The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1926 Page: 4 of 8
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TUESDAY’S SESSION
P.-T. A. MEETING
MATAGORDA COUNTY,
TEXAS
TUESDAY’S SESSION
WEIL ATTENDED
I have 100 or more Magnolia
fig trees for sale, 12}&c to 25c
apiece.
Bay City Machine Co.
GEO. A. WAINNER, Manager
Bay City, Texas
VETERINARY
SURGEON
Bay City, Texas
GEORGE HELMECKE, Manager'
Postoffice Box 212 Phone 100
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Young Baptists
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Fig Trees For Sale
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Pasture land for rent.
W. Trull, Midfield, Texas.
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FOR SALE — 1000
Wagon cotton seed.
bushels Blue
W. A. Sanford.
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TERENCE POLLARD
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LOOK—Eggs from Head’s egg-lay-
ing Single Comb Reds, $2.00 and $3.00
per 15 balance of season. The kind
that lays. Fifty per cent for the fall
and winter months—that is the pay-
ing kind. Will also get their part of
the ribbons in the show ring. W. H.
Head, Bay City, Texas.
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Into Second Day
Methodist Church.
Mrs. Munroe Chapman,
Formerly of Bay City,
Presides Over Second
Day’s Meeting.
demands the utmost skill on the
part of our welders. Remember
we are dealing with one of the
most marvelous and at the same
time one of the most dangerous
elements in metallurgical chem-
istry—oxy-acetylene gas. We weld
successfully most everything in
iron and steel.
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FOR SALE
Cotton seed, improved half and half.
$1.00 per bushel f. o. b. Collegeport.
29-30d-29tf-w F. L. JENKINS.
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U. F. HELMECKE
GENERAL SHEET METAL WORKER
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Star Parasite Remover
A GREAT POULTRY REMEDY
Given to fowls in drinking water or
feed. Rids them of all destructive
insects, such as lice, mites, fleas and
blue bugs. Destroys all worms and
parasites that infest their entrails. Its
followed, formula of sulphur and other ingre-
_______ ______ dients has proven of great value in
B. Gay; Juvenile Protection" by Mrs. toning the system, purifying the blood
and preventing disease. Prevention
is bettei' than cure. Try it sixty days
at our risk. Then if your fowls are
not healthier, egg production increas-
ed, better hatchers and strong, thrifty
young chicks, your money back.
MATAGORDA PHARMACY
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These Sedans Illustrate
the Low Cost of Finer
Transportation
Every day the American public becomes better acquainted
with the Better Buick.
The capacity of the great Buick factories is taxed to sup-
ply the demand.
The Better Buick 5-passenger, 4-door and 2-door sedans
are good illustrations of the reasons for Buick’s accelerated
popularity.
These sedans are real sedans with Fisher bodies, and
striking Buick closed car body lines. Graceful. No harsh
corners anywhere. Objects of admiration on boulevard*
and highway. Upholstery of finest quality. Interior re-
finements luxurious and complete.
And these fine bodies ride on the famous Buick chassis,
with all the modern improvements and refinements in-
troduced by the Better Buick.
The only similarity to “coaches,” and other low-priced
closed-car types, is price. Come in and compare these
sedans before you spend your money. Here is finer trans-
portation at lower cost.
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and Child Health Day; Mrs. Edward
Kneeland, Dallas, chairman Life Mem-
berships; Miss Olga Junigar, chair-
man Safety Education and Fire Pre-
vention. -"
Mrs. Edna P. Fox of New York,
field representative of the American
Social Hygiene Association, is in at-
tendance upon this conference. Mrs.
Fox was brought to Texas by the
Texas Congress of Mothers and Par-
ent-Teacher Associations to attend
the annual meetings of the ten dis-
tricts of this organization. She will
lecture at each of the district meet-
ings and the conference here is the
first of these. Her subject is “Train-
ing for Parenthood.” At noon Tues-
day she will address the Rotary Club.
At 8:45 Tuesday morning in the
chapel exercises of the high school
here she will speak to the student-
body. Mrs. Fox’s itinerary has been
arranged entirely by the parent-teach-
er associations.
We make:
Galvanized Tanks, Ventilated
Flues, Gutters, Ridge Roll,
Cornice, Ventilators, Sky
Lights, Etc.
We repair:
Guns, Pistols, Locks; Repair
Parts in Stock; We Duplicate
Any Kind of Keys.
Rhode Island Red, Plymouth Rock and Make It of Sheet-Metal
White Leghorn baby chicks for sale. ,
Grant Fisher, Phone 189-W, Bay City,
Texas. 26-5-12-19-w I
A 13-year-old Chevrolet has been
driven more than 260,000 miles by A.
R. M. Stone, stationery broker of
6135 Wagner Avenue, St. Louis, Mo.,
who believes his machine is the old-
est Chevrolet still in active service.
The mileage represents more than 10
trips around the world.
Mr. Stone, a former locomotive en-
gineer, purchased the car in 1913, the
first year of Chevrolet production.
The loss of a leg had incapacitated
him for railroad work. In order to
operate both the clutch and brake
pedals with his one foot he connected
them with a cross bar. This enabled
him to throw out the clutch and apply
the brakes in one operation. He
drives from 60 to 70 miles daily with-
in a radius of 40 miles of St. Louis
Mr. Stone says he has replaced the
car top and in addition 1.. ___
only $4 for replacement of parts. The
Chevrolet has averaged 25 miles per
gallon, he says. The car thus far has
burned about 10,400 gallons of gaso-
me or approximately the capacity of who believe the th of
tnrn t»o i I mo H rnnlr norc
today is one of the finest if not the
finest generations that has ever been
produced,” declared Mrs. Edna P. Fox,
field representative of the American
Child Hygiene Association of New
York, who is here in attendance upon
the tenth annual child welfare con-
speak on the social problem, can talk
Mrs. O. M. Longnecker, state director
and district extension chairman, led
the conference, after which were
heard the reports of the various
Counties.
From 10 to 11 o’clock a P.-T. A. In-
stitute, led by Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs,
Wife of State Superintendent Marrs,
and educational secretary, was held.
Mrs. Edward Kneeland, state chair-
man of Life Memberships, made an
address on Life Memberships.
A conference on public welfare, led
by Mrs. Monroe Chapman, state di-
rector of public welfare, 1„_______
County Life was spoken of by Mrs. J.
Dr. W. 0. Testerman, formerly of
Angleton, has moved to Bay City
and will be located here in the
practice of his profession. Notify
Matagorda Pharmacy or P. G.
Huston, druggist, for Dr. Tester-
man’s services. 26-tf
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COTTON SEED FOR SALE.
I have quite a lot of first year Blue
Wagon Mebane and Kasch cotton seed
for sale. Price $1.50 per bushel, f.o.b.
Blessing. Write, phone or see J. G.
Walker, Blessing, Texas.
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BABY CHICKS: Thoroughbred
ference of the fourth district of the
Texas Congress of Mothers and Par-
ent-Teacher Associations.
Mrs. Fox went on to say that some
of the young people of today are mak-
ing mistakes, but those mistakes are
due more to the lack of proper edu-
cation to meet the changed social en-
vironment rather than a deterioration
of the ideals and standards of youth.
Mrs. Fox, in her interview' with the
reporter, said “Maybe it will be best
to feature me as Grandma Fox, for
that seems to be the thing that inter-
ests the most people.”
Those who have heard Mrs. Fox
speak and noted her very youthful ap-
pearance, will understand why this
is so.
She handles the problems of the
modern boy and girl with a master
touch, and wherever she goes, is told
“Nobody else that I have ever heard
you do and get away with it,” but
I that she does “get away with it” is
evident by the eagerness of her hear-
ers “to come back for more.”
Mrs. Fox, though she comes from
New York to Texas, wants us to
know that she is a Southern woman,
being a Virginian by birth and that
she has received her education in the
South.
Speaking four times on Tuesday,
Mrs. Fox was still unwearied in her
last appearance for the day at the
Methodist Church last night where she
talked to a large audience of visitors
and local people. Many men were
present. Mrs. Fox spoke to the stu-
dent body of the high school in the
morning, to the Rotarians at noon, to
a delegates in the afternoon and
closed her “full day” at the Metho-
dist Church at the evening session of
the conference.
The second day of a three-days’ con-
gress of women known as the Tenth
Annual Child Welfare Conference be-
gan today at the Methodist Church
With Mrs. J. O. Tanner, of Columbus,
president fourth district, presiding.
Today’s meetings began at 9 o’clock
this morning, followed by another
this afternoon at 1:30. Another con-
ference will be held tonight at 8
O’clock.
The invocation today was by Rev.
G. T. Storey, pastor of the Bay City
Presbyterian Church. The conference
Was led at the morning session by
Mrs. J. J. Devoti, state chairman
County councils. Addresses were made
at the morning session by Mrs. John
Brooks on Child Welfare; Mrs. W. T.
Eldridge on Memberships; Mrs. J. A.
Boedeker on Parents Day; Mrs. J.
H. Wooten on Press and Publicity and
Mrs. J. N. Hart on Program, Service
and Literature.
In the Department on Extension,
LEGHORN EGGS AND CHICKS.
I have a quantity of thoroughbred
Johnson strain White Leghorn eggs
and baby chicks for sale.
LEACH & SHIVER,
Van VIeck, Texas.
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SEED RICE FOR SALE.
I have 100 sacks choice Blue Rose
seed rice for sale, at $7.50 per barrel.
Can be seen at the Farmers Storage
Co.’s warehouse.
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BY MRS. A. P. TODD.
Mrs. Munroe Chapman, of Beau-
mont, fourth vice president of the
Texas Congress of Mothers and Par-
conducted
the total amounting to approximately
$310.
The remainder of the afternoon ses-
sion was spent in hearing reports
from local parent-teacher associations
of the district.
State officers and chairmen in at-
tendance on this conference register-
ing today are:
Mrs. C. E. Maddocks, Ranger, pres-
ident Texas Congress of Mothers and
Parent-Teacher Associations; Mrs. O.
M. Longnecker, Houston, third vice
president; Mrs. Munroe Chapman,
Beaumont, fourth vice president; Mrs.
L. E. Ledbetter, Austin; seventh vice
president; Mrs. A. P. Todd, Houston,
recording secretary; Mrs. S. M. N.
Marrs, educational secretary and for-
mer state president; Miss Amanda
Stolzful, Austin, chairman Country Life ; ent-Teacher Associations,
onri »»— -mj-----; the conference on public welfare at
. the Tuesday morning session of the
. child welfare conference now in prog- ’ as
. ress at the Methodist Church. |
Mrs. Chapman was formerly a res-
ident of Bay City and while here as
one of the leaders in child welfare
. work, is renewing her acquaintance
with her old friends here.
One of the interesting reports given
in the department of public welfare
was that on American Citizenship by
Mrs. E. V. Hardway of Houston. Mrs.
Hardway opened her address by hold-
ing an American flag before the au-
dience, and leading in the salute to
the National Banner. The fact that 1
the native born as well as natural- i
ized American needs training in citi- ]
zenship, was brought out by Mrs. <
Hardway in her report of the year’s J
work in the district.
The country life department coming <
under Mrs. Chapman’s direction and <
the district chairman being absent, I
Miss Amanda Stoltzfuz of Austin, who -
is the state chairman of country life,
gave an outline of the work done this
year and made suggestions of ways
in which the parent teacher move-
ment may best serve the rural sec-
tions. Miss Stoltzfus is familiarly
known to child welfare workers as
“The Play Lady of Texas” and this
title has been earned by the play and
recreation stunts she introduces into
the meetings of P.-T. A. organizations.
“Let’s play a little,” she begs, when
serious problems have been discussed
for hours on a stretch and the dele-
gates are beginning to feel the strain.
In the absence of the legislative
chairman which also comes under
public welfare, this report was made
by Mrs. L. E. Ledbetter.
In order to finance the work of the
10 districts into which the Texas
branch of the National Congress of
Parents and Teachers is divided, life
memberships are pledged at each of
the district meetings. This important
part of the program of the annual
meeting of the fourth district was
handled most ably Tuesday morning
by Mrs. Edward Kneeland of Dallas,
state chairman of life memberships.
Without Mrs. Kneeland no district or
state meeting would be quite complete.
Under her leadership 27 life member-
ships were pledged by visiting and
local delegates.
Mrs. Kneeland has been on the
board of managers of the Texas Con-
gress of Mothers and Parent Tea.ch.ers
Associations for 17 years.
One of the main features of the
tenth annual child welfare conference
now in progress at the Methodist
Church is the series of P.-T. A. insti-
tute lectures being given by Mrs. S.
M. N. Marrs. Mrs. Marrs is perhaps
best known as the wife of Superin-
tendent Marrs to her Texas friends,
but besides this identifying position
Mrs. Marrs holds several others. She
is a past president of the Texas Con-
gress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher
Associations, having held that office
for the four years immediately pre-
ceding the election of the present
president, Mrs. C. E. Maddocks. Mrs.
Marrs is known outside of Texas
wherever there is a branch of the Na-
tion Congress of Parents and Teach-
ers as one of the vice presidents of
this organization, which position car-
ries with it the direction of the de-
partment of health. Mrs. Marrs is in
attendance on the conference here in
her latest capacity as that of edu-
cation secretary to the Texas branch
and one of the important duties of
such secretaryship is the holding of
the institutes or schools -of instruc-
tion that local leaders may be in-
structed in the proper administration
of their work as officers and chair-
men of the many associations who are
members of the state and national
bodies. Some of the questions an-
swered by Mrs. Marrs in Tuesday’s
institute are: When to hold elections;
when to send in state and national
dues; what a parent-teacher associa-
tion is; what a parent-teacher asso-
I ciati°n is not; what is the policy of
nart« Th a the parent-teacher association with
nar s P regard to religion,' politics and com-
mercialism, and numerous others.
Youth of Today Finest Ever Produced
“I want to go on record as being
T. E. Shinnick; Legislation by Mrs.
S. B. McLeary; American Citizenship
by Mrs. E. V. Hard way; Better Films
by Mrs. J. L. Sterling ; Recreation and
Social Standards by Mrs. Wm. Potter.
Then came recommendations by the
__ district president, a continuance of
Pafeht-Teachers Association’s reports,
announcements and adjournment to
the Parish House for luncheon.
The afternoon session began
promptly at 1:30 with Mrs. R. T.
Fleming vice president fourth district,
presiding. Mass singing was led by
Mrs. M. J. Early. The department of
health conference was led by Mrs. L.
E. Ledbetter, state director of health
and department of child hygiene.
At this session Child Hygiene was
discussed by Mrs. R. T. Fleming; So-
cial Hygiene by Mrs. A. H. Flickwir
and Physical Education by Miss Ma-
bel Long. Department of education
Conference was led by Mrs. A. W. Har-
rison with an address on Humane
Education by Mrs. Idas Long! Stu-
dent Loan Fund by Mrs. Geo. Weller;
music conducted by Mrs. A. B. Milam.
After the 2 to 3 o’clock conference,
led by Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs, the ladies
adjourned to Matagorda for an oyster
feast tendered by the Matagorda P.-
T. A.
Tonight’s program will be as fol-
lows: Invocation, Rev. Milton Cun-
ningham; music; greetings from the
National Congress of Parents and
Teachers, Mrs. S. M. N. Marrs, nation-
al vice president; music, solo, Miss
Nannie Truitt; address, Mrs. Edna
Fox, American Social Hygiene Asso-
ciation of New York; music; address,
Miss Mary Jo Popplewell, state
partment of education.
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Report of Yesterday’s
Meetings.
BY MRS. A. P. TODD.
The tenth annual child welfare con-
ference of the fourth district of the
Texas Congress of Mothers and Par-
ent-Teacher Associations is in session
here. Registration of delegates began
at 11 a. m. A special coach was add-
ed to the regular Galf Coast morning
train to bring the delegates in com-
fort to Bay City, and about 58 dele-
gates from the various points of the
district, which comprises 27 counties,
Were in attendance at the first session.
They are being entertained in local
homes and hotels.
The general theme of the confer-
ence this year is “Home and School
in Education.” The sessions are be-
ing held in the Methodist Church. The
first session of today was a district
board meeting at 1:15 p. m. At 2:15
the conference opened formally, the
president, Mrs. J. O. Tanner of Co-
lumbus, presiding. Invocation was
given by Rev. C. Pugsley of Bay City.
The president’s annual message was
given this afternoon and showed a
total paid up membership for the
fourth district of 9213; 34 new par-
ent-teacher associations having organ-
ized during the fiscal year just end-
ing, which is the largest number of
new associations reported by any dis-
trict in the state; 15 life memberships
in the state congress pledged and
paid since last April; 18 counties with
active extension chairmen; the larg-
est student loan fund for high school
boys and girls in the state, which
fund is that of the Houston Council
Of Parent-Teacher Associations, Hous-
ton .Texas; the only council with a
publication as its official organ, this
being the “P.-T. A. Messenger,” pub-
lished by the Houston Council of Par-
ent-Teacher Associations; and a total
of 179 par^nt-teaeher associations in
the district.
Fhe treasurer’s report, in the ab-
sence of that officer, was read by the
president and showed a total of
$460.64 per capita tax or membership
dues; $187.50 from life memberships,
making a total of $648.15 for the year.
An address on the subject of the
endowment fund of the state congress
was made by Mrs. Monroe Chapman
of Beaumont, who is chairman for the
fourth district as well as of the state
organization, for this work. At the
conclusion of her address pledges
were made by representatives of the
local associations and city councils,
DALLAS, Texas, Mar. 16.—The
Southeast Texas, Baptist Young Peo-
ple’s Union and Sunday School con-
vention will hold its annual session
April 20 and 21 at Beaumont, with
Baptist Churches in Harris County
and 35 other counties of the district
participating.
Denominational speakers from
Houston who will appear on the pro-
gram are Rev. T. W. White, Miss
Eugenia Newberry, Will Hailey, Miss
Beulah Thornton and the Rev. and
Mrs. W. M. Harrell.
The program has been arranged to
include speeches and special confer-
ence periods which will embrace ev-
ery phase of Sunday school and B. Y.
P. U. work. A special feature of the
convention is fostering prior to the
annual meeting the first of May at
Houston. State denominational work-
ers wil attempt to reach all B. Y.
P. U. members of the association in
the campaign for $100,000 which that
body has assumed as its part of Texas’
quota of $500,000.
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 19, 1926, newspaper, March 19, 1926; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1304311/m1/4/?rotate=270: 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.