Palacios Beacon (Palacios, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, November 7, 1919 Page: 1 of 8
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PALACIOS, MATAGORDA COUNTY, TEXAS, NOVEMBER 7. 1919
VOLUME XI NUMBER 42
PALACIOS WILL BE
A DEEP WATER PORT
( By DR. T. F
It is gratifying to know that we
have men in Washington who are
,v awake to the larger interest of
the country. Every one was glad
to read how quickly Senator
Sheppard acted in behalf of this
section by introducing a bill to
have "the bays contiguous to
Port Aransas, etc,, examined,"
that we might have a safe har-
bor. We have quite a number of
people from Central Texas who
know that Congressman Hardy
from Corsicana is a live wire
from his district, and that he is
a broad-gagued statesman and
christian gentleman. He has al-
so heard our "prayers" and he is
interested in South Texas. You
may count on Judge Hardy doing
the proper thing for us at the
right time.
We are sure it is not a breach
of ethics to let you read the Con-
gressman's letter which follows:
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Dr. T. F. Driskill,
Palacios, Toxas.
Dear Doctor Driskill:
Received both copies of the Palacios
Beacon and read your note with pleas-
ure; also glad to know that you are en-
joying good health.
I note your article about the deep
water port and do hope you will have
deep water facilities for all the exports
your city can furnish.
We seem to have reached a period of
time when the Republican party is
_f«ady to sacrifice humanity in order to
~ Aovance their party interest and grat-
ify their hatred of the President.
Whether the Senate f ratifies the
League of Natiods or not it will be rat-
ified by enough nations to put it into
effect. Sooner or later the United
States will become a party to it. We
* will either be like the man who lives in
a town and contributes nothing to its
upbuilding while pocketing all of other
men's enterprises, or we will be among
those nations who lead the World for
everything for its betterment,
I will hate to see us play a pitiful
and despicable part in tdis crisis.
The President's illness at this time is
DRISKILL)
unfortunate in every way. Should he
die or should he live his name will be
forever linked with the League of Na-
tions, and the League of Nations will
in future time be a document as mnch
venerated as is the Constitution.
Sincerely your friend,
RUFUS HARDY.
This is a proper time to say
that we remember the Good Book
tells us "that no man liveth to
himself;" so no city or town or
community can live without the
support of each other. There-
fore we count on Bay City, Whar-
ton, El Campo, Francitas and ev-
ery town and citizen of all this
section to help.
Of course we expect our Sena-
tor and Congressman to become
personally interested in giving us
all the aid in their power. They
know that Tres-Palacios Bay has
no equal on the Texas coast as to
economy in deepening and put-
ting it in shape for a safe port
and harbor.
Now we want the strongest,
the loudest an3 the most influen-
tial to keep us in touch one with
the other. He is the iron master
—the priniing press. Every far-
mer and every business man
wants the Beacon in all this com-
munity, so that he can easily dis-
cuss the topics that are impor-
tant to every one in the commu-
nity. Then he should not over-
look his county papers. We would
feel as much lost without a Mat-
agorda county paper as we would
without a good daily paper. This
whole country needs a "revival"
in home affairs, and if every cit-
izen was on the mailing list of
the Beacon in ihis district and
every one in the county on the
mailing list of one of our county
papers, we would soon have a re-
vival that would shake the coun-
ty for its own uplift from center
to circumference.
Of course we should not ex-
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Business
If you will save a
part of your earn-
ings and start an account with
us, we will pay you interest.
It won't be long then until you
can have your own business.
j If you ever expect to be a
leader in affairs you must prac-
tice frugality and foresight now.
Palacios State Bank
Capital and Surplus $75,000
BIG DREDGE ARRIVES
TUESDAY AFTERNOON
About 3 P. M. Tuesday, those
people well situated could see
away out on the bay a strange
vessel, not accustomed to these
waters slowly but surely making
for our port. The news soon
spread that it was the magnifi-
cent dredge of the Palacios Shell
Company.
Palacios likes to do the nice
thing, and many like a little ex-
citement, therefore crowds be-
gan to gather and eagerly await-
ed the arrival of the little fleet.
Postmaster Clement who is al-
ways wide-awake and "on the
job" put out to "sea" early in
the day with his boat Alamo and
a number of passengers that he
might escort the new comers
safely to "dock." Meeting them
a number of miles out he glided
up to the side of the great dredge
and materially aided in hastening
the fleet and crew to the city.
As the U. S. flags fluttered in the
breeze it was an imposing sixht
and the crowds were well repaid
when the whistles began to sig-
nal the landing notes. It is a day
that will remain in the minds of
those who witnessed the landing
of that faithful crew, because
this big dredge with its acceso-
ries were safely anchored where
a great work is to be immediately
begun.
As those who could not be
there will doubtless be interested
to know something about a
dredge of sufficient capacity to
dig a channel deep enough for
boats of considerable tonnage to
make Palacios. The equipment
consists of one large dredge boat,
tug boats, two dandy steam
loading plants and a number of
smaller boats. But we can not
appreciate anything unless we
know its value. We are reliably
informed that all this equipment
is worth at least $125,000, made
possible by doing the work them
selves under the supervision of
Mr. Wickham and the purchase
of certain equipment at greatly
reduced figures because the late
storm had destroyed so much of
certain lines that the companies
offered their remaining tugs,
barges, etc., at a bargain. Again,
all the hands now employed are
stockholders in the company.
That accounts for theiu having
property easily worth $125,000
on the modest capitalization of
$50,000; and when we were told
that there is still a working cap-
ital in the treasury sufficient for
present emergencies we were
compelled to take our hat off to
Messrs. Zerby, Tatum, Wickham
and all their crew.
Just to think that the great
machinery and undertakings are
now a certainty that but a few
months ago was looked upon by
some as the idle dream of a pro-
moter. The bringing of a deep
water port is almost made a cer-
tainty by this enterprise. Their
channcl, their ship yards, their
ways and facilities for bringing
larger vessels to this port will
bring Palacios to the front on
thjs coast in a manner to exceed
the fondest hopes of the most op-
timistic booster.
The Beacon and all its readers
welcome this big new enterprise
to our city. We join Dr. Driskill
in exclaiming: Palabios will be
a Deep Water Port !
MATAGORDA COUNTY
FAIR AND CARNIVAL
Francitas ^acts Mi Fancies
Ct.IlV»X vClu By jB8St, E Campbell ,
You must not foolishly suppose
that the pushing forward of sad-
ly necessary improvements
means that your present popula-
tion will be called upon to carry
the big load. Not at all. The
immediate installation of your
sewerage system aione will al-
most immediately invite a suffi-
ciency of desirable people to
your community to more than
equalize the expense until the
cost will scarcely be felt, if at
all; and so it will go all down
the improvement way. The pro-
cess of waking up is sometimes
painful, but in the case of Palac-
ios can never be other than hap-
py and proftable.
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Understand the Rev. Goode-
nough has been assigned to Pa-
lacios by the Methodist confer-
ence. We heartily congratulate
you people, and assure you that
you ar,e going to fall in love with
this splendid young gentleman,
just as everybody else does who
have been fortunate enough to
draw the prize. Start right and
keep right, and you'll be glad.
He'll join your booster club too,
so don't you ginks be afraid to
go to church.
As a close observer and con-
stant reader of Anna Ritten-
house's French styles column we
feel qualified to predict that the
modish costume one year hence
will consist of a three inch belt
just above the hips and trimmed
on the South end with a 9 inch
border of jet lace not very close-
ly woven at that and a full length
smear of bronze toilet powder
and ear muffs.
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It's a fact that if you keep
anything long enough it's sure
to come in style again and Mat-
tie's wearing as a gardening
suit, a 14 gored skirt which I
notice in the latest from Paris is
"in again good and plenty" as
we say when speaking the Am-
erican language, but if she keeps
it another seven years it's going
to frazzle up into a regular vamp
costume I fear unless we strike
oil soon.
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It's downright selfish in me to
withhold from our good house-
wives who may wish to spring
it on their fashionable guests,
the famous C. S. Zerby sand-
wich as invented and otherwise
perpetrated by him between
meals during the wonderful and
never to be forgotten trip en-
joyed with him and Mr. Tatum
and George and Bill on Palacios
and Matagorda bays and shell
reefs during my historical out-
ing recently: Take one gener-
ous and hefty slice of well but-
tered bread and spread over its
entire zone 1-2 inch of dark
brown sugar. Slice one immense
onion into 1-4 inch thick slices
and apply carefully and lovingly
all over the top surface, pressing
it firmly to the sugar. Apply
salt, red pepper and Worcerster
sauce freely, then douse it with
catsup until it starts to run ov-
erboard which is prevented by
The Carnival at Bay City is on
next Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday — which gives every
hard working man in Palacios
an opportunity t o drive dull
care away by attending, and we
believe it the duty every Pala-
cios citizen to become a Palaci-
os Booster for one or more of
these days and spend the time
with our Bay City friends and
help make it a success so that
they may encouraged to enlarge
it into a County Fair which is
very much needed in this part
of the State, and for which we
think there is no place equal
to Bay City. Now let every Pala-
cios Booster get on his Boosting
Garments and lose no opportuni-
ty to talk and work for the Pala-
cios interests and enterprises
that we are after at this time —
We want the whole County with
us in our effort to get a seawall
which we can have by having
the county tax remitted for a
year or two—then we want the
whole county to be a market for
the shell which is making Palac-
ios famous and we know from
past experience that they are
with us when we show that we
are theirs —
Meet me at the Carnival, Nov.
ll-12-and-13th.
Matogorda Co. Products will be
at the Co. surveys office.
The exhibits will be of the fol-
lowing, berries, peaches, plums,
figs, and grapes, put up in their
juices, all kinds of vegetables,
jellies, jams, preserves, and
marmalades made from home
grown oranges, also peanut but-
ter made from home grown pea-
nuts. Other things of interest
to all.
Made In Matagorda County
Products.
The exhibit of the Made In
Poultry Exhibits.
The Poultry exhibit will be
near the court house. I want
as many entries as possible of
the standard bred varieties. The
entries can be as follows, One
cock or cockrel as pen of trio, or
pen of pullets or cockrel and
pullets.
Egg Exhibit.
I want as many standard bred
egg entries as possible enter in
one half and dozen baskets.
Let's see how many eggs we
can show.
Rabbit Exhibit.
I want as many hutches of rab-
bits as will be entered. We have
a number of fine rabbits grown
in the county and let's show
them to the public.
Betty M. Hart,
Co. Home Demonstration Agent.
Palacios is going to Bay City
in a body next Tuesday.
suddenly and dextrously cover-
ing the whole with an other
slice of bread. Open your mouth
wide and swallow or drink it as
you prefer while being gently
rocked on the buzzom of the
deep, or in your own home.
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An Honest Fisherman.
I am a poor punk fisherman,
And what I say i3 true !
i think they grieved for old-time
"bait"
Was why they ne'er came through.
But anyhow, they would'nt bite
Though I kept bravely trying,
And I shall tell the truth this time-
And— let Dizzy do the lying.
Be sure you're right — then
zoom!
Y. M. B. L.
One of the largest crowds that
eaer attended a mass meeting in
Palacios turned out to the meet-
ing of the Young Men's Business
League Tuesday night at the La-
Belle Theatre.
The evening's program opened
with a duet by Mesdames Arnold
& Sisson, which was well ren-
dered and much enjoyed by all;
after which a reading was given
by Miss Vivian Tatum. Miss Ta-
tum possesses rare talent as a
reader and never fails to delight
her hearers. Her selection was
heartily applauded.
Then came talks by Messrs.
Zerby, Ruthven, Miller, Driskill,
et al, who in their happy, wide-
awake and entertaining manner
soon had the large audience in
the best of spirits, so that when
the principal object of the meet-
ing was explained by the Presi-
dent of toe Young Men's League
—a plan for advertising Palacios
and community—it instantly met
with hearty approval, and as a
result over $162.50 worth of let-
terheads and envelopes were sub-
scribed for on the spot.
Health Survey of Schools.
Mesdames Cairnes. Ruthven
and Bergeris the committee ap-
pointed by the Red Cross to
make a health survey of the
schools of the Palacios Red
Cross district, which includes
the schools here and at Caran-
cahua, Turtle Bay, the Illinois
and the La Gue. The first work
was done yesterday morning
when the committee secured
the services of Drs. Wagner,
Johns, Driskill and Cairnes who
made careful examinations of
the pupils eyes, noses, throats,
and teeth. The committee and
doctors were ably assisted by
Mesdames A. B. Cairnes, R. J.
Sisson, F. A. Sisson, A. G. Skin-
ner, and Miss Alpha Bussell.
La Belle Theatre.
Has any woman a right to
have a husband and two cland-
estine lovers? You say "No!" of
course.
But ! Suppose the woman is in
"he position of Ruth, the charac-
ter that is portrayed by Pauline
in "Out of the Shadow"—a Par-
amount Picture.
You may still say "No!" but
then you haven't seen the
picture ! THAT may change
your mind ! See it next week at
the La Belle Wednesday and
Thursday Nov. 12th and 13th.
Also the Two Reel Comedy The
Butcher Boy by
Fatty Arbuckle.
Capt. F. B. Chilton, recently
moved here from Houston, has
sold his handsome residence on
the East Bay Front to Dr. R. L.
McLellan, of Claire county, Al-
abama, and, we understand, Dr.
McLellan will occupy this pret-
ty home quite soon.
We have just been informed
that Capt. Chilton had purchas-
ed the Dr. Dunn property, situ-
ated in Block D. (East Bay
Front) and would make substan-
tial improvements soon.
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