The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 184, Ed. 1 Friday, October 28, 1927 Page: 1 of 4
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HOME - MADE
SANDWICHES
CANDY
and
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
Best You Ever
COFFEE
Tasted
THE ALCOVE
THE ALCOVE
There Is Nothing I oo Good For Our Friends
FIVE CENTS THE COPT
BAY CITY, COUNTY
AUXILIARY CIRCLES
Condensed Statement of
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BAY CITY, TEXAS
At the Close of Bsiness on October 10th, 1927
RESOURCES
Loans
$
528,835.63
U. S. Bonds
our neighhors to the south
Harrison, Miss
Wilkinson.
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Rev
and daughters
Call Loans
Marguerite.
now
"tellpares favorably with that of any rice
they
the world" of our opportunities, with | producing section of
Church
$1,183,268.06
the world. and which may
LIABILITIES
was horn and raised in Texas and has
very cheaply in comparison with land
of less production value in other
$ 100,000.00
superior
Sr
DEPOSITS
connect all principal
centers
one of the
attended funerals e
$1,183,268.06
The ahove statement is correct.
Washington County, and till
E. L. McDONALD, Cashier
Be bushels is
crop
freely of his time and his own mone)
shows
of
and
of t hr
Statement of Condition of
If more of the shows on the
majoriiy: th
a pa rt of
sold and the work will he under
t
eaters, bootees
new
the zrass usually re
in this
isted in
iron
Hogs
ell here and there is little loss
. thri
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts
$281,067.67
882.80
217,766.24
Better
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1678.641.49
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Condensed Statement of
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CITIZENS STATE BANK
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Bay City, Texas
RESOURCES
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For the retiring official, for the fellow-
won promotion, for
for the son who
Total
$551,039.98
LIABILITIES
CENTRAL POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
Courteous Service Always
F. TETTS
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Phone 2
Bay City
Total
$651,039.96
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Bonds ami Stocks
Real Estate
Furniture and Fixtures
Interest in Guaranty Fund
Assessment in Guaranty Fund
Cash and Sight Exchange
worker who has
the employe who
Capital Stock .
Surplus and Profits
Circulation
honors, the Pentagon is now every*
where recognized as the logical tribute.
Other Stocks and Bonds
Banking House
Furniture and Fixtures
Other Real Estate
soon be a thing of the pust, as she has
recently voted a $3,000,000 bond issue
ection
green
assinga milestone,
as won academic
county was one of the
to raise rice and there
world,
farm
located in
-till illegal
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12,409 66
$601,131.94
Met zger.
the hostes
By sheer frequency of individual prefer*
ence, it has won its title “The Croix de
Guerre of American Achietement "
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74,287.08
84,864.73
13,000.00
5,000.00
10,696.86
eling >
veying
Capital Stock
Undivided Profits
DEPOSITS
Bills of Exchange
CASH
Our Pentagoms are
priced at. r«to $2500
69,473.99
25,000.00
6,650.00
982,144.07
one of the county's largest industries
THE MARKHAM IRRIGATION CO
A Bay City owned property and one
L.0OS,
ton.
Mata-
y thing
155,860.72
13,290.77
6,117.11
3,566.18
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noon
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Reserves
then:
.1 50,000.00
. 6,857.42
. 478,192.56
16,490.00
An award of merit—
the Gruen Pentagon
:• most universally I
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of
- - $170,000.00
... 92,312.83
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his fight for good roads by the Itous mainins
$29,000 and they plan to complete th
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$268,443.90
48,382.00
23,563.78
84,121.98
5,456.73
1,628.99
102,962.60
16.490.00
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The above statement is correct.
CHAS. E. WHALEY, Ass’t Cashier.
BAY CITY BANK & TRUST CO.
HAY CITY, TEXAS
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in this vicinity lit
not only open hard surtaced thorough ।
of the largest privately owned irrl
gation systems in the country Their
canals and laterals are more than 400
miles in length and are accessible to
practically the entire farming acreage
The above statement is correct.
P. R HAMILL.
Vice Prexirtrnt and CtuHifr
."t the best money crops and thousands
of bushels are produced annually, and
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ENTERTAINED
Capital Stock
Undivided Profits
Deposits_______
Customers Bonds
with the county capital, as the rural I
for the fig crop there
is usually planted some 30,000 acres
to tin commodity. and the yield com-
s of the best cotton land in Texas Gulf Sulphur Company and is
ceived some nice, warm and comfort
some of the trav
to delight in pur
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Mrs. Carr Laid to Rest
i time is principally interested in the
able baby sacques
lions
Bay City’s isolation in the past will
fares to the outside
permitted, Protestant ism
a soil that would make helpful fer •'
Midcoast, but decidedly one of the best,
as it is backed by more natural ru
—gen
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. has been erected by local capital a
' modern fig preserving plant at Bay
City, thus assuring the farmer a cash
market for his tigs at all seasons of
other good Swedes claim
ton Chronicle, and especially so hy
the Houston Post-Dispatch. and they
land that consistently produces one-
he bought and there are several thousands acres
s : now producing in the vicinity of Bay
Yancey, Steves, McHenry. Sex
but will
"that if elected county jud
gorda County" he would de
of Bay City usually covets the mayor's
office because of the honors which are
supposed to go with Hie position, but
it seems that Pat wants to work. at
least that is what he has been doing
since he was elected some years ago,
be. he
WE I ADVER USED SXa aljacent to Bas city, that may
TV LiLLi hpvHiIIvH H iougi from s to to .........■ acre
of the lighter comedy
an average
Valley, which lies a I has found time to give much to the
if Bay City. andjcity. as a brief list of his accomplish
‘ments will show II Ik true that the outstanding work of one
For a Short T ime Only, Liberal Allowance for Your Old
Fixtures and Free Installation
A 11
Storey
and the office seems to stick to him, San Augustine anti in 18:8 organized
miles of
i lory is but the beginning of the great
. work of the church in the state and '
we conclude it by observing that ini
'some three years hence we may be
I celebrating our loath anniversary of
f Texas.
commercial figs
VOLTME XXII NI MBER 1*1.
voted by a four to one
have been approved;
At the Close of Business, October 10, 1927
production. This canning industry, at
There to an air el cheeriui weleome abont the well lighted place
of business that helpi te break down the barrier etrestraint
that alway- exiet- hetween individuals who are doing buslnens
with each other. Re It In More or offiee, n counting room nr
lobby, good lighting is a magnet that attraets business as natal-
all) as a magnet attraet- iron. He have lighting fixtures that
give proper lighting
cently constructed HiX
lol a minister ol religion other than
a Roman priest in officiate Thus it is
recorded that the distinction of being
the pioneer Presbyterian minister to
permanently locate in Texas belongs
to the Rev. Hugh Wilson who came to
odd times, puts up
tables which gr
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D. Yancey,
Pauline and
A Guest
for good roads and these roads will
RICE This
and electing him seems to be a habit
abundance of his people An active officer of a
CORN Corn has always been a safe popular automobile agency, handling
crop in this section and especially in a well known car (from Detroit), he
i the rich Caney Valley, which lies a | has
I short distance east
spent most of his life in and around
Buy City. A citizen of a town the size I Texas in 1831, while it w.i
produet of Mexican chili and tamales
and we understand that eventually
they will devote u considerable part
of their time to the canning of vege-
H, well acted and the spectalties
high class. Particularly pleasing
all the
As Rendered to the Commissioner of Banking of the Slat*
of Texas, at Close of Business, October 10, 1927
Presbyterian minister
bonds wer
e- City, To
being strictly and vigorously excluded
this in fact was one ol the prime
causes of the Texas Revolution which
triumphed in the victory of San Ju
cinto on April 21, 18:36, yet history
tells us that a Rev. P H Fullenwider,
Rev W Y
The following article, accompanied more good cotton farmers, truck farm
by a number of pictures as suitahle ers in fact, farmers of all kinds,
illustrations, appeared in a special TRUCK The truck industry is get
edition of the Houston Post I ispat t h t ing on a firm footing with an increase
of Thursday. October 27 The article | each year in acreage, and such crops
was prepared by Di R. M Harkey as cabbage, turnips, spinach, tomatoes,
secretary Bay City Chamber of Com beans, Irish and sweet potatoes,
merce. and the page arranged accord onion- in fact, any crop that is
ing to his sugzestions I grown in the Rio Grande Valley is
Buy City, not the oldest town in the produced here and usually as early as
nized church This brings
is Ilie entire absence of the coarse sug
mayor has had associated with him Allen, who came to Houston and or
a bunch of city dads who have had, I ganized there the First P’resbyterian
like their mayor, a burning desire to Chureh of Houston, and the third of
sources than any city between Houston first in Texas
Dude Arthur's Comedians opened on
tlie Hawes lot Monday evening for a
in a few weeks Tile credit belong* i
to Judge Harris for this succes till ac- ,
complishment, but it is no more than '
we should expect from this "man ol
parts," railroad man. hanker, lawyer
and high-class gentleman
mains at a cost
as no one has had tin- temerity to
tackle the job of trying to defeat him.
Judge Harris was ably
in redeeming his promise io his people
humanly possible to give them
tern of hard surfaced roads.
the face of opposition of a few
The < ity has a force of men al work
today chopping the weeds that have
grown up on the esplanades along
Avenue G
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2s. 1927.
EIGS The first
week’s engagement, and has enjoyed
good business at every performance
Loans and Discounts ------- --------________-
Banking House, Furniture and Fixture*_____
Other Real Estate. ........ ...........
Bonds sad Stocks ------___------------
Interel.hd Assessment for Guaranty Fund
Other Resources ________ _____------------
Cash and Exchange ......... . . __________
Customers Bonds ___________ ..______________
while tlie crop is mostly* from wild
native trees, there is much interest
at thi.- time in the cultivated pecan
and many land owners are budding
into the native stock, thus laying up
riches for the future.
e LIVE STUCK Bay City is the huh
vlor the catile industry of the country
The hospitable country homo of
. .Mrs Franz Huebner was opened
, Thursday afternoon for the entertain-
ment of Ilie three Auxiliary Circles
' ihe occasion being the annual get
together in the interest of the Thanks
giving offering for our ourphans home
at Itasca, incidentally a very generous
sum was contributed.
The hostess was assisted by Iler
charming daughters. Miss Pauline
Huebner and Mrs Marguerite Poole
A short devotional and well worth
while educational number was con-
ducted by Dr. Storey on the Establish
ment of .uni Earliest Days of Presby-
tenianism in Texas, on which a mere
flash of high light will lie of interest
to all readers of The Tribune
So long as Texas remained a part .
of Mexico only the Roman Catholic
hull bale per acre and much of it this
Pape in Special Edition year is making a premium We do
485 i il l not think 11 can be successfully estab-
Post - Dispatch I lelps . lished that there is any county in
c 1 .1 kt Texas that makes a bigger yield per
dpread the NeWS. acre in lotton one year with another.
_______ than Matagorda in this connection.
wino Matagorda County needs now is rice industry, but there are many of
shows Heem
Tomot I ow’s paper will contain illl I
especially prepared article concerning
the life and death of this good woman,
o
Arthur’s Comedians
the first Presbyterian congregation in
the Republic of Texas, which old
church is still very mm li alive Rev
Wilson pushed along in his good work
and the same year organized the see
oud church called "Prospect," in
people center in the dairy industry
and if there is an ideal dairy country,
this must be the chosen place, as eli-
male, range and water are all that
could be asked and the feed bill in the
small Hem in the expense of dairying
| Presbyterianism in Texas
I Mrs Loos gave us a very r clear "char
acter' ‘sketch, depicting a woman trav
eler en route to Houston, occupying :
tlie dressing room for 1% hours be-
fore arriving, excluding all others I
from the loom and arguing she had
a perfect right to do so the sketch !
currying a very pointed lesson, how-
ever we are reasonably sure it was
not a Bay City woman, as we have
none such living here.
While delicious refreshments were
being served. Miss Pauline Huebner
entertained us with a number ot pi ano
selections. Tlio.se enjoying this hos- I
pitality were Mesdames Lewis. Me
Clare Marlin. Hensley, Winston, Le
Sage. Nance. Pinker, Grover Horn,
Ray Horn. Benedict, Tolbert Williams,
PECANS Th*' pecan crop is one of
Its five sided shape not only adds rare
distinction, but keeps the watch up-
right in the pocket, thereby making
more constantly accurate its Prectnon
movement.
Hie thinking men of the county who
believe that eventually the energies of
this irrigation system will be divided
with the truck and dry farming inter-
ests When that time arrives. Huy
City will be the center of tile safest
mid most productive truck section of
the South A bale of cotton and 75
bushels of corn will be the rule and
not the exception, to tlie acre
POPULATION Bay City has a pop-
ulation of more than five thousand
and is the biggest little town in Texas
in accomplishment of any undertaking
in which they may be interested and
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heaviest taxpayers, the
acki l hut
of the county. This system at this
tilizer for many valleys that we mightwere planted in this section only a
name am! much of this not yet in cu! few years ago, but the industry has
tivation, Bas City is surrounded b forged to the front and now ranks
thousands ot acres of the bust land in with our most important industries
them all they are due in the way of
good roads
COTTON Conservatively, there are
Cedarvale this after
make Bay City the best town het ween ' our churehes in Texas and now one
Houston and Vera Cruz, and it is, of our largest over which Dr Jacobs
Bay City has already constructed is the pastor Mr Allen then pushed
two miles of six inch reinforced eou to our new capital mid orxanized
crete paving of a very high type andithe first Presbyterian Chureh in Aus
approximately half of which is 75/tin, but what is of still more local in
feet wide, the remainder 36 feet, at a|terest to 18 that he came to. ' "
cost of $126,000 and without a bond lumbia organizing the chureh there
issue. They now boast three miles of and there 11 was he met the distin road were of the Dude Arthur elans,
shell streets and some of this wasiEuished family of Presbyterians th« the show busine , would clans higher
buiii of shell from the streets which I Rells. 11 son, James II. Bell, later, on and bring down upon the heads of
were paved costing |l<i mm Bay city the Supreme Court bench of the state, those connected with it less of ad-
has an inexhauntibie supply of arte, is said to have heen tiw first Ameri- verse criticinm. Wharton Spectator
Himi water of the best and u water sys- can child born in Texas, mid we
anggnc 1.1 Huhn LSrim it... Wotle not oVerlook with Some (leKTee . . g . 1 . . .
It NOToId lo nohu r i om the’ 0rI- i.... Inuit forget the baby We have ree
ings of this department they have re- of pride, that he was a PresbyleHan
No/e n| whoNe tleHeendeniN are now
and blankets Come in and let us
show you 11 l‘ Moore Dry Goods
(ompany 27-28d-28w
ickness of any kind.
dared speak plainly to the mistaken ; 1*01 LTRY Poultry was a much
interests who were fighting the issueneglected industry until a few years
and this we may always expect from ago the Chumber of Commerce of Bay
these zreat newspapers, thes dare toCity took the matter in hand and em-
do what they think is right ployed a poultry expert. Miss BuHy I
The ......I system when completed Hart. Unrier her xuperyiion the
will give the count) 122 miles or con people hav ....... interested and are
rete and forty seven ndle- of macad -now devotinu a < onside a bl e |part • >
amized roads and will inerease th- their time to raining.chickens.and
value of the property in the ......... turke and are deriyinga .'X The
many thousands of dollars TH* ..... abl income from this indu "try The
slruction of these roads will be rn.de ......sibilitiew of the indus tryu reuxreatl
the supervision of E N dustarson, a and it may vet equal the total amount
Ray City man one of the outstandinzlot rice or ' otton ' ropi 5 C limatiecon-
engineers of Texan a man thoroughly dition are almost ideal for the vaiu;
versed in the business of road con ing “• ......... and most o the feed
struction and who was prior to tin may he zrown >v ' e armer
appointment the state highway engi SULPHI It Bay < Ry may right-1
news of No IS at Corpus Christi. Thi- fully lwoast of the largest ulphur mine
appointment has met with the general in the world, as this tremendous In
approval, as the Matagorda Count' duntry lies a few miles to the south
people believe that 'Gus will zive and with an investment of many mil |
these late years to the individual ef
forts of their present mayor, Pat
Thompson, it young man in years, but
a very giant in accomplishment and
an unusual name for a Swede Al-
though a relative of Lindbergh as all
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lion dollars, furnishes employment to DDCCDVTTDI A KI
several handled people This Indus f K L J K I I LKIAIN
try is owned and operate.I by the
much of their progress in
A great throng of sorrowing friends
formed the funeral procession which
accompanied tile remains of Mrs T.
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efforts of that matchless young Gi
had. Judge Arthur Harris, who sp
and there in. many thousand head of
tine grade tattle but the hopes of our
living in Austin mid Dallas and active
in the work of the Presbyterian
Church. All of this hit of chureh his
roads will cover the county like a
blanket and enable the farmer to con
nect with a market in all kind* ot
weather.
Thi' accomplishment of this achieve
ment, the biggest thing that has ever
happened to this city and this county
was due in the main to th*' herculean
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