Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 208, Ed. 1 Friday, October 2, 1914 Page: 4 of 4
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Personals
SOCIETY
The management of the Em-
feeding famished Europe must
nue South.
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WEATHER FORECAST
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Mr. Advertiser!
supply in this country will
It Pays to Advertise in The Times
FOR LACK OF FUEL
and if the conflict continues seri-
this
results yill be felt
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The Daily Times
They Patronize those who Advertise in its Columns
These rates will hold good only on city
delivery by carrier and will be in force until
further notice.
the evening the guests were in-
vited to the dining room where
erals, the sulphate and the car-
bon of strontium, are prepared
the other compounds which are
used in various industries, such
Classy Vaudeville
For The Empire
if the great war that is now
raging in Europe is giving les-
sons to military men in the art of
killing other men and of de-
Mrs. Daniel H. Torrey, wife of
Lieutenant Torrey of the 23rd
White, Lesley Rounds, Fred Has-
ler, and C. S. Martin.
way for two hours on account of
broken trolley wires.
Heliographer of the famous 'Death’s Head” regiment, commanded by the
German crown prince, sending dispatches to the troops on the battlefield.
tertain the Priscilla Embroidery
Club at the home of Miss Jessie
House Saturday afternoon from
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Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Wil-
son, Mr. C. Peterson and several
children.
several kinds of cake. All had a
delightful time.
Those present were, Mrs. J.
E. Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. Will-
iams, Mr. and Mrs. Henry, Mr.
SHIVER bers were rendered.
Shorten Cotton
Crop And Kill
Boll Weevils
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antly spent by playing games of
' all kinds, pleasing musical num-
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THE WAR AND TEXAS MIN-
ERALS.
MR. AND MRS. HASSLER EN-
TERTAIN. .
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
1 year .......................
8 months .........•...........
3 months .....................
I month......................
1 week .......................
phate of strontium. Another and
far more important illustration
of how the European war is af-
fecting us. from a mineral stand-
point, is in the practical cessa-
tion of imports of potash salts,
as we are on Chile for nitrate of
THE WAR AND THE FARM-
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When You Advertise see to it that it
is through a medium that reaches and
is read by the
Buying Public
Texas City People are taking
Pride in their
Subscribe for The Times. It is a “live”
newspaper now. You get news in The Times
which you can get in no other South Texas
When it comes to getting local news of
interest, The Times is there. Subscribe for
the home paper. You get all the real news
and at less cost. Just a dime a week.
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paper—and at half the price. Only 10c a before, and that when the war
week. was over both Texas City and
sity Bureau of Economic Geol- Which is the need for develop-
ogy and Technology is now en- of
gaged in calling attention +e —
they are made. Take, fol In-
stance, the compounds of stron-.
tium largely used in the re-
fining of sugar and in the pre-
paration of fire works, railroad
fuses, etc. Practically all of the
strontium compounds used in the
the raw materials from which
United States are imported from
countries now at war and it will
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tie daughter, who has been in a
hospital there tor several weeks.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. Leinbach and
Mrs. G. L. Leinbach and daugh-
ters visited Mr. and Mrs. W.
imported in 1912 $10,726,096
daughter Ruth, Mrs. A. E. New-
man, Mrs. E. G. Meyer, Miss
Florence Gonne, Misses Bessie
and Jessie House, Miss Edith
Loofburrow, Miss Mable May-
obtained from the deep well
(4489 feet) at Spur, Dickens
County, has carried an amount
of chloride of potash larger than
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invited. The party
much enjoyed by all.
excellent quality. The Univer-
HUMANITY MAY
golden grain the hungry hands
that will soon be stretched
across the sea. The <
learned from the present con-
Mrs. R. H. Smith, who resides
on Second Avenue South, sur-
prised her husband Wednesday
worth. Europe is now at war.
Is not this a fairly good hint ?
The need of shortening the
growing season of cotton has
been recognized as the best
means for securing protection a-
gainst injury from the boll
weevil, and the Department of
C. W. VanVacter, the local
contractor, left with Mrs. Van
Vacter for Houston yesterday
morning. Mr. VanVacter return-
ed to Texas City last night, -but
Mrs. VanVacter stopped off at
Dickinson for a few days, where
she will visit relatives.
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Eli Ensign, Southwestern Pas- resentative of the Santa Fe was
° ’ - - in Texas City yesterday. Max
Mrs. Sam Williams will en-
evening by a little party in honor industry.
of his birthday. Relatives and -------------
a few intimate friends only were aeea********;*
mending a system of cotton cul-
ture which aims to secure the
production of more cotton in a
shorter period of time.
The system is especially im-
portant, the bulletin declares, in
region where the crop is limited
by drouth or by short seasons, as
in the northern districts, and
should help to remedy the back-
ward state of what has been con-
sidered in the past a "sure-crop"
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secure a week’s contract begin-
ning Monday with the musical
comedy people at the Cozy thea-
ter in Houston. The show will
be musical comedy throughout,
and will be thoroughly high
class. There will be clever singers
and comedians. A change of
program will be arranged each
ion. While this amount is not
sufficient for commercial pur-
poses yet it is of great import-
ance as showing that we have in
Texas deposits of potash salts
well worth the closest attention.
If a workable deposit of potash
salts could be found in Texas it
would be valued at a very high
figure.
Is there a chance? There is.
. , , at war with each other previous-
as strontia, the exide of stron- ly furnished 50 per cent of the
hum, and the nitrate of stron- annual coal supply of the world,
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minerals are found five miles side of the water on account of hend, Arthur Newman,
north of Lampasas and near P-tma- - C E
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and Mrs. H. F. Hassler and
The Ladies Aid of the West
End M. E. Church South spent
a very pleasant afternoon Tues-
day, with Mrs. H. M. Strong,
Fifth avenue south.
The ladies expect to take up a
mission study as soon as the
.books arrive. Three visitors
were present, Mrs. J. W. Cary,
Mrs. R. C. Nuckols and Mrs. A.
E. Dishman. The hostess serv-
ed ice tea and cake, which were
enjoyed by all. The ladies
adjourned to meet next Tuesday
with Mrs. J. B. Wood, Fifth ave-
. What is a great loss to the
world as a whole ought to re-
sult in some benefit to the farm-
ers of the United States. The
•agriculture of Europe has been
practically suspended. With
the vast majority of her able
bodjed men fighting in the vari-
ous armies, Europe will be pre-
ventedfrom reaping this year’s
or sowing next year’s crops, but
her demand for food will con-
tinue unabated. It is the privi-
lege as well as the duty of the
American farmer to supply this
demand.
a While the farmers of Europe
are fighting, the families of
America must sow and reap as
they have never done before.
Theirs is the part to fill with
Beginning September 1914.
By the week, payable to carrier in ad-
vance ............................10c
By the month, payable to carrier in ad-
Agriculture, according to a bulle- Leinbach of Galveston yesterday,
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infantry, returned yesterday pire has been so fortunate, as to
from San Antonio with her lit-
all they will be found there. Per-
not be long before the available haps at great depths, but this
supply in this country will be cuts no figure. Of potash salts we
exhausted.
deposits of nitrate of soda.
In Bulletin No. 363, just is- icall 44.
duty of any known water in the United
States, nearly 400 grains per gal-
Galveston would receive im-
mense export shipments for Eu-
ropean countries.
Harry Archer, special rep-
of Europe have been closed and
foreign coal -miners have laid
down the pick and shovel to
shoulder the rifle and the bayo-
net. The nations which are now
night. Don’t fail to come out
if you wish to see some good
vaudeville.
Texas City Daily Times
TIMES PRINTING COMPANY, Publisher*
Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday
• Entered at the postoffice at Texas City,
Texas, as second class matter.
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Within three miles of Austin
there are excellent deposits of
celestite (sulphate of strontium)
which afford a material of excep-
tional purity. These deposits
are held in the limestones on Mt.
Barker and Mt. Bonnell. Asso-
ciated with the celestite is some
strontiante (carbonate of stron-
tium). From these two min-
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fall largely upon American
farms. It is a duty at oncehu-
manitarian and profitable.
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When you go to Galveston step I
iiiivii ivuo in and see P. Nielsen the Lead-j
and our estimated supply would ing Tailor, 2124 Market.street. ।
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Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Hassler en-
tertained Mrs. J. E. Paxton’s
Sunday School class, of the F irst
M. E. Church, at their home at
416 Second Avenue North, last
night. The evening was pleas-
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stroying property it may also be tions it is believed that the por-
turnea to far more useful pur- । tion of Texas bordering on and
poses. It may teach us a more south-east of New Mexico is
needed lesson in the utlization favorable for the existence of
of our own resources, so that we potash salts. The necessary ex-
- may, hereafter, live more, at plorations, however, can not be
home. There are many things ; undertaken for lack of
means.
imported from abroad mat can- There are no deep borings in that
not now be obtained, things that part of the state, nor have any
affect many more industries that , detailed examinations been made
would appear at first glance there. We can only say that in
Some of the most, important one deep well a considerable
of these articles could be sup- , amount ef chloride of potash
plied from Texas, for we have - - - -
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sued, the Bureau of Economic ।
Geology has called attention to j
the fact that some of the water
water from many other and
shallower wells has contained no-
ticeable quantities of potash.
Instead of one field party, now
at work on the water resources
of Hale County, there should be
half a dozen in that part of the
state, for, if deposits of potash
_ g - , the closing of foreign mines.
Lometa, Lampasas County, both There are many lessons to be
localities affording material of
A world-wide coal famine isthey partook of ice cream and
predicted this winter. The mines
freshments were very nice and Tonight and Saturday gen-
served in the best style. Those erally fair weather. Light vari-
present were Mr. and Mrs. Chas.lahle winn.
Broyles, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. ’ -_____
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NOTICE! I
| Officers! Soldiers! |
If you are in Galveston you are welcome at
last the world for a quarter of a , . . r , „
century on the present basis of hours notice from 15.dollars up.
consumption. Cut by expert cutter finished
W, nron enough 00++0~ to by master woikmen. Nielsen has
clothe 1. orid "emoonme-theen in business since 1890 and I
to’sip-ly +L.qmind has pleased others. He will,
hemisvhe-es sn whe no+ furnish please you. No fit no pay. You
ocu. culu. c. u., .... civilization wi+h f,n1 anN keon miss something if you do not
are no other known deposits of humanity from shivering with call and see this happy little fel- ,
potash salts, just as outside ofcold? low, and look over hi" nC .
Chile there are no other known ---- stock of Imported Woolens.
The re- *********3***-
J: our own mining industry.
-U _ to Here in Texas alone our available
these deposits and. one large col supply is estimated by the
dealer has already signified his United States Geological Survey
willingness to pay from. $25.00 to at 31,000,000,000 tons. TL-.
$30.00 a ton for celestite carry- vrorldl’s yearly coal requirement .
ing not less than 50 per cent of is a little more than a billion tons ”
strontia or 95 per cent of sul-
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route comprising the Louisville Nauman, city passenger agent
& Nashville and the Southern! of the Santa Fe at Galves-
Pacific railroads, was a caller at ton, accompanied Mr. Archer,
the office of the Texas City Ter- They_had to wait at the cause-
minal and Transportation Com-
pany yesterday.
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Captain T. J. Anderson, gen-
eral passenger agent of the Sun-
set-Central, was in Texas City
yesterday on business for his
company. He said Texas City
looked better to him than ever
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