Davenport Leader (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1904 Page: 1 of 6
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Davenport Leader
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Entered as second-class matter, May 6rh, 1904, at the post office, at Davenport, Oklahoma, under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
VOLUME I, NUMBER XV. DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY AUGUST, ir, 1904
OKLAHOMA IN GENERAL,
LINCOLN
COUNTY IN PARTICULAR. AND DAVENPORT THE
QUINTESSENCE OF THEM ALL.
We havent heard of any cotton ! Lightning struck Ed Durbin, liv-
being cut short by "sore shin," ing in district 91, a week or so ago
^ ^ ^ singing his hair, setting his clothes
on fire, bursting his shoe open and
An Oklahoma county man claims . . . , . , . . ,,
' injuring his foot. He came to all
a yield of 200 bushels per acre on . . . ... 4
3 r right and will get well.
potatoes.
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I S. A. Fredick a renter on Lafe
Walnntand pecan trees are load ... ., . £
f Wright s farm southwest of I ryon
ed with nuts this year and prospects . c . ■ , . , . , ■ ,
3 j has cotton 4 feet in height which
are good for plenty of nice fat'
squirrels.
** yield than last year which paid
1 will yield a bale to the acre. Mr.
I Wright savs it will make a better
a
At the Prague school bond elec- j rental of $7.00 an acre.
tion 91 out of 93 votes were cast in
favor of the bonds for building a
Wick school building.
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Fred Burke who lives southwest
of Jones has a fine bird dog who,
: having lost her litter of pups, adopt-
J.E. Prather and Mrs. Alice E.'ed two little pigs, and cares for
Powell, were united in marriage by j them tenderly. The little pigs will
Judge Pritchett last Sunday July 24 follow her about and at night curl
1904 at 3 P. M.—Sparks Visitor. j themselves up in her bed and sleep.
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L. K Mill er of Tryon, has a dis- , The price of unleased oil land
ditching etc., done on school land
by the leasee shall be considered as
improvements at full cost value and
land be leased at same price to les-
see for three years after the work is
done, as it was previous to said
dyking ditching etc.
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we would like to see it.—State Htt-
ald.
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An old time customer of J. ('
Hugo's, drove from eight miles e.Kt
of Stroud to Davenport, last wee'.,
to secure the bargains offered her ■.
He has traded with Hugo for ve.is
J. B. Stites sent 11s a fine sample but having moved this year, he did
of broom corn. This is the eaily las trading at StronV. untill his mmi-
planting and he has about 40 acres ev run out and then in addition to
like the sample and 110 acres that j paying two per cent interest on h.s
is a little later, but with favorable j note he claims that his goods ha'd
circumstances will be as good as the advanced 25 per cent, over wlr.t
early. If nothing happens he will they were when he paid cash.
reap enough to pay for a good farm
from this 150 acres.—Enterprise.
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The marshall at Sparks has a
Rev. E. C. Graff, who lives t*<;
miles west of town, has seven acs.
of P_ocky Ferds which ar<i just no v
scythe which he is advertising to getting ripe. He-Bays he plan'...I
loan out to whoever will cut weeds them close *0 the red so the l.nu-
with it. Dr. Rickett has started ] 8ry travelers could help thf.nselve-.
them falling here by hiring a mow-
ing machine, which is certainly do-
ing a good job under the superin-
tendency of Pave Dollison. The
doctor realizes how much it helps
the looks of the town as well as en-
hances the health conditions.
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play of corn i"i his store window j located in the oil'belt of the south ] Co)jnty Superintendent Shotwell
which is of his own raising and will side is soaring skyward. One party ! made ouf a fashionable lbree
yield near 75 bushels to the acre, asks 5300 per acre, others are figut-1 mjnute call Tuesday, on his way to j annoyance in road building is
This isfliute a different story from
most of the melon rakers, win
guard their patches with double
barrel shot *uns and hull dogs Rev.
Graif livee the -eame Christian life
at his farm home ar, 'he used t'i
preach in the pulpit.—Stroud Mes-
senger.
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One of the continued sources f*
tii
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ing how much they have lost by | catch the Santa Fe nor,hbound. A ' f*ct grades are washed aw:.
Thos. Coins lost a yearling steer leasing their land to oil companies.
—South Osage items in Agra News
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Uncle Johnie Robinson has patch
of cotton on the Updixe farm eist
of here, on Dry creek, which was
with the fever, Farmers should
guard against this disease, as it is
qu'te prevalent among cattle.—
Sparks Visitor.
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very pleasant man to meet. He in-
forms us that there are 135 school
districts in Lincoln county and that
32 of them each have a colored
school in addition to a school for
white children. There are 11,511
A well dressed fellow, with grips under water for nearly three weeks children of school age in the county,
resembling a drummer, called at the this spring, that is a wonder tobe-
Fallis livery barn, one day last week bold. We were through it last of thp ,an(1 lhat>s to gQ into
to drive to Wellston and back. He Thursday and found some of it wheat shou|d 5e flowed deep be
: fore the first of August. The plow
shoulder hieh.
has not returned.
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While ploughing the road north A big fish bake is reported to be enough more than from late
of town last week a skeleton, sup-,have taken place on the Cook farm plowing to pay for hiring all of the
posed to be that of an Indian, was j southeast of here last 1 hursday. wheatland plowed in July.—Farm
unearthed. The skeleton was in a ^ large number of people round journal. It is not too late, however
soon after being built. Thousand
of dollar-y are lost to Lincoln coutny
every year and farmers get discour
aged in throwing up grades only u,
be washed away by the next heavj
rain. We have observed that be
rnuda grass when once sodded wi
hold the steepest embanknn:
againit the most erosive floods
Why not lurid our grades and in-
j mediately set the*:i in bermuda?
good state of preservation
ton News.
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The negroes of Oklahoma have
,, • organized an association to build a
home for superannated colored min-
isters; and others who are in want
in their old age. It is to be known
as the Roosevelt Old Folks Home.
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Governor Ferguson issued eigh-
teen citizenship pardons last week
to Oklahoma prisoners confined in
the territorial penitentiary at Lan-
sing. Kansas. Ten of them were
ivom lincoln county.
Wells- about here participated and a good
tirnfc was had, with about eighty
pounds of fish caught, baked and
eaten.
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Service was established last Mon-
day on rural routes 4, 5, and 6
The appreciation of the service by
these new routes is proven by the
fact that they had mqje boxes up
the first day than are generally in
use at the end of the first month on
new routes,—Chandler News.
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,. . , , 1 • , , ;, 1 will not ttnly li«ld the t'rarie but wii"
ing is done easter and the yield will 7 ,
produce a beautiful green ribbon i«>r
a highway devoid of unsigbU'
weeds and brush.—.Chandler Tr
bune.
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A wan near fJuther harvested 3«,
bushels of potatoes <dt from lc-v
than one fourth acre of .ground hii«
the faitiily had usad 5 or bushel
for summer use too frut of the pale!
They were of the early Rose varieP
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Deep Fork bottom wheat >inXJkl 1
hoina county has wade as bigh
2S bushels to the a<*,re in spite of the
damaging high water.
It is said that the OVttfl«v<
wheat is testing 52 and 53 poo;
to the bushel.
to do it now. If you are going to
plant a little wheat be on the look-
out for seed. Prophecy says it will
be worth a dollar by the end of the
year.
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B. F. Walker called at the Herald
office and exhibited a mammoth
turnip, of the common purple top
garden kind which is much larger
than any we have ever seen. It
weighed just d'/> pounds and meas-
ured 22 inches in circumference.
| If you have got anything that will
The school land board has adopt- ' beat it, of Oklahoma production o.
cd as a general policy that dykes, from any other parts, biing it a!on>;
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