The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 11, 1925 Page: 1 of 4
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WB SERVE—
“HONEY HOY
T’HE Daily RIBUNE
ICE CREAM”
—ITS GOOD—
LADY LUCK
LADY LUCK
SHOPPE
SHOPPE
THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS"
BAY CITY, TEXAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 1 1, 1925.
FIVE CENTS THE COBY.
BLESSING CITIZENS
Condensed Statement of the Condition of
First National Bank
At the Close of Business on April 6, 1925.
years. attracted settler* into ill parts
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
$415,878,09
Bonds and Stocks
58,733,21
CAN YOU AFFORD
U. S. Bonds
25,000.00
Furniture and Fixtures
0,086.20
held at the regular time
Banking House
14,522.82
Other Real Estate
14,350.00
$ 11,000.00
Bills of Exchange
139,743.57
CASH
280,601,73
431,845.30
$965,915.42
LIABILITIES
Bay City Bank & Trust Company
Capital Stock
$100,000.00
Surplus and Profits
21,642.96
('ire illation
24,700.00
We Can
DEPOSITS
819,572.46
$905,915.42
Match It
ali of these services.
the North and Central West had be |
THE KING IDEA
Behind this idea stands an establish-
CAN MATCH IT
Matagorda County
1
I good roads as these are h Ing built
wholi
in
throughout the state and nothing
afternoon
lev will prmch
under
ence, skilled, trained craftsmen, our own modern equipped.
BETTER GEI IN THAI EASIER ADV. RIGHT NOW
and large sun-lighted plant, thousands of different pat-
terns and fabrics representing hundreds of thousands of
Fnr buntneus blues. trv ndvertiainK
There Is No Performance
thingu
Nome
Crawford C. Barnett
or fnilor to think of
Kay City, Texas
That Is Perfect
I he Same Car---
The Same Price---
But Worth More
Yet we
evidenced by the luxurious growth of I
value
e same in two
natural
WE FUNCTION TO HELP SERVE YOU IN YOUR DISCRIMINAT-
try to make
of location
was offered hy Mexico, to each, to
ours so
PROUD AS OF THE DAILY PROOF OF OUR ABILITY TO PER
FORM AS WE PROMISE
WE ARE BECOMING AS TIME PASSES BETTER AND BETTER
Dodge Brothers
TERIAIS AND CAREFUL SERVICE RENDERED.
COME AND SEE US THIS WEEK.
MOTOR CAR
HARDY-ANDERSON AUTO CO.
D. P. Moore Dry Goods Co
Phome 154
EXIDE BATTERIES
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The intrinsic
automobiles
know
about
mate
bility
come
lanels
grasses,
xcellent
rection
The
I some remarks about the coast coun
try spoken hy former r. R Kocretary
regulal
Method
pnutor
, puhlish •
‘ nor know
We
that
Power."
School
* ;
Invited to
6tt
PROGRAM OF SI It VII IS OF ST.
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At
LET IS DELIVER
TO YOUR HOME
EISTER MORN.
I package of
KINGS
or
ELMERS’ CHOCOLATES
g
‘no meeting Tuesday
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FASTEP
L SUNDAY, APRIL 12TH 11
eretary must have been tak '
would be ।
and at the'
he did
They
for he wanted to
got our information
were informed by Secretary Gus
few of them which have not been cut.
given by the Sunday
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THE
MFTUUIHsI I III KI II
Liberty Bonds
where we
I VEAR TIRES
, ed to completion and a petition will
he circulated and presented to the their lands
the regular meeting
President Sani was j
The productiveness of
Somebody made an error in our
Rotary write-up Wednesday, when we
stated that there would be no lun-
cheon at 12:15 Tuesday, on account
of the open meeting during the week.
I commissioners’s court for an election
nt once. Spnce will not permit thetracta they were suecesaful in Indue-
mention of all who attended from theing ome o the ranehinen to sell
‘different distwets. but a strong com
of Agriculture
< that if they are to take I
। place as a eounty they mil"
Wilson
nt the ।
prove and pay out on their farms.
Yesterday, the Tribune
needs the strong support of a responsi-
ble, permanently established dealer who
has prepared himself to meet all the op-
erating requirements of the ear he sells.
AS LIKE BEGETS LIKE SO THE PATRONS WE SELL TO BEGET
the inducement and advertisement of ment of roads and drainage, has
free land. which. during the past fifty I compelled the settlers to specialize in-
inta 1‛ --ty stead of diversifying, In their crop
ar owner
VOLI ME XX NUMBER 45,
ago, individuals and companies who
had been engaged in the sale. devel-
opment, and settlement of lands in
the North and West, commenced to
invade the Gulf Coast Country, in
. together with the States to the North
QDAN7- -2 PBAof it, were opened up for free settle ‘ The one, two and three year payment I
UNUHIVILL FUR NUHU ment, there were no free lands to requirements which have prevailed.
The moment you make a connection
here, you have at your command
willing and able service, In addition
to the safety and security such a
connection affords
ING TASTES AND FANCIES AND INCREASE OUR CLIENTELE
' BO complete and the prle. of,
had advanced so high, that it ‛ " "
possible to induce settlers from [
ed, responsible organization ; to our best of knowledge.
became a part of the United States on too short time to attract actual
। and its vast domain to the North. settlers and to enable them to im-
entire satisfaction.
4\
/8K6,N
ment of the country. li
kept pace with its
•ale Much of the
sold to «peculatora
divelopment, in many
not been provided for
all instance*. sales h
VALUES WE GIVE OUR PATRONS- AS ALSO IN STYLES, MA-
THE PEOPLE TO WHOM WE CATER
। add more to the development and in-
hanement of the lands than just zood
i hard surfneed mads, The auto has
production ami farm operation.
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ROTARY LUNCHEON IT F>|IIV
nt and develop-1
iowever. has not
subdivision and
land has been
The necessary
instancen, has
. and In almost ।
ave been made
Mon- than ever today
soil, ns
citizens realize ranch after another has takeni
their proper over by the "Land man", subdivided;
have and sold out until nowithere are but
• mittee was present from the Palacios
district who assured the gentlemen
offer in the Gulf Coast Country. Thus and the lack of the public develop
of song will be rendered
direction of Prof Kooyman
The publie is cordially
nil of these meetings.
1. it. PIER I GETS PEOPLE TO-
GETHER FOR PALACIOS
Goop RO I US.
will he
al t he
at the
The
o’clock
The development and settlement of j
Today we
Ing a nap when
making his talk.
The Resurrection."
, 45 o'clock a beautiful ar
ited to
model. The price is the same. But the
worth of the car depends heavily upon
where you buy it.
present that they would immediately
take up with their people the matter " ,
of the building of the seven miles of that rezion to come to the Gulr Cnasti
the hard surfaced road necessary to Country, without the inducement of
complete the highway to Palacios, free land, and as a result, one larEe j
yards of woolens of nearly every description, nil make
possible the fulfillment of this idea.
the delizhtful eli-
water; the necessi •
an the many won-
, come to stay and people are goinm to
locate where they run use them -
j Palacios Beacon.
THI REASOSS WHICH MR. Wlisnx
DD NOT KTOW. OR FAILFD
TO TWIYK OF.
KNOWN TO LARGER NUMBERS- FOR THE SATISFACTION AND
R< presented by—
I derful natural advantages and possi- ,
bilities, evidenced on every hand, at
' tracted them They took advantage[
of the opportunity which at that time !
8:80.
The public is cordially
pageant. III Hail Th
Year of < ustom-tailoring experi-
of the same make and
the morning. I
Morning Prayor, Hermon and Cele-
, , .. . bration of The Holy Eucharist. 11:00
quest of new worlds to conquer, and
. a. m Special Music by Choir ar
by offering the nanchmen more than
. . this Service
i were worth for grazing ,
, . , , . ! Speclal childre ns service ami pres-
purposes and by purchasing large,
entation of their Lenten offering.
I part.
The aetua
regular place, and that all Rotarians
were expected to attend President
"Doc" instructed us to maki this cor
The "King Idea" is stated in four simple words: We
o’clock in the
lour Rev c Pug
UI I up and sold off
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) follow
1 When the first settlers came to
[ Texas, the only means of travel was
hy bont or ove ria nd The hundreds
. of miles of wild country between the |
, settlements in the states to the North I
; and East, from which they came was I
j. Infested with savage Indian tribes j
। thus adding great danger to the nat- l
। oral dimieultira and hardships of the
: overland travel A* a remutt the
renter portion of them came to
Texas by bont, landing along the Gulf
shore, on the banks of the many
। heautiful hays and the numerons na- I
l icable streams.
On the salesroom floor a car is only a
car. In the hands of its owner it is an
automotive transportation unit whose ef-
ficiency depends much upon the attitude
and responsibility of the man who sold it.
Easter bay. Sunday, April 12th., Rt.
Rev Clinton S Qutn. Bishop Co Ad-
jutor, officiating.
Celebration of Holy Communion, at
7:00 a m (No Church School in
quire a "league" of land. (4424 acres) i
I by settling upon it and by declaring 1
their allegiance to Mexico. And they
also took advantage of their oppor !
l tunity to stock their lands by round I
ing up the wild cattle they found I
| grazing thereon and marking them
with their respective brand* Ind ;
since there was no de mand or mar 1
ket for the products of the soil, and ।
since the cattle required no feed other
than the natural grasses, on which
they could graze at will during all >
seasons of the year, these early set-
tiers very naturally remained In th* ,
Coast Country They produced such
crops as desired, and as required for
their own use, both summer and win-.
t*r and each ranch became almost
on empire In its self, supplying all of
their needs with but little effort on
their part, and with cattte to kill for
their hides and tallow, which cost
them nothing, and which they shipped
by boats to the markets of the world, (
which at that time as now were ne-
sessable hecause of the Gulf And it I
was not long until all of that region
now known as the Gulf Coast Country j
had been taken and converted into j
catue ranches, and when after Texas :
Sunday School
t Church t moi
rill prench it
of the territory to the West of the
Mississippi River; the lure of which
has caused men to bnave the winter
blasts of the far North and to defy
the oloudless skies of the arid re-
gions of the West, have not obtained
in the Gulf Coast Country.
The ranchmen. content with their
dominion over their vast acres and
great herds of cattle, were reluctant
to admit settlement, and refused to
enter Into competition with the United
States Government and with the state
of Texas, in offering free land to set-
tlers, and land grants to induce the
construction of railroad Instead
of advertising the wonderful possibil-
ities of the country and offering in-
ducements to attract railroads and
settlers, they actually refused to nell
any portion of their vast land hold-
ings to settlers who happened to stray
into the country, and it is only with-
in the past twenty years, practically
speaking, that settlement has been
permitted to come in
Commencing about twenty years
not to have a banking connection?
To pay bills by check? To take ad
vantage of the innumerable services
which the bank renders?
BY GIVING SATISFACTION- AND OF NOTHING ARE WE SO
the only one of it* kind in the country, ready to match
your coat and vest with a new pair of made-to-measure,
custom-tai lored trousers, guaranteed to meet with your
.Monday. April 6th, the Blessing
Chamber of Commerce headed by Mr.
A B Pierce entertained about one
hundred guests at noon lunch and all
voted the organization and Mr. Plerce
merry good fellows The gathering
of these men in Blessing was for the
purpose of arranging details for a
bond election to build good roads in
the Markham Midfield. Blessing an
Dunbar districts This part of the
county has never had road bonds ex
l cept a small one at Midfield, but have
[had good drainage bonds for some
veirs. Details were worked out
| whereby a main hard surfaced road
commencing at the north line of the
Palacios district and extending north
through Blessing. Midfield and Mark-
ham and connecting with the shell
road leading east from the Colorado
river into Fay City and several good
| dirt laterials can be built at a very
low price with the help that will be
1 received from the State and Federal
i governments. The hard surfaced
road after construction will he main
i tained by the state ns it is a State
I Highway,
I The meeting was a very harmo-
I nious one and every one was unani-
[mous that the project should bo rush
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 45, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 11, 1925, newspaper, April 11, 1925; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1423570/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.