The Davenport New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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"Ye Little Ole Home Paper'
VOLUME 9
DAVENPORT, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1917
NUMBER 37
Davenport Lyceum Course
Emerson and Alice Stire Wint-
ers are undoubtedly two of the
best entertainers that ever visit-
ed Davenport. They filled the
first number on the Davenport
Lyceum Course in the Auditor-
ium Monday evening. Their
program consisted of readings,
monologues and impersonations
by Mr. Winters, and stories,
songs and Whistling solos by
Mrs. Winters. As a whistler
Mrs. Winters could not be out-
classed, we are sure. Besides
getting in the full rich tones of
the birds, she puts such volume
and force into her whistling that
it is really remarkable.
The next number on the Ly-
ceum Course will be the Laurel
Concert Co. on November 23rd.
A full house is expected at this
good musical entertainment.
How H. B. Mann Became Our Post-
master and Why the Others Failed,
With Sidelights on the History and
Character of Other Prominent Men,
' as Seen Thru the Eyes of Wilber-
force, alias "Cyclone," Jones.
The Oidfieid Players
Homer V. Oidfieid has one of
the dandiest little shows on the1
road. They are playing in Dav-j
enport all this week, beginning1
Tuesday night. They were dated
to begin Monday night, but when;
Mr. Oidfieid found that it would
interfere with our Lyceum num-
ber, he put his show off a night.
They gave as their opening play
"The Shadows of the Past."
So far the attendance has been
rather slim, and more of our
theatre goers should attend these
good, high class, moral, enter-
taining plays, which are put on
with such remarkable talent that
they seem very real.
The local band boys are show-
ing their appreciation of a good
show by turning out and furnish
ing the music.
The titles of the plays for the
remainder of the week are;
Thursday night—"Lena Riv-
ers."
Friday night—"East Lynne."
Saturday night—"The Moon-
Shiner's Daughter."
The stoves heat the tent and
make it warm and comfortable.
Rev. W. B. Logan filled his
appointment at the Presbyterian
church Sunday night.
The I. 0. 0. F. meets Wednes-
day night. All members request-
ed to be present.—M. E. Matlock,
N. G.
Stillwater, Okla., 10-16-17
Editor New Era:—
I passed through Davenport
the other day, I and my wife, on
our way to visit our boy Walter,
who is with the army.
We found the old town about
as it used to be some ten years
ago: The same buildings, the
same people, the same old ponies
hauling the big bus from depot
to depot. There was judge Gos-
sett with the same merry twinkle
jin his eye. There was Nat
Myers, big, fat and good natur-
ed, smoking the same old pipe he
has sucked for the last fifteen
years. There was Oscar Robert-
son, putting forth the same ef-
forts to corner the dollars as of
yore. There was my old friend
Christy, who with one hand has
made a far better living and laid
away more dollars than two-
thirds of us who are blessed with
two, but he has the undivided and
loving support of a faithful
daughter, which may account for
a lot of his success.
There were E. B. Moore, H. B.
Mann and a number of the old
timers still in business and appar-
ently doing well. Mann is a
Socialist of the rankest sort, but
when it became necessary to
select a new postmaster at Dav-
enport a few years ago, Mann
was the only applicant for the
office who possessed the neces-
sary qualifications and was able
to locate off-hand the various
lands and countries and name
their capitals, so he received the
appointment.
There were both democrats and
republicans after the office. Some
spelled God with a little "g" and
hell with a big "H," and most of
them failed to properly locate
and name the state capital of
Arkansas, while others of the
applicants failed to remember
how to spell Muskogee and locate
it on the map. Some of the ap-
plicants failed to remember just
where the District of Columbia
was located on the map, answer-
ing that it was somewhere down
in South America. Some thought
Japan was a part of our Philli-
pine possessions, while others
took a different view and attach-
ed that country to lower Cal-
ifornia, while still others said
that "durned if they knew just
where it was located out in the
Pacific." Now Mann is an edu-
cated cuss if he is a Socialist, and
the geography of this little earth
on which we live today is as
familiar to him as corn bread, so
he romped around over that gov-
ernment examination like a goat
on a barn door, walking away
with the postoffice with all ease,
right over his opponants like a
blind mule over a fodder shock.
There was C. C. Randel, but a
shadow, physically, of his former
self. He said he was there to
buy all the Taulbee lots to be
sold at public auction the next
day, and proposed to turn the
old townsite into a farm instanter
after the sale. Whether he has
done this or not I do not know,
but suspect that C. C. failed to
connect, as there are O. D. Groom
and a lot of other monied fellows
around Davenport who will ob-
ject to having the public streets
plowed up and planted to cotton,
kafir, pop corn and pumpkins.
Well, the old town and its
people looked mighty good to us.
Many tender memories cluster
around Davenport for us. We
are coming back before long and
stop longer among you and talk
over old times. Many old friends
have gone the way of all the
earth, but many still linger here.
Here is $1.00 for the New Era.
Wilberforce Jones
Soul Winners to Chandler
A large delegation of the Soul
Winners Band—about 40 strong
—went to Chandler in cars Sun-
day night to give Scottie a good
send-off on the opening night of
his big four week's meeting to be
held at that place. The meeting
is being held in the old St. Cloud
Hotel building, and was packed
full the first night. The seats
are comfortably arranged and
the singing by the large choir
under the direction of Prof.
Skeels is beautiful.
Messersmith Returns
Fred Messersmith, who has
been running an auto livery at
Drumright and Shamrock for
some time, and who has been con-
templating moving to the former
place, has decided that Davenport
is the best place after all a id lias
returned to take up the livery
business here. As will be seen
by his ad iathis issue of the New
Era, he is ready to go anywhere
any time in his big Velie Six, and
can take a big load and get there.
Fred will treat you square and
solicits a portion of your livery
business.
Learning New Songs
The singers from the various
churches are learning some new
songs and having a good musical
time at the Christian church
every Sunday afternoon. This is
a truly union undertaking and
everyone interested in good sing-
ing or who can play any kind of
musical instrument will be very
cordially welcomed. The time of
meeting is 2:30 and let us urge
that everyone be prompt.
First Lieutenant U. E. Nickell
received word yesterday to re-
port in ten days at Camp Cody,
Deming, New Mexico, and will
leave Sunday for that place. He
is a member of the Medical Res-
erve Corps and has been expect-
ing a call for some time. Mrs.
Nickell and Stelson will leave
some time next week for Win-
chester, Ky., where they will
make their home.
Read "The Son of Tarzan."
Red, White and Blue Bnok
As a supplement to the New
Era this week we are inserting a
copy of the "Red, White and Blue
Book, or How the War Came to
America," sent out by the Bureau
for Public Information at Wash-
ington D. C. Read it and see
why we are in the midst of the
biggest war in the history of the
world.
Claude Adams came down from
Kendrick and made the custom-
ary visit with relatives ami
friends over Sunday.
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