The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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NEW ERA.
"Ye Little Ole Home Paper
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Vol. 7. No. 34
DAVENPORT, LINCOLN COUNTY. OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915
$1,00 per year
LOCAL AND PERSONAL
ITEMS OF INTEREST
Cotton is going to 15 cents.
J, H. Taulbee was in Chandler
Monday.
There's no place like home.
Buy here.
Why not a "Dollar Day" foi
Davenport?
Dennie Bullock was m town
last Sundaw
Miss Geneva Pace is oil tin
sick tiiis Iiet week.
Oliver M. IiiRenthron was in
Chandler Mondnv.
Allen Burgess was visiting
in town last Sunday.
Miss L'-ila Bullington was on
the sick list last week.
Mist< Fantiw Castle was in
Chandler last Saturday.
Hobart Baugns went to D<.pew
Monday to visit his mother.
Deweey and Fairbanks Tryon
are on the sick list this week.
Mrs. McDaniel and son.Thelma
went to Chandler last Saturday.
Misses Viol,i & Mary Dye vis
ited their parents last Saturday.
Ye Editor went to Perkins on
business last Friday, returning
Monday.
Fred Messersmith and T. R.
Hall were in Stroud Monday on
business.
Did you kt.ow that the Okla-
homa corn crop this } ear is the
best ever;
J. C. Bogg.--, the second hand
man from Chandler, was in
town Tuesday.
It is almost time to hid fare-
well to your old straw hat and
palm iieach pants.
Miss SteH* Stock well and Mr.
Otho Newnani were married last
Wednesday at Chandler.
Women Asked to Kelp
There probably is not a town
in Oklahoma whose housewives
do not complain, justlv and in-
dignantly, of the unsanitary con-
dition of various places of busi-
ness where food for human con-
sumption is offered for sale.
Most art; unwilling to invite an
offensive reply by complaining
about the uncleanliness of stores,
etc. The State Board ot Health
at Guthrie invites the women of
Ok!aho"'S. singly or as clubs,to
report all such cases The name
of the coiuplaintant will not be
made public. An inspector of the
Board " ill take the case in hand.
Commissioner John W. Duke
greatly desires this co-operation,
believing that women are per-
haps more helpful than men in
abolishing such menace to publ
if. health.
Oklahoma's Free Health Service
In cities having a populaton of
40,000 or more in the State of
Kansas free dential inspection of
school children is now authorized
by law. Oklahoma has no law of
this kind, a proposed measure
having been defeated in the -e-
cent legislature. But the Okla-
homa State Board of Health at
Guthrie will provide free medical
inspection in all publ c schools in
matters affecting the teeth,
throat, eyes and ears of pupils
upon request. Competent
physicians in the various com
munities have volunteered their
services.
Where is the fellow that has
been hollering for 15-cont cotton
for the past half dozen years?
We advise him to he watchful
during the coming months that
he may see wherein his prayer
has been answered. Cotton
buyers assure us that it will eo
to that price this year. Still the
pessimist yells "hard times,"
The State Fair is in full swing
at Oklahoma City. Saturday is
the last and biggest day.
Miss Retta Lee Day of Sapulpa
visited with her sister, Mrs. G.
T. Castle the tirst of the week
Mrs. Alice Gray from St. Paul
Arkansas, is visiting this week
with her brother Link Roberts.
Mrs. Lena Adams is spending
the weeK with her daughter
Mrs. W. A. Loy at Drumright.
Whiskers In Kentucky
The late Governor Proctor
Knott, who knew more different
things and knew them better
than anybody, once said to the
writer that the fashion of wear-
ing a beard was the direct out-
growth of the Mexican war.
The Kentucky boys went down
clean shaven. At home there
was always a negro servant to
acf as a barber. Down in the
land of the Montezumas there
were no such advantages and
the young Kentuckians allowed
their beards to sprout. When
the war was over they started
the style, of course, after haying
the beard trimmed into comely
shape, and thus the practice
lasted for many years.
The first governor of Ken
tucky to wear a beard was
Lazarus W. Powell (1851 55),
and while he was not a Mexican
soldier, he caught the habit.
The tirst President of the
United Slates to wear a beard
was Abraham Lincoln. Some
of his pictures show him clean
shaven, but his latter pictures
always showed "wind teasers"
on his face.
Rev. Jamas Cage preached at
Kendrick Sunday.
B. F. Grigsby is painting his
residence this week.
Miss Lucille Duke arrived
from Ripley one day last week.
Misses Lottie and Geneva Pace
were shopping in Chandler last
Friday.
Miss. Marie Grider was in
Davenport last Friday and Sat
urday and Sunday.
Miss Anna Pryor, from Stuart
Okla., is visiting her parents Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Hickey west of
town.
J. M. Kimball went to
Carney last Friday to instruct
the Carney Band. He returned
Saturday.
Miss Hazel F. Bishop, teacher
of the Meeker High School passed
thru here last Saturday on her
way home to Chandler.
The Baker Medicine Man pass
ed through here on his way home
to Shawnee last week.
Jesse Kimoall went to Car-
ney last Friday to practice with
the Carney Band. He returned
Saturday.
J. M. Springer, of Stillwater,
says that any common old hen
nowadays can lay a golden egg,
when hen fruit is selling 12 for
20 cents.
A spark from a working man's
hammer ignited a 250 barrel
tank of gasoline near the Santa
Fe station at Ardmore about 2
o'clock Monday afternoon, caus-
ing an explosion and lire that
killed thirty one people and
seriously injured ovet 125 others.
We have just read in an ex
change that there is no law in
Oklahoma prohibiting private
citizens from cutting the weeds
and otherwise cleaning up their
premises. Just thought we had
better let our readers know this
as some of them have evidently
jheen in the dark on this subject
Knowing that there was no
place in town where a good book or
magazine could be bought, we con-
ceived the idea of a circulating
library, and as there seemed to be
no one else enough interested in
the undertaking to get it up, we
started out ourselves. The result
was that we got a few of the good
people of the town, who like to
read good books, to join what we
called 'Tryon Brothers' Circulating
Library Club", and ordered the
books. We give a list of the titles
below:
St. Elmo
No Man's Land
David Copperfield
Stover at Yale
The Tennessee Shad
The Master's Violin
Lavender and Old Lace
Parrott & Co.
The Carpet from Bagdad
The Heart of the Hills
A Knight of the Cumberland
Christmas Eve on Lonesome
Freckles
A Girl of the Limberlost
The Harvester
At the Foot of the Rainbow
My Lady of the North
My Lady of the South
Keith of the Border
Molly McDonald
Bill Nye's Comic History
The Calling of Dan Matthews
That Printer of Udell's
Their Yesterdays
The Uncrowned King
Now, we figured that in order
to place the books of this library in
the reach of all, we would sell a
yearly membership to the club for
$1.50, making it cost only about
six cents each for reading the 25
volumes. We had intended to let
those out of the club read them
singly at 10c each, but on account
of not getting enough members,
we will have to charge 15c a book.
No one can take out more than one
book at a time and all books must
be returned within two weeks.
Pay $1.50 and get the 1500 votes.
A Neighborly Bequest
The topic turne l to the subject
of music, and a little incident
was recalled by Major General
Leonard Wood.
■ The Jones and Smith families
lived side by side in a pretty lit-
tle suburban village. The Jones
family owned a phonograph. One
night about 8 o'clock little Mary
Smith rambled over and knocked
on the front door of the Jones
house.
"Mrs. Jones'' said little Mary
when the former opened the
door, "mother wants to know if
you won't please lend her your
phonograph?"
"My phonograph?" was the
surprised response of Mrs. Jones
"What in the world does she
want it ror? Is she going to have
a party ?"
"No ma'ma," was the candid
answer of little Mary. -'She said
she would like to burv it for a
couple of hours so she could got
the baoy to sleep. • Ex
Guilty Conscience
The editor of a newspaper in a
nearby town borrowed a gun
from a friend the other day to
go hunting. When he appeared
with it on the street, ho noticed
a peculiar agitation among the
denizens of the town. People
rushed from store to store and
little crowds gathered in the
doorways ana windows to watch
him pass along. The editor
was thinking of the vacation
ahead of him but his face, from
force of habit, was set and stern.
Suddenly a man, braver than
the rest, rushed up with a dol-
lar bill in bis outstretched hand,
"Bill," he said, "old tioy, I'vo
been intending to hand you this
dollar for six months. It's for
the subscription I owe you."
The editoi gasped, almost faint
ed, but caught himself and man-
fully accepted the proffered dol-
lar with a look which said: "Go
011! Damthetorpedoes!" The
man rushed away, and soveral
others braved the editor's gun
and paid up back bills. Alto-
gether, when the editor arrived
at the office he had a nice roll,
enough to pay his monthly
grocery bill, office rent and buy
a new pair of pants with a few
dollars left over. But a surprise
awaited him when he returned
home from his hunt. He found
six bushels of potatoes, ten
dozen eggs, a barrel of gasoline
for his engine, two fine hogs, a
firkin of butter, two bushels of
11 tears and a gallon of tame cider.
In the center of his desk was a
large placard, and somebody had
written on it: "Dear Bill—All
the fellows have paid up in full.
I Put up your gun and let's be
friends again."
We are thinking of borrowing
ja gun.
Milt Taulbee wilt to Chandler
Sunday.
Tuesday was Kentucky day
at the S'ate Fair.
The thing that everyone says
I can't lie done ifl merely that
which gives the live wire his
chance.
The rainy weather for the
past week or so lias been rather
tough on the cotton, but Old
Sol seems to have overcome
the rain god to shine forth in all
bis glory while the cotton opens
,up to the tunc of Dixie Land.
HARD TIMES VS
PROSPERITY
Now, where are your old hard
times? Cotton is a good price.
There is more feed and hay in
the country than in many a
year. Fruit is going to waste
in large quantities. Sure this'iS
not hard times. Cheer up!
Look about you and catch the
spirit of things, Thousands of
people are at Oklahoma City
today reveling in this wonderful
prosperity. You say "hard
times." 1 say "blind; wake up;
look," Hard times are here no
more. They are gone. While
you have slept, old General
Prosperity has marshalled all
his forces and in one mighty
effort has drove hard times off
the field.
Hard times have Hed to war-
stricken Europe, where fields of
waving grain have been tram-
pled into the earth and destroy-
ed, granaries have been confiscat-
ed. beautiful homes and whole
cities have been burned, widows
and orphans are homeless and
are starving to death every day,
while the blood of their hus-
bands, fathers and sons flows in
torrents down the once peaceful
valleys. Hard times? Yae,
verily the women, children and
crippled heroes of Europe may
say hard times, being fully
aware of the bitter meaning of
the words.
Surely you cannot say "hard
times" after this striking com-
parison. You and 1 should bo
glad—mighty glad—that we can
live in this "land of the free and
home of the brave." Smile, be
happy and subscribe now for
the New' Era, the newsiest news-
paper Davenport ever had.
Help Davenport to prosperity
via the New Era way.
Jim Bullock and Fred Wright
were visiting in this City last
Saturday and Sunday.
J. E. Weems, of Perkins,
passed thru this town Monday
on his way to Stroud, whero he
is working at the cotton mill.
There comes to our exchauge
table one paper, the same size of
the New Era, that has over
two pages of advertising every
week.
Most of the various varieties
of weeds in this community
have gone to seed and next
year's crop is planted. It wont
hurt anything to cut the old
barren stalks now.
More good hay will spoil this
year on account of the rain than
has been raised the last passed
three years, and still the biggest
half of the crop will be saved.
Hard times? Nit!
Gene McDaniel, the 15-year-
old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. C.
McDaniel, 10 miles north east of
town, was operated on at Dr.
W. D. Baird's Sanitarium last
Friday. He is getting along
nicely.
One day last week, A. M. Bell,
who lives a couple of miles north
o? town, brought to our office a
sample of the kind of beets he
raises on his farm. Said beet
measured 17 inches each way
and weighed oyer six pounds.
Mr. Bell raises these beets by the
acre and feeds them to his hogs
and cattle ■
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Tryon, W. M. The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1915, newspaper, September 30, 1915; Davenport, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110014/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.