Volume II .  COLLEGEPORT, MATAGORDA COUNTY , TEXAS ,
THURSDAY, NOV. 26, 1914     Number 11
 

The editor and family spent Sunday with friends in Palacios.

Mr. Greenwood, from up the river, was in town this morning.

J. T. Parker has moved onto the Pierce farm, southeast of town.

Don’t forget the Woman’s Union Bazaar at the Church, December 4^th.

Gordon Lawson of Palacios was a business visitor in town Monday.

Little Matt Pierce has been quite sick the past few days with a severe cold.

E. N. Green left Saturday evening for San Benito to look after business matters.

Travis McKinney left Tuesday for Sweeney, where his parents moved some time ago.

The business houses of town observed the holiday today by closing for several hours.

Johnnie Rodebaugh has been confined to the house a couple days, the result of a cold.

C. W. Woodard of Blessing came down Tuesday on business. He returned home Wednesday.

H. M. Yeamans swears absolutely that he did not steal the guns, but has no way of proving it.

Miss Elda Johnson came home Wednesday evening to spend Thanksgiving day with relatives here.

...in the week and the weather has continued wet and cloudy until today.

Better take advantage of our magazine club offer at once, as this combination offer expires December 10^th.

Rose Daniels came over from Palacios Saturday for a short visit with M. A. Nelson’s family and to attend the fair.    

Mrs. G. D. Ross came home Wednesday from Bay City , where she has been visiting with her daughter, Mrs. Ratliff.

I. S. Cullen of Formoso , Kans. , arrived last week to spend the winter with his daughter, Mrs. M. A. Nelson, and family.

We are informed that Collegeport is to have a new family soon, but will loose an old bachelor. We can perhaps tell more in next issue.

R. L. Price came over last evening to take the day duck shooting. He reports hunting rather poor today, with but few ducks flying.

E. A. Holsworth left Tuesday on a business trip to his old home in Illinois . He will perhaps visit Chicago and other points before he returns.         

__. W. House and family were over Saturday to the fair. They were well pleased with the showing made and enjoyed the occasion very much.

Mrs. Struthers and children arrived Sunday, by way of Palacios. Mr. Struthers met them at Houston Saturday night to accompany them to their new home.

Chas. Heck recently took a few days vacation to enjoy a hunt, but on account of a bad cold was unable to enjoy the trip very well. He returned last week and reported the shooting good and plenty of game, but, as before noted, his health prevented him from enjoying it as he had hoped to.

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The editor and family ate a fine fat hen for dinner today, a present from Mr. D. E. Hurd. The hen was one that was exhibited at the fair last Saturday and drew a blue ribbon.

C. O. Johnson, of Wahoo, Neb., who was down to look after his interests near here, attended the fair last Saturday, and was well pleased with the showing made by the various exhibits at the fair.

The Woman’s Union will hold their annual bazaar in the church Friday, December 4^th. Supper will be served between 5:30 and 8 p.m. Your choice of good things to eat. Everybody come.

J. Hubbard and J. F. Finster of Magnolia Beach , were Collegeport visitors Saturday, and took in the Fair. They both expressed themselves as being very agreeably surprised to see as good a showing as was made at the Fair.

F. J. Hardy of El Campo was a visitor in town Saturday. He expressed himself as being very favorably impressed with the various exhibits, and pronounced the fair a splendid showing for this locality, and perhaps better than could really be expected at this time of year.

J. C. Perry of Palacios was over on business Monday. A feature of Mr. Perry’s visit was occasioned by his being caught in the rain just as he reached the schoolhouse and in consequence the school was favored with an impromptu address, which was much appreciated.          

We expected to give a complete list of the articles exhibited and prizes awarded at the fair Saturday, but owing to the weather the committees have been unable to get the data prepared. We will publish as complete a list as possible next issue.

Dr. G. F. Fausset, who has been here for sixteen months, during which time he found insufficient practice for a livelihood, shipped his household goods Monday by boat to Freeport , himself and wife leaving Tuesday for that place.

While we regret to loose Dr. Fausset, we realize that we have too healthy a location for a doctor to receive a very lucrative practice, and we wish him success in his new location and hope he may find a more lucrative practice at that point.

On Monday night Theo. Smith & Son’s hardware store was broken into and three or four guns and several boxes of ammunition were taken. Some smaller articles were supposed to have been taken, but it cannot be definitely determined just what is gone among the small things.

Entrance to the building was effected by breaking a glass in the front, and the traces of a fire and coal oil in the window indicate that the parties aimed to cover up their track by burning the building, as a fire was surely started, but why it failed to consume the building is the most peculiar part of the whole incident.

Some strange persons were seen in town Monday evening and it is presumed that they were the culprits.

The Collegeport Community Fair held last Saturday was surely a success from every point of view, and every department well filled with an excellent variety of articles, and everyone present, whether exhibitor or spectator, was well pleased with the result, and expressions of a hope for another, bigger and better, is heard on every hand. 

About 400 entries were made, representing nearly 100 competitors, and many of the exhibits would compare very favorably with any it has been our pleasure to see.

We suggest that steps be taken to make our Fair Association a permanent organization and the fair a regular annual feature, and have preparations arranged farther in advance, and hold the fair perhaps in a better season of the year.

The thought has also been presented that we have a midsummer fair for all the early products and also a later one for the late products and make the event annual instead of occasional.

CITRUSGROVE DEPARTMENT

Frank King was in town Tuesday.

Sunday school was well attended.

C. O. Johnson left for the north today.

Henry Wagner was in town Monday.

Glenn Miller was in town on Tuesday.

Geo. Braden went to Bay City Tuesday.

S. Dickert of Simpsonville was in town Tuesday.

J. S. Ryan brought in a load of cotton Saturday.

L. G. Cobb bought several heads of hogs last week.

Miss May Johnson visited at S. P. Shuey’s Sunday.

Fowler & Gillespie shipped a car of rice Tuesday.

A. W. LeCompte of Pecan City was in town Monday.

Wm. Erickson ate dinner at A. F. Johnson’s Tuesday.

H. M. Yeamans and son, Linn, are getting things in shape to start plowing for rice.

Charlott Burns went to Collegeport Friday evening and returned Monday morning.

Cocoanuts, pecans, ..., raisins and a fresh shipment of candy at A. F. Johnson’s.

When renewing your subscription to the NEW ERA don’t forget to remind us of the big magazine offer.

If looks like we are getting our share of dampness. It rained here Monday night and Tuesday morning.

A slight wreck happened here last week on the St. L. B. & M. The train ran into the section foreman’s motor car and about demolished it. However, the engine of the motor car was not injured. The damage to the iron work was repaired by A. G. Hunt and A. F. Johnson helped repair the woodwork in time for the foreman to get back to Buckeye in the evening.

DEMOSS NEWS

“Lest we forget,” the Sunday school services at 3:30 .

Seven papers and three ribbons—an average of 42.8 per cent. How is that?

A number of De Moss citizens were at the fair Saturday and report “a good show, all things considered.”

Mr. Crowson says that fish do not bite very good, but that oysters are easily gotten since the norther has blown most of the water out of the bay.

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Mrs. Rogers was suddenly taken sick Thursday night; was up Saturday and at the fair, but was taken down again Sunday and has not been able to leave her bed since.

Did you say rain? Well, we have had our share this week. One consolation, however, it is fine weather—for ducks—and they seem to be fully taking advantage of it.

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Last Friday evening quite an interesting program was given by the pupils of our school. Those who were present expressed themselves as pleased with the interest the pupils are taking in these programs. You are invited to attend.

Master Leonard Heemer took his fine rooster to show him off at the fair. Said rooster won for his master a blue ribbon, but when said master went to get said rooster after the services Saturday night, behold, said rooster, crate, blue ribbon and all were gone. Said master is debating the question: Resolved, That I do not understand how a rooster can fly away with a heavy crate when he is within said crate, and when to the weight of same has been added that of a blue ribbon.

I must confess that I was greatly surprised at the exhibition of the good things that may be grown around Collegeport. From the knocks and kicks that we have heard this community given we would suppose it to be just about as good for nothing as a certain story teller would have us believe old Rip Van Winkle. Now we are convinced that if all the energy were spent in real work that has been and is being spent in “knocking” a certain class of people, as well as the community in general, would be in much better condition financially. If we cannot “boast” then let us “keep our heads closed.”

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