The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1936 Page: 2 of 8
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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCT. 8. 1936
THE MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
BY TRIBUNE PRINTING COMPANY
Bay City, Matagorda County, Texas
‘Down The Stretch
by A. B. CHAPIN
Flood Threats
Competition Seen
Manchurian Rice
CAREY SMITH
CAREY SMITH
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ter or standing of any person or any
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Soybean Answer
To Farm Prayer
FORD SAYS PLANT I SEFL L TO
MAKE PARTS: LATER ( AN
BE EATE N BY COWS
Prohibition Again
Held ‘Probable’ by
F. Scott McBride
STS a DEW -
This inse
the Ford r
riculture and
and industry
ship.
Becoming Farmers ( ustormer
Said Mr Ford: Business in o
exchange of goods If we “
the farmer to be our custom
we must find a way to beco
Houston Post
Inhabitants of the valleys of the
ower Colorado and Barzos rivers
re preparing, for another
ivers roll southward after spread-
ng over large areas in the cen-
WASHINGTON Oct. 3.—Sharp
petition may be expected y
e growers in the United States
n market it was learned S t-
it Manchuna has 38 per cent
Retail Merchants Ass’n
Moves To Austin Bldg.
SOMI
AL
emplates, according to E. o
association but ne of - ad.
e channel through the delta
ty into the Gulf of Mexico
ATTENDING GAME IN
AUSTIN
*-
his customer.” That s exactly C 0 D - TEm nO
what Mr Ford set out to do six is a first requisite for the national
years ago
Experimentation and develop- | Bedes their own mat taxes pro-
ment took t me - : e MAPI T .
Today —===== - sixteen miles above Austin
Landon Is Ahead In 21 States,
- Roosevelt 10, In Fifth Repor
industry, although for thousandsieewet, side was 7
Of The Literary Digest’s Poll
decked in REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE LEAD CUT
hydrate TO LESS THAN 3 TO 2 WITH OVER
fired re oy Clan or 750,000 BALLOTS COUNTED
of the greatest possibilities, both Htt a pompantisian issue ---------tinues to show that the
agriculture and industry being ( iptediy he decle ex LEMKE GAINS OVER 66 PER cent to 57.95 pe cent
considered Other product were most e mi take of the drys CENT OF HIS SUPPORT The ore stand Landon 438,6 1; fr
Astic FROM 1932 DEMOCRATS Roosevelt, 282,524; Lemke, 29
to concentrate on soybeans. -p to --------- 083. loss a protest vote to a third party
Need Was Immediate amendment could never be re- Roosevelt cut Landon lead again But the poll has four weeks The Union candidate dra
pealed. Many leaders guessed to less than 3 to 2 as first votes to run, and much can happen in 9cent of the total vote in
“There was immediate need, wrong on this point, while others are tabulated from ten additional four weeks. Roosevelt has been M+ g per - : N +
Mr. Ford believed, for the Amer-as early as 1922 warned against states in the fifth report of The moving up steadily may break in- Dot 6 a pePenLouisiana
ican farmer to become an indus- the possibi w of economic and Literary Digs 1 nations de Pre - to a breath-taking sprint in these 5.9 per cent in Ohio and 5.3 per
trial supporter and an industrial political circumstances such as idential poll. remaining weeks, when the big cent in Iowa Elsewhere he is
worker to aid himself in bettering combined to end national prohibi-Landon is shown receiving 438,- city vote makes its full force felt.below 5 per cent. But more thar
his financial condition.- tion in 1932 Another serious dry 601 votes to Roosevelt 282,524 For the Democrats maintain ]65 per cent of his support will
Soybeans were planted on Ford mistake was reliance alone on and Lemke’s 29,083, out of a total that that President’s strength lies come from Roosevelt voters of
acres. Cultivation as well as pro- education against alcohol to main- of 756,807 ballots tallied from 31 in these urban centers,
cessing experiments continued tain prohibition.” states "With twenty-nine Electoral
The oil from the beans was -----------------------First returns from Arizona and votes, Illinois, the state that sent
found to contain matter which TAvac Culrhur T J.ad Oregon give slight plurality each Abraham Lincoln to the White
could be used ir making an enam- 1 €xds Ou au 059 to Landon House may well be a determin-
ei for pa nting automobile bodie In Canadian Mills
It was also discovered that the
oil was quite effective for mixing Enclos ng check for
with sand to make foundry cores year’s subscription to the Head-
The mea of re due after the ght, M Arth Hahn of K - Montana and Wash ngt r indic victory in the Electoral College
puskasing, Ontario Canada, for- Landon leading by nearly 3 to 2 And shifts are nothing new in polls for the first time in this elec-
merly Miss Presley Ward, primary | in each of the states. Illinois. In 1928, the state gave tion.
... First returns from Illinc and Hoover a 455,324 plurality over “With these first voters pre-
laboratories it was discovered that writes Michigan give Landon bette than Smith; in 1932, it piled up 449,- sumably dominating the Did Not
it could be u ed in the composi- Enclosed find amount for an-a 2 to 1 lead and South Dakota 548 plurality for Roosevelt—a mil- Vote’ columns of The Literary
tion for " k n P me 8 other year ubs ription to the howr ting approxir tely lior vote shift Digest Poll report, it appears that
the horn button, the best small town newspaper in the 3 1/2 to 2 for the Republican nom- "No less an ‘if quantity than this group favors Landon so far
lever ball, the distributor case and south inee. | Illinois’ twenty-nine are Michi- | the score being 17 291 to 12 775 -
cover, window-trim strips and “Yesterday we had our first. Fourteen of the twenty-noe gan’s nineteen.---------—
other m tate.,.
Pay Good Price is 24 degree I : m very much ta ly how Landon gaining ght- g e Landon 7,784 to R osev elt’s Kiwanis Club to Have
.Thousands of gallons of oil and interested in the Eagle Lake High ly this week while his vote de-3,704 with a meager 575 for the
thousands of bushels of from School Band and was glad to see creases percentagewise in six Union Party candidate,
beans harvested from the 4,000- the picture of the members. I others and n ochange is recorded "Michigan too, did some shift -
000 acres planted n the United am interested in every one of the in one ing in 1932 Traditionally Repub-
States this year will So into in boys and girls. It is as George Roosevelt to date carries the ten lican the state went for the Presi-
dustrial products. The present Bernard Shaw has said in regards tates of Alabama, Arkansas, dent by a majority of nearly 132,-
market price of the beans i to music: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Miss 000.
around $1.18 per bushel and the * If young men had music and issippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tex- "Two years later, the Republi-I
yield varies from fifteen to twen-
| Utah enters the Roosevelt col- ing factor in the final outcome. |
umn with its initial batch of bal- "Its shift one way or another |
another lots, as does Missouri. would represent a difference of 58 |
WEAK
KIDNEYS a
tagorda to Columbus The plan
pish KIDNEYS . not none - not
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Should WARNER S COMPOL ND belps
I the country should be forced to weak kidneys and irritated bladder. The
old reliable for 62 years All druggists
WARNER’S SAFE REMEDIES CO., ROCHESTER, N. Y.
lossES oucn ol the richest and
most productive territory of Texas
which the nood mreat remains
Citizens of the lively cities of
Matagorda, Bay City, El Campo,
Wharton, Eagle Lake, Eldridge
a nd Columbus have orgar 1
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Galveston-Palacios
Road To Freeport
To Be Given Study
______2 ording to advices received from
Harry Hines, chairman.
GALVESTON, Oct. 2.—Feasibil-
, The proposed highway would
1932. ity of a highway between Gal-. . , anua
Interesting veston and Palacios by way of turn rem High t 0
questions of the campaign is Freeport, as suggested by the Hitchcock. 1
Where will the ‘first voters go ____________________________
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: "Address--_
this year? Democrats and Re-
publicans alike have First Voters’
Leagues campaigning up and
down the country to capture the
The early returns from Idaho, votes, with only 266 needed for 8,250,000 young men and women
------V------y-
oil was extracted, is an excellent
food for cattle because of its pro-
tein content of 4 per cent in the
teacher in the Eagle Lake schools
writes:
“Enclosed find amount for an-
vho will be eligible to go to the
"With these first voters pre-
Digest Poll report, it appears that
Donkey Baseball
Game October 20
The Kiwanis Club is sponsorir
a donkey baseball game here
Tuesday night, October 20th. This
— ..game will be played at the base-
cw pictures to interest them, to en- as and Utah, which represent 11 1 cans recaptured the Governorship i ball grounds and will be one of
1y bushel to t he acre . ga ge them and satisfy many of electoral 1 votes and elected eleven Representa - | the funnie t en tertainm ents offer -
We are ‘ MPER eh DE their impulses and to enliven their | The state return show Landon ve Will that swing b: ck to ed the people in a long time The
Mr. Ford remarked Saturday 85 days, they would not go to the ahead in Arizona, California, Col-the G. O. P. be accelerated in proceeds will go to the Kiwanis
he walked through i soybean 1 ‘ low pleasures of the streets; they orado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, November? Christmas fund, which annually is
on one of ms just Fo would have an alternative and Iowa, Kansa Maine, Michigan lu the face of this apparent arranged in connection with the
the road from the house where he would be too fastidious to do o.’ Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska trend back to normal Republican- work of the Women’s Federation
was born ( / ‘ ty-three yea 5 8O It may intere t you to know New Je ey, N w York North Da-ism, a number of poll oth ( than and the Mirth Club,
last July that all of the ulphur used ir kota, Ohio, Oregon, Penr yilva- The Literary Digest’s still show
Suddenly opped, reached the paper mill here obt lined nia. South Dakota and Wash ng- tate leaning toward the Presi- |
down and pulled up a plant and from the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co ton, which have a total of 290 dent. Which points the right way? |
examined the root in Texa The sulphur is used to votes in the Electorial College In an effort to find out and at
"It is a good rotation Crop The make acid and the acid is used Lemke doe not have a plura lity the ame time explained the ap-
said, pointing to ‘ veral little balls to make sulphite or stock. The in any state from which ballots parent discrepancy, the Detroit
in the roots. “That is nitrogen, sulphite is used in manufacturing are reported thus far. In Minne- Free Press recently took ‘a straw
a soil builder. It a drougth-re- kotex, cleanex and newsprint.” sota and North Dakota, the Union vote of straw votes, and announc-
risting plant. Much of it food is —Eagle Lake Headlight candidate gets a little Ik than ed:
absorbed from air through the —_________. 10 per cent of each staet’s vote. We have not been able to
Me Ford contir wed u. : « Matagorda County Lemke D entags or u po . had ever oetfi ranted chbalrotr by
through the field examir Girls At Denton ar vote range from 4 ,t 7 per any f these (other ervices or
containing the bear nad talkir _ cent in low ouisiana, Michigan who) been approached or ask-
as he went along DENTON, Oct. 3. Seven Mata-New York, Ohio, and South Da-
Easy to Farm gorda county girls have enrolledota 1 - ° ter ate he get
"You know, he said, it, a in Texas State College for wo-lemmithan 4 per cent
good crop for farmers. The beans men (CIA) for the fall semester I The four minor candidates,
can be harvested after all the of the 1936-37 session. In the
other outdoor fall work has been total registration of 2265 tudents,
finished. It doe not hurt beans210 Texas counties are represent-
to have them freeze. And they led, 20 states, and three foreign
Thomas, Browder, Col in and Aik-
en have a combined total of 6,599
out of the three-quarters of a mil-
lion ballots reported.
OIL NEWS
The Texas Gulf Production Co.
are drilling another well at Wads-
worth.
The Hamman Exploration Co.
are moving rig to lease today.
Cobb No. 9 in the Skelly Oil
Field showed a good drill stem
test Wednesday.
an opinion.
“‘On the other hand, we do
World’s ONLY
it least one out of every 20 Water-proofedToothb-uch
ks fo life, who hi e re- raEE proofed 1o0brush
ceived their Literary Digest bal-
lots.
| " This does not mean that The
Free Press vouches for the abso-
-keeps teeth REALLY WHITE
don’t require great deal of cul-
tivation.”
Carrying still further his idea
| countries.
| Students from Matagorda coun
ty include Misses Verna Hollice
that the farmer become an indi- Bailey, Selma Isobelle Hiltpold,
vidual worker as well as a up- Luciele Huebner, Virginia Taul-
plier, Mr Ford has developed a bee, Kathryn Williamson, Bay
processing unit which he believes City; Ruby Ruth Ratliff, Cedar
could be purchased or built by Lane; Ora M. Fella, Clemville.
An analysis of how the voters lute accuracy of The Literary Di-
voted in the 1932 election reveals gest Poll- but we do know that
that 80,695 who are now for Lan- one is being taken.’
don noted for Roosevelt four years ‘Thi week, Washington goes 1
ago and that 43,541 of Roosevelt’s into the Landon column by a
present supporters voted for slender 464.
Hoover in the last quadrennial
plebiscite.
groups of farmers at a cost fi ,
$3,000 to $4,000. The farmer he Cuero Turkey Trot
contends, could pre eir bear Starts NAvArba 10
, xtracting the oil, durir g the win- | Starts November 10
"Landon holds his lead,” The
Literary Digest states in its cur-
rent issue. “As the candidates
round the far turn in this exciting
_ Presidential race, the Kansas
. rork on the farm. The oil would . The Centennial Turkey Trot Governor is still in front:
le sold for industrial purposes will be held in Cuero Nov. 10,
and 12. Many activities have
1er months when there is little
"Washington’s sister state of
Oregon also goes to the Kansan
in the first returns, by a count
of 3,946 to 3,705. And westward,
Idaho, where the individualistic,
influential William Edgar Borah
is campaigning again for his Re-
• Does your toothbrush turn limp
when wet? Then it can’t keep your
teeth clem! THROW IT AWAY.
Use the brush with the water-
proofed bristles-DR. WEST’S. Can-
not get soggy; gives 60%
A better cleansing. Ster-
A A ilized, sealed germ-
eproof in glass. 10colors.
nd they could either sell the meal
or feed it to their livestock.
Research toward industrial utili-
zet on of farm products has only
i irted, and Mr. Ford hopes for
1 e day when surpluses will cease
to be a problem, and instead will
publican seat in the Senate, goes
"But Rosevelt is inching up, to the G. O. P. by 1085 to 994.
____... ....... .......... have and Lemke, the amazing ‘dark "Of " _ .._____
been planned including a majes- horse,’ refuses to quit, tho far be- newcomers, Landon takes Arizo-
hind. na by Montana
tic parade. Bay City has been .
invited to send a dutchess to the, the fifth report of The
royal court. The Bay City selec- Literary Digest 1936 Presidential
tion will be announced at a later Poll, the Republican’s total has
date. been whittled from last week’s
been whittled from last week’s
"Of
the remaining Western
na by 683 to 599. Montana by
1,078 to 771. President Roosevelt
gets the jump on him in Utah,
with 674 to 579.
“South Dakota, the more con-
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The Sulphur Industry
is one of Texas’ many outstanding assets. Three mines
produce practically all of the nation’s supply
Sulphur Is Industry’s Most
Essential Commodity
Pasha
Its presence in Texas, therefore, constitutes one of the
state’s most attractive inducements to the develot.
ment of industry within its borders. C OP
token
TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY
"The world’s largest producer of crude sulphur”
Mines
GULF HEADQUARTERS
Matagorda County Second National Bank Building
Texas Houston, Texas
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1936, newspaper, October 8, 1936; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1696578/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.