The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 215, Ed. 1 Monday, August 4, 1919 Page: 3 of 4
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H
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Society of liny City
Fill
square
and. yon bet, it
tween
day
ret timed
lectures
Thia town
good with
A big crowd of Bay
witnessed the game of
Eagle Lake and Cult
and children of
ity vlsitini' at the
Budouh.
regular monthly
day, August 11
Buy. build and develop
I < an be made just twice a
but very little effort
Dr B 1, Livengood ha*
Lome after having attended
osteopathy in Missouri.
up the shell holes on the
It will not cost a great sight
will be appreciated.,
City rooters
baseball be-
vest er - ‘
The W C. T U
held its regular business meeting with
Mrs T F. Carr this afternoon
Miss Matie Brewer, who has been
seriously ill for the past few we< ks,
is able to leave her bed
For registered Durie Jersey hogs
see J H Allen. 3 miles north of Bay
City 8-29w
Mrs. A. M Bndonh
El Paso are in the <
home of Mr Ed. M
I
Read the White House advertise-
ment in today’s paper and give close,
attention to the bargains offered yo i
Commissioner!*’ Court will begin its
meeting next Mon
At torn ey-at-Law
I'OMGEB A DA TANT
Lawyen
Will practice In all the Courts
Phone 37—Office Holman Bldg
Rear of Opera House, Ave. F
Bay City, Texas
Office in let Nat l Rank Bldy
Bay City, Texaa
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• W. S. II ULMAN •
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• J W Conger W K. Davant •
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re
it
over
Adams
Is Ideal
hi
be sure.
pushing"
an v way "
fall to i
to the front.
corn
a factory
wtdl from the
be wise to put
money
I ho
If a few yards < f shell were put tn
the hides on the public square and
for a block out it would be a great
thing for public traffic This would
cull for but little expense and would
be of great value to everyone. A car-
load of shell would go a long way to-
ward comfort and convenience and
» m ry citizen of the city would be
grateful for it If the city la not able
or not disposed then the citizens
should take up a collection and fix It
It will not cost much
Literature advertising Matagorda
County and Bay t'itv should he leav-
ing this town dally in every business t
man'; mail What can you expect of
your city and county if you are not
wideawake amt actively interested in
their well ire" It costs a little mon-
ey. to be sure. 1 ul isn't the town
worth pushing ’ What’s the matter
with us anyway" Best chance in the
world tbl- fill to pm our town and
County to th<* front, but what are we
doing"
It has been demonstrated beyond
.uiv question of doubt by Mr. Truby
on the Ram.sev farms and Mr
at Midfit Id that this county
for the growing of broom corn
fact Mr Truby, who has grown It all
of his life in Kansas, and Mr \dams.
who ha done likewise in Oklahoma,
both say that this -oil ami climate
cannot be beaten in the production
Now this being true, why do not some
of you town builders get together and
put up .a Id broom factory? There
are quite a number of successful ones
in Texas, which tiro far removed from
the raw material and which arc tnak-
in r money With the corn grown
right at the doors, a factory here
could be made to pay
start It would not
up a factory of a small capacity, for
such a one could not be made a finan-
cial success, but one with a big pro-
ducing capacity that could compete
with Hie best in the business would
prove to be a great thing for its own
er. and for the town in general Now
if we are going to build Bax- City,
what's the matter with an enterprise
of this character’ Every farmer could
be induced to plant a few acres, no
more than he could conveniently and
successfully handle, and a now rev
onue getting industry would thus bo
started Bay City alone could handle
many’ hundred dozens of the output
while our location and transport niton
facilities would place uh tn direct
tontact with the outside territory
This is Homething the business men
id’ Bay City should seriously consider
for they oftentimes put their good
money into tilings with far less port-
abilities Think over it, you wide-
awake fellow-, and put it over II
will pay.
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The Truby broom corn crop on the
Ramsey farms has yielded enormous-
ly this year and Mr. Truby is having
good luck In getting it into the shedr. ‘
as la-
The
Mr. and Mrs Ed. Wilkins, of Mata-
gorda. were in the city Saturday.
They are contemplting buying a place
here and making Bay City their home 1
Mr. and Mrs. P (1. Huston left, this
afternoon for Now York City and oth-j
er eastern and northern points While
in Now York they will stop at the’
Astor Hotel. I
Bay City is building as fast
borers and material can bo had
prospects now are good for It to con- J JYJV*?
tinue for many months.
Capt. J. W White, who purchased
the Thompson building, is getting his
machinery and men together to begin
moving it to the lots east of the Bar-
ber House.
Musical Instruments
or
Talking Machines
'I'
Sonora
1I L’ HA VB JUST RECEIVED A
SHIPMENT OF THESE WONDER >
FUL INSTRUMENTS AND WILL
RE CLAD TO GIVE YOU A DEM-
ON STR A TION
AT
ANY
TIME.
W. F. Tetts
Jeweler
Optician
t
and everything that goes with it
Get OUft Prices
and well get
YOUR Business
Aiamo Lumber
Company
Matagorda Pharmacy
Phono 77
Phone 23^
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LUMBER^
"The Edition" in a Musical Instru-
ment one that Re creates the Nat-
uml Voice — the only one that can
stage the Toue-Test. Coats more. 'Lie
true, but do you know of anything
extra good that doesn't coat more?
Thia instrument la given up by all
higher critics to be the best made,
no metalie sound, the motor that cost
Thus a Edison three million dollars
to complete Why buy Inferior ones?
Let us demonstrate to you.
GRAND
Tonight
ONLY
JACK
BILL
APPERSON’S
BOY
Ind It's Great
\|so on the Name Kill
F A T T
ARBUCKLE
In
THE
OTHER
MAN
Neats .... 10—20
30c
In III- First Piel tire Hade
lor the First
National
LOCALS IM» PERSOMALH.
The Hardy- Anderson
rereived two carloads
City council will meet in regular
bi-monthly session tomorrow night
Mr J S Jones, of Sweeny, spent
Saturday in Ray City on business
Auto Co. ha-
of Dodge Car- j
TOMORROW
EDDY POLO
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jfcj lii the first oi the (j clone
Smith Stories
And Bill) West in
S. mail
Mr. H
Tin: < \i ffei ir
came
the,
Gloria
Secretary Toxa
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sis like Matagorda County,
ter by way nf parenthesis
t<-n days,
lot of it has
fa rim r.
worth
pystem of ad-
ex pent to
new people
up. Got up
This fall's the time of
F*t
Hon Jno. M Corbett and
Gaudet, who have been in the
Texas mountains for the past
have returned home
day.
The magazine section of Sunday’s
Houston Bost cont iln- a splendid pic-
ture of Miss Gloria Norvol’- daughter
of Mr and Mrs. IJ, !■' Norvell for
merely of Bay City, hut now of Hous
ton. Miss Gloria Is in New York, or boll weevil
taking special training in music.
Prof. Hibbitts has returned from
San Marcos where he visited the pub-
lic schools. He states that the Bay
City schools will open either the first
oi second Monday in September.
Wo
sources
tion from your county, but
have not been able to do so.
are anxious to make tlitu
complete, and particularly wish to
furnish u- with names of boys from
your county who died in service. The
time 1h drawing near when we shall
i e compelled to finish this work. Wo
therefore urge an immediate and fa-
vorable reply from you.
Thanking you ami assuring you of
our regard, very truly yours,
J. F. Carl.
State Council of De-
fense. Federal Field Secretary for
Texas.
Anderson of the I
service between here and Matagorda
back from Houston with a big.
four-seated Reo truck which he will! BE
use for passenger service
route, making the first
today.
E \ i
West
. I
month,
, arriving Sator-1
They report a good trip, plent
of rest and a splendid recreation trip.
If we will build a I
factory in Bay City
and of
with others through ait
enough
Tn many parts of the State (her-
if another total failure of crops while
we again will pile up money in the
banks. Isn't this worth spreading
nround" Then beein a
vertlSlng. How do you
bring new farmers and
hero otherwise” Wake
and hustle
all times.
The craters on the square arc not
due to earthquakes, but whatever did
cause them, they ought to be fixed
It will cost very little and will be
appreciated largely. Resides this the
longer they tay there the more it Is
going to cost to fix them. Ih thor
no street maintenance fund"
A BUYING
WARlSAVIMGS
STAMPS
IS PROflTABlE
PATRIOTISM
Interest
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a few
I make a bale to the acre
ha
retting ready to take care of
fine rice crop In that section.
on his
trip wdth it
F. I1’ McDonald Houses for sale,
ami for rent. 'Phone 200 or 332. I
have tome bargains to offer. 14-tf
first class broom
one up-to-now
ufficient rapt Itv to compete
the country,
and strong enough financially to
make It go, it will make possible an-1
ether constant pay roll, a good in-
vestment fur its owners and at the
same time encourage an agricultural
undertaking whose possibilities are
too good and too great to calculate.
Besides this it will prove to be an-
other step toward perfect diversifica-
tion which has saved this county so
often and so regularly.
Bay City has the best electric light
plant In Texas in towns of her size
and the best water She has f,no
railroad facilities, the best fixed
hanks and the most prosperous mer-
cantile establishments And th< re
. re but a very, very few countfov in
Toxas out of debt ami on a cash ba-
Tho IhI-
N’ow nil
that R iy City needs for the pre-mnt
a compress, that big hotel and bet-
ter streets. Thon we will be go-
ing some Now, a great many nf ns
know that wo can have better streets
many of us believe that big hotel Is
on the way, while great faith in the
coming of the compress is entertained
by many.
If the frog hadn't slid back, he
Don’t, be a frog. Keep on buying war
savings stamps
Why is Bay City not being adver
tised abroad? Why is there not some
effort to get this county before the
people in other parts of Texas not
being made? What’s the matter with
us anyway, asleep? Don't you knov
that the people in other sections are
di‘gusted and disheartened again for
about the fourth straight Hine with
bad crops and ready to move. Can
they beat this county? Wake up!
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A IHFN Ul' NO! BU RN
\\l> NAILURN W IM I B.
To Bay Chy Tribune.
Mr Smith, I enclose a letter which
is explanatory Will you please give
it prominent place in your papers,
both daily and weekly, for a day or
no? Ami. too, please make mention
of Hie information asked for In your
local ami to send all such names as
are asked for to me immediately, that
I may be able to furnish them to the
Council of Defense without any being
omitted, for we do not want to miss
any of the Matagorda County boys’
names that should be on this '‘roll of
honor." Very truly yours,
Mrs. Win Cash
San Antonio, Texas, lulj 25, H<B*
Mrs. William Cash,
Buy City, Texas
Dear Madam:
We are about to publish a book con-
taining a history of the Texas State
Council of Defense ami n record of its
war-time activities, A very valuable
part of this publication will be the
Texas roll of honor, consisting of the
names of our Toxas boys who gave
their lives for liberty. The list will
be divided according to counties, each
county receiving due credit for its
sacrifices.
have tried through various
to get the necessary infortna-
so far
As we
fea turn
From al) points of Matagorda Conn
ty the report comes that there ha
Leen a big improvement in the, cotton
within the past ten days, ami
during this time quite h
been cleaned out Several
have reported as much ns a half bal
in sight while a few say they will
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been little complaint about bu ■-
Everything now points to the pos-
sibility of Matagorda County produc-
ing about all the crops of every de
| scription that she will he able to
gather with the present labor supply,
The rice fields will draw heavily on
this available supply while the cotton
crop will come In for a cinse se< ond
Then, too, there are other things to
be attended to, Yes, we have ini
sl.'ht till that wo will be able to
handle
Messrs. John and Joseph Ottls of
Wadswortli were business visitors to
Bay City Saturday. They arc presi-
dent and manager, respectively, of th'1
Wadsworth Union Warehouse rind arc
getting ready to take care of t’*
I crop
Mr I. D. Lewis, who has charge of
the Matagorda County holdin'' of the
Tex-0-Kan Oil Co says drilling on
tlie Mayfield place will soon boain a-
tho derrick and machinery are being
put on the ground
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IN YOUR
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EVER FIND SPOILED FOOD
REFRIGERATOR?
It’s most disuvrrcable, isn’t it?
Food is too preciou n<>w to waste or to allow it to be spoiled be-
cause of a refrigerator that does not maintain an even temperature
und preserve the food.
It’s a patriotic duty deman led of us that we save all the food we can.
In considering this one must be Impressed with the fact that by
having a Leonard Cleanable (one-piece pore* >ain lined) refrigerator
In the home, fond will I kept better than ordinary.
Ten Insulating walls, smooth porcelain, it 1
A Ntore Vou R 111 Like
Taylor-Hiil Furnltute Co.
HOME FURNISHERS AND UNDERTAKERS
The Best of Everything in Our Line
Day Phone 120 Night Phones 223-298
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Saleslady-Apply
West Side Bakery
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A
Solid Comfort
And you will say as much
if you will let us fix you up
with an ELECTRIC FAN
Texas Public Service Co.
Keep Baby
Healthy
GIVE IT PLENTY OF FRESH AIR
A Comeplet# Line of
BUGGIES, GOCARTS, SULKEYS
AND SWINGS
Wm. WALKER
THE HOUSE OF QUALITY
Day Phone: 101
FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING
Bay City, Texas
Night Phones: 53-104
CORN MEAL
BAY CITY MILL
ORDER E INTERN NTAR.
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Fresh—ground every day
Across track from Santa Fe depot.
Mias Tenlo Holmes, W M.
Mrs. Cora B. Moore, Secretary.
Eastern Star will meet
\ first Tuesday night in
j euch month Visiting
members invited to at-
tend.
You are interested in having the best; therefore, you should ask
for meal manufactured by
COLUMBIA REBEKAH LODGE.
No. 7».
Meets every Satur-
day evening at 8
o’clock I 0. 0. F.
Hall.
Visiting members
invited to attend.
Mn W. P. Davit.
W. F. Pack, Saoretary N. G.
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 215, Ed. 1 Monday, August 4, 1919, newspaper, August 4, 1919; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1362475/m1/3/?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.