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Herald-Vol. 4. No 42
AND FOLLETT TIMES
FOLLETT, LIPSCOMB COUNTY, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 1920.
Vol. 8, No, 11
Official Paper of Lipscomb County, Texas—Devoted to the Interest of Follett and Lipscomb County-
COUNTY
Gathered Here and 1 here
For Your Convenience.
SHORT AND CRISP
A Brief Bunch of News
Notes That Will Please
Many Readers.
court, was
the former. The
LIPSCOMB. TEX., JAN. 26
games played on the
indoor Basket Ball
played last
Thursday night. The games be-
tween the town giris and high
gtrls which was won by
score being 18
to 20 The match game between
Glazier and the high school boys
was won by the latter.
The score was 17 and 41.
Bussard Theatre is now show-
ing the Param junt Articraft pic-
tures. These pictures came
from one of the best, and most
universally known moving pic-
ture companies.
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^ pleasant time was enjoyed
by those who attended the mas-
querade and tacky ^ party given
by Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Jackson.
the organization in Lipscomb
county. A la.-ge per cent of the
schools of this^ounty have paid
the admission fee and thereby
become members of the league.
Those who have not yet become
members, may do so by sending
the admission fee, which is two
dollars, to Mr. B. D. Shurter, of
the University of Texas.
To defray our local expense,
it is asked that each rural school
pay an additional fee of six dol-
lars, and each high school pay an
additonal fee- of twelve dollars.
This, is not compulsory. The
local fee may be sent to Judge
B. E. Shutterly at.Lipscomb.
A pennant will be awarded any
team winning first prize. For in-
dividuals winning first prize, a BOOKER, TEXAS, JAN. 26
medal will be given. Suitable —Tuesday, Jan. 20th, the Mr.
prizes will also be given those and Mrs. A. M. Harrison, their
third places two daughters, Miss Edith and
Hazle and their son> Master
of contests Edward took their departure for
been added ! Nebraska and Iowa to visit Mrs.
who lives in
BOOKER
BREEZES
A Bunch of Live Local Stuff
For Your Benefit.
NEWSY BRIEFLETS
Cut Short and to the Point
-•-About the Town and
People in General.
and
winning secom
in the contests.
To the usual list
hat of ciphering has
his year. The prize in this case Harrison's father
is a pennant.
Panhandle Car Shortage
Hearing Most Successful.
The following is a report of the
car shoitage hearing in Amarillo
under the auspices of the Pan-
handle-Plains Chamber of Com-
merce, Jan. 20, 1920.
"Answering the
Nebraska also one of her brothers
cousins in Nebraska and a num-
ber of uncles, aunts, cousins and
friends in Onawa, Castana and
Moorhead. They expect to be
gone about six weeks.
j Mr. John Crosley, of Whiting,
Iowa, delivered a series of inter-
esting lectuies at the Freedom
school house/beginning Friday
night, Jan. 16th anci ending Mon-
aDDlication of rtay ™ght' Jan- 20th- Mr' Crosley
, r, , ,, . aPP lcat on 01 is quite an interesting speaker,
the Panhandle-Plains Chamber of
for a*, hearing before
States Railroad Ad-
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Lehman
and children called at th^home
Commerce
the United states nauroau «a- :of Mf . ,nd, Mrs. L.B.Harrisons
ministration with respect to the Tuesday afternoon. W. J. was
icar shortage condition for the looking for some horses. Here-
turned Wednesday and bought a
fine mare of L. B.
Mr. Je3S Sparks, the Lipscomb i moverrient of the Panhannle pro-
barber, is now doing business in (locts (here appeared in Ama-
the building formerly occupied; riu0f january 20th, Mr. N. D.
by the Peoples Drug Store. ; Ballantine from the office of Mr.
. T „ I Haines Director General of the
A Leap Year party was given ; United States Rajir0ads, with
at the hom? of Mrs. Ada Prater \ offices at Washington, D. C.
Friday night. Everyone reported j "in addition to the presence of rison run the
a good time. ! Mr. Ballantine who conducted
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Turner1 the hearin« there were present
Dave W. Haynes is chief, cook
and bottle washer and chore boy
; at the A. M. Harrison home
I while they are away on their visit
and is also helping G. W. Har-
threshing machine.
there were present ^.rs/ Martin
. & . ^ „ , Mr. Hudnall, representing the and children visited at the home
spent Sunday with Mrs. Turner s £ai|way Commission of Texas (>f Mr-and Mrs. L.B.Harrison
parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. together with the general Sunday, January 25th.
Barton. managers, superintendents and Mr. and Mrs. Lee Sims^tvent
traffic men ot the liock Island, "^ast on a visit th? past week.
A new grocery store in connect-
ion with the Peoples Drug Store,
is now opened to the public.
Forth Worth & Denver and tin
Santa Fe Railroads; and rep-
resentatives from the offices of
m at ti* IT u nn .... ! Regional Director, Hale Holden;
Miss Mollie Herber, a Follett Qf Chicago.
High School teacher Spent the
week end with her parents.
A few town people were present
at a party given .by Sabels Satur-
city—like we once were—we have
turned' our attention to better
things than making money. Any
man who works hard and is
stingy can make money.
"Another indication of culture is
that wa have a church with a re-
gular attendance at Sunday
school and Young People's meet-
ing; we also have a good public
school with a first-class young
lady teacher, with good attend-
ance and a live set of pupils.
"We also have a first-class
grocery store run by an old
preacher who doesn't sell liquor
nor tobacco nor anything in that
line that will damage the con-
stitution and defile either the
inside or outside of the growing
generations of young folks. This
little grocery store will do about
5000 dollars worth of business and
in addition is used as the re-
ligious and political debating
placs for all the isms that Okla-
homa is famous for. Finally our
post office hasn't gone
yet as it takes Uncle Sam
quite a while to do a thing after
he makes up his mind to do it,
great bodies move slowly and
having such a momentuous ques-
tion to decide he my be six
months winding-up and letting
lose the Postmaster. Quite a
good many things have to be done
in discontinuing postoffice,
among them changing two star
routes and one rural route, etc.
So you see we are still on the
map and have even grown some
since 'our little city' has ceased
to be a commercialized place
wherein each man struggled to
get the best of a bargain and
the Devil take the hindermosc
in which race I fear the Devil
will get both the foremost and
hind most, That's all. Good Bye.
'Most Porminent Citizen."
The "lonesomeness" that we
spoke of and the "lonesomeness"
that you were thinking of were
not the same.
In our little article in which
"lonesomeness" appeared was in
the sense of a collective bunch
and the way you place it it is in
its singular sense. There are
many individuals that can find
contentment upon she prairies
while again there are aggiegat-
ions that get what they call the
"blues" in the same place. The
"lonsomeness" referred to in the
writeup was in regard to build-
day evening. i called invisible commodities
TT which normally is calculated to
Miss Liona Hurlhey recen^'y ! represent ten percent of the total
A Communication ; inSs n.ow as compared with
i | them in the site' of Ivanhoe
Below we give a com-! before the railroad.
"The tabulation of cars needed munication sent in by a "promin- The only mistake made was in
for the movement of products re- e°t citizen"' from the Old Ivanhoe regard to the postoffice, which
maining on the Panhandle soil vicinity that does-not desire hav- yve reSret, yet had grounds for
totals approximately 20,000 not ;ing his name published to it so; ^ le\veg cen drl^are^teased
taking into consideration the so bertitiS( taking us to task for! that l4nh£ is "onTheC^/'
which we are pained to relate and long may it." prosper for it
that was almost natural in re- wil1 refresh our minds with the
NEAR-BY
GOSSIP
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A Few Collected Fro'm Our
Exchanges.
LATEST AND BEST
Brief Paragraphs That Will
Interest You —- Short
and to the Point.
Dr. A. L. Dougan topped the
market with two cars of fat cat-
tle the first of the week 46 head
were put on *the Wichita market
and brought 12c.,—the buyer
said it was the nicest bunch of
stuff he had seen for six months.
Dock had fed his cattle for over
three months on kafir corn and
they averaged around 1000 lbs.
here. He has a couple cars more
that he will turn off in a few
weeks. He accompanied the
shipment to Wichita returning
Tuesday evening.—Gate' Valley
Star.
The praire dog law is . going
to be enforced. Last year on ac-
count of hard times nobody in-
sisted upon the landowners going
to the extra expense of killing
their dog's when money was so
scarce, but this excuse connot be
given at present when everybody
has money in the bank. Kill
your dogs, and help to make your
neighbors more valuable.—Quan-
ah Tribune Chief.
Frank Ellsworth, who recently
took over the management of the
Swift Cream Station at this
point, and who will also conduct
a produce business in connection
with the cream, is having the old
lumber yard building fitted up
and will also engage tti manufact-
ure of brooms.—Buffalo (Okla.)
Democrats.
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became the new assistant
post office.
Something new in the line of
* industry is a restaurant in Lips-
comb.
Mr. Chance Shahan left for
Oklahoma a few days ago.
Mr. L. S. Dixon was in from
north o/ town Sunday.
Mk Ruth Owen has been ill
for the past few days.
The Interscholastic Meet
The County officers of the In-
terscholastic League met at Lips-
comb, Saturday, 'Jan. 24 to
make some final arrangements
f Iter the Meet this year.
The contest will be held on the
2nd and 3rd of April at Higgins.
We hope to have the greatest
that has ever
Meet this year
been recorded in
at the This naturally
movement of a tremendous
amount of wealth most conserva-
tively estimated, not including
the invisible products, of $30,-
000,000.00.
"At the close of the hearing
Mr. Ballantine ?xpresed himself
in no uncertain terms regarding
the impreesions that he had re-
ceived from the occasion which
brought him to the Panhandle
of Texas. He was complimen-
tary of the earnest and courteous
manner in which the conditions
of this section were lodged with
the Railroad Administration and
gave out a positive opinion that
great and lasting good had been
accomplished by the efforts thus
exerted by the Panhandle-Plains
Chamber of Commerce. Ht
said: "I have learned many
valuable things in the proceed-
ings of the day and will carry
away a lasting impression of
this section of the United States,
hitherto unknown to the degree
involves the gard to the closing of the Ivanhoe
post office, which occured through
people having their address
things "that used to be."
Why Not a Band?
changed from Ivanhoe to Follett What's the matter with the
on account of the "post office Busy Town having a band any
going to close." We are pleased how? There are several
rhai it is not- young. fellows in this hustling
;;T , , r _ ! place of ours that is a plenty large
^.a'' JflPl{ar>r | in size and without doubt would
1920. Editor Lime Light. Dear make good at some place in a
Sir: In the last issue of your band. Besides enjoying this
paper in which you write up our nicety the town wouId at al, times
little city. I am afraid you have kave something to entertain
unintentionally, done us great in- wj^ on days. A good band
justice. I write this to correct js a pleasant thing to have
some of the statements made in akout any old time. There
the publication of your article.
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'msm
the history of obtained from this event.'
publication of your article. are s0 many places that a*
"In tne first place "we are not j band can fill as the years goee
'lonesome,' as we have five of the around that hardly anything els
most prominent and intelligent will, at public gatherings, picnics'
families living in our immediate fairs, and public speaking points'
midst, these families, have little there is hardly any place of
public nature, but what a good
libraries of their own filled with band could bring the thing along,
choice books and lattst magazines) It looks as though a band of 25
having considerable leisure we are pieces could be organized in the
constantly improving out minds Busy Town without much trouble,
j and not being a commercialized j Why not have one?
Attention: - Soldiers,
Sailors and Marines.
Did you receive a disability in
Uucle Sam's service?
A representative of the Federal
Board for Vocational Education
will be at the Amarillo Hotel in
Amarillo, Texas, on Feb. 4th to
explain just what the Govern-
ment is doing for men who re-
ceived vocational handicaps in
military service.
After talking to this representa- {
tive if you are eligible for this
vocational training and decide
to accept it he will go over your
particular problem with you .and
help you select some <&trse of
training that will fit you for a
gainful occupation.
There is nothing military about
this training; j£ is just a chance
offered disabled men to be suc-
cessful in life in spite of' their
handicaps.
Don't forget the dates, Feb.
4th to 9th, inclusive.
Two men may live together
peace and harmony, but
two women can do it.
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Skaggs, J. Lemoine. Lipscomb Lime Light and Follett Times (Follett, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1920, newspaper, January 29, 1920; Follett, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth389760/m1/1/: accessed May 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Higgins Public Library.