The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, November 24, 1916 Page: 2 of 4
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Especially Selected Early
Improved Mebane Cotton Seed.
to grow.
Let us serve you.
the best of service.
When it Conies to
Service We are There—
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STOREY MYRICK,
Lockhart, Texas
So Kit. the Wednesday following, her vague suspicions swallowing.
In cleverest disguises, she surprises him at play!
As a slavey in she toddles; then Carlotta, queen of models.
Then a dapper little chap—er—with an Elsie Janis way!
The Matagorda County Tribune
(Weekly)
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It was complet-
ed in 1799. the year of Washington's
death
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We Deliver It Quicker
The Hygienic Market
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Cheap and big canBakingPowdersdonot
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and far superior to souranilk and sc.la.
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THE WEST SIDE BAKERY
Where Quality Reign# Supreme
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only the choicest of cattle to
handle our meats in a sanitary
deliver it much quicker,
our business continues
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BE A I’I’O It Tl O N ID.
Austin. i'exus. October 11. mid-
Mr. W F Pack.
Bay C ty. Texan
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Bear Hit;
io undertake. I am. sincerely.
W. F Doughty.
State Superintendent.
Over one hundred thousand
recommended Doan’s
for backache, kidney.
Forty thousand
blue; steel and iron steadily advance
despite almost record prices.
being up 200 to 400 per cent.
up
AN EMBARGO I I’ON FOOD EX-
EXPORTS!
he took a course in that
Of course,
lie Is n candidate tor the postoffice,
and ha# taken part in a few Joint de
recently, and acted as judge of
baby show last week, and has been
Theoretically, the president of (hi going to the depot ’most every time
Are you one of our many satisfied customers?
If not, why not? We use nothing but the
best of ingredients in our breads and cakes.
The farmer or farmer# who suc-
ceed next year in raising big feed
crop# will find that he will come out
at the end of the year quite ns for-
tunate aa any of those who grow cot-
ton. for tho reason that there is a
scarcity of such crops that has never
before confronted tho country,
only in Texas, but everywhere.
CHICAGO
Tho Maxican commission continues
to play tag while Villa keeps up his
murdering ami pillaging. Mexico has
tho same chance now to become a
government that a little snow bird
has to drop into the bowels of Hell
without getting its feathers scorched.
&
Ono dealer In Chicago has 72,000,000
eggs in cold storage. Enough to en-
tertain the Chicago suffragists for
four year# if handled judiciously and
with good alm.
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thin that he snapped in
two some’rs."—Kansas City star.
N< xt day, true love erratically swerves off and ends dramatically.
A tramp steals Kitty’s motor, as they loiter, He and She.
By the wayside, half surviving Kitty’s mad and reckless driving,
Sits the chaperon—still waiting, and debating angrily.
Never stupid or pedantic is this comedy romantic,
Of wilfully capricious, though delicious little Kit.
As her guardian adores her. Kitty pleads that school life bores her
She would like to—for a brae , drive her racer around a bit
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But more wise than she surmise he sees through her cute disguises;
Reveals the fact politely, and quite rightly, but, oh! my!
A# their love they "are declaring and excuses arc preparing,
Stands the guardian behind them, come to find them on the sly!
A few thousand acres more of cot-
ton in ths ambition of thia county
And we are getting to it fast. Givi
us a good area to cotton, plenty of
corn; then with cattle, rice and a
general diversified condition of farm-
ing there Is nothing that can keep Bay
City from becoming a city.
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Jack London Ih dead. He was con-
sidered by some a great writer, a
view wo do not share, in the least.
Erratic and vacillating and almost
anarchistic in his views, he wielded
dn intorcHtlng but dangerous pen.
Dangerous to society and to readers
—that is, if he had been taken as se-
riously as he took himself.
And so it happens that a Chicago
multimillionaire has been drawing a
pension from the government of $-•>
'a month.
ne#H of thi# form of grub and greed
is not easily understood.
was accepted no doubt because it
could bo dono so secretly and with-
out exposure. This is why such a hit-
ter cry Is raised against every effort
made tn Congress providing for the
publication of the names of those
who draw pension* in each locality,
and this is why such legislation
should bo enacted, beceuse publicity
would reveal multitudinous frauds
and save the taxpayers of tho nation
millions of dollars which they art-
now paying out to those who are not
entitled to them.--Memphis Ncws-i
Sohnitar
M “Tbe Kind Mother Uses” j
* ”[ v< ly time mother nets out Calu- i
met 1 know there’s going to be good
things to eat at our house. Delicious,
tender, tempting doughnuts, biscuits,
cakes and pies! I’ve never seen a bake-
day failure with Calumet. Mother
says it's the only Baking Powder that
insures uniform results.”
Received Highest Awards
fc r'’" X’ra. Cwl ZhUTrr,—Stt y
Slif In 1' y
porlloiiment of the .State and count)
available fund made by the county bu-
pcrintendent alone is illegal, and
funde spent by surh an apportionment
may be recovered by unit ut law. You
are advised. therefore, that it 1h Im-
. eriitivc that you have your count.'
aid of education assemble as soon
as you become county superintendent
for the purpose of making a legal ap-
portionment of the school funds of
Matagorda County. I see no legal ob-
jection to the qualification of two new
members of the county board of Mata-
gorda County, elected at the April
election, after you become county su-
perintendent.
Till .tin.i; that you may find this let .aemniid in tine of peace.
■11I".TT7iiiJJffrToy<>u In the gnat work you are about
not bo effective during the period of .
the greatest distress. The men who i
are gouging at this time require atten-
tion that is at once prompt and he-
roic. Houston Post.
•The editor of tho Weekly Palla-
rcmember him; rouud-
i shouldered gent who 'peared to be al-
ways on tho dead run, even when he
was sitting down is pretty sick.”
stated the landlord of the Petiunia
Tavern. "+le has been kept tolerable
Tho result was tho two-story busy of late, editing his paper, lead-
Ilourr ns we know it now i mg the band, auctioneering occaBlon-
Washington laid the corner stone of; dly. pullin', teeth for his suffering
the building in 1792. It was com pic t- mbscriberr. while the dentist was off
on a drunk, and practicing osteopathy
more or les#
John Adams was the first president i by mail about a year ago.
to occupy tho White House, ami it I
was said of Abigail Adams, his wife, i
that she hung up tho family wash tn
tho east room. a
EDITOR’S NOTE: The editor of thl# paper knows Mr. Myrlck
and will personally vouch for his integrity in every Beu#e of
the word. Any ##ed #old by him will come to you exactly as
represented.
Pun to fell your pulses quicken when the plot begins to thicken,
Fortune favors clever Kitty, to outwit the—will in time.
And the climax, so surprising, wo will leave to your surmising.
Far too clever to endeavor to deliver it in rhyme.
They met! Two minutes after—scowls gave way to heartv laughter.
Who should the culprit be. save he—his dearest friend. “But stay—-
Congratulations—not until, 1 read you Kitty’s uncle’s will:
Tier fiancee can’t spy her. six months prior to her wedding day.’ ”
Spltj of fearful protestation, fortune han.u-'A’on Bcparutlon;
li make them more consistent, more inA yent. than before,
lie diligent and zealous; she is now a prey to Jealousy,
Consider—he’s a painter! (Not a saint—or not.a bore!)
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Choose To Lose the Blues?
cheaper butter of Hie laboring ma >' s S( JHHHI, i I MIS Mil.I.
and placed them ut the mercy of the j
butter trust.
Wo are told
Kidney
urinary
signed testimonials
are appearing now in public print.
• Some of them are Bay City people
Some are published In Bay City. N»
other remedy shows such proof. FoL
The indecent shanwlc* i- ‘
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Brynti. in wiring his congratula-
tion# to PreHldcni wiIhou, said: “I am
proud of the West. Including N*'bn»H-
ka.” Thl# Ih cotiMlderably more than
tho Went, “including Nebraska.” can
‘ti Mr. Bryan.
Carranza is expected to reach
Querero today when it Ih said he will
i>e received with much ceremony. If
ho meet# Villa the ceremony will con-
#ist of a shave a couple of ears cut
off and a pair of eyes gouged out.
that Ute warehouses !
and cold storage plants of the
cities arc fairly bursting with
foods of which the markets are mou-
lt Ih within the prov-
Ono
Six h
We hope the miveroont, who stole
the grapefruit from one of our prizt
tree#, has enough to do him until thi
next crop come# on. at which time wi
will gladly furn’sh him with another
Hitpply if he is criminal enough to
Meal them as he did this time It is
a great pleasure to raise fruit for
ourselvc# and neighbors and friend:
and to wake up to find that some thief
ha# purloined them. If ho couldn't
#teal enough sugar to go with the
fruit, we will gladly furnish .-aim it
ho will apply to us.
Talk about Tcxo# weather! Thi#
is the only State In the union that can
conHlstently hold a convention of ice
cream manufacturer# In December
. KOT WADE
MB
Id.tHH) I'ersons Publicly Recommend
Our Remedy—Some Arc Bay
City People.
Breaking rule and regulation, to the teacher’s consternation.
She started off quite gaily, for her daily little whirl—
I'nchaperoned. But Fates decreed a blow out—put an end to speed,
A passer-by. HE chanced to spy, the motor and the girl.
themselves
farmer shave in all this great pros-
perity a# well a# other producers of
raw material such as metals, grains
and meats. No one can say what next
year’s crop will bo nor state the
price it will command. We du know
there will bo a gap of nearly eleven
months between the present time aud
when new crop cotton will be in suf-
ficient cupply to in any degree re-
lieve lite present scarcity. There has
been an < xodus of negroes from the
plantations to the munition plants,
mines, railroads manufacturing es-
establtollment#, etc ; fertilizers will
continue to be poor, mule# will be
scarce and high, the cost of food-
stuffs I# also sure to be way up in
the air; so that next year's crop
whether large ou small, will be one
of the most costly ever raised. Mr.
Pearsall. I never felt so confident as
to the future of cotton for a period
of twelve months as I do right now.
and. as I stated before, cotton seems
to ba slowly ooraoriug itaelf.”
Replying to your inquiry of the ftth
nice of both State and national guv- inst. permit nu- to advise that an ap-
ernincntH to regulate thcHc plants,
and it Ih within the province of con-
gress and State legislatures to take
I lie greedy fooil manipulutorn by the
napiiH of their necks and choke them
a few conceptions of decency, moder-
ation and civilization.
It will do no good to bar exporta-
tion of food product# no long as pres-
ent combinations are permitted to ex-
ploit tho consumers, on tho con-
trary, it might do a great deal of
harm, for it greed be otherwise un-
restrained. it might conclude to in-
crease ItH exaction', of the Atltei ican
public by adding to the domestic bur-
den the amount of foreign profits
of which an embargo would deprlv"
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A homelike bungalow, tastefully arranged and attractive in appearance. The recess
from porch adds a touch of individuality. The two dormer windows breaks the monot-
only of the “pack saddle” roof, also provides light and ventilation for the large attic.
The interior arrangement is ideal A living room 14-23 in the center, opening on
a 8x11 pergola in rear, making it cool and very comfortable during the summer. Large
brick mantel adds a cheery, homelike appearance. Dining room has a "Ye Planry”
buffet, kitchen accommodated with ample cupboard space. Rear porch provides for a
separate storage closet.
For a comfortable yet inexpensive home, this is one of the best designs.
mid find# the textile Industry of the
world looking to him for material
with which to make goods, there be-
ing an insatiable demand for the lat-
ter at unheard of price#, if the farm-
er has good common «en e, and be-
lieve he has, he will hold the balance
of hiH crop, putting a minimum price
on it of cents. Ho will find
: pinners disposed to protest this
figure for a brief time but will soon
Hee them anxiously absorbing every
bale he holds at this and probably
much higher prices, lit fact, the de-
mand is greater than the supply tlii
cotton year. The farmer need have
no scruple# about making the most of
11/. opportunity as lie will not be
working any hardship on the mill men
w ho < ven now can make big mone.s
t n the basis of 25 cetns for raw cot-
ton. .Many farmers. I feel certain,
me not fully posted as to the extent
it the present wave of inflation and
hardly realize the true value of their
cotton. However, the farmer of to-
day Is not like the farmer of 15 or 20
■: rs ago when he was at the mercy
of th< merchant aud banker—now h«t
ckst not havo to sell except on hl#
wn initiative as he has sold the big
id of his crop at good prlc.'s, has
money in the bank aud can stand oat
as long as he pleases on what is lift.
We see the world importing float
America more cotton this yett-’ de-
spite the great advance in prices, than
it took last year at the lower prices.
This is due to an endless demand for
e.oi'ds nt. prices- showing cnormuus
profits to the spinner. Further nore.
•he great armies of Europe are chew-
ing upp kinds of cutton goods >n
i atio of four hundred per cent
< reuse per mun. an compared with th<
Many for-
es well as domestic spinners,
can now make a profit on the bosl#
of 25 cents and higher for raw cot-
ton. This being true, why should the
farmer sell at 20 cents what remains
in his hands’.’ Egyptian cotton has
advanced to 53 cents a pound and the
mill buyers for that grade of cotton
an pay 70 cents and make good
money. Very many people fail to
realize that cotton is both a peace and
war article and the world cannot
get on without it. Should peace now
>e declared cotton would jump 4 or
5 cents as all Europe Is practically
bare of cotton and would have to lay
in a big supply In order to reopen
ts textile industries for purely com-
mercial outlet#. Should America
nter the great war. cotton would ad-
vance 10 cents rapidly as our newly
made army would have to be equipped
with uniforms, overcoats, blanket#,
•ndcrclothe#. tents, etc. (sufficient
wool for this purpose cannot no ha.l).
requiring enormous th man f< r our
raw cotton at. a tiniv when it cannot
be spared for that purpose. I do not,
for the life of me, understand why
cottAn should not assert itself and
seek its normal position in relation
to other commbditlcs. for Cotton is
one of the greatest world commodities
of all raw materials. We find the
copper men getting nearly three times
the former price for their nodal and
we all know about the sensational
advance in the price of paper through-
out the world. Wool has advanced to
unheard of levels; linen is almost un-
obtainable; silk i# a scarce article;
iudigo Is sky high; wheat I# virtually !
.it two dollars aud com at one dollar; ;
beef, poik and mutton have almost j
been eliminated from the diet of th# ■
United States cannot be arrested ot ! a train went through, and taking up j oor man; leather has soared into the i
restrained Dy any public official, but
Ulya#*# S. Grant, while
‘‘Ye Planry” Home
Far bo it from uh to be vindictive
or cruel, but we would give u year’s
Hubscriptlon to thin Journal of en
llghtemnent to have Junt one #quint at
tho acoundrel who appropriated our
Chrlatmaa grapefrullt
tl.soi
Now the principal undaunted by the fib the culprits flaunted.
"Engaged! Of course It’s proper!” Did it stop her? Nothing could!
In sooth she reprimanded, while the guardian demanded
Quite dramatically, emphatically: “We’ll settle that for good*”
Did you ever stop to think of that?
It’s a fact with an important significance to
thinking people.
We kill
be bought, we
manner, and we
I his is one
WHY MIOI I.B MH ( OlTON
SELL AT TWENTY.FIVE
( EMS AND HKHIEHI
Some little time «go a man from j
I Pct malls New# Bureau miei’vkwod
Mr. B. 3. entitle# a# to hit view#
on tbu value of cotton At that time
I Mr. Castlou expressed the strong con- j
vlction that cotton would Hell at 20
cents before Thanksgiving Day and I
'night go very much higher later on, j
possibly touching 25 cents before
spring Ilin 20-ceut prediction ha# '
already been borne out by an ad-
vance of all old crop months to be-
i yond that level. Therefore Pear-
salls again sou ht Mr. Castles ut hi#
' home, an danked if he cared to again
i give his views on the gubject of the
j value of cotton. We print below Mr.
Castle’s answer:
I have not changed toy conviction
as to the value of raw cotton. It ap-
pears to me to be slowly cornering
Itself To »um up briefly, the farmer
Is today the matter of the situation
go.
c deal of talk was caused in
I Cleveland's administration by the re-
port that he had gone beyond th<
three-mile limit on the Atlantic while ‘
fishing.
I®
(From the Now York Telegraph.)
George WiiHhington. the first presi-
dent. was sworn tn in Wall Street
on thi' Hteps of the sub-treasury
building.
John Adams, the second president, j
-aw more persons weeping al Ins in-1
auguratlon than he had ever seen at
any funeral, and said of it
"Whether It was because of tin los.>
of u beloved president or the
sion of an unpopular one I
say."
\ prize of |500 was offered in
Washington’s administration for tin
best design for a house to serve us a
home for tin* president in Washing
ton. James Hotnui. an Irishman from dium you
South Carolina, was tho successful
competltior. His sketch contain'd so
many wings aud colonnades that tin
public w as horrified and frills ami,
gingerbread decoration# were elimin-
ated. Tho result was
White House a* wo
a straw vote of the passengers, and
president.! (>n. The doctor don’t seem to know
was held up and arrested by a negro what is the matter with him. but I
loliccman for fast driving. He pul'reckon he Just natcherly spread him-
up a bond of |20 and forfeited it next . elf out
day tn police court.
The president may go beyond the
borders of tho country If ho chooses.
\ good \
Grover :
low this Bay City’# man’# example.
D. O. H. Coston. 2(103 Avenue F, Baj
City, says: “For over twenty years
The money , I suffered terribly from rheumatic
pains. M) joints were stiff and lame
: and my limb# were swollen. My
kidney# were Irregular In action.
Tho kidney secretions were scanty,
painful In passage and contained
I sediment. My back ached and pained
and I was #o miserable I couldn't
work. I was confined to bed and
; though I doctored and tried differ,
ent medicines. I felt little relief.
Doan's Kidney Pills, however, rc-
noved the rheumatic pains and mal"
my kidney# normal. The euro has
been permanent**
Price 50c. at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan's Kidney Pill# — the same that
Mr. Cotton had. Foster - Milburn
Oo.. Propt. Buffalo, N. T.
Tho dispatches tell us that Repre-
sentative Fitzgerald of New York i .
planning to introduce n bill to place
en embargo upon the export of food
stuffH, and it I# pretty #afe to say that
such a ineasure will tail of enact
ment.
It I# conceivable that condition:'
might arise which would necessitate
a stern measure like that, but no sinh
condition exists at this time. The
unprecedented price level# which are
bi ginning to Irritate the consumers do
not nece#Hnrily mean that the time
hns arrived to conserve the well br-
ing of the country by prohibiting tin
exportation of Its surplus food pro I
ucta.
Among other things complained of.
wo believe, is th" clroutn#taneo that
the price of butter of the best grade
has risen to 50 cents a po ind. Tho
price of butter Is regulated by a small
group of gentlemen known a# the
Elgin butter board.
hold their meetings and fix th" price
of butter.
If the Post Is not greatly mistaken.
Mr. Fitzgerald himself helped to in-
vest the Elgin butter board with Just
such tyrannical power. Did he not
vote for the bill to Impose a tax of
10 cent# a pound on oleomargarine
and thus practically drive from the
market a wholesome substitute for
"*• Gutter T
Before Mr. Fitzgerald Introduce#
hl# bill to place an embargo upon the
exportation of butter, why doe# he not
try a bill repealing the tax on oluo-
marga rinof
It was.that tax that panoplied tho
Elgin butter board with the power to
fix prk'M, because It struck down the i
Cotton ■
The ,
-scarcely 60 per cent, the other -
linen aud wool mills arc banning out
of raw material and iho cotton mill
men are growing uneasy tor fear tho ,
same will be their fate ft# Io raw cot-
ton. 1 think prudent and farsighted
mill men will see the importance of
the situation sufficiently to protect
Why should not tho
l'o the 4'oiiniy Sch ml Board of Mata-
gorda Countj.
Dear Sirs.
In view of the above letter from the
Stoic superintendent, I deem it my
uty to Huggi'st and urge that the
,'c.iibt'r.i of tii" old county board of
education, whose terms have not ex-
I . red, anti Hie new member# who were
' lectcd at the April election, meet in
; (lie office of tlic county superintendent
tit Bay City. Friday. December 1. 1916.
for the purpose of making a legal ap-
I porttonment of the county and State
acc.es-; available school fund ns the law pro-
vides. Respectfully. W. F Puck.
County Superintendent
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