The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 8, 1910 Page: 1 of 4
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The Atlatagorda County Tribune
TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY. TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE, ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT.
Sixty-fourth Year, No. 16
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1 910
$1.50 Per Yea
THE GLORIOUS FOUTH. .
Fine Rain Did Not Dampen the Ardor
of the Patriots, But Fate of Ball
Team and. Jeffries Did
- From Tuesday’s Daily.
Exactly one in ch of rain fell yester-
• day morning between 8 and 9 o’clock.
And while it was falling, even those
in charge of the preparations for the
celebration of the glorious Fourth
smiled serenely and looked upward
with the eye of approval of the Weath-
er clerk's timely stunt. For though
the rain threatened to dampen the kin-
dled fires of patriotism -and put a
crimp in the demonstration in com-
memoration of the heroic deeds of the
fathers, it was a mighty good thing
for the present edition of posterity,
because it was a savior of the rice crop
and postponed for a few weeks the
threatened loss of that crop for want
of moisture. It also added a few bush-
els per acre to the production of late
- corn fields and made wealth and con-
tributed to the peace and comfort of
people generally in many other ways.
The downpour ceased about 9 o’-
clock, however, and as the morning
trains had brought several hundred
visitors in from the west side and
Matagorda, the committees decided to
make an effort to carry out as much
of the program as possible under the
circumstances. Those who had deco-
rated autos and vehicles were notified
to gather on the square, the band was
assembled, the fire department sum-
moned, and the line of parade was
formed with as many as could be got
together The procession moved around
the square once and up contiguous
streets as far as the gravel extends,
■ and served to notify the people of the
town that there would be something
•doing after all.
* Following the parade, the Fire de-
partment gave an exhibition of its
method of work, the Hook and Ladder
company putting up a ladder and the
Hose Company No. 1 sending men to
the top of City Hall with a hose and
. throwing water over that structure.
Both companies made good time and
the performance was interesting to
the most of those who witnessed it.
This was followed by a foot race
for 100 yards, in which there were
four entries of fleet- footed sprinters.
The race was won by Lamonica, a
member of the Brownsville baseball
team, but his victory was due to the
only unfortunate incident of the day.
He was well beaten by C. F. Courtney
of Bay City to within eight feet of the
wire, when that young man fainted
and fell, his hands barely missing
the wire as he fell full length on the
track.
Mr. Courtney was taken from the
track in an unconscious condition and
it was an hour before he recovered
and was in condition to take an inter-
est in passing events. The young man
is somewhat of an athlete, but was
not in condition for strenuous work,
and having run a hundred yards in
the hose cart team a few minutes be-
fore, the exertion of the foot race
proved to be too much for him.
As soon as the crowd had recover-
ed from its uneasiness over Mr. Court-
Cney’s condition, the half mile bicycle
'race was pulled off. Chas. Fields won
this event in a canter or a lope, which-
eyer word best describes his graceful
evolutions as be bestrode his racing
wheel.
We must not forget to mention that
M. Boney was among the “also rans"
In this event.
Sack races for little boys was the
next feature, the prizes being won by
Elbert Morris, first, and Johnnie Den-
ning, second.
As the noon hour approached, the
hungry crowd repaired to the Scofield
garage, where the Civic Club was pre-
pared to feed it, and where in two
hours it cleaned up everything the
energetic members of that useful or-,
ganization could gather together to
eat. Besides this, the restaurants and
hotels were liberally patronized, and
tho final result was that everybody
in town was well and plentifully fed.
After noon, or at 8:30, the chief
event of the day opened, the double
header ball game between Bay City
and Brownsville opened. The largest
crowd of the season occupied the
grand stand and bleachers when play
was called at 3:30, and every fan of
them was a loyal rooter for the local
team. But it appeared that too much
. encouragement was not the right ton-
ic for the Rice Eaters, for in spite of
uproarious rooting and all sorts of
rootorial melody, the home team went
down in ignominious defeat in the pres-
enoe of. its loving friends.
Little is to be said of either of the
games, except that the Rice Eaters
were .in one of their periodical bat-
ting slumps. In spite of the fact
that they fielded errorlessly in the
first game and. made two more safe
hits off of Taff than the opposition
made off Blakeney, their inability to
get one of those hits when it meant
one or more runs, lost them the game.
And then Blakeney, in a moment of
over-confidence, put a straight one in
the groove for Hellman, in the eighth
Inning, when the score was tied, and
that ungracious slugger sent the ball
over the fence, when there were two
men on the bases ahead of him.
Hellman repeated that same stunt
in the second game, when Wehrman
was pitching, but he made the circuit
alone. In the second game Hooks al-
lowed the Rice Eaters to make but
two measly bingles and they never
got to first till the last inning, when
Dailey fumbled a grounder and let a
runner reach that station.
The score of the first game was 4
to 1, the Rice Eaters' only run being
a home run by Sweet. The second
game resulted in a shut out for the lo-
cals, 4 to 0. 4
Both teams fielded ,in sensational
manner, Campbell and Robinson car-
rying off the honors for the locals
in the outfield and Wilson in the in-
field. Price pulled off some phenome-
nal stunts which the crowd cheered, in
spite of the fact that they didn't like
the Brownie captain a bit for them.
The only errors charged against
the visitors for the two games were
made by Joe Daily. Speaking of
Dalley, reminds us that the phenom-
enon played four games here in his
new uniform, went to bat about thl-
teen times and pot one measly bin-
gle to his credit.
Coming to town from the ball park,
with gloom oozing from every face,
the crowd got another blow when it
heard the news from Reno. Bulle-
tins from the ring side had begun to
arrive,, and at 6 o’clock the sender
added to the story of the fifth round
the information that the negro had
beaten the white man in the fifteenth
round. This intelligence spread thru
the crowd fast, and mixed with the
double walloping administered to the
ball team, put it in a rather ungra-
cious humor, considering the occa-
sion. About 8 o’clock the returns
by rounds were read from the stage
at the opera house, and the crowd,
knowing what had happened, flocked
thither to learn how it had happened.
And after it had heard the story, it
did not require the expert opinion of
John L. Sullivan to convince it that
the Reno mill, the far famed fight of
the century, was a mighty poor exhi-
bition of the refined art of fisticanla.'
Manager Gillette of the Grand, re-
alizing that something must be done
to bring back the smiles to the faces
of the patroits disgruntled, proved him
self equal to the task when he put on
a couple of sparring matches between
local darklea. Four athletic young
negroes were sworn into service and
with their fists padded with eight-
ounce gloves, were put into the ring
in pairs and ordered to go three rounds
and show by their skill that their
compatriot was worthy the honors
Jeffries had. thenet..u yon him at Renc.-
These exhititiors arwrel -bisiy-cea
tertaining and amusing to the im-
mense audience, and they cheered' the
contestants to the echo.
Following the sparring contests, four
reels of moving pictures were put on.
Owing to the rain, only a few autos
and vehicles ventured out and took
part in the parade and competition for
the prizes for the best deoorations.
This fact did not. however, contribute
to the success of Postmaster Sayers
in drawing the first prize for decora-
ted automobile,the committee cheer-
fully and unanimously awarding that
distinction to his Regal, which was
catchily made up to correspond with
the national colors, and was occupied
by the postoffice force, headed by the
genial chief masquerading as your Un-
cle Samuel, sir.
. The first prize for decorated bug-
gies was awarded Master Vashtine
Kennedy, the young son of Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Kennedy, whose little Shet-
land cart was prettily made up in red,
white and blue. The pretty little
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. L. DeAu-
bin were awarded the second prize for
the pleasing appearance of their pony
cart. ’
The float entered by the Bay City
Business College typified the energy
and resourcefulness of the managers
of that institute, and attracted consid-
erable attention. It represented one
of the daily and nightly scenes in the
college, and besides was handsomely
decorated
POTATO SHIPPING CLOSED.
About 700 Carloads of Tubers Shipped
By the Caney Valley Growers
Association.
Wharton Spectator.
The H. C. Woods Co., who were sell
ing agents for the Caney Valley Potato
Growers Association, report that the
season’s business has been closed, so
far as this locality is concerned.
About 600 carloads were shipped by
this firm for the association, the
greater number of cars being loaded
in the eastern part of the county. In-
dependent buyers were also shipping
from this county, and the estimate of
the number of cars shipped from this
county is placed at 700.
The growers as a rule appear to be
fairly well satisfied with the prices
received. This has been the hardest
in many years owing to the fact that
the north was overloaded with old
stock selling at from 18 to 20 cents up his mind to cast his vote for Cone
Johnson, the man whom he chnldered
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per bushel. The highest price paid
here was $1.50, but later in the season
some were sold as low as.50 cents,
but these were not considered choice
stock.
The yield ranged all the way from
10 to 100 bushels per acre, and some
of the potatoes were very fine, while
others Were inferior. Most of the
growers have saved seed and are pre-
paring to plant for a fall crop.
* ---n—o——-
Easy Living in Texas.
Fort Worth, Texas, June 10.—The
wholesale produce dealers here talk-
ing with a representative of the Texas
Commercial Secretaries Association
in regard to various Texas products,
remark as follows: “Texas has got
the soil, climate and conditions which
will place it among a few of the great-
est fruit, vegetable and general pro-
duction states in the universe.
• "Take for instance, poultry and
eggs. You know that prime winter
eggs have sold up to 50 cents the last
few' winters, andpouitry either live or
dressed or whether broilers or grown,
and turkeys, or most anything in the
way of poultry, “has been very high
with ready sales for all produced. A
woman out here on the Interurban
cleared $1500 per year on her poultry
for her pin money, as a side issue,
as she was not obliged to earn her
support/ A Fort Worth man made
$100 per month through the spring
from poultry on a small tract These
are only sample of actual experiences,
but show what can be done. A trip
of 14 miles was lately made by a deal-
er looking, for frying size chicks, and
resulted in finding just three in that
distance for which he paid 40 cents
each the weight being 1 to 1 1-2
pounds; the current market price be-
ing about 30 cents per pound."
Another dealer said: "There is a
big living in Texas for anyone with a
small tract either under intensive
methods or irrigation. Reports come
to us of alfalfa sold as high as $25
per ton, and several crops a year can
be grown. Sales have been made here
lately of fine local-grown tomatoes
at 10 cents per pound, while many
other vegetables and fruits have
shown remarkable incomes. firuced..bx.
The acre from Texas lands.”
A seedman and produce dealer said:
"With good roads, Texas lands and in-
vestments are probalby better than
anything to be found in this country,
everything considered. One of the
new products is a Russian importa-
tion called Speltz, somewhat resemb-
ling barley, and while not up to the
alfalfa for nutrition, its great pro-
ductive qualities of 40 per cent in-
crease should be considered, and it
will grow on poor and stony soil. But
there is also plenty of other big pro-
ducers here, whether in garden or in
cotton, sugar, rice, minerals, oils or
gas lands, cattle or any one of a hun-
dred other, and the best part of it
is that with the good roads building
and good round year climate, property
values show the steady and satisfac-
always loking for.
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N.Y. No. 5.
SOME POLITICAL SPEECHES.
Judge Garrett Makest Strong Appeal
for Cone Johnson—M. S. Munson
Makes Plain Statement
From Thursday's Dally.
The political gathering at the court
house last night on account of the en-
gagement of Judge D. E. Garrett of
Houston to speak in behalf of Hon.
Cone Johnson was not as large as the
quality of the oratory delivered war-
ranted. The crowd numbered about
150, half of whom were ladies, and tho'
a majority of the voters present were
followers of the Smith county candi-
date, there was a sprinkling of the par-
tisans of the other candidates present.
Dr. J. E. Simons called the meeting
to order and introduced Mayor Suther-
land. The mayor, who has always
been recognized as an ardent Poindex-
ter supporter, sprang the first sur-
prise by declaring that he had made
the liquor interests. Mr. Sutherland
introduced Hon. M. S. Munson of An-
, . , .... . . . wronged, to confess the wrong and ask
gleton. legislative candidate, who hap- „ " P.
forgiveness.
pened to be in town yesterday and re-
mained for the meeting when he heard
of it. Mr. Munson spoke for fifteen or
twenty minutes, and in the course of
his remarks made it plain that he was
an uncompromising prohibitionist, fa-
voring constitutional prohibition first
and statutory prohibition next, if the
liquor dealers prove too strong for
the people and again defeat the submis-
sion proposition at the next session
of the legislature. ′.
Judge Garrett was then introduced,
and plunged at once into his subject—
prohibition as an issue of the present
campaign. --.
The speaker caught and held the at-
tention of his auditors from the be-
ginning. While he drew frequent out-
bursts of applause from the prohibi-
tionists, their enthusiasm was the least
of the evidence of the force of the
argument and keenness of his thrusts
at the opposition. This was more evi-
dent in the painful discomfort of the
few Colquitt supporters present.
Judge Garrett’s theme was prohibi-
tion, and his plea was for the election
of Cone Johnson. He declared that
the prohibitionists had nothing to hope
for in the election of either Poindexter
or Davidson, as it is conceded that sub-
mission cannot be secured at the hands
of the legislature, with either of these
gentlemen in the executive's place.
On the other hand, with Johnson
there, he declared that fear of statu-
tory prohibition will force the liquor-
ites to go to the people with the ques-
tion in the shape of a constitutional
amendment; for, he asserted, there is
not a lawyer in the employ of the liq-
uor organizations whose services are
worth as much as $2500 a year, who
does not know that statutory prohi-
bition is constitutional and that it will
stand before all the courts, even to
the U. 8. supreme tribunal.
Statutory prohibition, he said, is the
one thing the saloons are afraid of,
with a fear approximating the fear of
death, and for that reason they are
soncentst ing-thei ? -fire- o-Johnson. -
ip tie Jinuetoken, ne Tent that the
prohibitionists should concentrate
their support upon the same man and
by his election place themselves in po-
sition to control the bolting element in
the legislature, forcing them, with the
statutory measure, to obey the com-
mand of the people and submit the con-
stitutional measure.
Judge Garrett 'went to Palacios to-
day, and will speak there tonight.
——o—o——
Peacemakers in the Community.
The community had gathered to pay
the last duty to one of their number.
Old and young were there, men, wo-
men and the little children, who knew
that they had lost a friend. Many
eyes were full of tears, and many
hearts were sore. A good man had
fallen.
The minister read his text and be-
gan the sermon, which was to com-
memorate the virtues of the dead. As
a climax to the sermon he said:
"Our brother was the peacemaker
of this community—a man who knew
always how to reach the hearts of
people, and how to beat up the
wounds and close up the breaches.
What was the secret of that power!
It was that he was sincerely a friend
of humanity; that he loved men and
loved peace: that he always honored
his own manhood and the manhood in
other men. Men loved and trusted
him, and knowing his keen sense of
honor, and love for justice, were will-
ing to entrust their causes to him.
What he advised they were willing to
do, because they knew that he would
advise nothing wrong. Instinctively
they felt that here was one whom all
could trust, and all trusted him. He
was ready to confess his own errors,
and anxious to right any wrong he
might have done. 'Humility was a
great strength to him and commanded
confidence.. He was no meddler in
quarrels of others and yet never fail-
ed to speak th right word to bring
peace and good will. Blessed are the
peacemakers.
*
How fortunate for any community
to have such a citizen; and how more
than well that he should have the con-
fidence of others, and the power to do
good. May his mantle fall upon the
shoulders of one worthy to wear it.
We say, too, how good it is to have
a peacemaker in any community, and
how good that the community be able
to recognize his worth. And here we
will say, also, that it is well for men
to be strong enough to acknowledge
errors, to confess wrongs, and to
right the evils they do. A dog may mon decency, anyway! Think of Geo.
fight and e brute may continue to
quarrel, and the meanest man may
hate nis neighbor; but it takes real
manhood to go to him whom one has
The courage to do right is the fin-
est courage: to confess a wrong and
ask forgiveness is proof of manhood;
to forget and forgive an injury raises to put a head on King George! Why
manhood to its highest plane. Pat would have said: “Give me beer
Blessed: is the peacemaker: and
blessed is thbe man of courage, ready
to be at peace with his neighbors.
Hatred is mean and cowardly, and
does not raise man above thebull dog;
but the manhood which makes for
peace is priceless.—Farm and Ranch.
--0—o—
Civic Club Matters.
From Thursday’s Daily.
The glorious Fourth turned out to
be a rainy, discouraging day for the
citizens promoting the celebration, but
for the ladies of the Civic Club, thru
the courtesy of our local merchants,
and local and visiting patrons, the day
was most successful, the dinner giv-
en under the auspices of the Club be-
ing well attended in spite of the ele-
ments, and the ladies received as their
reward of labor $87.60, the door rec-
eipts for the noon meal.
This was excellent, and the ladies
of the|Civic Club, through these col-
umns, desire to thank each and ev-
ery merchant for his liberal donation,
and each and every lady for her. con-
tributions in the way of prepared
foods; also the ladles who assisted in
serving dinner; last, yet not least,
the ladies wish to thank the public
spirited citizens who came and pat-
ronized the Club dinner, lending very
material assistance.
Messrs. Scofield and Barnes, owners
of the Scofield Auto Co., are due a spe-
cial vote of thanks for the use of the
garage for the serving of the dinner,
without which it could not have been
given.
The expenses of the day, thanks to
the generous minded of the city, were
comparatively light, being in the vi-
cinity of $4.00, thus leaving about
$83 to go into the‘treasury of the Civ-
lie. club..--------------------are-remeangn
..."Lbor-----i---------"-r-iha-Clab syer-cted governor"--"--
motto; the financial success of the
dinner given by the Club only proves
that “labor conquers all.” Let us
hope that all of us, both citizens and
members of the Civic Club, will con-
tinue to bear this in mind, and put
our “civic" shoulder to the wheel and
put Bay City in the lead of the coast
towns, along the lines of Civic im-
provement.
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Junior B. Y. P. U Program.
1 .—Bible Drill.
'2.—Song: Choir.
3 .—Prayer: Rev. Morrison.
4 .—Drill on memory verse: Jas.5:16
5 .—Scripture reading:Jas,3: 16-1 8
6 .—Pictures in the life of Elijah.
(aJ Elijah and the Famine:1 Kings
17:1-17—Everett Hill.
(b)Elijah and the meal and oil: 1
Kings 17:8-16—Stella Sutherland.
(c) Elijah and Ahab: 1 Kings 18:1-
18—Ola Anderson.
(d) Elijah and the Prophets of Baal:
Kings 18: 19-27—Edith Anderson.
(e) Elijah and the tests of fire:1
Kings 18:30-46—Eva Anderson.
(f) Elijah out of duty: 1 Kings 19:
1-10—Isadora Toops.
(g) Elijah's return to duty:1 Kings
18:11-21—Willie Conger.
(h) Elijah ascends to Heaven: 1
Kings 2:1-12—Leonora Conger.
(I) Lessons from Elijah: Giveoom-
parlson between Elijah and John the
Baptist—Rev. . Morrison.
7.—Song. ′
WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN.
Smith Jones of Bloomington Is Agein
Perturbed as to the Political
. Situation.
Editor Express: Have you seen a
recent copy of the Houston Post? It
emanates from Houston, and Is evicted
by newsboys on trains when properly
tipped. It seems there is a man by the
name of Colquitt running for governor
by and with the consent of the Hous-
ton Post on a personal liberty plat-
form. One must infer from the Post
Toasties that said Colquitt has con-
centrated and congealed the spirit of
seventy-six, and now proposes to put
it to soak—goodness! Pardon my pro
fanity, Mr. Editor; but really, now, is
it necessary for one to remember the
Alamo when ordering a cocktail or
two beers’
Who Is this fellow Johnson who
wants to circumscribe a fellow to com-
Washington not being allowed to come
home drunk on Saturday night and
kick' the chandelier! Then there is.
that man Poindexter, expecting a lib-
erty loving Texan to take his wife 3
miles out from the schoolhouse to
beat her. Who ever heard of Patrick
Henry having a statewide legal re-
straint placed on him when he wanted
or give me whiskey to swim in or sink
in and I’ll lick the whole British em-
pire, and if this be treason why give
me some more of it.”
No! Colquitt is right. Davie Cro-
ckett and Sam Houston would turn,
over in their graves if it were possible
for them to realize that a man—free
born—of lawful age and a Texan no-
longer had the local option of raising
hell in his family and among his near
neighbors, and bow can a man raise-
hell successfully without whiskey s.
These fellows who are running for
office, against the Houston Post Tor
the governorship probably never had
a 'protracted drunk in theid lives and
have no conception of bow to fight
Weed and die for liberty with
White aprons to the fron of them,
White Apron* to the left of them, r
Bubbling and sparkling.
.
Just why serious minded people en-
gaged in raising families should ob-
ject' to having their sons disqualified
and their daughters ruined through
the effects of whiskey is belyond the
conception of Mr. Colquitt, and he
would veto the expressed will of the.
narrow minded people if they formu-
late an effective way of curtailing
saloons and their uutpn$ For the
Lord’s sake, and Liberty’s sake, let’s
have local option so that ‘ we can't
get drunk in one neighborhood we
can in another. This thing of tres-
passing on a man's prerogative oof
‘ruining lives, blasting character and
building up the state of Texas with
human derelicts must be stopped.
"If I am elected' governor,” says
Colquitt, and he assures us he will
be, "I shall stand for development.”
And may the Lord bless him in his
noble fight for liberty and Gol grant
that the Houston Post got a large
governor."
It certainly is providential that the .
pros are divided in this campaign so
that the antis can elect their noble
leader. The very fact that the pros
are divided ald wrangling stamps them
as true blue Democrats, for who ever **?*
heard of Democrats loing anything
else.
For once the state of Texas will
have a good Republican governor
All of the good women of Texas must
write Governor Colquitt a personal
lettel when their husbands get drunk
or their sons lose a position, giving
all the details so that the givernor
will not feel discouraged over the
mean things that are being said about
SMITH JONES.
him.
JOHN GOTTSCHALK BURNED.
Exploding Torch Burns His Face and
Head Badly As He Is Prepar
ing to Go Floundering.
Matagorda, Texas, July 3.—A very,
serious though not fatal accident hap-
pened to John Gottschalk, fourth son
of Gus Gottschalk, of this place last
night about 9 o’clock,. He was trying
to light a flounder torch preparatory
to a floundering trip, when the torch
exploded and burned his face 'and neck
badly and singed the hair off the back
of his head.
It is too early yet to determine if
. his eyes will be affected by the burns.
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