The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1927 Page: 4 of 8
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PLANTS—SEED—BULBS
Senator Jun Reed,
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WALKER FURNITURE COMPANY
The attention of those interested is
Phone 101
Wm. Walker
L. M. Matchett
are
NEW LOW PRICES
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On Genuine I 3-Plate
Ford Batteries
ley
Radio Battery
BAY CITY AUTO & SALES CO.
It is a wonder that we have es-
let East and South
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THE MATAGORDA COUNTY' TRIBUNE
BY TRIBI At I'HIVIJM. COMFAM
lie safety that
do not move
our duties.
even
Kittrell, in Houston
state has lost one of its
An able
. states-
' Judge
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A Brittsii army regiment recently
returned to England from Constanti-
nople. having been absent for IS
years and having done duty in eight
different countries.
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There are two sides to every ques-
tion. Just as there are two sides to
fly paper.
is a bash
ninety fit
The ire
may cause
We are off now to a good start
agriculturally and in every other way
for 1927. Let's push the fig and pe-
can end of the works this year. By
thia time next year we ought to have
land owners on Caney laying plans
Every effort possible to be made is
being directed toward the preserva-
tion and protection of the rice indus-
try in the county and it is safe to
say that these efforts will be success-
ful. In the language of one man who
is largely identified with rice and its
production, ‘ This is essentially a rice
country and to think that the people
will abandon it Is out of the ques-
tion." Of course, and under present
circumstances and conditions the
whole thing is like starting out new.
but the land and water are available,
the canals are intact, and the relative
industries are still In existence and
functioning The crop may not be as
large this year as it has been, but
a considerable acreage will be planted.
without persecution;
either personal or political.
Poteet strawberries—that is straw-
berries grown at Poteet. Texas, which
is in Atascosa County—are selling at
wholesale at 35 cents a pound in San
Antonio, but Poteet is unable yet to
supply the demand and Florida straw-
berries are selling even higher By
the time the berries reach the “ulti-
mate consumer" It is difficult to figure
the price per berry. The price doesn't
phase the San Antonio epicures how-
___ __ of South and [ ever, and the Poteet growers are not
East Texas, let them give us every
mile of road they can L',j21. ?’ -7***
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am now opening my seed and planting packing
house on East 7th St., next door west of Faickney’s
Market. \\ ill soon have a full line of field and gar-
den seed, early plants, flower bulbs, sprayers and
Fresh bulk seed that will cost you
possibly order from any mail
Entered at the Postoffice at Bay City. Texas, as second class mail matter ]
under Act of (,'ungreas March 3, is* 9
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
biMlnvas concern will be readily and willingly corrected upon its being
brought to the attention of the publishers.
The paper will be conducted upon the highest poi
newspaper business
1 £
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bile driver it w
problem, largely.
A fellow told a Bay City merchant
the other day that he did not take The
Tribune because it boosted the coun-
try too much. But still he borrows a
paper every week to see that partic-
ular merchant's advertisement. That
fellow does not object to the paper's
boosting He doesn't object to any
policy the paper might have. He is
perfectly willing that the town and
county have a paper provided other
people support it. All he wanted to
do Is to save 31.50. and in order to do
so spends time worth more than that
to borrow a paper that he will not
support. If you can beat that, trot it
out and let's look at it.
In the unexpected death of Judge
Norman G Kittrell, in Houston Sun-
day. the
brightest and greatest men. .
writer, a splendid lawyer, a
man, ami a man of character
Kittrell stood without a peer in the
esteem and affection of the people.
He, It is true, had reached a "ripe old
age." 78. but his friends a few days
before his death never dreamed hut
I that he had years of good service
l ahead of him Fact is. he was in har-
' ness at Austin and went home because
of an attack of bronchitis Pneumonia
i soon followed and took its toll quickly.
I Those of us who have read his wrlt-
| ings and those who knew him even
more intimately than that pause to
the pa-sing of so great a soul.
_ - '• North, North-
an<l West Texas have been get-
ting theirs for years and are pretty
well fixed, so now let East and South
Texas get theirs.
Fi - SO Per Cent if All Car- Ideal j.
RICE LAND: About 3000 acres of
choice rice land near Simpsonville for
rent. See W. H. Hill. Palacios, Texas.
27d-28w
The ginners’ report just published j
shows conclusively the danger that,
lurks in crop estimating or guessing I
The crop reporting board gave It out. I
that the probable production would be
18 800.000 bales, but the ginners' re-
port was to the effect that on January
16 there were 16.600.000 bales actu-
ally ginned, or 2,000.000 short of the
estimated production. If the crop re-
porting boards were not looked upon
as authorised, there would be no dam- tu«<. *
age done even though the guess would Moody
reach twice the amount. But ti-
board has a legal status, an authentic
standing aa It were and its estimates I
surplus within a year's time is a bad
system, and any system that can
cause so much difference of opinion ;
between the two great parties without I
being able to mustc- a single sup- :
porter from either side is a bad I
system.
They told us that they laid "Old
Jim Ferguson" on the shelf, but it
took $25,000 of the taxpayers' money
and three months of hard work for
the committee to submit a 7000-word
report showing how scared they still
are of this laid-on-the-shelf article.
And apy fair-minded man who reads
Jim's flareback at that committee will
have to acknowledge that he still has
them on the hip. In this connection
we will say that the people will hear
more of this committee and the $25,-
000 of the taxpayers' money they had
at their disposal. It the constitution
or the law empowers the legislature
to investigate a private citizen, as was
so apparent in this case, it is news
to a great number of people.
r. S. Sterling and Cone Johnson
have been tendered positions on the
state road board, and Mr. Sterling has
stated that he will accept. These two
men are front sections of the state
hitherto not represented on the board
and both are men of ability und,
meuus and ought to prove valuable to
the stalo. Tim salary they wilt receive
is no object with either of them and,
their acceptance <"
service as commissioners can be j
summed up as a patriotic duty and ' IL
an anxiety to be of real service to ’ from him I-
the state. Of course the members of. called law.—by
the new highway board have definite , would be theft,
ideas of their own (and no doubt good
ones) as to the best way to build
roads and spend the money, but as an
humble citizen we are going to vol-
unteer some advice with an earnest
appeal to the Almighty that it be ac-
cepted, and that Is, when a road is
started keep going on It until fin-
ished and finished right. And a re-
quest of these two commissioners is.
also, pertinent and that request is,
for the Lord’s sake as well as for the
sake of the citizens Zz
Things are looking up over in the
t'lemville oil field and there are those
who believe some great happenings
are scheduled for early realization
This view Is sharde in by many who
are well versed and deeply interested
in oil. They believe that the field
will sooner or later duplicate the old
Spindle Top field and come in with
an abundance of deep oil and with a
permanent production It seems that
those who are drilling have the sat-
isfaction of having struck a more
stable oil-producing sand and are
carefully building to Its development.
If Clemville, after all the years of
seepage production, can be brought
in from the deep sand strata, it means
that a field equal to West Columbia, if
not old Spindle Top. will be dupli-
cated.
31 50
a huge loss to th*'
and all because the e:s-
tainty. As
A member of the legislature has
proposed a bill intended to eradicate
the rattlesnake evil. According to the
proponent of the measure. 85 people
were killed last year by them The
bill provides for a bonus of 50 cents
for each dead rattler, but makes it
optional with the counties as to the
methods to be used in the work of
exermlnation There is no doubt but
that the bill will pass, although. In
our opinion, not enough Importance
is attached to it. in the first place,
the bonus is not enough, it ought to
be more per snake with an attractive
extra amount for “families,” “col-
onies” or dens of them Fact is. the
state and counties can well afford to
hang up some interesting amounts of
cash for this work In order to make it
worth while, because of the danger
Incident to the work and the danger
to human life of the reptiles. If we
have in our borders a menace to pub-
can be removed and
it, we are recreant In
The most ordinary citi- ley Chaplin to take his own
sen. even though sometimes Io be
blamed, may be killed In a foreign
country and the whole nation Is
ready for expensive battle, and yet.
such dangers as mentioned here are
allowed to go on und on, taking toll
year after year, without any con-
certed action to stop it. I he snake
bill Is a good one.
No matter if it be only one piece,
we are just as interested in sup-
plying your need as if ybur order
was for a complete outfitting of
I household furniture. We have a
141L j supply of single pieces as well as
gjy sets of furnitrue. The kind we
offer is dependable. We can sell
tIihI at cash Prices und at the same
time offer you easy terms.
RICE LAND: About 3000 acres of
choice ri e land near Simpsonville for
rent. See V,’. li. Hill Palacios, Texas.
27d-28w
I a crop can be gro
I the market t- gu
[remains to be don
the goods? So much for that. This
paper has no figures available, but
the pecan crop of the county brought
several thousands of dollars to those
who gathered them this year. We
presume the puce paid for them av-
eraged about 10 cents the pound. This
was all mighty fine and the money
received for this side crop came in
well, but the same poundage of finer
pecans would hare brought five times
the money. The fact that we did not
have the finer varieties is recognizes!,
but we can have them without trouble
or much expense, great orchards of
them, budded on native stock alteady
growing And there are fortunes in
is for any an I all who might care to
engage in the business, and especially
for those who own Caney Valley land
The senate agricultural committee
has j”st been treated with an appeal
for the further protection of the wild
The m> mbers of the committee
told that the ducks were in dan-
if ext-rii’ination und suggested
a remedy by recommending a lower-
ing of the bog limit from 25 to 15. The
r e fields of this section every winter
in nm picture the extermination of
die vi' k. but more than visit
• m" I, ' might exterminate the
e fields. As to the bag limit. It
m il: cs iiiti,' difference when the hunt-
er is afie'd with a good automatic und
i .van.! < ■ d ' ks rise mi around him.
vo ' i rght mean the Imit,
the limit be 15 or 25, and it
e n veral times the limit
Every duck hunter will vouch for the
correctness of the observation, and
when it happens, all that is necessary
is for the hunter to add days to the
time he has been out or hunters to
his own company But. for that mat-
ter, the same can be said about nearly
all game and the limits thereof.
There is no guesswork about grow-
t Ing figs successfully in this section
- Everybody knows it can be done. An t
| twv that the market is assured for
I year* to com - there should be no
I cause to let up on increasing the
t pushing the industry. If
a successfully and
anteed. what else
except to produce
So much for that,
no figures
The tragedy which last Saturday
afternoon snuffed out the Ilves of ten
Baylor students at a railroad crossing
near Round Rock lias aroused the ire
of the legislature, so we are told The
ire of the legislature of no conse-
quence how aroused will accomplish
nothing now. And the accidents will,
the legislative ire to the contrary not-
withstaruling. continue The Round
Hock wreck as we view it in the
light of the information printed was
the result of just too much hilarity
und negligence, aided by a rain and
an on-rushing train
Up in anticipation of a game were
carelessly bouncing along the road
merry-making and singing, paying no
attention to their surroundings and
heedless of all danger. Perhaps the
driver saw the track ahead of him,' Senator Jim Reed, of Missouri, has
but in the joy und exuberance of the just made a speech before the annual
moment it never occurred to him that convention of the National Boot amt
the trat k w is laid there tor the pnr- Shoe Manufacturers' Association, and.
Ninety- as he is In the habit of doing every
opens his mouth, he said
He pleaded to eliminate
hordes <
suuupvrs uiiu
Let's hope that everyone will read
Dr. Loos’ timely letter which is pub-
lished elsewhere in today's paper.
Let's not only read It. but let’s heed I
it. The crossing referred to, however,
is not the only dangerous one in the
city, but on account of being a grade
crossing is about the most dangerous
OHP. I* 1 wonder thuf wu havu pm- I
caped as long as we have, but because
of that. Is no reason why precautions
shouldn't be taken now. This way of
having a tragedy and then an Investi-
gation gets us nowhere Neither does
it repair the damage done or give
back a life snuffed out in the moment.
The way to avoid the investigation is
to do away with the element of dan-
ger. At any rate, read Dr. Loos’ let-
ter and If you agree with him tell
him so.
| of the horticultural department. A. and
| M. College, will be sent upon request
to any farmer or land owner who
wants information. Instruction or as-
sistance in pecan budding. The ar-
ticle. also, contains a statement of
value from E. J. Kyle, dean of the
school of agriculture. The Tribune
has been pushing the idea of pecan
culture along Caney where thousands
of young native trees abound. We
have endeavored to show the prac-
ticability of the undertaking as well
as its economical phase and its rela-
- live importance to the value of the
land in that section. We have re-
peatedly advised that the A. and M.
College would furnish students who
would instruct and assist the farmer
or land owner In budding as well as
In the care of the trees and the shap-
ing up of orchards. There is no one
thing in this section that is greater in
possibility than pecan culture along
Caney. Read the article referred to.
It is in today's Tribune.
takes it away from well exercised ef-I
fort during the life of individuals and
industry. Both are wrong from any
angle from which they are viewed. (
As to the income tax. this paper i
claims that any tax system that can
pile up nearly a half billion unneeded insecticides
less than you can
order house.
condition in order that the disease
fighting agents of the body may suc-
cessfuny combat germs entering the
body. Overeating, loss of sleep, fa-
tigue. expo-tiro, and worry all tend
to lower body resistance, and are con-
ditions that should be avoided.
“It would be well if colds could be
quarantined as other communicable
disease, but as this is impractical, it
is advisable to avoid as much as pos-
sible persons suffering from this mal-
ady. If you have a <old. give it seri-
ous consideration, as it may be the
beginning of what is termed the "flu,”
and if neglected, may result in pneu-
monia. or other serious complica-
tions.”
Governor Moody has included in
his legislative program an appeal for
an efficient and economical develop-
ment of a system of correlated state
highways, taking care to safeguard
u:.iinst the evils shown to exist in the
a ’ "dnistration of highway affairs in
the state, and providing an equitable
means of securing adequate revenues
for the highway department. Shorn
of eloquence, the governor's recom-
mendation means, simply, that all con-
cerned get busy and make every dol-
lar buy a dollar's worth of road. By
“correlated" is meant, in plain Eng-
lish to finish a j<b and finish it
right, once it is started. The ;ov-1
ernor’s suggestion is all right. Now |
if he can keep politics out of the plan |
and the political spellbinders away 1
from the department, all things might I
rock along smoothly enough.
The fact that exj>ert advice and
the actual work of experts can both
be secured at A. and M. College,
should speedily transform much of
Caney Valley from a wilderness to
valuable pecan groves. The thou-
thousands of young trees growing wild
all along that old stream can be
turned into producers of value at
very little cost to the owner The
buds from fine stock are quoted at
about two cents each and the work
of budding can be done by A. and M.
students at a very reasonable per
diem Owners of Caney land can not
find anything more profitable, and
a letter to the dean of A. and M will
bring some valuable Information
Sim e, through the foresight, good |
business judgment or the ability to
make things go, some influential men '
and interests got in behind the fig ,
industry und g ive it stability, the bus-
iness has increased wonderfully in the '
general estimation of the people, and I
can now be looked upon as a success.;
For years, even though some signal
individual successes were recorded,
the fig business of the Gulf Coast
was looked upon as i sort of card
game. Two or three y irs ago. how-:
ever, tin Kempner interests, of Gal- 1
eston, and \V T. Eldridge, of Sugar- j
land, decided to put their money and :
marketing ability back of the finish-,
ed product of the fig orchards. The
result is well known. Figs took a '
long forward step toward stability .
<nd success. Canneries sold all their
output for several years to come and i
hundreds of tons of the finished prod-
uct have been turned over to the trade.
There have been some Interesting '
stories of the fabulous sums realized
per acre from figs. Some have claim-
ed $1000. others $400 and $500. In an
isolated case here and there some of
these might be verified, but not gen-
erally. However, it is no unheard of1
thing to see on all sides orchards that
are easily netting their owners more
than $100 per acre. So let’s stop at
■r clear profit of $100 on the average
—year after year. Isn't that enough,
and can you beat It? But such is not
only a possibility. It is as n-arly cer-
tain as any crop ever got to be. and
remember there are hundreds and
thousands of acres of fig land, the
best the world has ever seen, in this,
the Mid-Coast of Texas.
i From State Board of Health I
The season of the "common cold"
is aeain with us. and too often these
. old- are regarded lightly and allowed
<• i tn their course causing Serious
implications, advises the state board
of health. The causative agent of i
olds is generally conceded to be a
germ of communicable nature, this
living responsible for the usual epl- .
demic nature of colds.
"Secondary factors contribulive to
catching cold are sudden changes in ,
body temperature, exposure to wet or
cold, or other causes leading to low-
ered body resistance to disease germs.
The incidence of colds is not confined
to any particular climate, as statisti-
cal studies along this line show citi-
zens of more agreeable climates suf-
fering equally with those of more se-
vere climes.” ,
Prevention of Colds. i
■ If you wish to. stay free of colds.' mas rush, helping herself as did the
strive to keep in’ the best physical jothers.
are reflected in the prices the cotton
grower receives. Probably the boird
thought it could see 18.600.000 bales at
the time the report was issued, out
-nice the gins did rot materialize that
much actual cot'tr by 2.000.000 hales
goes to prove that the board did
t take into consideration the f.dure
get any considerable
<•< tion from the fields.
in the price a ' rop of 16.600.VOv bales
would have brought and the prl e the
.supposed crop of 18.600.000 bales did
; bring represents
The boys buoyed i cotion grow
tigiate liu'l no tiasis of
a result the South Is poorer by a cool
humlred million or more while he
speculator has reaped his usual profu.
poses of raising public revenue,
the whole fabric of our taxing sys-
tem, nothing else smacks sc much of
>r based in considerations other
right.” Mr. Willacy then says
“public right to private property
based purely in the incidence of
death, is. in principle, little different
from pub.ic right to take the same
private property in the incidence of
life.” in other words, what right has
the government to steal the property
of a dead man who made a fortune
in years of toil and initiative during
a useful life not only to himself, fam-
ily and associates, but to the very
government that now seeks to rob
those to whom his property has been
left. There is great opposition to the
inheritance tax. but as wrong as it is.
it is no more so, nor any more the
child of expediency, than the income
tax. The inheritance tax would rob
the dead man of years of honest toil
and struggle whereas the income tax | |
p. sc of running train
five per cent o' all railroa I crossings time he
accidetr "jvi a »>•«•<■• exactly this something I!.. :........ .
conditio 1 md ninety-five are. there- from tin- botlj; politic tin hordes of I 1
fore. u.vUuble. The ire A lb. Icgis■ (officials, taxgalhers, snoopers ouu
lature aroused may cause the rail- spies whom, he avers, are swarming
roads a lot of trouble and make them over the country like the lice of
out millions of dollars for differ- Egypt, devouring the substance of the
cut kinds of crossing, but if its members people. He also advocated a rever-
wili use good sense by putting some slon to the constitutional principles of
of the responsibility on the automo- federated government and the re-es-
ill have solved the stablishment of human liberty as the
This paper deplores high aim of political activity. The
the awful tragedy at Round Rock, but Missouri senator said the difficulties
at the sutne time it feels confident of government would be "greatly slm-
that it was caused as much by care- plified” if we could always keep in
lessness as anything else. if. indeed, mind that each human being is
that was not wholly the cause. If ilowed by his creator, with the abso-
there is any doubt about what causes lute right to live his own life; choose
so many regrettable affairs of the his own occupation; select his own
kind all that Is necessary to dispel it habitation: eat and drink whatsoever
is for one to stand on any street he chooses, and above everything else,
corner in any town an hour and to think as his brain dictates: to fully
watch automobile drivers, the old as express his opinions, to adopt his
well as the young, the women as well own creed and to worship according
There are very few careful,to his own conscience, without tear
drivers and the wonder is that, there or complaint;
ure not ten times the accidents we
have, to our credit. We can lay plans
and discuss remedies for the fearful
toll of life, but It is going on until directed to an article published in this
the automobile drivers begin to use issue under the heading, "Pecan Serv-
their eyes and ears. The car brakes ice Offered to Farmer." The article
mighty fine, but it is so often too states that junior and senior students
late to apply them.
In giving voice to his opposition to
the inheritance tax Judge John G.
Willacy, in the last issue of his Facts
b>n. says: "A* heretofore
these columns the writer
■f sound philosophy und jus-
nore of expediency in an in-
tax than In all the vast
methods devised for pur-
in
The United States will allow Char-
money
of the bank. That’s the news
with which we are regaled to-
ll Charley had no money Char-
would not be noticed. But
through and by virtue of an unusual
genius which nobisly possessed but
Charley and which no. one has ever
been successful in mimicking, he has j
I gotten together several millions and
! now many people as well as the gov-
ernment are after it. It is not because
Charley has sinned or violated any
law of the country or of society. It
is merely because he has some money
that he Is in trouble. The man's own
genius made this money and his apti-
tude lor thrift saved it, and yet there
arise several agencies, not a one of
which is directly. Indirectly, remotely
___or in any other conceivable way re-
<>Y the position and I «ponrible for the making or accumu-
*.............. ' latlng of a single one cent piece of
eager and ready to take It away
in this proceedure it is
any other name it
Turner Hubby will tender his resig-
nation as state game, fish and oyster
commissioner next Monday Hubby la
an appointee of former Governor Fer-
guson and, in resigning, is making
way for Governor Moody's choice for
the position. It will be a hard mat-
ter to find a better man for the job
that Turner Hubby, and Governor
______r would make no mistake, if I for at least a thousand acres of work-
the perchance, he reappoints him. led over pecan trees. As for figs, the
■■ * county should boast of 4000 acres in-
Our Job printing cannot be beaten stead of 400.
Queen Mary patronized a self-serve
cafeteria in London during the Christ-
ll J i'll ” I 'll .'I »(,! ll XTX7 WllSOf 1X1C10 11
strive to keep in’ the best physical others.
Sa
’2
I
complaining of the price At no place
in Texas will strawberries do better
than here. They come on early and
produce remarkably well and tor pe-
riods of time every season It Is mar-
vellous that not even enough are
grown here to supply the local trade
when every yard in town could pro-
| duce its own
>9
THE DEMANDS OF GOOD
x
X
CITIZENSHIP
The demands of good citizenship are
measured in terms of Thrift, Econ-
__omy, a Reserve Bank Account and a
bank reference.
It is good business, as well as good
citizenship, to put every surplus dollar
in the bank.
Citizens State Bank
The man who is particular about these
things creates prestige for himself,
and inspires the confidence and respect
of his fellows.
FT
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 81, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1927, newspaper, January 28, 1927; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1309790/m1/4/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.