Spearman Reporter Headlines – 100 years ago – 3-2-1923

Reporter Pulls a Bonehead Proper – Last Week’s Reporter Announces Death of a Good Citizen, Who is Very Much Alive.

During a quarter century of newspaper work we don’t remember ever having made such a blunder as we made in last week’s paper in announcing the death of Edd Whippo, of near Perryton. Nor have we ever made one which we ever so keenly regretted. We regret that we made the mistake but are glad it is a mistake. Mr. Whippo is not dead. He is not now, nor has he been sick. The report was alright in a way but was 50 or 60 years premature. The old gentleman is one of the liveliest corpses you ever met and day by day in every way growing younger and younger. It is not known just how the report came to Spearman the Edd Whippo was dead, but the Report scribe got it from A.M. Wilbanks, Sr., a man whose reputation, like that of Caesar’s wife, is above suspicion. It is true that Mr. Wilbanks has much trouble with a dog which he loses with great frequency, but outside this slight annoyance, he pursues the even tenor of his way day in and day out, standing four square to every wind that blows. He would not, under any circumstances have caused such a report to be circulated, had he known the facts of the case. But, like the Reporter, he was misled. Messers. Wilbanks and Whippo have been good friends for twenty years and both seem to be good for many years to come.

We are mighty glad to announce that the report was untrue, wholly without foundation in fact, and that Mr. Whippo is still lives. We hope he lives many, many years. He is the salt of the earth. For over thirty years he has demonstrated that a man can make money in this country if he works. He is one of the pioneers of the country and, as we said last week, is a fine old gentleman. That part we don’t wish to take back, but we do insist that the report that the report of Edd Whippo’s death in last week’s Reporter was greatly exaggerated.

Four Inch Snow Follows Big Rain – Spearman Country is Now Wet and Ready for Spring Farming Operations.

Following on the heels of a three days’ slow steady downfall of rain last week, came a four-inch snow. And the snow fell just like the rain had been falling the three days previous – slow and steady and without the usual terrific wind, which drifts our snow so badly. This snow reached the spot and put moisture in the ground. It was of very little to the livestock, as the weather has been warm and the snow disappeared almost as fast as it fell, staying on the ground hardly long enough to give the kids time to build snowmen. Everything is now in readiness for spring farming on a large scale though more moisture will be needed in early April. Farmers inform us that prospects are better now than at this time last year. At any rate the Spearman country is wearing a great, long smile, and the knockers have gone to the tall grass. With plenty of moisture in the ground, a live Commercial Club, and eggs selling at twenty cents per dozen, the Reporter can see nothing but joy and gladness in store for Spearman and the Spearman country.

P.M. Maize & Co. – Advertising the following:

6 cans “Red Dart” table peaches …….…… $1.38

6 cans Loganberries ……………………... 1.75

6 cans Egg Plums ………………………… 1.30

6 cans Pumkin ……………………………… .90

6 cans Opal Corn …………………………… .75