Texas City Times. (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 20, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
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pie, and the kind of people it Galveston visitor over Sunday.
takes, who will make our town,
Mrs. H. B. Moore and Mrs. J.
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Texas City, Texas
were closed in sleep on the Sab- trip to Galveston Wednesday.
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happy week that had just closed,
Demand Certificates of Deposit 000
Cashier’s Checks
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illustartes perservance in adver-
P. A. Crane, manager of the
tising by remarking that “if the J. Rosenblum Grain Co., of Chi-
GALVESTON,
TEXAS
seal
W. F. ENGELKING
The Company’s check is read
No Task Impossible.
Co. have arrived and are being
Too Fond of Dom stic
Animals.
Fish Caught Fisherman.
From a Japanese
to the boat i
TEXAS
years clerk on the Mallory docks
underneath, where he could not reach
309 22d St., Galveston
J. S. Montgomery of Galves-
City.
Postoffice Bldg.
Texas City
Thompson &
Reagan’s Bar
bath morn thereafter at a very
early hour, we dreamed of the
The Times especially bespeaks
for its advertisers the patronage
of the public. They are the peo-
$38,406 26
7,316 02
866 53
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716 60
On Saturday, November 13 the
last sad rite of the great No-Tsu-
Oh carnival was laid to rest with
the shouts of a large crowd and
a heavy downpour of confetti
mingled with a few drops of rain.
It was a grand affair and every-
one who attended from far and
near was gratified beyond their,
expectations, and when our eyes
7,657 36
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$96,1(3 72
78,849 85
1,000 00
The most progressive and pros-
perous cities are those that loyal-
ly patronize and support their
" home papers and home institu-
tions. Reciprocity at home be-
gets a spirit of pulling together
for the general welfare. Outside
investors and prospective citizens
find no attraction towards com-
munities where the dominant
spirit is “every man for himself
and the devil take the hindmost.
Reserve Agents____$27,815 50
Due from other Banks
and Bankers sub-
ject to check____ 13,415 20-41,230 95
set up in the power houee of the
Texas City Transportation Co.
Mr. W. N. Jones, for several
$10,000 00
735 87
5,608 00
Why don’t some real intelligent
person create a hat in some pe-
culiar shape call it the "hook-
worm hat” it will become the
rage in a short time.
steamer “City of Tampico” will
also arrive today from Vera Cruz,
Issac Heffron of Galveston has
been awarded the contract for
putting in the concrete founda-
tions and other masonry work
for the new three story steel and
concrete office building and will
begin work next week.
Fine Wines,
Whiskies &
Cigars at
The steamship Norheim will dre
bluff:
Take a sick and accidental pol-
icy with the General, before dis-
ability overtakes you.
me
D.,
Henry Dimse, vice-president of hospital in Galveston last week
the Centrut Bank of New York, | suffering with typhoid fever.
have excellent service again.
The two 1500 horse power gen-
truck, gardening and fruit grow-
ing in Galveston county.
Washington Hotel
AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN PLAN
N. E. Cor. Tremont and Mechanic Streets
At the Commencement Game.
She—Oh, isn’t the man that throw?
the ball, on your side, just splendid!
He sends it so they hit it every time
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pected home shortly.
| Ben Jacobson was taken to the
Sworn and subscribed to before
this 20th day of November, A.
nineteen hundred and nine.
Witness my hand and notarial
on the date last aforesaid.
Pupils’ Backs to Teacher.
The Chinese pupil reciting the lez.
eon turns his back to the teacher.
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Give us
a Call
The Mecca
SAM ROBSON, Proprietor
Thos. W. Hopkins’
General Real Estate, Insur-
ance and Typewriter Exchange
-ALL LINES HANDLED-
Stationery, Prining and Rubber Stamps
-YOUR BUSINESS SOLICITED-
Not Worth the Time.
No man resolved to make the most
of himself can spare time for personal
contention.—Lincoln.
Ship Ahoy.
There way a young lady named
Banker,
Who slept while the ship lay at
anchor;
She awoke in dismay
When she heard the mate say:
“Now hoist up the top sheet and
spanker.”
RESOURCES
Loans and Discounts, per-
sonal or Collateral________
Loans, real estate_____________
Overdrafts_________________
Bonds and Stocks__________
Real Estate (banking house)
Other Real Estate___________
Furniture and Fixtures______
Due from Approved
The General Accident, Fire and
Life Insurance Company
J. H. WILSON, General Agent
and Adjuster
Uncle Ezra Says:
“A grocery store is a good place to
io farmin’ in pervidin’ the farmin’ is
all done before yu git there."
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Condemnation of Envy.
Envy is almost the only vice that
When You Land from the Boat
Drop in for one of our Business
Lunches or a Meal; Home Cooked
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Don’t stumble over your own
KNAPP BROS.
Stationers and Printers
Sole Agents for Globe-Wernicke
Filing Cabinets & Office Supplies
2207 MECHANIC STREET
Galveston, Texas
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NOTICE.
What are your wages worth to
G. E. Whitney, Notary Public.
CORRECT-ATTEST:
J. H. Sieber,
F. B. Davison.
E. N. Sanctuary
Directors.
We carry
a full and
complete
line of first
class goods
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LOCAL AND PERSONAL
BY THE
TEXAS CITY TIMES PUBLISHING CO.
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
Terms of Subscription: $1.50 Per Year, In Advance.
Advertising rates made known on ap-
plication.
Entered at the postoffice at Texas City,
Texas, as second-class matter.
201 Security Building
GALVESTON,
When in the City Come to
Our Store
Just Things for Men
Sam J. Williams
2215 Market Street
GALVESTON TEXAS
Woman and Her Apparel.
To a woman, even the prospect of
new and pretty apparel is positively
invigorating, the selection is another
most bracing proceeding, while the
actual wearing of the clothes com-
pletes a certain cure for depression.
We Grind any Lens on
We Fit Glasses
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Beach Cars Stop at the Door. All
Modern Conveniences. Newly Re-
modeled and First Class.
agent of the Texas City Co., is
in Chicago attending the Farm
not reach Texas City on
H. P. Dolard & Co.
T. L. Cross & Co.
Incorporated
Ship Chandlers and Grocers
Limit to Cork’s Buoyancy.
A cork carried 200 feet below the
surface of the water will not rise
again.
lie quiet for want.of irritation; its ef
fects, therefore, are everywhere dis
coverable, and its attempts always to
be dreaded.—Dr. Johnson.
for us, you help them as much
as you can by giving them your
patronage. This way we will all
pull together and help each other.
Our motto: Always a square
deal.
His Strong Card.
In the game of love, when hearts
are trumps, a fellow is expected to
lead a diamond.
fish and the
OF
Men’s Suits
Hats and Shoes
FOR
Fall 1909
Men’s and Young Men’s Clothing
in variety of styles, different to
those shown before. In all the
wanted colorings for this season —
$15 to $30
The new Fall Hats, both Soft and
Stiff Blocks, in a collection of
shapes which enables every man
to select his own particular style—
$2 to $5.
Stetson Hats
We are glad to report Captain
Jacobson improving. He is ex-
Occulists’ Prescriptions
Promptly, Accurately and Reasonably
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Hookworm is a disease found
among ladies that attend picture
shows. Those who do not re-
move their hats are suffering
with the malady.
TRUST BLDG. G.H.AronsfeldMur.
THE ONLY EXCLUSIVE
OPTICIANS in GALVESTON
| cago was in Texas City Tuesday.
Mr. W. J. Purdie recently from
Mexico has taken a position in
auditor’s office of the Wolvin
Line.
It is understood that a first-
| class laundry will be established
in Texas City about the first of
the year.
J. Merrow, of the firm of J.:
Merrow & Co., Steamship Agents
of Galveston was in Texas City
Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Tolar arrived
here last week. Mr. Tolar is
Superintendant of the Fire Ex-
tinguisher Co.
The Telephone system was
somewhat inconvenienced by the
norther of Tuesday, but was
quickly remedied and we now
J. C. Lowdon was a pleasant
caller at the Times office Thurs-
day.
H. L. Woodliff brought over a
dozen turkeys from Galveston
Tuesday.
W. R. Wiley was a pleasant
caller at the Times office Wed-
nesday.
Miss Dulcie Dorsett was the
guest of her parents here over
Sunday.
Miss Lylla Seiber returned
home Sunday from the carnival
in Houston.
Mack Davis returned Monday
from Houston after attending the
No-TsuOh festivities.
Rev. Dr. A. A. Swanlund of
Galveston was a pleasant visitor
te our city Thursday.
Mrs. R. E. Orendorff has given
up her boarding house and re-
tired to private living.
H. B. Smith, cashier of the
Wolvin Ss. Line made a flying
to go into dry dock at New something from the kithen
Orleans. The “City of Tampico” Puck.
Official Statement of the Financial
Condition of the
Texas City State Bank
at Texas City, State of Texas, at the
close of business on the 16th day of No-
vember, 1909, published in the Texas
City Times, a newspaper printed and
published at Texas City, State of Tex-
as, on the 20th day of November, 1909.
Horace: Nothing so difficult but
The women and the bank
account have been separated too
long. The best place for them
to get together is at our bank.
We will cheerfully explain any
points you do not understand.
We do not want to overlook the
women; the cashier delights in
assisting them in doing a bank-
ing business. Texas City State-
Bank.
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chief clerk to Dock Superintend- lina Cruz, Mex., was dragged out to
, Nr D r, , m sea and was missing two days be-
ent Mr. W. P. Tarpy at Texas fore he could get back.
Wise Man's Advice.
Virgil: Trust not too much in
enchanting face.
Jack Baldwin was in Galveston
yesterday.
Mrs. Levally was is Galveston
Monday.
Mrs. Bradley was a caller in
Galveston Monday.
J. T, Watson was a Galveston
[visitor Monday.
! J. J. Jacobson was in Galves-
ton Monday.
John Graffe was a Galveston
visitor Monday.
H. B. Moore was a Galveston
j visitor Thursday.
M. S. Auderer visited relatives
| in Houston Sunday.
Dr. F. N. Danforth was in
| Houston Tuesday.
Chas. Cassell was a business
visitor in Galveston Tuesday.
H. A. Thomas was a business
I visitor to Galveston Monday.
W. D. Purdie has accepted a
position with the Wolvin Line.
Mrs. A. Holland was among
the Galveston visitors Monday.
Mrs. Horace Rogers spent
Monday in the Island City.
A. G. Cooper, of Chicago is
spending a few days in our city.
Miss Mary Bradshaw was a
Weight of Human Heart. '
The average weight of the heart is
from nine to 11 ounces.
ing the queen's English” and "clip-
erators from the Westinghouse bing the queen’s English” arose from
- ’ ■ ' ' ' d book by Dean Alford on the subject "' at man will accomplish it.
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today, and the Wolvin Line
Located on Bay Front
in Thompson Hotel
Building
Unaccountable Otherwise.
A traveler who has recently re-
turned from Japan alleges that he saw
a really pretty Japanese woman while
he was there. We suspect that he
had been drinking when he met her.
Scientific Achievement.
Do you approve of chemicals ane
other foreign substances in food?
a Certainly, answered the imagina-
full cargo of merchanni, ; ,, tive scientist. “I am now engaged in
mu ‘.8. -.cnmndise is due experiments by which a cure for dys
pepsia can be introduced into every
pie.”—Washington Star.
Life’s Perfect Duties.
Gentleness and cheerfulness, these
come before all morality; they are the
perfect duties. If your morals make
you drear?, depend upon it they are
wrong. I do not-say “give them up,"
for they may be all you have; but
conceal them like a vice, lest they
should spoil the lives of better and
simpler people.—Robert Louis Stev-
enson.
Catching a monster
line becoming hooked
The rich and the poor better
their fortunes in the same way
by steady saving and wise
investments. You do the saving
and keep it in our bank and we
will assist you in getting good
investments.
I We attend, to the re-consignment and billing out of goods
| shipped via the . Texas City Steamship Company, to and
I rom New York, in our care to this point, securing railroad
| bills of lading, giving instructions as to shipments and at-
| tending to other matters necessary to secure good services g
| in movement of goods via this route. We will be glad for 8
g you to have all shipments made in our care mailing us advice |
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A Versatile Californian.
FredConwel, justice of the peace in
Groveland, combines his legal dis-
pensary with the tonsorial profession,
and also carries a large stock of
jewelry. His residence of over
twelve years in the town inspires con-
fidence in his ability to please in all
lines. Added to his other responsi-
bilities is that of notary—Big Oak
Enterprise.
man named Uyedan Rikimatsu, aged
28, of Kobe, has been sentenced to
at Galveston, has been appointed Ht, Felipe Ocampo, a fisherman of Su ■ a young dogmberongimg no the stoing
tor of a piece-goods store at Tachi-
bana-dori, three chome, Kobe. It ap-
mlends pears that the accused had previously
convicted ot stealing a cat" ton was in the city yesterday.
thought his boat had been swamped.
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Bills Payable and Re-Discounts 000
Other Liabilities as follows: 000
Total---------------- $96,193 72
The State of Texas,
County of Galveston.
We, H. B. Moore as vicepresident, ard
C. D. Gustavus as cashier of said bank,
each of us, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is true to the best of
our knowledge and belief.
H. B. MOORE, Vice-President
C. D. GUSTAVUS, Cashier
rom the Servants’ T°bia.
an Antler "I think we are sure
; H a good dinner to-night. You know
। my new English butler does the e»
; 3 catering for the household.”
rubb -“Can you rely on him to-:
an . Antler “Not always, but thia
evening I requested him'to send us up
Bay Lumber
JOHN H. SIEBER, Manager
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and while they are spending | Beattie were in Houston this
their money to build up a town I week.
Advice to Girls.
“Be helper of men,” soid the press
dent of Vassar to the girl graduates
That will be well enough after they
get the men. In the meantime they
might help mother. — Kansas City
Journal.
has taken the place of the Nor- -----—----
heim on this trip. . “Pulling” or “Pushing.”
The action of a horse hitched to a
Dr. J. M. Head, industrial wagon.is generally regarded as pull-
- - in8- This 18 an old catch-question,
often answered by disputants with
the argument that since the animal
pushes against the breast-piece of the
to return next week accompanied therefore pushingsoltar, his action la
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door of a safe made of the hard-
est steel were continually struck
with the smallest hammer, an
opening would be effected in
time. ” In a compilation he made
of the statistics of banks in a
certain city, comparing those
which advertised with those
which did not, the results were
as follows: The advertising
banks gained 21 per cent, in as-
sets, 16 per cent, in surplus and
22 per cent, in deposits; while I
the non-advertising banks lost 5
per cent in assets, and gained
only 10 per cent, in surplus and
7 per cent, in deposits.
After the Rush.
German proverb: At evening the
sluggard is busy.
newspaper: “A
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What “King’s English” Means.
Queen’s English" and “king’s Eng-
lish" are both terms that have been in
common use for years to designate
grammatical English. In Shake-
speare’s “Merry Wives of Windsor”
we read: “Here will be an old abus-
ing of God’s patience and the king’s
English.” Such phrases ar “murder-
Paper Haning Painting .
Estimates Cheerfully Furnishe With much more pleasure than
Fresco Work Interior Decorating the doctor’s bill.
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The Philosopher of Folly.
“There are a lot of men,” says the
Philosopher of Folly, “who would
never be recognized as fools if they
didn’t fall in love and give themselves
away.”
_ I Robt. I. Cohen
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Galveston, Texas
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। Lumber, Sash, Doors, Screen Doors, 1
I Mouldings, Brick, Lime and Cement, |
I Roofing Material, Paints, Oils, Etc. I
Cash Items_______ 00 00
Currency________ 6,166 00
Specie_____-_______1,491 36
Other Resources .as follows:
Total__________________
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid in________I
Surplus Fund________________
Undivided Profits, net_______
Due to Banks and Bankers
subject to check______
Individual Deposits, subject
to check__________________
Time Certificates of Deposit
! Bank Bldg.,
| Texas City.
[ $4 to $10
! We’ve many new lasts of Shoes
I to show, in Patent Leathers, Tan
| and Black Vici Kid, Tan Calf
| Skin and Gunmetal, all sizes and
j widths—
I $3.50 to $7
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