The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1909 Page: 5 of 10
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Man! Man!—
)ur reading Mitorial tilts week
pays special attention to woman
and since writing that editorial
the editor has come in contact
with a man that needs attention,
and I'll be-durned if he don't get
it. r- f •'... •
This fellow is a sort of a shy
guy," one that never says a word
good for anybody, or. anything:
so far as we have ever heard.
He gave us a rowling about
boosting the town in which we
live and the county of which we
are so proud, and" the people gen-
erally that we have so learned to
)ve in~ our six months among
-you.
In our remarks about the wo-
nien we had in mind one good
old woman who has spent her
life well and is now nearing the
grave and we never heard her , . , . ... ,
make a remark but .rood for the | fer?r.,se' he WI" be <Wosed t0
town and
believe iK "Well that's the con-
ditions and if you will disprove
it we have a fifty dollar bill for
you" was our reply, and he said
"Before^sundown I'll have that
fifty," but it's been more than
two days and we have not seen
his bull-dog face since, neither
have we missed that fifty piece.
Of all the men on earth the
4cnocker, the roaster, the narrow
minded skunk that would like to
see the earth turned out and the
honest wealth acquired by man
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case takes the cake. He is blind
to every interest of the country,
and to every interest of the rising
generation. The knocker is the
most
critical, the most degenerate cuss
on the face of God's world. You
can watch him and he will never
be guilty of^ helping out an en-
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country, town and people. We
brought the imaginary woman
into the case for a purpose of1
illustration and now we have a, ,
genuine knocker in the person of ;h_ave__any
a man, whose name we ..will not
call for if this article does not . TT . ,
ignorance. He is opposed to
cost
money, he will be opposed to
schools for they are no use, he
has no education and don't want j
He !
was raised in ignorance and is j
willincr to raise his ohildren in
not some two dollar land the same
as the knocker, but he haa
managed just a Jittle different,
he has boeatei jeyerybody' likes
him, he has gone his length on
every occasion to help the town
or county, he never speaks un-
less it's a good word for the party
spoken of, he is figuredv in on
everything that is good for all,
he builds Churches, he puts up
bonuses for schools, he has ed-
ucated his Children, he has sub-
scribed thousands of dollars To
Railroads, he has made things
pleasant for his associates, and
when he takes a stand you see
the young men fall in, sit up and
take notice for he'is a booster.
He is liberal with his fellow man
he sees some good in all things.
But for the world we
how he respects a knocker.
Now comes the fine po&t, this
booster has in past years realized
what this country was, he saw
of it"
begin to tie onto big tracts of land
he has great bodies of land, and
when a man came along that
wanted a home he sold it to him
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took the stomach ache and went
east, (possibly they got a whiff
of this knocker's breath) while
some sold to a new comer and re-
bought. Step by step his booster
has developed the country, and
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Forty years reputation. Unsuri
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I am traveling representative for CrosJby county^ Goods on aftf-p"
at C. H. Taylor's Store, Crosbyton. 1 f
guarantee to give you satisfaction.
swant your business and
Yours truly, /;
Benj. F. Hines, - Crosbyton, Texas,r^®
have him, but she ten't such a
looker that every chuck-line rid-;
tag cow puncher in the country caiv-and when the
will hang around the old man's
ranch until he is fired. She may
not have been raised in the sad-
dle, but she knows enough to tell
a lariat from a branding iron,
and is the kind of girl that can
get on a good broncho and hold
the cutout herd when your ex-
?an t tra coVboy gW back on you at
the last minute She's got ail
book learning she needs, but
don't go around talking dead lan-
guage while biscuits burn, nor
garden while she experiments in
botany. She knows how to talk
and does a great deal of it, Sut
jerk
you dont have to put on a
spiel yourself-some-
times. She does not get locoed
her for any other kind on earth.
She helps us enjoy iifejshftiM#
of; time comes she is the bravest
and truest little partner on earth
and we rev erence her more tjban
ever. More than that she ig
right here ami we don't have to go
off of our range to find just the
one we wknt. Every cowboy in
the country knows just where to
find one that tops the market in
all these points, and may his
claim never be contested. Yours
for western girls.
The Printer's Ten Command-
ments
1. Thou shalt have no other
price but one to alj customers.
sour doughs. It doesn't
lariats and hobbles to keei
take
her
at home part of the time, and she
knock the wind out of him he
{railroads for he can as well go
will blow up and bust in spite .. .
of ail he can do and then wewillj^™'109 '° th" rf"d now he
all know him, tut after we 9how^0uld 'Jf ^ yfar3*?> . Hu3 '.5 j
you a knocker, a genuine belly-! °PP°?ed^o Automobiles for he ,9 ,
to stingy to pay a dollar to cet to I
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acher, and a full fledged nothing,
we will picture a decent man and
see what class of men we have
on the South Plains. This fellow
.had the nerve to ask us if there
was a home owner in Crosbyton,
and if the promoters of the towrt
would let a man put in a business,
and wound up"with the statement
that he knew that the Review
was owned and managed by the
"C B Live Stock" Company. After
he had kinder unwound his red
tape we had the pleasure of
telling him in our case that he
was a liar, and that every cent
of the Review's' Worth belonged
to the White Printing Company
. and that the C B Live Stock
Company had not a cents interest
more in the Print shop than they
had in the Store of Mr. Ellison's
or the Livery Stable of Mr. Sims'
$r the Mercantile Establishment
of Barney Johnson's, etc.' And
in the home proposition, we of-
fered to make him a present of
a fifty dollar bill if four fifths of
the homes in Crosbyton were not
filled with home owners. We
then ask him if he knew of a
town on earth where seventy
fiye percent of the people were
home owners and not more than
one out of four renting a house.
He said no. But he just did not
ride one. In fact we could not
touch him but what he was
against it. Now this old moss
back is a resident of the famous
south plains, and has b°en for a
long time and will be the rest of
his time, but his time will not be
long and we have sympathy for
him even though he has a lot of
land that the booster has raised
the price from two dollars an
acre to twenty for him. But he
knocks on. Now you have seen
what we think of a Big Knocker
for this cussed cuss thinks he is
a big one, and we will now turn
and see what manner of man it
is that is responsible for this fel-
lows success.
We will go back as far as we
have any substantial history of
men making a success on the
Plains and we will take another
type, and if you can read between
the lines you can detect the dif-
ference.
We have a man in mind that
came to this country about 'the
time of the party of the first
part, and he is still here, we will
A Product of The South Plains of Texas
not call his name for most people
will know who he is, and if you
don't know him you will be-
fore you are here long for he is
found in every community that
is thriving. He came in and
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DEALERS IN
Hardware, Implements, Furniture, Carpets,
wn n i'u i'mu . •Matting; Linoleum* Etc. ■
Weber W agons,- Porlin Ofen-
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is responsible for it.
He was entitled to as much
lands as he could acquire; and he
has spent money in the develop-
ments that would never have
been spent if he had not acquired
these large tracts of land The
most ligitimate speculation on
earth is the speculation on real
estate, and the real estate agent
comes in with the booster. He
is classed by some as a land
grafter, but this is dead worng,
and is simple ignorance working
on a narrow mind. Every trans-
action in real estate tends to in-
crease values, and thus the
Booster is a Real Estate Agent.
For the sake of home, "and the
sake of the country brand the
knocker as the most undesirable.
And giving the dues were they
justly belong. Boost!
The Cowboy's Ideal Girl
A preacher in th^ mesquite
grass country preached a sermon
on the "Ideal Young Women'',
and asked4he young men of the
community to furnish short de-
scriptions of their conception of
the "ideal;" The following let-
ter is one that did not appear on
agram
2s Thou shalt not
thyself any foolish notions that
thy customers will fail to acquire
at the sight of a cook stoypmand I great wisdom of thy efforts to
can give an old-time cook tips on|ho~w ««le them; for verity they
are a wise bunch and will surely
romp on thy carcass, and sep-
arate thee from jobs in large
s unless thy feet follow ClOBe-
ly the path which leads to good
j work and profitable prices. -
I 3. Thou shalt not take any
; job from thy brother printer at a
| lower price for there is no hope
of redemption for the price-cut-
ter.
j 4. Remember the pay day to
keep it solvent. Six days' shalt
! thou worry and hustle thy pins,
I but the pay day is the day the
j ghost walks; on it thou must pM-
] vide the co:n, or thy pressmen
servants, thy bindery maid ser-
vants, thy ox (the devil}, thy ass—
(the solicitor), and the tranip
printer within thy gates shall re-
vile thpe,. and mahaps beat up
thy countenance and leave thee
lying with-thy--feet in the hell
box. , ■
5. Honor the discount days of
the paper houses and the type
foundries, that thy days may be
long in theiand attd- the-
visit the not.
6. Thou shalt not wear gum
shoes in visits to thy rivals-r-
they may, perhaps, be human
beings, and a good example i*
worth two in the bush.
7. Thou shalt not throw rocks.
'8. Thou shalt not beg for
business—get it on thy merits or
doesn't get jon the prod every
time anything goes wrong on the
ranch. She dresses as well as
she can put up for, but doesn't
blow in every cent she can get
hold of for jingle-bobs and other
fixtures, ar.d she doesn't spend
two hours doing her hair up to
look like a Water spaniel that
has been through a cactus patch
when somebody is in a hurry to
go somewhere. In fact she is
always alright and we love
her and look up to her and loose
our hearts to her and let her
make any old kind of fools of lis,
and we put in our lives making
are glad to do it. Shfe is our
homegrown girl and we are proud
of her, and would not exchange
starve thyself into the realms of
the righteous. "^7
9. Thou ghalt not covet thy
neighbor's pressman, nor his
typo, nor his bindery girl, nor
yet hi^ devil. For he is forever
damned who taketh away., his
brother printer's help in a spirit
of pure cussedness.
needs it worst, and to him it is
written: Do unto others -as ye
would that others should do unto
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,4My ideal woman is a native.
She is a well graded one, too,
out not a thoroughbredf. They'
take too much care and are not
good bustlers When thse range is
She is pretty^ enough to
some honest cowman loose
to her and
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We built yours Crosbyton
look at it. We can make anything
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White, F. E. The Crosbyton Review. (Crosbyton, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 24, 1909, newspaper, June 24, 1909; Crosbyton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth242142/m1/5/?q=%22~1~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Crosby County Public Library.