The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1925 Page: 2 of 8
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Miss Frances Pennington, Mrs. A.
C. Baxter and Rugeley Serrill were
autoists to Bay City Monday.
Mrs. A. E. Myers of Richmond vis-
ited Miss Irene Burkhart, her hus-.
band coming for her Sunday.
Mrs. E. J. Savage has returned
home from Houston where she visit-
ed relatives for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Boesling and little
son Johnnie arrived home on Friday
from a week’s visit with San Antonio
relatives. '
Judge and Mrs. W. E. McNabb and
little daughter were week-end guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Lawhon, their
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'T won’t cost you a cent to enter
- this contest of skill. Four Buick
automobiles will be awarded as first,
second, third and fourth prizes. The
only requirement is that you come
to our store during the
Devoe
taterier Decoratisag
Demonstration
son-in-law and daughter.
Mr. and Mrs: W. C. Berg had for
their week-end guests their niece,
Miss Blanche Partain, and their son,
W; C. Berg Jr., of Houston.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Highly of Bay
City went to Matagorda Wednesday
and on their return home were ac-
companied by Mrs. E. P. Layton and
Miss C. C. Burkhart.
'Mrs. S. H. Cheek of Damon, Miss
Naomi Johnson of ' Waxahachie and
Dinsmore' Williams of Houston spent
Saturday evening and Sunday here
with Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Williams.
Mrs. Joe Olivarie and two little 4,000 years.
sons left Tuesday for their home at
San Antonio, after a two weeks visit
here with her grand and great-grand- gL
mothe, Mrs. M. E. Lawson. J
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Between 4,000,000 and 4,500,000
snakes are used annually in Japan -
for medicinal purposes. More than .
200 men. make their .living by ser- ,
pent .catching in the vicinity of Mount
louki and Shiga-Ken.
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China’s silk industry was developed
‘ from the domestication of the wild
iinsect and has lived fbr more than
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to you on what basis the four
beautiful Buicks will be awarded
Remember! This contest is open to
all without cost or restrictions of
any kind Come to our store dur-
ing the Devoe Demonstration. Get
contest blanks, rules, and other
facts about the contest Absolutely
no one can enter the contest after
the DEVOE DEMONSTRATION ON
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MATAGORDA.
COMMENDS SERIES
PEDDLER MENACE.
Rev. and Mrs.
Bay City Friday.
Mrs. Arthur Gottschalk is visiting
in Houston this week.
Miss Irma Berg has returned from
Dallas, where she visited relatives.
Mrs. C. V. Bomar and little girl
were in town from Gulf Friday af-
ternoon.
Mrs. B. A. Ryman and Miss Janie
Savage visited relatives in Bay City
Wednesday.
Mrs. Allen Guilbeau and little son
Joe Allen were in town from Gulf
Thursday afternoon.
Miss Alice Murdock has returned
from Freeport, where she visited the
past week.
Mrs. Lonnie McCallum of Houston
visited Miss Dorothy Emmett here for
the wTeek-end.
The weekly nondenominational Bi-
ble closs will meet with Mrs. F. L.
Rugeley Friday afternoon.
The best of workers get out of
sorts when the liver fails to act.
They feel languid, half-sick, “blue”
and discouraged and think they are
getting lazy. Neglect of these symp-
toms might result in a sick spell,
therefore the sensible course is to
take a dose or two of Herbine. It is
just the medicine needed to purify
the system and restore the vim and
ambition of health. Price, 60c. Sold
j by Biuldin Drug Store.
I have purchased Harry Burkhart
thoroughbred Jersey male, the finest
bred animal for milk ever brought to
this country. Have cut service fees
to one-half former price,
farm, 2% miles North of Bay City.
N. Miller. 23-25 d.—24-1 w. p
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persever-
changes,
must be
like yours
are the ones that will have to do it.
Try it. You know the press of
America can make Congress stand up
and take notice if they will only get
them together. Once they have
started it will not be hard to keep
them going.
‘I am postmaster here and this of-
fice remits more than $500 every
week-day in the year in money order
funds, and 75 per cent of it is to
cover mail order business or ped-
Uing.”—Galveston News.
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FOR WORKING PEOPLE
(Continued from Page IT
advertising matter. Congress should
increase parcel post rates to the
point where they will pay expenses
and earn a little money for a rainy
day. Let’s have postage of 1c for
two ounces on letters' prewar prices
on newspapers and legitimate period-
icals. This could be. done, and very
easily. But the trouble is that
there are so many so-called period-
icals that1 are nothing more than
trash which have the mailing privi-
lege. They hail from the large
cities, and are maintained for and
by advertising solely.
“It will take time and
ance to accomplish these
but it can be done, and
done. The newspapers
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leads to
If
In one way or another each
in
surest. . sign
Value of property con-
To take
erty.
prosperity
wealth.
concern a railway
public in character.
Upon
should
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PUBLIC UTILITIES—TAXATION
the
pay you.
The Quinine That Does No? '
TIVEBROMO QUniNINEd(TaHets) c t LAxA.
i in the' exercise of the taxing power,
bach of San Antonio was elected to : the State should keep this truth in
the newly created office of fifth vice mind.
president. . . I Railway companies, for
Practically the entire afternoon ‘ are chartered by the
session -was devoted to memorial ser-
retary; Mrs. Charles Alford, treasu-
rer, all of Austin; Mrs. Nettie Hous-
ton Bringhurst, ;San Antonio, histo-
rian; Mrs. Lillie Terrell Shaver, Dal-
las, and Mrs. Henry Hutchings, Fort
Worth, were (
vice-presidents.
Habitual Constipation Cured
in 14 to 21 Days
to induae regular action. It.Stimulates and
Regulates. Very Pleasant to Take. 60c
per bottle.
well Jones, Miss Marion D. Gammell.
The.- Daughters at an earlier ses-
sion adopted a resolution condemn-
ing the “desecration of the Texas
state flag by any picture, mark or
advertisement,” after a small flag
bearing a picture of governor Mi-
riam A. Ferguson, said to have been
offered for sale during the recent in-
auguration, had bee exhibited. No
reference to Governor Ferguson was
made either in the resolution or in
the brief discussion condemning such
use of the flag.
elected third and fourth public, is not inexhaustible, and that,
Mrs. H, M. Wotz-1
MRS. R. J. FISHER AGAIN TO I funds in such properties shall not j
HEAD TEXAS DAUGHTERS suffer by reason of that control. And i
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Austin, Texas, April 24.—With the political expediency rather than in
rej-election of Mrs. Rebecca J. Fish- j accordance with; principles of sound
er of Austin as president and a re-' public policy, failure to observe rules
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afternoon . are chartered by the State. Not
_________ .. _ _ merely by taxing districts entered or
vices for members who died during traversed by the lines but by grant
Mrs. of the whole people. In one way or
T. Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Cornelia ■■another the industry of the whole
Branch Stone, Mrs. Julia Geissler, | population contributes to their sup-
Mrs. H. M. Newton, Miss Anna Bax- ' port.
mile of railway, in its proportion to
the total mileage, contributes to the
r of the entire common-
As an industry of statewide
a railway is, dominantly,
Obviously in-
creased taxes must be provided for
by increased rates which, in turn,
must be shifted to the population’s
industry. Not in exact or even ap-
proximate proportions however. Nor
in accordance with ability to pay.
The average farmer who ships forty
bales of cotton is called upon to pay
forty times and more of the tax than
does the average citizen, who not be-
ing engaged in production, ships no
commodities whatever. Taxing au-
thorities, as a rule, fail to realize
just where or upon whom tax bur-
dens ultimately fall.
As hereinbefore stated in these
columns, our taxing system' is the re-
sult of tortuous growth. It has fol-
lowed lines of least resistance rather
than correct theory.. A tax imposed
: upon any character of property can
be justified only on the assumption
that those who are benefited by the
tax have a just claim for the amount
upon those who ultimately pay it.
Legally and economically all proper-
ty and occupation’ should pay its pro-
portionate part of cost of maintain-
ing sovereignty. Upon the other
hand sovereignty should exact no
more than, economically administer-
ed, iffay be essential to adequate pub-
lic service.—John G. Willacy.
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IT DRIVES OUT WORMS
bo rhe public served than to
service extended.
it be .'true that railways and
quasjippblic utilities are agen-i
. \ equally
true thM for a principal to cripple
Mrs. its own agencies would be nothing
Clara Driscoll Sevier, first vice-pres- short of folly. So closely interwo-
ident; Miss Lillie Robertson, second ven are- the interests of private en-
vice-president; Mrs. Fred' Cloud, sec- terprise with those of utility service
that to hobble the one is but to ham-
string the other. In keeping with
he subject under discussion let it be
here stated and emphasized that in-
dustry, private, no less than quasi-
The surest sign of worms
children is paleness, lack of inter-
est in play, fretfulness, variable ap-
petite, picking at the nose and sud-
den starting in sleep. When these
symptoms appear it is time to give
White’s Cream Vermifuge. A few
doses drives out the worms and puts
the little one on the road to health
again. White’s Cream Vermifuge
has a record of fifty years of suc-
cessful use. Price, 35c. Sold by
Bouldin Drug Store.
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THE PRESBYTERIAN
CHOIR ENTERTAINS
One of the most picturesque wood-
ed spots in Matagorda County, the
Huebner grove in the banks of the
Colorado River, afforded the setting
for a gladsome picnicing party on
Thursday evening from six o’clock
until a late hour. The frolic was
staged by the members of the Pres-
byterian Choir, honoring Mrs. Kooy-
man, who has been working so har-
moniously with them for some time,
and who, much to our regret, in a,
short time is to leave us for Ker
new home in Navasota.
The Choir members, their kind and
friends, about thirty in number, com-
posed the company. A dandy camp
supper was prepared on the ground
and ravenously enjoyed. The wea-
ther was ideal, not even one mos-
quito or red bug evidenced itself to
mar the pleasure.
After the eats, encircled about the
big camp fire, stunts, and
.. Wesley’s strong
songs, stim’’*- , s
cviiee, carried on the merriment, and
in truth, brought to its close at a
late hour a “perfect picnic party.”
Advertise—It
the past year. They were:
J. T. Fitzpatrick,
Stone,
It is not to be presumed that the
■State, will grant a franchise for the
operation of a railway or other quasi-
public utility, or permit the acquisi-
tion and operation of property as
such, except upon the theory that
such grant or permit will promote
the public welfare. Hence it is that
with every franchise there is a reser-
vation, either expressed or implied,
to the state of the power of regula-
tion. This is of course in the in-
terest of public protection and bene-
fit. It is equally obvious and in
line with principles of a square deal
that private capital invested under
such terms and conditions should not,
under the kuise of regulation, be
subjected to public charges or chan-
ges which, to the entent they would
absorb or affect earnings, might op-
erate against profitable investment.
Constitutions, State and National,
prohibit, the taking of private prop-
erty for public use without just com-
pensation therefor.
Regulation for the public benefit is
one thing. Unreasonable require-
ments or inhibitions constitute quite
another and a different thing. The
one is but .an exercise of broad
statesmanship in the interest of the
general good: The other, only too
often, an act of political expediency
to promote individual ambition. In
either event should regulation or im-
position of excessive taxation be car-
ried to an extent that would result
in deprivation of a fair return upon
investments in the property so regu-
lated and taxed, the result could not
be otherwise that the equivalent of
confiscation.
sists chiefly in the measure of re-
turns derived from its use.
away income is to take away prop-
Neither over-regulation nor
over-taxation reacts to the public
benefit.
Certain utilities, among them the
railways, are primarily public utili-
ties. With greater emphasis placed
upon the public rather than upon any
private interest in such properties, it
may be said tht railways have lost
much of that quality which once
characterized them as private hold-
ings. This being true, excessive bur-
dens imposed upon them are certain
to react more against the public ben-
efit than for the public good. And,
too, favorable rate regulation may
very easily be offset by discrimina-
tory taxation.
Shorn of legal technicalities, a rail-
way property which supplies a public
need may properly be -
private propertv the public
at a reasonable rental; a rental not
guaranteed, it is true, but tone-
less one which governmental policy
should not render impossible of col-
lection. Private holdings which, in
their very nature, are devoted to pub-
lic use, which use has been accepted
by the public and over which use the
public has assumed almost complet
control, are .entitled to an oPP^m-
ty to earn compensation, fair alike t
the owners and the public. And it
is none the less true that assumption
by the public of such control carries
with it a moral obligation to an ex-
tent that investment of individual
ception at the home of Mrs. Clara of justice between the _ sovereignty
Driscoll Sevier, the thirty-third an-1 and the .property regulated leads to
nual convention of the Daughters of transportation ' difficulties injurious
Republic of Texas came to a no less
close Thursdajr evening. The exec- the s
utive committee will make a selec-
tion of the meeting place for the other
1926 convention, which will be either cies of tMe^public, then i.^ is
at Houston or San Antonio.
Other officers elected were:
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1925, newspaper, May 1, 1925; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304246/m1/2/?q=music: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.