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The Canadian Record
Canadian, Hemphill County, Texas
L. P. Loomis, Editor and Publisher
P. H. Loomis Associate Editor
Published Every Thursday
Entered at the postoffice at Ca-
nadian, Texas, as second class
mail matter.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1920
scape. He is a survivor of the
Adobe Walls fight with the In-
dans. He was foreman of the first
I grand jury in this county. Nearly
every member of that grand jury
was a booze fighter, and Uncle
j Dick held them together for twen-
ty-eight days trying to get a suf-
ficient number of them sober so
they could act. One of the mem-
bers of that grand jury was the
notorious Clay Allison, spoken of
in the Record recently, and it was
impossible to keep Clay sober.
A Good Bill
Senator McKellar of Tennessee
has an immigration bill that is
drastic enough to satisfy the most
The Month for Political Announce-
ments
Candidates for public office this
year are announcing ail over the
Panhandle and the Hemphil Coun-
ty aspirants are casting their ultra. It provides that hereafter
names on the board for political no alien shall be permitted to re-
preferment. The prices of an- side within the United States for a
nouncements have been at consid- j longer period than five years with-
erable variance heretofore, but the I out becoming naturalized in ac-
papers of the Panhandle will per-: cordance with the naturalization
haps make about the same charge statutes now in force; that no alien
this year. shall be permitted to citizenship
This price will be $15.00 for without being able to speak enough
county offices, $20 for all higher j English to make his desire to be-
effices and $10 for all smaller of-1 come a citizen clearly intelligible
flees. This is the rate the Record to the judge to whom the applica-
will observe. tion is made; that all employers of
With each placing of the name, thirty or more shall provide at
in the announcement column, least one hour's instruction in the
which will run until the primary, English language for five days in
C) until the election if there should
not be a primary in this county
the week during a period of six
months in the year unless the al-
will be an announcement of the jens c;in attend local school; that
candidacy in the news columns, the employers must pay the aliens
This announcement will be a brief (for the time spent in school at the
mention of the candidacy and such usual rates for their employment;
data as to the fitness of the can®- that all children of the aliens must
date for the office as seems neces- y,e taught in English-speaking,
sary to properly place them befor<| jschools; that no children of aliens
the public. ; under sixteen years of age shall be
Anything further than the car-1 permitted to work in mines, shops,
rying of the name in the political factories or plants; that if any ap-
column and the notice calling at- plicant advocates anarchy or rad-
tcntion to their candidacy will be,jca|ism the judge shall disallow
considered as additional advertis- j his application for citizenship.—
ing and will be charged for ac-1 piainviewP News.
cordingly. j -
The Record editor doesn't know) The work is progressing favor-
what the custom in this county has ab]y on making a g00d street along
been in connection with announce- Washita Avenue, and the city offi-
ments, but we do not practice the cja]s hope that when it is finished
habit of extensive = - ■ «-'*>- - - ' ^ ' &"■'
'write-ups" in
Connection with political an-
nouncements. A write-up based on
adjectives and meaningless phras-
es always seemed to us to lose its
force as the words rambled along
so we do not incline to that style
of literary architecture on busi-
ness deals.
Any facts in connection with an
announcement are of course inter-
esting to the public. Should any
candidate wish to prepare his own
announcement, th'nt would be en
tirely agreeable with us. In fact,
we prefer it. as the candidate
knows better than we do just what
facts in connection with the office
Should be given.
We thank you.
Beating Back
Before we go any farther, let it
be understood that we do not cover
the Panhandle when we begin to
talk of the old timers and their
term of residence. Neither did
we attempt to tell of men who were
once pioneers but have moved
away or are now dead. The Pan-
handle is too much territory to at-
tempt to be responsible for all of
it. It is larger than many of the
states. When we say that a man is
the oldest resident of his vicinity
we do not intend to include three
or four adjoining counties. Pan-
handle folks are so in the habit of
it will be as good as the one past
the school house which was graded
for three blocks with the dirt taken
out of Main Street. This street
shows what can be done with sys-
tematic work. The dirt after being
placed on the street was leveled
and packed and run over with a
grader until it is almost as good as
a hard surface. If watched close-
ly and kept built up it will always
be a good driveway. Streets and
roads can be put in first clas3
shape if they are properly graded
Political Announcements
For Sheriff and Tax
Hemphill County:
H. H. STICKLEY
Collector, i
For County and District Court
Clerk:
MISS M. F. BLAIR •
In the meantime, remember that
you are called on for a happy idea
to improve Canadian in 1920.
Can You Beat It?
The Record claims a unique dis-
tinction. Exchanges please note:
There is not a professional ■■"til in
the paper. From reading the Rec-
ord's advertising columns there is
not a doctor, a dentist, nor a law-
yer in this town. 11' there is anoth-
er town in the United States that
has a paper that does not carry a
professional card, let it stand up
and be counted.
We don't know whether it is be-
cause the professional men of Ca-
nadian are ashamed of their voca-
tion or whether they are ashamed
of the Record. We hope neither.
If you fellows will come on in
and let the world know that Cana-
dian has some professional men,
we will risk collecting the adver-
tising bills. Of course, we want
a little compensaion for handling
the ads,but that is secondary to the
fact that every week we send out
a paper which does not carry a pro-
fessional card. Such a paper has
the appearance of a boycott and
makes Canadian look to the out-
side world like a cross roads vil-
lage with some sort of a temporary
boom.
IN LARGE OR SMALL TRACTS
^eej^Test Now Go-
ing Downon ifiW ' Lease
Buy now while a small amount of
money well invested might make
you rich within a few weeks. A few
days delay may mean that what
you can buy now you cannot buy
for many times over what it will
cost you now.
C. H. SMALLER & SONS
The Republican-Record at Gage
stated last week that the editor of
the Advocate (a socialist paper at
Gage) calls the boys who. volun-
teered to mine coal during the
strike "scabs", and yet the editor
of the Advocate was the first to
clamor for fuel every time a car of
volunteer coal was secured for
Gage. We didn't notice any friend-
ly tendencies or "dividing up" sym-
toms at Canadian during the strin-
gency. It was every man get all
he possibly could whether his
neighbor reached the bin or not.
Idealism vanishes when necessity
knocks at the door.
The official count on the amend-
ments election show that there
were only 115,000 votes cast in the
state. This is one tenth of the tot-
... . . ,, ... _ l}, al male vote. The most regrettable
thinking that the fellow over in the of a]] amendments which were lost
the Galveston bond amend-
was
ment. It lost by 1,311 votes. One
twentieth of the voters of the
state said that Galveston must not'
be given the privileged protecting
itself against disastrous floods,
while eighteen twentieths of the
voters slumbered and slept on
their rights as citizens to vote.
next county is right in their door
yard that they can't get their gaze
down to a community of a few-
square miles. You remember that
the Panhandle has moved forward
about forty years, and we will try
to keep from rocking the boat.
Nearly all ranchmen had culti-j
Vated in the early days a few-
fields for feed crbps, and nearly all | ,
farmers were ranchmen, at least in f
a small degree. Just when th«' It is unfortunate indeed that the
agricultural era really started we poor fellovvs who have the whis"
will leave for you to discuss key habit in their systems are
Dick Rathjen started a farm in madc the victi™s of all kinds of
his vicinity in 1881 and .1. H Ficke frauds since the liquor traffic went
came in 1887 and rented land to into the discard- The mar^-who
farm the first year he was here wiH sel1 another P°ison undeftthe
The vcars are slipping bv Won-! repres^tation that [t is booze
der how
many remember the first
should be sent to St. Helena and
legger is sealing his own doom by
such acts and he will one day be
looked upon as dangerous as is a
rattlesnake.
automobile that came to this coun-1,1 un* Ui> by his thumbs for the
ty and how many are yet here who fest of his natura,1 ,life- bo^"
paid ten cents to ride a mile in it?
How many of you will stand un to
be counted because you wouldn't
ride in a thing that didn't have a
te*m hitched to it?
Some day we are going to tret
>">tne real I v early day history from
tJncle Dick Bussell, who we are in-
formed is the pioneer of this coun-
ty. He was an old settler when
some of the fellows came here in
the eighties. He shot buffalo here
before the white man's dusrout
orolce the monotony of the land-
Spearman boasts of twelve grain
buyers. Spearman shipped 45,000
bushels of wheat in November and
20,000 bushels in December. Each
grain dealer averaged purchasing
one fifty-bushel load a day.
The rainfall at Plainview for the
year 1919 was 32.29 inches.
Proper Poundings for Printers
Commenting on an item from an-
other piaper regarding a "pound-
ing" which the people of a certain
town gave their editor on Christ-
mas day, Ben F. Smith in the Lock-
ney Beacon stated that perhaps
"poundings" were a very nice thing
but as for him he preferred to be
pounded for twelve months in the
year with plenty of advertising
and job work to keep his presses
busy. Righto! Ben. Put'er there!
The thing of starving a newspaper
man to death with a miserly pat-
ronage for eleven months and
twenty-nine days in the year and
then "pounding" him on Christ-
mas is a relic of the tallow dip
period. The modern editor is just
as dignified, just as free from char-
ity, just as much entitled to a bal-
ance in the bank as is the presi-
dent of a bank. A "pounding",
once; a year doesn't make up for
keeping the editor on a toothpick
and gravy diet the rest of the year.
A "pounding" doesn't repay the
editor for the job printing sent to
the mail order houses during the
year.
Bless your soul, even preachers
are above that old mooching cus-
tom of having everything given to
them—except their salary. In
this day the preacher earns a regu-
lar salary the same as does any
other professional man and is not
on charity; he expects his salary
paid to him and then he can buy
and pay for the necessaries of life
just like any other human being
does.
This is the twentieth.century, at
least in the Panhandle. Perhaps
back in the hills where they have-
n't heard that the war is over, the
preacher and the printer who exist
on the "poundings" given them are
happy to pursue their menial tasks
on a "hand-out" bill of fare; but
that is beneath the dignity of a
Plainsman.
Pound the printer with advertis-
ing and job work if you want him
to boost your town.
The year 1920 should witness a
decided step forward for Canadian
The city officials under the direc-
tions of Mayor B. G. Taylor accom-
plished much during the past year
with the limited finances in the
city treasury. A city or to\Ai can
improve only as fast as the financ
es will permit, and with the street
imnrovement work d^n during the
past year, and the letting of the
paving contract and the putting
i down of the paving, the members
of the council can well feel that
they have taken care of Canadian's
interests. The work has been start-
ed for a bigger and a more modern
Canadian before 1921. Canadian
needs both residence houses and
business houses, and if the demand
in this respect is met Canadian
will add one thousand to the popu-
laion, regardless of anv other fe -,
ture which might cause an impet-
us towards this city.
The news of Colonel E. M.
House coming home to Texas will
be pleasing to Texans. Colonel
House has been credited by many
authorities as the power behind
the throne in the Wilson adminis-
tration, and it is doubtless due to
his influence that so many Texans
were honored with prominent plae-
tes in the democratic official ranks
at Washington.
Congressman Marvin Jones has
secured a committee recommenda-
tion for a $100,000 federal build-
ing for Plainview.
There are now 1,200,000 male
voters in Texas. Of this number
875,000 are rural voters and 373,-
000 are city voters'.
North Texas Construction
Company
Buildings and Residence Contractors
Drafting, Blue Printing and Sur-
veying of Oil Leases Our Specialty
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Call Us Up. Phone 152
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The Buick Oiling System
The Buick Valve-in-Head Motor is
Automatically Lubricated Thruout
\
The lubrication of the main bearings, wrest pin bearings,
connecting rod bearings and pistons is a combination
splash and pump system, with an oil pressor gauge on
the dash and a gauge on the crank case.
The oil pump is self-thawing and so constructed that
should there be any water in the oil in cold weather caus-
ing the pump to freeze up, the self-thawing apparatus of
the Buick oil pump will automatically thaw it out quickly,
eliminating the possibility of injury to the pump.
WHEW BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BU1CE WILL BD1LD THEM
CANADIAN BUICK COMPANY R. L. BLANTON, Prop.
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Loomis, L. P. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1920, newspaper, January 8, 1920; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth125431/m1/4/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.