The Daily Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 62, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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ROTFCI'IONi
(CONVENIENCE
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18,500.00
Redemption Fund
1,250.00
CASH AND EXCHANGE
.$ 50,000.00
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236,653.11
$675,945.18
LIABILITIES
Capital Stuck
Loans an<l I liscounts
U. S. Bonds
75,634.77
ItiO.(H)
25,000.00
165.96
525,044.45
675,945.18
Surplus and
Profits....
Dividends Unpaid
Circulation
Reserved for 'faxes
DEPOSITS
A*
$3^
| Banking House and Furni-
ture and Fixtures
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It is report’ll that the Santa Fe will
expend the present year J th<
largest item of which amount will b<
for shops. engine houses aiul turn
tables, totaling $260,000. The next
largest item Is for siding and spur
tracts, (or which purpose the amount
named is $230,000.
Other apportionments are as fol
lows: Water and fuel stations, $100.
000; terminal yards, $110,000; station
buildings and fixtures, $125,000; track
fastenings and appurtenances, $115,-
000; increased weight of rail, $80,000;
right of way and station grounds, $50,
000; bridges, trestles and culverts.
$50,000; additions I main tracks, $io,
000; block and other signal appara-
tus, $38,000; telegraph and telephone |
lines, $28,000; shop machinery and
tools, $2(1,000; protection of banks and I
drainage, $25,000; dock and wharf |
properties, $21,”00 fencing right ol
way, $20,000; ballasting, $20,000; Im-
proved frogs and switches, $5000; in
terlocking plants, $1500; miscellaneous
and betterments, $30,000,
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
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WOOIHIE* I WEILING.
WOODMEN UNVEIL-
ING CEREMONIES
Drug
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Owners and Controllers of the Bay City, Surburban and
Farm Properties in Matagorda County, Texas
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Monuments to Memory of Sovereigns .
Ityiiiiiu and Houston Will Be In-
veilcd at Cedarville Sundaj,
1 eb. 21st.
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BAY CITY REALTY CO
Lookin’ for a farm, Mister. My daddy bought his from the
Bay City Realty Co. You better see ’em, too.
Phone 192—North Side Square BAY CITY, TEXAS
A COLD IS A COLD
Whether you china your cold na a "mild Indtpmdlion," or whether
11 de erveM more aeriouM cotmid.inti<m, it in exerting the mime tax- on
your phi steal atrenglh and vitality, Look to your cold at thin time of
year. Don i take chances, but check II at once with a box of
Wc have sobl the Bay City Meat Mar
kftt to F. Harrison & Sons, who will
continue the bunlncsn ut the mum
stand and under tin1 same mime
We thank the public for the patron-
age they have given us, and hope they
will continue to patronize the market
for our successors. Respectfully,
2td WOLF Ai DAW DY.
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BOM) ELECTION ONLY
FOURTEEN DAYS OI F.
Rexail’s One Nighl Cold Tablets
Pre 'tit day sabs show that R< xall’s O119 Night Cold Tablets are en-
joying greater popularity than any cohl remedy wo sell This Is due
Io the fact that repeat orders are coming in from customers who
know the worth of this effective cold remedy To have a cold Is
human, but to let II persist Is unpardonable when this ready relief
can be obtained upon request either by phone, postal or a personal
call, Price 25 cents per box.
will be
and made
All Woodmen and the public in gen |
oral are notified ttint there will be un i
veiling ceremonies conducted by tin*I
Bay City Camp No. 168 on .Sunday,
February 21st.
The ceremonies will be over Un J
graves of Sovereigns Ryman and Hous j
ton and all Woodmen and the pulillc !
in general are invited to attend.
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NOTICE TO THE 1’1 BLIP.
Only fourteen days remain until the
precinct bond election will be held.
What are we going to do about it?
Let us lift this precinct out of the
mud and give our farmers good roads
to travel over.
If the Issue of $.100,000 in voted Ihb
precinct will soon have as good roads
as can be found in Texas.
I The success of the election means
the preservation of vehicles and team
flesh, more and cheaper transporta-
tion of farm products to the markets
and a considerable enhancement of
the value of all property in the pre-
cinct.
Tlie people of the city will be glv-
cn freer and mon < oiulortalde access
to the country
Scattered communities
brought closer together
neighbors.
Those who live in the country will
have easier ways to travel to town and
will come more frequently and witfi
greater pleasure.
$300,00(1 will criss-cross this precinct
with macadamized highways and ev-
eryone will have greater faith in our
Huston’s Drug Store.
QI UK D1LIYEIIY THE BEX ALL SI (HIE PHONE 51
> DAY PHONE 127
JAS. W. RUGELEY.
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Piano
SM1TH-L0CHART DRUG CO.
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Attention Mr. Piano |
Prospect t
Grace
J. E. GRACE, Manager •
Isn’t Is about time that you buy that new piano you have wanted a
so Ling. I will make the terms to suit you, and the price lower than •
•ame piano can be bought elsewhere, so call in the store and have 3
a talk with me or write for catalog and terms. •
We also have a complete line of Victor Talking Machines and Edfaon •
Phonographs, also we carry about two thousand records for Victor and X
Edison, so come and select your records or send in your order . |
Victor and Edison machines are so 1 on easy payment plant if de- |
r sired.
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H NOTICE JO fiOTTON GROWERS
I would be glad to have each and every
cotton grower who expect to gin their
cotton at Bay City-to notify me of the
number of acres they will grow to cotton
during the year 1913. My object is to
work up some plan for securing a suffi-
cient number of cotton pickers to take
: care of the crop.
[ VV7E HAVE THE MOST COMPLETE and moderately
[ YV priced line of valentines ever shown at this place. Some
; real hand-toueded ones that are appropriate lor any one to send
j Sec our line, part of which is in our window ::::::
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Fred S. Robbins
John W. Gaines
Harry Burkhart
Guy M. Bryan
S. A. Foote
M. S. Perry
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DON’T GET
Jealous
You’ll get an Invitation
You’ll be glad, too.
When?
Soon!
How Soon?
TABERNACLE PACKED LAST’ NIGHT
AND THERE M \S ANOTHER
INGATHERING.
BayCitylce&LightCo
AT YOUR SERVICE
the
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or
The Afternoon Bible Rending* Prming
to Be the Most InlercMing and
Instructive Sen Iren
Yet Held.
THREE HUNDRED
CONVERTS TO DATE
WILL REACH 500
at (lie April election. Mr. Meece 1
well known to tlie voters of the city
and needs no special recommendation
at the hands of tills paper. Ho solicits
your support
Tim Bible readings conducted
Evangelist Ham from 2 to 3 o'clock
have partaken of the nature of schol-
arly lectures on the study of the Scrip-
tures by a man who has gone deeply
into Holy Writ tn the faith that enlists
the illuminating guidance of the Holy
Spirit, and he brings out their hidden
meaning in a manner so plain and logi-
cal that every attentive listener can
clearly comprehend The Divine plan
running through the book from Genesis
to Revelation in perfect, harmony Is
easily traced all the way.
The weather cleared up yesterday,
the walks dried up, and last night had
a sky sparking with stars and a half
moon made it easy for people living
beyond the lighted streets of the city
to find the road; hence the congrega-
tion almost reached the limit of the
seating capacity of tlie auditorium.
Tlie preacher's subject was Why
• Thousands of acres of the
• richest prairie land that bnsks
• in the Mid-Coast Summer sun-
• light are here uwaitlug
• plow. It Is ready now
• grubbing or < tearing of any
• class, character or kind. All
• you havta to do is to hitcliup
• and hike out. And there Is
• plenty of “good, black waxy
• land,” too.
Wants Information Regarding .Member
of E. N. Rugeley Company.
SEI KING FOR
INFORMATION
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IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE.
Bishop Kinsolving, of the Episcopal
church, arrived In the city tvdui He
will go to Collegeport tomorrow and
will hold services there tomorrow
night. Sunday morning he will preach
and hold confirmation services with
his Matagorda congregation.
On Sunday evening at 7:30 o'clock
be will preach at the St. Mark’s Epis-
copal church In this city and conduct
confirmation services
Wo understand that a large class,
twenty-four, will receive the confirma-
tion rites Sunday evening.
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WE WANT YOUR COPY NOW.
Our next meeting will be on Tuesday
the 25th of February at 3:30, In the af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs, R. .1.
Capps. We hope for a full attendance
and that every one on the following
program will come prepared.
I'. D. C. Program.
Roll Call—Relate some incident Il-
lustrative of the high moral standard
set by the officers and maintained by
the rank and file of the Confederacy.
Paper by Mrs. Wells Thompson.—
Discuss the moral characters of the
military and morals of commanders of
the Confederacy.
Song by Miss Jeanette Austin—Auld
Lang Syne.
Paper by Mrs. King—The Growing
South.
Music by Mrs. Bowie.
Poem by Mrs. Grace—“The Jeffer-
son monument” by Edward A. Allen.
(Southern Lit. Vol. 11, page 6135.)
Reading by Mrs. Carpenter.
MRS. W. C. CARPENTER,
Historian.
This is not a joke or idle talk. We
want your copy for your special edi-
tion ad. Bring it along or authorize
us to write it for you. In any event
we want it and want it right now.
Don't delay a good tiling, but help us
make the special edition the biggest
and best thing ever published in South
Texas. Won't you PLEASE do this
much?
Postmaster Sayers has handed us
the following letter for publication
which is self-explanatory:
Austin, Texas, Feb. 4, 1913.
Postmaster, Bay City, Texas.
Dear Sir:—1 am writing to try to
get name and postoffice address of any
man who served during the civil war
or any part of It in Company “D”,
Capt. E. S. Rugeley commanding in
Brown's Regiment, Texas cavalry.
I am writing in behalf a brother,
James A. Shapard, who now lives in
Missouri at McFall.
He wants to find someone to vouch
for him on a pension blank, so lie can
draw a pension. He was in that mem-
orable expedition when nineten of our
men froze to death on the Matagorda
peninsula.
Anyone will do him a great favor by
writing him at McFall, Mo., or me at
Confederate Home, Austin, Texas.
Respectfully,
CHAS. R. SHAPARD.
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ATTENTION U. D. C.
o—o
V alentmes,
Thos. H. Lewis
B. A. Ryman]
E. L. Perry
it
he
the
Rill,
of
at
tfd
People Are Not Saved; and his text
Ye will not come unto me that
The burden of the
was, “Ye Will Not ”
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TI i: PI( TI RES TONIGHT
AT PASTIME
“Trapper Bill. King of Scout*.”
From the time that Trapper Bill has
the first quarrel with Shunan until the
big battle scene in which the Ameri-
cans triumph over the Mexicans, the
picture la replete with thrills Staged
with wonderful realism In the hills and
dales of beautiful California.
“Fredle, Be Brave!” and “Taft** Day
at the Brockton Fair.”
A very funny comic on the same reel
with nn especially interesting educa-
tional topic.
was,
ye may have life,"
sermon was, “Ye Will Not ” In no
case is a man lost because he can not
be saved. It ts always because
will not.
a cruel God that will send men to Hell;
when the fact is that all who go there
send themselves. They WILL to go;
at least they WlLi. not to be saved.
At the close of the sermon penitents J and to be sure to go to th
again flocked to the altar, and mo t
of theni found peace and rejoiced In
the forgiveness of their sins.
Prof. R. E. Scott, who takes
names of the converts, togethei with
their church preferences, told this
writer that up to last, night's meeting
he had 275 on his list, and there were
certainly more than 25 conversions bin
night, some estimating the number as
high as 50.
Enthusiasm runs high, and many of
the Christian workers have sot their
hearts on a total of 500 conversions
and reclamations by Sunday night.
county.
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will follow quickly in our pathway of I
progress and within a few years the ;
county will be ribboned off with splen-
did roadways
Good roads will increm e the value i
of every acre of land In the county, i
Ye4 wc are told that It Is (‘specially that In tlie precinct in the j
proximity of the roads.
Nobody is fighting the bond Issu
but it. w ill be necessary for the clti-1
zons to think about It, to work for it |
polls.
It’s worth your time and the money ;
March 1st is the date.
Lift the precinct out of the mud.
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THE AV EE K’S PROGRAM
AT PASTIME THEATRE.
Yesterday a friend of ours steppeu
into the office and inserted the fol-
lowing: “Lost, strayed or stolen,
one bright sunshiny day . Please noti-
fy the Tribune.” Just,step to your
door or window, view the b-e-a-u-t-i-
f-u-1 sunlight and then say, if you can.
that the Tribune don’t get results.
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Jolos easy money-making sale
Stemberger’s.
Friday, 5 and 10 cents.
Imp “Fardle Be Brave.”
Bison—"Trapper Bill, King
Scouts."
Saturady, 5 and 10 cents.
Nestor—“Making a Man of Her.
Rex—“An Old-Fashioned Mother."
Crystal -"O, Such A Night.”
RESOURCES
BISHOP KINSOLVING
IS IN BAY CITY
SANTAFETOSPEND
LARGE SUMS
53
MR. MEE( E INNOI N( |>
FOR < 1TY SEI RE I lin
AND I KI ISl Ki lt.
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Mill Conduct Confirmation Serilces
Sunday Evening al 7:30
O’clock.
InipnuvniiiUs and Bettemients Plan-
ned for Texas Holding* Io
Aggregate el.5tH(,0iHt.
a <’ufw
Iu the regular announcement col-
umn in today's Tribum* our readers
will find the name of Mr. G. T.
Meece, who Is a candidate for th* of-
fice of city secretary and treasurer,
his candidacy being subject to tlie ac-
tion of Hie White Mau s I nion party
2,250.00
net, .
Deposits ...
$507,361 04
$507,361.04
Give Us
Surplus
Undivided Profits,
Bay City Bank & Tru:ft Co.
Bay City, Texas
At the Close ol Business February 4th. 191 3.
Guaranty Fund Bank
3,982.25
161,768.18
. . 14,292.97
. 416,068.07
Examine This Statement and
Your Business.
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Statement of Condition Of <
HENOl Rt ES
Loans and Discounts $325,980.72
Real Estate 13,379.89
Furniture & Fixtures
Interest in Guaranty
Fund
Cash and Exchange
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock $65,000.00
. .. 12,000.00
DIRECTORS
Guaranty Fund Bank
We Solicit Your Business
CAPITAL
SURPLUS AND PROFITS
RESOURCES - - -
$55,000
$15,000
$290,000
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 62, Ed. 1 Friday, February 14, 1913, newspaper, February 14, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1361969/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.