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Canyon City News. VOL XII. CANYON CITY, RANDALL TEXAS, FRIDAY. APRIL IO. 1908.

NO. 2 Keiser Brothers Phillips Buy and Sill Panhandle Lands THE WORLD NEEDS KNOCKERS, the Athenian council which con- the Senator on account of the domnod him to death. And Soc- unfair attacks of personal ene- This little story is going the rates built up a very good sys- mies, and the going back on in- rounds uf many newspapers: torn of philosophy. jstruetions by some members of lived a man who Columbus was a knocker. the Legislature, he, had chronic indigestion and a knocked the rs of his Bailey, had done no wrong." woman who had missed a mark- day, learned men, held in much Mr, Bowman conceded the lion- down sale, and had also been esteem.

To get rid of him they esty and good faith of Democrats jilted and had always acted as put him in a ship and sent him opposed to Senator Bailey in the A Flour Mill Proposition. At a call meeting of the ('om- mereial Club, held Saturday at the courthouse, Fred R. Cato, of Farmington, Arkansas, submitted a proposition for a flouring mill at It v. )n mot ion i the proposition was submitted though she had been hit with a to sea, and he found America, i present canvass, but deplored its by Mr. Cato in writing and by I sour apple.

The man with the And from the blows of his ham-: effect as tendingto impair not only him turned over to the Internal chronic indigestion and the wo- mer was built up the greatest the present good feeling and un- 1 Improvement committee of said man who had been jilted, continent of nations in the ion among Texas Democrats but club foreonsideration by our poo- married and the progeny was the history. first of Cl'S. ou present day And Thomas Jefferson was a knocker. His particular hammer i ,1 i i 4 i-i Gentlemen: beg to submit torv wil app v. But knock- hui up the constitution on whicli ing goes, and at The conclusion 4, 1 1 to you the iollowmg proposition needs to be the government ol the of lus address lie was congratu-1 of th Perhaps there is a large class was out against the divine right of so-called knockers to whom of kings, and the same hammer till or is a word that used carefully.

There are times Cnited States rests, when iconoclast would be better Here's the whole point of it. and at other times misanthrope The knocker is a useful citizen, would lit. Not only that, but lie is a neces- For because a man knocks is sity. that now is the time to make a move for it and that these are the men with whom wo should seek a deal is the accepted time.5' If Canyon City waits until surrounding towns gets the bulge in this mill matter- get mills up first it won't be so good for us as now. The count ry needs a Hour mill and the enterprise, if taken hold I of at once in Canyon City and ni the prestige of our Junior Sena- pie.

The proposition speaks lor pushed to completion, can be tor with the country at large. itself and The News here repro- made a paying proposition. From his standpoint Mr. Bow -1 duces it entire: 'There is no doubt at all of this man made an excellent speech. Canyon City Commercial being a fact provided, of course, He gave and betook, as the say-; anyon ity, exas.

it be properly managed. cut 1 Junior Epworth League. lated by political foe as well asjzens of Canyon City and vicinity, friend. towit: It was thought that a ropiv to; io organize and incorporate a joint stock company of twelve Mr. Bowman position would be i 1 i thousand dollars capital VI 1n But while the knocker allowed, but on request for that purpose of moving from not a good excuse for condemn- hammer is breaking something privilege the chairman of the Armington, Arkansas, a lift ing him an undesirable.

The down, it must be building some- world needs knockers. Left thing else up. 'The knocker who alone to themselves people would can knock any one lino and offer become so self satistied that liv- nothing else to be built up in- ing would become intolerable. Back in the days of Noah the citizens of the world used to compare themselves with the citizens who had lived before their time, and reflect, are we than stead of it, doesn't deserve the name of He's merely air. promptly barrel flour mill with a fifty barrel meal or three hundred bag feed mill in connection, to Can.

yon City, Texas, to build, own ly a Bailey love feast that operate same at said town. nothing else. meeting, L. C. sat down on the proposition, stating in substance that it was wliol-i Among the other speakers an iconoclast, or, if you want to were Rev.

J. M. Harder and J. be more severe, an anarchist. C.

Hunt. Indorsing what Mr. But the man who can knock Bowman had already said each i much better when knocking is needed, and at of those gentlemen piled it on the same time build up something several hundred per cent Program forSunday, April Le ider, Miller Word. God's Kingdom Matt. 10.

rayer. Song. Bible ((notations, Vernon and Addio Sholnutt, Paul Rogers and Hazle Park. Select Hitchcock'. Song.

Bible reading, Dixie Foster. Select reading, Mabel Rogers. Song. Select reading. Valeria mill and elevator building arrives on track at Canyon City.

The balance to be paid as needed for the erection of mill and ole are too indifferent to the object, The News by President Lair, is ate the mill. Noah was a knocker. He knock- better in the place of that which stronger. ed the customs of the day, the he is trying to hammer down, At the conclusion of the speak- peoplo.thechcrished institutions, honors the name of knocker and ing it was moved and carried that even the forms of worship. He stamps himself as a citizen of an a Bryan-Bailey-Wynne club be kept on knocking year after year age ahead of his own.

organized; that it meet every until he got to be such a nuisance The world needs knockers, other Friday evening beginning that nobody would listen to him. Doubtless we are as self satisfied today and that it continue as a While lie was knocking he had a a nation as ever lived, and we working organization until after hammer in his hand and was have a right to be. But there! the November election. L. C.

knocking nails into timbers to! may be many things which are Lair was elected president and vator building and to install the build an ark. He stop! wrong, things which we believe, S. 11. Heyser secretary. The the mill is i i ready lor operation all the bal- knockmg either with his preach- or merely tolerate because we list ol members, kindly turmshed alK.0 tn bo paid and used to opt ing or his hammer until a flood came along and drowned everybody who hadn't taken his advice.

Practically all great reformers have been knockers. We don't call them that now, but the people who lived in their day did. Socrates was a tremendous knocker and they finally killed him for it, but the people remember the name of Socrates now, when they have forgotten the name of a single member of We, Cato Bohurt, agree to subscribe for six thousand dollars (80,000) of the capital stock, furnishing machinery, spouting, elevator legging belting, pulleys and shafting, at invoice price at Farmington, to balance same: The balance of the stock, ry. (six thousand dollars, 80,000) Song. be subscribed for by the citizens Select reading, Jeffie Wallace, of Canyon City and vicinity.

Talk on the lesson by the Twenty per cent of the six thou- perintendent. sand dollars subscribed for by Announcement, of program for the Citizens of Canyon City to be next mooting. paid as soon as the lumber fori For such things knockers are as follows LOCAL GRAIN MARKET I Or ijf 111111,1 iOOjHHjUjUjOSt The here given are from the Canyon City grain dealers and show the market the day lie fore the issue of this paper. We Print Sale Bills AND PRINT THEM RIGHT and we can handle all lines of job it makes no difference LLIH how large or email the job may be. Call at this office and look over our samples of letter envelopes, business cards and wedding stationery.

You'll be pleased with our work, and prices will suit. Best Most Reasonable Prices needed and needed badly. Merely to label a man a knock- Cummings, .1 Rusk, Jowell, or without investigating all that i Redfearn, Reed, he is doing with his hammer is Rusk, .1 Howell, Wagner, to stamp oneself as indifferent, Jim Stratton, Redfearn. careless and unjust. Fort Worth Hood, Travis Shaw, Bai- Telegram.

i ley, EC Brown, Jordan, Wal; ter Cranford, A Thompson, IR Redfearn, A Tate, A Smith, A Sowder, our acceptance or rejection. ato A Bo hart 1 his agreement is subject to 10 are for grain in sack Bryan-Bailey-Wynne Club. At the invitation of the Bailey meeting, held in the courthouse March Hon. J. R.

Bowman spoke at the courthouse Saturday evening. He made a torn per- Rollins, Hutchings, KLair, O'Keefe, Baird. Black, C) 1 Smith. Lair, Jas Dawson, Heyser, Wirt. King, Oscar Edwards, .1 A Wilson, I) Key, Thomson, By uei R.

ato If this be accepted by the people it is agreed that one of the parties of the first part, an experienced miller, will, if desired, move to Canyon and operate the plant. The proposition, on its face, looks fair. In addition to this the men who made it have personal appearances in their favor. It looks to The News as tho if we want a flour mill at Canyon City unless otherwise stated. Wheat, No.

bushel Oats, best, 00 'orn, Alaize, threshed, Du Kaffir corn, threshed, Maize and Kaffir in heads, new crop, ton I 00 Millet hay, per 10 no Johnson grass hay, ton Alfalfa, per ton Chickens and Kggs Fryers, per dozen Eggs, per dozen 10 00 ID 00 oo iito, gentlemanly defense of Soil- Kd Pipkin, KG ator Hailey's eonduct in pretty rjilil. W)ll near all that lias been alleged against him, confining himself, as he said, to the record testimo- ny before the Legislature at Aus- i tin. His contention was, that outside of some of intemperate and uncalled for ro- Rector, Shitflet, Greer, Lester, Lester, iC 1) Lester, A Park, Fos! ter, Dr. Stewart, 0 Hunt, I Slover, Baird, Har- jder, McCranie, 1 McClure, Templeton, Garner, marks in some of his Cowling, Bal- whicli he, Mr. Bowman, set down to righteous indignation felt by lard, Necce, Garner, Young.

Abstracts of Title Abstracts carefully prepared and on short notice. Satisfaction assured. Randaff County Land Co. Canyon City, Texas..