Texas City Times. (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 1, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 1, 1909 Page: 2 of 4

                                
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Saturday, IDay 1. 1909.
TEXAS CITY TIMES.
South-
LOCALS.
ORIENT.
H. B. MOORE, Vice Pres’t.
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not having time to devote to it.
We visited the Bay Lumber Co’s office the
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growing little city.
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"Just as good” is seldom good and never just.
Very probably it homes—who can beat it?!
PHIL. SIMON
TAILOR
BUILDING.
MERCHANT
Cleantug and Pressing a specialty
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Application made at the postoffice at Texas
City, Tex., to be entered as second-class matter
While the Gateway to the Orient is
nearing completion, many enterprises,
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Ed. G. Macartney, Editor.
Published every Saturday.
comparative prosperity in the
west when other parts were at
low ebb.
Judge Wilson and W. D. Thompson are erect-
ing at the corner of Bay street and 2nd avenue
south a two-story building 50x60 feet the ground
floor to be fitted up for a billiard and pool room
saloon, barber shop &c.—the second floor de-
vided into fifteen large well lighted and ventilated
sleeping rooms. They expect its completion by
June 15th. Mr. Thompson will conduct the busi-
ness as soon as building is ready.
A. E. Hegewisch
E. H. DeCelles. ..
J. M. Morpurgo..
....TEXAS CITY
Don’t cry over spilled milk,
was full of germs.
knowingly, lend its support to any pro-
ject that savors of boom, but any under-
taking having real merit need have no
hesitancy in commanding the support of
the Times.
A real novelty in breakfast foods would be
pre-digested wild oats.
Texas City has Pythian, Longshoremen, Screw-
men’s Union and Woodmen Lodges.
Texas City State Bank is earning more than ;
10 pct on its capital and will shortly more than
double its capital stock.
There is monthly distributed in Texas City
from the various pay-rolls $20,000.
Sam Clark at the "Tabernacle” dishes up about
the best Ice Cream you ever "bit.” Try it.
Agents:
_____■. .Vera Cruz, Mex
........Tampico Mex
.. .Coatzacoalcos, Mex
in advance.
Advertising rates made known
LEAVES TEXAS CITY DAILY.. .
LEAVES GALVESTON DAILY..
SUNDAY EXCEPTED
Further
Jas.. W. Elwell & Co.
H. W. Falkenbach.....
R. M. Boulet...........
C. L Dimon
Gen’l M’gr,
Messrs Brown and Clark have opened an ice
cream parlor and fruit store in the new Cooper
building, 2nd Ave. south.
R. C. Orndorff, traveling engineer for the T.
C. T. R,y has gone to Chicago to bring back a
new engine recently purchased by manager
Moore.
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New schedule, providing for double daily service and Sunday service,
will be published May 10th, 1909.
Of the five senses, common sense and a sense
of humor are the rarest.
; Ule offer TReasonable 1nducements
) to business enterprises wishing to locate in this
Information will be furnished by our
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ship Co., J^ew York.
J, R. Rowland,
Traffic Mgr.
32 Broadway,
H. B. MOORE, Agent,
receiving and forwarding of freight at Texas
mistakes—so City aggregates more than ten times that hand-
led by the combined stations between Houston •
and Galveston.                                 2
Mary had a new Sheath Skirt,
Which fitted her quite tight,
Who cares arap for Mary’s lamb,
When Mary’s calf’s in sight.
“Alfalfa Leaf”
on application through the influences of the plow, and
§ Gen l Contractor §
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Regular sailings between New York
and Texas City, Tex.
Our rates and seroice has made the
shippidg concerns and business men of the South-
west out patrons, and we wish to ask that you
please remember to instruct your shipments from
seaboard territory routed care Texas City Steam-
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Mr. Jacobs has moved his stock of Dry Goods
Clothing &c from Houston and is located in the
Long Shore Building. Reports trade good.
J. H. Sehwartz, merchant tailor lately from
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THE TEXAS CITY SCHOOLS.
that to remove the plow from our fertile
soil, thousands of car wheels would
cease to revolve, and steamers would
ever since the clean cut Americans in
charge of this Great International High-
a very
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tilled fields of our Southwestern coun-
try, Texas City, having reached the dig-
nity of a substantial seaport, would ne-
ver been called into being and equipped
to take the initiative in the reduction of
freight rates which originated at this
port.
The impetus given to this District
within the last five years was entirely
ed and prospective ones. It will not, Connection is made with the Tehuante-
pec National Railway— which connects
with the ships of the Mexican Oriental
S. S- Line at Salina Cruz—the Pacific
THE GATEWAY TO THE
important a factor he is in this complex
organization, and the turning of the sod
to the Sun’s rays, the initial step that
breathes life into the railroads and
We have desirable lots for sale to parties wishing to
improve same, and business locations either in the
townsite proper or on switch tracks of the Texas City
Texas City STDMPANy
The Lord prefers common people; that is
why he made so many of them.
from which it draws its pupils is known as the suburban property he just must have ‘a autome
Texas City Independent School District. It is bel‛ as his horses kick.
Terms of Subscription: $1.50 per year
produce their profitable cereal, the
staple that has placed Galveston-District
next to New York, to bloom less abund-
antly. Then too the succulent bulb, of
which the farmers in the Brownsville-
District, through their thrift and enter-
prise, have caused to surpass, the Ber-
muda Onion, would prevent these ener-
getic Southwesterners from giving the
Car load lots und steamer cargoes which
they are now delivering to the railroads
and steamship carriers.
If it were not for the products of the
To the wretched a day is a decade; to the
happy a decade is a day.
port in Mexico on the isthmus of Tehu- Frederick building, 3rd Street & Texas Ave.
antepec, giving a direct service every ports doing a good business.
9 Articles of Incorporation guaran- 9
X teeing good government             X
X -Necessary police and quarters for X
A confining offenders.                  q
9 Streets improved; trees set out X
9 along such.                           Q
X Cattle kept out of the Corporate I
0 Limits (and by the way, making occa- 9
9 sional visits at the Times Building), Q
X and a nice Boulevard along the beach X
Q — and many other things that go to- o
9 wards making a CITY — which will 2
A all come in good time as the citizens A
O are wide awake and progressive. 6
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The Texas City Times, published at
the livest Seaport in the Southwest,
will direct its entire energies to the
business interests of our Southwestern
Country. It will be non-political and
non-sectarian.
Texas City, being a growing seaport,
dependent on the producing fields of, the
Southwest, of which it is the natural
outlet, and the commerce from the At-
lantic seaboard and foreigh countries,
for its growth and commercial advance-
ment, will through its weekly publi-
cation endeavor to supply its pat-
rons, with such information, as will be
beneficial to them in their respective
avocations.
Its columns will be directed along such
lines, that will cover rail and water
transportation, movement of vessels,
export and import trade, harbors and
docks, salvage and repairs, shipbuilding
and all subjects that might have a ten-
dency toward the growth of the South-
west. It will not however, lose sight of
the social side of life, and will endea-
vor to faithfully chronicle the weekly
happenings of this busy Seaport.
It will always be the aim of this paper
to aid every enterprise tnat is establish'
a public school and derives its support from the
Public School fund of the state which is supple-
mented by the County School Fund. This fund
Regular sailings from Texas City and New
Orleans every ten days for Tampico, Vera Cruz and
Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.
Through rates and throughbills of lading giv-
en to all points in the Republic of Mexico and to
Central and South America via the Tehuantepec
National Riy and Pacific Ocean Steamship lines
opens the throttles of our steamships, is still further augmented by taxes levied in the
and each additional rinkle that is carved Texas City Independent School District. These
.          . funds are amply sufficient to 'maintain this
into the Eart s surface creates an in-
educational establishment for a nine months
lazily swing at rusting anchor chains.
Manners may not make the man; but they
When the plow shear becomes dimmed, make success while here, and make his memory.
the wheat fields forget to give forth
Don’t give up until you get a good price for
their golden grain, the rice paddies to what you give up.
way have made a showing that spells other day and fothud both manager Sieber and
SUCCESS. This Big Ditch will be built Elmer much too busy to talk- They report that
on account of the large number of buildings now
notwithstanding the suborn influen-                   .
S                             under course of construction and those-which
ces that have endeavored in everyway to are to come shortly they have no occasion to
clog its progress and with its comple- kill time.
tion our Southwestern Country will Postmaster Whitney tells us that the postal
profit immensely.                           business is increasing very fast and his ofiice
Until the Panama Canal is finished will soon be of the Presidential class. Owing to
, ,                  ,    ,   , this fact he has built an addition to his building
the southwest is able to use the shortest
to accomodate the Postal Department, and in
route to the Orient.                         conjunction with Messrs Butterfield and Rich-
Recently the Wolvin Line of steamers ardson will largely increase his stock of drugs
put on a service between Texas City and and stationery. They will also install a first-class
Puerto Mexico (Coatzacoalcos) where up-to-date Soda Fountain.
The’Texas City School is a well equipped
civilizers from their field of operation, building, having all the modern appurtenance for Our old friend Satsuma Orange’ Allen greet-
would cause the other two, to lessen, to the inculcation of the ordinary grades of educa- ed us with a smiling countenance yesterday. Says
a great extent, their gigantic activities,  tion including that of the High School classes,  his crop is 8oing to be immense He incidentaly
,               ,     ,        ,      It is capable of accomodating 125 pupils which remarked that he was working himself to a Sha
The farmer boy, as he makes his keen  was the enrolment at the beginning of the pres- dow,-account constant demands for his job-
survey from between the plow handles, .                                    wagon.
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aligning his course with the last newly It is incorporated under the laws of the State Harvey Reagan says if there’s no let-up in
turned furrow, may not consider how of Texas and the part of the county and city parties who come to town looking for city and
THE TEXAS CITY CO.
a noticable feature of the late wide-
spread depression was that this Port was
less influenced than other parts of the
country at large as evidenced by the
The railroad, the steamship and the
plow are so closely related, that the
withdrawel of one of the three great
creased demand for cars and the ship-                               ..
school year.                                     Texas City has a good graded school, 125
building companies to add to their force The present corps of teachers consists of a pupils and a corps of four most excellent teach-
of artisans, enabling them to take care male principal and three lady assistants. They rs
of enlarged tonnage obligations.   Rail- can be depended upon to keep pace with the   Fexas c ag ree church organizations, on e
,.     progress and development of the town, and their
road companies  and steamship lines P °                                        church building, one under construction, and one
efforts will be strongly supported by the people
will always meet this duty when busi-  of this district, enabling them to add to their to be built soon.
ness justifies—being as willing to trans- present buildings as soon as necessity demands. Texas City, notwithstanding a packet line runs
port the farm products as the producer               ----------- between that point and Galveston, transfers more
.   ,      , .     . 1       , / ,,                      ________                    passengers to the various lines that centre at
is eager to have his yield reach the               SERIOUS.               p
Texas City Junction than all other stations com-
market                                       The business outlook is pleasing to all who bined between Houston and Galveston. The
The transportation companies fully have the energy to look out.
understand the influences of the chief We can all 10ok back and see our
instrument of husbandry. They know can the world at large.
man; we got cute and asked him if he belonged
in any way to the Baldwin apple. He said “no,
but I can give a peach of a shave.
THE INFLUENCES OF THE ten days between Texas City and China We c^ied upon Mr. Baldwin lately from Pal-
.      ___ppw        ,        ana Japan.          •             "     Tas wh has opened a"barber shop in the City
______...------ Hotel and found him to be a very amiable ertle-
r .            ,           ...        .. Hearne has opened out a business in Wilson
as far as human endeavor will permit,
building, 4th street.
are planning to take profit from this
.         r                     W. H. Gonne & Co., 4th St. & 2nd Ave. north
unexcelled engineering feat.
are doing a fine business and report their sales
Europian talent , met with disaster .        ., . ,    ,     ..
P                                      1 increasing largely each month.
due largely to lack of executive ability,         4
On account of increase in their regular trade
and prominent French engineers have Gen’l Merchandise Messrs Davison Bros. have
exhibited a pronounced indigo feeling turned over their ice trade to H. L. Woodliff—
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