The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1908 Page: 4 of 8
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THE RANDALL COUNTY NEWS. DECEMBER 4. J908.
The Randall County News
Published Every Fri.lay. I
Tlic Ncwh Publishing Company
K. A. Tcrrill Manager Editor
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Loon freights 11 nd trains Nos. HT imd .Vidoti't
run mi Sunday.
Wabbly and Weak
Versus
Solid and Strong.
Vator can't risu above Its level.
Nor can a community rise above tha
level of its citizenship.
If the citizens are ukwariu limp
iunl lazy the town will be wishy-
washy wabbly and weak.
If the citizens have VERTEBRA
VIM AND VIGOR the town will be
ftibstantlal solM ami strong.
Let's all brace up cd wuke this
town of ours a place of energy ambi-
tion and enterprise.
Would waterworks sewerage
and a tire department benefit the
town? Think about it a little.
How do you like Randall coun-
ty anyhow? If you like it well
enough to stay here be sure and
tell everyone you meet that you
like it that well. Jf you don't
like it sell out and move. Then;
are plenty of people who will buy
your property if you will place a
reasonable valuation on it.
Hereford is putting in a sys-
tem of sewerage that would be a
credit to a much larger town and
still Hereford is not as favorably
situated for the installation of
such a system as our town is and
yet we have taken no steps to-
wards getting such an enter-
prise started. Hereford is not
the only hustling town in the
Panhandle which is tackling this
projiosition of health b3' sewer-
age. Many a man thinks that lie is
doing well enough but still he
works and labors for a little
more of the world's coin. He is
willing to sacrifice his health and
uluiost everything else in order
to accumulate more wealth. If
we would use just a little energy
in getting a fire protection for
our town we would mutually as-
sist each other in protecting
what we ulready have.
We understand that some ob-
jection has been raised to the
moVing of the wixulen store
building now occupied by The
Leader. There is not a vacant
store room in the city and the
owners of the building desire to
move the present building out
into the street until they can
build a brick building in the
place of the wooden one. Now
it seems to us that if the propo-
sition was looked at in the right
manner every citizen of the town
would sign a petition to let every
wooden store building in the city
In moved out into the streets
around the square if the owners
would agree to build bricks in
their place giving them four or
live months at this season of the
year in which to build the new
buildings. Certainly let's have
the new brick buildings at a few
days or months exiK-nse of the
ltxiks of things.
Kspeeial attention is called to
an article in an other column of
this paper entitled "An Epitaph
to Railroads" contributed by one
of our citizens. While there may
be parts of it which do not ex-
actly express the sentiments of
this editor still in the main it
contains sentiments that are in
accord with what this editor
thinks and he is not ashamed
of what he thinks either. The
condition exists so we might as
well face it and be done with it.
(Juess the jieople of this town
think that a lire destroying some
of our most valuable property
would materially assist in warm-
ing things up a little during this
bad weather but it would be very
undesirable to have to get out
and light a tire with the present
facilities. What if we should
have a big fire in the business
section? Wouldn't we have a
time trying to tight it?
! US AND SOME OTHERS j
0ft
Depending on Railroads.
In every developing section of
the union there is dependence on
the building of new railroads
Towns exist almost entirely on
them some towns have nothing
to recommend them except their
railroad facilities and the busi
ness that comes from having
hundreds of families of employes
of the roads. These are the
fortunate towns that have the
shops etc. As a rule these are
dependable tilings for years.
Hereford is placing more and
more dependence on the coming
of the C. H. v. (. and the location
of the headquarters and shops
in the city. There is no reason
to think that there will be any
disappointment in this connec-
tion. IJut if the unexpected
should happen then what?
Hereford Democrat.
Your good people will just get
out and hustle some more and
inhke people know that Deaf
Smith county and the city of
Hereford would make a good
place to live whether you get the
raiiroad or not. Railroads are
good things for the country we
are trying to get a new one in
our county but if you cannot get
the railroad get to work and get
something that is better a lot of
good fanners to till your soil if
possible get a man and his fam-
ily on every eighty acres in your
county and you will .see the rail-
mad hustling to get to you. You
will get all the railroad facilities
you need if you get the farmers
thick in the country.
Greenville I'anner: The build-
ing of a city can not be accomp-
lished in a night. There is no
Aladdin lain)) process known to-
day which will cover hills with
the habitations of men in the
twinkling of an eye. It takes
work hard exacting labor to
build cities as well as fortunes.
Sacrifices must be made that the
future may build safely and with
precision. The people who learn
this lesson would go about the
work before them with diligence
and an eye single to the well-
being and advancement of their
city which means their indivi-
dual advancement and proser-
ity; there4 would be much Im-
provement industrially and corn-
niercially such a forward move-
ment as few cities have known.
City building is a hard long
sometimes discouraging and
often thankless task. Cities are
collections of big things and the
collection of enough big things in
one locality to make a city is a
tremendous undertaking one too
large for any single individual or
any number of individuals work-
ing at cross purposes. Only by
concerted combined and con-
stant effort by the whole body of
citizens in a town can such town
be metamorphosed into a real
city. Dallas News.
Our experience in city building
has been limited but our obser-
vation is that a few "natural ad
vantages" coupled with lots of
grit and determination some
iret-un-atul-liustie will ma ice a
city where places with more ad
vantages do not make them
Anyhow the larger per cent of
the start is caused from good
live hustling work and just a
little money judiciously spent.
HAVE YOU ANY SENSE?
Randall County News Asks Pertinent Questions
and Makes Some Plain Talk.
It is not often that a news
paper editor puts such a hard
question to the people of a town
as the Randall County News
man did last week to the Canyon
City folks. He jumps the usual
bonds of editorial license and
comes out using the personal
pronoun "I"' so that there is no
mistake as to who is re-
sponsible for the question; in
fact the lively lick that the new
editor of The News has beenhit-
ting since he took up a Texas
pencil does not give him time to
stop long enough to use the
threadbare editorial "we"' which
is fast becoming obsolete but he
talks straight out. The Hrand
admires the way The News has
been touching up tilings at the
head of the Panhandle Canyon.
May the noise he is making re-
sound down the canyon and re-
echo until the whole Plains coun-
try catches the tune. Hut read
what he has to say to the Can-
yon folks. Does it apply to
Hereford?
You may think you have but
really have you any sense? I do
not mean high-faluting book
learning but that oldtime horse-
sense which taught our fore-
fathers to take care of their own
interests. Now not much of that
commodity has been shown in
this town lately and this editor
wants to make you think about
it. Do you not think it would be
exercising very good judgment
for the city to protect its prop-
erty from tire?
Don't you think the town
ought to take steps toward the
installation of a small water-
works and sewerage system? If
this town amounts to anything
in this wide world we will have-
to have these things and why not
have them now so that we may
enjoy them as well as have the
protection of property and health
which is essential to our well be-
ing? Randall Co. News.
The Hereford Hrand thus com-
ments upon an editorial in a re-
cent number of the News. The
editor of this paper used the
word "I"' because he wanted to
be held strictly responsible for
the article. He is willing to as-
sume every responsibility for
any editorial appearing in the
paper as he writes every one of
them after careful consideration
and only trusts that they may
have some effect upon the people
of our city and county.
What is it about this country
that makes people so crazy to
move here? Is it cheap land or
something else? We must know
that it is a combination of at-
tractive things. Iw prices alone
would not do it neither would all
manner of strong attractions if
the prices on land were high.
Having the prices right and more
other good things than any other
portion of the continent there is
no reason why the Panhandle
should not pull people from
every where. Hereford D e m o-
crat.
People are not crazy for want
ing to move to this country.
They are only exercising the
most moderate sort of goid judg-
ment. Haven't you been a resi
dent of this section of the state
long enough to know that we
have' the finest climate the fin-
est lands the surest crops the
best jieople and a host of Jive
energetic hustling people who
can get out ana let me worm
know that this is a good country
to live in? People are naturally
going to the most advertised
place and when they get there
and find that the description has
not been over-drawn they are
well satisfied and immediately j
begin to scatter the good news
An Epitaph to Railroads.
Editor News:
I have watched with admira-
tion your repeated efforts to
arouse the sleeping energies and
to instill some reasonable ambi-
tion in them to make this place a
veritable city and I realize your
keen sadness when you fail to
see sufficient response to such
efforts. That the people of Can-
yon City are dead to all reason-
able hope or effort to become
more than a way station on a
single railway and to remain an
insignilicent retail village for a
small scope of sparsely settled
territory is evident to all ob-
servers. There is but one thing that I
can recall for which our jieople
may justly claim to be distin-
guished and that is their pecu-
liar ability and success in side-
tracking every enterprise where
their aid and encouragement is
necessary. They or the com-
mittee into whose hands it falls
simply run the proposed enter-
prise into a hole and then pull
the hole in after it- This is a
hard saying but it is true and
"pity 'tis 'tis true.''
I am reminded that molasses
is better than vinegar to catch
Hies with but J am not baiting
! for Hies now I am simply heart-
Isick at the woeful negligence and
indifference of our people to the
splendid opportunities they are
neglecting to become a sure
enough city of ten or fifteen
thousand in a few years. The
conditions recall the soliloquy of
a great poet:
"Of all the sad words of tongue
or pen
The saddest are these it might
have been.''
Why is it that Canyon City
with more "natural advantages'
than any other county se;it on
this great Plains Count ry is to-
day behind any other one situ-
ated on a railway? There is a
reason for this sad condition of
things.
The talk of the railroad south-
east from this place is silly the
enterprise is dead killed by the
committee who could not swing
it. Sad but true.
All further agitation of this
enterprise is well described by
the Dallas Dutchman when asked
the result of certain ridiculous
pretensions he replied "It ish
all vind dot ish all." The fel-
lows who have advanced the ask-
ing price of their lands along the
proposed line will likely use
"cuss words'" when they realize
that they can not sell next spring
at what they could have got be-
fore the proposed road was men-
tioned. The great trunk line from
northwest to southeast and the
Gulf was and may yet be within
our grasp but is it not prefer-
able that Amarillo Hereford
Tulia or Plainview whocs live
men intend that each place shall
become a city should have this
great trunk and other line's it
will bring?
"Ou r natural advantages" with-
out cultivation or utilization is
our Siren Song.
If this is knocking the harder
it hits the better it will be.
.Jasim;k N. Hanky.
Not Heaven.
An Hast Texas editor died and
after he had entered the great
Heyond saw the sights of his
eternal abode and cxicrienced
the thrill of his reward he said
disappointedly: "I can't see
that Heaven is very much better
than Kast Texas after all."
"Hut this Is not Heaven'' replied
11 bystander Kx.
See the Canyon Coal Company
for fresh maize c hops.
Wo are "-nine- to ffivi
"Buck" Kanjjo it vvill cook ami lmke just like a
!. ne--to the little girl under fourteen years of
ago who hrintfs to our store on or before Decem-
ber 24 at noon the greatest number of our ads
containing- a "Duck's" trade mark. So save this
ad and get as many others as you can. ou may
be the winner.
Thompson Hardware Co.
Advancing WE KXDKAYOB to advance !
. the business interestsof our !
customers in every legitimate i
Interests way. In so doing our motives I
may be somewhat tinctured with i
selfishness for upon the pros-
perity of its patrons hinges the i
success of every bank.
j
Y THE j
t Canyon National Bank j
CANYON TEXAS. j
Protect Your Property
BY FIRE INSURANCE
Commonwealth Fire Insurance Company of Texas.
The Ijondon Assurance Corporation.
Fire Association of Philadelphia.
The Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company Philadelphia.
The Royal Exchange Assurance.
Philadelphia Underwriters.
Scottish Union & National Insurance Company.
Orient Insurance Company of Hartford.
The New Hampshire Insurance Co. of Manchester. N. II.
W. D. SCOTT AGENT
Office in the court house Canyon City Texas
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One car load yearling bulls.
Ten head two year old heifers with suitable bull.
Ten head yearling heifers with suitable bull.
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Terrill, R. A. The Randall County News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1908, newspaper, December 4, 1908; Canyon City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth323167/m1/4/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Randall+County%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .