The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1928 Page: 4 of 8
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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE READJUSTMENT OF
ELECTRIC RATES
BY TRIBUNE PRINTNG COMPANY
Owner and Editor
CAREY SMITH
Will Permit Greater U.
se provements and extensions to its sys-
From
One Year
$1.50
Army Officer Oldest
THE DAILY TRIBUNE
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luxury for
a
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trict judge doing going about equipped
of these tables will show the advan-
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$1.35
HARDY.FIELDS MOTOR CO.
(By Arthur F. Sanders)
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The soil of the Katy area, a dark billed to him as separate items.
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THE FEED IN THE RED CHAIN BAGS
been created through the organisation
several weeks ago of the farmer com-
more varied use of electricity by th
housewife, and resuit in the elimina-
tion of much of the drudgery of the
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ties. These economies, together with
this wider use of electric energy, has
enabled the company to pass on these
benefits to its customers in the form
of lower rates for electric services.
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KWH Used
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Katy Section Excels
Any Other In Texas
In Rice Production
facts is sufficient of their worthless-
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15c
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Net Billing
New Rate
1.50
2.10
2.80
3.25
3.70
4.60
5.20
5.80
Net Billing
Old Rate
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3.83
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Mandy loam, is also adapted for grow-
ing pears, peaches, plums and figs, and
general truck crops.
Bad debts constitute a considerable
’ item in the return of many taxpayers
and may be treated in one of two ways.
In Service at Ft. Sam
Houston Transferred
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gate about 100 acres.
The new rates quoted above are net.
Putting this comparison into con-
crete example and assuming that a
customer owns a five room house, his
billing on both the old and the new
rate schedule, if he used ten. fifteen,
twenty or more K.W.H., would be as
follows:
a decedent in process of administra-
reage increase is expeeled this year.
debt is worthless and uncollectible,
and that legal action, in nil probabil-
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay (ay, Texas, as second class mull matte:
under Act of Congress, March 3, 1879
Any erroneous reflection upon the < haracter or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily and willingly corret led upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers
The paper will be conducted upon the highest po sible ;lane of legitimate
newspaper business.
for about twenty cents per month: he
pal agricultural industry, there is some automobile chassis and bodies and
cotton, corn and peanut growing and motor cycles are not deductible by the
vice president, and Mrs. J. A Bartlett
was elected secretary.
ity would not avail, proof of these
"Katy has the most cosmopolitan
work will not be accepted.
Taxes are deductible as such only by ’
the persons upon whom they are im-1
posed. Thus, the excise taxes imposed .
upon the sales by manufacturers of
housewife to have the aid of this med- due for transfer to foreign service,
but he’s not going for another year,
Unpaid loans made to relatives or
lends with little or no expectation of
at least.
Already the oldest man, in length of
duty on the local post, Lieut. J. J. Rae-
zer, salvage and laundry officer for the
past nine years, has requested that his
orders for . tropical tour be deferred
as long as possible.
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ing her household tasks. So efficient-
ly and so cheaply does it work that it
has become a necessity for her.
It is believed that the new rates now
in effect in Bay City will permit a
was smuggled aboard a British boat
by that official at Tampico and landed
at Aransas Pass in 1911.
Raezer later went to Cuba, where he
was commissioned by government of
that country to establish a big rice
plantation in the province of Havana.
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In the matter of the new city hall it
is to be regretted that some of our
good people propose to "spread it out"
over much territory and, in doing so,
get less than what their money should
buy The Tribune believes a serious ,
mistake will be made if the auditorium
feature of the building is incorporated.
In the first place, there is not half
enough money for the right kind of
He has become so well acquainted
home. ” ' with thousands of officers, many of
A comparison of the old with the them still stationed here, through pe-
new rate is given below, and a study culiar natuure of his duties, Lieut.
" - Raezer feels it would take a lifetime
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Tribune adrertisements pay.
AF Amml;-, . L D eiu ha- permitted a more efficient and
/. PPnances DY bay economical operation of its proper-
City Housewives.
the fire boys. Let's reason this mat-
ter out along practical, business-like
lines and confine ourselves to a real,
first class, worth while fire station
and city hull only, one that will do
credit to the town and good service
for the years to come.
scrub fed for good cows j G
is as criminal as
good fed for scrub cows! (
but it cannot build and equip a fire hard-surtaced all the way from Hous-
station, city hall and auditorium. It ton to Austin.
cannot be done and justice be done the The problem of draining this section
tux payers, the citizens in general or lias long been talked of by Katy peo-
munity club The club was organized
under the direction of County Agent G.
longer considered a
equalled by only one other section in estate paid during the taxable yegr
Texas, according to L. C. Mann of the 1927 are deductible. So-called taxes
American Rice Growers' association i assessed against local benefits, such as
The average production in the Texas I street paving or drainage, which tend
and Louisiana rhe growing sections is to increase the value of the property
10 sacks to the acre, assessed or not deductible, since (hey
The Katy rice crop last year was ap-iare considered as constituting the cost
proximately 4,200 acres. A slight ac-ot a permanent improvement
cents; your waffle iron could be used moved to the southern republic, where
took over a 2,000-acre plantation j
the judge and the other by the young,'
man. Had one of these men not been
I your washing machine would cost
! about twenty cents per month to do
। the washing of an average family.
Similar appliances can be used at
rates which are equally as low.
This new schedule of rates, which
, the company has recently put into ef-
fect, is possible because the many im-
SEDANS 01195 to 01995 - - COUPES 01195 to 01850
SPORT MODELS 01195 to 01525
4u prices f.o.b. Flint, Mich., non^mmrnt tax to be uddeii. The finance plan,
tine moit d'nriiblf, is ai unable.
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auditorium. In the next place, the
auditorium proposed will be outgrown
if the city grows any at all. and be-
come obsolete in five years. Again,
wo have the school auditorium now,
the district court room which belongs
to the public, five big churches, two
theatres, the new hotel lobby and din
ing room and the Hamilton Hall space,
plenty of room from an auditorium
point of view for any and all pur-
poses. Another thing is that an audi-
torium in the city hall will naturally
compete and interfere with every other
auditorium in the city, from theatre to
church, and since the city hall be-
longs to the whole people, this feature
should not, by any means, be allowed
to be incorporated in the building.
Thirty thousand dollars will build a
very splendid city hall and tire station
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Towu Has Good Future.
"Kat;' bus a great future Prox-
As will be seen from this compari- Germans or approximately 100,000.-
son. under the new rate, the greater marks or more, surplus property with
the consumption of energy the more an estimated value of $3,000,000.
quickly the consumer is able to take Among the material sold were thou-:
advantage of the lower steps of rate. sands of leather jerkins no longer de-
For instance. a customer with a five sirable for American military use. I
room house would be billed, under the These the Germans bought up in huge I
new rate, at 11. for the first 20 K.W.H. lots. Ten days later, myriads of pairs
used: 9c for the next 20 K.W.H. used, of women's shoes, fashioned from the 1
and fic for all over 10 KWH. used jerkins, appeared in shop windows of j
by him Coblenz and other large cities of the I
This structure puts electric energy fatherland. Lieut. Raezer declared. |
in the reach of the small consumer at Following his coming to Fort Sam
so low a price that every home can Houston. Lieut. Raezer was detailed as
use all the electrical appliances avail- general police officer in addition to his
able to the housewife today without salvaging operations, and liter was
any appreciable increase in his electric Placed in charge of the extensive post
bill. laundry.
If our five-room customer is already As police and laundry officer. Lieut. I
using 20 K.W.H. per month, he im- Haezer was charged with the dual re-
mediately gets into the second step of sponsibility of keeping spotless the
the rate and his additional appliances linen of soldiers and their families, as
will 1....... the basis of 9e per KWH. well as roadways, and environs of the
Using this rate a curling on could quarters wherein they lived.
be used for more than an hour each This activity brought Lieut. Rae-
day for thirty days for a fraction more zer into contact with the great number
than seven cents; your nominal iron- of orricers and enlisted men with
ing for a period of thirty days would whom he became acquainted.
cost about forty-five cents; your toast- Preceding his entrance into the
er and percolator could be used each army, Lieut Raezer established and
morning during the month for break- operated rice plantations in Texas and
fast at a cost of about twenty-six cents Mexico.
each; your vacuum cleaner could be' Disposing of a 4,500-acre rice farm:
used a half hour each day for thirty near Eagle Lake in 1907, after man-1
days for approximately twenty-one' aging it for seven years. Raezer re-'
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The peanut acreage has been about
the same for the past 20 years, run-
ning in the neighborhood of 200 and
300 acres each season.
Truck farming is just being develop- i either by deduction from gross income
ed, and the people of Katy believe that in respect to debts ascertained to be
it will really come into its wn within worthless in whole or in part, or by
two or three years., Pho watermelon deduction from a reasonablee reserve
is the principal truck crop now. sever- for bad debts Permission to adopt the
al hundred acres being planted each reserve method is limited to taxpayers
year. c .... , having a large number of accounts
( onditions Improve. where credit has been extended to
A revival of interest in truck ami cover a considerable portion of time,
general farming is now apparent in I is not granted for the purpose of
the Katy section according to W R nandling one specific debt.
Gilpin. Mr. Gilpin declared that al- Bad debts may be deducted from
though farming conditions have been gross income only for the year in
generally poor all over the country which they are ascertained to be
since the war i believe the igricul worthless and charged off the books
tural conditions have shown - oMlder ot the taxpaver The taxpayer should
able improvement in the Katy com attach to his return a statement show-
munity"... ............. ... ..tc. ing the propriety of any deduction i
Considerable interest in diver sifica- claimed for bad debts Where the sur-
tion and in co-operative methods has
pie. but nothing definite lias ever been
done The natural waterfall is toward
the east, the terrain sloping from an
elevation of 115 feet at Katy to 60 feet,
at Houston. Drainage would be com-
paratively easy, as the water could be
led into the headwaters of Buffalo bay-
ou. which runs near Katy. Building
of a canal system, the residents here
say, would be comparatively simple
and the cost would be small The
only difficulty is that the bayou beds
as they are now. would be inadequate
to handle the flow of water. There
with shooting irons? And how long population of any small town in South-
before the deed was he called upon to east Texas With so many different
would be danger of flooding the coun-
Katy, Texas, March 6. The progres try below Katy. unless the bayou were
sive little town of Katy, 28 miles from deeper
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DAIRY RATION
tages of the new over th old rate
from the consumer's standpoint:
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The shooting of a young man by a specialists in various lines of agricul-
district judge is one of the news events tural work The purpose of the organi-
of the past week. The item comes fromzation is to stimulate interest in poul
Huntsville and was the result of two try, live stock and general farming,
cars running together, one driven by and to help and advise members
man, was elected pres’dent; W. C:
Strockdick, rice grower. was named f
district manager of the company at
Bay City, in discussing the new rates
in effect for this community.
Adequate electric service is neces-
sary in the average home. It is no
situated on the boundaries of the three speed of 1200 miles an hour, airplanes
states of Vera Cruz, Tamaulipas and of the future, taking their, fuel from
San Luis Potosi. , the air in the form of hydrogen and
Forced to take sides through pecul-! oxygen refinements, were depicted
iar political situation of the region: here by Igor I Sikorsky, noted air"
during the Huertista upheaval, Rae- plane designer.
zer suddenly found himself in peril of Dr Sikorsky. In a lecture on the
his life. Compelled to seek protection new developments in aviation in the
of the American consul, the planter Mason Laboratory at Yale University,
also said that planes, within a genera-
tion, will carry 200 passengers on long
flights at a speed of nearly 300 miles
an hour. He spoke under the auspices
of the Yale Aeronautical Society.
one lime had 24,500 sacks of rice in
storage. Each sa k weighs about 190
pounds.
Other ( rops Grown.
Although rice growing is the princi-
armed no murder charges would have imity to Houston is one of the princi-
been filed and a settlement could have pal factors in the coming development
been made the damaged party. With of this section," said J S. Moore, lo-
out going further, it is only necessary ■ cal business man "We believe we
to state that it was the district judze have the best all around farming see
who was armed ami it was the district tion in Harris county, and I can see
judge who did (he killing The que - no reason why the Katy community
tion naturally arises, what was a dis-1 should not expand," Mr Moore said
The club will hold two meetings a ! en
month to discuss the problems of its
members and to hear addresses by |
school was built recently at a cost of
। $35,000. The school has 14 credits.
John Merriwether, a man intensely in-
terested in agricultural work, is sup-
erintendent of the district.
I lub W ork Aetive.
Tlie civic ami educational interests
of the community are looked after by
an active parent-teacher association
and by the Katy Comunity club, an ox-
ganization composed of local business
men
Katy is located on the most direct
route between Houston and El Paso.
The Katy road, which is to be hard-
surfaced shortly between Katy and
Houston, is a direct route to Austin,
via the historic old town of San Felipe.
Brookshire , Sealy, La Grange and
Elgin. The people of this community
are hoping some day to have the road
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Bernice Gordon School of
Dancing and Physical
Education
announces the opening of her classes.
All types of dancing taught. Studio
at Hamilton Hall. For information
call 151 or 301-J.
C. Ellisor. L C Wilkinson, poultry
"The recent reduction of electric
rates by the Central Power and Light
Company will permit a more varied
use of electrical appliances by the
housewives of Bay City at a very
small cost to them,” said Vance Porter,
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Houston, is in the center of what in
considered tlie most productive rice
growing section of Texas.
The crop here averages 16 sacks per 1
acre This average production is
A canal system of irrigation is con tion in ascertaining net income of the
sidered impractical, the nearest avail- estate subject to the (ax
able stream being the Brazos river, j Customs duties paid by a person on
about 15 miles to the west. articles Imported for his own use are
The bulk ot the crop is handled deductible Admission taxes are de-
through the warehouse of the Katy ductible but tlie taxpayer must show
Warehouse company and the Rose that account has been kept of the
warehouse. Tlie Katy warehouse, at ' amount pail during the year. Guess
(San Antonio Express)
Fort Sam Houston's most widely
known officer in military circles is
despite a rather poor market last year deducted. However, Income taxes im-
Wells Supply Water. posed upon the income of individuals
The rice fields in this area are irri , by States may lie deducted by an in-
gated by wells Water toi irrigation I dividual on his Federal income-tax
purposes can usually be readied at a ; return.
depth of 150 feet A well at this The Federal estate tax is deductible
depth supplies sufficient water to irri- from tin- gross income of tlie state of
Old Rate.
First 25 kilowatt hours
Next 75 kilowatt hours
Next 200 kilowatt hours
Next 300 kilowatt hours
Excess
Less 10 per cent discount
for prompt payment.
Minimum
New Rate
First 4 kilowatt hours
Next 4 kilowatt hours
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viewpoints and ideas the community
cannot help but advance," declared Mr.
Moore
Katy occupies a unique position, in
that the townsite is in three counties
Harris, Waller and Fort Bend. In
spite of this division the people of the
town are intensely loyal to Houston
and to Harris county.
The population is about 500 or 600.
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of straight line duty to acquire a new
collection of friends comparable in
size to the present list, he explained.
Entering military service in 1917,
after a successful career as rice plant-
er of Texas and Mexico. Lieut. Raezer
lias served in the same duty detail
throughout I be World War ami during
almost a decade at the Nation’s big-
| gest army post here.
Transferred in 1919 to Fort Sam
Houston as salvage and police officer
from Coblenz, Germany, where he
served with the Third Army in the
■ former capacity, the army material
reclamation officer has met and be-
come more or less closely associated
with more than 2,000 army officers
serving here at various times, he esti-
mates.
During his local activities, Lieut.
Raezer has salvaged and disposed of
more than $450,000 worth of Govern-
ment material, including tents, cloth-
ing. vehicles and surgical instruments.
Many other items, comprising practi-
cally all articles of equipment for the
। soldier and army posts, excepting
buildings and animals, have been sur-
veyed. salvaged and sold under the
1 officer’s direction.
1 In course of his service with the
American army of occupation, Lieut.
Raezer reclaimed and traded to the
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 9, 1928, newspaper, March 9, 1928; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1553566/m1/4/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.