The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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WARD CARLE COMPANY
CONGRESSIONAL
The State of T<
We Mind Our P’s & Q’s
IN HANDS OF RECEIVER
III
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Pre'h ii Instill, of 1 ictorig, \p|i<>1111 i ll
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Ward t attle Co ,
w
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t n t i io a m
the
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That’s Why Wf Recommend
11 i ill self
was
Chase & Sanborn’s High Grade leas
publication
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LOO I til.
wi- can
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ANDERSON
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The General Store
our
For Sale
It. Pie
their
Houston
mule
horse
Have
or
lieu
We have
FEED
Jj
The
and all
For
one
\ Oil
Le Tulle Mercantile Co
Feed Dept.
PHONE 43
UGH' CALOMEL MAKES
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Subject to tile
Action of tile
'lau's ( iiion Primaries.
Horrible!
HIE RANDOM SHOT.
I It
1
I knew not
his
" pay him six dollars and
to slay some
swore it killed his
'V
titan
argue across the
cents.
MRS.
HI LI A
Still 0 ELL.
farmer’s
a
must settle or
go to
way with the random
Precinct
Precinct
The Hally Tribune. 40c a month
The Dally Tribune, 40c a
a month.
Again we
•re
l<.r
23c. 50c. |l <m
>
a
c$>
M
W hite,
If business Is dull, stimulate it with
«• ad in The Tribune.
Prices Right
Purity Unequaled
Quality Highest
Quickest Selling
It is not tlio fault
Our climate is mild
• liger
day s.
For Tax Collector:
THOS. IL CASTLETON
if ur any
< ‘oiinlv
('oustable of
Gil KEYING:
The
< clone
«'X ruses
For Sheriff:
BERT CARR
For County Judge:
K. R. LEWIS (re-electionI
Fur District Clerk:
•)NO. F. PERRY
w holt
I’exns,
For County Surveyor:
J C. CARRINGTON.
For County .Attorney:
G. B. ROBERTSON.
YOI
summon.
I
fellow, lie
shingle
For Tax Assessor:
W. C. LLOYD.
foreclosure of
Sill
. on
term
■
I
«
c
curated governor,
his
Slates senator
you a .iv. ov,
chickens?
you
■>
soma fellow’s
—Handshake.
«itu WUIW Htmedes Won't Cure
saassaas^
< RE\MIin SI A I IDA
BEING ESI tBI.IslII D.
For County Commissioner
No. Two:
J. B. HAWKINS. Matagorda
For County Commissioner.
No. One:
LOUIS HUEBNER.
■■■■ O———O r ■
AI D “GREEN 011.“ W ELL M AhES 50
interest in
We are abso-
•••••••••••••••••
• WILL S. H 0 L M A N
• Attorney-st-Law
• Will practice In Appellate, Su-
• pretne and Federal Courts
• Office In the Courthouse
• Bay City, Texas
••••e..aet«saaait
of the defendant is unknown to the
...• writ of
costs, etc.
? you
Word was receiv'd here this morn-
ing of the death of Mrs. Helen Hart-
well. of Palacios. Mrs. Hartwell's
husband whs an Episcopal minister in
this county many years ago and made
his home in Matagorda.
Mrs Annie Rugeley went over to
Palaeios this morning to be with the
funeral party. The remains will be
taken to Comanche for interment.
<>i tile
business
County Commissioner. Precinct (
a toy balloon.
soar until it
' .S
'Al L.
Chich^ERspills
W' W
ft /
LT A*'2 i!lown ®*J Ci51 Alwayt Reliable
SOLO 8Y DRLGGISTS f VLRYWHEF
of the T X IS
..idles ari beginning to
against ( \clone Davis,
ladies git it in for a
just as wi H pull in his
towns the
resolute”
Whenever tin
had |.lune. A.
I answer a
on
I In
I said court No.
1 liey are the Quality to I’ ease you tn your
(^ttest for Prime Quality
Quit using I’oor tea
Buy CHASE & SANBORN’S
Sixty cents to a Dollar I’er Pound
A Pound makes two hundred cups.
they are very mil'll
strength of Mr. Col-
before tile peopli
to their lineage
e native A nerlcans or
all of whom are
Now let all work with the secretary
of the league as faithfully as ho works.
His work is arduous and the results
low. So far what has been accom-
County Treaturer.
GEO. E. SERR1LL i re-election )
Bl SI NESS MEI HAG Ol
HIE PHIDI LIS I'l.tSS.
with all the excuses
nt us is that the
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proper spot,
spring, that
think so smart,
May leave a wound in
. heart.
from Hie
republic .
ek their promotion
devotion
trni
possession,
I the etablisliment
: his first, prior
against
For C------ ~ ‘ '
Number 4:
C V. (Charley) CARINI8S,
(of Markham).
For County Superintendent
W F. PACK
COW,
One night I set sailing ;
And hoped ft would
reached the moon,
<m
I rouble
Davis has
are more
original remarks
use Cyck, old boy. you've "done gone
and done it." so keep your little ex-
cuses to yourself.
Announcement was made Monday
by l’’e Kellersberger Oil Company that
its No. 1 well, midway between Hum-
ble and Moonshine Hill, was bailing
with promise of 50 barrels or better a
day . This well is producing a high
grade of green oil, and is the only
green oil well in that vicinity, by an
odd freak <>f nature. The company
plans to start drilling its No 2 well
this week. -Chronicle.
MIND YOUR P’s & Q’s
Me haven't heard of any pa
ships sunk in the past few
Things are becoming more civilized
same beiim
twe< n. me hour
anil I o’clock I
sale at public i
tou re bilious, sluggish, constipated
and believe you need vile, dangerous
calomel to start your liver and clean
your bowels.
Here's my
druggist tor .
llshed there- '
newspaper ;
'iferrlng to tie public notices posted
at the courthouse al Bay City , aud at
Wadsworth and Palaeios.
(Signedi tt M. Holland,
tdininistratoi of S. T. Gilbert,
Deceased 28-5-1 !-19w
Il lilt* (tin I I - |
. Matagorda '
.Ul'l
to
•••••••••••••A
J. W. CONGER •
A tterney-at-Law •
Wil] Practice In All the Courts. •
Office over First Nat’l Bank, •
Ray City, Texas •
•••••••••••••••••
And that Is the
shot—-
It never hits in the
And the joke you
But the candle fell
straw.
And he said I
law.
Constable
GREETING:
\ltE COMMANDED. That you
"ri
ewspaper pub-
j I bought some poison
rats,
And a neighbor
cats,
J And rather
fence
I paid him four dollars and fifty
When Obregon turns his
goes to massacreing the
’■ ■ i'' in soldiers now in thu Interior defendant
5 German Amerleans in New York, pi of Mexico, then yve call so "W . told j
y ou so.”
------ .the
General Scott says the Mexican sit-1
nation now looks "black and ugly
It has looked that way to
I>nst four years, and it
that something is going to lie done
to clear the thing up, one way or the
other.
Thos. Goggan & Bro.
J. E. GRACE, Manager
B*v City. Texas
Oh tho first Tuesduy of June, the
ihr lith dav of June, be-
nt id o'clock a. m.
Hl..
cor County Clerk
■JOHN T BOND.
the year round.
j 'TIs true It has been
r’anv months, but we
tin- young ladies of the town | )rrlgal,. an^ overcome this one
obstacle. f\v a little irrigation this
section could be made one of too ?reat-
e.it truck producing countri’”' to be
f Hind i n . where.
In anticipation of increased activ-
ity in the dairying industry. T. J.
Clark is mnking arrangements to es-
tablish a cream station at his store
j and to put in testing apparatus,
j Mr. Clark will test the cream, take
!care of it and ship it for the farmer.
■ Slippol'l
5 Post.
X The greatest trouble with those who
i are throwing fits over tills whole af
• fair is that Governor Colquitt beat
X them to a most clever political turn
X and cinched wind everyone of them
• ‘would take eagerly. It has always
5 unused us to hear one politician ac-
cuse another of playing polities, or
of one politician's partisans calling
another politician's partisans trick-
sters. for there's nothing that one pol-
Aician will do that the other one
wouldn't do. Ho might not pull off
tile identical .stunt, lint
will spell the same
We luivi
hoarse about the other fellow’s fol-
lowers. when they would give a good
size slush fund to get them.
Colquitt has just ont-gencralo<l
them, that's all.
,iisl IKON. It . Liver, Driv-
ed Ji lin -i, 1'iri ' i the Rio id an 1
Buil.ls up ; .ol ; ci. SO cent*.
Whenever You Need a (ieneral Tonic
Take Grove's
The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless '
chill Tonic is equally valuable as L
General Tonic loeaqse it contains the , . u : tr i'; T \
wcPKn!Y”n,\r 'pr‘L o itito 1 IIL-r " iililn't i uy then:
and It would take millions to buy the
crops they would be made to grow
The Ward Cattle Co , one of tin:
largest i little < uii< erns in this section
State and doing an extensive
in ilu county, w as pUeed in
the liand ol a receiver yesterday.
Preston Austin, of Victoria,
founder of the town of Austwell and
prominent stockman,
made receiver.
To the Sheriff or any
Matagorda County
ARE COMMANDED. That you
! m,u, by making publication of
-aid court, citation in some newspaper pub-
D. P'l.'', (llshed in tin county of Matagorda If
there In- ii newspaper published there-
liut if there be
published in said
then in a I....., , .
nearest district to -aid Twenty-1
ial District, fur four weeks'
i the return day hereof,
Milnor, wiiose resident*! i- un-
' ' re the
e next
<1 i»t ill
Wv Mlpposc •
sot the <’yclone1
must have cost the govern went several 'J. A
hundred dollars to permit Cyclone to
mail out (500,000 pamphlets, 597.000 of
which were tossed ai*de unread
'I'hat was a great bluff Obregon tried
to pull off to frighten the C. S into j t»«rcst
withdraw inc, their troops If he had
the whoh of Mi xlco. Including those
in Texas, behind him. It would not 1
Texas.
Ma lagord.i
YOI
summon, l»> making
this citation in some
lished in the count.'
do that
Ho might not
what lie diu's
•Mns 1,1 1,1 The -Whit!' Way" lighting system
heard them howl theniselv. s .jiomu] t|„. |)tli)i[c
sfiuare is beautiful
and adds much to the appearance of 1
Hie city. But if w e had this system I
on some of the oilier main streets it I
would look still better, don't you
think?
guaranti'e! Ask your
50 cent bottle of Dod-
son'H Liver Tone amt take a spoonful
tonight. If it doesn't start your liver
and straighten you right up better
than calomel and without griping or
making you sick 1 want you to go'
back to tile store ami get your money.
Take ealotuel today aud tomorrow .
you will feel weak and nauseated ami
sick. Don't lose a day's work. Take I
a spoonful of harmless, vegetable
i >i'dson's Liver Tone tonight and wake
up feeling great It's perfectly harm-
less. so give It to your children any
time, it can't salivate, so lot them
eat anything afterwards.
For Congrii-<man. 9th CiHigli s-ioual
District:
GEO. J. SCHLEICHER,
Cuero, Texas.
thereof j
for costs and I
vial District: but it' there lie no newa-
■ paper published in -aid judicial ilis-
■ trior, then in a newspaper published
in the nearest district Io said Twenty-
third Judicial District, for lour weeks
day hereof,
No. 2 \Vm. Evaus, whose resitli nce is tiu-
’i.,..„.vn. to be anil appear before the
- afti r date. Honorable District Court, at the next
III):*, all of said regular term thereof, to he hidden in
bearing interest at the rate of i t)ie county of Matagorda, at tin- eourt-
per annum from date, jn- house thereof, in Bay City on the 1 btli
'' ---------" ' | day of June, A. D. mill, then aud
there to answer a petition filed iu
said court, on the 22nd day of April,
A. D. 1916, in a suit numbered on the
jpocket of said court No. 4315, wherein
11. B. Farwell is plaintiff and Win. A.
Evans is defendant. The nature of
tlie plaintiff's demand being us fol-
lows, lo-wit: Suit for rectssion and
ttU' cancellation of deed from II. B. Far-
tlie in*- well to Win. A. Evans, dated Decetn-
w"r''! bet* 2-'J,
k- Joint - \\ a,,
cios,
It. Is ( vid,nt from tin* excited way
in which .oiiie Texas m wspapers di-
cuss the ineiileiit of former Governor
Colquitt having written to leading
There arc many dollars' worth of
veuetaliles being shipped into Bay City
from other sections, and
these vegetables are being sold to the
local people. What is the matter witli
our local truck growers? Why have-
n't they all these vegetables nn the
market? Besides supplying the linnu
demand, tiny should lie shipping to
I other markets. It Is not the fault ol
I the soil. We have soil around us as
i rieli mid productive as that of the val-
Ice cream aud delicious j {)f thf xj|(,
were served by the charming :(lf tl|v climate.
hostess. and most any vegetable can be grown
Ilu* melting adjoin tied io meet the yPal. round. What is the mutter’
lirst Monday in .itteii witli Miss 1 earl ”pj^ true it lias been very dry for
Morton. manv months, but we must learn to
All of the y oung ladies of the town | (,VPrconlP thls one treat
who are not members of some Sunday |
school class are cordially invited to’
join our class, and enjoy these most |
delightful, interesting and helpfull
meetings.
of the plaintiff's first, prior and su-
perior lien against said property, rep-
resented by said notes, which are
dated December 23. 1910. the first for
$JO(l, due on or before two years after
•lUid lor $250, due on
or before three years after date, with
interest from date at the rate of 8
I per cent per annum, interest payable
I semi-annually, and providing for the
I payment of io per cent per unnum in-
I'top iferest on all past, due principal and
"‘"‘" interest, and also providing that in
s'event the said notes are placed iu the
1 hands of attorneys for collection, ar
if collected by suit or through probate
court 10 per cent additional shall be
I paid at attorney's fees; plaintiff's pe-
I tition. alleging ownership of tin notes
and tlie lien securing their payment,
and also alleging that the residence
c* th.-, *.,L;1......1........
ll’laintiff. Plaintiff prays for
" 1 possession, order of sale, w„,
I HEREIN FAIL NOT. And have you
' i before -aid court on the said first
'ejio.t iieii|(|av of n|p I1PX| |p|.|n thereof, this
I writ, with your endorsement thereon,
shawinz how you .line executed the
same.
Given under my hand and seal of
said court, at office in Bay City, Tex.,
the 22nd day of April. A. I). 1916.
(SEAL) John F Perry.
Clerk District Court. Matagorda
County, Texas. 28-5-12-19-w
The Phidelia class of tlie First Bap-
tist Church met in its regular month-
ly business mooting Monday. Muy I.
at tin* home of Mrs. L. D. Roberts
New officers Were elected for tile
tiext term, wliieli were as follows:
'Miss Eula Sims, president; Mrs. I N.
' Barber, teacher; Mrs. L D. Roberts.
VRII ntATUIV QIPk !ilSl I"' Ml Ft Ilk Hur-
lUU uLnlnLl ulult ley econd vice president; Mis Jose.
; pliine McCullough, third vice presi-
detit; Miss Pearl Morton, secretary
Stop I sing Dangerous Drug Before ,iml treiisurei : Mr Alvin William
It Salivates You! It's lini1 Miss Mabel Hamill, hoiiu depart
1 incut. Miss Maudes Poole, class re-
■ porter.
Tlie I'lass has reached the At stan-
I dard of excellence, and is indeed ,,vprv (|uv
proud of its progress It lias been
i decided that tlie class take up a new
Bilile study course at tlie next meet-
; ing, and Mrs. Barber will conduct
the study class in (laebelein's study
i of the book of Genesis, which will
i prove very iuterosting.
kt tlie close of the business ses-
sion. most delightful refreshments of
I chocolate ice cream and delicious
; eake were served by the charming
Dairying is coming to this section
of the country to stay. Perhaps not
in the history of the town has there
ever been a project suggested or ad-
vanced that is meeting with the suc-
cess this one is. Farmers, merchants,
bankers and everybody. In fact, are
working hand in hand for the indus-
try. When the dairying industry gets
well under way, if not before, the
Business League can find a wonderful
field of endeavor along contractive
lines In working up an
farming by irrigation.
lately allowing a gold mine to slip
between our fingers In not attaching
the importance to wlch it is entitled
when we fail to work this project up
I to its full• -sr pooibiliiiv
’a! say that it' our canal systems were sit- —
t. B'lie nature of tlie plain-
tiff's demand being as follows,
wit: Suit on five promissory
numbered 2. 3.
i tiy $16.till, anil
Hi o'clock
I will otter for
,sine at piiuuv unction as udininlstra-
I'bidicatiim nt | . 1 ()f s .f (Jilbert d
"•-N’Hl'-' P“’-, ,1..‘l'<,; , t arr(> (jl land lying lQ
" I■ ' i '“r Jim M I!. Williams league iu Mata-
" „ new-^ip" ,.U.H ' I. , ij.orda county a more complete de-
"ii u not. i.ien .ii .I", . i H : -ci'iution of which can be Hud by re-
I H .li-tu'd in the Twi-iit' ton'd Indi- j >m'ion „ .
, ml District; but if tliere In no news-i
paper published in said judicial dis-
trict. then in a newspaper published!
in tin
■ ihird Judivi
previous to the return day
■ J A Milnor, whose residelic.
'known, to be and appear befon
Honorable District t’ourt, at the
regular term thereul to lie liold n in (The State of Texas.
I the county of Matagorda, pt tlie court
I house thereof, in Bay City. ------
i County, Texas, on the lUth day
D. 19I6. then and tliere
petition filed In s
the I3th day of Jul'. A
a suit numbered on the docket of I
|i>;:u, wherein \. B. ‘ m, but if nut. then in any newspaper
„ I shot an arrow into the air,
fell in the distance,
where,
iTill a neighbor said that it killed
calf
j And I had tc
one-half.
testing that theii rumored support of
( the candidacy of Robert I. Henry was
unfair to his own candidacy in view
i of tils own broad Americanism in tlie Governor Ferguson ha.-. ina<b
, exhibition of wlileti In al! his pablli life f,, pjg |,||lll(jt.r since be was i
lie had denioiistrated his hieli re.:.nil
for tie Gorman-American element of
our population, ha mi-./tiled then
nerves to such an exlent that they .ire
liviii" In mortal dr. id of a cotispir.i.
whose purpose is the turning over of
Ibis republic to tin kai -er tl ;il I:
. ma v Im vi a place in w hich Io live mi
1 ller the sun
J Either that or
i disturbed at tin
qnitt's candidacy
without regard
w lu'tlier the.
naturalized citizens,
alike interested ill upholding the deal
• st ideals of republican t . presentativi
government as inherited
of our glorious
('anilidacies I
by impugning the devotion of Oscar
It. Colquitt to tin* truest of kiueriean
Ideals are hard put for argument to
aspirations.
*“
Victrola
for dancing
With a Victrola anil Victor
Records y >m can practice the new
dam es over and over again.
You can have an impromptu
dime whenever you wish and
dance as long as you want.
1 lie l ox l iot. Castle Polka,
and all the other new dances,
played loud and i l«ar and in per-
fect time.
Come In and hear thain, and let
us demonstrate the
dillerrnt styiea of tlie f
Victor and Victrola— p
$10 to )I90. F.aay
terms, if desirad.
since tie was inau-
He haw announced |'\(^ and'("7n"three y
support of Bull Henry for United ialj dated January 1.
Governor! governor! ' | holes
|6 per cent p. . .... . .--
jterest pay aide annually, and provid-1
ing that till past due principal and in-
t shall bear interest at the rate
of s per cent per annum, and each
of said notes further providing for
(the payment of in per cent additional
on tlie aggregate of principal and in-
terest as iittorm y’s fees if tlie same
are placed in tlie hands of attorneys
for collection, or if collected by
or through tlie probate court;
tition alleging that said notes "ere; ISH), conveying to the said
ridiculous than his made payable to a. a. i'lotnol* .<• John'\vln. Evans lot 2 in block 63. lJala-
were grave. It's no i" • Stoddard, and by the said A. \ cios, Texas, witli tile improvements
J'lotner and John W. Stoddard on- Un.,-,.on. and Hie two notes, one for
(tlursed and trunsierred to A B. I'i. ie. and one j*ul. $250, given in part
'plaintiff; that said notes were given payment therefor, or in the alterna-
■ in part payment of lots 6 and 7, block JtjVP for establishment and foreclosure
120 in the townsite of Buckeye. Matu-
Igordti County. Texas, according to the
I recorded plat thereof, and described
I • i in deed from A. A. I’lotner et al to
Milnor, dated January 1, 1913:
I that, all of said notes are past due and date, and tin?
ing how you liaxe executed tlie same !
' (liven under my hand and sesl o;
said court, at office in Bay Citv
this, tlie 21th day of April. A D. 191'
(SEAL) John I'. Perry,
Clerk District Court .Matsgurdn
County, Texas. 28-5-12-19-v
Nope, Angelina, dear, tliere will lie
no serious trouble even if tlie Cnited
States soldiers remain in Mexico. Old
Whiskers and Obregon will swell up j
like pizened pups and roar like a
mountain linn, but it wtil all simmer
down in a few days to a gentle little
breeze. These old blow-hards know
where their tamales are made.
forces aiid|sai(j rOUr( Xu. whiivin B. Un, but if uq1. then iu any newspaper
liandtul • ! i’j»r< (' is plaintill ainl I A Milnor i^' |»iibli>li»‘<i in the Twenty-third Judi-
. .. I ... /r I.....til!'. I . I III.. I 1 1 51 ill - .....I l I. . • .<O.i . I .11 I it' tlmi'o lulin UP (VW.
being as follows, to-
I'ive promissory notes,
I, 5 and 6. No. 2 being
Nos. I. 5 and ti lielng
hjs'f'ir the sum of $16.67 each, and being j previous to the return
line and payable as follows: *' " '.7
in 1 y ear. Nos. 3 and I, in 2 years, and j know
plaintiff is the owner!
s well as !
appears I the first, prior aud superior lien and
" , superior title in and to said land to1
I secure tile payment thereof, and that',
said notes have been placed in tin |
hands of attorneys for collection, |
plaintiff alleging damage in the sum
of $|i:5.(it). Plaintiff prays for reels-
sion and cancellation of tlie said deed
and notes, and the title and i
of said land, and for writ or writs of;
in the alternative for
and
and
t said land and against the de
I fondant, for the full amount
for order of sale, e
general relief,
HEREIN FAIL NOT. And have yon
before said court, on tlie said fir,"'; j jq's
day of tile next term thereof, this writ ,
with your endorsement thereon, show
plished Is good and yet tliere is much t
more to do. Remember he e’aii't do ail
of it by himself.
unpaid. Nos. 2, 3 and t by actual lapse
of time, and Nos. 5 and li by die elee-
tion of tlie owner thereof to mature I
" t same; that said notes are secured j
liy a first, prior and superior
,. i upon the above described real
lerty aud tlie !„ :!.
us for the | and liidiler of said notes, as
now
' ' * • ■ • * • I ■ ....... • ■ I ■ ■ . • . . ■ — ■ • • ,
superior title in and to said land to
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1916, newspaper, May 5, 1916; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346209/m1/2/: 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.