Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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. THE TEXAS CITY TIMES
I Are You Thinking of Building a Home |
Texas City Fourth Division is the
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IDEAL LOCATION
A Few Advantages of the Sourth Division
Call In and See Us
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EUGENE BACK IN SERVICE.
SOME SHIPPING NEWS.
THE CANNED GOODS TARIFF.
THOMAS J. GROCE DEAD.
BAILEY IS FOR COLQUITT.
Half Million Pounds of Wool.
gOV-
has
ABE MARTIN SAYS.
in
Brownsville for Deep Water.
Cotton Acreage, 1910.
During the lifetime of the Balti- he has been connected are said to
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Always phone the Times.
Phone news items to No. 44.
Jacob’s hardware store.
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Colquitt in his second race for
ernor, if he makes the race.”
This from a local viewpoint
The steamer Altamaha is due in
port about the 12th inst. from Bal-
timore with a cargo of steel rails
for the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railway.
be in perfect shape, national bank
examiners have just gone over them.
No statement has been given out
by the officials concerning the city
finances, Mr. Groce having been city
treasurer.
The steamer Satilla of the Texas
City Steamship Company arrived in
port this morning from New York
with a full cargo of general mer-
chandise.
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Steam Tug Sank Near Diamond Is-
land Sometime Ago.
jWas Prominent Banker and Galves-
ton City Treasurer
Two Liners in Port and Cotton Ship
Expected in Few Weeks.
Mallory Line Has Reduced the Rate
from Baltimore.
Assured Him of Support for Second
Term.
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Miss Beulah Outterside has ac-
cepted a position with P. D. Har-
The port's cotton shipping facili-
ties are being made ready for the
quick dispatch of cotton cargoes the
coming season. It is given out that
shipments may begin the latter part
of this month, but there is nothing
certain about this just yet.
Six blocks from the blue waters of the bay.
Well drained.
Clean and sanitary, and we protect your property in
that we will allow no shacks to be constructed in this
district.
Cool breeze, pure air, free from undesirable neighbors
Cheap lots, easy terms.
Th’ feller that’s interested
TEN ROOM house, with hall, and
theii rent is cheap too.
given quite a different look to the
Ball boom, which has been swelling
so nicely here of late.
It is taken to mean that those
democrats ordinarily referred to as
“Baileypros” will for the most part
follow the lead of the senator and
cast their ballots in favorof the pre-
sent incumbent of the governor’s
office.
The Brownsville Waterways As-
sociation will send delegates to
Washington for the purpose of se-
curing Federal aid in the improve-
ment of Brownsville as a deep water
port. The delegation will be armed
with facts and figures relating to
Brownsville and the importance of
that city as a seaport.
The prominent citizens of Browns-
ville who are leading the movement
have made a canvass for funds for
carrying out the project and a lib-
eral contribution was secured for
continuing the efforts of the orga-
nization.
Rooms and board in private fam-
ily. Lights and bath. Three doors
west of bath house. Mrs. Putnam.
his work don’t care what time ’tis.
Sprayin’ won’t kill a humbug.
Ignorance gives a feller away
quicker than a celluloid collar. It’s
no trouble t’ do a fine credit busi-
ness.
Nine times out of ten an unpop-
ular man is a feller that ’tends to
his own business. Nobody ever runs
out o’ debt.
You never hear ’o any girls quar-
relin’ over a model young man. Miss
Germ Williams recipe for knotted
spaghetty is receivin’ much favorable
comment.
Th’ feller that orders scrambled
eggs would take a chance on any-
thing. Constable Newt Plum’s mar-
ried daughter has moved int’ a one-
story cottage ’cause she’s afeerd o’
porch climbers.
Austin, Texas, Aug. 2.—Apropos
of the recent meeting ofthe State-
wide prohibition executive committee
here and the string of political ru-
mors which sprung up in the wake
of its home speeding participants,
it became known today that United
States Senator Bailey will support
Governor Colquitt in his race for re-
election next year. From a source
close to Governor Colquitt today it
was saidthat Senator Bailey as late
as last fall had declared himself in
favor of the present incumbent of
the governor’s office against all
corners.
"Ordinarily” the senator is quoted
as saying, "I would support TomBall
of Houston for governor against al-
most any man that could be brought
out. But I want to declare myself
now as a supporter of Oscar Branch
To the ladies of Texas City: If
you want to bake good bread and
cakes, get a Charter Oak stove from
The Panhandle Wool Growers
Association which was organized at
Hereford some time ago estimates
that one half million pounds of wool
will be brought to Hereford for ship
ment and storage from the sur-
rounding country, duringthe season
of 1911. A wool clipping plant con-
sisting of sixteen clippers has been
built north of Hereford for use of
the members of the Association and
this will help procure a largeship-
ping business for this point.
Uncle Sam has just announced the
acreage of cotton harvested from the
1910 crop which shows a total of
32,403,000 acres in the United
States and ofthis acreage Texas has
10,060,000. The yield was 11,965,
962 bales in the United States and
3,072,932 bales in Texas.
has not been announced whether
they have consented to reduce their
that you may keep roomers and
tariff or not, but it is believed they , , , 1, , ...
, „ 1‘ .. - 11 Ar „ boarders? Why! go and see Orcutt,
will follow the action of the Mallory
Newman & Co. They have a fine
The British tank steamer San An-
tonio arrived in port this morning,
and tomorrow will begin taking on
a cargo of refined oils from the
Texas City refinery, consigned to the
Union Petroleum Company of Phil-
adelphia. It is expected that the
ship will finish loading and sail with
in three days.
The steam tug Eugene, property
of the Buffalo Bayou company, ar-
rived in Houston Wednesday morn-
ing from Lynchburg, where it has
been for the past week being re-
paired. The Eugene sank in the
San Jacinto river, near Diamond is-
land, a couple of weeks ago, was
floated and towed to Lynchburg ship
ways, and, after undergoing thoroug
repairs, is once more in service.
The Eugene is one of the oldest
boats in the fleet of the Buffalo Bay
ou company and has been used for
many years in towing sand and shell
The damage to the vessel was
very slight, the principal injury be-
ing from water.
Browning Groce, son of Thos.
J. Groce, suicided at his home in Gal
l veston Thursday evening. The cause
is alleged to be despondency on ac-
count of the death of his father,
i The affairs of the bank with which
Thomas J. Groce, 61 years of age,
a prominent Texas banker, died
shortly after 3 o’clock Wednesday
morning at his residence in Galves-
ton as the result of a stroke of cere-
bral hemorrhage, with which he was
stricken Sunday morning.
Mr. Groce was a native of Alaba-
ma, a resident of Galveston for thir-
ty years, and at the time of his
death city treasurer. For many
years he was associated with the
Galveston National bank, being its
president up to the time of the con-
solidation of that bank with the City
National Monday of this week.
He leaves a widow and three chil-
dren, two sons, Browning Groce and
Benton W. L. Groce, and a daugh-
ter, Patience Groce.
His first entry into the commer-
cial field of the State was thirty
years ago, when he became asso-
ciated with the firm of Moody &
Groce. His widow was Miss Clifford
Lovering.
The funeral, which was private,
took place Wednesday afternoon, in-
terment being in Lakeview ceme-
tery.
more and Texas Steamship company
the rate on canned goods was kept
down to fifteen cents on a hundred
pounds. That line, however, was re-
cently absorbed by the Mallory line
and notice given that the tariff on
canned goods would be raised to
twenty-five cents. The new rate
was to have gone into effect August
It was announced Wednesday at
the offices of the Mallory line
that that company had decided not
to raise the rate on canned goods
from Baltimore to Galveston as pre-
viously announced.
The explanation given was that
the company wished to protect the
Texas jobbers, and as they realized,
that a raise at this time would work
a hardship on the _ dealers of this
State the decision had been made.
The announcement that the rates
would be raised was made about a
month ago, and immediately there
arose a howl of protest from the
Texas jobbers all over the State.
The dealers were most emphatic in
their protest, and committees were
sent to wait on the management of
ihe transportation companies. At
first they received little satisfaction,
but it is apparent that their argu-
ments had sufficient weight to bring
about the reduction.
There was some talk among the
jobbers of organizing a competitive
company and chartering a boat to
run between Baltimore and Galves-
ton. The jobbers of Texas were
joined in their protest by the ship-
pers of the East, and it is probable
that had not the reduction been
made the shippers and jobbers would
have carried out their threats to
charter a boat and run in competi-
tion to the larger companies.
Located within three blocks of the new depot.
Located within a few blocks of the business center of
T e sas ity.
Located within three blocks of the Industrial sites.
Cement sidewalks from fourth division clear through
to the Terminal property.
High elevation.
1 At the same time the Southern low & Co.
Pacific also raised their rates. It
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