The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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Flour That Is
Sure to Suit
There are so many kinds
of flour and so many good
claims made for each that
it's hard for housewives
to decide which to buy.
We can supply almost
any brand of flour you
want, but will be glad to
tell you which one we
believe you will like the
best.
Poor flour is expensive at
any price. The Aesf is
cheapest at the price we
offer.
T. J. Clark
“.lust One Price” — "One Just Price.’
MONEY TO LOAN ON LAND
IS STABBEB:
K1I.I.S
ASS 1 IE A XT.
A THOUGHT EOK THE WEEK.
-o
->
HAH HER TRAINED.
assailant.
instantly.
but a few moments.
Mexican Convict Plunges Knife Into
Sargeant, Who Steps Rackward
and Shoots Him, Both Hying.
F. H. JONES
Bay City, Texas
The Bachelor—“So you are married,
eh?”
The Benedick—“Yes: been married
for nearly six months.”
The Bachelor—“Got your wife pret-
ty well trained by this time, I sup-
pore?"
The Benedick—“That’s what. I’ve
got so t can make her do anything
she wants to."—Indianapolis Star.
Not only do we handle the best of
flour, but we carry one of the best
lines of groceries to be obtained
The aim of human life .no doubt. Is
happiness. But after all. what is hap-
piness? Efficiency, wealth, material
comfort? Many by their lives do so
affirm; few are cynical enough to
say so; and on their deathbeds none
will feel so. Not even freedom in it-
self brings happiness. Happiness lies
in breadth of heart. And breadth of
heart is that inward freedom which
has the power to understand, feel
with, and if need be. help others In
breadth of heart are founded justice,
love, sacrifice; without it there would
be no special meaning to any of our
efforts; and the tale of all human life
would be still no more than that of
supremely gifted animals, many of
whose communities are highly effi-
cient, ,r.d have instinctive unity
founded on experience of its utility,
hut none of that conscious altruism
which is without* perception of future
benefit to self, and works from sheer
recognition of Its own beauty.—John
Galsworthy
Brazoria, Texas, August 12.—While
counting the convicts out today at the
Clement State farm, preparatory to
going to work after the noon hour,
Sergeant Walter I. Vandorn was stab-
bed and fatally wounded by a Mexi-
can convict. The Mexican was tn the
squad to be counted out and while
Mr. Vandorn still had his face toward
the last man in the forward squad he
was counting, the Mexican rushed for-
ward and plunged an improvised dirk
made from a case knife into the ser-
geants’ breast.
Mr. Vandorn was able to take a
few steps backward, draw his pistol
and inflict a death would upon his
He fell to the floor, dying
The Mexican survived him
Plenty of money to loan on
good land security at 8 per cent.
Applications acted on imme-
diately. No delay in getitn«
money.
KENT.
ones
day. 1 lit
very
Only a
when
harmless,
the
t wo
of
that
army
forces
conven-
them elves, but in the prelim-
where the personnel of
If your busln- <s dont' suit you. *d
v.rtise.
good that is in
many instances of the
impoi t nice to the State.
islature
natc of lead, three to four pounds, ac-
cording to size of cotton. Mix with ;
about twice their weight of slaked
lime or cheap flour and apply when]
the cotton Is wet from dew or!
showers.
Watch for the first army of worms
sure to destroy these, you [
the
HIE 1'OTTON LEAF WORM.
things have happened in me eonven- high in command in the British ar-
tions which have pretty well smoth- i my. declared that lie would not lead
cred out what little life that remain- j the army against Ulsterites. His ex-'
cd.
stance, t
spect for the acts of the convention. , they
as
of party authority when it an- organized and drilled them
purpose of resisting any
might send
what little life that remain-1 the army against Ulsterites.
The steam roller custom, for in- ample was followed by a number of
not only atrophies public re-; English ofticers who declared
... -i... ....... „» nnnvoniinti. I ..—would resign from
but when the convention engages in j rather than go against
such work incalculable harm is done i gathered by Sir Carson,
to the party itself.
little intelligent thinking is not
hurt the democratic leaders
They will soon as-
satisfactlon why Paris green of arsenate^of lead.,
• • i rx »• .x f tV»1 v’ Eltrx I'lttixF fur tlisv ronunnu
human rights and human liberty, I
should die like dogs at the end of a
rope. That was the fate met by Sir |
I Kober Casement last week when he
was hanged for treason after a trial
which established his guilt, to the
satisfaction of the English, at least,
of having conspired to bring' about
in
I Ireland. The English chlaim that he
I had been built of committing an un-
He would pardonable sin. and that claim might
if he had | mitigate their offense against modern
■ ,id that the legislature would give • civilization, of true, and if their rec-
such crimes
uu-
, was placed in supreme com-
members of the maud of the British forces on the
legislature would have not considered i continent. It is quite evident from
it binding wherever its demands in-: this that Sir Roger Casement's great-
terfered with district sentiment or est crime was his stupidity in choos-
even the individual convictions of the lllg the wrong part of Ireland for the
members themselves. | scene of his activities. Perhaps, had
There is no speculation in making : he operated in Ulster he might have
such assertions. Experience has am- ,
ply demonstrated it in the past.
There are some i
that the convention may be restored ,
to its pristine glory ami usefulness; I n;s place by the side of our
grandfathers and George Washington,
who were built of the same crime
that he committed, that of trying to
free human rights and human liberty
from the oppressions of England.
Had our forefathers failed many of
them would have met the same fate
that Sir Roger did.—State Topics.
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Tins i leans, in other
the present political system
cally killed the convention
agency
nulled the right of the convention to
select candidates for the party. Ami , England
iluring the past six or eight years: General French, who was an officer
things have happened in the eonven- I high in command in the British
It is hard that a man who was in-
spired by the highest and noblest mo-
tives than can move the human heart '
, human rights and human
considered preferably the latter for the’reasons'
that is is cheaper, will stay on longer,
; and will not burn the foliage.
Paris green will sell for 60 to 75
MOI IB TEAR I P THE LAWS cents per pound and will burn if ap-1
MB Bl II B THEM OVERjpfled too freely, whereas, arsenate of
----- load Is cheaper and harmless. I
T. L. Bennett of Angleton. Brazoria would not recommend the use of
County, says if he were a member of white arsenic although it is much less
the legislature and could force his expensive and some farmers seem to!
opinions on that body tn the extent have gotten good results from its use.
that they would dominate, he would It is calculated to burn your cotton
' urn up the statutory laws of the Snore severely than any other poison.
State and appoint a committee of Use Paris green at the rate of from
three to draft a new set. On that two to three pounds per acre, nrse-
enmmittee he would appoint Joseph
Weldon Bailey of Gainesville. R M
,’obnston of Houston and Barrv M le-
of Im. ■ o. and he would be sure that
wh^n the work was none the State of
’’’ex-js would hi”c laws that would
be better than those nf anv o.ln r
State of the Union ard they would , nnd bo .... .
never be held to be in conflict with will prevent the appearance of a
either the State or Federal con-itl-' much larger army 20 days later,
tutions. ! R W Persons. Co Agent.
Houston Post
If what the delegates to the recent
convention in this city are saying may
be relied upon, the people are going
to begin to talk and think of their
political system and its machinery j
before long. It is evident enough
that the average convention doesn’t
stand very high in the estimation of
those who compose it.
It was Mr. Wolfe of Dallas, we be-
lieve. who declared that the eonven
lion was a farce and that the legisla-1 armed resist! nee to English rule
lure would pay no attention to its
demands.
Mr. Wolfe went too far.
have been more accurate
to tlie demands of the convention just'ord for dealing with
nicli consideration as it chose to give were not tainted by undue and
them air' no more | deserved leniency in other instances,
As the Post pointed out the other where the guilty ones acted very
platform lias much good in , much in the same w ay that Sir Roger
ii and considerable buncombe, and the did. Only a little over two years
the platform is in ’ ago, when the people of Ulster
highest i threatened to revolt against the Eng-
But the leg-iiisli government, and went so far as
will act upon most of the I to take up arms and begin drilling to
bi iced in the platform, not resist the establishment of Home Rule
because the convention demanded it,! in Ireland, two very consplcious
I.ui 11-eause
the
the
The world
war came on just in time to eclipse
So when Mr. Wolfe speaks dispar- 1 the Ulster matter and to turn public
agingly of the recent convention and . attention to other matters of greater
its platform, we may infer that he jjnportance. What resulted? The
represents fairly well the attitude of ' arch-traitor. Sir John Carson. was
most of the prohibitionists of Texas., gjven a high command in the English
is well as that of the prohibition , army instead of being hanged, and
membership of the legislature. And the soldier. General French, who had
It can lie added with just as much ; violated his oath as an officer and a.
truth that if the pros had controlled j a man, by refusing to perform a plain
the recent convention and framed its qmy, was placed in supreme
platform, the anti members of the, luand of the British forces on
It is quite evident
to
because events have shown beyond a
doubt that the present primary sys-
tem is not in all respects adapted to
the purposes for which it was in-
tended. But one danger to the re-
storation causes is the perpetration of
acts that make people desire to
smother out what little life the con- j
vention has. rather than restore its!
former vitality
Tlie fun of throwing out legally se-I
lected delegations, just because Hie-1
gal delegations in harmony with the ■
majority want to participate, is.
amusing enough so far as it affects
the individuals involved, but the coun-i
ties thus deflowered arc apt to re- j
gat’d the matter more seriously. Both >
sides have committed such acts man' ,
times, but it never lifts the conven-
tion isolf. nor
of the public.
There are many public men in
Texas who are convinced that tlie
convention lias not outgrown its use-
fulness. That is to say. they believe
that conventions, honorably and fair-
ly conducted, can do some things
more satisfactorily from the stand-
point of the public service than any
other agency. These, at least, ought
to seriously consider what are coming
to be common practices in recent con-
ventions—not only in the
tions
inarics
convention itself is arranged.
A
going to
of both factions,
certain to their own
platforms are no longer
law.
All old cotton farmers look to Au-
' gust 15 as the time of the coming of
(the leaf worm. That time is close at
hand and this lias certainly been a*
most favorable season for them. We
its acts, in tlie respect ! have had rain almost every day for
the past six or seven weeks and the
wonder of it is that our cotton has
not been eaten up before now.
I have had many inquiries as to
what is best and cheapest to use as
1 a preventive and this fact prompts
me to ask the indulgence of the coun-
ty press for space to answer all these
Inquiries at once.
The posions. commonly used. Paris
green and arsenate of lead, are high-
priced tills season and we are prone
to look for cheaper substitutes that
are “just as good.” As a general rule
the ubst'tutes are never as good as tlie
thing for which they are substituted,
.and the rule holds good in this case.
Don't fool with substitutes for you
may lose a valuable crop by so doing
received a reward instead of punish-
ment. We Americans should honor
who live in hope i the name of Casement for had be
’ gained his end he would have taken
his place by the side of our great-
w vunt 1||I «I Ilin anu UI mini; LU
. : resist tlie establishment of Home Rule
demanded it,! in Ireland, two very consplcious ac-1
these subjects lemund tors in that event were Sir John Car-i
con .deration of themselves | sou and General French. Sir John1
i leans, in other words, that i not only defied the English Govern-'
praeti-j meut but openly supplied arms and
an i ammunition to the men in Ulster and
for the 1
force that
against them.
EXEULT105 OF SIR ROGER CASE-
PLATFORMS.
I OX VENTlOXg
ANB
address.
11.50
One Year
TRIBI NE
HIE DAILY
Hughes says the appropriation
I
doesn’t
Pottori
is
bringing
right
around
Tlie president has signified his in-'ll(|t at the
at
con-
Wlth file price of paper double what
Austin
get
they
neighbor to start
y our
the
than
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MATAGORDA COUNTY TRIBUNE
impossible
uncovered
everyone thought was lost.
spent
re-election
SI B.M HI PTIOS Rill
WEEKLY
money
completely
more
the
first
Jim
■lx Months
One Year
Published Every Friday Morning by Tribune Printing Com •'<>
CAREY SMITH, Editor.
various
McLemore did
en-
their
The
on
It does seem to us
Investigation should bo madi
The soldiers are again moving to
Old Carranza is going to
keep up his nibbling until he will get
his whiskers trimmed a la Hughes.
people,
their county judge, hav,
their share and arc now
tonio Investigating
medicago mis u-' in the history of
can boast.
middle.
$.’ OU I
. . $ t Oil
them.
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More time ami money Is wasted in
the biennial elections of tills State
than would be required to give us
good road systems over all the State.
I:!
Bute red at the Postoffici- at Hay City. Texas, n Second Class Mail Matter
Under Act of Congress, March 3.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character or standing of any person or
business concern will lie readily and willingly correct'd upon Us being
brought to till- attention of tlie publishers
The paper will be conducted upon tin highest possible plan of legitimate
newspaper busuiesH
their support and *rtend-
Jeff's: tecord in Congress has
an.I clean, demo-
and manly; and for
the voice of an appre-
t him back. If we them. Home, and the sustenance of
will continue In the himself and family, should be the first
service as long as he elects to and last thought of . very citizen —Ro-
‘senberg News-Herald.
insures its price fov a j
to come, because of the fact
re raised the more mills j
equipped tn take care of’
The peanut is hero to stay.
<
fighting nut the European war andi
electing a United States senator and
president, just then will they begin.
tn reach the point were the j niaker.
• ci-’-J times” cry will have no terrors for
If we them.
Hughes has done one thing on his lluulu s -ay s the appropriation for
ctiiiipuign trip that everyone thought rivi i and harbors is of the pork liar-
He has discovered or lei variety. We think so. too. but
William Jennings, whom how much bigger than the democratic
'i ntel will the republican barrel
Even with so much apparently
stake the newspapers are taking very
! little interest in the senatorial run-
off. There’s a noticeable dearth of
editorial comment over the election.
few days ago this paper, on its
initiative and without investlga-
the suggestion that in
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J. W. CONGER
Attorney-at-Law
Will Practice In All the Courts
Office over First Nat’l Bank.
Bay City, Texas
If we had a way of putting a stop
to this weather, we would build a
great and high monument to our mem-
ory by putting into practical use the
theory. | *
NOTICE TO SI BM RIHEKX.
When .-tiding in I’emittane* for sub-1 ription, ilway
renewal
When i>'<iu<’Hting cliang<’ it address <m'paper, give both o ■. ' new
Witli <’on.(|ilernble talk of a city j
election Io swing back to the alder i
manic form, with the city suing and
being sued witli low row and clainoi
over the locution of tlie new street
lights, and that main diino<iati< is-
sues concern in.; the skating in tlie
park. we ein'i decide winch of'
Shakespeare's topics to use as i lo ad.
"A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” or
" Much Ado About Nothing" We eer
tainly are going some for
town -Luling Hignil
Wliy not lay tlie blame on the re-
publicans and go on about your bus-
iness? That will settle all
troubles.
If the good people of Texas would
pay the same attention to Hie material
welfare of the State and take the -am-- i ike
ing
A
own
Just one , tion. made ... ....
' view of the fact that the Federal gov
, ernment had set aside funds for road
I purposes to be apportioned to the dif-
ferent States, it would lie well for
| our county authorities to look into
' the mutter and ascertain whether or
not any of these funds could bo se-
cured to supplement the $100,000 we
are about to expend Since that edi-
torial was written we learn that the
Caldwell County people, headed by
gone after
in San An-
mat ter.
to all kinds of
and a mone' ,
and the fact that It Is so val-,
| liable for oil f
long tlmi
that the more
that will be <
If those who arc so earnestly desir-
ing peace in Mexico will ship in sev-
e- .I trainloads of eats and open up
some of tlie industries of tiiat country,
banditry will cease for the want of
followers. The Mexican is industrious
He wants to work and will work: hut
can he lie blamed for lawless acts If
he is both out of work and starving?
Feed those poor devils and we will
find our way to peace all but aceotn-
plished The hated “.gringo" then '
would become their second Hidalgo
Hou John Sutherland,
elected county democratic chairman,
has been designated bv National Com
The Tribune is for Bay City
and Matagorda County next.
Ferguson. Colqultts or Culbcrsons.
and Woodrow
small portion
What we are interested
Within another three weeks rice
harvesting and threshing will lie in
full swing, weather permitting. Tlie
price is good and the crop fine. There
ought to lie many hallelujahs in this
i section this fall.
| ----
Thei-es' one great mark of distinc-
tion about Chniles E Hughes of
which no other presidential candidate
our great country
ho parts his beard In the
I ing houses, especially, are finding :
themselves confronted with the
| forced necessity of raising
I prices or losing their outfits
Just as soon as we get together bordes of delinquent subscribers
|2».99H 9», which will then give us th :'‘very country list can help things out
wonderfully by simply applying the
golden rule, to do unto others
would be done by
stai>’ whether new
Be it said to the credit of Mr. Wil-
son. he prefers his campaign expenses
' to come from the people instead of
i the favored few. There can be no
calumny attached to funds of such a
' character.
tentlons of interceding to avert tlie
great railway strike. If lie suceeds .
he will have earned an achievement
greater than that of avoiding a
filet of arms Bay City Tribune.
President Wilson is doing nil within
his power to prevent the strike and
today there is a better feeling through ; ” was a year ago. the small puhllsh-
out the east, tlie people there believ-
ing the strike will lie averted.
American.
Jeff McLemore
$600.00 for his
gress and the most of this
the necessary expense
name on the ticket in the
counties of the State
not even use. or we
his
and perhaps
material than any
It must
for a man
he was what he wae and by friends better drainage, better farming meth-
wbo neither looked for nor expected ods. good roads, etc.. Instead of dally
mont v for
thip.
been gentlemanly
cratic to the core
these reasons t —
ciatlve people sent
mistake not he y
same
do SO.
We spend entirely too much time
trying to convince the other fellow
that this is a farming country. What
we had first better do is to convince
ourselves nnd then sot to work back-
ed by our own convictions. Not only
should we convince ourselves that
this is a farming country, but should lnV0!<tiua,in< .he nllltter. We
settle it in our minds thoroughly and s(.n unenli!,ht( (s r,.21,ri!« t!1.
for all tin’ to come that ours is ,i bu( ,f (10(,g t() r,nt
stock country, a splendid range
country, a potato, truck and natural
dairying country, a fish and oyster
country and a country literally suf
locating with an undeveloped wealth.
Winn finally settle these matters
tn our
$30,000 necessary to make the race for
governor we are going to find thirty |
poor hut. worthy families and start
them out In life with $1000.00 each,
putting them on their own resources!
and honor and telling them to trust to
God and hew to the line of honesty (
and integrity. We would rather be
able to do this than to hold any polit-
ical position under the sun.
This is also a great peanut country
as has been thoroughly demonstrated
this ycai Next year the acreage
should be Increased sufficicntlv to
lustify tlie purchase of machinery to
care of the crop There's noth-
now grown which is any
staple than the peanut and as
years go by its value will Increase
E’or the farmer we would not advise
in this country the planting of any
Trlfallum Carollnianum. Trifolium
arvense. melilotus.
lata, medicago sutiva or any ot the
Trifolia familia. There I- nothing
like being scientific, you know, even
If one doesn't know wliat one is
saying.
I .. s
I K"
z4// Bound
Round u)ith a
Telephone Line
In a H’’il connei ted communi-
ty it s >ot how for is it to
neighbor 1'erkins’? But "Is
neighbor 1‘erkins ring three?'
The ring of i bell and you have
him
In marketing, in matters of
farm routine. In emergencies
th* telephone adds to tlie farm-
er's ea .e and profit.
Are you connected with the
Bell sys'em*
AtU our 'no res' Meneger lor inlor
motion or write lo
THE SOUTHWESTERN
TELEGRAPH AND
TELEPHONE
COMPANY
DALLAS. HUS
County
or
own satisfaction we can go be- democratic conventions
fore the outside world with a greater \t ilsotis occupy but
confidence and get the desired re- of our time
SUHS1 in a good town and county, more peo-
ple. better farms and livelier busi-
ness times. Isms and ologies never
to Con- liny progress or prosperity and none
was for such has ever spout any money or
of getting his time in this neck of the woods that
e know of. -Bay Citx Tribune
Same here. Smith. The News-Her-!
will say abuse, aid sees more prosperity in Fort Bend
congressional franking privilege County by the harvesting of a bnmper
sent out less campaign corn nnd cotton crop than from seven-
man in the State.! teen presidential elections, whether
indeed, be a groat nietusre democrats or republicans he succcss-
--•i who is running for office fu| When our people begin to look
realize that he was elected because out for the problems at home, such as
what ha was t— .
Ln answer to the Houston Post's ex-
I planation. "How Cyclone got in," one
J of its exchanges says: "Just kinder
blew in ” It also could have added
recently that ‘he just kinder blew out.' like all
cyclones do.
\ thousand acres or more of peanut
should bo planted in this county ncx.
I year. This many would make a mar- '
ket here, the market would bring buy-
ers and the peanuts would bring'
money, that one little essential we ‘
ire all looking for and a something
that only a few of us can do without .
The peanut is no longer a side crop. ■
I On th< contrary It is one of the great (
staple crops, bound to grow in popu-[
larity and value as one year follows
(another The peanut is a safer crop
than cotton and equally as valuable,
.is cotton seed None of the pests
mthor it and It does well even if ham- j
pered by radical weather. The peanut >
stands an enormous amount of drouth,
and wet weather equally as well. It.
requires no certain kind of land, but |
I adapts Itself, it seems,
soil. It‘s a sure crop
Patriotic democrats of this county
are requested to write their checks
for a donation to the national cam-
paign fund to Hon. John Sutherland.
Mr. Sutherland admonishes them,
however, to write them for not less
'than $1.00 nor over $1,000.00.
The peanut is no longer a side crop.
interest in industrial, agricultural afcd
commercial progress and advancement
as they do to politics we would need
no platform to encourage manufactur- j
ing industries or any other enterpries.
More time and money Is wasted in,$iooona balp now wjth chunPeH good
for it to bring more,
any
There, however,
need not lie any uneasiness of too
much money In the State. The auto-
mobile factories continue to turn 'em the border,
rate of lOOP per day. and
on an average of five bales of cotton
a "car" the cotton money wilt soon ;
lie thoroughly and completely dis-'
trihuted.
I
of honesty
mitteeman William Poindexter to so-
licit and collect funds in this county
for the county’s part of the $100,000
to bo raised In Toxas for the presiden-
tial campaign Patriotic democrats
will, therefore, send in any sum from
$1.1)0 to $10.000 00 to Mr. Sutherland
Don’t waste any time waiting for your
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1916, newspaper, August 18, 1916; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1346224/m1/4/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.