The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
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Better Detain
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sulted an officer of th* Bay City Bank and Trust Company, getting
tbe viewpoint, perhaps the support of the bank?
Entered at the Postoffice at Hay City, T< xas, as Second Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress, .March 3, 1879.
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will extend to you every accom-
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These rains are not doing our crops
any good, but they are adding to the
season In the ground which should not
be overlooked for early fall-planting,
it also should be rememl>ered that the
early fall plowing Is, In a large man-
ner. res|Hinsll>1e for best crop results
next year.
your money.
Begin right now to buy feed more carefully,
line of all kinds of feed and we sell for less.
£
This Is a phase of this bank's business that Is placed nt the
The bank Is anxious to do all It can to
unnecessary
Fortunately the strawberry Indus-
try, which is now In the period of in-
cubation. has not received a knock
that we have heard of from* anyone.
. Our worst enemy this year has been
Retail Ex'ge
Price
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Governor Suiter has received a
huge boquet of flowers from some un-
known admirer. Thia Is well and
good, but what he most needs Is evi-
dence of his Innocence, and this seems
remote at the present time.
Resolve!
When sending In
nt wal.
When requesting change of address on
Phone 16) mhHI
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Guaranty Fund Bank
Bay City
the State could or would give him.
State Senator J. II. Halley has the
advantage over Senator J. W. Bailey,
in that when the latter is referred to I
he Is merely railed Senator Bailey
while the former Is necessarily called
State Senator J. H Bailey- of Cttero,
the elongated title being essential In
the identity of the two. However,
they arc both "wheel horses.”
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upon some inancial transaction of yours thut didn't turn out quite
as well as you had expected?
Published every Friday Morning by Tribune Printing Company.
CAREY SMITH, Editor FRANK HAWKINS. Bus. Mgr
MH it E Nt RS< HIRERS,
remittance for subscription, always state whether new or
paper,.give both old and new address.
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With a half chance Matagorda Coun-
ty comes as near coming up to the
scratch as scores of other counties
with a whole chance.
Mr Engene Calhoun anil Miss Ella!
Mayfield, both of this city, were I
quietly married at the home of the
bride's imrents yesterday In the pres-
ence of only a few friends and mem-
bers of the familly.
After the ceremony they left for
Houston and other points of interest.
HOOKA 11>O PT El) BY THE’NTlTE
TEXT-HOOK BOARD FOR A PE-|
RIOD OF SIX YEiRN, REGIA MAC.
NEPTEXBER I. 1013 AM) E'ADIAG
tl Gl ST 31, 1919.
: the prolonged dry weather which kept
ns from having the land broke and put
in shape for planting. This, however,
has begun, owing to the recent show-
ers and quite an acreage will go in
thia fall.
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and Start a
First National Bank
Bay City, Texas
Capital, $50,000
Surplus, $75,000
J. M. WOO RE, President.
I. THOMPSON, (ashler.
disposal of dejiosftors.
better their financial condition and save them from
loss.
Then you will regret you did not exercise greater care in spending
Don't wait until that time comes. Don’t let It come.
We beWeve the general sentiment of
the count:/ ta with Thaw. And why
shouldn't it be? if he hasn't gone
through enough to elicit sympathy
who has? Marrying early and to a
girl who proved the cause for the
shooting of Ntanford White and who
deserted him after his convicition. his
life has had its burdens If any man s
life ever had any. To add to hi’
troubles he was adjudged insane. an-
other clrcumstane which was enough
to drive him insane If he wasn't
stoutly
, »ry I
He
maintained his sanity, fnught
Inch of the ground, and from
the time he enterted Matteawan to the
present time haa shown every indica-
tion of being a very sens man. No
eraay man could hava planned and ef-
fected the escape ha did Give him
his freedom, la no donht, the wish of
a large majority of Americans who be-
Hava in fair
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will be readily ami willingly corrected upon its being
b£h&... Plan., nr l.nldn,,..
newspaper business.
The best way to make good on tbe
Holland's Cleanest Town Contest is
for each Individual In the city to work
individually on and about his prem-
ises. In this way a friendly rivalry
may be started In all localities be-
tween individual property owners and
th* results would be marvelous. A
clean town »s very much to he desired
and It Is up to individual property
owners * • ' » - »
W W. McCrory, of Edna, has an-
nounced as a enndtdate for the legis-
lature to succeed W. L. Hall, of
Wharton, who was, last Saturday,
elected to the senate, and who was
the representative for Wharton ami
Jackson Counties It is thought that
Mr. McCrory will have no opposition.
The Matagorda Tribune aays
seems strange that the farmers
getting such a ridiculously low price
for their potatoes, while the consumer
pays ns much as ever; something t*
wrong somewhere and somebody is
feathering his nest nt the expense of
the farmer nnd the consumer. The
same condition prevails as to rice.
Why don’t the farmers advertise In
the city papers that they will send
potatoes, rice and other things by
parcel post to city consumers?—
Houston Chronicle
That is a splendid Idea, and while
prrhajvs (her would tug market as
much what they would Ml would he
at a greater profit and more satisfac-
tory. The parcels post, since the 20-
potind ratp haa gone into effect ought
to prove a great blessing to the far-
mer.
of Hays county uu« term, and al-
though repeatedly importuned to be-
come a candidate for office stead-
fastly refused. He was also State
chairman of the Democratic Execu-
tive Committee one term They arc
both red-headed, good, clean, straight
tncn and will fight anything from a
circular saw to any political question
they are opposed to, to a fare you
well. Either would make the State
a splendid governor or anything else
tn State Educational matters. Dr. I
Ellis, who has been field represents- i
tlve of the University, will take a pro. i
fessorshlp In the padagoglc depart-1
ment of the University and the field ■
work he has been doing will be as-
sumed by Supt. F. M. Bralley. Prof.
W T. lioughty, superintendent of the
Marlin schools and president of the
State Teachers' Association will be
named by Gov. Colquitt to succeed
Mr. Bralley. All these gentlemen are
high class executors and will contin-
ue to do big things for public school
interots. Especially valuable and ef-
fective work has been done for the
common schools of Texas hy Messrs.
Bralley and Ellis.
<11 HOI 5-MHFIE1D.
We have a complete
Se us in the McLendon
It will be money to both of us.
Composition and
Rhetoric by Herrick
and Damon
Geography:
The World Geogra-
phies. r»y Tarr and Mc-
Murty
First Book
(with "Ptlmary Geo-
graphy ')
(with "Comparative
Geography'*)
(with fourth reader)
(with fifth reader)..
Supplementary Reading
Second Book
(with "Primary Geo-
graphy")
(with "Compartive
Geography")
Arithmetic:
First Journeys in Num-
berland. by Harris A-
Waddo
Hopkins and Under-
wood's New Arithmetic.
Mental
Hutto and
Arithmetic ...
Lower Book
(with '’Elementary
Arithmetic”
(with "Grammar
School Arithmetic)..
Higher Book
(with Elementary
ArithmeWc") ......
(with "Grammar
School Arithmetic").
Physiology and Hygiene:
First Book of Health,
by Hartman and Bibb..
The Human Body and
Its Enemies, by Hart-
man and Bibb
(with "First Book in
l*hy>iology and Hy-
giene")
(with "Graded Lessons
in Physiology and Hy-
giene")
with "Hygleneic Phy-
siology")
Human Physiology, by
Ritchie
(with "First Book in
Physiology and Hy-
giene")
(with “Graded Lessons
in Physiology and Hy-
giene”)
with “Hygieneic Phy-
siology”)
Civil Government:
Civics: Texas and Fed-
eral. by Triplett
Hauslein
Algebra:
Hopkins and Under-
wood's Elementary Al-
gebra
New School Algebra,
by Wentworth
(with high school texa
on same subject) ....
(with “First Steps in
Algebra”)
Physical Georgraphy:
New Physical Geogra-
phy, by R. S. Tarr....
United States History:
The Beginner’s History
of Our Country, by H.
F. Estill
The Student’s History
of Our County, by Hall.
Smither and Ousley....
Texas History:
Sschool History of Tex
as, by Barker, Potts &
Ramsdell
Agriculture:
The Story of Cotton and
the Development of the
Cotton States, by Brooks .60
Elementary Principles •
ofAgriculture, by Fer-
guson and Lewis
Elements of Agricul-
ture, by AVarren .....
Graded System of Writ-
ing Books:
The New Outlook Writ-
ing System, by Turman.
Books One to Eight,
each
Plane Geometry;
Wentworth’s Plane
Geometry, revised by
Wentworth & Smith... .
Physics:
Physics, Part One, by
Mann and Twiss
First Principles of Phy- •
sics, by
and Chute
General History:
General History, Revis-
ed Edition, by Myers.. 1.41
(with a General His-
tory, an Ancient His-
tory, or a Mediaeval
and Modern History
Anciet History. Revis-
ed Edition, by Myers... 1.41
(with an Ancient tits-
tory. a Mediaeval and
Modern History, or a
General History) ...
Mediaeval and Modern
History. Revised
tlon, by Myers .
(with an Ancient His-
tory. a Mediaeval and
Modern History, or a
General History) ...
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Tmimrtant changes are taking place
State Educational matters. Dr
ADVi.RIIMAG RATES
of
THE MVIAGURDA ( DIM 1 I RIHl NE (Weekly-Fridays)
and
Illi: DAILY 1RIHI.NE (Dally Except Studay)
We hope to soon see the <lav when
a man will bo considered small to
say that he cannot or will not sup-
port a man for office who Is on any
certain side of any iwllllcal question.
We are now already seeing the awful
results of too many petty political
l»eanutterie* and the "men" of Texas,
at last, seem to ho rising altove It.
To preserve the democratic party in
the State we must get hack to our
sense*, and If we don't wo are going
to see the greatest overthrowing of
things political that this State haa
ever yet Witnessed The handwriting
Is perfectly plain and It's coming
, Spelling:
The New Century Spell-
Book, .McCallum and
Horn 8 IS
Graded Series of Read-
ing Books:
The Playmates Primer,
Hallburton
The Hill Readers, by
Hill. Stevens and Bur-
kett
Hook One
(with primer)
(with first reader).,
(with second reader)
i with third reader),
(with fourth reader)
(with fifth reader)..
Book Two
(with primer)
(with first reader).,
(with third reader),
(with third reader).,
(with fourth reader)
(with fifth reader)..
Book Three
(with primer)
(with first reader).,
(with second reader)
(with third reader).,
(with fourth reader)
(with fifth reader).
Book Four
(with primer)
(with first reader).,
(with second reader)
(with third reader),
(with fourth reader)
(with fifth reader)..
Book Five
(with primer)
(with first reader)..
(with second reader)
(with third reader).
Books:
The Arnold Primer, by
Sarah Ixmlse Arnold..
The Art- Literature
Readers
Book One ..... .^
Book Two
Book Three
Elsyn Readers
Fourth Grade Reader
Fifth Grade Reader..
Sixth Grade Reacler..
Seventh Grade Reader
Language Lessons, Eng-
lish Grammar, and Eng-
lish Composition:
Our Language
First Book
with Buehler and
HotchM**' Modern
English Lessons)...
(with Buehler's
Modern E n g 1 I s h
Grammar with Com-
position)
Second Book
(with Buehler's
nnd Hotchkiss’ Mod-
ern English les-
sons)
(with Buehler's
Modern English
Grammar with Com-
position)
Grammar
(with Buehler's
and Hotchkiss' Mod-
ern English Lee-
sons)
(with Buehler's
Modern English
Grammar with Com-
posltloni ........... ,
ComiMisItlon • Rhetoric
by Merkley and Fergu-
son
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune. (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, August 29, 1913, newspaper, August 29, 1913; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1309734/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.