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Collegeport Columns January, 1925 |
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A party was given at the home of E. I. Chiles Friday night. Many of the young people of the community were there and a good time was enjoyed by all.
A party was given at the home of Mr. P. A. Richman Saturday night, in
honor of his son, Sydney, who is home from Draughon's Miss Betty, who has been staying with her sister, Mrs. Ricks, returned to her home in Ganado Tuesday. Mr. J. T. Parker and his family moved to Nursery last Monday.
J. C. Sloan, Sidney Richman, Gerald Merck and Vernon Bowers returned to
Draughon's Mr. and Mrs. Jack Vaughn have been here during the holidays, visiting Mrs. Vanghn's parents, Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Richman.
Dale Welsby went to
Miss Betty M. Hart of
Mr. Crowson of Mr. Cecil McNeill installed a two tube radio Sunday and they are enjoying the programs. Milburn McNeill has not been able to attend school for a few days. A further development of industries in this section was announced today by E. A. Allen, operator of a boat line between Collegeport and Palacios, in the rebuilding of the pier for freight and passengers at Collegeport. Co-operating with the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company, Mr. S. B. Sims, company representative, said the new project would be completed as soon as material was secured. Labor and material for most of the building will be furnished by the company. More than 150 people attended the annual New Year dinner at the Collegeport community hall January 1. Delayed by the bad weather, Santa Claus did not fill his contract Christmas Eve to bring a treat to every child in this section, as E. A. Holsworth, Most Magnificent Bonehead, of the Bonehead Club, had previously announced. However, with a bag full of toys and candy he did appear on New Year's to the delight of more than a hundred children who had been disappointed at his failure to appear earlier. In an annual report made by the pastor of the First Church of Collegeport an increase of more than 100 per cent in the monthly attendance at all church and semi-church functions was announced. In August there was a total attendance of 1000, in September 1200, in October 1500, in November 3000 and in December 1500. The slump in December activities was caused by the worst weather Collegeport has known since 1886, according to statements made by old settlers. Services of two Sundays in the month and all Christmas programs were suspended due to the bad weather. Had the weather remained good the total attendance would have passed the 4000 mark, Rev. H. Paul Janes announced. The first Sunday in December there were 400 present at all services and 600 the second, with more than 500 present at the other week-day functions. The best half of the month was spoiled with the weather. Church membership has increased 10 per cent since August. A junior church has, under Mrs. Janes, been organized with 42 members. A Christian Endeavor with an average of 50 in attendance is functioning as a product of the enterprise of Prof. Roy Coffin, of the local schools. Under Homer F. Goff, superintendent of orchards for the Collegeport Fig Orchard's Company, a young men's class and a choir has been organized. Miss Helen Duckworth is pianist and Miss Lois Coffin assistant. A high school Bible class of 45 students is studying the New Testament, preparatory to a State examination in May. Two community organizations of social and civic nature have been organized. The Bonehead Club is a men's social club. The Cane Growers' Association is an agricultural organization. Homer F. Goff is president, H. P. Janes, secretary. Officers of the Bonehead Club are E. A. Holsworth, Judge Corse and John Evans. Delayed by bad weather, the junior church demonstration, which was to have been a feature of the church service two weeks ago, will be presented Sunday. Attendance at all services have increased so that a crowded house is expected at this service. The program will consist of a mingling of the regular church service with that of the junior church. Members of the church will take part in the service. Since its organization two months ago the children have memorized the Ten Commandments, ten Beatitudes, the twenty-third Psalm, the Lord's Prayer, John 3:16 and Matt. 19:14. The regular services of the church have been maintained at the same time. Some have learned more of the scripture than that prescribed. A special selection of music will be rendered by the children. There are 42 children in the junior church under the direction of Mrs. H. Paul Janes, Mrs. Tom McNeill and Miss Virginia Saunders. Homer F. Goff, superintendent of orchards for the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company, has been confined for more than a week with a bad cold in his head. Despite the report that a doctor has called on Mr. Goff pronouncing his ear drums bursted and his hearing forever impaired, Mr. Goff is returning to a hale state of health with his organs of hearing apparently in good condition. So far as he can remember, no doctor called upon him.
Mrs. Y. B. Frasier, wife of the former fireman on the B. and M.
Railroad, was taken to the hospital at Among the tragedies of the snow several houses were injured. A house in which Mr. Oliver lives in Collegeport lost its front porch. A window was wrecked at G. S. Wellsby's. Many trees lost limbs.
Wednesday before Christmas Dan Wellsby went to Everything in Collegeport dates from the big snow. The coldest weather in many years has done little damage to anything except cattle and has left a fine season in the soil. Accurate figures regarding the loss of cattle are not available. A Bay City banker is quoted as having said that the loss of cattle will likely cause a rise in the price of beef, so that, except for exceptionally heavy losers, the present herd is worth as much as the former one. Contrary to local anticipation, Alexander Hamilton Institute report of market conditions indicate a rise in the price of hides, which, if the case, will prove beneficial to cattle losers.
Roy Nelson, local cattleman, and family, who planned to go to Mrs. Whitright, mother of Mrs. Y. B. Frasier, is visiting her daughter here. Mrs. W. J. Morrow, mother of Mrs. H. Paul Janes, is visiting her daughter.
G. A. Duckworth, formerly agent for the B. and M. Railroad, has left for
his new position in the Mrs. Tom McNeill was indisposed Sunday and unable to attend church.
Miss Betty Hart of The Woman's Club met Thursday at the home of Mrs. Ora Chapin. Special Service Sunday. A special service of song and music will be given Sunday evening at the church service. The sermon subject will be "A Man's Love." A Symphonic them[e] will be-- "If you have a smile to show Show it now. Make hearts happy, roses grow, Let the friends around you know The love you have before they go; Show it now!"--Unknown.
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Thos. M. Clark, postmaster at Collegeport was called to "Why Does Smith Go to Church" will be the unique theme discussed by Rev. H. Paul Janes at the First Church of Collegeport Sunday evening. D. C. Howard, for 18 years agent at Buckeye, has taken his post as agent at Collegeport. Mr. Howard will move his family to Collegeport this week, he stated. Mrs. Howard is a very enthusiastic church and civic worker and will be most highly welcomed in our mist. Messrs. J. M. and F. W. Ricks moved Monday to three miles west of McCrosky, where they will farm rice with E. W. Turner. G. C. Weiss, advance Rumley tractor agent, was in Collegeport last week.
Mrs. Anna Crane with her daughter, Dorothy, has moved to Collegeport to
make their home in the Shubring house. They come from The E. I. Montgomery family has moved from the hunting club back to their home in Collegeport.
The
The few families who have moved out of this section have reduced the
enrollment of our school. The H. J. Adams family took five; the two Rick
families took five; and three went when J. T. Parker moved. Uri Yeamans
also had to change and has gone to Mid-year examinations are over and we are settling down to steady work again. Not many failures are recorded and those who did fail are determined to make it up the last half of the session.
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Mr. Hodges has for 22 years been the pastor of his church in the home
city of two governors. He had held but four pastorates. He is a graduate
of His ministry has been mainly a teaching one and so valuable was his experience to the church mission work that he was called from a pastorate in which he has been most successful to travel from church to church telling them how he developed the efficient Sunday school he has. During the period of his ministry the Temple Daily Telegraph has to say: "Six hundred and fifty-one have united with the church during the pastor's ministry. Four life work recruits are at present preparing for work in his church: $200,964.65 has been contributed by his church to different causes: $101,701.00 has been given to benevolences. Bob Briscoe reports that he will plant 1000 acres of rice at Angleton to supplement his crop here. Melvin Spere will go with him.
Rev. H. Paul Janes and wife are visiting relatives in Mr. Thomas Hale was recently divorced. Until a few days ago he has been living peacefully with his close companion John Hagler. No reason is given for the separation but rumor reports that the latter got tired of cooking. Mr. Hale, local teacher, has never before been suspected. Practically all the trees have been cleared off the land of the Collegeport townsite. As soon as possible all trees will be planted and the work of beautifying the city will be begun S. B. Sims, manager, stated. Work on the new wharf has progressed and it will soon be finished.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Nelson returned Tuesday evening from a visit to Six new pupils have started to school this week. Five are in Mr. Hale's room and one, Miss Willie B. Ford, is helping to swell the eleventh grade.
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Collegeport, Texas, Feb. 5.--Thirty-four thousand fig trees will be set out at this place within the next few days, according to a statement made today by S. B. Sims, manager of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company. More than 16, 000 trees will be pruned this month, he stated. Very little damage was done to figs by the cold, Mr. Sims said, in spite of the fact that the hardest cold spell in years has swept the country. The pruning we will do will remove the "pinched" ends, but it would have had to be done any way. Ira Corporon, whose farm is near Collegeport, will plant about 30 acres of cotton and several acres of corn. Mr. Corporon says a farmer in this section must grow his feed if he expects to get ahead. He is planning to raise roasting ears for the market and is already planting his spring garden, starting with onions and cabbage. Several new families have moved into Collegeport, including the Fords, Lundes and Sextons. They will farm rice. According to Prof. Roy Coffin, the school at Collegeport is as large if not larger than ever before. Mrs. E. A. Holsworth, who has been on an extended visit to the North where she lost her mother, has returned home. Mr. E. A. Holsworth and Jack, who recently were sick, are much better.
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Mrs. Dan Jackson, Mrs. R. K. Legg and Henry were Gulf visitors Saturday and Mrs. Jackson remained for a few weeks' visit. Mrs. Dan Jackson is expecting a visit from her brother, Mr. Joe Jackson, soon. The Woman's Club entertained their husbands at the church Saturday night. The Reverend Montgomery, expert of the community church problems, spoke. Mr. and Mrs. Riley and the Misses Price and Hewitt went to Palacios Saturday. Miss Price remained and returned Sunday.
Mr. R. E. Coffin was a
A Christian Endeavor party will be given at the church Friday night at A party was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Turner Thursday night.
Mr. D. C. Howard, Mr. T. G. McNeill and sons, Cecil and Milburn, went to Mr. H. A. Clapp returned from a business trip Saturday. Called for the purpose of discussing the problem of installing telephones in Collegeport and to find means to do so, a meeting will be held at the community hall at this place Monday night, it was announced this week. That phones are needed and must be had is the consensus of opinion of the citizens of Collegeport, it was stated. Several men who have had experience in the establishing of rural systems will be present. Several solutions will be submitted and discussed.
White Wyandotte chickens, said by Miss Betty Hart, poultry specialist,
to be the best in "Mr. Coffin has one rooster worth ten dollars at least," Miss Hart said. Mrs. G. S. Wellsby has opened a out-door restaurant across from the office and commissary of the Collegeport Irrigation Company. Sales of country produce and sandwitches are dispensed at the place.
Dr. Montgomery, wide traveler and resident of Young men of Homer Goff's Bible class have determined to purchase a moving picture machine for the Collegeport Community House. It is the intention of the young men that pictures shall be had for entertainment, every Friday night and that, if possible, the machine be used as an educational help and to portray lessons from the scriptures for worship if film is available.
Rev. H. Paul Janes announced this week that his sermon themes for Sunday
would be "If I were My Neighbor," a Carl Boeker, a local farmer, is supervising the farming of 900 acres of rice, it was announced this week. The crop will be grown east of Simpsonville. He will plant Early Prolific and Louisiana Pearl varieties. Robert Clark, son of Thos. M. Clark, was hurt Friday while riding on the sidewalks on a bicycle at this place with his brother, T. M. Jr. The child was sitting on the crossbar of the velocipede facing the side. In swinging his feet they caught in the front wheel throwing him backward, striking his head on the sidewalk. This description was given by William Goff, son of Home Goff, who witnessed the accident. Dr. Elliott, of Palacios, waited on the patient. Robert was up Monday and is now back in school.
Homer F. Goff and family have moved to their farm east of this place
known as the Farmed by J. M. O'Neill, for 17 years, a citizen of this section, large white California Malaga grapes have been raised continuously for several years. Mr. O'Neill does not use any spray and always produces a luxurious fruit, it is stated.
These grapes mature two months earlier here than in Luther Hill and family have moved to Citrus Grove and are living across the street from Mr. Johnson, keeper of the store and post office.
J. M. O'Neill has introduced into this section two varieties of figs new
to most growers. They are the Bismark, a large blue
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The new company known as the Collegeport Rice & Irrigation Co., successor to the Turner Rice & Irrigation Co., of Collegeport, has been thrown into the hands of a receiver. Judge Munson appointed E. W. Turner receiver.
Matagorda County Tribune, February 13, 1925 |
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We expect to have considerable acreage planted to fig trees, on the Collegeport Townsite, and will begin setting trees this week. Any damage done to the orchards by stock at large, contrary to the State laws, will be recovered from the owners. This notice is to give those who have stock at large ample time to put and keep same in bounds, or abide by the consequences, in case of damage done. The Collegeport Fig Orchards Co. Per S. B. Sims, Local Manager.
Matagorda County Tribune, February 13, 1925 |
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Collegeport, Texas, Feb. 16.—Already figs are going into the ground at this place as fast as men can be secured to plant them. “We will use all the men we can put in the field,” S. B. Sims, manager of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company, said today. Several thousand trees are on the ground and are being planted now. Already more than one-third of the townsite has been sold, officials state. That another third of the site would be sold by spring, was announced. Company Shares. The company is arranging to share the profits with the buyers as well as take a chance on losing if there should be loss. “That there will be no loss to investors, the company officials feel sure,” Mr. Sims said, ”else we would not take a chance. There is no reason why we should contract with those who buy this land to allow half of the paying on the land to come in figs except that we want to show those who buy our faith in the industry.” Sells $500 Per Acre. The land is being sold at $500 per acre. One-half in cash and notes and the other half in figs produced. There are 160 trees to the acre. Each time a leaf forms, a fig forms so that the crop is continuous through the summer. Figure Fig Production. Officials figure that the trees will bear as follows: First year, 2 pounds per tree; second year, 10 pounds per tree; third year, 25 pounds per tree; fourth year, 40 pounds per tree. These except for the first year are minimum estimates, officials state. A 45-acre community orchard has been situated near the railroad station to be farmed by a trustee for the community owners. The plot will be farmed as a unit and the profits divided among the holders. Geo. Braden and wife visited Collegeport Sunday. Matt Pierce, Mrs. Pierce, Miss Hewett, Miss Price and others spent Saturday night at the hotel at Portsmouth. To Banquet. One of the most important social affairs of the season will be the annual Washington’s birthday banquet to be held at the community house Friday evening, according to Mrs. L. E. Liggett, chairman of the committee in charge. For 17 years the community has gathered for this fest which will be held at 7 o’clock. The price of plates will be 35 cents each. A special program is being prepared. It has been announced that the program will be a surprise to the banqueters. Mrs. Ora Chapin, Frank King and Mr. and Mrs. Homer Goff are recent additions to the church membership at Collegeport. Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Ross are the parents of a girl named Mary Jane born February 9, weight 8 ¼ pounds. She has light grey eyes, her father states. Sermon theme for Sunday evening will be “That Which You Seek Seeks You,” according to Rev. H. Paul Janes.
Matagorda County Tribune, February 20, 1925 |
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Mr. and Mrs. H. Paul Janes and baby daughter, Ramena, accompanied by
Mrs. Janes' mother, Mrs. Morrow, arrived from Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Olson of Ganado and Miss Helen Lee of Blessing were visitors here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Don Ross and baby daughter, Mary Jane, came home Sunday afternoon. Messrs. Tom P. Hale and John Hagler went to Midfield for the week-end. Mr. Austin Obberwetter has taken Mr. Saunders' place as engineer on the B. & M. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and daughter, Ella, were visitors here from Amarilla last Sunday.
Miss Merle Wainner of Ashby attended the
Mr. and Mrs. Frank King and family and Miss Virginia Saunders went to
Miss Myrtle Fulcher, who has been visiting Miss The Berger family of Palacios attended the banquet here Friday night. Miss Marjorie remained over night with Collegeport friends. Messrs. Cecil McNeill and Melburn accompanied by Misses Price, Sewatt and Wainner took Miss Berger home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. McSparran of Midfield were visitors here Monday a week ago.
Mr. Spence and Miss Daisy Hale from Buckeye attended the Mr. E. L. Montgomery has a new Star car. Mr. Chas. Rutherford has ordered a new Dodge and probably before this is printed, our friend Mr. Rutherford will be trying it out.
Mr. J. C. and Chase Slone of
Mrs. J. B. Moore received word Saturday of the death of her brother, W.
P. Moore of Mr. Bob Briscoe of Angleton visited in Collegeport Tuesday, reporting his farm in Angleton was progressing very rapidly. Messrs. George and Malcolm Saunders spent the week-end at the King home. Misses Barbara and Myrtle Fulcher visited Louise and Ganado friends today.
Mr. B. Freasier spent Monday in The store at the warehouse was visited by unknown parties Sunday night. The cash drawer was rifled but nothing else could be definitely missed. Telephones are almost a certainty for Collegeport, it was announced after a meeting of the Collegeport Telephone Association here, Monday night. Thos. P. Hale, temporary secretary of the association, said prospects have never been brighter--nearly everybody wants a phone. Reports by two committees on long distance service and cost of local system were heard. Already one line has been routed and the complete system mapped before the next meeting of the association. A simple system of short party lines will comprise the plan of service. Plans to establish local service through the long distance wire already running into Collegeport are under way and being promoted by a committee appointed Monday night. Homer F. Goff is chairman of the costs and organization committee. Under this committee's supervision will the location of lines and the signing of subscribers be brought about. Mr. Goff reported that it will cost no citizen more than $20.00 initial expense to have a telephone and that the monthly service charge will not exceed $1.00, if there are twenty-five 'phones. Those signing up at once will get their 'phones and equipment cheaper, Mr. Goff said, than those signing later. Equipment bought for the original installation will cost less, due to the volume being purchased. A play will be given at the Community Hall tonight. Players are coming from Louise and will present the drama under the auspices of the young men's class of the Sunday school. Forty per cent of the money made at the play will apply on the fund to buy a motion picture machine for the Community Hall. Under the auspices of the High School a play will be given at the Community Hall Thursday night. Players in this production are: Mary Ellen Perry, a neighbor of the Auntie Doleful school, played by Miss Mary English; Laura Hanson, a wife with no sense of humor, played by Miss Helen Duckworth; Clarke Hanson, a man of business, useful but unimportant, played by Dale Wellsby; Jimmie Mason, Mrs. Hanson's brother, who knows his sister, played by John Hagler; Kitty Clyde, Hansons's stenographer, who has an eye for Jimmie, played by Miss Mary Louise Clapp; Gay Hanson, Hanson's sister, who lives up to her name, played by Miss Lois Coffin; Nora, the maid, who catches the fever, Miss Virginia Saunders; Dr. Whitcomb, a physician of the old school, played by Cecil McNeill; Dr. George Carey, a modern invention who turns the trick, H. Paul Janes. Time of playing 100 laughs--one a minute. Place here, time today. This two-act play promises to be one of the best to be staged at Collegeport in some time Prof. Roy Coffin, directing the play said today. "The Laughing Cure" is the name of the play. It is intended to bring a house full of laughs to the house all the way through. Edith F. A. U. Painton is the author. Dr. Carey is an actual character known to the author of the play, and the play has been dedicated to the doctor who was a warm friend of Miss Painton. "I can always trust a man who dares to laugh. It's the Lord-or-Heaven in him gushing forth," Dr. Carey says. Sermon themes for Sunday, announced by Rev. Paul Janes are, "Marks of a Christian" and "Is It Nothing to You?"
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Mrs. R. K. Legg and son, Henry, and Miss Arlene Jackson and Simon Jackson went to Gulf Saturday. Arlene remained over night. Mrs. C. J. Freeman returned home after a week's visit to her brother, Mr. H. M. Jackson.
Mr. Thelmer Boyd and Mr. Glen Samson have been making the Mrs. Robt. Murry and daughters, Jessie and Mamie, went to Palacios Saturday.
Mr. B. R. Mowery of
Mr. E. A. McCune was a
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Coffin, Mr. Thos. Hale and Miss Carmilete English
were Mr. J. O. Fitch and Mr. Virgil Brocker were in Collegeport a few hours Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Slone visited Mrs. Slone's mother, Mrs. Johnson of Louise Saturday.
Mrs. P. A. Richman and sister, Mrs. Johnson of Louise, returned home
after a few months visit in
Mr. Howard Duckworth left Thursday evening for
Miss Marmliete and Miss Mary English went to
Mr. Chas. Heck Jr. of
Mrs. G. A. Duckworth went to
Mrs. A. O. Oberwetter of
The Misses Mary English, Gladys Mae Freasier, Helen Duckworth and Mary
Louise Clapp spent the day with Lois Coffin Saturday while her mother
was in Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Coffin were Midfield visitors Sunday. A party was given at the home of Mrs. B. P. English Saturday night in honor of Miss Patsy English and Mrs. Holt's birthday. Many young people were there and enjoyed the occasion. Due to bad weather, the Clemville basket ball teams did not arrive but we hope they may come later. "Collegeport is the nearest thing to a 'diamond in the rough' I have seen in the agricultural communities of this country," Dr. J. W. Montgomery is reported to have said in his recent visit to this community.
Dr. Montgomery is a clergyman of high rank in the Presbyterian Church,
having in his charge the development of a system of community churches
all over the
"Having lived in "I think what this country needs is practical farming--not dreaming exploitation." he concluded. That a full carload of acid phosphate fertilizer will arrive in this country this week, was assured Monday when Gust Franzen sent a telegram giving bank references to the Armor Fertilizer Works in New Orleans and ordering immediate shipment. "An investment of around $300 was necessary to bring the fertilizer in," Mr. Franzen said. "Good crops can be raised in the Collegeport section as has been demonstrated," said L. A. Pierce, agriculture government representative, "without the use of fertilizer but even better crops can be grown with the use of acid phosphate. That is about all you can add to the soil but a little lime will take the sourness out of some tracts of land." That a minimum of one-half bale more cotton to the acre would be grown where the fertilizer is used, was assured by those who have used it before. It was predicted that about 40 more bales will be raised on the 150 acres which will be fertilized. At 20c a pound, this means $4000 more for the people of this section than they would have had without the vision of four men--and it cost $300! Gust Franzen, Louis Walter, L. E. Liggett and Homer F. Goff are the men responsible for bringing in the fertilizer.
Arriving from Mr. Williamson says he will build a home and bring his family here as soon as possible. Tasting of the artesian water, he stated, "Could water be better?" Tuesday he visited Danevang and noted how the people there have developed the same kind of land as Collegeport's into a lovely country draining it to take a natural deposit thirty miles away. "There is not a block of land in the Collegeport section five miles from natural drainage," according to a statement made this week by cattlemen.
A special finance committee will meet after Sunday School Sunday for a
luncheon and meeting. Hugo Kundinger, treasurer of the Sermon themes for Sunday were announced today by Rev. H. Paul Janes, pastor. They are "Blessed Are the Industrous" and "The Search for Truth of the Jig-Saw Puzzle of Life."
Howard Duckworth has just returned from a visit to the
Mrs. Powers, an old citizen of Collegeport, died in
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The committee on civic work under leadership of Geo. S. Welsby will soon begin work in the cemetery which is much needed, staking out the lots and grading the roads and doing some grubbing. The King's Daughters finance the cemetery work and the league supplies the labor and team work.
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Collegeport, Texas, March 12.--Movies is the word! On Friday evening at eight o'clock the Young Men's Class of the Sunday school will present its first motion picture show at this place. There will be a reel of news, one of Aesop's Fables, and a drama, according to an announcement made by the president of the class, John Hagler. Announcement was made by Howard Duckworth, treasurer, that the prices of admission will be 25 and 15 cents. A special sale of season tickets will make the admission to the regular Friday night Community entertainment cost less it is hoped, according to a statement made by Homer F. Goff, teacher of the class. Vice-President Visits R. G. Hobbs, vice-president of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company, arrived Tuesday for a visit of several days conferring with S. B. Sims, manager. Trees are being planted and plans for intensive cultivation of the ground as soon as possible are under way. Action At Once In accordance with warnings given three weeks ago regarding the unlawful pasturing of cattle on private lands, Mr. Sims indicated that action will be taken at once to collect for damages. Ruining Garden According to Ira Corporon his entire garden has been ruined by wandering cattle, and his corn crop, just coming through the ground, is in peril. That action must be taken at once seems imperative to save this man's income for the next year. Neither Mr. Corporon not Mr. Sims would say what the steps to save their crops would be. They were of the belief that the cattle would be taken off as soon as their owners were convinced of the damage being done. $2,700 worth of trees are on the site of the orchards now and they must be protected, Mr. Sims said. Ruins Roots. "It is not necessary that the tree be trampled to bits to be ruined," Mr. Sims said. "Once a cow steps on the root system of a tree it is doomed. Several have already been destroyed. We cannot allow this to go on until the damage is serious, due to our obligations to the owners of the orchards. Action will be taken at once." Family Coming In the midst of planting fig trees, John Williamson said today that his wife and daughter would arrive at Collegeport as soon as their Springfield property is disposed of. This should be in a few weeks he stated. Isaac Unthank, owner of several acres of orchards, is selling his property in the North and will arrive at once, Mr. Williamson announced. Fertilizer Here A carload of acid phosphate fertilizer is going into Collegeport cotton, corn and watermelon fields at once. The car arrived Saturday and is in the distributers now. Visit Here The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church at Palacios visited Collegeport and aided in the Lenten program Wednesday at the church. Rev. Gillespie delivered an address on "What it means to be a Christian." Several music numbers were included in the program. Lenten Services The third of a series of Lenten services will be held Wednesday night. Rev. H. Paul Janes announced. The subjects to be studied are "Helps in Christian Living" and "Why Unite with the Church?" A special musical program of Lenten numbers will be part of the program. Announce Themes Sermon themes for Sunday will be "The Long, Hard Step" and "Useless Passports," Mr. Janes announced. Personals Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Montgomery visited friends in Blessing Sunday eve. Mrs. E. I. Chiles and Mrs. Chas. Bowen were Palacios visitors Monday. The high school gave a play entitled "The Laughing Cure" Thursday nite. Mr. and Mrs. McNeill and family went to Goliad last week-end to visit relatives. A party was given at the home of Mr. E. I. Chiles Friday night in honor of his birthday! Miss Helen Lee who has been working for Mrs. Ed. Hulquist is going to Palacios to work.
Miss Bessie Ford from Messrs. B. D. Hurd, Joe O. Leary, Jack Holsworth and Miss Mary Louise Clapp went to Palacios Saturday. "The Little Clodhopper" was brought to Collegeport by the Louise people. Everyone who saw it enjoyed it. Mr. E. A. McCune and Mr. Emmett Chiles went to Wharton and Glen Flora Saturday to find some men to help on the rice farms. Mrs. R. E. Coffin, Miss Lois Coffin, Mrs. E. L. Montgomery, and Mary Louise Clapp went to Palacios Friday morning. Mr. Tom Hale was called home Friday morning because of the illness of his father. We are glad to say his father is better. Miss Florence Moore came in Saturday evening to stay over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. J. B. Moore, returning to her school close to El Campo Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton D. Hurd of Hot Springs, Arkansas and Mr. and Mrs.
Joe O. Leary of "An Old Settlers Convention" was held at the home of Mrs. C. W. Boeker Saturday night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hurd, the founders of this town.
John Hagler went to A surprise party was given to Mr. and Mrs. George Welsby Monday night to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. There was a large crowd and every one had a pleasant time.
Palacios Beacon, March 12, 1925 |
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A surprise party was given to Mr. and Mrs. George Welsby Monday night to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. There was a large crowd and every one had a pleasant time. "The Little Clodhopper" was brought to Collegeport by the Louise people. Everyone who saw it enjoyed it. The high school gave a play entitled "The Laughing Cure" Thursday nite. Mr. and Mrs. McNeill and family went to Goliad last week-end to visit relatives. Mr. Melvin Spoon [Spoor?] of Angleton was down Monday and Tuesday on business. Mr. E. A. McCune and Mr. Emmett Chiles went to Wharton and Glen Flora Saturday to find some men to help on the rice farms. Miss Florence Moore came in Saturday evening to stay over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. J. B. Moore, returning to her school close to El Campo Sunday evening. Mrs. E. I. Chiles and Mrs. Charles Bowen were Palacios visitors Monday.
Mr. John Haler went to Mr. Tom Hale was called home Friday morning because of the illness of his father. We are glad to say his father is better. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Montgomery visited friends in Blessing Sunday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Burton D. Hurd of Hot Springs, Arkansas and Mr. and Mrs.
Joe O. Leary of "An Old Settlers Convention" was held at the home of Mrs. C. W. Boeker Saturday night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Hurd, the founders of this town. A party was given at the home of Mr. E. I. Chiles Friday night in honor of his birthday! Mr. B. D. Hurd, Mr. Joe O. Leary, Mr. Jack Holsworth and Mary Louise Clapp went to Palacios Saturday. Mrs. R. E. Coffin, Miss Lois Coffin, Mrs. E. L. Montgomery, and Mary Louise Clapp went to Palacios Friday morning. Miss Helen Lee who has been working for Mrs. Ed. Huegater? is going to Palacios to work.
Miss Bessie Ford from Mr. Marshall O'Neal from Ganado was a visitor here Saturday and Sunday.
Movies is the word! On Friday evening at R. G. Hobbs, vice-President of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company arrived Tuesday for a visit of several days conferring with S. B. Sims, manager. Trees are being planted and plans for intensive cultivation of the ground as soon as possible are under way. In accordance with warnings given three weeks ago regarding the unlawful pasturing of cattle on private lands Mr. Sims indicated that action would be taken at once to collect for damages. According to Ira Corporon, his entire garden has been ruined by wandering cattle and his corn crop, just coming through the ground, is in peril. That action must be taken at once seems imperative to save this man's income for the next year. Neither Mr. Corporon or Mr. Sims would say what the steps to save their crops would be. They were of the belief that the cattle would be taken off as soon as their owners were convinced of the damage being one. $2,700 worth of trees are on the site of the orchards now and must be protected Mr. Sims said. "It is not necessary that the trees be trampled to bits to be ruined," Mr. Sims said. "Once a cow steps on the root system of the tree it is damaged, several have already been destroyed. We cannot allow this to go on until the damage is serious, due to our obligation to the owners of the orchards. Action will be taken at once.
In the midst of planting fig trees John Williams said today that his
wife and daughter would arrive at Collegeport as soon as their Isaac Unthank, owner of several acres of orchards is selling his property in the North and will arrive at once, Mr. Williamson announced. A carload of Acid Phosphate fertilizer is going into Collegeport, cotton, corn and watermelon fields at once. The car arrived Saturday and the fertilizer is in the distributors now. The Christian Endeavor Society of the Presbyterian Church at Palacios visited Collegeport and aided in the Lenten program Wednesday at the Church. Rev. Gillespie delivered an address on "What it means to be a Christian." Several musical numbers were included in the program. The third of a series of Lenten services will be held Wednesday night. Rev. H. Paul Janes announced. The subjects to be studied are "Helps in Christian Living and Why Unite With the Church." A special musical program of Lenten Numbers will be part of the program. Sermon themes for Sunday will be "The Long Hard Step" and "Useless Passports," Mr. Janes announced.
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Mr. H. G. Hobbs, a member of the Collegeport Fig Orchard Co., arrived in the city today from Springfield, Ill. on his way to Collegeport for a brief business visit. He called on the Tribune and informed us that his company is now engaged in setting out 30,000 fig trees. “Our Company,” said, Mr. Hobbs, “is not a great big concern with an idea of setting the world afire. There are only five of us and our only intention or hope is to do something worth while for ourselves, Collegeport and the county. We expect to make ourselves a part of your citizenship and to do all we possibly can to build an attractive little seaside town of Collegeport. I know of no place that has greater possibilities than right where we have our modest holdings.” Mr. Hobbs and his company will receive a cordial welcome to this section and will receive all the encouragement possible.
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A party was held at the home of T. G. McNeill Saturday night to celebrate the birthdays of Mr. T. G. McNeill and Mr. Homer F. Goff. Appearances testified plainly that everyone enjoyed the evening.
Mr. T. M. Clark and
Mr. T. G. McNeill attended Odd Fellows meeting in
Two Conover children, Mary and Lawrence entered 4th and 6th grades respectively Monday.
Mrs. H. A. Clapp is taking the school census.
People from Blessing gave a play at the Community House Tuesday night entitled, "In Plumb Valley."
William Gog? and
Maud Alice Feasier will represent the sub-juniors from Collegeport in
Spelling at the
Collegeport will have a new fig cannery and cotton gin next year--1926--if the plans of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company can be worked out. R. G. Hobbs, vice-president of the company said during his visit here this week.
Mr. Hobbs would not say that there would be a cannery here next year definitely but said that there would be a cotton gin. He said that if the figs produce as they should there would have to be a cannery established here. "It is in the plan of the company to establish both next year," he said.
Mr. Hobbs, in speaking of Collegeport said, "I think this country has as great possibilities as any I have seen. Like very great country we have some difficulties to overcome but unlike many that have been made great the difficulties are comparatively small."
The vice-president was very optimistic over the future of the fig business. "Our market for the fig is accessible to us now. In our company are experienced men who know how to market the fig. We will hope no difficulty in that," he thought. "There can be no doubt that this country will grow fig," he added, "nor that sensible men can sell the most luscious preserve ever manufactured." That there had not been a death in the whole sixteen square miles of Collegeport territory in nearly eight months was revealed today in a report made by Rev. H. Paul Janes, pastor, in which he said there had not been a single funeral during the eight months of his ministry.
March closes the church-year for the First Church of Collegeport. It is being closed with a 25 per cent increase of membership over last year and a 50 per cent increase in budget. Many activities have been promoted and encouraged by the establishing of the Community Hall, for all community uses, free.
150 of the 500 head of cattle that William Reiley is bringing to Collegeport are already here. He is in the market for 350 more, he said here today.
The Conover family
from
Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Bilfe?, who are visiting the Goffs and Boekers will make their home in
N. Cable, who owns four blocks of fig orchards and five lots on the bay front has just arrived for permanent residence. Mr. Cable is very favorably impressed with the country he said.
The second showing of pictures by the young men's class will be Friday night. The announcement of a program of travelogue, comedy and drama has been made.
Sermon themes for
Sunday were announced by Rev. Mr. Janes as follows: "Behold, a
stranger!" and "The finding of the
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Mr. F. L. Jenkins, of Collegeport, was a business visitor to the city yesterday. In speaking of crop conditions in his section he stated that, while the land is dry, the farming conditions are fairly good and those farmers who plowed in the fall are securing good stands of both corn and cotton. Mr. Jenkins has farmed in many places in Texas and it of the opinion that Matagorda County is equal to the best, year in and year out, and for all classes of farming.
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"The regret of the Young Men's Class at the failure of the film company to deliver the film contracted for cannot be expressed," Homer F. Goff, teacher of the class, said today. "But we have a program we are sure of this week."
Mr. Goff announced that a reel of "Andy Gump," a two-reel feature of Ben Turpin, a pictorial reel of snow in Siberia and a two reel picture of Tom Mix in "Love of the West" would constitute the entertainment Friday night. Miss Lois Coffin will preside at the music.
Despite the fear of a shortage of water for us in this section there seems to be little effort to save it according to several farmers, who state that it is being allowed to run from the canal on to wide stretches of unused land and into long stretches of road ditches.
Wednesday night the fifth Lenten service will be held at the church, according to Rev. H. Paul Janes. His sermon themes for Sunday will be "Don't Flirt," and "Why Christianity is Conquering."
Matagorda County Tribune, April 3, 1925
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With 100 acres of the town site tract already planted in the famous Magnolia Figs, Collegeport promises to be an ideal community for those who desire to live in an uncrowded but well settled locality, according to S. B. Sims, who stated today that as soon as the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company is assured that the stock laws are in full respected, the beautification of the city will begin.
Mr. Sims was of the opinion that this could begin at once as stock owners are co-operating to make these things possible. The planting of 1000 Southern Palms will begin as soon as arrangements can be made. Other plans of beautification will be worked out.
All lands sold with a contract to plant this season will be completely stocked in a few days, he said. Contracts for planting next season call for preparation of ground and this will be accomplished.
A message from Dr. W. W. Van Wormer, president of the company, gave assurance that he will be in Collegeport some time before the fifteenth. Plans are being made to give him a community reception.
Forty-five acres of Community orchards are in the process of being planted. 9250 trees are now going into the ground. All trees planted are putting on leaves and some figs, Mr. Sims stated.
En route are three
families who will settle here at once. They are the families of Joe
Maddison, Sr., and Joe Maddison, Jr., owning two blocks of orchards
each, and Fred Hite, the owner of one block. These families are driving
from
The family of John Williams, fig grower here, is expected any day.
With reports from several quarters it was today revealed that Collegeport students are putting their "hometown" on the map.
Louise Walter, daughter of Louis Walter, a cotton farmer here and truck grower, returned a report from Texas Presbyterian Woman's College at Milford, where she is studying, showing that she made the following grades during the last semester: threes A plusses, two A's and four A minuses. All A's! Mr. and Mrs. Walter and citizens of Collegeport are justly most proud of this young lady.
At the
John Hagler, a
senior in the High school, who is working his way through school, won
the silver loving cup offered for the best essay written. Arriving late,
due to being detained by his out-of-school labors, Mr. Hagler selected
one of the five subjects on the blackboard, in the test room at
Mr. Hagler was hurt Monday evening when diving from a pier here. The water being shallower than he expected, he hit his head against an oyster "bush," causing a severe cut in his head and other minor injuries. He was rushed to the doctor and five stitches were taken. Mr. Hagler is much better and was back at school on Wednesday, though unable to do much work. His position as night watchman for the railroad terminal here is being filled temporarily. He is unable to do any work requiring physical energy yet, due to loss of blood which had weakened him.
Stars in spelling
for Collegeport, at the
The Collegeport Tennis team, Dale Wellsby and John Hagler, played through the preliminaries to the finals but were forced to retire there due to the return of the young men to their work in Collegeport. Mr. Hagler is strictly forbidden, by the company, to be away from his duties which caused the young men to forfeit their hard earned honors. They would have won second place, according to Tom Hale, coach and star tennis player, had it not been for this default.
The young men's Bible class announced a show of seven reels of pictures at the Community Hall Friday night. They are "The Soul Cycle," five reels, and a two reel comedy made by the famous thirty midgets and their giant, called "Look Out Below."
Their booking for Friday night, April 10, includes one reel of "History of the United States," one reel of "Andy Gump," one reel of Pathe News and two reels of Tom Mix in "Golden Thoughts." The last is a Western Drama. Two core reels staring the thirty midgets in "Oh What a Circus" will complete their presentation for that night.
Rev. H. Paul Janes announced the sermon themes for Sunday as follows: "The Footprints" and "Are We Free."
Thursday night, March 26, more than eighty ate oyster suppers with the Collegeport Commercial League. Hugo Kundinger, local druggist, presided as chef.
In an effort to clear the books of the church, announcement was made, through the treasurer, that there were a few unpaid pledges from last year. He requested the pledges either to pay as soon as possible or have the pledges continued to the new year. Any who are not able to meet their pledge will be able to cancel same at this time, he said.
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Mr. Tom Sloane, a rice farmer of this place won the free Ford given by the Palacios merchants Saturday. The Fords and Lundays went fishing Sunday at the canal but met with little luck. The Berries came down fro Ashby Sunday to visit in the Franzen home. A party was held at The school election was held last Saturday. Messrs. King, Dickinson, and Evans were elected and Mr. T. G. McNeill because the new member of the board. The pupils of the eighth grade will give a debate at the movie Friday night. Question: Resolved that the government should own and control the railroads. Nearly everybody in Collegeport went to Palacios Saturday to get the free Ford. Miss Carmelita
English spent the week end in Mr. B. R. Mowery
spent most of last week in Mr. R. E. Coffin
spent the weekend in Miss Bessie Ford is
home from Miss Carmelita
English attended the Shriner's ball last Thursday night in Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Sloane and Mr. and Mrs. Hultquist spent a few days in That telephones will be installed in this place soon seemed certain today when it was announced that the Collegeport Telephone Association decided to apply for incorporation papers, arrange a long distance service and solicit subscribers for phones and issue stock in the company at once. For more than a month things have been uncertain but if present plans are carried out phones will be installed in the near future according to H. Paul Janes, chairman of the temporary organization. Further information was given out this week by Homer F. Goff, regarding the erection of the gin he contemplates. Mr. Goff explained that for several months he has contemplated the enterprise and that after a careful survey of the crop now in he determined that now is the time for the new gin. The installation of the new enterprise will do away with the tedious long haul farmers here have had to contend with in ginning at Palacios. A revival meeting is in progress at Citrus Grove. Wednesday evening prayer service was called off at Collegeport to co-operate. Rev. Beyers, brother to the foreman of the section gang on the Gulf Coast Line to Collegeport, will preach. Rev. Mr. Beyers has held revival services at Citrus Grove before with good results. Christian Endeavorers are planning a sunrise prayer service to be held at the home of Mrs. Duckworth early Easter morning. A program is being prepared and all young people are invited according to an announcement by John Hagler, president. Mr. Hagler said that the Collegeport Endeavorers will go to Palacios Wednesday evening, April 15, to return the visit made by the young people of the Presbyterian Church there to Collegeport. Refreshments will be served. A special program including motion pictures will be had at the church in Palacios. Special Easter
services will be held at the First Church of Collegeport Sunday
according to Rev. H. Paul Janes. A special part in the program of the
morning will be taken by the members of the The moving picture program announced for Friday night is: History of the United States, 1 reel; Pathe News, 1 reel; Andy Gump, 1 reel; O What a Circus, featuring the 30 midgets, 2 reels; Golden Thoughts, featuring Tom Mix in a Western drama, 2 reels. A decision was made on Thursday night, by the young people of Citrus Grove to have a singing school every Thursday night. Books are being ordered and the school will begin on Thursday, April 16, Dick Corporon said. Matagorda County
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Mr. and Mrs. Tom Sloane spent Sunday in Ganado.
Mr. Royal Dixon of
Mr. O. S. Gibson
spent the weekend in
Mr. and Mrs. L. H.
McCune of
Mrs. Williamson and her daughter Lucille arrived Wednesday evening. Miss Holiday is giving music lessons here.
Mr. Shiver and family are moving back here from Palacios, where they had charge of the Pickwick Bakery.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Hultquist and family spent the week-end in Ganado.
The play "Laughing Cure" was taken to Midfield Tuesday night.
The Collegeport Christian Endeavorers are going to visit the Palacios Christian Endeavorers on Wednesday night.
Willie B. and Bessie Ford spent the week-end with their brother at Ganado. Mr. Simon Jackson accompanied by his mother, Mrs. Jackson, and sister Arlene Jackson, went to the picture show at Gulf Saturday night.
The H. M. Jackson's of Gulf visited Mrs. Jackson at Collegeport Sunday. Easter hunt was given for the children.
Mr. Bert Thompson
left for
Miss Vivian Jackson
returned to
A picnic supper was held by a group of young people Saturday evening at the river.
Mrs. Robert Murray and family were Palacios visitors Saturday.
Mrs. C. J. Freeman and baby have decided to make their home for the summer with Mrs. Dan Jackson of Collegeport.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E.
Dickison and daughter spent the week-end in
Miss Minnie Lee McNeill entertained the young people Saturday night with an Easter party.
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Mr. Dixon said he
had never visited any place where so large a variety of wild things grow
luxuriously as in the black land belt between the
Mr. Dixon predicted
that this section would be one of With subscribers already signed up Collegeport became sure this week that a telephone system would be installed at once.
There was but one item of business yet to be attended to before final plans were made and material purchased--a contract for a long distance service had been agreed to but is as yet unsigned. This will be attended to as soon as the stockholders in the new company hold an election and name their officers.
A meeting was called for Saturday night of this week for the purpose of electing according to a statement made public by H. P. Janes, temporary president of the telephone association.
"Blood and Sand" and "A Letter from an Atheist" were the two subjects which bid fair to draw large crowds to the church Sunday morning and evening. Rev. H. Paul Janes stated that at the evening service he would read and comment on a letter written to him by a friend who is an atheist. "Blood and Sand" have always been mingled together, Mr. Janes states. He will recite experiences of life in which these two have mixed.
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Lawrence Conover gave a party for the young people Saturday night.
Thos. M. Clark and family went to Palacios Saturday afternoon.
Rev. Janes expected
his brother-in-law to come from
The ball game between Louise and Collegeport Sunday came out a tie, the score standing 11 to 11.
The junior girls had a swimming party Sunday afternoon in the canal.
Mr. Thos. P. Hale spent the weekend with his parents at Midfield.
It sees to be too
dry for news to gather this week. At least something has kept the news
items low. We hope it will rain and stir things up a little for next
week though we do not desire such a stirring as the northern part of the
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Dayton Parker visited friends here Saturday and Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Williamson and their daughter, Lucille, Miss Mary Louise Clapp, Mr. Clifford Slife, Mr. S. B. Sims, and Mr. North Cable went on a fishing trip Sunday. They fished all day and caught one gar. Miss Patsy English came Saturday to spend the week end with her parents. Dr. and Mrs. Morrow accompanied by their son and his wife visited in the H. Paul Janes home over Sunday. Mrs. Morrow remained with her daughter. Mr. Johnson, father of Mrs. Nellie Sloane is visiting his daughter. Mr. P. A. Richman
went to Miss Emma Garner
came from Hutchins King was the only one in the third and fourth grades room who missed no words in spelling during the month just closed. Mr. and Mrs. L. E.
Liggett went to Sufficient notes having been singed to warrant the organization of the Collegeport Telephone Company, such an organization was perfected at a stock-holders meeting Saturday night. Wm. Reiley was elected president and manager of the company, H. Paul Janes, vice-president; Homer F. Goff, secretary; L. E. Liggett, treasurer; and Messrs. Kundinger, McNeill and Evans, directors. Telephones will be installed as soon as practical. Mr. Reiley, the new president, said. A new program of entertainments was announced by the booking committee of the Young Men's Bible Class, beginning Friday night. Paramount pictures will be shown exclusively and the first on the program is "The Silent Pardner" starring Owen Moore. The picture for next Friday night week was announced to be "The Call of the Canyon" a real Western drama. Rev. H. Paul Janes, pastor of the First Church, Collegeport, announced a special theme for Sunday morning in "Wrestling with God." Mr. Janes said that most men have never learned how to co-operate with God and get His guidance. Most men do not believe what they profess and never get any real benefits from being Christians. He will point out some of the tested facts regarding how this co-operation in life can be set up and worked out in a practical workable manner. For Sunday evening Rev. Janes announced the subject "Live Like Free Men." Nearly 200 people attended Church at Collegeport last Sunday night. They came from all over the country adjacent to Collegeport. Mr. Janes said that most men never are free. They just profess to be. He stated that men could be free in every sense of the word, free from debt, free from worry and free from prejudice in a very large degree. He said several men have shown how this can be done and he will discuss their methods. High School baseball fans have become excited in the past few days with the challenge made by Palacios players to a game to be played tomorrow. The local town team beat the Palacios team here this week to the tune of 9 to 8. There was strong feelings in the Collegeport camp that the high school team would register another victory for the glory of Collegeport. Some of the best players on the town team are students in the High School here. Prof. Roy Coffin and Prof. Hale of the High School would only smile when asked the outcome of this week's game. Whether they desired to be conservative or thought the question a pun was not determined. They are confidently supporting the boys. Matagorda County
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Shortly after the citizens organized the
Collegeport Industrial League with something like 80 members. This
League was incorporated under the laws of the state and ever since has
asked the citizens to gather together on May 25th in memory of the
establishment of the community. This year is no exception, for at the
meeting of the League held on the last day of April, the matter was
taken up and it was agreed that a community dinner would be held. Other
citizens are co-operating and quite a pretentious program has been
arranged which is in charge of Judge S. W. Corse, who is chairman of the
League’s House Committee.
This program includes not only a
community dinner but races of various kinds, swimming matches, base
ball, and other sports. The officers of the League and the citizens of
Collegeport extend a cordial invitation to everyone, everywhere, to
attend this 1925 Collegeport Day.
Has Collegeport made progress?
Comparison is a pretty good yard stick. In 1909 we had a school in a
tent, one teacher and four pupils. Today we have a fine four room brick
school house, a consolidated rural school teaching eleven grades,
employing four teachers, with 100 pupils and operating a truck into
surrounding country bringing in each day something like 30 pupils. This
week the first class graduates from the
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Collegeport, Texas, May 21.—Perhaps the largest original Texas entertainment ever held in this section will be staged by the citizens of this city on the Sixteenth Annual Celebration of “Collegeport Day” on May 25th. Featuring the day’s entertainment, to which have been invited all friends and citizens of Matagorda County and adjoining sections, will be horse racing and bronco busting, in which the names of Texas famous cow men have been listed. Frank King, Roy Nelson, Bob Murry, Jack Holsworth and Bob Thompson, Jr. are among those who have been named as participants, all of whom are old cow men, and experienced in the handling of the wildest cows and horses of the plains. Another feather is a game of Potato Polo. Although a very popular sport among good horsemen, but very few public gatherings have ever had the privilege of witnessing this game in which old cow men will display their skill at horsemanship on Collegeport Day. Other features of entertainment will be an old fashioned Texas basket dinner and free barbecue to which all eaters will bring a basket lunch to be spread together, a baseball game, a boat race and a patriotic motion picture show at night. A favorite in the boat race now is a new launch just constructed by the McCune Brothers of Collegeport. All entertainments of the day will be free to the public except the motion picture show at night. Eats will be served on the grounds to those who do not bring lunch, at reasonable prices. All entertainments of the day will be free to the public except the motion picture show at night. Eats will be served on the grounds to those who do not bring lunch, at reasonable prices. Committeemen in charge of the celebration are: Horse racing, Roy Nelson; Bronco busting, Jack Holsworth; Potato polo, James Evans and Frank King; Baseball, Cecil McNeill and Dean Merck; Boat race, E. A. McCune; Dinner, Mrs. Roy Nelson; Banquet, Homer Goff; Ice cream and soda water, Mrs. L. E. Liggett; Motion picture, Dick Corporon; Decorations, Mrs. Matt Pierce; Banquet arrangements, Judge S. W. Corse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Two big services were announced Sunday by Rev. H. Paul Janes, for Sunday, May 24. In the morning there will be a Junior Church demonstration and sermon, the theme of which will be “Two Clocks and a Parable.” Sunday evening there will be a musical recital presented by Miss Helen Duckworth. Miss Duckworth will leave soon with her family to go to the Valley where they will make their home with her father who has been transferred by the railroad for which he is an agent. At the special request of friends, Miss Duckworth consented to play a short musical recital for her friends at the piano at the First Church of Collegeport, over which she has presided for some time so faithfully and well. “Unconscious Blindness,” will be the sermon theme. Baccalaureate services were held on Sunday for the graduating class of the Bay View High School at the First Church of Collegeport. The names of the graduates are: Misses Mary English, Willie May Ford, Virginia Saunders and Messrs. John Hagler and Dale Welsby. Commencement services will be held tonight at the Collegeport Community House. The speaker of the evening is Rev. Gillespie, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Palacios, one of the best known men and ablest speakers in this section. Addresses will also be made by the honor graduates and special music for the occasion will be provided. Friday night the regular motion picture entertainment will be provided at the Community House. A Paramount picture will be the feature. Aesop’s Fables and Pathe News, both Pathe productions will also be presented. Collegeport schools will close on Friday after what was proved to be a successful year under the instruction of Professors Coffin, Hale, Price and Hewett. Supt. Coffin expressed special gratification at the good work done in the school this year.
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Collegeport, Texas, May 29—What complete co-operation of a community, even a small one, can do in the entertaining of the public in a big way was demonstrated Monday when, in spite of a heavy rain, and high wind, that once threatened the foundations of the soda pop and ice cream stand. More than 800 people were present at the Sixteenth Annual celebration of the establishment of the Collegeport townsite. Every cost of the big free barbecue was paid at once. Every event went through except two in spite of weather conditions. On account of the storm, the air ships which were to have dropped bombs over the picnic grounds and the boat race which was announced as a feature of the day, had to be called off. In place of the moving picture, announced earlier, which did not arrive, was a free band concert by the El Campo Brass Band under the leadership of Henry Moebus. Winners of the horse race were: Roy Nelson, first; Dick Corporon, second. In the Potato Polo, which proved to be one of the most interesting events of the day, Roy Nelson was again winner and Jack Holsworth second. In all the events of horsemanship of the day the old cowboys exhibited their prowess over the tenderfeet. The bronco busting, under the supervision of Jack Holsworth, was an exciting event in which young Bill Thompson lived up to his famous father’s reputation and Mr. Stallings rode the wild horses to the limit. The ball game seemed to be easily Collegeport’s until the very last of the game, when the Louise delegation hit all over the field for a final score of 14 to 13. To name the principals in the arrangements of the day would be impossible since every “bloomin” citizen co-operated to make the day the huge success that it was. Had it not been for the rain it is easily possible that near 2000 people would have visited the events. Responsible for cooking the best barbecue ever served at a free picnic in this section should be named Bob Murry and Emmitt Chiles, aided by “Uncle George” and Charlie Smith. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Preparing to honor the soldier living and dead, announcements of a memorial service for Sunday morning were made here this week. That a crowd larger than the one that honored Mother on Mother’s Day will attend the services is expected since this the only service in honor of the “Heroes of America” to be held in this section. Special decorations are being prepared for the occasion. Music will be furnished, both vocal and instrumental. A sermon, “Wooden Bullets’ will be a part of the ceremonies. A special seat for all ex-soldiers and “Gold-Star Mothers” will be reserved. An appeal was made to all citizens to make this occasion a memorable one for the sincerity of the gratitude of Collegeport people to the men who died or would have died for Liberty. In the evening a surprise had been announced for Sunday. While no clue was given as to the nature of this service, a special decoration committee which was preparing for a special arrangement of the pulpit and aisles of the church had a twinkle in their eyes as mentions of a wedding was made to them. “Salome Jane,” one of the Paramount’s exceptional pictures will be presented by the young men of Collegeport as a part of the Community entertainment to be given here Friday night. A decision to start the show at eight o’clock instead of eight-thirty and to repeat the Pathe News and Aesop’s Fables after the regular picture was reached by the young men here today, so that little children will not be kept up so late at night. The regular showing of “Salome Jane” will be at 8:30 as usual. For the first time in three months there are three cases of illness in this place. One is Mr. Stallings, in charge of the North Collegeport Fig Orchards, who is better. A second, Mr. E. A. Holsworth, a merchant, who was improving today. A third the son of Mrs. Conover, a recent comer, who is now out of bed and feeling much better. Due to the illness of Mrs. Van Wormer, mother of Mrs. S. B. Sims, who was to have joined her husband, manager of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company, here immediately. Mrs. Sims has deferred her coming until her mother has improved. Mrs. Van Wormer, an aged lady, is also mother of Dr. Van Wormer, president of the Fig company. Miss Heck and brother, former residents of Collegeport, were among the large number of old Collegeport residents who came to the Collegeport Day celebration. Mrs. Morris, of Houston, is visiting Mrs. E. A. Holsworth. A reception was held for Mrs. G. A. Duckworth Tuesday night at the Community House. Mrs. Duckworth, with her family has been a resident of Collegeport since the start of the town. Due to the transfer of Mr. Duckwoth to the station at McAllen, the family will be moved there. They leave today. A beautiful music roll was presented to Miss Helen Duckworth Sunday night after her recital by her friends here. Howard Duckworth, treasurer of the Young Men’s Bible Class and co-responsible for the Community Picture show, left for McAllen to work with his father, Sunday night.
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Prof. Thos. M. Hale, new superintendent of the schools at Collegeport left for San Marcos to pursue several courses of study during the summer. He was accompanied by his two sisters and Miss Virginia Saunders, who will attend school there also. Twenty-seven boys have signified their intention to attend the boys camp to be given by Matagorda County in June. The quota allotted Collegeport was over-subscribed, Homer F. Goff, Collegeport chairman announced this week. “Hitting the Nail on the Head, or Refusing to Dodge The Real Issue of Life” was announced as Rev. Mr. Janes’ theme for Sunday morning. “Is Seeing Believing” will be the evening theme. All sick persons are reported as doing better this week. Mrs. S. B. Sims arrived in Collegeport Sunday morning after a long tedious trip across the United States. The Duckworth residence is being rebuilt and decorated and this will be the Sims home. Mrs. Sims was delighted with the cool atmosphere of Collegeport and remarked at the calm and quietness of her newly chosen home.
Matagorda County Tribune, June 5, 1925 |
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Rev. Paul Janes, of Collegeport, spent yesterday in Bay City in the interest of Collegeport’s big celebration next Monday. Mr. Janes says the people have shown a great interest in the celebration and he expects to see more than 1,000 visitors in Collegeport next Monday. The El Campo band has been secured as an added attraction.
Matagorda County Tribune, June 12, 1925 |
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Collegeport, Texas, June 18.—That this section is facing one of the golden years of its existence was the opinion of a number of old settlers here today. Never has there been finer crops, fruit and cattle prospects than are now in existence in Collegeport. Young fig trees planted in the early season and carefully cultivated until the rain of last week are putting on fruit fast and will begin to deliver fruit in a few weeks, S. B. Sims, manager of the Collegeport Fig Orchards said. “The finest bunch of calves, I believe, I have ever seen on my pastures,” is the way one cattleman described his spring crop of young beef. “The largest percentage of cows with calves I think I have ever seen,” says Frank King, who has spent all of his life on the cow trails. Disease, which began to worry cattlemen, has entirely disappeared. All rice is watered up and to a good stand. Cotton prospects are the best ever. Corn is made. Collegeport is fast approaching a $1,000,000 harvest. Streets of Collegeport are being put in first class condition this week. The old Bay Shore Drive so famous a few years back has been regraded and dragged. Featuring a new picture, “Big Brother,” the young men of Collegeport, continue to follow up their former schedule of good pictures. Citizens of this place were both pleased and surprised at the announcement that Mr. Cecil McNeill, who has contributed so much to the success of the Community Theatre, has taken over the management of the Queen Theatre at Palacios. Mr. McNeill is a clean, hardworking young man and citizens here were of the opinion that Palacios will not disappoint him in supporting his efforts to bring them real first-class entertainment. Carpenters, masons and plumbers were working fast this week to complete the new home of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Sims, newcomers to Collegeport. In spite of the warmth and the mosquitoes, more than 150 people attended church services Sunday night at the First Church of Collegeport. Rev. H. Paul Jones announced that every effort would be used this week to exterminate the pests around the church. Insect killing solutions are being sprayed into the atmosphere of the building and all about the outside. There will be very few mosquitoes Sunday, Mr. Janes predicts. “This body is my house—it is not me” is the thought which inspired the Collegeport minister to announce the theme “Tenants’ which he will preach Sunday morning. In the evening he will discuss “Is the Bible any good?” The preacher said that he got the idea for this theme from an experience of a French trader with a New Hebrides chief who was reading the Bible. Upon being informed by the trader that the Bible is no good, the chief answered, “Perhaps it isn’t, my friend, but if it had not been for the Bible you would have been boiling in my pot long ago.” Special music is announced for both services.
Matagorda County Tribune, June 19, 1925 |
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From Tuesday's Daily Dr. W. W. Van Wormer and Mrs. Van Wormer, of Springfield, Ill., are here on their annual inspection trip to their properties at Collegeport and Palacios. Together with several other Illinois investors, these visitors own and control a broad acreage at Collegeport and the hotel property in Palacios. They are all well pleased with the country, better so with their investments and very enthusiastic over the prospects in the immediate future. At Collegeport Dr. Van Wormer's company, or syndicate, has 400 acres of growing figs, which the doctor says far surpasses what he expected to see. Owing to the activities of these people, land values are increasing in Collegeport, not sensationally, but in a very satisfactory way. The people there are now hopeful of great things and are reaching out in many ways, building, improving and working for the upbuilding and improvement of that beautiful and desirable part of this section. The land in the Collegeport section is peculiarly adapted to successful fig culture. Perhaps no such, or better land for the Magnolia fig can be found in the entire belt. A great success is being made of the venture. In addition to this, the several thousand acres of rice near Collegeport is doing splendidly and is very promising. Cotton is also doing as well as it can possibly do. All told, the Collegeport section is in for a big year, the biggest and best in its history and those who have invested are more than pleased with this particular part of Texas.
The Matagorda County Tribune, Friday, June 26,
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It may truly be said that the Collegeport School began at the bottom for the first attempt at holding a school was in a small tent abut 10 by 12, dirt floor, one teacher and two pupils. The teacher must have been a brave soul and sorry is the writer that no record has been found which gives her name. God bless her wherever she is and if she is no more then God rest her soul.
In April 1909 the Collegeport Industrial League was organized and at its
first regular meeting held on the night of In order that there might be some basis on which to assert the right for a school district it was thought best to make a scholastic census and counting all children then on the territory, children on the way from their northern homes and children who expected to move in during the summer the following were listed in the census: Russell, Vaughan, June, Laura and Frances Mott; Carey Knight; Ray Turner; Barbara Turner; Kenneth House; Leota Miller; Dwight School; Carl Judin; John Pierce; Charles Elmer; Archie Larkin; Irvin Hale; Floyd Maples. None of the families represented in this list live here now, all having moved back from whence they came.
In 1910 R. E. Coffin came to Collegeport and taught six weeks in the
building occupied by the The years 1918 and 1919 Miss Margaret Holsworth taught and she was followed by Mr. Ethridge and Mr. Laslie in 1920. Space forbids the extended mention of each teacher who has had a part in this history but we must mention that during the years Miss Margaret Holsworth was teaching she closed the terms with a School Exhibit that any community might be proud of. The exhibit consisted of maps, contour work, flowers, baskets and other handiwork. The following year the school was in charge of Miss Luther and for the last two years R. E. Coffin with three assistants and 100 pupils has been in charge teaching the 11th grade. This year the first class graduated. The years 1923 and 1924 have been the Golden years of instruction in Collegeport for during these years the school has been a consolidated school provided with splendid teachers. The last year the faculty consisted of Miss Buela Price, Miss Vivian Hewitt, Mr. Thomas Hale and R. E. Coffin Superintendent. No better corps of teachers could be assembled for each one had special training for the subjects assigned them. Their earnest efforts, their unceasing devotion to the pupils and their loyalty to the school has earned for them the love and respect of all the patrons and this is evidenced by the fact that Mr. Hale has been promoted to superintendent and Misses Price and Hewitt have been retained for the coming year.
As for Mr. R. E. Coffin, he leaves Collegeport with the respect of every
person and for him we have the deepest regard and honor. He has been an
efficient superintendent and has ably directed his corps of teachers. He
is a Christian gentleman and a natural born teacher. He not only has the
knowledge and training but he understands child nature and for that
reason secures results that are impossible for many others From his work
we must select all that is good and wholesome and upon this endeavor to
build better, higher and broader. Altho we are to lose this man and his
fine family it is a comfort to know that his influence will still be
used in The school and its teachers as well as pupils has been criticized. Any good work is subject to criticism. Some people enjoy criticism but few of those ever offer a substitute. Our school trustees have striven to be faithful and to furnish the sinews needed for a first class school and it is the duty of our people to stand square and firm back of them. Jed Prutz sez: "I hain't neer yit seen but one bizness that didn’t begin at the bottom and that's the well bizness. ---------------- Collegeport Fig Orchards Company Dr. W. W. Van Wormer, president of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company, spent last week in Collegeport studying the new plans laid out for the development of the growing fig orchards of this section, with his manager, S. B. Sims, of this place. Dr. Van Wormer found the orchards of the company to be in excellent condition. “One would hardly guess that those growing little fig trees had lived through an extreme drouth such as this country seldom sees,” he remarked when asked his impression of the condition of the orchards. “There are two things Collegeport fig farms will have to have soon,” he said, “irrigation and a canning plant. These will arrange to install as soon as practical. It will be barely possible to handle our fig crop this year off of the North orchards and when the nearly 400 acres come to fruit next year I do not see how we can dispose of them without our own cannery.” When asked when these improvements would be installed the president replied that what had to be done would be done and when questioned about the planting of palms, shrubs, etc., he said that would be accomplished the next planting season. S. B. Sims, manager of the company, is finishing his home on the Bay Shore and has moved in. Manager Sims announced that a fuller clearing of ditches and draining of farms would be accomplished at once. Tractors are busy keeping the orchards immaculate. Spray is being used regularly on the large North orchard of bearing trees. These are loaded with young and half developed figs that will begin to ripen in a few weeks. In spite of the drouth, which was broken recently, the spring planted trees may bear a good first crop. ---------------- Rev. H. Paul Janes and family left this week for Colorado where Mr. Janes will do some post-graduate work in a summer school at Estes Park. They will return August 8. Services Sunday will be especially for young people at First Church of Collegeport. The Daily Vacation Bible School in charge of Mrs. J. Marshall Janes, of Houston, will present a program and demonstration in the morning and the Sunday School will co-operate to make the service a big Children’s Day celebration. The children’s day program is under the direction of Mrs. Crane, also a member of the faculty of the Bible school. This occasion will be the last official appearance of Prof. Roy Coffin, for several months actively superintendent of the Sunday School. Prof. Coffin goes to Van Vleck next week to arrange for the opening of the Fall Term of school at Van Vleck, where he will teach next year. Sunday night the services will be in the hands of the Christian Endeavorers. An unusual program will be carried out under the direction of the new president of the Endeavorers. Miss Nellie Batchelder and Mrs. L. E. Liggett, superintendent of young people’s work of the Women’s Union. Screens have been installed on the community house so that no mosquitoes were present at the services on Sunday or at the moving picture entertainment Friday night in which Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. starred in Stephen Steps Out.” Added to the good picture was the absence of mosquitoes, excellent production of the picture by Flemming Chiles assisted by John Hagler, Dean Merck and Milburn McNeill, and good music by Miss Lois Coffin, who is the pianist for the church. All of these young people together with several other young men of the community are giving their time to make the movies at Collegeport a success and a permanent fixture. Due to the fast work of Frank King, Roy Nelson, John Evans and L. E. Liggett, copper screens were placed on all of the windows of the community house. People of the community responded heartily to the appeal for funds. Frank King, who is one of the oldest citizens of the community, said he expected the screens to last 10 years. The installing of copper rather than cheaper screens is another example of Collegeport’s way of doing things right. ---------------- A large majority of the Collegeport citizenship visited Palacios on the Fourth of July. A special invitation was conveyed to the citizenship here through Rev. H. Paul Janes and Collegeport responded, as usual, in a body. ---------------- A very pretty wedding was solemnized Sunday evening at the Church when Miss Barbara Fulcher and Prof. Tom Hale were married. Rev. H. Paul Janes, officiating. They will spend their honeymoon in San Marcos, where Mr. Hale is in school and will make their home in Collegeport about August 15. Prof. Hale will be the superintendent of the Bay View High School of Collegeport succeeding Prof. Roy Coffin. Miss Fulcher is the daughter of Mr. Tom Fulcher, well known and successful rice farmer of this place. The bride was dressed in a white brocaded silk gown trimmed with silk lace. Her veil was of silk embroidered net with head band of orange blossoms. She carried a shower bouquet of bride’s roses. Her shoes and accessories harmonized. In the bridal party were Miss Myrtle Fulcher, maid of honor; Miss Lillian Clark, bride’s maid; Mrs. Wm. Reiley, matron of honor; Mr. Tom McNeill, best man. The ring ceremony was used. The church and altar were decorated with roses of pink and white. Streamers, palms and other greens finished the decoration. ---------------- Finishing the first week of its experience, the Daily Vacation Bible School Friday took holiday for the Fourth of July. An average of forty children and a full curriculum of work was accomplished. The members of the school took a large part in the ceremonies on the Fifth of July. Mrs. Janes, of Houston, supervising the school in co-operation with Prof. Roy Coffin and a large staff of teachers were very well pleased with the outcome of the initial week. Courses in Americanism, God in Nature, songs, drills and crafts are being offered. The girls’ class completed several pretty things and the boys craft class completed a hobby horse, a mule with movable legs, head and tail, and began work on a goose which will become a door prop for every mother who has a boy in the school. A completely filled three hours of interesting beneficial work is being offered and the people of Collegeport are showing their appreciation of the hard work of the teachers by sending their children to the school. ---------------- The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Boeker was taken suddenly ill with pneumonia Friday. He was taken to the Doctor at Palacios and then to the hospital at Bay City Saturday. The child, eight months old has been in splendid health up to this time. He had just begun to crawl. ---------------- Rev. J. Marshall Janes, Sunday School secretary for the entire Southern and eastern portion of Texas and a part of Louisiana, will fill the pulpit of the First Church of Collegeport during the absence of Rev. H. Paul Janes, who is attending school in Colorado. Mr. Janes, who is an old citizen of this section of the state is very much interested in Collegeport particularly, which he thinks is one of the most promising sections of the state. He will speak morning and evening of the Sundays of July 19th, 26th, and August 2nd. Rev. Mr. Janes and family will live at the manse during their son’s stay in Colorado. ---------------- Rice harvest should be over in Collegeport by the first of September. The major part of the crop will be harvested in the next six weeks. E. A. McCune, manager of this Collegeport Irrigating Company’s large rice farm stated. This farm is said to be the largest single rice farm in the world. Mr. McCune is establishing a large chicken farm at Collegeport, which is being managed by his brother. At least 1000 pullets are being placed on the farm now. Mr. McCune is an experienced poultry man, having been associated with poultry farms about Chicago. His conclusion to go into the chicken business on a large scale establishes another large industry in Collegeport. Already a large business is being done in cattle, rice, figs and cotton. ---------------- Mr. Shriver, for several years a property owner in Collegeport, is establishing a bakery at this place. Mr. Shriver is an old man in the bakery business, having operated successfully for several years the bakery at Palacios. ---------------- L. E. Liggett and family are visiting relatives in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Matt Pierce made a trip into the Rio Grande Valley to visit friends there. Miss Margaret Holsworth, an old citizen of Collegeport and a teacher in the public schools in Chicago, returned for a vacation Friday. Mr. Hugo Kundinger’s brother-in-law and son visited him the Fourth of July and Sunday. Miss Louise Walter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Walter, has just returned from a trip to Kerrville, Texas, where she has been attending a Presbyterian conference there. Miss Dorothy Franzen, student in Central High School and graduate in June is home on vacation. Miss Franzen will go to college this fall, perhaps to Rice Institute. Arnold Franzen, a student of Bay City High School, is home for his vacation. He is a graduate of that school and will attend college this fall. He is thinking of attending Rice.
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Matagorda County Tribune, July 24, 1925 |
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Will Deliver Special Address Sunday. Collegeport, Texas, Aug. 12--Returning from Estes Park, Colo., where he has spent his vacation in school, Rev. H. Paul Janes, pastor of the First Church of Collegeport, announced that he would deliver a special address Sunday morning on the occasion of his first anniversary as pastor of the church. "In my tour of the better part of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas," Mr. Janes said, "I have seen rural crop conditions nowhere to be compared with the Matagorda section. All along the road there were men on foot looking for work. Except in the Panhandle of Texas and some of the irrigated sections of Colorado, farming is doomed, for this season. There is no grass for the cattle. Farmers are trying to sell their labor animals by the carload at sacrifice prices. The pastures about San Antonio and east and north, and until recently all the way to Colorado, are as bare of grass as the highway. I have never seen or heard of such desolation as is widespread in all sections of the country except the Gulf Coast and especially Matagorda County. If there had been room in the Ford coupe I believe I might have picked up 25 laborers a day along the road who were looking for work and were 'headed south.' One man living near Fort Worth told me he sold his cotton crop for $50." During the year past Collegeport and the Matagorda section has seldom faced brighter prospects, according to old settlers. The best pasture lands in Texas are here. The second bumper crop of rice in a year is being harvested with prospects for a good price. More than $800.000 worth of rice was produced last season. Prospects in some parts of "a bale to the acre" of cotton is expected, according to Rev. J. Marshall Janes, who has recently visited all of the most productive parts of the county. According to Frank King, for more than 25 years a cattleman in this section, there has never been a finer harvest of young calves than in this season. Hundreds of head of cattle from other sections are being purchased at bargain prices and pastured on the bountiful pastures and artesian water in the section of country between the Colorado and the Tres Palacios Rivers. Fig trees planted by the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company during the dry season of the early spring and hardly expected to grow are blooming out now and are full of young figs and ripening fruit. According to S. B. Sims, manager, the company is more than elated over the success, so far, of the gigantic enterprise they are attempting to establish here. If conditions continue to aid in the establishing of the fig industry the lowly fig introduced into the coast section nearly 75 years ago may become one of its best producers of livelihood, Mr. Sims said. Because of the community spirit and interest of the people in this section in better living as well as better livings the church has grown by 35 per cent in membership and nearly 100 per cent in enterprises in the building provided as a community house. Not only have the average attendance at all church services been increased but public entertainments and moving picture entertainments have become regular events in the community. Due to the broad vision of the executive board of the church the entire church institution has passed from the hands of the few into the community's hands. In gratitude for the spirit that has made his first year in Collegeport so pleasant and the goodness of Providence that has made possible the livelihood of the new growing country, Rev. Janes announced his special theme for Sunday morning. He will speak on the theme, "Gotten Stuff." In the evening a stereopticon lecture on the Rocky Mountains National Park, which Mr. Janes visited, will be delivered. Scenes of all the important sights in that part of Colorado, secured at the University of Colorado, at Boulder, Colo., will be shown. Souvenirs of all the points will be provided and every family in the Collegeport section has been remembered with a souvenir. Some come from the beautiful Big Thompson Canyon, some from Long's Peak, one of the largest and most beautiful mountains of the range; some from Flat-top Mountain, some from the South Platt Valley, some from the beautiful cabin home of Hon. Royal Dixon, located between the giant "Big Baldy" and "Grouse Mont" Mountains of the North Platt Valley. Souvenirs most rare taken from the crater of the most perfect extinct volcano in the world at Capulin, New Mexico, will be given away. Rocks that float on water such as those which float all the way from Mexico and are picked up occasionally on the Gulf beach, will be presented in their original colors just as they were left by the seething boiling mass of superheated rock. All seating capacity of the church will be brought into use and every effort will be made to seat the people who attend these services. Late comers will like have to stand, Mr. Janes said. Matagorda County Tribune,
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Mr. A. H. Leimbrook,
secretary-treasurer Collegeport Fig Orchards Co., and Mrs.? S. B. Sims,
resident manager, were visitors to the city yesterday. Mr. Leimbrook
resided in
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Collegeport, Texas, Aug. 12.—Returning from Estes Park, Colo., where he has spent his vacation in school, Rev. H. Paul Janes, pastor of the First Church of Collegeport, announced that he would deliver a special address Sunday morning on the occasion of his first anniversary as pastor of the church. “In my tour of the better part of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas,” Mr. Janes said. “I have seen rural crop conditions nowhere to be compared with the Matagorda section. All along the road there were men on foot looking for work. Except in the Panhandle of Texas and some of the irrigated sections of Colorado, farming is doomed, for this season. There is no grass for the cattle. Farmers are trying to sell their labor animals by the carload at sacrifice prices. The pastures about San Antonio and east and north, and until recently all the way into Colorado, are as bare of grass as the highway. I have never seen or heard of such desolation as is widespread in all sections of the country except the Gulf Coast and especially Matagorda County. If there had been room in the Ford coupe I believe I might have picked up 25 laborers a day along the road who were looking for work and were ‘headed south.’ One man living near Fort Worth told me he sold his cotton crop for $50. During the year past Collegeport and the Matagorda section has seldom faced brighter prospects, according to old settlers. The best pasture lands in Texas are here. The second bumper crop of rice in a year is being harvested with prospects for a good price. More than $800,000 worth of rice was produced last season. Prospects in some parts of “a bale to the acre” of cotton is expected, according to Rev. J. Marshall Janes, who has recently visited all of the most productive parts of the county. According to Frank King, for more than 25 years a cattleman in this section, there has never been a finer harvest of young calves than in this season. Hundreds of head of cattle from other sections are being purchased at bargain prices and pastured on the bountiful pastures and artesian water in the section of country between the Colorado and the Tres Palacios Rivers. Fig trees planted by the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company during the dry season of the early spring and hardly expected to grow are blooming out now and are full of young figs and ripening fruit. According to S. B. Sims, manager, the company is more than elated over the success, so far, the gigantic enterprise they are attempting to establish here. If conditions continue to aid in the establishing of the fig industry the lowly fig introduced into the coast section nearly 75 years ago may become one of its best producers of livelihood, Mr. Sims said. Because of the community spirit and interest of the people in this section in better living as well as better livings the church has grown by 35 per cent in membership and nearly 100 per cent in enterprises in the building provided as a community house. Not only have the average attendance at all church services been increased but public entertainments and moving picture entertainments have become regular events in the community. Due to the broad vision of the executive board of the church the entire church institution has passed from the hands of the few into the community’s hands. In gratitude for the spirit that has made his first year in Collegeport so pleasant and the goodness of Providence that has made possible the livelihood of the new growing country. Rev. Mr. Janes announced his special theme for Sunday morning. He will speak on the theme, “Gotten Stuff.” In the evening a stereopticon lecture on the Rocky Mountains National Park, which Mr. Janes visited, will be delivered. Scenes of all the important sights in that part of Colorado, secured at the University of Colorado, at Boulder, Colo., will be shown. Souvenirs of all the points will be provided and every family in the Collegeport section has been remembered with a souvenir. Some come from the beautiful Big Thompson Canyon, some from Long’s Peak, one of the largest and most beautiful mountains of the range; some from Flat-top Mountain, some from the South Platt Valley, some from the beautiful cabin home of Hon. Royal Dixon, located between the giant “Big Baldy” and “Grouse Mont” Mountains of the North Platt Valley. Souvenirs most rare taken from the crater of the most perfect extinct volcano in the world at Capulin, New Mexico, will be given away. Rocks that float on water such as those which float all the way from Mexico and are picked up occasionally on the Gulf beach, will be presented in their original colors just as they were left by the seething boiling mass of super-heated rock. All seating capacity of the church will be brought into use and every effort will be made to seat the people who attend these services. Late comers will likely have to stand, Mr. Janes said.
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Matagorda County Tribune,
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Collegeport, Texas, Aug. 18.--Nearly $800,000 worth of rice will be harvested this season in the 32 square miles known as the Collegeport section, according to E. A. McCune, manager of the Collegeport Rice and Irrigating Company. Rice is considerably higher grade than it was last season, when nearly a $1,000,000 crop was harvested, it was stated.
Matagorda County Tribune, August 21, 1925 |
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MILLION DOLLAR CROP BEING HARVESTED.
According to E. A. McCune, manager, the crop this year, while a fewer acres than the one last year, will produce about the same amount of rice but due to the larger yield and the better quality.
It was understood until recently that about 300 bales of cotton would comprise the crop of cotton for this section but recent reports show that 450 or 500 bales will be ginned. Officers of the Gulf Coast Lines visiting this section last week pronounced it them most productive they have seen in the vicinity. They declared that a cotton gin must be built immediately and backed their statement with encouraging propositions.
More than $35,000 for ties alone are being spent by the railroad and plans to build a new roadbed are in process for the Collegeport branch.
Over 2000 head of cattle have been brought to the Collegeport rich grazing section by cattlemen in the past two months, Roy Nelson estimated. Mr. Nelson, an experienced cattleman, was of the opinion that a better grazing country than this section does not exist.
G. A. Hunt, local garage man and blacksmith, who does all the repair work for the Collegeport section, announced, this week, plans to better serve the needs of Ford car owners with genuine Ford parts. Mr. Hunt said he is equipped to do any repairing necessary to a Ford car or truck and to supply needed parts. This is a part of the growing plans Mr. Hunt has been making to give old settlers and the large number of new-comers of this productive section the best in garage and blacksmithing service he is able to deliver. "Are We From Mud" and "What Is Law" are the two practical themes announced by Rev. H. Paul Janes as sermon themes for Sunday at the First Church of Collegeport, a community church of which he is pastor. Mr. Janes said that these sermons would deal, entirely, with religious motives and forces that bear unavoidably on the subjects. Special music and program are being arranged for the services. A large audience attended the service Sunday.
J. Louis Janes, of San Benito, in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley, suppressed his enthusiasm for that wonderfully productive country long enough to say that he saw the same possibilities for the region between the lower Colorado and Tres Palacios Rivers known as the Collegeport region. Mr. Janes called attention not only to the ease of drainage and irrigation from the Colorado River but remarked on the vast, inexhaustible supply of artesian water in this section which could be made available, especially for crops not demanding as much water as rice. He noticed and criticized the tremendous waste in the use of water now.
Efforts are being made by the reporter of this paper to next week give its readers the names and places or origination of the larger number of visitors and new-coming settlers who are pilgrimaging to the Collegeport section now. So large a number has come in the past few weeks that extra effort is begin made to secure information regarding their coming, making only a partial account possible now.
Including Mayor Campbell and his son with their families, Collegeport had many visitors from Palacios Sunday. The mayor and his family expressed satisfaction at the progress at Collegeport and complimented the church services which they attended.
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Cotton on several farms near here will produce more than three-fourths of a bale to the acre. F. H. Jenkins has already gathered over 40 bales from 52 acres, he said this week. The proper control of pests may make his "a bale to the acre" crop. Gust Franzen, one of the pioneers in the use of acid phosphate in cotton culture, was demonstrating to visitors by a sheer six inches in height over unfertilized cotton and in bolls twice the ordinary size, just what fertilization will do for cotton in this section especially in slightly sandy land.
As a part of the entertainment program of the season Mrs. Matt Pierce of the Woman's Club announced a carnival to be given on the grounds of the community house next Tuesday night.
Mrs. Pierce said that this would be a real carnival with music, balloons, soda pop, ice cream and all the carnival trimmings. The proceeds will go to the Woman's Club which sponsors the beautiful little library of 1300 books at Collegeport.
This club is the only active civic organization in Collegeport and has proved a valuable asset to the public school, John Evans, president of the school board, said. He was confident that the money placed in the hands of the club would be used wisely and commended the work of the women.
"North of
36" is coming to Collegeport and will be presented at the community
house by the young men of the city on Tuesday night, September 8. Mr.
John Hagler announced the coming of the picture last week. Fleming
Chiles, director of projection for the theatre, said this picture would
be the best he has had the privilege to present the audiences at
Collegeport. All predict a large crowd to see this premier picture made
by
Believing that a preacher's job is the most sensational one any man can have, Rev. H. Paul Janes admitted that the two gospel themes he announced for Sunday services would be called sensational by those who do not comprehend the possibilities of Christianity when practically applied. He named the following subjects, "What Good Does It Do to Pray" and "What Makes a Successful Man." The pastor of the First Church of Collegeport stated that he would analyze carefully what Jesus had to say about these two important practical subjects at the morning and evening services.
Because of the large number of people who have come into the fertile delta between the Colorado River and the Tres Palacios in the past few weeks both to help in the harvest and to settle on the land, it was found to be impossible to give any accurate account of the entire newcomer list in Collegeport.
Two daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Conover of
Mr. and Mrs. Boeker, father and mother of Mrs. Homer Goff, and Mr. Carl Boeker are also visitors.
Miss Margaret Holsworth, teacher in the public schools of Chicago, is about to conclude her summer vacation with her father and mother and brother here.
Mr. and Mrs. B. P. English are visitors in Collegeport.
"Son" Obanon who is a partner with Bob Murray in the Collegeport meat Market, with his wife, is staying with Mr. and Mrs. Don Ross during the rice harvest.
S. E. Dickinson, water boss and popular rice grower of Collegeport, has been suffering with a mastoid trouble and underwent an operation recently. He is in much better shape and will soon return to his normal duties. An adequate supply of water to finish the last rice crop at Collegeport is already flowing into the tossing fields of grain. Although the late crop has suffered some from lack of water, E. A. McCune said it would make a fair yield. It is a small crop as most grain this year was early and had water. First Figs.
The first figs of the season are beginning to come in off of the North fig orchard of the Collegeport Fig Company. S. B. Sims was preparing to gather them as fast as they ripen.
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Mr. F. L. Jenkins of Collegeport, has just returned from a trip that took him through 56 countries in Central, North Central and West Texas and says he is better satisfied with Matagorda County than he has ever been. Mr. Jenkins will be remembered as the farmer who brought in the first bale of cotton this season, following that first bale with 42 more from a 60-acre crop. His recent trip was of a prospecting nature, but he nothing to suit him as well as here and will plant 100 acres to cotton next year as an evidence of his faith in the county. He has been in the county several years and has always made crops and money. Year in and year out he will back Matagorda County against any in the state and for any class of farming at that.
Matagorda County Tribune, August 28, 1925 |
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Collegeport, Texas, Aug. 28.—At the rate of 10,000 bags a week, Collegeport’s bumper rice crop is being realized and placed on the market at a price averaging $6 a barrel, E. A. McCune, manager of the Collegeport Rice and Irrigating Company, said this week. Everything in the harvest plans are working out smoothly. Cotton on several farms near here will produce more than three-fourths of a bale to the acre. F. H. Jenkins has already gathered over 40 bales from 52 acres, he said this week. The proper control of pests may make his “a bale to the acre” crop. Gust Franzen, one of the pioneers in the use of acid phosphate in cotton culture, was demonstrating to visitors by a sheer six inches in height over unfertilized cotton and in bolls twice the ordinary size, just what fertilization will do for cotton in this section especially in slightly sandy land. As a part of the entertainment program of the season Mrs. Matt Pierce of the Woman’s Club announced a carnival to be given on the grounds of the community house next Tuesday night. Mrs. Pierce said that this would be a real carnival with music, balloons, soda pop, ice cream and all the carnival trimmings. The proceeds will go to the Woman’s Club which sponsors the beautiful little library of 1300 books at Collegeport. This club is the only active civic organization in Collegeport and has proved a valuable asset to the public school, John Evans, president of the school board, said. He was confident that the money placed in the hands of the club would be used wisely and commended the work of the women. “North of 36” is coming to Collegeport and will be presented at the community house by the young men of the city on Tuesday night, September 8. Mr. John Hagler announced the coming of the picture last week. Fleming Chiles, director of projection for the theatre, said this picture would be the best he has had the privilege to present the audiences at Collegeport. All predict a large crowd to see this premier picture made by Texas cowboys. Lois Wilson shares with other prominent actors in the Paramount production. Believing that a preacher’s job is the most sensational one any man can have, Rev. H. Paul Janes admitted that the two gospel themes he announced the Sunday services would be called sensational by those who do not comprehend the possibilities of Christianity when practically applied. He named the following subjects, “What Good Does It Do to Pray” and “What Makes a Successful Man.” The pastor of the First Church of Collegeport stated that he would analyze carefully what Jesus had to say about these two important practical subjects at the morning and evening services. Because of the large number of people who have come into the fertile delta between the Colorado River and the Tres Palacios in the past few weeks both to help in the harvest and to settle on the land, it was found to be impossible to give any accurate account of the entire newcomer list in Collegeport. Two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Conover of Illinois have recently joined their parents here. Mr. and Mrs. Boeker, father and mother of Mrs. Homer Goff, and Mr. Carl Boeker are also visitors. Miss Margaret Holsworth, teacher in the public schools of Chicago, is about to conclude her summer vacation with her father and mother and brother here. Mr. and Mrs. B. P. English are visitors in Collegeport. “Son” Obanon, who is a partner with Bob Murry in the Collegeport meat market, with his wife, is staying with Mr. and Mrs. Don Ross during the rice harvest. S. E. Dickinson, water boss and popular rice grower of Collegeport, has been suffering with a mastoid trouble and underwent an operation recently. He is in much better shape and will soon return to his normal duties. An adequate supply of water to finish the late rice crop at Collegeport is already flowing into the tossing fields of grain. Although the late crop has suffered some from lack of water, E. A. McCune said it would make a fair yield. It is a small crop as most grain this year was early and had water. First Figs. The first figs of the season are beginning to come in off of the North fig orchard of the Collegeport Fig Company. S. B. Sims was preparing to gather them as fast as they ripen.
Matagorda County Tribune, November 6, 1925 |
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A new tractor, two new plows and a spring tooth harrow have been added to the equipment of the Fig Orchards Company. Their men are busy putting the orchards in shape.
Mr. Fred Goff, for the fig company, is mowing the streets of the townsite removing the weed sand grass from the ditches.
Continued reports of good cotton and rice crops are published. Gust Franzen is in the midst of picking a good crop. Geo. Welsby has what should prove to be an extra good late crop. There are 15 to 20 bolls on last stalks and on some early he has from 36 to 50 bolls. F. L. Jenkins has about three more bales to pick he says. He has already picked 40 bales off 52 acres. Louis Walter has a good crop.
School opens here
Monday, September 7, according to Prof. Tom Hale, superintendent of
schools. The new corps of teachers will be Miss Price, Primary; Miss
Hewitt, Juniors; Miss Nellie Batchelder, upper grade classes; Prof.
Hale, High School. Prof. Hale and Miss Batchelder will divide the work
of their departments. All teachers are in
A new course in Bible
is to be offered by the school this year. This is in Old Testament and
state credit will be given. There will be no doctrinal teaching and
simply an analytical course of study will be pursued. The students will
become familiar with the literature and code of laws upon which the
present government of the
Sunday evening Rev. Mr. Janes will speak from the pulpit at Collegeport on the theme, "Gambling." Mr. Janes said in announcing this theme Sunday, "I guarantee that this will be the most interesting subject ever announced in Collegeport--there will be something doing in this sermon." he advised that any who feared personal damage be there to take care of themselves. "There will be no curtain lecturing and the same policy of facts for facts' sake will be pursued," Mr. Janes concluded. It is rumored that Mr. Janes has gathered some pointed facts.
The Sunday morning theme will be "Crystalized Conscience." There will be special music.
Mr. Jack Holsworth was elected president of the men's class in the Sunday school Sunday. After careful work and study the committee on nominations presented the needs and opportunity of the job to Mr. Holsworth who agreed if the men stand behind him, to serve, Tom McNeill, superintendent of the school, expressed considerable satisfaction at the selection of the man. "I do not see how you could have picked a better man for the place," he said. "The men's work in this school is a very serious matter because of the problems of the community get their leadership in solution either from this class or some of its members.
Maude Alice Frazier, who has been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Whitworth, in Taft, returned with her to Collegeport where Mrs. Whitworth will visit.
Gladys Mae Frasier
has just returned from a visit to
Mary English is visiting the Duckworths in the Valley.
Miss Lenore Janes and
Mr. Russell Baird motored from
Mrs. J. B. Heisey's sister is visiting her.
Mrs. Sid Johnson and Miss Mary Johnson are visiting Tom Slone.
Mrs. Lily Reily Eppelt, sister of Mrs. Wm. Reiley, from Halletsville is visiting here.
Mrs. Seth W. Couth [Corse?] has received information substantiating the report that she will be appointed post master. She will receive the commission in a few days.
Relatives of the Boekers, visiting here, will return home this week. John Evans, Frank
King, Roy Nelson and others visited
There are three classes of citizens in Collegeport: those who have their lights tested and are care-free, those who have tried to get their lights fixed and can't, and those who haven't and don't know when they will have time to get them fixed.
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Collegeport. Texas, Sept. 4.--The Collegeport Woman's Club Tuesday night sponsored the first carnival ever held in the community. Under the management of Mrs. Matt Pierce the W. C. Carnival Company was engaged and the event was not only a success in an amusement way, but financially as well. The show was held on the Kommunity House Grounds, each attraction being located in attractive booths. Refreshments were served by Mesdames King and McNeil and consisted of the usual pop, coffee, pies and sandwiches. The one game of chance was managed by Miss Mary Louise Clapp, and judging from the crowds which patronized the game, Collegeport has a large class of "gamboliers." Candy and rubber balloons were dispensed by Misses Minnie Lee McNeil and Dorothy Crane. The exhibits were not only educational in value as evidenced by "Why Girls Leave Home," managed by Mrs. Richman; "Why Men Leave Home," managed by Mrs. Morrow, but were fun provoking as shown by "The Ciriou Den," managed by Mrs. L. E. Liggett; "The American Hog," managed by Mrs. Thos. Hale and "The American Bat," managed by Collegeport's new postmistress Mrs. S. W. Corse. The smallest mother and child in the world, managed by Mrs. Robert Murry, was a revelation to all who saw the exhibit. Blue Beard's Cave, managed by Mrs. Roy Nelson, caused shivers of horror to chase up and down the back of all who saw this wonderful exposition of horrors. It was most fearsome. The Dancing Dolls, managed by Mrs. Crane, was in some respects the feature of the show. Of unusual interest was what is perhaps the only "Bisco, the Bug Eater," in captivity. This interesting specimen actually ate them alive and in large quantities. The credit for securing this attraction is entirely due Mrs. Roy Nelson who searched the earth for something that is not always found in carnival shows. Zerra, the Mystic Lady, daughter of Zorro, the famous mystic of Romanio, read the past like an opened book and because of her peculiar powers tore aside the veil of the future. This feature was well patronized under the management of Mrs. Harry Austin Clapp. One feature the writer feels that he must condemn and that is the show, "For Men Only." This, as the name suggests, was awful and the very fact that the management denied entrance to boys under the age of 18, proves what a terrible exhibition it must have been. The ballyhooing was done by Mr. Harry Austin Clapp. The writer is glad to state that no "likker" was served on the grounds, but a product called Vita was sold. This drink was put up in handy bottles, was red in color and was guaranteed to restore youth or money refunded. Every old man on the ground bought Vita in liberal quantities. Anyway, the show was a great success, provided wholesome fun in abundance and added a goodly sum to the exchequer of the Woman's Club which will be used for the purchase of new books. The library now has about 1300 volumes and is opened once each week and has liberal patronage.
Matagorda County Tribune, September 11, 1925 |
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Bay View Consolidated Thos. P. Hale, Miss Nellie Batchelder, Miss Vivian Hewatt, Mrs. Beulah Price Douglass.
Matagorda County Tribune, September 18, 1925 |
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By Harry Austin Clapp. In Collegeport is an
organization which has functioned since the history of the community
started. It is known as the Collegeport Industrial League. It was
organized before the townsite was opened and soon after was incorporated
under the laws of the State of Coined the work "MIDCOAST." Secured title to the cemetery. Organized the first school district. Organized school district No. 17. Encouraged the consolidation of
the DeMoss and Collegeport districts into what is now Boat service to Palacios. Active in reinstating county and home demonstration work. Sent committee with expenses paid to meet with county court on these services. Leased ground for dipping vat and still holds the lease. Took initiative in organizing dipping association. Reopened telegraph service. Built bandstand. Organized band and paid over $100 on instruments. Raised money and bought the pavilion and docks. Active in promoting interest in building causeway across bay to connect with Palacios. Secured consent of Federal War
Department to make survey of channel and survey of mouth of Started organization of Red Cross work. Organized first Boy Scout troop
in Raised the funds to send Boy
Scouts to Bought block of ground on which is located library building. Supplied Woman's Club with money to purchase library building. Members donated much of the labor to place building on ground and finish same. Active in promoting new river road. Attempted to secure telephone service via Palacios. Secured organization of first justice precinct and appointment of the first justice of the peace. Of the 1300 volumes in the Woman's Club Library more than 10 percent were given by members of the league, the present president alone having given more than 50 books. Sent delegates to Interstate Waterway League. Sent delegates to Promoted two community fairs. Secured passage of stock law and removed cattle from running at large. Appointed local health officer and paid expense of burying dead cattle. Carried display advertisements for several months. Organized fruit and truck growers' department and shipped 14 cars of melons. Made an attempt to incorporate the town. Bought a peanut planter for community use. Hastened building of railroad into town. Chartered schooner Donated $100 to national rivers and harbors congress. Discouraged killing of birds. Held meeting of fig growers, also one for citrus growers in 1910. Organized special trip with
special coach to visit citrus and fig orchards at Called the first meeting for the organization of the Texas Midcoast Industrial Congress which functioned regularly until the late war started. Name of the league filed with U. S. Chamber of Commerce and with the Chamber of Commerce of Manila. Among the first acts was to recognize May 25 as the birthday of the town and each year since 1909 the league has sponsored observance of the day. Before establishment of the postoffice the league arranged for local mail service from Palacios, also for purchase of feed and food and this without cost to the individual served. Encouraged and aided in organization of Collegeport State Bank and the league's president became vice president of the bank. Aided in securing establishment of post office, the league's president becoming the first postmaster. The league is now officered as follows: President, E. L. Hall; vice president, S. W. Corse; treasurer, Geo. S. Welsby; secretary, H. A. Clapp; S. B. Sims, L. E. Liggett, John Carrick, directors. It has about $100 in the treasury and no debts and its officers are anxious to serve the community in every worthy enterprise. Any man resident of the adjacent territory is welcome as a member. Jed Prutz sez: "Sum folks say there ain't never nuthin' in doin' sumthin' fer them that hain't never dun nothin' fur you." But I sez, "Do suthin' fur the other feller. Makes both feel good." Matagorda County Tribune,
September 18, 1925 - from the Scrapbook of Harry Austin Clapp |
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Mrs. Tom Hale, who was taken to the hospital at Bay City Saturday, is much better. Miss Mary Johnson has returned to her home in Louise after a visit with her sister, Mrs. T. E. Slone and aunt, Mrs. P. A. Richman. Mrs. Ed. Harmon and brother, Jesse Sloane, visited in Collegeport last week. Mrs. Tom Fulcher is visiting her daughter in Bay City. Several friends visited in the Richman home Sunday evening and were successfully entertained with music by Mr. Carl Michaelson and Mr. Albert Brinkmeyer. Rains have interfered with harvesting of crops all over the Collegeport section this week. The new Cushman engine is being tried out on the binder at the Richman farm, successfully.
Matagorda County Tribune, September 18, 1925 |
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PRESBYTERY CLOSES; FIGS RIPENING; BIG CROP HARVESTED. Collegeport, Texas, Sept. 24.--With the passing of the sessions of the Houston Presbytery, which has just closed, in which a large delegation from several South Texas counties was in attendance, farmers are turning their attention to making ready for spring planting by plowing in the fall. All farmers have harvested good cotton crops and the rice crop, while not as good, in all cases, as anticipated, was a bumper crop. Several new residents have moved into Collegeport. The Olivers live in the house next to the Community House. The Hales have moved into a house near the beach. Mr. Hale is the new engineer for a Gulf Coast Lines Train into Collegeport. As a new departure in the services of the Fist Church of Collegeport, Rev. H. Paul Janes announced a dramatic monolog in which the Rich Young Ruler of Bible fame will tell his own story of his meeting with Jesus of Nazareth and of his impressions. Special costumes and stage settings will accompany the presentation. The romance of Miriam and the Rich Young Ruler will be introduced into the monolog. The service will open at 8 o'clock. Sunday morning's sermon theme will be "Weighed and Found Wanting." There will be special music for this occasion. Church starts at 10:30. Mr. and Mrs. Gustavus Franzen are the proud parents of a new nine-pound baby boy. No name has been chosen for the new citizen as yet. Rumors of Coolidge and James, etc., are in the air. The baby was born Sunday, September 20. Mrs. Salsbury, accompanied by Miss Lillian Phillips, visited the Richmond home Sunday. Mr. Emit Chiles is visiting her relatives in Wharton. The Collegeport Commercial League, an aged organization of this place, will hold a quarterly meeting this evening. On the announcement of the meeting is inscribed this statement "Towns Are Man-Made Not God-Made." Mr. and Mrs. Luther Hill have named their new daughter Dorothy Wanda. Mrs. A. Schwenke and Mrs. Thornton Morrow were guests at the home of Rev. H. Paul Janes this week. Mrs. Schwenke is a delegate from the Woodland Heights Presbyterian Church of Houston, where Mr. Janes was formerly and which was the home church of Mrs. Janes. Mrs. Thornton is a sister-in-law to Mrs. Janes and an active worker in the Central Presbyterian Church of Houston. Mrs. W. J. Morrow, also delegate from the Woodland Heights Church, has been visiting for the past few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Janes. More than two tons of figs have been shipped from the orchards of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company orchards here, according to statements made by officials of the company. The fig crop is just beginning to come in and the cultivation of orchards is being retarded in the bearing orchards to harvest the crop. All orchards not heavy with fruit are being put in perfect condition with the new machinery and equipment the company has just purchased, through their agent and manager here, Mr. S. B. Sims. None of the orchards here are over 18 months old. A very pretty wedding was solemnized in the home of Rev. H. Paul Janes Sunday morning early. Mr. Robbie Wells and Miss Ruby Jenkins were the principals. Mrs. Wells, nee Jenkins, wore a beautiful gown of blue crepe de chine with hat and accessories to match. Mr. Wells is a native of Madison County but has taken over a black land farm in this section near Palacios. He will break his land immediately in preparation for a big cotton crop next year. Mrs. Wells is the daughter of Mr. F. L. Jenkins, well-to-do cotton planter of this section, and widely known as the grower of the first bale in Matagorda County this year as well as one of the first bales in the state. Both families are old friends of Mr. Janes and were in the parish of his father in the early pioneer church days of Texas. Matagorda County
Tribune, September 25, 1925 |
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Collegeport, Texas. Oct. 8.--Telephones are nearer to realization for this place than ever since the movement was begun about a year ago, according to reports from the third stockholders' meeting of the Collegeport Telephone Company, held Tuesday night. A committee from the Palacios Chamber of Commerce is cooperating to establish the system. A proposition from the Coast Telephone Company which serves Palacios, Port Lavaca, Blessing, Markham and other places, was placed before the men and an answer drafted and committee appointed to make the final agreement. On the committee are Matt Pierce and H. Paul Janes. At the second monthly meeting of the Collegeport Chamber of Commerce to be held Tuesday night. October 13, the final arrangements for installation of phones and establishing of service will be made. Young people of this place are planning a number of feature events to fill the fall social season, according to Miss Nellie Bachelder, teacher in the High Schools here and leader in social circles. A boat ride has been scheduled to be given on Saturday night to which all young people are invited, provided they register with Miss Bachelder or Miss Gladys Mae Frazier, who is aiding in sponsoring the evening entertainment. Only 40 can go. The first to register will be the ones to go, Miss Frazier said. Plans for an immense masked party on Hallow'een are already under way. A play is in process. Other events were not announced. So completely successful was the petition for funds carried by Frank King, local cattleman, to supply a phonograph to the schools here for teaching of good music to the younger students, that more is on hand than is necessary to buy the machine and a good part will be used for records. The phonograph will be very useful to the school, Mrs. Calvin I. Douglas, wife of a prominent business man of Palacios and instructor in the schools at Collegeport said. "The machine will be used to teach the very best of music and ideals of music to the students," Miss Hewitt, of Fort Worth and teacher in the schools, said. "We are very happy to have it to use.? With the coming of thousands of ducks, geese, crane, swan, etc., to their wintering resorts along the lower Gulf Coast, plans are being made for a big hunting season. The Mad Island Slough Hunting Club, under its new management, Emmitt Chiles, announced several new accommodations that club would offer hunters. Compartments for ladies have been arranged. Sheds for autos are provided. Free transportation from the depot at Collegeport to the club is guaranteed. Rates that are fair have been announced, Mr. Chiles said. Mr. Chiles said he is preparing for a large season and is equipped to give his customers every consideration and service. "God and Dirt" and "The Dare of Christ" are the two striking themes that have been chosen for use in the services of the First Church of Collegeport, according to announcements made Sunday. Special music will be provided for both services. In spite of the bad weather of the last two Sundays there have been good crowds at all services. Rev. H. Paul Janes expressed his gratitude for the support the people are giving the services during the rush season of harvest and the bad weather. "I believe, earnestly, that if a man seeks to do God's will, everything will come out somehow," Mr. Janes said. "Things may turn out pretty good even if a man forgets his God--they are sure to be better if he remembers Him." Collegeport has not visited and traveled so much during the bad weather. Mrs. Tom McNeill and daughter, Minnie Lee, are visiting with Mrs. W. J. Morrow in Houston. Mrs. McNeill is attending the Federated School of Missions in Houston. Mrs. H. Paul Janes and baby daughter are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Janes' parents in Houston. Mrs. Janes is attending the sessions of the Federated school of Missions. A curriculum of some expanse if being presented and teachers of national repute are on the faculty. Collegeport figs are growing very rapidly since the rains and are ripening fast. S. B. Sims, manager, is getting tools in shape to prepare for spring planting and to clear up the orchards now in.
Matagorda County Tribune, October 9, 1925 |
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The pulpit of the First Church of Collegeport will be filled by laymen, according to announcements made, Sunday, October 25. H. F. Goff and Prof. Thos. Hale will speak. Mr. Goff's appearance in public as a platform speaker is not a new role for him. He is highly experienced and has been a drawing card before churches and conventions for many years. Mr. Goff will discuss the training of teachers. His theme will be "The Pupil's Blame." He will speak Sunday morning. Professor Hale, superintendent of the pubic schools, has not appeared on the platform since his two years' stay in Collegeport. Those interested in public speaking will look with interest for his address. Mr. Hale has not announced his theme. He will speak Sunday evening. Collegeport Sunday School attendance is growing, according to Tom McNeill, superintendent of the school. An increase of 10 per cent over previous Sundays was registered last Sunday. Rev. H. Paul Janes
and family are in Young men operating the Community Theatre announced a new booking of pictures for the coming season. Among the new pictures are some every one has been looking for. There is Peter Pan, Merton of the Movies and The Ten Commandments. The following is a list of some of the pictures and some of the actors starring in each. Mandled, Swanson, Tom Moore; Wanderer in the Wasteland, Zane Grey, Holt, Dove, N. Beery; Changing Husbands, Joy, Raymond, Griffith, Varconi; Monsieur Beaucaire, Valentino, Daniels, Wilson; Ungarded Women, Daniels, Dix, Astor; The Sideshow of Life, Torrence, Nilsson; The Man Who Fights Alone, Wm. Farnum, Wilson; Sinners in Heaven, Daniels, Dix; The Alaskan, Meighan, Ta___; Her Love Story, Swanson, Fawcett, Keith; Empty Hands, Holt, Norma Sherrer; Dangerous Money, Bebe Daniels and Tom Moore and others. These pictures will start showing on Friday night, October 23, Dean Merck, treasurer of the young men's class, said. According to reports made by the publicity committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Collegeport there has not been a single report of death by disease in the Collegeport section in 18 months. "Health conditions in this section could not be reported better," the committee said in its report. In the early days of Collegeport there were many cases of malaria in this section. The committee could find no evidence of any cases of that disease now. They accounted for this in that the water supply of this section is the purest possible to obtain. Artesian water from 400 to 600 feet below the surface is forced by its own pressure into the houses of most of the homes in this section. The birth rate is high. More than 10 infants have been born without any fatality to mothers or babies. The last interment in the cemetery was of an old man past 70. That was over two years ago. An error in last week's paper is corrected to include Homer F. Goff's name in the committee to make final settlement of the telephone question. Mr. Goff is secretary of the Telephone Association and chairman, of the chamber's telephone committee. A new family--coming to the land of sunshine, pure air, cold water and delightful climate--is located in Collegeport. Except for the "muskeeters" they like it fine. Mr. Sapp and family, owners of several acres of new fig orchards, have settled at the old Tower home south of E. A. Holsworth's palatial residence. The Sapps come from Springfield. Mrs. Oscar Chapin, whose tonsils were removed recently, is home and in good health. Miss Merle Wainner, a former teacher at Collegeport and resident of Bay City, is visiting friends here. Miss Wainner has favored Collegeport audience with two beautiful songs during her stay. Mr. Hales' little daughter was found very ill last week when Dr. Waggoner called upon her. Dr. Waggoner said that due to good nursing the little lady has been saved a very hard spell and is doing as well as could be expected. Mr. Hale is the engineer on the local railroad. Mrs. Saunders, mother of Mrs. Frank King, is visiting her daughter this week during the time of the flood waters are threatening her home along the Colorado River. Matagorda County
Tribune, October 23, 1925 |
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In honor of men who fell or would have fallen to protect the liberty and pursuit of happiness of America, Collegeport will hold special memorial ceremonies Sunday morning, November 8, at the First Church of Collegeport, at 10:30. A flower committee will provide all attendants with evergreens to emblem the memory of those heroes, which shall never die. A special chorus will sing, a male trio will render selections and there will be instrumental selections of music. The decoration of the building will be in charge of Mrs. Matt Pierce, Miss Nellie Bachelder and Miss Hewitt. The subject of a short sermon will be "Lest We Forget." Invitations to all ex-soldiers to come to aid in honoring their bodies "Gone West" have been sent out. A letter to one of the hospitals where hundreds of men are still suffering as a result of injuries of the war will be compiled and all attending the service will sign it. The subject of the sermon Sunday evening will be "Millions Now Living Are Already Dead," a patriotic theme. Rev. H. Paul Janes will speak at both occasions. Plowing preparatory to planting new fig orchards in the spring has already begun. Plans to beautify the grounds about Collegeport are beginning to be put into execution. Two new families are finding homes in Collegeport. Hubert Boeker, brother of C. Boeker, and Mr. Homer F. Goff with his family settled last week. Mr. Boeker brought two engines, four plows, two cultivators and other equipment to add to the tools already at hand on the fig orchards. He is to head the field work of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company according to S. B. Sims manager. Mr. Boeker's family a wife and child, are here with him. Oren Beam and family are new residents here. Mr. Beam will help Mr. Boeker in the fig orchards. He comes from near Petersburg, Ill. Mr. Beam has four children. Clearing the remainder of the townsite is under way and will soon be finished. This work will be followed by the plow, according to present plans. Prof. Tom Hale announced this week that the compulsory school law is not in effect for children between the ages of 7 - 14. Hugo Kundinger, local druggist, is the proud possessor of a new Overland car. There will be a meeting of the men of the Presbyterian Church Thursday, November 5, at 7:30. All men of the church are urged to be present. To further completion of the organization and to better the condition of our community.
Matagorda County Tribune, November 6, 1925 |
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CLIFFORD FRANZEN.
I entered the cotton
contest
I worked my land well and then fertilized it with acid phosphate, but the season was very dry in the spring and I did not get to plant my cotton until the first week of May. It came up to a fairly good stand.
After it came up I cultivated it and chopped it and then kept cultivating until it started to open.
Not very many insects bothered it until in July and I used mostly calcium arsenate to kill them.
At times it looked as if it would produce a bale and a half to two bales on the one acre, but the weather stayed dry so long that most of the fruit fell off.
As I was a club
member, I got to go to the short course at A. and M. College with my
fare paid and expenses were only about $10.00, but it surely was worth
it. We left
After I came home
from
The fertilizer which I used made it about two weeks earlier than some of my father's that used no fertilizer and produced about three times as much. My one acre produced 1580 pounds and made a bale, weighing 595 pounds. It would have made twice as much if the weather had been suitable. I made a net profit of $129.97 on the one acre.
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Due to the fearful condition of the roads the Collegeport branch of the Gulf Coast Lines has been doing a good passenger traffic for the past three weeks. Fully 50 passengers were brought in Saturday from Collegeport and points between here and there. The roads are impassable for general automobile travel.
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Collegeport Planning for Big Dinner for 17th Annual Picnic; Local and Church News
Collegeport, Texas, Nov. 13--Planning for a big dinner, old time get-together and general grand celebration the Thanksgiving picnic committee of Citrus Grove have set to work. This is to be the seventeenth annual picnic, according to the older people of Collegeport and Citrus Grove communities.
In the event of bad roads and at the suggestion of the railroad men, plans are being laid to charter a special car to carry visitors from Collegeport to Citrus Grove. Tom McNeill was named chairman of the committee to make this arrangement at a meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Tuesday night.
An unusual event for which the ladies of Citrus Grove have already recruited several players, will be a game of baseball between the ladies and a team of men. The ladies will be given the advantage of all regular rules of the national pastime. The men will bat, pitch and catch with the left hand.
Mr. and Mrs. Miller, residents of Collegeport, are the proud parents of a nine-pound baby girl. It's just natural that they should be proud. Nine pounds is nothing to be ashamed of and besides that, the other two children are boys! Mr. Miller is employed in A. G. Hunt's shop.
Mr. Oliver, a brother to the well known Olivers of Collegeport and to Mrs. Miller, with his wife, have settled in a house near the Collegeport Rice and Irrigating Company's warehouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, of Citrus Grove, are entertaining Mr. Douglas' father, who will stay for some time in the land of soft breezes.
Boneheads of Collegeport are scratching their noodles! It's over a Negro minstrel that is in the air. Whispers of songs like "If Ah Wuz What Ah Ain't Insted Ov What Ah Iz" and "I've Got 57 Varieties of Sweethearts" and "Steppin' Around" and "Sleopatria" and "Mud Pie Days" make 'em scratch. And the name of it is "Alabama Minstrel." The Most Magnificent Bonehead, E. A. Holsworth, has not called the next conclave as yet.
Citrus Grove has organized a Community Church. It will operate with a local government consisting of trustees, elders and deacons. The trustees are Johnson, Crable and Myres; elders, Dick Corporon and Crable; deacons, Percy Corporon and A. F. Johnson. Fourteen members had signed the charter members' list at last count.
This church is to operate for the religious inspiration of the community surrounding Citrus Grove. It will receive members from any church expecting members to retain their chosen creeds. Three questions are asked all members: (1) Do you accept Jesus Christ as your saviour? (2) Will you do your best to live as you think Jesus would have you live in the light of the Bible and the guidance of the Holy Spirit? (3) Will you support this organization to the best of your ability in every way?
Miss Irene Bachelder is the secretary and Mrs. Luellen Corporon, treasurer, of the new organization. Services are held for the Sunday School every Sunday afternoon. Preaching by Rev. H. Paul Janes of Collegeport is conducted twice a month. A singing service and prayer meeting is conducted every Thursday night. The present organization is sponsored by the Presbyterian Church, U. S. A.
Beautification of the townsite of Collegeport by the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company has been begun. Palms are to grace the length of Central Avenue, according to officials of the company. This is the first move toward a larger program and several hundred palms are being installed.
The work of clearing and plowing the land that will be planted to orchards in the spring is progressing under Mr. Hubert Boeker.
Two subjects of interest were announced for Sunday by Rev. H. Paul Janes, pastor of the First Church of Collegeport. They are "The Heart of a Fool" and "The Prize of God."
Mr. Truton from Carterville, Ill., arrived in Collegeport this week to look over his two blocks of young fig trees.
A bazaar to be held the first Thursday in December was announced this week. The Woman's Union is giving it together with Mexican supper. Fuller announcements will be made later.
The Matagorda County Tribune, November 13, 1925
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Final Arrangements Made With Coast Telephone Company and Work Now Going on. Collegeport, Texas, Nov. 20.--Final arrangements for the installation of telephones in Collegeport are in the hands of a committee appointed to draft a contract at a meeting of the Telephone Association held in conjunction with the Chamber of Commerce last week. Homer F. Goff, Matt Pierce and H. Paul Janes were named on the committee. The contract was forwarded to the Coast Telephone Company Tuesday morning. Tuesday evening Dr. Innis of the Coast Company, with two of his engineers, were surveying the telephone district here and locating the crossing at the river. If present arrangements are carried out it will be possible for many more to have telephones than at first anticipated, was the opinion of Wm. Reiley, president and manager of the Collegeport organization. A committee is in connection with a source of wire and poles which may reduce the cost of line construction very materially. Good phones at reasonable rates have also been found. "We are in hopes that a good majority of citizens will support this civic move and help bring to Collegeport all the good things telephones afford," Mr. Reiley said. "The Palacios Chamber of Commerce is willing to help us to the extent of $100 and the Coast Telephone Company will build across the Trespalacios just north of the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company. Collegeport's part will be started as quickly as material is on the ground. The more people who co-operate in this project the finer it will be for Collegeport." Mr. A. F. Johnson,
who was recently confined to the hospital in Dr. W. W. Van Wormer is expected to arrive any day now. He is planning to settle a number of business matters and start new plans to operating. The work of beautification of the townsite is well under way under the able direction of Mr. North Cable, a former landscape gardener, employed by the Collegeport Fig Orchards Company. Manager Sims and Orchard Superintendent Boeker are pushing all equipment to put the orchards in the best condition for the winter season. Plans to erect a large machine shed are under way. The Chamber of Commerce instructed a special committee to have cards printed, asking citizens to co-operate in every way to preserve the palm trees that are being planted. Mrs. C. J. Thomas, niece of Mrs. Brack English, is visiting with her. She returned with her aunt from a trip last week. Wm. Turton, a
business man of Rev. H. Paul Janes announced sermon themes for Sunday as follows: In the morning, The Prize of God, and in the evening, Who is Richest? God or Man? In spite of the bad weather attendance at church in Collegeport continues good. With the clearing of roads it will continue to be better, Mr. Janes said. Plans are on foot in
the Sunday School to have an immense Christmas celebration. A large
spruce tree will be ordered to take its place in an old-fashioned
gift-for-everybody Christmas. A pageant is being prepared by teachers in
the schools. The celebration will not be limited to children regularly
attending Sunday School but will be for every boy and girl in the
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Organization Has Limit of 10 Members; Is Secret and Oath-Bound; Name Is "Weekums." Each of these clubs meet once
each month and at these meetings refreshments are served. Principal
holidays are in charge of these clubs; for example, Collegeport Day, May
25, from the beginning has been sponsored by the Industrial League,
Washington's Birthday by the These, as well as other gatherings, are all community affairs and it is no uncommon thing to see as many as 200 men, women and children rubbing against each other and enjoying the good eats that are always supplied. Not satisfied with all these clubs another has sprung into life. Not much is known about it for it is a secret organization and the membership is unknown. Its name is "The Weekums." It meets at the call of the Grand Weak and never in the same place. Its membership is limited to 10, so we are informed, and each one is bound by oath to secrecy. The membership is full and no applicants will be received until there is a vacancy caused by death or removal. Although nothing definite is known, it is understood that its business is to seek out new-comers, find out what they wish to do and attempt to make them satisfied with Collegeport life, and, in general, aid them to become satisfied and useful citizens. It will also, so it is understood, give considerable attention to school affairs.
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At Collegeport the work is well organized. Under the lead of Mr. Thos. Hale, principal, a practical plan of departmental work is carried on. There were many practical and pleasing methods of work being carried on by the teachers but nothing more indicative of the success of the work than the eager, receptive attitude of the children. A Geography Device A device used by Miss Nellie Batchelder’s intermediate grades is worthy of note. This class had written the White Star Line for time tables and bulletins of all their steamship routes. With these on hand the individual members of the class chose some country through which they would make a personally conducted tour. Each pupil makes out a ticket showing the items and points of interest to be noted on the tour which he presents to the class. A splendid device for giving the class a review. There are other plans and devices being used in this progressive school which we may give later. We spent the night at Collegeport, enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Hale, and came home in due time for office work Saturday morning.
Matagorda County Tribune, December 18, 1925 |
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“Two thirsty travelers chanced one day to meet, * * * The Collegeport Woman’s Club has never waited for the golden cup but for 17 years it has drunk from the hollow of the hand and the result is seen in the many fine things it has accomplished for the Collegeport district. Owning its own beautiful building which houses 1400 books, it seeks only to serve the men, women and children of the district. Once each month these devoted women meet for “labor and refreshment,” business being dispatched, pleasure rules. The meeting held last Thursday at the home of Mrs. Carl Boeker with Mrs. Boeker and Mrs. Sims as hostesses marked a big red spot on the calendar of club activities. The business portion of the meeting was as serious as may be but that over they proceeded to let the bars down and gave an entertainment which the old-timers pronounced as the best ever given by the club. Every member present participated in some way. They all helped to “brighten up the corner where they were.” The beautiful Hurd home on the bayshore, now occupied by the Carl Boeker family, was decorated in a lavish manner, the Christmas sentiment being the theme. One of the features was a big Christmas tree from which was suspended stockings, some short and fat, others long and slim but all filled with surprises. The hostesses gave the welcome song, “How Do You Do, Woman’s Club? How Do You Do?” Mrs. Cornelia Holtz took the character of Santa and so effective was her acting of the ancient part that it brought forth screams from the kiddies, some of delight, some of terror. This suggested a duet by Mrs. S. B. Sims and Mrs. H. A. Clapp, entitled “Somewhere a Brat is Squalling for Me.” Then followed a jig by the inimitable Mrs. Richman which as usual, brought down the house and called for several encores. Mrs. Holtz delivered a recitation in the Bohemian language, while Mrs. Sims startled the members by reciting several classics in Chinese. No one understood a work but all agree it was fine stuff. One of the touching numbers was a bedtime song, “The Tin Man” by Mrs. Roy Nelson. Those present were surprised at the quality and timbre of her voice. As stated above, they were called to refreshments consisting of delicious cake, smothered with whipped cream, candied orange peel and other trimmings, washed down with Russian tea especially imported for the occasion. The ladies departed refreshed and determined that future meetings will provide more of these delights. The Collegeport Woman’s Club has been one of the stand-bys of the community and they have never waited for a smith to beat and fashion for their use a golden cup.
Matagorda County Tribune, December 18, 1925 |
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