The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 2 Friday, May 22, 1908 Page: 7 of 8
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WHERE THE
WIND BLOWS
Collin County Editor at Farmers-
ville Gives a Bit of
News
The Brand has been claiming that
the Plains of Texas are in the lead
in many things. It has laid claim
that the Panhandle has more tillable
land, more fine cattle, more big
farms, more clear sky, more pure
air, more clean cities than any other
section of the country in the world.
But it will have to yield the palm to
the Farmersville Sentinel, a small
paper published in good old Collin
county. While the modesty of tne
Sentinel editor forbids his making
the claim that North Texas is the
windiest place on earth, a careful
reading of the two short clippings
taken from the same issue of his
windy sheet, will convince the read-
ers of The Brand that it has lost on
that score.
FIRST CLIPPING.
Last Saturday we were talking to
a farmer friend who, some years
ago, moved West with his family,
and returned to Collin county after
having been away not quite a year.
He said that he cannot see what it
is in the "Windy West" that is so
alluring to the fancy of men who
live in this section ; that this being
the best land in the state, the cli-
mate and farming ^conditions the
best, and the best fteople to live
among there is no reason in the
world why sane people should leave
it for a land of wind, dust, prairie
dogs, rattle snakes and cactus. He
has been there and knows what he
is talking about, and his is the ex-
perience of almost every other man
who leaves this, the garden spot of
the world, and moves West.
Did you ever read anything with
more wind in it than this? The
Sentinel was very careful to conceal
the name of his farmer friend and
the location in the West. The
Brand man has been reliably inform-
ed that J. Olin Cullom, who has the
honor of being the pencil pusher of
the Sentinel, has never been as far
westas the Denton county line. Come
now, tell your readers who this farm-
er was and where in the West he
was located. What do you mean by
Windy West? Didn't you swipe
that euphonious phrase from the
Bonham News? But read the sec-
ond clipping and assist The Brand
to acknowledge that North Texas
has the ribbon on wind.
SECOND CLIPPING.
Crandall, Texas, May 12.—A cy-
clone struck this place at 8 :JO to-
night. It was a regular twister.
About fifty houses were wrecked,
but no one was killed. Several were
slightly and more or less painfully
injured. Few people had time to
get to storm-houses, the cyclone
swept upon them so suddenly. Sev-
eral residences and the Christian
Church were compietely wrecked.
The Shelton Hotel is wrecked. A
car of merchandise and an empty
stock car were blown off the siding
flnH tiirn H
All telephone wires are down ar d
telegraph wires are down east cf¡
here.
The west bound passengor due
here at 9 :43 p. m., was delayed on
account of the track being obstructed
by a residence and seed house blown
across the track.
It is impossible to get news from
the surrounding country at this hour.
Several families lost everything;
their houses and furniture were com-
pletely blown away.
The Sentinel might have mention-
ed too about the village of Deport
that the twister tecently lifted bod-
ily from the earth, giving it a few
shakes and then scattering it to the
four winds. He also remembers
Sherman and its experience with the
twisters, and many other points in
North Texas where the velocity of
the wind has not been exceeded ex-
cept by the puffs sent out by such
papers as the Sentinel, Honey Grove
Citizen and the Bonham News. Put
the News man has promised to come
to the Panhandle, and denies having
any reference whatever to the Pan-
handle, when he wrote about the
Windy West, the Desert West and
the Cactus Plains.
But Farmersville has something
else that Hereford cannot boast of,
but the Sentinel does not seem to be
proud of the distinction. Now if
Hereford had such a thing as "drop-
stitch sidewalks," The Brand would
be publishing a special edition with
photographs trying to induce new
people to move to the city on ac-
count of the "open-work and drop-
stitch" article. Read what he
says:
Let's change the style of side-
walks that has been in vogue in
Farmersville so long; these open-
work and drop-stitch walks may be
alright for an acrobat to tread upon,
but to the ordinary club footed deni-
zen they are extremely annoying.
But it is funny how all those North
Texas editors are wearing out their
pencil stubs trying to keep their best
and most progressive citizens from
coming to the Windy West. You
know, it's an ill wind that blows no-
body good. Their windy articles
about the West are creating a breeze
that is blowing the good people the
refreshing air of the Plains. Scat-
ter the News, boys. Every line you
write about the Windy West will be
used as a good point in advertising
the Plains of Texas. The secretary
of the Hereford Commercial Club
has received a number of inquiries
from the recent article that appeared
in the Bonham News and he has
turned what the News man thought
to be a "solar plexus" blow into a
neat advertisement.
But let's "keep the record
straight." Who has not returned,'to
Farmersville? One or two is suffi-
cient.
A. H. Elleston, who made his
home in and near Farmersville for
18 years, came to the Panhandle
some six years ago. He had some
means when he came but now is
worth six times as much and he made
it in the Windy West. He says
that Collin county is the best county
he ever lived in except on the Plains
of Texas. If Mr. Elliston has been
so successful, where has the Senti-
nel's farmer friend been that he could
not do as well? Then there is Virg
Hartman, who lived in and near
Farmersville for 30 years. He sold
out and left. He is now easily worth
$75,000.00 and has made it on the
Plains of Texas, the Windy West.
But there is Bill Geans, a common
sort of a fellow, who worked on an
80-acre farm near Farmersville for
over 30 years. He sold out and
lacked $500.00, after the 30 years
of hard work, of being worth a dol-
lar. Now, a short period of time,
Mr. Geans has enough to buy out
the Sentinel, the Honey Grove Citi-
zen and the other windy sheets.
The good friends, the editors of all
those breezv newsDaoers in Collin.
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Vendor's Lien Transfer
Live Stock Bill of Sale Books
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Warranty Deed, Joint Acknowledgment
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Release of Mortgage or Deed of Trust
Release of Vender's Lien
School Land Obligations
Land Agents Contracts
Scale Receipt Books
Chattel Mortgage
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Grayson and Fannin, could save some
of their mental agony in writing
windy articles if they would only
come to the Plains. All thev would
have to do would be to make a bag
out of "dropstitch" paper, furl it to
the breeze and it would be quickly
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Elliot, A. C. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 15, Ed. 2 Friday, May 22, 1908, newspaper, May 22, 1908; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth142572/m1/7/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.