The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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A newspaper that is inde-
pendent of politics or
religion.
A newspaper thai every
citizen in Lincoln County
should read each week.
A newspaper that prints
all the home news all the
time.
The Davenport New Era
Ye Little Ole Home Paper
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DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1915
Vol. 7. No. 27
$1.00 per year
A newspaper that boosts
for good roads in Lin-
coln County.
A newspaper that has a
job printing department
that can handle any job.
A newspaper that you.
will enjoy fifty-two times
a year.
WANT A BAND?
LETTERHEADS
Last Sunday most of tlie old
members of the Davenport Cor-
net Band met in the Masonic
Hall for the purpose of affecting
a re organization. Those pres-
ent were J. M. Kimball, Jesse
Kimball, Kenneth Kimball,
Claude Adams, Raymond Ad
ams, Willie Dye, Marshal Dye,
Ralph Nash, Ed Matlojk, Ken-
neth lmel and Merritt Tryon.
Claude Adams was elected as
president for a term of three
months and E l Matlo<i; .is sec-
retary-treasurer.
Prof. J. L. Foster, who bas
charge of the Stroud and Bris
tow band . was i lvsent and
made the boys a proposition to
come over each Sunday after-
noon and ins-ti uct them for $5.00
a trip. This would mean $20.00
a month, or $2 00 each for- the
boys present. The matter was
discussed from all standpoints,
and it was generally agreed that
the services of Prof. Foster were
worth the price to the band
here. Then the proposition an
to whether we were able financi-
ally to pay it, and the boys do
cided that if the business men
would be willing to pay half of
this amount, it would be possi
for Davenport to hav* a hand
Otherwise, the assessment would
be so heavy that some of the
boys could not keep their part
payed up, and ihe thing would
fall through before a month.
The wr iter of this article was
appointed as a committee of one
to wait (Mi the bu ine«3 men and
see how much each" one would
be willing to donate monthly to
have a better band than ever
before; o e thai would play for
the school entertainments as wt
did last j ear and give a concert
in the Baud Stand each Suud i>
afternoon.
We started out Monday morn
ing with our little petition and a
happy disposifion in spite of the
gloomy weather. Knowing, as
we did, what a great help the
band was in boosting the school
last year, wc anticipated an easy
job. There are about 30 business
men in th s town, it would take
only about 35c each a month to
make the required amount.
We called upon some eight or
ten of the main guys of the
town and met with answers that
varied from "I'll wait and see
what the rest are going to do"
to "Not a d red cent will 1
give." All of which goes to
show, we think, the general
feeling of the men we call the
chief moguls of tho town.
With all the faults anyone
may have found with Prof.Oisco
you will all have to acknowledge
that he was right when he said
-there were some men in this
town who couldn't see over their
shirt collars. And still, some
people wonder what's the matter
with Davenport.
Did it ever occur to you to read
your own letterhead? Look it
over. Is it old fashioned and
out-of-dato or does it look 'right'?
If it doesn't look right to you,
hov. do you suppose it looks to
otht r folks'
Let us get up a nice btight,
business getting letterhead for
you.
As long as the boys pay for
their instruments- S20 to $100
each, buy t.hei: own music, hire
their own instructor, pay all
othet expenses, and then play
wherever and 'whenevet they
are called upon, free of charge,
these city dads sir back orr their
nail kegs and benches, pull their
chin whiskers and proudly boast
of "our band." But when the
boys ask for a little financial
aid, they throw up their hands
in horror and say the band don't
amount to much anyhow.
Then some of the people, who
call themselves good citizens of
Davenport can't see why the
hoyt', play baseball on Sunday
and patronize pool huHt-.
"As we see it now, the citizens
of this town will have to show
by something a little more sub-
stantial than a few hypocritical
words, that they want a band
here, before the boys will make
another effort.
Now, we've hid our say; let's
hear from YOU.
OKLAHOMA DURBAR
TO BE HELD SOON
THE FIRST KISS
Nyu
Tuo!
Tulsa.
mediea at Moore's.
day was Ringling Day in
WAN 1'ED.—97 cats at once.-
F. A. Mitchell.
T. R. Hall was in Stroud c
business Mondav.
Your prescription is
hands at Moore's store.
safe
Attorney John Jones was over
from Chandler Monday.
Ike Dodrill, the constable at
Stroud, was here Monday.
Eddie Jones ppent Sunday
afternoon at Mud College.
Rev. James Cage preached at
the Christian church < t Chand-
ler Sunday.
The big tent meeting of the
Nazarenes will start on the 27th
of this month.
Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 10.—The
splendor of the orient and the
mysticism of the Five Civi-
lized Tribes of Oklahoma
will combine to furnish the
theme for the costly pagean-
try and tableaux at the Third
Annual Oklahoma Durbar,
to be held in Tulsa Septem-
ber 13 to 18, inclusive.
The Durbar will be held in
conjunction with the free
Tulsa county fair, a $12,000
agricultural exposititon, in
the costliest fair grounds in
the state.
The coronation of the
Shazada, or Queen, will
occur on the opening night
at the municipal convention
hall and will be gorgeous in
the extreme. The music for
this spectacle will be furnish-
ed by the $15,000 municipal
pipe organ in convention
hall
There will be six parades,
two of which will be illumi-
nated night pageants. The
floats forthese are now being
built at a cost of $6,000.
Tulsa is the only city in Okla-
homa that ever attempted to
| stage an illuminatsd night
I pageant, after the fashion
of the Mardi Gras and Priest
of Pallas parades, and the
night parade was so success-
ful at the last Durbar that it
was decided to have . two of
them this year.
A whole city street will
be closed up and used as an
"open air ballroom" during
the week. Music for this
big dance will be two brass
bands.
There will be two band
contests during the ' week,
and prizes aggregating
$1,000 cash will be awarded
to the winners.
The carnival spirit will
reign supreme, concluding
with a burlesque parade and
confetti battle on the last
night at the Queen's ball at
We received a letter the other
day from an elderly gentleman
who lives not far from here. As
he is rather a respectable old
gentleman and asked us to not
"give him away," we withold
his name. The letter is as
follows:
Dear Mr. Editor:—
I noticed a little squib,in a
paper printed in this county last
week that went something like
this: "The greatest surprise in
world to a girl who in k:ssod for
the first time is that there is no
taste to it."
Well, by the hen feathers on
Cupid's dart, but the editor of
that paper must be color-blind
and deaf and dumb in his palate.
They tell us, those who have
tiied it, that it tastes like ihe
double distilled essence of honey
spread thick on a fat slice of
pumpkin pie; that its taste re-
sembles a sip of nectar, brewed
by the gods and served in a dew-
covered honey-suckle blossom.
'Way back in the dim and
hazy past, long before we had
misplaced ail our teeth and
when we had a cinch on the
beauty prize, the prettiest girl in
the world told us with her own
rose-bud lips that our first kiss
felt like a flock of Paradise birds
fluttering out of each ear and
ended with a sensation like a
covey of winged angels pouring
molasses down her spine.
No taste to the first kiss!
Great Guns! It would make a
wooden Indian's hair curl up |in
a fluttery marcel wave and his
toe-nails quiver in ecstatic bliss.
No taste to the first kiss!
Why it tastes like the ambrosia
of cherry blossoms just at the
time when the whirr of the
humming birds' wings come to
one as a siren-song.
No taste to the first kiss!
The man who invented that
phrase must be an ice-box.
Yours for the enlighten-
ment of the poor, mis-
guided editor, who thot
there was no taste to the
first kiss,
A TOMATO GRAFT
Owl Drug Co.
Davenport, Okla , 6-15 15
A. & M. College, Stillwater,
Gentlemen:—
I have grafted some tomatoes
on hull nettles and should like
some information as to the
probable result. That Is, wheth
er they will cross or the fruit be
a/tomato or not. Any informa-
tion will be appreciated.
I cut the bull nettle off close
to the ground, split it, sharpen-
ed the tomato plant and stuck
into it and poured mud around
it.
Very truly,
E. B„ Moore.
Oklahoma A. & M. College'
Stillwater, Okla.
Aug.ti, 1915.
Mr. E„ B* Moore,
Davehport, Okla.
Dear Sir:
I regret very much that your
letter has been so long delayed.
I was away from the office on
my vacation during the past
month, however, and there has
been no nnfl hern la
correspondence.
I am rather surprised that you
should be able to graft the toma-
to plants on the bull nettle with
such apparent east as you seem
to indicate in your letter. After
they have fruited, I presume by
this time that you know that the
fruit is alike in every respeot
to the tomato which you grafted
onto the nettle. In grafting the
stock has little or no effecton
the cion.
I would appreciate a report of
your other results in this experi-
ment of yours. We are doing
some work with these two
plauts in which we are cross pol-
linating them. We have been
j able this summer to pollinate the
stigma of the tomato blossom
with the pollen of the bull nettle
and have secured several fruits.
There is, of course, no differnce
in the first generation. It is
the seed from this fruit that will
thow the effect of the cross.
Very truly yours,
Leonard G. Herron
Assistant Horticulturist.
Rev L A. Bolerjack preached convention hall at 11 o'clock
at the Presbyterian church Sun
day morning and evening.
NOTICE.—All persons inter
ested in the cemetery at
Zion will meet there on Thurs-
day, August 10th, for the pur-
pose of grading the road. Bring
your teams, wives, dinners, axes
and shovels,—J. T. Rowland,
C. W. Slack. R P. Martin
p. m.
Each day and night will be
filled with startling odd and
New unusual entertainment and
Tulsa is preparing to enter-
tain thousands of visitors
from both this state and
other parts of the south-
west.
A green stamp with every 10c
purchase at Halls.
W. A. Price was in Chandler
on business Monday.
Ralph Nash was at the county
seat on business Monday.
The annual encampment of
the O. N. G. begins at Chandler
today.
1 write fire insurance for
two of the strongest companies
in America.—E. B. Moore.
The recent rains have been a
great help to the feed crops and
pastures in this part of the
world.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Preaching every second aud
fourth Sunday by Rev. J. P.
Faith.
Sabbath school each Sunday
at the usual hour.
Prayer meeting every Tuesday
evening .it 8:00.
Oby Olson is doing jury
at Chandler this week.
duty
ELBERTA PEACHES-My
peach crop will be ready to mar-
ket on or about August 10th to
15th. Residence miles south-
west of Stroud on Ozark Trail.
R. R. Green, Stroud, Oklahoma,
Phone 515onl7.
On January 15th, 1916, we will give away FREE a $100.00 Victrola. Read page live.
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Tryon, W. M. The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1915, newspaper, August 12, 1915; Davenport, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110007/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.