The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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The Randall County News
Ity Chan. K. Need ha in
L. B. Christman Managing Editor
Kntrreil m iiofliee at Canyon. Texas. b
econrt oliiio mutter. Office of ublietion.
West Kvelyn street.
Sulcrit ion Hates.
One year in county
One year outside of county
Six months 75
Twc months IS
Plers wra out of the county promptly ilis
continued nt expiration of time paid for.
Contributor Notice.
Trie t-d.tor of this paper Is anxious to receive
from time to tini". communications from its
readers hut e request that all such com-
munications be signed not for publication
but that we may know the source from which
the article comes.
its producing power the output
would go a long way toward
feeding the hungry multitude
that is now clamorous for lower
prices.
The flight from the farm to
! the cities is one of the great
I causes of high priced food pro-
tlM 'ducts; too few producers as
com wared to the consumers to-
gather with the causes of trust
ridden country which hold the
food stuffs. There is a time
and to the minds of the people it
is not far away when a return
to "agricultural pursuits will be
found imperative." Right here
in Randall county we have a
farming section that can furnish
food supplies to a great many
thousand people and the time is
soon at hand when it will and
PAY YOUR POLL TAX.
Don't be classed with the
"Chink Chinaman" the "jail-
bird" or the inmate of an insane
asylum. This is the last week
for you to pay your poll tax.
BUYING RUGS IN CAIRO
It's a Risky Business For the
Man Who Doesn't Know.
Any erroneous reflection upon the character
t aniline or reputation of any person firm or
corporation which may appear ir. the columns when that tilUO dOOS COlllC then
of The News will be gladly corrected upon its
be;n; brought to the attention of the publisher.
watch this great productive and
fertile Panhandle of Texas de-
velop. It is now the last oppor-
tunity for a rich productive
farm land to be had at low
prices.
The densely populated east
the thickly populated north and
the over-populated old south
they are all crowded but. here
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PI.UNVIKW BRANCH. NOKTH B ND I " u 1 auiiiiuuie. namuui ctmu-
no. to Anianuo ? v. p: m. ! tv. there is room for all; there-
no. uc;(: Frevtt -.v p . n j f'uv come welcome hand
PLAINVIKW BRANCH. SO. ROUND.; ...
no t v-vew ..5 ! :md oiden opportunity awaits
No rJ'v I.'0;. I'rt-h: ?:!.". m.
Tra-.r.s No. ?T 03 the Ms.r. lir.e :euv:nir Can-
Railway Time Table.
MAIN LINK. WKST ROC Nil.
No. X to Clovis S.'vS p. m.
No OS. to Carlsbad b4oa.m.
Ni t Local Freight S& a m.
MAIN LINK KAST BOCXD.
No. from C'.ov.s livi ti m.
No. IU. to K ir.s.is C;t . 4 p. m.
No 74. Loos! Kreight 3 V p. m.
llalley's Comet which has
been making its appearance in
every 75th year will the astron-
omers tell us appear this year
about next April and all of the
noted observers are now making
preparation for the great event.
The time between its appear-
ances is so wide that few as-
tronomers get the privilege of
witnessing this great celestial
orb.
Feb. 1st exit voter without a
poll tax receipt.
Don't neglect to pay your poll
tax. This is the last week.
Three more days to get that
poll tax receipt. Do it now.
E'ay your poll tax this week
sure and thereby be a good citizen.
tot. i."".'. h: : p. m. is m.ide uv here iir.d
T.-.i.r. ou the M.un arr-.y from
l"ov; at !' :. ' i.t th place
L:'C... !re:fc-h:s and tr.iir.s N' . :ind ;V- d'-r.'t
ran on Su'iiIav.
Announcements.
all and after you come and com-
! inence your intensive farming
by and by we will regulate the
cot of living and furnish food
'stuff for our northern friend
and relations who reside in the
cities.
Be a good citizen and be pre-
pared to vote at any and all elec-
tioms. Pay your poll tax and
get a receipt this as it is your
last chance. x
LURING ON AN "EASY MARK."
A GOOD SUPPLY
LONG LEAF YELLOW
Is constantly carried in our sheds.
If you desire high grade we are the
people you are looking for.
CANYON LUMBER CO.
We are authorized to announce the
following persons as candidates for
the respective offices subject to the
action of the voters at the Democratic
Priraarv to be held on Jul v 2.1th. l'-'l".
i'vn ( ocnty jrixiK
W. D. SCOTT.
For shkiukf and tax collector.
R. H. SAX FORD.
FOR COtWTY and district clerk.
M. P. GARNER.
For cocxty attorney.
W. J. FLKSHFR.
Fop. county treascrkk.
P. H. YOUNG.
For tax assessor
G. G. FOSTER.
THE COST OF NEWSPAPER.
The Kandall County News is
thinking seriously of increasing
the price of its paper from one
dollar to $1. 50. Its readers
should not object to the increase
and probably will not. They
will not if they give tive consec-
utive minutes' thought to the
question. The newspaper is the
most reasonably-priced thing on
earth. A weekly at $1.50 per
year costs the reader only about
three cents per issue. If the
subscriber paid for his paper at
the rate he pays for other
things he would be paying about
ten cents per issue. The price
of print paper has been increas-
ing: the price of labor and every
kind of material is much higher
than it has been for years and
-United we stand divided WJ yet the general tendency among
fa!!' lets stand bv L'ettin" a newspaper publishers lias ben
T. V. SLACK.
WILL CAGE.
C. L DANIELS.
For commissioner miecixct no. 1.
IIEXRV J. WEUER.
Three Days Exit Poll Tax Receipts
Sheriff San ford is the busiest
man in Canyon these last few
days of January as the voters
of Kandall county are) express-
ing their desire to vote by turn-
ing over their dollar and six bits
for a small slip of paper called
a poll tax receipt with 1909
across the face.
Those who have not redeemed
themselves for a vote in this
coming election should do so at
once as next Monday is the last
day. Pay your poll tax now and
have a vote in the coming elec
tion.
Up until last Monday the fol
lowing number of receipts had
been issued:
Precinct No. 1. 137
' 13
" 3. 31
' 4. 13
" 3. 16
fi. 0
" 7. 11
" -v 13
Total
l'!4.
poii tax receip
night.
Mondav
A GOOD PLACE.
On last Saturday the
house square showed a
number of farmers" teams and
the merchants were ail doing a
good business showing conclu-
sively that commerce is going
on in Canyon. Did it ever occur
to the business and farming
interests that Canyon City is
wonderfully favored by natural
surroundings and location and
can easily become one of the
best towns in a wide extent of
territory and the commercial
center of this part of the Pan-
handle country? "We nave good
and ample railroad facilities
right here at hand. We have
one of the finest farming sec-
tions in the Panhandle country
soil that will produce anything
nei'O'-d Khd that too in abun-
dance. IVnty of good pure
whoKsom.- water an inexhaust-
ible supply - and higii atmos-
pheric and climatic conditions
for which you would have to
travel a number of miles before
you would find the like.
From all over the eastern
northern states and country
there comes the wail and cry
from consumers anent the high
prices of food stuffs which leads
the News to advocate and sug-
gest that there is plenty of rooin
on the glorious Panhandle of
Texas Randall county Canyon
City for thousands of farmers
and if all of this now unde-
veloped region were under inten-
sive cultivation to full extent of
jerally compelled
r.m.-t i Paper publishers
large
to lower rather than increase
(the costs to the subscriber
Recently however the rapid
! advance in other prices has lit
many news-
to increase
J their subscription rate or go out
of business. It is not alone in
the weekly n'eld that the price of
newspapers is low. In the daily
newspaper world rates have
been reduced far below the
value of the paper to the sub-
scriber. The paper winch sells
at three dollars per year is
really almost given away its
price is less than one cent per
issue and yet there are people
who count the three dollars a
big price. Some of these same
people who would kick on paj'ing
two cents a day or six dollars a
year for a daily paper would not
balk on paying from ten to twenty-live
cents a day for tobacco
cigars or beer.
The New desires to repeat
that the most reasonably priced
tiling on earth is the average
newspaper. Those .ho com
plain of the high cost of living
cannot honestly berate the news
papers.
Say Mr. Voter did you know
that next Monday is the last day
on which you can pay your jioll
tax in order that you may vote
on some of the very important
questions that are liable to be
submitted to the people this
year so YOU had better pay
your taxes and get the POLL
tax receipt beingprepared there-
by to exercise your elective fran-
chise one of the greatest rights
given to an enlightened people.
Get that Tax Ueeeipt and be a
MAN.
Exemption Receipts.
The recent construction of the
higher courts and of the Attor-
ney General's Office of the 23rd
section of the Terrell Election
Law makes it necessary for
those who are past 00 years of
age and tliose who have become
21 since Jan. 1 or will be before
the November election to pro-
vide themselves with certificates
of exemption before they can
vote as they are not entitled to
pay poll tax. Suitable blanks
are provided in this office and
such certificates will be issued
free of charge but the applcant
for same must appear in person
at my office.
H. II. Sanfokd
Tax Collector.
.
rt ...fnil.i miniiUcfurori and' MStf-U
J I uai IUII iiioiiwiuwimi . " -
graded stock of
Th Story of How a Rich American
Wat Worked by a Crafty Oriental
Salesman Under the Mystic Spell of
the Dim Religious Light.
Writing of "Tbe I'iissttitf of the An
tique Rug" la the Century John Kltn-
berly Muruford tells this story:
It Is beyoud question cheaper to buy
In America your rug and the Ingenious
tale that goes with it than to wait un
til you visit Constantinople or Smyrna I
or Cairo or Tifiis. They are much I
more skillful and insinuating over
there. They have the advantage of
local color and environment and your
common sense is under the spell of the
east to begin with.
Here Is an Incideut to Illustrate. A
party of rich Americans arrived la
Cairo one day several winters ago on
a yachting trip and passed a week or
more In sightseeing. One of them had
Just finished a palatial house not far
from New York and throughout Eu
rope had bought marbles and bronzes
woodwork and velvets for it with a
lavish hand. The journey to Cairo
was- made In order t secure rugs.
Wlint ti.imjincil Is licst toM in the
words of a dealer in the bazaar from some of OUT fri'dlds that the CaiiyOII Mercar
wbom 1 uad it.
"There was a follow in our con
cern" he said "who was always buy
ing nightmares and 1 had to work
myself black In the face to get rid of
them. The week before the Ameri
cans came Mils chap had taken in
shockingly bail pair of Klrmans. enor
mously liir. new and. to my mind ut-
terly unsalable. When the head of
the house saw them he held up his
bands aud shouted. 'fJet rid f those
things for a hundred pounds to the
Drst person who'll buy them.
"So I rolled them up and put them
one side intending to send them to a firms if! the City.
I'uuiuusioii iiiuu iu lilt? iiuziwu iu un
load. Next morning lu came Money
bags from New York with his whole
company iie said he wanted to see stand and will in the future conduct our busin
iue uesi can t" is 1 uuu uiiu lie suw
them i turned the place inside out. on the same principles and terms as we have in
that I made the common mistake of
showing him too much. lie thought I
had something hidden away so be
winked me over Into one corner and
NOTICE.
The opinion seems to prevail in the mind
Company and the Normal Grocery Company are
one and the same concern.
For the benefit of those maintaining this i
we desire to have it distinctly understood that tl
two companies have no connection whatsoever
rectlyor indirectly but on the contrary are oppet
ed and controlled as separately as any other i
We are still doing business at the same
past.
Yours Respectfully
NORMAL GROCERY CO
Notice of City Assessment.
On the first day of February
I'.tlO the undersigned will begin
and ranidly push taking the
rendations and assessing 'all the
property in Canyon City which
must be rendered by the owners
when called upon or assessed
by rae at the full fair resonable
value of such property. The
work must be done rapidly and
closed within 30 days and owners
must act promptly or property
will go on the delinquent list and
assessed accordingly.
Each owner on application will
be handed a blanklistand should
very carefully make a full list
with the valuation on same with
out delay. J. H. Jo well
City Assessor.
We hope the above will be sufficient explana
toid me who he was. 'Now said he. u0 convince those having labored under this m
'I want you to Umber up. I want the uuuvi una in
SSatlSum'' mlaA Prle " 1 get understandm2 and WH enable them to see and i
"l was In despair for I had actually nrecinte nnr nncitinn fnr nrh rpnnrtc rr
shown the man every carpet I had. r "
All of a sudden I thought of these two ated
irea&9 uaieu away me uuy oeiore. i
almost laughed In his face but finally
I pulled my mouth down and began
salaaming and asked him why in the
world be hadn't told me who be was
In tbe beginning then I shouldn't have
wasted his time and abused his pa
tience so.
' He grinned triumphantly. 'I thought
you had them he said.
"'But.' said I 'it will take a little
time to get at them and I must ask
you anil your menus to wait pa
tiently.'
"They waited and I tell you for the
nest half hour the men around that
shop earned their pay. We went tip
stairs aud unrolled those two rugs.
We had a great big curtain of green
plush which we hung against the
wall. Then we pressed the carpets
out aud put them up against the cur
tain. That you know is worth ."D per
cent to the looks. Then we adjusted
the lights and stationed tneii all
around to look as solemn as worship
ers. ououy was to speau aiiove a
whisper and every man was to mur
mur 'Masballab" at appropriate inter-
' " I ......
"When everything was ready I ush all kllldSOf OTllll fltlH TPpH ctllTTV A
ered the customers ur and on tlntoe . . " ' f '
led them iu. There is no doubt about
It the effect was One. At first every
body was still. It was like a church.
" 'Ah.' said the great man. 'that is
what I came for. I knew you had
them. You needn't tell me the price.
Just send them to the yacht at Alex
andria.'
"That night I went up to the hotel
where they were stopping and got his
check for 00000 francs for the pair.
And that wasn't the best of it. I had
got into my stride then and while he
was busy annexing the Klrmans I had
the porters bring up seven of the car-
pets he had refused downstairs aud
showed them in that dim religious
light unrolling them ns if they had
been sacred and sighing soulfull
now and then. lie bought the
seven and to the day of bis death fully
believed that. I w.ms the origina
of the east.'1
New Firm in Canyon Gil
We beg: to announce that S.
Shotwell and H. J. Sevall have pu
chased the business of Crowdus Brc
& Hume Company and will tal
charge on Monday January 10 191
We will handle farm seeds i
kinds and will be in the marlffei f
so offer the lowest prices on the va
f
ious Kinas oi teed.
OUR COAL STOCK
will be held up to the highest stam
ard and we will quote you prices
the lowest Wind fnr fhp hct errant
.w.. amazaM IVSl fc.laW lVl. 1 V
of coal. We will expect cash tnm
actions selling and buying on tfcj
Z basis thereby - savins? vou and ou
11 11 selves much annoyence and troub
and in addition giving the purcha
Eighty years ago the etiquette of fUp. nHvnnfa rracy kiVI
prices as there will be no losses frj
Dad accounts.
LET US FIGURE WITH YOU ANYHOW.
Shotwell & Seval
Canyon City Texa
Etiquette of Letters.
letters Was far more rigid than now
Even the twopenny post was not con
sidered good enough for correspond-
ence addressed to persons of any
standing.- In her "Kenlnlscences of
an Octogenarian" Miss ouisa Tacke
tells us that when her fvther had oc-
casion to write to Londoners in his
own class of life the letter was al-
ways couveyed by a servant not for
any reasons of urgency but because
tbe post was considered a vulgar me-
dium of communication for persons
residing In the same city and only to c r: i
be used for the conveyance of letters UHICe taSt fcvelyn Street.
to the country. London Chronicle.
A hopeless man Is deserted by him
self and be who deserts himself In
soon deserted by bis friends.
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Christman, L. B. The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, January 28, 1910, newspaper, January 28, 1910; Canyon City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth322643/m1/4/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .