Texas City Times. (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1909 Page: 2 of 4
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Wolvin Line
an
independent line of steamers between
Orleans, and
put in the same scale of rates from
information will be furnished by our Agents:
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H. B. MOORE, Vice Pres’t.
Saturday, May 15, 1909
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New York
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more
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Captain Spender-Clay, of the British Saturday, and has been put into the
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LIABILITIES.
On account of the necessity
Cold Sodas and Ice Cream
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our endeavor to equal its own able1
Sam Clark
editorial management.
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on that island called Galveston, but
since we have annexed it it’s lost its
List of Buildings Recently Construct-
ed and Now Nearing Completion.
newspapermen,
experience at
thirty days than the
obnoxious statement
who have had
“the game” in
writer of this
Ed. G. Macartney, Publisher.
The U. von Haxthausen Press.
Published every Saturday.
this
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Those
The
army, who married Miss Pauline As-
tor, daughter of the American expa-
Application made at the postoffice at Texas
City, Tex., to be entered as second-class matter
I shops at Texas City to undergo re-
painting and the completion of the
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$39735.97
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interest, that Eagle Pass is situated
on the Mexican border, in the south-
western part of Texas.
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three
A. E. Hegewisch
E. H. DeCelles...
J. M. Morpurgo..
...TEXAS CITY
the amount they subscribed.
Mrs. Ed Humphries...............
Miss Grace Humphries............
G. H. Morgan............................
Cash ............................................
Cash ............................................
Cash ............................................
Cash ____________________________________________
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Orders for Cream filled and deliv-!
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Capital Stock paid in
Surplus Fund
Undevided Profits, net
Due to Banks and Bankers, subject to check
Individuel Deposits, subject to check
Time Certificates of Deposits
Demand Certificates of Deposit
Cashier’s checks
Bills PayablE and Re-discounts..
Other Liabilities as follows:—
Total...................................................
Mexican-American Steamship
Service
$10000.00
500.00
3488.05
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70238.42
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Coatzacoalcos, Mex
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Jas. W. Elwell & Co..
H. W. Falkenbach.....
R. M. .................
Cash Items............ ... .
Currency..................
Specie....................
Other Resources as follows:—
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C. L. Dimon
Gen’l M'gr,
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TEXAS CITY’S ONWARD MARCH.
MARINE NEWS.
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Quick to show their appreciation of |
a heroic deed and their sympathy for '
the courageous man who lost his life
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, of procuring the use of the boat at
once it was not finished in New Or-
leans, but Messrs. Adams & Company
say that the boat will be ready for
use by the end of next week, and will
1 make her first trip on May 22nd.
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Regular sailings between Nev York
and Texas City, Tex.
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J, R. Rowland,
Traffic Mgr.
32 Broadway,
B. MOORE, Agent,
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riors” for a practice game, which was
filled with surprises for the few that
R. C. Trube, residence.
M. G. Terry, residence.
Fred Jacobson, residence.
John and Joe Terry, residence an-
nex.
Wilson & Thompson, hotel.
Baptist church.
Capt. Mickelson, tool house.
Floyd Hughes, laundry.
Chas. Cassel, barn.
C. W. Slomon, residence.
H. G. Taylor, residence.
C- M. Easterling, residence.
A. S. Morgan, residence.
J. T. Hicks, residence.
John Jacobson, residence.
M. F. Hughes, residence.
John Cooper, barber shop.
U. M. Herbert, residence.
J. H. Seiber, residence.
Geo. E- Whitney, postoffice.
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THE TEXAS CITY CO.
Owners of the
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has had in his entire provincial ca-
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For the information of readers of
the Times who may not have heard
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steamers is owned and controlled by
the business men of the two cities—
Official Statement of the Financial Condition of the
@exas Oity tate Bank
at Texas City, State of Texas,
at the close of business on the 28th day of April 1909.
published in the Texas City Times, a newspaper printed and published at Texas City, state of
Texas, on the 8th day of Mny, 1909.
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We hope the Herald-Star will be
glad to learn of the increased size of
the Times, and to know that is is
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Our rates and service has mads the
shippidg concerns and business men of the South-
west our patrons, and we wish to ask that you
vlease remember to instruct your shipments from
seaboard territory routed care Texas City Steam-
ship Co., New York.
and was in point of interest the best
game played on the home grounds,
which proved to be a pitchers’ battle
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Regular sailings from Texas City and JVew
Orleans every ten days for Tampico, Vera Cruz and
Coatzacoalcos, Mexico.
Through rates and throughbills of lading giv-
en to all points in the Republic of Mexico and to
Central and South America via the Tehuantepec
National R’y and Pacific Ocean Steamship lines
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We have desirable lots for sale to parties wishing to
improve same, and business locations either in the
townsite proper or on switch tracks of the Texas City
Terminal Company. ;
names ought to
Times says it is
make it go.
THE RAIF FUND.
of the existence of the town in which to hover around the number one mark,
the News-Guide is published, we will | It must look as though Galveston
. . ... , has at last got the “Pennant Grab-
state, as a matter of ordinary human I ,, , ,
bers, and the boys deserve good at-
Lewis Helpler...
Cash ...................
Charles Nelson.
Cash ...................
T. C. Allen.........
Eugene Clark....
Tommy Atkins.
J. B. Seiber_______
Louis Rath_________
T. F. French.....
Fred Bodeker...
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triate, is again in the lime light. Pity cabin.
paper published at Texas City. Mr.
y wended their way to the battleground,
U. von Haxthausen is publisher, and
tendance .at all the home games.
We are pulling strong and hope they
will keep up the good work.
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IN 1950.
Yes, said the oldest citizen of Tex-
i as City, “there was once a town over
Mrs. J. A. Cooper....
Mrs. T. E. Reagen.
Tom Reagan...............
W. D. Thompson.......
C. H. Dere...................
H. L. Woodliff___________
F. D. Hahn_________________
E. W. Dockrell___________
Robert Holt.................
Geo. Hathaway...........
T. C Bradford_____________
Terms of Subscription: $1.50 per year
in advance.
Advertising rates made known on application
non-sectarian, and that it is going to
work for Texas City. On the editorial
page of the Times we find this:
“ ‘Don’t give up until you get a good
price for what you give up,’ ” which
leads us to believe the Times is
published solely in the interest of
land owners.”
Not to mention the lack of grammer
shown by the writer of this grat-
uitious shot at a new paper, started
by his fellow-craftsman, who are
fighting for an opening, it seems to
us that mere human kindness would
have prompted the editor of the News-
Guide to investigate before he indulg-
ed in his unfounded and unsympa-
thetic surmise.
Incidentally it might interest the
editor of our critical contemporary
to know that the Times is not pub-
lished in “the interest of land own-
in the effort to save another from
death, the people of Texas City have
contributed thirteen dollars and ten
cents toward the fund for the care of
the widow and the two small children
of Ignatius Raif, who was killed in
Houston about two weeks ago while
trying to rescue a boy from the coils
of a live wire. It is through the in-
between Dolard of the "Wolvins" and
Smith of the “Worriors,” the former
having by far the best support and
winning his game by the score of 7
to 3.
week for his home in New York.
Mr. Nickerson has made many friends
in Texas City and we regret to see
him leave our little city.
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RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts, personal or collateral. . . .
Loans, real estate ............................
Overdrafts.....................................
Bonds and Stocks..............................
Real Estate [banking house] .................
Other Real Estate..............................
Furniture and Fixtures......................
Due from approved Reserve Agents..........
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Seaboard territory to New Orleans
as the Texas City S. S. Co- have made
effective between the Atlantic sea-
INVITE TAFT.
Representative Slayden of
State, has according to news
that some gallant youth of Texas City
didn’t get a chance to spend her
“clay.”
New York once had the distinction
of being as large as Texas City.
tween New York and Texas City.
The astonishing news is given out
from New Orleans that just as the
new line between that place and
Philadelphia had been arranged for
Texas City STODPAy
We offer RReasonable 1nducements |
to business enterprises wishing to locate in this ©
growing little city. H. B. Moore, Vice Dres. |
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On the 18th of the present month,
the first sailing out of Texas City of
the S. S. “City of Mexico” will be
made. This vessel is in the service
of the Wolvin Line, and will leave
Texas City for Vera Cruz via Tam-
pico.
The passenger accommodations of
this vessel are unsurpassed by any
vessel operating in the Gulf, and the
dining saloon, which accommodates
forty, is finished in cedar and mahog-
any, with white enamel ceiling. There
are two tables which are served from
a center aisle, at one end of which is
the buffet- Two stewards, and three
waiters are employed to serve the
guests of the vessel, and the cousine
is excellent.
The passenger occommodations of
the “City of Mexico” are seventeen
state-rooms, which are lighted with
electricity and have electric fans and
ton has been placed in charge of the
steamer on her present trip to Texas
City.
The daily press is carrying news
to the effect that the cities of Phila-
delphia and New Orleans have ar-
ranged final preliminaries for the es-
tablishment of the Philadelphia and
Gulf S. S. Co., which line with its
E. G. Macartney, editor.
Owing to a slip-up in arrangements
there was no regular game on the
home grounds last Sunday, but six
or seven members of the “Wolvins”
out for practice, assisted by some
handy subs., took on “Woodliffs War-
TEXAS CITY BANK.
In an interview had today with
Cashier Gustavus, of the Texas City
State Bank, some surprising informat-
ion was gained concerning the strides
that have been made by that institu-
tion since its establishment about
two years ago. Mr. Gustavus stated
that the resources of the bank during
the past twelve months had grown
from $40,000.00 to over $100,000.00
at this time, and that because of the
rapid increase in business through
the Bank, and of the large transac-
tions being handled through it, that
it had reached the stage where it was
necessary to increase the capital of
the institution in order to have larger
facilities for taking care of the busi-
ness.
It is now proposed by several of
the directors to increase the capital
to fifty thousand dollars, in view of
the fact that business should natur-
ally increase more rapidly in the im-
mediate future by reason of the vast
improvements of different kinds, to
be made during the present year.
He also stated that they were con-
sidering the advisability of erecting
a three-story office building, with
quarters on the ground floor hand-
somely fixed up for the Bank, and
have the other part of the building
for various offices for rent, which he
considered would be an excellent
investment for the Bank, as well as
provide a building that is required by
different lines of business. The esti-
mated cost of such building as con-
templated, Mr. Gustavus says, would
be about $20,000.00.
patches published this morning, ex-
tended an invitation to President
Taft to visit the Fair to be held in
San Antonio next Autumn.
Thousands of people who opposed
his election have come to the opin-
ion that William Howard Taft is the
best fitted President who ever sat in
the chair at Washington. If he
comes to this part of the country, an
effort should be made to get him to
pay a visit to Texas City and inspect
the shipping facilities of the great
new Gulf port.
Southern Steamship Co. had been or-
ganized in Philadelphia and would
immediately begin running steamers
to New Orleans. It is charged that
the new line that was born over
night and is starting its service June
1st is the creature of the Morgan
line and is put on to make it impos-
sible for the business men of Phila-
delphia and New Orleans to operate
the line and ships that they had ar-
ranged to finance in order to get a
reduction in the seaboard rates such
as Texas and Oklahoma merchants
have been given through Texas
City.
Mr. P. W. Nickerson, who for some
months past has been assistant dock
superintendent of the Texas City
Terminal Co., has resigned his posi-
tion and will leave some time next
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terest taken in the pathetic case by. , , ,
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Mrs. Ed. Humphries, of this City, that I
the money was raised and forwarded j Philadelphia and New
immediately to the Houston Post, I
which started the fund.
Donations have now reached and
passed the two thousand dollar mark,
and while it will in no way compen-
sate the widow and children for their
loss, it will go far toward relieving
their anxiety for the future.
Mrs. Humphries will be glad to re-
ceive any additional donations that
the people of Texas City may wish to
make.
Following are the names of those
donating sums for the Raif fund and
L H. KEMPNER, President.
Sworn and subscribed to before me this 3rd day of May, A D niD.GU STAVUS, Cashier.
WITNESS my hand and notarial seal on the date last aforesaid. GEO EWEdandrine.
) H. B. Moore ) Notary Public
CORRECT ATTEST :/J. H. Sieber Directors
) F. B. Davison)
by the merchants that sudden an-
nouncement was made that the
County of Galveston) said bank, each of umanervenprssidentan d.C D.Gustavus.as cashier of
to the best of our knowledge and belief statement is true
board and Texas and Oklahoma,
through its independent service be-
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private baths. The rooms are fin-
ished in white enamel, and each one
contains all the necessary perquisites
to make the trip on the Gulf a pleas-
ant and memorable one.
The “Red Devil,” the new passen-
ger-express boat, which is to go into
the service of B. W. Adams & Com-
: pany, between Texas City and Gal-
: veston, arrived in Texas City last
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In a copy of the Eagle Pass News-
Guide, published during the past
week, there appeared a notice of the
initial issue of the Times, and a petty
sling is taken at this publication,
because of a quotation from the
Alfalfa Leaf, an advertising sheet
that frequently contains some bright
sayings.
We happen not to be acquainted
with the editor of our country con-
temporary, but if we were we would
advise him on several points—mainly
those of good fellowship, professional
ethics and accuracy.
The editorial notice to which refer-
ence is made follows:
“The Texas City Times is a new
The Wolvins have received a chal-
lenge from the White Wings, of Gal-
veston, for a game at Texas City on
Sunday, May 16th, which has been
accepted and the patrons of the game
may see another close contest as the
White Wings is classed as one of the
best amateur teams of Galveston.
Everybody come out and “root” for
the home team.
The Hitchcock team will play a re-
turn game at Texas City, Sunday,
May 23rd, and the “Wolvins” say they
will more than reciprocate for the
defeat they suffered at Hitchcock on
their recent visit to that township.
The “Wolvins are open for chal-
lenges from all comers, and would
like to hear from the “Cohens”, the E.
T. Horns, of Galveston, or other
teams, either for games at Texas City
or Galveston, or elsewhere. Manager
T. J. Morahan will let them have a
prompt answer.
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Speaking of baseball, we can hard-
ly overlook the good work the Galves-
ton Team ,of the Texas League has
been doing. Starting off rather poorly,
they have finished strong on their out
of town trip,. and that too against
teams that were supposed to be dark
horses, or ones that would continue
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Texas City Times. (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 3, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 15, 1909, newspaper, May 15, 1909; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577110/m1/2/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.