The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1914 Page: 4 of 16
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MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
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THE DAILY TRIBUNE
WHAT WE NEED.
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PEOPLE LIKE TO
Buy from Us
And there are many Good Reasons
HERE IS ONE OF THEM
BECAUSE
COME AND SEE
R. F. ANDERSON
The General Store
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SOLID CAR LOAD OF
CANE SEED
SHUSTER & RYON ANNOUNCEMENT
SOME INTERESTING QUESTIONS.
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W. A. Mathews
AGENTS
Texas
Bay City, - Texas
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Get Your Order inlNow
JUST RECEIVED
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Mail Order
Mail or Phone
Your Orders
Six Months
One Year .
SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
WEEKLY
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seen
pretty well.
Our hope is to see a city here, and
our hope will he realized.
THE FLOWER BOWERED
HOME OF THE THOMPSON’S
and
have
CROP CONDITIONS
ARE BETTER HERE.
Too Much Rain, But No Floods—Crops
Looking Good In Spite of
Wet Weather.
WE PREPAY POSTAGE ON
ALL PARCELS POST PACK-
AGES.
Published Every Friday Morning by Tribune Printing Company.
CAREY SMITH, Editor.
NOTICE SUBSCRIBERS.
When sending in remittance for subscription, always state whether new or
renewal.
When requesting change of address on paper, give both old and new address.
attract the eyes of the world.
MATAGORDA
PHARMACY
PHONE 77
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Patronize Tribune advertisers.
$2.00
4.00
Red top, Orange and big German Millet
Guaranteed to be free from Johnson Grass
and all foreign grass seeds
ROCK-BOTTOM PRICE
Call and Investigate
WYNNE DRAIN CO.
The Leaders in Price, Quality and Service
Phone 232
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If business is dull, stimulate it with
an ad in The Tribune.
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Read Tribune ads—it pays.
position to advance them
for seed and expenses.
W. M. MATTHEWS,
Markham, Texas. 2-wp
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Patronize Tribune advertisers.
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City, Texas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress, March 3, 1870.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest possible plane of legitimate
newspaper business.
Business-
When you want drugs or sun-
dries, don’t waifTTJ^ a conven-
ient time to come to town to
trade. Form the habit' of send-
ing to us for anything needed in
our line and have tpie goods just
when they are wanted.
Our mail order trade is now
so extensive that we give special
attention to this department of
our business. Goods usually go
forward by first mail after re-
ceipt of order, and if we should
not have anything ordered, we
will have it sent direct you from
our wholesaler and Without ex-
tra cost to you.
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The next time you want drug
store goods, see how prompt
and satisfactory our service is.
Get the habit of trading by mail
at home.
Carter; Grain Co
Caney,
The attorney-general has ruled that
in order to get on the July primary
ballot, candidates for district offices,
as well as for State offices, must file
their applications by the first Monday
in June, which was the first day of
June this year. The question arises,
has any name been filed for the office
of representative in the legislature
from the Brazoria-Matagorda legisla-
tive district? And if so, whose? Also
how many? In the same opinion, the
attorney-general rules that all names
of county candidates must be filed by
the third Monday in June, which will
be the 15th this year. Are our White
Man’s Union nominees to be filed for
positions on the Democratic primary
ballot this year as usual? Are they
all Democrats?
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lend an added
Handsome Page Ad Sounds Note of
New Progress.
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Now that the flood is over, much
activity in all lines should rapidly
develop. We understand that the
levee work will begin at once, the
work on public roads in this precinct
will be resumed, railroads will be apt
to put a considerable force: here for
repair work and the city will no doubt
inaugurate some plan to disburse as
much money as possible on street re-
pair work. From this it is quite evi-
dent that between $300,000 and $400.-
000 will be expended in this city and
vicinity within the next few months
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conditions and
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for the summer months,
not near
pose and many
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PRICES
MojwmeHtal bronze co.
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I have 600 acres of land, 2 1-2 miles
west of Markham, broken and ready
for planting, to rent to good far^er^’
and am in 1
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On another page of today’s Tri-
bune appears the announcement of
Shuster & Ryon’s new cash depart-
ment store, and the attention of our
readers is called thereto.
In their announcement these gen-
tlemen sound a note of new progress
in the mercantile circles of Bay City,
state their faith in the future of the
city and county and extend a most
cordial invitation to all to visit them.
Their line of goods is first-class in
every particular and absolutely new
and up-to-date. Ther policy is spot
cash over the counter and as a con-
sequence they are marking their
goods down to the very lowest margin.
When in thei city give these gentle-
men a call and look over their hand-
some new store whether you make
any purchases or not.
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Hold up your heads and keep your
courage strung to the highest pitch
there’s a better day coming.
Groceries, Household Hardware, Bran and Chops, Chicken
Feed, Dry Goods, Clothing, Notions, Shoes, Gloves, Hats and Caps.
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The old town is back in harness
again and nothing can keep us from
being of sufficient size and greatness
to soon attract the eyes of the world.
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office Opposite Baptist Tabetnacfe. Phone 339
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We handle everything they want. They give us an order for
what they .need and save the trouble of hunting all over town
and going to a half dozen or more stores.
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The JelephoneJtoad
to Every Market
Are you up on current
dairy prices during the
!scarce season ?
The farmer with a Bell
Telephone is “wise” and
he sells at the market’s
' height. Why not share
your telephone - co n-
. nected neighbors ad-
vantages.’
Apply to our nearest
manager for information,
or write
THE
SOUTHWESTERN
TELEGRAPH and
TELEPHONE (0.
DALLAS. TEXAS.
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The writer wishes to extend to
every member of the Bay City Orches-
tra his sincerest thanks for the mag-
nificent concert given him by them
at his home Saturday night. Every
member of this orchestra is a gifted
musician and taking the band as a
whole it is as capable a one as can
be found in Texas. Come again,
boys, you are always welcome and
much appreciated.
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Blessing News.
Comparatively speaking, people in | ~
this locality are fortunate. Too much I
rain has greatly hindered farming op-
erations, but we are not suffering j
from the disastrous floods that are
ruining crops in many other localities. I
We should be thankful that we live
in a locality free from all danger of
high water and for a splendid drain- |
age system that has been of inesti-
mable value in helping to get rid of
surplus rainfall. Conditions in the
Blessing territory are as good today
as in any locality in the coast coun-
try and people have no great cause
for complaint. Crops are not in
nearly as poor condition as many
suppose; in face, we believe condi-
tions are much better now than at this
time last year. Corn that has been
planted high enough is looking thrifty
and growing in spite of the rain. Cot-
ton is also coming out nicely except
in low spots. The hay crop will be
the best for a number of years, and
the prospects for a rice crop are good.
There is still time and a good sea-
son in the ground to grow many kinds
of crops. In this climate no one
need depend on a certain time of the
year to grow things, as something can
be grown every month in the year.
Conditions are fine right now for
growing sweet potatoes and every
farmer should plant a big field. The
Irish potato crop is short and the
price is high. Sweet potatoes will
also be high this year on this account.
There are enough sweet potato plants
in this vicinity to plant several hun-
dred acres. The plants are best set
out while the ground is wet and while
farmers are waiting to get in their
fields to work other crops, they can
throw up some ridges and plant a field
of sweet potatoes. Should the mar-
ket be low, they can be used to a
good profit for hog feed.
Another crop that should be planted
is peanuts. They are relished by live
stock, and when pastured by hogs
will bring a big net profit per acre.
Kaffir, milo, Egyptian wheat and
sorghum may be planted all through
the summer months, and will make an
abundance of feed and grain for live
stock.
If in place of complaining of the
wet weather, people will get busy and
and make the most of ®ie opportun-
ities that are before them, there is no
reason why they should not prosper,
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FOR SALE—20 acres of land at $50
an acre; adjoining townsite of Sar-
gent; fenced and in cultivation. Call
at Tribune or write J. R. McDonald.
Palacios, Texas. 2m-w
The first home-grown tomatoes and
swee.t peppers to be received at Bay
City this season came from the farm
of C. W. Qua at Buckeye. Mr. Qua
says that he aims to have his goods
first in quality as well as first on
the market, and from what we have
of +hem we think he is showing
Mr. Qua also ships cab-
bage and Irish potatoes.
If we have been correctly informed,
a bond issue of $15,000 for street im-
provements can be issued and no
taxes raised. The money is needed
on the streets and if expended prop-
erly, which it would be, about nine
miles of good streets, substantial
ones, such as we need and must have
could be put in shape. Not only do
we need the streets, but we need this
amount of money in circulation to re-
lieve the condition of some of our
people who are just now in sore need
of employment and funds. Upon in-
vestigation we find that two of our
railroads are willing to give us all
the gravel we can possibly use if we
will pay the freight on it. This be-
ing true a large amount of street
work may be done at a minimum cost
and a relief, which we are bound to
have brought about. We would like
to suggest, however, should this issue
be made and work started on the
streets, that those having In charge
the work should tear out every wooden
culvert and street crossing and sub-
stitute cement in their stead, mak-
ing this part of the work substantial
and of a permanent character. Again,
if the city could devise a system of
street curbing just and equitable to
the city and to the citizen alike, it
would be a good thing. With street
grades and lines defined the work
done on the streets would be protect-
ed and the whole rendered more per-
manent. This is an important pub-
slice improvement which is greatly
Ineced and there’s but one way to do
! it and that is through a bond issue,
which can easily be made without en-
tailing any additional burden to the
public.
If we were called upon to select an
everlasting abiding place—a place of
rest from the cares of a whirling,
tempestous life, next to heaven, we
would be inclined to choose the flower
bowered home of Rev. and Mrs. Gil-
bert T. Thompson, whose legant home
nestles in contentment on a high ele-
vation on Shawnee Street, surrounded
by shaded trees and dew-kissed flow-
ers, emblems of purity and Nature’s
gift of love. ■<-!•• -arrVi*"”
This beautiful home is ideal in all
its appointments, and no wonder its
loved occupants are so care-free and
contented with this world of beauty,
made so by the handwork of God,
whose faithful servant, Rev. Mr.
Thompson has been, for lo, these many
years. A beautiful yard, green sward-
ed with shady trees, and enclosed
with a hedge fence that, like the lamps
of the virgins, is always kept trimmed
and trailing vines around the porch
that hardl yallows the rays of the
sun to cast a light. A row of beau-
tiful sweet peas serves as a fence be-
tween the yard and flower garden.
These sweet peas are a marvel in
growth. The other morning while
viewing them, Mr. Thompson remark-
ed to his wife: “Just keep an eye on
those lovely peas aim watch them
grow like our Telegram.” The flow-
er garden, with its fountain in the
center is a veritable picture of an
Elysian field once so beautiful de-
scribed by a Greek poet. There are
streets in this garden named by Mr.
and Mrs. Thompson’s grand children,
the sides of which are lined by flow-
There are 47 varieties of flow-
ers in the garden; and here and there
is the old apple and pe^ch tree that
bloomed evidently when Tahlequah
was “part and parcel of a howling
wilderness.” Beds of strawberries,
raspberries and blackberries; let-
tuce, cabbage, onions, parsley, mus-
tard, radishes, peas ,string beans,—
in fact every known vegetable is cul-
tivated. In the rear there is an air
of cleanliness and neatness that pre-
vails all over this lovely home place.
Cataba grape vines reach from the
rear porch to quite a distance toward
the south end of the premises
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will
enough grapes for themselves and lots
to spare to friends.
All in all, this is a lovely home,
made lovlier by the
whose personalities
charm to all the pleasing surround-
ings. The home of Rev. and Mrs.
Thompson preent an example of what
every home in Tahlequah, could to a
certain extent be made if followed.—*
Tahlequah (Okla.) Telegram.
The Rev. Mr. Thompson is the
father of our fellow-townsman, Mr.
A. D. Thompson. The clipping of
the Telegram is reproduced for the
ma^y valuable suggestions it contains
and as an encouragement to civic up-
lift.
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Bay City now is in need of a great
many things. First, every business
man in the town should seek the co-
operation of every other business man
and all join together in the work of
reviving business and creating a feel-
ing of confidence in the minds of the
people. This can be done by adver-
tising liberally in any way deemed
best. Open up your hearts to the peo-
ple, hold your summer sales early and
every one of you put on one.
optimism. Get off your
glasses of despondency and put
the clear, transparent lenses of op-
timism. Let the public know that you
are not only here and in business but
that you are here t to stay and want
trade. Get down to it as if nothing
had ever happened and before you
know it things will come to pass as
if nothing had happened.
In this connection the banks or
bankers can play an important and
very effective role. There is a con-
' siderable amount of improvements
necessary, but we are too often told
to wait for better times—as if bad
times don’t follow good times just as
surely as good times follow bad times.
We should measure our development
by a series of “times” and not by any
given period. The great pendulum
of progress and commerce swings just
as far in one direction as it does in
the other, and we should all remember
that it never stops swinging; that it
is on the go all the time.
Now the banks can help wonderfully. |
If we can start a building or two,
buildings of a substantial character,
wherein the security i§ good, it will
do more to revive the spirit of our
people and to attract attention from
outsiders than anything possible to
-devise.
Of course, no one should require any
philanthropy on the part of the bank-
ers in such an undertaking, but should
develop to their satisfaction a busi-
ness proposition pure and simple, in
which even the bankers should re-
spond, not essentially with his own
money, but necessarily with his influ-
ence. Any bank in Bay City can se-
cure ample funds elsewhere for such
purposes, and the business part of this
suggestion is to be found in the fact
that most of the money thus .obtained
will eventually find it way, not back
to the source from which it came, but
to their own deposit accounts.
One of our bankers told us yester-
day that the banks had to encourage
and assist the farmers. This is true,
but it is also an uncontroverted fact
that it is just as essential to build
the city substantially as it is to build
the country. Our people will some
day learn that the better you make
the town, the more substantial you
make it, the more business-like in ap-
pearance it is, the easier it is to settle
the country and farming section with
the right kind of a farmer, for the
farmer likes to see and live near a
good town as well as the town man
glories in living in ihe midst of a fer-
tile and prosperous agricultural com-
munity.
Our bankers, no doubt, realize this
and if they can or will assist those
■who want and need to build a great
thing will have been accomplished for
the city, and there is nothing more to
be derived right now than the bring-
ing about of this condition.
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class of work which will call for
large amount of labor. This will
of vast benefit to the general
will enable the busi-
elements to reap a good harvest
Things are
so bad as one would sup-
-----r seem to think. Due
to all this public work, a great deal
of money will soon be in circulation
and times will get better, so stay at
the bat and hit the ball every time
it is passed over the plate.
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DR. C. B. BYARS •
Physician and Surgeon •
Offers his services to the olti- •
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• Office phone 71; residence •
• phone 178; office Holman •
• Bldg., rear Opera House. •
• Bay City, Texas •
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, June 12, 1914, newspaper, June 12, 1914; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1299678/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.