The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1925 Page: 1 of 8
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Our Friends"
VOLI .ME LXXX
NUMBER 3«.
HAY CITY, TEXAS.
FIVE TEXTS THE COPY
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Houston. Texas. Dec. 15.
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I hos. Quinn, Lad of 16,
Gets I land Caught in
Sausage Mill at Harri-
son’s Market.
Private Car For
Gulf Coast Lines
Is Received Here
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WHARTON PAVING
ABOUT THE SQUARE
New Way of
Preserving Figs
Not More Than 7 Per
(ent of Entire Crop
Remains to Be I hresh-
ed and Sold.
Four Ladies Hold
Lucky Number
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will
class slurp and complete
within a few months.
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done
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RON to
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ivigor-
Dome in Wharton County, at 3326 feet,
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Figs Thrive in
Coastal Country,
"There Is Nothing loo Good For
W. C. T. U. Starts State-
wide Drive Against
Hip Pocket Masks For
Liquor.
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60c
State 1 lighway Commis-
sion Guarantees bunds
Increases Mow to 10,000
Barrels Daily; Is Gaug-
ed Down to 500 Ac-
count of Storage.
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Mostly Texans at
Texas University
^Resurfacing the Matagorda-Gulf Road
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Bids Asked on Buildings
at Palacios For Texas
National Guard Camp-
site.
Project No. 3 calls for bids for the > nl>les by the S. I’.) and 1-
construction of 28 bath houses for en- “..... "
listed men. each 10 by 20 feet.
Boy Who Used to Play
Baseball Here, Uses
His Spare I ime Profit-
ably.
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SENSATIONAL
CUT IN PRICES,BOY’S ARM IS
year mid the ground in most instances
has been breaking in good shape.
Many of the farmers declare that
the rains have put the best Reason In
the ground that thin section of the
country has had in a number of years,
and, with anything like an average
growing Reason, they are looking for-
ward to splendid crops next year.—
Eagle Lake Headlight.
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Dotson & White
Secure Lower
Bridge Contract
linn nt the elbow will be necessary.
While feeding the electric grinder the
boy’s fingers were caught in the cyl-
inder blades and his hand and arm. up
to the elbow, were ground in the ma-
chine before bis cries for help were
heard.
the boy’s arm. badly mung'nd, remain-
ed in the blades. The mat i'.n<* was
broken in order to release his arm.
BOLING WELL
GETTING BETTER
Out of the almost 5000 students en-
rolled in the University of Texas this
year, only 71 are from other states in
the Union. Louisiana leads in num-
ber of out of state students with a
total of 24. Oklahoma comes next, 13
Htudents having registered from that
state. Arkansas, New York and Ten-
nessee each have four representatives.
Kentucky has produced three of the
5000 while North Carolina, Kansas,
New Mexico, California, Missouri and
Colorado each have two. The other
seven stats of New Hampshire, Illi-
nois, South Carolina, Pennsylvania,
Indiana, Alabama, Arizona and Flor-
ida have only one representative each.
Dotson & White, local contractors,
have secured the contract to replace
the bridge across the Colorado Hlver
near Matagorda, and known as the
"lower bridge.”
The contractors began yesterday to
move camp to that place. Work will
begin as soon as the weather settles.
A first class bridge In every respect
will replace the one so badly damaged
by recent rises in the river.
damaged by Inefficient,
by former contractors
!May Complete Th
Sides bv End of Week;
Will Then Work on
Burleson Street.
Little I ot, Playing With
1 win Brother, balls
Into Open Hole; Was
Dead.
The four handsome blankets given
away by the merchants on "Lady's
Day" trade were drawn by Mrs L. H
Mayfield, Mrs. Audrey Miller, Mrs.
Earl Vaughan and Mrs. A. J. Harty.
The drawing was held at Scott Drug
Co.'s store this morning.
Big Sandy, Tex., Dee. 11 The body
of Leslie Flat, one-year-old son of Mr.
and Mrs. Luther Flat, residing throe
miles north of Crow, was recovered
from a bored well into which the child
had fallen several hours previously.
I The child had been dead several hours.
I Tile parents were in frantic sus-
■ pense for hours after the child fell
into the hole uh efforts were being
made at rescue.
A hole alongside the bore 1 well was
started In an effort to reach the child
by tunneling, but the new shaft caved
In on the three men digging it, one
of them having to be extricated from
the debris.
Mr. Flat wits having the well denn-
ed out and it was left uncovered. The
child fell in while he and his twin
brother were playing at the open hole.
BOLING DOME WELL
SHOWS HEAVY GAS
BIG GUSHER
AT BOLING
Texas Company Brings]
in Five Thousand Bar-]
rel Producer in Whar-
ton County.
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little off dur-
ranging, u<cording to
the condition of the rice on account.
from $4.00 to $5.20 on
; $4.75 to $6.12 on Blue Bose,
I with Jap bringing around $5.50.
Farmers have begun plowing
I the bottom sections for cot-
| ton and corn crops for the coming
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Today's Tribune carries
advertisement for Hardy-Anderson
Auto Co., an interesting, and sensa-
Austln, Texas, Oct. 21, 1925.
Honorable W. E. McNabb.
County Judge, Matagorda County.
Bay City, Texas.
Dear Sir:
Referring to your recent proposal
submitted to (’apt. A. Shclafli, division
engineer, whereby tht> Commissioners’
Court of Matagorda County offer and
agree to finance the payment of freight
hills on shell furnished to the high-
way department by the Culver Shell
and Dredging Company, it being un-
derstood that the county will be re-
imbursed for sumo by the highway de-
partment not later than March 1, 1926.
The department accepts your pro-
posal mid agrees to reimburse Mata-
gorda County not later than March 1,
1926, upon presentation of accounts
approved by Cupt. A Schlafli.
Youth truly,
it. .1 HANK,
State Highway Engineer.
By DENBY J. COX. Maintenance
Palacios, Texas, Dec. 14.—Wednes-
nesday night while Mrs. Wm. Berry,
75, was leading In prayer at the Bap-
tist Church she collapsed and died In-
stantly. Funeral services, conducted
by the Rev. Mr. Frazier, will be held
at the Baptist Church Sunday morn-]
ing. The body, accompanied by her |
daughter, will be taken to Kansas for
burial. Mrs. Berry, with her husband,
came to Palacios from Kansas 12
years ago and she has endeared her-
self to all with whom she was asso-
ciated. She Is survived by her hus-
band and several children and grand-
children.
The weather for the greater part
of the week has favored the paving
contractors and paving of Fulton
street was finished several days
since. The crews have been working
since Tuesday morning on the square
and making fine progress. The west
side was completed yesterday and the
grade on the south side is ready for
the mixture, and unless the weather
interferes this will probably be paved
by Saturday night.
The east side of the square will be
left until after the paving is done on
Burleson Street in order to interfere
as little as possible with the rush of
business that will be on at the post-
office incident to the holiday season.
The Intersection at Outlar’s corner
will be opened to traffic tomorrow,
and the following week another block
of Milam wilt be opened, which will
give access to the business district
through Richmond Road again.
There is a probability of additional
paving being contracted for before
Brown & Root finish the present con-
tract. Property owners along the re-
mainder of Burleson Street and also a
number on Fulton Street being keen
to get the improvement down those
thoroughfares. It may be that an-
other election will have to he called to
determine if the work will be done,
hut If it is, there is little doubt but
that It will carry overwhelmingly, for
already many of those who were
against the first issue are advocates
of "more of it."—Wharton Spectator.
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A new type of incubator which
heats the eggs from the top as the
hen does, has proven more successful
than the old type where even heat is
applied.
Austin, Texas, eDc. 16.—A state-
’ wide drive protesting against the sale
of hip pocket flasks for liquor by
Texas merchants will begin in Austin
in a few days when the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union issues
its monthly publication, "The White
Ribbon," with a condemnatory article,
and at the same time the organization
will hold a melting Thursday to con-
sider approaching Austin merchants
on the subject.
Mrs. Claude Van de Watts, Austin,
State president of the organization,
says a State-wide survey and protest
will be made, on the eve of the Christ-
mas liquor flow and the reported sales
of hip pocket flasks
which are "considered new and smart
presents for young men and boys, und
also acceptable gifts for young girls
and women.”
Interest in the oil development of
this section soared to its utmost
heights yesterday when the news was
flashed over the country that the
Texas Company had brought in a
5000-barrel gusher at Boling, a small
station on the Southern Pacific be-
tween here and Wharton.
The well opens up an entirely new
field and is regarded as permanent
since it. came from a 3200-foot depth.
Dodge Brothers, Effec-
tive Jan. 7, 1926; Full
Page Advertisement
Today Carries Notice.
11 V • ■ aMi » » v « w • -w- ■
| Engineer.
I The work Ih now going on, and
about five miles of this road turn been
| resurfaced The $58,960 from the do-
i partment will put the 21 milea in first
___ I class shap and complete the work
witliin a few nionths.
Houston, Texas. Dec. 15. The Texas _______ —<>-o- ———
Company’s No. 3 Taylor on the Boling arp a r»I If All nirT
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THRESHED DURING
PAST FEW WEEKS
If a new fig canning devel-
oped by the Gordon-Sewnll
Company of Houston lives up
to the expectations of its In-
ventors, It will revolutionize
the fig Industry of the Texas
unit coast and solve the mar-
keting problem, now trouble-
some and acute.
Through the new process, It
Is claimed, figs may be canned
and kept indefinitely without
being preserved. They retain
their luscious natural flavor
and are suitable for use with
cream, ns a breakfast dish.
Many persons who are fond
of raw figs do not care for the
preserved product. Fresh figs
make a delectable dish, and
Texas growers long have recg-
(ignlzed that if It were possible
lo distribute the crop as u
breakfast dish, the demand
would be almost unlimited.
But fresh figs are difficult to
Jhip and they do not keep
long, even under ice.
1 tiordon-Newall's new process
may he a great boon to every
fig grower in Texas. Houston
1'ost-IHspatch.
Texas Company’s No. 3
Taylor in Wharton Co.
Spraying Oil at 3326
Feet.
The Texas Company's gusher at
Boling, which came in Monday at a
reported flow of 5000 barrels, accord-
ing to reports, increased Its production
i to 10,000 barrels ot 30 degrees gravity
oil, but on account of a luck of stor-
, age was gauged down to 500 barrels.
Thos. Quinn, delivery boy for Hur-]iK showing heavy gas pressure
i Ison’s Meat Market, had his hand and M'Diylng considerable amount of oil.
arm so severely lacerated this after-!
noon by a sausage mill that aniputa-1
Dallas, Texas, Dec. 12.—Another
athlete—this time a Texan and, more
particularly Dallas athlete, comes for-
ward to prove that athletic ability
does not preclude business brains.
Last summer, after being sent here
from the White Sox, Arthur B. (Tink)
Riviere pitched some mighty good
baseball for the Dallas Steers and won
himself a high place with Dallas fans.
And then, no sooner was the season
over than Riviere returned to his
home town ot Liberty, near Houston,
and began working at his winter time
business of selling lite insurance. Ri-
viere went at his insurance business
with the same energy and earnestness
that characterizes his work on the
diamond with the result that the
Southland Life Insurance Company of
Dallas, for which he is agent, pre-
sented him with two first prizes for
the month of December, Riviere out-
stripping all other Southland Life
agents both in the matter ot volume
in production and in number of writ-
ten and completed applications for
life insurance. So "Tink", in addi-
tion to his commissions, is some $200
richer. He was in competition with
some of the best insurance agents in
Texas, including the million dollar
producer, A. C. (Tex.) Bayless of
Houston who is "Tink’s” district agent.
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The ear of the katydid is situated
in the tibia of the front leg.
labor and materials.
Project No. 4 is for
f. o. b. Palacios large i
dumber, especially 2x4s and nulls.
Project No. 5 is for the building of
five frame officers’ bath houses, each
10x10 feet.
Project No. 6 is for the laying of
12,000 feet of 4-inch cast iron pipe
and 21,000 feet of 2-ineh galvanized
pipe, including ditching, backfilling,
specials, valves and fittings. Separate
proposals are desired for labor and
for materials.
Project No. 7 is for the drilling of
a 6-inch well, approximately 600 feet
daap, with casing and strainer com-
plete.
Project No. 8 calls for the furnish-
ing and installation of an air pump
and necessary piping to deliver 200
gallons of water per minute.
Project No. 9 is for the furnishing
and erection of a pump house and ma-
chinery to go with it, as well as re-
ceiving tank.
Project No. 10 calls for the furnish-
ing of a 50-000 gallon wooden tank.
Alternate bids are desired on disman-
tling a tank at Ellington Field and
transporting and erecting it at Pala-
cios.
Project No. 11 is for furnishing and
erecting complete a 50,000 gallon ele-
vated steel tank, approximately 125
feet to Maximum water line.
TINK RIVIERE
WRITES INSURANCE
and will be held at that until tankage
facilities can be provided for.
In the opinion of leading oil
. this well opens up a new field in the __ .........
II Q Roman Qavo <oaBt country and as practically all I private hatha,
• O. Bureau oays the holdings are held by the big com- lounge and ob
panics, drilling will become general
and active.
Boling Dome has attracted oil com-
panies for the past two years and
considerable drilling has been done.
One small producer at a shallow depth
was made some time ago by the Gulf
Production Company.
Interest in the new well and the new
field is widespread as it Is generally
believed that the next big gulf coast
oil field is in the making.
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Woman Dies While
Leading in Prayer
Washington, Dec. 12.—Figs seem to
be the crop best adapted to the fertile,
level coastal plain country of Texas,
the department of agriculture said in
a statement today.
The fig industry in Southeastern
Texas is growing rapidly, and possibly
not more than half of the trees have
come to bearing, the statement said.
Co-operative fig marketing organiza-
tions are being formed and fig pre-
serving plants are being erected, espe-
cially in the vicinity of Houston and
Galveston, the statement said.
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Approved Tax for
Municipal Band
Twenty-one miles of the road be-
tween Bay City and Gulf und Mata-
gorda
work
whose contract was annulled by the
state highway commission, is being re-
surfaced. the commission footing the
Dill to the extent of $58,009.
Judge W. E. McNabb, who Ih largely
responsible for getting the matter
underway und to a satlHfuetory adjust-
ment ami conclusion, has just received
Hie fidlowing letter, which explains
itself:
| ers, to the effect that on January 7,
I 1926, they will announce a tremendous
’ i reduction in the prices of their com-
plete line of motor cars und that
these reductions will apply on all cars
bought after midnight, December 15,
1925.
Equally as interesting to the auto-
mobile buying public is the additional
statement that this tremendous reduc-
' tion is made possible by a recently
completed ten million dollar expan-
sion program new buildings and
equipment hat will nearly double
Dodge Brothers' factories in 1926.
At tile very start of their wonderful
career Dodge Brothers put before the
public a dependable and worthy prod- |
uct, and one that has gained favor ,
rapidly throughout the nation. They
adopted a policy then that established
T e e their leadership in the automobile !
manufacturing world and in this won- ,
derful announcement they indicate
that it is their determination to hold I
that leadership.
Those interested in the purchase of
a new car or anything in the way of
a Dodge Brothers product can, now.
with all safety, make the purchase,
assured of the benefits of the reduc-
tion refund on January 7, 1926.
Read the big advertisement
carefully.
PROHIBITION IS
WORKING FINE
I Officials of Hie company last night
I were unable to gauge Hie volume ami
its gravity had not been tested
From reports the well is sufficiently
large to cause Boling Dome to lie
added to proven territory in I lie gulf
coast.
This Is Taylor's fifth well to ho
drilled liy Hie Toxas Company In this
section before a producer was secured.
The rice farmers have had another
week of good weather for harvest and
threshing work, and they have surely
been taking advantage of every day
. of it.
Tlie rice crop through tills territory
lis nearly all In A conservative esti-
mate is that there is nor more than
7 per cent of Hie 192a crop yet re-
maining unthreshed.
The price has been
Ing the week,
Cuero, Texas, Dec. 11.—The direc-
tors of the Cuero Chamber ot Com-
merce, in regular monthly session
Wednesday indorsed a resolution by
unanimous vote providing for the levy
of a special tax by the city council to
defray the expenses of the Cuero Tur-
key Trot Band as a municipal band.
Heretofore the members of the
band have served without pay, in ad-
dition to which they have paid the
director by special collections from
the membership.
One of Hie most beautiful private
cars to lie seen on the tracks around
Houston is tlie one recently delivered I weather,
, for the use of tile executive Vice pres Prolific ,
idem of Hie Gulf Coast Lines und In I■.
ternatlonal-Great Northern Railroad
The car, i
tlie name of the early tribe of Indians
which tlie Spanish encountered in this
part of the state und which gave the
state its name, was built at the Pal-
estine shops of the I.-G. N. and cost
in the neighborhood of $85,000.
It is made up of four staterooms,
, a large dining room,
lounge and observation room and of-
fice space. The interior is finished in
dark walnut. Furnishings are heav-
ily upholstered.
AH parts of the car are connected
with telephones and there is an indi-
vidually designed call bell system.
The kitchen equipment Is made up
of the latest conveniences, including
a refrigerating plant.
The car has a complete steel
derframe.
Sealed bids in triplicate for 11 build-
ing projects to be constructed at the
Texas National Guard campsite at
Palacios, were received Thursday, De-
cember 10, and then opened by the
United States property and disbursing
officer for Texas at his office at Camp
Mabry, Austin, according to announce-
ment by Lieutenant Colonel Claude A.
Adams, through the service bulletin
of the Builders’ Exchange of Houston.
Plans and specifications may be ob-
tained from Lieutenant Colonel Adams
at his office, Camp Mabry, Austin.
Texas. The right is reserved to reject
any or all bids and to accept any part
ot a bid that is advantageous to the
United States government.
Project No. 1 is for the construc-
tion of 35 frame kitchen and mess
halls, each to be 20 teet by 54 feet.
Separate proposals also are desired
on furnishing labor only and on fur-
nishing materials only.
Project No. 2 is for the construcc-
tion of 55 buildings, each 10 feet by 20
feet. Separate bids are desired for
labor and materials.
CHILD FROM WELL Necessary to Replace
Damaged Surface.
Drilling has been going on at Bol-
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i and displays
The machine was stopped but'
'rile company controls Hie entire acre-
age on the entire four flunks of the
structure, Hie center of which is own-
mi liy tlie Gulf, which lias drilled three
wells, one a small producer. Thu
Humble Company drilled three fail-
ures. Prospecting Ims lieen going on
in this area for the past two years.
ing for several months and several
of Hie big companies have been ex-
ploring that field, but it was left to
the Texas Company to move out on
what is known as the Taylor farm
to bring in Hie initial producer.
Boling nestles on the batiks of Old
' Caney some 18 miles northeast of Bay
I (tilv (26 miles bv the S. P. 1 and 12 I
i miles southeast of Wharton.
Pro-1 Wharton County.
posals also are desired separately for! Leasing and sub-leasing lias been
going on in the Boling territory for]
! sometime and faith in the field never [
quantities of waned. Several Bay City people, R. i
ind nails. I J- Sisk, W. D. Wilson, A. Harris and I
' probably some others, have valuable i
holdings in the field.
| The advent of this well, which gives !
1 this section an absolutely new oil 1
field in untried territory, revives tin )
hopes of everyone, especially those I
who have held on to the claim that ■
this immediate vicinity holds the
greatest potential oil field in the I
; country. These oil optimists now look
for great development all over this!
section, and particularly along Canej. ! ti()naI announcemcnt by Dodge Broth-
It is some 25 miles on an airline! ... ... . .. .
from Boling to the Markham fields
at Clemvllle which has been produc-
ing oil at a shallow depth for twenty
years, and some expect a great activity
on this airline.
Should the drilling become g< neral,
it is only reasonable to suppose that
the wealth of the great companies will
be poured into this section and for
many miles surrounding the Texa
Company's Boling gusher.
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