The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1917 Page: 4 of 8
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MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
paper, giro both old and new address
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$1.50
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THE DAILY TRIBUNE
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Korda County. Texas.
Mr.
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Curry's
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CHALMERS.
Roosevelt says he thinks there
FOR
action at that time would have sav'd
The ses.-ioi of the Texa.i legisla-
If war
This paper predicts, and is likewise
What Do You Know
About This
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same terms.
SO,
State.
body in fine condition and restores
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bluff, if you think
call their hand.
See the Alamo Lumber J
Company, when you want
to build a house, they
meet any mail or cata-
logue house prices, under
This is no
(By J. J. Mansfield; Address: care
of Rules Committee. House of Rep-
resentatives.)
Ill Mentha
One Year .
M BNl KIPI105 KA I LS.
WEEKLY
We have received a beautiful book-
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be one of. it not the chlefest
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when
had
Opposition Io Regular City Elec-
tion.
ton and Fort Bend Meet
Here Wednesday.
WASHINGTON
LET TER
One of the
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Mayor M. G. Klein has issued his
proclamation ordering an election for
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businei- and effect
to shoot
make eveiy shot count,
reasons our
efficient In the world and the
deadly in the field of action
Published Every Friday Morning by Tribune Printing Company.
CAREY SMITH, Editor
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Tit BE HELD HERE.
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tons.
I U|H lill' U illJUUV fVtVVViVI
with the appropriations t>
at the special session,
amount to nearly $19,000,000. It is which
believed that this will raise the rate proved
I'ivtifinn tn thn onn u f i f 111 inn it I limit ........ ,i
windows of our state rooms.
Arriving at Baltimore about daylight.
. we saw. perhaps, at least, one hundred
1 up
war-
A large number of these ships
I Goliad. Texas. April 2.—A large del-
egation of teachers of Goliad County
attended the South Texas Teachers’
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Si-ENDING HIE PEOPLE'S money.
Their orders are
traight at the belt so as to
For these
troops are of the most
most
Talks and plans do not build towns
This is all good as far as it goes, but
I actual work is the tiling.
that horizontal 1
Normal
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of I
Association held in Port Lavaca this
week, going through the country in
I automobiles, there being ten cars gay-
(0MM1SM0N
FORM OF GOVERNMENT.
That is. the cattle there now
worth that much more than they ,
ware before the ticks were eradicated. .
Rusk County News.
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In addition to all this, there
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we have
our
Along with other trying conditions velt
the Mexican situation loom up • i i
eionally as very alarming
ri.y there are those high in the coun
greater good can be accom-
in that better instructors and
wood, [conductors can be secured, and that
the work done will be of i.
and I grade than where each county holds ’the 9th District of Texas
its own individual institute. : principal plantations we passed
Superintendent Peace is a --ured ' owned by a Mr. Burger, formerly of
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In 1314 we used about 5.0m<i tons of
news print every day Our present
use has reached <.000 tons a day and
or;
and more effectively w
in any kind of package
believed in taking tile
Bay City Tribune.
differ with Mr Roose-
n umber of instances.
Zimmermann keeps on talking, but
he is getting to tin point where hn
own people give him the hot laugh
every time be opens
slit of his.
foremost
The world
NOTH » IO SI B*< KI BE RS.
sending In remittance for subscription, always state whether new or
renewal.
When requesting charge of address on
of other countries.
fact and conceded
air rifle the. target gun. the shotgun
in the field and over the trap for tin:
condition. And. furthermore, our is
not a nervous, excitable ■ ——
no mention, however, of the arrange-
ments made tor shipping along the
river from Fredericksburg to that gen-
eral shipping and for passengers. In
addition t<» that, at every important
there was a grain chute
that each farmer
could load his wheat and corn from
And now comes the report that Ger-
man agents have been tampering
bearing inscriptions
‘ Why the Proposed
Germany is now < ailing on no n of
all ages for military service, in
hope of winning th war by one
preme effort,
should she win
manhood n
way it goes.
have to suffer,
jamming is past.
The pacifists in
bad a
morning,
down, others were arrested and a few-
fined. C_
military boys waited for
importunity and painted the front of
the pacifists’ headquarters a nice
bright yellow, indicating tile yellow
streak
having a
climate.
It is said that '1 lioma Edison holds
a military secret in his hand that
will appall the w ot id should it be
forced Into use in behalf of his coun-
try. Perhap the wizard is causing
Chain lighting for war times.
cd annually.
pace with this consumption. For in-'
stance the estimated demand for new.-'
print for the first six months of 1917 |
is 888.000 tons. .
estimated
If every business man
town would advertise his
even though moderately, any town of
Should Mexico start on a rampage any size could lie made a trade center.)
while our rucus with Germany is on. We often hear the business man
v/e suggest that Uncle Samuel turn grumbling about business, when an
t or
any
| era I weeks. The i
| embarrass congress
the American
stand for it. The
want peace, but they want that peace
to come to them with every possible
degree of respectability and will not
lie satisfied with anything else.
To have i fine healthy complexion
tin liver must lie active, the bowels and succeeds M
regular and the blood pure.
is brought about by using HER
BINE. It thoroughly scours the
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nny nation "taking” us on will have water, perfect natural drainage and
about the toughest job they ever a citizenship unequalled in all
One way of building a town Is for
each individual who has faith iu the
town to back that faith with such im-
provements as his judgment anaSpcrintcudent* of Matagorda. W liar-
[ purse will ailov.H
11. B. Richards and Sid
Eidman succeed themselves as aldcr-
nien; T. L. I^wis goes in as a new
aiderman; Edwin Zedler, secretary
and treasurer, succeeds Oscar Bar-i
I. N. i
, a commission form of government for
Bay City, for May 3d. at which time
the people of Bay City will have an
opportunity of voting on this populai
form of government.
It'uuer. 1 lir W'JIIU IH-YI-I Italia ,
turn to a real man iu times of dis-
tress.
nation of the German empire.
curs to us t' ' "
ail the white elephants she needs to i
Isay nothing of taking on a batch of
here.
Quite a number of the representa-
Tlilngs will be sizzling hot and pop-jt,ve business men of the city called in ■ hannock
ping in Washington Monday Paci-
fist* have been preparing a monster j UP that gentlemans invitation with jin his will:
demonstration to take place simulta- assurances of a cordial spirit of co-
!y decorated with appropriate banners
I tv.re that has just closed has made i
la lecord for expenditures, it having!
appropriated about $6,000,000. which, ) Should be Located in Goliad.”
> be made An invitation was extended the as-
lik- ly w<ll Rociation to meet in Goliad next year.
■ t is which was accepted. Bort Lavaca •
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in getting an army of,
in the field.
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Production barely keeps | independent school districts
join in this institute, which heretofore I this place
has not been done.
While no absolute decision was ar-
Against this Is plae-j rived at Wednesday, every present in-'
I supply of 930.000 dicatlon Is that the Institute will be; we were there.
1 referred last week to some of the
records in the clerk's office at Tappii-
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in regard to
State Normal
World have
to President
red-blooded man in it. he goes stalk- a I
been tampering'K over lbe country seeking to dis- . Sutherland.
with all the Central American ports
iu an effort to form a mighty coali-
tion of ail lujt.n America under domi-
11 oc- j
that Germany has about,
Stored at ths Postoff re at Bay City. Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress March 3. 1879
Aziy erroneous reflection pon the < harin ter or standing of any person or
business comers will be readily and willingly < orrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers
The paper w be rond 1 upon the nighest pos -ible plane of legitimate
newspaper buaiseaa
South Norwalk. Connecticut, reports
a duck that lays five eg - a d.p. Some
duck that, or else Ananias ha >
turned to earth in the vicinity
South Norwalk in all his glorz.
was accepted. Port Lavaca
a royal host, and the entire
of taxation to the constitutional limit. I crowd was enthusiastic over the hos-
There was a notable lack of co-oper- pitality extended, and the splendid
Ration among members and consider-j programs rendered. The lectures by
able political bickering. The people’s ' pr. Winship of Boston and Dr. Blay-
will was disregarded in refusing to nPy of Rice Institute were especially
submit the prohibition question to the fine The association Indorsed Goliad
voters and little thought given to for the location of the South Texas
economy in State government. Normal, to be built under a recent act
Nevertheless bills were passed with of the legislature, by a large majority
I a view of judicial reform, encourage-[ vote put to the house. State Super-
ment for education and good roads
and to provide for statewide tick ’
eradication. Several constitutional
amendments have been submitted and
these the people will have an oppor-
tunity to vote upon. Several of the
most important bills of the session
failed to pass.
In establishing junior agricultural
colleges the object seemed to be to
favor special localities rather than
hollar ntl Hfu t irttl n 1 AlIvMl ’
farm directs into th- hull of the ves-
sel 1 thought how convenient it
would be if such things could be ar-
job t
tackled. The average American sihool
boys know as much about "shoo' ng ■ a tremendous amourt of patriotic
irons” as many <>f the trained soldiers sentiment attached o 1. The St.it "
This is a known .has the Sam Houston Norma! at
We can thank Hi' 1 untsvill- and we sec n »
H'lpect and liefarence
shown the immaculate
The Woodmen of Un-
pledged their support
Wilson. Thera are about 200.000 mem-
bers of the order in Texas ind they
should be able to keep the Germans
and Mexicans from coming over the
border. Austin American.
ber, who was not a candidate.
Barber was elected recorder.
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Wanted to Buy — Choice
cows with or without calves.
Johnson. Van Vleck. Texaa.
to provide better educational advan-j
tages for the boys and girls of Texas '
Time will be required to determine ‘ 5,>
the value of laws passed. The people
in the meanwhile will pay the bills
and bear the consequences
and Ranch
It is estimated that cattle are
hanced 19.25 pel head when free of
ticks The cost of freeing them is
negligible Alabama alone has saved
to her farmers |.'.000.b00 by tick erad-
ication
are
Now is the time when the much ■
criticized and. in some instances. d< - j
spised Roosevelt, is looked upon
one of America's foremost men i
America's foremost organizer i
leader. The world never fails
The Texas troops were the first to 1-t from historic old Go’iad. which
Teach the border and the last to leave, sent us for the purpose of advertising
but tlie present call finds them an Goliad and at the same time to <;t
sworlng ready, if somebody catches f>rth Goliad's claim for the location
hell during the coming crisis, the.of Hr new South Texas Normal there
Texas soldiers will be found demon-[w • a.e in favor of Goliad, .rovidcL
strating that it is more I
give than to receive. Houston Post ,cic
And the hotter the article, the faster [ment. and hope that the town made
ill it be given i famous by Fannin and his noble com-
Ttie crisis patriots will land this Slate plum,
now upon uh is serving to prove to Goliad is well located for the normal,
the world that America is still Amer- . I -sides having a matchloss an I
lea whoso people will sec to it that, In althful climate. good artesian
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and .
and greasers as a side issue.
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Misses Imogene and Lucille Curry-
spent the week-end with their grand-
parents. Mr. and Mrs. George Nave,
of Markham.
Minnie Bailey returned to El Maton
Friday.
Mrs. B. F. Curry and Miss Nena
Bailey were in Hay City Friday.
Mr. Crid Thomas of Bay City and I
Mr. William McKelvy of Cletnville
were visitors at Mr. Delk’s Sunday.)
Mr. and Mrs. J K. Smith of Ash-
A. Hard ami
Shoot at Ent'll Other.
Nobody Hurt.
j. w. cornu
Attorney-st-Law
Will Prscttca In AH the Conrta
Office over First Nat'1 Bank.
Bay City. Texas
— Farm j The city election passed off quietly
enough here yesterday, only 8C votes
-------- being polled.
John Sutherland was elected mayor |
G. Klein, whom Mr.
AH this Sutherland defeated in the city pri-
maries.
J \ McNeal succeeds himself as <r
liver, stomach and bowels, puts the'city marshal, .1. It. Cookenboo eon-;
tlnues in the office of assessor and ,
that clear, pink and white complexion collix'tor.
so much desired by ladies. Brice 50c..
Sold by Matagorda Pharmacy.
Uncle Samuel
the land of hot tauiah's entirely over investigation at the express office
to Texas for two or three montbe i'h"
job will be done up in
package and delivered
prepaid.
Carranza i- a wise old owl. As
soon as the Texas milltii left Corpus
Ctiristi he shipiied a half million dol-
lars in gold to the banks there
both men emptied their guns, all the
of shots, fortunately, going wild.
Sutherland is a stepson of Ward.
' who is being sued by the young man's
divorce, custody of the
their union, of whom
the
su-
What will it profit her
at the Joss of her
Surely a costly battle any
hav,.'waa revolution. This demonstration 1 during the institute, should it be held
hard time of it since Monday acquiesced in by one Wm. J. Bryan. )• er. Wharton Spectator
Some of them got knocked 1"''° quit his chief in time of need,
».'»■< <a r ' and distress. This same Bryan
On Tuesday night some of the I ^een honored by the people and the I
favora' le 'country he now seeks to make molly
I coddles out of, as no other man has i * •
. I been honored, and yet in these trying)
| times when our government needs)
| harmony and co-operation and the,
clear mind and assistance of every]
red-blooded man in it. he goes stalk-
inence and promise has been mar-
velous. but strictly on its merits. It
For every life in.-t is so good and valuable in so many
men of the LaFollette stripe should ways that it is even now figured as
h-vs t:; : The time for wind- a staple crop, and yet when we take
Action is what 1 into consideration that it is merely in
we want and must have. As Roosevelt its infancy in its field, we are com-
says: "If we are going to do any- polled to wonder Just how important,
tiling, let us do it quickly, effectively and how fast, it will become
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Sunday afternoon.
A number of El Scott farm people
spent the. day at Betts Lake Sunday.
We hear that they came near being
rained out.
can not
memory
------ . .. illustrious dead at Goliad by 1<>-!
race and) cat.ng there in tlio shaiow of old)
when they go into battle they go for "La Bahia lei Espiritu Ranlo” the
Reuth Texas Normal and naming it
Fannin State Normal. Wha- could be
more appropriate? Yes. there are
pontimental a,i well as busIneM rea-
sons for giving Goliad thy prefercnc*
|In this very Important matter.
tlie parcels post department at
i neat I’ttle, postoffice will show him that those
all chittges wh<> do advertise are those who get
tlie business.
State Super-
for education and good roads ) inti ndent Doughty gave an interesting
statewide tick ’ address to a large crowd Saturday
morning.
Several young men here who spent
a month in the training station at San
Antonio last summer received letters
requesting them to say whether they
preferred to enlist or be conscripted.
1 he letters are not believed to be
cause for alarm.
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LIGHT VOTE ROLLED.
I u.iiiiuis 1 will mention one other,
a body at Mr. Peace's office to back John Sampson, a r
up that gentleman's invitation with, in his will "That my body be car-'and several hundred chickens for the
- _ai_t rje(j t0 srave 8jx merchants, if I Baltimore market, we had music all
thev could he hart, and that 'the niirht lonir. That also reminded
Several times during
i, be. the night we came under the observa-
tion of war vessels, as the most bril-
I fudge, from this that Mr Sanip-jHant searchlights frequently penetrat-
son was only a moderate drinker. but]ed the
probably an anti-prohibitionist.
-- •• After one day spent in Tappahan- j «»». pi ruaps, in least, one nunc
STREETS (IF I.Ol ISE. nock. I felt as much at home, and ap- ocean-goiny ships that were tied
| parently as well acquainted as if in there on account of the submarine
Byron Sutherland jColumbus. The people are very much fare.
like Texas people, and several persons ! were from foreign countries, many of
them being Danish vessels. From
Baltimore we returned to Washing-
ton on the Pennsylvania railroad
When we were in Tappahannock the
R. • weather was unusually warm. When
in Baltimore the next
Henry Gresham, a cousin of Wai-(morning a very heavy rain was fall-
When we arrived in Washing-
the hotels, and tol dme that lie at one'ton, only forty miles from Baltimore.
we found the ground covered with
snow. Upon the whole our trip was
most pleasant and instructive, and
Congressman Hatton Sumners of Dal-
' las. who had in —,*b ug
very sorry that important
prevented his doing so.
hundred acres than he could in the During the whole trip our principal
Whole. State of Virginia. [menu was. country-cured hams, real
I was further reminded of Texas by then's eggs, shad row. and sea foods
the character of tlie trees and grass, ^of all kinds.
How different things would not be
had we gone about business when .be no trouble
trying tn get old Huerta to salute the 2.0<)0.000 men in the field. And he
flag or gone on to the City of Mexi o wants to send about 200.000 of them
when we were in Vera Cruz. What into the fray on European soil. Roose-
a world of trouble the right kind of velt always
fight to them.
While we <
in a number of instances, we.
have always been an admirer of his ]
We dat " r-'i blooded patriotism and a»;ressive- '
ness If war is bound to come, the!
sei of our country who now wish t.'-y colonel Is a good man to have on our
had acted while acting was good. It side Luling Signal,
has always been foolish to play with
fire or sit down on top of a red hot ‘
Stove. firm in its convictions, that before an-
-------- ---- other generation passes the peanut
1-a.Follette Is again at his old tricks will
of retarding th< declaration of w.ir [crop in Texas Its advance into protn-
In the meantime the enemies of the
United States are busy with their
war preparations.
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Igist w«e,v i gave an account of our..he streets and vacant lots were cov-
trip as far as Tappahannock. I made ered with sod of Bermuda grass, while
the sidewalks were lined with cotton-
wood and hackberry trees. We also
saw several pecan trees, apparently
2U years old. growing in the yards, and
1 was told that they hud been bearing
for several years.
After winding up our business af-
fairs at Tappahannock we took boat
the lolloping morning for Baltimore,
it requiring the whole of the day to
reach the mouth of tlie Rappahannock,
1. er , ranged along the riv. rs and canals of where we entered Chesapeake Hay. The
Tappahannock is very narrow at Fred-
ericksburg, but gradually widens to
a width of one mile at Tappahannock,
where tlie salt water sets in, and from
there to its mouth it resembles more
a bay than it does a river, its wide in
many places being more than
in that section of Vir- miles.
were
Judgment
No matter how
” I great a faith he has, it avails noth-
ing if he stands back and waits for
— I the other fellow to do the improving
in this case, faith without works
avaiieth nothing
whom I have known in Texas was
from Essex County as I found out:
I-aat Saturday morning at Louise, [among them Colonel Waiter Gresham
pistol duel occurred between Byron of Galveston. Bishop Temple of Ama-
itherland. a young tailor, and C. rillo. E. L. Stones brother-in-law. R.
rupt tiie country and disgrace it. No ■‘V Ward, president of the Ixiuise State,j. Duke, is now- sheriff of Essex Coun-]w*e arrived
man wants war. but when we have |B«*nk and merchant. Tlie encounter >ty
borne insults and had our rights,was outgrowth of family trouble. ' ter Gresham, is proprietor of one of ing.
tranipelled under foot for four years' T h<’ first shots were fired, accord-1-‘-
by one country and over two by other
countries, it seems to the average
I true American that the men
Bryan’s type should be muzzled
held incommunicado, it is no time
for sissies and the "dove of peace."] mother for
That bird has already cost this coun-1
I -*- -f its honor and respect th<‘1'<’ ar,‘ two' 1111,1 Partition of the
be plucked of its wing community estate. Mrs. Ward is in
1 Houston.
! As a result of the shooting, both
(men waived examination and were
placed under bond to await the action I
■ of the grand jury, and Sutherland j
i was placed under a 12,000 peace bond. I
-Wharton Spectator.
GOLIAD FAVORED AS
SEAT OF NEW NORMAU
the [ of
ttu ut iuuu »» •». v iu agzviyg x/i i'IU»IUl‘t|
blessed to of course, ocr good ncigneor. Paia-
Houston Post |cic toes not aspire to the acquirc-
The first shots were fired, accord-
ing to testimony, by Sutherland, and [time resided at Lufkin, Texas.
Falconer informed me that he owns
two hundred acres of land in the Ram-
sey survey near Old Caney in Mata-
I created some (las, who had expected to go with
amusement when 1 told him that he' is now
could grow more produce on that two (business
four
The fish and oyster industry
paying $11 is an immense business, and in many
dpotato''s the days places there were stacks of oyster
shells, thirty and forty feet high.
Our trip up the bay to Baltimore was
made during the night time, and the
boat tlie previous day having taken
merchant, directed °n nearly one hundred head of calves
r ried to the grave by six merchants, if ! Baltimore market,
[ncously with the opening of the spe- j operation with him in arranging for [ they could be had. and desire that'the night long,
eial session of congress, their ebject 1 H*e proper accommodation and en- there be no more than three gallons ! me of Texas. I
) being to intimidate, at least, the week ) tertainment of the several hundred |of strong liquor, without victuals, be [the night we ca;
kneed members and start an anti-' teachers, who will spend a week here) therefor expended.” j Hon of war vesi
I u .j r A vnl ,1 r i< Th'. , I. .n . , >- . r , <. > > I <1II!' i II g Hie I n s t i tut.S11 Of 11 d it be held I 1 lid Ze. from this t hI \t r <m n- 1 tail t sea re h 11 ST h I
Wednesday afternoon County Su-
perintendents W. F Pack of Mata-
jgorda County and Herman Beyer of
Fort Bend County met with Superin-
tendent J. R Peace of this county
in the later's office at the courthouse .
to discuss the holding at Wharton (plantation
the demand appears to be men ising th - fall of a tri-eounty teachers' in- arranged on piling
at the rate of It) per cent a year, ma-[stitute. it is conceded that where
terially faster than the increase in several count'-s will hold a Joint in- the top of the river bank on his own
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with news print requires annually I pliahed
about 3,two.O<M cords of pulp r**-‘ '
To meet our requirements for maga-
zine and book paper, stationery
business papers of all forms, wrap-[its own individual institute. [principal
ping papers, wall papera. cardboard.! Superintendent Peace is assured i owned by
fiber board and tlie like. l.Ovu. pu, that if his plan- materialize, and they Nebraska who is the father-in-law of
cords more of pulp wood are consum- ’ give every promise of doing so. the] William Jennings Bryan's son. Mr.
will also Bryan, himself, frequently visits at
Irish potatoes is an im-
portant crop
was ar-'gin.a. and planters
per barrel for see
in every
business,
| try much of
'and should I
I feathers as clean as Bryan's pate is
; of hirsuite adornments. Monday's
demonstration at Washington is
'but the forerunner of many
I others of like nature which have
| been in the making for the past sev-
whole thing is to
l and the president, i
people will not ]
American people |
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, April 6, 1917, newspaper, April 6, 1917; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346255/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.