Texas City Daily Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 26, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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TEXAS CITY DAILY TIMES
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, MARCH 26, 1914.
VOL. 2.
No. 45.
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WORLD-TOURING BALL PLAYERS SALUTING KING GEORGE
$200,000 COTTON SEED
SCIENTIFIC EQUIPMENT
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of 155 by 900 feet, and is of reinforced concrete construction,
built with the intention later of erecting an upper story, and
terrorize the country, sparing neither
tives nor foreignrs, and they are the
The local troop of Boy Scouts of Amer-
ica will meet in regular session tomorrow
might at the home of their Scout master,
Mr. Chapman.
Professor Blackstone Receives Three High
Grade Microscopes And Ascessories For
Addition to Course of Studies•
Quiet Home Wedding In West End Last
Night. Rev- Basket Officiating With Ring
Ceremony.
Heavy Fighting Reported Yesterday With
Rebels Sustaining Loss Of 2,000 Dead
and Wounded.
The Baptist Ladies Aid Society will meet
tomorrow afternoon at three o’clock in the
Baptist’Tabernacle with Mrs. W. C. Brown
and Mrs . George F. Mizen as hostess ■
The Fourth Field Artillery, encamped at
Texas City, was out this morning for field
firing.
Scene, Maximilliano Flores Has Both Legs
Broken.
When approached Thursday for confirmation of this project,
Colonel H. B. Moore, vice president and general manager of the
Texas City Company, stated that the deal had been closed for the
mill but could add nothing to Mr. Fitzhugh’s announcement fur-
ther than to state that he expects to see the plant completed and
in operation by August 15 of the present year.
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Again we say, don’t let your trash blow
•over into the neighbors yard.
While the order has not been issued it was
announced yesterday that Second Lieuten-
ant W. L • Roberts of the Eleventh In-
fantry will be made range officer at Texas
City, relieving Lieutenant F. B. Terrell
of the Twenty-Second Infantry.
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By W. HOLT HARRIS, Ft. Worth, Chairman Mercantile
Committee, Texas Business Mtns Assn.
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The officers of the 11th infantry will en-
tertain with a dance at their new pavilion
in the camp at Texas City Friday night,
starting at 8 o’clock. All Second Division
officers and their ladies have been invited
and a large attendance is anticipated-
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Twenty thousand as wild rooters as ever assembled at any ball ground saw an exhibition of the American na-
tional game in London. The game opened with the Giants and White Sox drawn up in salute before the royal box.
King George bowed his acknowledgments, and later developed into an ardent fan as the excitement of the contest
gripped him.
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Programs have been issued for the Work-
ers Institute tomorrow night at the Baptist
Tabernacle, corner of 3rd street and 7th
avenue. A large attendance is expected..
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Mexico City, March 26.—The War De-
partment makes the claim that the rebels
under Villa were routed at Torreon with
great slaughter early yesterday.
Eight hundred men, under General Jo a- ,
quin Maas and General Javier de Moure, it
is announced arrived opportunely from Sal-
tillo, in time to add greatly to the Federal
victory. The rebels are said to be retreat-
ing nprthward with the Federals pounding
at their rear.
It is admitted that Villa’s men entered
Lerdo, a suburb of Torregn, but it is ex-
plained that this was a ruse on the part of
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The mill will be giving employment to between 125 and 150
men, operating ten months in the year, and will add materially to
the industrial activities of Texas City.
In another column of today’s Times will
be found the announcement for the can-
didacy of Mr. George E. Whitney for City
Commissioner. Mr. Whitney came to Tex-
as City in 1896 and since 1897 has been
the postmaster here- He is prominently
connected with the International Long-
shoremen’s Association and helped organ-
ize the local branch and is now treasurer of
While Acting In “Fall of The Alamo,'
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In selecting Texas City as the site for the new industry Mr.
Fitzhugh pointed out that this port is logically located for the de-
velopment of the industry by reason of its nearness to the raw
product and its easy access to the markets of the world. It is
expected that the mill will be instrumental in developing barga
line trade with the coast country now touched by the intercoastal
canal, as it will create a demand for the raw cotton seed grown
along the coast from Brownsville to Louisiana. Mr. Fitzhugh
further stated that the company has great confidence in the de-
velopment of the coast country following the opening of the Pana-
ma Canal and feels that in locating on the coast they are in line
to profit by the increase of business growing out of the new condi-
tions.
Construction work will start about April 15 on a 100-ton capac-
ity cotton seed oil mill and cotton seed product handling plant,
representing an investment of $200,000, according to an announce-
ment today of P. A. Fitzhugh of Houston, who is here arranging
for the commencement of operations. The mill will be located on
the waterfront and will give employment to between 125 and 150
the reinforcing rods of the first story extend above the roof in
such manner that the second story can be carried up without any
alterations to the warehouse as it now stands. The second story
will be constructed on the same general lines on which the ware-
house was built, and this is the first work that will be undertaken.
In this building, constructed throughout of reinforced concrete,
will be located the oil mill machinery and the cake grinding ma-
chinery. The capacity of the mill, as stated, will be 100 tons per
day. >
In addition to the mill, there will be a seed house and a hull
house, erected on the vacant space back of Warehouse A. The
seed house will cover an area 200 by 80 feet and the hull house,
200 by 700 feet. These buildings will also be of fireproof con-
struction.
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San Antonio, Texas, March 26.—Maxi-
milian Flores, 19 years of age, a Mexican
soldier in the “Fall of the Alamo,” as be-
ing reproduced by a motion picture com-
pany, had both legs fractured yesterday
when he fell beneath an automobile.
The - actors had been playing scenes in
and about San Juan Mission yesterday and
were returning to the city last evening in
one of the big “rubberneck automobiles,”
hired by the film company for transporting
its players to and from the scenes of ac-
tion-
Fearing for the safety of the members
of the company it was deemed advisable to
relieve the car of its human freight before
crossing a frail bridge over a creek near
the mission. The players crossed the
bridge, and Flores, not waiting for the
auto to stop, jumped on the running board,
slipped and fell beneath the machine- A
rear wheel passed over both legs just be-
low the knee-
He was hurried to the. Southwestern In-
sane Asylum, where medical attention was
gven, after which he was taken to the City
Hospital .
Flores’ condition, while serious, is not
considered dangerous-
. set of life size papier mache models of the
' head, thorax, and abdomen, which are cut
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weather, probably rain. Moderate
to brisk southerly winds-
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Mr - B. F. Putney was sworn in this
morning at the city hall as special police
officer. Mr. Putney is a night watchman
at the docks and police power has been
vested in him in order that he may arrest
and turn over to the city authorities any
persons found on the premises that should
not be there-
Friendship in business is as necessary as advertising, and they
are inseparable companions. All advertising must be backed up by
the truth and truthfulness is the first requisite of friendship. Kind
words, when spoken over the counter, are business getters and
trade holders and they are an excellent publicity medium. The
successful merchant realizes that when friendship dies off the face
. of the earth, business too will go by the board and he seeks no
better form of advertising than by making friends.
The merchants whose ads appear in this paper are offering
you the glad hand of friendship, and the truthfulness of their
statements is affirmed by their business reputation, based upon
many years of successful selling.
The leading spirits in the new enterprise are P. A. Fitzhugh
and H. Bailey of Houston, who have associated with them a num-
ber of Texas capitalists including Texas City parties. The com-
pany is now in process of formation and application for a state
charter will soon be made. Financial arrangements, however,
have been completed and there will be no delay in the construc-
tion of the plant. As stated, work will start about April 15
and the mill will be in operation for the fall season.
Contracts are now being let for building material and for ma-
chinery. The first work to be done will be the construction of the
mill house which will be located over Warehouse A of the Texas
City Transportation Company. This warehouse, which covers an
in cross sections and arranged so that the
different organs of the body may be taken
out and studied- With this set there comes
a model of the eye, the ear and the neck,
showing the details of each. The model of
the cranium shows the position of the brain
and all the intricate nerve tracts and blood
vessels .
These scientific additions to the instruc-
tive equipment of the high school will
add to the interest of the studies involved,
as much more can be learned by the stu-
dents of Chemistry, physiology and ana-
tomy when such equipment is available-
who through their plundering and robbery
have caused the foreigners to flee the coun-
try.”
Mr. Mueller believes that while the chief
ini erest of this state is now centered on
affairs of Northen Mexico, where Carran-
za, Villa and the other constitutionalists
are gathered, that section is a safer place
for Americans and other foreigners than in
the country between Mexico City and the
eastern coast-
Mr- Mueller is spending a few days with
friends in Galveston.
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Miss Bertha Willhouse and Mr. Harry
Fisher were united in marriage, at the home
of the bride in West End last night at 7 :45.
The bride wore a beautiful white crepe de
chene wedding gown and the bridgroom was
dressed, in the conventional black.
The affair was a quiet home wedding with
only the family and intimate friends in at-
tendance- Those present were: Rev. and
Mrs- James R. Basket, Mrs. Willhouse,
mother of the bride, Misses Ruth Willhouse
and Nannie Willhouse, Fred Willhouse, Mr.
and Mrs. Greer. The ring ceremony was
used and Rev. Mr. Basket officiated, unit-
ing the happy couple for a happy life.
After the ceremony a supper was served
to those present and the bride’s wedding
presents of which there was a large number,
were shown to the guests.
Mr. Fisher is the advertising manager of
The Texas City Daily Times and is well
known in this city. The Times wishes the
newly married couple a long life of happi-
ness and prosperity.
Beginning tonight the Orpheum theater
will put on the crowning feature of the
company now playing there under the form
of a Lady Minstrel show. Fortunately this
play will be on for three nights so as to
give everybody a chance to get a seat. The
King company has become so popular here
that every night sees a full house in at-
tendance. /
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Despite the fact that Huerta has main-
tained his hold of Central and Eastern Mex-
ico for several months, conditions in those
sections are today no better from the busi-
ness and financial standpoint of a foreigner
than they were when the rebel-bandits first
began harrassing the territory, according to
the statements of A. W. Mueller, who has
just returned from Tampico to Galveston
on a banana steamer.
Although of German parentage, Mr.
Mueller is an American citizen. Having
spent the last 15 years in Mexico in the
stock raising business, he is an man thor-
oughly familiar with the country, its na-
tives and their ways.
“Although President Huerta is now
having less trouble with finances than ev-
er before in his administration, and al-
though from the outside it might seem that
he is getting stronger hold on the situa-
tion each day, I believe that his rule can
not last much longer,” said Mr. Mueller.
“Eastward from Mexico City the govern-
ment has many small bodies of troops, gar-
risoning towns and trying to patrol and
protect the country, but in spite of all this I
precaution there has been no relief from the
little outbreaks that really form the dan-
gerous part of the internal warfare of Mex-
ico. These small bands of marauders, half
starved, sometimes composed principally of
Indians and degenerates, are the ones that
Major General William S. McCaskey, re-
tired, and wife, who have been sojourning
in Galveston for a short time, were guests
at a luncheon given by their son, Captain
Garrison McCaskey of the Twenty-sixth In-
fantry, in the regiment camp Tuesday -
The Twenty-Sixth Infantry band rendered
a concert during the luncheon. General
and Mrs. McCaskey leave today for the
East.
American Stockman Spent Fifteen Years
In Mexico- Foresees Downfall Of Federal
Regime-
“And the green grass grew all around”
Texas City and nobody planted onions,
redishes, cabbages, Lettuce, strawberries,
turnips or corn. The soil in this section
is fertile and the vast number of vacant
lots could be cultivated and the produc-
tion of truck for private consumption, or
even for sale, would prove profitable to any-
one- It is not too late to get some seeds
in and Texas City is in need of a local
produce market-
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Professor Blackstone, superintendent of
the Texas City schools has received a com-
plete equipment from the firm of Bausch
and Lomo for the study of microscopy,
chemistry and physiology- “It may seem,"
said Professor Blackstone this morning,
“that we are getting in this equipment
rather late, but as it was necessary to first
see how the finances of the school would
come out this term we had to wait until
after the first of the year to submit a list of
materials wanted to the various manufac-
turers, and as many of the articles come
from Europe it takes from six to eight
weeks to get them. here after they have
been ordered.”
The new equipment just received consists
of three high power microscopes complete
with slides, cover glasses, chemicals, stains,
dissecting sets, and everything for preparing
speciments for microscopical examination.;
This outfit will also be used in connection
with the study of physiology, which is
taught in the school. Experiments will be
made with cats, frogs, and other small ani-
mals.
An important addition to the outfit will
arrive shortly from Europe and that is a
Capacity of New Mill Will Be 100 Tons
and Will Employ 150 Men. P. A.
Fitzhugh and H. Bailey, of Houston
Heading Enterprise. Will Build Soon.
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