The Payne County Populist. (Stillwater, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1900 Page: 1 of 8
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The payne county populist.
blished Sept. 1, 1892.
Stillwater, Payne County, Oklahoma, Thursday, Hay 31, 1900.
Vol. 9, Mo. 37.
Shoes. Mia, pru poods g om rants
At Jones' Dry Good Store they do not take your money nor your time and patience ex^
aining to you the different modes of securing the different tickets on the different prizes, as
icy give you no Prizes, Baits or Discounts, But instead they wait on you pleasantly courtc ^
jsly and promptly. They give you the best of goods for the money, and refund money on jg
iy and all goods not as represented, 3£T JZ ?£ 3ET
Shoes! Shoes!
Brown's Star-5-Star shoes are the best—Jones handles them.
Brown's Blue Ribbon School Shoes win and hold trade. They are made right to sell
right; designed for the needs of rough and .tumble youngsters who make the shoe
bills grow. One pair well fitted will out wear any two pair of ordinary school shoes.
We handle ladies and men's shoes, all in the Star-5-Star brand.
They give comfort and satisfaction. j* j* j*
Boys' Needs
CULTIVATE the little fellow's self-rcspect by
keeping him dressed neatly; doesn't cost much
when you buy Clement, Banc & Co.'s Clothing—the
;ind we sell. Ever see our line of Boys' Clothing ?
iver realize what bang-up, good, square bargains
we're giving on suits and garments that will
last - that will stand the wear and tear
and come out of the scrimmage looking
almost as good as new ? Pay you to
look this matter up.
By the way we've got an assortment
of the cntcst. neatest, nobbiest little
Vestee Suits you ever set your eyes on—
three pieces, silk-faced fronts, fancy
Vcstees in many styles, detachable silk
embroi dered
shields and knee
pants. Bring the
little fellow's
mama in and let
her look at
them.
Jones Dm Goods Store.
CLOTHING.
Jones has an excellent assortment of men and boys' suits, and has bought the most
unique assortment of extra pants he has ever shown. The patterns are all new and
suitable for summer and fall wear. The shape and fit will please the best dressers for
they are cut by hand in order to give the fit and shape that you would get of a tailor.
•Tones Invites your careful inspection of his assortment
of up-to-date clothing, slioes, Odd pants and mdse.
JONES' DRY MODS STORE.
STILLWATER,
OKLfW-tOMA
SUICIDE.
J. Vtalker Uults llle bu the Prus-
bio field Route.
J. Walker wu G years
A Good Time.
The Sophomore class of the college
Council Proceedings
Council convened in regular
Tuesday evening with Major
presiding All member* present ex-1 at the home of M. I- Walker Mon-
eept Bahntge Minutes of last meet- j ,jay evening. An interesting feature
Decoration Day.
Decoration day was fittingly ob-
l.yttnii | entertained the Juniors and Seniors j served in our city. In the morning
the O. A. R. met at the I. 0. O.K.
hall and marched to the court house
d made his home with his son, i,,K r. nd and approved. The marshal
Walker. In this city. He hadi ^ illilrucUsl i„ notify all parties
h-spindent for some time and „ho ,mM. n„, ,|,,d wilh sidewalk
lt .,uently ss.d he would kill (ird|nane,. No _,T Committer „„ side-
walks reported as follows "We rec-
ommend that all petitions for side-
walks in the hands of your committee
led went to W. K. McGeorgi)'sl|„. allowed and that the ordinance
Itore and bought a small vial of1 committee draft an nrdina for tin
ic acid saying he wanted it to | „mi. except that part of Ninth street
If. but his son always cunsid-
«« a joke, as the old gentle-
i« disposed to work on his
ithy. Thursday afternoon the
re n wart from a horse's eye.
tnt home in the evening and
it himself by playing with his
Ichild until his son came from
rork. The latter went into the
to pn pare for supper, which was
ting, when Ills father came in and
id himself upon the bed and pro-
d the vial of prussic acid. He
it up to view and said he in-
«'l taking it. The sou treated
mutter lightly and aaked his
trio lay aside those ideas and
s to his supper. The old gentle-
«ro-<> and went to the door; he
I bottle of wine from his pocket,
k a drink and went around the
The sun got up and followed
but failed to seo him where he
I seated himself upon the ground
* to the lent wall, and therelore
Wclear around his father and
in st the hack entrance. He
oiled him hut received no
Milisti reply. Presently the
'"•sill "tiood bye in there,"
lth NO rushed out iind asked
•hit lie did with the vial. The
m remarked that he had drank
Wnt nts A doctor was sum
|(|ed but arrived too late. Tho old
'"'mail arose to his feet, walked a
'steps, removed his coat, threw
,n ths vrniiml and lay down upon
ssld, "It Is harder to die
J"'fought," and breathed his
'■ The family was panic stricken,
w human power could have saved
"letlin fnt tlie ncld acted iiulckly
^ironet h ini|tiest was held that
["Hand the facts of the death as
stated were substantiated
Wisrul occurred Krlday. Rev
Iyer* officiating and the re
*ere laid to real In the Fair
^metory, 'the family have
f jymprthy.
_ T I'syne, living ill the southwest
r tow"' '• v,'ry ill with lung fever,
east of the railroad " The report was
adopted. The committee on streets
and alleys was instructed to have a
street and sidewalk grade established
on Ninth avenue.alson street sidewalk
grade established on Main street. The
ordinance committee was instructed to
draft an ordinance com|telling all
property owners to cut all weeds on
their lots in the city
Ordinance No. 41. an ordinance va-
cating an alley running north and
south in block one of Itarnes addition
as passed.
An ordinance amending section three
of ordinance No four was lost by a
vote of 4 to 8.
Ordinance No 4:'. regulating steam
swings and like devices in the city wns
n ail and |*ssed.
CI. * I MS Allow
ludgel A Co
K. I.. Sleen, mdse
II. It itulleii, mdse
Wright Bros, supplies
Andrews ,k Pierce, will
of the evening's entertainment was
the book guessing contest. By some
sign each one present represented a
book and the one guessing the greater
number of titles represented was en-
titled to a prize. Miss Tot Walker
was the winner and received a hand-
some book. In the Mother Hubbard
feature. C. N. Jones got the "booby"
prize. Twenty-nine teachers and
student! were present and the occas-
ion was a most enjoyable one.
free Homes Celebration'?)
The free homes celebration here
last Saturday was n failure. The
parties who were getting it up, failed
Ninth Annual Commencement-
The ninth annual commencement
exercises of tho Agricultural and Me-
chanical college will be held June !(•
entirely to put in their appearance, i to 12 at the Assembly building. The
The proceedings ware finally started
by someone getting on the stand in
the middle of Main street and an-
nouncing that since it was expected
to have a celebration that an effort
where the ladies of the circle had al-
ready assembled. After a short pro-
gram the procession was formed,
headed by a wagon load of little
girls, granddaughters of old soldiers.
A large procession moved to the would be made to have some speak-
Fair l.awn cemetery where great ing, at least, and Judge H. E. Bums
pain was taken to decorate all sol- responded to the call of his name,
diers graves, at the conclusion of The judge made a good talk, but
which a short exercise was conducted held to closely too political lines, and
was followed by Maj. I). J. M. Wood.
.50
•J 00
47. IK
11.75
Willi
It N Andrew«,salary. dog killing 'sum
To Louisville.
W. W. Abcrerombie, t'harlcs Berry
and wife, J. It. Smith, Miss Kittle
Abercromble, S. I'. King and wife and
Mr. I.ytton left the latter part "f last
rek for Oklahoma City to 11,1 vnn_
luge of the Choctaw excursion rates t"
the re-union of ex-coiifederntes at
Louisville. Kentucky. Mr Berry and
wife will also visit in Indiana before
returning; Mr. King and wife will also
visit in the east for several weeks, lln
balance of the party will return in a
week or ten days. Miss Abercromble
will act as sponsor for the oklahoma
division at the reunion.
Notice to Contractors.
Sealed bids will be received until
June in. ISM) at 8 o'clock p. m. at the
office of J. Foucart, architect. Guth-
rie, Okla., and until June 11 at 8
o'clock p. in. at thoofflce of clerk of
school hoard of Stillwater, Okla., for
the erection of a public school build-
ing at Stillwater, Oklahoma. Terms
and specitications are on tile at the
office of J. Koucart, architect, Gutli-
rie, Okla.. anil at the office of clerk
of said school board of Stillwater,
Okla. All bids subject to the con-
ditions set forth in the final specifi-
cations, and uo bids shall be consid-
ered not in compliance with said
final speificatlons. Hated—Stillwater,
Okla., May III, 1000.
E. K. BK.NKHKL,
Clerk of Board of Education, Still-
water, Oklahoma. 7-8
Morses Couldn't lie Given flwai).
Horses were cheap in the west, in
fact, you could hardly give them
away," writes Hev. Cyrus Town send
Brady, In the June 1,allies Home
Journal. "I remember a stockman
ante to a friend of mine speaking In
thiswise: 'I've got six young and
iddllng horses well broke, and con-
sidering the hard times, In pretty
fair condition. What'll you give me
for thorn?' 'I'll glvo you ten just
like them,' said my friend, and think
myself lucky to save tho feed and
care of four of thorn.' Tho oiler was
not accepted.
by the ti. A K.
At 2 p. in. services were continued |
at the M. E. church where America
was sung, and prayer by the chap-
lain. Song by Comrade Lewis fol-
lowed by declamations by Mary
Lewis, Miss Shorbe and others, and
a few remarks by J. M. Springer. At
this juncture MBjor D. J. M. Wood
received n telenhone message from
J. B. I'nderwood, carrying the intel-
ligence that he had had an attack of
heart disease and eouM not be pres-
ent , after which a speech was made
by Major Wood, followed by a poem
by Freoman E. Miller, which was
tine and well rendered. Thia was
followed by a poem by President A.
C. Scott of tho Agricultural and Me-
chanical college which, to say the
least, was excellent.
The day was tine and a large audi-
ence greeted the old soldiers on each
occasion, and it was for tlie ti. A. K.
a Red Letter day.
The major thought Flynn the prin-
cipal man in the passage of the free
homes bill but was disposed to di-
vide credit, as was also A. T. Neill
und J. M. Springer, who followed
him 0. W. Murphy closed the pro
gram with a well-worded Flynn
speech. The crowd which assembled
for the occasion was disappointed.
Memorial Sunday.
Memorial Sunday with the O. A.
R. was passed with showers—indica-
tive of the feelings of the afflicted
ones and of the G. A. R. There was
a large audience at the M. K. church
and the choir rendered excellent
music.
Prayer was offered by Rev. King of
the Baptist church.
citizens of Stillwater und Payne
county, as well ns the friends of the
institution throughout the territory
are cordially invited to attend. Fol-
lowing is the program :
Saturday. June 9, R p. in.—Annual
concert, department of music.
Sunday, June It), 11 a. ill.—Bacca-
laureate sermon. Rev. Charles Waldo
Foreman.
Monday, June 12, 8 p. m.—Annual
alumni exercises, formal opening of
electrical department.
Tuesday, June 12, H:3t) a. in.—Com-
mencement, orations of graduating
class, annual address, Senator O.K.
Fegan.
Graduates in the degree of Bachelor
of Science—1900: Arthur Wallace An-
derson, Cora Matilda Donart, Thomas
Theodore (ioff, John Samuel Malone,
| Louis Christian Miller "and George
Whitefield Stiles, jr.
Base Ball.
Stillwater Piano Contest.
An elegant high grade upright Kim-
ball piano will be given to the church,
school or lodge receiving the largest
number of votes at the close of the
▼oting contest, lasting sixteen weeks,
beginning May 2'.) and closing Sept.
4. Clark, Swope A- Johnston will
have full charge <lf the ballot boa,
will count the votes and publish the
l.esson, 28d Psalm by Rev. Fore- ! result each week. The following
man of the Presbyterian church.
After a song service by the choir,
Rev. D. J. M. Wood preached the
memorial sermon from tho Oth chap-
ter of Esther, 28th verse. The ser-
The games last Saturday and Sun- mon was conspicuous for Its over-
Born, yesterday, to Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Schulie, this city, a soil.
day between Newkirk und Stillwater
wero onesided affairs. Saturday's
game closed at the fifth lnnli,gon ac-
count of the ruin. The so ,ro was 7
to II In favor ol Stillwater, Sunday's
game resulted in a victory for Still
wator: II to 4. The Newkirk team
was out-classed although they had
some strong players Tile attendance
was not largo at either game.
I R. 0. Malone,of Dallas, Texas, was In
the city the first of the jU t ek.
flow of good thoughts and Its partlc
ular adaptability to the occasion.
After tho sermon Rev. Wood of the
I1. 11. church led In prayer and Rev.
Myers of the M. E. church pronoun-
cod tho benediction.
business men have the tickets for
voting und they coat you nothing
but your patronage.
Sam Miller, J. I). Jones, Grady
Bros., Dale I.ytton, R. M. Oneal, E.
R. Benetiel, W. A. Gorton, O. M. Ey-
ler, II. S. tiarst, Alex Butchart, J. A.
Millard, Mrs. S. J. Lynes, Blancett A
Sclilehuber, Williams A Olentine,
F. Yangllder, A. Blsbee, C. W. Attor-
bury, Barcley, J. B. Murphy, Daniels
A Co., N. K. Hargls, Davis Bro«.,
Haines A Beach, E. H. Davis. Pear-
son, Horton A Palmer, Forlster
Studio, J. E. Chamness, Baker A Co.,
W. S. Musscr, Miilliani, Pa.,saved the jOrr A Hlouln, Solby Hardwaro Co.c
life of Ids little girl liy giving her One Clark, Swopo ik Johnston.
Minute Cough Cure w hen she was dy-j piano was purchased of R. M. Oneal
ing from croup. Ills the only harmless Rn(J 0|| ^thlUon at his furniture
remedy that gives immediate results. I
It cures colds, bronchitis, grippe, as-1"1"1"' —
tlima and all throat and lung troubles I Regent Billy Bolton, of Woodward,
—\Y, U. McOeorge, druggist. I Okla.. was in tho city Monday.
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