The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 208, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 29, 1922 Page: 1 of 4
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Statement of Condition of
TP1 TT1
the true
BAY ClfY BANK & THUS! CO.
BAY CITY TEXAS
Secret of
At the Close of Business on June 30, 1922
tn eat.
Success
ALL ITS I’HABES, AND PRINCIPALLY
IS TIHtlFT IN
$526,325.80
THRIFT AS APPLIED TH HAVING
LIABILITIES
HAVE MANY FRIENDS BUT HE
YOUNG MAN MAY
A
\VH.I. FIND NONE SO STEADFAST. SO CONSTANT, SO HEADY
RESPOND TO HIS WANTS. SO CAPABLE OF PUSHING
TO
HIM AHEAD AS A LITTLE LEATHER-COVERED BOOK WITH
$526,325.80
THE NAME OF A HANK ON ITS COVER.
speed
faith.
"THE BANK THAT BACKS THE FARMER**
First National Bank
Getting
"The Home Honk Dor All the People"
Somewhere
For the first time in many months we can all begin
to see light ahead, and we feel that we are reall.A
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
getting somewhere.
Just because things are getting better is no reason
why we should discontinue the thrifty practices
followed for the last year or two.
Rather let us
continue them for the harvest of plenty they bring.
This bank has helped others, and it can help you.
INSURANCE
We invite new accounts.
J. R. COOKENBOO
General Insurance
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School Days and Tom Sawyer Shirts
light.
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D. P. MOORE DRY GOODS COMPANY, Inc
MARGARET HORD McCONNKLL
Music Studios
Bay City. Texas
Capital Stock
urplus
Undivided IToiits
Deposits
Rediscount.'
The above statement is correct.
CEO. R. BURKE, Cashier.
Keswick upon Del went water
July. 1H22
but
our
you.
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SAVE YOUR EYES •
See OIL M. Ilill, •
Optometrist mid Optician •
Boney Building •
Here the lust three weeks of •
each month •
$65,000.00
20,000.00
3,150.20
378,766.5 1
59,109.00
and linen,
cannot
course
DIRECTORS
V. L. LeTulle, T. J. Boole, Geo. R. Burke, A. S. Morton,
Rowland Rugeley
$112,701.05
3,675.00
8,190.1 1
3,600.00
19,405.20
78,751.41
The First State Bank
.4 GUAKANTY I I ND HANK
inhabitants
is warm
Gl AKANTY KIND HANK
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts. .
Bonds and Stocks . ------------------
Real Estate . ...
Furniture and f ixtures
Interest in and Assessment for Guaranty Funil
Cash and Sight Exchange .
W. 8. HOLMAN
Alioru«y-Bt-l«w
Will practice to all the court*
Rear of Opera Hoitee, Ave F
Phone 37 office Holman Bldg
6 f nd
WITH SMALL ASSORTED STRIPES.
THESE SHIRTS AND BLOUSES ARE WELL MADE
AND THE COLORS ARE FAST. EVERY TOM SAW
YER GARMENT GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFAt
TION.
BRING YOUR BOYS IN AND LET US FIX THEM UP
BEFORE SCHOOL STARTS.
ARE BOTH NECESSARY FOR THE YOUNG AMER-
ICAN. ONE IS NOT COMPLETE WITHOUT THE
OTHER.
WE HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE ASSORTMENT
OF TOM SAWYER SHIRTS AND BLOUSES IN MANY
PRETTY STRIPES AND COLORS, INCLUDING TAN,
LIGHT BLl E, GREY, SOLID COLOR BACKGROUND
Those
awe-inspiring,
prettier than
It thrills
Is your property fully insured, or just partially-.**
Can you afford to take the chance of having’it
burned and blown away? You cannot prevent
this, but you can protect yourself. Write, phone
or call on
Of course few of the men in this
country wear kilts now. Ttie soldiers
in tin fort seem to have an option on
costumes. Some of them wear the
plaid trousers. The guards at Holy
fast, it sems a
walked down the
The Eng-
is the cleanest,
country I ever
like lawns, the
self In a
Is leaving,
that the
French,
fore a swallow-tailed waiter when he
bends over me with one of those
cards supposed to contain informa-
tion W hen I go hack to Toxas Uni-
versity, I am going to have a course
I am also
clear-
Scotch
with
dearest
were
are
lakes.
know that the battles id'
' Roderick Dhu and of old time knights
' were fought in those old hills
every
suppose it was a
load breakers
Ogar ----;
We are riding south through the
Scottish foothills. Those Scottish
mountains
the lakes
: American
j though, to
Out of the more than 3,000,000 Ford cars
now in use, about sixty percent have been sold
to farmers. Probably no other one thing has
brought to the farm so much of comfort and
profit as has the Ford car. It has enlarged
the social life, doubled the facilities for market-
ing, brought the town next door to the farm,
multiplied for the farmer the pleasures of living.
A family car without an equal in low cost of
operation and maintenance. We solicit your
order for one now because the demand is large
and continually increasing.
BAI I 1TY A I TO Ac SALES CO.
Buy I II), Texas
FORD DEALERS
with alacrity, else not getting off The
nume of the stations you also get
by intuition. Sometimes the name is
printed on the benches along the sta-
tion these usually have some one
sitting in front of them. Sometimes
the name is on a signboard in the vi-
cinity of the town ,and sometimes in
twelve point letters Just under each
Wlille on the cars, your time is
spent telling the ticket collector at
every station that a man ahead or be-
hind has your ticket or in rubber-
necking to find the name of the sta-
tion. Sometimes there Is the diver-
sion of a fragment of the crowd get
ting off at the wrong station Thl-
part of the game requires skill be-
cause of two things The fragment is
hard to convince of its mistake And
as soon as they have gotten off, oth-
ers have secured their seats The
next move is to run up and down
looking for other seats. The result
is that you scatter your men and
make It easier for the opponent to
Jump you It Is against the rules for
a Scotchman or Englishman to say
the name of a place so that an Amer-
ican can understand it, so flapping
your brass ear out the window and
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\\<» I III II IVI’I III STIMi [along side to see tills bm. lull of gay
LITTEH FROM Ml'vs POLI. IKl> tourists suddenly burst into a balloon
like mass of bluck umbrellas.
I have three woes, pcthapg lour.
The first Is that I do not get enough
sleep. It is daylight from ;t a. in
until after it p. m If I turn in about
twilight, I am sunburned before I
wake up and pull down the shade in
tile morning. The second is that 1
have too much to eat. How people
can live and eat three courses of meat
at every meal, no salad, and almost
no vegetables, is more than I can
see. Tiny huve a llsh course, meat
course, and foul three times a day.
and rarely do they serve fruit of alt'
kind. Tile waiter nt tile ('aledonla.lt
last night almost had apoplexy when
I refused to take anything but fruit
for dinner. The third woe is that
pounds, shillings. crowns, florins,
pence, liapennies, thrupence. sixpence,
et cetera ad infimitum are a source of
constant arithmetic. So far. I have
bought nothing but picture post cards
The fourth woe is that I
stay everywhere l go. Of
Auld Lang Syne, played by
tile Scottish orchestra, gives me the
kind of kink in my heart that indi-
cates the real place 1 want to stay
foiever. but I wish we were not tour-
ing along like speed maniacs any
way.,
Tile elevators, lifts and hoists huve
doors that open outward instead of
sliding. Tills is most inconvenient
when you are late to dinner and dash
madly around the corner of the cor-
ridor into the elevator and find your-
gentleimin’s room just as he
Another inconvenience is
menus are made out in
I aux perfectly helpless be-
in French menus offered
helpless wlien one of these
skinned. black-eyed, erect
youngsters approaches me
"<’lioentes.’’ They are tlie
tilings in their socks and knee trous-
ers rather les' than knee trousers
and tains, the youngsters, I mean
Speaking of red cheeks. They real-
ly have them as road as apples in
this country the reddest red apples.
Some of them are scarlet-cheeked and
not chapped.
rood and at the fort wei^ plaids, and
some of tile soldiers off duty at tin'
fort had on blue Jumper suits others
white Jumper suits | aw a number
with tlie O D army suit, on. \ man
walked into tlie lounge of tlie hptel
last night in plaid and sank non
chuluntly down into the greyn velvet
cushions Me have met several Scot-,
and an Englishman through boat ae
quaintaneeu They must all have
their whiskey and soda in the lounge
in Hie evening, and must laugh at us
liecuuse we never drink with them.
Scotch men are charming, good eon
vorsiitlomilisls, tall, with Hashing
eyes, erect, handsome, but all (he
Scotch women 1 have seen are rather
dowdy.
t’atching a train is an event in
England and Scotland You nle ns
tense as it the "get set" signal for a
Marathon had just been given while
tlie train draws in Immediately when
It slops, you knock everybody hut
those in your party down, being po
lite witli it. however, saying, sorry."
buck over your shoulder us you rush
‘Hl. You start into a compartment
through one of the little side doors
You are confronted by gentlemen',
faces and tobacco smoke You knock
down a few more people and go pa- I
several compartments filled with peo
pie At last by the combination tai'
lies of an eel and a football player,
you edge into a compartment and
plate your typewriter, kodak and urn
lirella on tlie rack, you turn about to
sit down and there is no seat. You
scramble out. Tlie station platform
is Just about cleared. Yn aged woman
is slowly gravitating out of a cum
partment several ears down. Thu
station muster In a lull silk hat. a
tuxedo and wearing Howers In the
button hole, is blowing the Hrst whis-
tle. It is a feeble sound like a bus
ket bull coach’s whistle, but tlie en
gineer has a good strong tin ear on
Illis side. W ith your foot on tlie side
Step, you take time to note Hint this
car does not take you to Edinburgh,
(’arsesI The cur next does, and you
pile in on tlie twelve smoking gentle
men gasping for air or tobacco smoke
and taking Hie scat of tlie fattest man
on account of wearing so many
clothes and carrying three things in
your hand. About that time tlie eon?
ductor of tlie tour says "Hey there's
room with file rest of tlie party. Come
get in this compartment. \m| lie
shisis the remnants of tlie party into
a compartment together fairly lifting
tlie last one in although lie is a little
man with a yellow cane attached to
an enormous job. There iH no con
ductor. You get off by intuition, and
was
time.
I basket.
i with Its rows of dark polished armour
jand shields with the fnmly erests on
I them had the first fire in it that i
j have seen since I was at home last
1 hristmas. Thia is the coldest coun-
try and the hare-kneed
i keep remarking that it
; weather! How can they?
We are going so
I month since we
sang plank at Liverpool
I lish lake district
prettiest st retell of
saw. Tlie hills are ..... , ....
| fences are all either stone or dark
green hedges Every house is rich
dark stone I have not seen a frame
house yet. Woodlands are to be
found only along tlie bonier of tlie
lakes. Tiny streams like silver fila-
ments carelessly trailed by some god-
dess of tlie hills ran be seen down
the side of each hill. We drove over
i tlie hills in a motor bus. the tarvi-
. iteil roads are too slippery for
. eoaches in wet season. Me put the
' top back so we could see and then
had to iiave an umbrella drill
few moments. 1
■ funny sight to the
—
We
saw very few people of any descrip
tion in the Trossaelis. but there were
a few Scotchmen in their kilts blow
Ing hug-pipes. Yesterday was like a
page out of an old book.
Our hotel windows looked out upon
a perpendicular hillside of gruesome
black rock crowned witli a ensile and
forty foot walls. It was higher than
i our seven-story hotel more than two
hundred feet high. Tlie stone walls
had mellowed until they are almost as
formidable black us the stone hill
side. When we went up into tile cas-
;tle we found soldiers in kilts and
[ tains | am sending home some pic-
! tines of tlie old, old chapel where
Queen Mary worshipped, of the win-
dow out of which Queen Mary low-
ered James I when she wanted him
baptized in tlie Catholic faith. He
a three weeks old baby at tli.it
She lowered him in a rush
Tlie huge old banquet hall
ft
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LIME UP AND PRE-
VENT SICKNESS
ALAMO LUMBER
COMPANY
Telephone No. 23
Telephone No. 28
•THERE IS NOTHING TOO
COOU FOR OUR FRIENDS”
FIVK CBNT8 THU COI'l-
HAY (TH, Tr .VAS, II FM>AY ,Altilsi '.*11, 111'2'.’.
V01.1MI XHI
XI MUIR -.’Ils.
KILL THOSE
MOSQUITOES AND
THAT STENCH
WITH LIME
ALAMO LUMBER
COMPANY
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 208, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 29, 1922, newspaper, August 29, 1922; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1365615/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.