Spearman Reporter – 100 Years Ago – 9/14/1923

Railroad Meeting at Spearman Saturday Afternoon, Sept. 15

Amarillo Business Men Will be Here to Discuss the Matter of Building a Railroad North Out of Amarillo – Everybody Should Attend the Meeting at 1:30 p.m.

This “railroad north out of Amarillo” talk just will keep bobbing up, and it gets louder every day. The next important step, in this connection, is the meeting to be held in Spearman on Saturday afternoon at the Lyric Theatre building. A delegation of Amarillo business men will attend this meeting. The Delegation will be headed by A.S. Stinnett, the first president of the Panhandle Plains Chamber of Commerce, and one of the greatest boosters for the North Plains in the southwest. They will have some interesting things to tell the people of the Spearman country and this meeting should be largely attended. Come out and hear the talks and learn the real facts in the case of what is being done and what is proposed in the matter of building a railroad north out of Amarillo. This is the next great development of the North Plains country. It is coming, as sure as sundown. A direct route to the Gulf ports would mean about ten cents on every bushel of wheat shipped from this country. It would not take many years for this community alone to pay for a road to Amarillo. Every farmer, stockman and business man in the Spearman country should attend the meeting at the Lyric Theatre in Spearman on Saturday afternoon at 1:30. It is important.

Cars Will Run Daily to Amarillo

J.W. Anderson & Son, of Canyon, are Running a Service Car Line Daily from Spearman to Canyon J. M. Anderson of Canyon was here Wednesday night and completed the arrangements for the establishment of a daily service car line from Spearman to Canyon. The route runs via Dumas and Amarillo. The car will leave Spearman every morning at 7:00 o’clock; arrives at Dum as at 10, at Amarillo at 12:30 and Canyon at 2:30. This venture will prove to be a great convenience to the people of this section. Mr. Anderson's charges are very reasonable, and for a short business visit to Amarillo or any of the towns down the line it will be cheaper to patronize the North Plains Stage Line, as it will be known, than to drive your own car. Spearman headquarters of the line are at the Hillhouse Drug Company. Mr. Anderson is a pleasant gentleman to meet and we sincerely hope he makes a success of this venture. One of the great conveniences it will afford is to furnish Spearman with a daily paper every Sunday. The publishers of the Amarillo Daily News have made arrangements with Mr. Anderson to bring the News to Spearman every Sunday. This will give us a Sunday morning paper just a few hours later than the city folks and is really an up-town arrangement of which we will be proud. And this is leading up to an arrangement which has been talked of for a year or more. That is, the establishment of a mail line from Amarillo to Spearman. With this daily service car line in operation, there is no reason why a daily mail should not be established over the route. The F'armers and Citizens Commercial Club of this place should take this matter in hand at once, and by a persistent effort, the mail line could be added to the passenger line within a short time. And again, when Amarillo gets her railroad to the north, it will run over the same route as this passenger line running. Big trucks are hauling freight over this route every day from Amarillo to Dumas and Spearman. Someday trains will be running over this route, and the line will extend north to Liberal, Kansas. Which is a fact.

The pipe for the water mains over the city has been strung this week, but we are unable to learn just when the real work of construction of our city light and water plant will begin. The Gantt-Baker Company announced that they would be ready to begin work by September 15, and so far as we know the work will begin at that time.

TOO MANY DOGS --- Spearman has several hundred spare dogs. They rove about town in great droves and make the nights hideous with their howls. A city ordinance compelling the payment of a stiff dog-tax would be a mighty nifty piece of legislation