Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-19
CHILDRESS.
The County Blessed with Glorious RAINS
Notes of Prosperity and Improvement.

The County Blessed with Glorious RAINS
Notes of Prosperity and Improvement
Special to the Gazette.
CHILDREss, TEX, April 16.-About
two weeks ago we had an excellent tall
of rain, and then yesterday all the fore
noon and the day and night before we
were blessed with a most glorious rain,
which has put the best season in the earth
the county has ever known since its or
ganization. If we can have another ram
in the early part of May, fthe garden
spot'' and the Childress country gener-
ally will be solid for as much small
grain. wheat and oats, as we can harvest
and find storage-room for. Early corn
is looking fine, while the farmers are as
busy as beavers preparing the ground
for and putting in other crops.
Ranchmen report cattle as coming
through the winter IN handsome style,
and as the range is fine stock will take
on flesh very rapidly. Childress made
her first spring shipment of cattle yes
terday-about 500 head. Shipments will
be numerous from now on this spring.
Our progressive committee are prepar-
ing a programme of our new courthouse
corner stone ceremonies in May land when
everything has been fully formulated it
will be given to the public in an official
way.
= Mr.. s. H. Teal, gentleman of oonsid-
cradle means from GAINESVILLE, Red
River county, was in town few days
since making arrangements to establish
national bank here. He will erect q
two-story stone building and commence
business in nice style.
Messrs. NJ. T. Jones & Co., the
big lumber merchants of Houston,
have bought the lumber yards
and stock of L. S. Whitney and
II. NJ. Alfred & Co. of this place, and
have consolidated them at Withey's old
stand.
Capt. J. D. Mcdowell of this place,
late of Pittsburg, Camp county, has
been appointed special agent of the GEN.
sus department for this, the Eleventh
congressional district, to gather and
compile and collate data with regard to
Indebtedness and mortgages Of the dis
trIct.
At the election in November, 1888,
Childress county polled less than $50
votes. The candidates have been f1gur-
ing and counting noses, and they esti-
mate that she will cast something near
600 votes the coming election.
Our young men have organized mill
tary company of cavalry, and now they
are disc usslng the proposition to organ
iZe fire department.
The citizens of Childress are consider
ing the feasibility of Incorporating the
town for school purposes only, and the
erection the coming summer of a
SO, 900 school building. The house
we now have is nothing like
large enough TO accommodate the
children OF our school district and
the roll is daily increasing.
Col. Jack Elliott of Collingsworth
county was in Childress the other day,
exhibiting specimens of a very fine
quality of hemp or fax, which grows
wild in that county, and world g of it.
He says he will gather a sackful for the
Spring Palace.
Childress and Decatur are the only
two places on the Fort Worth and Den
yer road that Attorney General Hogg
has honored with an appointment in his
before the state convention canvass :,
and the little villages along the line Of
the road are terribly 'friled'' about it.
Messrs. Lee Peyton of Bolton, Bell
county, and a. W. wilkinson of Hol-
land, same county, were in town few
days since prospecting for a location,
and decided to cast their lots with the
people of the ''Gate City, They will
embark in the hardware and farming
IMPLEMENT business