The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916 Page: 5 of 8
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FRANKING CAMPAIGN MATER.
The truth of the matter is, Congress
serted in free envelopes by govern- limit on the franking privilege.
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Nothing But New Clean Goods
ON OUR
SHELVES AND COUNTERS
headquarters are
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Collegeport, Texas.
Bay City, Texas
!
Prince Albert
fits your taste!
J. I. Case Threshing MachineCo., Inc.
735-785 Liberty St. Racine, Wis., U. S. A.
G. W. Kelly, Local Dealer, Bay City, Texas
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There is one
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expense
A bargain
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Meets the fondest wishes of any man who
likes to smoke because it has the right flavor
and aroma and coolness. It’s the most cheer-
ful tobacco you ever did pack in a jimmy pipe
or roll into a ciga-
rette. And it’s so
good you just feel
you never can get
enough. The pat-
ented process
fixes that — and
cuts out bite
and parch!
When you fire up your first
smoke you’ll decide that you
never did taste tobacco that
hits your fancy like
No shelf-worn, no odds and ends, no out-of-season, no water-
soaked and no slow sale inferior goods to be found in our store
requiring Special Sale Bugaboo to move them at Sacrifice Prices.
We give you new, bright, clean, saleable, dependable merchandise
of standard value for your money, and since we sell for Cash Only
we are enabled to make you closer prices than our competitors.
COME AND SEE /
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H
LBERT
the national joy smoke
For it exceeds in goodness and satisfaction the kindest
word we ever printed about it!
Men, we tell you this tobacco will be a revelation to you.
So, take this information at 100%, get out the old jimmy
pipe from its hiding place or locate the makin’s papers
—and fall-to!
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Schuster’s One-Price Cash/Store
L. G. SCHUSTER, Proprietor
Onh i»ry Goods Store on West Side Squares
Copyright 1916 by
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
find no better anywhere.
are
The mercury dropped to 30 this
morning but it is not likely that veg-
etation was damaged to any apprecia-
i ble extent.
If so, good seed is your first neces-
sity. I have for sale pure Mebane
seed, grown in 1914 on the best North
; Texas black land, picked from fully
matured bolls on large thrifty stalks.
In good new sacks, $1.00 per bushel
and the freight. Write me or tele-
phone me at my expense.
Sam Primm,
waprlp
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From Friday’s Daily
SECRETARY AT EAGLE LAKE
REPORTS ON INTERURBAN
MEETING HELD TUESDAY. I
conditions of everything at Markham ’ to raise or surer of production. And •
and in that vicinity. [the beauty of it is that it grows well
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ron in a tasteless form.
a ready market anywhere this fall at I
from 50 to 80 cents per bushel. There
is perhaps not a crop known easier '
to raise or surer of production.
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Your wishes will be gratified at the nearest store that sells tobacco,
for Prince Albert is in universal demand. It can be bought all over
the states and all over the world! Toppy red bags, 5c; tidy red
tins, 10c; handsome pound and half-pound tin humidors—and—that
fine pound crystal-glass humidor with sponge-moistener top that
keeps the tobacco in such excellent trim.
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO.
Dj a rri ijir
b C!GARE¥TEjiWBACC®|ij
; of the Eagle Dake Busi-
* immediately began to
stock and upon going to
—i assured that the re-
of Eagle Lake will be
The committee was composed
R. Westmoreland, W. E. Len-
G. Calvert, E. L. Mooney
- ---- „„ stated in last
of the Headlight.—Eagle
Lake Headlight.
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and showed that after the Browns-
ville trains were running into Bay
City the .population .increased at l—~ -
two thousand in the city in two years.
He showed that notwithstanding the
hard times, the coming of the Browns-
ville to Bay City had been the main
factor in contributing to the growth,
of Bay City and Matagorda County. ;
Mr. J. R. Westmoreland endorsed
is not, and the millions of dollars thus
unnecessarily added to the public
burdens will continue to be wasted,
despite the condition of the treasury
and the government’s constantly in-
creasing need. It may be, of course,
■ that some day the people themselves
i will pay particular heed to the reck-
less way their money is'spent and de-
! mand a house-cleaning on Capitol Hill.
— ' FRANKING CAMPAIGN MATER. that delivered by Mr. Henry on rural
least | -- ' credits. It would cost a private in-
Houston Post. [ dividual nearly $18,000 to send a seal-
Of course, when Governor Colquitt ed copy to each of the 600,000 poll
made the statement the other day that tax payers of Texas, and of this sum
Representative Henry made the speech $12,000 would go for postage alone,
attacking him on the floor of the if Mr. Henry were in any sense a
house in order to get the benefit of formidable candidate for the senate
| Personals
Read Tribune ads, reflect and buy
your supplies from the merchant who
advertises. You can always get sat-
isfaction or your money back with no
hard feelings engendered.
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SEED SWEET POTATOES FOR SALE
tai service. And the average con-
gressman does abuse it and so do the
political parties. The postal service
would have been much nearer penny .
postage than we are but for the out-
rageous abuse of the franking privi-
lege.
It is a pity that there is not enough
virtue in Congress to abolish all such
was a
i in almost any kind of soil.
----- soil richer and rich soil better.
Try a few acres.
in this town :
His meth-
to
j prove a success from the first crop—
' in this precinct. The remaining one- [
' half of the stock is payable when the j
' steel is laid and the first car has been
run from either Houston or San An-
tonio to. Eagle Lake.
- .judge Holman recited the history
' of how Bay City acquired the St. ■
! Louis, Brownsville & Mexico railway,
From Saturday’s Dally.
Mr. H. M. Bundick, of
spent today in the city on business. '
Miss Adele Moore is still very ill
with la grippe.
Mrs. Grover Moore and little son, of j.
Beadle, are the guests of Mrs. J. R. i
Reynolds.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bates of Cuero
are in the
relatives.
Mr. Grover Moore has accepted a I
position in Beadle with the Texas Irri- '
gation Co., as bookkeeper and ware-!
° ■ gmeenng exactness.
j There’s no chance work in peanut
growing. The crop is. almost sure
under wet or dry conditions,
that with just a little extra
| the rice mill can be equipped to han- '
die them and make the oil.. The in-
dustry is on the way, people, and
there are thousands of acres of land
in Matagorda County that will grow
then as well as anywhere in the
United States. Just bear in mind that
as, is m me cuy wr a iew uuys ,peanut oU ,g destined to rival cottan_
business and while here is the I ____
Our^printery turned out job work? ^nt franking privilege to circulate his his franking privilege would be worth
• ■ ■ namnajpm literature, he was telling much to him, because he could reach.
the voters with political matter that [ abuses and extravagances, but there
The franking privilege is not the would not be charged against his ex-'
„ only advantage
tests in schools, etc.
Rev. James F. Carter, having been
called to Dallas for an important
meeting of the educational commis-
sion of the Methodist Church, left this
edtior of the [ afternoon to be present at this meet-
from a
and San
Tax Asessor J. D. Moore returned
yesterday evening from a trip of four
days’ assessing taxes at various
points in the county.
Miss Ottie Thomas, who has been
the guest of Mrs. G. A. Moore for some
{time, left yesterday for a visit to
Weimar, after which she will return
to her home at Brenham.
The behavior of the weather on the
I
a congressman enjoys pense limit, whereas the opponents
over an opponent in private life. He (would be practically barred from so
can get his speeches in the Record expensive a privilege,
and then have all he desires printed !
at nominal cost, have the copies in- ought to have the decency to place a
serted in free envelopes by govern- nmit on the franking privilege. Even
ment paid help and addressed by gov- if r did not confer an advantage that
ernment paid clerks. j one’s opponents were denied, its abuse
For instance, take such a speech as' adds vastly to the expense of the pos-
s i
DO YOU USE HORSES FOR PLOWING, FOR SEEDING, FOR HAULING? IF SO, YOU ARE LOSING
MONEY? YOU KNOW THAT ANIMAL POWER IS UNRELIABLE MULES ARE EASILY RENDERED
USELESS THROUGH SICKNESS OR INJURY. YOU HAVE HAD THIS EXPERIENCE. AN EPIDEMIC
SUCH AS WE ARE NOW HAVING WIPES OUT YOUR “POWER.” AND THEN THERE ARE THE
ITEMS OF FEED AND CARE. MULES EAT WHETHER WORKING OR IDLE. THEY DEMAND CON-
STANT ATTENTION. CAN YOU AFFORD TO WASTE MONEY? GIVE UP THE OLD WAY FARM-
ING. MODERNIZE YOUR EQUIPMENT. DO YOUR WORK WITH A CASE TRACTOR.
that again the record for a cold Feb-
ruary for this latitude will be sus-
tained.
Rev. L. E. Selfridge left this after-
noon' for Austin to visit Mrs. Selfridge
who is in a sanitarium there for treat-
ment. Mr. Selfridge reports that his
wife is getting along nicely.
The voting strength of the county
‘ j some lighter than it was last year,
due no doubt to the fact hat a great
many of the voters thought they could
spend their money to a better advan-
tage.
City Health Officer Reed reports
Bay City free from diphtheria and
scarlet fever. Gladys, the eldest
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmett To Drive Out Malaria
Smith, has about recovered and will I oud Standid GROVE’S
, „ ... j Take the O;d Standard, uxuvao
be dismissed from quarantine in a day ; TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know 1
or two. [ what you are faking, as the formula is
At the meeting of the Truck Grow- ! printed on ev|ry label, showing it js
ers' Association held m this city last. Thl^Quinine drives < nt malaria, the
Saturday afternoon, the membership jro,, ----
of Eagle Lake in securing the Aran- ;
sas Pass when this town was a veiy ,
small village with only a few stores,
and how the town continued to grow ,
i after the coming of the Aransas Pass. >
Others endorsed the proposition (
and by a rising vote the meeting de-1
dared almost unanimously that they
regarded the interurban as a goodj
thing for the town of Eagle Lake and [
a substantial business investment for
subscribers of the stock.
A citizens’ committee of the follow-
ing members
ness League
canvass for :
press they seem
quirements c* -
met.
of J.
hart, M.
and M. E. Guynn, as
week’s issue c* — - —
[
house man.
Mrs. W. H. Plagermann, Mrs. L. D. >
Roberts and Mrs. Doc Arnold motored j
to Wadsworth yesterday and spent'
the day with friends.
Mr. Wm. Cash, who has been in Gal-
veston as a member of the Federal
grand jury for the past ten days, has
returned home.
Mr. J. F. Atkins, district sales man-
ager for Washburn-Crosby Co., Minne-
apolis, is in the city for a few days
on business uiiu winiv ucic xs 1 pj]
guest of Mr. Hugh Keller.
of El Maton,
spent today in the city on business
and brought to The Tribune the cut
of the picture of W. C. Young, who
wandered away from his family in
Houston on the Sth or 9th of January.
Mr. T. M. Thompson, of El Maton,
spent today in the city. Mr. Thomp-
son says that all the farming opera-
tions at El Maton are in fine shape
rolls were spread and the signatures
> the of quite a number of farmers were se-
Sixth cured. This formality completes the
organization and as it has received i
promise of financial backing from the i
local bankers its labors will be com- ,
menced in time to insure an early |
crop of vegetables for commercial [
channels.
From Tuesday’s Daily.
Mr. Virgil Harper spent today in
the city on business.
If you did not pay it you can't vote
this year.
Mr. FI. R. Byars has returned from
business trip to Houston.
Mr. Bob Wells of Houston
business vistior to the city yesterday.
This is the last week of the Dis-
trict Court.
From the complexion of the poll
taxes paid we infer that the county
will be largely democratic this year.
The George R. Burke residence is
nearing completion and will soon be
ready for occupancy.
Mr. A. A. Highbarger of Plainview
spent a few days in Bay City attend-
office address is El Maton now in-
stead Bay City.
Mr. J. F. Bagwell, county demon-
strator of Wharton County, who has
been in the county all this week as-
sisting in the series of lectures for
the Farmers’ Short Course, received
a wire this morning from Shelby
County announcing the death of his
sister. He left immediately for that
place to attend the funeral.
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From Monday’s Daily.
Mr. H. C. Hunt, of Buckeye, spent
Saturday in. the city on business.
The fifth week of District
was convened today.
Screens are being
public library building today.
Prof . L. D. Midgett, of Blesisng, ,
spent Saturday in the city on busi- court,
ness.
Mr. Sam H. Dixon, after a couple
of days in the city, returned to Hous-
ton Saturday.
Rev. Rice, of Dallas, filled the Bap-
tist pulpit yesterday in the absence
of Rev. O. B. Falls.
Tax Collector Castleton says Sat-
urday proved the busiest day in his '/
office so far this season.
Mr. George B. Culver passed
through the city yesterday on his way
to Victoria on business.
Mr. J. T. Taylor, of Simpsonville,.
spent Saturday in the city on busi-[Hrst day of February goes
ness. • ’
George T. Southwell was in from
his El Maton farm Saturday and says
he is ready for planting.
enjoyed
i f
Markham.!
' i There is one man
, [quietly working out his own ideas of
ja model farm and The Tribune makes
„ ■ the prediction that his efforts will
i prove the foreruner of successful dry
: farming in this section.
! ods are practical and are going
city visiting friends and j
garden plot either, but consists of 150
acres of good black land which has
■ been put into shape by thorough en-
Listen:
It’s easy to change the shape
and color of unsalable brands
to imitate the Prince Albert tidy
red tin, but it is impossible to
imitate the flavor of Prince
Albert tobacco ! The patented
process protects that!
One hundred and sixteen acres of
fine black land suitable for rice, corn
or cotton, one mile from Van Vleck
on the Matagorda Canal.
at $35.00. Apply at this office.
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ARE YOU GOING TO
PLANT ANY COTTON?
The merchants enjoyed rather a
good day Saturday and many of them
are of the opinion that everything is
getting better.
W. C. Stowers, of Houston, spent,
Saturday in the city on business. Mr. [is
Stowers’ headquarters are now in
Houston.
John A. Crawford has received his
overland demonstration car and is
now a full-fledged Overland agent for
this county.
Frank Insall, after several months’
absence, is back on . the old stamping
grounds, and says he is glad to get
back. Bye and bye all the prodigals
will return.
Mr. George T. Sargent and Mr.
Henry Serrill, of Matagorda, spent to-
day in the city on business.
The following account of the inter- j
urban meeting held here Tuesday
morning is handed in for publication
by E. C. Smith, secretary of the Busi- [
ness League.
The representative meeting of the
business men was held in the council
chamber at 10:30 Tuesday morning.
This meeting was the culmination of
several booster meetings which had [
heretofore been held. The meeting I
was presided over by Mr. W. E. Len- i
hart, president of the Business
League, who introduced Judge W. S.
Holman of Bay City, attorney for Ed.
! Kenedy of Houston, Col. C. C. God-
hope for ! man of Kansas city and r. m. Walms-
|ley of San Antonio, who are promot-
last week for parties in San Angelo
and Houston. This week we will
I print a nice lot for, Benton, Ark.,
parties. We .please these outsiders
and can please you. Tribune job
print is the last word, for you can [
And if you I
not pleased we do the job over
without any grumbling. We insist on
YOU being pleased first.
and ready for the planting. His post- ________p Q________
ing. He will return Thursday after-
noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Duncan, of
Eagle Lake, and Mr. Donald Duncan,
of Egypt, motored over Tuesday.
Vance says that there is considerable
oil excitement at Eagle Lake, and
that it is confidently believed a good
well will be brought in.—Eagle Lake
Headlight.
The Short Course held in College-
port last week was well attended, 358
people being registered with a large
average attendance for each meeting.
The value of this service can not be
estimated in money. It has already
given our farmers greater
the new year.
Every pound of peanuts will findijng the Houston and San Antonio in-
[ terurban.
| Judge Holman outlined the proposi-
tion and stated that owing to condi-
tions in a financial way not being the
best around Eagle Lake, he was au-
It makes ! thorized to offer the people of Eagle
■ Lake a very liberal contract. To all i
who subscribe to the stock of the in- I
terurban at this time, he would per- >
mit payment for the stock upon the!
following terms: One-tenth when
the engineering for location purposes
has been finished in this justice pre-
cinct; one-fifth when the grading is
half finished in this precinct and
one-fifth when the grading is finished
The remaining one- ’
C. C. McDaniel has moved from the
, Collins house on Avenue I to
V Cookenboo place on West S
§ Street.
Mr. H. A. Clapp or Collegeport is
i in the city today to commence
; vork mapped out by the Texas Indus-
Mr. George B. Culver, of Matagorda, [ trial Congress relative to garden con-
spent yesterday in the city on busi-
ness.
Rev. and Mrs. John Sloan left to-
day for, Houston in the interest of
Mrs. Sloan’s health.
Mr. C. E. Gilbert,
News-Farmer, has returned
business trip to Gonzales
Antonio.
Mr. Sam H. Dixon, of the State de-
partment of agriculture, will arrive in
the city tonight to take part in to-
morrow’s session of the Farmers’
Short Course at the High School
building.
Mr. Michael Anderson, of Mayville,
N. Dakota, is here on a visit of some
duration with his son, A. M. Ander-
son of Markham. Mr. Anderson is af-
flicted with rheumatism and has just
returned from a trip to Marlin.
Capt. J. F. Deering, of San Antonio,
spent a few days of this week in the
city, the guest of Col. Sol J. Cleve-
land. Capt. Deering owns a large
body of land near Markham, which
was the chief incentive of his visit
here. He is pleased with the general.
For sale 100 bushels of the famous
Nancy Hall seed sweet potatoes.
Ther’s none better grown.
E. A. Lindsey.
About 2% miles south of Bay City
on Cottonwood Creek. 27-28d-4tw
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FINE FARM FOR SALE.
•n. 50 cents
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, February 4, 1916, newspaper, February 4, 1916; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1291571/m1/5/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.