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taihed the members of the Teia« PmeAssociation last week In a manner that will be long remembered hr th* mem; bers who participated. It la a beautiful city indeed, natural gas, oil wells flowing in great abundance, it* window pane factories, Ita fnuJt jar factories Ha automobile tTuek factory, witb.itB fin© 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 wide and seven mU» look with a storage capacity that will sdpply the town for five years without rain. Over this beau; tifui lake is a jiavlliion and dance hall; boat rdtng and fishing galore. Wichita Fall 8 has a hospitable people who are eager to see that you are made comfortable, never /ailing a any time to speak well of their little city* which they are justly proud, Bell county furnished the prorata part of good citizenship in the oasis of the Panhandle. Bentley Maples, Joint agent for the Katy, is-khown by eyery shipper In the city, and evidently admired Judging by the tonnage his road receives in. and out over hi* Unas. .“Sam Sedwfg, another .Bell county product, holds a responsible position with, this same.road, whose interest he holds both with the shippers and the road.. Mr. B..N, George I* holding responsible position as chief clerk under :Mr. Maples. On an irrigated farm a short distance from. Wichita Falls is the heme , of Lit Greathouse, comfortably situated and permanently coated and pleased .with hie surround*DgB. • ■41W© could give cotumn 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, *Wes Ciaabey, A. L. Langston, Cbas. Bean, Marcus Brothers, D, Lightfoot, Secre. tary of Chamber of Commerce MiUer, Kalm - Brothers;. and . ten thousand others,; The' members at: the Texas Proa* Association spoke prals^a of the many different entertainment* and the finthufliastic manner 1n 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 of the northwest.
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Wichita Daily Times
Wichita Falls, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 30, 1914
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