Canyon City News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, December 22, 1905 Page: 2 of 4
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CANYON CITY NEWS DECEMBER 22. 1905.
CAR FURNITURE ETC.
To provide against a demand for something useful
and substantial in the way of Christmas and New
Year Gifts we have just got in a full car of new Fur-
niture Rugs Carpets and Mattings. This added to
our already large stock will enable us to give you
anything you may want. : : : :
Our prices are as low as the same goods can be
had anywhere--Ve will not let anybody undersell
us.
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THOMAS BROS.
CANYON CITY NEWS.
Published Every Friday
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SUBSCRIPTION.
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Six months 50
CHRISTMAS.
For aires anions civilized na-
tions Christmas has been the
festival of festivals. Its origin
dates awav back yonder. Some
historians claitr and not with
out reason that as a religious
festival it beiran with the Roman
Emperor Constantine who to
pacify and please his pajjan
world adopted their great feast
the Iioman Saturnalia as the
time in which to celebrate the
birth of our Savior.
Such is the account of its ori-
gin and as we travel along
coming this way trom the time
of the Ceasars with paganism
gradually diminishing its last
European stronghold that of
the ancient Druids being wiped
out by Julius Ceasar we find
Christmas becoming more and
more a religious festival until
the advent of the middle ages
when we may say that it be-
came wholly so.
Anciently it was a time of gen-
eral rejoicinga feast; throughout
all of Christmas-tide usually
lasting from December 10 to
January 6 all manner of license
was given for merriment and
play; the homes of the rich were
open to the poor and gifts and
largess were everywhere and
general good-will prevailed.
There was the Yule log the
good old-fashioned reels the
blind man's buff the egg-nog
and the flowing punch bowl the
colonial serenades the mint-
slings the Juleps and then who
that has ever been there can
forget "under the mistletoe!""
Most it not all of these cus-
toms of Christmas tide while
somewhat tempered by the sober
spirit of the age in which we
live are still practiced in the
old countries especially in
those lands in which flow the
waters of the "blue Danube"
the "lordly Rhine" the .Seine
the Thames the Mersey and the
Tweed and to more or less ex-
tent among many of our own
country who yet cling to the
traditions of the Germanic and
Celtic races from which they
sprang. The writer has seen
young he took part in them and
enjoyed them and no doubt there
are others who see these lines
can say the same.
And while a very old festival
yet it is also a new one. No day
in all the year is looked forward
to by so many people anticipat-
ing happiness. It may come in
the form of family reunions a
good practice: it may be the
time when the bonds of friend-
ship shall be renewed and
strengthened ah the bonds of
friendship! Can you imagine
what life would be without
friends? And turn the children.
God bless the children their joy
is surely ours and they seem to
have more of it at this season
than any other.
A Merry Christmas! A Happy
Christmns! Such is the greet
ing The News sends forth to all
its patrons and may every home
into which this issue of the
paper shall enter have that
peace and good-will enthroned
which for ages past has been
the motto of the season.
n
Vehicles Plows Sad
1 1 - ' M tMna??
Windmills Agricul-
tural Implements Wire
and everything: else in the way of Machinery on
either Farm or Ranch.
FURNITUREA large stock and well selected
also Floor Coverings.
STOVES-Heaters "Air-tights" and otherwise
Ranges and Oil Stoves a big line of the BEST
makessee us before buying.
UNDERTAKERS' GOODSWe carry them to
suit the needs of all.
OUR stocks in all the above lines are large the
quality is from good to the best made and our
prices are as low as any reputable dealer can
make. If in the market for any of these things
call aroundIt shall be our pleasure to show you
what we have and quote you the lowest prices.
Carelessness of Farmers.
There isn't a shelter on a farm
in this country that is not in al-
most constant use. Which
proves that shelters are useful.
On the other hand there are
thousands yes millions of dol-
lars wortn of tools and imple-
ments all over this country ruin-
ing because the are not shel-
tered. It is the rule to let the
wagon stand out in all sorts of
weather and the average life of
a wagon is not one-tenth of its
wearing life. A wagon should
be worn out and not rotted out.
It would show as littie sense to
take your pocket book and lay
it out in the weather as to leave
your tools and implements out
there. Have some sense Jas-
per Newsboy.
In the Panhandle thecareless
ness referred to sometimes goes
even further than as above
noted. It is not altogether an
uncommon
sight
to see large
piles of Indian corn and kaffir
corn heads laying out without a
sign of a shelter taking all
kinds of weather while awaiting
a market. The successful far-
mer of the north has much more
lumber in sheds and shelters
than he has in bis house and
the Panhandle farmer has yet to
learn that the success of his bus-
iness does not depend alone on
the proper cultivation of his
crops. Clarendon Banner-Stockman.
The above argument is good
every word of it. but just "spo-
sen" gentlemen that the lum-
these customs observed; when J ber people have decided to take
a hand in the game and the far-
j mer hasn't the ready cash with
j which to pay for a car of lum-
jber at the mills. The protec-
tion of everything on the farm
looks easy to the fellow who
doesn't have to "dig up'' for it
i but try the experiment of plac-
jingall the improvements that
j must of necessity be put on a
'farm and its dollars to dough
nuts you will go broke if you
have to pay the outlandish
prices for lumber that our farm-
iers are paying. Cjllingsworth
Courier.
The Jasper Newsboy and
Banner-Stockman are correct.
The objection of the Collings-
worth Courier founded as is
on the present prices of lumber
is not well taken for the condi-
tions mentioned by the two first
named papers existed when
lumber was cheap. In fact just
such carelessness amounting
in rmny cases where the com-
fort of our domestic animals
come in to criminal negligence
is altogether too common not
only in the Panhandle but all
over the western portion of
Texas and the price of lumber
either last year when low or
this season when high has had
very little to do with it. To
hold as does the Courier that
our citizens of the Panhandle
the great majority of whom own
from one to several sections of
good land can't "dig up" to
prevent this loss is nonsense.
Notice of Dissolution.
Please take notice that on
Nov. 1 1005 thepartnarship ex-
isting between Garrison & Har-
rison Canyon Texas and II.
Roelfs of Pekin 111. was dis-
solved. (Signed) li. Roelfs.
THE FIRST NATL. BANK
(Successor to Stockinens X;itioii;il liank.)
CAPITAL AM) si;kili;s
OFFICERS.
$80000.00
L. T. f.KSTKU Phesidknt.
John Uctson Vice-Pkks.
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Travis Shaw Ass'r. Cas.
DIRECTORS.
L. T. L.KSTEK
John Hltson J. h. Howell
J. N. Donohoo F. M. Lestek.
We invite you to open an account with n. We guarantee as lib-
eral accommodation as are warranted l.v the account mid prudent
banking.
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CANYON NATIONAL BANK.
NO. 71)01
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Office of Comptroller of the Cur-
rency. Washington D. C. Oct. 2:1 l!H.r.
"Wiikukah by Manufactory evidence
presented to the undersigned. It has
been made to appear that "The Can-
yon National Bank" in the Town
of Canyon in the County of Randall
and State of Texan has complied
with all the provlsionsof the Statutes
of the United States required to lie
complied with before an aHHoclatlon
Hhall be authorized to commence the
business of Hanking;
Now tiikhkhoich I Thomas P. Kane
Deputy and Acting Comptroller of
the Currency do hereby certify that
"The Canyon National Hank" in
the Town of Canyon in the County
of Randall and State of Texan is
authorized to commence the business
of I'.a liking as provided in Section
Fifty-one hundred and Kixty-nineof
the Revised Statutes of the United
States.
In tkhtimony wiikhkok witness
r my hand and Seal of
J hi:ai I oflice this Twenty-third
lv-v-'-' day of October 1JM15.
T. P. KANE.
Deputy and Acting Comptroller of
the Currency.
Visiting Cards This office
has just received a new lot. Will
sell them blank or printed. Call
in and see them.
The Fort Worth Record and this
paper one year $1.80.
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