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Entered April 17, 1902. as second-class mail matter, post office at Hereford, Texas, Act of Congress of M uch 3, 187'
Vol. 2
HEREFORD, TEXAS, AUGUST 8, 1902
Jl 11 Over
the
Panhandle
Clarendon will soon have a brass
band.
Donley county citizens arc petition-
ing for a prohibition election.
Beginning July 1st, there'll be two
cf 'em each day. .Isn't that nice? t£
The Bank of Dalhart will soon
nationalize with a capital stock cf
$150,000.
¡Lipscomb county has $1,215,533
worth of assessable property, an in-
crease of nearly $150,000 ever last
"year.
Al Chastain shipped 100 head of
steers to the Kansas City market
Sunday which averaged 1022 pounds
and brought 4 cents per pound.—Pan-
handle Herald.
Hardeman county's assessed valua-
tion is $1,763,193, an increase of
$149,000 over last year, and is
divided as fellows: Lands $1,005,-
621; ci!y property, $443,339 ; cattle,
$314,188.
Kansas farmers figure that the
smallest ear of corn this year will
be a foot long. And in the Pan-
handle the grass is growing so nice
and rank and the cattle are getting
so fat and sleek that it is thought it
will require flat cars for shipping as
the doors in the ordinary cattle cars
ara entirely too small.—Miami Chief.
Judge Altizer, from the north part
of the county, reports one cf his
neighbors as having threshed 80
bushels of oats per acre from his
crop. How does that strike people
from the black land districts? It is
no surprise to us wrho have lived
here for sometime, but must be a
revelation to those who have always
thought the panhandle an "arid
desert."—Clarendon New3.
Higgins will have a big barbecue
and picnic August 21-22.
Beginning July 1st, there'll be two
of 'em each day. Isn't that nice, tf
Panhandle papers are reporting
copious rains in their various vicin-
ities.
Lockney had a school tax election
recently which was carried by a vote
of 61 to 7.
The mail route to Silverton will
be from Clarendon via Paiaduro
after the 18th.
In the ball game at Wichita Falls,
July 31, between the Decatur and
Wichita Falls teams, the latter won
by a score of 15 to 6.
Summy Humphreys, a -cowboy
from Clay county, was knocked down
and robbed of $85 recently at Wichita
Falls. His assailants are unknown.
BIRTHS.
To Mr. and Mrs. Will Armstrong
of Canadian, a boy.
To Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Wolf of
Bowie, a boy, July 25.
To Mr. and Mrs. I. S. Sewell of
Vernon, a boy, July 27.
To Mr. and Mrs. Dan Dcvol of
Quanah, a boy, July 27.
To Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Darling-
ton of Bowie, a girl, July 25.
' MARRIAGES.
Miss Rhena Price and Pv. H. Wil-
son of Quanah.
Miss Effie Webb and J. M. Smith
of Vernon, July 31.
Miss Annie Pay ton and M. II.
Low of Wichita Falls.
Miss Clara Taylor and Sam Mar-
shal of Wichita Falls.
Miss Maud Clayton and Mr. Han-
cock of Beverly, July 27.
Miss Adelia Selviage and J.
Wilson of Vernon, July 23.
Miss Theodosia Head and J. B.
Lockett of Vernon, July 3U
Miss Hattié Sheppard and Ben
Simmons of Vernon, July 31.
Miss Marie Ryan and Charles
Robinson of Clarendon, July 25.
Miss Julia Allen of Higgins and
Fred Pierce of Oklahoma, July 21.
Miss Ruth Giover of Ft. Worth
and Mell Pickens of Vernon, July 23.
DEATHS.
Mrs. Charbs Meyers of Canyon,
July 26.
Infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Scott
Farrar of Bowie, July 29.
THE HOLLAND OF TEXAS.
Panhandle Windmills on Duty 365
Days in the Year.
Mrs. W. A. Callaway, a versitile
writer on the Dallas News under the
nom de plume of Pauline Periwinkle,
who paid this city a visit a short
time ago, published the following
very complimentary notice of Here-
ford and the surrounding country in
that excellent newspaper:
We had a way of turning up our
noses at "wide spots in the road"
awhile back. Now, in cur anxiety
for parks and things, we hail every
evidence of prodigality in real estate
with delight. Our business streets,
with narrow pavements and rapidly
increasing height in buildings, are
becoming veritable canyons, and
the hornos of commercial cliff- I
dwellers, and the search for avail-
able breathing spaces where trees ,
and flowers and humanity may grow '
strong together, is being conducted
with a microscope. It is no wonder,
then, that to the dwellers cf the j
Panhandle, anything this side of the
Plains is the "effete East." They
constitute all that is worth while of ¡
North and West Texas, and if we ;
are not satisfied with being East,
why, we can go 'way South and sit |
down. They are proud of their ,
wide spots in the road, and well
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they may be. They can have the
world for their p.irk by simply set-
ting out a few trees. It seems
strange that in a country entirel/
devoid of verdure other than grass
or weeds, so far as nature's planting
io concerned, trees will thrive with-
out watering if they are properly
planted.
Take Hereford as an example oí a
Panhandle town. Its oldest house is
four'years old. Prior to that it was
breeze-swept piairie, without so
much as a bush to mark the spot.
Now it claims a population of 1500.,
and from the amount of building go-
ing on, its ratio of growth b still on
the increase. Within the past
month a carpenters' union was organ-
ized there with a charter member-
ship of fifty! The public school
doubled its attendance during the
year, and besid? adding four big
rooms to the commodious school
building, the citizens of the place
are putting up a $15,000 college
building, which they have leased to
a corps of prominent educators for
the maintenance of a non-sectarian
institution of high order. Hereford
is connected with the Texas and
Pacific and the Fort Worth and
Denver Railways by the Pecos Valley
road, and is now seeking for another
outlet tcv.«rd the we:t, crnccticg
with the great lines threading Cen-
tral New Mexico. It is the county
scat of Deaf Smith county, and its
western boundry is New Mexico. I
am thus explicit from the personal
difficulty I find in keeping up with
the geography of Texar. The West
is enjoying an epoch of map-making,
and I myself did not know where
Hereford was till I set out to go
there.
Parks and trees were my initial
subjects. In this bustling four-year-
old of a city the women arc already
orgf.r.iz^d to locate ar.J in;prove
park5 ax! kr-?p the *re rlaat ng
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Vanderburgh, F. L. The Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1902, newspaper, August 8, 1902; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142309/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.