Texas City Times (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, March 10, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THE TEXAS CITY TIMES
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THE HOUSTON MARKET REVIEW
RESOLUTIONS.
ALLEN’S
TEXAS CITY’S CASH STORE
Good Goods
Star Brand Shoes
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A. B. PHILLIPS, Cashier
SCOTT MARSHALL, President
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be
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our
total
cotton crop of $850,000,000 grown
annually inthe country and
with
Now in their new store, First Ave. North, between Third and Fourth Sts.
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The Religious Census.
PHONE 51
FREE DELIVERY
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White Cap Threats.
Woodmen Visit Galveston Camp.
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changed.
SAM HOUSTON.
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Stewart Title & Guaranty Co.
Prices Going Up.
Military Company Organized.
Capital $300,000.00
TEXAS
GALVESTON
accomplished under
performance,
which entitles
Gulf Lumber Co
preceding year.
Everything under Shed. Let us figure on your Bill
LAMARQUE NEWS.
Texas City, Texas
Phone 78
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C. W. HEATH c. H. CASSELL
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fore prices are advanced.
TEXAS CITY
TEXAS
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The Reliable
Meat Market
Lots in Texas City, Texas City
Heights, and Kohfeldt’s additions
Complete New Stock
Building Material
Go to Lobenstein's for riding sad-
dles. wagon, team and buggy har-
REAL ESTATE,
FIRE INSURANCE,
House and Office Rentals
many acts of kindness will long
remembered by all.
Be it further resolved, That
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Daniel, Ginsberg & Co.
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--SEE--
Tennille & Sadler
4th Ave. North, Near Sixth Street.
Chas. J. Treaccar
Attorney at Law
ROOFING, SKYLIGHTS, CISTERNS, GUTTERINGS,
PLUMBING WORK OF ALL KINDS.
Call us up and ask for an explanation of how it is effective
in protecting you.
OFFICE:
3rd Floor General Office Building
Phone
List Your Property and
Insure With Me.
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Ice Cream Parlor, Hot and Cold Drinks, Confectionery, Fruits.
Finest Soda Fount in South Texas
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Good Fresh Meats on Hand at
all times
--FOR--
TIN WORK and PLUMBING
Now open in temporary quarters in Sheers’ Hardware
store. This is an association composed very largely of Texas
City people, who will appreciate the support and co-operation
of their fellow townsmen.
Call in to see us and give us your business.
potatoes is as top notch as at any
time during the fall or wintre sea-
un-
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF TEXAS CJTY
CAPITAL - ■ ■ $25,000.00
SURPLUS - - - 6,250.00
Yet when we
It raises one-third of the
Castle Hall and Charter be draped
in mourning for ninty days.
Be it further resolved, That a
copy of these resolutions be spread
on our minutes, a copy be sent to
the family of our deceased brother
and a copy be furnished the Texas
City Times for publication.
Wm. Moore,
E. V. Rhodes,
W. L. Richardson,
Committee on Resolutions.
Texas City, Texas, March 1, 1911
Whereas, on February 28th, 1911,
Bro. E. E. McNary, one of the loyal,
zealous, energetic and faithful pio-
neer members of Texas Cit y Lodge
No. 366 Knights of Pythias depart-
ed this life,
Resolved, That our heartfelt sym-
pathy be, and is extended to his fam
ily for the loss of a husband and
father and in the untimely and fear-
ful manner in which he was taken
from this life. Death at any,time
has its terrors but more especially
when it comes during moments of
joyous frivolity as in this case.
Be it further resolved, That this
community has lost one of its faith-
ful representatives who was always
ready to defend fallen humanity,
charitable and liberal in his deal-
ings to an extent that his loss and
the better kind. Walk on Stars and wear the Smile that won’t
Come Off.
with honor more than most men sim
ilarly natured.
In the forty-eight years since his
fathers gathered him back into the
fold, Texas once the synonym for
the most primitive of American civi-
lization, has seen its star of desti-
ny rise from obscurity to the top of
the states of the Union. Occupying
a negative position but a few years
ago as a producer of every day sta-
ples it now boasts of more wheat
lands than the two Dakotas, more
corn land than Illinoise, more fruit
lands than California, more timber
all the other states combined, more
than Michigan, produces more veg-
etables than Indiana, more rice than
cattle than any single state, more
petroleum than Pennsylvania, more
iron than Alabama, more marble
than Vermont, more granite than
New Hampshire, has more railroad
mileage than the great state of New
York and adds $600,000,000 a year
to the agricultural wealth of Uncle
Sam.
ness, etc. 2024 Strand.
A number of negroes have been
employed on some of the construc-
tion work going on in Texas City.
The employers state that they are
needed on certain classes of the
work; they being peculiarly fitted
to perform certain labors, for which
it is either difficult or impossible to
get white labor. For several nights
past notices have been posted warn-
ing the negroes to leave town. This
is a spirit that should not exist in
any modern, progressive city, and
is not condoned in the slightest by
the business interests of the city.
One of the highest officials of the
Texas City allied companies makes
the emphatic statement that his in-
terests will protect their labor at all
cost, and it is to be hoped for the
sake of peace and law and order,
that there will be no more white-cap
notices posted.
trying difficulties,
The religious census taken Febru-
ary 22, shows the following as mem-
bers of the various churches in Tex
as City:
Baptist 48, Catholic 40, Christian
24, Congregational 1, Episcopal 4,
Jewish 7, Lutheran 20, Methodist
111, Presbyterian 9, Presbyterian
U. S. A. 9. The figures given by no
means represent all the people in
the city who are members of some
one of the churches. While the ef-
fort was made to secure all, this was
impossible in the short time given
for the work.
Poultry Brings Fancy Prices, Eggs
and Butter Low. All Con-
ditions Good.
Special to the Times
Mr and Mrs. M. Wilhouse of Tex-
as City were here Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. T. Ramaker of Gal-
veston were out looking around last
Sunday with theview to purchasing
a home in the future.
Capt. Wolvin and some friends of
Texas City came over and spent a
few hours with friends here one ev-
ening last week.
Mrs. Whitcomp of Galveston came
out and spent a few hours with
friends last week.
Mr. and Mrs. E. Brady of Dallas
are visiting his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Brady, here this week.
Messrs. Lewis and Nichols of aGl-
veston were visitors here Sunday.
Mrs. W. L. McNeel was in the Is-
land city last week.
L. Margot went to League City
Sunday on business.
son. Prices hold steady and
Texas City is rapidly growing
from the small port of a year ago
to a port of real importance. In
cotton exports she is now up a-
mong the leaders, being ahead of
Brunswick, Mobile and Charleston.
The shipping business in all lines
has made remarkable gains over the
A large number of the Texas City
Woodmen went over to Galveston
last Friday night on the launch Lo-
tus and held a great meeting with
Galveston Camp. Four candidates
from Texas City, Messrs. G. W.Shaw
W. E. Hausinger, W. D. Allen and
D. S. Fridner, were carried along,
and with three other candidates on
the Island were put through the for-
est in royal style. The following
from this city were in attendance:
H. T. Wall, A. S. Morgan, R. Skill-
man, C. T. Grimes, A. Jacobson, M.
W. Terry, J. R. McCarry, W. L. Ev-
ans, A. G. Walker, I. Battestine, C.
M. Easterling, H. W. Pike, George
Scotto, H.W. Haggard, L. R. Sim-
mons, H. Cohn, L. M. Sample, W.W.
Odle, M. G. Terry.
A large number of young men of
the city held a meeting Wednesday
night for the purpose of organizing
a company of the Texas National
Guards. The names of thirty-five
were enrolled as members, and the
following were elected as officers:
Captain, C. D. LaValle; Lieutenant,
Bruce Maddox; Second Lieutenant,
Archie McNary;, First Sergeant,
Mann Berry; Mess Sergeant, J. F.
LaValle.
No other officers were elected and
another meeting will be held at the
I. L. A. Hall next Wednesday night,
when all who are interested are in-
vited to be present.
Seventy-five years ago the 21st
of next month, Sam Houston, with
750 brave men behind him, changed
the destiny of one nation and en-
larged the perspective of another.
However time may have sobered
the judgement of his fellowmen or
dimmed the brilliancy of his achiev-
ements on that day, the state whose
sovereignty he secured and his coun
try to whose material advantage he
has ever since inured can never
withhold from him the credit of a
the development of the American
linen industry made possible by the
Oxford processes which achieve here
in 24 hours which requires 30 week
to accomplish abroad, Texas will be
the largest producer of flax in the
world. Largely an unexplored wild-
erness in Sam Houston’s day it now
gives shelter and a good living to
almost 4,000,000 persons. Worth
relatively little then, it has a real-
ty value today of $8,000,000,000 anl
is growing at the rate of half a bil-
lion dollars a year. Of all his coun-
trymen, none would be prouder of
the wonderful growth of Texas
which striking achievements repre-
sent, than Sam Houston, were he al-
lowed to penetrate the veil of the
tomb and view the magic changes
that have been wrought by the wiz-
ardry of time over the land which
to him was the fairest the universe
over.
Lots in Kohfeldt’s First Addition
advanced $25 per lot April 1, bet-
ter buy now. Heath Realty & In-
surance Company, General Office
Building. • tf
New Goods
More Coming all the time
“The Right” Hats for Men and Boys.
know that title guaranty, as it is called is the only adequate
protection against litigation and loss in land investments that
can be had. Every guaranteed title is a good title, every guar-
anteed policy is a bond, to save you from loss on your title.
Special to the Times.
Houston, Texas, March 9.—Spring
trade is now in full swing in all
lines. Vehicle and implement deal-
ers have been rushed with orders
and the word has gone abroad that
Texas will break all cotton and pota
to acreage records this year. Good
prices on both commodities are the
cause. A late Easter has some-what
delayed the dry goods, millinery and
hat trade but warm weather is forc-
ing matters. In a broad way refus-
al to permit the advance in freight
rates and the calling of a special
session of Congress has had no bad
effect. Business failures in the Uni-
ted States for the week ending Mar.
2 were 256 as against 184 for the
same week in 1910.
Cotton fluctuated rather wildly
last week but the trend was upward.
Parities having become distorted an
this week will witness much straddl
trading, heavy sales being made in
one market against purchases in an-
wide fluctuations. Liquidations in
old months and renewed attention
to new crop positions will be the rul
There will be sharp responses to the
weather conditions from now on.
There is very little cotton in the
hands of the Texas farmers and
most of the big dealers have but
small lines.
With the advent of warmer wea-
ther the movement of poultry into
this market has increased but the
demand is yet heavy and prices rule
strong. Hens as high as $7 per doz-
en and fryers up to $6.50. Eggs
are quoted at from 13 to 14 cents
and as prices are off in New York,
receipts are being placed in cold-
storage here, there being no induce-
ment to ship now. This probably
means lower prices in Texas market
Demand for country butter has de-
clined to a point where regular quo-
tations are out of the question.
Strawberries that were protected
from the February frosts are com-
ing into the Houston markets at a
lively rate from Pasadena, Mount
Houston and Dickinson and are now
bringing from $4 to $5 per crate.
Rio Grande Valley vegetables are ar
riving daily and are selling like hot
cakes. The supply of oranges, ba-
nanas, lemons, apples, cabbage and
him to consideration as among the
world's benefactors. In lowering
the colors of the emotional Santa
Anna on the banks of the San Ja-
cinto he evolved a new industrial
empire and experience has shown
builded more wisely than he knew.
Republics may be ungrateful and
grow indifferent to the memory of
those who have done most to make
them eminent but every fragrant
blossom that lifts its face to the
soft southern breeze out of the once
- barren wilderness to whose develop-
ment he gave life and impetus, pays
its silent tribute to Sam Houston,
soldier of fortune, whose spirit still
lives to inspire and animate poster-
ity if he doesn’t. Born in V irginia
while the country was still felicitat-
ing on the establishment of its own
government and the distinguished
part played in achieving that* covet-
ed position by its first citizen, Hous-
ton gave to the nation a domain,
greater in area and more fruitful in
soil than that for which the intrep-
id Continental Army suffered and
offered the last full measure of de-
votion in the eight years struggle
for independence. His warlike in-
stinct, sharpened by his intimate as-
sociation with the Cherokees, who
adopted him as their son and im-
bued him with their philosophy of
life, he cherished the blessings of
peace where they could be secured
consider the natural advantages in
connection with the improved
freight handling facilities we are
bound to realize that Texas City s
growth, during the coming year will
be many times greater than last
year. Property values during the
past year have made nice advances,
but the Increase in values, like the
growth of the city, will be much
greater for the coming year than
during the year just past. Koh-
feldt’s Second Addition is in the di-
rect line of increasing values, and
being close to the tract reserved
for factory sites, this propetry will
come in for a liberal increase in
values, occasioned by increasing
business and the establishing of
various industries which are sure
to come this way. You should see
local real estate agents at once, so
as to get the choice of location, be-
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