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THE CANADIAN RECORD
VOLUME 27, NUMBER 43.
CANADIAN, HEMPHILL COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1920.
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 THE YEAR
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Chamber Commerce
Met Tuesday Night in
Enthusiastic Session
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"he Canadian Chamber of Com-
<n- rce met in regular session
Tuesday night, and a very inter-
esting and enthusiastic meeting
was held. After disposing of
iu: tine business the chamber took
m a number of propositions for
the welfare of the city.
Secretary W. A. Palmer was in-
su acted to take up with the city
and county officials the proposi-
tion of removing the refuse that
has' been dumped on the D-C-D
highway between the tourist park
and the Canadian River bridge,
■ai. to urge that the matter be
■attended to at once.
5'he Chamber of Commerce ac-
: "ed an assessment of $500 as
Canadian's quota for the mainte-
m.r.ee of the D-C-D highway for
' ii■ coming- year. \V. A. Palmer,
Willis, and A. H. Holt were
in ted as a committee to raise
funds.
W. Sanders, D. J. Young, J.
aider, and J. L. Jennings were j
i lf'.ed as delegates to the Abo
1';. highway convention which
i'.i next Monday at Clovis. A
r '.ution endorsing the A'oo Pass I
! :, ' way and the route thru Ca-1
1 un was adopted.
• W. Kicks called attention to j
1 i:■ ack uf service given Canadian
by the Western Union Telegraph
1 ■ pany. lie stated that all othei]
towns in this section have twenty-1
I'ou- hour telegraph service, while
Canadian has only sixteen-hoyr,
service, and the Canadian office
d< not open until 9. a. m. This
sit'.i-;:tion affects chiefly the grain
alers, who at present cannot |
get Chicago market reports be-j
the market is closed in Chi-
1 i-afc. It is reported the Western |
L'nit.-n employes in Canadian are
giving first class service so far
as possible, but that they are
overworked and that another op-
erator is needed. Secretary Palm-
er was instructed to comunicate
with the manager of the telegraph
company and request that another
operator be furnished the Canadi-
an office and a twenty-four hour
service be established.
Secretary Palmer was instruct-
ed to take steps to secure a cen-
sus for fifteen days of the traffic
the Canadian River bridge.
Tht census is to include the num-
ber of cars crossing the bridge,
the number of people in each car,
and the state from which each
•car comes.
Judge W. D. Fisher reported
that the county is having difficul-
ty finding a market for the bonds
of road district No 1, and the
county hospital bonds. Money is
very high in price, and the bond
people will not offer a price that
the county can afford to accept.
I\lr. Fisher states he does not
look for a change in the bond
market soon. He states the county
is prepared to build the hospital
and to work the D-C-D highway
as ."oon as a satisfactory market
is found for the bonds.
The Chamber of Commerce is
indebted to W, J, Tood for the
wood for the tourist park and to
A. H. Holt for hauling: the wood.
J. O. Wooten, F. O. Pettus, and
H> M. Petree were elected to
membership in the Chamber of
■ Commrce.
The leading topic to be discuss-
ed at the next meeting: How to
raise more funds for Chamber of
Commerce work.
Fooshe-Killebrew Wedding
Garland Fooshe and Mrs. Sal-
lie Mae Killebrew were united in
marriage Saturday evening, Aug-
ust 7th, at the Baptist parsonage
in Canadian, the Rev. E. D. Mor-
gan speaking the marriage cere-,
mony. Mr. Fooshe is a farmer liv-
ing near Canadian, and formerly
he was an employe in the Cana-
dian Santa Fe shops. Mrs. Fooshe
is the widow of Will Killebrew,
who died in Canadian in Decem-
ber, 1918.
The Record joins their many
friends in wishing them a long
life of wedded bliss.
August Term of the
District Court Opened
in Canadian Monday
Dallas Parties Here to Install
$25,000 Modern Filling Station
W. A. Palmer stated at the
^Chamber of Commerce meeting
Tuesday night that Dallas parties
are in Canadian this week with a
view to locating a modern drive-
in-and-drive-out filling station in
this city. Mr. Palmer says they
;>re seeking a local man to acceptj
the management of the station,
and that their plans call for an
investment of about $25,000.
Canadian has excellent garage
facilities, and with the new tour-
ist camping park and a modern
filling station this city will be one
of the most attractive tourist
points on the D-C-D highway.
^ On sale at 20 per cent discount
.-Muslin Underwear. B. M. B.
Judge W. R. Ewirtg opened dis-
trict court in Canadian Monday
morning. Most of this week has
been taken up with the damage
suit of Browe vs. Helton, which
case has drawn considerable at-
tention. Other cases disposed of
are:
Jno. S.. Dorsey vs. G. E. Kirk-
ley. judgment for plaintiff.
Mayme Swetman vs. Dr. Elmer
Swetman. et al, judgment for
plaintiff.
R. A. Hoffman vs. J. Y. Grubb,
dismissed.
Citizens Loan Co. vs. J. T.
Jones, continued.
W. A. Hunter vs. P. & S. F, Ry.
Co., continued.
S. A. Me Adams and D. L.
Thornbury vs. W. A. Price, et al,
dismissed.
Byers vs. Freeman, dismissed.
P. & S. F. Ry. Co. vs. Board of
County Commissioners, judgment
for plaintiff.
J. F. Strong vs. Catherine
Strong, divorce granted.
W. 11. Brush vs. L. S. Palmer,
judgment for plaintiff.
Johnson vs. Hill, continued.
Grand Jury
G. L. Addison.
Ed Balderston. ,
A. O. Buckner.
Wallace Caldwell.
E. F. Catterton.
R. S. Cansler.
Frank Cooper.
Ben Dorsey.
I. F. mUjUbh < " ■ v
Joseph Forgey.
L. S. Gaines.
Ed George.
J. M. Gill.
M. M. Hamilton.
F. W. Hoobler.
Sam Isaacs.
Petit Jurors First Week
G. W. Hevron, F. R. L. Jones,
G. L. Gann, J. B. Igo, Henry Phil-
lips, D. T. E. Myers, H. B. Zollar,
R. H. Stone, Tom Hext, H. H.
Marks, C. W. Strowbridge, J. K.
Tomlinson, C. R. Cooke, Otis Har-
bert, B. W. Brown, W. B. Hen-
nington, J. E. Fuckett, Albert
Knollenberg, F. A. Ruby, B. F.
Tepe, J. C. Mason, R. Kite, L. A.
McAdams, Grover Wiimoth, F. M
Carroll, Ike Simpson, L. S. Palmer
A E. Campbell, A. E. Stewart
Tom Studer, J. I. Garver, I. H.
Prater, Bert Keipar, Wm. Baker.
Petit Jurors Third Week
A. W, Luther, E. S. Humphrey,
J. F. Steen, A. L. Laughry, W. R.
Richardson, F. J. Miller, L. S.
Burnett, W. B. Knox, Tom Newton
L. M. Storms, Joe Haynes, Will
Wehrs, H. C. Yeager, J. F. Mc-
Donald, Frank Hutton. Bert F.
Wood, W. H. Peet, H. B Reed, P.
Mavfield, Judd Mitchell, W. C.
Burkhart, L. W. Cantwell, Frank
Armstrong, Harrison Voorhees, C.
W. Allen, A. R. Mayes, A. M.
Vion, D. C. Woosham, J. R. Cay-
lor, Jim Myers, Harve Hampton,
Otto Yokley, J. W. Moore, E. P.
Kiker, M. E. Askey.
Canadian is On the Abo Pass Highway
From the Rio Grande River at Belen to
the Missouri River at Kansas City
Four Cars Stuck Within Half Mile
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Hodges of
Paris, Texas, arived in Canadian
Thursday on a visit with Mrs.
Hodges' uncle, W. D. Rathjen.
Mr. and Mrs. Hodges drove over
from Cheyenne with Jack At-
kinson, and the rain storm caugh^
them twelve miles out of Cana-
dian, and the car went into the
Clovis, N. M., August 11.—Re-, D. J. Young, J. L. Jennings, J.
markable progress has been made W. Sanders and J. C. Studer were
in marking the Abo Pass highway (elected at the Chamber of Com-
thru New Mexico and Texas. The merce meeting Tuesday night as,^""/ a'"\ "u "Z'.'ZJ ♦!,«
route has been marked as far j delegates from Canadian to the|d,tch and there 11 Stuck m the
east as Hereford, Texas, and by'Abo Pass highway convention at
the time the Abo Pass highway, Clovis, N. M., next Monday. Sec-
convention, which will be held at j retary W. A. Palmer was instructs
Clovis on Monday, August 16th, led to communicate with the cham-
it is expected that the marking ,bers of commerce at Higginsj
crew will have reached the ocean, Shattuck, and Woodward and re-
to ocean highway at Belen on the!quest their co-operation in secur-
Rio Grande River. At the Clovis ing the Abo Pass route thru this
convention arrangements will be
made to complete the markings
thru Canyon, Amarillo, Panhan-
section. j
The Abo Pass highway will be
one of the most important tour-
die, White Deer, Miami, Canadian J ist routes in the Southwest, Con-
nnd Higgins, Texas. The conven-j necting at Kensas City with the
tion will locate the route from
Higgins thru Oklahoma and Kan-
sas to the Missouri River at Kan-
sas City. It will probably pass
thru Arnett and Enid, Oklahoma,
and then north into Kansas by
way of Wichita and Emporia to
Kansas City, at which point it
will connect with the National
Old Trails route to the east.
There is a movement on foot
to end the route at Albuquerque,
the largest city in the state. This
will be threshed out at the con-
vention and will
adopted as the mov
eastern routes and at Belen, N.
M., with the California routes,
thousands of trans-continental
tourists will travel over the Abo
Pass route each season, giving the
Panhandle much valuable adver-
tising that could be secured in
no other way.
Canadian is the home of high-
ways in the Northeaster Panhan*
die. Canadian is the home of the
D-C-D highway. Canadian should
be one of the prominent cities on
the Abo Pass highway. The tenta-
mud all night, with the passen-i
gers in the car. When morning
came the folks found three other
cars with their passengers also
Western Roads Not
Responsible for Car
Shortage, says Storey
"The Santa Fe and other west-
ern roads are not responsible for
the car shortage," said W. B.
Storey, president of the Atchiaon,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railway,
when he^was in Topeka last week.
"The Santa Fe," said Mr. Sto-
rey, "like all other roads, has its
troubles these days, but our trou*
in the ditch within one-half of a ble is chiefly with the grain car
mile.
Congestion of Galves-
ton Port Causes Delay
Grain Shipments
in
probably be; tire route of the Abo Pass high-
/ement has a: way runs thru Canadian, and the
! strong following, acording to W. highway boosters in this section.
I). Jones, secretary of the Clovis are enthusiastic over the new
j Chamber of Commerce. | route. The Canadian delegates are
| The markings of the Abo Pass j going to the Clovis convention to
route are very distinctive and; secure the permanency of this
lean be easily read by autoists at | route thru Canadian. Give them,
ja long distance. The colors are your co-operation.
bands of red and yellow, the In-j Boost for the Abo Pass high-
way.
The county commissioners
court met in regular session Mon«
day and Tuesday. In addition to
transacting routine business thq
commissioners approved the re-
ports of the juries of view foi]
a first class road to Glazier, and
pn to the Lipscomb County line,
and for a first class road frpm
Zybach northeast to connect with
the Canadian-Gem City road. It
is expected work on these roads
will start in a short time.
Durham, Okla., has announced
an Old Settlers Re-Union and
Grange picnic for August 20th
and 21st.
dian's favorite color, over which
is superimposed a broad arrow.
This marking will be registered
in the U. S. patent office at Wash-
ington.
The Retail Merchants Institute
meets in Canadian next week. It
will be worth your while to attend
Retail Merchants In-
stitute Will be Held in
Canadian Next Week
The Retail Merchants Institute
will convene in Canadian Mon-
day evening, August 16th, and
will continue each evening thru
the week except Saturday. The
institute is conducted by Pryor
Irwin of Chicago, an expert in
retail merchandising problems.
Mr. Irwin will deal with prob-
lems peculiar to local merchan-
dising conditions, and will help
Canadian business men solve
their individual problems. He will
call at the business houses during
Drill Reported on Cap
Rock at 3,200 Feet in
the Shaller Test Well
It is reported that the drill is
on the cap rock in the Fort
Worth-Canadian well at a depth
of 3,200 feet. This week the drill-
ers have been reaming out the
shortage. The Santa Fe and other
western roads are not responsible
for it. It grew out of the mix-up
during the federal administrator
when our cars were taken away
and scattered all over the eas
ern country. The eastern ro«C
have our box cars and the western
roads did have a large number of
their coal cars.
"In June the western roads
sidetracked all loade^, cars and
ran trains of empty coal cars
east. They delivered over 40,000
coal cars to the eastern roads.
Now if the eastern roads would
reciprocate by sending our box
cars home it would help wonder-
fully in taking care of the con-
ditions in the harvest belt.
"A falling wheat market," con-
tinued Mr. Stirey, "will bring a
great amount of criticism from
the wheat farmers because they
will want cars to get their wheat
t>< market at once. But if the)
wheat should go up there will
not he so much anxiety on the
part of the wheat farmers to get
their wheat to market.
"The Santa Fe," added Mr. Sto-
rey, "is moving an enormous lot
of grain now. But there is such a
tremendous crop that the move-
ment does not seem to make much
impression. We hope to get the
cars back and get the peak load
of the wheat harvest off the farm-
ers' hands within the next sixty
days. If we can do that we can
Panhandle grain dealers are
having considerable difficulty in
securing shipment of their grain
on acount of the congested con-
dition of the port at Galveston.
Something like two million bush-
els of Panhandle wheat have been
sold to Europe for August deliv-
ery. Practically all of the Pan-
handle export is shipped thru
Galveston, and the congestion is
causing a great deal of delay and
inconvenience. The Panhandle-
Plains Chamber of Commerce is
making an effort to secure the
diversion of Kansas and Oklaho-
ma shipments from Galveston to
New Orleans in order that Pan-
handle shipments may be made
with dispatch. Galveston is now
under erfi.argo and no wheat is
being shipped to the port except
on permit.
The Pan handle-Plains Cham-
ber of Commerce has communicat-
ed with the Interstate Commerce
Commission in regard to the mat-
ter as follows:
"We are asked by farmers and
grain dealers over the Panhandle
,again1 handle the rest of the crop and
export wheat thru Galveston, and .. .. A f . •.
u-v.,' v.- the other traffic satisfactorily in
the future.1
A. M. Hove.
when embargo will probably be
lifted. Nearly all wheat from the
,*hru. Galveston. Embargcj'wiI1 You ^ A Primary Day?
seriously interfering with loadingi . . , . . '
and shipping. Again, farmers! Any voter who expects to be
have wheat sold to dealers and away fron? h™e ?n August ?,8th'
elevators who contracted said Pr,mary electioji day, may ca 1 on
wheat to exporters for delivery
Miss M. F. Blair, county clerk,
hole preparatory to puncturing Galveston during August, amount-, [eceive..and™a^® °ut ^ballot and
the cap rock. There is about 100 ling to something like 2,000,000 w^h the clerk and she
feet of reaming to be done vet be- bushels, and if present conditions W1 see a ! IS,oe^>c^! ,e a ,e
fore the drill starts again and it | prolonged much further big finan-1 no,ls on electl0n day- Th,s can be
will take several days to com-,ieial loss to farmers and handlers
days to com
plete it, as the drill has to be j inevitable, aside from stoppage in1
pulled and the tools changed fre-; normal flow of wheat to Gulf
quently.
The drillers state that if there
is oil in the well it will be found
the day while he is here and give when the cap rock is punctured.
his advice on any problem in 1 —
your business. He Invites ques- Special Features at Canadian
tions, and is at your service to j Encampment I.O.O.F. Aug. 24th
help you in any way possible.
The Merchants Institute is ' At the next regular meeting of
norts. Please wire quickly full
information so can disseminate
over entire Panhandle at once.1
Assure you great anxiety over
this serious matter, which threat-
ens financial ruin thruout Pan-
handle."'*!.,' i
The Interstate Commerce Com-
mission replied: "Telegram re-
ceived. Altho there is embargo
movement grain thru Galveston,
permits are issued as freely as
done only on a day not more than
ten nor less than three days be-
fore election day. It may be done
any day between August 18th and
24th, inclusive.
Women are expected to vote in
this election and also have the
same privileges granted them as
above mentioned. Be sure to come
to the polls on August 28th.
G. L. Hogan, who for the past
several month has been connected
with the Blanton Battery Com-
pany, resigned his position last
open free of charge to the public, the Canadian Encampment, I. 0j
Everyone who is interested in O. F., August 24th, each member.
merchandising, civic and com- of the Encampment is requested. •— «o. .. , . ... nff. v-on.n.
munitv welfare is invited to at- to be present. There will be some'ff'rs can be unloaded. This meth- vv®e arK We?n .. -j. % '
tend. The meetings will be held special features in the meeting, od used to prevent accumulation * ere ® w , Vl^1.. .
at the court house at 7.30 o'clock and some plans will be made for,1 and entire suspension of loading i r°mni. v,Wa e fnt. „ • -t
each evening.
Buckner Resigns as
Moody Oil and
Manager
Refining Co.
A. O. Buckner resigned last
week as manager of the Canadian
future work. Be sure to attend.
Many Tourists Using Canadian's
New Tourist Camping Park
The Canadian tourist park was
opehed this week, and it is being
office of the Moody Oil and Re- use(j each night by a number of
fining Company in order to de-jtourigt carg j c studer gtates
vote his full time to the manage-
ment of the Moody South Plains ,that he has P*a8ed the park sev-
lnnds. Mr. Buckner has opened "aj mornings at an early hour
offices at Lubbock and expects to
make his home in that city. He
and his family have been in Lub-
bock for several weeks.
T. W. Freeman has been ap
and has seen as many as ten cars
in the park at one time.
Toilets have been built on thai
park grounds, a hydrant installed,
ar.d a supply of fire wood placed
pointed manager of the Moody! at disposal of the campers.
Oil and Refining Company suc-
ceeding Mr. Buckner.- Mr. Free
man has been associated
Thos. F. Moody for a number of
years, and has been connected
with the Moody interests at Wich-
ita Falls until about sixty days
ago when he came to Canadian
to look after some ranching in-
terests.
The Gentry Brothers Trained
Animal Circus gave two perform-
ances in1 Canadian Monday, show-
ing to large crowds. They went
from here to Woodward and re-
turned thru Shattuck to Pampa,
where they are showing today.
Electric lights are being installed
today. Signs directing the tourists
with to the park have been placed on
the D-C-D highway north of Ca-
nadian and on both roads of the
D-C-D south of town.
It has been suggested that ev-
ery citizen of Canadian make it a
point to tell the tourists he meets
about the camping park. The tour-
ists will appreciate the courtesy,;
and they will tell other tourists
on the road that Canadian has
provided a first class tourist
camping park with all necessary
conveniences.
via that port. It is our under"Oklahoma for a visit with
standing permits are issued with- |',s parents, afterwhich hewUl
out discrimination as between in-
be connected with the Delco-
dividuals or districts, question Ught A*ency at Hobart' 0kla'
will be further investigated." I _ „ .
To this the Panhandle-Plains' The Baptist open air meetings
organization replied: "Answering being held at the corner of first
wire, seems to us only substan- an(* Main streets, have been draw-
tial relief Galveston port, eithe,, «ooA cJoyf** and. a
greatly increase number of ships 18 bem* ™n/ffte.d"
I mm regular services will be held in
the church next Sunday.
A want ad will pay.
or divert Kansas and Oklahoma
wheat to New Orleans for such
time as will relieve pressure , H , , H j « r i
movement Panhandle wheat under Vlctory .Medals RJfadJ f°.r Dif."
contract for delivery at Galveston tribution t© Ex-Service Men
during August. As previously ex-
plained, great bulk of Panhandle
wheat marketed thru Galveston
port, and between one and two
million bushels Panhandle wheat
sold Europe for August delivery,
basis previous high market, such
wheat having been contracted on,' ... -,i * u-
same basis from Panhandle farm-) ™ ° r ^charge ™11 not be
ers. Unless Galveston opened up 8®ht >n, but you
so as to receive this wheat will
terrible financial loss to'
The Victory Medals are now
ready for distribution, and I have
secured the necessary blanks for
making application for them. If
you want yours bring your dis-
charge to me and I will fill out
the blanks for you and forward
sent in, but you must have it
when making your application,
as certain notations have to be
r\T u'V'""' f ()f th discharge
both dealers and farmers, andij."
mainly the latter, aside from hav-
ing no relief from the general
financial stringency with banks,
a'nd mercantile interests carrying
large sums, which can only be
liquidated thru movement of Pan
handle wheat. Urge
by the certifying officer.
G. R. Nolen,
Adjutant Zybach-Owens Post
No. 56, American Legion.
situation, and also crave early
continued' advices that this has been vouch-
increased efforts relief Galveston ; safed." \
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