The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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The Hennessey Clipper
VOL. XX.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 3. "Qoq.
NO. 3
FARMERS & MERCNANS BANK
Of HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA
Oldest Bank in Kingfisher County
Capital and Surplus $20,000.00
Welcomes and appreciates your business whether large
or small and believes its extensive resources developed
by nearly twenty years of constant, considerate, con-
servative accommodations, a splendid endorsement of
its most satisfactory service to the people of Hennessey
and vicinity. We appreciate your business and every
individual receives courteous treatment at our hands.
A Good bank in a Good Town
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED
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FATAL STABBING AT DOVER
Leslie L. Allen, Liveryman at
Dover Stabbed By Edward
Steal Colored.
COTTON PICKING MACHINE
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DOES IT PAY?
To use the LIBERTY Brand of Flour?
Easy way to settle the matter:—Use
the same amount of flour, milk,
sugar, eggs, flavoring: beat 'em up
the same way, bake the mass in the
same oven at the same time, with
the same care and note results. If
IIBERIY Flour doesn't win in that
fair sort of trial don't buy another
sack.
Made by
STAR MILL & ELEVATOR CO.
HENNESSEY, OKLA
To the Tax Payers of Hennessey
The bad and deplorable con-
dition of the finances of the town
of Hennessey are known to some
of you, but not perhaps to all.
The conditions that confront the
Board of Trustees in any at-
tempt to remedy this condition
is a serious one and can only be
remedied by the co operation of
the tax payers of the town with
us in trying to right this matter
and maintain decent credit for
the city, and prevent us from
having to pay almost double for
any or all public work or im-
provements which are absolutely
necessary for the health comfort
and benefit of the people of our
prosperous town.
Our water works are not self
sustaining and do not even pay
the economical price of pumping
and delivery of water to the con-
sumers, there is outstanding in-
debtedness represented in war-
rants drawn for which there is
no means to pay the ^amount of
right at $3000 which warrants
draw interest at the rate of 0 per
cent, per annum.
There is also outstanding war
rants drawn on the common
funds of the the town amounting
to about four thousand dollars
for which we have no means to
pay which like wise draw 0 per
cent, interest per annum.
With this indebtedness stand
ing against the city and no pros-
pects at hand to pay the same re-
gardless of all the econmy that we
can practice or at least no pros-
pect of paying but a very small
portion of this we can see no
remedy that we can adopt other
than to appeal to you in the
matter.
We are strongly convinced that
if you would give your sanction
as tax payers and authorize us
by a vote to fund this indebted
ness by issuing ten or fifteen
year bonds to bear not over five
per cent, annual interest, pay-
able in ten, fifteen or twenty
years, that the additional burden
of taxation on this small amount
would not be felt or become a
burden on the tax payers to the
extent of working a hardship,
and that after the credit of the
city is in such manner protected
that we would in the end save
money to the tax payers instead
of working a hardship.
We further suggest and be-
lieve that if we had twenty five
hundred dollars with which to
extend the present water mains
in the three sections about two
squares or about 700 feet each
section that with the increased
water patronage and a slight
change in the water rate that
our water works system would
at once .become self sustaining,
and be no further need of any
deficit occuring in that depart-
ment. It is a well known fact
that we have the best system of
waterworks for the money of any
town in Oklahoma, that our
works have cost only about one
half what other towns have paid
for works of like capacity, with
this idea in view and this being a
fact can you not as tax payers be
a little liberal with us in this
matter and help the town and
help yourselves at the same time.
I am a man of the people and for
the people and under a govern-
ment like ours believe that the
people ought not only to rule but
to dictate to their officers, and
servants, in all public matters
and expenditures, for this reason
we publish this communication,
and ask you to give it your candid
and unbiased consideration from
the stand point of what is right
and the best to be done in these
matters in order that we may
act with the sanction of the peo
pie, and carry out their will.
Respectfully submited,
R. W. WYUE,
Chairman for the board of trus
tees.
Great excitement prevailed in
the little town of Dover, eight
miles south of here when the
news spread that Edward Steal,
negro, had stabbed and killed
Leslie L. Allen, a liveryman of
that place.
The stabbing occured in a pool
hall in a controversy over a feed
bill amounting to twenty five
cents. It seems Allen asked
Steal for the money and the
negro did not have it. A few
words and blows followed, Steal
driving the large blade of his
pocket knife into Allen's heart
and ran out the back door of the
pool hall. Allen walked to the
front of the building and spoke
to bis brother in law, Victor
Reams, saying he believed the
negro had hurt him at the same
time holding his left side. Reams
examined Allen's left side but
did not see anything wrong and
Allen walked out the front door.
Reams then noticed blood on his
fingers and followed after Allen
finding him lying dead on the
side walk in front of the pool
hall.
In the meantime Steal had at
tempted to escape but was cap-
tured in a field about a half mile
from town. He was guarded in
Dover until the evening train
going south and was then taken
to Kingfisher, but the officers
fearing a lynching at the hands
of Allen's friends put him in an
auto and hurried him to El Reno
where he is being held pending a
hearing.
Leslie L. Allen was 37 years, 5
months and 25 days old. He was
a married man leaving to mourn
his loss a wife and four children,
his mother, two sisters and four
brothers.
Funeral services were held in
the Christian church at Dover
Monday afternoon at two o'clock,
Rev. Woods officiating and inter-
ment was held in the Dover
cemetery.
J. W. Rogers Invents Machine to
Pick Cotton Cleaner Than
By Hand.
J. W. Rogers of Lacey, Okla
homa, has invented and had
patented a machine that will pick
cotton cleaner than it can be
picked by hand and will do the
work of twelve men in the same
period of time,
Mr. Rogers says he can go
into a field of cotton that has
been picked by cotton pickers
and with his machine get a 100
pounds of cotton to the acre that
lias been left by the pickers.
This fact together with the fact
that it will pick as much in a day
as twelve men will make the
machine pay for itself in picking
the cotton from a forty acre field
in one season.
The machine can be manu-
factured and sold for about $150
to $175. It represents in a great
many ways the self binder for
small grain, the operator driving
between the rows and it picks
one row of cotton clean as it goes.
Mr. Rogers has worked the past
year in perfecting and making
the machine.
In a future issue of the Clip
peb we will publish a repro-
duction and a full description of
the machine.
The Depositors Money
Is insured in the American Bonding Company of
America. Our vault is also guaranteed by the
above company. Our Capital, Surplus and Indi-
vidual Profits are $33,500.00. Plenty of capital to
do a safe banking business. The stockholders of
this bank do not owe the bank a dollar.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Hennessey, Okla.
Little Nellie Ackley Accidently
Shot.
While playing around a cover-
ed wagon Wednesday, May 26th,
the nine year son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Green, of Couch,
Oklahoma, accidently sliot and
killed little Nellie Ackley, the
four year and 9 month old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Ackley.
Mr. and Mrs. Ackley, who
were traveling in a covered wagon
for Mr. Ackley's health, stopped
to visit Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Green on their farm near Couch,
Oklahoma. It was about six
o'clock in the evening that the
nine year old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Green, crawled into the
cotered wagon and picking up a
22 calibre riile accidently tired it
through the front of the wagon.
The bullet struck little Nellie,
who was on the wagon tongue,-in
her left temple and she died in a
very short time without once re
gaining consciousness.
The body was taken to Liberal,
Kansas, where it was prepared
for burial and shipped to Hen-
nessey arriving last Friday
morning. The body was taken
from the train here to Lacey,
Oklahoma, and interment was
held in the cemetery there.
Thomas Hope Passes Away in
New Mexieo.
Thomas Hope, an old settler
in Oklahoma and former resi-
dent of Hennessey, died last
Sunday at tlagerman, New Mex-
ico. Mr. Hope left here less
than a year ago and went to
Hagerman for his health, being
afflicted with asthma and catar-
rah.
M r. Hope had planned to re-
tui n to Hennessey, and being of
humors turn of mind had all his
his teeth extracted and intended
to have them replaced with two
set of false teeth in order to
make himself appear as young
and better looking to his friends
in Hennessey as he could when
he returned. But blood poison
set in causing his death last
Sunday.
The body was shipped from
Hagerman Tuesday, arriving
here yesterday.
Funeral services will be held
this afternoon at the Christian
church at two o'clock, Rev. A.
G. Smith officiating. The Mas-
ons will have charge of the bur-
ial and interment will be made
in the Henuessey cemetery.
The obituary will be given in
our next issue.
THE HENNESSEY SLUGGERSj
The Fastest Aggregation of Ama-
teur Ball Tossers in This Part
of The State.
There is not a doubt that Hen
nessey has one of the fastest
and best amateur base ball teams
in the state for a town of its size
and even better than many of
the teams in larger towns.
The "Sluggers" are an organi-
zation of ball players that all
lovers of the national game in
Hennessey should feel very
proud of. Whether at home or
in other towns, while on or off
the diamond, they are always
found acting the part of perfect
gentlemen. No loud, abusive
or profane language is ever heard
from them, they believe in play
ing ball and respecting the fans
who turn out to witness their
games.
While the Sluggers have only
played three games, winning two
of them, so far this season, they
have demonstrated the fact that
they all understand the game
and have proven beyond a doubt
that they will win a large major
ity of the games they play. By
the batting they have done they
plainly show that the name that
was given them is not misrepre
senting them in the least. In
C. A. Nothstein, first base.
"Chuck" is one of the heavy
hitters of the team. In fielding
and playing the initial bag he
plays an errorless game.
Arthur Cashion, second base.
Art is one of the main stays of
the team. He uses quick and
good judgement, his fielding is
fast and at the bat and base run-
ing he is an artist.
David Renshaw, third base.
Dave's work around the third
bag goes without criticism. He
is good at the bat, fast in fielding
and always makes a sure throw
to first.
Sheldon Shepherd, short stop.
Shepherd is always steady and
and reliable in fielding, at the
bat or base running. He covers
his territory in good shape and
makes an excellent throw to first.
Jack Oliver, left field. Jack
makes a sure catch, covers his
territory in good shape, handles
the bat with certainty and runs
bases in a wav that means scores.
Howard Loddy, centerfield and
captain. Captain Leddy is an
excellent fielder, great at steal-
ing bases and handy with the
bat. Leddy is in the game from
start to finish and always has a
word of encouragement for his
team mates.
Harold Neal, right field.
"Punk" as he is nicknamed does
not play as the name suggests.
fielding and running bases they , He is a heavy and sure hitter
FX)R SALE
A one seated buggy and Epworth
Organ, will lake bankable note.
Inquire at this office.
$150 Hog.
Last Monday E. G. Barnard
sold to Frank Huddleston, of
Ada Oklahoma, one of his Poland
China, hogs for $150. Mr. Barn-
ard has the name of being one of
the best breeders along the hog
line.
Decoration Day Services.
The morning services for
Decoration Day were held last
Saturday in the M. E. church at
10:30 o'clock. Members of Fre
mont Post No. 12 G. A. R
Ladies of the G. A. R. and Relief
Corps met at Post Hall at 10
o'clock and led by drum corps
marched to the M. E. church
where the following program was
held:
Ritual service by Post.
Music, conducted by Mrs. Will
Spencer.
Address by Rev. Gashwiler.
In the afternoon a large crowd
went with the different societies
to the cemetery to decorate
graves. The line of march form-
ed on Fourth and Main streets
headed by the drum coips, than
old soldiers, flower girls, ladies
societies and citizens, and march-
ed to Ehler's Store, where they
were all loaded in buggies and
conve>ed to the cemetery. At the
cemetery Ritual services were
held by the G. A. R., song, taps
and decorating of graves.
Photo by Arinantrout.
Top row: Sutton, Shepherd, Whittaker, Cashion, Renshaw,
Center row: Oliver, Capt. Leddy, Manager Thurlow, Nothstein,
Bottom row: Butler, Liston, Neal.
are all there with the goods and
it is in this respect that they have
outclassed their opposing teams
the team.
Everett Liston, catcher. "Sis"
is always in the game with the
big mit from start to finish. It
taVeg an exceptional good base
runner to steal second on him
for the way he shoots them to
base number two is not at all
slow.
L. C. Butler, pitcher. Butler
has a never tiring arm and al-
ways twirls the sphere in great
form. Jlis curves are all good,
quick, speedy and hard to hit
with the satisfaction of placing
the hit.
and a fly into the right field is
sure to go into the cistern.
Claude Whittaker and Stewart
Sutton, substitutes. Both of
I hose men are good players and
can fill almost any place on the
team at any time they are need-
ed.
Roy A. Thurlow, manager, is
arranging with the managers of
some of the best teams in the
surrounding towns for games
and the fans can look for some
hot games to be pulled off here
this summer. He believes in
putting the Sluggers up against
something of their equal and
letting them fight it to the finish.
Mrs. James Bohanna of We have on hand a large
Waurika is here visiting her son ( amount of neatly printed chattel
Columbus Keefhaver northwest mortgages. Anybody needing
of town and her daughter who them can get them at the CLi "HER
lives in Garfield county. I office.
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Sprague, G. E. The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 3, 1909, newspaper, June 3, 1909; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc105660/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.