The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 59, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 8, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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BAY CITY, TEXAS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8. 1931
VOL. 27 NO. 59
5c THE CORY
Won Health I itle i
ago
FOUND AT CLEMVILLE
HAMILL& HAMILL STRIKE SOUTH FEXAS' RICHEST
THE FIRST
4%
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SAND AT 3263 FEET.
STEP
4 J
di Ulin* it A a esult
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—
old timer
Take the first step TODAY
Mirth!
THE BAND BOX
each salary check. With each addition-
al deposit your steps will grow strong-
Sherilf Mangum Dies Following
DITION AT THE HOSPITAL.
C
OLONIA
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
THEATRE
Thrift Accounts
Safety Deposit Vaults
TODAY
c?
the approaching train to lift the au-
Statement of Condition of
who
eral yards.
) will mourn his untimely and tragic
At the Close of Business, June 30. 1131
r h e
KFMH RI ES
THURSDAY
expected to get
Cotton ginning
none
in the Lower Rio Grande
under
crops
$586,221 23
Total
numbers
to
1
V
one acre of canteloupes
erage of 30 to 30
Ci
W.IAWIIITINS
69
acreage
An Artist in Bay City
Promotion
4000
r
Total
in the last ten years. Limestone !
hon
The
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Bay City Bank & Trust Co
H
in
FUTURES
Ladies Felt Hats
i
FOR SALE
I Mr. and Mr* J. S Gillette.
Patronize Tribune Advertisers
For
uted to existing condition*
Early Autumn
W. S. Ainsworth
El Maton
GULF COAST PILOT
Rescue Party Lowers
At
Mr and Mrs. Leslie Glaze who are
Children 120 Feet
Bay City, Texas, R. F. D. No. 1
I
peace of mind. If you have no account.
I
If You Want To See The Finest
11
open one today.
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County In Texas
FINGERN
LET ME PILOT YOU
V
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Citizen State Bank
to give th.
irned to Hougton i perty elimbed the t
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Better than
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Loans and Discounts . -
Bonds and Stocks
Kral Estate — ____
Furniture and Fixtures
Cash and Sight Exchange
the
and
10 per cent shift from 20
to between 50 and 100
well for several weeks and |
rcised the greatest of rare in
Eyewitnesses rushed to the train
and assisted the train crew in extri-
l rati ng the victims from the wreck
ear; I Jourdanton Twenty-s
I 65,000.00
17,4005
303,700 78
omnipo
F .0. MON I AGI E,
County Agent.
coun-
What
D. P. MOORE
DRY GOODS CO.
$217,286.17
206,553.59
9,368.77
3 400.00
147,012.75
prefer day
apartment,
Nichardson
county.
The paper has not been advised of
any funeral arrangements up to press
time this afternoon.
ton and feed
Columbus
here for the
office buildin
Remember
for I am
else. I am
like me -
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See
I wo
acres
Scenery On The Coast And The
Wonders of The Greatest
MEET
WIFE
them.
p that
Bay City Bank & Trust Co.
BAY CITY, TEXAS
bes ha
It will
oil for a long term of years.
Hamill & Hamill have been drill-
Christian Science
Churches
18
nd we hope later to plant
string beans. We also have
hundred pepper plants to
e market will take to them
melon*
acres of
I
k
South Texas Crops
And Activities
activity I
r,
parked just‘will be a v
and should
LAURA IA PLANTE LEW CODY
JOAN MARSM
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a much safer plan of get- Chanoino Farm
-",8. arm
Situation
From the various crop reports we
are able to get that Matagorda coun- |
ty indeed stands in a very enviable
you walk with the full, easy swing of a
ry good
tell us
I
I
Arthur E Fwl
of the old school
• few days. They
P. P HAMILI-
Vice President and Cashie
man of affairs”!
7
HMa
"Weary River*’
p prospects at this
d and many of the |
that the prospects '
Train-Automobile Collision -
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when the rich i
were ready to'
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er, until, as you see your savings grow.
a whole cro
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* । gum had hundreds of friends
5;urk‘ng Ccmody
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11 Sho’c Sinart!
COLUMBIA picrunus /
-man_____2
Fink is pouring out a drink for Evelyn Jungles. They are !
biest boy and girl in Cook County. -
Interest
of farm
1920 of 212 farms owners and an in-
cream of 1M tenants. In that county
in this
I Dispatch I
I Taffee .fo
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FARM NOTES j
e±M tfiry orreuunqxerana sssrzr Man
being thrown viOlently about for ' .....- -
I
Isaiah 46 9.
These cit
Science t
Health will
by Mary B
"If what
must be i *
supreme .ii
I
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er He has
colors in
pal pro;
usual vacation fares and service went county than to go into the North and
into effect June 1 this travel has held Middle West looking for prospectors,
up to the level of last year and in' Mr Wadsworth is every optimistic
some cases, has exceeded last years ‘at this time in getting the Wadsworth i
passage from the Bible
the former things of old
theast of the old Clemville field,
527 ten years ago to 7074 last ye
ih Limestone county from 21.057
ps has been repot
and seif-
melon* have been shipped from here ' „
so far this season. More car* of this ' FOR RFNT
Mr* Billie Rogers and Mr« Vale-
sympathy of the entire town
Billy
the health
tat ion such a move-
to this county, and
ad to many worth- <
ng a few days aid
■ I The tesewets plat rd the children in j
gunny sacks ami lowered them byi
{meens it tapes to safety to the ground. ।
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hich hi
interesting experiment
• us some very worth- *
21621 hed in 1920 to 9079 iii 200 in
Hill county hogs declined from 20,-
I* being sh
of farmers thr
I
I H
how late irrigated
rk out from a pro-
through the hot
uccessfully grown
rill take to it. It
county shows a derease in ten years
of 675 farms, with 379 fewer farm >
owners and 367 more tenants and a ,
slight shift toward larger farms 1
the (hristiai
a wider diversificatior
we hope it can
satisfactorily her
ty of all thia vas
A wonderful rept
ment would giv
would quickly I
Another
try. Hill,
farms sin
8
Jr.
revealed in many countjes. Decline
| < barge of
! at Dallas
I Mr MeTaf
producing shallow
I so far been released by the census i grade sheep and boats for breeding
bureau but when these come they i purposes.
k will bear careful study They doubt- Corpus Christi The Aransas Com-
lews will be found to have contrib- press company has begun the con-
________ ____________ school programs as a sporting ।
most of her body rather than a musical event it is
As fast as it was possible to do so pleasant to have one’s high school or-
! the two were rushed to the Loos chestra carry off the prize, lust as it
hdspital in this city where the work ' is agreeable to know that the school (
of trying to save their lives was be-has a winning orchestra returns at
Tuesday gun. Mr Mangum as stated died thisthe end of summer, like the football
morning Miss Thelma is still in ateam, a few weeks in advance in or.-
Your family's future is in your sav-
ings bank book. As you add to your bal- j
ance, you are making the best kind of
investment for their happiness and your
load
set casing in a perfect well and pre- I
pare for drilling in which the Trib-
] RICH OIL SAND IS
Valley during the course of the next
week. It is indicated in reports fron
that section.
The result of the find should be i
definitely known by next Monday or
are growing large quantitie
plant* themselves for the n
Poultry is also coming in
sideration One farm will I
WANTED—A four room unfurnished
apartment with all conveniences..
Phone .MS. 6tf
1920 to 7403 in 1930, and in Kaufman
I county from 15 370 to 5807. Similar
j heavy shrinkage in chicken* is also
God, anei there
God. and there
see how the
Our plan is
truck crops
will be a larger
and that growers
Dun and
since his
division i
be worked out
p in Matagorda
commodity are being loaded daily
Fredericksburg The Hill count
sand was struck they
exists and wway
.» Either there
Resolve to deposit a definite sum out of
d wife, artist* i duction standpoint
in the city for weather and if s
their traveling how the market i
corn, one acre of turnips and "
traffic who made the following com- Matagorda county will have a num- ।
ment today : ber of new farmer* another year as t
Whatever effect the general situ- the Wadsworth ranch is being rapidly
books of sold out mainly to good S
American citizens it apparently is not farmers who know their way about*’
seriousiy curbing their vacation trav-We think it .
els," Mr. Neff declared. “Since ourting more _______ .... .... .w.
Undivided Profita
DEPOSITS
figure* project satisfactorily settled up by the
As an example Mr. Neff mentioned first of the y^nr
that latest figures for the Missouri ---___-
* of the years to come.
in- I We are trying to work out
vork whereby strawberries can he p
The • to hit the market betw
; late market* as we ni
There seems to be mur
“pe V
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p ■■
• drilling firm of H n ull and Hamill
• thinks the well is good for .ill of
e 2000 barre l
0 A Mr. Jone with the Texhs com-j
•' pany who has been watching the
®weli, says hr has never seen a rich-
oil for 33 years,
and guarantee* I
to paint a pict
This year they
In five lessons
selling paintings
FOR RENT Three room furnished
apartment with garage Box 1117, Mrs.
J. E. Thompson. 7t
-----------------
Mis* France* Marmion returned tn-
iy to Houston after a visit of sever -
days here with Mr and Mr* Bert
agorda county? Let us hope so. ! case in our cattle in this county, thia
--"‘Mt— | year west of the river, around Mark-
That the widely-advertised depres- j ham, Blessing and Midfield. A num-
sion is largely a mental condition is ber of cattle have been lost and the
the belief of P. J Neff recently-ap- cause is a puzzle. No one seems to
pointed vice president of the Missouri even guess at the trouble so far.
Pacific Lines .in charge of passenger 1 ______
attending school at San Marcos were
visitor, here for a few minutes Sun-
day morning. ’ BOOKER, Lipscomb, Co., Texas m
M M..a. I A.az w „
I FPW I nW FYIP
ra Hvn hVT ■ I IW
returned home Saturday morning tops of sundry trees evidently un-
j They were accompanied home by able to master the technique requisite
Mrs. Mary Loman Mr Frank Thilen, Ifor descent, two little children of j
Frank Thilen Jr., and Mr. Dick Bee ver. Ok.. Sunday had to he res-
Lawson, all of Houston cued from a perilous perch atop a
you made plans to Im on hand? Ev
eryone else will be there.
meming's Houston Post
is a picture of Mr E Me
rmerly manage of R (
company of Houston, Im
promotion will be assistan
nanagvr of the company. if
r sles, with headquarter
Mr Normall Hall succeed
ffeo a* manager in Hous
Two bed roomns for men,
sleepers or a three- room
no children. Mrs. J K
on Avenue G 8dtf
. end
' Him wife and children have
South and Southwest Texas, acco
ing to reports from various secti(
Carrizo Springs: Wide interest
____... . _______ ____________ha* had good rains amounting to from I
rie Blakeway were here Tuesday on in horses is partly offset by increase t one to three inches. These rains as-"
their way to Newgulf where an op- ' in mules Milch cows show • Mg in- sure a good corn and feed crop, and I.
eration for the removal of the tonsils ' crsase generally postures areinex ellent shape .1
Mrs If ' ' eports bear out Bandera: pounds cBp wool [f
Rogers little daughter ' the earlier figure, it would seem were shipped from here to Boston
j that every effort should be encour- i last week on consignment
O O aged to promote greater living at' Rocksprings: Several of the local
Mr*. J T Rosser of Shawnee, Ok home and more home-produced meat : ranchmen have received orders from
is in the city visiting her parent* and fowls. No figures for cotton have | Turkey and Central America for high
Kaufman county records an increase,
of 676 farms since 1323. but a decrease ’
of 272 owner* and an increase of 1006
tenant* since 1920, and with an ap-
preciable swing toward large-sired (
ben* by the first of September.
Kingsville: Rain* that fell in thi
section have produced amazing re-
sults in pastures and no harm to cot
They will reproduce at
you wish to bring them,
their paintings are reproc
famous painting* The pul
vited to call and inspect I
and watch Mr Forbes 1
larger the crowd and the r
tions you ask, the better.
Mr Forbes is an old tim
been making hi* ljving wit
But perhaps the saddest part of the |
4 story |* the great decline in the num- .
ber of farm hogs, which in Dallas'
county for instance dropper^ from i
L 1
We were very sorry to hear of the j weter tower hete 120 feet in height,
death of Mr J E Millard of Blem-1 Little lice Marie Strong, 4 and
ing. who is well known in this com- Caroline Joy Strong X were Intent I
munity He wag the father of Mr I upon catching some pigeons when
I Frank Milard of thia town they mar de the ascent end. when dis-
Mr, Arthur Thomas visited Mr, I covered, were high in the air at the
Roy William., Monday afternoon pinnacle of the tower where they re- |
Mrs Mary Loman, Mr. Frank Thi- mained to the apprehension of their.
I len. Mr Frank Thilen, Jr., and Mr. 1 relatives and friends until s rescue .
Datremim Tribune Adwertieete
this can he made
most serious condition, due to nerve der to make an advantageous start. I
shock and her severe injuries. The Fourth has come and gom- once !
.. _. . E. e N. Imore and speaking for the band, ev-1
About two weeks ago Shex iff Man- . • uon t
• I mui ; ... eryone seems to aave enjoyed a safe ।
I gum was in an automobile collision ■. . ,. .
When his ear was run into while he I and' sane ho “lay „ There was.nota
Iwas speeding after box car thieves, s nle i cpsual V repor ee '
That night he was badly hurt, and hearsal Monday T W1
| was just gr-ttmg out when he had ( Dy and with the weather holding as
,.4 hi* daughter to drive him to the fu- । 3 I .. . .. 201 . . "
cut to the main highway, tell- nerai at Matagorda Kood as it has forathe .P. ' 1 . weekz
op "urn cnn nt hama nicknr ” - - . _ . We lilt acec wICh till PrOSpC t of
in addition to being sherilf of the < entertaining an even larger crowd
county, which position he has held than evex before; and the band will
for several year*. Mr Mangum wa I play its usual part in the entertain-
a successful rice grower. A native of ment by rendering a program of mus-
the county and a man of strongforce ic from three to four o’clock Have
tbook, "Scier
Key to the St
er Eddy, were i
puses God I* n
powers, and G
infiinte. Can
nother mighty
cenc Limited, the rail
ling train to the wester
inds out of St. Louis show
MOIS LIVENGOOD oni-ndaaniweherooinsthosnathtTox“
in no part of our social system is good well.
Ik re a greater need or a more mime- Quite a lot of trouble has been ex-
liate welcome for the well-trainediperienced with heaving shale in all
nusician than in the public Schools deep tests in the Clemville field but
hose of us who have witnessed on this one was carried down without
incompetent attempts to the slightest trouble It. at present,
music to children may not re- looks as if the "mother pool" so long
that in the best school 8) stems • sought has been located at Clemville I
of the country the .school orchestra •If this is true, it will prove of enor-
j the chambel music unit, and the , mous benefit to the county and par-
school choru: are fast becoming rs- tjeularly to this immediate section,
sential eiements in American educa-
| tion. ___ ___ ..
res What is now thought to be a rem ,
H oil well is’ in the making at Clem- ......
83 ville at a depth of 3263 feet in a per- ing this
s'w fectly drilled well and all set for ‘
$ drilling in Saturday by Hamill &
8 Hamill.
| This well is on what is known as
the Meyex lease and is located on
I the banks of a branch of thr Tre [
I Palacios river about one-half mile I
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struction of a 460 by 260 foot ware-
house which will cost approximately |
$30,000 it is expected to be finished '
in time to be used for storing thi*
year * cotton crop
'place at this time. Over the entire I
state the rainfall for both May and I
June has been far below normal and
crops have suffered greatly due to the
absence of moisture.
I Matagorda county could have used
our last good rain two weeks earlier
especially on the old corn, young cot-
ton and pastures but taking the coun- .
F picture while information that may be worth
Many of much to the Caney Valley farmer* in
mind ha* been broken 1
ection of a new post- ।
Construction work on ।
une is informed, will la* done Satur-
day.
on wheels and
from the Trib
I decline in number* of Texas farm*
| in the older regions especially in the
’ ba rk lands, tnless one agree* with
some gconomists that more farmers I
should, put the farm Dallas county
appeais to have lost 773 farm* since
1923 Since 1920 there are 190 fewer i
1 tenant*, but there has hern a nota- !
ble shift by manv farmers from an 1
" 7"
41 .
UK .
Our fall truck crop experiment down
near Cedar Lane is coming along
very well at thi* time. John Daake i*
on the job and is steadily working at
the job. He ha* out one cere of toma-
tor*, one and a half acre* of water-
at this time are much better than fori
| many years. The oulook is very good j
। from a yield standpoint, which will in
a large measure help the unfavorable
while settlers who would add much
to the welfare of thi* county.
to 50 to 100 j being shown here in plan* for next I
year’s acreage of strawberries It IS I
a
price situation. However, even the
prices all along the line have taken a
turn for the better for the past ten
Q, li, , days which is causing a more optimis-
You probably think that I push this tic tone in business circles; a condi-
Trades Day proposition too much, tion that is very healthful at this
Maybe so, but I think that it is im- time.
f possible to give it too much publicity
\ and that the merchants are losing a We were very much surprised and
big thing by not taking advantage of muchly tickled to find one farmer
g ' ht f '"t ti * ev • • ; ■ • -I
% gett th townh iknown it i , ; ( , . ] vi . । ,r , , will
time now that plans for the next sixsow rescue and other grasses this fall!
months,., are . made and definitely and make a complete mixture that will
made. There is some talk about the give him several times the carrying
abandonment of giving away a cow capacity that hu now has. He has had
every month and substituting two the mowers running for the past
prizes of fifty dollars each, in trademonth and is dealing misery to the
tickets with the merchants who are; weed crop that will if left alone abso-
in the Trudes Day in other words ‘iutely choke out the gra - Bv keeping DAI GHTER INJURED AT TIME; IN ( RITICAL CON-
the winner would get a book of tick- down these weeds and preventing.
ets good for purchase at any of the them from seeding he can .with a cou- DITION AT THE HOSPITAI I To some extent the interest in the
stores in the Trades Day up to theple of years have them so well eli- * * * school orchestra is as yet forced and i
amount of fifty dollars. The merch-minated that the carrying capacity ......... d artificial, it has been fostered by
ants of course will get their moneywill at least be trebled. Then by add-' state and interstate competitions Lo- I
from the chamber of commerce or ing lespedeza, carpet and Dallis to Sheriff Joe Mangum fine man. citi- clothes were literally torn from her cal pride often support* thi
Trades Day committee. This is mere- his burr clover he will indeed have a | zen. father and husband is tlead.; and the flesh laidlv' bruisetl and cut ! in the
ly a suggestion put up by some per-|carpet of green that will be a sight, for i Death came to relieve him at intense ol “
son and the response from the mem- sore eyes • and three times as many pain and excruiating suffering at
bers.seems to be very favorable. The cattle as formerly /1030 o’clock today following a state
Trades Day committee should not , ----- | of unconsciousness since his car was
lose any time in meeting and making A minimum animal loss to West struck by a Santa Fe train in the
definite plans for the next six months. Texas sheepmen from bitter weed citv limits of Matagorda
Aho Mr Committee, don t overlook , poisoning was estimated at $1,000,000 evening at about 5 o'clock.
anybody this time no matter how at a recent conference of parties con- Mr Mangum and his daughter, Miss
large or how small. It is tne “uI । cerned in coinjunction with members Thelma, had attended the funeral of |
of each merchant to see that this of the livestock sanitary commission Mr George B Culver, which took
thing is helped along by every mer- and a representative of the U. S. de- place in the Matagorda cemetery on’
chant in the city. For the. past 5IX partment of agriculture. Tuesday afternoon. There were in at-
months a certain per cent has made About two pounds of the weed will tendance upon th!, sad event great
the wheels go around and the entire. kl|| a sheep quickly. A smaller thrones of people and hundreds of
town has benefited Tins tune it will ..mount makes a sheep susceptible to cars. Mr Mangum to avoid traffic,
be different, with the trade.* tickets, merchanica! pneumonia, the most fre- instructed Miss Thelma to take
if that plan is adopted, more mer-quent cause of death. short c.: t. .. ,,».■• ...
chants should see the benefits. The thing that has those sheepmen ing can get home quicker."
a .nn, ., M. . .a , up in the air is that they have had I Miss Mangum was driving and ap-
cSince.1903 pil has bcenproduced.in 1 this weed and sheep . together for I proached the crossing just in time for
Clemville. Is it poSSible .that theyears but this spring they have lost
showing there now is the finding of j thousands of sheep from poisoning.
the real pool that we know is in Mat- ! It seems that we have a similar
The 1930 federal census does
represnt a pretty picture as to
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“God" was the subject of the less-
on-sermon in all Churches of Christ
Scientst, Sunday. July 3.
The golden text was from Psalms ।
I IM 27 "God is the Lord, which hath
shewed us light "
The service included the following
-1 Tuesday but Mr Ellis Hamill of the
Mrs E MeTaffee w*
Opal Honey of this cit
ical black land cotin- , reported that there
w* a decline of 197 ------ ---* ---
925, a decrease since
and to administer as nearly as possi- ।
ble first aid treatment. Mr Mangum ।
was unconscious, the impact being
what proved to be a fatal one Mik*
Thelma was seriously lacerated Her
-
<3
. g •2-
r,' a» P d.
.std
this building will be rushed to com
pletion by Aug. 1
Harlingent Building construction Ir
both the business and residential sec
tions has increasevi considerably dur
ing the past week with many con
tracts having been opened for con
struction of churches, schools, of fin
building, and a good number of sub
slant ia I residences
1,
L4rlcza,sana
DEHGOUS:
cost price and the lessons
an half of what Mr. For-
larged in the years before
well worth your time to
e their paintings.
of the ------------- ---------
E. McTaffee Receives
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