The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1925 Page: 3 of 10
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of Mineral
to Texas
prospects for development are such
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Put your idle dollars in the bank
ober dem long
Perhaps
ger cities and in the matter of win
Bay City Bank & Trust Company
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being freely
that the city girls
, well look to their laurels this
Statement of Condition of
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Another
Citizens State Bank
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At the close of business April 6th, 1925.
$1.00
RESOURCES
Special
Saturday, April 13th
cash
$446,711.58
LIABILITIES
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$446,711.58
The above statement is correct.
A HARRIS, Cashier.
W. F. TETTS
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let the improvements go tax free.
GIFTS THAT LAST
The Same Price—
THE GULF (OAST COUNTRY
But Worth More
EVERY HOME NEEDS THIS
Wither ppophet
ward the Gulf and to the numerous
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Coupon
and
69c
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Dodge Brothers
$1.00
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Weather
House
MOTOR CAR
Prophet
e than 56,250 square
oyster reefs;
HARDY-ANDERSON AUTO CO.
Phone 154
EXIDF BATTERIES
GOODYEAR TIREC
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photographic illustra-
conditions to the at-
$ 50,000.00
855,511,58
41,200.00
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Interest in and Assessment for Guaranty Fund
Other Resources
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Work has started toward removing most entirely recruited from the lar-robe
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spring term '
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young women have had It pretty much long black horns.”
zho RexaCL Sore
worry I
white
wings
about.
tor The News did its best by means of
s and
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e selected for the
that I could not afford to remain
D0oM OF GREAT RIFT IX SIGHT j lion from an entirely new source In
me you can raise anyth’ g
in May
What you is gwine to worry
"SPLASH DAY" IT GALVESTON
the Curtain
A news item reports that the Alamo ty miles below Wharton The News'
besides free trips to I
Austin, Texas, April 13.
buildings now on the site will all
be torn down so as to make way for
year articles and
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VITALLY INTERESTED
away the accumulated silt as soon
as the logs are taken out of its
path.—Houston Post-Dispatch.
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FORD STARTS AIR SERVICE
KIGHTFULLY USED
ganizations and various other agen- long white robe-s on ober dem long i
cies and will result in keen competi- white wings.”
proportions never before attained En-1
Ties are being received daily from all
i quarters, many from far away points. '
uburban beauties are bound to
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with more than forty entries from ' live in Herrin. Illinois?
Your soil is as good as our towns are scheduled to get under way
Hub, dramatic
University of
presented the
'Stop Thief"
ufug
2E"N
first two years, $25,000 a year
the next five years, $30,000 a
soil in Iowa. and if I were a young shortly to elect candidates to repre- ' long white robes, and we is all gwine j
man. I would pack my grip and come sent officially, their respective com- to hub long white wings •
The conditions and the ’ munities. These contests are being i "Parson,” came from some one in I
1 conducted by newspapers, motion pic-j the back of the room. I wants to I
ture theatres, civic and fraternal or-, know how we is gw ine to get dem I
navigable rivers, creeks, and natural legislature has remitted State and
water ways which flow through it, ad valorem taxes for 25 years as an ’
at distances of only a few miles aid to the work.
apart, providing perfect drainage out-j The raft is being attacked first at j
lets, water transportation, and in' a point about four miles below its1
most instances, an inexhaustible sup-’head. It will be cleared from this
ply of water for irrigation, rich with ' point to the county line and then '
sediment from the country to the the upper section will be removed
North. ; it is thought that the river will cut
a concrete illustration the log raft that blocks the channel
Money is a power for good only when
it is used profitably and productively
it can be either a blessing to the
community, or a constant source ot
misery to its owner
This is a picturesque country, with
750 miles of Gulf shore line, gradu-
ally rising in elevation, and extend-
ing back from the Gulf for fifty to
one hundred miles, with the rivers
and streams bordered on either side
with beautiful natural growths of live
oak. (evergreen) sycamore, ash, elm,
and pecan trees; with beautiful bays
into which the streams flow, set back I
into the land like great, sparkling
emeratds, their waters alive with fish,
and their bottoms ribbed with natural
4 ) 2
Bones was preaching to
flock in his usual fowery
making money—lots of it.
"I think that it is one of the finest
countries in the world: and the more
I see of it, the more I think so. It
globe. W
The intrinsic value is the same in two
automobiles of the same make and
model. The price is the same. But the
worth of the car depends heavily upon
where you buy it.
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Advertised for $1.00 Our Price for a /* O
Limited Time with the Coupon VC
On the salesroom floor a car is only a
car. In the hands of its owner it is an
automotive transportation unit whose ef-
ficiency depends much upon the attitude
and responsibility of the man who sold it.
Every dollar that is kept from cir-
culation, that is denied the right to
belv others. through deposit in the
bank, retars the progress of the
community.
'■Nigger you ton’t need
Contests in more than forty cities and
veral thousands
from $300,00 in I
way it
James Parke of Dickinson and Now-
lin Randolph of Austin.
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GROUND RENT
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Miss He Ilia Collins Takes Part.
voted and work is under way. The '
A quaint Swiss-cottage hygrometer, that pays for itself in many
ways. It warns yo uwhen to take an umbrella, or when not to
hang out the wash. When the weather is to be fine the two
children will be out; when stormy weather is approaching the
witch will come out from 8 to 24 hours ahead of rain or snow. It
is surprisingly reliable on local weather conditions. Made on strict-
ly scientife principles. We have secured a special price on a quan-
tity and, as long as they last, will sell them for exactly what it
costa us to retail them—only 09c if you bring this coupon. Every
village, city and farm home should have one. Come and get yours
at once or mail your order. Mail orders 8c extra for packing and
postage. An excellent gift.
I
Jones of Monroe. La.. Merrill
sey of Aipine, Melba Collins t
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tin. David Ml
with enterprise. Taxes should be thousands of acres of rich river hot-
taken out of this ground rent and tom land. Galveston News.
he heard from.
Judging will be done as in the i
past, by especially seleeted boari ap I,
pointed by the executive committee)'
and made up of prominent personages
(By Wm. A. Black.)
It seems hard to make clear what
is meant by “ground rent.’* We
understand the commercial term,
rent, and for that very reason we
become confused in the use of the
word as it applies to land values
only.
opportunity. They ha
in the coast country,
be given a clear outlet to the sea. |
thereby preve nting river towns and
farms from being flooded in time of
+ Amusement Company has taken a has an especial right to congratula-
ninety nine year lease on a promi- tory interest in this project. Follow-
nent corner in Houston on which it ing a serious overflow three years
is proposed to build a sixteen story ago a little group of Wharton and
for next 18 years $36,000 a year for tions to bring
Detroit, April 13.—The Ford Motor
Company Inaugurated what is said to
be the first commercial air line to
be establishedi n the United States
when the “Maiden Dearborn,” an
all-metal monoplane of the "air-Pull-
man” type, hopped off from Ford
airport. Dearborn, at 9:24 a. m , with
a cargo of company mail and ex-
press for the Ford plant at Hege-
wisch. Ill., near Chicago.
The plane is one of two Duralu-
min planes to form the nucleus of
an air service to link the Ford Com-
pany here with its plants at Chica-
go, St. Louis, St. Paul and Tron
Mountain, Mich.
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Clean-up Week? And the school
trying to change this school house
Into a cleaner, healthier and better
from throughout the southwest. Beau- I
ty of face and form and grace of
carr lg» is the basis ou which selec- I
tion will be made.
language.
"Breddern," he said, "when we get
to hebbin, we'll all twine to hab
/ for the first thr
ke W Thompson
rman of the Rev
general manager
Only Two Dozen at this Price. This is an exceptional
Value. See Our Window.
More than ever today the car owner
needs the strong support of a responsi-
ble, permanently established dealer who
has prepared himself to meet all the op-
erating requirements of the car he sells.
organization
Texas, which
second week
with all such contracts the Amuse- high water. A representative of the !
meat Company must agree t > take News attended one of the early meet-1
care of all taxes on the land and ings and visited the raft, where he'
buildings According to the report was at once impressed with the men- ]
the “Terms of the lease provide for ace of the situation and with the dif-
a payment of $12,500 i year fom the ficulty of relieving it. Thereafter
25 years and $45,000 a year for the tention of Texas The thirty-eighth
remanider of the period.” legislature passed an aet remitting to |
This is ground rent pure anil sim- a district comprising parts of Whar-
ple. At the end of the ninety nine top and Matagorda counties state (
years the lease will “fall in” as our taxes for a long period of years, the
English friends term it when build- pre eeds to be used for clearing away
ing and ground goes back to the r ypassing the raft
successors of present fee holders. Tt appears from the description of
The farm owner never calculates the undertaking given by The News
on ground rent but it is there just El Campo correspondent that the
the same. If a farmer buys raw river’s original channel is to be open- :
r land at $50.00 an acre and cultivates ed by breaking up the log jam with I
and improves to the value of $50.00 machinery and explosives. The orlgi-1
an acre more he must get at least nal intention was to dig a by-pass |
6 per cent rent or $3.00 an acre on channel, eliminating the stream’s nat- .
the cost of the land and what may ural windings and depending upon ■
seem strange to amny he must get the accelerated current to deepen and
interest on the $50.00 an acre im-' keep it open. If the plan has been
provements added. These are two changed we may be sure it was upon
distinct economic factors that we thoroughly competent advice. People
must learn to distinguish one from in that section are united upon the
the ither. The fee owner of the one thought of getting the work done
Houston lot serves no economic pur- as effectively and cheaply as possible
pose whatever. It is the builder and Formidable as the accumulation of
user of the lot that counts, yet un- logs and driftwood appears to a lay
der our present system of taxation observer. to an engineer It may pre-
we make it easy for the land owners sent a relatively simple problem,
and lay all the burden on the man Completion of the work will reclaim
building and theatre This company Matagorda County people took up in ;
instead of buying the land leeses it a serious way the task of devising
for this long term of years. The some means by which the river could •
is the name of the play to be given,
according to the president of the
elub, Constance Douglas of San In-
tonio.
At the recent tryout for member-
ship in the Curtain Club, nine new
members were elected, as follows:
Priscilla Austin of New York City,
Louise Smith of Houston. Dorothea
smaller towns already assured
the new structure. Ls
—- 1 Wharton County is vitally inter-
“The Treasure Land of America. ested in the huge reclamation enter-
where nature in her uniform distri- ' prise which will free the Colorado
bution of fertile soil, and a subsoil river of the mammoth raft now ex-
foundation on which to deposit it. of tending from its mouth to within j
alluvial clay, and Ironed out the a few miles of this city.
wrinkles on the surface, leaving it Bonds for clearing the river to the
smooth, but beautifully sloping to- south county lines already have been I
may! Speaking of current news and
year, happenings, how would you like to
miles of country with almost no
waste land: with a delightful, health-
ful climate, productive of almost all
crops -and of many varietles the year
around: fanned by the balmy breezes
from the great Gulf of Mexico; over-
Slung by a turquoise sky; and kissed
by the rays of the Southern sun into
abundant response to the intelligent
touch e man: a country where, if
he will but try, health, happiness and
vrosperity are man's sure reward.
will help more than anything else, of the Colorado River for some twen- ■ ning the big prizes. metropolitan is how to get your hat on eber dem
"The Coast country is simply Im-
mense That expresses it in a word.
It is simply Immense But a most Bathint Girl Review Will Be Held
■ singular development appears here Way 16, 17. IS.
You are preparing to handle the pro- ...........
duets of several states back of you, Galveston, Texas, April 10. Every-
and yet, within an hour’s ride, you thing is in readiness for the season’s
have thousands of acres of the finest opening here Sunday when "Splash
lend in the world— land that will Day" will be observed. Interest is
raise anything unsettled, un used 1 centered, however, in the annual
have never encountered inch a eon Bathing Giri Revue and Beauty Pa-
dition anywhere else: for as a rule, geant that is scheduled (or May 16, Prize
lands in the suburbs of the great 17 and 18. Immediately following of dolla
cities are worth $150 to $400 in acre, the convention of the Associated Ad gold to
Why It is, f do not know: but it is vertising Clubs of the World, that Atlantik
80. will meet in Houston, the big event ners.
“Within the past few years, a few । this year will be attended by notables ecutive
people have taken advantage of this from the four corners
and thus takes on add
Even this early, it would seem the
event is surely destined to assume
place to live. We can do this if we
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Smith, Carey. The Matagorda County Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, April 17, 1925, newspaper, April 17, 1925; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1553354/m1/3/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.