The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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KNOX COUNTY NEWS.
•WK TIEACH THE PEOPLE, AND OUR MOTTO IHi «KNOX CITY FIB8T, THE WORLD AFTKI
VOL. 5.
KNOX CITY, KNOX COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1909.
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DEAR OLD SANTA CLAUS WILL ARRIVE IN KNOX CITY TONIGHT
INTENSIVE FARM-
ING PROFITABLE
Mniih Retter Results In Farm-
ing Are Attained fey tfes
Scientific Methnd
MUSICAL RECITAL BY MISS KATE PRIN6LE cold WEATHER
IS COÜTÜS
Tf!9 Flowing is the Program By Pringle and P pi!s
At Setal Auditorium an Last Tuesday Evening
REPEATED TESTS PROVE IT!
The Galveston-Dallas News is Ottering a
Cash Prize for the Best Article
Written by a Farmer.
The fact that intensive farm-
ing is the most profitable farm-
ing is proven by the fact that
it is the only method by which
the man who farms land valued
at $50 to $800 an acre can make
money, especially if the land be-
longs to another. This is done
in innumerable instances, as, for
instance, near the larger cities
and in the denser populated sec-
tions of this and other countries.
If intensive methods of farming
can be made to pay on land of
proportionately lower price.
A campaign has been inaugur-
ated by The Galveston-Dallas
News for the purpose of imjjress-
ing upon the people of Texas and
the Southwest generally the im-
portance as well as the satisfac-
tion and profit that Tire"tXie re-
sults of intensive farming. For
many years The News preached
in season and out of season the
necessity for the diversification
of crops. The press of the State
generally took up the slogan,
with the result that the farmers
of the State are much better off
than they otherwise would have
been.
Intensive farming necessarily
includes diversification, as The
News has stated, for the reason
that to intensify it is necessary
to grow as many crops on the
same land in a season as possible.
This of course necessitates the
planting of different crops; so
that diversification is a part of
the intensive system of farming,
and intensive farming means
simply the best farming. Or, as
The News defines it, "Getting
the largest yields and greatest
profits from a given area of
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Accident Han-
pens tn Bevs
On last Suiiday morning L. 0.
Porter, Jr. and Clinton Bailey
were out on the awning around
the First National Bank dipping
up snow and melting same.
The Rogers boys, passind along
began snow-balling the boys on
the awning and ran them back
into the house. Porter and Bai-
ley^ however, were game and
started baek again. Bailey got
out, Porter following, but just
as he touched the awning it gave
way and the boys went tumbling
and scrambling to the cement
sidewalk below.
The boys were somewhat
bruised and scratched „but aftsr
a few days use of walking canes
are well again.
J March from Tannahaueser - R. Wagner
M isses Pringle and Pierce
2 Song .... Merry Xnias Morn
8 Friendship Waltz - - - R. Streablog
Miss Kathleen Chapman
4 My Mama's Waltz ... R. Streablog
Miss Vivian Armstrong
5 My Papa's Waltz - R. Streablog
Miss Fay Bennett
6 Song Santa Claus
Miss Christine Rigsbee ,
7 The March of the Gnomes - R. E. DeReef
Miss Mable Benedict
8 Tam O'Shanter - . - G.W.Warren
Miss Agnes Morgan
9 March of the Sages - - - Matthews
Miss Lillie Pringle
10 Recitation A Christmas Feast
Miss Ruby Warren
11 With Bugle and Drum - Geo. L. Spaulding
¡ Mr. Hagan Thomasson
12 The Summer Girl - - Chas. Lindsey
Miss Lona Cargill
18 Quartette - Old Black Joe
1 Pixies Sliding Down Hill - A. L. Brown
Miss Carrie Belle Lanier
15 Merry Games - - . - G. B. Frate
Miss Alma Favor
16 Fable A. Schmoll
Miss Leone Branton
17 Red Roses .... Carl W. Kern
Miss Gracé Benedict
18 Sweet Bye and Bye - - W. C. Stier
Miss Runette Rigsbee
10 Valse ..... Matthews
Misses Minnie and Ruby Warren
20 Our First Waltz - - - Chas. Gabriel
Miss Clara Stovall
21 Song
Mr. Ross Rogers
22 Sweet Kiss Polka
Miss Altha Walker
23 Recitation
Mr. Wylie Boyle
24 The Young Guardsman
Mrs. W. C. Wright
25 The Twittering of Birds
Miss Minnie Warren
26 Goodnight Song
"Roses"
Chas. Tinkel
Birth of Christ
This SpBii oía! ¡su uii Decem-
ber 4th, and i i f esent
is Tweniv Days
COLDEST WE&THcii IN YEARS!
G. B. Frate
R. Billema
Class
The
Farmers' State Bank
Í
The Freeze and the Snow That Accompan-
the Cold Weather is Great tor
Next Year's Crops.
As a climax of the coldest six-
teen day period experienced in
West Texas for some years, the
thermometer dropped to t he low-
point reached this winter on
Monday morning. It. then start-
ed a slow climb with a forecast
of warmer weather Tuesday.
December will he the coldest
one ever recorded hv the weath-
er burean. The cold weather
continued through the week with
the low mark on Thursday. Then
there was a slight advance in
temperature, but only for a day,
and then the cold weather start-
ed in again.
Abilene was the coldest point
in the southwest Monday morn-
ing, the temperature at that
point. «egisteHnji 2ib above
zero.
The snowfall accompanying the
present cold spell is another re-
markable feature of the storm,
it being the heaviest that there
is a record of at the weather bu-
reau for December of any year.
The total is three inches. Fri-
day night the snowfall measured
two inches accorking to the
weather bureau record, which
was followed by a one-inch fall
Saturday night.
The results from the storm for
1910 can hardly be estimated at
this time. That they will be
great is claimed by stockmen and
farmers. The recent rains, the
present freeze and the mantle of
snow that covers a large portion
of the state has put the ground
in better condition for crops of
all king, grass and water supply
than it has been for years, and
with anything like a seasonable
rainfall after crops are planted a
record yield is expected.
Por Safety
and
Accomodation
Ward Brians
Eagle to Tsün
Mr, Marvin Wan I who lives
about three miles north of hero
carne into our office Tuesday af-
ternoon carrying under his arm
a huge American Eagle. He
measured it while here in the
office and it measured seven feet
from tip to tip. It was a mon-
ster bird with monster claws and
beak. It was the first and only
eagla we have seen in this west-
ern country.
This huge bird was killed five
miles northwest of hero by Mar-
vin Ward and B. F. Sawyer.
They state that the eagle when
first shot fell over but when they
approached it began flighting,
and five shots were flired befono
* the eagle was killed.
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Fox, Joe. The Knox County News (Knox City, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909, newspaper, December 24, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth179014/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.