The Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, December 21, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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OKLAHOMA
HKI.MIOM
THE LEXINGTON LEADER
VOLUME 27
LEXINGTON. CLEVELAND COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 25 19!7
NUMBER 15
Greetings, Santa!
Be sure to call at the "Security State." We'll do all we can to
make your stay pleasant and lighten your labors.
When Santa comes to Oklohoma we'll "show him'' Christmas
hospitality. Should he need any help, we have presents a'plenty
to choose from: Bright coins, new banknotes, or a certificate of
deposit for something really fine.
So here's hoping we can do something to make Christmas
merry for all of our friends—with the bank's greetings and best
wishes for your happy and prosperous New Year.
Security State Bank
Mrs. E. M. ABERNATHY Pres. M. R. NORTHCUTT, Cashier
ama
Sold His Farm
And Wll Have
Public Sale
M. W. Gravitt, who lives near
Tribbey in Pottawatomie county,
was in town Monday attending to
business matters, among which was
making the transfer of the title to
his fine farm near that place to other
parties who have purchased it. Mr.
Gravitt will have a public sale on
Wednesday December 26th. at
which time" he will sell everything
that he possesses in the way of the
material goods of this world and he
says he will leave as soon thereafter
as soon as he can possibly get away-
He does not know pusi where he will
30. The Leader printed his big sale
bills. You will also find a copy cf
the bill in this issue of the paper
Look it .up He may have the very
thing htat you are wanting
Lost Four Head of
Cattle in One Night
E Duffy, who lives three miles
no.rth of Lexington, is reported to us
as having lost four good yearlings in
one night, presumably from blackleg-
Mr Duffy says that the cattle seetned
as welj as usual Friday evening, but
were stiff Saturday morning.
MEN'S SOCIAL CLUB OR.
GAMZEI> HERE
BOUGHT BIG BKICK BULBING
AND WILL MOVE
H. M. Hard wick,one of Lexington's
leading merchants, has this week
closed a deal with W. I< Breeding
whereby Mr. Hardwick becomes the
owner of the 25x140 foot brick
building first door west of the pres-
ent stand.
Mr. Hardwick put men to work im-
mediate v remodeling the building
on the exte.rior and interior and will
as soon as the work is completed
move his stock of merchandise into
it.
Wm. Simeroth living at Trousdale
was in Lexington Tuesday trading
and attending to other business mat-
ters. He did not forget to call on
the Leader and leave a dollar for
subscription.
The young men of Lexington held
o meeting a short time since and or-
ganized what they have named the
Young Men's Social club with Mr
Adolph Iile as president and Mr. Jess
Hackler secretary.
As explained to us by the presi-
dent of the organization. Mr. llle,
the intention of the club is to furn-
ish clean and wholesome amusement
and pasttime for the young men of
the city, and afford them a place to
which they may retire any evening
in the week and whfte away a few
hours reading good literature o,r en-
joy the benefits of other amusements
I that will be furnished. The club will
hold two regular meetings each week
j The club rooms are this week be-
] ing fitted up on the second floor of
j the H Turk bldg. and the President
l of the club informed us will be ready
i for the young men of Lexington at
an early date.
M B Moyer and wife were in Lex-
J ington Tuesday doing Christmas shop
ping ond attending to other business
matters. They called at the Leader
| office and M.r- Moyer made arrange-
1 ments to our job department to print
him some sa(lo bills for iiis big sale
[ which will take place on the second
of January.
A Community Paper
We want to make the Leader a
community paper. We want to give
the news not only of Lexington and
the immediate vicinity, but of the
entire country for miles and miles
around us, and with this end in view
we are going to ask ou,r rural pa-
trons and friends to write down the
happenings of their various commu-
nities each day and mail them to us
| once a week so they will reach this
j office not later than Wednesday
| morning of each week-
If you have a community gather-
' ing of any kind take notes of the im-
j portant things that happen there and
tell us about it so as your friends
j who were not fortunate enough to
be the,re may know about what hap-
pened.
If you have friends either visiting
you are og on a visit, write it to us.
I We want to know it and so do your
1 neighbors.
In short, write us about all news
that happens in your community. In
that way you will assist us in giving
you a paper that you will enjoy read-
ing and that our advertisers will ap-
preciate. Tell us all about it every
week and let's see which community
will be the best represented during
the year 1918.
Lexington Man
Killed When Truck
Plunges Ofi Bridge
Oscar White of Lexington and
driver of the big truck used by Mr.
W. S- Gray of Lexington of Lexington
transfer line, was instantly killed
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock,
when the truck plunged through the
banisters at the east end of the
bridge into the bed of the South
Canadfan river, crushing him to
death and seriously injuring Earl
Gray, who was also riding in the
truck
Particulars obtainable are to the
effect that White had pust commenc-
ed work on the line Wednesday
morning and was making iiiH first
trip from Lexington to Puree, 1, in
company with Earl Gray- Driving
up the east approach onto the bridge
tho truck became unmanageable go-
ing through tiie wooden bannisters,
falling ten or twelve feet, turned
turtle and pinned both men under it,
killing Mr. White. Earl Gray manag-
ed to get out from under the wreck-
age and with theassistance of some
other men who came up just at that
time, raised the car off White's body.
He was brought to Lexington imme-
diately and the undetaker took
j charge of the body.
| White was a new driver and was
just learning to operate the truck.
He leaves a- wife and four children,
and a brother, W. L. White all of
Lexington. His parents reside in the
State of Texas. Funeral arrange-
ments had not been made as we go
to press
The truck was practically empty
and the men were coining to Purcell
after a load of freight, when the ac-
cident happened. It is indeed a most
deplorable accident and sympathy of
•1-1 has been aroused for the bereaved
relatives.
SOME COTTON IX LEXINGTON
WEDNESDAY
HOUDA Y
GREETINGS:
We wish to extend our best wishes to
all our friends and customers. This is
the time of year when we should all be
happy, especially so this, the most pros-
perous year this country has ever wit-
nessed.
Our business has been all that we could
ask, our bank is constantly growing, the
deposits now reaching upwards, almost
to the $500,000.00 mark.
We trust that you will all enjoy a pleas-
ant Christmas and prosperous New Year
and any time during the coming year
you need assistance be sure and remem-
ber the Farmers State Guaranty Bank
and give us a call.
FARMERS STATE GUARANTY BANK
Chas. Greemore, l'res. R. M. Evan?, Cashier.
John T. K emp, Asst. Cashier
maxna
Bio Car Load of
Buick
AUTOMOBILES
Just Received
The perfect car at a popular price. Valve
in-head motors mean less gas and more
power. When you buy a Buick you know
you are getting a real automobile —a car
with a reputation. Ask your neighbors,
or any Buick owner. They all boost for
Bricks and they are not paid to either.
ONE INSERTION IN THE LEADER
l>ll> THE WORK
DOSE—Every line and every inch
that you con possibly stand weekly.
Guaranteed to cure all business ills-
Plenty of .references furnished on re-
quest-
Last week Mrs. Elkins, the milli-
ner of this city, placed a short "for
sale'' ad in the columns of the Lead-
er advertising the fact that she had
a residence that she desired to sdM
Wednesday afternoon she called at
this office and asked us to discontiiue
the ad at once as she had sold the
residence. At her request the name
I of tho party to whom she made the
1 *ale is withheld until next week.
This should be very convincing ev-
idence that it pays to advertise in the
; Leader. Try it and see. It won't cost
] much each week and if you will give
lit a thorough try out you will be
absolutely convinced that it does pay
and will in the future ^"ways be a
liberal user of printers ink, no mat-
ter where you may be or in what line
of business you engage in.
You have possibly heard that Lex-
ington was some cotton market but
if you had been on the streets Wed-
nesday vou would have .realized the
fact, as the streets were practically
blocaded with cotton wagons.
In one string of thirty wagons
from the Maguire neighborhood there
were something like one hundred and
fifty bales, and the cotton buyers had
j some job sampling and buying it—
and we have ail idea when they check
ed up Wednesday night they also
missed some good money, as it took
several thosand doKars to handle that
bunch of cotton.
DIED
Mrs. Caroline Perry, wife of C.
W. Perry died last Wednesday at
the home of her daughter, Mrs. Gil-
Live Stock Dying
A goodly number of cattle, horses
and hogs have died in this section
kiuling the past few weeks. The
horses it is claimed are dying of
blind staggers, the cattle with the
blackleg and the hogs with cholera.
We are sure that a great deal of
the blackleg and cholera could he
averted if not entirely stamped out
entirely if the owners of the stock
would vaccinate The serum and vi-
rus used in the operation costs but a
trifle when compared with the loss
of stock at the present market value
Th saving of one calf or on hog will
more than pay the cost of the vaccin-
ation of a number of head
I lihan, east of Lexington.
She was here from her home in
| Missouri visiting for a time with her
; daughter. She was 73 years old, and
leaves o husband and nine children
i to mourn her loss.
She was buried in the Lexington
cemetery, Rev. L. L. Reeves, pastor
of the Baptist church conducting the
fune,ral.
Mrs W. L. Coleman, wife of Dr.
W L. Coleman who recently left Lex-
ington and located at Sentinel, Okla.
left Tuesday for Fort Worth Texas
where she wfll spend a few days vis-
iting with her son, W. L. Coleman,
Jr. who is in Camp Bowie, and then
will join her husband ot Sentinel.
T. .T. Gravitt of th Willow View
community was in town Wednesday
and paid the Leader office a very
pleasant call.
A Line Or Two
To Our Friends
The Farmers
Next time you come to town come
to the Leader office and get ac-
quainted with the "new" editor,
come in and let's shake hands
We'll offer you the easiest chair in
the office and you can sit down and
prop your old muddy boots upon our
desk and we'll take a good, big
"chaw of terbaccer" and I'll bet you
a year's subscription to the Leader
against a dollar that I can spit it the
highest on the wall and cause it to
make the prettiest little trickling
curves as it slowly descends.
We want vou to feel at home in
the Leader office. It is your paper,
and you a,re proud of it for you have
made it what it is. We know how
eagerly you look for it each week
and we know how you read every
word in it—ADS and all—to the very
lant line, and then go back over some
of it. We know that each member
of the famii. almost run a race with
each other in order to be the first to
read it if is your -laper. Come in
and meet your editor and see what
the sun of a gun looks like anyhow.
Auctioneers-- Bean Brothers
We both cry the Sale
article at the same time
GIVE US THE TRIAL OF
A SALE
For dates call office of
Transcript ft Norman or Lex-
ington Leader at Lexington
Oklahoma.
J. E. BEAN & W. L. REAN
$3000-oo
We must have It By December 22nd
Read Our Big Ad on Page 8; Purchase
Your Christmas Gifts Now
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V . «J Pi.. \ 5. Purcell, Oklahoma
I he St on* for Men and Boys
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We Suggest
An Eastman Kodak
Priced From $2.50 to
A Fountain Pen
Priced From $1.00 to
A Box of Vassar Chocolates
Priced from 50c to
A Pipe
priced from 35c to
A Box of Cigars
priced from $1.25 to
A Safety Razor
priced from $1.00 to
Call and let us offer many
to you. We lay articles
wanted.
$20.00
4.50
8.00
8.00
5.00
5.00
suggestions
aside until
Palace Drug Store
5 HER M A N & S M1: R M A N
Pure Drug Pharmacists
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