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tainedthe members of the Teia* PressAbsoolotion last week in a manner that■w-JH be long remembered by the mem;berg who participated. It la a beautiful city indeed, natural gas, oil wells flowing in great abundance, ita window pane factories, ita frttJt Jar factories Ha automobile true* factory, with itB fine paved streets, modern churches and school buildings/ one of .the'finest opera houses on the Denver, Its large Ice factories and grain elevators, with Its-commodious hotels dotted, all. overthe city, some of the finest residence? to be seen anywhere an artificial lake thirty feet deep and two miles vrtde and seven mU» l°Qg with a storage capacity that will sdpply the town for five years without rain. Over this beau; tlful lake is a jiavlliion and dance hall; boat rdlng and fishing galore. Wichita Pall 8 has a hospitable people who are eager to see that you are matin comfortable, never falling a any time, to speak well of their tittle city* which they are Justly proud, Sell county furnished the prorata part of good citizenship In the oaslfl of the Panhandle. Bentley Maples, Joint agent for the Katy, is-khown by eyery shipper In the city, and evidently admirbd Judging by the tonnage his road receives in. andout over his lines. .“Sam Sedwfg, another :Bell county product, holds a responsible pasltioo with, this same , road, whose interest he holds both with the shippers and the ro*d.\ Mr. B. .N, George Is holding responsible position as chief clerk under :Mr. Maples. Ott an irrigated farm a short distance from. Wichita Falls is the heme of Lit Greathouse, comfortably situated and permanently o cate d and pleased .with hie surround*ngB. • '41 We could give column after column of names who spend their wits ana their money for the upbuilding and enterprise of this city, such, as MesBra Kemp and Kell, Sam. Scaling, *WeB Ciaabey, A. L. Langston, Chaa Bean, Marcus Brothers, D, Lightfoot, Secretary of Chamber of Commerce MiUer, Knlm Brothers . and . ten thousand others,; The members of the Texas Press Association spoke praises of the many different entertainmentrand the finthufliastic manner In which they were received. It ^ was a great meet, beneficial and entertaining. .We will hold In our memory the sweetest thoughts of bur visit, _of her grand people and the metropolis city bf the northwest.”
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Wichita Daily Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 30, 1914
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