The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1925 Page: 3 of 8
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HGH SCHOOL FORUM
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HOLKA POLKA.
Teddy: The belt, hi-.
Father (readng letter from son at
George Blair "We do not know," the pencil said;
SENIORS.
debt, pa
Bright Soph: "Help!
E IN.
What He Dictated.
He drew a revolver,
The usual Monday morning chapel hunting trip):
First National Bank
and
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Capital, $100,000.00
Report cards come out Tuesday eve-
supposed to fight wit' a fifty-poun'
Condensed Statement of
Miss Morgan has to listen to the
Citizens State Bank
His IWe pity some kids who have twenty
ring, but he don’t fight fair, see?
demerits.
of Bay City, Texas
The Lay of the Fool.
slingshot
an’ don’t do nothin’, see?
RESOURCES
turned
As he has swelled his brothers burned
upon their heads.
Fan Yon Answer!
Total
$553,649.68
LIABILITIES
shoulder
Do you?
Total
$553,649.68
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Harvey: Why, fish, of course!
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Wadsworth.
county, will be published in the next
edition of the Forum.
JUNIORS.
to do it.
For the first few days you’ll
FRESHMEN.
our • ji
tele,Ko
The greatest sacrifice
Bay City Bank & Trust Company
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BAY CITY, TEXAS
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Read Tribune Advertisements
“It’s queer as quadrupeds!
But can you tell us why we wear
Our rubbers on our heads?”
Mr. Key: What is cold boiled ham? |
Guy: Oh! that’s ham boiled in cold .
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Capital Stock __________
Undivided Profits, net-
Deposits ______________
Liberty Bonds Deposited
Bobbie Creech, as follows:
Roll call, answered by something to
be thankful for; The First Thanksgiv-
Or veterinarians when he’s sick,
That which shall profit all renown
And doubly dying shall go down
To the vile end he ough to get
Unboiled, un-mustarded, un-et!
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n
[ son of his recent
'And daddy took his
The Seniors are rotten.
The Juniors are spoiled.
The Sophs are tainted,
And WK are fresh.
s known,
less is to
ut what
to make
port life,
i become
it will
• consid-
’fairs.
1.
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Esther: “Oh, mother, I really think
I should wear something."
I lay offa him until the second roun‘
see?
Water, water everywhere.
Water on the ground,
Everybody’s thirsty,
And not a drop to be found.
forget yourself in your effort to copy
some one.
► yourself.
ed like tents,
style.
As rendered to the Commissioner of Bunking of the State
of Texas at the close of business, September 28, 1925.
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$ 50,000.00
6,328.47
461,171.21
36,15000
Loans, Personal___________________________;
Bunking House, Furnitur eand Fixtures______
Other Real Estute____________________________
Bonds and Stocks__________________________
Interest in and Assessment for Guaranty Fund
Other Resources __________________________
CASH_____________________________________
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The Character and
Purposes of This
Bank
$197,572.86
48,382.00
32,938.31
90,762.92
1 12,115.65
350.00
171,527.94
Appreciation Costs Nothing.
Appreciation costs nothing, but it
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club an’ him wit' t’ree-ounce pebbles, ■ —......e—- ---- - ------ — —
see? Them ll’l rocks don’t even tickle first year Spanish class sing. We sure
Staff.
Editor-In-Chief ......... —
Senior Assistant Editor
Can he sit in the shade of the palm
of his hand?
Does the calf of his leg eat the corn
on his toe?
If so, why not grow corn on the ear?
Latest Out!
“Did you hear about the latest fad?”
“No, what is it?”
"Radiolight lip stick.”
“What’s the idea of that?”
"So there won't be any chances for
a mistake in the dark."
The above is correct.
A. HARRIS, Cashier.
Black Cat Basket Bull Squad
Organizes.
The basket ball season opens De-
cember 4 with Bay City matched with
thankful for than the Pilgrim fathers
Helen Wood had
Billy Wilson ------
Picture Recalls
Deeds of Daring
of Early Pioneers
Tombstone For the Dentist.
View this gravestone with all gravity;
Below I’m filling my last cavity.
Freshman.
Assistant Editor
Just Fish.
Ask us who we are.
And see what we will say.
You can almost guess the answer,
For who is the one that is always gay?
Sophs we are to be,
And then won’t we be proud?
We can look back on our Freshman
year,
And then we will shout aloud.
knee?
Or a key to the lock of his hair?
Can his eye be called an acauemy
Because there are pupils there?
Editorial.
“To thine own self be true, and it
coarse voice, caused by getting so
many frogs in his neck, end ne likes
back in another
as I
Wot hap- "Oh how 1 hate a hot dog stand!”
Whose stomach ne’er within him
No 11’1 runty high school kid ever H. s- challenges any one to say that
licked me an’ ever will. Just before I we "ain ’ •he best in Matagorda
gets a tip there’s fifty bucks in it if County.
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have a wide bill. They use it for a
[spade. They walk like a runk man
Where can a man buy a cap for his and bounce and bump from side to
Bert: "Whad ja doing?”
Wilbur: "Nothin’.”
Bert: "Need any help?”
eMott: “What is a ten letter word
meaning holdup?"
Lofton: "I'll bite, what is it?”
Mott: “Suspenders!”
What His Sleepy Stenographer Wrote.
The air was like gin. Everybody I
was twisting their limbs and dancing |
pens nex’? This Davey kid uppercuts i
seven-poun’s o’ sharp rock to me chin I
an' follers wit’ a ten-poun' brick, see? As he has swelled his brothers
I knows I'm framed to lose so when’At every corner in our land?
talk, by one of the ministers of the gun and was going quietly through
town, was postponed until Tuesday the brush when something started up
jail?
If so, what did it do?
How does he sharpen his
blades?
I'll be hanged if I know!
wing of the moon. Then his glance school) I’m a quarterback of the foot
caught my eye and I saw that it was ball squad now.
Jimmy! He seemed self-possessed. I Mother: If that's all the poor boy
but his glance seemed peculiar— it owes send him two-bits to get out of 1
seemed tense. He waited awhile.
Well, that was the
Practice began Monday, everlastingly at you, telling you to get
A practice game with Wadsworth is [up, wash your ears, start for school,
to be played this afternoon. The com- hurry home, chew your food, finish
plete schedule for Bay City, as dic-|your algebra, go to bed, get up, and
tated by the athletic director of the so on, a11 the way around again from
county, will be published in the next ‘one day's end to another? Gets pretty
Our forefathers gave thanks for to it- For the first few days you’ll
safety and food after a hard winter 1 get a lot of fun out of surprising the
season and though we have much more [ order-givers After that, life will be
to be thankful for than they had, weltamer. Yet it may be pretty thrilling
do not express our thanks as they [to find that no one can ever think of
did. [giving you an order; that when you
We have hospitals, schools and or- behave as a man, you’re treated as a
ganizations that fight disease, which man.-—Selected.
John (looking at foot bull punts):
What’s them?
Athlete: Football pants.
John: I never saw a footban with
them on.
SOPHOMORES.
Dignity.
| Dignity is a fine thing to wear but
a rotten thing to stand on. You know
there are a lot of folks who think their
‘ dignity is some sort of a rug and
others of them who think it is a step-
five-poun’ hunka ' (Revised Classic)
granite an’ smacks me in the nose. I Breathes there a pup with soul so dead
hollers hut the referee's in wit’ ’em Who never to himself hath said,
morning, when the period was given under his feet and went ‘whrr!”
over to Rev. Mr. Joslin, who made a what do you think it was?"
very interesting talk upon the sub-1 Son: “I know-! I know, daddy!
Ject of Study. Ford!"
"We study,” said Mr. Joslin, "for ------
Oh, boy! Basket bull season opens.
Clifford: Oh. say can you see by the
a ring in his voice that left me in a
trance. "Why are you alone so ear-
ly?" he asked grimly.
“S-h-,” I hissed, “where's the old
man?"
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God.”
CE288 the Atlantic in five days or less.
There was very little printing at
that time. The first newspaper came
out in 1622 and there were very few
books before that time. We can not
Daddy (telling
Why, Oliver!
“Did you see Oliver Twist, auntie?"
“Hush, child. You know I never
attend these modern dances.”
Not Alone.
Aviator: “Half the people down
there thought we were going to fall
then.”
Passenger ("So did half the people
up here.”
"We know that we were green.
The For we were supposed to be!”
You're the Doctor.
Don’t you hate to have someone
Hyden: Mr. Hutchinson is running
around in the mud a lot today. He
ought to have some hip boots.
Wilbur: Hu! Hip boots would be
like rubbers on Mr. Hutchinson.
in the Pilgrims' time destroyed many
people. We can keep in touch with
. Revised Classic.
aiei. ’ Buppoed to be) the ancient mari-
and there was ner's circumstances:
। around like a fence. There's no Joy
in being a fence.—Selected.
girls wore hair bows and the boys Now, »ay! Who has the goods on us?
ties, it. our class colors, pink and just tell us if you pleuse.
lavender. I
The program rendered by the com- Oh, nd. they are not bashful now,
mittee was "The Family Album." We know just how to act.
Every picture was a scream, show- But ,oh! those first few dreadful
ing the fashions of the nineteenth cen-' weeks.
tury. । We were just crammed, and that's a
“Come again!" you say? I fact!
How It Happened.
Olaf was asked the other day why
his face looked so funny.
“Nature was not to blame,” said he.
"When I was two months old I was
considered the handsomest child in
the neighborhood, but my nurse swap-
ped me away for another boy just to
please a friend of hers whose child
was ‘rather’ homely.”
Don’t Forget.
Voice from head of stairs: “Say,
young fellow, if the paper comes be-
fore you finish sayin’ good-night just
holler up the football scores, will
you?”
|side. If you scare them they flap
their wings and try to make a pass at
singing."
tiresome, doesn't it? To everyone con-
cerened—well, you can stop it, you’re
the doctor. Speed up and get each
thing done before anyone can tell you
he flips a twelve-poun’ slab to me If such there be, go mark him well!
right lamp I figgers it ain't no use For him no mongrel yelps shall
tryin' to fight a flyin’ quarry in al swell;
frame-up bout, so I jus ’slips down an’ Fine, though his collar, proved his
lets ’em count me out. But if I getta ' name,
return match wit’ this li’l Percy-boy Countless his bones as wish can claim
David I’ll knock him so far it'll take Despite blue ribbons, food that's slick
month with a program equally
well!"
1 hanksgiving
November 26th
Fhe earliest harvest
Thanksgiving in Amer-
ica was kept by the Pil-
grim fathers at Plymouth
in 1621.
soot I
God has been good to the Aierican L
nation and our need for thanks accum- ,
ulates each year when we realize how ]
many more things we have to be
The Luck of the Irish.
An Irish fireman, rescuing a wom-
an at a blaze, lost his hold near the
bottom of the ladder and landed heav-
ily with the woman on top of him. A
doctor, hastily summoned, pronounced
Pat sound, though badly bruished.
“You are a brave gentleman,” said
the gentleman.
"Brave, maybe, but no gintleman.”
returned Pat, rubbing his injuries, "or
I’d a-let the lady go first.”
are getting all the best of the bar*
gain. In a deal of that kind the boy
or girl who doesn’t pay—it seems to
us—is about the lowest form of ani-
mal life. It is the meanest kind of
cheating. And so silly!—Selected.
must follow as the night the day. panic-stricken Arab!
Father: “My son ,1'm afraid I’ll for instance , who never have a
never see you in heaven!” (thought but for money and work.
Lofton: “Whatcha been doing now?”,Those fellows don't live; they’re just
How to Live.
One of the greatest bits of knowl-
edge you can gather is how to live.
It sounds easy but it’s not so simple.
Living is a complicated job because
you are always so mixed up with oth-
er folks and have to accommodate
yourself to them. Lots of men who
think they know how to live haven't
the least idea how it’s done. The men,
wit’ a
“Yes, we’ll be
ihureex it.the Dixhwgyrof Jr thevstand"ton .Tr";
is the flowers; the thorns will look they clamor up on their dignity and
for us. .there is trouble to pay. About two-
______ [thirds of the difficulties between men
All the other classes should take and nations in the world would dis-
spelling lessons from the Fish, re- appear the, day that, sort of. dignity
cently one of them spelt chemistry- was abolished. So let uh start out
kemistry your generation, which is going to be
______ jthe next in power in the world, to
Mr. Key: What are herring used do that very thing.-Selected.
for? ------
The Boy That Tried to Learn.
The Mother: Sonny, you always put
your trousers on hind part before.
The Boy: Mother, you've been
A Senior: We are very dignified
people.
A Fish: Ho! We do’t claim to be
dignified for we look too slick and
scaly.
I’m a square guy. I says, sure I’ll ning. We're sure the Freshmen will
let him live the firs' roun’. But I see show up in grades; we'll rank high
something's wrong right away. I’m any way.
the shore was Charleston and what I
a city it was! The stranger paused,
standing forlorn and watching the ;
Reporters—Beulah Erickson, Leena
Insall.
Reporters—Pauline Blair, Crawford On Wednesday morning Rev. Pugs-
Mearns, Katherine Fullingim. ley of the Methodist Church gave us
■■■' ——’—-----------— a very interesting talk on the origin
Junior. of Thanksgiving Day and what we
Assistant Editor Katherine Ruse ought to be thankful for today. We
Reporters—. Mortimer Stewart, Julian like to have the various ministers
Woolsey. speak to us. Come again!
Oregon,
fessed to
and ap-
■ty was
The senior program last Thursday the water and carries a little toy bal-
morning was in the form of a short loon in his stomach to keep from
play, entitled “Under the Lemon sinking. He has only two legs and
Tree,” in which, the old lemon tree they are set far back on ills running
proved the legend about it to be true, gears by nature that they come pretty
and dropped a lemon from its near missing his body. Some ducks
branches upon the head of the per- when they get old get big curls in
son sitting under it when a falsehood their tails; they are called drakes and
was told. Savannah and Bert proved don’t have to set or hatch, but just
themselves to be experts in that line, loaf and go swimming and eat every-
and many were the lemons showered thing in sight. If I were to be a duck
preaching that to me all day.
The Mother: I want you to learn to
put them on right.
The Boy (at night when he goes to
bed): Now I lay me down to sleep
with my hind part before. I pray the
Lord my soul to take with my hind ‘
part before. If I should die before I |
wake with my hind part before, I pray ,
the Lord my sould to keep with my
hind part before.
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This bank is—
—an institution serving the best
interests of the depositor.
—an establishment for the fur-
therance of community enter-
prises.
—a place of safety, of strength
and satisfactory dealings.
These things, and many others, too
mention here, define the character
and purposes of this bank.
You may safely place your confidence
and your funds in our keeping.
his secon’s a montha Yom Kippurs
to find out where he landed, see?
CHET JOHNSON.
What the Author Dictated.
The air was like wine. Above the Prof. Name a modern instrument of
’ twisted limbs of the dancing trees on torture?
s Anofed.
e clubs
ife. Not
■ it is a
member-
la The
i call of
r in the
> is lim-
ed. and
secrecy.
so appli-
there is
h or-fe-
nte. I keep outa his way the firs' pity her
roun’. I ' ........
An’ what happens? I walks out the 1 Mr. Hutchinson has sent in an
next roun’ to smear him all over the order for 600 rubber chemistry tubes.
Miss Bogardus: “Give me a sen-
tence using tinsel.”
Sophomore. 1 Hard to Explalu.
Assistant Editor P. O. Secrest Typewriter to the pencil said.
Reporters--Nellie Jewel Harris, Dollie "Now will you tell me, please,
Mae Lee. Why, when I have no doors or locks.
। 1 have as many keys?”
“tends by mail, express, radio,
iesuprone, and telegraph but ine Pil- pays for a lot. .... puuwouooun—-
grim fathers never dreamed of such [and labor by your dad and mother can
things. It took them months and be paid for amply by your apprecia-
months to cross the Atlantic when Hon of it The price is cheap. You
they came to America and now we can
I would rather be a drake. They
6)
Deposit the fruits of your
harvest in this strong
bank for the coming year
and make your next
I hanksgiving a still more
enjoyable one.
In the crown of his head what gems I The Echo met Friday, November 20,
are found. 11925. A very interesting program was
Who travels the bridge of his nose? 'arranged by Margaret Brewer and
Can he use, when shingling the roof
of his house,
The nails on the end of his toes?
Can the crook of his elbow be sent to ing, Eleanor Chapman; Courtship of
Mllet Standish, Billy Amos; a
Thanksgiving story, Nick Gartrell.
three main reasons. First, that we Daughter: "I know we are poor,
may learn to know ourselves; know papa, but Athelstone is brave and
wherein our strength and weakness hopeful and he says that love will
lies; know our virtues. Second, that make a way.”
we may learn to care properly for our Papa (grimly): "I know it will, it's
bodies, and to provide ourselves with made away with six t 4 of parlor
the necessary essentials of life; and coal and $30 worth if gas since
learn how to care for those who be- Christmas and it's year thate worry-
long to us. Third, and most impor- ing me.”
tant, we study that we may learn to ------
carry out that highest motive of life, The Schoolhoy’s Essay on the Duck,
that of helping those about us; and "The duck is a low-, heavy-set bird,
in so doing, to carry out the Will ot He is a mighty poor singer, having a
dawn's early light (pauses for
awhile) —
Miss Morgan: What?
Clifford: I don’t know.
Miss Morgan: I mean "what” is the
next word.
What She Wrote.
He wasn’t as good looking as Oliver,
but I took his wing for the next dance.
“Can I take you home, girlie?" he
asked, grinning.
“Yes," I lisped. “So's your old
man." |We have our first game with Wads-
------ (worth. I am sure our team will be
Goliath's Alibi, the best in the state and will make
I got framed on. double-crossed, old J- D. H. S. proud of it. We will
see? take all honors in the county. J. D.
secon’s sneaks in a pile o' rocks as
big as ostrich eggs.
Before I can get wise he loads his '
thou canst not then be false to any coming and unless we work fast, our
man. tinsel fall down."
Let’s be ourselves. Peopie don’t ------
like us because we act like some one Farmer:. “Now, come along and I'll
else. We don't admire people because teach you to milk a cow.”
they pretend to be sometatas other Bretch: "Seeing I’m new, hadn't I
than what they are—we like them for better begin on the calf?”
what they really are! | ------
If you are naturally studious and Rena (rather hesitantly): “I’d like
really like Latin don’t be aim'd to to buy a petticoat."
say so! You are supposed t > live your Floor-Walker: “Antique department
own life—not copy some one vise's or the third floor, miss?”
life. ( ----------
If you admire some one it is all Mother: “I seriously object to these
right to try to be like them, but don’t one-piece bathing suits."
!” cried the
"A storm is
you have
ad, poor
general
ign your
‘ally de-
rders in
3 is Her-
the liver,
ties the
eeling of
8. Price
—Adv.
Actual happenings that eclipsed fic-
tion marked the building of the first
trans-continental railway. Every inch [
of ground on the historic "Iron Trail”
has been made sacred by events, ad-
ventures and experiences which
would surpass all legendary love from
the time of the Crusaders to the his-
toric Waterloo.
Deeds of daring and hair-breadth es-
capes—innumerable trials, sufferings
and hardships of the early pioneers
during the building of the thrilling
situations to be found in the William
Fox production of "The Iron Horse,”
which deals with the construction and
completion of the first trans-cont-
nental railroad.
George O'Brien, one of the young-
est delineators of outdoor characters,
enacts the role of "Davy” Brandon,
Madge Bellamy, adjudged by many as
the most beautiful girl on the screen,
plays “Miriam Marsh,” “Will Walling,
one of the screen's best character ac-
tors, has the role of “Marsh,” the rail-
way’s construction engineer; Gladys
Hulette and Cyril Chadwick enact
semi-heavy roles under the influence
of Fred Kohler, who supplies the vil-
lainy. “The Iron Horse" comes to
the Grand Theatre November 30.
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A pair of rabbits brought to Laysan
Island multiplied so rapidly that
their progeny starved themselves to
death by destroying all the green veg-
etation on the island.
imagine a world without books. It ------
surely would not be interesting. * Last Friday was Soph Day.
the Charleston and what a pity it water, isn't it?
was! The stranger paused, standing) ----------
on my corn and taking a drink of Freshman I don’t know,
moonshine. Then the dance caught [ Sophomore I am not prepared,
my eye and I saw that it was the Junior I do not remember,
shimmy! He seemed well dressed, but [ Senior I don’t believe I can add
his pants seemed peculiar—they seem- anything to what has been said.
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