Davenport Leader (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1905 Page: 1 of 10
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Davenport Leader
• i ♦♦ Mo*, a v 1904 at the post office, at Davenport
Entered as second-class matter, May 6th, ai in f
Oklahoma, under the act of Congress of March 3, 18/9-
EVERYBODY BOOST FOR "A GREATER DAVENPORT.
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VOLUME II, NUMBER XI.
THURSDAY, JULY, 13, i9°5
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL.
The Chandler Tribune has begun
agitating the proposition of a coun-
ty high school. We are not going
to differ on the point either. Lin-
coin county children are entitled to
the best there is, and the county
high school will no doubt give many
a child a chance to secure an educa
tion, which he would never receive
were it not for the inducements of-
fered by having the school close at
home.
The county high school of course
,.u!y substitutes for the two or mire
years of preparatory work at the
various colleges, but this school be-
ing located at home where the ex-
pense is not so ureal will permit
many a child to secure the prepara-
tory work, who may never be able
go to college, and if he should go
to college the amount saved by at-
tending the county high school will
ijnuhtless help considerable tow iM
paying expenses at college.
The less money that an education
can be bought for, the more people
ihere are who will procure one.
Why not a-sist nuny by the
county high school system?
The Stroud Star says to locate it
at the place which offers the best
inducements. Certainl)! That is
lair enough.
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SECRETARY THOBURN OUSTED.
J. B. Thoburn, Secretary of Ag-
riculture, has been ousted by the
Territorial Board of Agriculture,
notwithstanding the fact that the
farmers and pre>s of the entire terri
tory are for him. C. A. McNabb < f
Okla Uty has been given his place.
McNabb is a good man for the place
hut Thobum wa* entitled to another
term.
In speaking of the dismissal of j
Ihoburn, Governor Ferguson sajs:
• •Not one percent of the people of
Oklahoma are with the board in its
action against Thoburn: in other;
words more than ninety-nine per
rent of the people are with I hoburn.
Perhaps in the entire west no man
ever went out of office with more
people behind him and who was
more popular with the fanners and
people with wnom he was nirectlv
interested in his work. Thoburn j
took the office when there was noth- j
ing, and has builded it until it 1
stands not second to any in the
west. I think the work done by
him is marvelous, and the farmers
l<t6e in him a ,:riend, an able assis-
tant, and one who was always di-
rectly interested in their welfare.
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GOOD FOR HAYES.
County Superintentent Hayes lias
been notified by Governor Ferguson
of his appointment as a member of
the territorial board of education.
As only one of the twenty six coun-
ty superintendents of the territory
serves on the board, and that one
by selection of the governor. Mr.
Hayes justlv feels proud of the hon
or conferred upon him.
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Do not blame your newspiper
man for what happens in the com-
munity. If there is anything in the
life of the place you do not want to
i><) abroad in the world, blame \our-
se'.f if it exis's—not the paper for
saying something about it. It is the
editor's duty to make a typographi-
cal photograph of the town each
week, and if you take a homely pic-
ture, don't kick the instrument, but
try to get a better expression o n
your face next time.—Territorial
Enterprise.
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E. N. Rowland m- de a pleasant
call at this office a few minutes F ri-
day evening. He h'd been in tow:,
soliciting volunteer help to put in
the grade at the new bridge near
the Frisco trestle. He had no
trouble in securing all the help nec-
essary. This grading and bridge
has been needed for along time, the
old bridge having gone out on the
28th day of May, i9°4- Al «'mes j
the road at this place has been all
most impassible. It has been the j
main road into town from the south j
and is the only road between the
Santa Fe depot and our town.
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At last a deed has been received
md recorded to the strip of land
running on the half section line
south of Davenport. Now for get
j ting a bridge put in and the people
from the south and southeast can
come to Davenport and save about
1 y2 miles in the trip. Friday of
last week the commissioners accep-
ted the deed and paid over their
agreed share of the money, and Sat-
' urdav and Monday the balance was
subscribed among our people. Let
the good work go on, and tbe next
in line is to grade up Dry Creek
bottom on the section line nortli and
east, and put in a bridge. We will
then bring a whole lot of good trade
from that direction, that can not
come to us.
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Santa Fe Agent Chilson informs
us that he has received notice that
the General Manager of the Santa
Pe has signed an order to begin
work on the Davenport switch at
once which means- that we will
have a switch and platform on the
Santa Fe within the next week or
ten days.
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Mrs. C. C. Randel who has so
successfully conducted the Zoe Ho
tel for the past three months, will
retire from the business in a few
days, and Mrs. J. B. Colvin will
take charge and continue to run a
first class hotel.
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W. S. Hamon and wife, of Still-
water. came down Friday and visit-
ed until Monday with Mis. Hamon s
cousin, Mrs. J. T. Day and family.
They had a pleasant time, not hav-
ing seen each other before for 20
years.
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Mrs. J. M. Gossett and sor.
Clyde returned S iturday from their
months visit wiih friends and rela-
tives at vaiious points in Kentucky.
The\ report a very pleasant time.
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Mr. Collins came down from
Chandler Thursday, and remained
a day .>r two in our burg, building
afire place in J. R. Robertson's
new house.
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Rev. Saul, Okla. district evange-
list of the M. E. Church-South,
will be here and begin a series of
meeting on tfie 4th Sunday of this
month.
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Mrs. Geo. 'Jhapman returned
Saturday from a months pleasant
visit with relatives and friends in
Kentucky.
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a salary of $1,000 a year. He
works forty years, making a total
of $40,000 in a lifetime. The aver-
age day laborer gets $1.50 a day,
300 days in the year, or *45° >n a
year. In forty years he earns
5i8,ooo. The difference or $22,000*
equals the value of a n education.
To acquire this earning capacity re-
quires 12 jears at school of 180
days each, or 2,160 days. Divide
$72,000, the value of an education,
by 2,160, number of days required
in getting it, we find that each day
at school is worth a little more than
$10 to the pupil. Can't afford to
keep them out can we?"
TEACHERS INSTITUTE
The fourteenth annual session of
the Lincoln county normal ins'i-
tute will be lield in Chandler, from
July 17th to August 11 th inclusive.
O. F. Hayes, county superinten-
dent; B. F. Nihart, conductor; J.
H. Bayes, J. Clark and J. Dale,
instructor*. Fhe work of the insti-
tute is two-fold, academic and pro-
fessional. It is a summer school ofi
review for those desiring to review
the common branches, and a school
of methods for those desiring to
teach. For the former the common
school branches will be carefully
and thoroughly reviewed, for the
latter the work will consist of model
recitations illu trating modern and
approved methods o f developing
and teaching a subject, and a full
discussion of the best method and
management in the rural school. All
those expecting to teach will be n -
luired to take School Management
and Psychology. The texts used
will be Seeley's New School Man-
agement and Putnam's Psychology.
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An exchange well says: I wenty
years hence the boys of today wiil
Ije men. 1 here will be doctors and
drunkards, lawers and liars, senators
and sueakthieves, editors and idiots,
ministers and murderers, democrats
and republicans, and so on down
the line. It is impossible to tell to
a certainity in just what class your
boy will be, but it is possible for
your boy to be put into such ii flu-
, . 1 „Q,lence ihat will stir him in the right
For the benefit of boys who get ence inai *
1 ,1 v,ie ' direction. Follow the bo\s <>f 12
tired of going to school at this sea | ... , .
1 = 6 „ • vears some of them will be in con-
son of the year these figures are giv jears, s >me 01
en by an educator: grew while others will be in ja.l-
"The average educated man gets] what class is your boy training for.
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