The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 119, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 10, 1929 Page: 2 of 4
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The Daily Tribune,, Sept. 1G, 1929
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THE DAILY TRIBUNE
School days
The Ancient Wailing Wall Scene of Carnage
Published Daily Exeept Sunday
New Talkie Opens
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will have.
what kind of a team
SAYS E. C. SAMS
of Retail Distribution.
going Frick, Joe McMillan, Beal McKelvy,
Actually
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Huston’s Dru g Store
Home Town, however, is not that
YOUR REXALL STORE
— Lowest Prices
Unexcelled Quality
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YOU SHOULD MAKE IT A POINT
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TO GET INFORMATION
You will Hunt lo he sure Hint its talite will be lasting.
South bedroom. Mis.
Phone 119
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Sheaffer Pen Company which sells for
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advice Now!
Ford
being operated by methods which
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will appreciate your business.
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Wharton, Boling, Eagle Lake, Bay City, Markham
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BUSINESS RIVALRY
IS MORE FRIENDLY
Whatever roof you build
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Surprise Picture
Holds Audience As
ho friendly, between and among in
dependent merchants, just us it does
between chain stores and independ
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the postoffice of Buy City, Texas,
under act of Congress,
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You will want assurance that the automobile dealer
who hopes to sell you a car is qualified to look after all of
your motoring needs.
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owned and driven that make of car.
You wil Iwant to be satisfied that the kind of sen ice
you require is available here in Bay City.
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President J. C. Penney
Co. Delivers Address
At Boston Conference
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Before buying an automohile von will want to be
satisfied that II is worth the price asked for it.
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You will want to be assured that the dealer you buy
from is interested to see that people who buy cars from
him are efficiently, courteously and economically served.
We hope that before you buy a car you will talk to
Buick owners in Bay City and vicinity.
And we invite you to come here mid inspect the facili-
ties that we have provided to take care of the service
requirements of Buick owners in Bay City.
The Tex
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largest ev
Priecs hav
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The boys that were on the field
lor the first work-out were: John
ly shops .hardware stores anil other *
merchants net their tun .......... * Hoover's Son Sbeakine
this out-ol town business. 1 9
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SCHOOL SUPPLIES
GOING AT COST
R. H. BEAVERS
is < LOSING 01 I HIS I INE OF st IIOOI St I'M US, AND
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a dollar.
It looks snaller, dustier and less
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"‘The merchant is, in the strictest
sense, accountable to his commun-
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extended trip through his childhood tain, Brooksie Smith, who we trust
haunts, reports regretfully that the will lead our boys to success. Other
Home Town is, after all. best re- than Brooks we have a very light
visited in an arm chair, on a win-
ter evening, in the security of one’s
own living room; and he seems to
"it would seem that a merchant
You know that any automobile requires occasional
mechanical attention.
CARDS FOR EVERY OCCASION:
And with the opening of
school comes the need
for books, peneils, tab-
lets, pen mid ink. every-
thing for the school day.
He have them all at
money saving prices.
What about your Fountain Pen?
ddise and as a citizen in the com-
munity. mnusi command that com-
munity’a contidence and justify its
continued patronage.
"The average chain store system
Now and then it seems as
will. Of course, we have hopes our]
players will show the class of play-
by melan- ing this year as was shown by Earl
the New White, Guy Grissom and a few
jective of the chain store manager
is, and should be ,in the average
case, identically the same as that
of the independent store manager.
If be is in the right job, he looks
upon his work as a service to which
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has a right to expect a reward only
In proportion to the service rend
ered
a distributor oi mere han
The Old Home Town is one
Emaff5758Ushouidetermine the
Let us help you with this problem. Carey Built-up
Roofs, which we apply, are designed for every type of
building They re backed by 53 years of experience.
Come in and have us tell you about them.
if no one, in all the country, has
indepenaent more
tionship thill properly should exist
hetween the chain store and the in
dependent store is that relat ionsh I • support him, to buy
which should exist between two dise , unless his operating plan is
men who happen lo he engaged in economical and hi. buying policies
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M 1, Capps,
Is mil Government
the University el i
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Gillespie County, where the peo-
trouble with the Old
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successful
The raal
the purchases lor the entire
Typewriting Pads and Tablets
100 Sheets Student’s Practice Paper
Masterpiece Drawing Tablets, 10c, now
Blue Jay Note Books
MI Ilie Tablets now
15c Loose Leaf Note Books with paper
Blue Jay Fountain Pens
School Fountain Pens
Carter’s Fountain Pens
10c Rite-Ezy Fountain Pen Ink, Se
25c Composition Books
15c Composition Books
Note Book Paper, 10c
Prang Water Colors, 35c value
5c Crayolas
10c Crayohis
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growth into
in the right.
A RE.you planning to put a flat roof on your
h building? Or is it to be steep-pitched? Or of saw.
tooth construction? And are sparks or embers
likely to fall on it? Is it to be permanent or temporary?
Is there acid-laden smoke in the-neighborhood? Or
chemical fumes?
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wool crop this year is | 5
. 3,000,000 pounds, the 2.
weiaine.....sivoimalvigwaze, "Herbert, Hoover, Jr., 26, son of
voted $360,000 in road bonds and all ths. president, speaking over the
main roads in the county are to be radio on Radio: Magic Guide for
hard surfaced Airplanes.”
others. This year we boost our cap-
family inciude many types of mer
of < shandise not rallied in stock at the
average department store. Special
groups can command. It is a mat
of its inability to apply right prill ple are so law abiding that the ex-
ciples in its operations, littie hope officio salary of the sheriff had to
lor ita permanent success need le be raised to give him a living wage.
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in any community, regardless
will always
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that indiviaual who
inly remember that at least
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ter ot deepest conviction with me L
Him neither the chain store nor the | 1
andependent merchant can anord to . I
apend upon what lie now has, in I i
worder to get more. Money, ol itselt |!
does not make more money. I I
"The successful merchant of the l
future . whether with a chain store I.
presented in thing seems to have shrunk
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exciting than it used to. It is peo-
Supplies this year we ever had and
is but the elongation ol an
pendent store a group ol
Wilburn McKelvy, Roy MeGlaunn,
Cecil Harrison, Casey Bates, Victor
Woods, Victor Collins, Bert Carr,
Blond Huie. Vernon Vandiver, Glen
White, Manlord Noster, Victor Du-
cros, Harold Amos. Bob Fonder, Ted
mangum, Nells Thompson, Raleigh
Huebner, Pete Kogutt. and last, our
< aptain. Brooks Smith.
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FOR RENT- Two rooms, water
lights and bath, up stairs, all for
$8.00 per month, man and wife. You
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Be sure to see Hr. Wise.
merchandise that
proved prouitable in
" A view of the noted wailing wall in Jerusalem, used by those of
Jewish faith for religious prayer, at which Jews were slain during the
riots between Jews and Arabs The Moslems charge that the Jews
berore acek to extend their rights to the wall, and are opposed to it
ent. This condition
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have as its supreme objective, I hr
deliberate annihilation of some o(h
er servi e -rendering businss pro
ject, deserves to fail, and because
in a small
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of his single store in additional । I
-stores, is the only natural outlet ot ' I
such a merchant's initiative. I >
"Reduced to its simplest form, | 1
the chain idea merely indicates . I
growth I ।
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any oujecuun emtertained by inde- * •
pndent merchants concerning th“
growth of the busiess of an inde- l .
pendent retailer. Ilie law of sup- > ;
ply and demand is considered - . 2‘ .’ “
ficient to govern his investment
listed as advantages accruing
ather merchants because o,
presence ot chain stores in
ccom munity.
1. Well-knowp chain stores I
.his trontage aud to
J loot' space, he is
an address delivered
FREE! First week of school a skull cap or pennant in
school colors with a purchase of school supplies amount-
ing to $1.00 or over.
TRIBUNE PIINTING COMPANY
Publishers
Sometimes it is really a mistake
to go Liu k and revisit the Old Home
Tow n
J ito bring in trade from the si-
> rrouuding trade territory in which
* .local merchauis share.
2 The scientific merchandising
imolicies followed by chain units
.give che alert and progressive mer-
I h e s e merchandising
their independent store, must consider
were himself n distributor of merchan -
disc He is an individual whom the
CAREY SMITH Owner and Editor
upon his ability us a manager. I
on the other hand, he prerers to s
tabnsi his increased Hoot space in
another neighbornood or commun-
ity, why should he himseit lie .......
upon us a possible menace to ti
community ‘s prosperity :
"My attention was recently called
an orxanization so thin the
turners money is invested in
most economical manner
ily us a merchandising servant No
community should be expected to
his merchan
apple orchard on the hill, to which
well known we used to climb, panting, with
"The Fog" stubby legs, Is no longer an Olym-
"Any corporation which might community rewards
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e ranged around 34c or
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We have probably the bent coach
in the distriet, as has been proven.
Meharg can make men out of
boys. He is working hard to give
us a great team, and we believe he’
entertained
""The extent to which chain stores
will continue to increase through-
out the country is not governed
solely by the sum total of financial
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his community is entitled. And he
on a distant farm
country village
So «ach of us has
Today, Coach "Tugar" Meharg
I,brought together the 1929 football
the servant of his public And this
deduction applies with equal force
to both the chain store and the in
dependent retailer
"Viewed in this light, the rela
can hoi say
And that is something Exchange
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Our Prospects
“A roof for every building'*
Praytor & Cu: puny, au.horized and
approved Co ntraclois in Crey Built-Up
bonded) Roo $, W-iI cuntract on short no-
tice for any class of guaranteed roofing.
Their headquarters in Bay City (Phone
23) will be with their exclusive dealers, The
Alamo Lumber Co. Easy terms can be ar-
ranged. Why go on with a bad roof?
"Already ii large percentage of
the independent merchants are
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in aceord with his community's
needs Certainly .every merchant,
whether chain store operator or an
: they enjoyed one of the best talking turesque as
radii. In winch the tollowing were
pictures that has beer
this । ity.
Adapted from the
stage mystery play,
FOR RENT 3-room unfurnished 01
apartment; all conveniences. Call W
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old, familiar places to find oneselt
haunted haunted by instant re-
; minders that one had once planned
' 10 lead a life far more noble and
significant haunted by a sense of
iailure and defeat.
This isn’t really lair No man
ever quite becomes the magnifi-
cent figure of his boyhood dreams.
Yet it is inescapable. We are all
tailures. Once we had a very high
and shining goal, and now we ses
proving to themselves that
marly tears of chain stores
groundless.
never really had The longer we
have been away, the more entranc-
ing it looks. Finally, after years ot
absence, we summon our resolu-
tion and go buck to see it again
And there, usually, we make a
mistake.
To begin with, the town is never
so large. so attractive or so pie-
sometimes friendly, sometimes not
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Have you met Hr. Wise?
American institutions
nearly everyone seems
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the whole, they are somewhat le an many in tances that customers ! his moth r lather and two sister
xelfish travel a great many miles further also pluying instruments. Robert
"store keeping can be made to 111 trade 1,1 communities where mil received hi training on the cornel
serve men and women to the mutual lonally advertised chain stores ma; ■ from Pror. Thos H. Davies, Fair
advantage of Ilm storekeeper and 1,1 found. lax Building. Birmingham, one of
his customers. The customer eon However, n careful check-up re th foremost cornetist and teach-
tributes the money; the store keep venls thut it Is not Hie chain storn, (I ■ in the United States At pres
er contributes knowledge, skill, “lone, w lildi prol its H om these out ent Robert is attending Phillips
judgment and the Inlying ability ol 111 town customers They are in high chool when he is also u
dined lo look around to compare member of the school bund."
styles, values and prices. More o o
aimed high. We can never i
the distant peaks of boyhood
at least, once and for all, we
them. We know they are t
E acan study the policies ol the chains,
emulating their zood points and dis-
8 -carding those Dot appiicable to in-
. dividually owned stoics.
M 3. The better merchants prefer
chat cueir competitors have the ••
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not the men we might have been,
not the men we planned to be; and
the visit to the old Home Town re-
minds us of it, all too forcibly.
Yet, after all, thut is good for j
uh Failure is bearable if one can
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Persons attending the op<nlng
perormance of "Black Waters" yes-
terday at the Colonial Theatre were
treated to several delightful sur-
prises; they saw the first interna-
tional all dialogue picture ever
sereened; they witnessed a personal
triumph for several well know!,
actors who have heretofore appear-
4d only in silent photoplays ami
Town. In
color ami
an atmosphere that it
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written by John Willlard, author of plan height; and the old swimming
■rhe Cat and the Canary," “Black bole is become a dried-up. rather
chosen to spend his life in the
town where he was born. Seratch
the urbane New Yorker and you.
tind a transplanted lowan ; uproot
a Chicagoan, or a Detroiter, and
you will find a man who begun life
Waters" is well acted, photographed muddy pool instead of the wide,
sple ndidiy and direc ted so us to delightful retreat Hint it used to be.
bring out all the suspense of a de- 1 he returning native son, accord-
jlightrul plot under the muster band ingly, is shortly beset
or Marshall Nellan, who has added choly. Gilbert Swan,
another fine photoplay to his many York columnist, after making an
sucesses.
i As Tiger Larrabee, a wierd old
ship acptain, James Kirkwood car-
conference on retail distribu- _ __ i led off the honors, but was pressed
tion in Boston recently Earl Sams, ~ . i,, sely by Lloyd Hamilton, screen
president of the J C Penney Com stability which comes from cien 0®®®“*5*®®®5®K ( omic both of whom gave fine poi
pany, operating nearly 1400 retail, tific policies and a knowledge of C • trayals |n their speaking roles,
dry goods stores, said "The oh merchandisinK Inerfie lent competi • THE BAND BOX * Mary Brian, who played the only
tors are recognized a more ol a • • giri role, was efre ctive, and the
handicap to competent men hunts •••••••••••••• other principals, John Loder, mak
than are well managed and soundly, ing his first appearance since com-
rinanced chain stores Last night at practice we Justing from England; Frank Reicher
"Not long aKo, my attention was misned hitting u high point in at- land Robert Ames stage veterans
called lo an instance in which a tendance We had firteen membersand Noble Johnson al'l gave splen- pied with ghosts; wraiths that
chain store was located opposite i prenent, and they all played well did performances. stalk up and down every street and
vacant lo, in minimum time there Following is an item which gives! Taking the waterfront of Sun that drift across every field, un-
anter stores were built on the lot evidence of the high esteem in I Francisco, the cabin and deck of seen except by the returning wand-
and o<n> pled by Independent mer which our director, Mr Davies, is I ship adrirt in the fog and a cab- erer from distant ports. And chier
chants who desired to be located held in th.- musical world All ofaret for his locations, Mr Williard among these ghosts is always the
a. near ten chain store as possible you hen in Bay < ity who care for | has written „ baffling picture,1 ghost of the wanderer himself the
ineidentally, hot 1 0l ..... are to mukie and would like to play some crammed with mystery, thrills and ghost of the lad he used lo be, at
day enjoying a thriving buninesa. Instrument have an opportunity an interesting love story II makes tended by the magi, shapes of the
It is m.r.aangli common lor now to barn under a more than ae-a splendid evening’s entertainment. Humorous figures that .....Ireamed,
chain store representativen tobe ,a ............. musician. club when the principals receive boylike, of one day becoming,
minde " independent mere 1,11 s 1 ’ " is the Hem their letters from "Tiger" Larrabee No mter how fur or how high
in business in becoming thut hoy consider theinrluence of ....... Hamilton cornetist, is starts the picture orr at once with we go, it is always hard to meet
tens marked Men have accepted a he 'ha in stm e a des Kline la.lor in .............................. ..... a much of mvstery that is not ended our lost selves in that wav. Re-
broader view of what their buni inereuinE Hie tradinE radiu ol atandinz musician I le comes ' I om unt 11 t he last scene i 1 lashed on , h, । „( nHig to the Home Town is. in a
should be oneomuniy: It has ben proved ma fumily or talented musicians way, a rendering of the account of
lone's life. One goes back to the
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The 23,000 carloads of vegetables
and fruits shipped out of the Valley
this year netted growers more than
j 10,000.000, according to the Donna
News.
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 119, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 10, 1929, newspaper, September 10, 1929; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1554127/m1/2/: 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.