The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1909 Page: 2 of 8
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Trip t« St Lovia.
I will give the readers of the
Hews a few more observations on
ply St. Louis trip. I will begin
at Kansas City and tell about what
I noticed on the Rock Island Route
and tell of a few things I saw on the
M.K. & T. Route as we came home.
One thing I notited at, Kansa
City was the Keely Institute sit-
uated on a perpendicular bluff about
100 feet high. I will guarantee
• that their patients will never get
drunk again if they happen to fall
out of a window on the bluff side
' of the house.
. The Rock Island runs for about
50 miles through a series of small
very irregular shaped montains
and then across a very fine Prairie
country for 50 or 60 miles, and then
into the mountains again.
' One thing that I noticed was
1^iat nearly all the land that was
clear of stones had been set', in
Tame grasses, blue grass, and tim-
othy mostly and say that one acre
of tame grass is worth more than 4
or 5 acres of their native grases
and besides it keeps their hillsides
from washing away. We will have
to begin that kind of farming here
sometime and I think the sooner the
better.
Anothert hing noticeable is the
large barns on the farms. They
save all they raise up there. If we
would follow their example in that
respect an ordinary drouth would
not bother us.
In the mountain region they are
cutting the second growth timber
clean. The timber runs in size all
the way from a hoop pole to 12 in-
ches in diameter. They are woking
it up in small wooden ware, stove
‘wood, cord wood, and charcoal and
... it is my opinion that when that tim-
ber is all worked up they wont be
able to keep up so many saloons.
. There was a Booster got on the
train at Kasas City and got off at
^^Fasailes Mt>/ wlnare he claimed he
■ was raised Well the way he did
brag on that Qountry made me get
. up and hustle to keep up with the
Texas Boosting. Here is one he told
me. He said they had a vieno f
channel coal at Versailes 17 foot
thick, very fine quality. I own
up I don’t know anything about
coal mines. So the^first chance I
got I asked some practical miners
about Hand they told me that a
vein of that kind of coal 12 inches
thick would be a good thing, and
that makes me sulspecious that the
Mo. Puke told me a lie that was at
least 16 feet thick and I am not sure
that I told one about Texas that
beat it.
There are many places where the
railway has been blasted out of the
face of a limestone bluff and there
is just barely enough room for the
train to pass aBd you can look out
of the window right down into the
water.
I noticed some fine groves of su-
gar maple trees. I also noticed
’ many places where a little later on
a fellow could “rest in the shade
of the old apple tree.” There.are
many beautiful cedars in tljose
mountains look like they had been
trimmed.
I saw persimmons groves,and sas-
afras thickets. A few paw paw-
bushes, and thousands of the moun-
tan dogwood with its snow white
flowers. I saw some spice wood
bushes, and goose berry bushes
growing by the roadide. I noticed
many wild flowers that I knew in
my boyhood days. Especially the
Johnnie Jump up, a hardy and
dainty little flower that comes as
soon as the frost is out of the
groud. I noticed many Mayapples
plants just spreadin themselves and
if I remember correctly they make
' the medicine called Podophyllin
out of May apple roots and I am
of the opinion that there is nothing
on earth that can beat that medi-
cine when it is given in good size
doses for making a mean boy pray
and wont to be good; it will not only
make him think his name is “Den-
nis,” but it will also make him
wish he had never been born. It
beats a hatful of green apples.
Some of your readers seem to
doubt my statement about the 1600
policemen, but it’s true all right.
They work 8 hours a day in 3
separate gangs and that makes
about 500 actually^on duty at a
time, and that is only one police-
man for every 1500 people. Not
enough at all times. They are by
recent count 63000 people in the city
46000 of them are negroes and the
negroes are steadily decreasing.
It seems they can’t stand the bad
air in the factories and other places
where they work.
I only noticed two buildings that
were 18 stories above the street
level. I saw one place where they
had tried to excavate for 5 stories
underground. They struck quick-
sand in an old creek bed and a 4-
story building alnog side of the ex-
cavation slipped into it.
There are 2-storiy shacks right
along side of modern sky'scrapers.
Usually the 2-story buildings
belong to non-residents who were
quietly letting other people in-
crease the value of their property.
They will neither sell nor improve.
On the M. K. & T. Ry. about 100
miles from the city on the top of a
limestone bluff about 50 or 100 feet
high there is an immense pile of
clean white sand, and they are run-
ning it through chutes down the
side of the bluff into the city cars,
and taking it somewhere to a glass
factory. Can the Nows tell us
how that sand got up their? We
came up 4he Missouri river to
Boonsville about 200 miles,and I
did not see a saloon sign on the
north side of the river about 40
miles from Jefferson we stopped for
dinner and I went out and talked to
the natives. They told me that
they had not raised any tobacco for
a long time until last year, a few
of them tried it and sold their crops
for $150 an acre. They raise wheat
and corn mostly. We stobped for
supper at Sedalia, a beautiful city
on the prairie, and that is where I
took the train for Texas Sept. 25th
1875. It looked like the same old de-
pot and not many changes around
it, so far as I could tell. I am not
writing these letters to interest
the fellow that has been there he
probably knows more about it than
I do. I am writing this letter be-
cause quite a number of the News
readers have asked me to tell them
more about the trip. I will prob-
ably write more about x^hen I get
time that will give the country
readers something to chaw on for a
month. Look out for it.
J. M. Storie.
TO PLANT THAT LATE CROP
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“that is a real Lister” ever sold on this market.
All factories are now making this type of LISTERS.
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Notice these special features: A direct Beam hitch to a “Real Beam.” Hitch high or ow.
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makes it the lightest Draft LISTER on the market.
The Repeater is a -‘Lister
and not a Planter with a
as an excuse for a Lister.
with a Planter” attached,
“sort” of an attachment
You will always find the “Latest and Best” at Denman’s. We have a large stock of Cultivators, with 12
styles to select from. Let us show you these before you buy.
We also carry a large stock of Wagons and Buggies. Good Goods bought
before the rise. We will make you good prices and liberal terms.
Saddle and Harness Goods. We can save you money. Let us figure your bill.
“We are the Farmers Closest and best Friend.”
L C DENMAN CO.
THE IMPLEMENT DEALERS
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JACKSBORO, \ * ' TEXAS.
Farmers Institute. *
Remember the date,4 ‘the first Mon-
day”. That is the day the farmers
institute meets at Jacksboro. We
have a program that you can’t
afford to miss hearing. ..............
Don’t think because it has rained
that you will make by staying home
to plow. I Put off going to
town until Monday. If you will lis-
ten to the speakers and put in
practice some of the things they
will tell you, you will go home well
paid for your time and trip
Lets make this institute an honor
for Jack county. You want to get
the . best pricesfor your porducts.
You must begin now if you want
to be in the push with the succes-
ful farmer and business man.
Actual -Facts.
For upwards of fifteen years Hunt's
Cure has been sold under a strict
guarantee to cure any form of itehtng
skin troubles known. No matter the
name—less than one per cent of the
purchasers hare requested their money
back. Why? It simply does the work.
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Marks, Tom M. The Jacksboro News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 14, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 29, 1909, newspaper, April 29, 1909; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth734448/m1/2/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.