The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 34, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1919 Page: 3 of 6
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braskan who managed to get to l?e
secretary of state also talked himself
into political oblivion. And he should
also remember that history has a
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From Tuesday’s Daily.
Have you begun to think of what you
can get up for that Dallas Fair ex-
hibit? Every moment counts and we
must remember that the time set for
the closing of all exhibits is October 6,
therefore only a little over a month
is left us for our part of the work.
See Chairman Sutherland now and get in a hospital at San Antonio and with
j relatives at Lockhart for the past sev-
eral months, has returned to his home
at Markham.
Reports from Caney are to the ef-
fect that a heavy pecan crop is in
the making. As pecans will bring big
money, every pound of them should
be saved and marketed.
There will be a world of good trade
in Bay City this falR It is now high
time for the wide awake merchant
to begin to reach out for it. Get busy '
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From Monday’s Daily.
Miss Corinne Millican left this
morning for Victoria where she will
attend the teachers’ institute.
Parker Stinnett left today for Aus-
tin, where he will attend St. Edwards
College.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Har-
rison, Saturday night, twins, a boy
and a girl.
Al. Carrington, who has been in
the service of the U. S. navy for the
past 20 months, has returned home
arriving yesterday. Al. has seen
enough America to England and re-
turn service to do him for the next
three or four generations.
Dick Gaines and Weldon Smith are
observing Labor Day in Houston.
As both of these boys are exceedingly
industrious it takes a big city to hold
their eagerness to be doing some-
thing and enthusiasm on occasions
like today.
Mr. Motie Bell, of Wharton,
called to Bay City yesterday on ac-
count of the sudden death of Mr. M.
S. Perry.
Bro. Hotchkiss, Pat Thompson, W.
____________ F. Tetts, Claud Mason and two or
Chairman John Sutherland at once,[ three others “floundered” in Mata-
so that he can make a note of it and i gorda Bay Friday night and brought
find it when the time comes Make
his work as light as possible for he
has a big job ahead of him and needs
your co-operation. Besides it means
just as much to you as it does to him
or anyone else. We can send a. won-
derful exhibit to Dallas from oil and
sulphur to corn, rice and cotton, so
let’s do it and take that blue ribbon
again. As a bit of information let
us state that October 6 is the last day
that agricultural exhibits will be ac-
cepted by the Dallas Fair committee.
Now that an exhibit for the Dallas
Fair has been decided upon let every
man in the county come forward with
his best,
of good and will help us all. Join
in and let’s win that first prize again.
The regular monthly nfeeting of the
W. C .T. U. will be held at the resi-
dence of Mrs. P. G. Secrest Monday
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Brazoria term of district court.
Bay City is doing a lot of improving
j now, but if we can get in this crop
I what is going on now, as important
■ as it is, will only be a starter. We
i are in for a big good town here and
' everything is pointing directly that
way.
Notice the change in Magill Bros.’
ad today. They are offering a great
independent rice farm bargain in
Brazoria County, where they raise
rice second to none.
Rice harvesting is progressing sat-
isfactorily everywhere and the farm-
ers are fairly burning the wind against
time, the very essence of success at
the present. Every day of good
weather means several hundred acres
As it was he icut and bound and made ready for
and ! the thresher as every farmer knows.
There’s not one bit of idling any-
where. Every tractor, every team,
every binder and every man is going
at top speed, and if bad weather
comes in as a hindrance it will not
be the farmer’s fault.
Rev. L. E. Selfridge,
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From Wednesday’s Daily.
Mr. W. H. Ramsey says the binders
are going full tilt on the Bay Stock
Farms’ 2000-acre rice crop and that
he expects a fairly good yield. Plen-
ty of corn was raised on the place
to do the plantation for the year. But
Mr. Ramsey is prouder of his Rhodes
grass crop than anything else and
says it is as fine as he could hope for.
He believes thht with fair seasons he
will make three tons of hay to the
acre and prefers it to alfalfa. ’ He
thinks this a great Rhodes grass
country.
Dooley Franz, who has been in the
employ of the Alcove for sometime,
will open a refreshment parlor in the
building now occupied by Barner &
Sanders adjoining the post office
building as soon as the place is va-
cated by the present occupants, who
have purchased the large garage on
Avenue F, now occupied by John A.
Crawford. These changes will be
made next month.
Mr. E. A. Gaudet has returned from
a business visit to Houston and points
in Louisiana.
Almost right for heavier clothing
and fires, but the weather is ideal for
crop harvesting. If old man Foster
can keep on giving us this kind we ,
will take back all we have said about
government bureaus.
Mr. J. S. Foster, of Houston, is in
the city for a few days on business.
Commissioners Court will be in reg-
ular session next Monday.
Cotton has begun to move slowly,
the gins reporting some twenty bales
ginned. Last year this time they were
running, full time.
Mr. C. V. Cabaniss, who has been
of Temple,
who was called to Bay City to offciate
at the funeral of Mr. M. S. Perry, re-
turned to Temple today. While here
he was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T.
J. Poole.
Fine weather this, if it will only
keep going.
The best “cool spell’ of the year
struck the coast country last night,
sending the temperature- down to 65.
Mesdames John and Cleveland
Guynn of Bay City motored up and
spent a pleasant afternoon with Mrs.
R. S. Rockwood Monday.—Wharton
Advertiser.
Mr. 0. A. Ulland, of Markham, spent
yesterday in Bay City. He stated to
The Tribune that rice farmers are
taking advantage of every moment of
the good weather now prevailing.
George Huebner was in from his
rice field yesterday and says he has
about finished harvesting and is now-
getting ready for threshing.
Mr. B. A. Ryman, of Matagorda,
spent yesterday in Bay City on busi-
ness.
Mr. T. E. Bell, of El Campo, is ’
the city for a few days, having been
called to the funeral of his brother-
in-law, Mr. M. S. Perry.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ramsey and
daughter, Miss Mazie, have returned
from a delightful trip of a month in
Colorado.
J. W. Vest and family; old residents
of this section, but now at Bay City,
are here this week visiting the fam-
If you think enough of Bay City to ' ily of E. W. Vest.—Martindale Cor.
San Marcos Record.
Little Miss Blendon Huston of
Houston and Stephen Foote Jr. of
Bay City haye been here the past two
weeks spending the visit with their
i grandmother, Mrs. P. G. Huston.—
j Wharton Spectator.
' Mr. Ross Bell, government cotton
classer for Matagorda County, has
arrived and has his offices upstairs
in the Austin building,
an expert cotton classer and will be
of vast benefit to the farmers who
avail themselves of his services.
Mr. Green Savage, of Matagorda,
was a business visitor to Bay City
yesterday.
Mr. John Ottis; of Wadsworth, spent
yesterday in Bay City on business.
The condition of Wesley McKelvy,
who was seriously injured in an au-
tomobile wreck Thursday night, is re-
ported satisfactory today.
Chas. Cabaniss of Bay City who
had been visiting his brothers, C. C.
and J. M. Cabaniss, has returned
home—Lockhart Post-Register.
The Troy Laundry is moving its
plant and equipment to Bay City this
week. However, Mr. Burger tells us
that they will do business while they
are moving,
their
same to one of the Houston laundries
this week and a part of next week,
after which a delivery service will be
established between Bay City and
Wharton, enabling them to get Whar-
ton laundry one day and deliver it
the next.—Wharton Spectator.
Grady Smith passed through Whar-
ton en route to Bay City Tuesday-
Wharton Spectator.
Capt. R. R. Lewis, of Houston, is in
the city today on a brief business
visit.
Arch Elmore, of Wharton, paid Bay
City a business visit yesterday.
Miss Cara Garrett, who has been in
Chicago for the past few weeks taking
a post-graduate course in the Dunning
system of music, arrived home last
night.
Mr. J. W. Hart is exhibiting today
a very fine specimen stalk of soy
beans, which he says thrives well
here.
Mrs. M. J. Ward, who was the guest
of Mrs. L. E. Law, returned to Bay
City Saturday—Palacios Beacon.
.-'Miss Janie Savage returned to Bay
City Monday, after a very pleasant
visit here with her cousin, Miss Myr-
tle Williams.—Palacios Beacon.
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In every home where there is
baby there should also be a bottle of
McGEE’S BABY ELIXIR. It may be
needed at any time to correct sour
stomach, wind colic, diarrhoea or sum-
mer complaint. It is a wholesome
remedy, contains no opium, morphine
or injurious drug of any kind. Sold
by Matagorda Pharmacy and Huston’s
Drug Store.
turned from Pleasanton, where they
visited for several days with Mrs.
Taylor’s brother, Mr. Frank Hawkins,
and faipily. Mr. Hawkins is now cash-
ier of the Pleasanton State Bank.
The Chamber of Commerce is to be
commended for taking steps to have
an exhibit at the Dallas Fair this*
fall and every man in the county, -who
is interested in its welfare and prog-
ress should not wait for an invita-
tion, but pitch right in and help. If
you have anything extra or that you
think-would add to the exhibit, notify
see it grow, read what Bill Ehlert has
to say in his advertisement in this is-
• sue, and think what you are doing.
Mr. Ed. C. Baker, of Matagorda,
spent today in the city on business.
Mr. T. J. Poole and family, who
have been attending the Presbyterian
encampment at Kerrville for the past!
few weeks, have returned home In
speaking of the 14-inch rain which
fell at Kerrville a few days ago, Mr.
Poole said it was ahead of anything
he. ever saw and that the Guadalupe
River rose 28 feet in 16 minutes, and
that the river reached a stage of 60
feet at Comfort.
crops he saw on the trip are the poor-
est in Rhe history ol the country;
that worms have literally stripped the
cotton of every vestige of foliage and
young fruit leaving only the toughest-
bolls and the stock. He visited in
portions of Travis, Williamson, Comal,
Guadalupe and Bexar Counties and
found the same deplorable condition
everywhere. Mr. Poole has always
been exceedingly strong for Matagor-
da County, but is now a full panoplied
Samson with an optimism equally as
:great as that always held by The Tri-
bune. If you don’t believe it, talk
to him some.
E. W. Turner stated to The Tribune
yesterday that he has fifteen binders
at work.
Mr. and Mrs. George R, Burke are
still enjoying the mountain air out in
the Kerrville country.
Mr. Harry Warner came in from
Kansas a few days ago to visit with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. War-
ner, for a couple of weeks.
Foster says big crops will be raised
in three-fourths of the country next
year. Well, that’s all right, for we
know of some “fourths” of it that will
need all they can raise all right
enough.
Some of us who are looking for good
investments will do well to put our
*money into Bay City property and
enterprises. It is impossible to find
anything quite so attractive or as sure
<Jf right returns. Think about this.
Mr. Wm. Cash has returned from a
trip to his Palo Pinto oil lands and
is much encouraged ovei’ the outlook
as two deep wells are going down a
-short distance east and west of his
foldings. According to Mr. Cash the
rush is still on in all of that country
and travel seriously congested owing
to the great number of people going
to and from the fields.
Misses Blanche and Margaret Milli-
can have returned from El Campo
where they have been visiting for the
past several weeks with friends and
relatives.
Mr. E. L. Hardy, of Palacios, was
a business visitor to Bay City today
and favored The Tribune with a very
much appreciated visit.
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If you sit in a cool draft when' you
are heated and get a stiff neck or
lame back, you will be looking for
•something that will ease the pain.
Fix your mind on BALLARD’S- SNOW
LINIMENT and don’t be taked out of
it, because it is the best pain reliev-
ing^ him ent you can get anywhere.
Sold by Matagorda Pharmacy and
Huston’s Drug Store.
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From Saturday’s Daily.
Mrs. Laura Mayo returned to her
home in Houston yesterday after hav-
ing spent t week in the city, the
guest of her sister, Mrs. Robert E.
Baker. *
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Taylor have re-
and which was very successful ih
spite of the bad weather prevailing at
the time it was harvested. With Mr,
Truby’s success in view it seems to
us that the broom corn industry
should receive an impetus in this
county and become one of the regular
crops. Adding it to the crops already
grown here would make the county
just that much more diversified, and
we all know that diversification is the
backbone of the success of any agrb
cultural section.
We have now entered the oyster
season of the year and a big volume
of trade is promised the industry this
As these goods are shipped
we can
see how valuable it is as a
method by which new money is at-
tracted to the county. The ’fish and
oyster business at Palacios and Mat*
agorda is an important one and adds
materially to the money supply of th?
county.
Lieut. Lane Holmen
home tomorrow from
Nine officers in Lieut. Holman’s reg*
iment have been ordered to France
and Germany, he being one of them.
Just when he will leave has not been
learned.
William Jones, who has been visit*
ing his aunt, Mrs. E. M. Williamson,
left this morning for Eagle Lake,
where he will spend a few days be»
fore going to his home in Wichita
Falls.
The machinery for the Phoenix
Laundry is being installed this week,
The laundry will be ready for work
in a short time.
Contractor A. L. Shoultz has about
finished the foundation for the new
First State Bank building, being for-
tunate enough to beat bad weather
to it.
Another splendid day which means
hundreds of acres of rice saved.
Rice farmers this year are taking
no chance on anything. There ar©
more binders at work and more
threshing machines ready than ever
before in the history of the industry
in this county. The weather is ideal
and as fast as the crop is harvested
and as soon as it is mature enough
the threshers are put to work. Then
the price sends it to the mills as fast
as it is threshed.
Mr. Sam Primm, of Collegeport,
spent yesterday in Bay City on busi’
ness.
Rev. J. V. Herndon, the recently
called pastor of the Baptist Church,
will arrive in Bay City tomorrow
with his family and will fill the Bap*
tist. pulpit as its regular pastor Sun-
day and Sunday night. The family
will occupy the Baptist parsonage.
The Misses Millican who have been
the guests of their brother, A. H. Mil-
lican, for the past two weeks, return*
ed to their home in Bay City Thurs-
day.—El Campo Record.
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For Sale: Avery 40-80 tractor and
31-inch rice separator; new belts;
only threshed 7,000 sacks. All for
$1,600.00. F. G. Cobb, Blessing, Texas.
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Mr. Eugene Watkins of Route 2 was season-
in the city today and stated to The a11 .Over the United States
Tribune that charbon has attacked his [
stock. He will begin to vaccinate
today.
Mr. J. M. Spence, of Buckeye, was
a business visitor to Bay City today.
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Vest have re-
turned from a visit to their old home
near Staples Store. They visited in
Martindale and San Marcos also and
report a most enjoyable time.
Mrs. J. H. Barber, of Markham,
spent yesterday in the city with rela-
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Tetts, Mrs.
Stille and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Anderson, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Warner,
Harry Warner and Mrs. Renfro and
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Thompson enjoyed
a fishing trip to Matagorda Bay yes-
terday.
Mr. Oliver Sutton, of Francitas,
spent today in the city on business
Miss Edna Heidy, of Francitas vis-
ited in Bay City today.
Mr. B. E. Goodrum, of Ashwood, was
a business visitor to Bay City today.
Mr. Goodrum has made a splendid corn
and forage crop, but the worms cut
a promising cotton crop down con-
siderably.
x Mr. L. E. Freeman, of Houston, is
in the city for a few days representing
the Eagle Point Oil Company. See
his advertisement in another column
of today’s Tribune.
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SURGEONS agree that in cases of
cuts, burns, bruises and wounds, the
FIRST TREATMENT is most impor-
tant. When an EFFICIENT antiseptic
is applied promptly, there is no dan-
ger of infection and the wound begins
to heal at once. For use on man or
beast, BOROZONE is the IDEAL AN-
TISEPTIC and HEALING AGENT.
Buy it now and be ready for an emerg-
ency. Sold by Matagorda Pharmacy
and Huston’s Drug Store.
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From Thursday’s Daily.
J. B. Hawkins, of Matagorda,
was a business visitor to Bay City
today.
The First National Bank is having
installed an upper deck in its interior
for the convenience of its bookkeeping
department which will afford mpre
room on the lower floor. The im-
provement will come in splendidly for
the fall rush of trade.
Mrs. Abbey Caverley and daughter,
accompanied by Mrs. Mellie Leckie >
and children, left this morning for |
a motor trip to Cuero.
Mr. W. H. Ramsey is authority for
the information concerning the Truby
broom corn crop which was . grown
this year on the Ramsey plantation,
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Sallow complexion comes from bil-
ious impurities in the blood and the
fault lies with the liver and bowels:
they are torpid. The medicine that
gives results in such cases is HER-
BINE. It is a fine liver stimulant
and bowel regulator. Sold by Mata-
gorda Pharmacy and Huston’s Drug
Store.
back 200 pounds of fine fish. And
the whole neighborhood “foundered.”
Mrs. Claud Mason and son, of Mark-
ham, are in the city for a few days,
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Pat
Thompson.
Mr. M. Thompson left today for
Desdemona to look after the new oil
well recently brought in by the Bay
City Oil & Refining Co. and of which
Mr. Thompson is president.
Word has been received here to the
effect that Henry Carrington, a for-
mer Bay City boy, but now of Tam-
pico, Mexico, has been offered a po-
sition in Europe to manage the af-
This exhibit will do a world fairs in that country of the business
of the company he is now employed
by.
In an automobile collision Satur-
day night Walton Cobb narrowly es-
caped serious injury,
was only . slightly
shaken up.
Mr. T. J. Taylor, of Van Vleck, was
in the city Saturday. He reports the
worms working havoc in the cotton
fields with not an adequate supply
of poison to be had. According to
Mr. Taylor, the situation is serious.
A big gas well is reported in over
in the Texas Company’s well at Mark-
ham. .Why not grab that gas and
pipe it into Bay City?
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCrosky have
moved into their home on 3d Street
and Avenue J. Mr. McCrosky states
that he will improve the place con-
siderably.
Mr. Bell is. Word reached here yesterday to the
fact that parts of Brazoria County
was struck by a considerable wind
storm Saturday night.
Messrs. E. L., H. A. and Ste-
phen Perry, of Freeport, were called
; to the city yesterday on account of
the illness and death of their broth-
er, Mr. M. S. Perry.
Matagorda County has registered
235 new automobiles for the first six
months of the year. Texas has reg-
istered over 54,000. We will fairly be
on wheels in another year or two.
This fall’s the time to get that new
hotel started and the only thing that
wrill hold it back is the price of ma-
terial.
Mr. A. J. Harty is moving
dredge to the levee
have it placed ready for work.
They will take care of ; understand that it is Mr. Harty’s in-
customers’ laundry by sending ■ tention to build up and strengthen
the weaker places in the levee first.
The rebuilding of the levee will afford
considerable work to a large force
of hands to whom will be paid quite
a lot of money. It is over a one hun-
dred thousand-dollar contract
will require sometime to finish.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Burkhart, of
Matagorda, were called to the city
yesterday on account of the illness
and death of Mr. M. S. Perry. Mrs.
Burkhart is a neice of Mr. Perry.
Labor Day is being observed in Bay
City by the banks and post office.
T. L. Lewis is moving the machin-
ery of the defunct Wharton laundry
to Bay City. It will be installed right
away. The laundry will soon be ready
for business.
Grover C. McDonald left Saturday
for Burkburnett and other sections of
the West Texas oil belt.
Mr. Pack, of Normangee, Robertson
County, an uncle of Prof. W. F. Pack,
arrived here Saturday, with a view
of locating in this county.
T. K. McCrosky has purchased the
Mrs. P. A. Freeman property located
on Avenue J and Third Street, and
will remodel the property in the near
future, and occupy it as a home. The
deal was consummated for Mrs. Free-
man by Bro. McDonald.
Since pricing a few articles of wear-
ing apparel and thinking the matter
over carefully we have just about con-
cluded that, we don’t care a rap just
how long hot weather continues, for
we have a supply of that sort.
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If your child is pale and sickly,
picks at the nose, starts in the sleep
and grinds the teeth while sleeping,
iti s a sure sign of worms. A rem-
edy for these parasites will be found
in WHITE’S CREAM VERMIFUGE. It
not only clears out the worms, but it
restores health and cheerfulness. Sold
by Matagorda Pharmacy and Hus-
ton’s Drug
Don’t suffer! A tiny bottle of
Freezone costs but a few cents at any
drug store. Apply a few drops on the
■corns, calluses and “hard skin”
bottom of feet, then lift them off.
When Freezone removes corns from
the toes or calluses from the bottom
of feet, the skin beneath is left pink
and healthy and never sore, tendor or
“irritated.
to work.
Mr. W. J. Ewart, manager of the ,
Bay City Rice Milling Co., stated yes-
terday that with good weather rice
would be arriving at the mills in big
lots within a very short time. The
crop is a good one and the price is
better.
Mrs. Dr. Payne and three children,
of Corpus Christi, arrived here Mon-
day, being attracted to the city
account of the excellent school facil-
Mrs. Payne will remain here
during the school term, provided she available,
can get living accommodations.
District Attorney J ,W. Conger left I the Tampico oil fields for the past
yesterday for Angleton to attend the [several months, has returned home,
arriving last night. He reports a
very tiresome trip by rail from Tam-
pico to the border, and was from last
Friday morning making it.
Miss Betty Hart is supervising the
annual encampment for the canning
club girls at Palacios this week.
About forty are in attendance.
The school teachers are all attend-
ing the tri-county institute at Eagle
Lake this week.
Mrs. Martin Thompson and chil-
dren returned last night from a
pleasant trip to Galveston.
Mr. Roy Hicks, of Northern Head-
quarters, spent yesterday in the city
on business.
Mr. Eugene Watkins of Route 2 was
in the city today and stated to The;
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- LIFT CORNS OR
CALLUSES OFF
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Doesn’t hurt! Lift any corn or
callus off with fingers
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