The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 2 Friday, May 22, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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The Hereford Brand
Vol. 6
HEREFORD, TEXAS. MAY 22. 19O0
No. 15
THE GREATEST LUXURY IN LIFE--IS SLEEP
Little Boy Blue come blo\*/ your horn
Sheeps in the meadow and cows in the corn
Where is little boy blue that looks after the sheep
Upon one of Ostermoor's Mattresses fast asleep
Leggett & Piatt's Coil Spring, an Ostermoor
Mattress and an Emerich Feather Pillow will
give you sweet Sleep and genuine rest. Every
article guaranteed for a life time.
The $30.00 Ostermoor Mattress for $16.50
The $20.00 Ostermoor Mattress for $13.50
Floor Covering's—All Kinds
We are looking forward to making next
week the greatest sale of Floor Coverings during
the season. We have the goods on hand and
they are yours almost for the asking.
Folding Bed Special Sale
We now have planned one of the Greatest
Folding Bed Sales of our history. We have in
stock more than a car load of these goods, which
is entirely too many to have in stock at this
time. The variety is the very best and latest
in design. This sale will make the "fur fly" in
price making. Now don't delay, but avail
yourself of this opportunity of money saving.
A $20.00 Folding Bed for only $12.75
A $47.50 Folding Bed for only $37.50
Many others in same proportion
Remember—We don't keep Furni
ture—We Sell it.
We are Black by Name But Our Prices are White
Wholesale and Retail
Furniture Dealer
E. B. BLACK
O.E.THOMAS
[ mbalmer and f uneral Director
77
WICHITA EXCURSION
Annual Tour o f Trade Boosters
Spend an Hour in the City
and Meet Merchants.
The third annual Trade Excursion
Tour of the Wichita Commercial
Club paid Hereford a visit last Mon-
day, arriving here at the noon hour.
No special effort had been made to
entertain the boosters as they had
written the secretary of the Hereford
Commercial Club that all they wished
was to be given an opportunity to
come up town and get acquainted
with the business men. The hour at
which the train arrived found most
.of the men away from their places
of business, but as soon as the arri-
val of the train was announced every
one made it their business to hurry
back to the business centre of town
and to extend the glad hand to their
visitors. The officers of the Club
are: Frank C. Wood, president;
John McGinnis, secretary. The trip
organization was under the leader-
ship of John L. Powell, president of
one of the leading dry goods houses
of Wichita.
The Club had a finely equipped
train, equally as good as the Okla-
homa boosters, if not some better.
The boosters were of the right stripe,
a jolly, easy-to-get-acquainted-with
lot of fellows. They distributed ad-
vertising novelties and handed out a
lot of literature about Wichita and
her facilities to handle trade. As
many of the Hereford merchants are
already doing bigness with Wichita
wholesale houses.lihii tour enabled
them to get better acquainted with
their customers.
The 20-piece band dispersed a few
numbers of lively music as they
marched up the street and gave a
short concert on the porch of the
Ritchey Hotel.
The Daily Eagle, The Daily Bea-
con and The Price Current were rep-
resented by good fellows who were
lookihg out for items of interest along
the route and no doubt found some-
thing of interest in Hereford over
which they could sharpen their stubs.
It would be useless to tell what all
the Wichita men said about Hereford
as they were just getting over a chill
they had at Canyon City. Needless
to say that the whole lot were sur-
prised to find Hereford more than a
switching station on the Pea Vine as
they had been told down the line.
When told what improvements had
been made in the city during the last
18 monthf, they could hardly believe
what was told them. Hereford busi-
ness men met them half way on every
proposition made. The whole lot
were wearing Hereford buttons be-
fore they got out of town, even if
they did not stay but 40 minutes.
They liked the spirit of the Hereford
people and will remember their visit
here for a long time to come. Some
of the easiest talking boosters in the
crowd asked if Hereford had any
knockers. They answered, no, as
the wind had blswn their whiskers
off and you could not tell them from
the regular and progressive citizens
and boosters.
In all, the people of the city en-
joyed the visit of the Wichita people
to a large degree and extend to them
an invitation to return next vear.
OPENS OFFICE
Construction Company Leases the
English Building for Head-
quarters
SURVEYORS START
north while they reconoitered. Be-
ginning near the river in East Here-
ford, a line was run bearing west of
; north a few degrees, passing to the
rear of Geo. W. Irwin's residence,
across the garden and orchard of A.
|C. Elliott's place, then between the
College and Dormitory, and on in
that direction until the corps disap-
peared in the mirage beyond the
hnri 7fin
Begin in East Hereford and Start
North Pictures Made of
the Crew
Early Monday morning the South-
western Engineering and Construc-
j tiod Company opened up their offices
1 in the English building on Illinoh
avenue. The doors had hardly been
opened when the surveying corps with
a complete outfit for a long stay in
the field drew up in front of the
building. Engineer Long with his
'assistants and helpers, standing be-
hind their instruments and in front
1 of their wagon and camping outfit
posed for a picture. The outfit con-
sisted of a small compartment house
on wheels, in which was a complete
kitchen and dining room, the latter
I to be used only when the weather i
will not permit the use of an awning i
' outside. Then there wis the prairie
: schooner loaded with supplies and
¡ general outfit, followed by the ever j
necessary water wagon. After the
picture was taken, congratulations
and well wishes were expressed by
the by-standers and the corps moved
off towards the eastern part of town.
The surveyors sent the campine train
DECLARED A TRUST.
Texas Book Commission Will Now
Advertise for New Bids.
Austin, May V). At a meeting ol
the state text book commission, yes*
jterday, a resolution was adopte! re-
j considering the action of the com*
, mission in awarding conditional
; contracts to the American Book com*
; pany for schoool books for state
schools and provides for advertising
'for bids. This action follows-an
opinion submitted by the attorney
general's department to Governor
I Campbell in which it is asserted that
.the concern was a member of the
trust. The attention of the attorney
general to other concerns is directed
by the text book rommission.
Married.
I
The friends of Mr. Sam Ward and
Miss May Gates were agreeably sur-
prised Tuesday afternoon when word
was passed that they had joined
themselves together for life. Only
a few closest friends were present
and the affair was a quiet one. The
young people have received the con-
gratulations and well wishes of their
acauaintances.
GETS A GOOD RAIN
The Hereford Country Visited by
Timely Wateriest Satur-
day
The clouds had oeen overshadow-
ing the evening sky for several days.
The new comers were remarking that
if other countries had had such good
signs for rain, they would have been
drowned out. And they thought
they were going to be drowned in
fact last Saturday afternoon. Be-
ginning about 5 :>30, in just 35 min-
utes, the streets were flooded and
the cutters were raging torrents.
The smile that cante over the face of
the Hereford wheat farmer has not
yet disappeared. The rains covered
a large territory, falling in some lo-
calities more than others. At Here-
ford the fall was a little less than
one and one-half inches, according
to the government rain guage it was
1 V> inches After the first big
shower, a slow rain fell until mid-
night. The wheat was ; ist in the
¡'condition to receive a shower with
grace. While more rain is still ex-
pected th;s month, yet what has
! come is sufficient to make a good
crop of wheat and oats.
Lamb County Organized.
At a recent meeting of the court
! of Castro, in accordance with a pe-
1 tition presented by J. A. Hooper,
Fred Dickerson and others, an elec-
tion was ordered for the purpose of
J lpcating the county seat and chosing
officers for the new county. For the
present, it appears that Olton will
be the seat of justice. The election
will be held on Tune 20.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 2 Friday, May 22, 1908, newspaper, May 22, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142572/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.