The Provost Guard (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PROVOST GUARD
TEXAS CITY, TEXAS, JUNE 11. 1915
VOLUME III
N UN BER 23
LOOKING BACKWARD
TEXAS CITY AT CARNIVAL
SEVERE FIRE LOSS
FINGERS BLOWN OFF
DANCE.
ADDITIONAL TELEPHONES.
GUN EXPLODED.
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REPRESENT THE MOST RESPONSIBLE INSURANCE COMPANIES
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Of Statewide Interest
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LEVY’S ANNIVERSARY SALE
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BIG FIRE AT LA PORTE
was
Come June 11th to 22nd
I eat three
I lie down
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at night and sleep like a haby, and
J. D. Rockefeller can't do any more.
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LEVY BROS. DRY GOODS CO.
HOUSTON, TEXAS
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TEXAS CITY RESIDENCE BURNS.
$11
J. E. ROSS & SON, Agent
LEAGUE CITY, TEXAS
then cry called, but the fire had burned itself
out before the arrival of the firemen.
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The Ladies’ Aid and Mission So-
And when I die, I will take away
just as much as he does.
S. S. LINN.
. Alta Loma.
was in my possession until lost
the Galveston storm in 1900.
The portion of Ohio where I
do a good day's work. I
square meals a day, and
because I can’t get four.
Dickinson honored Mrs. S. D. Massey,
with a very pleasant surprise, at the
home of her mother, Mrs. Geo. Deats,
Tuesday afternoon.
Cake and ice cream were the re-
freshments served.
The following were present:
Mesdames C. B. Garner, M. Owens.
B. A. Woods, Tom Woods, C. W. Col
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Galveston , Texas,
216 TREMONT STREET
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WILL ATTEND NORMAL SUMMER
SESSION.
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RECRUITS ARRIVE
IN TEXAS CITY.
morning for Austin, where she will
attend the seven weeks’ summer ses-
sion of the University. Her mother,
Mrs. Geo. Deats, will accompany her.
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A house on Fifteenth Avenue be-
tween Seventh and Eighth Streets,
An automobile, driven by a lady
from League City, (by request we
omit the driver’s name) met with an
accident on the shell road north of
town recently. No one was injured,
but the car was somewhat fatally
twisted.
caused a blaze that could be seen
for many miles and which lighted up
the entire northern section of the
city.
THERE ARE NO OTHER SALES of such importance to the public—in the entire State—as Levy’s Anni-
versary Sales! Dry Goods authorities tell us there are few if any in the whole United States.
Because of their special merits their fame has spread all over Texas. Hundreds come to the sale
each June from points as far distant as 150 miles. They make a business of attending these sales for
it is a business proposition. When one can save 25 per cent to 60 per cent on their wearing apparel and
household needs it is BUSINESS to do so. Besides—if your combined purchases from retail stores in Hous-
ton (Levy’s and others) amount to 20 times your railroad fare—your fare will be refunded by the Retail
Merchants Ass’n. . »
Miss Rowena Deats, one of the
newly elected teachers of the Dick-
During the past week telephone
No. 32 was installed in the Strum
Hotel, and No. 7 in the residence of
Mr. Tom Woods.
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the Belmont School at Nashville,
Tenn.
DICKINSON BUSINESS FIRMS SUS-
TAIN LARGE LOSS.
Mr. Crawford Johnson was home
the first of the week.
Mr. and Mrs.'W. J. Walden were
up from Houston Sunday.
Mrs. Alice Ahlers and Frank Ripke
motored to Galveston Tuesday.
Mr. H. A. Deats was over from
Texas City Sunday.
Miss Thresa Flippin, of Oklahoma,
and Miss Lenore Young, of Long-
view, Texas, left Monday, after sev-
eral days’ visit with Miss Flippin’s
>aunt, Mrs. W. A. Williamson. Both
young ladeis were eproute home from
IS YOUR HOUSE INSURED
"IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY”
Fire which started Sunday after-
noon at 3 o’clock, by the igniting of
gasoline in the Quick Service Ga-
rage, destroyed an automobile, burn
ed the interior of the garage and
Bessan building in which it was lo-
cated, and, fanned by a stiff breeze
jumped over to a row of business
houses and wiped out all but one
building in three blocks.
The loss is estimated at $50,000.
The Houston fire department was
cieties of the Baptist Church of
Texas City is to be represented in
the Civic Parade of the Galvesto
Cotton Carnival, with a float, built in
the form of a sea shell, in which
some handsome woman, dressed to
represent Texas, will sit; walking
toward her, will be an 8-foot stork,
with a live baby in its mouth. Mr.
Wm. Moore was selected by the
Business League chairman to make
necessary arrangements.
Miss Beulah Owens did as much
efficient work as any man there.
The Galveston fire department
made the run from Station 1 in 45
minutes with the 3%-ton chemical
truck.
The drought was broken Tuesday
afternoon by a heavy downpour of
rain, the result of a big colored picnic
in Dickinson. The picnic grounds
seemed inadequate to hold the big
crowd, judging from the way they
overran the streets and surrounding
country.
A total of 42 husky recruits arriv-
ed Monday noon from Columbus,
Ohio. They left Columbus Barracks
Saturday morning on a special train
as far as St. Louis. The recruits
will join the Twenty-third Infantry.
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OFF FOR VERA CRUZ.
A detachment of 25 men and two
officers from the Twenty-sixth In-
fantry left on the United States
transport Buford Monday, for Vera
Cruz. The detachment will act as a
guard.
EOAT RIDE.
Misses Thressa Flippin and Miss
Lenore Young, guests of Mr. and Mrs.
W. A. Williamson, were the honorees
of a boat ride Sunday evening, on
Mr. and Mrs. Williamson’s launch.
The following were present:
Misses Thressa Flippin, Lenore
Young, Rowena Deats, Alice Burgess
of Galveston, Beulah Sherard of Gal-
veston, Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins Foster,
Mr. Conde Benoist, Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Williamson.
Wednesday morning at about 6
o’clock Frank Palamo, the seventeen-
year-old son of C. D. Palamo, of Dick-
inson, had his left hand badly torn
and mangled by the explosion of a
dynamite cap.
He was taken to Dr. Hadley’s of-
fice and the thumb and two front
fingers were""amputated. The dyna-
mite cap was picked up where the
trees are being blasted for clearing
the Lobit place. The young man
does not recall definitely how the ac-
cident occurred, but it is thought he
had the explosive near the stove.
raised was heavily timbered, and I
was trained, early in life, to do light
carpenter work, such as chopping
cord wood, mauling rails, etc. Even
Abe Lincoln himself had nothing over
me as a rail-splitter. The Indians
referred to, among whom my father
settled, were the Pottawatomies, the
Shawnees, and Delawares. They
were moved West about the time I
came on the secne in 1833. I Will
say that 81 years of age, I still can
Editor:
Your efforts to induce “old settlers”
to tell their experiences, is very
commendable, and I hope more of
them will do as Mr. Benson has done.
It is interesting reading. I can give
some reminiscences of 70 and 80
years ago, but it is not applicable to
this vicinity, but it might interest
some of your older patrons. So here
goes:
I doubt very much if there is an-
other man living today who has per-
sonally participated in the marvelous
progress made in harvesting machin-
ery, during the last 70 years, that
the writer has.
I was born 81 years ago, in Ohio,
and was raised as a wheat and corn
farmer. When a boy, 70 years- ago,
I was thoroughly drilled in the use
of that most ancient implement for
cutting grain—the sickle. Three or
four years later I served an appren-
ticeship and became an expert in
handling the grain cradle, which was
the first progressive step made in
200 years in harvesting grain. But
in this age of the world, we move
rapidly. In 1852, in company with an
older brother, I operated one of the
first reaping machines, built by Cy-
rus H. McCormick, of Chicago. (It
was marked No. 6.) It was a crude
affair—a horse and man killer. My
position was to stand on the “hurri-
cane deck” in a little “bull pen”
/ made for the purpose, and ride back-
wards, and with a long-handled rake
stop down, reach under the reel, and
pull the grain off the platform, and
as the machine would cut enough for
a sheaf, every 12 or 15 feet, you can
rapidly see that I had a man’s job
on my hands. In fact, I saw many
a man try it and fail. But in a year
or two more, the self-raking machines
appeared on the scene, then we
thought we had the “world by the
tail,” and a down-hill pull, for all
four or five men had to do was walk
after the machine and bind up the
bundles. But 30 odd years ago, the
self-binders put in an appearance, and
quickly run all other machines out
of the field, for they not only bound
the sheaves, but carried them along,
until they had enough (a dozen) to
make a shock, then dump them, so
all we had to do was follow after
and set up the shocks. If you have
another reader, who personally par-
ticipated in the evolution of grain-
cutting, from the ancient sickle to
the modern self-binder, I would like
to hear from him.
Let us look..backward a little far-
ther. My parents settled in Ohio in
the early part of the last century.
The “patent” issued by the govern-
ment to my father for a quarter sec-
tion of land which he entered, was
dated 1809, and was signed by James
Madison, president, and James Mon-
roe, secretary of state. That patent
The sale opens in Houston June 10th. Inasmuch as it is almost impossible to handle the crowds the
first day—we advise our out-of-town patrons to come the second and succeeding days. Reductions are
the same, selections equally as good, shopping more satisfactory. Lay your plans right now to attend
this, our 28th Anniversary Sale. If you come this year—you’ll come every year. Write us for further
particulars.
। ance not known, if any.
Telephone Company, $1,000.00; no
insurance.
NOTES ON THE FIRE.
It looked for a while as though I
Mr. Thos. H. Baker, of Friends-
wood, while attempting to shoot a
rabbit, Friday of last week, was se-
verely burned about the eye and
face, by the blowing up of the gun.
Dr. T. J. Carter brought hin to
League City, to the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Stanton Pierson, for treatment.
owned by Dave Fridner, caught fire the drug store could be saved.
shortly after 2 o’clock Sunday morn- The volunteer fire department did
ing, and burned to the ground. The good work and probably saved the
cause of the fire is unknown. The garage, J. M. Parke’s residence and
house-burned wiht great rapidity and the Pasquale store.
Shortly after 7:30 o’clock Wednes-
day night Mr. Hoskins Foster discov-
ered a blaze in the new office build-
ing belonging to Mrs. M. Lucy and
occupied by Dr. W. A. Hadley. No
one was in the building at the time
and the fire had gained considerable
headway before it was discovered.
Efforts to put it out were unsuccess-
ful and the new bank building was
soon on fire. Willing hands soon had
everything movable taken out of the
buildings nearby and a large part of
the grocery stock and some of the
drugs of the Woods Bros, and the
household effects of Mr. and Mrs. B.
A. Woods, who occupied apartments
over the store, were saved before
that building caught fire. The total
loss is estimated as follows:
Mrs. M. Lucy, $4,500.00; insurance
$2,600.00.
Dickinson State Bank, $1,500.00:
insurance $800.00.
Woods Bros., $3,500; insurance
$1,500.00.
Dr. W. A. Hadley, $500.00; insur-
Mr. and Mrs. Hoskins Foster en-
tertained with a dance at their new
country home Saturday evening, in
honor of their nieces, Misses Beulah
Sherrard and Alice Burgess, and of
Mrs. W. A. Williamson’s guests,
Misses Thressa Flippin and Lenore
Young.
Those present were:
Misses Thressa Flippin, Lenore
Young, Beulah Sherard, Rowena
Deats, Alice Burgess, Emily Gertrude
Foster, Mary Desel, Messrs. Augus-
tine Desel, Clifton Woods, Dean
Woods, Vern King, Conde Benoist
and Lemi Benoist.
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inson schools, will leave Friday lins and W. A. Williamson.
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Nelson, H. L. The Provost Guard (Texas City, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 23, Ed. 1 Friday, June 11, 1915, newspaper, June 11, 1915; Texas City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1577519/m1/1/: accessed June 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rosenberg Library.