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ARANSAS PASS PROGRESS
Volume XI
ARANSAS PASS, SAN PATRICIO COUNTY, TEXAS, DECEMBER 12, 1919.
Number 33
THE CITY OF CERTAINTY, WHERE SAILS MEET RAILS
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Effective January 1, 1920, the subscription price of the Aransas
Pass Progress will lie advanced from $1.50 per year to $2.00 pei yeai.
All renewals or new subscriptions during the remainder of December
will be accepted at the present rate of $1.50, and those desiring may
advance their subscription one or more years. All subscriptions must
be paid in advance iii compliance with the United States postal laws.
The advancing of the subscription rate of The Progress has be-
come a necessity.' In the olden days when print paper cost from 3c to
4c- per pound, the rate of $1.50 was adequate, but now that white
print paper costs 9c or more per pound f. o. b. Aransas Pass, even $2.00
per year is inadequate to offset the tremendous advance. Not only
are the publishers confronted with the high cost of white print paper
hut the high cost of ink, the high cost of rollers, the high cost of, type,
the high cost of labor, the high cost of rent, the high cost of postage,
and a dozen or .more other high costs, more or less material. The
The high cost of print paper, which has risen in price seyeral hundred
per cent, is the most disturbing factor just now. yet- the other high costs
are sufficient to rack the brain and disturb the slumber of any
publisher.
The additional 50c per year is of but small moment to each indi-
vidual subscriber, but the addition of 50c per year to each individual
subscription of The Progress is of great moment to the publishers, who
like many, many other publishers throughout the land, are seeking to
stop a loss that is depreciating the efficiency of their publications.
HOUSTON SUSPICIOUS OF
SOUTHERN PACIFIC INTENTIONS
RED CROSS XMAS. SEALS
BUILT CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
DEEP DRILING AT SIGMUND
WELL NO. ONE CONTINUES
Progress on Sigmund Well No. 1 has
been good this week, with strong gas
showing Sunday and Monday. They
have been in very hard rock for three
feet, and worked two days to go thru.
Shortage of fuel oil has caused work
to be delayed some, working only half
time. A car of fuel oil shipped from
Beaumont last week, has not arrived.
They have heed leaving the old hole
and old drill stem for several days
JIMMIE HOLMES’ CAREER
MEETING WITH SUCCESS
The many friends of Jimmie Holmes
will he pleased to know of his success
since joining the “Come Along Mary
light opera company. The company
is now in Florida, and the following
are press comments from that section:
“Come Along Mary” at the Phillips
The “Come Along Mary” light op-
era company which appears tonight at
the Philips, have tlie best of press no-
tices and bring with them the reputa-
and making altogether new hole, caus-l tion of giving a bright and piquant
ing slower drilling.
Indications are very favorable.
Below is the log from last week’s re-
port :
• 2350-G”
5 ft. , hard shale ....................— 2355-6
6 ft., 4 in., blue gumbo wl........ 2361-10"
--*6 ft., hard shale ..............----- 2307-10”
pi-f-t.,; 6”, brown gumbo .......... 2382-4"
10 ft., brqwn. gumbo: -.w...........2390-4”
8 ft., red shale .....2400-4”
3 ft., 6" red gumbo ........ 2403-10”
5 ft., red shale ........................ 2408-10”
3 ft., hard Sand rock ...:.......... 2411-10
NOTICE—M. E. CHURCH
First Sunday in each month—Preach-
ing 11 a. m. and 7 p. m., by the pastor
Second Sunday—Services led by J. D.
Wheeler, 11 a. m.At 7 p. m. by Rev.
McMahon.
Third Sunday, led by L. T. Ayres;
7p. m. by the pastor.
Fourth Sunday, 11 a. m. led by some
layman: 7 p. m. , led by Rev. McMahon
Sunday School, 10 a. m. every Sunday
show, full of hubbies and laughter,
and rich with the best in wit and song.
They have plenty of pretty girls and
enough plot to the affair to hold like
a setting all the jewels of song and
dancing.
It will give the “tired business man”
plenty of fun, and a surcease from the
worries and cares of life, and will set
the young people to humming and
whistling the very catchy airs they
are giving and trying out the new
dance steps' they are introducing.
Mr. Jim Holmes, the leading man of
this company, sang last night at the
sacred concert, and Mr. Drennen pro-
nounces his voice to be a very line
one.
The readers of the Progress will re-
call the several articles we have pub-
lished relative to the attitude of the
Morgan line of steamers toward com-
petition at the port.
The following from the Houston
Chronicle of Dec. 0th, headed “Fraught
With Danger,” indicates that the
“rep" of the Southern Pacific, owners
of the Morgan line, is known to Die
Chronicle and they are averse to being
treated as this port has been'. Why
the Southern Pacific expects favors
from the Government not extended
to others looks odd.
“What is known as the Panama Ca-
nal act, provided for a separation of
railway and steamship lines.
"It declares in effect that no great
transcontinental railway system can
own or control a line of steamers.
“The law is a wise one and is in-
tended to prevent the monopolizing of
a port's business and the suppression
of competitive steamship traffics
“During the war an exception was
granted in the case of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, which by special
enactment, was permitted to operate
the Morgan line of -steamers be-
twen New York and the Gulf ports
of Galveston and New Orleans.
"This was an emergency exception
and was permited because the
weekly sailings to expedite moving of
freight by rail and water, so ‘ neces-
sary to the nation at that time.
"Now the Southern Pacific is ask-
ing the interstate commerce commis-
sion for permission to extend its
service from Boston, Philadelphia
and other Eastern ports to Beau-
mont, Texas City, Port Arthur and
Houston on the Gulf.
"No promise is made of immediate
service 'between any of these ports,
but the right to put in a line of
steamers, according to its traffic
officials whenever the business of
the Southern ports justify or war-
rant such service.
"The traffic department of the
Austin, Texas—Red Cross Christ-
mas seals built the Children’s Hospital
at Galveston in 1912. The sale of the
seals in 1917 enabled the Texas Public
Health - Association to donate later
$1,000 for upkeep and additions for the
hospital which was deeded to the
state, and is now connected with the
John Sealey Hospital.
“The 1919 Red Cross Christmas seal
sale is ‘going over' strong,” declared
O. M. Lowry, campaign director,
“and I predict that the sale, held Dec-
eml>er 1 to 10, will provide funds for
much more health work over the state
When all reports are collected at
headquarters, I believe we will find
that over 20,000,000 of the little seals
of good health have been sold. The
ninety per cent of the $200,000 raised
will remain in the Lone Star State for
the benefit of Texans.”
The Children's Hospital cares for
crippled and deformed children, es-
pecially those with glandular and
hone tuberculosis. Many cases are
cured every year, and the little tots
are brought hack to a healthy, happy
life, and are made as strong as ever.
Such work is only one phase of the
health activities of the Texas Public
Health Association in its fight against
tuberculosis. Field workers, public
health nurses, and other staff workers
are sent, among every race and class
of people in Texas. Open air schools,
free clinics, preyen toria, dispensaries,
tuberculosis hospitals and other anti-
fuberculosis institutions are being
worked for; and with a successful
seal sale an extensive health program
is planned for 1920.
DO CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EARLY
Shopping time is getting limited. Let us urge the necessity of
early buying, particularly if it involves correspondence.
Christmas will be an unusual Christmas this year, indeed and un-
restrained joy and good fellowship will make this a Yule-tide long to
be remembered. “Peace on earth, good will toward men” will have
more than usual significance.' The cheer and generosity xtsually attend-
ant on this joyous season will he multiplied this year by the measure of
happiness, in the return of peace to our country and “our boys” to our
homes. Peace, prosperity, and a new brotherhood of man should reign
throughout the world.
But do your Christmas shopping early. Do it now. Don't put it
off till the last minute when everything has been picked over and the
big final rush is on. ............
CHASE HURRICANES WITH i FARM LIGHTING SYSTEMS
Fz\ST BOATS, GOVT. PLAN j MAKE PLACE LOOK “HOMEY”
WORDS, WORDS, WORDS,
NOTHING BUT WORDS
RED CROSS CHRISTMAS SEALb
The Red Cross Christmas Seals,
which finance the work of the Texas
Public Health Association in its fight
against Tuberculosis, are again on
sale, and as in the past they are be-
ing sold at one cent each and every
letter, paper and package should have
one of these good health seals on them.
“The Holy City," was sung by Mr.
Jim Holmes, who is in the city with
the “Come Along.Mary,” Company, and
Never before has the need been so
great for constructive statesmanship
as now, and never before has there
been so little of it. Without enter-
ing the realm of politics, the record
I of the last congress, as shown by the
Houston Chamber of | Congressional Record, was largely
* words, words, and nothing hut words, j tion it was traveling the very meagei
During that interesting period when *..... ”TOC’ /vt
Swift vessels to follow in the
wake of tropical hurricanes and re-
port by .wireless to the United States
weather bureau the course of the
strom would he of incalculable value
during equinoctial storms, acord-
ing to C. F. Marvin, chief of the fed-
eral weather bureau at Washington,
after a recent survey of the Texas
gulf region.
“These hurricane chasers,” Mr. Mar-
vin said, “would he efficient in solu-
tion of the chief difficulty of the
weather bureau during the hurricane
season of the year—the obtainment
of reliable information of the move-
ment of the storm.'
The weather bureau chief express-
ed the opinion that eventually
vessels would be designed, built and
equipped for weather bureau service.
Discussing weather reports from
Washington during the .recent tropi-
cal hurricane which devastated a
large part of Corpus Gliristi and near-
by towns' on-’ the Texas coast, cost-
ing more than 1400 lives, Mr. Marvin
said:
“The weather bureau is not seek-
ing to shift any responsibility . for
error or misunderstanding that arose-
at that time. We recognize the ele-
ment of optimism that was conveyed
in some of the reports issued. And
because the weather bureau did ifdt
know exactly what the hurricane was
doing, or in precisely what direc-
last week protested against the
granting of the additional violation
of the l’anama Canal act.
"This week the board of directors
of the same body agreed to with-
draw Houston’s protest, believing
that the Southern Pacific’s steamers
should he encouraged to come to
Houston, although that system has
never once in the past 10 years of
courteously consented to sing last j this city’s harbor development made
night. Mr. Holmes lias a voice with | any effort to enter this port or to
marvelous volume, and he sings with j give it any of the great railway sys-
verve and intensity, and his enuncia- j tern’s freight business,
tion is so perfect that «wery word of | "Practically everything from out-
the magnificent song was heard. His j side points has come Into Houston
placement is very fine, and his voice j and on to New Orleans or Galveston.
is splendid.
There is a real story about which the
musical numbers and humor are built,
and the pleasing voice of ' Timmie
Holmes in the leading role contributed
no small proportion to the produc-
tion’s success.
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[We offer as suitable for Christmas presents:
lumbia Graphophones & Records
Jewelry, Stationery,
Cigars, Candy, Kodaks,
Ivory Goods, Perfumes
and a few Toys.
CHRISTMAS CARDS
ARANSAS DRUG CO.
A.O.GRCOS PROP. OWNER OF"
CITY DRUG STORE
.[sodas;
"Its present application ■ follows
close upon the successful inauguration
of an independent line of steamers
with regular sailing from Philadelphia
to this port.
“It means either the Southern Pacif-
ic at last realizes that Houston lias
a real port, with business that it can
secure on a profitable basis, or that
it desires to crush out competition
that might militate against its vast
port developments at Galveston and
New Orleans. i
• No matter what may he the motive
the City of Houston has given the
Southern Pacific an opportunity to
show where it stands.
“If it means busines and wants to
do the right thing to help build up
the Ship Channel, it will proceed im-
mediately to develop its harbor at
Clinton. If it simply wants to
divide up the present, port business
developed here and furnish nothing
from the interior, it will bring its
steamers to the municipal docks and
try to grab everything in sight un-
til the independent line is forced to
withdraw. Then it may or it may
not remain. The application makes
no guarantee.
"In the meantime, it is a question
whether the interstate commerce
.commission wil grant a further ex-
ception to the Panama act.
"The Chronicle hopes it will not,
and also that the first exception in
, favor of the Southern Pacific will
!soon he revoked.
i "The law as enacted is wise; its
j violation, either by legalized exeep-
| tion or otherwise, is fraught with
! danger."
We will move into our new location
on Wilson Avenue end Arch stret, the
first of the week and will be in a posi-
tion to handle wholesole as well as re-
tail trade. We now have a car of Cy-
press lumber, also a car of barb wire
and nails. Call and see us.
F'iekU-Lutntan Dumbdr Co.
all the world was looking to America
to‘take the lead in reconstruction
the senate and house consumed the
valuable time in useless palaver, to
the extent of filing 8,058 pages of
the nation’s most uninteresting doc-
ument—the Congressional Record.
Conservatively estimated at 1,600
words to the page, the total of words
reached 13,802,800. It is estimated
the house used 5,410 pages and the
senate, one fourth the size of the
lower body, 3,248 pages. On this
basis the house members contributed
8,650,000 words. It is estimated
twice as many speeches were made in
the house as in the senate, the repre-
sentatives making 2.24S and the sen-
ators 1,044. But it took the senate
making half as many speeches, nearly
the same time it took the representa-
tives, which says something of the
lung power as well as for rules, of
the senators. The house was in ses-
sion 780 hours and 19 minutes, while
the senate was in session 594 hours
and 27 minutes. The net results of
the session can he summarized as fol-
lows :
The longest speech—Senator La
Follette, with Senators France and
Sherman eiose behind.
The loudest speech— Senator Rob-
inson, with Johnson a close second.
The most foolish speech—Represen-
tative Rodenburg.
The best speech (“I move we ad-
journ”)—Senators Curtiss, Watson and
Sinoot;, Representatives Mondell and
Blanton.
The most frequent speaker—Repre-
sentative Blanton.
Honrs devoted to Shantung—Eigh-
ty-three.
Hours devoted to Egypt—Four.
Hours devoted to Ireland—Thirteen
Hours devoted to India—Two.
Honrs devoted to making and deny-
ing charges of pro-Germans—Seven-
teen.
Pettifoggers wrangling when tlie
fate of the nation, the world, and
probably millions of lives ef the peo-
ple at stake! Truly a spectacle
which should bring the blush of
shame to every right thinking Amer-
ican. It is but natural to assume
that a nation in distress would take
counsel of the wisest of its sons, but
on the contrary, judging from the rec-
ords of the late congress, great men—
constructive statesmen—were never so
scarce and small men never so plenti-
ful as now in the legislative bodies at
Washington. \
Irrespective of political affiliations
caE^MflBLfor 1920 nonaiJBfcjons
11a
the
information available was of a
ture to encourage belief that
storm was headed for the coast at
the point, designated in tlie reports.
“But it fooled us.”
should he scrutinized most carefully
It is no time for a political jockey to
be in the saddle, as the jockey in pol-
itics is no more to he relied upon than
the jockey of tlie race course, but it is
time for great and capable men, re-
gardless of party, to administer the
affairs of the nation. The farmer is
vitally interested in the results of the
1920 campaign. It is up to him to
put the pettifogging lawmaker out of
business.
For Sale—Beautiful fancy work, all
hand made and suitable for Christmas
presents. Next door to Todd’s gro-
cery store.
Mrs. R. M. Baur.
If there is any time of the year
when farm lighting systems should
he appreciated, it is during the dark
dull days of the fall and winter—
so many of which are damp and rainy
and when the night seems to come on.
so early. Naturally the farmers
want to stay in the field just as long,
as they can and when they drive into
the yard at dusk, there should he a
World of satisfaction in seeing the
place all aglow with electric lights. It
makes things look "homey”. When
the lights are switched on and the
whole barn lighted up bright as day*,
there is no excuse for profanity be-
cause of the inability to see. The aid
is.not only for the farmer, but for the
animal as well, that stay in th| dark,
A horse will not stumble and .fall all
over himself going into the barn, wheat .
it is light enough for him to see, and-
the cows will find their own stanchiofis-
much more easily and without half so
much fuss when they can see what
they are doing. Then there should lie
a light in the hay mow, protected by.;
wire netting, and none can appreciate.'
such a convenience more than the map;
who lias climbed into the lia-y mow-af-
ter the shade of night ha's fallen; Then
there are lights in the- hog* ■ house
which simplifies tin* care of the "mort-
gage lifters.” And then there is “the
milking and running of the separator
hv electric light, which can easily .he
appreciated. While these great ..hen-,
elits are from light in the farm build-
ings, the utility and value of farm,
lighting systems is exemplified in tlie-
home, where it is even a greater help.
Consider the value of a light in the
basement, where the wife and girls
make many trips a day. By switch-
ing on the light they do not mind the
dark and gloomy days or impenetrable
darknes of the night as the basement
light makes the whole cellar bright
and they can see to get anything they
want. It is also an aid toward keep-
ing the young folks persuaded that the
country is in no way behind the city-
just from the effect of the excellence of
the lighting, as well as from the-
fact that their use makes it so much
easier to do the evening and early mor-
ning work on the farm. The. farm-
lighting system is of great vu-llity nhd
will soon he in universal use, as its
economic value is beyond estimate.
DO YOUR
XMAS
SHOPPING
NOW!!!
We are prepared to take care of
your wants in regard to gifts
for Xmas. Come in now and
select your presents while the
line is complete. We also have
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Christmas Cards, Seals
Tags and Decorations
FOR SALE
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Warrick, W. E. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, December 12, 1919, newspaper, December 12, 1919; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975147/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.