Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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Aransas Pass Progress
Published every Friday at Aransas Pas3, Texas, by
THE PROGRESS PRINTING CO.
INCORPORATED
E. L. PRICE. Editor.
0. H. ROBERTS, General Manager.
Entered at the postoffice at Aransas Pass, Texas, as
second diass mail matter.
A NV erroneous reflection upon the reputa-
tion of any firm, corporation or individual
will be gladly corrected upon the attention of
the publisher being brought to the matter.
CITY OFFICERS
JESSE J. TODD, Mayor.
JOHN HUTTO, Commissioner.
GEO. BEYETT,
CHAS. H. G1LE, City Clerk.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Subject to the action of the
Democratic Primaries to be held
in July.
COME AND SEE.
f trict and the\ State of Texas
Some people whose interests' W^1 educate them for
should cause them to speak well; you, while you enjoy yourself in
of Aransas Pass; some people the best climate in the world,
who are in the employ of menj The wharf and ware house
firms and corporations who have mentioned above, we wish it to
large holdings here; some peo-!ke distinctly understood, are be-
ple whose very living in a great1 ing built at Aransas Harbor and
measure depends upon the sue-i are located less than six miles
and her from our
Rockport
city;
and
14 miles from
22 miles from
County Judge
P. A. HUNTER
Sheriff
D. ODEM.
County and District Clerk,
G. D. McGLOIN
Treasurer
E. M. McKEOWN
Tax Assessor
C. P. RACHAL
County Attorney
J. R. COOK, Jr
Surveyor
C. A. WILLIAMS
Commissioners
R. A. ARNOLD
J. D. WILLIS
G. R. WARE
J. W. BULLARD
Supt. Road Construction
J. D. CADDELL
WHO‘S BOSSING THE BOSS
Who is boss of the advertising
cess of Aransas Pass
enterprises, will be so unkind
and ungrateful as to speak care-; Corpus Christi, either oh which
lessly, if not criminally about ! must be connected with the har-
Aransas Pass and her projects' [kor by railroad in order to get
by simply saying, “What is there‘'Py advantage of deep water,
at Aransas Pass to make a city.’’: and the only way for them to
and a great many other tilings reach the harbor, and in fact,
which injure-us to some extent.The only reasonable way is to
We -tan and are able to com- build on the-main land to the
bat with our enemies on the out-; city of Aransas Pass and con-
side, but it is very hard, almost iiect with our terminal or build
impossible, for us to-get a chance terminals of their own from this
at these unscrupulous men among city to Aransas Harbor,
us, who will strike at the town There lias been a great deal
when our backs are turned. ; said about railroads building
When questions are asked by from remote plapes to the har-
people who are our enemies ‘or bor, but it is generally conceded
by people who really want in- by intelligent people that rail-
formation, anyone who has faith road builders seek the route
in or even wants to be fair to! where they meet with least re-
the town can -answer questions | sistance, have the shortest miles
by facts and figures which ought f°r through business and the
to convince any person that least cost of maintenance,
this proposition is on a safe and The city of Aransas Pass has
sound basis. If they will * give all these advantages. Railroads
it one half the thought they
otlier things and not be. preju-
diced, they can easily see that
the development is wonderful.
Within the next few months the things are moving forward with
world will be astonished at the a stride which is amazing,
strides we are making. i The citizens and city of Aran-
The Progress is answering sas Pass propose to stand by all
such questions as: : Projects which tend to make it
What is being done at Aransas better. They have already giv-
en locations for a foundry and
Warm Weather Goods.
do are building in this way. Mr.
B. P. ’ Yoakum was here last
week looking over the location
and situation. In every line
Pass?
Why do you look for any spe- boiler Avorks, Avliich is now in op-
cial deArelopment soon? - jeration; have given a site to a
What is there to make a city | cotton warehouse, the material
at Aransas Pass? j for which has been ordered, and
We are answering a great ! they have a site of fhre acres for
, many other questions that are. tbe $50,000 compress which
columns of a paper? Who shall(neVer asked by telling the truth will be in operation in time to
through our paper, telling Avhat handle this year’s cotton crop.
; TO SEE
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$2.50, $3.50. $IiOO
P S
White Sox.
White Hats
White Shirts.
White Stockings
White Wash Ties
White Supporters.
White Underwear
White Duck Pants.
White Serge Pants.
White Suspenders.
White Tennis Shoes
White Soft Collars.
White Duck Pumps.
White Nubuck Pumps.
A Deep-water Seaport A
Large Commercial City.
a*«
RE synonyous terms. Find the seaport and you
find the city. We have the deep-water seaport
at Aransas Pass and are building the city. Prop-
erty in such a place is bound to become scarce
and high-priced. Get some of it while cheap,
before the boom that is sure to set in arrives.
Not a great deal of property is to be had, as those who have
examined the situation and realize what Aransas Pass is des-
tined to become, are holding tight, only selling where they
must. If you have a few hundreds to invest in property that
is bound to have a large increase and is as safe as Chicago or
New York realty, plant it here—You will not regret it. We
have a limited number of lots,—business and residence—for
sale; also a few tracts of acreage suitable to plat later and to
truck now. Write and let us send maps, information, ete.>
that will place you in line to make money.
• ■ j. ■' ' ' ’ , ’ ’ •" j i
Conn, Campbell & Brown
Established in I 890. Aransas Pass, Texas
..
say Avhat shall appear
advertising columns ?
in its
ffiSmaJWr,
Listen!! Aransas Pass is doing and send- There are a great many oppor-
An Aransas Pass firm on solic-
itation, gave a page ad. to the
ing copies to those Ave think Avill; tunities here uoay for the far-
be interested, and even here we sighted man, but Avhen commerce
Rockport Tribune. The copy was feel called upon to giVe a brief , begins to pass through this "port,
accepted and 5,000 papers print- i outline of the things which have j everyone Avill see the position the
ed. When the first papers came'been and are being done: j city of Aransas Pass occupies j*
out the advertisement of the The United States government and the golden opportunity will j
Aransas Pass firm Avas offensive has completed the jetties to 25 be lost.
to some Rockport citizens, who feet of Avater, has dredged and: -o-
waited on the editor and com-; cleared out the channel between Will H. Mays, editor of the
pelled him at a serious loss to! them to a width of 400 feet and BroAvnwbod Bulletin, is making
cut out of 5,000 papers already1 a depth of 25 feet over the shal- the race for Lieutenant Govern-!
printed, the advertisement \vhich lowest places; the 10.000 foot or, and is Avell fitted for the pos-|
had offended them. The advert!dyke on St. Joseph Island to ition.
tisement was clean and stated j protect the harbor has been -o—:-
the facts. It contained no men-: completed; dredging the harbor, There Avill no doubt, be a rep-!
tion of Rockport. It dre\Ar no; A\rlncli lias a depth of 40 feet in pesentutive variety of men aat1io
•offensive comparisons, the space some places, so that no part ol ■jyill enter the pearly gates al-
Avas bought to tell facts about jit will be less^ than 20 feet. is be- though the test of passing thru
Aransas Pass. It told them
Oliver & Payne
Todd Block
Aransas Pass, Texas
Celebration August 1-5
Go To H. M. HOAVARD
For your Blacksmithing, Horseshoeing, Woodwork,
Automobile Repairing, Farm Work of all Descsiptions.
Also New Work Built to Order. Lowest Prices on Fac-
tory Goods, such a Buggies, Wagons and Farm Imple-
ments.
Commercial Street, Next to Beyett s. Aransas Pass, Tex.
N. M. Cole
O. O. Parsons!
Cole & Parsons
Brick and Cement Contractors
Notice to Property Owners:
Before building sidewalks nottfy us. We can gave you
tbe lowest prices and tbe best workmanship. We have
concrete mixer and complete equipment for doing same.
We use gravel and rock in our concrete. We will give
you a 3 year writter guarantee if necessary also references
ing done. A great portion of ja needle’s eye be required. There
this dredging is hoaa completed, are pqs 0£ men small enough to
and when finished Avill make j pasSj AA'hile others are so soft
Aransas Haroor the finest and, they could be poured through.—
safest on the Gulf Coast;, they Aransas Pass Progress,
have already spent over two' ' Let whosoever wiU enter_if
right to sell its space to anvone millions of dollars to accomplish ■ j ... ,,, „
who applies, so long as the busi-jthis end and more appropriations' ’leJ P10imse 0 e g0(X a '
ness advertised is clean and the are coming. ! *'ei ^le*x ^iave entered. Houston
plainly and briefly, and no one
.lias questioned the statements
made.
The advertising space is a pa-
pers stock of goods. It has a
statements true. No citizen has
a right to forbid a paper publish-
ing an ad. of a rival toAvn be-
cause it is a rival. It is as ab-
surd as to compel your mer-
chant to refuse to sell goods to
a man from another toAArn.
A few weeks ago the Progress
printed a number of advertise-
ments of our thriving county
seat, Sinton. We were glad to
do so. Our space is for sale to
any city having the enterprise to
toot their own horn about their
attractions. We Avill gladly sell
space to our friends at Rock-
port for an ad. as clean as they
refused.
We have no rocks to throw at
our neighbor, Rockport, because
of the error of judgment by a
few hot heads. But right here
we want to say that the adver-
tising space of the Progress is
ours till we sell it—fhen it be-
longs to the buyer.
-o-
Aransas PaSs commenced to
The Aransas Pass Channel & Post.
Dock Co. has dredged a channel _
from the main land, or city of Texas Girl Sold.
Aransas Pass, to Aransas Har-! .Roy Neblett of Ft. Worth aahs
bor; the Aransas Harbor Term-J here this Aveek and closed a deal
inal Railway Co. has constructed with Capt. E. H. Jordan for the!
a standard gauge railroad along Texas Girl, which has been op-
this channel to the Harbor andjerating between this place and
connected with the S. A. & A. P. | Aransas Pass town. Mr. Neb-
Ry. Co. at Aransas Pass. Both Lett. bought this boat for private
of these companies are backed j use and certainly got it at a bar-
Real Estate
FOR SALE AT
ransas Pass
Where the Great City of the Gulf will be
built. Where there is a good harbor there
is always built a great city.
by Alexander Brown & Sons, of
Baltimore, and other eastern cap-
italists, with unlimited resources,
and they stand by Aransas Pass
and its enterprises. The Chan-
nel and Dock Company is driv-
ing 85 and 40 foot creosoted pil -
gain, • paying
Aransas Post.
only $1,850.—Port
Card of Thanks.
We sincerly wish to thank our
dear kind friends and the noble
Modern Woodmen and tlm neigh-
ing at the harbor and building bors, who so* earnestly, thought
a 900 foot wharf and ware house! fully and carefully assisted us
which will be completed by Au- in the recent illness and death of
gust 1st. j of our beloved husband and fa-
We have incorporated a Hotel tlier.
Aransas Pass harbor is the best on the Gulf Coast. One good
investment at Aransas Pass will make you more money than a
years work. You can make mare money here on ten acres
than on 100 acres further north.
Now is the Time to Buy
Bargains in city lots and nearby acreage. Gulf coast lands
in any quantity. Write for list of bargains and new book.
Company and will soon be at
work on a first class, modern
hotel. There are a great many
private buildings under construc-
Mrs. M. F. Phillips and family.
NOTICE.
There are some boys in this
tion and civic improvements are J city that have been riding my do
build sidewalks in the beginning, j keeping pace with other devel- [keys without my permission. If
and Avill enjoy these good tilings
in her youth, which by the wav’,
are usually among the later im-
provments in most towns.
Celebration August 1-5
opments. We have, a $20,000.00j any boys are caught riding my
school house completed with 8. donkeys I Avill have them prose-
class rooms, and none need fearjeuted to the fullest extent of the
that we will not have a first j law. 7-2tp. J. F. Done].
class school this year. Come on.--
with your children and this dis- Celebration August 1-5
Steagall o Carper
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Price, E. L. Aransas Pass Progress (Aransas Pass, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, May 31, 1912, newspaper, May 31, 1912; Aransas Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth975008/m1/4/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Ed & Hazel Richmond Public Library.