The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, May 1, 1925 Page: 6 of 8
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D. P. Moore Dry Goods Co
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HIGH-STEPPERS
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Condensed Statement of the Condition of
First National Bank
At the Close of Business on Api’il 6, 1925.
RESOURCES
U. S. Bonds
431,345.30
$965,915.42
LIABILITIES
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interesting program.
DEPOSITS
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Everywhere!
“Don’t
It’s Clothes!
At Graduation
Time
WELL DRESSED. THERE’S ONLY
ONE TIME IN A YOUTH’S LIFE
FOR HIM OR HER TO GRADUATE
FROM HIGH SCHOOL.
THIS TIME
IS DEAR TO THEM—SO MOTHER
—FATHER—OR
YOU
HELP
HAVE SCHLOSS
CLOTHES. WE
SUITS FOR THE LAD AND BEAU-
TIFUL, DAINTY, DRESSES, THAT
WILL PLEASE THE MOST FASTI-
DIOUS YOUNG LADY. ALSO, SHOES
AND HATS FOR BOTH.
Loans and Discounts
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Bonds and Stocks
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THE SWEET GIRL GRADUATE AND
WINSOME LAD DESIRES TO BE
FRIEND, LET US
SELECT THEIR
Capital Stock
Surplus and Profits __
Circulation
— $ 11,000.00
— 139,743.57
— 280,601,73
THe “Modern* Ford.
the old days, a “Ford” was
FINE RAINS VISIT I
THE COAST SECTION
RETAILER PREDICTS
A WAR ON PEDDLERS
MATAGORDA SCHOOL IS
ONE HUNDRED PER CENT
Frances Howard, Helen Lee Wor-
thing, the supporting cast in “The
Swan,” and a hand-picked collection
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Banking House
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to give the fabric body and stiffness,
“load” it with fillers such as starch,
flour, dextrin and casein, all good
foods and pleasing to the palate of
roaches which make blisters on the
, coyer in eating the filling.
The Philomathean Literary Society
met on April tenth and furnished
very
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— 21,642.96
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Fort Worth, Texas, April 28.—R. E.
Rogers, Superintendent of Schools at
Matagorda, South of Bay City, has
enrolled his teaching group 100 per
cent in the Texas State Teachers
Association. The group includes,
besides Rogers, Bertha Funk, Lila
Thornhill, Mrs. W. W. Rugeley.
Several schools of Matagorda Coun-
ty ha,ve completed their enrollment
for 1925.
San Jacinto Picnic.
Mr. Kirk accompanied the entire
school to the Skillet Club grounds on
a picnic Tuesday afternoon, the 21st.
A complete resume of Texas history
was given by the history pupils and
then lunch was spread. Great hilarity
and enjoyment ensued and there was
hut one blight to mar a perfect day.
We regreted very much that little
Alfred Laird was accidentally hurt
while riding his horse. The horse
fell and the pommel of the saddle
pressied against his chest. It was
feared for awhile that he was seri-
ously injured, but recent reports say
that he is better and will recover.
next
a romantic high comedy, laid
little kingdom in the Balkans.
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The London Morning Post is upw
“Projective” Salesmanship Is Urged ■
To Combat Canvassers.
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the Literary Society and everyone
was pleased with it. After the pro-
gram delicious ice cream, cake coffee
and sandwiches were served to the
eager guests. The vanilla, pineapple,
strawberry and banana flavored ice
cream tasted excellent with the deli-
cious home-made cakes.
All the cakes which were not sold
were auctioned off by Mr. Ed. O’Con-
nell and Mr. Charlie Shiver, and they
all brought good prices.
The financial results of the supper
were quite satisfactory and will be
used to mighty good advantage by
the P. T. A.
Dimitri Buchowetzki, the director,
chose fifty men and women, among
them ;a Russian princess, a countess
and a baroness, as well as a goodly
number of “Follies” and “Vanities”
girls, to represent diplomats, ladies-
Party at Ash wood.
Mrs. W. A. Moore entertained at
her home, near Ashwood last Satur-
day night. Music and games were
enjoyed by all until a late hour. Re-
freshments consisted of candies, cakes
and lemonade. Everyone thanked his
hostess for a very nice time and de-
parted.
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Knowing the Way.
A preacher saw some little boys
playing marbles for keeps and went
up to one of them and said: “Where
is the Postoffice?”
The boy told him.
Then the preacher said:
you know it is wrong to play marbles
for keeps? Come to church with me
and let me show you how to get to
Heaven!”
One of the boys said: “How can
you tell us how to get to Heaven
when you don’t even now the way
to the Postoffice?’
TEXAS DROUTH IS COMPLETELY
BROKEN NOW.
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place where you crossed the river.
Now it is everywhere you cross the
street.
Believing in Signs.
Mr. Kirk: "Why are you late?”
Bob: “Well, a sign down there
read: ‘School ahead—go slow’.”
incidentally, necessi-
the building of the largest
“set” ever constructed in Para-
mount’s Long Island film factory.
“The Swan,” which Buchowetzkf
both wrote and produced for the
screen, opens at the Grand Theatre
on next Wednesday for two days.
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I Dallas, Texas, April 29.—A nation-
, al war between retail clothiers and
I house-to-house selling firms was pre-
I dieted here today by Earl O. Lehman
of Toledo, Ohio, past president of the
National Association of Men’s Appar-
el Clubs, speaking at a joint conven-
tion of the Texas Retoil Clothiers j
and Furnishers’ Association and the
Men’s Apparel Club of Texas.
A national organization has been
formed by the direct sellers or housie-
to-house canvassers, said Mr. Leh-
man. He admonished the Texas re-
tailers also to form a national organ-
ization to combat this activity.
“The direct sellers are endeavor-
ing to demoralize the institution j ou
represent and the institution which
manufactures the goods you sell.” he
declared. “What is a mystery to
me is why the mail order house can
get closer to the customer than you
who live in the same commurity with
the customer.”
The speaker declared the retailers
could no longer sit in their stores
and wait for the customers to come
in. They must go out ond get their
customers by “projective” salesman-
ship and get in personal contact the
same as the house-to-house seller
does.
One of the things which Mr. Leh-
man specially advocated for the re-
tailer was the style appeal to the
man of 40 and over.
“The guy of 40 is beginning to
slip,” he said. “While his wife dabs
on a little rouge and perks up, look-
ing like a million dollars as she goes
down the street, the old boy looks
ready for the junk heap. He is the
one you must reach with your styles.
can
still look young. He becomes set
in his ideas at that age, he becomes
negative in his attitude, and it is up
to you clothiers to bring him out
and make him young.”
Some Hot Time.
Teacher: “In the beginning of
time, ages and ages ago, the earth
was a steaming molten ball. Then,
as it cooled, mountains were torn
up on its surface, volcanoes appeared,
craters exploded with lava, geysers
erupted, and the entire world shook.”
Johnny: “Gee! That must have
been almost as exciting as the time
that Pa’s home-brew exploded.”
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A Dance.
Mrs. Roching gave a delightful
dance at her home Saturday the 18th.
Those who attended were: Misses
Helen Livengood, Rhea Kirk, Ollie
Boyd, Margaret Gibson, Annie Mae
Rainey, Nora O’Connell, Ora Lee Shi-
ver, Eleanore Kretchmir, Viola and
Jewel Cooper, Mesdames Allen O’Con-
nell, Kirk, Jackson, Peltier, Kretch-
mir, Messrs. Rainey. Willie Hooper,
Bryan and Lampton Bickham, Doug-
las Shiver, Robert and Pinkie Fon-
dern, James Berryhill, Jackson, Ed-
win Gibson, Ed, Allen, Boyd, and
Bouldin O’Connell, Peltier and Kirk.
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A fine slow rain began falling
throughout the coast country, practi-
cally the last section of drouth strick-
en Texas to be/ visited, last night and
has continued steadily off and on all
day. The rain has fallen slowly, every
drop of it soaking in to the dry
ground.
While the coast country was not as
dry as the other parts of the state,
the rain was badly needed and will
be of untold value to the crops and
the ranges. Much cotton was up in
this section but the young plant,
while growing, was net going ahead
as it should. It will now grow off
rapidly.
The cattle were doing splendidly,
but grass on the ranges was getting
short and cattlemen were apprehen-
sive. This rain relieved them of
their anxiety and gives them san as-
surance of good grass for weeks to
come.
The rice industry, and rice is this
county’s principal crop, has been lift-
ed from the “slough of despond” to
the peak of optimism, by the rains
here and on the upper reaches of the
river. The river had dropped to a
Very low stage and the prolonged
dry spell added continued misery to
the rice farmer. Some days ago the
river guage at Ballinger reported an
18-foot rise as a result of the down-
pours of last week in the North-
western part of the state. This news
was received by the rice interests
with joy. hut still the rice farmers
needed rain, which they have been re- You must make him know he
ceiving all day.
The situation throughout the state
has completely changed since a week
ago. The continued drouth became
•alarming and all business interests
wene feeling it in every part of the
state. Farmers were despondent and
about ready to give up. Then the
rains came and the whole attitude of
the public changed over night, so to
speak.
It has been a “grand and glorious”
downpour over which a grateful peo-
ple are rejoicing.
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“The Dressmaker from Paris,”
written especially for the screen by
Adelaide Heilbron and Howard
Hawks, is the feature attraction at
the Grand Theatre on next Monday
and Tuesdoy.
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in-waiting, officers and guests at a
court reception and ball which is a
colorful sequence in the film version*^
of Molnar’s play.
This scene,
i of beauties from the “Follies” could fated
be seen daily goin through the in-
tricate figures of the quadrille under
the direction of a specially engaged
dance master at Paramount’s Long
Island studio recently during the
filming of Ferenc Molnar’s stage
play.
In addition to the leading players ' in
—Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez ■
and Miss Howard are featured in the j
principal roles of the production—' being printed on paper made entirely
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Cowboy
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program was rendered by
SOPHOMORE EDITION
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The Cowboy.
Many people think of Cowboy Life
<s a life of pleasure, romance and
These people get their
very overdrawn story Or
Cowboy life is not
Yah Vleck in BasebalL
Bay City defeated the Von Vleck
school team in baseball, Wednesday
afternoon at Bay City. The score
was 5 to 6 so the game was of course,
interesting.
Everyone in Van Vleck is inter-
ested in baseball, so with this sup-
port the team should be able to get
good practice and a few victories.
Boy Hurt at Picnic Expected to Live.
Alfred Ladrd, a little ten year old
school hoy, wias seriously injured dur-
ing the picnic held by the Van Vleck
School at the Skillet Club grounds
San Jacinto Day. The horse he was
riding fell back with him when he
Started to back him into a deep
ditch. His chest was crushed by
the saddle horn but no bones were
broken. He was rushed to the Loos
Sanatorium, where he is expected to
necover.
Ice Cream Supper.
Our long-expected ice cream sup-
per came off on schedule time Friday
evening. The crowd at the ball
game was served with ice cream
cones immediately after the game.
These people left at dark, but return-
ed with many others at about seven
o’clock.
A short
Van Vleck Defeat8 Cedar Lane.
Van Vleck played Cedar Lane in
'■basket ball on the home field on last
Friday afternoon. Nine innings were
played and the score mounted too
steadily to flatter either team. Van
Vleck kept the lead during the latter
part of the game and the final score
was 21-12.
Both, teams played well, and
the spectators very interested.
Adventure,
ideas from a
picture show,
os easy as shown in Western pictures,
Where the sun is shining and the
Cowboys are always smiling. But
When the farm or city boy goes out
to the cattle ranch, he finds many
Uhromantic hardships and much hard
toil.
A yloung man, who was “green” lat
all kinds of work, decided to take
Up ranch life. When he reached the
ranch, he was treated very cruelly.
He was placed on a pitching horse
to furnish amusement for the Cow-
boys. He of course had to “grab
leather” at the second jump, hut was
soon thrown.
The next morning wias cold, and
the boy was initiated by al cold show-
er of water poured from a bucket
onto his face at four o’clock. While
he was at breakfast they put cockle
burrs under his saddle blanket and
his horse pitched more than ever.
Of course Ithis gave the Cowboys
milch pleasure ia.nd made the begin-
ner very discouraged.
But the experienced ones have just
as many hardships as the “green”
ones. Every morning at four o’clock
they are called to breakfast, after
which they begin a day of hard and
tedious work. And there is little ro-
mamce in continual labor. if men
did not have a sense of humor they
could not be satisfied with such a
life.
The Cowboy has to go through
many disappointments when the sun
is not shining. The old saying,
’“Every cloud, has a silver lining”
may be true, but many of the Cow-
boy’s "clouds” do not have these
bright linings.
Hence, overdrawn stories and pic-
tures tend to give boys the wrong
impression because it makes them
want to leave a good home and kind
parents to follow “the will o’ the
Wisp.”
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This Week
SPECIAL
Spaulding’s Silk and Wool Bathing Suits
$10.00 Special, This Week $8.59
Bathing Shoes—Caps—See Window
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3Bditor-ni-Chief .... Margaret Gibson
Associate Editor .... Nora O’Connell
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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/m1/6/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.