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Staple Groceries:
Our
Separate Skirts
Our
Linen Dep’tnfnt
excite buyers,
be sure that
Men’s
Furnishings
Corr^lete stock of Grain always
on hand at LOWEST PRICEt.
This is our aim, what ’
to, to help make lovely
more so.
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one which
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Handkerchiefs,
Laces,
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ifca nti
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\vfha t
The designer
h a s reached
t h e utmost
per f e c t i o n.
They arc ex-
quisite in ev-
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assort-
now
ma-
selvcs when
complete,
deal. We
this line.
of a contract for the construction of
Hie said railroad company’s line of
railroad from its present terminus at
through the counties of Nan Patricio
Victoria, Jackson, Calhoun and Mata-
gorda to the town of Bay City, in the
county of Matagorda In the State of
Texan, a distance of about one hun-
| dred and forty-two miles.
To authorize the making,
execution and delivery of a
’ cent
! Bau CHu Grain
I Comnanij
loweitfaiarket pri
feeting aforesaid,
hrd of Directors,
r. Presklent,
B & M Ry. Co.
V>AMHxS<»et’y.
Bjrw Ry. Co.
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And every train will oonUnue to bring new things to our store throughout the
entire season. That’s our endeavor; toconstaiiHy place before you the new-
est, the latest and the most att ractive creations of foreign as well as “Yankee”
Ingenuity, and uhow tlieinl* soon as they are produned. A buyer in the load
ing market in the world, Jon.ifanHy on the alert for the latest productions,
gives uh an unusual advantage in supplying the newest to our ciiHtoinors. We
” ■ - ■ ■ - customers who are in the habit of r -iding our ads. and
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, YOUR MONEY RETURNED.
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LOCAL JOTS
P. H. Arnold lelt yesterday for Mat-
agorda.
I A. II. Hornby left thia a. in. for lljnis
j ton on business.
Mias Emma Frans returned yester-
day from Palacios.
klanford Barber left yesterday after-
noon for Midtields.
Jim Vandiver left today for his old
home nt McGregor.
Frank Csrr made a Hying trip to
Matagorda yesterday.
R. W. Fullwood made a business trip
to Matagorda yesterday.
<’.(). Duson of Midfield was a visi-
tor to our city this morning.
Deputy Sheriff Lee made a dying
trip to Markham this afternoon.
/'John M. Corbett was a passenger
on yesterday’s truin for Matagorda.
Oscar Jersey of Ledbetter arrived
today to lie here several days on busi-
ness .
>■ Dick Lewis of Blessing is handshak-
ing with his ninny trie ids in our eitv
today.
J. E Rlair came up from IkleHsing
Jus mornieg and remained over until
t he afternoon train. *
T. Ables i,i down from Wharton, vis-
iting relatives. Hr is a guest at the
Kuykendall House
(.-$Vin. Cook wont to Matagorda yes-
terday to spend a i ay or : o listening
to the ’‘sad sen waves."
Mr Steger of Blessing arrived it:
our city t his morning and remained
until the afternoon train
J. ('. Underwood, who is engaged in
drilii'ig at Big Hill, left this morning
for Houston on business.
Cochran Willis, traveling salesinan
for the Planters Mercantile Co., left
yesterday for Matagorda
11. .1. Russell of Wharton is in the
city today, mingling with his many
friends and acquaintances.
Mrs. O. Korn, who has been visit-
ing in Houston for some time, re-
turned homo Lhis uUvruoou.
Jamv iJU. Bnidio:*KHenderson, N.
fa, IgWre, looking after his nxhmskve | moving
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a issuing, execution and delivery
• series of first mortgage, 5 per
• j gold bonds, not exceeding H—~
• gate of the principal t hereof
• i lion dollars face value, to be Bl
• the rate of seven thousand five hun-
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• pany’n
• fromtl
• ’ • wr 14 <7 A
• ■ ?an K*Ur»»‘L known as Robstown,
• through Nueces ami Cameron counties
• to the town of llrownavim, «,..i
managkh wani'I'.ii ritns rw<hi rii\
hulv <>r m niletiiHii ..............
<■oiu.iv sin.l soljoining t. rrlio. v tor well sm.l fsiv-
orsil.lv known Ii.h.m- ..(xoli.l nn.mclnl ntnn.lii.it
>20.11.) straight cnnli salary sin,I expennm iu,|,|
rn. h Mon.lsiv by < hc. k direct Iron. h. ad.innrt
rrs. hxpenne money ndvsincrd. I’onltlon per
miwient. Address Mansigtr, bid Como lllor k
Chicago, III, ’
stockholders of the St. Louis, Browns- thence b. .
town of Kingsville, in the State of
rexns, on I'ne/'la.-, the 15th day of
FALL AND WINTER ANNOUNCEWENT
i ns, and from a point on said main
fine within five miles of Chenango, in
the county of Brazoria to the city of
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in the State of Texan; said bonds to he
of the denomination of $1000 eatth and
to bear 5 per cent interest, both prin-
cipal and interest ieing payable in
gold; and to authorise the execution
and delivery of a mortgage or deed of
trust upon the said lines of railroad
and branches, and the property and
franchises of the corkpany pertaining
to the same, to ycewc such issue of
bonds.
Third. To amend the by-laws of
the company in such respects as may
be deemed advisable.
A meeting of the Ward of Directors !
of the company will ; also be held im-
mediately upon the!adjournment of
tlie stockhoidi'Hi’ n* ■— * -
By order of the Bi
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I. DITCH’S Cordially Inyited
4 > it »• notion
depa ft men t
i s . I u I I of
goods. W e
know of noth-
ing tn add to
Look well and
you see our entire
stock before investing.
y. Such as belt
nfi buckles, sash
Have Jewelry
-------------- waist sets,
cull buttons,
collar buttons, chains for the
neck, etc., all kinds too numer-
ous to mention; we have the as-
sortment as well as the quantity
and quality to suit those who
kneel at the shrine of fashion.
Compr i s i n g
e v e r y g a r-
incnt usually
kept in this
d e p a rtment.
Press shirts
and negligee shirts are unsur-
passed, 50c to $2.50 each, under-
wear of all kinds fresh from the
first hands, as we buy only the
best, and a shrewd buyer is he
who looks well before he invests.
We invite a close inspection of
this department.
ICm broideries
an d inser-
tions are com-
plete. Ladies
never get lost
in their ideas
when they come to select, for we
can please all, and when von
have the right article it pleases.
This is our aim, what we aspire
T women
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combinations of cJlprs were studied as well as qdWlty.
tnd last the moi’c.lttion of prices, f
ices places us in
<■ jiteinifc-jiffy
Table linens
and napkins,
beautiful de-
signs, plain
a ii d h e m-
stitched.
\ 1 owels too numerous to men-
Uion, but from the assortment
VxKlviye, it is certainly a hard to
please customer Woean’t sell; all
other goods kept in a first-class
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irivi I for well . Ktahlishe.l hh,„t. i„ a few .
leb, <_,HII>ig .... null mvrehanis a,x| agon*.
Local terrltnrv. ........ IKl.fkl , „(.. k will,
expeoMH n.l.liilnnnl, all payable In . aal. e(1< h
week. Money (<>r expenK-.o. advanced. Pogi
lion I»>rinanvnt. Hnsinew vnccckkliil and nod.
ng. Mannfa. t.irera and Wholesalers Dept. |
third floor, 3.if Dearborn St., f. hieago.
not lost sight of, and large purchases at the very
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Are as beau-
tiful as they
are plentiful.
We are rftit
taking the
credit to our-
we say our line is
that means a good
t please you all in
of
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. ,. With under-
LftGlCS wear o f a 1 I
Shirt Waists
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nient is
complete, of all colors and
teiial; making you feel as pleas-
ant even to look at them, as the
goods in thekother departments.
arc 15,000 sick and wounded
ru-
out
Adds much
()lir to the plras-
u • 4 no ure of 's
Vist Pttenis greeting, and if
when
rests on tRet?c
lovely patterns the pleasjirj is
surpassed only when you bee
possessor of one. An imp
ant feature is j < select
These patterns of beauty are
qu'site, color blending that If
us to believe that the <le <<,
must, be inspired to reach slich
perfection. !
I arrived in
: Hi''gm hLh of MMIMjl
E. \\ 'i'i 1 riu■r’oWjjJ
town today and went ____
I mm thia afternoon on biiaineHH.
l <>m Smith, v/ho has been here for
a few dayH on bualuesa, returned y<>H-
terduy to bin home al Markham.
M. P. Huebn r of Greenwood, ar-
rived in our city yealerday and will
remain for a few dayw on buxlneHH.
I. A. Hodg<*B whh a piiHHoiiger on
thin morning’s train from Markham,
and Btopped off here for a few hour*.
P. Ryan of Wyoming arrived In our
oily u few day ago mid will engage In
nee farming about hIx iuIIim below
town.
Rev G. W. Htory returned from
Matagorda laat night and left on the
H. P for his homo In HoiiRton IMm
morning.
Mrs. Gainer, who Iioh been viBiting
reictivoH and frlendn irt Victoria, her
old homo town, returned ycHterday
afternoon.
J H. Duncan andT. W. Elliott, who
have been here for the pant month, re-
turned to their home nt Pledger this
morning.
H. W. Bowie of Bowieville came up
this morning and will remain for sev-
eral dayw, looking after bln rice inter-
ests near this place.
Mth. DulTy of Matagorda paHsed
through yesterday en route home
from PalucioH, where she IiITh been
viBiting for a few buys.
Miss Nettie Clare of Yoakum pass-
ed through our city yesterday on
route to Markham, where she goes to
visit friends for a few days
Aunt Pattie Kugeley and Mfh V. H,
Larding returned yewterday after-
noon from Galveston, where they
have been on a pleasure trip.
V. O. Ford and wife left thin morn-
ing for Iago, where Mrs, Ford will re
I main fora while. Mr. Ford will go
on to Beaumont to he absent Home
few days on business.
W. E. McSparran and Captain N. P.
Keller, two of the best men of the
Midtieldscountry, were in the city to-
day, and both favored this office with
agreeable bUHineHM visits.
W. H. Rogers, the insurance man,
who has been making his headquvj-
er’n hero for the past few weeks auu
who fuiM been absent 1. O few days
returned this morning on the Cane
Beit.
C N. Stewart of New York City,
and C. N. Keeney of l.e Roy, N. V„
who have been engaged in rice cul-
ture here for the past three years, and
who have been here for some time
past, left this morning for their re-
speetive homes;
Street hats now on exhibition at
Mlstrot’s. All new and up-to-date in
/'very particular. tf.
A whimsical
||) idea of fash-
ion demands
BlflCkGOOdS that these
__J s lion 1<1 be-
come popular
this season. A lucky chance on
our part has placed us in the
foremost ranks, and we arc pre-
pared to show what will please
We invite your special attention
to our assortment of Sharkskins,
Drap D’Almas, Granites, Broad-
cloths, Armures, Storm Series,
Cheviots and many other weaves,
knowing that the prices are right.
Every Train Brings New Goods to Ditch's
Lana for Sale.
uro aerts. just south of Bay Cry. on
canal and cm be irrigated foi truck or
rue. Fine dairy proposition.
,lw tf o. e. Hatchett.
Kutfhendull House.
First-class hotel convenient to both
the depot and the business part of town.
Sjtecial attention to commercial travel-
ers and transient trade. Spe- ial rates
to regular boarders.
Miss Emma Kuvkendall,
,lw '*• Proprietor.
Notice to Hice rarmers.
By request of the rice farmer:, of the
west side, I hereby call a meeting of ail
rice farmers of this county to assemble
at the court house in Bay City on Wed-
nesday night, Sept. 28th, at « o’clock,
to consider matters of great importance
to every one of them. J. M. Sim
Notice.
I have opened on the east side of the
sijiiare a Second Hand and Repair Shop.
Being acquainted with tins business, I
can fully assure you Mlisfat tion tn all
repair work, such as furniture repairs,
upholstering, buggy painting and sign
writing. I also buy and sell all kinds
of second hand fixtures, picture framing,
etc. Gilding and enameling a special-
C. G /\rnoi.d,
wi dqi rhe Second Hand Man.
Bent of square meals at, Siros’H res-
taurant.
Hamby’s cattle are the beat that can
be obtained
Patter
mixed,
the
f a c t
knew
they were <ki-
a sm-irt man to
antici|iate the wishes tu<I tastes
of the buying' public, but they
have proven themselves profi-
cient, for ours please and as in
other departments the line is
complete.
ery meaning of the word,
material is in every weave man-
factured silk, satin, woolen,
plain and trimmed with bice,
beautifully brocaded. The as-
sortment is beyond your imagin-
ation. Call and look at them.
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In gathering' this mammoth stock of •merchamlibt juany points have been c<»nsidei\<i and
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In seeking go(4-< at moderate prices thy q-ualih a«*l
1 a -VijAion to be dbl<i‘ 'Ll Ju/v-VQUliplky.i
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Telegraphic Briefs.
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Floods destroyed the crops of the
Hoei colony 111 Mexico.
Waco grand jury found forty-odd in-
dictments against keepers of gambling
Imuses.
Corneltus Vanderbilt declined the
Republican nomination for congress in
his district.
The Bryan business man’s' league is
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,,ew aw! bridge over the
JTWff Colorado, on the Brownsville
• o id, was swept away by high water.
Disgruntled Democrats organized an
Anti-I’arker Democratic League in Chi-
cago. They are very few m number.
A railway collision near Hodges
Tenn., killed 66 people and injured 120.
It is one of the most disastrous wrecks
on record.
Several Armenians arrived in New
Vork to make a personal appeal to this
government for protection against Turk-
ish atrocities. - TIwEmm
There r“|----
Russians in Port Arthur, and it is
mored that cholera has broken
‘among them.
• •overnor Hogg has become a very
enthusiastic Parker man, and urges
Parker to make a speaking tour and
give ’he people a chance to meet him
ami hear him, as he thinks this would
win over all opposition.
Many manufaiHirers of machineiy
have donated fine sample machineiy to
the new textile building at oui* A. Jt M.
college, as an advertisement. Of the
$21,000 worth of machinery put into the
building, the slate had to pay for only
$8000 worth.
Miss Helen Gould is to make an in-
spection tour of the Young Men’s
Christian associations on the lines oi
the Gould roads. These are usually
located where the roads have their
shops and divisions, and most of them
were built by Miss Gould.
MONDAY, MEPTKMHKH *JH.
A negro is out for congress tn Indiana
against the Republican nominee.
The harvester trust decided to em-
ploy non-union men in their factories.
General Corbin wants to largely in-
crease the negro regiments in the army.
Judge Parker issued his letter accept-
ing the Democratic nomination for the
presidency.
It is now believed that the Democrats
have a chance to capture the senate as
well as the presidency and the house.
The Archbishop of Canterbury deliv-
ered an adaress at Washington making
strong plea for Christian union,
1 nt tzar i^yt the fightin^lbihty oi
the Japs has astai.iJird^
will rush a larger
do them up.
Japs captured several jH
Port Arthur, including ■■
protected the city’s water ■]
their water cut off, the
soon have to surrender.
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Just received, a large f d handsome
line of jewelry of ever, description,
by Tlioe. Haynes, the je eler. tf
Tlten the style and workmanship.
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ST. LOUIS, BROWNSVILLE a MEXICO counties, about fifty-six miles
railway (WAHI. ;!»I
Nolle, of “< Stockholders . line of railway’ /.’“‘the'aforemhl
D.rectors, 11 >' th» Texas-Mexican
xt a* • i . . luiiiroad known rh RobHtown in -■
Notice Is hereby given that tho Di- northeasterly direetlen th?Xh he
reetorH of said Rai way Company do county of Nieces to the town of Ki ®
J?11 a ’”< <“".g of the (ton in the county of San Pmrhdo, and
• 1......W, jn a northeasterly direction
„ . J counties of San Patricio,
Refugio, Victoria, Jackson, Calhoun
'«• teXTl'XrlS
the said railroad company’s line of
railroad from its p ' ‘
Robstown through
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through the counties of San Patricio”
Victoria, Jackson, Calhoun and Mata-
gorda to the town of Bay City, in the
county of Matagorda In the State of
Texas, a distance of about one hun-
Necond.
issuing,
i gold bonds, not exceeding the avgre-
, _. J, four mil-
i .------—- fHC0 value, to be issued at
dred dollars per mile upon the com-
constructed line of railroad
rom the cros^ ng with theTexa »!<>x-
known as Robstown,
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• to the town of Brownsvllh', and the
branch line of railroad from a point
about twenty-five miles north of
Brownsville through Cameron and Hi-
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Volume I. Number 95
BAY CITY, TEXAS MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1**04.
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Father Walsh, who has charge of
the Catholic church at this place, held
Her vices here yesterday and returned
to IiIh home In Gulvetdon today. Ho
Informed us that on next Munday
w»ok he would hold mawH here at W
o’clock In the school house on 7th st.,
east of the Cane Belt railroad, and
that maHH would nut bo held in the
court house ns heretofore Hu also
informed us that the church would
have a fair on tho *J7th of October for
the purpose of raising money to bulk!
a church which would be built In the
n«arfuture.
’■i'Sw
today from laMskuart, where h<> hns
iMMHt for the past month. He w»" ac-
companied home by hie sister-in-law,
Mrs T. J. Hill of Lockhart. Mrs.
Robertson camo over from Markham
this morning to meet them.
Hons. W M. Holland and Jno. W.
Gaines returned from Dallas yester-
day with victory purched upon
their banner, large and strident. The
Democratic Ht*te Central Committee
after an exhaustive investigation, de-
clared Mr Holland to he the Demo-
cratic nominee for State Heuator in
thin district.
Judge Wiley Croom of Wharton nr-
i iv id in our oily today on the south
bound Cnne Belt train, am! has been
busily engaged In handshaking and
conversing with his numerous friends
and acquaintances since his arrival.
We will not be positive about it, but
we surmise that his mission here Is to
use IiIh influence In trying to convert
his old time-tried friend, W. E. Atts-
tln, to hia way of thinking on the sub-
The dahSy Tribune
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Mays Are _
Yom botlortoke tho*
Poon Mdu*l NOW.
A. J McMamom.
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Ladies
Shirt Waists
Hosiery, Corsets
and Kid Cloves
Our
Vist Pttenis
In
Black Goods
We
Have Jewelry
Novellies
in Dress Goods
They surpass
by far a ny
showing-
made, repre-
se n t i n g- all
qualities from
every quarter of the globe, all
vieiiig with each other to please,
and their eff <rts will be appre-
ciated by the most fastidious at
sight. We can safely boast of
the grandest gathering of dress
goods in the county where qual-
ity, style and price are considered.
The Penn Mutual Life
Insurance Co.
Pays DlvMends Annually
A. J. McMasom, Aft.
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