Davenport Leader (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 4, 1904 Page: 1 of 4
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Davenport
~ " . , «■ , a. Davenport, Oklahoma, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Entered as second-clas matter. May 6th, 1904, at the pos ,
volume i. number xiv! .hvknmut. lincoln countv, oklahoma. ~ ^
kick.
We have been studying for some
time how best to bring before the
people a subject, which is a timid
one for us, because the writer may
be misunderstood. We plange
light into however, with a purely
unselfish motive and truist that we
will be understood.
We naay or may not be speaking
mildly when we say that a leech is
a blood sucker and gets blood by
just hanging on while you are either
unaware or unable to knock it off.
There are people who are leeches.
They are the people who are willing
and do sit back and let the enter
prising people boom their town,
build up its every industry and yet
eome in for a goodly share of the
benefits. A few of thi3 class of
people lire in every town, but in
Davenport the people living in town
are doing about all that could be
reasonably asked. It is the people
who have bought property here and
■who do not live here that we have
reference to. If it becomes neces
sary we will refer, at a future time,
to the few who- may not be doing
al? they can to help- baild up the in-
dustries of our town, but at present
we will leave any of those, there
may be, to fight it out with their
own eonseiences.
The business men and citizens of,
Davenport have come here to make
homes foi themselves and
families. They desire of course to
indulge in busiuess enterprises that
will be profitable, that will make
them a living In order to make
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wanted.
Sixty thousand boys,
To replace the sixty thousand drunkards
that will die this year.
Wanted, some bright boys full of life and
cheer,
To stand at my counter as drinkers of beer.
To 611 up the ranks without further delay,
Of the army of drunkards passing away.
Sixty thousand a year will only supply
The loss to our trade from the drunkards
that die.
Send those who can toil or have wealth to
bestow,
For profits are small on old drinkers you know.
Let them come from the shop, the school or
the home,
We'll welcome them all whoever may come.
Let mother's surrender their sons to our cause
And fathers keep voting for good license laws
tor if you will vote to keep running the mill
You MUST furnish grists or the wheels will
stand still.
C. A. Ruddock.
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gestion '8 all that will be necessary I amount they spend, neither is this
There arc J, or 40 scolder, i paper. None of us wan, ,0 spend
their business profitable they must in the town8ile company besides a less, but we do want those who are
advertise aud work up a trade in the number of others who OWIV property to get more benefit to do more ad-
various ways. This is expensive here aQ(1 we truthfuny say that vertising than they are.
and many sacrifices must lie made abouta dozen 0f them have sub-I Every gubScriber we receive as-
in order to keep things going. That scribed for The Lkadtk. If we ug tQ pnt out a better paper,
is all right, however, they expected ^ ^ doingall ;n our poWer to as- ^ {he hetler paper the better ad-
that when they made the change. ( ^ ^ enterprising citizens and , vertjsirig jt does. We believe it is
The trade is coming, business .8 get busjne8S men iu building up °urjthe duty, if not a priviledge, for
pretty little village, we are w,llmg : each stoCuholder to at le; st subscribe
ting better through their ceaseless
working, and they will make good ^ accept and act upon advice that I" the paper> Honest now, don't
interest on the money and labor be- ; WJI L do more. | ? We
can easily see where it
ing expended. At the same time J .--..m he a nrofitable investment for
business is improving and people We are putting out eac 1 wee <■ subscribe for a number of
are coming, everyones property is j many sample copies as Uncle Sam | bute lheni freely for
advancing in value, including the ; will allow us and each one cost j ^ 1 but we Lar
people who do not live here and s something in ready cash besides adv sing' \ \ ■ ,
who have put no energy nor money j the time and labor we put in on someone W ^ bc
into making it so. This should not them. At the present time I,,F| nte ' / E paper we put
be so,it is not right and how to rem- | lk.dkh is spending more actual profitable.^ J.very p ^ ^
edy it is a problem for fome phtl- money for advertising this M
anthrophist to figure out. No doubt each week than the towns,te com- ^ P copieH, we
these people are good people and pany. 1 he same is a so t ue d twelve thirteenths cents
do not realise that they are not several of our merchants. None of 8* ^ one cent deducted it
"totein" fair" and perhaps a sug- them are kicking because of the, eac .
leaves us twelve thirteenths cents
profit (?,) to ad to the small amount
coming in 011 advertising to pay of-
fice and household expenses. Un-
cle Sam allows us to distribute as
many sample copies as we have
subscribers. (We are giving out all
he will allow so it will be seen that
wc are loosing one thirteenth cent
on each of our subscribers. As we
stated above we are not kicKing.
Who ever heard of a newspaperman
kicking. We iust went some of
those who are to receive as much,
yes more benefits than we, to volun-
teer to come in and assist us in
making a great big and prosperous
city of Davenport.
(To be continued.)
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record breakers.
H. M. Wilson owns a good farm
one and a half miles northwest of
Davenport. Mr. W ilson has been
a subscriber of The Leader right
from the start and believes in doing
all t he can to build up every in-
■dus.i/ of hifl community, lie thinkt
Oklahoma is the garden spot of this
great United States and is ever ready
to show -forth its advantages, with
which it is so numerously blessed.
He is a "stock raising" farmer, not
only because he likes it, hut because
he believes it pays. We might add
that we believe because "he likes it"
is one reason he makes a success of
it.
Mr. Wilson made us a ck.11 Mon-
day (hiring the rain and he told us
of a three year old I'oland China
■sow he had on the place which has
farrowed six litters of pigs and the
total number is 56 pigs. Forty
three of these pigs have been raised
put on the market and sold, (at a
profit of course,) and iu enly an il-
lustration of what any energetic man
can do if he only "wills" so to do.
Tins sow was a peeseut to Mrs.
Wilson from her father -Ben Cue,
who lives 4y/% miles south east 0?
Cushing and is from stock raised by
Will Laaley, a thoroughbred hog
raiser near there. 1 he pig was
about two months old when it wat
taken to its new home at the Wil
son's and her first litter was ^igbi
pigs and she raised tliewi all. The
same is true of the next three'litters.
The fourth litter she had 11, which
whs the l a iter part of last February,
Mr. Wilson sold these pij^s o*
July 2nd—10 of them for $ j ea«i-
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