The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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CROSBYTON, CROSBY C0UNTY,4£XAS, THURSDAY,-FEBRUARY 4,
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Crosbyton Inn Full to Over-
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flowing with Prospectors
and Traveling Men
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ilat bttiOWn jteople cared for -in
Crosbyton Iaisi Wednesday night,
mmprising of drmfon^rs^ pros-
^ctor&and v isi tonit~.
: | It was learned at an early hour
't^at the famous Crosbyton 1%
was fujl up arid the matter of
taking care otthe people wasiup.
to the. people of the townV Mr.
Julian Baasett in his geheralVway
_M doing - things set out W see
- that all were upcommodatedi and
* fgfiDOTT ■had arrangements made for
I the care,of the crowd. Just at
that time the clanging sound of
in auto. Was heard in tHe^disCance
and when it pulled up in front of
the Inn i^b was |ound that it con-
V tailed flie drummers and all had
to be fed- And headed for the
night; The feeding was; easy,
but, the',beds had all been taken,
so it was up to t he folks to ar-
range vwth some~to double-up—,
placing all that was willing two
to thei bed. This arrangement
was made and alt as happy~as "if
thejfrbelohged to. the same family.
- Alas, in the distance we hear the
sound^of another car coming in a
Crosbyton direction, 0n looking
out in the dim distance the head-
light was seen of a t>ig„. .touring"
ca? coming at .a high rate of
speed for the Inn,, and when it
sided up by the' proceeding car
it was found that there was still
five more drummers to care for,
taking somtf to nearby offices and
rnnma thpyAwpfq, comfortably
stowed Away for tne night.
As the hours passed on therej
cameJBree more^rospectoSjanff
they were all arranged to share
room with a nice bed-fellow, and
this was perfectly agreeable with
all bukone. and as he was an
old-bachelor, there was nothing
doing—he decided that rather as
to have the pleasure of warming
up by the side of' another man
he would sit up. The parlor was
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meree Commission, nearly all the
fat^l coltisionardh the railroads
inwhtchjtherewa6 4o^
occurred because* the block sig-
lial was not W
of eight serious-collisions, all fyut
' w
one took place on lined where me
block signal was not in full oper-
ation. The figures in the pres-
ent bulletin cover the months of
Jujy,r August and September, 1908,
The number of persons kill-
ed in train-accidents is shown to.
have been 191, and •trtju red 2,046.
Accidents- of other "Rinds, in-
cluding , those" accidents to em*
ployes wlhile lit Work and\o-pas-
sengers while getting on or off
tne cars, etc., brings the totkl
number of casualties up to 17,279,
of which number 734 were killed
and 16,345 injj ured. The tojal
number of collisions and derail-
ments in the quarter now under
rekiew wa^-2,567,^of which 192
collisions and 184 derailments af-
fected passenger trains. ; The
{lathage to the cars, en^f^s rand
roadways by 7 ihes *• accidents
amounted to $1,950 408. The to-
Farming Near £ ^
Crosbyton, Texas
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Many New farms Going in This
^eaj^tverr lan Who~4fiBT~"
Well Pleased ^
rie to a fire; were thrown from
the wagon and^Mr. Hall sustain-
ed' w tfrdlceii collar bon*. while
Mr. M[cj^ee had the misfutune tXfp"
iTave one of his wrists badly
sprained. Messers Wesley Smith-
ee, an<].. Mr^- Van* Mtter wefrtir
the wagon but Weifrijot thtown
from tl
In the past few days there has
been.many farmers come into
the Crosbyton settlement. The
JG B Live Stock Company has
rented part of their farm lands
to riew-jcomars and these ihdus-
trous farmers are fast, turning
over the soil. | .
Xheteis about twice as many
farms opened up for this year as
was here before, the people hav-
ing bought the lands and built
homes. Mahy who bought last
year sat* $|0.0p and $12,5Q per
acre' "haye: refused double the
price pajd" for their lands. This
demonstrates ti^f confidence the
long beaded .Investor has iin Cros-
by dirt
tn conversation a few uay^ agd
with a erenrleman frbm near
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e wagon
strofig was with the "crowd and
was thrown ca-flollop over-board
but lauded on his back rather low
down and received a considerable
bounce biit otherwise was not in-
juredj. except losing his bank roll
which consisted of 55c tind.a bars
tow knife, he hai however by
diligent search recovered the
same. We regret that Mf. Hall
and Mr. McKee were injured but
hope that nothing fatal will re-
sult. Later we w ere informed
that a Mr. Dees, who was haul-
ing feed was tbroWn from his
wagon and the load passed over
his body, we were unable to learn
whether or not his injuries' were
of a serious nature, it is hop6d
they are not.— • ■. : -
St. liouis. Mo., Jan. 29, 1909;
Mr^ R. M. Bassett,
Care Bassett Land Co.
Crosbyton, Texas.
My jDear Mr. Bassett:
I am in receipt of the Crosby-
ton RWie\^
am inclined,to*believe that I am
under obligations to you for this
courtesy 1 have looked over
the paper with a great deal of
pleasure, an#especially the last
page wherein the1 Bassett Land
Company shows to the world
what they fhave got to offer and
I have no doubt parties-who;av^il
themselves of "this opportunity
will never regret the purchase
arid will in all probability be
thoroughly satisfied and influence
^| their friends torgo and- do liker
wise.
i-yeaf old peach tre^ort -N- Lantls:near:
Crosbyton, Texas. V-t ■
spacious
Self; company in
parlor of the Inn. —
This is the first time that Cros
bytpiyfaas had to say that she
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could not, take care of T'the
throngs, in a most delightful and
creditable manner.
'The entire crowd was w#
pleased %ith this one exception,
and this bachelor-man expressed
a very pleasant time sitting, up,
rather gs^leep with another man.
■| tit is an absolute fact Mat the
liotol busirtess will have'to be en*
largedln Ci^sbytdn, and we un-
derstand that arrangements are
. being made to make the Inn just'
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the eyes of the world
are turned toward tlie South
Pttii<and the city of C ' — '
Is keeping pace with the
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Killed and
^Washington, Jari. 28fe^cord*
* r \\ng to the latest aceid^nt bulletin
Cone (this county) he-said;
? ^Lhaye been in Crosby county
seventeen years and-have never
failed in miking all, the feed I
could use ahd have had some tiJ
number of eniployes kifled' in-jseH'-mojt every year;' fruits- and
vegetables do better' here than
any place I ever sawr I consider
tals of the present record shown
are smaller than in the- corre^
sponding quarter a year ago, but
comparing the figures with those
of the proceeding bulletin, the
^rea>e3 17 per cent; and^employes
killed in train accidents 39 per
cent; but the increase in the hum-
ber of passengers killed in train
accidents was no less than 307
per cen t, four -fiftfan- of the
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senders killed in train accidentsiatates and the United States the
being victims of collision^.
Of eight most serious collisions,
five occurred on lines where the
block system tfgs riot In use, one
on a l|^e where it was ostensibly
in use, but was abandoned to
Save time of passenger trains^
and one on a line where it appears
to have been used "per
ly? tor freight trains carrying
passengers (drovers), leaving on-
ly one which app^ars to have
b«fen in no wise dua to ^lack of
the space interval rules. ^
J fi. W. Ellison returned Tuesday
from Seyntour; , where he has
beein fd>c sever^t days looking af-
ter business matters.' Hr. Elli-
iwm lianded, us the .following
the subscription list: Dr. C. E.
Johnson, Sam Schultze, Buie
Morris,- Chas. Woods, and Cap
hmrnm
vCom- ersonV "$
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cuts about
and broken
our, A B Hall and Mr,
Crosby county the garden spot
of the plains ancjt the plains the
garden.spdto?Texas and Texas
the garden spot of the United
garden spot of Che World."
" When one talks to the old
timejFjs-be^he is more fully con-
vinced that this is the coming
country. ,Cit)ibyton is in the
heart of a most valuable farming
district and while jands are cheap
it would be svell for all } a
ion to ido so, to tie on to
some dirt ?:
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A Day Of Accidents
iiaa had hw ftrat
was the day Mf ^start the thing off
and to do a good job of it Albert
Gamble, ran into the; large glass
window of C.>H. Taylor^ jrtor^
with jhis bicycle goir.rf^ilap -thru.
^ and
a who were
i^k.ai>our equipments.
town is getting built up and as-
suming metropolitan airs and I
f^lel that. I am not wrong, judg-
ing Ifroputhe Crosbyton Review,
which is a pubiict^tion Worthy of
a good sized city and sneaks welt
for the enterprise of your, people
and ;the wide-awake and up-to-
date/ideas of the editoi. He is
certainly entitled to praise for
getting out auch aj*eadable paper
and, it reflects great credit upon
himself and staff. There is
nothing that I know of that will
A
Kgol greater help in bringing
■'* country
newspaper
a wi' _
and I trust the circulation will
continue to increase so that the
people of the North and East
wh(d are expecting to make a liv-
ing from farming will see what
can be accomplished in the great
Lone Star State and make their
arrangements W ~m in Wj
while the country ft young and
prices"teasonable:
I wish you a full
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r Bassett, ana witn
Wje have hai many djfftcui
in getting out the-Review on1^-
count of the unfinished condition
of our office building! Work was
begun on thia buildinig in,Nove^l-
berpf last year, and has be|ii
pushed under, the direct super-
vision of our etficient
man and builder; S. Culbera
Mr. Culberson deserves
credit for the manner in wh^h
he has done this job $nd :ee:
pecially ;the dispatch; in_jw&|h
the job is being gradually c^di-
pleted, when "we take into ac-
count the scarcity of labor and
rhe fact that part of the windows
have had to be ordered ' 'tailor
made.'' The house has . been
built especially for a print: Bhtbp,
and would reflect credit on a town
of ten thousand'population. The
/lower story is 'cut into office, "
stock-room and mechanical rOpm;
every*department;
when finished wil
which- we can s.v«t
.one in
y rqh
our business. The upper storyf
is, cut into, living aioartments of
which there is "six well finished n
rooms, plenty of light and will
be a most desirable home,
extend Our moat hearty congratu-
lation to the Company and to Mr.
S. Culberson for their every ef-
fort to make us. comfortable
w htie gettmg trnt: the"-ReyieW un-
der the disadvantages mention-
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We hopa to soon be at home
both upanddown stairs, and we
invite you to call on us and take
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We will carry a complete stock
of printers' , material and* all
kinds of job ^ork will be turned
out with dlspatchi^ - We now
have in transit a nice stock of
the finest Bond pap€r& Envelopes,
legal, blanks, etc. We will cafrry
all kinds of typewriter {supplies
and can furnish your every want
and fill your orders on
notice^ We have in our jol
partment two fine C. &
presses, Boston stapler, Sterling
machine, round-corner machipe,
punching Wchioe^-JoQaaJJfi&f
machine, perforating machine,
numbering machihe^^ Inisiit
per cutter^ and a fine gasol
engine. Thus you see we are
very weH equipped to take care
of any job you might turn to us.
Our job type js jof the latest
faces in plain and_ fanfeir; infact,
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WiU Pay Up And Quit '
Mr. Julian, I have the pleastftre
to remain at your service alwi
wy truly,, fig
Geo, E, Barclay,
Y-Pres. Emmons BfftrdWi
Waters-Pierce
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Cumberland Gap Tenn. gomg in a wagon out on the ptai? i
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N.- Pi Howard got ip last w
with nearly -10,000 pounds'
lumber 'and off again Mo
ioranottokmd^f^
, f was here -
tin from the
said / the company
to pay
in silver-And partly in
irafts.' He declared the on
gknization realized it was \whifr-
and will leave the stateX
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 1909, newspaper, February 4, 1909; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242122/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Crosby County Public Library.