The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1927 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME LXXX1I NUMBER 17.
BAY CITY, TEXAS FRIDAY, .11 l.Y 29. 19*27.
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TAX COLLECTOR
RAPS AMENDMENT
STATE EXPERTS
WILL BE HERE
THIS SECTION GETS
DOWNPOUR OF RAIN
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and concrete, detour around
the bridges are being built.
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was never any doubt as to where or
Men differed with him,
"This hits been the best your that
Texas Ims enjoyed in the past eight
for a <
of cotton.
One of the heaviest ruins of the sea-
son fell lute Sunday afternoon In this
Immediate section, reaching to llous-
divide the work, so Hint everyone who
is interested, could attend one or the
Mark the date of
Lost.
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1000
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Card of Thanks
Kellogg’s
Will Be Given Broad-
side This Week.
Pecan Specialists Will
Arrive in Bay City Au-
gust I for hour Days
I eaching Budding and
Treating of I rees.
Be Voted on
Dangerous.
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(Iljc Jttotagorda County tribune
Prominent Bay City Willard Says Proposal to
Lawyer and Citizen
Passed Away at Broth-
er’s Resort Home Near
Freeport.
Mayfield Talks About
Flood Control and
Re-election
COUNTY-WIDE
ADVERTISING
CAMPAIGN
TEXAS STOCKMEN SOLON PLANS
ENJOY GOOD YEAR
TO INCREASE
COTTON PRICE
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„71 -1. It has a splendid
school and is also served by the Gulf
Coast Lines route.
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Allen-Matthews
W. R. WILLARD,
Tax Assessor and Collector, City
of Galveston.
Galveston, July 5.
puny in the World War.
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South Coast League
Standing
Played.
Freeport 2
Gulf 2
Baytown 2
So. Pac. 1
Galveston 1
We wish to express our apprecia-
tion to friends in Bay City and else-
where for the unselfish interest you
have manifested tn our behalf since
the acciednt to our boy at Carlsbad,
N. M.
Billie is now in the Masonic Hos-
pital at El Paso, making slow, but we
hope, sure progress toward recovery
and he. as well as his mother who is
with him, appreciates all words of en-
couragement sent him.
Mr. and Mrs. A .E. Stinnett.
seem to be all the heart could
from the flavor.
Bay City and Matagorda County
should be developed along the lines
of better fruit. While we do not ad-
vocate commercial orchards, we be-
have
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According to Pliny, Cato believed
that husband started kissing in order
to determine whether their wives and
daughters had been drinking wine.
In India rickets are more prevalent
among high-caste Hindu children who
are kept indoors than among low-
caste children who play in the sun.
Concrete Pouring on
West Columbia Section
Is Finished.
of the worst sections
muddy road during rainy weather.
Route Undertermined.
At the San Bernard I”
routing of the highway to Bay City i dency a certainty and shaped the po-
' liticai life and destiny of a world re-
nowned figure. He was also a dele-
gate to the national democratic con-
vention, which witnessed the memor-
able fight between McAdoo and Smith.
At home and with home people Mr.
Wilson was a most loveable man. Un-
noted in
lust year
Has Method of Using
Low Grade Staple
For Bagging
will mean the connecting of West
Columbia and Houston with a paved
and surfaced road a
Editor's Note: The Tribune has
been informed that what Mr. Willard
has said in his article applies more
forcefully to Matagorda County, even,
than to the city of Galveston, for the
reason that the percentage of corpor-
ately owned property in Matagorda
County is more than double that in
the city of Galveston.
Judging by the news in the big
papers, the people all over the state
are becoming aroused to the serious-
ness of next Monday's election and are
going to the polls to register a protest
against, not only the tax measure, but
the other three as well.
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Our job printing cannot be beaten
Morning News. June 21, 1927:
“Nothing in my Judgment could ren-
der revenues for the support of local
government more uncertain than the
adoption of this amendment.
“Nothing would make revenues for
all purposes more uncertain than the
adoption of the amendment.
“Nothing else could put the Issue of
taxation in politics more effectually
than the adoption of this amendment.
"Since it leaves to the legislature
the classification of all the objects of
taxation, and it may make a new clas-
sification every time it meets, every
two years,, the political campaigns
would be fought out on the proper
classificcafions of the objects of taxa-
tion and the classification would be so
Bay City, as well as this entire sec-
tion of the state, was shocked last
night when the news of the sudden
death of Hon. W. D. Wilson was sent
out from his brothers’ summer home
near Freeport, where be was visiting.
Death came to Mr. Wilson suddenly
and apparently without warning. He
went over to visit with his brother
only yesterday (Tuesday) morning.
Mrs. Wilson and the children were in
Kerrville, but left there late last night
upon receipt of the sad news. Mr.
Wilson’s remains arrived today on the
noon train. The funeral will take
place tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon
at 3:30 o’clock.
W. D. Wilson was one of the coun-
ty's most prominent as well as most
likeable citizens. He was a long time
resident of Bay City, an early settler,
as it were, and a native of Brazoria
County, an honored scion of a pioneer,
prosperous and distinguished family.
He was foremost in politics of his sec-
tion and state, but was content with
working for his favorite and his prin-
ciples, never caring for honors of of-
fice or glories of battles. He was a
lawyer of ability and possessed a rare
legal mind, which was looked upon,
and generally regarded, as one of the
keenest and most profound. In his
political affairs and In which, until
Every grocery merchant in Matagor-
da County will be called upon this
week to participate In a county-wide
advertising campaign in behalf of the
Kellogg Corn Flakes Company.
Full page advertisements will
run in Friday's Daily Tribune and in
The Weekly. These advertisements
carry coupons, each coupon good for
a full size package of the celebrated
Kellogg's Corn Flakes, the coupon
being redeemable at any grocery store
handling the Kellogg products.
The force of special salesmen now
here and ready to cover the county
consists of Messrs. R. K. Dixon, G. H.
Flynn and E. E. Massey. They will
attend to the campaign in its entirety
and call in person on all the grocery
merchants In the county.
Watch Friday’s Daily Tribune and
The Weekly for your coupon. It is in
the page advertisement being used
and which explains the whole thing
thoroughly.
“I am generally opposed to a tariff,!
but if the republican party is going
to maintain the tariff as a .
policy of the government our only sal- ’
vat ion here in the Sout h is to estab-1
lish the same protection for our agri-
cultural interests.”
The senator said flood control is
vey of all the surplus cotton in the
.7.7...: • o,her of the places.
statedone nearest your home and bo on
' bund to see this demonstration work.
tendency in the w,‘ mny not (,ie ''••ance to get
something for nothing In a long lime.
Mon are paid big salaries to do this
work and if you would have to pay
for tlie time of an expert, you would
have Io have a pretty big backing to
finance the work specialists are doing
free of cost.
Let's make this mans' work worth
while and give him an audience so
that his work will be made worth
while here.
amend-
These are California and Vir-
plum trees and things that will grow
In Bay City and Matagorda County.
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Forty Bales Ginned
Four thousand dollars or be^.er of
new money have already rolled into
Bay City for the 40 bales of cotton
received and ginned at the Rugeley
gin up to closing time last night.
The cotton is running fine in grade
and is dry and clean.
Several more bales came In today.
Next week, if no rains come, ginning
will be active.
it serves no communities along
route are the two most serious,
cording to the proponents of
Sweeny routing, Jones states.
At a meeting of interested citizens
in the Sweeny community last Trurs-
day, attended by Jones and Wilcox,
the folks of that section decided to
recommend to the state highway com-
mittee the routing of the highway
from West Columbia through Sweeny,
Hasima, Allenhurst and thence to Van
Vleck. Jones said. And these folks
point out that the route should come
their way because they have the funds
to provide for the paving of the high-
way through their section, that It will
serve several communities of which
Sweeny has some 600 population, and
the road will provide transportation
for one of the richest agriculture sec-
tions shipping more truck, cotton,
corn and live stock than any other
in that neck of the country. On the
other hand, the other routing serves
only the purpose for a through trail
and there are no funds to build it with
or a chance of securing, any, Mr. Jack-
son advises.
Sweeny section is a thriving com-
munity of well cultivated farms in a
rich black land belt, Mr. Jones con-
tinued. The country is high and roll-
ing, and its people are
and progressive. Il -
, he
| with his people, loved, respected and
We hardly knew that apples would
settled > 1,1 Buy City, but after being pre-
Row-] ’ - •
ever, traffic is driving over the shell ; with himself and his people.
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With a I how he stood.
little pushing ahead of this work it but admired and respected him al-
ways.
Mr. Wilson, in his earlier . ,
distance of 55 J served Brazoria and Matagorda Coun-
niiles, part of which will eliminate one ties as u member of the legislative,
of the worst sections of impassable | He was a leader in his party affairs
in the county for years and was one
T of the “Immortal Forty” from Texas
River, the i who made Woodrow Wilson’s presi-
BY K. M. II AR KEY,
' Secretary Bay City Chamber of Com.
meree.
We wish to notify nil those who are
interested ill the pecan budding, top
working, etc., of pecan trees, that Mr.
Romberg of the stale department of
ion Wednesday, didn’t want to diacuae agriculture at Austin, will be with us
...nil.. ........... for four tliivu innlnif AiuriiHt 1
way of knowing about how much rev-
enue may be expected for any one lo-
cality or any project.”
"Our tax system is now stable and
certain as death, but it could be worse
and it is my opinion that the adoption
of the amendment would make It more
unstable and less certain, more vexa-
tious in politics, yet with no hope of
a tax reduction, but with every pros-
pect of an Increase.”
After all the people are the arbi-
ters of their own destinies, and 1 be-
lieve in such a vital question as this
one they can be trusted to go to the
polls on August 1 and defeat this
amendment.
Surviving are j
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seated with some fruit pulled from a
I tree in the buckyard of Mr. Pat Glenn
1 we were convinced. We find that
] these apples are perfect in texture and
Utinm 1 t\ I Wk nil filo hz.rief z>zx«>l<1 aaetale
one of the biggest problems to con-
front congress at the December ses-
sion.
He said he favored a system of res-
ervoirs and spillways.
The senator predicted the bill he
got through the senate twice, restor-
ing the powers of the state railroad
commission, would be passed a third
time in the senate at the next session.
"It will mean a wonderful develop-
Won.
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The trunk of a single walnut tree
six feet in diameter, grown in Ken-
tucky, recently sold lor $625.
panics, oil companies, etc.
A rough estimate of what Galveston
stands to lose in taxable values would
easily aggregate $15,000,000, and that
means a loss of at least 25 per cent
of all revenues.
Can we afford to take a chance on
any such loss?
We can not, as It takes money to
run a municipality, and If the state
legislature takes from us the right to
levy a tax on the corporations of this
city, there is only one alternative, and
that is to raise the valuations of every
home owner in Galveston, to make up
for the loss sustained by this amend-
ment.
in my judgment a more vicious law
was never conceived and the people
should be thoroughly aroused and give
this subject honest and careful thought
before they sacrifice their tux rights
us now guaranteed them by the con-
stitution of this state.
The present governor of California
on May 12. 1927, has just approved a
bill for a commission to formulate
some plan that will abolish their pres-
ent system of taxation.
Objections to System.
Why should Texas now adopt a
system of taxation that after seventeen
years' fair trial in California is being
discarded by that state?
Let me quote from V. A. Collins,
Dallas, Texas, as published in Dallas staves at the market price.
suit is the farmer thinks he is getting flcult going.
paid for the wrapping, when as a
matter of fact he pays for it in de- '
creased price he gets for his cotton.
"The South has always bought ghat
it consumed on a protected market
and sold its agricultural products on
If we can ex-,
country by a
make a demand for for a short time, passing away to the
2,000,000 bales of cheap grade of cot- north.
ton annually. That cheap cotton car-
ried over now annually depresses the
price of our cotton. If we would use
cotton bagging we would add four I
cents a pound to every pound of cot-
ton the farmer grows.
Only Salvation.
lieve that every family should
sufficient trees of plums, grapefruit,
oranges and apples, as they seem to
do well, to furnish fruit for their own
use.
It is a demonstrated fact that the
ment of railroads In many sections of ;*'**rl*M will grow to perfection
Texas,” he predicted. | n this, climate, along with the
a competitive market.
elude jute from this
tariff we can
was
voted upon and carried in 1910, and
reads as follows:
"Section 14 of Arltcle 13. Taxes
levied, assessed and collected as here-
inafter provided upon railroads, in-
cluding street railways, whether oper-
ated in one or more 'tounties; sleeping
car, dining, drawing and palace car
companies; refrigerator, oil, stock,
fruit and other car-loaning and other
car companies operating upon rail-
roads in this state, telegraph, tele-
phone companies; companies engaged
in the transmission to sale of gas or
electricity; insurance companies;
banks, banking Ansociations, saving
and loan societies and trust companies
and taxes upon all franchises of every
kind and nature, shall be entirely and
exclusively for state purposes, and
shall be levied, assessed and collected
in the manner hereinafter provided.”
The word “companies" as used In
this section, shall include persons,
partnerships, joint-stock associations,
companies and corporations.
The above amendment is much more
specific than that proposed by the
Texas legislature, inasmuch as it sets
out and defines clearly just what its
scope of operations should be, while
the proposed Texas amendment is
vague and Indefinite as to what its
intentions are, but there can be no
question, if this amendment carries
in its present form, the Texas legisla-
ture can at any time extend its pro-
visions to take in and include all prop-
erties of whatever nature for "state
tax purposes” they choose. I do not
believe the people of this state are
willing or ready to give over to the
legislature of this state carte-blanche
and a free hand without restraint to
do in tax matters as they choose.
Want Law Changed.
We read from the Texas Tax Jour-
nal (June number) that, after a trial
of six years in California of the
amendment as passed in 1910 by the often changed that there would be no
California legislature the people of
that state were so incensed over tax
matters that Governor Hiram Johnson
asked for and received an appropria-
tion of $75,000 for the purpose of ap-
pointing a commission to investigate
and make a report on the operations
of that law.
Still quoting from the Texas Tax
Journal, let me give you a few of the
findings of that commission.
"Some device is needed to restore
the people's direct pocketbook inter-
est to state appropriations.
"The public utilities are now ex-
empt from local taxation so that the
'people pay the taxes tor local expen-
ditures.’ The property of the corpor-
ations is benefited by every dollar ex-
pended for local Improvements, but
they bear no part of the cost under the
present plan of separation.
"Another objection to the present
system arises from the fact that it
is confusing, expensive and extremely
unsatisfactory to continue the attempt
every two years to equalize the bur-
den of tax borne by public service cor-
porations and that borne by locally as-
sessed property.”
Let me say here that Galveston, so
far as tax matters are concerned,
would be hard hit, if this tax amend-
ment carries, for the reason we have
some large corporations that would
come under the taxing power of the
state if this amendment carries. •
It would include all banks, Galves-
ton Wharf Company, all railway com-
panies, electric companies, gas com-
Fort Worth, July 25 That Texas
stock men are enjoying one of the
most prosperous years In the history
of tlie industry is deduced by promt
nent members of commission firms
here from figures released by the Fort
Worth Stock Yards Company.
Tlie year to date lias lieen marked
by much larger shipments of hogs,
calves and sheep and only a slight de-
crease in tlie number of beef cattle re-
ceived here as compared with last
year, the reports show.
Tlie greatest increase is
the hog division. Whereas
,116.238 hogs had been shipped up to
July 1, 210,216 were shipped up to
is yet undetermined. One route leads
through Chance’s Prairie to aVn
Vleck and another suggested route
leads through Sweeny to Van Vleck, as
shown elswhere in this paper.
The route through Chance’s Prairie
is the line of original designation, but
many obstacles beset, this alignment, assuming, plain, honest in expressions
of which, lack of funds or the means ' of ideas and principles and in bnsi-
of providing funds; and the fact that! ness, truthful, frank and above re-
communities along the' proach in character, he stood well
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the
The paving and improvement of the
military highway connecting Houston
and Palacios where the federal gov-
ernment and the state of Texas have
located the soldiers’ training camp
and grounds for the Texas national
guard is receiving the attention of the
authorities at this time, according to
W. G. Jones, secretary-manager of the
Motor League of South Texas, who, in
company with R. C. Wilcox, engineer
of the motor league, made a trip over
part of the route Thursday.
The route, which is made over state
highway 19, from Houston to Angle-
ton, then state highway 58 through
West Columbia. Van Vleck, Bay City
and Markham to Midfield, then state
highway 59 through Blessing to Pala-
cios. is being paved and bridged from
Angleton to West Columbia and shell-
ed to San Bernard River, Mr. Jones
reported.
The concrete, about seven and
quarter miles from West Columbia
east towards Angleton is all finished,
but the bridging is yet under construc-
tion; in about two weeks the shell
surfacing of about one and a quarter
miles will have been laid and con-
nected with the Angleton shelled sec-
tion on state highway 58. Westward
out of AVest Columbia the road is
being graded to be followed by shell
surface towards the San Bernard
River, a distance of three miles where
a steel and concrete bridge is being
It will be several months , very recent years he took a keen de-
before this work is finished. How-1 light, he was open and frank, honest
Mr. J. W. Allen Jr. of Houston and
Miss Stella Matthews, daughter of Mr.
anfrjrs. W. A. Matthews of Caney,
wei.JFiliited In marriage at the First
Methodist Church in Houston, Tues-
day. July 19.
They will
home.
To The Galveston News.
Every voter in the State of Texas
should think twice before going to
(lie polls August 1, 1927, and vote for
a "tax measure" which, if put over,1
will absolutely void Section 48 of Ar- !
tide 3 of our state constitution, which |
provides that "the legislature shall
not have the right to levy taxes or
Impose burdens upon the people ex-
cept to raise revenue sufficient for the 'the same date last year,
economical administration of the gov-1 ••'ni.,.. i.... , >
ernment,” and in contrast to the 7^-
above, I ask you to read carefully the ()r jo •• cluirles Daggett, memtier of a
proposed constitutional amendment, commission firm, said.
which you are asked to vote for Au- ditions have lieen belter than usual,
gust 1. {shipments have lieen larger and prices
“Section la. The legislature may better.
separate the objects of taxation for I 1
state purposes from the objects of Jr,
taxation for the support of the coun- ]country must
ties, districts and political
sions of tlie state and counties;
Culii'ornla’s Law.
Tiie California amendment
it serves no <
route are the two most serious,
cording to the proponents
Sweeny routing, Jones said.
At a meeting of interested citizens in
the Sweeny community last Thursday
attended by Jones and Wilcox, the
folks of that section decided to recom-
mend to the state highway commis-
sion the routing of the highway from
West Columbia through Sweeny, Has-
ima, Allenhurst and thence to Van
Vleck, as shown elesewhere in til’s
paper.
Tho route through Chance's Prairie
is the line of original designation, but
many obstacles beset this alignment,
of which, lack of funds or the means
of providing funds; and the fact that
the
ac-
the
lerly developed, and could be made
- ' fru,t KrowinK county
Chamber of Commerce and a reunion ' ,an<l we would like very much to
of Captain J. Lewis Thompson's com- 1 1,1 ,uly w“y possible to get more
_ nilini IrtUiU and tLlnara will crmvi.*
country and determine just its grade.
"No less a market and economic
authority as Theodore Price
Hint the mere introduction of Hie liill
caused an upward
cotton market. After its enactment by
congress and approval by the presi-
dent the price of cotton wont up three
cents a pound.
"Then 1 got an appropriation
through to lm\’e Hie department of
agriculture make an investigation of
new potential uses of cotton. Dr. B.
Youngblood of A. and M. College is
now engaged in that work."
Senator Mayfield displayed samples
of cotton bugging and cotton fabric
Dr. Youngblood had given him.
"This is a better bagging than we
now get from jute,” he explained.
"Tlie jute comes from India. There is
a ver ystiff tax on the manufactured
jute bugging and a very small tux on
the cotton yarn, which is a reversal of
all our ideas of a tariff.
Trude Agreement.
“By trade agreement on every bale
of cotton exported 30 pounds is al-'ton, north.
lowed for the cotton bagging and | The streets were flooded, roads made
Tlie re- heavy and many automobiles had dlf-
Parties bound for other
places were turned back and kept here
for the night .while those coming in
were delayed and rain-soaked.
The Gulf ball team spent the night
on the road, reaching here at an early
hour this morning.
Tiie rain came up with stormllke
proportions and literally poured down
"1 know of no particular reason for
ilt, except that conditions over the
‘•'Ojiory must tie generally better,
subdivi- Money lias not lieen so tight as usual,
and Demand for livestock of all sorts lias
may provide for tlie levy of an ad been heavy, and tlie supply has lieen
valorem tax. or other form of tax. on equal Io Hie demand. It’s just one of
certain classes of taxable property, or those good years tlie live stock man
other objects, for state purposes only runs across every once in 11 while.”
(including school purposes) or upon ,
certain classes of property, or other
objects, for county or local purposes
<ineluding school purposes). in no
event shall the rate of such taxes ex-
ceed the sum of the limits of such
taxes fixed by this constitution for
state, county and other local purposes.
“The legislature may provide for the
classification of objects of taxation.
Taxation shall be equal and uniform.
There are only two states in the
union that have laws in any way sim-
ilar to the above proposed
ment.
ginia.
politics, except to say that he "re- for four days, beginning August 1.
g.irded liis re-election to the United' For the benefit of everyone who may
States Semite as absolutely certain.” ■ be Interested, we will hold a pecan
The senator did want to disc uss rem- ■ demonstration at Mr. W. M. Belcher's
edies lie is proposing for the low price' home in Hay City at 10 a. m. August
of cotton and Mississippi flood con-' 1 and also at Dr. Sliolar’s home, be-
trol. | tween Hay City and Van Vleck, at 3
He declured one act he put through* I>. m.
added three j man’s farm, Sargent, Tuesday morn-
which ing, 9:30 a. m., August 2.
I tion at S.
Texas," he predicted. this climate, along with tho fig
The senator is on his way to Trinity orchards of Matagorda County, it prop-
County where he is to speak at a re- , r’y developed, and could be made a
gional meeting of the East Texas' ,’ru*t KrowinK county along certain
the last congress hud
cents to the price of cotton, which ] ing. 9:30 a. m„ August 2. Deinonstru-
last summer reached the lowest price tion nt S. It. Walker's farm, Cedar
since 1921. | lame. 2 p. m., August 2. Demonstra-
tion at H L. Brown's farm, between
Au Humble Oil and Relining Co.
roadster driven liy two young men
caught fire and was destroyed last
night, on Hie Bay City-Matagorda
road-
it is reported the ear was covered
by insurance.
honored by them.
He was a member of the Episcopal
Church and a Mason,
his wife and two children. Eugene and |
Helen, and to whom the sympathy
is entire section is extended.
Jute Tariff.
He said further legislation putting
a tariff on jute and jute products
would add another four cents to tlie
price of cotton, by bringing about tlie
annual consumption of 2.Dot),ouo bales
of low grades of cotton.
“On August 1. 1926, we had a sur-
plus of 3,500,000 bales on hand,” ex-
plained tiie senator. "Tills was In-
creased August 1, 1927, to an esti-
mated 8,51)1),000 bales. This cotton
was increased August 1, 1927, to an
estimated 8,500,000 bales. This cot-
ton was mostly of low grade. Tho
Cotton Futures net of 1926 provided
classification of only 11) grades i
Ion. I introduced and got enact-
ed in the law a provision the secre-
Blessing and Midfield, 10 a. m., Au-
Dute for August 4 will be held
open for special demonstration work.
The pecan crop tn Matagorda Coun-
ty cun ho made one of the greatest
money producing crops and one that
every farmer should know how to
handle. Through our work, for tho
benefit of Bay City and tho county at
largo, we have been able to get an
expert to demonstrate pecan work in
the county on the above dates. This
is one of the projects that the Hay
1 City Chamber of Commerce, through
its community effort, Is trying to pro-
mote and it will now be up to those
I who want to learn, to attend these
...v meetings. We could not visit all por-
tary of agriculture should make a stir- 1,1 ll"' *,ul lir” Irying to
. .. .• ■■ .1. ______ 1. . ... 1.. .t (livi(h> 1 work h<i f lint pvnrvotio wlin
Home Grown Apples
Presented C. of C. by
Pat Glenn, M-P Agent
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, July 29, 1927, newspaper, July 29, 1927; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1309816/m1/1/?q=wilson: 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.