North Enid Tribune. Weekly Edition. (North Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1894 Page: 1 of 8
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The only Enid that gives Warranty Deeds to City Property.
TRAINS STOP ONLY AT NORTH ENID. We Have a PostotTice now--'"North Enid."
J)orth Erjid Tribune.
WEEKLY EDITION.
VOL. 1. NO. !!<>.
.NOKTII ENID, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRILS, 185)4,
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C H. HAMLIN,
(Notary Public.)
agentfor
Enid Touif) Co,
The people of the south town are as
blue as indigo because the senate re-
fused to recede from the station bill.
The senate does not believe in playing
horse with an official action of that
body to gratify the wishes of a lot of
speculators. The senate says the
people should have the right to vote
on the location of their county seat, >
and all fair-minded people think the News coming from all
Seeking to Force a Consolida-
tion of the Enids.
Parts of the
South Enid .says she has raised
$30,000 toward their paper railroad.
As that would build less than three
I miles of road it is more than likely
! they will have a new railroad in a
week or two. Our friends 011 the
County that They Will Do
Their Share.
A good typewriter for sale cheap.
Inquire at this office.
The ice plant will be in full blast
next week.
Our merchants have all been busy
as bees today.
Postmaster Swartout's brother is
assisting in the postoffice.
A runaway made things lively on
Railroad street this morning.
Contractor Achey is putting up the
Shockey building on the Avenue.
Assessor Oxlev says it is slow work,
The Thibune struck the keynote in | but that he wU1 ffet t0 all before
taking- the town fight of Q county up j ion~
witli the farmers who have just as |
i much at stake as those who
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We arc informed that a bank will
reside in
south may just as well make up their Uje towns There is not a farmer in ^cupy the corner room of the Calla-
: minds first as last-it takes good the C0Unty but knows that as long as 5 han hulklin*-
hard cash to build railroads and plenty this fight is continued the trade of the ~Wil1 Canon, bridge superlntend-
: of it. And the senate is a body that countv the markets the business < cnt- was town last night with a
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North Enid,
Okla.
fill not be bull-dozed into legislating
I to the detriment of the people for a jzc(j
I favored few especially when the favor-
ed few brought about their own
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>$• i on the cast side was granted to Win.
. I choice selection of new stories.
I and everything else will be demoral
Frank Johnson, pharmacist of the
I11 the face of this, then, will there | Camden Drug Co. at Waukomis, was
i lie a farm in the county saleable? j in the city a few hours last night.
Not because the farm is not worth fflT-You always get the freshest and
right to purchase the claim j anything, but because men who in- best cuts at the Svanda Bros.
vest money are not doing it where , City Mkat Makki'.T.
•V. Bevers yesterday, and he will prove it jtllere>s ;l bitter town fight and the F. S. Kirk A Co. are putting in a
up under the townsite act. We have probable abandonment of one atl> j pajr Qf wag0n scales in front of their
place of business 011 Oklahoma ave-
This is the reason the farmers '
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had no talk with Mr. Bevers and do j tiay'
. '*'• not know what his intentions are re- are takin« a hand in the fi*ht of lhc'
_ garditig the disposition of lots to those j
•Q" who have built on them, but we have
two Enids.
The farmers can bring the fight to
110 doubt that he will make a satis-
, ; factory proposition to all of them. He
I should do so at least.
The city should be organized at
once, and then some control could be
North Enid Grocery Go.
G. S. stein, manager-
7j|E are now located in our new room on
^ Oklahoma Avenue with a full and
complete stock of
JTdPLE ^ *
FdSKT QROCERO.
We have come to stay, and by giving
good weights and good goods will try to
merit your patronage.
a close pretty quickly. They have it
in their power. If they buy where
they can buy the cheapest, then
North Enid will get their trade. For
! instance, North Enid merchants sell
| granulated sugar 20 and 21 pounds for
had of the hack nuisance at the de- S1 0()) tw0 packages of standard coffee
pot. This morning a lady was crowd- 45 cetits, canned goods from 8 to
15 cents, potatoes 7S cents and prices
011 other standard goods equally as
low. Get the prices on lumber. They
are now 25 per cent cheaper than in
South Enid.
This is because North Enid is 011
I ed off the platform by some of these
i fellows and if the train had been
I moving the woman would have been
killed. The Rock Island for its own
: protection should keep them off the
i platform.
First door East of
New Brick Block.
North Enid, 0.
Ready 1'or Business. the railroad and South Enid i.s not
We are now open for business in the I an^ "?vcr will be. North Enid mer-
brick block and have the finest stock j chants can always sell cheapei than
of Ury Goods, Clothing, Boots, Shoes, j South Enid merchants, and always
Hats and Caps that there is in the ter- j will, therefore the farmers arc coming
ritory. No shelf worn goods, no sec-j to North Enid to trade. North Enid
ond hand stuff—but all bright, new j is as centrally located as South
nue.
Harry Williams says that Perry
is a good town, but that it is the
dustiest and dirtiest place he was
ever in.
A fishing party is talked of for
the Skeleton next Sunday. It is said
some good fish can be caught in that
stream.
The change in the ad. of the new
dry goods store goes over until next
week. The Wkhki.y is not all printed
in a day.
The Hubbard House has received a
new coat of paint all over. Colonel
Hubbard believes in doing things just
about right.
Jacob Guthrie is expected back from
Coffeyville, Kails., tomorrow morn-
ing. Jake can't stay from North
Enid very long at a time.
The platform at the depot is made
for the accommodation of the travel-
and clean. We will, not be undersold Enid and a hundred times mote fav", -pubtie and not for a lounging re-
by any firm in this section. That is a j orably. 1 here is everything in favoi for a ]0t 0f hackmen.
marker. Come in and see us. of building this town up. And the
Hardf.nbKKGH & Hancock, | farmers are justified in organizing to
North Enid, Okla. :
everything
rides
now ..
the
Oklahoma Grocery &
Company
Feed
—The Oklahoma Grocery company,
by the Svanda Bros., is having a lot
of postal cards printed which they are
going to send out to the farmers of O
county. Every farmer who receives
it to the store will be given a package
of Gold Dust Washing powder free of
charge.
Mr. Fry, of the Colorado saloon,
thinks of moving his business onto
the avenue.
Will deliver everything hereafter, having just bought
a tine
NEW DELIVERY WAGON.
Of Course •
IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT WE
HAVE THE CHEAPEST STOKE
IN TOWH.
S. E. Corner Court Square.
A circus is headed this way. They
throw their trade to this plac«. are no good to a town as they carry
When South Enid loses what little ; out of the country a great deal more
trade it has from the farmers the end money than they leave behind.
will be near at hand. The land office ^ portion of the rooms in the Calla-
business will not keep the town up j han building are already rented,
any longer. The cream of that con-; ^)le carpentcrs will push the work
cern is sapped pretty dry. When they ! ;ust as fast as the weather will permit,
one of these postal cards and returns j haye i(. pounded through their heads '
that the farmers arc driving right by
their door coming to this town to , . .
, , , .7, , ,• would put an opera house on his new
trade then they will begin to realize 1 1
, . .... . , ., . v building. It would be a good mvest-
tlieir condition, and orobably not be- s
„ , ,, . mcnt as there is no hall of any kind in
fore. North Enid will have flouring
mills and elevators because we are on the Cl, v-
railroad. Will farmers go to A man whose name wc have failed
—With a little inducement the Tkib-
UNiC believes that W. F. Callahan
the
jsfrFlour at cost.
Oklahoma Grocery & Feed Co.
•rFuU .stock of queensware at Ok-
lahoma Grocery & Feed Co.
r-fl-Canned tomatoes 10c at the Ok-
lahoma Grocery & Feed Co.
For Sale.
A good team for sale. Horses will
weigh ten or eleven hundred. Call at
the North Enid Grocery Co. 3t
Kirk & Co., the seed men, contrib-
uted toward the neat appearance of
their store by having the front neatly
painted, and a nice sign added.
Here's
What Gets
The Trade.
20 lbs.
Granulated Sugar.
$i.oo.
50 cases tomatoes at 10c a can.
25 cases mountain corn at 10c a can.
String beans 8c.
California apricots 15c grapes 15c.
(1. Gaye plums 15c, Ejrff plums 15c.
Fine table peaches 15c.
All canned tfoods at cost.
Calif, dried grapes 5c. Evap. pears 15c,
'' pitted plums U'^c,
44 raisin cured prunes
Pure lard 10c, compound
Ham and breakfast bacon 12J4,
Snirar cured shoulder 10c. ^ „
Finest line of candies in North Enid.
J. P. ttlolters.
NORTH ENID.
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i South Enid to sell their grain and do ] to learn, but who has been doing usi-
their trading when they can come to tiess in South Enid, is erecting a busi-
Nortli Enid and sell it direct and get j ness house on the avenue between
more than can possibly be paid in Pettee's hardware and A. McLean's
South Enid? It is not to be presumed , saloon. A feed store is to be operated
that they will. It may require all j in it.
this time to convince those people j W. R. Conner, of Caldwell, was in
over there that this will be the result | the city yesterday for a few hours,
of this fight; that they will be the j He came down to look after his prop-
losers in the end, if they do not choose | erty interests, and before he returned
to look at it in its true light as tlie ! ordered the weekly Tkibunk sent to
situation exists at the present time. him. He likes this paper better than
The farmers are justified in centering j any he ever read.
their trade in North Enid. They Tfadc in N()rth Enid ls getting
want the fight settled. They are just beUer every day- The farmers are
as anxious for the increase in the be ,innJng to find out that goods can
value of their farms as the town ; be much cheaper hero than at
people are for their lots and busi.less ^ tQwn Twenty pounds
locations. It will never come as long ( { ulated sll(far for a dollar and
as the fight between the two towns is cverything elsc in proportion.
being waged. — ,
— I'lisnionnttlo l)r& HinnUlnvc nml
H. K. Burket, of Bedford, Iowa, was 1 "" '"u'
in the city yesterday looking for a Work intrusted to me will receive
location for a furniture store, but as prompt attention. Second building
North Enid is pretty well supplied south of Wolters Grocery, Main street,
with business houses in that line he
went down to Oklahoma City last ytrayod.
night. From the stock yards in North Enid
Chapman & Stevenson had the front one red and white cow and one black
of their hardware store nicely painted cow with white tail. Icn Dollars
yesterday, which greatly improves
reward for returning the same to
the appearance of their place of busi- Oliver's feed stable near tnc stock
yards in North Enid.
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Whitaker Brothers. North Enid Tribune. Weekly Edition. (North Enid, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1894, newspaper, April 5, 1894; North Enid, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110116/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.