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THE RANDALL COUNTY NEWS. DECEMBER 18. 1908.
HIGHER AND HIGHER.
The New Brick Store Buildings.
LOCAL MAN IS CONFIDENT.
Brick Masons Are Rushing the Wall of the Top
Floor of the Court House It Shows
Up Well.
The reporter was out in the
outer portion of the city last
Tuesday and took a look at our
new court house from that van
tage point and he wants to say
that it begins to loom up about
right. The contractors have been
laying every available brick dur
ing the last few days of pretty
weather, and the east side of the
building is practically completed
to the top of the windows on the
third and top floor. The brick
walls, however, extend four feet
higher than these windows and
on top of that comes the cornice
of terra cotta four feet in
heighth. The other walls are
being laid as rapidly as the large
force of workmen can do the
work, as the contractors desire
to finish the brick work on the
main building by January 1st.
The building begins to show
from the east side the correct
lines of a beautiful building and
in the opinion of the reporter it
will be prettier than the perspec
tive showed it to be. The court
room, which is on the third floor,
will be large and commodious
and the ceiling will be twenty
feet in heighth.
The contractors, Messrs. Gill
coat and Skinner, claim that it
will take them about twenty days
to place all the rooting timber,
after which work on the inside
finishing will be begun and
rushed.
SPECIAL CHILDREN'S SERVICES.
Junior Union of Baptist Church W.ll Give
Special Program Next Sunday Afternoon.
At the regular hour for their
services, three o'clock, next Sun
day afternoon a special program
will be rendered by the J unior
Baptist Young People's Union at
the Baptist Church.
These regular services are
said to be very interesting and
the program which has been
given out appears to offer some
entertaining numbers. Every
one is invited to attend.
I'KOGUAM.
Lesson: John, 17th Chapter
Kecitation Kittie Bee Burnett
Duet Mary Burham and Osce
Mills.
Kecitation -Willie Mills.
Heading Sarah M iller.
Duet Marguerite and Louis
Taylor.
Kecitation Jay Prichard.
Solo Mrs. J. J. Taylor.
Kecitation-J. C. Harder.
Address, "Progress of the
Missionary Spirit in Japan''
Douglas Johnson.
Kecitation Guy Ballard.
Kecitation Em ma Key.
Papers on the Lesson J. J.
Taylor, Buelah Johnson, Emma
Shifflet and Ethel Gatewood.
County Teachers' Institute.
The regular institute for the
teachers of Kandall county will
convene in this city next Satur
day at the school house. A very
interesting program which has
heretofore been published in the
columns of this paper, has been
prepared and it is expected that
every person in the county en
gaged in public school work as
well as many others will attend
the institute. The institute will
remain in session until Thursday
of next week.
A Christmas Picnic.
Arrangements are being made
for a number of families living
in and near this city to gather
their Christmas dinners together
and hie themselves away to the
canyons east of the city there to
spend the day and celebrate with
a big turkey picnic dinner. The
point selected is a very pictur
esque place and if the weather is
suitable there is no doubt but
what these people will have a
pleasant time.
Buy home raised celery for
The three new brick store
buildings on the east side of the
square are certainly being
rushed as far as men can do so.
The men are at work on the roof
ing and expect to have most of
this work completed by Satur
day night. The work on the
concrete floors is in progress
and it begins to look like the
contractors will certainly make
good their word when they said
that the new business firms
could have possession by the be
ginning of the new year which is
only twelve days off now.
HOGS TO LOWER TEXAS.
Randall County Raisers Ship Pigs and Hogs
For Consumption by Farmers in
Erath County.
That the Panhandle of Texas
and Kandall county in particular
is capable of raising hogs as a
profitable "crop"' is clearly
shown by the large number of
inquiries which are coming from
Central and East Texas to this
county for these animals. These
inquiries are widely spread over
that portion of the state and go
show that our swine have al
ready gained a notoriety both for
number and for quality.
A couple of weeks ago John A.
Wallace of this city shipped one
car of fat hogs to Fort Worth
which brought five cents per
cwt. on that market more than
any other hogs sold that day in
the same class, and at the same
time he took a car of pigs and
shoats on down to Stephenville,
in Erath county. Having previ
ously advertised that he would
be at that place on a certain Fri
day and Saturday, when he ar
rived he found wagons there
from all parts of the county al
most and the entire carload was
disposed of long before the de
mand was satisfied.
Mr. Wallace received a very
large price for these pigs and
was encouraged to bring another
car of them down which he ex
pects to do, leaving here next
Monday. He will take some fat
tened hogs also on account of or
ders which he has received.
If you will sit down and figure
up the expense of raising pigs
up to about fifty pounds in
weight you will readily see the
immense profit that can be safe
ly made from them. This coun
try is entirely free from hog dis
eases. So far as we have heard
there is not any deaths from dis
ease in this county, therefore
there is nothing to prevent the
farmers from raising manv of
them each year.
Store of Man.
John Knight Expresses Belief in Future of Ran
dall County by Buying Land
Good Price Paid.
He comes into this world with
out his consent, and goes out
against his will, and the trip be
tween the two is exceedingly
rocky. The rule of the contra
ries is one of the important feat
ures of the trip.
When he is little the big girls
kiss him; but when he is grown
the little girls kiss hiin.
If he is ioor he is a bad mana
ger; if he is rich he is dishonest.
If he needs credit, he can't get
it; if he is prosperous, everyone
wants to do him a favor.
If he's in politics, it's for pie;
if he's out of politics, you can't
place him and he's no good for
his country.
If he doesn't give for charity,
he's a stingy cuss; if he does, it's
for a show.
If he is actively religious, he is
ahypocrit; if he takes no inter
est in religijn, he is a hardened
sinner.
If he shows affection he is a
soft specimen; if he seems to
care for no one, he is cold blood
ed. If he dies joung, there was a
great future ahead of him. If he
lives to an old age he has missed
his calling. Life.
From time to time we have giv
en reports in the columns" of
this paper of the entire confid
ence which the citizens of this
county have in - the lands here
and the future development of
the land as an agricultural possi
bility. This week John Knight who
has lived in Kandall County for
more than eighteen years has
very materally expressed his
sentiments when he purchased
from W. F. Heller, 172 acres of
land lying southwest of this city
paying therefor the sum of $14,
400.00 or a little more than
eighty-three dollars per acre.
There are no improvements other
than the fencing on the property
and about forty acres in culti
vation. Mr. Knight has always been a
believer in this country and has
never failed to show his confid
ence when the opportunity af
forded, but he realized that if
he ever secured J: nd near town
now was the time to take advan
tage of the opportunity when
lands could be secured at even
the present prices as he realized
that it would not be long before
all the lands would be much
higher than at present.
Mr. Knight owns other lands
close to town and thinks that any
person who invest i in property
in Kandall county will be sure
for a very material increase with
in a short time not to speak of
the good crops which could be
raised in the meantime.
Hoffman Parag-aphs.
L. A. Pierce was a business
visitor in Wild' rado last Monday.
Mr. Khinehart of Canyon was
in the ommunity this week look
ing after the improvement of his
land.
Misses Ora and Sallie Cage
visited friends in Canyon last
week.
Services were held at Palo
Duro Sunday morning and at
Day school house in the after
noon conducted by Kev. John
son, thc?aptist minister.
Mr. and Mrs. II. S. Burnham
visited their old home this week.
L. C. Lair and wife and Mrs.
Cowling of Canyon were in the
community this week, taking a
ride in their new auto.
R. A. Campbell and wife are
visiting their daughter, Mrs.
Stratton, this week. Max.
A Question in Finance.
Clark Smith, formerly propri
etor of the Victoria Hotel of this
city but now a .resident of Tex-
"Are you good at arithmetic,
my dear?" asked Mr. Perkasie
of his wife.
"I was accounted the very
best arithmetician at school," re
plied Mrs. Perkasie, with a touch
of pride in her voice.
"I have a problem for you.''
"State it."
"How can I buy $."0 worth of
Christinas presents with $10 in
cash and no credit?" Ex.
Ghnstmas
TURKEY
is good, but 'tis all the better if you have other good things to go with
it things that are suitable for the best dinner ever served to anyone.
We are well supplied with the best line of the very best goods that
can be handled by any grocery concern.
The White Swan Can Goods
are the acme of quality and flavor. They are put up for strictly high
class trade and we do not hesitate to recommend to our customers.
For the Christmas Dinner
as well as for any other occasion, you will find bur store filled with
all the good things to eat--oranges, banannas, cranberries, nuts,
celery, radishes, young onions, mustard and turnip greens, spinach,
beets, turnips, new cabbage, pickles--in fact all these things and
many more.
Our Meat Market
will be well supplied as usual with our high quality of meats and in
addition, we will have several kinds of fresh water fish, lobsters,
oysters and frogs, dressed turkeys and chickens.
We Can Supply What You Want.
The White Swan Grocery Co.
Southeast Corner Square, Canyon, Texas.
John Knight has returned
from a trip down to Browntield
and Yoakum county and to the
News reporter said that he saw
land in that section of the conn-,
try, seventy miles from the rail
road, which had recently sold for
$20.00 per acre and that the land
was not nearly so good as those
in this county, and this, taken in
connection with the fact that the
land mentioned was so far from
a railroad market, made Mr.
Knight think much more of Kan
dall county than ever before.
L. A. Pierce of the Hoffman
neighborhood was in this city
yesterday and was a pleasant
caller at this office. While here
he ordered the News sent to two
of his friends, John Miles of
Kenton, Tennessee and Logan
Burton of Obion Station, Ten-
Every available space in our store will be filled with suitable Christmas
goods presents that will be appreciated by the boy and girl, the young
man and young lady, the older man and the older woman presents indica
tive of the good will of the donor. We will have a complete assortment of
Jewelry, Silverware, Books, Bibles, Toys
and All Kinds of Holiday Goods.
Most of them are already here and we are busy opening them up and they
will continue to arrive by almost every train until the 20th. If you want
just the thing to please and at just the right price don't fail to come to the
Headquarters.
A. H. THOMPSON
Leading Druggist