Davenport Leader (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 1904 Page: 4 of 6
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THE DAVENPORT LEADER.
PUBLIflHBD BV \V. H. BoNNEK.
Application made for entrance at
Davenport, Oklahoma, 1 ost-
office as Second-Class mail
matter.
Subscription jii.oo a Year, Payable
in Advance. Paper Stopped
When Time Expires unless
Expressly Ordered
Otherwise.
Volume I Numbkh VIII.
liAILBD BVBRY THURSDAY, at davkn-
pokt, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA'
OFFICE ON BAST FIRST STBEBT.
June 23, 1904.
ABOUT BRIDGES.
Having been in the county a very
short time we hardly feel at liberty
to suggest anything in regard to
how much road and bridge tax the
commissioners should levy. "W e do
feel that it ought to be as heavy as
the tax payers can stand. Ol course
some can stand more than others,
and usually the greatest kicks come
from those who are the better able
to stand it. Be that as it is, we
think that in putting in bridges
where others have beeu washed
out, none but steel and stone struc
tures should be put in where the
span is twent y or more feet. There
are so many bridges to put in and
the fund no doubt very inadequate
for the entire work to be done. It
will always be so if cheap work is
done, because the regular spring
overflow will wash the fund down
stream every year such work is done.
As a suggestion we would say
that in our opinion the best plan for
the commissioners to pursue is to
but at one time, from the lowest-best
bidder the quantity of steel bridges
their funds would allow, and then
place them where they are the most
needed on rock abutments and then
tell the road districts to fill in and
fix the approaches if they wanted to
use the bridge. Of course there
might in a few cases be need for a
deviation from this rule, but make
that the rule.
When a bridge is entirely washed
away and a new one must be put in,
put in nothing but the best, if we
can only have a half or a third as
many. It will pav in the end.
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Lon Stevens of Patagonia, Ariz.,
arrived in Stroud last week with
several car loads of cattle to he fat
tened ou Oklahoma grass. Mr.
Stevens says ranchers are compelled
to ship out their slock to keep them
from starving to death, because lain-
fall this year is especially scant.
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The agricultural department at
Washington announces that a large
number of weeds are valuable and
the Wichita Eagle thinks that as
soon as they are named they will
have to be cultivated or they woiii
grow. Everything valuable in this
world is cultivated and harvested at
a sweat-cost.
The Stroud Star says that the
chances are we'll not have to starve
this fall nor go back to the states
and live with our wife's relatives
because Dad 1\ L. Black of J'onca
township decides that "oats could
not look better, wheat is good, corn
is excelleut, while cotton will at
least make an average crop."
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The Stroud Messenger has sprung
a "new one" in regard to that "hid-
den treasure," which takes the heat
of the search away from Lincoln
county entirely and transplants it
to the quicksands at the mouth of
the Cimarron river. Here's a dol
lar ag'inst a doughnut that Uncle
Matt has "heard something" and is
trying to throw 'em off the trail.
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BATTREALL - WH1TT1NGHILL
SHOES
And the prices are right, because these goods
were bought to sell, not to keep. 1 carry a line of
Groceries, Four, Feed, Shoes, And |
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YOURS FOR TRADE, |
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Corner First Street and Cleason Avenue, DAVENPORT, OKLA. +
Just Opened—New Hardware
Shelf
Where You Can Buy all Kinds of
Hardware, Nails, Paints,
Other Building Material.
Call and See Us.
and
Gossett & Son.
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IF YOU ARE IN SEARCH OF
A Bargain in Furniture
Mattings, Curtains, Rugs, Stoves,
Tinware, Queensware, Wallpaper.
In fact anything pertaining to
household and kitchen furniture
The Chandler News thinks that
Lincoln county is missing a wonder-
ful opportunity to get some good
advertising at the World's Fair by
not arranging for a display of pho
a sane white man who loves bis fam-
ily should persist in growing a crop
that will keep his children out of
school and make his wife work in
the field in addition to her house-
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tographs of Lincoln county scenes, hold duties is beyond our power of
Well why not. We have the scenes unterstanding."
plenty of them, and they are pretty j -
It will pay you to call and
see us before buying.
Sewing
Machines and
A Specialty.
Supplies
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DAVENPORT,
OKLAHOMA
ones. If photographically repro- j
duced and taKen to the big fair they
would be admired by thousands and j
would create such a longing in the;
hearts of the observors, to see tne
origin.ds, that would only be satis-1
tied by a trip here, A trip here
would make them fall in love with !
the place and they couldn't get
away. Logical isn't it. W eli then
let's have our pictures taken.
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The Stroud Star in an excellent j
article on the disadvantages of cot-
ton raising closes by saying: "Let
the colored man raise cotton, tor
that is about all he knows to raise
anyway. We believe just as much
money can be made out of small
grain, dairying, fruit, etc., neither
of which need tending with a hoe
or gathering in a sack; pressing into
service all that can wield a hoe or
pick the fibre from the stalks. Why
CLARENCE DONALDSON
TONSOR1AL ARTIST.
ci.kan pleasant shave-
up-to-date hair cut.
Barber shop first door west of
the post office.
Modern Woodmen ok America
camp number 10,786 meets every
second and fourth Thursday
nights of the month at Ridley's
Hall. L. S. Carrington, V. C.;
J. E. Moore, Clerk.
J. M. K1NSEY,
Notary Public.
Your Notary Work Solicited.
Office in the Post Office.
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