The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 91, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1931 Page: 3 of 4
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rhe Daily Tribune, fhursday, Aug. 13, 1931
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cotton picker brings 125 pounds
per
day
includes chil-
Dallas Protesting
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MAJESTIC REFRIGERATOR
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Error, Unfounded,
A threat that congressional action
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Now is the time to buy that new Majestic Refrig-
ers
spent today in Bay City.
erator you have been want ing to. A three year guaran-
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Misse
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de
Dairy
tee. Tested and approved by Good Housekeeping Insti-
where it is produced in '
tute. Come in for a demonstration.
a sanitary way.
Mrs
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W. E. Goodwin Music & Elect. Co.
Electric Shop
Phone 203
Keep Your Home MODERN
Lighting
pi
iii
umps.
Even a coat of paint has been known to increase the value of
ight plants, radios, repairing, and
prop-
ten times over the cost of painting.
Now add to that new and
lorn style lines in design and it is hard to realize the increase in the
Cotton Farmer
P. O Box 993
Bay City, Texas
NOW
ALAMO LUMBER COMPANY
ON DISPLA Y
: won't be control led by law. the leg-
Bay City, Texas
to
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Houst n-Beaumont game
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CARRYING
POWER
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Iow it- full, rich cheese
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HUNDREDS
Houston yesterday
• raising more of their own living at
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OF JOBS
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Electric Transmission Lines
wumomm rummouvur
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in Hou
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Mr Ted Mangum
NEW EMPRESS EUGENIE MODELS
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HOUSTON
two other tractors were damaged
. gates of the Texas division of the
17-18
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EmpressEugenie Hat hold* its
mplacent-
day for the season, probably
We call for and
I held this
Others besides the
managed
Dip and Tilt
i to
will have been saved
deliver the same
p or
now find
ryo
least one that’s n
atter
day.
oat.
VERSER
store operation
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RICE MARKET
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The Hurley Shoppe
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Patronize The Advertisers
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of Central Power And Light Com-
pany which connect community
after community in South and
Southwest Texas do more than
house wiring.
Phone 231
light and that root rot has caused
much damage. He called the acreage
Rugeley and daughter. Jane. returned
yesterday from San Antonio where
Mr. Earl White attended the game
in Houston yesterday.
Thomas A Edison had the doctors
worried when he took to his bed i
after the recent hot spell. The 84-
loaded with 400 gallons of gas and a
barrel of oll caught fire. The truck I
and three tractors were destroyed and
loqated
cotton s
the city
Mr
busin
if you have not yet had Electricity installed, inquire
through our nearest office for an estimate on costs of instal-
lation and operation.
and the
Creek
time on
minh
Messrs. Jake Williams and Herbert
Anderson returned yesterday from
Houston where they have been for
several days.
Mr
Anto
met here last year
Eight regional conventions will be
Mr
i Ho
Mr... W. J. Luder of Markham, was
in town today.
They es
the trip
Beave
in Col
the democratie party, he said.
The senator called President Hoo-
ver’s moratorium a "complete flop
asserted the farm board had failed
to help farmers. and said the tariff
had not decreased unemployment
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No
Democratic Victory
Predicted by Walsh
Modern merchandising will be the
I theme of the conventions. The Inde-
pendent Grocers’ Alliance operates in
38 states with a membership running |
, into the thousands
Mr
Danb
Slater
By the end of the week lots of rice
and a considerable amount of cotton i
presse
• are ।
Pike's
The
ton on
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Eagle Lake
Yesterday afternoon north of town ' Independent Grocers
on the . . , ; \ ( A
year-old inventor’s wonderful powers
1 of recuperation were evidenced again.
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price posted for picking. It .
, has been calculated that the average
erty
modi
the estimate. Damage from weather ,
and inserts may hold off the reali- |
/at ion of the estimate, at least in so
far as it applies to Texas. The truth |
seems to be that we are facing 5 cent I
or 6 cent cotton at the wagonside
8825°
Report on Cotton
Dr James Kimball, meteorological
expert of the Government, has fore-
told weather conditions for all sue-
Mr J B Patterson, who has been I Independent Grocers
- 1 meet in Houston for
ork nut n number of variatior
8298
k
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- Katherine Wilson and Mary !
Tabb spe
siness.
Sanitary Dairy
Herbert Gusman,
Owner
A. B. Owsley. Mgr.
6
Cant Dodge
Courteous Service Always
Miss Pearl Huff of Markham. was
a Bay City visitor today.
tered sections of the United States 11
in conventions for the purpose of 11
schooling in the principles of modern (|
Electricity does difficult, routine tasks, and relieves thou-
sands of men and women of the arduous toil encountered
atul-
s,-
11 a!
king
olu-
[ Miss Charlotte Kieffer. economics)
department Cehtral Power and Light
Company, has returned after a bus-
iness visit to Edna. El Campo and
other towns of the Rice Belt district :
-o—o-
The Cotton Crop
drill and inexpert pickers. Two him
(Dallas News I
no use to deny that the
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prii e
ar sh
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puri-
lira
said he knew "large areas in which ; to be the
no estimate has been made at nil."
prior to the availability of this modern power. In addition,
Electricity makes possible, at low rates, new conveniences
and new pleasures undreamed of a generation ago.
J. A.
dred pounds a day throughout the *
season is a very good average indeed.
I On that basis adult labor is worth 7c
an hour on the Southern farm today
But before we condemn that as an j
, unfair wage, consider that it is prac-
tically 1c per pound of the lint in a
bale or one-fifth of what the farm-
This. of course.
Minneapolis,
Miss; Char-
Alliance will
a two-day con- i
The convention
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mets, slices, spreuds!
moving right along ( Houston gathering are
* - Lincoln. Neb.; Biloxi.
Next year’s cotton acreage in Texas
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CENTRAL POWER
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LIGHT COMPANY
reports "absolutely unreliable" and | Thirty-five cents a hundred is said
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’ grossly in error" and "utterly
! founded."
’ From a personal inspection
Ritcheson reported light crops
Q0e00 thia
delit ious new cheese food
here for the past several Ioue: " ":u
easons at a buyer arrived in vention Aug
■ from Fort Worth. Wednes- ‘
value of your property—aside from the joy of living in an attractive
structure.
You will be pleased nt the dressing-up we can give your home
through remodeling. We will help you plan the changes and quote you
prices for materials and work which will be exceedingly low. Let's
1 ilk it over. No obligation on your part.
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the,,South. While frankly surprised. er can expect in the light of present I
as the trade itself ev dent, wax 1 he market trends. The iandlor d is due
News.sn.it prepared at this tone to , from a fourth to a halr and the
express .ill opinion 01 the accul u\ ol ’
Mrs. Turner, Mrs.
English Touring
In Colorado
Headgear, xo that nearl
they have been visiting for some time.
with the former fancy lots offered
at 534 and Prolifics at 3*4 cents, but
buyers ideas 14 to 6 cents lower. The
governments weekly review says that
! rice progress is fair to good in Tex-
1 as. fair in Louisiana with the crop
; short and harvest under way and
weather very favorable in Arkansas.
I sumption may occur
But there is no dodging the issue
i thus grimly presented Southern '
। farmers must reorganize their meth- I
। ods, depending less on cotton and
Xeh
h!
r
Mr. nd Mrs Vance Porter and
family are now comfortably situated
in their new place of residence, the
former A. R. Benge home.
Aug 13 Dele
Mrs W. C Mersfelder of Markham I F riend to All Fly
I I———-~e
delightfully im-
visitor to Bay City y ester -
ect to spend some
Sargent. Mrs. J W.
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203, Sanitary
condition of the country, but it is
true this condition has been the
means of conceding more power to I
Kgym
r IE
Jean Cobb and Messrs. Robert Lee E gy
Sisk and Tom Ewing attended the ■ ge
u
l (PXa
food-! Meat, fish,eggs, veg-
etables. And it's Um health-
ful—as digest as pure
whole milk it-elft
Try it today—for cook-
ing and sandwic hes. Your
grocer has it in 1 hr half
pound package.
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merely transport Electricity.
These lines are carrying POWER
for hundreds of jobs in the home,
on the farm, around the shop,
factory or store.
plant cotton on the
years in succession,
law is driving inexoi
objective sought by
tory law.
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Mr and Mrs. Ernest Reiman spen
yesterday in Houston seeing the
same land two I
But economic | |
ably toward the । i
fixtures, fans. water
electric supplies, farm
Norri
on bn
Miss Rose Porter, who is attending
Baylor college, Dallas, is in the city
visiting her mother, brother and sis-
ters. Miss Porter is accompanied by |
Mr. and Mrs. Staultznaus, also of
Dallas
Gonzales and Harwood.
Those attending the ball game in
Houston yesterday are Messrs. Joe
Milner Bob Ernst. Johnny Ernst. Hal
Steele. Toney Carr. Earl Meharg. I*
R. Hamill. Jack Young, Weldon Smith.
G. P Hardy. G C. Horn. Bill Luder.
Payne Walker, W. F Tetts anil Con-
nie Anderson.
NEW ORLEANS, Ap 13,—With
The c ops are
j islature having killed. wisely
think. the bill forbidding farmers
plus, more than 24.000,000 bales of 1 Pf 2 Q ge’g
Mr and Mrs. Audrell White at- cotton are in sight During the cotton K mAh ■
tendet the game yesterday in Hous- 1 year ending July 31. a little over 11,-
,n 1 000,000 bales of American cotton were (% Y g
used There is therefore a prospect- '4 Sa 2 gYgzg GR
Mr Johnny McGlaun was operated ive surplus of 13,000,000 bales nt the 9 " h U — “ W 6 •
on at the Loos hospital yesterday and end of the present crop year No j
is reported doing very nicely ! wonder prices fell to the lowest point i
. . ,, , reached in 36 years
Mr and Mrs W O Cain left <o- _ m
. , c - A..,, Something may happen of course, i t8
day to: San Antonio. . ..__j; ? • ,
• I to i hevc the Situation Insect and
Mr M A Wilkerson was a busi- ! storm damage may cut down the
ness visitor to Houston Tuesday and I yield An abnormally large acreage 1
Wednesday. abandonment is to be expected in the ।
• fare of prices which scarcely pay for |
Dr G W. Reed, his wife and George । the picking. Some increase in con- ;
Reed, left yesterday for a brief visit
in Leaky.
Misses Bernice Milner and Kather-
ine Ramsey attended the big game in
Mrs. T J Clark of
e visiting fi iends.
I will be sought in the next session to 1
i prevent the agricultural department
from "musuing’ its power in issu-
| nce of cotton acreage reports is
contained in a letter forwarded on I
Tuesday to the secretary of agricul- '
, ture by the Dallas Manufacturers' 1
association through its president, A.
i R. Ritcheson.
“You certainly can not expect the j
people of the South to sit idly by and
allow your department to crucify ,
| them in this manner " Mr Ritcheson
wrote, protesting he characterized as ।
estimate of more than 15,000,000 bales
for the cotton crop is a blow to
The Tribune has rm rived a post- i
card mailed at Manitou, Colo. Aug 1
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Aa ULL EYES may be made and
t/gflgjKANA- Lkept dear and healthy by.
“8SB W- ~ e applying MURINE daily. It dissolves
N8 G sSm-. - F the dust laden mucous film, and over-
AN » comes bloodshot condition resulting
P "NVW ' 9PGe from over-use. Soothing and Refreshing.
FOBW-c", " Contains no belladonna nor anything
%/Au .1- TATa/ ( harmful. Succes fully used and recom-
V 111! M2 ir V . mended for infant and adult sin* 1817.
8VVM EmB—* BOOK SENT FRI EON REQUEST
THE MURINE COMPANY Dept. H. S. 9 East Ohio Street, Chicago
Henry Estill of Sargent was
Delegates from nil parts of Texas
j are expected here for the Texas eon-
The ladies are touring Colorado
id the Golden West and they
Messrs. Charles Pierce and Stanley
. ’ x ill ......’ • ■ a ■
zona, where they have been for the ceS51u Atlantic flyers ahead of their
last two weeks. —g hops.
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In A
Low Prict
"‘Then at last the simple mixture, Ad-I
’ lerika, made me regular/*
1 The simple mixture of glycerin,
i buckthorn bark saline, etc. (dlerika)
Just ONE does relieves stomach GAS I
pressing on heart so you sleep sound ,
all night. Unlike other medicine,
! Adrelika acts on BOTH upper and |
lower bowel, removing poisons you
never knew were there Relieves con-
stipation in two hours! Let Adlerika
i cleanse your stomach and bowels and 1
I see how good you feel.— Matagorda
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10 by Mr* E W Tu
Louise English former I
but now of Houston
: no new rough received, the first har-
! vesters of clean rice shipped their
crop immediately to interior mills for i
putting onto clean before shipping i
to the local market .It was thought
probable that some rough would be
shipped in here in a few days. The
carryover of 848,491 pockets from last
season and was about as expected
by the trade.
Advices from the interior state that
offerings of new’ clean rice Ediths
and Early Prolific were increasing
blends with other
Mr and Mrs. M. J Early accom-
panied by Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Luder ’
attended the game in Houston yes- |
terday
Mr- Will Davant and children ami;
Mrs. Frank Carr. Margaret, and Mary
Frank returned yesterday from ;
ly at the top—but, happily, the de
SAN FRANCISCO Aug 11 —United
States Senator Thomas J Walsh of < vention. H C Schumacher will be j
Montana predicts the democrats will host to the convention Ray McBride
control the next hous cof represents- i is . . chairman
fives and doing so. will bring about ( Each
year it has been the policy 11
the election of a democratic presden । of the Independent Grocers’ Alliance
in 1932 1 to gather its retailers in widely scat- , I
Speaking to a meeting of the Cali- - -.....- II
fornia democratic club last night
Senator Walsh attributed his confi-
dence in his party's chances to the
depression
“I can not rejoice at the economic
g The old Caney schoolhouse east of
J town on Highway 58 burned to the
ground yesterday.
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I I Years Constipation
Glycerin Mix Ends It
"For 11 years I tried to get rid of
constipation,” says Chas E. Blair. I
1
L gestibic'
as milk
itself!
ginner. very probably, will expect the
seed, if not more, for his services
A situation of this sort indicates
that much of the cotton will never be
picked. The farmer will store his
cotton in the stalk, so to speak. Of
course those* who have no gardens or I
smokehouses and who have canned
no food for the winter will pick the
crop in sheer desperation of necessi-
t But if the entire 15,584,000 bales
which the government says is in
prospect should actually be ginned it
wound be surprising indeed. There I
is such a thing as a price of cotton '
too preposterously low to bring it to
market
if you want better and |
cleaner milk and whip-
ping cream, telephone
2.
Locals and
Personals
i th* firstsmle of the season closed
; here ovefnight, the rice trade her* .
was anxiously awaiting a better de- i
mand. The first sale consisting of a
car of Ediths at 51 cents a pound .
was shipped here from the Conrad
Mills at New Iberia. It was classed _
I extra fancy. Thus far. there has been/
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meon of "tatu- 9 Vser,
The government crop report of Aug "-2 , • ■ e.2(3
I says that 15,584.000 bales of cotton , *-s ---
i are in prospect from the American
I crop now beginning to be picked.
i Adding that to the 9,000.000 bales sur-
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Mi and Mrs. Charles Freeman of aomonslirdapemotc’avorrhleycons
were Bay C» visitors Wed- | before cotton num, to . price n- [
. mu neral ive under the methods here-1
Mr and Mrs Bill Lowe went to ' ’"for* pursued. Raising nothing but ।
Houston yesterday to see the Hous.! sotton.on exhausted land, sellingKi
" -__- .K.. ’ for 6c to lr a pound, and buying food
ton-Bevumont game for his family and feed for his live- .
Mr and Mrs. Carl Bachman wit- i stock is • game no farmer can con- '
nessed the game in Houston Wednes- ' tinue indefinitely to beat. There must
dav be a stopping place somewhere, and
| It looks like that place is about
eached.—Ga Reston New*
leston. West Va.; Rochester, N Y:
Portland. Mexico and Chicago
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Smith, Carey. The Daily Tribune (Bay City, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 91, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1931, newspaper, August 13, 1931; Bay City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1554479/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Matagorda County Museum & Bay City Public Library.