Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1925 Page: 2 of 6
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phantom hill
ni Is one of ■ series of
Mother and Mr. Bay Rector.
By Dawson Duncan
A long time ago wh-.i t'i* I nfft»-
wtUi-ga Jig the >yU» ^loes roamed wild over the wl p!«‘us
m v; 0. Knights of-West Texas; when the Mpantsh
first trip to Texas was in ISM,______
Col. Albert Sidney Johnson; as Lieut*
Colonel of the N«<on.i Drajfrtonx.
Pb'/rtly after Lire's arrival in Texas
he "was called hack to the Southern
Bihtiopraghy
knowledge and that of ray
ponies inhabited the grassy t anks. stoteo in b*half of his native state,
of the iasy Clear Fork River; when &> General Lee was evidenly not
the Indian made his home where we I founder of' i ott Phantom Hill,
now make oure; when the coyotsj Although we have disproved the
howled in triumph from their secret i tradition that Lse founded the Fort
homes; when the eagles soared »bove Phsntoni HIH. it is entiraly feasible
the plains we now call our own, some|»n<i praelcal that he was a frequent
brave pioneers made their way thru I visitor for its Wnation made it a
unknown perils and dkngers and | mid-way point between Saint IhjuIs
founded, upon a knoll, a fort. This «nd El Paso, a trail he.oft;n visited,
fort derives name through the phy-il" his letters, which he wret- every
sit-al geography of its location, as• week, he mentions Fort L-lknap,
the tradition goes. When the sol- Camp Cooper and Fort Concho, but
diers approached this hill from afar never Fort Phantom Hill,
the officer in eojaigUMl jlecide<i that Another oM tradition hr Id ’taelf
CARD OF THANKS,
indeed grateful to
A WAY TO FILL IN THE GAP
business, all the year, rather than a'*|^" ,B m*m
cotton season rush, covering a few of
this apparent great elevation was the1 secure and fast until a . few 'years erM h*»e been transformed into
the favored fall and winter months.
Every ambitious business man of
every single cotton crop town of the
South has made th? same observation
perhaps a thousand times.
The smaller the town, the more re-
stricted the trade to the single cot-
ton sason.
Wha' is the remedy?
Clearly it is not Urtk alone, idle
wishes, or regrets. If so, every week
May God bless you.
Mr. and Mrs'. J. O. Cook.
Poultry Netting— #
at Gambill Bros.
r
FIRESTONE
BALLOONS
Wa are in a posi-
tion to render lowest
cost changeover to
f ull-sue Balloons, lot
ere have COM-
PLETE Firestone
, - Bum-,
tires, steam-
tubes, and the
special wheel unit.
Call upon us for a
demonstration — to-
day, if you wish.
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KEBBERG _
GARAGE
ideal location for1' his perspective sir®. This one was that one of Lee’s a big Saturday rush day long ago.
fort. e r. children was buried in the fort. Not The remedy must come from united
Thuja convinced, the troops sagerly many years ago one of Stamford’s syUtCr ntic end' cooperative a t-on
‘ their future horns, each historians wrote to one, of G neral, aloe* these lines.
Lee's descendants, asking n*m if th:s The van h tw«en srnsons must h«
tradition had anv foundation whatso- filled in with other resources besides
ever. His answer >sid that HCs tra- cotton growing. Not less cotton biit
dition was positi’ riv graundies'i '©r mo*e diversification. ,
they could account foe the burial place1 Th?re mrst be more wage earners,
of every child. more factories, more shops, more job-
Whan the Sicotwi fv ugoo. s caw* to b*rg, n\ur.' building, more repa!r shops
approached
congratulating his company's good
lluck in finding such an advantageous
11 coat ion. But as thay drew nigh,
their enthusiasm diminished, instead
[of standing at the foot of a high,
'steep they were- apparently
standing upon a slightly elevated
plate, MWte their spirits blighted. Texaa, they ■"■omed every outi
they marched on to the top. or th “** ““
highest point of this strange hill.
. teP JpteK move n* Mivfhing and everything that
they" marched on to the top. oi the Fort Phantom Hill being on* oMh«m. will p*v out and build up the" tin
' These soldiers undoubtedly enlarged buck -t brigade s»l the vear <ust as
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gained its former blender and ma-l ' &***"”* day p# small things.
of the hill made one soldier say that uJM M.rount of the pUc, HuHnr
that time When th?se soldiers were
called away by the Civil War, they
it was not a hill but that it was mere
Iv a phantom. From this occurence
the fort obtained the name of Fort
"SSSlSto T,... Hl.tori.n*, .hi. ‘“jSJlhw h*!',',ta~v.
fort was founded in the year 1860, or! . W.
soon thereafter, by Texas Rangers. |
Th« id's baa until recently been
probablv burned the fort or Indiana
bu
Herrv Ford started w*th perhaps
Irts than $69n cash capital, but with
several million dollars worth of brains
and enerrv which hy cashed In. ' •
The smfllest kind of a local fac-i
tory stinnfying anv need in this thick-'
ly settled country properly managed
PB"'d grow Hk* iriric i
The most logical thinr to go after
ed state and will soon fall down. The In a big wav l* a cotton mi’l. Also
tb.t th* "s'outh^n f*rmer Powder house and a portion the Katy and Valley Railroad exten-
^rr*r R^bert F I*£ establish^ f.he *»in win* are still standing tion* to the Plains, giving Stamford
Pm°nK l‘v* K*t t-mfc.l. and-ehops" Hk- W
conclusively prove that the fort was ,n* ** «• 1r°g^rT pu.rnom Hill i. W. Ifc Any °thtr R*i,r0ad out,et to **
Hter*'General lST shoifthatf h* to7 *nd has f°r m»ny year*.: A ah' wd. observing traveling man
.JETlS. R?iP® valoriualSida ar bravery was.remc V d the other dav '
teSr SL \ shown in protection of our early set- f-,vd M locate .60
tb.lt S* urn-
more traveling
tk6s' Tmb« Uanrera t iTiirt" h'iidd ^ j*1 undoubtedly the most hit-; men w'th tbeir families permanentiy
"wgrmmTrrc nmthirn rottage*
<i inon.uH .. c....,lnn i .»,» ,n Jones County, so why not convert and aLarl!U«‘lrtaht>usej arero provided-
^ A * ■ kit ^ *'S^* ^ nytoriy^telll Wiimc; • t modern and comf^
General Lee’s letters show that his
lip'its a section of the beautiful ehV
No Better Bread
—can be made than
“Mother Perfection”
Bread. 10c per loaf or
3 for 25c. At)all gro-
cers.
. Made hy
HOME BAKERY
Phone 218
■flear Fork River, the best of rivers
that we have?
A GOOD CITIZEN DIES
On last Saturday at, 1I:M p. ntl J
his home in the city, our excellent place in which to live and prosper,
fellow townsman, Walter B. Johnson,
passed to the great beyond .after
The location of more people, with
more product* of th* cow sow and hen
will all hein to fill in the lopg gap
h-t-i -en • cotton harvest seasons and
at a’l help to make Stamford a better
months of suffering. Born in Weakly
County, Tennessee, hardly 64
ago, and still comparatively a you
man. he had filled many places
i usefulness in his town and country,
and his clean, pure Christian life had
truly been a benediction to his many
friends in every walk of life. He had
for some time realised that the end
near, in fact stating to visiting
P• *»«’■* Rimi*Ii PU*n« Prosperous
G. M Magill and M. J. Olson re-
years turned recently from a sevral davs
ng inspection trip to the tin end of the
of South Plairts. Thev visited Midland,
Andrews and I^mesa.
As Is well known, they found the
iter development gt Lamesa, for;
friends
that he
about
expected
the
thl-
the. first of the
summons
I month instead of thF 14th, when it
did come, and his cheer and faith to
his Creator amid
WELCOME
LONGHORNS
Tel STAMFORD
M« W. A.LODGE
SUasfoed, Texas
Meets 1st and Srd Tusaday nights
in each month at Hall on McHarg
Avenue, over Layne-Yatee store.
AH members urged to attend. Vi-
siting members welcomed.
—L. L Loop, C seen I
~W
We invite the trade to visit us any
time and take advantage of our
“Free Air and Water” service.
Ladies rest room for your conveni-
ence.
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We will apprecitatephcalk-
AteteAifMi
Hambright Service Station
Corner Hamilton and Ferguson
STAMFORD, TEXAS
at
gnat mm
liter's- they are building a real dty of *
substantial brick business houses -and 2
THE MONARCH OF THE AIR
in his most
Thrilling Exploits
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elegnnt modem homes. In Dawson 11
county they claim to have produced
27,000 ltal?s of cotton in 1923, with
14 pe'.ypt of the county in cotton,
while in 1024 the county proiuced
his suffering was 56,000 bai s with 20 per cent of I
so apparent to the end. Rev. Td- |h*~ county in cotton, conclusive evi-
monds of Hamlin, a friend of the dance that the sandy soil and mild*
Johnson family since Walter B. was; climate is favorable to the grmgthf-
but a lad, conducted the funeral ser-1 of the cotton plant,
vice at the First Baptist Church at: The ©id Cattle baron town of Mid-
8 p. m. Sunday, assisted by the R*V. land, the Gnteway to the South
Hammer of Anson, -and paid a fine plains, is rapidly taking on new life, j
tribute to this good hian in saying a result of tne rapid development:,
that in all his life he had never heard j and settlement of that territory,
him say a word unbecoming a chris- which has really only fairly started,
tian and had seen him walk away ]„ 1923 Midland ginned 800 odd bales
from conversations of which he did Qf cotton, in 1924, 3,400 and they are
ndt approve as a Christian. He read now figuring on four gins to care ,
the tribute of his brother, R»\ Till- for the 1925 crop. That is the rate)
man B. Johnson of New York, as Mt which that country is coming to
follows; | the front. Midland has a wonderful!
“Walter .Johnson is not deed,
body Is dead bat he is forever with
hit Lord. This is not a funeral. We beginning Just north of Midland, a
are here ftt this hour to celebrate a little pasture of only 226,000 acres,
christign’s victory. His sufferings covering a portion of four umnties,
arc ended. He has passed ;tkre«|gh Midland. Martin, Andrews and Ector |
suffering to gkey -Thanks be unto al] of which is being subdivided and
God who rivet!
our Lord Jei
Not death but
to life immortal. A clean, true, no-
ble Christian brother, husband, father
is forever happy with his Lord and
with his lovea ones gone before. Let
pioice in hope,
site
GLENN PLACE HOTEL
Miu Evalina Lay, Proprietreu . .
YOUR HOME OF REFINEMENT
AND COMFORT WHEN AWAY
FROM HOME
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Phone 571—S. Ferguson Street—Stamford
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Hi* modern' fbur-story ftre-proRL hotel.
They went to inspect the C Raiwh,
le has passed through Mid
glory..Thanks be uwto
th us the victory, thro offered to settlers on favorgble terms.1
Christ. (1 Cor. 16:67) On the north end in-ApMnipri Cbunty
life! Through death they have sold 60 farms since last!
September, mostly the overflow from
the Lamesa Co^try. The northeast
corner of Andrews county is the
Southeast comer of Dawson county.
A community gin at Patricio, about
half way between Lamesa and the
Johnson wax ona- of the
most excellent gentlemen it has ever northeast comer of the C Ranch gin-
been our pleasure to know as friend - „ed 4,000 bales last year, first crop,
and fellow lodge member. ^He was; This whole ranch seems to be un-
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with Virginia Brown Faire and a splendid
Cast
Whirling through the air at a hundred miles an hoar—battling oa
tea wing of aa aeroplane—leaping from one airship to another in
midair -bucking plOnumu *h>rl.n« l<«i>inx M.arinR Minkin*
—ite vain the aeroplane, like a tortured, untamed horae, seeks ta
teake aff his aerjal hocsemaa. ^
You’ll he thrilled as jrau’ve never boon thrilled before.
1:; JOYLAND
MONDAY and TUESDAY
devoid of deceit and was plfin hon-
est with himself, his fellowman and
his God and was loved for those ster-
ling qualities by all who knew him.
The deceased is survived by his
wife and two daughters, Mrs. John
McDonald of Wichita Falls and Miss
Cornelia Johnson of Btamford, and
three brothers, A.''CT of Stamford,
Rev. T. B. of New York and A. W.
of $pringtown, Texas, and two sis-
ters, Mrs. Dr. Rogers of Rule and
Mrs. Robert Prichard of Anson. The
funeral crowd was one of the largest
ever gathered In Stamford, with ma
out of town people in attendance.
• Baptist church choir, with hia
friends from other churches, sang
the sweet old songs loved by Mr.
Johnson and by the Blue Lodge of the
Masons, the Knights Templar and the
Eastern Star, and those lodges atten
ded in a body, the first two having
charge ot the obsequies la an impres-
sive way at the church and the grave
At Mi own request, Mr. Johnson was
buried in his,Odd Fellows uniform,
a fraternal order he greatly loved.
D. K. Lyons. H. H. Harmon, C. T.
Dodson, Jaa. Griggs, B. H. Baird and
H. L. Jackson, brother Masons, were
the pallbearers and C. T. Petty, of the
Penick-Hughes ttttdertalfers was in
• arrangements. Ini
ment *Was at Highland Cemetery.
i Sand and Gravel
W. P. Caudle of Sagerton waa cir-
culating hare Saturday and dropped In'
at the Ameriarn to leave an ad for
his superior Sand and grgvel which
he ia selling to several of uur build-
ing* under construction. The Stam-
ford Inn and R. V. Colbert s new rest-
denee- and others 'here*1 arei- _
fin* *and and graveL See his ad
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Two of the Newest Fashion
'Notes from Paris
r;v.;:
dertaid with sheet water, good and
inexhaustible at 40 to 100 feet. At
the South Camp, 14 miles from Mid-
land, they have a well that pumps
1,000 gallons per minute. At Midland
the water supply is from these wells
and they claim it is sufficient for
a city of 50,000.
The soil is mostly mixed cat claw
and mesquite, very fertile, resting
on a clay subsoil and when once in
a good state of cultivation seems to
bo drouth resisting and well adapted
to cotton, feed crops, truck and fruit,
with an abundance of the shallow
pumping water for irrigation, supple-
menting the natural rain fall, when
This extreme Sodth Plains country
has more brush and timber than the
North Plaint, also has a lower alti
tude, a milder climate and a longer
growiag season, than the North
Plains, with more sand in the soil, all
favorable to cotton culture. This
country i» f*ntous for its White Face
rattle and fins pastures. It Is the
last frontier of good land and good
water to surrender to the fanner in
the Empire of West Texas.
CAR OWNERS ATTENTION!
Chairman E. B. Brophy again wish
es your attention called to the de-
corated ear parade on March 21st
and again asks that everybody who
ran make arrangements to dress up
their ear and get In on this. He asks
that all such cars come to East Mo-
ran street, Just back of the City Hall
at 12:80 and the Parade start prompt-
ly at 1 o’clock. Be on time. T*ET
THE PA****
READY AND BE IN
iDE. All indications point
St. Thomas Church Services
Thera will be Holy Mass at £t.
Thomas’ Catholic Church on South
Swenson Avenue Sunday, March 22,
at 7:80 and High Mass at 10 A. M
is invited.
, fine day all around. All around in
various towns and communities peo-
o-rnms have been called to make way
for the people to be in Stamford for
the Big Long Horn Day program and
the parade will be one of the splendid
features of the occasion. Be op Mo-
ran street, back of the City Hall at
l!;ll to 12:30, and get ih the parade.
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the host and beck of this dress, is used in the
together with the belt, nature 4
yard of 39-inch maceriat while
the dram itself requires only
xH yards of yq-inch material in
stae 40. The Beirobe shows
you with pictures how to lay out
the StMMmrd-Deaigner Pattern.
Get your pattern and material'
at our stoat today. s-
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Always Bay Standard-Designer Patterns inclttding
Beirobe
remains p sin. 1 ne dress is
very easy to maka when you
follow the Beirobe, e wonderful
dressmaking guide included
with the Stan deed - Drsigwer
Pattern for the dress. At our
£iece-goods counter you will
hnd api>ropriau materials, ^
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Thomas, R. C. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, March 20, 1925, newspaper, March 20, 1925; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1054659/m1/2/?rotate=0: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.