The weekly herald. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 1906-19??, 1908-05-07


ing department which rates adyel
Using, and which he stated hat
saved retailers in one year $1,000
by driving out the common alyer'
Using CRATER who works towns witt
a blotler, or a church directory, o,
wall business directory" "The best
index to what a town is Is It's daily
The merchant who doesn't pat
ronize a daily paper doesn't desery,
the patronage OF the citizens OF tn
town. can tell dead town as sool
as get 10 IT, Just look at the pa,
per and II II isn't filled with gool
live ads OF the merchants, the towns
dead" He told OF the work OF tn,
real estate men in the organization
TO make all real estate men tell tn
truth about Oklahoma City "whic
IL good enough all the time" Tel
the truth and you'll make friend
for the country, but tell man a lie
and II he finds 1t out he'll be o
knocker," John r. Rose, former
secretary followed up Mr.. McKeand's
statements with convincing illustra-
lions OF their truth,
Never met as much hustle In one
hall before" declared Col. II. r,
Groom, speaking of Panhandle de-
yelopment Hustle is we'll directed
energy and Oklahoma spells energy"
He then regretted that the party was
unable to drive out in the country
further to see actual development,
He told of wheat fields in n few miles
Of the hall which have yielded so
bushels to the acre, OF a field of
oats at Groom from which he had
sold SO bushels TO the acre, "stick-
ing squarely to the truth" He then
touched last upon his most cher
Ished project, the sugar beet indus
/ try for the Panhandle and told Of
the richness shown by the product
OF his crops for the past nine years.
In response to insistent calls,
Nels Darling told two rich stories
which kept the audience ripping
with laughter and made Il clamor-
Gus for more.
"If was foot loose" said o. P.
Workman in talking on Oklahoma
City real estate, "I'd come to ANA
rlllo, for you have the making OF a
wonderful city here" He told then
Of his first acquaintance with Ok
lahoma City. OF the clean live men
who filled the churches on the Sun
day he reached town and who we're
at the head OF the business when
he went to see them next day, then
Of some OF the changes that have
taken place in the city.
The Men That Build.
Rev. Phil Beard, OF the First Pres
byterian church confessed a timidity
in addressing purely commercial
gathering, and continued with a eu-
logy OF the men that have made pos
sible the building OF Oklahoma and
Texas, who have back of them "clean
flowing blood, untouched with crime
and corruption" who fill the
churches and give splendid director
ships to schools.
Colonel Groom claimed the atten-
ton of the audience to tell what
Texas is now. There was a time
in my life when Texas stood for all
that was wild and reckless" and he
showed the contrast by telling OF
laws and customs today which make
the carrying of pistol most costly
folly, drinking and card playing on
trains an impossibility and gambling
a felony.
"The only reason am in the land
business" said p. i. Person who
closed the list of Amarillo speakers
with a talk on Land" "is because
l have the utmost confidence In the
land, and believe every word l tell
my. prospective buyers" The sale
to actual settlers now he said was
60 per cent of the total as against
10 per cent two years ago and this
ratio was increasing.
1--WE like you" said Nels Darling,
who concluded the talks, with Ia
stirring appeal for the development
OF the town and of the community,
and against false merchandising
methods and patronage OF the On
sanity Ward" mail order concerns
and closed with masterfully drawn
picture Of the town which is "home."
1t was 1880 when the gathering
broke up and after their strenuous
day most Of the travellers were ready