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! all the use of screened cottages, dor-
president, and Mrs. Lucy B. Clark of.
vice president, report com-
' Houston,
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plans for a successful meet.
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Presi-
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Tally of Beaumont, Rev. Marquis WIl-
Prefer-
tage; and also that the saving in gas | some hot words.
and upkeep of the cars, not to speak i
Sunday School, Epworth League and
the nanual affair, opened the fire.
Rev. J. W. Mills, D. D„ presiding
try is on the increase, Rush said.
and he is the goat.
Political nos-
Rev S. S. McKinney, D. D., of the
nominations, announced in Washing
men not Intellectually
; has little vision and no
of the principal speakers said:
All departments of work will be
CITRUS FRUITS
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has been a large acreage planted to
new orchards and the repartment es-
timates the output in 1930 will be
South Texas Methodism met in the
city for conjunction with the annual
conference meeting of the Texas Wo-
man’s Missionary Society at St. Pauls
from the farmers' standpoint, as ab-
surd as fixing a uniform leg or waist
I for a
levelop
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pent.
Mrs. J. A. Guilbeau, with Joe Allen
and Miss Irma Berg, were visitors
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each-
item
The growth of racial and religious Missionary Society will be offered to
feeling in certain parts of the coun- those who may attend.
Collegeport Sunday came out a tie,
the score standing 11 to 11.
The junior girls had a swimming
party Sunday afternoon in the canal.
Mr. Thos. P. Hale spent the week-
end with his parents at Midfield.
It seems to be too dry for news
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ENTHUSIASTIC MEETING OF CITI.
ZENS HELD AT THE QUEEN
THEATRE THURSDAY.
DEMOCRATS PLEAD FOR PAR.
TY UNIrY; BRYAN RAPPED
tiesiring more particulars as to en-
Weather Bureau Reports Drouth Con-
tinuing Over Entire State
use their automobiles to good advan- | and the Bryan brothers came in for
$o
Dry Winds Are Nullifying Effects of
Recent Showers.
STATES FIGHT FOK THEIR
RIGHTS
LIITLE HOPE OF KAIN
FOR THIS SEC riox
CATTLE RANGE STILL
IN NEED OF RAINS
Simon Bros. Stork Up On the Blue
Bonnet Ginghams.
LOt AL FIRM HANDHING
TEX IS M ADE GOODS
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Jewelry robbers In 1924 Increased
philosophy. | training course in citizenship for the
resulted in a 7 to 5 vistory for Gulf. 5o per cent over 1923.
announcement is made by Adjutant
General Mark McGee of the places
and dates for the annual encamp-
ment of the Texas National Guard,
numbering approximately 8000 officers
and men. under command of Major
General John A. Hulen of Houston.
At Palacios, July 3-17, the infantry
encampment will be he id. which In-
cludes the Seventy-First Infantry Bri-
The yearly meeting of the Gulf
Coast Odd Fellows and Rebekahs as-
sociation will be held at Navasota.
Texas, May 23, according to A. L.
Bacarisse, secretary.
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ORDERS AKE ISSUED
FOR THE ENCAMPMENT
OF NATIONAL GUARD
missioner Harrison of Precinct No. 3 I
making a good talk, and explaining rivaled by any other section in any Church,
that he had just returned from Aus-l- ——a — — ---a a1--‛ mu- .
tin, where he had been in consulta-
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HEADLIGHT LAW IS
EFFECTIVE JUNE 19.
Rural
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"Only a few weeks ago, the Bryan elder of the Houston district, will
brothers, Bill and Charlie, with an serve on the teaching force and help
inferiority complex of presidential ; direct the encampment.
Maness of Houston, Rev. C.
or weakened by half-hearted devo-: pervise the pageants put on during
tion to the cause of political free- the encampement.
Hams, Cuero. Rev. J. M. Gordon, of
- ------। Thomas Rush, of the National Dem- Caldwell.
of saving in labor and time, would j ocratic Club, who was toastmaster at | Standard training courses for the
• offset the tax necessary to handle " . - . .... - . - . .. "------ "------ —>
---‛ I III 4% EW I VI IX W5 -MP- PE- •
tion with the Highway Department > example for other cities and other enct
and felt sure our highway would re- j
ton that the democratic party could Beaumont district, and Dr. R. W.
not win in the nation unless the Adams of the Galveston district, will
South and the West were arrayed assist In every way possible to make
against the East. J the encampment a great success.
"Bill Bryan can always make the Dr. A. W. Gordon of Freeport, an
worse appear the better region. Like । expert with boys. will have charge
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1925.
j dom. It is my prayer for New York
state and New York City that we supervised by outstanding Christian
may develop a solidarity in party un-men and women of the Methodist
of the Women's Missionary So-
A great time is expected.
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GULF.
Lawrence Conover gave a party for to Bay City on Thursday.
the young people Saturday night. j Mr. and Mrs. William Hart of Aus-
Lodges from Galveston, Bay City, ...c, , , a ..
Pearland, Texas City. Goose Greek. Methodist Chureh and launched the
C plan.
Sugar Land, Freeport, Houston. Ros-. , ,, . .. c
, . 1 The presiding elders of the Cuero,
enberg. Humble, Katy, West Co um- „ . „ . ..
. . ... „ , ‛ , Houston, Beaumont and Galveston
bia, Alvin, Sealy, Damon, Harrisburg M . .. . ,
. ... .... districts have thoroughly committed
and other cities will be represented .. . . . , ,1
.... themselves to the plan and all of
at the meet. I. . ""
... Texas Methodists are invited to at-
The degree of chivalry, the highest . . .. ..
, ... . tend the encampment and enjoy the
and most coveted within the gift of., . . .
.. , 10 days of recreation, sport and men-
the order, for the first time, will be . . . i
. . . . , ’ tal and spiritual training.
conferred at an association meeting. . ...
, _____ ” The first session of the encamp-
on a number of Odd Fellows and Re-1 . .
, , , , , ment will be held at Palacios. The
bekahs, who have won distinction by . . ... ..
. . . . . encampment grounds owned by the
service to the order and the good of „ ...
Baptist Church for their summer as-
humanity. ,. .... , ,
m ... sembly at Palacios have most gen-
The grand lodge, past grand and , , . . ,
. . erously been tendered to the Metho-
grand assembly degrees will be con- , , .. . .. .
. dist people for their encampment, and
ferred on a large class of candidates . . . , , ,, u.
have been accepted by the committee
from the Gulf coast territory, it was
said.
their labors lost and In many fields
the corn has died. Many farmers measure for farmers pants.
have plowed the corn up and will ential farm loans in a country pro-
plant com on the land if rain falls. ; fessing equality, are doubtful bles8-
eral days in El Campo with
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He always marches breast forward,, boys attending the encampment.
could give to help Palacios, Matagor-
da County, and the National Guard.
The meeting wound up with Com- |
Austin, Texas, April 21.
Mr. Ruthven explained that the 36th i The association now has a member ,
Division of the National Guard stipu- 1 ship of about 5000, being the largest
lated that a road of this kind should district association in the state,
be constructed, if they were to locate
their camp at Palacios, but explained
that no matter whether this was nec-
trums without count have been pro-
posed for farm relief by self-ap-
pointed expert Moseses without any
real farm mandate: mostly they were
more clever tries for public notoriety
or public jobs.
That does not say the farmer is not
her of people arrived they went ।
across the slough and ate their sup- ' mother.
held and other organizations to par- ket was over 40,000,000 boxes. There
ticipate in this traing school are the
HARD SURFACED
ROAD COMES NEXT
At Camp Stanley, near L e o n or agriculture the citrus fruit crop
Springs. July 6-21, encampment of the in 1909 was about 20,000,000 boxes,
Fifty-Sixth Cavalry Brigade will be , while last year the crop sent to mar-
essary for the camp or not, a hard
surfaced road would be of great val- New York, April 18.-—“Party dis-
ue to the territory through which it . turbers and solo players” were at- J. Fisher Simpson of Austin.
passed, as people are not going to i tacked by speakers at New York's committee on advertising is: Rev. E.
locate these days where they cannot Jeffe rson Day dinner Saturday night, I
Simon Bros. have accepted the sole
agency in Buy City for the famous
“Blue Bonnet" Ginghams, manufac
tured at New Braunfels, and have
stocked up with a large assortment
of ready made "Blue Bonnot" dresses,
also made at New Braunfels, for la-
dies and children.
In apprising the Tribune of this
new development, Mr. Aaron Simnos,
of the firm, said:
"We are not only pleased with this,
our first consignment of "Blue Bon-
net” goods, but are surprised. Sur-
prised to learn that such a class of
goods can be and is manufactured In
our state of our own cotton and that
such class dresses can be supplied
the trade. It all speaks well for
the New Braunfels factory and for
Texas and we expect, henceforth, to
push these goods for all they are
worth, and that's a great deal."
The ladies are Invited to this popu-
lar business place to see for them-
selves the class of ginghams ant the
gingham dresses that tire being made
in Texas, of Texas cotton and by Tex-
as labor.
states. We have it in our power
Among other forms of tax reduc-
tion, there is a strong movement for
repeal of all federal estate and In-
heritance taxes on the ground that
the states need al! the revenue which
they yield.
A tax on capital or estates is only
justified by the necessities of war
and in times of peace should be abol-
ished as rapidly as possible.
The states are fighting for their
existence and their political rights on
the subject of taxation as conceived
by the founders of our government.
This was shown in the refusal to
give Congress power to enact labor
laws and allow the states to provide
reasonable protection for children
and families in this field.
The movement of the states to as-
sert their rights against double taxa-
tion In any form is a protest against
all new federal powers of taxation.
In asserting their rights In this mat-
ter in peace times, the states are on-
ly saying that accumulated capital
shall not be dissipated and scattered
by federal interference.
By the same token, the states are
repeating Webster’s dictum that “the
power to tax is the power to de-
stroy,” and unless a check is placed
upon Congress and the bureaus which
it creates, the state governments will
be reduced to unimportant adminis-
trative units.
other period. If we stand together The encampment has the indorse-
in New York we must set a worthy ment of the Texas annual confer-
Division, 121st Wagon Company. At world.
Palacios, July 24-August7, encamp- j
ment of the Seventy-Second Brigade i
under command of Brigadier General ,
tertainment, etc., should write him.
The program committee consists of
Rev. C. H. Doak of Palacios, Rev. F.
D. Dawson of Jacksonville, and Rev.
straight, he of the boys camp, and will put on a
home after an extended visit with
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Drachenberg
and Pauline Tyson returned Sunday
from Florida and Louisiana.
Miss Irma Berg spent the Eaater
holidays with relatives in Dallas.
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mitories, restaurants and a most
pleasant sea breeze.
The time set for the encampment
is from July 25 to August 5.
Rev. C. H. Doak of Palacios wll
have the general management of the
to gather this week. At least some-
thing has kept the news items low.
We hope it will rain and stir things
up a little for next week though we
do not desire such a stirring as the
northern part of the United States
got a few weeks ago.
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Tribune Want Adg bring businesa.
gade, commanded by Brigadier Gen there is in any industry. Just give
eral Henry Hutchings, Headquarters him a chance, let him alone without
of the Thirty-Sixth Division, Head- alot or foolish volunteer uplifting and
quarters Company of the Thirty-Sixth he will come through and feed the
At 3 p. m. Thursday, April 9, a
very interesting meeting was held at
the Queen Theatre in the interest of
presenting to our citizens the peti-
tion gotten up to be presented to the
Commissioners Court, asking for an
election to be held to vote fifty thous-
and dollars worth of bonds to con-
struct the Palacios District’s part—
consisting of seven miles—of the hard
surfaced highway to Bay City.
A Mayor Campbell presided, and af-
ter a few explanatory remarks intro-
duced Mr. Duncan Ruthven, who
outlined the plan of building this
highway—Palacios to Bay City—and
reading the petition. Briefly, the
Markham, Midfield, Blessing and Dun-
bar districts have combined them-
selves into one district for the pur-
pose of building this road from the
north terminus of the Palacios dis-
trict road to the Colorado river
bridge west of Bay City, and the Pa-
lacios district will take care of their
seven miles.
Recent years have brought increas-
es in the American appetite for citrus
. fruits. According to the department
law to come from Houston Saturday
and a party was planned near Mr.
F. A. King’s ranch. As the expected
guest did not arrive and a large num-
Albert J. Rich of Goose Creek.
TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNTY, AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR IT s FUTURE. ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT.
lead the way.”
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BAY VIEW HIGH SCHOOL AND
COLLEGEPORT VICINITY
A move for a new Methodist en-
campment in South Texas was for-
merly launched in Houston during
the week.
Several prominent ministers of
George F Rains. The 111th Medical
Regiment will also participate in this
training camp.
Thos. M. Clark and family went to tin, who were the guests of their
Palacios Sunday afternoon. I daughter, Mrs. W. W. Stewart, have
Rev. Janes expected his brother-In- returned home.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Thrasher and
children motored to Bay City Friday
Mrs. Wilmer Nini and little daugh-
ter have returned after spending sev-
Both the farmer and merchant are
getting very much discouraged over
the prospects and see no hope for <>
crop If a rain does not fall soon.
Showers predicted for Oklahoma on
Wednesday are looked upon as en-
couraging. Cloudy weather with a
slight change in temperature is the
forecast for Texas Tuesday night. and
Wednesday.
i encampment for this year. Any one
to be advanced, emulating the pro- j Sermons and lectures by some of
gressive lady whose place was in the the outstanding men of Texas Meth-
van; she didn’t mind where the van 1 orism on each day will be among
was going as long as she was in it.”, the outstanding features of the en-
Senator Copeland, New York, one campment.
I Mrs. R. L. Batts of Cameron will
"We can not serve the people if have charge of the young ladies of
we are torn by internal dissention the Missionary Society, and will su-
about 70,060,000 boxes hence the ex-
perts recommend no further planting
now.
The increaser acreage in orchards
does not mean, necessarily, an over-
production of oranges, lemons and is
magnificently organized to insure the
highest quality, when the fruit is
marketed and the sales force under-
stands the fine art of opening new
markets and developing those already
open. It would be vain and foolish
ti imagine the market for oranges
has been fully developed. that good
lemons would fail to find buyerfs and
that the luscious grapefruit has
found its largest number of lovers.
There is not the slightest indication
that the market limit for fine fruit
has been sighted. On the contrary
the public favor won by these fruits
is abundant guarantee that the de-
mand will be increased— Ohio State
Journal.
The law goes into effect June 19,
and the testing of headlight devices
will begin at that time. Due to the
fact, however, that It will require
some time to adjust existing head-
lights so as to comply with the new
act and to Install the devices so as
to bring them within Class A, the
enforcement of the law will not be
started until September 1. It is
thought that approximately 96 per
cent of the headlights now In use
may be adjusted so as to bring them
within the requirements of the law.
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The distance around the boundary
of the United States is 19,156 miles
No immediate relief from the
drouth which has held Texas in its
grasp since the early part of the
year, is seen, according to L. H. Dain-
gerfield, of the local weather bureau
Although a few heavy rains and hail-
storms were recorded in Oklahoma on
Monday night, not a drop of rain fell
in Texas except on the Oklahoma
border.
Out of the 60 stations from which
weather reports are received by Mr.
Daingerfield, only three have report-
ed rain during the past week. Only
slight rainfall was recorded then.
In the extreme western part of the
state, and in an area of Central Tex-
as with a swing toward the gulf
coast, including Houston. the drouth
is the worst experienced in yours.
In Central Texas, at Cuero, pas-
tures are bare. On the coast, near
Brazoria, all fruits are dying, it is
reported, and crops are implanted.
The same reports are heard from all
Brazoria, Matagorda and Harris coun-
ties
West Texas is extremely dry. In
many towns, the water supply is
running low. Irrigation has been
prohibited in places.
Crops in Bad Shape.
At. Elgin, reports state that exces-
sive high wind and blinding sand is
making life almost unbearable to
those who are forced to be in the
open and the housewives are desper-
ate over the constant flow of dust
and sand.
Farmers at Lockhart who planted
corn with a hope of rain have seen
steals for you will also steal from
you.” bobs up every time any man
gets a special favor. What the far-
mer wants most is Industrial peace,
there is no war in his own field the
wars are carried on somewhere else.
this bond issue.
Mayor Campbell then introduced
Col. P. A. Weattherred, who spoke
briefly on the necesity of this hard
surfaced road for the camp, and of-
fered all assistance possible to fur-
ther the project, and stated the mon-
ey for the development of the camp
site was now available.
Major Westbroog of the National
Guard, who will have direct charge
of the development of this camp site
and the minutest details of the en-
campment, was introduced, and in a
few well chosen words stated that he
would now be with us all the time
attending his duties, but that he
could not make concrete arrange-
ments until after probably May 15th.
when this road question should be
decided.
Robert Jolly, president of the B.
Y. P. U., was introduced and created
considerable enthusiasm by offering
all the assistance his organization
on arrangements. This insures to
The vice-president of the National
Council of the Farmers’ Co-operative
Marketing Association said. "All the
farmer asks of Congress is to be al-
lowed to settle hl sown problems
himself.” The organization unani-
mously endorsed him.
Price fixing was an utter failure
ings. The theory that
Official । interested in good legislation. On
j the contrary, no one is more vitally
affected. He needs better distribu-
tion; but so, too, do the people who
must eat farm products. He needs
to know more about the advantages
of diversified farming. Also he needs
to apply more business-like methods
to many farm operations. - He is
learning all the- time.
He is about the gamest sportsman
pers and went swimming. All re-' Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Smith spent
ported a fine time. ' Thursday in Bay City with Mr. and
The ball game between Louise and ’ Mrs J I. Carson.
Mrs. H L. Hunter has returned
celve the attention due it from this
department, and emphasized the fact
that there was no time to be lost and
that everyone should do his duty
and arrange for this much needed
highway at the earliest possible date,
and finished with a plea for all pres-
ent to sign said petition. His re-
marks closed the meeting, and in a
very few minutes not only the nec-
essary fifty signers were procured,
but something over one hundred, and
the petition was presented to the
Commissioners Court Monday, April
13, and acted upon favorably by this
body and they set Saturday, May 16,
as the date for the election.
Let everyone get busy now and ex-
plain to those not familiar with the
issue just what it means and get
them to help put it over, not only
with a two-thirds majority, but a
much larger one.—Palacios Beacon.
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Two fighting-planes collided a mile
in the air at Kelly Field, San Anto-
ng, Texas, recently. The pilots
Vaped, fell swiftly for hundreds of
feet, opened their parachutes and
L floated down side by side to safety.
F while the two ships hit the earth
with thundering chashes and burst
into flames.
The speed limit of the snail is
half a mile a week.
GULF COAST ODD METHODISTS PLAN
FELLOWS TO MEET ENCAMPMENT AT
---- , PALACIOS, TEXAS
Many Lodges Will Be Represented it
Gathering in Navasota,
May 2X
"He who
Boss: "Lena! Who told you to
remove the tablecloth and put on
those confounded doilies?”
"The missus, sir.”
"Pretty, ain't they?"
Fifty-Sixth Machine Gun Squadron,
the 112th Cavalry Brigade, all under
command of Brigadier General J. F.
Wolters. At the same place, August
7-21, the necampment of the Sixty-
First Field Artillery Brigade under
command of Brigadier General Claude
V. Birkhead of San Antonio, will be
hell.
July 11-25, the Thirty Sixth Division
air service will hold a training school
at Ellington Field, near Houston.
This school will be in command of
Major B. A Law.
Copies of the official order issued
by the adjutant general's department
are being sent to the variols com-
manders in the guard. General Hu-
len is commander of the Thirty-Sixth
Division Adjutant General McGee
is expected to attend the encamp-
ments. Ample ground space has
been obtained at Palacios for the
accomodation of the troops during
the encampment
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The game of ball played here yes-
terday between Gulf and Bay City
Fort Worth. Texas, Rpril 20. Texas
cattle ranges contine to suffer from (
drouth, in spite of the scattered rains ।
ond showers, reports from inspectors 1
of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle ।
Raisers' Association to E. B. Spillar,
secretary of the organization, show. ,
Dry winds to a great extent nullify j
beneficial effects of the showers, and j
the ranges will continue to suffer |
until a general rain falls, the reports
indicate.
The annual spring movement of the
Texas cattle northward is in full ,
swing; field Inspectors of the cattle ,
Raisers' Association reporting the
heaviest movement since this time of
last year.
San Angelo and the surrounding
country showed the heaviest move-
ment of (lie week, 191 cars being in
spected for shipment. Kansas and
Oklahoma pastures received the bulk
of these cattle. Eighty-eight cars
were shipped from the Fort Stockton
district, all being destined for north
ern pastures.
At Lubbock twenty-five cars were
inspected for shipment; at Canadian
three' cars and at Clarendon twelve
cars, all going north to grass.
From the Amarillo district comes
the report of fifty-seven cars inspect-
ed, for shipment during the last week,
most, of the cattle going to Oklahoma
and Kansas areas, with four cars go-
ing to Illinois, five to Kentucky and
eight to Michigan. 1.260 head of
cattle were recently put in feed lots
at Memphis, Texas.
Dilley sent nineteen cars to Fort
Worth, eleven to St Louis and twen-
ty to Oklahoma to grass. From
Kingsville thirty-nine cars were ship
ped during the week, thirty-five being
destined for Oklohoma pastures. Ten
cars were shipped from North Pleas-
anton, nine going to Fort Worth and
one to San Antonio.
El Paso reported its usual heavy
quota, divided among Kansas, Okla-
homa. California and Mexico. 123
cars were inspected for shipment dur-
ing the week, ten of them going to
Mexico City for slaughter.
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