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THE WAURIKA NEWS
Waurika, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Friday, November 9, 1906
Unless
the governor interferes, Jim WILKINS, the negro who murdered Bill
CREELING, another negro, at Waurika, will be hanged at Lawton
January 4th, 1907.
We
frequently receive inquiries from our subscribers at a distance
who own real estate here asking when taxes are due and to them we
will say that the first half of the taxes for the year 1906 are
due December 1st, and if not paid by January 1st
1907 the entire amount becomes due.
The
banks of this town commenced Nov. 6th, closing their
doors at 4 p.m.
The
increased business has compelled them to take this action in
order to get their book work done.
The
banks of this town shows (sic) four times the amount of business
that there was one year ago.
Last
Monday Judge GILLETTE heard the argument at the attorneys for
BILTON for a new trial and overruled the motion and sentenced the
defendant (sic) to a term of ten years in the penitentiary.
His
attorneys immediately gave notice of appeal and the court fixed
BILTON’s bond at $5000 pending the appeal to the supreme
court.
A
warrant was issued Monday from Judge DILLARD’s court for a
young man southwest of town for disturbing public worship at
River View school house Sunday night.
Constable
HORN went out Monday evening and took his blood hound but the
bird had flown, crossed the river into Texas.
The
Rural Carriers have plenty of business these days. Here is
what they did last month:
T. N.
CHANDLER carrier on route No. 1 handled 6394 pieces of mail.
Mrs. D. S. HUFFMAN carrier on route No. 2 handled 5885 pieces of
mail and Hays DILLARD carrier on route No. 3 who has a short
route handled 4162 pieces of mail. This makes a total
of 16441 pieces handled during the month.
Oklahoma Day (excerpt)
December
2, will be observed by the Sunday schools of all denominations as
Oklahoma Day.
Mr.
WILCOX sold six head of cattle last week.
Mr.
HAMMOND lost a horse by blind-staggers last week.
Miss Eula SMITH who
has been sick for a long time is up again.
Cotton picking is
progressing very satisfactorily this fine weather.
Mr. WILLIAMS was
very badly hurt by falling from a wagon recently.
Messers VANBEBBER
and CANCELLER purchased new buggies recently.
This vacinity (sic)
polled a very light vote at the election from not knowing where
to go to vote.
The Adventists held
baptismal service at the Township bridge on Beaver last Sunday.
Last Monday night
T. T. THOMPSON resigned his position as City Marshal and the
Council appointed J. W. HORN at a salary of $60.00 per month.
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Mr. ELLIS’ family is slowly recovering from the fever.
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Mr. Will McDOWELL and wife have returned from Canada.
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Mr. COOK will have a sale soon and will move to Mexico.
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Sunday School every Sunday at 10 a.m. Everybody invited.
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Tuesday was the election day. A pretty day and a large
crowd.
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Mr. WATSON and family have returned from their summer trip to the
south.
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Mr. SNODGRASS’ brother-in-law of Arkansas has moved on the
WORTHEN farm.
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O. J. BACHMAN purchased a new top and shafts for his buggy, look
out girls.
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The weather has been fine and everyone has been busy picking
cotton for the last week.
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Mrs. Will SMYERS was called to Texas where her mother is very
sick. Mr. SMYERS left for there Tuesday.
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A large number of people attended the sale of TUCKERS at Sugden
Saturday and Monday they report a lot of bargains.
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The butchers seem to be doing a land office business they keep
the inspector busy they hardly give him time to sleep.
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At the Democratic speaking last Thursday night they had a whole
kettle of medicine made up for the Republicans and they failed to
take it. There was two Republicans to one Democrat.
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There
was a lack of enthusiasm here election day, the farmers were very
busy. Working over time. The day was fine.
W. J.
YOEMAN of Lawton was in town Monday night.
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Kingfisher is suffering from an epidemic of diphtheria.
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Rev. Hapton FITCH, wanted at Chelsea on a forgery charge, was
arrested at St. Louis recently.
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Outlaws robbed the Iron Mountain station at Olagah, I. T.,
securing $1,700 in cash.
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Work has been commenced on the million dollar power plant in the
Grand river at Muskogee.
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W. R. HOWE, postmaster at Alderson, has disappeared. It is
said that domestic trouble was the cause of his flight. His
wife has taken charge of the postoffice, and inspectors detailed
to make an examination.
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In Kiowa county teachers make an average of $45 per month and
board themselves, while cotton pickers command $90 and room and
board.
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South McAlester will have to do without a new fall bonnet and
economize so as to raise a needed bonus of $100,000 to get the
Indian Central railroad and its division shops.
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Dan SIE, a well known farmer near Sugden, was arrested last week
for complicity in the assassination of Indian Policeman Ben
COLLINS. This is the third arrest for the crime.
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In the contest that has been conducted for a name for the county
in which South McAlester is located, Kali-Inla leads by a large
majority. The legislature of the new state will be asked to
give the county that name.
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The Indian Territory Federation of Women's clubs in annual
session at Tulsa, adopted by unanimous vote, a resolution
favoring separate schools for the whites and blacks in the new
state of Oklahoma.
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Governor FRANTZ has appointed Wm. BUSBY, of McAlister, as an
additional delegate to the Gulf Deep Waterway convention which
meets in St. Louis November 15 and 16.
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Dr. J. A. ROSS, of Oklahoma city, has been appointed by Governor
FRANTZ as an additional member of the territorial board of
osteopathy.
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L. N. HOUSTON of Enid has assumed his duties as register of the
Guthrie land office.
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A list of twenty schools of the Creek nation have (sic) been
submitted to the department of the interior. The list
contains four new ones.
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The gas company represented by Dennis FLYNN has been granted a
franchise to pipe natural gas into Shawnee. At the same
time the local company was given exactly the same franchise.
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Car Accountant U. E. COFFEE for the Frisco railroad, of
Springfield, Mo., has been transferred by the road to Lawton
where he will be given the territory from Quanah, Texas, to
(unable to read).
GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS
Annual Thanksgiving Day is Announced by
Oklahoma Executive.
GUTHRIE:
Following closely the proclamation of President Roosevelt,
Governor FRANTZ has issued his Thanksgiaving proclamation, as
follows:
"November
29th has been proclaimed our national thanksgiving
day. Accordingly I hereby call upon the people of Oklahoma
to observe this annual festival by offering of thanks to the
Almighty for benefits past and prayers for continuance of His
favor henceforward. Let the celebration of this occasion by
truly unaffected and in a spirit of rejoicing.
"This
state and this nation are in a condition enviable before the eyes
of other sates and others nations. Well may our estate by the
envy of the world. No nation on earth has known during the half
century a more favorable and eventful year than has the United
States the year now closing. We are at peace at home and
highly respected abroad.
"No
state in the Union has greater reason for thanksgiving than has
Oklahoma. Statehood is at last a glorious assurance and the
favor of Heaven has rested upon our fertile prairies and
continually gone before our people everywhere. Toil has its
rewards in prosperity and contentment. The standards of
civic honesty are high and the assurance of continued good
government is ours. This assurance and the quality and degree of
our prosperity throughout the territory call for gratitude
unconfined."
INDIAN REVOLT IS YET FEARED
BUFFALO BILL THINKS TROUBLE WITH UTES IS NOT OVER.
Wanderings of Chiefs Must Be Stopped Before
the Northwest Will See Sweet Peace.
CODY, WYO.: Colonel William J. CODY (Buffalo Bill),
accompanied by Colonel BRECK and several members of the party
which returned a few days ago, from a big bear hunt in the Big
Horn mountains, left here Sunday for Sheridan, Wyo., intending to
hold conference with the Utes before the latter start on their
overland march to Fort Meade, where they are to stay in charge of
the Sixth cavalry until spring.
Notwithstanding the
agreement which was reached at the conference between the
soldiers and the Utes, there are fears of a general uprising of
all northern Indians. BUFFALO BILL, who is familiar with the
Indian characteristics, has been kept closely advised of the
developments in the recent troubles, and he believes the matter
will not be entirely settled by the arrangement which puts an end
to the wanderings and depredations of the Utes under Appah and
B??? Whisker.
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Work has commenced on the extension of the
Chattanooga branch of Rock Island railroad into the ????? of the
"big pasture." B. A. Bevins with a force of engineers
is surging southwest from Chattanooga to reach the new towns
which are to be established in the "big pasture."
Engineer Bivens states that the railroad will be extended to Red
river.
THE WAURIKA NEWS
Waurika, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Friday, December 14, 1906
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W. E. CONNER will buy your corn.
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Pay your 1906 taxes at the Citizens State Bank.
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H. S. BRUNER was a Lawton visitor Tuesday.
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See A. L. WALGER for all kinds of insurance, at Citizens State
Bank.
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J. R. ECKLES transacted business in Lawton Tuesday of this week.
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T. B. KELLY is building a three room cottage on his lease south
of town.
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Tip HOLLAND has accepted a position as clerk in the grocery store
of Franks Adams & Sons.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wiley TOOMER have returned from Binger, Oklahoma to
make this their future home.
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L. B. ECHOLS has purchased the farm of T. T. THOMPSON three miles
north and one west of town. The consideration being $3,600.
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Good insurance at a low rate. Call and see A. L. WALKER at
Citizens State Bank before having your property written.
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River View Honor Roll for week ending December, 7th:
Wayne MOODY, Stella QUALLS, Loma QUALLS, Eula STONE, Iva THOMAS,
Huston THOMAS, Callie WITT and Josie WITT.
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See S. H.HANDCOCK & Co. for coffins, caskets, shrouds and
slippers, etc., office on Main street, Waurika. Or J. J.
BIGBEE Addington, I. T.
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Thos. Jeffrey and son George will have a public sale today and
will in a short time move to New Mexico, where they will make
their future home.
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O. E. HEACOCK left Monday to accept a position as bookkeeper in
the bank at Waurika, Okla. Mrs. Heacock joined him
Thursday. They were among our very nicest young yolks and
congratulations over securing so desirable a position are mingled
with regret at their leaving Anthony. – Anthony (Kansas)
Republican.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. C. SHIMER and daughter, Mrs. A. C. EGLE, left for
Oklahoma City last Monday where they go to make their future
home. Mr. EGLE will follow about the first of the year.
These people have lived in Waurika since the opening and were for
a long time engaged in the grocery business. They leave a
host of friends who, with the News, wish them much happiness in
their new home.
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We want your trade. Wallace Grocery Co.
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Christmas books for sale at Mrs. Susan HANCOCK.
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J. M. McGRAW is visiting at his old home in Burlington, Iowa.
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For Sale: - 45 acres of cotton on my school lease 3 miles west 2
1/2 south of Waurika. See me. J. A. ALTMAN
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Lookout Honor Roll for week ending December 7th:
Walter MARMOR, Jim WELLS, Clyde ELLIS and Gladys MARMOR.
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Many people, both young and old are enjoying the pleasure of
skating at the rink every evening.
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Woodie STUARD purchased this week five of the finest horses we
have seen for some time. He intends shipping to the Kansas
City market.
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George TUCKER of Ft. Worth is building a four room cottage in
Rock Island addition and when completed will move his family here
to make this their future home.
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Honor roll for Morris school: Elsie ACKERMAN, Sadie CAROLAND,
Anna CAROLAND, Stanley McCULLOCH, Ollie HUFFMAN and Anna KOOKEN.
Miss Grace Jeffrey, teacher.
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Miss Pauline HESSER who has been visiting Miss Prude MORGAN for
the past month, returned to her home in Denison, Texas, Sunday
morning.
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Miss Lulu WRIGHT of RYAN, who has been visiting Misses Toad and
Anna ROBERTS returned to her home Wednesday evening.
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R. M. WITT of route No. 2 came in this week and renewed his
subscription to the News. He has been confined to his bed
for two or three weeks but is now able to be out and enjoy good
health once more.
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Dr. C. M. MAUPIN was elected by the K. of P. lodge as their
representative to the Grand Lodge at the meeting to be held in
Blackwell, Oklahoma, next month.
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J. W. THOMPSON, who was in the hardware business at Sugden until
last spring, passed through Waurika last Monday enroute from
Lawton to Gainesville, Texas.
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W. E. CONNER is in Guthrie this week.
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Miss Bessie SHORT visited Miss Aletha DAVIS yesterday.
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E. J. KELLY is in Dallas, Tex., this week buying a right of way
for a branch of the Rock Island.
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Fred and B. SWYERS and L. LEATHERS of Trimble, Tenn., are the
guest of J. W. POPE this week.
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Harry SOUTHERN, wife and daughter, passed through here Monday
from a few months visit in Cuba to their home in Lawton.
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Mrs. O. C. LARSON and children have returned from an extended
visit with Mrs. LARSON’s parents in Frederick.
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L. A. BRYSON is building a barn on his property recently
purchased from H. S. BRUNER.
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Harry H. MAYS traveling saleman (sic) for WAPLE-PLATER Wholesale
grocery company of Ft. Worth was calling on our merchants
Tuesday.
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Max MONTGOMERY of Ryan, passed through the city Tuesday enroute
to Addington where he contemplates on becoming identified with
the newspaper at that place.
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Mr. and Mrs. A. E. LANDON entertained Mr. and Mrs. W. C. SHIMER
and Mr. and Mrs. A. C. EGLE from Saturday until Monday.
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Miss Dollie JAMES who has been visiting her Uncle, J. W. DUNN and
family, for the past month left Monday morning for her home at
Nevada, Texas.
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Miss Lucy Dilworth DABBS lately of the Beggar Prince Opera
Company is visiting her mother Dr. Ellen Lawson DABBS this week.
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Attorney D. M. BRIDGES returned Sunday from a business trip to
Texas, and went from here to Guthrie where he will spend the rest
of the week.
Another change in
the weather makes cotton picking misserable (sic) hard on hands.
Otis
BACHMAN and John HARGRIS had a kind of a mixture of good and bad
luck while at the W. W. W. lodge Saturday night. Two
thieves took their overcoats that they left in their buggy but on
looking around discovered the Thieves in the old corn crib at
Sugden.
The
Holliness held church at Lookout Sunday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
W. W.
BRACKETT thinks some men are mean enough to do most anything when
they come to a man’s house and offer his hands 25 cents per
hundred more to get them away as one did him last week. The
next man he catches taking his men away there will be something
doing on the hill.
Frank
HUFFMAN from Waurika was out here with a load of land seekers
from Tennessee showing them the best land in Comanche county.
Otis
BACKMAN made a flying trip to Rocky Knob Sunday night. Rather
chilly going north Otis.
Uncle
Dallas SNODGRASS is contemplating a trip to his old home in the
east.
DIRECTORY
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Ladies Aid Society' - Every 2nd and 4th
Thursday.
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Union Sunday School - Every Sunday at 10 o'clock promptly.
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Methodist - Every First Sunday of each month preaching 11 a.m.
and 7 p.m.
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M. W. A. - In their hall on the First and Third Tuesday nights,
over the bank.
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A. F. & A. M. lodge meets on the 2nd and 4th
Saturday nights of each month in the masonic hall over bank of
Waurika.
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Ladies' Aid Society of the First Presbyterian church will meet
every second and fourth Thursday.
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Presbyterian - Services at Waurika, second Sunday of each month
at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. and at Independence on each fourth Sunday.
- Rev. S. M. Hunt, Pastor.
Baptist - Preaching the third and fourth
Sundays of each month, by Rev. W. F. Harris, at 11:00 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. at Baptist church, Waurika, Baptist Sunday school every
Sunday at 10 o'clock promptly.
THE WAURIKA NEWS
Waurika, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Friday, December 21, 1906
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Extended to the Patrons of the News
Governor
FRANTZ announced on December 13th, the resignation of
L. W. BAXTER as territorial superintendent instruction,
ex-officio auditor, and his appointment of another hardware man
of Lawton, J. E. DYCHE to success BAXTER.
It has been known for
sometime that Auditor BAXTER has considered resigning.
His successor J. E. DYCHE,
is assistant postmaster of Lawton, and has the distinction of
being a republican member of the board of County Commissioners of
Comanche county, being elected by 300 majority in a district
nominally democratic by the same figures.
Mr. DYCHE is a personal
friend of Governor FRANTZ, the two having lived at Wellington,
Kansas, in the early days. He is a graduate of the Kansas
University and was a teacher in that state a number of years ago.
Auditor BAXTER’s
resignation takes effect on January 1. He was the first
appointed under Governor BARNES in the spring of 1901, succeeding
S. N. HOPKINS, who the legislative senate had refused to confirm.
BAXTER has served under Governors BARNES, JENKINS, FERGUSON, and
about a year under FRANTZ.
Auditor BAXTER has filled
his term of office with honor and credit to the party who placed
him in his position.
Robs Chickasha Depot
A bold man robbed the Rock
Island depot in a daring manner while the agent was at lunch at 5
o’clock Tuesday evening. The robber entered by raising
the screen of an office window pried the cash drawer open with a
hatchet and took 98.85. There were no passengers in the
waiting room. A heavy set man with brown mustache was seen
to crawl through a window but was not molested. No clew
(sic) can be found.
It seems as though robbery
is becoming a trade since cotton picking season. A few days
ago the postoffice at Ardmore was robbed and last Monday a depot
agent in a small town near Oklahoma City was robbed of $25 of his
own money.
Will Entertain
Invitations are out
announcing an at home party for the ladies, at the beautiful
residence of Mrs. Albert E. Landon from 3 to 5:30 p.m. today.
Her elegant home has just
been completed and no doubt in the future but what the society
ladies of Waurika will have many invitations to her new home and
spend most enjoyable evenings.
Are Opening Bids (excerpt)
Officials of the interior
department, who have been designated to see the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache Indian pasture lands begun (sic) Monday opening the 7,
621 bids received during which the receiving office was open.
Thus far the average number of tracts bid for by one bidder has
proven to be thirty. It is estimated that sixty days will
be required to record all the bids. Nine clerks have been
employed at recording. They are to work three shifts daily,
thus putting in the entire twenty-four hours of each day. Very
few errors have been discovered in the bids.
Coal Shutss (sic)
Contractor BRIGS of the Rock
Island is here with a large force of men ready to commence the
erection of the long looked for coal shutes. He informs us
that the shutes here would be build from a duplicate plan of
those now being built at Chickasha and El Reno.
The Rock Island will not
stop with the erection of coal shutes alone but will build a
round house and an up-to-date depot on Broadway street using the
old one as a freight house.
Everything looks favorable
for Waurika to become the largest town in the southwest, with the
county seat to be located in our town.
The railroad we now have and
more coming will make us a railroad center, also jobbing and
manufacturing house of all kinds.
WAURIKA A COUNTY SEAT
Of Jefferson County Oklahoma - The New and Brightest County
WAURIKA CITIZENS ARE REJOICING
Over the News Received From Guthrie Wednesday Evening -
Temporary County Seat to be Located at Ryan
That Waurika will be a
county seat is no longer doubted by the fair minded people of
this new “Jefferson County,” one of the brightest
counties in all Oklahoma and one that Waurika will be her
capital.
Lawton citizens, and
especially the News-Republicans, feel at a loss to think that
their special delegation sent to Guthrie did no good, and the
large windy articles in the News-Republican did no good in saying
a delegation went from Walter, Temple, Hastings and a
“batch” was dispatched from Waurika. No batch was
dispatched from here but a delegation went the same as other
towns and in return, got good results.
When the citizens of Waurika
heard of the report the committee made last Wednesday evening,
everyone was in good cheer and proud of the fact that they lived
in a town that will be made the capital of our new Jefferson
County. Ryan will have to take a back seat. They made
a good fight and elected their delegate to the constitutional
convention, but now they do not stand a good fighting chance.
They are entirely cut out of the center of the county, so close
to Red River they can stand on the court house steps and almost
throw a stone in Texas.
The lines are eight miles
west, nine miles north, twenty-five miles east and south to Red
river from this place. No doubt but what our sister towns
will make a hard fight, especially Ryan, but their location out
them entirely out of running order. Our geographical
location and our excellent railroad facilities assures us a
county seat.
Let everyone get out and
talk Waurika. Don’t stop at the county capital along but get
out and help make Waurika the best, busiest and biggest town in
Oklahoma. Talk and write to your friends, have them locate here -
locate in a town that is sure to be a county seat and the Queen
of Oklahoma.
Local and Personal
We heard it and dotted in down; What happened in and out of town.
W. E. CLINE has returned from a
business trip to New Orleans, Louisana (sic).
G. E. EVANS has purchased a fine new
buggy from J. N. JOHNSON & Co.
H. E. BENNETT and
wife left last night for Hot Springs, Ark. To spend the holidays.
Harry LIGHT and Mrs. J. N. JOHNSTON
attended the masquerade skate at Hastings Monday night.
Mart ANTHONY living seven miles north of
Hastings loaded a car of hogs here Tuesday for the market at Fort
Worth.
Monroe Henderson the big fat saleman
(sic) for the WILLIAMS-HALSELL-FRAZIER Grocery Company was
calling on our merchants Tuesday.
J. N. STOUT and family left Thursday
evening for their old Tennessee home, where they will visit Mr.
STOUT's mother and other relatives and friends during the
holidays.
D. V. CUMMINS of St. Louis is visiting his
brother Dean this week.
C. W. WHITTINGTON of Lawton was
transacting business in our city Monday.
Charlie BAILEY who was accidently (sic)
hurt sometime ago in S. P. Lively's gin is improving nicely.
Wiley WILSON is reported as being sick,
we trust his trip to Tennessee was not injurious to his good
health.
LAWLESS, the chicken buyer of Duncan,
made PARSON * ROBINSON Grocery Store his headquarters last Friday
and Saturday and purchased 1600 turkeys.
Honor Roll for Morris school for week
ending December 14: Elsie ACKERMAN, Sadie CAROLAND, Anna
CAROLAND, Allie HUFFMAN, Stanley McCULLOCH, Anna BOOKER, and Moy
STOUT. Miss Grace JEFFREY, teacher.
Miss Eddie Cunningham who has been
attending school in Edmond for some three or four months returned
yesterday for a two weeks visit with relatives and friends. She
will return to Edmond about January 1st and resume her
studies at school.
Mrs. M. A. STEWART is on the sick list,
but some better at this writing.
Wiley WILSON returned Sunday from an
extended visit in Tennessee.
Ex-U. S. Marshal, W. D. FOSSETT of
Guthrie is visiting friends here this week.
R. L. GIBSON president of the Bank
of Sugden is transacting business here today.
We herewith give our thanks to Mr. M.
STANLEY for a years subscription to the News.
Frank STEWART came home from Guthrie
Monday to visit his mother and sister and many friends during the
holidays.
The FORD Hardware Company are having a
fine sign painted on the front of their building that is
attractive.
The BRUNER & ROBINSON brick building
is completed and will be occupied by PARSON & ROBINSON
grocery stock.
The Misses Prude MORGAN, Toad and Anna
ROBERTS and Bessie HULEN attended the masquerade skate at
Hastings last Monday night.
Herb (ma) THOMPSON who has been working
for J. S. LANG & Sons for the past two or three months
returned to his home in Vernon, Texas, Sunday.
L. C. Hicks, who
lately arrived here to make this his home from Atlanta, Ark.,
made this office a pleasant call Tuesday and subscribed for the
News.
Issac BRUNNER is
building two house in Rock Island addition which he will rent, a
few more of these kid of men is what Waurika needs.
J. E. SHANOFELT, General Organizer of
the Knights of Pythias lodge, was calling on the brother member
of this lodge in our town this week.
L. C. HICKS who lately arrived here to
make his home from Atlanta, Arkansaw (sic), made this office a
pleasant call Tuesday and subscribed for the News.
F. PFOTENHAUER of Joplin, Mo. Is in our
city today on business. While here he made the News a
pleasant call and paid his subscription one year in advance. He
also subscribed for N. J. KELLY of Joplin.
According to the new rating of rental on
postoffice (sic) boxes the call boxes in the Waurika postoffice
(sic) will be reduced from 25˘ to 20˘. The small lock
boxes from 60 to 35˘ and the large from $1.00 to 45˘.
J. R. ECKLES, P.M.
Louis MEANS is taking a vacation this
week on account of his ill health. He is visiting in Chickasha
and Oklahoma City and will return to Waurika to spend. Xmas. He
leaves January 1st for Dallas, Texas, where he goes to take a
course in bookkeeping.
Two Years in Prison
The Supreme Court of Little
Rock, Ark., recently sustained the sentence of State Senator F.
O. BUTTS of Eureka Springs, convicted of bribery in the last
Legislature and sentenced him to the penitentiary for two years.
BUTT telegraphed that he would be there Wednesday and surrender
to the penitentiary officials. BUTT, who is one of the best known
attorneys in Arkansas, was convicted of giving another Senator
$100 to vote for the State capital bill. Several other Senators
are on trial on similar charges.
And justice should be meted out to a
senator the same as an ordinary country chicken thief. Send a few
of them to the penn (sic), and probably the grafting of the big
trusts will be a hard proposition in the future.
Madden Grove
Fred MULLEN has an idea where he goes
ever (sic) Sunday.
Mrs. Bud PACE of Addington is visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Ed PACE this week.
Miss Jessie JOHNSON was visiting in
Madden Grove one day last week.
Anyone wanting to trade pocket knives
will please call on Will KELLY.
Ed PACE went to Hastings last week and
sent in ten bids for a farm in the Big Pasture.
Miss Nora PACE returned to Addington,
where she will stay until the cold spell is over.
Farms are changing hands so fast around
Madden Grove that it is a hard matter to tell who your neighbor
is, or who he will be.
Irwin FILLMAN returned home Saturday
from Old Oklahoma where he has been visiting his brother for the
past two weeks.
A $300.00 Bond
This is to certify that the Equitable
Manufacturing Co. has placed a $300.00 bond in this bank to
secure W. J. MORRIS, the jeweler of this place, in the guarantee
placed on their line of jewelry which he handles.
The Citizens State Bank,
by A. L. Walker,
President
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For Sale: or exchange for a farm half interest in the only
furniture store in Waurika. Cause for selling, very bad health.
Thos. WOOTEN, Waurika, O. T.
Waurika is Centrally Located and Will be a County Seat.
THE WAURIKA NEWS
Waurika, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Friday, December 28, 1906
WAURIKA HAS PROSPERED
The Outgoing Year Was One of Wonderful Development for Our Town
and for the Fine Country Adjacent.
The citizens of our town may
well feel proud of the progress and improvements that have been
made in our town in the past year. Fine business houses and
lovely residences have been erected on ground that until a few
years ago was cultivated by farmers. No other town in Southwest
Oklahoma has made such wonderful strides in building and
developing its resources as has our most favored town. From a
small trading place it has in the past eighteen months grown into
a small city of about 1,000 people - and we haven't got started.
Our
city dads have made a splendid record this summer. They have set
a precedent which, if followed by their success in office, in a
few years will make Waurika have more good sidewalks and
permanent improvements than any other town in Southwest Oklahoma.
Waurika will be a beautiful
city of 5000 people, and one of the handsomest and best built in
Oklahoma. Why? Because we are logically situated, have the
railroads, good shade trees, fine water, and one of the finest
classes of business men to be found any place.
Let the resolve of every one
who has the welfare of our town at heart be to do everything
possible, the coming year to make Waurika bigger and better.
Our Town Builders
J.
D. HUFFMAN & Co., real estate are full of business "from
the word go," and still have some rare bargains in Comanche
county farms.
D. S.
HUFFMAN is the man who handles city real estate. A real estate
investment in our town will double your money in the next year.
The
City Meat Market of J. H. HUNTER is where all nice, juicy and
tender steak comes from. They have an up-to-date place of
business and kill only the best of meat stock.
Joseph
T. DILLARD is the young lawyer from Kentucky and is here to stay.
"Kentucky" and "stay" are synonymous. Give
him a trial.
The
Mecca Bar, operated by R. E. HALL, seems to be a veritable oasis
- judging from the number of pedestrians who tarry there.
J. W.
HORN, proprietor of Horn's Café, has an ad in this paper. His
patrons are served with the select of the market's offerings. The
service is excellent, also. Therefore, the house is patronized
generously.
Monte
Carlo Saloon, operated by STUARD Bros., is a thirst parlor that
accommodates weary travelers who journey here and is a popular
resort for all. They operate a wholesale department, billiard
hall and restaurant in connection.
D. M.
BRIDGES is an attorney of repute and conscientiously protects his
clients.
The New
York store, Ben BAXTER, proprietor, is one of the largest
department houses in Southwest Oklahoma, and their massive
building is always filled with bargains. Careful (sic) perusal of
their announcements in these columns will save you dollars.
The
Broadway Hotel is the oldest hostlery (sic) in Waurika and has a
good trade.
R. L.
SIMS & Sons who have only been in our town a few months are
working up a nice trade in dry goods and groceries. They make
announcements in this paper frequently.
J. S.
LANG & Sons are the ginners who have served a large number of
cotton raisers long and well, and will continue to satisfy all
customers.
The
Bilton is a hotel that has a splendid reputation. Mine Host J. M.
BUTLER is a bonface of experience and is possessed of a rare good
nature, contagious at all who breathe the atmosphere in which he
dwells.
J. N.
JOHNSON & Co., handle a complete line of hardware, and their
place of business is located on south Main street. The personnel
of the firm is J. W. JOHNSON and Harry LIGHT, who have been in
the Waurika business circle the past two years and have a
splendid patronage.
S. P.
LIVELY & Son are the new ginners who located their industry
here during 1906, and their dealings with our cotton producers
have been such that they have enjoyed a nice trade.
WALLACE
Grocer Co. conducts a fine business in the grocery trade and by
their business method, which has "goods that are
satisfactory at prices that area reasonable" for a nucleus,
this house has established a reputation that gets the business.
The dry
goods line is shown in well selected and great variety at the
store of J. H. CUNNINGHAM, who thought the generous use of
printer's ink and making good his promises in every particular,
has built up a fine business. His name stands for first class
goods and square dealing.
F. H.
HUNTER & Co. does a general real estate business, both of
Oklahoma farms and Indian Territory leases.
Palace
Barber shop is where you get a good shave and hair cut. Fair
treatment to all. N. L. REED, proprietor.
Waurika
Elevator Co. has one of the largest elevators to be found any
place. Ed. V. PARSONS is manager.
Mrs.
Susan HANCOCK has a splendid line of millinery, and other
articles to please the feminine fancy.
Frank
ADAMS & Son run a first class livery and feed stable.
S. H. HANCOCK carries a complete line of
caskets, shrouds, etc.
Our public school
is one of the best to be found in Comanche county with R. B.
WHITE as principal, and Miss Lula KOONS as assistant. We
are doing nicely, but we need a brick school house.
The
Citizens State Bank, with A. L. WALKER, president; H. S. BRUNER,
vice president, and D. W. CUMMINS, cashier, is doing a nice
banking business.
PARSONS
& ROBINSON, who conduct a grocery store, have one of the
cleanest and freshest stocks in the city. They have wagon
for the exclusive accommodation of patrons who wish their
purchases delivered.
The
City Drug Store, of M. J. McGRAW & Co., is one of the neatest
and most up-to-date pharmacies in Oklahoma, and is enjoying a
large and constantly growing patronage. Besides having a
thorough understanding of prescription work and the value of
proprietary preparations and the sundry articles necessary in the
sick room gained from schools of pharmacy and practical
experience. Mr. McGRAW has a personality that makes friends of
acquaintances. His faith in the efficacy of printer's ink is
another recommendation we modestly mention.
The
Bank of Waurika is our oldest financial institution and is run by
E. B. ELLIS, cashier, and H. B. JOHNSON, vice president. Mr.
ELLIS is in charge of the bank. Several large insurance companies
have their agency there.
FORD
Hardware Company, conducted by C. L. FORD, has one of the largest
and best stocks in that line to be found any place. He is
offering special inducements on corn stalk cutters this week.
C. H.
LUND carries a large stock of lumber,lath, shingles and sash. Rex
LUND is the manager and is one of our most popular and
enterprising young business men.
WOOTEN
Bros. Carry as large a stock of furniture as can be found in
Comanche county, and the boys know the furniture business from A
to Z.
Dr. C.
M. MAUPIN is one of our most popular physicians, who, enjoys a
large practice.
Dr. J.
I. Deer (Derr?) is a physician and a most popular young man. He
is a graduate of one of the best colleges in the country.
O. C.
LARSON does general blacksmithing, on Broadway, as does also T.
S. COTNER, who has his shop on D avenue.
Farmers'
Union Stock Co. of operated and owned by some of our best
farmers, and their manager, E. A. (A. E.?) LANDON is well known
and liked by all who know him.
MORRIS
& KLOTZER Lumber Co. has (sic) one of the largest retail
lumber yards to be found in the county.
The firm of KELLY Bros.,
composed of T. B. and E. J. KELLY are known to all as town
boomers and breeders of fast horses. These gentlemen have some of
the finest horses in the Southwest.
The
Baptist church is a fine frame building, where services are held
by Rev. BENNETT.
The
Presbyterians are now planning the erection of a large brick
church. S. M. HUNT will be their pastor.
We have
two Sunday Schools, Baptist and Union.
THOMPSON
Bros., the old reliable, are always on hand with a supply of
harness, whips, robes, etc.
New Paper for Lawton
Announcement was
made last week that Lawton would have a new paper, the Lawton
Weekly Tribune, which will be started by the middle of January.
It will be operated by a stock company, which has purchased the
plants of the Oklahoma Farm News, of Lawton, and of the
Republican, of Moberly, Mo. The latter paper was the property of
Receiver MAXWELL, of the United States land office.
Following are the
stockholders of the new paper, which will be independent
republican in politics: Joe WHITE, STEPHENS & MYERS, Ned
SISSEN, B. M. PARMENTER, Judge GILLETTE, Jno ABERNATHY, J. E.
JULIAN, L. M. GENSMAN, COOK & HORNADAY, W. H. QUINNETTE, Guy
ROBERTSON, L. M. HUBBARD and Tom WALKER.
The stockholders
are all prominent republicans, most of them being members of the
bar.
******
Miss Katie McHENRY, of Mineral Wells, Texas,
is here spending the holidays and visiting her many friends.
******
A most delightful afternoon was spend last Friday by those who
were in attendance upon the "at home" given by Mrs.
Albert E. LONDON (LANDON?). The hostess was assisted in receiving
her guests by Mrs. E. B. ELLIS. Music and cards were a
feature of the afternoon, as well as was the old-time game of
"gossip," the delight of every woman's heart. A dainty,
three-course lunch was served.
******
The party who took the road scraper from the
north end of the bridge over Cow creek, without leave of license,
will please inform M. C. CLARK, road overseer, the whereabouts of
the scraper.
******
"Babe HUGHES. The efficient all around
printer who has been employed in the job rooms of the News, is in
Mill Creek, I. T. spending his summer's (sic) wages and visiting
his many friends. He will return in about a week.
******
L. P. MASON and family left last Monday
evening for Paradise, Texas, to spend Christmas with relatives
and friends. L. P. informed us he had not seen his father and
mother for and that he intended to surprise them. (sic)
******
Milt KING wants to advise the party who
stole cotton from the wagon left in his field, that he has his
eye on him and that the cotton had better be returned.
******
Homer WALLACE, who has been attending the
State University at Norman, came home to spend the holidays with
his mother and friends.
******
Meeting of Live Stock Assn.
Mentioned in this lengthy article were:
v
O. L. GIBBONS
v
M. H. DODSON
v
J. Ellison CARROLL
v
J. S. HART
v
M. A. WATKINS
v
F. S. KIRK
Negro May Not Hang
Jim
WILKINS, the negro convicted in Lawton some time ago for killing
another negro known as CHOCTAW BILL, at this place last March,
and sentenced to hang. This is the opinion held by Judge L. P.
ROSS, present assistant county attorney, who was counsel for
WILKINS in his trial.
Papers
prepared for appealing the case to the supreme court of Oklahoma
have been forwarded to District Judge GILLETTE at Anadarko, and
they were then sent to Guthrie the latter part of last week.
The
Supreme Court meets the first Monday in January at Guthrie, and
the WILKINS case will probably be one of the first to be heard.
If the appeal is dismissed a petition to Governor FRANTZ asking
that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment, will
doubtless be presented.
However,
we are under the impression that the governor will not interfere
with the sentence already passed upon the prisoner, as he has
already killed three people and has always borne a bad
reputation.
Will Keep Open House
The old
time-honored custom of keeping open house will be observed New
Year's day for the first time in the history of our town.
In-as-much as business is not suspended here on that day, a
deviation from the usual custom will be made. The gentlemen will
be received and refreshments served from 5 to (?) p.m. at the
home of Mrs. Albert E. LANDON, who will be assisted by the
following ladies:
Mesdames
BRUNER, MORGAN, LANG, REED, DILLARD, McGRAW, GARNDER; LANG,
CHANDLER, MEGGISON, FORD, BRENMAN, JOHNSTON, CUNNINGHAM,
ROBINSON, ELLIS, WALLACE, PARSON, HEACOCK, McGRAW, MAUPIN, KELLY,
TABOR, ROBINSON, and Misses KOONS, MCHENRY, and CUNNINGHAM.
After
refreshments have been served the evening will be devoted to the
rendition of a program that will display the talent and
accomplishments of those participating.
Christmas Exercises
The
Christmas exercises at the Baptist church Monday night was (sic)
a grand success and as much as could have been expected in a much
larger town. Both old and young did everything possible to make a
success of the entertainment. Songs, recitations, etc., prevailed
before the distribution of presents, which the children looked
forward to with eagerness, anxious to know that Santa Claus had
left for them. Everyone was satisfied with the program rendered
and congratulated the two Sunday Schools for the splendid
evening's entertainment.
Notice
All
parties knowing themselves indebted to us, will please call and
settle at once, as we close our books December 31, 1906 for this
year.
Yours Respectfully
MORRIS - KLOTZER LBR. Co.
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