this time of of study was held yesterday at the
Discussion of the year. The ground is practically public school building.
Town of llnrrison. Too.
Aud more than this, there was a
It was called the "town
of Harrison," after George Harrison,
who preceded John Austin, who pre-
ceded the Allens. Harrison was close
to tlie junction of Buffalo Bayou and n|arhet price.
White Oak Bayou. Yet here's an-
other surprise:
All this section at that time
ruled over by a baron- the Baron of
Bastrop! The baron got his title the information possible on tlie sub- From Friday’s Daily,
through “The Supreme Goevrnment of
Mexico.” When John Austin was
given his "two sitios of land” in what
is now Houston the Mexican govern-
ment was represented in the trans-
action by "old Steve Austin.”
Carey Smith. Bay City, Texas.
I These "contaminated” oyster escap-
The Collegeport industrial League ef) th(, investigating committee while
at its regular meeting Friday last on
passed resolutions endorsing county pjjjng [n t)K. wire grass,
demonstration work which Prof. Per-
sons, an efficient, loyal and helpful
jagent, is doing and urging the County 1(( 2o months old. 1 think very fine
' ] Court to continue tlie work under his
j direction.
■ A committee was appointed to call
! on the court and express tlie desire
of the Collegeport farmers. The sec-
retary was also ordered to communi-
Icate with all county commercial and
truck organizations on the subject. I
Colle^eport people believe that pros- '
| perlty must come through agricultu-
' ral development and that it is poor 1
business to do anything which will [
retard such development. The men
who are elected should understand and
be in accord with movements which
are progressive.
tourt yesterday naming as defendants r ‘ ‘
j and merchants last
ciub rooms was one
| teresting ever held.
tlie peanut question occupied most of “U turned and in good shape for plant- number of farmers
j the evening. H. D. Brown said he ing."
considered "an acre of peanuts equal "We
to five acres of corn for feed,
| Matagorda. Texas, January 26. 1916.
|the meeting, said he cut two tons of:
hay from a planting of one pound of
tSoudan grass seed.
Commenting briefly on the efforts'To The Tribune:
mow being made to finance the Bayj Clemville, Texa*, January 3L-I' ,"“on n11 of thom •*houl‘l ,earn «
City Truck Growers Association. Dr. | read In The Tribune your article con-,
II R. I.eMay told the audience that in I cerning that hundred-acre truck
Ins personal efforts to arouse interest farm for Bay City. This is good as
in this enterprise among the business j tar as it goes. While reading tills ar-
men of Bay City, he encountered the > Hole I cast my eyes at tho canned
passive opposition of many doubting goods in tlie. shelves of a store here.
Thomases who displayed a lack of it was a surprise to me to see so
confidence in this country as a truck j much canned goods from the moun-j
This preconceived] tain State of Colorado, a State that
has no claim to be called an agricul-
tural State. AH kinds of vegetables cuseed
canned and put up in attractive la-
bels which also help to advertise the
State. A canning establishment it
seems to me would be a good tiling
•o—o
are turn-
ing to’fish and oysters largely of the proposltlon. In refutation
their moat diet and they arc not over- miHtakf)n notlon, j. w. Fondren,
I contaminated since our doctor »«y«|wh(( W(W raiBpd jn th)s county> RttyH
| if they do not begin to c.i i urn 1,1 j lhls |and wm grow anything if intel-j B0(.ms to me would be a good thing
i more often he will hav< to 01 u I ijgehtly farmed but the land requires ! |n connection with the truck farm to
pastures new, • . ,lra|nagft. j take care of the surplus crops. At
I o o it having been decided to devote cnd of a season it is well known
1 RIGHT GF STATE TO
The cost of a libera! salary for the ! REGULATE FISHING IN
; man in charge of this important work
is infinitesimal when spread over
county which we brag of being
“Heart of the Mid-Coast.”
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A very small
was present at
tlie forenoon session which cotnmene-
will have," he continued, ul 'I o’clock, but during that hour
! aud about the same acreage iu rice this the interesting phases of the truck
On that day John Austin was given ' that it is one of the easiest crops to year that
Several grow, and perhaps the least liable to more, but
on
If it should be a wet season the pea- turned out for pasturage,
founders, first began to figure in the nut can be saved better tfuin any other “We have also made considerable
Those who think of the crop, and that it will grow on the headway in farm improvements.
.Allens as being the first to settle iu 1 poorest of land and enrich the soil.” our place sixteen
Houston will have to revise their
reckonings.
For the papers on file at the court Smith, I.. O. Lundy. W. A. Hiddlcson, graded roadr
A. R. Zuber. Perry Anthus, G. W, (’as- all done according to competent
t'liu' I inc skill and specifications. ' industry, the citrus industry and kln-
it was suggested by E. H. Koch that Each farm has its own road with dred subjects. The first speaker of
ditches, the afternoon was Mr. Persons, who
told of tlie work of tho field workers
at other points in the county the pre-
! ceding four days of this week, reveal-
ing a lively interest in the school of
instructed as it was conducted at those
points During the course of ills re-
. marks, Mr. Persons exhibited a bunch
of South African grass that is being
’ introduced and successfully grown in
South Texas but not in this immediate
section, lie asserted that this variety
of field grass is highly adspted to
Matagorda County soil, that it. will
grow anywhere for tiiat matter, and
that It possesses the additional ad-
, vantage of being able to smother out.
bermuda, Johnson and other noxious
grasses. The grass requires a good
seed bed and should receive thorough
I,er* cultivation. Mr. Persons reconitnend-
,<•(1 that the farmers of the Bay City
j section join in a club to buy a quan-
t'l< tity of tlie seed and place their orders
with the Palacios Hardware C<X, at
[ Palacios, as this firm is preparing to
| make up a lump order for 100 pounds.
The cost is 50 cents per pound.
I Other persons present spoke on tlie
subject of Soudan grass. Mr. Milner,
a farmer near Bay City, telling of his
j experience with this grass. He said
he cut I or 5 tons to the acre, having
: made three cuttings and getting more
I than a ton to each cutting, besides lie
j grazed ills livestock on it consider-
ably. Even after the last severe cold
spell Hie outcroppings of the grazed
area were still green and fresh, show
ing tiiat. this variety of grass was not
appreciably fcazed by the freeze.
Saiu J. Baker, who was present at
WHARION NATIONAL
DISCUSS FARM PROBLEMS
| the
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I
i the discussion of citrus fruits, Sam H.
I 1 >1X011 Ol riUUOlMU "
! dress the gathering
complied, making a
revealed an intimate knowledge of the
subject. In fact Sam Dixon is per-
a higher authority on this sub-
He has
over
growing country.
notion, it seems, will have to be cradl-
i cated before men of moans will take
| hold of the proposition.
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