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T!m Hereford Bread, Friday, Jaanary 22,1909
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Address ail communications to
THE HEREFORD BRAND
Entarad April 17. ! 1. w *ac nd-clM
mail matter. |xj*t ufflcr at Hereford. Texan,
act at Con*re of March 3. 1*7#.
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Any erruneou* wiatement affoctin* the
character or reputation of any individual or
Ann which may appear in The Brand, will
ha gladly corrected upon beintr brouirht to
the attention of the publisher*.
HOT READY FOR LOW RATE.
Is Texas ready for a 2-cent fare?
Is the Panhandle and West Texas
ready to ride on a 2-cent fare? Not
till they get the roads. Give the
Panhandle more roads and a greater
population first and last. The 2-
cent fare will come at the proper
time, but now is not the proper oc-
casion. With fifty counties strain-
ing every point to raise bonuses, a
reduction in the rates either passen-
ger or freight, would not help the
bonus proposition.
Eight more days and you cannot
vote even if you pay your poll tax.
All persons who are entitled to
exemptions must take out their ex-
emption papers before January 30th
or they, too, will not be allowed to
vote.
All property owners will be
forced to pay their poll tax because
it is added in with their property
tax. Pay your tax today and be a
citizen full-fledged.
The Governor's message to the
Texas Legislature reminded one of
certain other long documents which
have been eminating from a high
and resourceful authority.
clty, county and state poll taxes
must be paid within the next eight
days or it is all off with you. It
will make you feel ashamed next
summer when you are denied the
privilege ot voting.
Disastrous fires consumed im-
portant business sections of both
Hereford and Vernon last week.
Neither town has any sort of fire
protection and the mystery is that
the fires were stopped before the en-
tire towns were destroyed. These
are two of the good, substantial
towns of Northwest Texas, each
with a population approximating
4000, and it is strange beyond com-
prehension that they will leave their
valuable holdings exposed to the
merciless ravages of the fire fiend.
Men who display the very highest
business sagacity in other ways
seem densely obtuse when it comes
to the question of public improve-
ments. The amount of property
destroyed at either place, if pru-
dently invested in waterworks, would
easily supply ample fire protection
for the business sections of either
town. New they have waited until
the sum must be doubled. The
money must be spent for rebuilding
the burned houses and the water-
works must be paid for too. Hope
they will not longer practice neg-
lect.—Childress Post.
Another Break.
The Tulia Standard, who is the
father of the Plainsman, makes a
"bad break" when it criticises its
off-spring and if he (the editor of
the Standard) creates the same stir
that The Brand did when it ventured
to call the Plainsman on a similar
error some weeks ago, there'll be a
rough house in the open—but in as
much as the Plainsman has a brand
editor, the former copy-clipper
having fiown to parts unknown, there
will likely be no outbreak. The
Standard says thusly:
The Dimmitt Plainsman says:
"John Carter had a narrow escape
from lockjaw, Tuesday, by sticking
a nail in bis foot." Thsr's a new
remedy for lockjaw, but it's simple
Jest« Figure Out.
A street fakir in town this week,
put out a problem which though
somewhat old, may be of interest to
those who like to deal in mathemati-
cal curiosities. One of the prob-
lems was this:
A busted miner stepped ii.to a
hotel and offered to p*y SI.00 per
any, notwithstanding
the doctors.
and if effective, is just as good as | day for board, same to be paid at
it's bard on the close of each day by cutting off
a piece from a silver bar which he
had. The bar was worth just $30.
How many times did he have to cut
the bar in order to make payment
for bis board each day ?
The following is an original prob-
lem but not from the street fakir:
In bow many ways can the nine
figures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 9, be
arranged in three lines so that their
sum will be 1395 each time, thus:
135
792
468
A Beautiful Hereford Home.
For sale, equipped with modern
furniture and fixtures—all new and
up.to-date. Possession given in
three days after sale. This is a
rare bargain. If you want it you
must come quick with the cash. See
O. K. Land Co. 50-tf.
WEALTH IN LAND.
Land which was bought near
Dodge City, Kansas, three years
ago for $30 an acre, has just been
sold for $72, an increase of nearly
150 per cent in the short space of
three years. Dodge City is well
towards the western portion of the
State in a dry belt, where a few in by the schools will be published,
years ago a man would have been
considered feeble minded had he de- j Notice.
clared it would ever be worth even The ^rm Garrison Brothers,
$30 an acre except for grazing pur-j Hereford, Deaf Smith county. Tex.,
poses. New methods of agriculture j be dissolved by mutual consent
have rendered valuable all that im-1 0D February the 1st, 1909, and a
mense dry belt lying east of the corporation known as Garrison Bro's
1395
These problems are submitted to
the pupils of the High School and
College. The first solution handed
great Rocky mountain chain from
North Dakota clear through to
Texas. The Panhandle of Texas
where a few years.ago jack rabbits
and Coyotes were pitied for their
lonesomeness and congratulated on
their long legs that enabled them to
cover a wide range of territory in
search of food, is now settling up
with tremendous rapidity. Towns
and farms have sprung up on all
sides, and the railroads are carrying
away the products of the soil by j
train loads. And so it is through-
out all the once despised dry belt.
Elsewhere it is the same. Wher- [
ever there is land to be had from
the government or to be purchasedj
from private owners there is a rush ;
of those eager to secure it. Never:
was there such land hunger in the J
history of the country. It is bound!
to increase, and in a few years the j
natural result will be a land famine.
The man who wants a hundred acres
or even ten acres ten years from
now, will have to pay a big price
for it or go without. No matter in
what section of the country he may
look for it. The demand for land
will be so intense and so far in ex-
cess of the supply, that every acre
of land at all capable of productive
use will command a high price.
This includes land in the Ozarks of
Missouri and Arkansas riot now at-
tracting attention because land seek-
ers find what they want elsewhere.
The healthful, fertile, but small-
areaed Ozark farm will come into its
own when the dweller on the Plains
can no longer find a large patch of
level land to meet his ideas of what
should constitute a farm.
What offers a safer investment
than land, in view of the undisturb-
ed trend of conditions? What farm-
ers, owning land valued at anything
less than $200 an acre, can look in
the future without seeing a great in-
crease in the value of his property.
Consider the tremendous increase in
land values during the past twenty-
five years, in spite of the vast area
of government land and cheap pri-
vate lands in the West and South-
west, and then think of what must be
the increase in the next quarter of a
century with all those openings for
new land seekers closed. Such con-
siderations ought to make any pos-
sessor of land feel satisfied and con*
fident of the future, whether be
thinks the land he has is now worth
what it cost him or not.—St. Louis
Star Editorial, Saturday Jan. 9th,
1909.
will be formed on the same date
under the corporation laws of the
State of Texas. The corporation
of Garrison Brothers will continue at
Hereford, Texas, the business here-
tofore conducted by the firm of Gar-
rison Brothers, and will assume all
liabilities of said firm. 47-4t
Signed Garrison Bro's.
Our Harness Fits The
Horse
as perfectly as if it had been made to meas-
ure. Its use means more comfort for the
horse, more wnrk for you. Its just as easy
to have the right kind if you come to the
right place, which is rtirht here.
We are now located two doors north my
old stand in Hubbard Grocery Co's. place,
who have kindly offered us space until our
building is put up.
J. G. POWELSOI & SOU,
Successors to
J. A. CANTERBURY.
LUMBER CO.
j. P. BARKER. Mgr.
Will sell you anything in the
building line and make no
effort to please you, as our
grade* will do that. We are
born to do right and deserve
no praise for it.
BRIGHTEN UP
Wlfb Shsrwta-wtllUim Paint
Satisfied Customers
are the best advertisement for
the business man. This kind
of advertising is our chief
stronghold.
The best value money can buy
in our line is to be found at
our store.
We make your watch keep the
best time.
WH R \ V Jewe,er and
• Optician
| Something That You Should Consider in the
Building of a Home
Good Grades—Right Prices
We refer you to our long
list of satisfied customers.
You shoul not fail to see us.
Alfalfa Lumber Company
C. H. Miller
Local Manager
BE CAREFUL
WHAT YOU EAT
WE HANDLE
ALBATROSS FLOUR
THE STANDARD OF QUALITY
Call and see us; we are headquarters for all kinds
of Fresh Groceries. We were here in the
beginning and know ho w to please you by keep-
ing you supplied with the best of good things to eat
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Cardwell Brothers
J. F. COLLUP
DEALER IN
COAL, HAY AND GRAIN,
FIELD SEEDS AND STOCK SALT
We solicit a share of your business, promising
that we will endeavor to sell you goods at as
close margin as possible Telephone No. 1.
WE HANDLE ALL KINDS OF POSTS.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 8, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, January 22, 1909, newspaper, January 22, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253485/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.