The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1925 Page: 1 of 8
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TO OUR COUNTY, OUR WHOLE COUNTY, AND EVERY SECTION OF OUR COUNTY. TO OUR PRIDE IN ITS PAST AND OUR HOPE FOR ITS FUTURE, ADD VIGOROUS WORK IN THE LIVING PRESENT.
“THERE IS NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR OUR FRIENDS” . \
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THE RIVER SITUATION CANAL
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cated to us by Mr. A. P. Borden on I
County,
to no other county in the state.
Bay.
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CATTLE DISEASE
IS REPORTED IN
WHARTON COUNTY
as
“world;
rates increased on rice from Texas,
Louisiana and other points to points
in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa,
Minnesota and neighboring states, ac-
cording to L. M. Hogsett, manager of
the traffic and transportation depart-
ment of the Houston Chamber of Com-
merce.
Plans were laid at a recent meeting
of the Texas rice millers with Mr.
Rice millers of Texas are going to
oppose vigorously the efforts being
GIRLS’ CHANCE TO WED
BETTER THAN WIDOWS’
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COOL WEATHER
AHEAD BUREAU
The
reads:
Three years is the
full completion
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plans
as soon
equipment can be assembled by
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OFFICIALS WILL
MEET OCT. 23-24
WHERE SHOULD OUR
CITY LIMITS BE?
Grown; Less Than Two-Thirds
of Crop Sold for Over $600,000.
RICE MILLERS TO
FIGHT RATE HIKE
after a recent
accompanied by
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LOCAL RICE CROP
BRINGING OVER A
MILLION DOLLARS
I. C. C. Hearing Will Get Protest of
Texas and Louisiana
Shippers.
SLEDS ARE USED •
IN PICKING COTTON •
and down •
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T|he board of directors of the Bay
City Building and Loan Association
held their regular monthly meeting
Tuesday morning at the Chamber of
Commerce with every member pres-
ent. The secretary reported that ev-
ery subscriber had met his second
month’s payment and that there were
no delinquents. Several applications
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• the family.
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HOWARD KENTON
RIVER BOND FILED
I to the
board and under the by-laws, were
saferred to the real estate committee
for Investigation. The board were
well pleased wfth the condition of
the association and were optimistic
over its tutaire.
'A CALL 10 ARMS'
• triesome. Consequently, farm- •
• ers are making sleds to be •
• drawn by mules, the whole ap- •
• paratus straddling the coton •
rows. On this they put a boy, •
or .boys, depending upon the •
size of the sled, and the sled •
upon the size of ©
The boys pick the •
• cotton, bolls and all, as the
• sled is driven up
• the rows, depositing the cotton
• thus gathered in tubs or boxes
• on the sled. In this way
• much labor and time are sav-
• ed.” Incidentally, the boys
• take it as a sort of frolic.
CIRCULATE PETI-
TION AGAINST TAX RAISE.
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In New Zealand,
heavy rain storm
heavy wind, the streets and gutters
were filled with small fish that had
been blown from the streams and
water holes nearby.
will •
last Saturday, requesting that Mark- j
ham Irrigation Company grant your'
body a right-of-way across its prop- i
erty in Matagorda County, Texas,:
with a view to assisting you in the
removal- of the raft from the Colo-
rado River.
It is needless to say that Markham i seekjag'
association, when ratification of the ■
directors’ action in mapping out an
intensive program looking to the;
completion of the waterway in its l
entirety will be asked. !
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Eagle Lake Rice Crop Is Best Ever
After an intermssion of several
months, the Chamber of Commerce
has decided to give another one of its
community dinners. This will be
welcome news to many of our citizens
who have enjoyed these affairs in the
past. There are some very impor-
tant questions before the public mind
at this time and they will be discussed
at this dinner, such, for instance, as
the new system of taxation for the
city; the solution of our square pav-
ing problem; the s/ituation in our
schools.
Thesee and other matters will be
presented at this dinner. If you are
a taxpayer, a patron of the schools or
a merchant on the square, you can
not afford to miss these discussions.
The entertainment features prom-
ise to be unusually fine as they will
be under the direction of Miss Emily
Jane Allen.
If you know Miss Allen this an-
nouncement is sufficient. If you
don’t you will he convinced that
night that she knows her business.
It is hoped that a large number of
the ladies will be present as well as
the men. This dinner will be given
at the Nuckols Hotel next Friday
night, September 18, at 7 o’cloock.
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RAINS HURT RICE.
tUgS!Sti°nJ^^UniJ1ers’ and a city whose citizens are all
tenants will never prosper or grow.
2. The universal demand all over
the state and nation and in every
community is for tax reduction, and
" in the face of such a demand the pro-
s ■ posed tax increase is suicidal. De-
I sirable citizens, seeking a new home,
1 will pass us by and industrial plants '
,______j a location will avoid us like
1
• a pestilence.
The State of Florida lowered her
tax rates, and more than a hundred
million of new capital poured into
the State in less than one year- and
is coming in ever increasing amounts.
3. The absolute unfairness of rais-
ing the taxes of those who have al-
ways been prompt to pay, in order
to finance the city and school, in-
stead of making a proper effort to
collect from those, who for a long
period of time have paid no taxes.
We are informed that the delinquent
taxes due the city are about fifteen
thousand dollars and that there is
due the school district a still larger
I amount; and the dockets of the Dis-
trict Court show that the last suits
filed by the city for the collection of
delinquent taxes were filed on the Sth
day of January, 1923; and the last
suits filed by the school district for
the same purpose were filed on the
10th day of May, 1917.
We believe in Bay City and have the
w_______ _______ .. _____j our public
schools second to none, but we pro-
test against the manifest unfairness
of trying to make a part of the peo-
ple bear all the tax burdens; and we
stand ready to enjoin them from
doing so.
<the
District No. 1, was received by C. A.
Erickson today, and recognizing the !
right of all interested citizens to
know the inside of any steps or pro-
posed steps affecting the expenditure
of their money, and the proposed
preservation of their properties, Mr.
Erickson has requested us to pub-
lish said letter. The slogan of the
committee Mr. Erickson represents
seems to be, “LET THE PEOPLE
KNOW.” In this we heartily concur.
The letter:
Houston, Texas, Sept. 9, 1925.
Mr. D. A. Dickson,
Mr. W. W. Duson,
Mr. A. P. Borden,
Commissioners, Wharton Co. Con-
servation and Reclamation District
No. 1,
Wharton, Texas.
Gentlemen:
We have given most careful consid- ;
New York, Sept. 11.—The
old belief that the canny
widow was more sure of se-
curing a man than the inex-
perienced maid has been blast-
ed by cold statistics collected
by the census bureau and sup-
plemented by insurance com-
panies.
These show that there are
more widows than widowers
in this country/ that more
widowers than widows re-
marry, and that when widow-
ers rewed in most cases they
take maids instead of widows
as mates, according to a tab-
ulation prepared by the Pru-
dential Insurance Company.
The federal bureau of animal in-
dustry Saturday received a telegram
from a cattle owner in Wharton
County stating the foot and mouth
disease was in his herd of cattle.
The bureau at once sent a veterinary
surgeon there to make an investiga-
tion.
Dr. Marion Imes, in charge of the
bureau here, said too much credence
could not be placed in the report un-
til an investigation is made, as often
cattle owners believe the disease is
prevalent when it is something else
afflicting their cattle.
Friday inspectors found the disease
prevalent among cattle in another
pasture on the Perry | McFadden
ranch near Arcadia. Doctor Imes
says there are about 1500 cattle in
this herd and they will be slaughter-
ed. Eighty head on this ranch were
killed last week.
■ a D A If The ranch already is in the closed
Illi II Ifll 1 \ AV } quarantine area, so no extensions of
Ul I lUlnLU Uni I the limits will be necessary, Doctor
______ [imes said. He said the slaughter of
* the cattle probably would start at
A drop of 10 degrees in the last 24 1 once>
hours ushers in what the weather [
bureau expects to be a continued cool I
spell. The mercury was at 68 at 7
a. m. Saturday, while Friday at that
hour it stood at 78.
During the last 24 hours Houston
has had a s.60 inch rainfall, the bu- |
reau reports.
Other Texas cities have fared bet- ;,
ter, Waco getting 4.35, Port Arthur
2.76, Palestine 2.20, Taylor 1.48 and
Dallas 1.38.
The cool weather will continue
through the first of the week and
the bureau anticipates it will be fair.
Virtually all of Texas has ben af-
fected by the rains during the last
three to four days, it is reported, and
at present the low temperatures are
extending as far north as Nebraska.
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BUILDING AND LOAN
DIRECTORS MEET
The following petition is being cir- twenty_first anuai convention of the I
culated for signatures:
To the Honorable City Council of Bay
City, Texas, and the Trustees of
Bay City Independent School Dis-
trict:
We, the undersigned taxpayers of
the City of Bay City and the Bay City
! Independent School District desire to
j register our most earnest protest
1 against the proposed increase of tax-
' able values and consequent increase ! ton
Since the last convention much
has been accomplished, the call re-
cites. The construction of the water-
i way 9 feet deep and 100 feet wide,
from the Mi sissippi River to Gal-
veston Bay at a cost of $9,000,000 has
been authorized by congress.
"“But the job is not finished,”
President Holland points out. “Our
first and paramount duty is the for-
mulation of plans which will bring
to speedy consummation the whole
project in its entirety, ‘from the Mis-
sissippi to the Rio Grande’ which has
been our undaunted logan.”
Government engineers, after a care-
ful investigation, recommended the
construction fo the canal “from the
Mississippi River at or near New Or-
leans to Corpus Christi, Texas,’ ’at
an estimated cost of $16,000,000. This
recommendation, when presented to
congress in the spring of 1924, wa
approved without dissenting voice by
the rivers land harbors committee,
and adoption and authorization pro-
vided for the rivers and harbors bill.
When the bill finally came up for
consideration at the last session of
congress, the executive branch of the
government, in pursuance of its pol-
icy of economy, demanded that the
total expenditures in the bill be ma-
terially reduced.* The amolunt au-
thorized for the canal was reduced
to $9,000,000, and the agreement
made that thi amount should be ex-
pended in the construction of the
waterway via the Plaquemine locks
and Morgan City to Galveston
(Continued to Page 8)
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of •
The following copy of letter from
■ the Markham Irrigation Company to 1 j^xPATERS
commissioners of Wharton Coun-
Conservation and Reclamation
Orange, Texas, Sept. 15.—While re-
joicing over the refreshing rains that
have fallen almost continuously for
the past few daye, some of the rice
farmers say that they will probably
lose heavily as a result of the fact
they that quite a bit of- the old crop of
rice that had been cut before the rain
will be badly damaged by the rains.
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A piece of linen, G000 years old,
recently examined by the chairman
of the ksish Linfen Society, was found
to be as perfect structftraMy as are
the linens frfsdfe tuW>
dence against the proposed increased
rates at a hearing to be held by the
interstate commerce commission in
Kansas City September 28. Represen-
tatives of various rice milling inter-
ests will attend the hearing, headed
by G. G. Hayes of the Orange Rice
Millers’ Association, Mr. Hogsett said.
Freight rates on rice formerly were
increased, and then the increases
were suspended. The hrilroads have
protested against the suspension, and
the interstate commerce commission
hearing will be to consider the ar-
guments of both sides.
The forecast rice production of
Texas for this year is 5,743,000 bush-
els, and that of Louisiana is 15,422,-
000 bushels. This is almost two-thirds
of the anticipated production of the
entire United States for 1925.
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COMMUNITY DINNER.
in taxes, for it always results in an j
increase, for the following good and ;
sufficient reasons, to-wit: I
1. Our taxes are now so high that
, it is as cheap or cheaper to rent a
; home, than to own one, when you
j consider taxes, insurance, upkeep
i and interest on investment. Under
such conditions there is no induce-
ment for people to become home own-
(Eagle Lake Headlight)
If one but stops to consider that
the rice crop of this community,
which, taken as a whole, is one of
the best that has ever been produced
here, is going to bring into the bus-
iness channels of this section more
than a million dollars, and that cot-
ton is still coming into town every
day, you’ll have to admit old Eagle
Lake is still doing business, drouth
or no drouth.
No one here is claiming a cotton
crop the equal of last year, but that
cotton platform down at the Sap
station seems to get pretty well fill-
ed with cotton bales every day. The
cotton must be coming from
where.
Rice sales are now being made
here at intervals during each week,
and there has been more rice con-
tracted for this season than in any
year in the history of the rice indus-
try. The Headlight is reliably in-
formed that more than $600,000
worth of rice has already been con-
tracted for at from $5.00 to $5.25 per
barrel. This will possibly not reach
two-thirds of the crop here.
Some of the individual rice farmers
are making excellent yields. Many
fields of rice are so heavily headed
in grain that we are just now at a
critical stage of the harvest work. A
wind storm at this time would do
great damage to this heavily headed
rice, which, if good harvest weather
continues, will bring splendid returns
to the growers.
The Messrs. Thomas and the Sea-
holm brothers are among the grow-
ers who are harvesting excellent crop
yields. The Thomas boys and
* Seaholm brothers, together, will like-
ly cut fifteen hundred or even more
acres of rice that will average twenty
barrels th the acre.
Gome to Eagle Lake!
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Mother and son recently gradwa^
frdm a Santa Afea hifch sW®L
industry of Matagorda County. Mark-
ham Irrigation Company and the rep-
resentatives of Matagorda County be-
came parties to such agreement in
good faith and with the expectation
that the understanding would be ear-
ried out by the commissioners of the
Wharton County District; and we
cannot now see why your board
seems disposed to ignore this defi-
nite moral and legal obligation and
undertake to proceed in the matter
without any intelligent program and
in utter disregard of the rights and
obligations of every one interested.
In view of the. above facts, we feel
that the rights of the Matagorda
County citizens should be given some
consideration, and we, therefore, re-
luctantly find ourselves forced to de-
cline to grant your board any right-
of-way across our properties in con-
nection with your present proposed
plan.
Again assuring you of our desire
to co-operate with your body on the, ^°r loans which had been filed with
basis of d fair protection of all in-’ the secretary were presented
terests and trusting that you will be
able to see your way clear td deal
with the situation on such basis, wb
are, Youre very truly,
MARKHAM IRRIGATION ۩.
By-A. S. Kwr, FreeMWt.
Sled riding is practiced by •
cotton pickers in Williamson •
County, according to a clipping •
from the Taylor Democrat, to •
Maj. Robert Gibson at Dallas. •
item, from Bartlett, •
“The smallness of the •
cotton plant, caused by the ©
continued drouth in this sec- •
tion, has caused an innovation •
in the manner of gathering the •
cotton crop. The cotton is •
1 • scattering and the picker •
i • would have to travel consider- •
able distances in a stooping •
j© position, which would be very •
Such a determination is expressed
in the official call for the conven- i
tion to be held at Port Arthur, Oc-
tober 23 and 24, issued recently
President C. S. E. Holland of Hous-
Bond of the Howard Kenyon Dredg-
ing Company, the firm to which
was awarded the contract of open-
ing the channel of the Colorado
River, was filed with the commis-
sioners of the reclamation
this week, and it is asserted that thus
far there is no hitch in the
for beginning actual work
as
the company.
Under the terms of the contract,
work was to commence within thirty
days of the approval of the contract,
and within one year, a channel of
from 20 to 50 feet in width is to be
opened from Mile Post 45 down to
Mile Post 31, between
points the raft has the river choked
and filled up.
time fixed for the
of the work.—Wharton Spectator.
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Fierce savages guard the approaches
to the unexplored wilderness on the
middle courses of the River of Death,
a branch of the Araguaya in Brazil.
From the jungle they fire long arrows
tipped from the thigh bones of anL
mals, ground to a razor edge and
poisoned, with a plant distillation so
deadly that even a scratch will «Uuse
death in a few minutee. /
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An egottet ie a m^an who is alwWs
taMHnf' about himself when you W34t
to tdlk about ydfe^elf.
By L. A. PIERCE,
County Agricultural Agent.
It is almost a daily occurrence to
hear some one say something about
the city limits. Commercially and
socially this is a very important
question and should be thought of
more seriously than it is. There are
people who think of the “city limits”
the boundary to their every day
there are others who look
upon the “city limits’’ as the boun-
dary of their efforts, and there are
many other imaginary peculiarities
pertaining to the “city limits” in the
towns where we live.
For taxable purposes and rules for
the safety of the people as a whole
a “city limit” is a good thing to
have, but for the social and econom-
cal welfare of the people as a whole
our city limits should be our county
boundary, if not further.
What would the farmers do with-
out the bankers and merchants?
What would the bankers do without
the merchants, etc? Then, since the
success of one business is depending
directly or indirectly upon the other,
why not associate ourselves together
made by railroad companies to have
in all of our community and county-
wide problems to the end that every-
one will be benefited? There would
surely be results.
In Matagorda County we have the
natural resources that are inferior
...... . Fer-
tile soil, good water, good climate,
good highway and railroad facilities,
and many other things that are of ut-
. . . Hogsett, to gather and present evi-
most importance are at our com- » &
mand. With the natural resources
we have, why not make our county
boundary our “city limits” and every-
one work co-operatively for the gen-
eral welfare of our big city, and to
the end that the resources of our
county will be developed to the max-
imum, and we will all be benefited
collectively and individually? Our
“city limits” should be our county
boundary, and we should all work
co-operatively.
Irrigation Company has always been I
and now is both willing and anxious [
to co-operate in every reasonable:
way in all matters of public interest; I
and in the matter now under consid- '
eration will welcome an opportunity
to join your board in an endeavor to
work out some feasible and effective
program for dealing with the Colo-
rado River in your section of the
state.
While we are thus anxious to co-
operate with you in this matter, we
cannot see our way clear to become
a party to any move which has as its
certain result irreparable injury to!
the rice industry of Matagorda Coun- I
ty and the consequent loss and dam-
age which would necessarily accrue
to every rice grower and business
man of such county. This rice indus-
try has been built up by the citizens
of Matagorda County at tremendous
cost both in time and money, and we
do not think that such a substantial
business should be arbitrarily de-
stroyed.
no reason why the rights of all inter-1
ested parties cannot be protected if
each and every one will set to the
task in an attitude of friendly and
sympathetic co-operation, but the
program which you seek our assist-
ance has been, as we understand it,
worked out in such way as to sacri-
fice the Matagorda people in a more
or less questionable attempt to favor
the citizens of Wharton County.
We are quite reliably informed
that your board . is undertaking to
spend approximately one-half million
dollars of the people’s money without
anything like an adequate survey of
the situation and without knowing
what the effects of your efforts will
be, either in the matter of benefit to
your own people or of detriment and
injury to your neighbors of Matagor-
da County. We wish to say that our
engineers, after a careful canvass of
all information available, are of the
very decided opinion that your pro-
posed plan will not only give Whar-
ton County the relief which it de-
sires. but will most certainly destroy
the Matagorda gravity irrigation sys-
tem, without which the present rice
industry cannot possibly survive and
in which valuable property rights
have been acquired and large sums
of money invested.
We would also again call your spe-
cial attention to the agreement made
prior to the passage of the tax re-
mission bill, to which agreement the
people of Wharton County through
■ their representatives were parties,
and by virtue of which it wafc defi-
nhejiy understood that a careful sur-
vqy of the whole situation would be
, made before any work wa® dope on
, the river and that whatever was done
I wonld be aceompHslYed in Such a
i .way as to and preserve both
the gravity irFigatibP system ahd pke
The “undaunted slogan’’ of
Intracoastal Canal Association
Louisiana and Texas, “From the Mis-
issippi to the Rio Grande,”
again be foremost at the forthcoming ;
FIVE CENTS THE COPY
BAY CITY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1925.
VOLUME LXXX—NUMBER 30.
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