The Terry County Herald (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1911 Page: 1 of 6
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BROWNFIELD, TERRY COUNTY, TEX AS, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1911.
NO 5
AIL
RIES
WHOLESALE
re have boosted our retail departmc --.... .. ... ...., ...
esale business. In going into this large grocery business, we felt .......
we therefore made preparation for a wholesale business, which is complete.
which is in every way complete, but in this ad we want to talk about
our large and
we would be called on to furnish groceries in large or small
, Let us figure on your business large or small.
bock
SPIKES & WAY GROCERY CO.
Texas
BETTER ROADS IN
■ TERRY COUNTY
ssic
Court to
Receive Bids
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A NEW ROAD TO THE
SAWVER RANCH
More Work on the Brownfield.
Tahoka Rond Other Roses
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The question of good roads is
medoesbrt one and an
newspaper or indicia uni cnis lota for in spot cash. Script h
he has said enough, or done never used. As long as we make
enough then it in that hesudden- good home, roads churches and
ly finds greater things to be said school, we wont need jails and
and more to be done, and the felion laws to keep our people
more we do the more we benefit from violating the local option
and enrich the tax-paying public laws.
who deserve good roads. The This week or next, the Herald
railroad is a great factor tn the will publish an advertisement
making of towns, cities and com-lasking bids to grub, plow and
merce, but the good dirt road is scrape a road two miles sooth of
aclose second if not a worthy Brownfield to hard land; also to
rival. The wagon trade of San
Angelo and Ballinger amounts to
untold revenue annually, and
even Dains and Fort Worth with
their net work of steam and elec-
trie transportion facilities, have
see t rounds
of the north part of the county
supplied with a good road also." :
‘ We are reliably informed that
the road west to the Yoakum
county line, is fine, and just as
soonas the one to the Lynn coun-
1 of sosa, making it pos- ty line is made wider and scrap-
- many people to trade
rise go elsewhere.
me n
Fang in Went Texas, and the
It we were the
but here. If we were she
kind, we would be willing
ity has spent more
money on her high-
lation and time since
I considered, than
any county in Texas, and she has
not thrown her people in debt
either. We boast a set of Com-
missioners since organization
that would be well nigh impossi-
ble to duplicate. They have kept
down unnecessary expenses,
such as costly hils—something
wedon’t need now, and hope we
never will—and they never have
let the great stationary houses,
or their hired agents brow beat
them into buying thousands of
dollars worth of stuff that could
never be used. Therefore, every
dollar’s worth of road that has
been constructed, save $150 so
kindly contributed by the busi-
re-plow and re scrape the Taho-
ka road. Before many more
moons, we hope to see the people
ed deeper, we will have a good
one that way. Let the good work
The traffic toand from the rail-
road is bound to be heavy this
fall, as the season seems to be
coming our way. Not only will
there be hundreds of bales of
cotton to be transported to the
railroad, but corn, maize and
ka fir till you can’t rest, and our
Hon. Com missioners’ Court will
see to it that the people will have
respectable roads to haul over.
AN IMPORTANT
ROAD QUESTION
A First Class Wagon Road to
Browefield
We were talking toa business
mai in this city the first of the
week, and in course of this con- .
versation he stated that one of position that effects the town,and
the great things that the people are sure that the Brownfield peo-
of Lubbock should do is to get
busy and make a good road from
the Brownfield country to Lub-
bock, so that the people of that town to help them to do so.
town, and that part of the coun-
try can come here to do their
trading, and have a good road to
travel over. This is a matter
that should have been attended
to some months ago. Tahoka
got busy on the matter a’year
ago, and as a result there is
quite a good deal of trade goes to
that town that really prefers
Lubbock as a tending point, but
the difference in the road holds
the balance of power with them,
and hence lay aside preference
of trading points and go there.
- It would be a pretty good idea
for the business men of the town
to o rganize themselves into' a
business men’s league and look
after these things. It is more to
their interest than any one else
in the town. Why not get busy
on this proposition right away?
“Lubbock ‘is to become the
wholesale ceuter of the South
Plains, and it will therefore be
the place that all the people to
the west of us and southwest
want to trade, and the people of
Lubbock should demonstrate
their interest in the trade by
helping to build a good road
through the sandy places. There
may not be much of this sandy
road in Lubbock county, and we
rather think there is not, but we
believe that the people of Brown-
field will be interested enough in
the matter to help pay the ex-west, south and east, we would
pense of scraping the sand off to
the clay and make a fine road.
That is all it would take and the
expense would be very light com-
pared with the great good that it
would be to the town of Lubbock
and the merchants.
Another important thing that
should be revived is the auto line
between Lubbock and Brown-
field. This is a very serious pro-
ple would be delighted to have
this service re established, and
it would pay the people of this
There will likely be considerable
travel between the two towns
from now on, more than ever be-
fore in the history of the country
and we believe that the proposi-
tion would be revenue producing
from the very beginning.
Awake to the interests of your
own business and lets go after
the trade of these excellent peo-
that Tahoka could not - hope to
ple from the New Mexico line toget.
Lubboek. We are entitled to it.
They want to come here when
everything else is equal, and we
can get it all by a little effort on
the part of Lubbock.—Avalanche
{The Lynn County News has
the following to say on the same
subject:
“Counties all over Texas are
voting bonds for road building
and improving,in various amounts
from $10,000 to $500,000. Some
of the older and more' thickly
settled counties have,‘or will
soon have macadamized roads
from the county seat to the coun-
ty line in several directions.
Some of the towns that have
good roads are drawning so much
trade that other towns are hav-
ing to build them in self defence.
If Lynn county will vote $20,- _ ed .. cie
north, and the results of the test
000 in bonds and spend it on the
four roads leading from Tahoka
to the county lines to the north.
will be watched with much in-
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not only draw much trade from
out side counties, but we would
make things very convenient for
more than two thirds of our citi-
sens and increase property val-
ues more than double the amount
of the bond issue.
We have improved the roads
to the west and north of us, but
we need to continue in well doing
and while the money spent was
well spent, it was only enough
to show bow much we need bet-
ter roads.
Tahoka needs and must have
better roads to the north county
line, to Meadow to the north-
west, to Brownfield to the west
and O’Donald to the south.
O’Donald needs two good roads;
one to Pride to the south west of
them, and one to Treadway to
the southeast These two roads
would draw an immense amount
of trade from Borden and Daw-
son counties, and most of it trade
Let’s get busy and build good
dirt roads and “lets do it first,”
and all the trade that belongs to
us and some more that naturally
belongs to the other fellow will
come to Tahoka.”
Truly this is an age of road
building, and grand old Terry
is in the front rank of any of
them according to age and popu-
lation, and she don’t have to is-
sue bonds—she’s got the dough.
The next setting of Commiss-
loners Court will receive bids
to re-plow and re-scrape the new .
Tahoka road to the county line,
and will also letthe contract for
about two miles of sandy road
from the southwest corner of the
town section to If. B. Sawyer’s
pasture; This will be the first
road to be scraped off south or
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• We have them of all kinds
and in any quantity and in
■ any quality. If you are
■ going to build fence, it will
I pay you to see us
We buy all our wire
from one of the best
factories in the east.
No slip or spread in
our woven wire
Genuine NIG-
GERHEAD, at
per ton
$8.50
ubbock Grain & Coal Company
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Stricklin, A. J. The Terry County Herald (Brownfield, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, May 12, 1911, newspaper, May 12, 1911; Brownfield, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1679779/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas State Library and Archives Commission.