The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1907-08-22

is here attending the Five Million
club. The next meeting OF the club
is wanted at Amarillo and the dele
gates here from the Panhandle are
making warm fight.
Mayor Miller Is himself one OF the
biggest boosters in Texas and there
are several others In his delegation
who are about as good as he in that
line.
Mayor Miller Boosts,
Texas is the only country" said
Mayor Miller. THE Five Million
club is doing great good for the state,
1t is advertising It and the popula-
ton is on the increase. Get a man
to stay in TEXAS six months and you
can't drive him out.
Amarillo has been gaining in pop
ulation steadily for nine years at the
rate of about 1000 a year, We
have a town Of 10000 people and
they are as good and loyal as any
people in Texas. Nine years ago IN
the nine counties in the Panhandle
country there we're $4,000 people.
Today the population OF those coun-
ties is $4,000.
The people are happy and max
ing money. You cant get one to
leave. The man who moves to the,
Panhandle country never moves
away"
Mayor Miller has been mayor OF
Amarillo since April, 1905, and since
that time has had built sixteen miles
of concrete sidewalks and other pub,
lie improvements have been made.
Talked Amarillo All the Way.
Vernon Beggs, secretary Of the
Amarillo Commercial club, was not
on the Amarillo special when 1t
reached Ell Paso. Friends looked for
him in vain. with the arrival OF the
train from Fort Worth and Dallas,
however, it developed that he be.
lieved in getting a good start and
went to Dallas, where he joined the
party from that city and talked
Amarillo all of the scheduled train
time and six hours more.
Your attention for a moment,
please. The next meeting OF the
Five Million club will be held On
Amarillo" is his call, already famil-
lar to many.
Amarillo Was Favorite.
The campaign made by the delega-
ton from Amarillo, the largest at
tending the meeting, for the next
meeting of the club had been so en-
Enthusiastically and thoroughly con-
Quoted that the general impression
prevailed that Amarillo had the fight
won an hour after the delegation
arrived in the city.
To Meet With Fair.
At noon today, when President
Kirby announced that the time had
arrived to select the next meeting
place, It developed that Dallas the
city favored by the officers Of the
club for the next meeting place. At
the time TO the meeting, in October,
the Dallas fair will be on and It was
deemed advisable to the best inter-
ests of the club that the meeting
should be held there. When Mayor
w. A. Miller, of the Amarillo delega-
ton, was consulted with and inform
city favored by the officers of the
the club, he promptly agreed to Dali
las. 'If 1t is deemed by the officers
OF the club to be the best interests
of the club to have the next meeting
at Dallas, then / am for Dallas"
It was decided that the meeting
after that Dallas meeting should be
held at Amarillo.
Mayor f. c. Highsmith, OF Mineral
Wells, had intended to make an at
tempt to get the next meeting at his
town. He, like Mayor Miller, was
working for the best interests OF the
club, and agreed to select Dallas.
]. Frank Keith, of Beaumont,
placed his town in the race, but later
withdrew It when told by Mr.. Kirby
that it would be to the best inter
ests of the club to meet next time in
Dallas.
Colonel J. G. Hunter. of Dallas,
thanked the delegates for selecting