The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1931 Page: 1 of 4
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The Wizard Is Dead
INVESTIGATE THE
ON RICE LANDS
TAKE NOTICE!
FOR BAY CITY DUCK SEASON;
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According to the state law the duck
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School and college
Five crowded days of love on an
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thing which I heartily endorse This
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Patronize The Advertisers
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Citizens State Bank
The above statement is correct.
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E. L. McDonald, Cashier.
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spells ‘Personality’ with
nity
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No false impressions here nothing to be
afraid of in our Sweater Values!
light ladies
turn fickle and
Maintain your account in this progressive central-
ly located bank.
Pep!Speed!
Laughs all
the way with
100.000.00
25.000.00
51.562.32
29,334.46
The co-operation of the Bay City Bank & Trust
Company is progressive yet conservative and is
always at your service, which is proved by our
thirty-two years of continuous existence.
DOUG.
FAIRBANKS^
Capital Stock ...........
Surplus ... ......................
Undivided Profits .....
Reserves -----------------
Circulation -------------
have not been cut. or very little who
take advantage of the depression and
refuse to pay their bills. There are in
this county, several people who have
not fell the depression one bit and
would not know there is one unless
hey had heard all about it who tako
Mr. II M. Walker, one of this sec-
tions most extensive cotton growers,
whose plantation is at El Maton about
Four New Tires
Punctured By This
Playful Youth
I Lois
MORAN
Loans and Discounts
Stocks and Bonds ......................
Banking House ....................J..—
Furniture and Fixtures ...........
Other Real Estate
U. 3. Circulation Bonds .
Bill of Exchange...................
U. S. Bonds and Municipal
Obligations .......................
Cash and Sight Exchange
By CHESLEY R. PERRY,
Secretary Rotary International
eather
(DSON
. 25,000.00
... 953,730.68
brought about a determination on the
part of the merchants that hereafter
credit is taboo- cash from now on. It
is deplorable because although a cash
business is much safer and a prettier
business than credit, there is a Jack
of confidence there. But when they
have the money and refuse to pay
what would they do if they didn't
have it? Too many have taken un-
due advantage of the depression.
$ 612,231.97
... 38,735.92
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... 25.000.00
f»tl activities that has had its incep-
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Bay City Bank & Trust Co.
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; After learning some of the det til .
j and plans which are as yet in an em-
anyone can afford.
The rice market seems to be some-
what more encouraging with the ex-
port demand better than it has been
this season. A fleet of trucks has been
moving large quantities of clean rice
from the Bay City mills to the docks
in Galveston, from which point it is
a gay gambler
forgets his
! ral Society or Singing Club.
Today and Tomorrow 1111 movement is perhaps
....... —-----------the most interesting as well
Jean Hersholt '
Greta Missen
Myrna Loy
Directed by
WILLIAM K. HOWARD
no
RRiTeTIONS
—are the most up-to-the-minute styles you
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gentleman who showed us through
the lighthouse. We climbed the light-
house steps, inspected all the rooms.
High jinks
on the high seas
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Statement!
Hill recently announced his
bryo state. I do not hesitate to com
’Jne of the last photographs oi
i homas A Edison caught him speak-
ng over the microphone at his W est
| range laboratory.
“Catalina” Sweaters
as use-
cun bring forth a Sir Thomas Lipton will be in the All-Star squad but it
who may convert the 280,000 acres of will be more than likely he composed
land subject to irrigation in this, of the following Earl White. Hill
county into one great big tea patch. Ante.. Glen Hunt. Bert Steves, Clive
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Statement!
By WILLIAM A HARRIS,
President Kiwanis Internatiomal
THURSDAY
Young Doug as a
Daredevil Lover!
Mrs. Leslie I
Soil and climate conditions in Loui-
siana are believed to be well suited
it has come to my attention that
several of our leading musicians and
I singers have started a city-wide move-
ment to organize mid sustain a Cho
[ Receipts totaled 5529 sacks of rough 1 to the annual Roll Call of the Ameri-
| rice and 3675 pockets of clean. can Red Cross because of the extraoi-
--------o—Q--- dinary need among their fellow citi-
zens who are helpless in the econom-
ic ebb tide. American Rotarians sure-
ly will recognize this timely opportu-
nity for a real service in helping to
gather the resources which shall en-
able the American Red Cross to car-
ry out its mission of mercy to the un-
fortunate.
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sessions for the entertainment of ou:
city and county citizens
Large quantities of rough rice are
being held or sold slowly. No rush to
unload has been attempted by anyone
this season.
their guests Mr. and
lattei part of November are requested
to meet at the high school field every
afternoon at 5:30.
This game will he played for the
benefit of the unemployed and from
this standpoint alone should attract
a large gathering In the All-Stars
lineup will be former Bay City High
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out with your toga, dogs end shoot-
ing irons.
mend this movement us h
‘ STOCKING CEDAR
LAKE WITH BASS
AND CRAPPIE
the city auditorium and our court-
green, it takes little imagination to
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Plan now for next Christmas
—avoid the troublesome wor-
ries of bills for a past event.
Regular weekly savings will
pay for next Christinas' gifts
—and make no perceptible
difference in your regular
spending.
season opens November 1; according
of t to federal law the season opens on
November Hi. a difference of 15 days.
And the federal law grants th* priv-
ilege of shooting ducks for only one
month
- Summer hangs on well this winter,
-but every warm day now means one
less cold one. if the law of averages
is dependable.
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E Mr. and Mrs. H. Walker of El Ma«
ton were business visitors to Bay
- yesterday.
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James Frank Stoves, Russel Carpen-
ter. Jim Blair, Sleepy Watson, Lof-
ton Watson. Cotton Altenberg. H F.
Striekert, J W. McMillan, Jack Bond,
Beit Carr, Vallie Castleton, Geoffrey
Curry Bully Watkins. Vernon Vandi-
ver. Buzz Lee. Clide Lee.
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will be an opportunity to serve vou '
city and at the saint' time be reward- I
ed by a satisfaction in developing
your vocal qualities, under a cart ful
director.
Mi. H. Cliff Dresser, who is our city
I band director, has had two years ex-
and offers Douglas Fairbanks. Jr. a
chance to display his versatility as
an actor and comedian.
worrylongerwithtch-
cin, Dandruff, Rashes,
shes;Pimplesandother
ing skia irritations. Get
le of cooling, healing,
c, de pendable way tore-
nvenienttouseanytime
ggists, 35c, 60c • $1.00.
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All former football lettermen inter- <
ested in play ing in the Bay City High !
School All-Star football game th
Monday with Blue Rose 23403c, Ear- peal recognized in practically all the
ly Prolifics 2%402%2, Ediths 41g0 4 3-8. civilized nations of the world. The
Fortunas 412(434c, Lady Wrights 3%people of the United States should
(13%, second heads 1%6 2c. screen- give more generously of their time,
lings 10011c. ‘their money and themselves this year
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Easy to digest. We bake none
but the best.
with
Loretta Young
This reckless rascal’s got maidens
sighing, wives guessing, husbands
burning, armies fighting, empires boil ■
ing! Bi cause he's in love’
2022223 a
$
broken champagne
chaffeur. Another important clue emunci
resolves itself around a kidnapping
plot in which Loretta Young was to' LOWE
be the victim It s all a lot of fun 1
tion in Bay City foi a long time With
3AY CITY, TEXAS. TUESDAY, OCT. 27, 1931
stars. white the j
pressed it. after sleeping in all their
clothes over night.
The morning greeted us with a clear
sky and mild breeze. "Lady Pilot"
then glided the waters to Half Moon
dvantage of the situation to refuse Reef, where 118 kinds of various fish
o pay, saying they just can't. Their were caught, mostly being of trout
•efusal makes it impossible for the of very, large dimensions. Then Cap-
text man to pay, and so on. It has tain Allen took us to the lighthouse,
where we were met by a pleasant
NEW ORLEANS.. Oct. 27. The lo- shipped to Cuba and Porto Rico, as
cal rice market continued steady here well as to Germany.
Monday. Buyers showed further in-l Those interested are hopeful of a
tcrest in milled rice, especially short steady advance from now on in both
grains for their requirements of the the price and the demand,
moment but were reluctant to take
on supplies for advanced needs. They
were apparently very cautious in spite
of the general opinion that prices had
reached bottom and any further price
change would be advances. The fact
that large quantities of Blue Rose
and substantial lots of other grades
This is a First National and Vita ■ John Hallidcy Vig
phone picture and just a little bit dif- - -- * - —
, A very pleasant week-end was spent !
! aboard "Lady Pilot." Mr. and Mrs.
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perience coaching grand opera in
Philedalphia and New York in con-
nection with Savage's Opera Compa-
nies. It seems very opportune that
this movement comes at this time,
when we have in our own community
a man capable and experienced in
this line.
From a standpoint of civic pride, I
commend this organization to you
with the hope that it will become a
permanent institution of Bay City. An
organization meeting is called for 8
o'clock Wednesday evening of the
28th of October at the city hall audi-
torium. Those attending prayer serv-
ice can attend this meeting immedi-
ately after church and still be able to
' attend the initial meeting.
PARIS SMITH. Mayor.
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The contractors are rushing work on
the jail. The building has passed the
second floor. Both brick and steel
construction is being done rapidly.
Four perfectly good automobile
tires were ruined by Douglas Fair-
banks. Jr. by the simple expedient
forsee great and interesting musical , ter up, see your game warden and
get everything all set before going
The Red Cross has a universal ap-
r
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1 Thompson and children and Pat Cox
There is no question that we are from Schulenberg and Mr. and Mrs.
experiencing hard times, or rather Wallace Thompson and Dorothy Faye
worse times than we had back three from Bay City. We arrived at Pala-
and four and five years ago. We are cios at 7:0 p.m. Saturday ami boarded J
eternally bellyaching about this, that.' "Lady Pilot, " where a delicious sup-
uno one buying at any price, etc., etc., per. was served on the way to the
. but most of the bellyaching is just fishing grounds. The first stop was at
a matter of form to be smart. to be Palacio Point where the men floun-
R in the conversation .to be doing what dered and the ladies fished aboard
— the other fellow is doing. The'great- the, boat, with wonderful success.
H est hardship the depression has left Very little steeping was done, as this
“ was the first experience for most of
the party to spend the night on the
deep blue sea. The next morning we
had a good get-up, as the party ex-
Shows 2:30—1:00-1:00- 9:00 P M.
j According to Game Warden Craig 1 I
. Cedar Lake today took from one of | ,
I the government fish hatchery trucks' I
several thousand bass and croppie.
I Today's supply makes the second I )
| lot to come from Kerrville this year ( |
for Cedar Lake.
A BOAT TRIP ON
PALACIOS BAY i
were in cold storage brings a better
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school Imeup, as usual with the ex- ocean greyhound.
ception of Crofoot and Meharg who I EDMUND LOWE. LOIS MORAN
and JOHN HOLLIDAY
pendent upon a satisfactory and flexible banking
us that there an several people who
are on salarics. and some of them
r
g*F, intention ol putting in a 500 acre ex-
{ ' i perimental farm somewhere in Loui-
• | siana. -Rice Journal. will be present in the backfield. At
BAnd, possibly. Matagorda County this writing it is not known just who
bottle in their path. Where did he
get a champagne bottle? Why did he
ruin four good tires? Those are
questions that cannot be explained
until you have seen Douglas Fair-
banks. Jr. In I Like Your Nerve"
at the Colonial Theatre Thursday.
An important clue to the mystery,
however, might be found in the fact
that Loretta Young was sitting in
the automobile which was about to
be driven away by her stern father's
attempting to put Bay City on the air
ute and get an air port here for .us. Miss Annie Porter of the district I
The air circus coming on Trades Day offices Central Power and Light Com-
(will bring several more hundreds here pany, was operated on Monday at the
that day. Cash in on your chances Mi. Loos Hospital for appendiciti . She is
Merchant. Now as never before will doing splendidly today
L a big campaign of telling the people — o_o _____ .
I what you have and at what pi ice A number of men and men with
families have been added to the city
within the past ten days by the com-
ing of road and oil field crews. There
are three or four new outfits operat-
ing in this vicinity each with a crew
of a number of men, many of whom
have families. Offices for some of the
companies holding contracts with the
county and state have opened offices
here in the city.
Your business success is in a large measure de-
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Wouldn't it be great if this county
could produce all the tea used in the
United States?
RICE MORE ACTIVE
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VOL. 27 NO. 155
As has been the case in the past,
the Kiwanis Club of America will be
working for the support of the annu-
al Red Cross roll call. Such a worthy
cause, particularly in times which are
as stringent as (he present, cah not
fail to enlist the loyal service and
the willing co-operation of all those
who are really interested in civic af-
fairs.
The Daily Tribune
I here Is Nothing I oo Good For Our Friends
I for many years has been a tea grow-
er in Assam* Indo-China, says suffi-
cient tea can be raised on 250.000
, square miles of idle rice, sugar, cot-
• ton and cut-over timber lands in
; Louisiana to supply the 100,000.000
! pounds of tea that is imported into
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ferent from the kind of production
Douglas Fail banks Jr has been ac-
customed to making.
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Mr. Roe of Blessing was a busi-
ness visitor to Bay City Monday.
227.936.27
174,982,81 488,954.57
feeling into the market. With these
, . . 101. . , heavy supplies taken off the market,
and the beacon light, we took pictures i . ,, , , ,
AA . , . । holders are more able to withstand
of it. On our way home we had a pressure
strange happening by a pompano fish Prices were a blunt unchanged on
weighing about two pounds jumping ' --
in our boat. Last and best of all was
the fish fry.
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Saturday. Nov. 7 is another Trades
■ Day. This should prove to be the big-
| gest and best in the entire series, and R c Millican who handles most,
■ here is the reason. November is alof the pecans brought to the city I Mesdames E- M- Williamson. A D.
I big month; holidays are many. There says he has bought about one carload .1 Hensley -Will Morehead. Amos Lee.
I is a November 11 which may require He expects the movement to be faster ' and Mr. Austin Lee .motored toHous
■ some new clothes and of course a hol- ,, the out ton Monday to attend the Grand
I iday dinner will be prepared and “Srheonmarket, thowrver asnutvery Chapter of the Eastern Star.
■ foodstuffs will be purchased Trades active and the price is .therefore, low.
I Day because they can save on t a This condition may improve once the , „ . mi
| day., will even be made Wholesalers beginning to buv in large Bay City vistor Monday.
■ this Trades Day for Thanksgiving. If ti(j 5 5 1 c—.---
you eder wanted to push your trade. ___0—o______ EMmeMmN
be sure to do that very thing now nr. A . n
And to top the climax there is going mice Anna P aray
to be an air cireus in town that day, 11139 Th 11 11 1 V 1 Vl IU1
We are informed that there will be TY 1 A .
about thirty planes. sky writing, trick' | Indaronac GBnavatnn
flyjhg, everything. The aviators are 5°-9 •P---
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18 miles west of Bay City, was in
(be Tribune office Monday and told
us that his crop this year, from a
standpoint of production, was very
successful.
The price, however, has not heen
what Mr. Walker has desired so he
shipped out last week to be stored
in Galveston, 500 bales of very fine
staple all in (he very best condition
for holding.
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 155, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 27, 1931, newspaper, October 27, 1931; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1554543/m1/1/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.