The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1888 Page: 1 of 8
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canadian, texas, thursday. june 21, 1888.
no. 84
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J. W. REYNOLDS,
:Wholesale and Retail Dealer in:—
FEED STUFFS, G-RAINS AND SEEDS,
-^GBNEKAl DEAlETt IN'-^
implements, wagons, harrows
rakes and plows.
BUGGIES, SPRING WAGONS
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GENERAL AGENT FOR THE
BUCKEYE MOWING MACHINES.
WILL DUPLICATE ANY PRICE LA" THE PAN-
HANDLE- WRITE FOR CASH PRICES•
íís^Piys highest Cash prices For hide? And Furs.
main street, - - - canadian, texas.
All Over the Panhandle.
FACTS AND FIGUBES GLEANED
FROM OUS EXCHANGES.
GERLACH BROTHERS.
(DEALERS IX
GROCERIES, DRY GOODS
Grain and Flour,
BOOTS, SHOES AMD BATS,
OUTFITTERS
We handle Flour and Grain by Gar Load lots
and are prepared to give yon
low Fi? ires.
-SITORI BUYING Elsewhere Call & GET.PRICES
É.W*.No Country Town can Duplicate our pj ice
CANADIAN, ... TEXAS.
Amarillo lias district court this week.
Lipscomb lias organized a base ball Bine
Ochiltree lias a singing class in active
and successful operation.
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Commissioners' Court.
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Hknuy HAMnrna, Vice-J?res
F. S. Loud, Cashier
'L. K. Finch, President
THE TRADERS BANK,
OF CANADIAN, TEXAS.
CAPITAL STOCK,
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$50,000
TRANSACT A GENERAL EANKJNG BUSINESS.
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COLLECTIONS PROMPTLY MADE AND REMITTED.
CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED
The Oiüy RnnJt doing a- exclusive banking business in the Panhandle.
The 'wrtertwiw ef customers aro olosolv guarded, and every facility compatable with
prK*ri}>la<* of sonad banking i reel y extended.
CoRiu¿sro:í;>frvrs: Xafcioiuil Park Bank of Xcw York. Citizen's National Bank of
X*rtias CUy, líó* Meroh ajrfV and Planters' National Bank, Sherman, Texas.
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Deposits are guarded hy ¡Sargent A Groenleit'g improved time lock.
directoks:
HENRY HAMBURG. J«J>OE I KANK WILLIS. ROBERT MOODY.
L. K. FINOS. O. Is. XBJ.SON, FRED S. LORD..
L.HOOVER,
( DKALI-:It IN )
LUMBER. MOULDINGS. SHINGLES, LATH,
DOORS, SASH, GLASS AND COAL.
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ip^'Largest Stock and Best Grades in the Panhandle.
canadian, : : ' : texas.
F. H. SNIDER,
Real Estate and Collecting Agént.
LYSIRANCE AG EXT FOR THE PANHANDLE
OF TEXAS-
Agent for the Ultbold I'íre and Bunrlar proof safes.
C ANADIAN, , ■ , . TEXAS.
F. E. MILLER,
.iTTORNE-'Y /IT
'Will Practice in all the Coarta of the state. Taxes
vaicl Tor Non-Residents. Titles Investigated-
Collections' Promptly Made- . .
ATTENTION TO land and criminal law *n¿ carrying: a pistol, and after a prel unt_
aPiCTAL A .... PAWATITATST iPffT ina >" examination wa, seat to jail in de- "uiuiag cuui t,
► in Cre*ce J' Baudtng. vAnJllfXAn, ilaA &oitof bail in tbe sum of $70Q.W I Adjourned until June IK
Lipscomb has petltioiu|^o be made a
money order post-*)fficeJ J
Wheeler county's jail rimv contains only
one prisoner, a remarkable record.
T. B. Reynolds has assumed charge of
the Times at the town of Ochiltree.
There is a movement on foot to erect a
new school hoifSe at Amarillo soon.
Rainfall at Fort Elliott during May
amounted to a total of 3.19 inches.
Ochiltree recently organized a base ball
club. Rapid progress has its sighs.
Thenide tracks along the Fort Worth
road are said to be lined with cattle.
People in Lipscomb now have three ser-
mons preached nearly every Sunday.
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Ochiltree now contains enough houses
to prove up her sito with some to spare.
The last grand jury in Lipscomb coun-
ty returned about twenty indictments.
With a vengeance goes forWrrd the ag-
itation for organizing Ochiltree county.
In three days last week 28,00b pounds Of
wool Were sold or shipped at Amarillo.
Mobeetie will slaughter five yearlings
at the barbecue on Independence day.
Lipscomb has begun to sink another
public well on main street for public use.
Dunkards will build a church at Ochil-
tree as soon as arrangement** can be made*
An effort is being made to boom Wash-
burn on the Denver road for a big growth*
Tascosa has not yet decided to have a
celebration this year. A little slow likely.
A Union sunday school Ifó* been organ-
ized at Farwell ami .1 NBaughman elect,
delta superintendent.
Miss Mabel Edwards has opened a sub-
scription school at Ochiltree beginningon
last Monday morning.
The boys in Lifycoinb who can toot a
horn are talking of organizing a brass band
there at an earlv date.
Not a single arrest for a penal offense
has been made in Potter county since it*
organization nine months ago.
The Methodist people organized a
new church at Lipscomb during theQuar.
terly meeting held June 17.
'•Buckskin Joe" has recently been doing
Mobeetie and Miami in the interests of his
colonization movement.
Merchants in Lipscomb county are now
waging a war in prices that i« beneficial
to purchasers in that vicinity.
New stock pens of larger size arc being ' .
put in at Amarillo to accommodate tlie
shippers at that thriving place.
A petition has been sent in for a new
post-office in the south-western part of
Lipscomb county to bo named Mite hell.
The Editorial association meetinir at
Panhandle City on July 4th has been post-
poned unto a more convenient season.
Carson county organized and elected a
full set of officers on the 12th and Panhan-
dle City was selected as the count r seat.
Potter county advertises for bids for the
construction ofa new court house at Ama-
rillo to cost in the neighborhood of $30,000,
The petition of Ochiltree county for or-
ganization will be heard June 25 by the
commissioner's court of Wheeler county.-
The last post-office established in Greer
county reads on the government station-
ery. ''Quartz, t'nassigned La*)d, Indian
Territory.
Northern counties of the Panhandle are
now receiving more people than any ot-
the others. Lipscomb county recently ob-
taining 25 on one excursion,
Roberts county organized yesterday uml
elected officers. Miamiand an unoccupied
section near the center of the count v con-
tested for the county seat honors.
It is confidently believed that the Rock
Island road will Ik* constructed on from
Liberal. Kansas, into Hansford coun-
ty thi summer, and Farwell claims it wiij
run through her bonier*.
.Um Dovle recently attacked Charley
8hererat Miami and severely beat him a-
bout the head with a revolver. lie w*s
arrested charged with assault to murder
Monday, June 11.
The commissioner's court con-
vened as a beard of equalization on
Monday, Jnne 11, all the members
being present.
$125 ordered transferred from
Jury fund to general fund and $11.
00 from jury fund to road and bridge
fund.
Adjourned until Tuesday morning
at 0 o'clock.
Tuesday, June 12.
Report of the jury of view on the
road from the Meridian line to Cana-
dian ordered approved.
The following bills were allowed:
T. M. Lsfri , viewing road, $0.00
Tom Sprewell, cleaning privy, 7.50
L. V. Harm, fin. statement, 36.40
Notice, 6.20
Letter head, sheriff, 7.00
4* 44 Co surveyor, 14.00
a 44 Envelopes, '* •• 12.00
Adjourned until Wednesday morn-
ing a« 0 o'clock.
Wednesday, June lí .
G. W. Palmer alluwed 6.00 for
viewing road from meridian line to
Canadian.
Adjourned until Thursday morn-
ing at 8 o'clock.
Thursday, June 14.
A. M. Tarbil) allowed 63.00 for
work on road and 10% discount on
47.25, 4,72.
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-Wholesale and Retail Dealers in—
FLOUR, FEED
and coal.
LARGE STOCK AL W A 3 S
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LOWEST PRICES.
CAN ADIAN, — TEXAS-
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R. DEANS,
Contractor and Builder1
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Plans, Elevations 4and Specifications
rP rP MpPpo tAv cnllectnr orediteil' P«?l)sU*tl and fhnilshW for :dl kinds of
1.1. MtGee, tax collector, creaiteu ( 8t<me ]Jr¡ck% Wood or Iron Bulldogs on
with 42 00 illegal taxes levied against, shoit notice, and will also snpeHdtend,
„ j ,,, n n i. furnish material and labor for the con-
H. it I. u. lv. It. company. struction and completion of all kindM ot
Filial report of T. T McGee as Buildings and Roofs of Slate, Shiwle,
lt * Iron or Felt.
tax collector approved. '
E. E. Hall allowod 8,íi3 for board- GaIi ASIArVf • ■ TEX
ing prisoner.
S. II. Roberts alio wad 0 00 for
viewing road from meridian line to
Canadian.
Adjourned until Friday at seven
o'clock.
Friday, June 15.
Assessment of Springer ranch
cattle company raised from 800 to
I,000 head.
J. F. Orrell allowed G5.00 for
working on road.
T. T. McGee allowed 2 00 for wait*
ifcg on county court and 2.00 for
waiting on probate court.
Adjourned until Saturday morn-
Saturdav, June 10.
G. II. Block allowed U.33 foi
working on road.
It was ordered that a permanent
jail be erected for Hemphill county
at Canadian.
Ordered that lands be divided into
six classes, three improved and three
unimproved, the iirst class to be
assessed at 2.15, the second at I.65
the third at i.:>5 per acre.
The clerk ordered to notify all
whose property assessments have
been raised to appear June 20.
Ordered that the clerk give notice
10 days in some newspaper that
court will meet as Board of equal-
ization on June 29.
Order for permanent jail rescin
ded.
Tax of 15 cents on 100 valuation
ordered levied in Precinct number
one for school purposes pursuant to
election.
J. H. Hopkins allowed 4.05 for
oo*ts of suit in district court; H. ár
T. C. R y ys Hemphill county.
Valuations were fixed as follows:
cattle, per head, 0.00; horses, per
head, 25.00; railways per mile, 0,000,
00; telegraph lines, per mile, 80.000.
Town site valued at 40,000.
Springer ranch cattle company
raised from 1,000 to 2,000 head.
Ordered that clerk issue warrants
to each far services rendered in
holding couit.
NEW MEAT MARKET
For the best and freshest
STEAKS,
ROASTS'
and SA USA 6>E
go to Mooody's new meat market.
Choice Beef and Pork always
on hand. Near Suther-
land Hotel, Main St.
Canadian, - Texas
S. M. COMBS,
GEN ERAL LAND AND
I OCA TING AGEN T
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Applications made for
SCHOOL LANDS.
Conveyances furnished free to all
irishtug to look at our lands.
CORRESPONDEN CE SO-
LICITED.
Hansford Texas
PATENTS
Caveats and trabe marks obtaitcfl and
all patent business conducted for moder-
ate fees.
Ourofliiee is opposite U. S. Patent Of
flee. We have no sub-agencies; all buji -
ness direct: hence, can transact patent bus-
iness in less time and at less cost than those
remote from Washington.
S**iid model, drawing, or photo. with a
description. We advise if patentable or
not free of charge. Our fee not due until
patent is secured.
A book. "How to obtain patents," with
references to actual clients in your state,
county or town sent tree. Address
C. A. SNOnr <fc CO.
Opposite patent Office, Washington, D. O
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MapsandLands
I am prepared to furnUh on abort
notice BLUE PJilXt COl'iES of the
Land Office Maos
Ot all the Panhandle counties, at One 0ol-
iir per copy tor each county* I control
alaage quantity of lands in most of th*
Panhandle counties and will be pleased
iuanish lists of them to purchasers.
J 8. DAUGHKBtY, Dallas xexa
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Miller, Freeman E. The Canadian Crescent. (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 21, 1888, newspaper, June 21, 1888; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183566/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.