The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1903 Page: 3 of 8
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Everybody mistakes the whistle n
" the water works pum[j house for a
Frisco locomotive in distress.
Mrs W. S. Denton and daughter
are visiting with Mrs. Denton's
brother John M. Young of Lawton.
Mr. Sol Dixson of Washington Ind.
is -itinjr in the citya few days
with his cousin County Clerk Danely.
—j ——
The old Dickensheets shack on
south Grand avenue is being remodel,
ed. The back end will contain a
gallery.
Town lots are getting ripe all aWng
the line of the Arkansas Valley and
Western road. Some of them are
dark brown, others red.
Sheriff Kershaw arrested a fellow
for stealing a saddle yesterday. The
saddle was returned and the young
man forgiven by the prosecuting
witness.
Mr. Barr of the Steam Laundry
appeared at his place of business this
morning for the lirst time for two
weeks. He has had quite a siege with
bronchitis trouble.
Judge and Mrs. Beauchamp are ex-
pected home, from the Hot Springs
Arkansas this evening. The Judge is
much improved, but he is far from
being a well man.
Mrs. Frank Hamilton and children
have returned from their extended
j trip in the Pacific coast country,
Washington, Oregon and California.
The youngest child came h une sick.
The new gas plant is to be north of
the north city water tube wells. That
is a bad place for it. Block 9 cess
pools ruined Henry's hole, now the
tube wells are to be contaminated
with the filth surrounding gas works.
Mr. Hay Johnson, a student of Gem
City College Quincy III. and a son of
S. W. Johnson of this city, has re-
turned home to spend the Christmas
holidays with his parents and frienas.
Hay is preparing himself for a busi-
ness career in a busy world: he is ac-
cumulating a commercial education.
As Christmas approaches the weath-
er moderates and becomes more pleas-
ant. This was Ja fine day. Away
back east in the mountains of Penn-
sylvania, where this writer was rear,
ed, Christmas was not appreciated
unless the sleighing and skating was
good.
The Garfield County Republican
central committee met last week and
* set the world afire with a long and
very uninteresting batch of reso-
lutions. They seemed to be talking
to something at Washington, but the
Associate Press doesn't report any-
one excited.
The Southwestern Telephone Com-
pany have ssued a new telephone
directory. As > sual the work was
contracted for in this city but it was
done by a lineotvpr machine in Ok-
lahoma City. The Wave office can
do such a job even though It was
twice as large right here at home,
but ala8,'alas—poor Yorick.
, OODLES OF WOOD
CHEAPER THAN COAL.
Syl. Dixson. of Creseut City, is in
town selling wood; cheaper than coal.
He will furnish it cut up as uesired
or in cord wood lengths. He can fur-
nish 100,000 cords if needed.
He handles oak posts also.
See Syl, he will warm you cheaper
than the coal dealers.
SCENE IN THE MODEL NEAT MARKET.
'•Now boy be lively. Break the
twnes In Mintons chopB and put Flem-
ings ribs Into your basket; and here
is'Lon Moody's liver, that he left on
/je counter yesterday; and take
I jelbergens feet out of the pickle.
a\td dont forget Hop-Lee's brains*
hers, take Denton's cabbage head,
and wrap up Watrous' ex tail: here,
wait a minute! Saw Dick Kennedy's
leg off and put a few more skewers In
Rick Messals neck. Now tie up
Prank Letson's jowls and be off with
you. Walt a minute!—when you
come back take Cad Allard'i gall over
to the office.
B8ANH0W VS. NATION
A Nappv Business Correspondence Be-
tween Custodian Brandow and
Colonel Carrie Nation
Carrie Engaged For One
Month
As the Champion Masher of Kansas
and Expert Hatchet Swinger.
All Under the Management
of Custodian Brandow.
About two months ago Custodian
Palmer Brandow addressed a letter
to Col. Carrie Nation at Topeka Kan-
sas. As the Colonel was touring the
east she did not receive the letter
unt'l she arrived at Topeka the other
day. Mere is Brandow's letter.
Enid, O. T., Oct. 18, 11103.
Col. Carrie Nation,
Home Defender.
Topeka, Kan.,
My Dear Colonel;
I am organizing
an "old curiosity shop" show to be
pulled off in a monster la'ge tent on
the Pike of the world's fau next sum-
mer and I am engaged in selecting
my curiosities from all parts of the
world and Kansas, and, as you are
jHi2of the most remarkable features
of Kansas 1 write to inquire as to
whether you are open for an all sum
mer engagement. I will pay you, or
prom se to pay, iOOO. per month and
board; you will have to do your own
washing. I can assure you that there
will not be any monkey business
about my show. In fart I will not
have any monkeys or allow any upon
the inside. It will be your duty to
sing as an accompanment to a base
drum one of your choiceist masher
ballads before breakfast every morn
ing. After breakfast you will ap-
pear on the outside and yell through
a monster horn that Carrie Nation
the home defender is on the grounds.
This for the purpose of drawing a
big crowd, As the crowd passes in
to see the big show on the inside you
will be required to take the cigars
out of the fellows mouths as they
pass and save them for me.
During the day you will be required
to mash a rubber saloon as often as
a crowd can be si cured, I say rubber
because the crowd will rubber while
^ouareit. The hatchet you will be
required to use is the identical one
George Washington used i. cutting
his papa's wild cherry tree; I have it
here in my store;—Dennis Flynn
swiped it in Virginia and made me a
present of it. You will have to put
your hair up in Kirk soap ringlets so
that you will look wild and untame-
aule. There will be other noted dis-
turbers of the peace connected
with the show. Dennis Flynn will be
there to read the immediate state-
hood bill, mornings and evenings.
Bird McGuire will be there to sing;
he sin^s like a canary bird and snores
like a whale. Patti Paitiwhiski and
Jack McCutchen will compose the
orchestra.
Now Carrie don't disappoint me
If the show pays I will raise your
wages couple dollars a week aud may-
be able to do better by you than that.
Answer soon. Please excuse absence
of stamp for return postage—just out
—. Hoping that your Thanksgiving
prayers will be answered, I am
very truly yours,
Palmer Brandow,
Custodian.
Topkka, Kansas, Dec.JlS. 1003.
Custodian Palmer Brandow,
Curio Manager, Enid, O. T.
My Dear Mr. Brandow:—
I came|home a week
ago, hut was so flustrated, put out
and nervous over being| fired out of
of the White House byJTeddy's soups
that I could not read your very flat-
tering letter until today, t am de-
lighted with your rehearsal of my
duties should I engage myself to
you for the sumhier, but I can't
smash rubber—no, n ,—I must have
glass,you must put up a glass saloon
every time I smash one. Otherwise
the effect of the home defending
would be tough and farcy. I have
concluded to let you have me one
month, as a starter. If all goes well
1 uiay be willing to engage mynelf
longer. I can do up that ci-
gar swiping act to a fin sh and save
you lots of money on your tobacco,
but—do't l t me catch you smoking
—I am a home defender. I am glad
you have cut out the moll keys. Do
you drink Mr. Brandow, if so is it any-
thing stronger than butter milk?
You can hare me for the month of
June. Too hot for mashing in July
or August. The pay must be in ad-
vance; no home defending on credit,
—you hear me.
Send ine two stamps in next let'er.
Are you an old man or a young iiian,
and please state whether you ever
run a foot race. Yes, my Thanks-
giving prayers were answered.
Write soon.
Your affectionate Home Defender,
Carrie Nation.
Christmas Foot Ball Game.
The Enid Local Team will Play Pond
Creek Christinas 'Afternoon.
The Enid Foot Bail Team have
made an engagement to play the
Pond Creek team an the Enid Grid-
iron Friday, Christmas afternoon at
3 o'clock.
The Pond Creek team claim the
championship of the northwest, hav-
ing won in nearly every game this
season. Our boys are up to snuff aud
will give their contestants a lively
tussle on the gridiron.
This will be the best Enid game of
the season and the boys should be
well patronized.
The Enid team has been strength-
ened lately and the boys are in con-
stant practice.
An Oklahoma Cowboy
vs.
An Oklahoma Buck.
A Gloss Mountains cattle man by
the name of John Norris was at the
Grand Avenue Hotel Sunday. In con-
versation with a Wave reporter he
gave the following adventure with a
big buck deer. "One of my cowboys is
a great hunter in the mountains in
season. He recently shot a large
buck, and as the animal seemingly
lay dead the cowboy began leisurely
to cut its throat. After the first
pick of the knife the animal lunged
to its feet and attacked its would-be-
slayer hoof and horns. There was a
deadly struggle for several minutes,
the man fighting single handed against
the maddened brute. The buck
would knock him down and then at-
tempt to stamp out his life with his
fore feet. The man would struggle
to his feet and then rushing tactics
would be repeated. The unlucky cow-
boy was butted around in the sand
for rods until utterly exhausted. At
last the buck, hearing a noise gave
his antlers a defiant shake and bound-
ed away through the woods. His vic-
tim was left in a sorry plight, bruis-
ed and sore from head to foot. Near-
ly every stitch of clothing was torn
from his body aud he was barely able
to drag himself to the nearest
house.
"Standing Pat."
The Great American liepublican
congriss voted its membership 20
cents a mile, mileage for going to
Washington on railroad passes to at-
tend the special session of congress
and then when the special session
lapped over onto the regular session
they allowed themselyes 20 cents per
mile more, without leaving their
seats, making 40 cents a mile for the
one trip. Birdie McGuire received
about SHOO, out of this mileage graft.
All it cost Birdie to go to Washington
or return is the twenty-five cent tips
he is in the habit of giving the sleep-
ing car porters. This is what our
wholly loyal republican grafters call
"standing pat." They wrap them-
selves in "old glory" and rob the gov-
ernment until the eagle looses all
its tail feathers. Then spend all
their time passing class legislation
to keep themselves in power. No
wonder an occasional anarchist ap-
pears.
Wait for That Girl.
□ Here Is a Bill Arp bit of wisdom
I that fits every clime, every race,
t every nation and at all time: "Once 1
j was young, but now 1 am old, and I
| have never have seen a girl who went
back on her mother, who ever came
to be worth a one-eyed button to her
husband. It is the law of God. It Is
not exactly in the Bible but it is
written large and lawful on the lives
of many m'sfit homes. If one of you
chaps ever run across a girl with a
face full of roses, who says to you
when you come to the door, "I can-
not go for thirty minutes, for the
dishes are not washed," you wait for
that girl. Sit right down on the
doorstep and wait for her, because
some other fellow will come along
and carry her off, and then you lose
an angel. Wait for her and stick
to her like a burr on a mule's tall.
Sins Washed Away.
It's an ill wind that blows nobody
good. Kven the June lood of '03 bad
its uses. Before the grand jury in
Kansas City, Kansas, the other day
bank cashiers who were||s'immoned
to testify as to the state of the bank
account of certain suspected alder-
men, announced that they couldn't
give the figures because the bookt
had been washed away by the fiood.
The Texas chapter of the Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy adopted a
resolution of thanks to the President
for indorsing the principle of seces-
sion In his recent action toward the
Panama revolution.
Judge Blandlng Is doing real well
In Lawton. He hag become the At-
torney General of a Wichita Moun-
tain Mining ;Co.
A BLUNDER.
It ought not to be necessary to ex-
plain what is meant by Christmas
every time it comes around. But a
Pittsburg editor has made it neces-
sary again by statinj; that "it is the
day of resurrection—the oayon which
the plan for man's redemption was
completed." The editor evidently
got his egg-nog mixed with Easter
eggs and became befuddle ! that the
first birth, and the resurrection were
all the same to him. The blunder of
the Pittsburg editor shows how im-
portant it is that the Bible should not
only be read-In the schools, but In
every editor's sanctum at least once
a week. Nothing that has happened
for a long time has done more to cast
discredit upon editorial opinions on
religious questions and church his-
tory than this unfortunate mistake of
the editor from the mouth of the
Monongahela.
Pointed Paragraphs.
Woe unto the politician whose
nerve has become effected.
Were it not for the fools the wise
guys would get left
It's a tough turkey that is able to
hold over another term.
Business is a mantle that covers a
multitude of queer transactions.
Great is the physician who can
cure a woman of an imaginary dis-
ease.
A man who is looking for trouble
can usually find it without trouble.
'1 he race is not always to the man
who has his money down on a straight
tip.
Yes, Alonzo, by all means marry a
girl who can swim; she will realize
the importance of keeping her mouth
shut.
The Town Must Reach Oat.
If a town does not reach out after
trade it will only come as it has to
and the town will grow as it is forced
to. But if the merchants go after
the business In the surrounding coun-
try. Adverttse it every way and
make good every word of their ad-
vertising, the trade will come in from
an increasing radius and the town
gain a reputation for being wide
awake and will forge to the front. It
is the men in the town and not al-
together the men living within a cer
tain number of miles from it that
maker a good town. Trade is encour
aged by advertising in the local news-
papers.
Loan Company ta Blame.
Some of the loan companies are so
slow that the applicants get tired of
waiting and die before the money
is paid over, such was the case at
Wakita last week. An old lady b2d
waited 1H months after slgniug the
papers, her mind became affected
and death resulted from that cause.
—Jefferson Review.
Though the cost of
living has increased,
the cost of
Uneeda
Biscuit
is ever the same—
In the same In-er-seal Package.
NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY
The Oldest Newspaper.
The Mangum Star claims to be the
oldest paper published in Oklahoma.
It was born in a dug out in the south
part of Mangum, October 13th, 1K87,
making the paper sweet sixteen at
the present time. Of course the Star
was not a sooner. Its birth place
was formerly a part of Texas. It is
a good paper doing a flourishing busi-
ness.
GRAIN DFALERS.
The board of Oklahoma Grain
Dealers' Association mtt at the Ker-
foot hote^El Reno Saturday'after-
noon and elected C. T. Prouty, a son
of the decea ed, C. F. Prouty, to till
the position of secretary which was
formerly occupied by his father.
The board of the ; tsoclation con-
sists of the following, E. D. Hum-
phrey, El Reno; Mr. Goltry, Enid,
R. H. Drennon, Oklahoma City, Mr.
Lindsay,Norman, and Geo. Masters,
Perry.
A String of Lnckies.
At the time of the big Adminis-
tration Hock Island lottery at El
Reno, a man by the name of Woods
drew No. 1 and as a result had the
first choice of claims. He selected
one adjoining the townsite of Law-
to'. He was lucky No. 1 Then he
died, and the claim weut to his widow
and she was lu ky No. 2. 'i hen the
widow married a fellow by the name
of l owers and then she died, and
Powers became lucky No. 3. Just
where this "lucky" business is toing
to end is hard to tell, but it is safe
to say that out the tens of thousands
of people who envied Woods in the
start, not a single one of them envies
him the luck that followed his No. 1.
Even the man who drew lucky No, 2,
at El Ileno, was afterwards murder-
ed.—Blackv ell News.
The estate of Woods, deceased, who
won the lirst prize at the great land
lottery, being now a part of Lawton
has been appraised at $43,040. Both
Woods and his wife are dead.
Prof. W. N. Stephenson, of the
Enid Business College and Mrs.
Daisy Tizer, of this city were married
at 12 o'clock noon Sunday, December
20, 1B03. They have gone south on a
bridal trip.
An exchange, whose editor has
ample time to study the styles Id
female hosiery, says: "The story of
Lot's wife turning to a pillar of salt
can not be doubted. A young lady
the other day put her foot up on a
dry goods box to tie her shoe and two
young men who were passing turned
to rubber."
Now comes the news thkt Ruth
Bryan's husband is about to be sued
for a breach of promise. Not long
ago we heard that he was broke and
strand'd down,in the Ozark moun-
tains. The next thing we know
William Olmer Leavitt will be run-
ning a restaurant in Arkansaw and
Ruth will be waiting on the tabic.
It looks like 10 troubles to 1 joy
for Ruth.
A RUSH OP THE
CAN.
Firemen and llolice Will Feast,
Dance, and be Merry
Dec. 24.
Talk,
The . it / llr.> department and police
force are prepairlng for a big feast
Thursday night December 24. It
will be for the firemen and police only
but it Is quite likely a few outside
friends will be there The entire
repetorlal staff of the Wavr have
been invited. There will be a great
destruction of much sausage, pigs
feet, turkeys and the rusH of !the
can. Either at the fire "se or
council chamcer,
Some more (aretes
M on lie frisco.
The Fr'sco Meteor, a fast train
running from Fort Wortn, Texas,
to Kansas City, ran into an open
switch at Godfrey, Kansas, early
yesterday morning. Ten people
were killed and eighteen were fatally
or seriously injured. As Is usual the
engine crew, mail and express «es-
sengers were killed.
The switch was left open through
the carelessness o. a freight train
crew.
W. R. Farmer, of Blackwell was
among the injured.
The Committee Troubled.
There is some uneasiness indulged
in by the "committee" that the con-
fiscated bottled beer in the hands of
the sheriff, in the skeleton closet of
the court house may [freeze and be
come worthless.
However, the hoys suspicion that
there Is no beer In the bottles any
more and are not worrying any. The
Sheriff has not examined the corks
lately.
Mr. Milton Loewrn has returned
from a broom corn buying trip '.nto
western Kansas and Nebraska. He
reports tbe crop of this last season
short in the country he visited.
T. Jam Pilmer was reappointed
post master for Medford, but he didn't
get it for nothing. He wrote full 11
miles of taffy for Dennis Flynn; seven
miles for Ferguson and at leatst 44
miles of the stringiest kind of gushing
praise and taffy for Birdie McGnlre.
freeMfey
to different game*—all new
—one in each package of
Lion Coffee
a* your Orocar't.
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