The Hereford Brand, Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1909 Page: 1 of 12
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Brand
RCMfORD, TEXAS. FCBRUAKT 19, IfOf
MAKE
READY!
THINGS ARE HAPPENING!
SOMETHING DOING AT OUR PLACE!
KEEP YWB EYE
ON TIE GUN!
We must fet more space. Make room for three big cars en
route. We make a specialty of furnishing homes—the best
homes too—as well as the more humble. Increase volume
of business for 1909, is our motto—we are determined to do
it and expect to achieve the desired end by your co-operation.
We expect to have your support by giving you the best and
most courteous treatment prompt service, the best goods for
less money and the greatest line ,to select from. We have
choice of the best factory lines to select our stock from. We
know the best when we see it and buy for less -hence can
save you money on your Furniture, Carpets, Rugs, Matting,
Linoleum, Wall Paper and everything. Its no experiment
with us. We are prepared to do it. Why? Answer—We
don't keep furniture, we sell it. We don't use a mirage or a
decoy duck. We deliver the goods.
The Furniture Store
Ahead
E.B. BLACK CO.
FURNITURE AND UNDERTAKING
O. E. THOMAS
EMBALMER and FUNERAL
DIRECTOR
J
COM TO TEXAS
TO MAKE START
Newly weds Are Numerous in Home-
seekers' Parties—Twelve Trains
Bring in About 4,200.
Bridal couples galore were scat-
tered through the army of home-
seekers who reached Fort Worth
Thursday on twelve special trains
from Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas
City. These newly weds bad taken
advantage of the low rates to spend
their honeymoon in the Southwest,
and many of them to look over Texas
with a view of locating here.
The Katy seemed the favorite line
for the bridal couples Thursday,
three being on one.
A conservative estimate on the
twelve trainloads passing through
Fort Worth is 4,200 people. That
exceeds the record-breaking travel
of two weeks ago by 1,200. The
homeseekers, who had ample oppor-
tunity for observation on the long
trip to Texas, declared there were
but few coaches without a bridal
couple.
August Langs too, general immi-
gration agent of the Katy accom-
pained the homeseekers through the
city for that road. In his opinion,
Texas will see more newcomers en-
ter the state this year than ever be-
fore in her history. He bases this
opinion upon the number of inquities
he is daily receiving at his office in
St. Louis.
A notable feature of the home-
seekers traffic Thursday was the fact
that the tide of immigration seemed
to have turned slightly from the
Gulf coast country to West Texas.
More went to the western counties
this time than ever before. On all
previous excursions, the vast majori-
ty have gone to Brownsville and to
other points on the Gulf.
The special homeseeker trains
were distributed as follows: Four
on the Santa Fe, four on the Katy,
two on the Rock Island, one each on
the Texas & Pacific and Cotton Belt.
This does not include the Katy
trains around by Dallas and the
Rock Island trains that entered thru
the Panhandle, nor the Texas & Pa-
cific specials to East Texas.—Tele-
gram.
Get you a Spring Suit of clothes
at J. M. Boone's. 2-2t
Couple Harries.
At the residence of the pastor,
last Sunday afternoon, at 5 o'clock,
Mr. Raymond D. Orr and Miss Irene
Beemer were united in marriage,
Rev. O. W. Dean, officiating. The
couple have many friends in the city
who extend to them their happiest
felicities.
A Quarter-Section Snap.
For a short time we can offer one
of the choicest of 160-acre tracts at
a snap all cash price. This tract is
all fenced, has about 40 acres sown
in wheat, besides about 80 acres ad-
ditional is now ready for planting in
the spring. A school house will soon
be built near this tract, which is 9 \
miles from Hereford and 5 miles
from Summerfield. The first man
with the "kale seed" gets it.
ltf O. K. Land Company.
RAILROAD NEWS
What Is Doing in the Panhandle
About New Railroads—Here-
ford Interest.
The following clippings from ex-
changes will serve as a symposium
of railroad news in which Hereford
is interested:
The Goose Hangs High.
Floydada. Texas, Feb. 12.—The
charter for the Llano Estacado Ry.
Co. was issued last Thursday. A.
L. Love went to Austin last week
upon business pertaining to this mat- >
ter. He returned the latter part of
the meek. The road can oow be
graded from one end to the other;
wherever a right of way is needed,
i Work continues steadily. The con-
' tractors have been paid for one and
one-eighth mile of finished grade,
everything is lovely and the goose
hangs high. There is part of a rail-
road dump in Floyd county if there's
never anything else.—Hesperian.
Surveyors in Stanton.
Stanton, Texas. Feb. 12.—Wed-1
nesday the surveyors running a pre-
liminary line for the C. H. & G.
railroad struck camp a few miles
west of town, thus finishing their
route to the T & P. This is the
second survey made within the past
two weeks, the first one going to the
east and intersecting the T. & P. at
Moritta. Lamesa, we understand is;
left out in the cold.
It looks like it would have been
so much more convenient to the
traveling public had this road come
nearer the city limits and joined with
our other line in a union depot, and
so long as this line is only a pre-
liminary it may be they will do so
yet. At any rate it wont be many
years until the suburbs of our town
will have surrounded their depot,
even though it is four or five miles
out of the way at present. — Report-
er.
Railroad Men Visit Crosby ion.
Crosby ton. Tex . Feb. 12 - Tues-
day evening the following named
gentlemen visited the city of Crosby-
ton W. Cowen, chief engineer of
the Colorado Southern ; W F Ster-
ling, general freight agent of the Ft.
Worth & Denver; Mr. Johnson,
general contractor for Stamford &
Northwestern; Mr. Hudson and
Rudolph Colbert, of Stamford and C.
A. Jones, manager of the Spur Lands
of Espuela. These were only half
of the party, the other car going up
canon to the east of Crosbyton. It
is thought that these men are look-
ing for the most favorable place for
a road to come up on the cap rock.
The party coming to Crosbyton had
no proposition to make, or any very
definite information to give out, more
than the build<n^ of the Stamford &
Northwestern, which is now being
graded. It is believed that they are
making these surveys of the country
in search of the most direct route
and the most desirable place to climb
the cap rock. Crosbyton is in the
market for a road and when any
other railroad men get ready to talk,
they will find Crosbyton "Johnny on
the spot" and there with the goodc. j
(Continued on Pmgt Twelve] ^
WILL BREAK
LARGE TRACT
Nebraska Farmers WillU use Gaso-
line Plow in Putting Two Sec-
tions of Land in Cultivation.
People in this country do not do
things by small meant;. When they
do anything at all they want it to be
on a large scale Gus Isenburg,
Henry Jenson and Henry Hemstreet
of EmerSon, Nebraska, are on their
way to this country for the purpose
of making their home among ua.
They have ordered and now have
on the way to this place a gasoline
plow outfit for the purpose ol break-
ing up and putting into cultivation
two sections of land which they own
about ten miles east from Happy.
They are successful farmers an^
have made a study of the proper
methods of farming ;n iistricts uch
as ours is and no doubt they will
make a great success of their ven-
ture. They propose to raise feed
crops during the ftrst year
County News.
Randall
A nice line of Stationery and en-
velopes at J. M Boone's. 2-2t
Farm for Trade.
A well .mproved 220 acre farm in
Van Buren Co. Iowa. 3 miles of
railroad town, will exchange for
land near Hereford. This is one of
the best stock and grain farms in
the Southern Iowa. If interested
see or write. C. 0. Lee
SO-tf Hereford, Texas.
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 9, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 1909, newspaper, February 19, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253489/m1/1/: accessed May 3, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.