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VOL. 88
NO. 0
he IHatnnorbn Counti Tribune
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"THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS"
BAY CITY. TEXAS TUI RSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1933
uif Storm Brings
FREIGHT SHIPMENTS TO
PENNEY’S INCREASES 75 PER
CENT OVER LAST YEAR
Doing the best business they have thing means either that the people are
done in the city. J. C. Penney Co., Inc., beginning to buy or that merchandise
1 ,at prices offered by Penney's attracts
announces that they have increased the buyers
their freight shipments about 75 per Penney's is offering men's pure
cent over last year. According to Mr. Irish linen handkerchiefs this week
Mansfield, manager of the store here at the low price of 10c. It will pay you
K the people are really buying now. In to look up their ad on the back page
4 their great blanket event of last week of this and every other issue of the
A they sold over 600 blankets within a daily and weekly paper.
period of less than a week. Selling "Without newspaper advertising we
blankets at this time of the year to a could not do the business we are do-
■ .public that some say won't buy any-ling.” stated Mr. Mansfield.
FIVE C ENTS PER COPY
e-
1 f
COTTON CHECKS
GIVEN TEXANS
FOR CROP CURE
$ 20,000 DAILY BEING PAID FARM-
ERS OF STATE BY GOV.
ERNMENT.
um
HEARING OPENS
ON SOUTH RICE
MILLING CODE
APPROVAL WILL INC REASE THE
WAGES OF THE INDUSTRY
100 PER CENT. NEW OR
LEAN’S MILLER SAVS
WASHINGTON. Sept. 6. Hearing on
the proposal marketing agreement for
the Southern rice milling industry,
which is designed to give rice grow-
ers of the South parity prices for their
High Winds Here; No Damage
MUCH MOVING ABOUT AND PREPA-
RATIONS FOR A I IARD BLOW
PROVED USELESS.
HURRICANE STRUCK BROWNSVILLE
SECTION AND RIO GRANDE VALLEY
SARGENT SECTION
DAMAGE IS LIGHT
NO HIGH WIND, NO It AIN, ONLY
TIDE WATER RESULT
OF THE STORM.
NEEDS INVESTIGATING
presented as part of the evening’s en-
tereainment is under the direction of
Reverend Haley and will consist of
instrumental and vocal numbers by
several of Bay City's most popular
musicians.
Admittance is free. A free will sil-
ver offering will be taken at the close
of the program. Church Reporter.
1933 crop, opened today before the ag-
ricultural adjustment administration.
Approximately a score of represen-
tatives of rice millers and growers in
Citizens W ho Left I heir Homes For Safer
Places In Other I owns Are
Drifting Back.
For once more the great concern
and scare, or both, which always ac-
Louisiana, Texas Arkansas and Tenn- companies a tropical storm is over
nessee were in attendance.
with and everything here about except
Main outlines of the Southern rice the discussions has assumed the nor-
program were formulated recently at mal and everybody today is back to
a premilinary informal conference work happy until the next one starts
held at Lake Charles, toward us.
In the premininary negotiations with, Lumber yards did a thriving busi-
suffered by the citrus fruit growers.
This crop was said to have been im-
mense and growers were happy over
the bright prospects of higher prices.
While the same section was struck
about a month ago by a lighter storm,
the crop was a big one. The fruit.
Prosperity Comes
From The Soil
One of the most urgent needs for a rigid investigation,
which should be followed by a reprimand if not removal
from office, comes up as a suggestion from this paper
because of the uncalled for bad service rendered by the
Houston weather bureau timing the storm of Monday
night and Tuesday which wrecked the Brownsville section
of the state.
The reports sent out from the Houston office began
early Monday morning to advise the public that the storm
would strike between Freeport anil Corpus Christi. Later
these reports persisted in making the storm, in spite of
barometric reading, strike between the Matagorda Bay
section and Corpus Christi.
People became panic-stricken and many 'phoned in to
Houston for personal reasons and each was assured the
storm was headed directly for us, In more than one in-
stance even the time it would strike was given.
The barometer from the very first possible moment
showed plainly just where the full force of the storm
would strike. Even to a layman there existed not one rea-
son to put it other than where it did strike. Certainly there
existed no sensible reason under the sun why the United
States government with every known device at its com-
mand, should permit any such information to be sent
out as was given a fear-stricken people as that which was
sent out of the Houston office last Monday.
If what the observer in charge sent out was all he
knew, then he doesn’t know enough to be kept where he
is; if he doesn't know enough about tropical hurricanes to
rely upon barometric pressure, instruments and readings,
then lie should be divested, forthwith, of his official habili-
ments and returned to school.
The ghastly, gross, inexcusable errors the Houston
weather bureau made Monday cost the people in this
county to say nothing of those in other counties, plenty
of money, untold anxiety and anguish, much unnecessary
work and a world of trouble.
Had it not been for a few level heads getting barometric
readings and other level heads spreading the knowledge
of these readings rapidly there can be no way of deter-
! Col. A. B. Pierce, owner of a 12,-
000-acre plantation at Sargent, fin-
ished a careful personal survey of his
section Tuesday and reports storm
damage light. Crop loss will not ex-
ceed 50 bales cf cotton, he said.
There was no wind except that
which came in gusts, none over 30 or
35 miles. No rain of any consequence
fell and cotton picking was not stop-
ped because of it. No lives nor any
livestock were lost.
High water from an excessively roll-
ing sea a result of the storm which
swept in upon the Brownsville sec-
tion reached out quite a distance from
the beach, which was swept clean.
The sand on the graded road from the
beach to the pavement at Sargent was,
for some distance washed off and
! however was nearer maturity this
time and heavier. At the same time
the present storm was much more
the A. A. A., the millers- have been ness and every available carpenter
represented by a committee of four, had work at least for one day as
composed of J. E. Broussard, Beau- people rushed in orders for timber
mont W. M. Reid, New Orleans: C.I with which to board up their homes
R. Walton, Stuttgart Ark., and Frank and places of business. Practically
A. Godchaux Jr., Abbeville. every plate glass front in town was
100 Per Cent Wage Hike boarded over securely, the work con-
First to testify today in behalf of tinning feverishly until nightfall.
the proposed code was W M. Reid,
some of the highway’s right-of-way
damaging, stronger and spread over a fence was destroyed by drift. The
wider area. it is possible, however,
that some of the blown off fruit can
be salvaged.
All along the coast, even northeast
roadbed was damaged.
The drawbridge across the Intra-
coastal Canal was lifted from place
by high water and set down in the
canal, but the bridge keepers house
near the bridge was not damaged
any. The Martin house near the month
of Caney was not injured while Cap-
tain Bill Way’s houses only had the
top paper covering removed. A big
oyster barge, presumably from Free-
port or Galveston was beached near
the Captain Way place.
The minimum barometric reading
was 29.76 and at no time did the wind
velocity exceed 35 miles. All the dam-
age was done by the high, rolling sea
and not a cent of loss was caused by
the storm because of the very good
reason that there was no storm.
Colonel Pierce gladly gave us the
of Corpus Christi, tides were high
and the seas churned angrily. Hours
, People poured in from other places before the center of the hurricane
New Orleans, for shelter and security as citizens of came, low lying sections of the shore-
Prediction that approval of the code Bay City hurriedly bundled up and line all the way from Galveston to
of fair competition will increase I left for Houston and other inland Brownsville, were covered by surging
wages in the industry on an average towns. Scores of them evacuated the tides, whipped into a froth by the
of 100 per cent was made by Reid city, while the courthouse, jail and blustery winds,
during discussion of the proposed other substantial buildings filled with Corpus Christi and Brownsville, the
minimum charge of 75 cents a barrel many from outlying districts and two largest towns which were threat-
for conversion of rough rice, from the negro and Mexican quarters ened with the heaviest winds, took
The proposed NRA code provides of the town. extreme precautions. Merchants board-
for a maximum work week of 58 hours Business was totally suspended and ed up their shops, people flocked from
and not more than eight hours in any stores closed. Everybody got busy the lower residential districts and
one day. The minimum wage scale | reading barometers and asking about from outlying points into the public
proposed for males is 25 cents an hour. | where, when and how it would strike, buildings and hotels of the towns,
and for females 20 cents an hour. | Every report true and misleading that Every effort was made by authorities
Reid pointed out that this is the ever came in ahead of any storm got to prevent loss of life
wage scale in the proposed code, and afloat as the excitement reached a
that if the NRA does not see fit to high 1
accept it, the wage increase may be 29.88 and then slowly began to turn rise and the tension rapidly grew|and the Sargent beach section in gen-
even greater than 100 per cent. , back toward normal. The readings less. Early in the night the people of eral.
Questioned about the proposed codes began to come in from all along the that section realized that their dan-
failure to set a maximum price for coast from Galveston to Brownsville ger bad passed and that they could
conversion of rice. Mr. Reid, at the and as soon as they became known itretire in safety for the time being at
ment liens the county agent will turn less than 55 cents, gold, rising to 63.02 An A. hearings said that the eon was no difficulty to locate the ill least
the check over to the farmer and will cents. At the present value of the sur ter sintierestiwould Boup fated spot.This has been the year of tropical
receive a receipt for it. dollar in foreign exchange that would by 1 ion betwe.nl m s. All kinds of wild rumors were storms the period for which general-
Williamson said that while some of- give an equivalent of about 92 cents we si s Founds n sent out, some apparently from the ly ends with September. This year
fer contracts had been revised, the fore American wheat And since the While the farmer will receive the I weather bureau itself. At first the they started earlier and have aver-
parity price of the base period and storm was located 500 miles due south aged two a week for the past twolother valley town and on his way
the mill be aissured of a fair ret urn of Pensacola, Fla . moving northwest months or more. home from Liberty died in a box car
under the proposed marketing agree-or directly for Galveston and this vi- The cleaning up and rebuilding of at Buckeye Tuesday.
ment. Reid added, the consume! will cinity. Then it lowered its sights and the damaged area and the return to Judge W. E. McNabb held the in-
pay no more for fancy rice than the; headed, according to reports straight I normal business in the threatened quest and decided the death was the
four and one-quarter cents pei pound for the Matagorda Bay-Corpus Chris- parts of the coast all the way from result of natural causes. The remains
price prevailing in the base period ti area. Strangely enough this report Port Arthur to Brownsville is going were turned over to Taylor Brothers
but will "more than likely pay less, i persisted in coming in until nightfall on today
"Purpose of the propose agreement," and that, too. in spite of the barom-
Reid had explained earlier, is to ef-etric readings from all reporting sta-
fectuate the policies of the agricul-tions
woman and child in America may not tural adjustment act. It covers all the After reaching 29 88 the barometer
tow-mt no, OELlIBNOOETDT Am Of l^^ CA eiRt Cm2 ARDENT
It will cut down the surplus of wheat rice mills of the United States, except ± in the atterro wind which,
above the present world demand in those in California, for whom a sep-PAtbaBly red reached i velocity of
.two ways, ffirst by regulating produc-larate agreement has been filed. ■ sio "Xs
tion, second by increasing consump-1 "It is designed to restore parity 1 occasional gusts,
tion. It should not take long to absorb prices to the grower and at the same
the present world surplus of something time protect the interests of the
like half a billion bushels. Even be-
COLLEGE STATION, Sept. 5. Gov-
ernment cotton checks, carrying out
the government's promise in its cotton
acreage reduction campaign are be-
ginning to pour into Texas at the rate
of $20,000 daily, said reports from
Washington Monday by H. H. Wil-
liamson, Texas extension service vice
director and state agent.
The checks are being mailed direct
to the county and special agents for
distribution. In case one of the agen-
cies now constituting the farm credit
administration—such as the crop pro-
duction loan office, the regional agri-
cultural credit corporation, the federal
land bank or intermediate credit bank
—has a lien on the farmer's crop, the
It may turn out that the most im-
portant thing that has happened in the
world in the past three years is the in-
ternational wheat agreement which
has been signed by the representatives
of 21 nations. We believe that Mr.
Frederick E. Murphy, the head of the
American delegation to the wheat
conference is right when he says
that the records for a thousand years
show clearly that wheat has always
been the index to the price of other
commodities.
In other words, as Mr. Murphy puts
it. "prosperity comes from the soil.
Under the terms of the London
_____agreement the great wheat-growing
check is made out jointly to the pro- nations are to reduce their acreage of
ducer and the governor of the credit wheat by about 15 per cent, the wheat
administration agencies, importing nations are to keep their
The farmer and a representative oi own acreage down to or below present
the government then must work out levels and use every possible measure
an equitable division of the check to increase the consumption of wheat
Where the crop is free from govern-and they agree to pay a price of not
total amount of money to be received trend of the dollar is downward, it
from the government by Texas farm- ‘seems as Mr. Murphy points out, that
ers will not be materially lower than we can look for "dollar wheat" as the
$42,679,770, the figure estimated by minimum for years to come. For
extension officials here at the close of whenever the price has been main-
the contract "sign up ‘campaign in tained at the 63.02 cents minimum for
July. four months, the importing nations
Cotton option contracts, where the Bgree to reduce their tariffs to further
grower received an option on govern- 1
ment owned cotton in addition to a
cash payment will be mailed out soon
from Washington, extension officials
stimulate the importation of wheat.
| The importance of this to every man.
said.
One Farmer Well
Pleased With
The County
information as a complete denial of
, As the storm changed its course the some of the wild reports sent out at
point. The barometer fell to barometer at Corpus Christi began to the time about this section in general
mining what would have happened. And even with these
readings in our possession some of us ran into repeated
. — * nut r | mis informat ion from the Houston office which continued
AF BUCKEYE until .....‘clock Monday night „, its insistence that the
storm would come in here, and even at and after the time
it struck at Brownsville.
STRANGER DIED
A stranger said to be Ed Payne, a
resident of Corpus Christi or some
If this is not a cause for a little "looking into' ’we won-
der what it takes to make up a good case.
THE TRIBI NE.
SAN BENITO
IS HIT HARD
of this city.
The unfortunate man was traveling
hit or miss with a companion named
Carr, who told Judge McNabb that
Payne had two sisters living in Cor-
pus Christi and to whom he was go-
ling. He also intimated that he and
Payne both owned | roperty in Corpus
Christi. This, however, was not veri-
fied.
CHURCH GOING CHECK-UP
0
quieted down, the clouds cleared away
and the elements dropped back to
, con- | normal. No rain fell and not even as
Good things do not come to those fore that is absorbed, however money able price Tor converting which would much as a limb was blown from a
who sit idly by and let everything take at a rate that is profitable to the not increase prices of the finished The coastal towns of Matamord i and
but reward does come wheat grower will begin to flow into product above those of the pre-war p. The coastal towns of Matagorda, and
- If- i , Palacios reported high tides, out no
Good things do not come to those fore that
its own course 1-- ---------,-------
to those who work and work hard the farmers' pockets and that should period.
be the break in the vicious circle of
for what they get. .ue 0 uuuuu r u AMiFEiucit
Mr. J. W. Cole of north of Mark- economic depression that is needed to which seeks to eliminate competition
ham has ninety acres of cotton in this start the world back to prosperity.
year. He has ginned 46 bales and ex-
pects to get several more. Had the
rains laid off he would have gotten
more than an hundred bales off the
ninety acres. Mr. Cole is comparative-• jure auumuy wasca are de-aezateaa
ly a new corner to this county having to try its hand at controlling theuprice to the interests of the growers is also
been here only four years. He came
from Throckmorton County and states
Organizing The Men
The federal government is going
cr . damage to property or to life resulted
There is nothing in the agreement, TA a , ,i .
1.121. ____, . 2122:__, i from high seas or wind in either place.
Numbers of people from both places
sought inland points of safety. They
are returning to their homes today.
between milling firms.
I "It will provide means for fostering
and promoting fair competition.
| “A code of fair competition which
would eliminate certain practices in
the industry which
are detrimental
Had this section been hit by even
half the storm as that which struck
the Lower Valley, it would have
ruined many and caused a crop loss
which would have paralyzed the coun-
Increase Consumption. | try. Rice is now in ,he midst of har-
"Provision is made for the setting vest and over-ripe in many fields be-
up of a marketing fund to aid in a | cause of thc delay caused by excessive
campaign to increase consumption of. rains the past mon No much win
ton, or wheat or tobacco. But we are American-grown rice, provide new and rain would have been necessary
for it. We want to see the hen come markets and finance exportation of to have laid the crop flat and conse-
back to her appropriate place in the American rice.” quently brought on an enormous loss
TAT .7 1 • scheme of things, ' while the control committee for the to all concerned. The cotton crop was
J. C. Lewis Explains It will be a hard job, because there rice milling industry as provided for and is in the ame fix Delayed be-
Tae AC N R A are so many hens so widely dis- in the agreement in its present form cause of every day rains the fields
Features of N. I. A tributed. It doesn’t take a farmer to, n 8 11 m O are white with no resistance left in
At the meeting of the Rotary Club keep hens. In fact, a lot of farmers the rice powers Mr Reid said in re the long opened boils. Pickers have
Tuesday noon at the BayTex Hotel, don’t bother with hens. According to the rice glowers. Mr Had 8010, in re . - L1- . 1......
Mr. J. C. Lewis of the First National the agricultural department statistics
Bank was in charge of program. He out of about 6,000,000 farms, there are
dealt briefly on the various phases of hens kept on 5,400.000 of them, but the
the New Deal, and stressed the agri-vast majority of these, more than 5,-
cultural relief measure and the NRA. 000,000 farms, have flocks of less than
To the surprise of many there Mr. 200 hens, while only 22,000 farms have
Lewis stated that there are nine fea-flocks of 700 or more.
that this is the best county in the
state for farming. He has been well
pleased with his success here and
expects to make this his permanent
home.
turcs of the New Deal and he enumar-
ated each and passed over each with
a short explanation.
FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
TO PRESENT A PLAY
On Friday evening, September 8 at
8 p.m. the First Christian Church, un-
der the auspices of the Missionary
Society will present a one act play
entitled “Organizing the Missionary
Society at Centerville."
The play is a comedy depicting the
various trials and successes incident
to the organization of a woman's mis-
sionary society in Centerville, Ohio,
fifty years ago. Costumes and stage
setting will be as nearly authentic
as possible.
Characters are Reverend Smith. Wm.
of poultry and eggs in the interest of included,
the producer.
We have a notion that this is going
to be more difficult and complicated
job than putting up the price of cot-
ply to a question by A. J. S. Weaver
of the A. A. A., presiding, that the
millers would not object if the secre-
| are white with no resistance left in
not been able to make any headway
and the fields are white in many pla-
ces. Even a light storm, or one like
tary of agriculture placed a repre-
sentative of the producer on the com-
that which visited this section last
August would have been sufficient for
But besides these hens on the farms,
there are the backyard hens, who are
not counted in the picture at all. The
total value of eggs and poultry which
figured in the commercial statistics
the last time they were counted ran
to about 848 million dollars; that cov-
ered some twenty-seven hundred mil-
lion eggs from 379 million hens. It
would be our guess that there are an-
other hundred million hens that nev-
er got counted, in dooryard flocks of
a dozen or two.
We are for giving the hen a break.
We would like to see the poultry bus-
iness as profitable in reality as it is
on paper. We know of no line of bus-
iness that has tempted so many peo-
mittee.
Homer L. Brinkley. Lake Charles,
representing the American Rice Grow-
ers Co-operative Association, present-
ed several objections to the code and
suggested amendments.
He asked that the final draft of the
a complete loss here.
So, while other places are hard hit.
we have been fortunate this time be-
yond measure. Our crops, already
damaged by continued bad weather,
agreement contain a
against any restriction of legitimate
methods of trading “such as would
ple with the notion that it was easy
to make money, as the poultry busi-
ness has done. It is an easy business
to get into, and usually an easy one
to get out of. If the government can
Cash: Miss Johnson. Ivy Savage; Bro.
Stone, Eugete Haley; Mrs. Stone.
Virginia Taulbee; Mrs. Pennington.
Mrs. Arthur Soule; Mrs. Lee, Mrs. profits become real profits, we wish
Jeff Clark: Mrs. Barton, Mrs. A. A. them well, but we don't want the
put it on a basis where the possible
Fryou; Squire Beal; R. Bumpus, Mrs. job of trying to do it.
Beal. Mrs. Selina Dudley: Eleanor---
Beal Mrs. Burnett Yancey; Mrs FROLIC AND WEINER ROAST
Brown: Mrs. Claudia Hale; Miss Black, -----
Mrs. Willis Lowe; Mrs. Winthrop; Some twenty-five or thirty Leag-
Edith Armstrong. | uers of the Methodist Church enjoy-
Production staff arc: Director. Edith ed a weiner roast at the City Park
Armstrong. Assistant Director, A. A. across the river on Tuesday evening.
Fryou; Stage Manager. Burnett Yan-They had plenty of good eats and cold
cey; Stage Assistants, J. D. Yancey, drinks the latter through the generos-
Eugene Haley; Costumes, Mrs. A. L. ity of that good layman. Mr. E. T.
Haley; Make up. Rev. A. L. Haley; Mallick.
Scene: Parlor of the parsonage home
of Bro. and Mrs. Stone.
Besides the Leaguers, Mr.
and Mrs. Charles Schaedel and Rev.
and Mrs. T. J. McCary went along
The musical program which will be to enjoy the occasion.
The first direct or first hand news
of the plight of the Lower Rio Grande
Valley as a result of the storm reach-
ed here by letter on the early morn-
ing train from San Benito.
The letter is from Mrs. E. B. Wells,
who lives at San Benito and was re-
ceived by her sister, Mrs. Emma Lewis . 6 m
Carter hight, says Bernice the daughter of
Mrs.Wells writes: The storm struck Lrs. C. L Williams of Blessing. Take
: 1 .a look at what she has to show for
us again. I here are only a very few. , . 1
i her work and you will see from her
houses left with roofs, to say nothing : . ... e
of some beyond repair. The roof went record 1148 containers including fruits,
off of ours about 12 last night and we vegetables, pickles and relishes, pre-
struggled until daylight when we serves and jellies, etc., canned since
reached the Stonewall Jackson Hotel. PA 1
The roof and all plate glass windows Mr. Williams’ garden spot which fig-
are gone from the garage (Mr. Wells ures about one-sixth of an acre has
is in the automobile business) already supplied vegetables to fill
Letitia's (Mrs. Wells' daughter) 1068 No. 2 cans, besides furnishing
home stood very good just water some 3 or 4 families with fresh vege-
from broken windows. The Hinkly tables through the summer.
NO WOLF HOWLS
AT THIS DOOR
Just for general information, some
of the pastors of the city have decided
on a church and Sunday school check-
up in Bay City.
We hope to enlist all the churches
that we may know something of the
church-going spirit of our city.
The following is a record of three
churches on last Sunday:
Presbyterian, total attendance at
Mirth
“Mother talks canning noon and
Sunday school 120.
Presbyterian, total attendance both
worship hours, 131.
Baptist, total attendance at Sunday
school 130,
Thankful that the wrecking storm
did not strike this section the peo-
ple here are moving around with a
different attitude and me ( enthusi-
asm than heretofore. Accc unts of the
Hotel almost a wreck. Only a few Mrs. Albert White also has a pantry
hurt here, but many at Harlingen, but no matter what happens we will
We are without lights, water and have plenty to eat this winter and if
everything. Red Cross train expected | Money is scarce around this place,
in morning. We don't need anything, times get any harder there won't be
though, as our clothes will dry out, any of this pantry left.”
Gas is on. Letty.
TO OWNERS OF MILCH COWS
i Mr. Williams remarked to Mrs. Leola
Cox Sides, director home economics.
| which mostly has been furnished by
this gard '11. She furnished the cans
catastrophe that struck the lower
country doubles the thanks that we
escaped the destruction that those
Baptist, total attendance both wor- poor people had to suffer. Farmers
ship hours 257.here, due to the fact that we did not
Methodist, total in Sunday school even receive any rain from the storm,
196. , , . , . are getting down to work to get the
Methodist, total worship hours 570. crops harvested before rain or pas-
Grand total in Sunday school 446. sibly more winds strike. Last August
Grand total church services 558. the storm did not demolish homes or
The three pastors of the above con-take lives in this county but it did
gregations, invite the pastors and play havoc with our crop: The farm- /
congregations of all other churches in ers thought for a while that they
Bay City to join us in this check-up, would experience the same disaster,
by telephoning the information each this year but so far the have
Monday morning to A J McCary, caped—which
pastor Methodist. Church.
Also we would like to include in
es-
means the salvation of
this county. With fair weather now
. on we sh.....ld get about . .■ sacks
this check-up a report on Young of rice and at least nine thousand
People’s attendance at their meetings, bales of cotton—which at the price
I ----------------being paid means more than a crop
twice that large would have meant
last season. With the entix town and
all of its people supporting actively
the NRA there is a feeling of great
optimism prevailing in every home
and business house. Our sympathy
goes to that section that received the
brunt o fthe storm because we re-
alize what a storm of that kind can
do—but fortunate that we missed it,
the people are really settling down
now to get out the crops —the mer-
chants are anxious to get to selling
merchandise and the people, the cus-
tomers are ready to spend what mon-
ey they can get hold of. That is one
plea the president does not have to
make to these people. If they have
money it will be put into cir-
GULF
Reports of the fiercest hurricane in
years set the residents of this section
in extreme fear Monday
Dr. Lorain will be in Bay City | and the product. Mrs. Williams the
Thursday. Sept. 7 at 8 a.m. for the vegetables and the products were di-
tuberculin test of milch cows. Bring vided making two well filled pantries u any t Ilina
your eow to vacant lot west of T. H. for a little over $2.00 spent for seed eter began slowly but steadily falling
Lewis residence. City of Bay City and about $12.00 for cans.
Early Monday morning, the barom-
Milk Inspection Department.
SPECIAL NOTICES
To Methodist folks: Prayer meeting
have been spared and will count
largely in the general summing up of tonight, and choir rehearsal Thurs-
prohibition everything. Every farmer will double day night at 7:30.
his effort.i now to gather in every
bale of
The storm at least for the present is
tton and sack of rice for gone and somehow we escaped its de-
every t . will be needed.
encourage buying combinations."
"Unfair Praictices."
Among the unfair practices which of the . “St two months seems to have
Brinkley said he seeks to eliminate been definitely dissipated. Today has
are: Uniform bids, allocation of terri-been much cooler as a northwest
tory, allowing low prices to particu- breeze prevailed.
lar buyers, division of one mill's pur- The people are happy and business
chases among several other mills, re-became brisk again today.
fusal to bid on certain lots on which II was the lower coast of Texas
struction. Let us be grateful. And with
ASHWOOD HOME DEM CLUB
A smooth well sodded lawn free
home demonstration agent at the
meeting of the Ashwood Home Dem-
from all kinds of ornaments is a goal
every club woman should strive to
attain, says Mrs. Leola Sides, county
onstration Club in the home of Mrs.
I late in the afternoon reaching an ex-
treme low of 29 70, as the tide began
to come in. In the afternon the shore-
line was being pounded by mountain-
ous waves from a 7-foot tide, as the
wind reached a maximum velocity of
45 miles per hour.
All residences and business houses
were boarded up, and many residents
began seeking higher ground All got anv
through the day cars were leaving
most of them containing only women culation.
Cooke, Tuesday, Sept. 5.
Even though we are not going to
carry yard work on as a demonstra-
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hurley motored tion, Mrs. Sides pointed out many
to Galveston Saturday to take their things such as improving sanitary
son, Mr. Frank Hurley Jr., who sailed conditions, repairing fences and
on the S. S. Seminole for New York porches, and removing all unsightly
going on from there to Providence, I objects from the yard, we could do
prior bids have been rejected and which caught the force of the storm. R. I. to attend school at Bryant Strut- to get ready for a county-wide dem-
two or more mills purchasing rice to- It was the second one to visit the ton College.
Bother P E lice to same territory within the month, board this liner were Dr. C. V. Bomar
"We protest against these practices,” Brownsville and the Lower Valley head of the Newgulf hospital and his hothndrawing planscoditeirnzard and Thursday from Austin where he at-
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Brinkley also offered a substitute in the latc arerndon ana lashed its Mr, and Mrs. S. w. Junes and ehil- with Mr Sadie Dodd Reporter
fury against property of all sorts, dren of Rosenberg former residents --
or me one set up me 0 Wires, both telegraph and telephone of this city, spent the week-end in
Answering a question by Heaver, came down early, transportation be- Bay City with old friends
Brinkley said his aim was to increase came paralyzed, and business became Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Hamill spent
the minimum prices on low grades, demoralized. It is yet impossible tr Monday arid Tuesday in Brenham Bay City attended the zone meeting
In reply to, Brinkley Reid said that secure a reliable report of the storm with his brother and wife, Mr and ; of the misisonary society at Boling to-
the code comimttee had intended only or its damage in the area struck. Mrs. Merlin Voglesang. day. including Mesdames McCary,
to set differentials between the grades Apparently no loss of life occurred, -------------------------------- Freeman. Frick and Bert Carr and
and let market conditions govern the or, at least, if such happened no re- Mrs. Emma Lewis Carleton and son, others whose names we do not have,
prices. port has reached the outside. That Fred Carleton and her brother, Mr. --------—-----------------—
property damage is heavy seems cer-Floyd Lewis spent Monday and Messrs Sul Rosa Harrington and
Mr. and Mrs. John Grubb returned ! tain, as the wind finally reached a Tuesday in Austin. H. S. Mosley left Tuesday noon for
home Tuesday noon from a week-end velocity of 90 miles at Point Isabel I ........——— Mercedes and McAllen to see their
visit in San Antonio with her parents, and from 75 to 90 in various other Dr. Lascson of San Antonio and wife. parents, since the storm in that sec-
Mr. and Mrs. Sam E. Long stopping places, were the guests of Mr. and Mre. Fred tion had made it impossible to hear
The greatest damage .it appears, was. Kelley at Matagorda last week, from them.
As an aftermath, the excessive heat the coming of the autumn season, re-
new our zeal and devotions to God.
Other passengers on onstration.
Mrs. Cooke and Mrs. G Clark are
ZONE MEETING AT BOLING
A number of Methodist ladies from
overnight Monday in Victoria.
and children, the men staying behind
to lend their aid in case of an emer-
gency.
The barometer began to rise slowly
at 6 p.m., however and all fear of the
hurricane declined although a few
people remained in the schoolhouse,
which had been opened as a place of
safety.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Marr returned
I Wednesday night for an emergency
operation and was resting well on
■ Thursday morning.
All patients in the Gulf Hospital
were moved to Bay City in ambu-
lances Monday morning and the hos-
pital on the bay shore was boarded
up as a result of high tides and hur-
ricane warnings.
Coach Tom Driscoll and assistant
coach Stanley Cernosek ad a few
of the boys out yesterday in prelim-
nary practice. Several of the boys
have not been able to report yet and
it is difficult to get a line on what
he really has. * _ ______to a great team this year and the
boys are ready and willing to give to
the town a great football team.
Well the town was treated with an
old-time sight this morning when
the team of horses of Mr. George
Graham took a notion to run away.
They went lickety split round the
I post office corner from West Seventh
Street and chased pedestrians and
motorists off the road until some
brave man jumped up into the wagon
and halted the frisky pair of horses.
Mrs. W. E. Davant and son, Mr. Ted
Davant and daughters, Misses Mary
Ann and Katherine Davant are visit-
ing in Gonzales a few days.
Mrs. John F. Doggett is spending a |
few days with relatives in Weimar. |
Some real high water was experi-
eneed in the Sargent te ritory. The
draw bridge at Sargent was washed
over the canal and water was so
high that it was in the second story
of the house at the draw bridge. Lots
of the cotton was damaged.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1933, newspaper, September 7, 1933; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696476/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.