Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1904 Page: 1 of 8
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Some Papers Dare Print The Truth, But None Dare Try To Please Everybody.
J. M. TUOQLE,
1 he Leading
Grocer and Baker
Will buy your Produce.
LEXINGTON LEADER.
(Consolidation of \ ou Alls I joins. Established i8gp: Cleveland County Leader, established iKgi.)
"Entered June 9, laid, at Luxlnttton. Oklu. as seeoml-.'lusH matter, under Act <>f I'onicresa of Mnroli >. istj."
H I N E & H I N E
Will
<;ive you money
VOLUME 18.
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LEXINGTON, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, .1904.
FARM LOANS AND CORRECT ABSTRACTS
OF TITLE SEE THE ANDREW KINGKADE COMPANY. NORMAN,
on FlIRN ITl'RE.
NUMBER 46
OKLAHOMA TERRITORY
The Government Building
and Exhibits.
which event
commemorated
l.y
this World's Fair, and a sword worn I
I l>y Goerge Washington duriug the)
Revolutionary war. I'assing out a I
the end of the Govenimt nt Building
The United States government there are more steps which lead'
^ Valley Grove Items. £
Bv Mrs. Mary Mitchell.
Crops are looking fine.
P. A. Holmes has purchased a
building is a large edifice, situated' down to the Government Fisheries ueu '"'88) •
on very high ground, overlooking building, which is devoted to the Singing every Sunday evening at
main picture ou the east. The hill display of Fish Commissioners en ^is place.
i«lope iu front of the building has terprises. and the exhibition of food : Little Clemmie Corbett is ou the
bropd stairways, almost completely fish and shellfish. sick list this week.
covering the slope, adorned with Arouud the wall, inside the build- Jim Gault made a call at J. \V.
beautiful statues, and ou either side I iug, are glass tanks in which both j Belew's Sunday evening.
of the stairways are lovely llowers,' salt and fresh water lish are shown.
j Eason Items. £
Health seems to bo improved.
Early cotton is fast maturing.
Thomas Gabehart has a very sick
clipped hedges and bay trees.
Entering the building from the
east, to your left is the postotlice
iepartment, and the first thing is a
railroad postofiice ear, and the mail
handled consists of letters and pa
i
pers mailed to persons connected
vith the World's Fair. There is a
Miss Mertia Brown was the guest' cake and lemonade wt
of Miss Auuie Anderson Sunday.1
Mr. Huleotnb, of Texas, is teach
ing a singing school at this place
There are all kinds, and you will
find it very instructive to go aud see
them when you visit the fair. In
the center of the budding is a pool
twenty five feet square, in which are a "timber of young folks
a number of seals. Do not fail to v,isite(I dt lhe hume of P A Holmos
visit the Government Building when Sunday.
j you attend the fair, for while 1 have Dayton Brown lms returned from
A Delighiful Evening.
One of the most enjoyable socials
of the season was given by Mrs. S.
A. Hayes, and Miss May Frigon at
the rooms of the Misses Frigon on
on Tuesday evening in the way of a
surprise social to Miss Etta. She
had been invited out to supper and
the social was in delightful progress W . ( . Austin was a
when she returned at about uine j8on Monday.
o'clock, to tier utmost surprise.
Games and music were the feat neighborhood.
ures of the evening. Watermelon, Barney Schumaker w
the re the Western country.
child.
W. C
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time relics i 8'ven °nly a brief sketch, you will 'he new country, where he visited
find it one among the most interest his brother.
crude collection of old
' from the postofiice museum at Wash
ngton. aud one of these is an old jexhibit i a laces of the Expos!
freshmenfs, aud were enjoyed by all
at 10:30.
The evening was spent in a most
royal way by the guests until I I: t
when they bade the hostess good
night. Those in attendance were.
Misses Kite Goodpasture, Rosa
W eitzenhoffci. Beatrice Thackston,
Lucy Fox, Delia Boudrow. Pearl
ELECTRIC LINE
WILL BE BUILT.
Survey and Profiles Completed to
Sulphur Matter Now in Hands -
of St. Louis Concern.
The survey and profiles for the
electric line from Oklahoma City to
visitor in Ea Sulphur have been completed, and
copies of the profiles forwarded to
Some few cases of sickness in this the interior department. The grade
is but one per cent, affording au
ideal rouie.
I' P. Moseley, of Lexington, one
of the members of the company, was
iu the city yesterday interviewing
the wholesalers with a view to proli
able business and received much en-
couragement. Mr. Moseley said:
"We have received a letter from a
St Louis trust company offering to
finance the road if recommended by
K. E. McMath Construction com-
SOOll visit
Charles Huskins, of Wanette, was
at Ivison last Monday.
Armstrong A Co. are laying in a
supply of wood for their gin.
Mrs, N. P. W illis visited Mrs.
Tlios McColgan, of Tecumseh, last
j week.
[ John Powell and family are
fashioned stage coach, that ouce!tlou-
•arried United States mail through a
, ., , . „ . Rural Route.
portion of the Louisiana I urcbase:
territory. The old book of accounts | Orinan Puckett has been appoint-
kept by the first postmaster general,!1*1 carnVr for the rural route, which
Benjamin Franklin, a rare collection lms j'"* **•«• established with W. C.
of old stamps, and the latest type of Pwckett assistant carrier. The route ton> „ttended |)reaellitlg htire Sunday
mail wagon used in Alaska, pulled ',e started Monday and is as
Misses Ada and Emma Drake, of
Norman, visited friends iCorbett,
this week.
Miss Mary Brown spent Saturday
urday night and Sunday with Miss
Stella Holmes.
A. A. Iliue and wife, of Lexing
Hamilton aud Messrs. Rice Reavis, *P?ndiug the week in the
I Joy Hardwick, lieu. Iliue, II. Erisli- ''obtitrv.
man, Roy Sherman, Allie McEldeery 1 Mr. Rogers has moved to Eason will tfo over the ground together. I
aud Oscar Fox, chaperoned by Mr.' and will work at the Armstrong gin 'have no doubt that he will recoui-
Western pany of that city. A member of the
company will !«■ here today, aud we
and Mrs. S A. Hayes.
THE MOST HORRIBLE
I this fall.
V P. Willis - «• nt some apples and
corn to the World's l air for W. H.
WRECK IN YEARS. Livvi^ ^ '"'k
by dogs over the snow are to be follows:
keen. To the right the Deeriug Five miles north to E. V. John
Binder Company has a small binder KO" s corner, thence two miles west
jn operation cutting grain, and al- Ihigbns corner, then north two
"hough in miniature form, and run by miles to htandeford corner, thence
lectricity. the work looks as natura! I south one mile to Jackson corner,
is when done in the field. then west to Alamo school house,
then south to Harness corner aud
into town, making a distance of
and the baptizing at I o'clock.
Mr. Chalmer aud Miss Annie An
dersou attended the ice cream sup
per Monday night, and report a nice
time.
In the Interior Department some
very early forms of human imen-
twenty-two miles and serving
lamilies.
Ill
machine, the firs? typewriter, and a
harvesting machine made in the statjj goarfj q{ Agriculture.
Mr. McOlohen and family visited
relatives near Lexington Saturday,
returning Sunday.
We are needing rain u ry badly iu
this section of the country, as crops
have begun to suffer.
John Gobehart. of Davis, I
was visiting his brother in-law
C. Tucker, last week. «
E. <j. Wilmoth and wife, (
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rear 150, B. C.. and a steam engine
made iu Egypt in the same year.
In the Smithsoniau Institute, are
skeletons of extiuet monsters of
many kinds, one of a whale measur
ng eighty nine feet ill length. the
skull measuring -nineteen feet and
"ix inches, aud the gross weight of
the whale was three tons Speci
i and a number of local speakers will
mens of all kinds of large game and
-birds from all pa its of the world art
The annual meeting of the Cleve-
land County Farmers' Institute will
be held at Norma u, Monday and
Tuesday. August 15 and 1(5. Prof
John Fields, of the Oklahoma Agri
cultural Experiment Statiou and
Secretary Thoburn, of the Board i f
Agriculture will be in attendance
participate
Flyer on the Missouri Pacific Crashes
Through a Bridge—125 Souls
Swept Into Eternity.
Pueblo, Col , Aug. S. Train No.
I I, the fastest train out of Denver,
A large crowd attended the bap- j running at the rate of fifty miles an
ti/.iug at R. Burrow's tank Sunday, hour crashed into an awful fate
Among those baptized was a lady j about midnight. The bridge was
75 years old. I over a small stream but a cloud burst
Misses Allice, Melissa, Nellie and j had taken two spans out and tli'
Messrs Jno. Hood and cousin, Fd ™ter wnA rushing in torrents down . B _sPe,lt Sunday with
Burns, of Ardmore, spent Monday 'he creek. The engine, baggage
evening with the family of P. A. eoach, chair car and one sleeper
Holmes. went into the stream and so swift
— j was the current that the trucks were
rTTTTTTTT1'TT* torn from the cars and the frames
J Buckhead Items. [ containing about 10(1 people were
carried four miles and then Mink.
Hood is sick of m,t. I A|1 th''people were killed and about might go to
twenty live others w hen the cars fell j examination,
through the bridge.
mend the Imo to the trust company,
I am much gratified at the inter-
est taken by Oklahoma City in no
line. It will mean a great deal to
i your people, and they seem to fully
appreciate it."
I be wholesalers, especially, of
this city are very favorable to the
electric line project., arid all will lie
giuatly pleased if if. is completed
soon. Tuesday's Daily Oklahoman.
A Communication.
J. F. Quillin and family.
Dubuque, Iowa, Aug. :), l'JOL-
The Lexington Leader,
Lexington, l). T ,
(n.ws: Enclosed please lind two
dollars (postoiliee money order) to
.Mrs. (.lower and children, of near pay subscription for two years. I
Norman, spent a few days in this (l°u't know how 1 stand, but it will
neighborhood, last week, visiting 'w0 i'-ars subscription anyway.
I was in Lexington in 1900 and
bought a place Imiles east of town.
relatives.
Our school at Jumper was closed
think from what I see
iu your pa-
this week, in order that Prof. White Per 'hat 'he town must, improved
Little Nettie
larial fever.
ecuinseh to take the
to be seen, together with bird eggs,
fiom the largest to tin' smallest.
The collection of butterflies is very
^ interesting, presenting the most
brilliant colors and peculiar shapes
Another collection you will enjoy
seeiug, is the meteorites some of
which weigh many tons, and the
minerals a magnificent collection;
also tree trunks from tin
forests of Montana.
In the.Treasury Department, is a
set of machinery used in coining
money at the I nited States mint,
and We stopped long enough to see
( how money is made. In the Navy
Department is a model of an Ameri-
can man-of-war, and visitors have
the privilege of passing through and
inspecting it. In this department
are exhibitions of biograph motion
Eil Burns, of Ardmore, 1. T.,
visiting relatives here this week.
Knights of Pythias Attention.
The Farmers' Institute is rapidly taken possession of their new home jflf, |-,jS(.f) System has been
becoming recognized as au educa- Miss Lizzie Farley is visiting her chosen is the ollicial route to be
tional factor in Oklahoma as well as ! sister, Mrs. T Burts at Box, this j used bv all Knights, their friends
elsewhere throughout the United i week. ! and families, to the Louisville Bien-
States It is to lie hoped that there Some of the Buckheadites attend nial Conclave.
maybe no lack of interest on the , e(| the baptizing at Corbett Sunday A
part of the farmers of this city, afternoon. lars
The meeting should lie well attend
rate of one fare plus two dol-
lar-ami twenty five cents, has been Misses Minnie and Mada Woods,
1 little I aunounced for the round trip. who have I visiting their uucle.
friends j Special train service will be pro- E. 1. Woods and other relatives at
vided and through sleepers will be this place, returned to their home at
some since I was there. 1 bought
my farm through Mr. Geo. Latham,
and am still holding on to it, ns I
think Oklahoma will make one of
the best agriculture states in the
union. There is no stale iu the
union that can show the farms, pop-
ulation, buildings, towns and wealth
li. W Dodson and family, of near as Oalahoma, and ali in the short
Remus, Okli., visited relatives at sl,ll('e ol only four! .*4en yrnrrt. )t is a 11
this place a few davs last week. "V"1 fim". ">'d any man
Miss Minnie '■■ 1 ' : 1 °WUS ()ltl',,'oma ought
them home
Dr. H (' Childs and wife came
up from Midland, I T., last week to
visit awhile with friends and rela
lives at this place.
in; im up
Woods accompanied to try lo I
►Id on to it if her can.
Yours truly,
John Doujaiiaokkh.
Mrs. Eva li. Slaviu am
ed. Cleveland county has some of |di)MghtFr Hr„ visjti|),r
petrified th" ',HSt HU(1 I,,0st P^'-iv farm t thh ^
ers that are to be found in Oklahoma j , ( ' of pee(U) run from Oklahoma City, also from Oklahoma City, last week,
anil there is no reason why the
,,, , ,,, ... . , ' ! community Monday, soliciting nu
Cleveland County tanners Institute i • • " 1
lis fur the music school at \ alley
liilthrie and Euid,
should not become noted as the best
and most active organization in tin'
Territory.
NOW FOR SINGLE STATEHOOD
Dennis Flynn Flops on This Impor-
tant Question.
Dennis T. Flynn, of Oklabouio j
scene®, illustrative of the life and City, former delegate to congress J
duties of the crew on Fuited States from Oklahoma, who for so long led I
war vessels, one oF which is Roose the light iu the Kepubl ica'n party!
,'f velt's ollicial visit on the ship, and for double statehood for Oklahoma
another the sailors dancing for pas and Indian Territory, has been coil
time. It is a very nice place to rest verted to the single statehood idea
■ for a while and be entertained, too. "There is no ipiestiou in my
' Iu the War Department are all kinds mind," he said, "that when the two
of lighting machinery, and an old territories are admitted by congress
rille carried by Jefferson Davis when they will come iu as one state. I
he was captured, also a cartridge fought against the plan, but it is
machine in operation. now the only one which seems at all
The Department of Agriculture, likely to meet with success. The
shows what the department is doing same is true of New Mexico aud
to assist the farmers, and develop Arizona. They are having a very
' the agricultural resources. A dis fierce light out there. I just re
play of insects distinctive and bene- ceived a letter from Delegate IJodey,
fiuial are shown, and the plants upon of New Mexico, who wanted me to
I > rove.
Mrs. Morrison, who has been vis-
iting her son, Robert, at this place
for two weeks, Mt Monday for her
home in Kansas.
Oscar Dragoo, of Edi'ibnrg, Iml.,
is visiting Ins brother. W. E D. Dra-
goo, aud looking at Oklahoma with
a view of locating here iu the near
future.
Biiell Lewellei) was called to Box
Monday morning to attend the death
if the number 'l'he new store building of .1 F.
from I nter points will justify. ^uillin \ Son I,a- been completed
If you are a K of P why not wi(h a , () () ,, ^
avail yourself of this trip, and take ; ilboVB. Mhss|.h „,eir
stock of goods in last week and are
in the World's Fair returning!'
For large parties, it would be well
to notify the undersigned.
J. I). LYIUCK,
Lexington, (). T.
FISH FOR OKLAHOMA.
Tar W ill Make f|i Ihs-,
I t i l t ion.
Guthrie, O. T., Aug S.—Word
doing a line business,
R. R Pol ay, ,1 F. Curmitt. T O.
Hart, J. E. (juillin and (' N. Wil
lis madti a trip to Mcljuire to wit-
ness the organization of an 1. O (
F. lodge, which was organized at
that place last week.
Rkpohtkh.
bed of his cousin. Mrs Thcmas : 'mH l"*®" f,,rwarded to Congressman ,
REPUBLICAN EDITORS.
McBeth, who died at 1 I o'clock that
Jay. Mrs. McBeth leaves a hus
band, five children and a host of
friends to mourn Iter death.
Big Indian Territory Apples.
• \\. McClintock, a merchant of
Quiuton, in the Choctaw nation, lias
on exhibition some apples grown on
the farm of Mrs. Warden, near that
town, which, it is believed, rival
anything yet produced in the fruit
line. One of these apples measures
. . . . . ,, ,iii , ... fifteen inches iu circumference and
which they prey. In the D.'parl help linn in the light against joint w,.j,,|ls
meut of Justice, portraits of the statehood The two territories are
chief justices from John Jay to1 very strongly agaiust Hiat sort' of a
Melville B. Fuller, are shown, lu ileal, but they will
pound ami live ounces.
Fiom a farm just north of Quin-
tou. in the Canadian valley, a bushel
1
no doubt prefer "J l' * «lieH was sent to the World's
the Department of State, one of the i statehood that way to none at all, ' has createo
. , . ' unite a sensation among fruit grow
documents is the treaty with France for that is now what it really > Only thirty six „r these psach
transferring the Louisiana territory,1 amounts to. | es were lt ipiired to make a bushel.
McGuire that the I nited States lish
I car will make a tour of Oklahoma
witliiu two neeks and all persons de
siring tinh may then apply. The
applications are already more mini
1 erous than ever liefore and it is like
ly some of them cannot be filled.
The large number of applications
for lish i- taken by Mr. Mel mi ire as "esda_
an iudicatiiai that the farmers of the
1 eri itory have don
year to improve their farms, as each
application nieans there is a pond or
lake in which the fish may be
placed. I ndoubtedly the excessive
ly wet spring and summer in Okla-
homa ti is year had considerable to
do with the number of i<quests.
A Social Event
Mr. and Mrs. W Marcujn enter-
tained quite a large number of their
friends in honor of Mrs Emma
Nickels, last Ihursdax e\ening.
Music aud cards were the features
of the evening The refreshments
consisted of cake and cream, fiappe
and fruit. Among those preseut
were Messrs, and Mesdamea. Robert
Isum. K. .) Keller, Nathan Turk,
Herman lurk, B. W eitdeuliofier.
Will McCaslin, Fled Hawk. K Ban-
dy. II. Hardwick, W. M Isom, W.
Marcum, Mesdames. Nichols, Har-
ness, Elkin, Smith, Owsley, 1) F
Harness, of Oklahoma Cil\, aud
Misses Scott, Marcum, 1'iopes
aud Frigon.
SENATOR VEST DEAD.
Come to Guthrie to Be Bored
With Tiresome Speeches.
The meeting uf the Republican The Alissoni'i Statesman Passes Ami)
territorial |iress association being Tnesilaj
held here as a aide issue of the meet. Sweet Springs, Mo, Aug. '.I Af.
iug of the It'ejuiblican twrtitorial ter lingering for two weeks betseeu
cenlral committee, was held Wed- life and death, Senator Vest passed
tie district peacefully away at an early how;
leath
that
It pay* to advertise. Try it.
fternoon
court room. .1. J. Burk, of Norman, today
much in the last P'^'ded iu the absence Lf President
Lincoln McKinley, of Newkirk.
The only features of this after
noon's session were addresses In
Delegate McGuire and Governor
Ferguson and the appointment of a
committee of three members of the
association to meet with the central
cum mitt
text boo
He had been so near
during the past three days
death came without a struggle.
lhe senator had been unconscious
since Sunday morning. During the
last thirty six hours his breathing
was barely perceptible, a flutter of
the pulse being all that showed life
still remained. The remains will be
o prepare a campaign I taken to St. Louis this evening for
Guthrie Leader. 'interment. Times Journal.
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Hutchin, J. H. Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, August 12, 1904, newspaper, August 12, 1904; Lexington, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110165/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.