BROCK'S
Store News
OUR SEVENTH ANNUAL SPRING OPENING SALE, SATUR-
DAY, MARCH 25th is more than the mere formal showing of the mar-
velous beauty of our collections of spring merchandise—it Is an event
of bargain giving In which all our old customers and every new comer
In this and adjoining communities is invited to share. In brief It is a
business opening—combining style, beauty and bargains. All depart-
ments are beautifully decorated—the music will be more attractive than
ever—a handsome and serviceable flexible rush shopping basket of
ample proportion will be presented to each purchaser to amount of
25c or over.
Great Bargain Sales of Suits, Costumes
Millinery, Silks, Dress Goods, Hosiery
Shoes and Summer Wash Goods
OUT OF TOWN PATRONS
Are cordially invited to make this store headquarters—meet friends
here—use the convenient rest room writhig desks, telephones, pack-
age or baggage check room, lavatories and other conveniences. All
free and at your service. Stamps and mailing box conveniently locat-
ed. Only Oklahoma store that owns its own home or does a strictly
cash business.
No rents to charge off—No bad accounts to equalize—the saving is
yours—who can estimate the thousands involved in these two items?
A complete, attractive and economical trading place. .
A homelike store where everyone is courteous and anxious to
make your shopping pleasant.
Opening
Sale
Saturday
March 25 MMBg
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Opening
Sale
Satuaday
March 25
Filth and vermin go hand In hand—
no excuse for It.
The early garden Is usually the best | ,() regU|re the purchase of one. The
and most satisfactory. j scraper shown tn Illustration may be
A silo does not greatly change the .on(rtructed of two-inch thick planking,
cltfcracter of the nutrients In the corn ^ecure]y bolted together and also re
plant. | inforced with angle irons, to make the
Surely the farmer who begrudges | ^0jnts IUOre secure against the strain,
hie bees a little time and care is un j-foe blade or cutting surface Is made
[ grateful. [ if an old saw blade, boiled to the bo*
Small grains will do well when 1
seeded on fields preceded by sugar
i beets the year befrre.
Oats and corn, especially, do well
after beets.
Manure Is a valuable by product—
don't waste It.
Better and cleaner seed Is a good j
maxim—get a fanning mill. They save i
their coBt In one season.
When you are thinking of buying a
farm remember the water is an lmpor
GOOD SCRAPER EASILY MADE HISTORIC INN OF LOfiDOM Mr. MAN!
How About Your
Spring Suit?
implement Will Ce Found of Mucli
Benefit Where Little Jobs Are
Needed—How to Make One.
There are many Jobs upon the farm
! that require a few hours' use of a
House Which Wltressed Many Trjglo
Scents In the Stormy History of
Britain's Metropolis.
I ondon.—The oldest lrn In I-ondoii
s to be lorn down to make room for
scrap< r, yet are not liniiortant enough rubljr |ulproVtnients. It Is known as
An Easily Made Scraper.
as shown In Illustration. The horses
are attached by a chain fastened to
two Iron hooks, one upon each side of
the scraper. With two handles It la
times Its cost In small filling jobs
tant item for your live stock.
| When you are manuring don't be
i stingy—a good manure spreader Is put
I ting money In the bank later on.
I When the corn crop Is cut anil put
{ Into the silo the field is cleared and
1 made ready for fall wheat or rye. ,
I When you have decided on your j
1 seeds order them at once. Variety In Winter Feed.
1 castor oil is a splendid lubricant for The fanner should not neglect to
v 'grow and store for the winter feed
u supply of corn fodder, oat straw,
mixed hay and rods, etc. They help
to give a variety In the winter ft-ed
Ye Olde Whyte Harte and has been
so called since the days of Richard
11., who often stopped at the Inn while
hunting in the neighborhood and
whose badge was a white ht art. The
tavern was established in 1272, at the
northein end of Drury Lane, and only
another building, a blacksmith's forge.
was In the near vicinity. The inn
was far beyond the limits of London,
as then constituted, and bordering on
it was a wilderness, which was noted
for its game Hunting parties from
the city made It their headquarters
and both forge and barroom were ,lb I^ondon, NeW York, Boston
erally patronized. . ,
The White Hart Inn profited by the and Chicago, and We have
fact that it was on the route over j me gujf style, pattern,
which criminals were taken from , ,
Newgate to Tyburn to be executed. > COlOr and all, ttiat JUSt SUlts
Immense throngs sometimes followed j
the condemned person and fancy J
prices were paid to mine host of the j
White Hart inn for the privilege of |
Don't you know that we
have it in our fine new tail-
oring parlors. It's one of
those new, nobby, nifty no-
tions in Men's Clothes, which
we have brought here from
complete and ready to save many ! viewing from Its windows the "dead
It s the Suit You
Ought to Wear
I vehicles and other farm machinery.
; By the use of the silo practically the I
| entire food value of the corn crop Is j
! Baved. made succulent and very nutri
| tlous.
I Study the wants and conveniences of
| the home for the benefit of your wife j
! and children Just carefully as you j
do your own.
Cold frames are handled the same
as the hot beds, the only difference Is i
that not much manure Is uBed and \
that they are later.
LATEST MARKETS
at a
Prices current on day of publication
(Thursday) at Oklahoma City.
Hay and Grain.
Quoted by S. E. Lucas.
! The dealer quoted is paying the fol-
Kansas Wheat Improving lowing prices:
j Topeka, Kans.—The news that is Corn, No. 2, per bu
coming to Secretary Coburn from the j Oats, per bu 32
'wheat fields of Kansas is of a veryj^lleat' 1)11 _'*!
encouraging nature. The long drontb , ion''. '.'.10. to 12.
! of four months was broken early in A|faifa per ton 14. to 15.
| February, in which month the preclpi- j
tation was the greatest in the history |
THOUSANDS SEE BATTLE
SPECTACULAR ENGAGEMENT NEA
DOUGLAS, ARIZONA.
| of the state, averaging more than five
I inches throughout the wheat belt.
—— 1 The weather has been balmy and
wounded, they were taken back to the | springlike, and hundreds of wheat
mountains by their comrades. i fields which were brown and dusty a
After mystifying both the Mexican 'month ago are now a veritable carpet
officials and the Americans on the bor- of green wheat.
I der for a week, Blanco suddenly broke ■
jout of the canyon leading from Cen- j Body of Chilean Minister "Home"
IIzes Springs and engaged the federal Valparaiso—The body of Anibal
Swoops Down on Federal Forces From trooPS that had been rushed into Agua Cruz who die(i recently at Washington
Mountain Canyon, Fights Awhile Prleta Saturday night on a special ! ^j^re he was Chilean minister to the
and Then Retreats—Other train, under command of Colonel Mora. Unlted States, was taken from the
News of Interest i Except for a few prisoners taken by j Amerlcan battleship Delaware Sunday
! the federals, the rebels retreated in|and deiiVered to the Chilean officials. [ . , „
| good order. It is understood that Henry Rodriduez, minister of foreign i
Douglas, Ariz.—Eleven federal sol ! Blanco's entire force did not partici- ! affairs> jn an address expressed the j
diers dead, eleven wounded, with the!pate in the engagement. thanks of the nation to Captain Grove'
losses to the rebels unknown, is the j Blanco's first move was to throw out J f°r the kindness oi' the 1 nited States
result of a battle just east of Agua a skirmish line for the purpose of In sending the body of the late min-| h H .j
Prleta Sunday. drawing the federals Into action to | later home on one of It* finest battle-; bu8heUj (if the celebrated Irlgh Cobbler
ascertain their strength. I ships. | second crop seed potatoes, at $1.75 per
Fruits and Vegetables.
I Quoted by A. Morrison.)
These prices to dealers only.
Potatoes, per bu $ .SO
Celery, per dozen 7 5
Cabbage (new Texas) per 100 lbs 2.00
Apples, new, per box 2.751
Lemons, per box 4.00
Oranges, per box 2.50
Bananas, per bunch 3.00 to 3.50
Eggs, Butter, Chickens, Etc.
Eggs, per case $3.85
inarch." Executions were more
merous in England then than now— I
infinitely more so. During tho 38 years j
of the reign of Henry VIII. the aver- j
age number of executions in the coun- j
try was 2,000 a year. When Jack Shep- .
pard, the notorious highwayman, was
conveyed from Newgate to Tyburn to
be executed 200,000 persons followed
the desperado to see him dispatched.
| Almost as great crowds attended other
I executions, and wooden galleries were
! erected at Tyburn for the Rccommoda- |
tion of the spectators. There .Iona- j
i than Wild, the thief trainer, was exe- j
i cuted in 1725, after having been drawn I
| lo Tyburn on a curdle, followed by a
' yelling, hooting crowd of many thou-
! sands. But his name endures In Ixm-
! don, having been given to a little alley ' $20 to Which We Sell tor
I ofT Drury Ijine, where long ago he j
' conducted his school for training J
I highwaymen, housebreakers and pick-
I pockets. In 1783 Tyburn ceased to be
a place of execution.
| The White Hart Inn was occupied
1 for a brief time by Jack Cad*. who
Price Your Purse
f Can Bear ' v
in ri
^We have Clothes — real
! Clothes, man, worth from
*15--*17.50-
Butter, pr lb..
Hens, over 3 lbs....
Hens, under 3 lbs..
Springs, over 2 lbs..
Seed Potatoes
The opposing forces were 500 hun
dred Insurrectos under General Jose ; The battle lasted an hour, and it is
De La Luz Blanco, and a federal force i believed that the retreat that followed
of 300 directed by Colonel Mora. was for the purpose of drawing the
federals into the canyon where the
The battle was spectacular and was ma,n ,)ody of IJIanc0.B force
was sta-
wltnessed by several thousand Amerl tloned The federa,a> however, after
cans many of whom rushed close to a Bplritpd pursuIti ralIipd and retllrned
the battlefield while the fighting was (Q AgUft Pr,eta refusfng to bp en.
still at its height. After the smoke
! bushel, F„ O. B. Oklahoma City. This j body, was affixed to London tower.
Baltimore, Md.—Rev. Francis X. j js not onlv the best eating potato How many buildings have occupied
Brady, president of Loyal College and \ grown, but will make potatoes as soon I the site of the present inn it Is Im-
one of the best known Jesuit schol-1 as the Triumph and yield twice as
ars, educators and authors in the coun- j much as any other potato grown in
at the college on Calvert street.
had cleared away, It was Americans In
automobiles who gave the first aid to
the wounded, hurrying them to Agua
Prieta, where two American physi-
cians were in readiness to assist the
Mexican army surgeons.
If there were any rebels killed or
trapped.
Another attack Is expected.
Miners Hold Convention
Pittsburg, Kans.—The thirteenth an-
nual miners' convention of district No.
114 convened here Monday. Two re-
Kirkwood, 111.—Henry I. Roggs, 99 j ports, made by W. L. A. Johnson as
years of age, died last Monday night, j arbitrator, In which fines were imposed
He was the last known survivor of the j upon the miners, are among the mat-
Black Hawk war. I ters to be discussed.
CHAIRS
Have you been thinking of buying a chair for some particular room
in your home? When you go "looking" for one we want you to come
to our store and let us show you the most complete assortment of
styles in chairs you ever saw in this city.
Whether it is the living room or the bedroom, the library, or the
dining room, or now that the warm evenings are coming you remem-
ber that the porch needed one or two more chairs last summer—wher-
ever it may be that a chair is needed in your home we can please you
and at prices that will show you why our business has grown so.
Come In and look around.
Doc & Bill
Grand Avenue Oklahoma City
The Peoples Favorite Store
77/\nr/ri
A. Morrison
Oklahoma City.
Seed Potatoes
We have on hand 800 bushel |
of seed potatoes. Sweet potatoes,
j Irish Cobbler and Triumph.
Can quote very lowest prices, j
J. E. Lucas,
16 W. California Ave.,
i Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Did youjever hear of any-
thing better? L, 2ZSSS
Of course we have higher
priced Clothes too. We want
to sell them just as much as
we do these other garments
-■-but we are going to show
you
Kodl Values in Clothes
when you come into our store
Saturday and ask to see our
*15 *17.50 $20
line of incomparable stylish-
ly built Suits, Ready to
Wear.,and Custom
Tailoring.
Seeing that our store is in
WORLD'S HIGHEST CHIMNEY (>klaho™a C;lty' JJJ6 West
Main Street, and that you
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White Hart Inn.
headed the Kent rebellion iu 1450 ana
whose head a little later, minus the
possible to say. In 1669 the ^nn in
which Jack Cade made his quarters
was partially destroyed. In 1670 It
was burned to the ground. The build-
ing that succeedcd it was constructed
after the fashion of the earlier ones,
with wide open courts. J
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The Sample Stores
Cater to the economist in buying
—that class of buyers recognizing
quality and up to date styles when
placed in a happy combination
with reasonable prices. Ali the
world loves a bargain and ours is a
continuous love story. If you will
come up and take a look at our
samples we can prove to your sat-
isfaction that we speak the truth.
We carry the following ready to
wear lines and we are ready to
show vou all that is new and nob-
by in spring styles:
Ladies' and Mens' Shoes
Millinery, Corsets
Ladies'Suits, Dresses,Coats
and Skirts
How We Can Do It
Reason 1—We are on the sec-
ond floor—that's low rent.
Reason 2—We handle only drum-
mers' samples and factory cancel-
lations.
Head's Simple Shoe Co.
ladies' Sample Suit Co.
Sample Miiiinery O.
Take Elevator to Second Foor
Culbertscn Bldg., Cor. Grand and
Broadway.
Open 8 to 6; Saturday Evening Tiii
10 P. M.
It Is 506 Feet In Height and
tains 18,000 Tone of
Brick.
Great Falls, Mont.—The highest
chimney In the world Is that of the
Boston and Montana smelter here. It
is 506 feet high and 16,000 tons of
brick were used in Its construction. It
weighB 34,000,000 pounds, and is built
to withstand a wind of 120 miles au
hour. One of those who love to Jug-
gle with figures has estimated that
267,000,000 eggs could be placed with-
in the chimney at one time, but aja a
hen producing an egg with regularity
every morning for 730.000 years would
The Highest Chimney.
be required to supply the eggs, the
chimney Is not likely to be utilized In
this manner. The Washington mon-
ument which is 50 feet square at the
bottom and 20 feet square at the top,
could be set Inside this chimney with-
out touching any wall, and there
would still be room between the walls
of the chimney and the monument to
drive a span of horses from top to
bottom. If railroad tracks, of standard
gauge, were laid vertically on the In-
side of the stack about 14 feet cen-
ters. there would be room for 14
trains each 500 feet long.
live out of town
We Will
PayYourWayto
Oklahoma City
and Return
This Offer Expires Ranter Saturday
if you make a purchase and
show us your railroad rebate
coupon.
We do this because we
want to get acquainted with
you. We want you to see
the newest and finest tailor-
ing parlors west of Chicago,
the store with the big win-
dow'and a thousand electric
lights
Come on in Men,
the Weather's Just Right
THE GREAT
106 West Main Street
OKLAHOMA CITY