Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1911 Page: 6 of 8
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THE TEXAS CITY TIMES
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Contractor and
Builder
Grocery
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has marked another important j acent to Texas City and it is be-
era in the development of the
lieved that the subdivision of
Prompt Delivery. Phone 47.
ers,
Edwin Mills & Son
WE NOW HAVE
of Texas City has out-
the
our
constructed
than a million dollars, and neces-
ies, were designed with a view to
conceiv-
AMBURN BROTHERS
that you never in
the
world
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TEXAS
TEXAS CITY
Remember
When in Galveston see
M. MELCER
that it is the best intention of
M. JACOBS
THAT NEW HAT
WILEY & GILBERT
silt.
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ber Co.
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Expressage Paid on Out-of-Town Orders
TEXAS CITY UNION
and
STORE
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All the storage and concentrat- plans are perfected for the erec-
and Overcoats.
turn voyage.
Company,
The capital of ent openings are afforded for
plant at once.
Dress pants $2.50 value
com-
Outfittea.
Uncommon
I. KATZ, Proprietor
tf
etc,
Galveston
Horseshoeing a Specialty
Your Patronage Will be Appreciated
Texas City Meat
Maaket and
$1.00
$1.75
merce
grown
tion of more fireproof business
structures, two of which, each
OFFICE 1st Ave. South
Phone 22, P. 0. box 101
ness of the place as a profitable
as it is, in the wake of commerce
Cleaning, Pressing, Repairing and
Hat work all done here in the city.
Work Called for and Delivered
Stetson Hats $4 to $7
Our Guarantee Hats $3‘
Our Special Hats $2
rived in Texas City Monday, and
is loading cotton for Havre.
The advent af Trans-Atlan-
tic commerce out of Texas City
on sale our entire stock of
winter goods.
You Should Come Here to Buy.
Hats of every new Color and
Shape to Select From.
nation as well, that here is a
coming commercial port.
REAL ESTATE and
INSURANCE
of coal for the Davis Coal and
Coke Company Tuesday, and
sailed for Baltimore.
Union Made Overalls
Jeans at_____________
Work Pants________
could save otherwise.
Wishing each and every one
of ye Woodmen in a drill.
We intend to put them to the
test in an entertainment we con-
template giving the 4th of Feb-
ruary.
We cordially invite any and all
ceives her share.
Continued interest in Texas
City lots and acreage has marked
the months of November and
Staple and Fancy Groceries.
Fresh Meats and Vegetables.
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OUR MOTTO:
SATISFACTION
To All.
Watchmaker, Jeweler
and Engraver
__________$1.00
$1.50 and $2.00
Review of the City’s Pi ogress and
Prospects, by Harvey A. Thomas
in Texas Magazine.
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There are many people who
TEXAS CITY, GREAT
MAINLAND PORT
Blacksmiths
Have opend a New Shop on Second
avenue, South, near Bay Front
Just Opened For Business Op-
posite the Postoffice
Complete Line
Gent’s Furnishings, Hats
and Shoes.
vided on Texas City piers for should double this within the
loading and unloading cargoes. next year, to say nothing of the
Thus far the facilities con- i increased traffic, necessitating
Sam J. Williams
HATTER, TAILOR AND OUTFITTER
2215 Market St., Galveston
Respectfully,
Guardian of Orange Grove No.
959, Texas City.
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THE TIMES IN GALVESTON
which will erect a
Cotton Seed Products Company,
and the numerous smaller in-
dustries with well defined plans
for operations here, are making
Texas City well known through-
out the world of manufacturing
and industry.
Considerable interest has re-
cently been evinced in the fig
and orange industry in land ad-
compfettdansrcEargingckenbrgo Mid-Winter Sale of Suits
City with general cargo. She is
Every article pertaining to
winter must go. Our cooking
and heating stoves, hardware and
carpenter tools of all kinds must
go at cost. China and granite
ware, furniture, blankets, pil-
lows, window shades and every-
thing for housekeeping must go
at reduced prices.
A. ROSS
PROPRIETOR
To All Interested in Woodcraft
in Texas City:
I would like, through the kind-
ness of your paper, to announce
a few things about our little
band, the Woodman Circle. We
have fe wmembers, but all are
overlook. Prices are the lowest we
have ever quoted
year at an expenditure of more modern freight-handling facili- meetings in I. L. A. Hall.
J.u. . 1___ u..,___.______■! ies, were designed with a view to So now, while times are pros-
sitated plans for the extensive the receipt, concentration and perous, think what a good saving
..... • ' bank the Woodman Circle is.
Agents for Texas City business
and resident lots. Vacant and
improved property for sale and
rent. Fine tracts for orange
cultivation,
are always looking for bargains:
a good plan indeed, and we wish
to call the attention of such peo-
ple to Kohfeldt’s Second Addi-
tion, as this is something they
should be interested in. See the
local real estate agents and get
them to explain the terms, prices
Bona-fide values is making this the
greatest clothing sale in the history of
this store. We can’t begin to describe
on paper the many inducements this
sale offers. Just call in. The garments
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Don’t forget, we handle the
Studebaker vehicles, the best
made—Industrial Fuel & Lum-
mendations of the bill passed
by the members of the last
winter’s session for the further
widening and deepening of the
increase. New residences are
. MARINE NEWS
structed here are of the most hundreds of additional long-
modern and improved type, shoremen on the docks. Even
and it is stated on authority now the Transportation Com-
that this policy will be pursued pany is prosecuting a vigorous
to the completion of the com- campaign for the assembling of , . v ,
prehensive plans now under con- more laborers for the various cue in Port -onda:
sideration. The half-million- classes of employment, and it is
In the brief period dating
from the opening of this year’s
cotton shipping season, the com-
outlay which it is not difficult to
conceive will soon aggregate a
sum that, in figures, would al-
most seem fabulous.
A recent inspection of the
channel by government officials
and engineers, would indicate
U.... 10 i. U.. '____ l . in the ships that enter Galveston
Congress to carry out the recom- Harbor, of which Texas City re-
—Texas City has no handicap in prosperous new year, and thank-
the way of insufficient facilities ing the editor in advance for
publishing this, I am,
many advantages of the place as Third Wednesdays, at 3 p. m.,
a point for the profitable oper- but as soon as school is out we
■ • " • ’ ’ • ’ . The hope to have a larger member-
mainland port on the world’s lands into small tracts for agri-
harbor of Galveston Bay. With cultural and horticultural pur-
the undertaking of the construe- poses will be conducive to the eager and anxious to do some-
tion of Texas City Transporta- establishment of other large thing for the good of the cause,
tion Company’s modern system manufacturing plants, as it will We have 16 girls now under the
of ocean terminals here, onlook- make possible a comfortable liv- instruction of Mrs. J. H. Warn-
both interested and disin- ing for laborers employed in tex- er of Mineral Wells, who will
soon be able to compete with any
industry, together with Texas natural resources, and the pro- AL,+ n e, '
fin j ng plant; the factory of the viding of modern plants, is rap- KODOiL UGdIS, 3.
Federal Cement Title Company; idly bringing the place into an
the delinting mill of the Texas enviable prominence as one of
throughout is the only one of its
kind south of the Great Lakes, appearing on every hand, and
bushel grain elevator, as Svnu --------—..............
and substantial as the pyramids dred men could conveniently be
of Egypt—constructed of steel used.
Building activities are on the
connect the port and its enter-
prises and industries with the
terminal of the principal Texas
Gulf Coast railroads repre-
senting seven great systems;
while the principal maritime cit-
ies of the world are represented
the stockholders of Texas City
Transportation Company, an-
nouncements were made that
an additional million would be
immediately spent in increas-
ing the efficiency of the port.
wholesaling center. Situated
—here rail and water lines meet that reads this a happy and
The Texas City Times may be
found on sale in Galveston at
the following places:
Purdy’s Book Store, 2217 Mar-
ket St.
T. B. Lemoine & Co., 416 Tre-
mont St.
Tremont Hotel News Stand.
The Times is also kept on file
at the Rosenberg Library.
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Good coal, $7.50 delivered.
—Industrial Fuel & Lumber Co.
The steamer Ogeeche left New
York last Saturday for Texas
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Box 158 Plans Drawn
Texas City,Hexas.
ing warehouses are likewise as
substantial and fireproof as
modern ingenuity could possi- two stories in height, and front-
fice building, a three-story steel ing 125 feet by 80 feet in depth,
bly design. The company of- of the best brick construction,
frame structure, would do credit Not a vacant room is to be found
to a city of a hundred thousand. | in the town for any purpose, and
borne’s wholesale wire and nail We are meeting now at my
establishment here attests to the house in West End, First and
Texas City Heights
Company
$90 and $100 buys a lot in Texas City
Heights, Texas City, a few minutes’
walk from business portion, proposed
street car line runs right by them.
Terms $5 down and $5 per month, no
tax until paid for and no interest on
deferred payments. Write or call
102 Security Bldg., Galveston, Texas
W. S. BROUSSARD, Genl Mgr.
Telephone 3142
solid believed that at least three hun- The British steamer Hilmere
of the Elder Dempster Line ar-
and that further expenditures for transportation. To the con-
would be made from time to trary, Texas City Terminal
further developments along distribution of every. -U.I,
the water front of the port, able commodity, and are con tri- You can save money in joining
Accordingly, at a recent visit of buting much to the attractive- the circle for your loved ones.
The site of one of the largest rents maintain an
sugar refineries of the South has standard from the investment
been procured at Texas City by viewpoint. The business insti-
the Texas City Sugar Refining tutions of the town are enjoying
increased prosperity, and excell-
The steamer Ocmulgee arrived
in port Monday evening from
New York, and discharged a full
attractive cargo of general merchandise.
She sailed yesterday on her re-
this company is $1,600,000, most many new concerns.
of which has been subscribed Physical conditions have un-
and paid in. The refinery will questionably destined the port of
employ from 250 to 300 men, Texas. City to be an important
and will have a pay roll running place, in the industrial and
way up in the tens of thousands mercial world, and the enormous
each month. This mammoth outlay of money now being ex-
City Refining Company’s oil re-1 pended in the development of
wrestling the cargo of a score represent clear profits. But
of modern ocean-going vessels, whatever the agricultural pos- members from other groves that
however, has completely dissi- sibilities of the place, it is nowi have moved in or visiting in town
pated all gloomy foreboding of beyond question that it will be- o meet with us. We will give
the pessimist and convinced not borne an important commercial them a hearty welcome.
only the State of Texas, but the port and manufacturing and Any one that has not joined
distributing center. elsewhere, we will be glad to
The success of Tufts & Os- hear from you.
This, with the causeway, tally advanced over the com-
and the prices will do the rest.
(<The Boy’s Storeyi
"Clean Up” Sale
ia a sale that no parent can afford to
the most rapidly growing cities
of the South.
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Woodcraft in Texas City.
will give to the port practically pany’s schedule. It is now esti-
a land-locked harbor, and will mated that the inhabitants of
admit of the largest vessels the town number near 3000,
afloat plowing right up to against not more than 800 last
modern facilities that are pro-1 fall. The big sugar refinery alone
present facilities, ation of jobbing houses, nie * .
within the past spacious warehouses, with their ship and we wil then resume
comment as to the probable out- that require expensive help.
time as traffic demanded, an Railway serves as a belt line to
reinforced concrete
terested, indulging in no little tile mills and other factories,
Texas City and Suburban Lots, also
acreage. TEXAS CITY, TEXAS
Texas City ship channel and the December. Business properties
construction of the concrete dike in the town are in steady de-
from shoal point to Bolivar mand at from $400 to $1200.
Roads—a distance of between and properties that have former-
four and five miles—to prevent ly been purchased have since
the accumulation of sand and changed hands at prices- mater-
come of the venture. The The revenues enjoyed from the
vusiness-like appearance of the cultivation of the soil will fur-
docks, and the swarm of long- nish expense money, while the
shoremen and cotton screwmen earnings from day labor will
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Bookman, W. F. Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 27, 1911, newspaper, January 27, 1911; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577170/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Rosenberg Library.