The Daily Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 25, Ed. 1 Monday, December 7, 1914 Page: 3 of 4
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LIVERY A TRANSFER
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Klug phoae 171. Bn*ses aad
baggage wagons will eall any
place In town for pas*c»ger«
or trunk*. “Always on time."
j; . CRAWFORD
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• BAY CITY GREENHOUSE •
• Robert D. Raker, Florist •
• Floral offerings, cut flowers •
• and decorative plants; straw- •
• berry plants, rose bushes Or- •
• der now. Phone 354. •
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• J. C. CARRINGTON •
• Surveyor and Civil Engineer •
• Phones 8 and 260 Ray City •
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WE ARE NOW LOCATED
BAY CITY SANITARIUM
Dr. C. R. Byars •
• Upstairs in The Tribune Build-
• Ing, corner Avenue G and Fifth
• Street, where we shall be
• pleased to meet our patients.
• Dr. T. C. Brooks
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Why not start a county fair move-
ment now and make it a permanent
annual affair? Other places profit by
these undertakings, so why shouldn't
ried and our people as public-spirited?
Surely our resources are just as va-
ried and our epople as public-spirited?
These annual events go a long way
toward relieving the routine hum-
drum and put new life into every-
tldng and everybody.
Any family in Ray City can lower
the cost of living at least 25 per cent
every year. A garden, a little earlier
rising to attend to it and a little
healthful exercise in the afternoon
will do the work. Nine homes out
of ten In Ray City are possessed with
plenty of garden land, enough room
for several fruit trees and a straw-
berry plat. The determination to do
it is all that la nee wary.
Services were held in all the
churches yesterday, but The Tribune
has no report of a one of them. The
public appreciates these published re-
ports and the churches are missing a
splendid opportunity to spread the
gospel by not having the sermons re-
ported. The Tribune is here to dis-
seminate all church news provided it
Is furnished us.
It would not be expensive for the
city to keep a few carloads of gravel
or shell on hands and to work the
streets on the block-at-a-time plan.
The cheapest of any kind of work is
that which is done right and perma-
nently. Nothing is worth while that
Is done cheaply or In a hap-hazard
way. Conservation of labor is as es-
sential as the conservation of any-
thing else. ■ ’ r
WE ARE AGENTS FOR II. P.
DROUGHT & COMPANY, AND
HAVE MONEY TO LOAN ON
FARMS AND RANCHES.
dw-tf GAINES A CORBETT.
Refore sending too much money
away to relieve the Christmas wants
of those at a distance, why not look
about us to see who there is amongst
us whose longing hearts may be ad-
ministered. That there are some
there can be no doubt, and remember
"charity begins at home."
your
season.
Civil Engineer
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PHONE 93
now
Bear in
B. ROBERTSON
G.
• Attorue)-al-Law—Notary Public •
Austin Block, South Side
Square, Bay City, Tex.
Phone No. 8
P. O. Box 402
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Bay Cfty> Texas
Hon. W. M. Holland, who is attend-
ing District Court in Wharton, spent
yesterday in the city with homefolks,
returning to Wharton this morning.
Mrs. John G. Towns, who has been
in the city for the past few days with
her sister, Mrs. John Sutherland, left
today for her home in Luling.
Commissioners’ Court will convene
in regular monthly session next Mon-
day. with Judge Lewis presiding.
This rain is no wetter than any oth-
er old rain, so take up that long face
a notch or two.
Rice, corn and feedstuff will con-
stitute the principal crops here next
Cotton will receive but little
attention.
A R. LECK1E
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• MRS. E. E. RUSE, Florist •
• Cut flowers, floral work, pot •
• plants, roses, etc. Ferns, 25c •
• and up. Phones, Greenhouse •
• No. 24; store No. 86.. •
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Be cheerful and plant a fruit tree
or two. Improve each cloudy, rainy
moment that your joy may be com-
plete and your bliss unbounded when
the sun shines once more.
Strike a lick now and then for
your town and your people,
mind the success of one is the suc-
cess of the other. Your neighliors' in-
terests are your interests.
Mrs. R. L. Autrey, who has been in
the city for the past several days vis-
iting her daughter, Mrs. R. R. Lewis,
has returned to her home in Houston.
Will there be no old-time Christ-
mas trees in Bay City this year? We
have often wondered why this quaint
old custom has become so sadly neg-
lected.
Read the change in P. G. Secrest's
ad in today's paper and see him be-
fore making your Christmas pur-
chases.
The work on the Baptist Church
has been given a serious set back by
the bad weather. The work on the
basement had gotten under good head-
way when the rains began.
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• BAY CITY SHOE REPAIR SHOP •
• P. Koigood, Propr.
• Boots and Shoes Repaired
• Half Soles and Heels 75c
• Beat Work Done and All Work
• Guaranteed
• Seventh Street, adjacent to
• Walker’s Furniture Store
JRay City, Texas
Mrs. J. M. Tennigan, of Floresville,
returned home today, after spending
several days with her sister, Mrs.
John Sutherland.
DAIRYING WITHOUT INVESTMENT
“Dairying offers a way out of our
cotton troubles,” says C. O. Moser, ex-
president of the Texas Dairymen’s As-
sociation. “The way Is open to any
merchant op banker in any commun-
ity, and without big initial invest-
ment.
The spectacle of the biggest State
witli a cash crop heretofore several
times as great as that of any other
State, undergoing all the pains and
stresses of a financial panic, and with
a yield as great as any In its his-
tory, is enough to make any man
pause.
“Texas makes 90 cents out of every
dollar of new wealth from its farms
and ranches, and its annual produc-
tion is about one-fifteenth of the total
farm production of the United States.
“The merchant cannot collect his
farm accounts wherewith to pay the
wholesaler; and the banker must ex-
tend his paper and make further ad-
vances to relieve what are in the na-
ture of distressed conditions while his
deposits are being cut down.
“This is a pretty serious business.
It is surely time to do some sober
thinking and readjusting. Our trou-
ble has been too much cash crop.
"First, the farm must produce the
home-grown living, so as to cut out
raising the cash crop on credit; sec-
ond, a cash crop must be produced
that is staple and will bring cash ev-
ery day in the year, as much at one
season as at another—one that will
always be in demand so that no war
can ever affect the price.
“The Texas Industrial Congress has
sent out its dairying plan, which has
been passed upon and approved by
the best informed dairymen of the
country, and will distribute thousands
of copies more, but to put the Moser
plan into operation will first require
a community investment that may not
be convenient in many cases. It is not
only convenient but necessary, how-
ever. that each community get out of
debt and produce profits Instead of
loses. A start in this direction can
be made now without an investment
“How may this be done*
“Any merchant in any town may
start dairying in his community hy
geting into touch with the nearest
creamery and buying cream from the
farmers having milch cows for ship-
ment to this creamery. An arrange-
ment with the local bankers for the
payment for cream in cash and the
paying of a fair prfee for the product
will be the commencement, but the
farmer must be made to understand
very thoroughly just what the money
is being paid for. When he under-
stands that It is the quality, not the
quantity of his cream that he is paid
for. he will see the necessity of hav-
ing good cows and of using the Bab-
cock tester, the scales and the cream
separator. By the time he has learn-
ed these facts he is ready for the
Moser plan, and the community Is
ready for it. In the meantime the
merchant has laid the foundation for
a business profitable for himself and
extremely beneficial to his town.
"The farmer ought to make from
150 to $100 net per cow per year, de-
pending, of course, on the quality of
the cow. The merchant who delivers
the cream to the farmer has a cash
trade opportunity that ought to go
very far toward making the question
of hard times forever unnecessary for
him to consider.
"The Abilene Chamber of Commerce,
which has done very effective work
in building up a dairying industry In
Taylor County, confirms by its ex-
perience the above advice with refer-
ence to cream receiving stations. Un-
less a creamery is proeprly managed,
and there Is a sufficient number of
cows to maintain it," Secretary Woods
states, "it cannot possibly be made a
financial success. But by having
creameries In the nearest large city
establish creamery stations at every
small store throughout the country,
putting them In charge of farmers or
storekeepers, a market is placed at
the door of the farmer the year
around. “ • .
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A. F. A A. M.
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Dr. T. C. Brooks. Tribune building.
“Divinity kisses” at the Alcove.
orders for oysters.
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Capt. J. W. White is building
large barn at the Elscott farm.
Give us your
The Alcove.
Phone the Alcove your order for
fresh oysters.
Sewer
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Personals Locals
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Make the home life of your boys
pleasant and worth the while to them.
Surround them with such comforts
and amusements as you can afford.
Play with them yourself — become
their companions; and then see how
easy it is to keep them at home and
out of devilment at nights. Many a
boy starts on the downward path be-
cause of a lack of compatability in
his home life and parental attention.
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Hall,
invited.
tinued rainy weather
work on the Magnet
building. He has the
dug, but the rains have caved in the
sides. All the work will have to be
done over.
People will make their Christmas
money this year go as far as It will
reach. Merchants having anything to
offer for sale this month would do
well to use Tribune space and let the
public know how far their dollars will
reach.
Sewer pipe! Sewer pipe!
pipe! Alamo Lumber Co.
The Alamo Lumber Co. is the place
to buy your sewer pipe. dl3-tf
Fresh home-made candies at the
Alcove.
I It Is not necessary now to let head- !
ache wear Itself out. You can avoid
It. Just step In any good drug store
; and ask at the fountain for Hicks'
> Capudine, which is so successful! in
I relieving headache because it gets at
the cause, whether from cold, heat,
gripp or nervousness. It la liquid and
pleasant to take. Don't ever suffer
from headache when this remedy
stops it so easily. Have the drug-
gist wrap up a bottle for you to
take home—10c. 15c and 50c sixes. .
O. B. Hatchett states that the con-
has stopped
brick school
foundation
Have some rich black land in
Chambers Company, on good canal,
for sale. Will take some trade. B.
L. Vineyard, Houston, Texas. 4-8dp
8 p.' m.
welcome
Dr. J. B. Simons C f
J. W. Conger, K. of R. and 3
I. O. 0. F.
Meets every Monday night at K. of
Visiting brothers cordially
Edw. L. Savage, N. G
Geo. Helmecke, Secretary.
Carpenters and Joiners of America.
Local Union 1870, United Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners of
America meets every Wednesday night
In Hamilton Hall. All visiting bleth-
ers invited to attend.
J. F. Cone, President.
A. W. Benedict, Fin Sec.
Roy Nash, Rec. Secy.
Only eighteen more days till Christ-
mas. The laggard in business cannot
expect to get his share of the holiday-
trade by remaining quiet and expect-
ing the business to come to him. Do
not be a laggard—use Tribune space.
Buy a good liveral space in The
Daily Tribun* for every day between
now and Christmas and note how well
a judicious use of printers' ink will
swell your sales. Others are doing it.
why not you?
Bay City Lodge. No. 8t>5,.A. F.
A. M., meets every second and fourth
douday in each mouth. 7:30 p.
/lulling brothers welcome.
- Thos. H. Lewis, W. M.
W. 8. Street, Secretary.
O. E. S.
Eastern Star will meet
X/ afirKt Tuesday night In
*a< h month. Visiting
J member* invited to at-
tend.
Mrs. Edna Reynolds. W. M.
Mrs. Cora B. Moore. Sec.
K. of 1‘.
Bay City Lodge No. 241 K.
of P. meets every Tuesday at
Visiting Knights art
LODGE DIRECTORY.
Bad Headaches
Now Avoidable
The Priscillas wih meet next Wed-:
neaday afternoon at 3 o'clock with I
Mrs. Annie Rugeley.
CONTEST NOTES.
The
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The trip
of
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The headquarters of the movement
> have these cities represented. Is
Temple, and the party will mobilize
ore, although tickets will be ready
om each city and return thereto,
io private car will start from Tom-
o, but the winners will have Pull-
an accommodations from home
JAPANESE CANE 10 BE
NEW CROP FOR TEXAS
the foreign exhibits.
i counties have greatly
their appropriations for
Ir since the war started.
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IH'IMSED NICE TRACT OF LAND
Late advices from Exposition hoad-
mrtors at San Francisco are to the
feet that every single exhibit will
> In place when the Fair opens, and
any of them are oven now ostab-
ihed. The war lias no apparent ef-
ct on the foreign exhibits. South
in-
tho
Bay City Business College
(INCORPORATED)
Practical Up-to-Date Bookkeeping, Banking and
Higher Accounting.
Most successful system of Shorthand with Universal
Touch Typewriting.
Highest percent of positions secured. Write for Catalogue
and Easy Terms
Twenty-five Texas cities will be rep-
sonted in this party. Only good
>ople are competing in any city, so
at no lady need hesitate to covet
Is honor on account of the company
io will travel with. The party will
( composed of representatives of the
irious cities and this honor is not
<ely to be lightly conferred.
Dr. Milton R. Renan, of Eureka
>rings, Ark., spent several days in
ly City last week and on last Sat-
•day closed a deal with the Bay City
ealty Company for a 100-acrc tract
improved land, for which Dr. Re-
in paid $6500. This land is a sub-
vision of the Henry Gosling survey
id is situated only two miles south
town.
Dr. Regan has leased the tract to
e Bay City Realty Company, who
111 continue the farming operations
i it for a term, after which the own-
expects to settle on It and manage
himself.
Dr. Regan expressed himself as be-
g highly pleased with Matagorda
iunty, and his $6500 purchase of
atagorda County dirt is abundant
■oof of his faith tn the agricultural
legibilities of this locality.
A sour face never got any honey,
oney is sweet and like begets like,
een sweet.
honor of representing this
the special private car trip
Panama-Pacific Exposit ion
xt summer, and to their friends,
tea arc issued by merchants, a list
whose names appear elsewhere,
tea arc issued on cash purchases,
promptly paid monthly accounts
cept where otherwise stated, one
:e for each dollar. Merchants may
e more than one vote on the dollar
they announce their special offer
•ough this paper.
These notes will be changed dally
and will be of interest to candidates
for the
city on
to the
cover a period
from the time
This will allow about
will
days
ing home.
days at the Fair—ample time to
in all the most interesting ex-
There arc, so far announced, elglity-
io contestants for the honor of rep-
senting Buy City nt the Enlr next
immer. No one can toll how many
orc "silent'' candidates are quietly
ling up their friends for tlio race,
iterest is growing dally and it is
,fe to predict that this will lie one
the most interesting races in the
story of the county.
This contest is so fair and on such
high plane generally that it is meet-
g with universal approval.
>nor sought to be conferred upon
e winner is one well worth the
ost serious efforts of the candi-
Was Formerly Grown in State But
Allowed Io Die Out -flood For
Feed mid ( an Be Used In
Many Ways.
College Station. Texas, Dec. 7.—An-
other new crop for Texas has been
discovered by the experiment station
system. This new crop is Japanese
cane and promises to rank along with
Sudan grass, introduced into Texas by
the experiment station at the Agricul-
tural and Mechanical College, which
has met such a wide demand in Texas
tills past year. ‘
The new crop is the rough forage
crop for South and Southeast Texas.
Japanese cane has been grown in
Texas before, but like Sudan grass
was allowed to die out, the fanners
not thinking It of much value. Ex-
periments conducted at sub-stations
Nos. 3, 4 and 11, located respectively
at near Angleton, Beaumont and Nac-
ogdoches, have brought the enne Into
great favor as a rough forage crop.
Visitors to each of these stations have
been very favorably impressed with
the cane and demands for seed have
been heavy The Beaumont station
shipped two carloads of seed cane to
Edna for distribution this past week.
The seed will be scattered among the
farmers In that vicinity and will meet
wide use this full. The cane was in-
spected by J. O. B. Young of Edna be-
fore it was shipped.
Japanese cane is very similar to the
sugarcane of Ixmlslana. hut has
toucher stalk and is more leafy,
grows to a height of 7 to 10 feet.
Is not harvested until late In the fall.
The crop is perennial, but should not
be grown too long on the same field.
Yields on the experiment station
farms Indicate that when planted In
five-foot rows and well cultivated
crops yielding from 20 to 50 tons to
the acre may be expected. That. Is
a yield five to ton times as heavy as
may be secured from corn and experts
al the station say that oven greater
yields than that are not impossible.
The new crop is suitable for silage,
dry rough feed, fresh green feed or
for winter pasture. At the Beaumont
sub-station last year’s crop was stack-
ed In the field and fed to the mules all
winter and spring.
The cane has another advantage and
that Is that it will stand af least 10
degrees of frost. It Is a hardy plant
and thrives especially well In the gulf
coast, country, ft should bo planted
at the beginning of spring.
Only a small amount of the seed are
available for planting, but the exper-
iment station hopes through Its asso-
ciations to place the seed In the hands
of practical farmers, thus Insuring a
supply for next year.
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LARGEST RH E SALE OF
SEASON MADE FRIDAY.
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The largest rough rice sale made
this season and one of the largest
ever recorded In the rice belt was
made Friday afternoon at Houston by
the Southern Rice Growers’ Associa-
tion. The association sold under
sea’od blds 42.000 sacks of Honduras
ot a basis of $3.R6 for No. 1.
was the highest price secured
Honduras since September.
Thirty thousand sacks of the total
made at Houston were bought by
the ixiulsiana State Rice Mills. The
remainder wont to various mills in
Texas.
The association sold a lot of .Tanan
at Terry, Toxas, Friday at $3.8$
and some Blue Rose at $3.95.
Both the rough and clean markets
are how very active and prices of
rough are steadily advancing.
RYLANCE THE POST.
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1 dozen Heavy Dill Pickles . .
25c
2 packages A. J. Pancake Flour .
25c
6 Cans Pet Milk . .
FRESH VEGETABLES
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(Has no equal in Bay City)
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What Can be More Acceptable
1 han A Framed Pidure
A picture Is never used up, never thrown aside, but is alwaya
a pleasant reminder.
And pictures are not always costly. A good subject framed ap-
propriately and tastefully may lie had for the price of an undesir-
able and cheap piece of glass or silver.
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That We have
w JUST WAT YOU
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1 PRICE Too.
ir you wi5H foR, .Something extra
FINE IN GROCERIES,. FRE5H FRVITJ OR
VEGETABlE-S, YOU DON’T HAVE To W15H
long, jugt come into our jtore and
.SEE THE TEMPTING EATABLES WE HAVE
FOR YOU. WE CAN .SHOW YOU LoT5 OF
THING-5 THAT YOU WILL LIKE. YOU WILL
LIKE OUR PRICED AND OUR METHoD-5 TOO.
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Have plenty of •‘Smokes’’ when your friends
come in. (ict a WHOLE BOX of them from us.
We do not allow our cigars to all dry out and be-
come biller. We keep our cigars in the proper con-
dition to give them, when smoked, their best FLA VOW.
The SAME BRAND of a cigar is better when It
comes from us, but we have many exclusive brands
of which we have the sole agency for this city.
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of our meats against
coarser grades and you will find
are the cheapest in the end Then’s
waste to such choice meats
Every ounce can be used,
particle eaten.
not alone to get the best, hut to prac-
tice meat economy.
Bay Gity Market
HARRISON BROS.
CHAS.
PAINTS AND WILL PAPER.
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Boston’s Mayor has endorsed the
Ford for city service. So has John
Wanamaker.princeof merchants.
The shrewdest business men
choose the Ford because it gives
the biggest return per dollar in-
vested. It s small only in pur-
chase price and co£t to keep.
$440 for tlie runabout; $490 for the touring car and
$690 for the town car—f. o. b. Detroit, complete with
equipment. Get catalog and particulars from
Bay City Auto & Sales Co.
WK < ARRY FORD PARTS.
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