The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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The Hennessey Clipper
VOL. XXI.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, MAR. 2, 1911.
Villages—Senate Bill
No. 155
TIME OF HOLDING ELECTIONS counters in general elections and
and shall begin the count when
To be Held In Cities, Towns and tlley close tlie polls.
Section 9. No person shall be
entitled to vote in any election
held hereunder whose name is
not upon such registration list
for his precinct as was required
by the general election law; pro-
vided that the registeration of-
ficers of all cities of the first class
shall, on the Thursday, Friday
and Saturday next preceding
each first Tuesday in April opei
his registeration books and reg-
ister, by the methods prescrib
e_d by general reg steration *,ht
electors of their respective pre-
cincts who have acquired thi
right of suffrage since the. lasi
preceding general election, ani.
all electors so registered shall be
entitled to vote at such _said citj
election; provided, they art
otherwise qualified.
Sectien 1. Art. 2. No cand •
dates name shall be printed upoi
the official ballot for any city,
town or village election unles
such candidate shall have beei
nominated by some political
party at the primary election
herein provided for and so certi-
fied to the county election boaro
by the chairman and secretary
of such political party, or unlesh
his name is presented as an in
dependent candidate as herein
after provided.
Section 5. Any elector maj
beco.ne a candidate before an\
political party for its nomination
for any office herein specified
in any primary election by filing
with the county election board,
not more than twenty nor les?
than ten days before the date oi
such primary, a written notice
No. 42
Section 1. General elections
shall be held in all cities of the
first class and all incorporated
towns and villages of this state
on the first Tuesday in April, A
I) 1909, and each two years
thereafter, at which time,
cities of the first class, there
shall be elected for the city at
large one mayor, one city clerk,
one police judge, one city trea
surer, one city attorney, one city
marshal, one city assessor, one
treasurer of the city school
board, and one street com mis
sioner; also there shall be elected
from each ward one councilman
and one member of the school
board.
In incorporated towns or Vil-
lages, other than cities of the
first class, there shall be elected
at such elections, one trustee
from each ward, and one for the
town at large, one clerk, one as
sessor, one treasurer and one
justice of the peace. Such offi
cials shall serve for a period of
two years and until their succes
sors are elected and qualified.
SfCtionS. All elections held
in accordance herewith shall be
conducted at the regular voting
places or polls used within such J
cities, towns and villages af. gen
eral state eleetions and in cities
of the lirst class the polls shall
be opened at six o'clock in the
forenoon and kept continuously
open until teven o'clock in the
afternoon, and in other towns
A PIONEER OF MANY STATES
Brief History of Life of Eli Phipps,
Deceased, Oldeet Man
in Southwest
at six o'clock in the afternoon.
Section 4. The regular pre-
c net election board for and with
in cities of the first class and in
corporated towns and villages
shall conduct all elections herein
provided for
Section 8. Official counters
shall be chosen for cities of
the first class as in general elec
tions. In incorporated towns
and villages the precinct
election boards shall perform all
the duties imposed upon official
the polls shall be opened at eight
o'clock in the forenoon and closvS fettlb* forth llis na,lle as he de"
sires it to appear upon the bal-
lots, his postoffice address and
cities of the first class shall give
his street number and ward
He shall in such notice state the
name of the office for which he
desires to become a candidate
and shall give the date of the
primany and specify the political
party of which he desires to be
come a candidate.
Section 6. Independent can
didates may have their names
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REAL ESTATE
FARM LOANS
INSURANCE
Office in the
Rear ot the
First Nation-
al Bank Bldg
W e Appreci-
ate and Solicit
Your Business
J. L. HINES
HENNESSEY, OK.
OFFICE 'PHONE NO. 31
Eli Phipps, undoubtedly the
oldest man in Oklahoma and the
southwest, and a resident of
Kingfisher county for the past
seventeen years, who passed
away at the home of his daugh
ter, Mrs. George Stinson, in this
city last Thursday, Pebuar.y 23,
1911, at the age of 108 years and
eight days, has had a varied
sareer of more than passing in
terest.
Eli Phipps and a twin brother,
John Phipps, who re.sides ai
Shennadoah, Iowa, were born
February 14, 1803, ,.t Affinghton,
Washington county, Virginia.
Sr>y; Wm. Phipps, Boone, Iowa;
Mrs. Cora Stinson and Mrs
Minnie Stinson, of Hennessey;
Charles Phipps, Boone, Iowa;
Lewis Phipps, Hennessey.
Mr. Phipp's next move was t<
Boone, Iowa, where he purchas-
ed land and owing to the fact
that there were no banks in that
locality in those days, was quite
prominent as a money lender for
many years. Again experienc-
ing the westward fever he came
to Oklahoma in 1895, locating
four iniles southwest of town,
comii.g to town about eighteen
months ago. He was a Christian
taking an optimistic view of life,
timing the only way to live loup
and happy is to iollow the teach
s of nature. A remarkable
f.'ature of Mr. Phipps' life was
his splendid health, having nevei
h id a physician until his lasl ill-
ness which was only of a few
days' duration.
Funeral services were held
from the Baptist church Satur
day afternoon, Rev. J. G. Schln -
man officiating. Out of town re-
latives attending were three sons
of deceased, William and Charle.*
of fyione, Iowa, and David ol
Fay, Okla , and a nephew Willi*
Phipps, of the latter place.
Interment was made in the
Lien nessey cemetery.
GOOD QUALITIES OF MEXICO
Told by Frank Pepin in Letter to
Sister, Mrs. E. E. Swim,
of This City
Entire time devoted to the practice
Twenty-live years experience
Largest Library In Western Okla-
homa
Kingfisher, Okla.
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 $33,500.90. Plenty of capital to
do a safe banking business. The stockholders of
this bank do not owe the bank a dollar. ,
THE FIRST NATIONAI BANK, Hennessey, C'*Ia.
ELI PHIPPS
Their parents were Mr. and Mrs
Jesse Phipps and they had one
sister, Nancy Taylor who died
of fever after marriage in Cali-
fornia many years ago
When at the age of seventeen
Mr. Phipps with his parents
started westward by wagon to
Indiana, which was then consid
ered the extreme frontier But
when reaching Kentucky were
delayed three months due to an
epidemic of ch ilera, butlater re-
sumed their journey settling on
a piece of land at Bloomington,
Indiana, where a number of years
after the mother died of general
break down at the age of ninety
three years. In 1833 the family
moved oil a farm in Puttman
county, Missouri, at which place
the father succumbe I to the then
most dreaded disease—small pox
his years numbering 111. It
is gathered from these f acts that
the most pronounced charactistic
of the Phipps family was their
longevity.
Eli Phipps was married in 183">
in Indiana to Nancy Ward, and
three children were born to
them—Mrs. Patia Winters, of
Prazier, Iowa; Emily Phipps, AI
ton, Mo, and David Phipps Kay.
Okla. His wife died in l«4"> m,i
leaving the children to the care
of his brother Mr Phipps visited
many pirts of the United States
and even made a perilous journey
to Canada. During the memor
able gold excitement of 1849 in
California he make that most
difficult trip across tti • plains
amassing considerable wealth in
j that state. With a partner,
Judge Wyatt, he went to Colora
do during the early settlement
of that state and introduced tin-
first steam power saw mill ever
operated in that part of the c >un
try and for nine month sawed
lumber which was used in the
erection of the first buildings
of the city of Denver, tie re-
turned to Missouri later and in
I860 was married to Rebecca
Grffiith, at. Marys villa Seven
children, one d.ingin infancv,
blessed this union. Tlie living
are Mrs. Jennie By an, Heunes-
B Sharp Club Concert
Next Friday evening, March 3rd,
at the opera house there will be
given the first concert by the "B
Sharp" club—a chorus of twenty-
three girls. An excellent program
had been prepared; besides the
beautiful choruses by the entire
club, there will be solos, both vocal
and instrumental, a humorous quin-
, t2tte, a doub'e quartette, several
readings by Miss Lena D. Wood, of
Mulhall, Okla., and last, but not
i least, a number by Brumley's or-
chestra. The program will please
you and your presence will please
the girls. Proceeds will be devoted
to the purchase of new music for
the club. Tickets on sale at Dink-
ler's drug store. General admission
25c, reserved seats 35c.
Special Railroad Rates to Enid's
Big Stock Show
A special rate of one and one-
third fair will bo given within a
radius of 100 miles of Enid on
all railroads to everybody wish-
ing to attend the Big Stock Show
which begins at Enid next Sat
urday, March 4, 1911.
Night School
A review of common school
branches, bookkeeping, steno-
graphy, typewriting or any
branches which may be arrang-
ed for. For full particulars see
or address. L. W. Martin,
Hennessey, Okla.
For Sale
liitr Boll R iwder Cotton Seed,-
most pure, $1.50 per 100 lbs.
•>ee samples and leave orders at
I'' and M bank or write E. W.
j Patterson, Christian University,
Enid, Oklahoma.
Columbus, Tamaulipas, Mexico,
February 16, 1911.
Detr Brother and Sister:
I received your letter all O K
last night. I have tried iny hand
at clearing but 1 find I can't make
much headway at it. I am going
to let a contract for about ten acres.
I have a job here helping an Ame-
rican build a house and a fence and
so on. 1 can make about $15:00
gold and my board and room per
month while the Mexican's are
clearing and I think that is the
best plan.
Cleared land is selling from $20
to $30, gold, per acre now and un-
•leared land is from $10 to $18, gold,
per acre.
Don't you sell at all for your lan 1
.vill be worth $50 per acre inside of
ive years and it will clear from $40
jp to *73 an acre every year on
cotton and corn.
I have not got the "big eye", nor
have I gone wild over the country,
lor I have seen lots of good farm
Innd in my life, but this is absolute-
ly the best proposition I have ever
seen in all my life for farming. It
is a tough proposition to start with
but I know that at the end of one
or two years every thing will be all
0 K and we will have money ahead.
The only thing I am sorry for is
that I did not come here a year or
two ago. You know I have seen
cotton fields all over Oklahoma and
Texas and I can truthfully say that
the cotton here will make twice as
much as any field of cotton I ever
saw in my life.
The climate is fine, rather warm
in the day time, but cool enough to
sleep good at night.
I was out hunting with three
other fellows last week and had the
good luck to kill my first deer but I
had to shoot it three times. It was
a buck with four prongs on it horns.
We killed seventy-six ducks.
There are about eighteen or twen-
ty families here now and people
coming all the time. There was an
increase in the population of Colum-
bus last night—a baby girl.
There is one of the finest families
J here that I ever met. A Mr. and
Mrs. Griffith, from Wyoming. They
have two boys about seven and
! fourteen years of age. He is the
I man I am going to work for. I
never met any one that I think so
much of in such a short time as I
' do of them.
All the new comers here have
what they call tropical sores and
they are sure fierce. They break
out on your leet and ankles just like
boils. Mr. Griffith and the oldest
boy are layed up with them now.
They came here about Christmas.
The wood ticks here are the only
kick I have on the country. But
they are sure fierce, make life mis-
erable lor awhile. But they say
one soon gets so they don't bother
them.
The freight rates on the railroads
are very cheap.
I would like to get fifteen or
twenty acres cleared this winter
and put it all in cotton but four or
five acres and put that in corn for a
team. Corn is worth from 75c to
$1.00 per bushel, gold, and they are
raising from twenty to forty-five
bushels per acre on new ground.
In two yea-s I can raise sixty to
seventy-five bushel per acre. I
know I can from the looks of the
soil and the way the fields look.
As I said before, this is the best
\ proposition I ever saw for farming.
When I get started I will use water
out of the north river for awhile. It
is pretty goo I water and only about
one and one-half iniles from where
I am going to build the hou-e. I
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Lumber for Sale
G"od cottonwood and oak lum
ber all dimensions, prices rang
ing from $14 to*30 per thousand.
Also some good slabs at $1.00 per
lo d Snyder Bros, Route 8
Fnur miles south, 1J west of
hennessey. 404
For Trade
I have a Haniiltonian Stallion
which I will trade for a good
span of horses or mules.
E. M BARNUM,
tf R. 0, Hennessey, Oka.
YOUR DOCTOR FIGHTS
Diseases with medicine. If the medicine is not
right he cannot conquer disease. If the druggist
does his duty, the medicine will be right, and your
doctor will stand a fair chance of winning the victory.
You can help your doctor by having your prescrip-
filled by:
DINKLER THE DRUGGIST
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In The
BANK
If in need of dental work call
on Dr. A F. Merrill the dentist,
Breese Building. Every Tues-
day in Dover.
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sufficient foresight, have started a bank account with the
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
hennessey, oklahoma
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All Deposits in this Bank are Guaranteed by the Guarantee Fund
of the State of Oklahoma. [This Law has been declared by the
Supreme Court of the United States to be Constitutional], We
call your attention to our sworn statement which appears in this
paper,
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