Canyon City News. (Canyon City, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, September 20, 1907 Page: 2 of 4
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CANYON CITY NEWS. SEPTEMBER 20. 907.
CANYON CITY NEWS
PubllHhed Every Friday.
By GEO. A. BRANDON
F.nUrrd at Tonttiffire at CnymCly as
Strond-ClaMi Matter. Office of Publication
Went Evelyn Stiwt.
PniK-ra sent out of the county
promptly diwontinuod nt explrntlOH
of time paid for.
SUBSCRIPTION.
One Year SIM
Six months
"PANHANDLE DAV'-WHY NOT?
Monday October 2sth has
been set apart as Panhandle Day
at the State Fair.
To help celebrate this day and
to impress Dallas and her visitors
with the great bigness of the
Panhandle its people and its re-
sources the Amarillo Chamber
of Commerce wants to make up
two special trains from that point
and to this end invites the coop-
eration of naboring towns.
The News is instructed to say
that these trains will be composed
of chair cars and sleepers and
are booked if secured to leave
Amarillo at 10 a. m. Friday run
through to Dallas without change
and on return leave Dallas at
midnight of Oct. 2th. A very
low rate is promised for the trip.
And further if thirty or more
can be secured from one commu-
nity a special car for them is as-
sured. This proposition looks good to
The News and it is in for a Can-
yon City and Randall county car
duly decorated and fairly well
supplied with such things as will
make a special noise for us and
ours. Why not?
Surely we can make up the
number thirty for one car at
least. It may be that we can
have two but one we should have
anyway. Doing this will not only
secure comfort but a very low
rate for the trip. Why not?
Shall we have a special Canyon
City car?
How many will go? Send your
names in to The News or give
them to the Commercial Club
secretary J. F. Smith.
"NOTHIN DOIN."
"Nothin doin" about town this
week. Very quiet indeed up to
the coming of the excursionists
yesterday. Today of course
things are more lively as they
the prospectors are being shown
what the Plains has in store even
for those who only tickle its fer-
tile soil.
The "nothin doin" however is
about town only for out in the
country some of the people those
who make apretension of being
farmers are or should be as
busy as bees. The millet needs
cutting and some of the cane and
then again the time for wheat
seeding is almost if not right
here.
The News said "nothin doin;"
there is on one line at least for
watermelons are ripe Plains
watermelons and there are none
better and forty -launders are
selling at 25 cents or less. The
country was satiated on them
sometime ago and on cantaloups
and now the town is coming in
for great heaps of them and who
could ex-t much "doin" in a
business way under such advan-
tageous circumstances? In South
Texas just preceding the cotton
picking season such conditions
bring the chills but here blessed
thought you can eat to repletion
and then resting till again and
feel all the better for it.
PREPARING FOR LIFE.
Preparing for life; getting ready
to fill that station in the world's
affairs which we are by nature and
inclination best fitted for. To those
of us who have crossed the merid-
ian line of the course this has little
if any application but to the youth
of our land no question is of such
grave important as this one.
Ia Texas and not many years ago
at that what was frequently termed
the "useful man" was in most de-
manJ and therefore most success-
ful financially at least. If a law-
yer he was expected to be familiar
with every "rule of action'' both
foreign and domestic and to have
ready at a moment's notice a satis-
factory answer to every interroga-
tory whether pertaining to statute
law common law or chancery. He
was also expected upon any and all
other matters which concerned the
public to have a good speech in line
on the instant if called upon. A
physician too who practised in those
days was required to know all
about the anatomy of the human
species and all about every kind of
ailment whether chronic or acute;
he had also to be a surgeon a leech
a good tooth dentist and a "pretty
fair" horse and cow doctor. And
so in every other line of business.
The old-time merchant carried
everything needed by the people
from a box of pills to a magazine
rifle and also served as banker in
his community. . As in professional
and commercial life so it was in me
chanical pursuits the broader the
field a man could cover the more
"useful" he was considered to be
and as a consequence the more
thrifty he became in laying by
store for the "rainy day." The
country then was practically new
untried and thinly settled and what
was valued at that time because
the best to be had is now laid aside
for the more thoroughness and
greater skill of a new era.
Yes the old days of Western
Texas well within the memory of
The News editor and many others
now living are gone and we are to
day well upon the threshold of the
sharp commercialism of the East.
To meet these changed conditions
successfully it is absolutely neces
sary to prepare for life according to
business rules.
The opportunitities for success to
the young man now preparing for
business life are as great as they
ever were; there always has been
and always will be room towards
the top but only fitness character
and thoroughness get there. A
mere diploma will no more make a
successful doctor or lawyer than
college course on theology will fit a
man for good service in the pulpit.
Knowledge itself without the nat
ural bent and ability to apply it in
these days is absolutely worthless
as an asset in business. You can
polish a diamond but you cannot
make the genuine stone itself
And so it is with men you can
give them book learning in the
highest degree and in so far as the
name goes make professional men
tradesmen or mechanics out of them
but if the real stuff be not there to
begin with they are failures in life.
in preparing tor lite a young
man should follow the natural bent
of his mind he should strive to
learn in every legitimate way what
avocation or calling he is best suit
ed to and having found it he should
bend all his energies in that direc
tion determining never to halt un-
til success in his chosen life work
crowns his efforts.
The idea some people have that
education as commonly understood
schooling will make a good preach-
er lawyer doctor teacher or
what-not out of any young man
will not do. True in one sense all
men are men and so with equal
propriety we might say that all
horses are horses but who is there
for that reason would undertake to
make a courser out of a Norman
horse or buy for draft purposes a
Kentucky thoroughbred?
In God's temporal plan for this
world all of us are fitted for some
particular niche in it; if of butordi-
nary natural ability we do well;
with the polish of higher education
we do better but out of this niche
we are misfits and therefore failures
and the responsibility is largely
ours.
And so in preparing for life suc-
cessful life we must find the right
track to run on.
Souvenir Booklet The News will
get out one before long. Its
reading matter will be confined
to Canyon City and Randall coun-
ty what we have and what we
need. How many do you want?
About Panhandle Colleges.
Twenty-two young people boys
and girls have left Canyon City
for different schools or colleges
this fall. All left the Panhandle
and many of them Texas and to
get that which could have been
had almost at their very doors.
There is a well ordered college
at Hereford one that has behind
it the backing and endorsement
of the Christian church of Texas;
there is one college and one acad-
emy at Clarendon the first has
the Panhandle Methodist back-
ing and the other that of the Pan-
handle Catholics. There are
Baptist institutions of similar
high class at Canadian and Good-
night; Amarillo has one if not
more well planned and fully
equipped commercial schools and
yet we who should above all
things boost Panhandle institu-
tions if found worthy send
abroad. Read college for proph-
et and changing the scriptural
quotation otherwise slightly
truly can we not say that a Pan-
handle college is not without
honor save in its own country.
Any one of these Panhandle
colleges would have answered
the demands of these going-away
students and why then send
away?
Until such conditions upon our
part change materially; until we
the Panhandle people are ready
to send our own children to our
own institutions what's the use
of even talking about building
more Panhandle colleges?
If the Panhandle colleges are
financial failures we the Panhan-
dle people make them so by tak-
ing patronage from them that is
theirs by natural right. Is this
not so?
Diarrhoea Cured.
"My father has for years been
troubled with diarrhoea and
tried every means possible to ef-
fect a cure without avail" writes
John J. Zirkle of Philippi W. Va.
"He saw Chamberlain's Colic
Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
advertised in the Philippi Repub-
lican and decided to try it. The
result is one bottle cured him
and he has not suffered with the
disease for eighteen months. Be-
fore taking this remedy he was
a constant sufferer. He is now-
sound and well and although 00
years old can do as much work
as a young man." Sold by S.
V. Wirt druggist.
A small boy entered an office
in New York the other day very
early in the morning when the
merchant was reading the paper.
The latter glanced up and went
on reading. After three min-
ntes the boy said: "Excuse me
but I'm in a hurry." What do
you want?'' he asked. A job. "
You do? Well" snorted the man
of business "why are you in
such a hurry?" "Got to hurry"'
replied the boy. "Left school
yesterday to go to work and
havent struck anything yet I
can't waste time. If you've got
nothing for me say so and I'll
look elsewhere." ' When can you
come" asked the surprised mer-
chant. "Don't have to come"
he was told "I'm here now and;
would have been to work before I
this if you'd said so." The Bus-1
iness Man. i
A Faithful Friend.
"I have used Chamberlain's!
Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea j
Remedy since it was first intro-1
duced to the public in 172 and j
have never found one instance!
where a cure was not speedily
effected by its use. 1 have been
a commercial traveler for eight
een years and never start out on
a trip without this my faithful
friend" says II. S. Nichols of
Oakland Ind. Ter. When a man
has used a remedy for thirty-five
years he knows its value and is j
competent to speak of it. For
sale by S. V. Wirt druggist.
Born To Mr. and Mrs. A. G. j
Thomas on yesterday an eleven i
pound boy. I
Hardware Vehicle and
No matter what you may want in our line of Hardware Implements
Piping Windmills Buggies Hacks VVoodenware Washing Machines
Mechanic's Tools Kitchen Utensils Crockery Queensware Fancy Chi-
naware Table and Pocket Cutlery Saddlery Harness Strap Goods
Cooking Stoves our house is the place to get it and the fact that we
make the volume of business bring us a profit at a less price than you
can get the same goods elsewhere gives us satisfaction and should in-
duce you to trade with the firm that handles only the best to be had.
Come to us and supply your wants in our line and we guarantee you a
saving in the money you spend as well as the best that money can buy.
I THOMPSON HARDWARE GO.
3 .f st $ 3 e
lj? & P V
1113 111
9 ? to to
v. I
SUBSCRIPTION NOTICE -
On and after October the first
papers sent out of Randall coun-
ty will be charged for as follows:
One year $1.25
Six months 75
Four months 50
Two months 25
These rates for less than one
year are in full force now and in
all cases must be paid in advance.
All papers sent out of the
county are stopped when time is
out. Note date on your paper.
Out-of-county subscribers can
get the benefit of the old rate $1
per year by renewing prior to
October 1.- After then the price
is "flat" to all alike.
In Randall county until fur-
ther notice the old subscription
price Si per year will stand but
subscriptions for a less period of
time must take the foreign rate.
The News regrets exceedingly
to make this move but the ad-
vance in paper and other print-
ing materials over fifty percent
in the last six months compels it.
' S s J J J cS
s &' a- s a & &
a 3 a a D
Doubting! Doubting!
If you are in doubt like
Peter doubt no more but
come here to do your drug
shopping. We have what
you want and will give you
prices that will make you
come again. We have your
welfare at heart and know
you do well when you buy
from
A.H.TH0MPS0N
Leading Druggist
Phone 90
11
i it
Farm Implement
Headquarters
Successors to StringfellovHume.
Local Weather Record.
The picture represents some
of yesterday's prospectors irri-
gating at the cold'drink stands
about town. It was warm
enough in truth yesterday was
about the warmest day of the
past week.
It has threatened rain some
even sprinkled but taken alto-
gether the weather of the week
closing this day has been just
what our people most of them
wanted it to be good for harvest-
ing and putting up hay.
The crops are coming along
fine; melons are good large and
heap; vegetables of almost all
kinds are to he had home raised
and the conditions along this as
well as other Plains agricultural
lines are certainly conducive to
the material happiness of both
man and beast.
Showered last night and north
wind blowing today cool.
Every town has a lot of lazy
loafers. Every town has a lot of
lazy devils claiming to have such
I weak backs that if they under
took to split the kindling wood it
would lay them up for weeks.
They allow their wives to take in
boarders and do washing to keep
the family but they are willing
to bet the drinks that they can
shoulder a two-bushel bag of
wheat in a half-bushel measure.
But when one of these cracker-
box statesmen passes in his
checks his wife instead of hold-
ing a jollification meeting will
weep over his worthless cadaver
and spend a year's income on a
funeral outfit that don't lit him
when he deserves to be kicked
into eternity in his shirt tail.
Honey Grove Signal.
Books with cattle bills of sale.
n
AN UNFAILING SIGN.
How They Judge a Town by Reference
to Newspapers.
The other day a man with a
street show came into this office
and asked if he might look over
the files of exchanges. He ran
through the papers quickly and
occasionally noted down a name
of some town in a small book he
carried. Inasmuch as ho was
the seventh or eighth .man in
similar lines of business who had
done the same thing in the last
two months curiosity led an
employe of the Post to ask him
his object in looking through the
papers. "Why I am picking out
live towns" said the stranger.
"Live towns? How can you tell
anything of your prospects in a
town from looking through those
exchanges?" was asked of him.
"It's dead easy" he replied.
"Show me the leading papers in
any town in the country and I
will tell you in a minute what
kind of a town it is' simply by
looking through those papers.
It's the advertisement that tells
the tale. If you see only the de-
partment stores and a few other
stores advertisidg in a modest
way and not a great many firms
represented it pays to avoid the
town for the people are not pro-
gressive. "Take a town however where
the papers carry a lot of adver-
tising representing all lines of
business from the little fellows'
up to the big stores and you
have what we call a live town. A
merchant who doesn't believe in
advertising doesn't believe in
building ui) his town: doesn't be
lieve in circuses or theatres and
is usually a knocker. When 1
'et ready to locate in a new town
I always hunt up its papers and
soon decide if I am wanted there."'
Leavenworth Post.
Home Mission Society Notice.
The ladies of the Home Mission
Society will do plain sewing
for prices apply to Mrs. D. M.
Stewart. Quilts $1 per spool;
tack comforts at 50 cts. each.
Please keep this in mind they
will have a Bazaar and servo
dinner on Thanksgiving Day.
Oklahoma is reported
Democratic by forty thou-
sand majority. Good!
Receipt books with stubs at
The News office.
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