The Prague Patriot (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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Official paper of the City of Prague.
VOLUME 5
PRAGUE, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1908.
NUMBER 38
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. «sMMK«3E«The best of Everything in the Drug line, at 1. C. Hatcher Sl Company.nnmn
Why Not
Help Along
Prague Needs the Assistance
of All its Citizens Along
This Line.
Twenty Years Hence. Money Orders to be Robbery at Sparks.
Twenty years is a long time to Paid R. P. D. Patrons. While yeg-gmen were operating
look ahead. Not many of us are \ The Patriot has been informed in neighboring towns Saturday
Prague is bound to ferow; there
is absolutely nothing- to hold it
back, yet why-stand by with our
hands folded awaiting these re-
sults to come about in their own
slow way? Why not get out with
shirt-sleeves' rolled up and do
something to bring about results
more quickly?
As one man puts it, "No town
grows; its
make it."
disposed to give the future much that every farmer who now re-
thought, anyway. But it pays ceives his mail by the rural free
to look ahead sometimes. Per- delivery will in the course of a
haps the following, from an ex- few weeks, be able to make his
change, may interest some of the j collections by the same medium,
parents, if it does not interest Cash on money orders will be
paid into his hands and all that
K. P. Boys
at Dustin
night of last week, Sparks, not
being able .to entertain bank rob-
bers to any degree of satisfac- Local Lodge of K. of P.'s In-
tion, pulled off a one-horse affair
in the way of a store robbery.
The general merchandise store
of J. M. Alfred was broken into
the boys:
Twenty years hence the boys he will be called upon to do is 'to and goods to the amount of
of to-day will be men. They will
be doctors, lawyers, printers,
drunkards, senators, sneak
thieves, ministers, murderers,
democrats and republicans and
so on down the line.
It is impossible to tell just in always taken applications for
what class your boy will be, but money orders but the new syV-
what the citizens i it is not impossible for your boy tern provides for the payment of
Do vou know what j to be put into such influences as the same and soon payments will
stitute New Lodge at
Dustin.
sign the receipt. The money
will be brought to his own door.
This feature is the latest exem-
plification of the perfection of the
rural mail delivery. Under the
rules the rural mail carriers have
eral dollars were taken. The
safe and cash drawer were not
disturbed. Entrance was effect-
ed by breaking the glass from
the front door and turning the
latch. The deputy sheriff track-
ed the robbers for some distance
but failed to make any arrests.
The-Dustin Dispatch of last
sev- week gives the following write
up of the big doings held their
on April ;50, when .'18 members of
our local lodge of Knights of Py-
thias went there in a special car
to institute a new Knights of
Pythias lodge in that city.
On Thursday night April ,'tf),
the Knights of Pythias organiz-
this means? It means that by a j will steer him in the right direct- be made to farmers up to $ '.00.
a little exertion the city of j '-on,
Prague will become one of thej Follow the boys of tw
first cities of this section of the years; some of them will be in
hv<
And this is not said jail
new state.
boastingly! | hat class is your boy train-
We have ail the natural ad van-; inj? for? You had better look
tages any city would care to pos- him up if \ ou don t know.
sess. Why not use them? In i He may be one of the few who
location, no city has us bested. | will go astray, twenty years
Think of a town surrounded by hence may serve a sentence in
thousands of acres of the liehest the penitentiary or death on the
of soil. Think of a town having gallows.
a territory twice as large as any
other town in the state, from
which to draw sustanence! 1 hat
is enough in itself to make
Prague double her population in
a short time. ~ I
P>ut we want more. We want * '
to keep apace with the times
and do something in our own
way. We want to do something
to make Prague come to the
front faster than ever before.
•How can this be done, you ask?
Easily enough. Work for civic
improvement; for waterworks;
for factories. For everything
that will.be for the best interests
of the town! Get new industries
that will.furnish employment for
our laborers—where we will have
steady pay rolls the year 'round.
Get the Fort Smith & Western
Railway company to locate its
division'--/point here give them
a few acre's.'of land—give them
water—give'them anything they
may ask.'"Railroads are the most
potent factors in new-town con-
struction, nowadays. Get them
to locate their head oflices here.
Anything, to keep things stirring,
and to show that the citizens of
Prague have backb< >ne and busi-
ness stamina. And that fact
once established will remain with
us.
Prague •, needs only a little
assistance in starting the ball to
rolling, and we honestly believe
her citizens are composed of
class of people who will see to it
Keep track of the boy.
This is regarded as the highest
development of the rural free de-
livery system r.nd its benefits
will be duly appreciated.
An Expensive Eye-Opener.
0/er at H iliett, in Payne coun-
ty, last week, a traveling man
was arrested and fined ten dol-
lars for taking a drink from a
whisky bottle while riding from
the depot to the hotel in a bus.
And he was a democrat too.
A contemporary wonders what icc' !°d^e No. !.'8 in Dustin at Fay-
Jefferson would say if he were an' something near ;!() of
to appear again on the terra
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the best blood of the city taking
on Pythianism one of the
grandest organizations in the
known world with the grandest
motto conceived by mortal man
Friendship, Charity, Benevo-
all true
Knights everywhere. It, is a
power and tens of thousands of
the human family have felt its
benig influence.
The lodge was instituted by
Prague lodge with Frank Don-
nelly as installing officer. No.
98 starts but with a fine set of
j officers and the lodge's future is
secure. The Prague degree staff
is said to be one of the best in
the state and they are givei
much pi a:se for their excellent
work here, which began ;.t 12 p.
firma. It is doubtful if he wou'd
say anything for a while. He
would be lost in thought. An
automol he v. ould cause him con-
siderable surprise and an express
train at full speed would surprise .
him more than anything he saw 't'ncc- a°d practiced by
in Europe, while the Atlantic ca-
ble, the telephone and the Maur-
etania crossing the Atlantic in
live days, would complete his
astonishment, that is, provided
he is no': familiar fromempyream
observation, with the little things
that take place on earth.
in. Thursday and
o'clock Friday mori
Our -pace is fo
week lo . ay what is
boys who came here
car, all expenses pai
lodge. There was :
iting Knights from
,^4 1o'clock thai ni iv
^ j quet was spread t
hotel and any thi
might say of this Iv
not do justice to it
were handsomely . .
tertained. The vi:
surprised and expr
selves highly pleas< <
Sj.j1 much enjoy d lb :\-
After the i>ain• i,
hers reas: e.mbi'' at
ended at 5
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this
the
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•avaie. At
fine ban-
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■ that we
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■. sed them-
, and very
re treat.
the mem-
the hall and
finished the
their homes
work,
and left for
good impres-
popular Band and Orchestra music, and of I)l! "" v'1 her
1 A ^ 1 his is a one advertisement foi
much good will
will end with the laughable farce entit-
led, "His Honor The Judge," given by
Fragile Dramatic Club.
that this assistance is given.
Let's all lend a hand and see if
we can't make Prague bustle
with enterprise. You'll be sur-
prised at our success.
memoei
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our town
suit. Ali hail t
Pythias.
> the Knit
ro-
ll ts of
Postoflice it■ spec-tors are going
over rural route? in several places
Texas by legislative act recent-
ly ceded to the United States a
large territory in the Panhandle Oklahoma last year, and
for a national park. If congress, sixty-five millions in corn.
in the state making thorough in-
sport ion of all route with a view
discontinuing route s where
people take
Over seven million dollars A Michigan farmer is exper-j
worth of wheat was shipped from imenting with hens. Ho believes
When you have visitors or in-
tend making a visit yourself, ; and cotains part
send the facts to this office. It
will be appreciated and besides
every little bit helps to make a
paper interesting. No one is too
great or too humble, too rich or
too poor to get their name men-
tioned in this paper, whether
they are subscribers or not.
Send in your items.
should accept the gift, the coun-
try will have another Yellow-
stone, The tract is 40 miles long
of Palo Duro
canyon, a wild and mysterious
gorge which has not been fully
explored. Near the canyon is a
private herd of buffalo, which it
is said will be given to the gov-
ernment if it takes t - park.
We publish three 1 tP ; s from
country correspond. his weei.
over
With
the increased rainfall of 1908,
look out for those figures to be
doubled. Surely Oklahoma is
the most prosperous state in the
Union. If she wasn't it could
never maintain that Guthrie
bunch of near legislators.
Fred Kennedy, clerk at M. W.
Merritt's, visited over Sunday in
Tecumseh. He was accompanied
by his sister. Miss Cora.
fry us on jub work.
that chickens of the female per-
suasion if fed on nothing but red
clover will lay honey neatly
wrapped in egg shells. The
trouble with the scheme is we
will have to buy our honey "un-
siglit and unseen," just as we
now purchase our eggs.
A surprise party was given
Miss Fairbanks, at her home four
miles north of town on Saturday
evening last, the occasion being
her sixteenth birthday. Light
refreshments were served.
| the people take no interest in
keeping up the roads, believing
that the service is not appreciat-
ed on such routes. If the resi-
dents in the rural districts 'round
Prague do not keep their weath-
er eye on their public roads, and
[give them the attention needed,
lit might be possible that the
inspector will swoop down upon
' them one of these days, and do
an act that they will regret ti
balance of their days. The ri ,
free delivery is a great <
ience to the farmer and '
appreciate the service < non-1
keep the roads in good repai
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The Prague Patriot (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1908, newspaper, May 7, 1908; Prague, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc118186/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.