The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 3, 1913 Page: 1 of 4
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I R0 EPENCEM1
IN POLITICS - A FAIR
DEAL FOR EVERYONE
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DEVOTED TO THE IR-
TERESTS OF ONE OF
THE BEST TOWNS IN
OKLAHOMA
Vol. 5. No. 9.
DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1913.
$1.00 per year
L G, Sheriff Organized Haskel Gets Busy
Company
The farmers near Davenport
who leased their land to L. C.
Sheriff last fall will be interested
in the news item that Mr. Sheriff
and three associates have incor-
porated The Parish Producing
Company of Skiatook, Oklaho
ma, capital $20,000. The other
men of the firm are H. P. Hend-
rix, C. P. Rogers, and M. A.
Phillip, of Skiatook,
Only a few days more time
remains on the large block of
leases which Sheriff holds in this
vicinity and the incorporation of
this company may be the answer
to the prevailing question "What
' will he do?"
We understand that some of
the leases contained a clause
allowing the lease to be held up-
on payment of rental, but that
a number of the leases specifical-
ly state that drilling must be
commenced within the specified
time or the contract is terminat-
ed The fact that dates of ex-
piration named in many of the
leases aro practically at hand
renders it probable that some
thing will be done soon.
O. N. Haskel has installed an
entire new drilling outfit on his
location in section 8-14-7 just
east of Stroud. Drilling is now
an actual reality and this loca
tion is looked upon by oil men as
beiug one of the most favorable.
The lay of the country is all
right and the surface indications
are such as are found in the best
producing districts.
Mr. E. C. D'Yarmett, engin-
eer for the Haskel Oil Co, will
be on the ground most of the
time. The drilling force iscom-
posed of such expert drillers as
C. T. Hailey. J. M Mills, and
the two Mangil brothers, all of
whom have the reputation of
goiug down into the earth at a
rapid pace.
Tne people of Stroud and vioin
1 ity are delighted beyond expres-
I aion over the fact of getting a
I well so close to town, and every-
body praises Haskel now.
—Stroud Demociat-
Change of Editors
The Era is pleased to announce a
change of editors for next week.
Excepting only the out of town
correspondence, the paper will be writ-
ten and edited antirely by the students
of the Davenport high school and 8th
grade.
Kendrick and the Cream Trade
A Big Thing for a Little Town
Standard Butts In
Three oil leases were taken
about three miles southeast of
Davenport, last week, by the
Standard Oil Company.
Probably another case of the
well known recklessness of the
Standard 111 spending money
where then is no chance for
returns.
The Era baa always maintain
ed that if more attention were
given to the production of cream
in this part of the county it
would mean increased prosperity
Is Not Discouraged
The chances to strike oil in
Chandler are as promising as at
the beginning of the search. The
difficulty of getting down to
where it was hoped to find it has
nothing to do with the possibil-
ity of oil being there.
Chandler would be justified as
much in taking the chances
from the point of present pro-
gress as when she first voted
bonds. Yet many are losing
faith and looking for the work
to stop. At no time has tiie
contractor ever given out lhat
he was not uoiug down at least
3,000 ft. or that he thought it a
hopeless case.
No expert has given any as-
aurance at any tune that oil
would be found short of 2800 ft.
and we have 300 feet of that to
cover yet.
Faith makes people happy and
there is no reason for giving up
while the work is going on and
the contractor says nothing
about quitting—Chandler Re-
view.
Guilty or Not Guilty?
The Era doesn't want to start
any family quarrels but in justice
to the defenseless feels moved to
inform the married ladies of
Davenport that if avjy of them
did not get a personal post card
from a Chandler milliner last
Tuesday it was probably due to
the fact that their husbands
were included in the number of
guilty wretches who conspired
to destroy such post cards, ad-
dressed to their wives, on that
day and date. The post cards
announced a display of millii.ery
at the Jessamine Hotel, Wed-
j nesday, and any lady who failed
to get one should refer tier loving
j spouse to this paragraph.
WANTED—Pasture for three
cows, within 1 mile of town,
I cash in advance—The Home.
following data for the year 1912
Cans of cream shipped:
January - - 74
February - - 79
March • 172
j April • - 298
for all parties concerned. Hav j %jay . 283
ing this in mind the writer has .June - - 220
for some time been watching July - • - 277
the results of the cream business! .Vug - - - 24.8
in Davenports neighbor to the j September - - 240
north, Kendrick. Anyone who j October - - 208
has occasion to visit that town I November - - 190
on Tuesdays or Fridays will be j December - - 98
surprised at the number of far-(Total - - 2,387
mershesees driving in with a These 2,387 cans averaged 30
can or two each of cream, turn , lbs of butterfat each and the
ing it over to the grocery man. j average price is said to have
calling for check for the preVi been 25c per pound which would
ous week's butterfat and driving' make a total of $17,902,50 paid
out of town with a load of sup ' to the farmers around Kendrick
plies and a satisfied grin. To j during last year. Not in itself a
oue who is familiar with thebig business for the town, but
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Hotel For Safe
About' $350 will buy the Jes-
samine Hotel. Rent is paid to
June 1st 1913. Doing good busi
ness. Apply on promises.
The Ladies of the Maccabees
surprised Mrs Craig at the Jes-
samine last Saturday night.
.Lawrence Melton who has
been working relief at Garnett.,
Okla, for the Frisco returned
this week.
M. J. Baugus returned home
from (Cushing tuesday on ac-
count of illness which rendered
him unable to work.
WH WWW H' tH't H M H
White Pony canned goods
will please you in every res-
pect. Try a can and be con-
vinced.
Eggs, 15c. Butter 20c
We want your produce,
we have local market for
same and can pay more than
any one else. Call and see
us.
Swarts & Ingenthron.
jOflUI
Many Iron Beds
We have all kinds of them from the plainest
to the most elaborate and are selling them close
trying to reduce the stock.
Our big store is at your service. No matter
what you want in the line of furniture, we can
supply it at the right price—and pay the freight
to Davenport, too.
Don't buy a piano until you ask about the
deal we can give, you on one.
Jake Collar
Chandler, Okla.
mmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmm mmmmmmmmmmmmt ml
usual customs of trade in a
community which depends prin-
cipally on cotton, it seems
strange and most interesting to
see the merchant passing out a
substantial check to his custom-
er before they begin talking
about what the latter needs, but
that is exactly what one sees on
the two "cream days" at Kend-
rick.
Kendrick is a little town—not
as large as Davenport—and it
makes no pretentions of either
size or greatness. Like other
little towns, it has the very
same struggle to overcome the
tendency of its farmer friends to
drive just a little further and do
their trading at a larger town,
and the fact that it has fared a
little better in that struggle than
some other town seems to be due
principally to the fact that it
has recognized the value of
making itself a Rood market for
the crop, which brings money
into the farm home every week
in the year-
Perhaps we are guilty of put-
ting the "cart before the horse."
Perhaps the activity of the
cream business in that locality
is due more to the foresight of
the farmers than to tin1 enter-
prise of the merchants in furnish-
ing the market, but Laving that
question for argument, there is
one certainty and that is that
both farmers and merchants are
"cream cranks" and profess to
lie highly satisfied with the re
turns they gut from their efforts
along this line.
In an attempt to learn the ex
tent of the cream trade at Kend-
rick the writer was refered to
I'has. Foglesong, the obliging
and popular Santa Fe agent at
au amount which added to other
lines for the merchants means
the difference between a small
profit and a reasonably good one,
or might in many cases be the
difference between a small profit
and no ptofifc at all. For the
farmeis, m a great number of
cases, it means the living ex-
penses of the family through
the summer when other families
are going in debt. It could
very easily mean the difference
between the bare necessities and
the little luxuries that make of
the farm a home instead of a
treadmill. It means, not only
the meeting of immediate wants
but the change to a system of
farm business which lays up for
the future—the breeding of stock
which grows inte money while
the owner sleeps, the protection
of the farm's fertility.
About, the cheapest thing in
the market, today is advice for
farmers. Every time a farmer
comes to town some one tries to
sell him a bunch of it in the
form of a farm paper. County
papers and metropolitan papers
take a chance at tolling the far-
mer how to run his business.
Advise on how to build business
for town is almost as cheap.
The Era is two modest to at-
tempt to add to the literature on
these subjects but submits this
for whatever it is worth.
Kendrick paid out almost, $18 ,
000 last year on cream The far-
mers claim they made money in
the business and the merchants
are enthusftstic about it. , Is
this not a tip for other commu-
! THESE BONES SHALL RISE AGAIN
i ,
* Man s hrst manifestation of civilization came
| when he domesticated animals, cared for and used
* them to assist him in making a living. Then came
t the slow evolution of farm tools, until finally we
| have the perfect implements found on all progres-
sive farms.
But not until recent'years did man's second man-
ifestation of civilization appear; that of caring for
and feeding the soil.
Thousands and thousands of acres in the United
States stand ruined today from loss of humus, of
vegetable matter. Land will not continue to yeild a
Return over and above the cost of production, unless
properly cared for.
Use all the animal manure you can get, rotate
your crops, using clover or cow peas at proper inter-
vals, and replenish the hungry soil with plant food
suitable to its and the crops nature. Feed your land
and it will feed you, and many shall know that
"The Farm, best home of the family,
Main source of National wealth
Foundation of civilized society
The National Providence."
!tbat point, who furnishes the! tnties in Lincoln county.
C. E. Stafford
Does General Blacksmithing and repair work
of all kinds. Carriage work a specialty.
Near the Lumber yard DAVENPORT
The Best Fertilizer is made in the Armour
factories from natures own plant food—bone meal,
ground dried blood, high grade tankage, reinforced
with acid phosphate and potash salts.
Thousands of the best farmers are spending mil-
lions for fertilizer, and find that it yields a large
profits.
Supply the soil with this valuable plant food—
these bones—and behold the corn sending forth its
leaves and rapidly developing into stalk, fod-
der, blossoms and fruit; or the royal cotton plant
sending forth its tiny shoot, developing with every
shower that falls whispering on its leaves, until
loosening its fleece to the sun, it yields its harvest
of gold.
STROUD COTTON OIL COMPANY
STROUD. OKLA.
Agents for
Armour Fertilizer
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