The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1909 Page: 6 of 8
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e close of business, June 2$, 1909.
RBSpURCES
liWiiiW'#***''nfyti. '■ -.jv -• i-v
secured and un-
1,941.2a
1 U. S. Bonds-t^secure cir-
culation.. 10,000.
PMmiums on U. 8. Bonds,,..., 462.
Banking house, Furniture,
*Mraxtt «g7
secured,.
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1,8808
17,057.06
Due from National B^nks
(not reserve agents)..^.
| Agents ■;. 13,212.22
fractional Paper Currency,^
" ' Nickels, and Cents....... 12.40
hR Lawful Money reserve in Bank, viz:
"if®; 'Specie..;, ,...'. $2,984.75
- Legal-tender notes.....$70.00 3,054 75
Redemption fund with y. S
mfffy SgWinrer (5 per cent 'of
J® I' «iiculation)V. 500.00
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mv<
Site
TOTAL $132,280.02
— LIABILITIES, -
T$h' <* Cajfital stock paid in $25,000.00
fmul 1 CHCI nA
lisp
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BEK ■' ' •
Surplus fund 1,500.00
Undivided Profits, less Ex-
cuses and Taxes paid 4,398 27
ional Bank No,tes out-
IndiviJual Deposits sub-
ject to eheck......
no arj nr .
7o,tj&4.to
Time Certificates of Deposits... 17,727.00
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i'; | Total $182,280.02
State of Texas, County of Crosby, ss:
I, Edgar Allen, Cashier of the above-
named bank, do solemnly swear that
the above statement is true to the best
of my knowledge and belief.
.'<rf Edgar Allen, Cashier
i Subscribed and sworm "to before me
this 25 day of June, 1909.
" " ■ Will F. Ezell,
Gdupty Clerk, Crosby County, Texas.
Correct—Atjtest:
4 E, B. Covington,
J. W. Carter
J. C. Woody
,, Directors.
The Country Paper
Tn no afitivit,y_,t,hp,re haa -heen
r*?;'
more progress during the last
twentv years than that of the
country newspaper. There are
nowliundreds of country news-
papers which, in editorial ability,
mechanical appearance, and all
that contributes to inspire re-
spect arid command attention are
fully abreast of their metropoli-
tan cbjitemporaries in moral tone
m
_Basa most of the great "dailies
j In times pasUthe country editor
Was generally regarded with half
lying contempt as a good-na-
but chicken-hearted chron-
in-consequential locals.
All of .this has been changed.
Country newspapers, as a class,
yield the mightiest influence in
the nation^ The editors are men
kv ~6f character,and enterprise, do-
t t ing more for the community for
fgrtjess money than any other body
mM of workers. —Ex. «
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• Suicide In Park
Pallas,
45 years old:
jnthe city
!—W. H. Paxton,
committed suicide
today by shooting himself thru
1111 tfyii heart with a revolver. It is
x -aapposed that despondency over
business affairs was theC cause.
Pockets
(By John A Jay n el
your, name
'how to" play
poker" in the pockets of a min-
ister of the gospel.
It is to be expected that boys
passing through the greefi and
callow age will have in their
things from which -either the
worst or the beat might be infer-
red, but the things that a man
has in his pockets will tell very
edttPrtgfe they -sur-"Har"gely'^iml ofaman he is.
Over in Kentucky a number of
The average modern man has toother, in addition to being com-
;
mr:
found
,
years ago a young college stu-
dent of splendid reputation was
found dead on the outskirts of
the city where he was attending
school. All through the three
years that he had been in college
he had carried the name of being
one of the cleanest and beat
young men in the community.
But when his body was found, in
his pockets were discovered from
youpgwomen of lewd character,
letters that were couched in ,the
most degrading , of language,
arid referring to the most abom-
inable practises. There were al-
so found pictures of a debasing
nature and stories and poetry of
had hoodwinked the people with
whom he boarded and his most
intimate associates. In his death
his pockets revealed him in his
true colors. When these things
were discovered society , was
shocked, his associates dumb-
founded, \ while his father and
Je^st fourteen pockets Tn
In these pockets,
gp tbat are in them
the story of what the
i has been doing in the past,
iff tedayv ahd~wh«t
do in
peUed to bear the sorrow of his
death, were obliged to bear the
igma and shame of having a
son whose instincts were bestial,
degraded and low.
What pbeksrst
rh the things'that are
ets he carries his
papers and
old letters and clippings
there.
lation of rubbish which you have
long since forgotten. Many a
man in gding through his pockets
6 n®ws= 8fstematicalTy has discovered
long-lost articles. Perhaps you
do not know what you have ik
You had better know, for
tf mi mpjp '
as no man knows "what an hour
may bring forth," the things
ypu have there might incriminate
you were you found in delicate
po&itions; or .picked up dead on
the streets.
. Pockets are a necessity to mod-
ern man. He cannot get along
without them. But there is no
need that he should have them
cluttered with tfiings that are
worthless, debasing and wicked.
There are so many good things
that cheer, inspire and encourage
in addition to helping him keep
tah en- hi^ '' busi ne^at that -a - man
shouldTsee to it that these only,
are in his pockets.
What are in.your pockets today ?
ing on your person to indicate
or residence, .the
you had in your ppcltets
wouid give a vary- good idea of
the nature of work you had been
doing. - *. \ f
If youhappened to bean attor-
ney, doubtless you would have
briefs, suggestions, letters relat-
ing to your business. Probably
a digest of important laws and
many other things that would
lead the police, as they turned
the story over to the papers, to
an-at-
torney, was found on the streets
dead last night"
If you happened to be a physi-
cian there would be many . little
things, thermometers, hypoder-
mic syringes, pellets and pills,
together with a glossary of med-
ical terms that would reveal much
relative to your personality and
work in life.
Or get at the proposition from
another point of view. Suppose
for any reason you should come
under the surveillance of the po-
a suspicious person. The things
found hr your pockets would tett
largely what kind of z rrian you
were. It would not be expected"
that if you were an upright and
honorable citizen that you would
have vulgar and obscene pictures
in your pockets. It would not
be expected that you would have
poetry, so-called, tnat had vic-
timized about your person. 'Nei-
ther would you have poetry so-
called, thnt told of wicked and
vicious acts committed by licen-
tious men. If you were all that
you claimed to_be, your pockets
would beir TETOng evidence of
•6 • * •
your statements. You would
hardly expect to find a bible in
the pocket of a shell game man
or a phamphTeT on
HARVEST QUEEN MILLS
WANTS YOUR WHEAT
Highest Market Price We Need It
PLAINVIEW,
T E X-A
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Crosbyton, Texas
(Stanjford and Nort western
Stamford, Tex., June29.- The
work on the Stamford North-
western is still being pushed with
every possiWe zeal and with the
present headway a new record
may be set in railroad building
in this section. Three months
ago Chief Engineer Burns stated
at Double
Mountain Fork of the Brazos
River by the 4th of July. This
is fourteen miles west of-Asper-
mont. He will reach that noint
by.Thursday of this week and
the construction, work will^reach
the river by the 1st of July and
Work will begin- -on the bridge
across the river. It will require
about fifteen days to drive the
piles and about, thirty days to
complete the bridge. This will
be the longest bridge on the
road,
Train services will be inaugu:
gurated about the first of Sep-
tember although" the construc-
tion trains are running regularly
now.
Asnermont will gi.vfe 4©1-
u"
O. A. WOPFORO
CliNTIiAL
/.. T. RII.KY
Plains Land Company
/
WOFFORD & RILKY, M'CTRS.
ar Ouustions
A select list of the best and
cheapest lands on the Plains
Write us, No Trouble to Ans*ei
Prices ranging from $15. .up
one-fourth sections of first-class plains
land that we can sell for one-fourth cash, balance from
: to ten payments.
UOCKNKY, - iiiXAS
one
-Jy
ebration on July 7 and 8, because
of the advent of the railroad in-
to the town. This.tovyji has but
recently been incorporated and
Stonewall county, of which As-
permont is the county seat, will
hold an election on July 10 to de-
cide whether or not $50,000 in
bonds shall be issued for the con-
struction of a courthouse and
JaTTT ^
--TANKS-
WE BUILD THEM
Any size you want. 1
We built yours for Crosbyton—
look at it. We can make anything
that is made of sheet material.
Dick's Tin Shop
'Phone 209.
Plainview, Texas.
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Impossible To Please Every-
body
There never was a pneacher or
president, a poet or a politician
who ca'n please everbody. There
never was a thinker, a tinker or
a tailor, pr a soldier or a sailor
who could suit all. Show us a
doctor, a lawyer, a merchant or
an editor who pleases the whole
multitude if you can! The Lord
himself and all the angels of
heaven have never half succeeded
in comforting the human race.
This is a heterogeneous old
'world anyway, while there are
some who-are "apparrently born
isagfee and "find fault witF
1000 Choice Young Sheep For Sale
Call on me or write me at Peters-
burg, Texas, and put in your claim
at once if you want Sheep.
You will have to hurry if you want
first choice.
D. R. BAILEY, Petersburg, Tex.
t'ci
the , balance of mankind. The
thing- to do is to do the best you
can with the opportunities you
have at your command, and wor-
ry not over the criticism and in-
gratitude of your fellows.—
Greferiyille (tex.) Democrat.
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n Hale Center To Celebrate
The engineer in charge of the
construction work on the Santa
Fe branch from Plainview has
promised that the first train oyer
the n&W1 ine wjtt run ;Thto Hale
Center in ample for the big
e may be an accumu* -Uelebration to be held in Hale
Center July lft and Ifr in* honor
of the otfeasf^nv 1^ Sale "Center is
one of, th<^ older tbwnsof tlFie
that section
is thickly settled and a big at-
tendance's anticipated, at the
celebration,
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CROSBYTON LOTS FOR
SALE-
Residence Lots $10. to $80.
l Business Lots $35. to $600.
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Crosbytoil, Texas
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 8, 1909, newspaper, July 8, 1909; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242144/m1/6/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.