Cleveland County Leader. (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1901 Page: 1 of 8
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CLEVELAND COUNTY LEADER
Vol. 10.
LEXINGTON, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY, FRIDAY, SEP FEMHER 13, 1901.
No. 4!'.
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RUBBERING!
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V5^ Yes' and 1 Fin(1 that the stock of
Lumber
and prices on game at
JAMES BROS' YARD
Can't be duplicated in Cleveland County.
Say, that Premium Leudinghaus Wagon is a pearh,
nnii the boy tliat gefs that stylish Hoon Runabout is
fixed for life. ^ ours for trade and traffic,
LEXINGTON, 0 T J A SVl E S B R O S .
E. J. KELLER
Has a large and complete
assortment of
furniture!
UNDERTAKING GOODS, CARPETS, JL
MATTING, WALL PAPER, PAINTS 1
always on hand and a full line of
Farm Implements, Wind Mills and Pumps, Also
agent for Deering Harvesting machinery and twine, A
#8TI will sell a limited amount of furniture or anything in the f
farm implement lino on fall time. Call and see me.
iiuic. tiuu act* inc. y
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® Sundries, Paints,
> Oilr* 2.n i Varnishes
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OWL
Prescript inn work a
Specialty. A Share of
vonr patronage Asked.
SCHOOL BOOKS.
The Owl lee Creaiu Parlor in Connection. 1
^ Dr; Johnston's Office. Next door to Red Front. 4
1 J. H. Asbury & Co. j
ABERNATHYS
We are receiving fall stock every day.
Den t overlook us when in town.
We are making some Red-Hot Prices.
ABERNATHYS
RAILROAD FOR
LEXINGTON
I The Ozark and Cherokee
Central Wants to
Come Mere.
IS UP TO LEXINGTON
ng to order, and called on Dor-
set C arter, of Purcell, who repre-
sents the railroad company, to
stale the proposition the company
has to make. Mr. Carter gave
Another Fire.
George Warlick's residence, in the
soniInvest part of town, was destroyed
hv rite Tuesday isiirhf, and most (if the
contents were also hurried. Mr. War-
an outline of the company's prop- lick was at church and his wife and
proposition and the route to be children were at home in bed. A lamp
huilt over, which is about the had been left lighted in another room,
same as that given in the first for the accommodation of Mr, Wartick
Proposition Submitted to Our People
and a Mass Meeting of Citizens
lleld Wednesday Xii hI.
Committee Appointed.
The people of Lexington and
Purcell have now an opportunity
to get an east and west railroad
through these towns, and a rail
road that is strictly independent
of all the connecting lines between
here and St. Louis. The Ozark
part of this article, and then as-
sured our people that the com-
pany is perfectly responsible and
financially able to carry out its
part of the contract and wi'l do
so, and w il ask for no money
until they shall have fulfilled
their part of the contract.
Other geutlemen from
spoke on Ibe question and all of them
assured Lexington that they would
be able to raise their part of the
money- 000,
^ . H. P. Trudj*eon said he want
ed us to get the rood, but that it
would 1) uit his bus it-ess in Purcell
if we did get, if, us 75 per cent of
his business came from this side of
the liver, but he would remedy tin*
lfss by building an elevator on this
when he returned. It is thought that
the lamp exploded an.] set foe to he
house. Mrs. Warlick awoke and found
her room full uf so o .e a.id barely had
time to save herself and children. The
neighbors saved a dresser, sewing ma-
chine and feather bed. Among other
things lost by the fire was a $425piano.
■ urcell | Mr. Warlick's loss is estimated
and Cherokee Central railroad side. At this point, Mr. Trudgeon.
people have made a proposition I u'10 's a strong advocate of single
to our citizens to build a line into R,'l,e'l0°d. R:l''i 'liat. as we had such
T , (itr. r •i i i Ia hirge representation of our people
Lexington that has for us start- \ he wanU(| „s t() „ J ^
ing point Cairo, Illinois, andthejof the house and get an expression
terminus at Wichita Fa'D, Texas, of the people as to how they stor.d
Erom Cairo the road runs to St. \refiard to taking the Indian Ter
Louis, thence to Fayettville, Ark. I ^!ory ui,h Oklahoma as a state.
, • , ., ■ r- I the vote was unanimous for single
where it crosses the b risco Line,1 gtHtehoocl
and twenty-five miles from there
it crosses the Kansas City South-
ern, thence to Muscogee where it
crosses the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas; at Winchell it crosses an-
other branch of the Frisco system
and goes on to Shawnee and cross-
es the Choctaw. From Shawnee
the road will come to Zexington
After the Purcell victors had piv
en their views on the railroad ques
tion, many of the representative
business men and citizens of this
town declared their opinions, and all
of ti em were in Lvor of the road—
of gi ing to ivcrk ni.li ti will to get
the money necessary, providing the
money should not be paid to the
company until w* get the rai'road.
. .. e Among the speakers wore W. J.
and Purcell and cross the Santa Mlircnln< j c! Sptowles, P. II. Mil
Fe; from the latter place it runs per, J. C. Little, E M. Abernathv.
southwest and crosses the Rock Tom Thornton, .T C. Dowdy, IJ. T.
Island at some point near Duncan,! Mosely, Nathan t urk and others.
I. T., and thence to Wichita! After discu^inK ways and means
of raising the SJil.OOO bonu-% a mo-
Falls, Texas, where it it will in-
tersect the Fort Worth and Den-
ver.
Should this road be built into
Lexington, and we believe there
is no doubt but that it will be,
it will give us the benefit of
competition to all eastern mar-
kets with the above trunk lines
that it crosses, and offset to a
great extent the damage that
would be done to our trade and
town it the lines that are at pres-
ent projected should be built east
and south of us.
The Ozark and Cherokee Cen-
tral lias already secured right of
way and closed contracts to be
built into Shawnee by December
15th of this year and desires to
push right on from there down
into this country. A joint prop-
osition has been submitted to the
people of Lexington and Purcell
to secure the road. The proposi-
tion is that the two towns give
them $45,000 and the right of
way from Purcell to Shawnee.
The company does not ask for a
cent of the money until the road
is graded and bridged, when one
half is due; the other half to be
paid when the trains are running.
A meeting was held in Purcell
Tuesday night and the citizens
of that town took hold of the
proposition with an energy that
is characteristic of the people
and means success. Committees
were appointed and the work of
raising their share—125,000—is
now going on.
A mass meeting of the citizens
of Lexington was called at Kel-
ler's opera house Wednesday
night to consider what we should
do with the proposition. The
hall was crowded with represent-
ative * citizens from this town,
with a large delegation of promi-
nent men from Purcel'.
Mr. Will James called h ■ meet'
tion was made and carried that the
chairman appoint nine men to act
with himself as a committee to look
into the matter and devise the best
way of raising of the money. The
following gentleman constitute the
committee: Will James, P. H. Mil
iit. J. S /itil ■•, E. M Abernathy.
E ,J Keller, Nathan Turk, S. ('.
Hawk, J. C Dowdy, Tom Thornton
and H. Z Forehand.
The meeting then adj uirne.1 to
meet again to night (Friday) to hear
report of the committee and take
any further action that may be nec-
essary. Come out to the meeting
aud help the matter along.
Piles cured without cutting or de-
tention from business. No pay un-
til cured. Dr. Mason at Owl Drug
Store.
Stood Death Oft'.
E. 1!, Mnuday, a lawyer of Henrietta,
Tex., once fooled a gravedigger. lie
•ays: "My brother was very low with
malarial lever and jaundice i perm id-
ed hi'11 to try Electric Bitteis, and lie
at
about §1300, with an insurance on
house and contents of £800, carried
through the agency here of Elk in &
tsewell.
Cuts and Itrmses Quickly Healed.
Chamberlain's Pain llaln applied to
a cut, bruise,burn, scrld or like injury
will instantly allay the rain and'will
heal the paits in less time. than any
other treatment. I uless the injury is
very severe il will not leave a snir. Pain
tia!in also cures rheumatism, sprains
swellings and lameness. For sale by E*
M. Abernathy.
l!ig circus and Menagerie
Campbell Bros.' Big Circus Me-
nageru is dated for two performances
in Purcell, afternoon and night, on
Sept. 14. Our people will now have
the pleasure of witnessing a clean,
pure circus performance, known
throughout the entire country to bo
the biggest railroad circus traveling.
Exhibiting a larger collection of wild
beasts, and carrying more high salar-
ied performers than any (t ier circus
on the road. Besides freaks of na-
ture, Japanese family, trained ele-
phants, ponies, dogs and monkeys.
Educated birds and beasts. Positive-
lv giviug two exhibitions on day and
date mentioned.
NO UKUKF FOR 20 YEARS.
"I had bronchitis for i'O years," sai I
Mrs. Minerva Smith of Danville, III.,
"and never got relief until I used Fo-
ley's Honey and Tar which is a sure
cure for throat and lung diseases." Owl
Drug Stoie.
If you trade $50.00 with The
Grand Leader, you ma}- have
your choich of—a 50 piece Tea
Set, 15 piece Toilet Set or a
handsome swinging lamp. Each
worth $7.50. Tickets given with
every purchase.
A I.1TTI.E KNOWN FAIT.
That the majority of serious diseases
originate in disanier of the kidneys.
Foley's Kidney Cure is guaranteed, he
sure to cut Foley's. Owl drugstore.
E. L. Fox an<I John Sprowlcs
returned Tuesday from Apache,
in the new country, where they
had been for a week, looking af-
ter aud fencing their lots there
Mr. Fox thinks th? town of
Apache has a bright future and
will build up rapidly as soon as
was soon much better, hut continued | , can t lumbcr at rcasoC-
tlieir use until lie was w holly cured. 1 . .
am sure Electlic Bitters saved his life."
This remedy expels malaria, kil's dis-
ease germs and parities the blood; aids
digestion, regulates liver, kidneys and
bowels, curds constipation, dyspepsia,
nervous diseases, kidney Ir lUb'es, fe-
male complaints; gives peifeet health.
Only 50c.
Key. G. W. Herrintton is up
again from a hard tussle with a case
of yellow jinudice. His many
friends will be glad to hear of his
recovery.
Working Night and Day.
able prices to build with. Lum-
ber in the railroad towns is now-
selling at i?27 a thousand for the
cheapest grades. Mr. Fox and
Mr. Sprowles went there with
the intention of building, but
concluded to wait until material
is cheaper. They also report
that but few of the homesteaders
j have have so far built houses on
j their claims and very little land
! has been broken.
The busiest aud mightiest little Ihing
that ever was made is Dr. Ring's Nttwl,, , ..... . ... ,
Life Pills These pills change weakness ( ,m',, "f ( ^ Diarrhoea Alter lit)
into Btreugih, iittU'Hflnet* into energy,! \ wirH of Suffering.
hrain-fne into mental power. They'rw j I Buffered for thirty yesre with diii-
wonderful in building up the health rrhoea and Ihoughi I was past being
Only 25c per box. ! ',,
1 cure I, savs John S. Halloway, of
One of the most unique show j '• ' amp, Miss. "I bad spent so
wiudows to br seen is at Abernathy'« i "1™ , ! i'L.'vl f."'1 ?tM *"
, ., , J i tbat 1 !ia■ I gsven up all hope ol recovery,
drugstore. Numerous angels and 1 was so feeble from the effects ot dia'r-
birds are attached to wires and «p-, rhoea that 1 could do no kind of labor,
pear to be flying, making a pretty ''ouhl nut e*en travel, but hy accident
and original display. * I .J"8 ^
™ 1 Uiml erliiii. s Colic, Cholera and Dnu-
... /,... • iii! ! rhoea Remedy, and after takingssverai.
To (ure Dyspepsia and Indigestion. llIlt||^ &tir#,v curiit,„f ,mirf
Sour stomach or heartburn take Hex | hie lam so pleated with the result
Dyspepsia Tablets. All druggists are that I am anxious that it he in reac h
authorized to refund the money il they of all who suiter as I|have." fut sale by
fail to cure, l'rice, 50c per package. J K. M. Abernathy,
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Latham, George D. & Coombs, Charles W. Cleveland County Leader. (Lexington, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 10, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, September 13, 1901, newspaper, September 13, 1901; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc109052/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.