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See Edward for strawberry plants.

Fine line of gents pants. D. H. Morris.

For Sale —Sail boat “ Joliet ”. Good condition. A. Johnson.

For plowing, grading or any team work, apply G. E. Black.

FOR SALE :--A male hog, Poland China. A No. 1 hog.  Gust Franzen

Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Rodebaugh on Monday October 30^th, a son.

House full of fresh groceries; something to feed man and beast with. D. H. Morris

Just unloaded a car of Ambrosia flour, also chops and bran. D. H. Morris

If you can’t afford a new winter suit have that old dirty one cleaned and pressed. E. C. Ives.

Mrs. Thos. B. Waite went to Bay City on Tuesday, returning the same afternoon.

Bo McCain, wife and baby are at home once more, we are glad to state, having returned Tuesday.

J. P. Keller and wife, of Bay City , spent a few days in Collegeport this week guests of Hotel Collegeport.

Miss Katherine Barnes, of Blessing, was in Collegeport a few hours Tuesday and dined at Hotel Collegeport.

Central Avenue was treated to a new dress by T. C. Morris on Tuesday by being put in excellent shape with a drag.

We had a nice gentle rain on Monday which was fine for growing vegetation and everything is looking splendid.

It is rumored that Chas. O’Niel, who formerly lived at Portsmouth , is married; further particulars were unobtainable.

E. A. Holsworth caught some red fish Monday at the end of his pier on the bay front which weighed eight pounds each.

Our base ball fans are arousing great enthusiasm in the game. It would be well for our citizens to give them their best support.

Robert L....shows much originality.

Don’t throw papers or other rubbish on the streets or out the back doors on vacant lots. It’s untidy and it endangers loss by fire.

Fay Hurd was here for two or three days last week on a visit. He is in good health and said he was going to the sanitarium in Galveston when he left.

L. E. Liggett left Thursday on the morning train for the Caney, where he will be for a few days looking after the interests of his farm and other things.

There are ten empty box cars on the side track at this station loading and to be loaded with rice. This is the first shipment of rice out of Collegeport by rail.

Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Hale have returned to their home in Decatur, Ills., after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Schofield. They were delighted with Collegeport.

Charlie Heck, locomotive engineer on the Frisco Collegeport branch, has rented the residence of C. U. Pierson on the bay shore, and will soon occupy it with his family.

When you receive notice from the publishers that this is your last opportunity to get their magazines at cut rates remember that I will furnish you the same thing at the same price and you the trouble and expense of sending away for it.   J. H. Adams

See Edwards for strawberry plants.

Try a can of Royal Taste coffee at D. H. Morris.

Clearing, grubbing and fencing. Apply F. B. Moore.

Burton D. Hurd was a business visitor in Bay City Monday.

G. M. Magill was down from Bay City by auto on Tuesday.

Quail Season Open—A quail in every other shell, the Field shell. D. H. Morris.

Come in and see the new Fall and Winter samples. Suitable for suits and overcoats.   E. C.  Ives.

M. L. Bonnett, of Masena Iowa , is here and is building on his home tract one mile north of town.

Ed Morris, of Markham , spent last Sunday in Collegeport and attended the P. of J’s. class at the First Church .

A series of mishaps of late to the launches causes very irregular service crossing the bay, and much disappointment.

E. C. Van Ness was a passenger to Bay City last Thursday on a business trip in the interest of the Mid-Coast congress.

A Tarpon, or Silver King, five fee and one inch in length, caught by Weborg and Johnson in the bay with a seine was displayed in front of Avenue hotel Wednesday morning.

G. A. Lake , our gay sportsman, during the storm Monday made an assault upon the wild game invading our rice fields and lakes and bagged nineteen duck and a brant in a short time.

Don’t let your subscription expire, and if you are not a subscriber become one at once and read your own paper. We need your help to keep up our courage to make the paper still better.

C. M. Steger, of Bay City , tax collector for Matagorda county was here on Saturday and many of our citizens availed themselves of the opportunity to pay their taxes and secure poll tax certificates.

H. Black, formerly surveyor for the Hurd Land Co., now at Markham was in Collegeport over last Sunday. He measured the railroad from Simpsonville to south end of the line and found it to be about 8 miles.

Dr. G. E. Lipsitt and F. D. Everson invoiced the Collegeport pharmacy stock of drugs, etc., on Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. Everson buying, Dr. Lipsitt will go to Blessing to engage in the drug business there.

Pecan hunting is at its height the past ten days and great numbers of our citizens are gathering large quantities along the Colorado river near Pecan. The Texas pecan is a thin shell nut and of exceptionally fine flavor.

C. U. Pierson is to leave in a few days for Gentry, Ark. He fortunately picked up a bargain in a small farm adjoining that city and will plat and sell it out in small orchard tracts at a price many times above the cost to him. We much regret his temporary absence during the resale of this property.

Ben Carp says he has a field of Honduras rice which will yield 20 sacks of rice per acre. It was planted late in June and he is harvesting it this week. The price now is $3 to $3.25 or about $60 per acre. Two years ago this land was offered for sale at $20 per acre without a buyer. The irrigation was then already finished.

Weborg and Johnson have their license from the Government to fish in the bays of the country and are now properly in the business. They have many yards of net and seine already ready and it is expected that our market may be well supplied with all kinds of fish as they are men of great experience in this line.

Dr. H. H. Harrington, director of agriculture for the St. L. B. & M. R’y. was here last Saturday and made a thorough inspection of the Collegeport country. He expressed his surprise to find such a wonderful section, the unusual soil, the unequalled drainage, the numerous flowing wells, the bountiful irrigation privileges and the unprecedented growth in agriculture and development of our utilities in so short a time.

See Edwards for strawberry plants.

Say! Did you observe that broad smile stalking around Collegeport for the last two or three days past? Well, Walter Wilkinson is behind it. It’s boy number two, that’s the whole cause. Though born a Buckeye, it’s to be raised a Texan along with five more, four of whom are only a vision at present; smoke on him boys.

A reporter for the Chronicle was the recipient of a most delicious ripe canteloupe by the editor’s wife, of her own growing on their residence lot. It was truly an example of what may be done in Collegeport when the will to do has full sway. Somebody answer why we have not wagon loads of these delicious melons at this time, the 1^st of November.

A good sized audience greeted Dr. Sloane to his lecture on Twentieth Century Writers at the First church last Thursday evening under the auspices of the Women’s Club. The lecture was replete with witty suggestive illustrations and many good points were brought for the edification of the appreciative audience. Dr. Sloane has many friends in Collegeport who are always glad of an opportunity to hear him.

The next homeseekers excursion from the North, which will be run by the Burton D. Hurd Land Co., will arrive in Collegeport on Saturday evening, Nov. 11^th. It will be a large party of two or three car loads of people and if the stage of water in the bay over the bar at the mouth of the Palacios river will permit, the party are to be brought down the river from Hurd’s Landing by launch. The party will be accompanied by the ... country which includes Citrusgrove, Pecan, Orchard City, Bay Park and Simpsonville are invited to participate in extending the strangers who may be here a most hearty welcome and to join their aid with the whole community in educating our guests as to the great country we have chosen for our homes, that they may be inclined to cast their lot with us. The best informed of us only know little as to the great riches in store for us who work out the full measure of the possibilities of which we have so far only a glimpse, yet we have a lot of unusual achievements which comparatively are wonderful to relate and difficult to believe, but we occupy a position to readily convince the most skeptical and this knowledge properly directed will do much toward the decision of the stranger.
 

Fire at Collegeport.

Collegeport , Tex. , Oct. 25--Fire destroyed the beautiful little bungalow of J. E. Barnard on the bay shore. The bungalow was erected by J. A. Kling, and Mr. Barnard and family of seven had just moved in on Saturday last. The family barely escaped with their lives, the little baby's hair being singed. Nothing was saved. No insurance.

Matagorda County Tribune, November 2, 1911