The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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I. He says a great saving
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iabl.es him to sell at a ., He announced his purposes ;to-
. once tear dowjff the frame
whereViroods
•e purchased in small ship- buildings and parts of buildings
on the' site; tp put an end to
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- The firm will be known as the
Crosby ton Furniture Company
*nd they will, be located in the
,,,. v? JJUison building just north of the
Review office, / '"J,.
* Mr. Walker is a young man
has
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to restore the ditch and inclose
it, even if" he had to make a
fight for theiSame, and to make
such excavations and examine
tions as would shed light upon
the stone work which should be
,, . „ _ expeneneeait
^ui^itureTme^:7 He will be^ t^ke fall responsibilfty for all of
this. _ - '
At the conclusion of the hear-
ing he invited all present to ac-
company him to the Alamo,
wheie he-pointed out what he
expected to do at this juncture,
jie said he could not do -much in
the way of restoration with the
$5,000 at his disposal, but he
pledged himself to restore the
buildings while Governbr of
Texas, if he could get the money
to do it, even ff it cost $50,-000.
F. W. Collins of San Antonio,
proprietor of the firm:
• T;f I^Te are glad" to' have
furniture establishm<
iisgCriijibyton and hope for the
Company a most profitable busi-
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Grows Anything /
recently^ said:
. ..."The Texas Panhandle will
growao^good wheat as Minne-
sota or Wisconsin; as good flax
as the two Dakotas; as good
. watermelons and cantaloupes as
^-iorado, as goood sweet pota
toes as anywhere else, as good
„ fruits as Michigan or New Jer-
1 sey, as good corn and. hogs as
Illinois and Iowa, as good mules
,ucky ox Missouri, as good
™^-rdon vegetables for markers
- "the present best track farms in
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United States, will produce hens
that will, lay longer, and cackle
less than any others in Uncle
• Sam's poultry yards, and^-last,
but ' it, has cane that ts to
' -roye as valuable as a molasses
producer as it is a stock ftedeV or
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San-Antonio, Tex.,. Dec.. 30.-
%% sidering the future of the Alam^|R||IIH|R||H
^ ^property,Oov. Colquitt ve?xlThere ome of-
. early announced that he stood tion however, who disagree with
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t he recognized both
i^jjMitheMbptS
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icl^ring that
he sought information was as to
condition was. It
iMj^impractfcable, said;
lie suggestion that
ihgs he pat in the (con-
dition they were subsequent to
the battle, for in such condition
they Would decay.
He rejected the idea of de-
molishing the monastery or con-
vent, or Hugo Schmeltzer build
creating a memorial park, saying
that the^AJp^ . Dmidnjgs; them-
selves Were a greater memorial
to the valor bf the heroes of the
Alamo than would be a park and
a shaft 7,000 feet High.
main object and Drincipat busi
ness of the haeeting was in re-
ference to the; county seat mat-
commercial uses of the property^ hut this was by np means
president of the association of
the Natives of the Republic, of
Texas, said he Would contribute
$500 toward restoration of the
monastery or fortress building,
and • expressed the conviction
that a great deal of money could
be raised for that purpose in
Texas. The members of the or-
ganization, Jie—declared^- -were
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unanimous for restoration.
At the conclusion of the hear-
ing and the inspection of the
property, both sides-wSiPrpleased
'ith the Governor's attitude,
one being confident thaJLafter_he
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..Monday Mr.- a^y^Tohnsoi
had circulars printed and distri/
buted announcing a public mee
building.- - Before the peaking
closed
molQgjst, whp b! J®
Crosbyt^f; was " invited to ajdr
dress the! meeting ^and made a
most:
ing in (Jrosbyton Monday night
The espec'rally napnounced pur-
pose of the meeting was to head most interesting talk on his work,
fully cdurt decisioir tflf j Elsewhere in this issue is ah
the county Seat: matterand; to 'article re^tiye^to the_ visit of
take up other things of general Jiid^e Gough to the " state corn
concerri ^o the comi^inity.^^: :;|_ggQwe;rs meeting.,and his success
h£in siting milp
be^t. attended meetihgs in the
history of Crosbyten, and was a
fine meeting in many respects.
It was a meeting the results of This matter Was discussed at
which will, in many respects lead^ leo^h at this meeting,ilnd will
up to other things of great bene-' be taken up in earnest as a part
fi| to the town. Of cpui'se _the -^^^^wprkA
corn admitted on an equal basis
with indian corn in tfM great
contests to bev -l^Id"'hereafter.
seat |t was pointed out by Mr.
Woody and others that the peo-
ple should now assist m-themat-
the only matter given attention, j ter jq|ore libeiw.lly tftah they had
Judge^L. Gough presided. The
first speaker called >for was
Judge-Burton. He; fiilly explain-
ed the county seat"fightt and set
forth tb^grounds upon which the
deci^flwas rehtter^- fthd dis^' ^oic^-the^-sentiment of^ the
was the meeting, when he emphatically
mistake of the court. The case
was. ...reversed,; and rendered on
the ground that. .Emma was
within therequired^iimit. With
declared that he-had no unkind
feeling toward the boys "on the
other side, and that the only way
to conduct this fight was to do it
this feature of thex«ase-©ur peo- .fair %nd square. He said if- the
has removed the frame structurer
he will proceed to restore the
two buildings to the condition in-, I ..
which, they believe they were % reorKamza the commercial
pie are familiar, though Judge
©u^n threw some interesting
and, to & layman, hew light on
the subject.? Judge Burton also
stated that Vthe case/ would be
fought to the last ditch in the
courts. A motion will be made
for a rehearing before the court
of appeals at. .Amarillo. _This
must be done within fifteen days.
Failing to get a new hearing the
case will be appealed to the su-',
preme court. It will probably
ba.six months before' the case is
finally decided.
w? Following Judge Burton, J. C.
Woody, J.. M. Bassett," Judge
Gough,... William Lamar,x -Prof.
Burke and Mr. Cherbonnier
h inter'e ling talks, these
talks touching ppon the "court
house question but in a great
measure dealing vvith numerous
questions -of vital. ,concern to the
community, for this was a get-
together and get-busy meeting.
It was decided to have a regular
monthly meetin , of the citizens.
just be Core the battle, , the others
being satisfied, in the first place,
with the tearing away of the
frame .parts of" the structures,
and believing, in the second
conie^
conditio!
their fellows as to the wisdom of
bearing down the frame buildings
Jefore fuhds..are in t , hand to re
. . within'the cohtrot"of!the" State,
t > | and not for the destruction or
: | -i,i|te^o( ■ tt, save
liOQSfi. muueia structures which . . m
have been added for commercial posed toward restoring and uar? buTwarpostponed and"ar-
- buildings upon4"
mi . S *vvv UUMU.USB upvu
,e scope Of the in- the Alamo grounds. r-Tom Einty,
JiaJJIs jjjijM
J. Moore visited, in Emma
' B.W. Mitchcll Ie'?t Crosby ton
club, to help the farmers insti-
tute along, and to take up other
matters pertaining to the social
and industrial welfare of the
community. The date fixed for
the_public. meetings is the first
Thursday, in each month, these
meetings to be at the school
In the matter ot
everyone betore. All the talks
along^this line were. absolutely
from- viridlctiveness or the
manifestation bf .ill-feeling to-
ward- any one. Mr. Bassett
Other side could win by this
one to'feet'hard towardtKem for
it was a business proposition,and
he liked a man that,stood up for
whathethoughtLwasJightand
fought to the last ditch. He
said that if. all the people 6f
Crosbyton and Crosby county
would stick fe^^er^and. work
las the little company .fighting
;^Prthe^t1-C^sb3?t^v:side had
done, there was no measure 'to
the great results that could be
accomplished, v It is certainly a
greaf-'cornpiiment to the high
mindedness of Crosby ton people
when a big meeting can be held,
an unkind word spoken of the
opposition, this is simply the
spirit in which Crosbyton has
made this fight and it is the
spirit that shall prevail' to the
last, win or lose. 1 '
RPHHRHL.^ • regiL- -
was in charge of Captain Wallace.
• f he rfirst battaiHoa has been
located at Lbs Banss and the sec:
orfd andlhirdrbattallio^
at Fort HcKi
were brought loget
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United States.
JThey left Manilla. e'arly in De-
cember and lafided at San. Fran-
a voyage of about onemonth.:
The soldiers were given an
opportunity to see Amarillo today
and they ^vailed themselves of
the opportunity, They attracted
a great deal of attention as they
took in the city in ones,twos or iir
The five y oung Fi lipinos, An tea
Paradea, Guillermo Mohico, Sone-
iago Upana, Pedro Paduc£L^and
found
Messrs, Dansan and Almaca at-
tracted special attention.''
ThF%oldiers of the regimept,
almbist invaribly expressed tirenP"
selves as well pleased with the
service, and their trip to the Phil-;
ipines. and complimented their
superiorofficers and the care and
attention given them by, .U^ncle
Samgenerally. ^ Amarillo Herald
Inspector Is Investigating.
District Immigration Inspector
: :E, R. Dilworth of the United
States service, was in Dallas yes-
terday. He4sassigned-4o the
territory for all Northwestern
Texas, in th^Ne^f1 Thursday
morning he ?av? the story from
Mineola of 'theirejghtfW^ckah^
the finding of six Chinamen in a
lockf d and sealed box^ car. ^ He
prpmptlFgbt busy in the matter
and will endeavor to find- out all
about the Chinamen, their des-
tination and journey and their
right to be in the United States.
Mr. Dilworth is now in. Fort
Worth headquarters', having
come in October, from Laredo,
where Me was in Service foriortm
years and throughout the Mexico
revolutionary troubles. ' He waS1
reared in East Texas,.about sev '
1 enty-five miles from Dallas.
* Of the Mexican trouble he sai
that there was little real fightinj
or disturbance at or neariaredo
"but he' said tuat the presence o
three armies gave a military ap\
pearance to the country. ;'The
Unites Strtes troops^were in and
about Xaredo, th,e Mexican Fed-j
eral army in or>ear Neuvo _ m
redo, and the M^ejistas making; ^ Lf L
most of. the excitement.
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"A commiltec composed of J.
C. Woody, J. A. Caldwell, Mr.
McKinnon, John K^.., Fullingim*
juid Dr. Carter: was appointed
to take up the County seat con-
test matter, and "to take such
action as they deemed . right and
proper. This committee . may.
have, something. interesting to
report and present to our people
within a short tin e.
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installation and Supper.
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public installation of officers and
oyster ; supper Saturday night
TiVkh . ? '1 OHi: ^ imtallnfinn
rangeiherits are being made for
the-same to take place on the
date-®,boye mentioned. Oysters
dered and a good speech will be
New Hotel for Lubbock
Lubbock, Tex., Jan. 27.- Plans
are - how practically '* perfected
or a seventy-five room hotel for
ubbock/ This'hotel will be a
©del structure Jn every respect,
BnHdmi' *
one of the most convenie
ml
... :
Gallveston,
,^For the
ed to a few
icks" M
snow ball battles and the
who We ..lived Tvin "the North
ill/commence at once, and the
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F, I.;Case Plow Co.: J
son, Managet of the
'Company: Will I.uun «n5
grapher, W. R. (graves;
- e of the CJ3 Live- Stc
■^nd dropout:"
division.to,,witness v..v a> w«g -:
of the two-big J. L-CaseEngines '
whice were pulling eight plows
each with a nine foot packer be-
hind the plows, each > plow ctt- ;
Ung 14 inches.
of. the
busily engaged getting the plows
'ready -%r
Onelbf these _eng
horse, power machine,
J. A, Aberhafty,^ahd" t
chme, belongs to H
Hamilton, sold by Mr.
view.
The eightv plows are pulled
With all ease by these engines .
and will average, breaking about *
25 acres per day each. In
off their lands, ^the" drive
these machines take a half sec-
tion at a..land«|SHI
Thiais what we. call putting
Wm 5^1 .
land in • cultivation. These two
sides this, there .are several
teams at work breaking s od on
this divisibr^of ^ Company^
as the- Company is I
putting in eight thousand , M
of sod land, and the Jv l. Case
engines and plows will do a big
' irt of the work.
This eight thousand^. ,
land an#,nbe two thousand
,cres of old land that i
any alrea
will make,them a nice little
thousand acre farm. .• •;
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. Aiwit) be remet
week's Review, there was ai
tiiderelative toMrrFlinS "
ing stabbed with jat,'
f!eT8#g1ad toslate
SgXgfcSl and
Jmptove "ir
three or fbur days,
.ble ^ ain.
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White, Frank E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1912, newspaper, February 1, 1912; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242268/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Crosby County Public Library.