The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 18, 1918 Page: 4 of 8
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in those days the following rc-
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plate, duties heretofore, and
ministratoin and accord
the
Dr. R. A Ramsay, chief, tick-eradi
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every
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IN TERI’RI TING ( (HI.
MITTEE BRICES
time to
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wholesale, 2.51)
sack.
wholesale
wholesale
country;
1-lb
eartoons;.
Hie
Sales of
re-
retail
23:
retail
47 32:
wholesale
1;
school
wholesale
1-lb
car
tvhat's the cause of it all.
New Jersey, New Mexico
North
wholesale
2.75
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German
The Ger-
towns
quarter
One Porkless day each week in ad-
rings
ste-hl'v
criterion*
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fine Year
aid tliaf till along
lit
by tin interna
Tbi. will
experience
. < mon or
urreclrd upon its being
‘ would be
Matagorda
with some-
nation can
a writer in the Columbus Dispatch in-
forms us.
Itlille Man Brought 1
trnericu
Tile announcement of T. 11. Castle-
ton, as a candidate for re-election to
STATE MEN TO TAKE PART IN
TICK-ERADICATION ( (INFEREM E
MilN ten* 1 |(IN k 11 ES,
WEEKLY
tn
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there
and
pecinlly
Washlt’ttio'i
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I (Kill SUES RESTRICTIONS.
Patent.
2.931
of t~-
fill te
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fr
1.75 <r'
< irits.
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This cold aiiap
IkiiI effect on our
ditint pheasc the ground
cm again if we must
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I . II. I \>n.rro\ OFFEIIS
FOB BE.El 1 ( TIHN
dcjMj I nit iil
.stilt input In
peanut
a profitable
Il the Germans are not anxious lot
pence wind in I he I hunder are the .
hanging on to the one thin thread of
fered by the lie . Maur for" It is be
ginning to look Io us as if Germain
wants to turn loose but
doos not know liow.
• >ry of War B ’'or now river
loyous nows that Q|e Un'te!
«i ready to fight, over a mll-
4 half a 'Idlort. Good night.
'll, SI Helena Is a remarkable
The power she enjoys today is
the power of commerce back of her
government throne and all of her economic affairs.
If the United States Chamber of Com-
Di IL Grafke. inspector in
ti< .' eradication. Port Wortn,
It is said tlie Kaiser is ptemirii. ■ lo
desert the war element and play to lh<
German liberal. Well, let him pla '
He lias dene about everything el e and
bad beter flop now li.i ■ 'i piling
good
ty
75 per cent of the votes ca-'
Conger expects to make an
canvas and will appreeia’" ’.t
p rt accorded him.
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POINTERS ON HIE Si EERKGE
\MENOMENT
■
■ End merf\
igovernmeni
matter.
roti, and it will be to your interest
to call on him. wherever bis
Now don’t read
The Tribune think:, the present
move to put in a "rest loom’' some
while In Hay City a capital idea. We
cannot have too many of these little
conveniences, lor Hie more hospitable
the city is made the bettor we fare In
the estimation of the general public
in connection
up is the fai t
cud", as the boys says.
her digestive apparatu
a useful purpose in th<
he cattle were
Con H l. Table uneasiness Hu Ger-
man' I Is manifested over the effect of
President Wilson's war aims ad Ire ;
The kaiser and bls minions are fear-
ful list the message soaks into the
minds of the Ru islans before their
plans of deception and intrigue mate-
rialize. In which event the peace par-
•leys will go glimmering
Quantities of Smr.r—
peers should no* s®it sv
r fn quantities tn excess of the
end nt a time to a retailer ^'iirivr
t ill ' n t be shipped i n hack vt<er»
r «t'i<-iit a positive or'er fr r.i the
"'li-le st' grocers 'h"ii.: use
r fflea.
ereeauti n at t' elr c r to
t '•'lietiti n of si’ai which may '
give ta a retailer the "ppiituc t
ach with grass and
gin chewing, these wads of grass
arise in the throat . or are regttrgi-
lenrncd people call it
deliberately
it and
think
f
basis 48-lb;
retail 3.00
| boycott and puts the thumbscrew of
' business Isolation down bard on Ger- .
manv's commerce and commercial am- I
bitfens the war will soon be over and
-..-.v.sn.. democratlclzed more com-
pletely than If by the sueces ful Issue
with arms
might have had i
fruit treiis. but I'
ho we’ll plant
loan ranks. According to the
vote as it was cast in Washington on
Hu's question Texas has five republi-
‘ ' > demo-'
we are to ad- :
Hou. .1. )). ( onuer of Bay
nminees Hie Candidacy
'lake \ble Officer
filo- quiet pluie. tar removed from the
enticing ligiits of pietze) and wiener
schnitzel!, where the lager foameth not
and the morning air pure You
have craved solitude" Well, you are
going 'o gel it
same olina.
s. vareiui atm courteous .service , ‘li.iuumu uuu .sorin c urviuiu iu
' He re peetfully solicits the support I Georgia and Oklahoma in 1920
They tell us I lint it wo ar to :
< ecd ill the art of making the world
safe for democracy there must be
more harmony ami co-operatioo
everywhere, e. pccially ip th« de
partmont tit Washlt>ttl"’i ind (hat''
no camouflage
t'.i tor beans are
$3.50 per bushel.
white people whv
hug and bagra-e and
to Now Peiland, Rnroda. How-
to the Cite i f R ingoon? Keen n "'I'd.
If con Itlons In the o on’tghtone 1 Dally Tribune.
law Furliids Excess
Shiples.
b'our best attention, ns t.:c we laughed at the labhit M ■
accepts no excuse in the food
Tlie collector will not call on teipt was usually carried out to a let
The rubbit was first run down
office bj dogs or twisted out of a hole, killed I
I and vote of the voters of the county, | Florida and Texas in 1921.
I assuring each and every one of bis
.sincerest appreciation of air favora cation division, bureau of animal in
dustry. Washington. I). will be in
Hotel, New Orleans. Ui . January 15
to IS The purpose of the meeting, as
Mr. Castleton is well known through has been announced. Is, with the co
Lard, substitute; wholesale. 24:
Washington, Cali- fail 25 <ii>
Kansas,
Plans also will be made to free
\Libama and North Carolina In 1919,
• and
now
This information
reached us in one of our reminiscent
One of the most effective weapons
of the ( tilted States in the world war her world conquest ideas To our mind
is the embargo
was emphasized by British official fig
tires relating to the importation of fats
Into Germany from Scandinavia ami
.Holland, Fats sufficient iu quantity
i to supply the fat requirements of 7,-
700,000 soldiers, practically the entire
army of Germany, and equal to the to-
tal rations of 2,00,000 sol tiers, prac-
tically the German strength of tine ! raw material for her factories, a gen-
western line, entered that country in oral commercial boycott
191(1 from these sources,
percentage of these came
erved that co
ty satisfactorily in the capacity
judge when Judge Lewis was ealh d |
to the border al the outbreak of the ,
Mexican trouble two years ago, re-
ceiving this office under tlie appoint-
ment by the commissioners' co rt
in several cases where Judge St' le“
was disqualified, Mr. Conger bus .-
ed the district as special judge, lit I
understands the law and should lie be '
chosen to fill the office he aspires to. .
there is no question but that tlie p j
pie would be satisfied with the 'ti I
tier in which the law would be ad'
is'ered in this district, in so
the attorney had to do with it
Judge Conger is a native of xa
hiving been born iu Parker ounl
in March. ist>3
This Information has
The “keep-a-pfg" movement Is train-
ing i.c'idw-'v '’1 over the c'untry an!
Is even tnvn',in<r the t >wn I’n'er
-• t oirve’if mi'e two rr three hun-
•’red extra hogs c'lild be raised In the
’ . '”d la will’d n*d t»We in’lv to
Nnd it «'
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1979.
Any erronectux reflactloii upon tbu ehnractei oi ’. i.iimx ,lf 1
liusluiHX concern will b, readily and willingly co..-'*-' - ‘ ■
brought to the attention of tlie pubihihern.
Tlio paper will ! •' condm l'd upon the hl In st possible plane of legitimate
newspaper I usinesi.
Vermont and Wisconsin.
Women have full parlimcntary suf- 3.00;
fraee in Australia. Now Zealand, the
Isle of.Man, Norway, Finland, Den-
mark, Iceland and tile four western
provinces of Canada.
| Women have municipal suffrage
on the same terms as men, through
out the British Isles and In Sweden.
Women have limited suffrage in five
provinces of Canada, the City of Be-
lize in British Honduras, the City of
Rangoon In Burmali, the cities of
■ II is really refreshing to see Mr. Mans-
field so frank and mi; .polu n < u all
. those cardinal issues
have more sugar than is nccj3«- ry for
conservative distribution, as outlined better than in America, we do not see y
in the second paragraph of ■his letter any strings tied to the Chronicle
Faithfullly yours.
Federal E'ood AdrainUtraiio>i
Texas
\ new ciilunet office i director ol
munitions, is in (he making. Pul
I llvodore Roohi lelt in a;, (he director
■mil the job will lie complete a well
us capably inaiiuged from the lime he
lakes charge until be turns loose
can effect
Just what! niore stagnation and ruin in one year
originally than the war can in two.
from the United States would be hard num business people are natural trad-
t.i determine, but it was undoubtedly ers.
large. Fat is the food that Germany
most lacks. While the
1ms a strict regulation over virtually
all kinds of fats In Germany, both as I merce, therefore, sincerely adopts the
to price and distribution. Its scarcity
11 emphasize., by the fact that fats
suitable for frying or eating purpose'
aiide from that under governmental
control brings enormous prices, rang-
ing from $3 per pound and up.
When tlie whole world is crying for
fats, just al the time Germany is
about to lose the war mi account of
the lack of it, and in Hie lace of Hie
fact that cotton produces three quar
ters of a million tons of it annually
the coltnn farmer is asked to plant
lesi cotton,
anyway?
Nearly every fellow you . re now
says Bay City is the bent town in lex
as iltlil’ we've
mi) .ire downright glad In lune
al IiihI
One of Hie Camp Izigan boys sighs
for ti tumble iu a good old Illinois
snow. Houston is sorry it can not ac-
commodate him If he would like to
roll In a violet bank or tumble In a
pansy bed, however, Houston will be
glnd to accommodate him Houston
Post.
NVi tton from ouo to twelve hours
too soon
and never tailing style the finished satisfaction in the discharge of his square miles from cattle tick in 1918,
di - i wn carefully laid on a plate, duties heretofore, and if re-elected (including complete eradication of ticks
neatly garnished and gently pitched "ill continue the same business ad- (in l.ouisiunn. Arkansas and South Car
-- “■ 1 ministratoin and accord the -win
old days, careful and courteous service
are now great herds of
wild cattle, was there anything answ
cling the cow’s description until tin
Spaniards took them there
The first cattle brought to this part
rt,. ■ of tlie country accompanied tlie
Llamestown settlers, Columbus
ibought over a few with him on his
ecuiid voyage, lint that "as lar south
of here.
One of the most interesting thiir s
witli Hie cow's make-
that she "chews a
It is part cf
, and serve I
earlier days
when the cattle were wild animals
and she can't get along without
Hie cud at tills time, of course, lie-
cause that is the way she is built.
Tile natural loud of the wild cat-
tie was grass, and nothing else It
takes a lot of gras to support as large
an animal as a cow, and while gath-
ering tlie grass she is exposed to in r
enemies—out in tile open,
arranged it so she could sneak out
and gather a stomach full of grass
hurriedly and return to the protection
of the forest and lie down and chew
it a tiling she didn't have
do while gathering the grass.
Tlie cow's stomach is a peculiar
sort of receptacle, full of little cavi-
ties, or cups. When she pulls off a
Idg mouthful of grass and swallows
it forms itself into one of the cups
Then when she has filled her stom-
is ready to be-
wads of
or arc i
iout the kitchen window. Yes. rab
bit was rabbit in Hie good
long gone by. when pork chops '
ci < up a nd bull meat not so hig
fated as the
and the cow deliberately chews it
and swallows it and another cud
arises . Just think of the pleasure
a boy could have if he could gulp
down a whole lot of food and tlien
leisurely chew it while studying ills
lessons.
Wharton Spectator
fn the proper column of this paper
will be noted the anmmiicement of
Hon. J W. Conger of Bay Citv for the ' Creeps in Cattle and Its Probable Tie
office of District Attorney for the 23rd I —• ■■■•
I 1 ition to Fever Ticks”—Dr. S. A. Wet
ti r vv'.rinar’ in: pector. Houston,
! Ttxas
lairia -. 18. morning session Ai-
Mr D. H Cunningham, chair
’ :te I ve stock sanitary eommb -
f >r i'-ii'ii. i'er: Worth. Texas
I- l .nuaiv '8. morning session ‘‘Ho*
' t . C .uaii' • u'side Co-operation in Au-
1 k Eradication Propagan-
i ' Reidy, inspector in
t ch eradication. Houston,
Washington, D. C . January 15.—
Several representatives of the tick
eradication work in Texas are to take
luirt in the conference on tick eradi
v< important monia. then peppered with tea parts of! the office of tax assessor of Matagor- 'cation of the bureau of animal indus-
cayenne to cue part of black pepper I da county appears in tlie proper col- try. United States department of agri
t’ti r thl if tlie meat h, .ime tetub i . mnn in today 's paper, Ills candidacy culture, to be held at Hie St Charles
and hud no scent, it was left to rest I being subject to the action of the
for a day or ho and then fried in red White Man's I nion Piimury.
hot grease for a half da' After all : -"-r. Castleton is well known through has been announced. Is, with the co
had been followed out in the old time out the county and has given eminent , operation of the States, to free 100,000
never
One Meatless day each week which
men should be placed on a political shall be Tuesday and one meatless
level with men in democratic United meal each day. By meatless wo mca*
States? to eat no red meat—beef, pork, mut-
What if the women of British Hon- ton, veal, lamb; no preserved meats—
duras. Barbuda and Bombay do vote, beef, bacon, ham or lard.
are wo following the customs of peo-
ple who have never made any pro- dition to Tuesday, which shall be Sat-
gross in a thousand years. urday. By porkless we mean no fresh
What If the women of New Zealand, or salted pork, bacon, lard or ham.
with their kinky heads, neo ring' SUOAK—You can materially reduce
an l fiber raiment do v te. what has ruenr by re 'ucing the u-o of candv and
tr ti n of sw- ■ ,1t \ will m Ito overyT^L
, state right! In America? doavor tn see that the country is prw
*f t'•< o are th" criterion* the vided with a supply of household sug-
C’t nlcle wants to flaunt in the face* aron the basis of three pounds of eng-
ines it not pu'l rr f >r e if?h per* n per month
move its not con nme more ”
II. !•'. Looney, iittomiiy general of
Texas, lias formerly announced bi
candidacy for the office of governor
Nir. Looney has made a splendid re
cord In his present petition, i ■ u
splendid man .iiiywuy. .nut if eleete l
will make a splendid governin'
Conquer Germany
tional commercial buy colt,
prove quicker ami !<• •
than by arms.
1 republican child and that it had al-
’ most tlie unanimous support of the
quoted at . republicans by both their vote and
earnest work for its passage. If you
wavering democrats will read Mr.
moods, just at n time when our mind Mansfields letter you will observe just
was traveling back to tlie whilom ! ■>"" closely you are treading to dan-
dies of youth with all of its pleasures gerous grounds and how near you are
uni disappointments; and as we were “» I'O'bK automatically enrolled in re-
reveling in the retrospective tlie as- 1 publii
just simply , founding notice brought us to the ac- j
five present with a shocking sudden- ;
. Hess, <
i charge of the conference. ENillowing
is a list of addresses or papers to be
i delivered by Sate or EVderal represen
I tatives from Texas.
January 15, morning session—Se-
City \n.; curing the Co-operation of the Large
^.|l ; Cattle Owner”—Dr. \V. H. Beck, veter-
; inary inspector. Houston, Texas
January 16. afternoon session •
"Systematic Tick Eradication"—Dr.' H
l«. Darby, assistant inspector in charge
! i i tick eradication, Fort Worth, Texa i
January 17. afternoon session —
In Congressman J. .1. Mansfield's
i weekly letter to The Tribune, pub-
i li.lie l in tliis Issue, is set forth some
• statements that will be of interest to
! wavering democrats, those who are
about to forsake tlie trull: • enunei: ic i
I by the father! and followed relig-
iovsly by true demoer ts. He tell h
i that the woman's suffrage ameudmen1. j
1 which recently passed the house by
a tlie Hiro,-it ol another nation and Hie, *'lf! bare majority of one. Is strlcily a
■ ail that war republican child and that it had ul-
One Wheatlees day each week and
and one Wheatless meal each day;
Baroda and Bombay in India and in the wheatless day to be Wednesday,
certain districts of Germany, Austria By wheatless we mean to eat no
and Russia.—Houston Chronicle. j wheat products.
Well, is that any reason why wo-
The state agricultural
hut given out a lengthy
whicli it suy s t lial I h<
sph udid substitute mil
one for i olton" nil of winch loads us to
auk. wlio wauls i sllbsHlulo for
'ent cotton’’
'nioui ii. at id o'clock and issued tlie
following price list, for tlie following
week:
Flour, Extra
wholesale 2.812 (Jr
(it 3.25.
Bread Hl ounce loaf, retail 9 (?i) 10
Rice, choice, wholesale s ©' 9: re-
tail 10 (it 1.2 1-2.
I’otatoes, ped cwt..
fl 2.75; retail 3 @.3 1-2.
Corn meal, 35-lb.
<5: retail (i 1-2 f</ 7.
16-lb. packages;
7-8; retail 15.
Eggs, country: wholesale 40 Ci 45;
I retail 45 (fi) 50.
Butter, country; 1-lb <
Women have full suffrage, on equal wholesale 19 fit 55; retail 55 (q1 60.
terms with men. in Wyoming, Color- |
ado, Utah. Idaho,
fornia. Arizona. Kansas, Ore." > i I
Nevada, Montana and Alaska.
Women have federal and municipal
suffrage in Illinois and New York.
Women have bond and school suf-
frage in Iowa.
Women have
Tlie Tribune is pleased to mention
Hie fact that our congressman, Hon
.1 I. Mansfield. Ims braved the ele-
ments. buck'-d tlie fads and fancies of
tin- turn..- and emerged from tlie poli-
tical storm at Washington a real dem
ocrat with tlie undaunted spirit of tlie
lathers buck of him. Mr, Mansfield
ImHnves in state rights on all ques-
tions affecting the sanctity of the
states and refused to be pulled Into
i the dangerous irreconcilable
■ tow of National Woman's Suffrage or
National prohibition Eleven other
| Texas congre stiien also stood firm to
the tradition of true democracy
Suppose Wharton count' wanted
.something that Mat c orda county had
and would send an 'armed force over
alter it. what would thinking people
1 sav" Tin* result of <out-
ihat both Wharton and
counties would get Iu bad
1 body somewhere. But one
look with I'ttiy and jealou ily upon an-
other nation and back her covetous
tie s with an armed force and wn are
led to e ill tliut war. Suppose every
; difl'erenco between individuals were
settled with tl.e knife or tlie pistol
wouldn't people call us < i':i/\ ' And
yet one enraged emperor, can fly at
MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Hr TRIBWNE I’RIMTIMi (’OMI'ANY, Inc.
CAREY SMITH, Editor __ I
Bn tercd at the IWtofficc nt Bay City, Texas, as second <iu»» "‘"i' malt®1 may be, Now don't read this and and skinned three times, the fur and
! throw it aside with the thought that hide first, a thin scum-iike skin su -
it is another one of the government s !oud and the leaders all removed The
whims, for if you do you will regret portion Hint was thought fit to eat
It for a long time to come. Tell your waM t|len carefully washed, salted,
neighbor who does not take this paper (|own tor three days, parboiled a day I
lye and am ,
* Too much publicity cannot be glv
en Hie < <>tning of the federal income
tux colli ctor, who is to be in M iti-
i 1.1 ante during the month of
I’, runry < his agent of the g ve-n
mi nt will l e In Bay City fee f ur '' i s
and wi'l epr-n I flva more days in ' t’
er t art - t-f the county. Owin’ t» t'> ■
clean :-v.< ;i the new federal tax 11 '
I making a largs number cf f ” •
Ibis 'ear will have to pay and ft i
their interest to begin now t
up on the law and keep an ev
f ir the coming of the collect r
Ice of which is now running
Tribune. This is particular bit
Judicial District, composed of Wbtir- i
ton. Matagorda. Brazoria and Fort
Bend counties. His annouiuement is
subject to the action of the democratic ; dn
primary in July.
Mr. Conger lias practiced law
a number ol years, and was county at
torney in Matagorda county for sorm
years. He also served that conn-! !,i
satisfactorily in the capacity <u ' da’ -
ch args,
Juunir 1 >. morning session—"My
impres i'lt.s on Assuming Charge of
1 th' Work ill tlie Largest' State in the
L'nior.'
-v,I charge
He ' ""
causing uh to remark that w<« ran congressmen and twelve
dont’ give a doggone how hi h castor < ratio congressmen, if v.-
oil goes. here to tlie old adage that people are
| jud'-'eri by the company they keep
Cotton may not sell next fall for t.c Parenthetically, permit tis to add that
fancy price it Is bringing n iw. The
clmnces tire that it will m t. iml come
what may to the crop tills year, it will
br’ng good price md prove a prof-
table crop. Conditions will hardly re-
peat themselves and the disasiers
winch ccnfroatrd the
year will not occur t ic second time. !
So far this season, we ran expect a
mm li better crop and consequent!'
lower prices, but what he wlil make
up in crip cor.uitions may be 'ffse'
in tlie loss of acreage, for Hie war has
called its contingent of farmers ius*
as it has quotas from other sources,
and the men are simply not here to
man the cotton fields in 1918 that we
have had heretofore The outlook for
profitable farming was never better .
and our opinion is that every acre pus tlmatiim to German
slide to plant shauld be planted.
rile Galli' tun News come.-, on'
flat looted!' lot woman suflTuge
Hut then tin- New. has always been
.> kind of a Giil Dul anyway, so
shouldn't exp.'ii anythin heller
tier
29.
Compound, wholesale,
25 <5/ 27 1-2.
Hanis; wholesale 30
!33 «i 37.
' Breakfast Bacon No.
! 12 Ci 43; retail 46 & 52,
suffrage in I Breakfast Bacon. No. 2;
Conneticnt. Delaware. Kentucky. Mas- 37 <5'i 38; retail 41 47) 45.
sachusettH, Michigan. Minn. 'o’a. i Breakfast. Bacon, fancy.
Mississippi. Neliraska. New 11nmpshire tun : wholesale 51 6_i> 52; retail 60.
. . .. Salmon, pink: wholesale 2.00 @ 2.25;
keta, Ohio, Oklahoma. South Dakota. ' retail 20 4)1 25.
Salmons, red;
" “; retail 30 @ 35.
it has been reported that some re 4
t ilors are not following the rules and
regulations of the foodadministration
particularly with reference to the lim
itation of the sale of sugar. Due not
ice is given them that they must com
ply with these rules and regulations
to the federal food administration.
far a < I
T’’e report Mint pence U not being
tnU'e' between Russia and German*
not nt nil surprising to ut. V't'<
PVn* '-n- rd of two mtpnrate b inches
"ats getting together on pence
w? Germany will have pence
v-bnes'-er the allies give It to her an 1
r not l>c "made in Gerr..;',ny"
Judge W. C. Carpenter has received
the following notice of food sales re-
strictions given to all food adminis-
: trators throughout the nation These
rules are iron clad and must not be
violated.
Houston, Texas. January 11. 1918.
The following bulletin from Wash-
ington is for your information:
Subject: Quantity Sales of Certain
Commodities to AH Federal hood Ad-
ministrators :
Follow ing our letter of December 11,
In refi rence to hoarding, the retail
1 distribution division of tlie food ad-
ministration suggests that it would bo
! advisable for you to inform the retail
! grocers of your State respecting sales
l of certain commodities as follows;
Sugar Sugar should be sold in
two to five pound quantities ;to farm
and rural customers in five to ten
pound quantities.
E'lour -Flour in towns and cities
[should be sold in eighth to quarter bar-
rel quantities; in rural and farm com-
munities in quarter to half barrel
quantities
Advertising — Any advertisements
tending to Induce consumers tn in
crease their purchases of flour or su-
gar during the present national c isls
arc decidedly against public po'icy.
already been
■given you with the suggestion tho* tae
press < f your State censor ’he r ao
vertfsement. We req iest that you
plea e ccnvey thii* inL ;'mati m tc the
r't'Hl grocers
Wholesale
Who|o a!e g:
— --
There were no cows in this country I
when tlie white man first came here.
ownership of railroads, appropriated
assistant
m
He moved to J
g irda county in 1902, since wl.u ’•
he has followed Hie practic<
profession without asking io
except "lien he was elected ic-
attomey there by approximately.
Judge'
l.i'live
' sup-
Tlie local Brice Interpreting Coin-
mi. tee of tlie Federal Food Adminis-
ition I 'Id its second meeting thif
Parker
After bein gadmlti'd
to the practice of law. fir four years
lie was assistant attorney in M -
Lollan county. He moved to Maia- !
ime
of his i
offl' e j
coun- '
to send in Ids subscription and keep or two in concentrated
posted on this
matter.
| j. 0(i
I.OU
Some month i ago Hie Tribune point-
ed out Hie fact that Germany feared
pl intei:. las." > the effects of : commercial war aftei
Hie pre.ent conflict is over n ore than
she feared tlie rcaults of victory or
defeat. At that time, and since, the
paper lias urged the pressure of a
commercial boycott from authorltive
sources so that the business element
of German.' would be brought to their
' senses. At tills time, however, tho
i United States Chain!.er of x’ommerce
tlio most powerful organization of its '
kind in tlie world, has taken up this
very tiling and is now preparing its ul-
business enter- 1
prl. es, inaugurating its foundation for
a world wide boycott along business
lines, provided Germany persists in
Its absolute necessity this is tlie most powerful and effec-
tive blow yet aimed at Germany, and
Austria, because it moans absolute
business paralysis as long as the boy- I
cott i* on and consequently ruin to tlie
commercial Interests of Germany. As
Germany is es entially a commercial
nation and at the same time depend-
ent upon the outside world for her
The Sulphur Springs Gazette is now
.appearing daily and weekly. Instead of
'weekly a • heretofore Sulphur Springs
is a fine and sui stantial city. and Biggs
A Rhodes are fine and courageou:
publisher for it takes courage to
back a daily paper the-" times.
Galveston News.
Gli. don't get so sentimental We've
; backed one for lo! these many years,
I have saved tlie country seven time'
in seven years, moulded several train-
loads of public opinion, brushed the
cobwebs from our corner of the town
elected tin- same president twice
elected and impeaclied a governor
’ kept the pastors of our cliurclies bus.' !
reporting their Sunday meetings, prov
I bled for and brought into effect food
and fuel couservation and government
Unil‘'1’’ i millions for the drouth sufferers fed 1,,r:ils UB' Not cv» « in Sout1’ America
the Armenians, clothed Hie Belgiums. i"
! got our government into the war on
I the side of right and justice and are
going to whip hell out of the Kaiser
lefore next Christmas; and with all
that we arc still running a great
llgious daily. It's dead easy whet:
’you know how.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, January 18, 1918, newspaper, January 18, 1918; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346296/m1/4/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.