PERSONAL AND LOCAL

Jess Hunter is back after a business trip to Oklahoma City.

Representative London was a visitor to this place from Ryan yesterday.

Mayor Rex Lund is rushing the construction work on the water works and sewer system.

A. J. Willis and R. B. Mobley, prominent citizens of Courtney, spent Monday in this city.

Last week the merchants of this place received several carloads of flour and other goods.

Miss Birdie Williams, of Colorado Springs, Col., is visiting relatives and friends at this place.

Many from this place have announced their intentions of going to the picnic at Terral on the 19^th and 20^th inst.

G. W. Sorrells, one of the most successful and influential farmers in the county, was here on business yesterday.

B. S. Chandler expects to leave Friday for Picton, Texas, where he goes to visit his wife. Mrs. Chandler will return with him.

Frank Holder and wife and Mrs. Laura Lyle and daughter of Cold Springs, spent Sunday in Waurika, guests of Mr. O. L. Lewis and wife.

Miss Gladys Haskell, an accomplished young lady of Douglass, Kansas is here on a visit to her relatives, Mr. And Mrs. VanBrunt.

Messrs. Bob Smith, Bill Green, H. Jump and L. W. Wainscott, of Addington, were visitors to this place Saturday. They are a bunch of clever gentlemen and are ever welcome here.

D. S. Huffman and J. L. Wooldridge have formed a partnership and engaged in the real estate business at this place. They have offices in the opera house block.

Mrs. O. E. Heacock has returned after a protracted visit to friends at Fort Worth. Her friends till be pleased to learn that her health is much improved.

T. A. McKenzie of the Crown Bottling Works, was a business visitor to Terral yesterday. He says that grand preparation are being made for the picnic to be held there this week.

Tuesday everal car loads of United States soldiers stationed at Ft. Sill, passed through here en route to San Antonio to participate in the national encampment to be held at that place.

J. L. Wooldridge, the well-known real estate dealer of this place, has been honored by being appointed Assistant Sergeant at Arms of the National Democratic convention, to be held at Denver.

Mrs. Quinette, an aged lady who lived in the Rock Island addition to this city, died at an early hour Tuesday morning after a lingering illness. The funeral took place Tuesday afternoon.

To be placed on the defensive is an awkard attitude in a contest of this nature. Fortunately Ryan has nothing to deny, or for which it has to make excuses or offer apologies. – Ryan Leader

In the face of the groundless and inexcusable falsehoods which have eminated from Ryan in the last two weeks, the above paragraph establishes the high mark for audacity. – Sugden Herald

That old Ryan gang is nothing if not filled with audacity and mendacity.

The Rock Island railroad is making every effort to get is road bed, damaged by floods and overflow, in good condition. A big force of men are at work here and yesterday a train load of wagons and scrapers arrived and these will be put to work. There is no excuse for idle men. The railroads want laborers as well as the farmers.

Bob Smith, a humorist with a national fame, lectured at the Waurika opera house Saturday night for the benefit of the Waurika Concert Band. The lecture and the cause for which it was given deserved a larger patronage than was given it.

Large congregations attended services at the Tabernacle Sunday. Rev. Stegall, the Methodist minister, preached at the morning services and at night services Dr. Hunt, the Presbyterian divine, filled the pulpit.

The citizens of Waurika advocate those measures which will benefit the majority of the people. Therefore they are not actuated by selfish motives when they advocate locating the permanent county seat at this place.

H. H. Shayler has purchased the interest of C. R. Ford in the Pure Food Bakery. Mr. Shayler says he is going after the business by putting out the very best goods at the very lowest possible prices.

Don’t forget the big picnic to be given at Terral on the 19^th and 20^th inst., and go there if you wish a good time generally. The Terral people are noted for their hospitality, and on this occasion they have invited every body to come and mingle with them. There will be plenty of barbacued (sic) meats (southern style) with music, dancing, base ball and other sports.

At a court town it is very necessary to have ample hotel accommodations in order to accommodate the attorneys, witnesses, jurors and others who have to attend court. Waurika is now better supplied with good hotels than any town in Jefferson county, and a $25,000, fifty-room, hotel is being constructed. Is it not well to take advantage of the conveniences that this city offers and move the county seat to this place?

In nienty days this place will have a light and water and sewerage system in operation. These necessities are needed in every city and Waurika is the only city in the county that will probably have them for some years to come,though we hope to see Jefferson county grow so rapidly that soon other towns in the county will be prosperous enough to put in these utilities.

HEAVY RAINS

Washouts and Overflows Again Cause a Suspension

Of Railroad Traffic

This has been another week of heavy rains in Oklahoma and Texas, and again have the railroads been put out of commission on account of overflows and washouts.

Cow and Beaver creeks are again raging torrents and water from them have spread over the low lands, and washouts have occurred at several places north of here and the running of trains on the Rock Island have been suspended indefinitely.

The settling of a bridge pier at Red river; overflows by the Washita river; floods between Comanche and Duncan and a torrential five-hour rain all over southern Oklahoma put a stop to traffic on the Katy and Rock Island roads.

One of the piers of the Katy bridge at Denison, yielding to the sifting of the channel, sank several inches and threw the entire new portion of the structure out of line. The bridge is jointly used by the Frisco and Katy.

The Rock Island’s regular northbound train out of Fort Worth to Kansas City was annulled Tuesday night on account of lack of equipment and the big washouts near Comanche.

Rains at Ardmore

Ardmore, Okla., June 16 –

Railroad traffic through this section is again tied up on account of heavy rains. One of the hardest rains of the year fell early yesterday over Southern Oklahoma and all streams are out of banks again. Water is reported several feet deep over Santa Fe track in the Washita canyon north of here and washouts are reported near Wynnewood and Paoli, which has cut off traffic from the north.

In the Washita valley hail destroyed the cotton crops.

Sunday Visitors to Comanche

Last Sunday quite a number of people went to Comanche for an outing. Among those were Messrs. Rosenfield and wife, VanBrunt and wife, Chandler and wife, Parsons and wife, Bruner and Sylvester. The party spent an enjoyable day, but returning the train was ten hours late and they were forced to enjoy the hospitality of Comanche citizens longer than they intended, and when the train did reach Comanche late in the night several of the party barely avoided being left by completing their toilets on the train.

Home Missionary Meeting.

The Womans’ Home Mission Society of the M. E. church south, met at the residence of Mrs. C. R. Phelan Thursday afternoon, June 11, at which it was decided to give a dinner June 30^th, the proceeds from same to be used in help building a Methodist church at this place.

All members of the Mission are urged to be present at a meeting to be held at the residence of Mrs. Henry. Let each person bring a new member with them.

Ball Game at Comanche.

Sunday last the Waurika base ball team, accompanied by many admirers of the national game, went to Comanche and played a game with the Comanche team. The Comanches (sic) took the scalps of the visitors in short order. The Waurika team was minus an expert pitcher and unusually weak in fielding, and with the Comanche team strong in both battery and field work, the game was uniterestingly one sided in favor of the locals.