The Daily Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 24, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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Smith-Lockhart Drug Co
The Obliging Druggists
Lost: A black horse mule about
sixteen hands high: four years old;
unbranded; white hair ring around
neck. $10.00 will be paid for return
to M. T. Huebner, Bay City, Texas.
Dad. don’t neglect a tiling for the
children; give ’em all you can, and
don’t be grouchy a little bit all day
today and tomorrow Remember that
of all tile days iu their innocent lit-
tle lives the Christmas days are the
brightest for them, and even a frown
might, take Home of that brightness
from them. Give them the house and
lot and all the tilings contained there-
in Keep nothing back, so that your
conscience will say of you: "Well
done, old scout ; now, you can feel like
a boy yourself again.”
A good roads meeting was held in
Alvin last Monday night to discuss
the subject of forming a road district
and calling an election to vote on the
issuance of $250,000 in road improve-
ment bonds for the hard surfacing of
approximately (12 miles of road. The
meeting was a great success. After
dicussing the subject thoroughly, and
Bay City Is assured of a $75,000
Federal building. The Colorado river
will be opened to Bay City.—Garwood
Express.
looking at it from every viewpoint, it
was decided to draw up a petition and
secure signers asking that an election
be called Several committees were
appointed and the members tire now
busy securing information as to the
best material, etc.
The importance of good roads is
now being fully realized in Brazoria
county. A point has been reached
where It is merely a matter of method
—a question of how to get the roads
we need in the most economical way.
All of this is being worked out grad-
ually, and the time is not far distant
when all of the county will be placed
in good condition in this respect, by
the building of hard surface roads or
by the scientific construction of dirt
roads.—Angleton Times.
All coastwise Counties seem to have
Miss Alvin,
brag about?
a statement
bun*-.
Bay City, w* congratulate you on
your good fortune, but we can boast
still. We bale r*ach®d the point
where we never mention such things
until w<- ship our first car —and that,
means the first car on the North
American continent,
you
joy
per
spring crop of potatoes.
crop is a pick-up, or by-product, but
Potatoes, hogs, corn and cot-
ton are the crops that are making fat
bank accounts for the farmers of that
pari of our neighboring county—An-
gleton I’imes.
A Post special from Bay City says
the farmers of the Caney Valley are
harvesting an average of 75 bushels
of Irish potatoes per acre, worth $1.50
bushel, on land that grew a big
This fall
isdiction of the supreme court” de-
clares the Bay City Tribune. But
why should the supremo court care
a “scent?” is what we would lik«- to
know.—El Campo Citizen.
Bay City httu ripe strawberries. Now
what have you got to
Come on, Houston, make I
Matagorda County Tri-I
contracted the good roads fever. We
hope (he case will become so severe
that a bond issue treatment will bo
all that will save the patients.
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Notice to Public.
Effective January first, no charge
accounts will be opened at this office
less than three dollars. All such must
pe accompanied by cash deposit of
three dollars.
WESTERN UNION TEL CO.,
By Talbot A. Williams, Manager.
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510.00 Reward.
on the
We hope to see
attain the Same position we en-
Alvln isn’t elfish, but when she
f> els good something must bo said or i
else an explosion might occur. One
i-rower hero reports strawberries now
that measures three inches in cir-
cumference. We were shown a box
of these several days ago Alvin Ad-
vocate.
Mod t enough' While we hope
never to raise a 3-lneh strawberry, we
do trust that we, too, will soon be
shipping them in carload louts.
During the last two decades I
there has been considerable popula-
tion to the towns and cities, in this
and other states The only way to I
check this movement is to make life in 1
the rural districts more desirable
Good roads ami good rural schools!
wilt help to retard the movement to
the towns and cities, and with other]
mov* rm nti to better rural conditions
will make country life more desirable
than urban life Progress in agricul-
tural m*-ihods ami more of the con-
veniences of ilf. in the country will
keep the people on the farm and do
moie to solve th*- problem of the high
cost of living than any direct legisla-
tion on tin- subject can possibly ac-
eomplliih Ixickhart Register.
latter “chools for
part of all
Better
<> rural
ad.
I»I i let a form
go have in th*- past
will in th*- future.
o stupid us to not realize what
W* have had our |>o!i-
other differences,
differed from his
i main thing- the
And this is all to
r thriving city. If
dttrliiiC 1913
we will be
We BhOUld
thiif
if We :
ttilngj,
for a
Horn*,
town
bear in mind, at
have a right to *xpet
aim high will
, The
body
eu r net-
part of the entir« citizenship with one
<*nd in view A blind man can feel, It
he cannot see, the rapid development
and substantial growth made during
the past twelve months, and no one
can be
has been dom-
tical and perhaps
bttt no on*- has i
neighbor in th*- on*
good of Hay City
the crcdl’ of *
the sam- spirit prevails
there Is no telling where
Hi the beginning of j 11
di IlnuiM, that we
a city here and
ccompllKh high
re jf. nothing impossible
of determined, conseien-
t men and the building of
otir town ta solCy within our»< Ivos.
Will we do it9 As
so, of course, we
City ami th*- Tribune
can to stop the practice
*hy regard tor what U whwtt ’
such u statement is made the news*
paper can only succeed In giving it
wider circulation. If left alone its]
own preposterouaness will kill it The
people of Bay City are not selfish.....,
they want the entire county to grow
and prosper. W<* realize that every'
m-w coim-r to Matagorda county, re-
gardless of where he settles Menns
hint that much tor Bay (Jity and non*
arc mo narrow in their viewsas to pre-
elude any possibility of securing any
citizen for any part of the county. If
Much r* -minks an are credit*<1 to some
of our people by the ( hronh le hav*
been made, the Chronicle and the poo-
ple of Collegcport can rent assured
that th*- utterances ar*- deeply deplor-
ed by every right-thinking man in Buv
will do all It
Tli* hucccsh attained by Bay City In
1912, in material growth un w*-)l a a
or commercial standing as wi ll as* a
greater population has b«*n i><corm
pllHh*-d by on*- thing tin- priii ■•wor-
thihiwk
PHI NTI NG COMPANY
Publishers
Buffering in tie-
We have no Idea that tills
general in our older sister
nevertheleHH,
THE DAIL? TRIBUNE
Publtahcd fcverp Bay *C«ceFt Ruttday
We have received several reports of
people In our comity seat who hav*-
tried to discourage tourists coming to
took at CoHcgi-port. On* Buys the
land is no good, another I tint there arc
no decent hotels here, and such. These
facts we received from th*- tourists
themselves and w*- notice In th*- News
that Matagorda is
Ham*- way
attitude
city, but m v* rtheb-HH, every person
turned uWfty Is a prospective settler
i<*. t, not only to Collegeport but also
to Matagorda county of which Bay City
Ik the capital W* think it would be
well If tin- Tribune ami leading < ll|-
CAREY SMITH................Editor
I HAWKINS......Buslm-ss Manager
CHRISTMAS
GREETINGS
H. B. EIDMAN
HABERDASHF.RS TO MEN WHO CARE
py
Y ear
OH-
a
Merry Xmas
and a Flap-
New
z*-n . should undertak*- the task of e*l- ■
Heating theise short flighted people to
lh<- fact that Bay City’s greatness will
lie not ho much In being tin* Immedi-
ate market place of local farmers but
a heudipiartei'H for all the towim in
the county. This attitude of knock
ing on neighboring towns Is an un<l> -
nlrable one anywlicr*- ami can only
damage all and help non* College-
port Uhronlcle.
If the Chronicle has received such
reports It is seriously regretted by
cv*-ry right-thlnklDg man In thin city,
l-’ot a eeituinty we know (hat our real
estate men, while they arc straining
*-v*-ry point to build Bay City and th*-
adjacent country, an- not In tin- claaa
of reprehensible charactera iui por-
trayed by the Chronicle. Our i-oiinl.V
Is large enough, i Ich enough, unlv*-i
■inBy good enough ami posm-SHed with
enough posidldlltI<-h for uh all to get
as much glory and honor In the devel-
opment as any of uh ar*< entitled to,
ho why the mo'HHlty of any man cry-
ing down tin- advanlageH of another
section of It’' Of rout e, thos- who
are building Bay City nr*- going to
build Bay City first; those who arc
Ituihiing Colh-geport nr*- expect' d to do
the same thing, but In the event a
prospector Ih not pleased with on*-
section hn should hr flent to another, |
and from what w*- can learn, n ually
In by the real estate m*-n of Bay Citi
Atty man who knows anything of the J
Collegeporl country known lull will
that Ih Ih an good a part of Mata
gorda county uh there Ih and any nt'it*-
ment to th*- contrary in a wilful min
Rtatement of the true condition of
things, and should not lie rndlc*-*!,
peclally by a newspaper When
statement no rank in made II Is not
made by a successful, lair mlml<-d i*-al
i-Hut*' deiih'r or anyone oIhc who has
We hope everyone
of our friends a
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 24, 1912, newspaper, December 24, 1912; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1361925/m1/4/: accessed June 20, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.