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ORO, TEXAS, FEBRUARY U. 1*10
KEEP WARM FEET AND A COOL HEAD
CLUB BANQUET
SUCCESSfW.
SleoaiAfliiil Event Largely Aft-
tended bf Mea tad Wornea
of tilt Town.
I00STER SPEECHES NAD!
Orators tad Poets Mingle Their
Music in Straias of Praises for
Town aad Country
The Second Annual Banquet of the
Hereford Commercial Club vu cel-
ebrated Tuesday night, tame being
the birthday of the "Father of Hia
Country." The congregation of the
Christian church had tendered the
use of the large basement of their
new church for the use of the Club
aad some two hundred banqueters
sat at the tables and enjoyed a most
palatable menu prepared by the
Ladies' circles of that church.
At 8 o'clock those who held tick-
ets began to gather and soon the
assembly room was filled with happy
conversation and pleasant 'greetings
of the evening. Five long tables,
beautifully decorated with hot house
plants and cut flowers from the pri-
vate homes, each with covers laid
for 50 guests were appetizingly at-
tractive. The Hereford Orchestra
dispersed a few choice selections
while some of the belated banquet-
ers were arriving.
At a somewhat late hour all were
assembled and Judge L. Gough,
toastmaster for the occasion opened
the program of the evening by say-
ing:
"Ladies and Gentlemen ^Every-
body please be seated. Upon this
auspicious occasion we have assem-
bled to celebrate the Second Annual
Banquet of the Hereford Commer-
cial Club. With pleasant memories
do I recall the Reds and Blues of
one year ogo. Now there ate no
Reds, no blues, and all have worked
together for one common canse. We
are glad that we have such a hall as
this in which to meet. It will al-
ways be open to all alike for such
occasions. It is not my purpose to
make a speech—others are to do
that—but I have to announce one
important thing; that supper will
now be served. (Applause.) Dur-
ing the time the orchestra will ren-
der a number of pieces of music.
While standing, Rev. S. T. Shore
pastor of the First Christian Church,
delivered the invocation and called
upon the God of all to bless the as-
sembly to his glory and good.
as the orchestra struck up a live-
ly air, forty young ladies, friends
and members of the Christian church
tiled in between the long tables bear-
ing well-filled plates of the choicest
home-cooked viands of the land.
During the serving, McGhee, the
official photographer of the Brand,
prepared to make a flash light ex-
posure. The ladies were warned
not to jump or scream, but at the
critical moment and simultaneous
with the puff and flash, all with one
accord did both and it was all over.
The diners then "fell to" and in-
terspersed with light conversation,
they enjoyed a feast "fit for the
gods." The young ladies grace-
fully, graciously and quietly served
High cost of living
IDINNER
'60r
5
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ON THE ROCKS
every one with bounteous plenty.
The menu as given will be found
below.
After the serving of hot coffee,
closing the menu, many of the guests
moved over nearer the stoves, where
the heat could be more easily ap-
propriated. The night was cold,the
thermometer standing at 20 degrees
and for lack of sufficient heating,
parts of tha large room was not com-
fortable.
On the rearranging, the toast-
master introduced the first speaker
of the evening, G. A. F. Parker,
President of the Western National
Bank.
Mr. Parker was in his usual happy
frame of mind, after doing without
supper at home in order to do justice
at the tables and he opened his re-
marks by reciting a bit of poetry,
appropos to the subject, "The finan-
cial outlook for 1910."
You pick a cat up by the tail,
And swing him round and round,
And throw him squirming in the air
Out into space profound,
He through the yielding atmosphere
Will many a turn complete,
But when he strikes upon the ground
He lights upon his feet.
Fate picks a man up like a cat,
And with more force than grace.
She twirls him wriggling round and
round,
And hurls him into space.
Now they that fall upon the back,
Or light upon the head.
Fate lets them lie just where they
fall.
They're just as good as dead.
But some there be, who like the cat
Go whirling round and round,
And go gyrating off through space.
Until they strike the ground.
But when the ground and they at
length
Do firmly come to meet.
You'll always find them right side up
They'll land upon their feet.
Now such a man walks off erect
Triumphant and elate
And with the courage in his heart
He shakes his fist at fate.
Then fate, with a benignant smile
Upon her face outspread,
Puts forth a soft carressing hand
And pats him on the head.
And he's Fate's darling from that
day
His triumphant is complete
Fate loves a man that turns
turns
But lights upon his feet.
That man, wbate'er hie ups
downs
Is never wholy spurned,
Whose perpendicularity
Is never overturned. (Applause)
Taking the que from the recital,
Mr. Parker at once launched into
his subject. He said :
"I think there is a lesson in this
little poem for us tonight. About a
year ago, when everything looked
prosperous, Fate picked us up, and
hurled us out into the air, and there
we have been gyrating around, and
we havent lit yet. There are cries
of distress in the air, some feel sure
they will light upon tneir heads and
some are nearly dead from pure
and
and
is abroad in the world today the
greatest moral and religious awaken-
ing the generations of men have ever
witnessed. In the wake of this mor-
al wave comes a wave of great bus-
iness prosperity and business oppor-
tunity. The north and east are up-
on the crest of the wave and the
tide is rising in the Panhandle.
The flood tide of prosperity will soon
be here. If you don't get ready for
it you will drown in it.
All farm products are selling at
the highest prices known and we are
an agricultural people; living upon
a vast plain of rich farming land
! just begining to be developed. The
| prospect for the coming crop is the
I best we have ever had.
| We need only to develop our re-
sources both moral and material to
be the happiest and most prosperous
people, in the most prosperous state,
! of the most prosperous nation upon
the face of the globe.
There is no question about our
i opportunity, the only question is
> about getting ready to use the oppor-
tunity. How shall we get. ready ?
First, I would say, rigidly enforce
all our laws, and extend a welcom-
ing hand to every worthy man and
every worthy enterprise.
We need a big hotel, a r'.ouring
mill, a railroad, and our water re-
sources developed for irrigation,
i How are we to secure them? Cer-
tainly not by denunciaiion, not by
. suspicion, not by yelliag "traitor"
at any man who shows a little more
in the air, let us survey the ground mi9r?ri9t than the reit of us. We
beneath, and try to find a soft piece mugt tr#at n,em fairlyt giving them
of earth to light upon, and let us try . t^ejr an<j our moft
to light upon our feet. hearty encouragment, or we shall
What do we see ? , tj,em from uii
In the first place I want to lay
down the proposition that good bus-
iness follows good morals. There
fright.
Now, brethreo,
while we are yet
In the matter of taxation we must
(continued on page two
IRRIGATION WELL
MAKES GOOD
McDonald Well en Frio Draw
Three Miles South Proeves
Good Pumper.
With a big forty horse power
engine and a rotary pump that will
discharge an eight inch stream, D.
L. McDonald, who is making a test
of the underground water supply on
his farm three miles south, began
last Monday at 12 iO to maks a
long run. After a three dsys test,
during which time, many townspeo-
ple and farmers witnessed the pump.
Mr. McDonald feels safe in his con-
clusions that the underground supply
is inesaustable and plenty for irriga-
tion purposes.
The rotary pump running at high
speed delived into the ditch from
500 to 800 gallons per minute aad
at no time was the water level low-
ered, except when a "cave in of
sand would shut off the supply. At
times, the pump was submerged in
from 2 to 6 feet of water. All who
saw the test are highly pleased and
are convinced that Hereford has a
mint in her water supply.
Mr. McDonald has stopped pump-
ing for a while until he finished an-
other well north of town. This well
is now of process of digging aad the
the workmen are down some 36 feet.
It is the intention to use the water
from the south well to irrigate about
120 acres this year.
NO 114 SMASHES
INTO BOX CAR
Passengers Shaken Up, Bat Mo Oae
Seriously Hurt.—Traia De-
layed Two Hours.
Yesterday afternoon while a large
I crowd at the depot were waiting for
train 114, they witnessed an unusual
' accident. As the tram at high speed
struck the switch, instead of coming
on the main track it sewerved and ran
in the switch. Just ahead were three
j box cars into which the engine plung-
ed and both engine and car were put
out of commission. The train was
stopped as soon as possible but too
late to avoid the accident. No one
w«s hurt except a pup in the express
car A box fell on him and put hia
out of business.
What migtit have resulted serious-
ly was the run-away of Witherspoon
& Harrison's team. The men were
unloading corn and when they saw
the engine coming down the switch,
all jumped into the wagon When
the engine struck th? car the team
took frigh*. and ran away with wag-
on. No one h id the lines
The crowd at the depot many of
th *m eyewitnesses to the accident
ran down to the wreck. No little
excitement was caused among the
passeogers.
Miss Bertha Fuller
, who has charge of our Millinery
department has returned from the
Eastern Markets, having purchased
while there a swell line of spring and
summer millinery. We will again
have the Gold Medal line of tailor-
ed hats. Geo. A. Stambaugh. It
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand, Vol. 10, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1910, newspaper, February 25, 1910; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth253542/m1/1/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.