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MONUMENTS
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Ownur and Editor
Made of the best grades of marble or granite — Write or
phone us for salesman to call
Bay City, Texas
Phone 338
fl b.
Oa« Year
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
fl o<
Oa« Year
tliemselve ill
of the weather that has oc-.three ses ns Sunday.
correctly : eleven years ago and the
north each time;
or
The only
•mil pleasure of going and
Especial-
WARMTH
FOR COLD CORNERS
4
J. G. EGANHOUSE, I). D.
is now located in Suite
536-537
Bankers’ Mortgage Bldg.
Walker Furniture Co
Houston, Texas
Not in any way connected
with the Eganhouse Opti-
Patronize the Tribune Advertisers
cal Co , 713 Main Street.
n
CHEVROLET
REDUCED THEIR PRICES
CALL AMD SEE OUR USED CAR BARGAINS BEFORE YOU BUY ANY CAR
BUICK, GOOD CONDITION
I
Callahan Chevrolet Co
are reversed, then our memory is Im-
pressed very forcibly The writer has
Quick Service—Try Ua
I
T-
Tin living room, *par< room—any hard to hi at room in
quickly made comfortable with a “Perfection"
Economical too.
ONE THING WORE, PLEASE —We hare just completed our NEW WASH RACK and
have a good man to do our washing, greasing etc. Try u« for the next wash.
i
I
SI BS<'RIPTION RATEMi
WEEKLY
Rev. Nor-
being anx-
ind
an
HIE WEATHER, IRRIGATION AMD
CROPS.
India at present are along
i cost and the.
Magnolia Fig Trees For Fall
Planting
One year old healthy and highly productive trees grown
from seasoned fruit bearing wood. Trot s are all well rooted
and not “sprouts.”
B’< a/tio give
I
well
There's
but
BAY CITY MONUMENT WORKS
G. C. Richardson, Proprietor
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ENI1E1VOR ( (INVENTION
OPENS 1ISPIIIOISLA
Write us for prices.
scientific planting instructions free
MAGNOLIA FIG NURSERIES
701 Polk Avenue .... Houston, Texas
BAY CITY, TEXAS
Phone 103—Day or Night
News now reaches us that they are
growing cotton In Illinois on a lim-
ited scale. Those astute Yankees
have, no doubt, arrived at the conclu-
sion that since the South is to» slow
or too stupid to bring the cotton fac-
tories to the fields, they will go us
one better and take the cotton to the
nearly twice if the factories. Smooth work, we call it.
ON NFW CHEVROLET AUTOMOBILES ONLY - WE FOLLOW SUIT AND REDUCE
THE PRICE ON USED CARS — WE OFFER EVERY USED CAR
WE HAVE ON HANDS AT A VERY LOW PRICE.
Rugeley lias sent the
very fine specimen
pecans, which
t pecans
Have you ever looked
tlie yiars that have
cloths
l'i ’hty-five
i | ventable tli.it
■>f uownrlght ca.e.e. an js
help cut down this
these
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MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
Hf TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
Another and about the beet way we
know to cure the negroes of their
move Northward is to let 'em move.
Experience is a splendid teacher even
though sometimes expensive, so if
they want the experience let ’em have
It. The negro’s natural home is in
the South and one brief period of ex-
istence In the North will make
Dixie'’ dearer to him than ever.
grown 100 bushels of rice, per acre I
(25 barrels), on small plats in Mata-'
gorda County; and its doubtful wheth- j
er 10 bushels of corn could have been i
produced on the same land
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BAY ( ITY HI-WHARTON (1.
Several Chassis for stripdowns, etc., and other cars, all at a very low figure—call and
see them. We will sell them every one this week—if price means a thing in selling
j a score of 19 to 6.
The team is developing nicely and is
of
tl.is section of the state. El Campo
comes here Friday to play off the tie
game and the outcome of this strug-
gle will he watched with a great deal
of interest.
BY CHARLES MORRIS.
Editor Tribune
Palacios, Texas, (let. 11 Having
noticed in the issue of last week’s
Tribune a reproduction of my article
to the Beacon of two weeks ago, rel-
ative to crop and weather conditions
or 1921 in the Gulf Coastal belt, and
PERFECTION
Oil @
Heaters
***
CAREY SMITH
■stared at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as second class mail matter
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879
lay erroneous rafleaUon upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers
Fbe paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business
the
w but
heis 'familiar with gravity irrigation
in (he west. It is his opinion that
cotton should be the leading crop for
Matagorda County next year, not-
withstanding of the fact that he has
the massive pumping machinery had
been
over
pop-
have
have
back
over a
Former Senator \tlee Pomercne, of
Ohio, objects to the McAdoo boom be-
cause McAdoo threw "dust in our
eyes to advance his aspiration to the
presidency" by government owner-
ship of railroads He came nearer
throwing dust and building cobwebs
over the railway industry of the na-
tion that he did in "throwing dust In
our eyes." There are thousands of
owners of railroad stocks and bonds
who are still paying for Mac’s won-
derful achievements, the expense of
which is coming dally from every cit-
izen who sends or receives freight.
It is remarkable to suppose that Mc-
Adoo will make all of as good a pres-
ident as he did a railroad manager
and if he should be elected and doos,
it will be some country we will have.
not familiarized himself with
gravity system on the Colorado,
ands ot acres and any reasonable size 'the farmers
farm can easily have its five, ten or
fifteen acre orchards As
industry »>n
honest opinion that
man
inton
to be
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extreme existence of I rainfall appearing with the same reg date of maturity is 1926.
on August 10, i
ONE FIVE-PASSENGER BUICK, GOOD CONDITION |»2.».IM>
ONE FIVE-PASSENGER DODGE, GOOD CONDITION I37LM
ONE FORD ROASTER. STARTER, GOOD CONDITION
ONE FORD ROADSTER, STARTER, GOOD CONDITION I17WM
ONE FORD ROADSTER (CRANKER), MOTOR GOOD AS NEW 9154UM
ONE FXJRD TRUCK (ONE TON), FOR RICE HAULING A DANDY «17i».(M)
ONE WICHITA TWO-TON TRUCK. ALMOST A GIFT, IN EXCELLENT CON-
DITION, NEW MAGNETO—A BARGAIN AT fs'.OOJM
Automobiles registered in thb
United States jumped to a total of
13,00'2.427 on July 1. 1923, according
to the IT. S. Bureau of Public Roads.
This means that 761,052 automobiles
were added to the country's total tn
the first six months of 1923. Auto-
mobiles are being manufactured and
sold faster than ever before. The
present registration total shows that
there are in use 11,571,181 passenger
vehicles or in the proportion of one
to every other family in the country.
Of the thirteen and over millions of
cars in use in the nation Texas peo-
ple owned and operated on July 1.
571.981, Just 29,000 less than the
states of Washington. Oregon, Mon-
tana Idaho, Nevada. Utah. Arizona
and New Mexico; less than 1000 few-
er than Oklahoma and Kansas, and
34,000 under the states of Kentucky,
Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana
Alabama On a highway tax on
average of $10.00 per car Texas,
alone, collects from automobile own-
ers the sum of $5,719,810 annually
On a basis of $10,000 per mile, this
amount, if applied, systematically,
would build 571 and a fraction miles
of road once a year or 1112 miles of
$5,()00-a-mile road, and all without
touching a cent of any other tax Of
the $10,000-a-mile road, which, by the
way ought to be a mighty fine road,
the ’automobile tax could be made to
cross the state, nearly one time every
365 days, or t-
We think we had ticular date each year. I
i’r drop back to the good old days The writer positively agrees with '1VF. BROMO QUININE (Tablet
because we would really appro the editor of the Tribune that the rice:‘^“Won^wKhout.ajusingnerv;
doing so. but merely because crops grown in this county has made;
discontt nted. rebellious selves nay city what It is today. There is
NOTICE!
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Twenty miles of pearl oyster beds
the Gulf of Mannar, between Cey-
and the southernmost coast of
, have been discovered. The
that t
charge was installing the pump
orchards As a special heavy engine in a
a large scale, it is ourI "'bat it should be:
any intelligent I
can well afford to go
it. There's chance tio
sure, but there is
The man who can meet,
overcome the chanct
ly
7
The Bay City district convention of
Christian Endeavor held its opening
session last night at the Presbyterian
Church. There was a fine audience
present and quite a number of dele-
gates from the various towns in the
district. Addresses were made by
Austin Bryan of Dallas and Rev. Nel-
son Hawkins of .Angleton Tod'v the
program it bting carried out as
scheduled, while tonight Rev. Nor-
making 'man Anderson, of Freeport, and Rev
____ "i ».«,» v“j. .....
will liver addr sses. The convention will
continue through Sunday night with
' ’ . The evening
service at the Christian Church will
he omitted tomorrow so that the con-
,, the I grogation nay attend the Endeavor
early boyhood his father call-I session a: the Presbyterian Church,
ttuntinn tn tho fnut that it ill- ' ' '" " -O-—O
SOME VEKY FINE PEC INS.
as tlie rice crops in this county, and
Funny, isn't it?pt is one of the
: money crops g-
to the ,,’n* reason .as
it should be fostered and assisted by
back
gone anil
dered over the close calls you
had and the "hard times" you
gone through Remember way
yonder when cotton ranged
series of yiars at from three to ten
cents, all along through which time
there was not an automobile in the
country? Itemember bow you stinted
and saved and a dollar was about the
prettiest and most fascinating pic-
ture you ever saw on account of its
scarcity? Renumber how one suit of
clothes had to go for 365 days and
how you got about over the country
oti horseback, In buggies and wagons
over "rocky" roads that were hard to
travel'.’ (If course you do Then con-
trust those days of screenless, elec-
tric lightlies and fanle.se, waterless,
icwageless homes witli the comforts
and conveniences of today and ask
yourself why you arc kicking so?
Contrast
$5,000 a mile road were adopted. In
ten years ten very fine highways
could be put across the state hi ten
separate highways, or twenty If the.
cheaper system were follows. Per-
hap., someday this will soak ill and
tlie present hit anil miss, here and
there, system changed for a system-
atic build -a • you go plan The auto-
mobile tax. al ot . of tills state should,
beyond all doubt, build and keep the
roads of this slate in mighty fine
shape ami give us plenty of them.
Moreover the tax, after a few years,
ought to lower all i tlier forms of tax-
ation. hi that onci tlie roads were
permanently established the surplus
would build up rapidly
• III 11111 II 011 UK' Mt t IO lit Hill 1 II p Jimi UR zxufium i ”• i • ...... , i Utnu ki ii.r i ate ca pn/i iru UJ J a pa U~
the times nor in tin wonderful tilings gave us here in Matagorda County a ese divers and the production enters
.... - ... deluge of about four inches within but slightly into Burmese exports.
'' . " " .. " Since that memor- | ---_0—o
..... of hard-to-please customers. We j able day. each recurring 10th of Au-( The last restriction on the trade
except the years 1916, 1917, and <>f foreign ships in British dominions
1918, the writer being out of the was removed in 1854.
i been cloudy;--a—o--------
The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Head
I Because of its tonic and laxative effect. LAXA
with 1 iV E BROMO QUININE (Tablets) can be take:
| by anyone without causing nervousness or ringiiu
.....„ on box. 30c
Did you know that every minute of
the year we pax out $11)00 tor fire
losses, and that one human life Is
consumed by flames every hall hour?
A thousand dollars a minute two
oves an hour a t< rrlbli toil, and a
needless one. It hiu- been estimat-
ed lli.it !50t) fir , break out in tlie
Uni’cl States every 21 hours Every
ot. • of these fires is caused by some
improper condition, usually one which
is tin cesult of negligence, and which
c.iti a rein'ovvl •. itii l.itli or no dll
faulty. Aliyot’" vh. t ,i«s rubbish
t r> umulate t. o neat a building
is jusl as neglig< tit :u lie who care-
lessly tosses his glowing match into
the pile. Electric irons and other ap-
pliances, when left turned on. cause
many fires. Tin use of wooden boxes
lor ashes Is III', sending .in invita-
tion to the nearest file sta on Meltil
container' for matches tttil tor oil
mops ml dust cloths will prevent
many fires. I't 'hty-five pt cent of
till fires an j -i ventable t'.: t .s. at '
tlie re, u'
Every owner can
waste by removing these causi s
around his property Tlie exclusive
use of fire ate structures would cut
our file loss to but a fraction of its
pre ent figure Am, when confront
id by tile I.tel that fire-safe r*onstruc-
tion such as concn te in various forms
as well H< other t.vii' • costs but I to ,
pc- cent more than inflammable con-
struction no building owner can Ju ■
t ly himself in risking a contribution'
t< our already tromedi.m lire loss to
shy nothing of our sacrifice of human
lives.
no other kind of agriculture that can
be grown on such an immense scale.
•oiiiit.v. uud j
' ' most dependable .
grown in Texas. For
While this paper realizes to the !,s «'*‘n ,“>* •'ther reasons, j
fullest extint the difficulties which 11 should be fostered and assist! dty
confront and attend every worth ' v,‘ry buMm as interest in t ie i i . .
while effort, it. nevertheless, sees im- I’erhaps no one is more am '*
mense possibilities tA>r the fig Indus- J'1*' early instory ot he t u e ' • >
try in this section of the Coast Coun-. "f ",Ih e"unty. ‘hnn this writer He
try. We know that those who enter! Planted the first rice crop in this
into the work of growing figs must' county m inuo. tlie ltrs ye,lr 1 " •
do so in earnest and with the very i 1 th., nnnntv
solemn knowledge of hard work, ” '" “ *
some setbacks and many i . .. ,
inents tio overcome, for all of that I
will be bls In the progress of his I
orchards from "setting out" time to,
maturity of tlie crops Hut the one j
who goes into it tor business and with
business ideas will win, in our opin-;
ion, faster and more profitably witli
figs than witli anything else he might j
elect to engage in. Figs are naturally '
indigenous Vo our soils and climate.
They grow faster and In tter and are
freer of diseases and insects here
than In any place in the South More-
over. if cared for in a business-like
way, they will return profits faster i -luly.-
thnu any other known fruit crop In InrRe,
this county there is room for thous-
■ - ■” 1 ~r^“-n in this county, and he was the
nd work i First tenant rice farmer In the county,
disappoint-1 The first and succeeding Hve years
he had a real fight on his hands try-
ing to get irrigation water misman-1
agement of the canal companies was |
a very live issue those days.
For an illustration of one incident
that occurred in the Infancy of the
industry, after the writer had prepar-
ed the ground and planted a large
rice crop on one of the brand new
canals, a large number of others had
.done likewise, the crop was up and
needing irrigation, the installation of
inmix.- |n.... i'> ..........----
delayed until the latter part of
-after tlie work of placing the
.,. heavy machinery had gotten
will under way. It was discovered by
..---------- ..... the engineer in
r Fh.v pllnit) (Hid ' j I 1
reverse position °1|1|
... in other words. I
these skilled tngincers were placing I
the machinery to pump Hie water out.
7t of the dry canal into tlie wet river'
chance in instead of vice versa The engineers'
everything. The man who can meet.' ittentfon «"i« direi led to t his t.iH by ■
take ami overcome the clianci ele- [ diflerent farmers. Ini icy dis i .
incuts in any undertaking is the man . "d this warning. AA lien u .
wlio will win, an I this can lie done."'1 completeil. tlie suction pipi • j
in so far as figs are concerned. | should have ’een placed in u .
wire hanging out over tlie dry canal;
and the disci arge pipes were placed
in the river. On starting up the en-
gine about all the effect it created
was the suction of air into the pipe
hanging over the canal and causing
the water to boil up in the river,—no
Irrigation water that year!
Tlie writer is aware of the tact that
gravity is fur ahead of pumping
plants, and it’s really the only suc-
cessful way, but can it be equal to
the burden placed upon it during the
vears when there is only light rain-
fall along the full length of the Colo-
rado River and its tributaries? And.
again ,how much of those small rises
in the river can the dam at Austin
absorb? A dam on the Colorado
River somewhere between Hay City
and Austin of equal proportion to the
Austin dam would probably solve the
problem of obtaining a moderate sup-
ply ot irrigation water for Matagorda
County during the dry years It is
positively out of the question to build
this dam this side of Columbus. It
would probably not take more than
one rice crop to build the dam
AVould this scheme be practicable?—
that is a question for the canal com-
pany to decide Three or four years
of abundance ot water will make us
forget. Suppose the order of things
On moving to Bay City, in 1897. the j India,
riter continued to observe this freak , beds are still young and tlie earliest
the extreme existence of I rainfall appearing with the same reg- date of maturity is 1926. The 0"!y
only n few years ago with high speed ularity. on August 10, coming out other pearl fisheries of any iniport-
■ind pleasure of going and getting of tlie north as usual and before the ;lI1ce in I.._!!_ ,
about of today and then ask yourself I noon hour; however, all of this clock-j the extreme southern
if the present times are so hard after'work precision of nature came to an Merguie Islands ,off Southern Burma,
all'' Our trouble st ems to lie not in j ending August 10. 1902. Tlie last one! These latter are exploited by Japan-
tln- iiuivM mu in tin wi.iuieriui iningH
the times have brought us. but more .
in our disposition to be a disgruntled ; three hours time
herd of hard-to-please customers. AVe; able day. each re
have fallen so int'o the rut of discon- gust—i , . r.
xv-.x — lfllg t|Je writer -----.
pro-1 state .the weather has
tent that our minds are becoming
warped and distorted. We are 1
greasing all the time, but do not ap- with scattiring showers on that par-
preciate progress.
rather drop back to tlie good old days
not I
date doing so, but merely
our discontented.
are so all-fired particular and hard
to please. Most of us are better off
than we are entitled to lie and. still,
we are not satisfied
K.UI I <» IX ’ ■ p I<| •» ■ . .1. ’ 11- vt’u y • “ it illlU lilt? lluu I I win
timed heavy rainfall, and it was ob- 'which tlie pecans were gathered grew
served that it came at tlie exact time to a producing tree in seven years
of dav or approximately so, always [ The pecans are well filled and of a
coming in the fori neon and coming very thin shell,
up from the north each time; how-1
< ver. it was discovered that the rains;
didn't extend more than 60 or 70 in the
miles inland from the coast. I ion
Jeff Davis High football team scor-'
ed a decided victory yesterday when,
defeated the Wharton High team!
the friendly comments made thereon' “l Wharton by
iiy its editor, if not Intruding too - - -
much oil your valuable time and Ol>t alter the championship
pare, I will endeavor to give to your
readers an explanation of a technical
form, based on observations and in-
fm mation gained from others of many
years standing Primarily, my first
lessons on weather conditions were
taught me by the ignorant, unlettered
peon Mexicans of Western Texas,
when the writer was a small boy.
These lower class Mexicans of the
western part of the state are prob-
ably the best weather prognostica-
tors. especially for foretelling the
rainfall, that there is in the country
today. The writer spent most of his
boyhood in the open all'. 12 months
eneli year, rain or shine, and had a
most excellent opportunity to make a
study of weather changes The
writer can not recall the time he has
been tetotally incorrect on i.,
long forecasts of tlie weather, but not j D- ions. of i)a> ' uy. will de-
always absolutely correct. I x..U.
here mention a rather peculiar phe-1
nomenon c. ----------- .—
curred here in South and Southwest
Texas each year at tlie exact time for |
perhaps 50 or 60 years' During t'..~,
writers' t
ed his attention to the fact that it in- '
variably always came u real heavy!
rain over South Texas on the 10th I
day of August each year; he claimed Mrs. Annie
that he had observed this strange Tribune office
phenomena for several years previous |Ot of home
to the time the writer received t' '
information. It was perhaps about, grow on up-land
the year 1880 that the writer first be-J Mrs. Rugeley planted a pecan nut
gan to keep tab on this correctly : eleven years ago and the tree from
The controversy lietwi-eu Professor
Altenburg, of the Rice Institute, and
tlie Rev. J Frank Morris, or Fort
Worth, over evolution, is very Inler-
estlng in that, evolution or no evolu-
tion, It shows how easy It is for men
to make monkeys of themselves in
spite of the debate as to whether we
descend from them or not.
ris i pi i s i d himself us
ious to meet Prof Altenburg in de
bate over tlie subject, the reverend
gentleman being very much opposed
to the theory of evolution Profes-
sor Altenburg comes back and says
evolution Is not a theory, but Is a
fact, and proves It in many ways.
Juat hn»w anyone, who in a common
sense general way, goes through lit'«
without believing in evolution, which
Is constantly all about us in all tilings
animate and inanimate, is beyond our
conception of what constitutes intel-
ligence. Without evolution, there
would soon tn.siie revolution of the
most violent type in all things, in
this proce. s m'in, w'io is weaker than
niai'x animals, physically, would go
uown by shore fori e, as it is his su-
perior intelliginee that keeps him
above and beyond the animal life
Rev Norris. In his own practices, lias
unwittingly preached and practiced
evolution in his own church. He is
a Baptist n'ot in harmony witli Ills
fellow Baptists and whether right or
wrong it was evolution In thought
and dei <ls Hint sat him up and apart
from Ills brethren If, therefore, there
is no evolution in so far as our phy-
sical beings are concerned, how can
there be evolution of thought since
thought domes from the physical be
ing and Is the very foundation of
that mysterious something which
places that superior power in man to
such an extent that he can and dot
dominate all other earthly creatures
H there hud i xlsteil no evolution in
this world's process we would now
be where we started, ignorant, ugly,
misshapen .hairy a wierd, wild and
untamed mass of two-footed half-
erect woolly monsters of some pi riod
away back yonder beyond the abso-
lute knowledge of any living man. We
will admit that evolution has not
done much for some of us.
ly convinced of this are we when vx e
observe the ravings of some people
about il. but Ju: I tlie same we accept
It us a fact, for we see it in every
thing we come In contact xxltli And
the fascinating part of this is that we
can look into tlie unlimited future be-
fore uh and realize Ihnl evolution as
a fact lias no more than started on
its Journey through the millions of
ages yet to come
grown [
ibe I prove another evidence that
writer first be- J
this
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