The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, September 24, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNTY AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY.
BAY CITY, TEXAS,
VOLUME 70—NUMBER 38.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1915.
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
SWAY SCHOOL WORKERS
BUSINESS LEAGUE IS
TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY
BOOSTING THE GOONTRY
EXCELLENT SANITARY DAIRY
IN LOWER COLORADO
Large Numbers of Inquiries.
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It is feared that the two long filter-
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Brownsville
section
protection levee to ward off
that time.
recently
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other
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the coast.
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DAM GATES SWffT
AWAY BY COLORADO I
driven
water,
as a
the
Fear Big Trenches Have Been
Damaged.
Bay City Postoffice Will Be Much Im-
proved.
Water Supply of Capital City May Be
Affected—Dam Intact.
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Cattle, hogs, hoses
miles all thrive here.
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TIME TO PLANT TRUCK.
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TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE, ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT
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FLOOD IS ALMOST
PASSED AT AUSTIN.
Palacios, Texas, September 20.—At
a recent meeting of the city council
Dr. J. R. Eliott was appointed to the
position of city health officer. Arrests
for not observing the sanitary ordi-
nance have followed and a strict en-
forcement of those laws will be ad-
hered to by the new administration.
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QUAIL UNAFRAID PAYS
VISIT TO SHERIFF.
Sheriff Bert Carr arrested a Mexi-
can Saturday night and jailed him on
the charge of bootlegging. The Mex-
ican had five pint bottles of whisky
and had just sold three to some ne-
groes when arrested by Sheriff Carr.
Widely Disseminating Advertising Lit-
erature — Secretary Receiving
gently, and after you get located, want
to help you solve your problems with
a view of bringing to you the greatest
possible measure of success, for your
success is our success. Our standing
invitation is for you to come to see us
and let us show you, for seeing is be-
lieving. For further free and full in-
formation, call on or address Bay City
Business League, Bay City, Texas.
A large covey of quail paid Sheriff
Bert Carr a visit at his residence at
today and grazed complacently
family
The Bay City Business League
doing some effective advertising these
days and pushing the advantages of
the county and the city constantly.
Recently the league has had printed
some interesting and valuable litera-
ture which is being disseminated
widely in addition to qute a lot of
newspaper advertisng in outside pa-
pers of large crculations.
This work is proving effective and
the secretary as a result is receiving
many inquiries daily.
The foUowng excerpts are taken
from the latest bulletin issued:
Rio Grande Valley, Bandit-Ridden, Off
the Market.
[EL CAMPO HAS AN
137-FOOT STAGE IS EXPECTED
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j Matagorda County is called the
heart of the Mid-Coast, because the
Gulf shore line of Texas covers about
400 miles; the northern end,—too flat
with too much rain,—the southern end
too dry and brushy. Matagorda Coun-
ty, centrally located, in the rain-belt,
with high bay shores, open prairies,
good drainage, extra fertile lands, is
in every way desirable for homes as
well as investments.
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Owing to the flood which is now
a con-
siderable acreage of rice on the west
side of the river near Buckeye is
Matagorda County Crops.
Under good farming, a bale of cotton
and 50 bushels of corn per acre, can
be made in Matagorda County, with
other field and feed crops adapted to
this country in proportion. In addi-
tion to corn and cotton, Caney Valley
is especially adapted to Irish potatoes,
—two crops a year,—and sugar cane.
Two and three crops can be grown on
the same ground annually by follow-
ing staple crops with feed crops and
winter vegetables. Matagorda County
is especially adapted to intelligent di-
versified farming combined with
stock-growing and dairying. Thrifty
renters can soon become home-own-
ers here.
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Mr. B. E. Norvell, who has just re-
turned from an extended business trip
to many places in Texas, has offered
some wholesome advice, which, if heed-
ed, will add quite a nice bank roll to
this section this winter and next
spring.
While in the
I Flood danger has now shifted to
• the lower Colorado River around.
Columbus, where Dr. B. Bunnemeyer,
section director of the Houston
weather bureau, expects serious floods.
The crest is expected to arrive at Co-
lumbus Monday night or Tuesday,
with a stage of 37 feet, which would
be 13 feet above the river banks in
the low places.
The river is rapidly receding at
Austin, the stream being well within
banks. Quite a furor was created
along the lower Colorado when the
All efforts to dis- ; dispatches stated that the river above
the dam at Austin was at a stage of
68 feet. Flood stage below the dam
is only 18 feet. Dr. Bunnemeyer
was kept busy sending out telegrams
Friday to the effect that it is nothing
unusual for the water to be more than
60 feet above the dam.
Since no heavy rains are falling
and the ground being very dry, Dr.
I Bunnemeyer does not think the floods
as se-
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Mr. R. C. Emmel left this after-
noon for Houston to be in attendance
on his little daughter, Dorothy Ver-
non, who will undergo an operation
at St. Joseph’s Infirmary. The little
girl is suffering with a disorder of
the throat. Dr. Foster, who is one of
the leading throat specialists of Hous-
ton, will perform the operation. Little
Dorothy’s many friends here will wish
for her a speedy recovery.
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Tile drain your farm, your garden,
your yard, the result will surprise
and please you. Send for free book-
let, “Hints on Farm Drainage.” Bay
City Brick and Tile Co. ' If-dw
It is thought here by many familiar
with the Colorado River that the crest
has reached this point, if indeed it
has not been passing this afternoon.
It seems that, owing to the former
low stage of the river and the sud-
denness of the rise that the flood out-
traveled its usual former records. This
is evidenced by the fact that the pres-
ent flood was only 54 hours reaching
Columbus from Austin which is at-
tributed to the rush of the great wall
of water which had nothing to speak
of to retard its flow.
If the crest has reached here no
damage whatever will accrue, as the
river can go several feet higher with-
out seriously encroaching upon the
levees.
Matagorda County.
Has a mild, healthful, all-the-year
growing climate; smooth, fertile soil;
no hills or rocks; does not wash;
mostly open prairie, with abundant
timber for local use skirting the
streams and covering Caney Valley,
the Nile of America, which soil won
first prize in competition with the
soils of the world at the Paris Exposi-
tion. With a 42-inch ranfall, is es-
pecially adapted to cotton, corn, sugar,
rice, alfalfa, feed crops, potatoes, win-
ter vegetables, strawberries, figs,
peaches, pecans, citrus fruits, stock,
poultry and dairying. The fish and
Bay City Business League Work.
The purpose of the Bay City Busi-
ness League is in an intelligent, or-
ganized way to render co-operatilon
and assistance, looking to the success
of every worthy citizen who will join
us in the upbuilding of our town and
country. We are here to answer your
questions, to render you every possi-
ble assistance, to extend to you a
warm welcome.
We cannot offer you something for
nothing. No get-rich-quick schemes
here. But we can offer you most
wonderful opportunities for the intel-
ligent investment of money, brains and
energy. There is room here for thou-
sands of good citizens in both town
and country, who are hunting for
homes, health; happiness and pros-
perity, in our favored land. If you are
interested, command us freely, for we
' In this section is one crop of 400
I acres of very fine rice belonging to
J. J. LeTulle. It is thought the levee
will be finished before the crest of
the rise will reach that point.
The protection levee on this side of
’ the river will prove adequate in every
I sense of the word and no danger what-
I ever is apprehended.
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PLANNING TO RECEIVE
NEW FIXTURES.
ribnne.
Stock Farming and Dairying.
Because of the soil and climatic
conditions, Matagorda County is one
of the finest stock-farming and dairy
countries in the world, and these lead
all other industries for safety and
profit. By planting Bermuda,—which
is the Coast Country blue grass of
Texas,—with burr clover and all-the-
year highly nutritious grazing crop
can be had; and by using a combina-
tion of corn, sorghum, Sudan grass
and other feed crops for silage and
hay, a large amount of improved stock :
can be supported on a small acreage,
because our fertile soil with plenty
of moisture and sunshine, with a long
growing season, produces enormous
yields of all such feed crops. Sudan
) grass will yield from 8 to 12 tons per
acre of hay just as valuable as Tim-
othy. Timothy yields about two tons I
per acre in the old States, on lands
valued at $100.00 to $300.00 per acre,
while our Sudan grass grows on land
| that you can buy reasonable and on
easy terms. Sudan grass is also a
heavy and valuable grazing crop. Sor-
ghum also yields from 8 to 15 tons of
fine hay per acre,
and
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of danger to the Austin dam from the
Each of the quad- ■ flood>- it now appears that the water
rants has a capacity of 2,500,000 gal- supply of the city will be affected.-
Ions.
Austin, Texas, September 20.—The
Colorado River -fast is resuming its
quadrants of the reservoir were full 'normal condition, the recent flood hav-
yesterday morning and another quad- I aImost run out.
rant about half filled when the plant i ------—------
ceased to operate.
Arrangements are being made for
the installation of a new set of fix-
tures for the postoffice at this place,
which are expected to arrive at any
time.
The fixtures will be modern in
ery respect and both the exterior and
interior of the office will be much
improved when they are put in place.
They were ordered about thirty
days ago.
Austin, Texas, September 18.—With
10 of the 28 large flood gates of the
dam and 13 of the smaller gates car-
ried away by the flood waters in the
Colorado, and several gates of the dam
inoperative because of the jam of tree
trunks, brush and rubbish, the water
in the river at the dam stands at the
61 foot stage, a drop of seven feet
since this morning.
Dynamiting has failed to break the
huge drift that extends for more than
one-eighth of a mile up the river and
is banked more than 12 feet deep
against the dam.
lodge the drift have proved futile and
with the anticipated 13 foot rise sched-
uled for the next 24 hours, some ap-
prehension is felt of the fate of the
dam unless the flood waters aid in j
washing away and breaking the drift.!
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Long Swells of Foam Swept Down the j
Lake.
Long swells of foam have swept lower Colorado will be
down the lake on several occasions • } as last spring.
during the day, presaging the second
rise, but as yet this has failed to ma- ,
terialize. Every possible precaution I -02 at Houston, .06 at Galveston,
F. J. Hardy of El Campo has a hobby.
In fact he has had the same hobby for
years and realizing the unlimited pos-
sibilities of dairying and dairy cattle
in the Mid-Coast of Texas, perhaps has
done more for the industry than any
other one man in the Mid-Coast, for
not only has he put his money and
time in personal enterprises of this
nature, but he has assisted others to
buy pure-blooded cattle and to in-
crease their herds and revenues by
virtue of this fact.
As a starter to further advance the
project, or rather to perfect his hobby
Mr. Hardey has employed the last
word in up-to-date and modern dairy-
ing methods in an entirely new (to
the country) venture at El Campo, one
mile north of that city. His brother,
R. O. Hardey, -is the proprietor of this
creamery or dairy.
As a precautionary method only cat-
j tie of the highest grade are secured to
i begin within and these are invariably
selected from healthy strains.. But
the Hardey idea of absolute perfection
obtains and no chances are taken, as
all cattle owned by this concern are
regularly tested for tuberculosis and
other diseases. They are kept under
a watchful eye and are never permit-
ted to get any bad water, thus further
eliminating the possibility of contam-
inating diseases.
Before the cows are allowed in the
milking barn they are made to go
through clean running water over
which is erected an ingenious and ef-
fective fly trap which cleans the cows
of these pests, permitting them to en-
ter the barn free of any disturbances
RICE SITUATION IN CALIFORNIA. which the fly cause.
The barn is floored with cement
with drains which lead into a sewer.
The troughs are likewise of cement
while the stalls, and mangers and
stanchions are of enameled iron and
immaculate. The walls are rough so
they can be sprayed with whitewash.
There is hot and cold water and steam
for cleaning purposes in the barn, for
all utensils, barn floors, walls, troughs
and mangers. No filth of any charac-
ter whatever is permitted to lie about
and sour.
The cows are thoroughly washed off
before the milking and the milk is
passed from the cleansed udder into
closed sanitary milk buckets, through
two thicknesses of gauze and one of
absorbent cotton. As soon as pos-
sible the milk is put through an
aerator and cooler. This process
takes out all animal heat and clears
the milk of any posisble cow or feed
odors. It is then turned into a bot-
tling machine, bottled without the
hands ever touching it, automatically
sealed and is ready for delivery. These
bottles every time they are used are
thoroughly washed in a power bottle
washing machine and pasteurized in
a metal receiver with steam, the heat
being regulated by a thermometer to
the proper point.
The milk thus obtained, milked and
handled, is absolutely clean and pure
and perfectly free from any harmful
bacteria. Milk produced by the sys-
tem employed by Mr. Hardey and han-
dled in the way it is by this model
dairy will keep sweet more than twice
as long as that usually sold.
In this connection, a word or two
about the man who inaugurated and
carried out this splendid system at El
Campo is permissible.
F. J. Hardey is a Louisiana product want to help you get located intelli-
and is a self-made man. He is wide-
awake to all the living issues of the
times, is progressive in all his busi-
ness policies, ever on the alert to fur-
ther the interests of his town and
country.
He is interested in many of the pub-
lic enterprses of hs city and has
property interests at several
points in the State.
He believes in thoroughness of de-
tail and the latest improved methods
in every industry. He strives to build
up everything he touches just as he
has built his dairy, with commendable
thoroughness and exactness as to de-
tails which tend to give him the best
his money will buy, figures that the
best of economy is always to be found
in the best methods and the best
chinery.
Mr. Hardey’s type of man is a val-
uable asset for any community and
much of El Campo’s progress can be
traced directly to his genius, efforts
and progressive ideas.
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The Tribune will get the business oyster industry is also important along
| for you If you will give it a chance.
A giant conveyor used in the con- I 0 0—------
struction of the dam has been at work iBLYLDING LEVEE AROUND
FINE RICE CROP.
Since Friday the city’s water supply'
has come from the reservoir, no water'
being pumped into the city’s mains
from the filtering trenches. The res-
ervoir consists of four quadrants, each
of 2,500,000 gallons capacity, and the
ing trenches at the power plant” have ’last of the <Iuadrants wa® opened yes-
“blown up.” Although the trenches/"’'’""
are covered and vent holes provided, j
noon
about the premises while the
ate their dinner.
It is likely the covey was
from the river bottom by the
and to show their faith in local
sportsmen or disdain for the said
sportsmen’s marksmanship visited the
sheriff for protection.
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Patronize Tribune advertisers.
Part of $50,000 Launch That Went
Over Austin Dam Seen Yesterday
at Columbus.
Mr. G. A. Irwin, who has conducted
a tire vulcanizing plant here for the
past several months, .has moved to
San Antonio where he has accepted
position with a tire company. He left
on the noon Brownsville today.
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ANOTHER BOOTLEGGER NABBED.
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terday. Two of the quadrants were
emptied in two days and at this rate
the entire trenches and vent holes jthe last <luadrant will be exhausted
have been under the flood waters and :by *om°rrow morning, and water must
it is impossible to ascertain the dam- :then again be PumPed fr°ni the filter-
age at this time. i trenches.
A giant conveyor used in the con-
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all day drawing tree trunks and huge
logs from the drift piled against the
structure of the dam, but the drift has (
not been materially lessened. During racin£ down the Colorado River
the afternoon several trees loged in j
the opening of the flood gates and JSicie ot Hver near
added a strain to the dam well. > threatened and as a consequence fifty
Special provisions have been made ! ^eams have been at work night and day
Mr. Norvell paid particular attention Ifor telegraphich and telephonic com-
to the truck industry and says that,
owing to the drastic conditions there
the winter and spring truck business
will practically be abandoned for the
time being and that, in view of these
facts, the farmers here have a won-
derful opportunity with an unlimited
market before them for all they can
produce.
Especially true is this insofar
cabbage crop is concerned, for
Brownsville country, he says, will not
attempt the cabbage crop on a large
scale, if indeed, they raise any at all.
Mr. Norvell expects cabbage to com-
mand a very stiff price and inasmuch
as they do wonderfully well here sees
a big chance for all those who care
to engage in raising this vegetable.
The suggestion we think is a splen-
did one. It is no trouble to raise
truck of all kinds and a small acreage
properly -attended to will yield hand-
some returns to the growers.
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RIVER REACHED ITS CREST.
L_ ! for the past several days throwing up
munication from lookouts posted miles | a protection levee to ward off en-
up the lake to advise of the motion of i C1‘oaching waters,
the flood water in any material sheet.;
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WRECK FLOATS 300 MILES.
i Light rains are still falling, includ-
ling .94 at Corpus Christi, .26 at Pierce,
, .24
has been taken, however, to protect i at Brenham, .20 at San Marcos, .10 at
boats and property from the flood wa- A^ce’ -15 Nacogdoches and .16 at
ters. Two more valuable motor boats i Quanah,
were destroyed during the night, one
being crushed by drift and the other
sinking.
The city’s power plant at the dam
has not been operated for two days
and all water now being used by the
city is coming from the reservoir. An
admonition to use water sparingly has
been made by the administration. Two
Columbus, Texas, September 18.—
The Colorado River commenced to rise
here about noon and had risen eleven
feet up to 5 o’clock this afternoon.
Parts of Major Littlefield’s $50,000
launch, which was wrecked in the lake
above Austin dam, and passed over
the dam at 8 o’clock Thursday morn-
ing, passed here at 2 o’clock this
afternoon, making the trip of about
three hundred miles in fifty-four
hours.
Stockmen have been notified and
have gotten stock out of the lowlands.
The crop loss, will not be very great,
even if the river gets over the low-
lands, as the greater part of the corn
and cotton has been gathered.
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MOVES TO SAN ANTONIO.
Bay City.
Is the largest railroad and commer-
cial center south of Houston on the
coast, is the county seat of Matagorda
County, with 5000 population, five rail-
roads, operating sixteen passenger
trains daily. Has a modern system
of waterworks, sanitary sewerage,
electric lights, ice factory, steam
laundry, brick and tile factory, three
strong banks, three cotton gins, rice
mills, warehouses, elevators, railroad
pre-cooling plant, pipe line to Mark-
ham oil fields with loading racks, hos-
pital, wholesale grocery houses, etc.
Also $60,00.00 Federal Postoffice
building provided for.
A beautiful, modern, city, with miles
of cement walks, daily and weekly
newspapers, fine churches and schools,
business college, public library, mod-
ern opera house, high-class society,
up-to-date progressive people, gath-
ered from all the States.
Bay City offers inducements for the
location of cotton mills-, handle, box
and furniture factories, because the
cotton fields, the ash, willow and hard-
wood timbers are all tributary to us,
affording the raw material. Bay City
is'also a logical location for any kind
of industrial plant, wholesale, jobbing
or distributing house, that requires
first-class transportation facilities,
and a rich growing tributary trade
territory. Situated 90 miles south-
west of Houston, there is directly
tributary to Bay City a rich undevel-
oped inland empire of 300 miles, being
the distance from Bay City to Browns-
ville. -A territory as large as the State
of Pennsylvania.
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The following letter, reviewing the
rice situation in California, has been
received in Houston:
San Francisco, Sept. 13.—The grow-
ing crop of California rice is well
along and quality promises to be
much ahead of last year, due primarily
to favorable weather conditions pre-
vailing since planting.
Harvesting of the so-called Italian
type will begin in about two weeks—
Japan by October 15. It is estimated
there will be about 100,000 bags, 100
pounds each, of the Italian type in
this year’s crop. It is safe to say, bar-
ring unforeseen difficulties, that the
total of California to be harvested
this fall will be 1,250,000 bags, 100
pounds each, of rough rice.
The milling situation this, season
promises some interesting develop-
ments. At present it looks as if every-
thing will be a toll proposition, which
means, in the light of past experience,
somewhat low and irregular prices.
We look for large supplies of rough
to be rushed to the market shortly
after harvest, which will make for
anything but a strong condition at
Offers by growers to sell
anywhere from $1.65 to $1.75 for No.
1 Japan grades have recently been
made.
An association of farmers some-
what along the lines of the Southern
Association, has recently been formed.
A membership of 80 per cent of rice
farmers here is claimed.
Steamship lines through the canal
promise to inaugurate direct service
to Porto Rico beginning in November,
a nominal freight rate of 40 cents to
be in order.
All indications point to California
making the Japan market this season.
The C. B. Jennings Company.
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PALACIOS HEALTH OFFICER.
Houston, Texas, September 19.—A
school of methods will feature the aft-
ernoon sessions of the Methodist Sun-
day School Institute of the Houston
and Benham districts, which will be
held at the First Methodist Church
here for four days, beginning Thurs-
day, September 23, at 7:45 o’clock.
Rev. Emmett Hightower will give il-
lustrations of organization and gen-
eral conduct of a Sunday school for
the benefit of pastors and superin-
tendents.
Walter G. Harbin, field secretary of
the Texas Sunday school board of the
Methodist Church, will have general
supervision of the institute. The j
classes will be led as follows: Be-
ginners, Mrs. C. P. Younts; primary
and junior, Mrs. H. M. Hammill of
Nashville; intermediate, Rev. Walter
G. Harbin; senior and adult, Miss Eliz-
abeth Kilpatrick of Corinth, Msis.
Addresses will be made at the open-
ing meeting by Rev. H. G. Cooke,
Judge John M. King and Professor F.
M. Black. Other speakers scheduled
for the institute are Professor P. W.
Horn on “Corelation of Chruch and
State Schools,” and Dr. O. E. God-
dard, of the First Methodist Church
of Galveston, on “Sunday School Evan-
gelism.” Sessions will be held Thurs-
day, Friday and Saturday at 3:30 and
7:45 o’clock.
Next Sunday afternoon the Baraca
class of the First Methodist Sunday
school will have charge of a general
mass meeting of adult Sunday school
classes, when Miss Kilpatrick will be
the principal speaker.
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