The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1897 Page: 3 of 8
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,«T TcNTION.
As suited list week the Enid Demo-
crat has been (.urchased by the \\ ave
and Coining Events. it was simply a
business ueal; the proprietQr desired
to sell and offered a part of the ma- ]
terial at prices the purchasers j
thought was a bargain. With it '.•
received the subrcription list and
good will of the paper. In looking :
over the Democrat's list we find that j
many of the subscribers are already
taking the WAVE and there are j
others who are far in arrears. How-
ever, we have mailed this week's issue
to a few of the Democrat's subscrib-
ers who are strangers to the Wave.
We will also mail next week's issue,
but after that time the names of
those we do not hear from will be
dropped from the list. It is presumed
that the great majority of the sub-
scribers to the Democrat are Demo-
crats and would prefer a Democratic
paper, all home print and full of
news, like the Wave but you have
the privilege of choosing between
papers. Our terms are cash in ad-
vance. No name is placed on the
Wave list without an advance pay-
ment.
Call at the Wave office when in the
city and we will talk this matter over
with you,
Deering.
Mrs. Frank Hodgden and children
will leave the first of next week to
visit in Ellsworth, Kansas.
Party in the Country.
From Tuesday's Daily.
Asocial was jriven by tlf Presby-
terian L. S. last night at the spa-
cious and pleasant home <>. h.. M.
Byerly and tamiiy one-half mile east
of the city, and was attended by a
large crowd from the city. Wagons
and buggies carried the uue-'ts free
from Allen's drug store crner and a
great deal of fun was had by the
young folks going and coming.
Games of different kinds afforded
amusement in doors and out. 1 he
evening being very warm and pleas-
ant che majority of those in attend-
ance enjoyed themselves on the lawn,
joining in games and music. Our
ever ready and efficient vocalists, Mr.
F. M. McClane and Miss Blossom
Fleming delighted the crowd with
songs, and little Miss Maurine Frantz
rendered a very sweet little recita-
tion.
Refreshments were served and the
hour was late wVien the several con-
veyances started with their'loads
of human freight for the city.
Everybody had a delightful time.
Miss Hattie Smith is visiting her
sister in Hennessey. She will remain
until after the encampment.
The Deering.
Goodness! We thought that jail
would be off the square long "afore"
this, but she is still there—on the
square.
Word comes from northern Kansas
and Nebraska that the wheat there
is almost a total failure and the
corn prospects are thus far very
poor. Oklahoma can supply them
The Deering Binder.
All the men in Kingfisher must be
'■fatties." The Free Press says they
have searched the.town and can't find
enough "light weights" to compose a
base ball nine to play in a game of
"fats vs. leans."
GleneMa Notes.
Rain six days in succession. How's
that?
The Christian Endeavor executive
committee met at the Carrier church
Wednesday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Cross, of Kansas, are
visiting with Robert Martin.
Mrs. Orville Robinson went to Kan-
sas Thursday. Her brother was
severely injured by being run over by
a traction engine.
Pete Hanson bored wells for Mrs.
Caldwell and Orville Robinson last
week. He is now boring one deeper
for Perry Murphy.
Shorty Long is a hustler. He gath-
ers his cream, takes it to the skim-
ming station and delivers the skimmed
milk before noon.
Frank and Ottie Nay will buy a
header. Doc Robinson bought one
last week.
Corn cultivation is the order of the
| day. Farmers will be kept busy if
they get ahead of the weeds before
harvest.
NARROW ESCAPE.
It was one of the strange coinci-
dences of the recent cyclone that the
district court had adjourned early in
the afternoon on account of an error
made by John Dawson, the lawyer
who was burned to death. Dawson
was an attorney in the case set for
trial that afternoon, and had, by
mistake, his witnesses subpoenaed
for the following day, so the case
had to be continued, and, as no other
was ready for trial, court adjourned.
Had it not been for this mistake the
court room would have been full of
men when the cyclone struck.—
Chandler News.
The Turks gave the Greeks t
knockout blow and captured KitikS
so the associated press reports say.
We presume that Kitikl means kit-
tens in English.
Old Paper.
The old notes of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank, long since defunct,
were sold by auctioneer Ross Williams
in front of the court house today.
Some of them were hairy and mossy
with age and accumulated interest
There was one for $5 against John
Gillespie, a local pugilist who trained
Gus Whalen here in the early days.
Judge John Curran bought all the
notes for twenty-five cents apiece.
It is reported that the Judge is gath-
ering a historical collection of curi-
osities of distinguished citizens in the
early days.
All bicyclers are requested to meet
at J. D. Minton's office tonight at 8
o'clock sharp, to make arrangements
for a trip to the reunion at Hennessey-
Thursday mornings We want a good
crowd so we can make a good showing
in the grand ,>arade. The Enid male
quartette will go on that day.
C. E. Willis, aged twenty-five years,
and Miss Emma T. Sturmer, aged
eighteen, have been licensed to wed
The former is from Wilcox and the
latter from Lahoma.
An Enid man recently advertised
that he would like to buy a second-
hand lawn mower, and to address "X.
L.," post office. He received one
answer that struck him favorably,
and, after corresponding some time
hunted up the party and found it to
be his wife, who was trying to sell
him their old one.
El Reno seems to be subject to all
kinds of fake storm reports lately.
Last night it was reported all over
Knid that El Reno had been torn up
by a cyclone, but we find there is
nothing in the rumor.
Kingfisher wheat buyers are con
trading new whe?t at 75 cents a
bushel. It will not be higher than 75
cents and it may go as low as fifty
cents.
If Bro. Lawrence accepts Bro.
Trimble's challenge we will have to
send over to Perry for Dick Plunkett
to referee the debate and call time.
The Deering roller and balj
hearing Binder, the king of the
harvest field.
J. B. Ferguson is expected home
from Washington in a few days. It
s a question whether Fergy's trip to
Washington will bear any public pie.
The many friends of Miss Patti
Griffin will rejoice to know that she
graduates next Tuesday evening at
the Kansas City School of Oratory,
and all will join with the Wave in
sending hearty congratulations.
Chas. A. Arand, one of Enid's early
day real estate rustlers, has returned
from Marysville, Kansas, where he
has been for over a year. He owns
one of the finest claims in this dis-
trict. His many friends are glad to
see him again.
While patiently waiting for the
news of his appointment from Wash-
ington, Emery Browniee has been
painting and varnishing his buggy
County Superintendent of Schools
Spurlock is having the usual trouble
with the 120 little potatoe patch dis
tricts he has to contend with.
The defaulting officers of Grant
county have been indicted by the
grand jury but will not be tried this
term of court.
The Deering roller and ball
bearing Binder the king of the
harest field.
There is some talk among the ladies
of this place of getting up an exhibi
tion and entertainment sometime in
June and turn the proceeds towards
public library. We wish the ladies
success in their undertaking, for it is
an enterprise that we need.
The very latest improved
farm implements of all kinds
at Chapman & Stephenson's.
Rev. S. W. Griffin left this morning
for Guthrie, where he has been in-
vited to preach to the Presbyterians
of that city next Sunday. From
there he will go to Kansas City to
visit his family. He will be absent
from his pulpit here about three
weeks.
Deering ahead! Oklahoma
farmers have learned that no
other machine can succeed in
their difficult crops. Roller
and ball bearings make light
draft and prevent wear,
These little rollers save one
h; rse.
My, what wheat! We never knew
of better prospects in any state.
A couple more favorable weeks and
wheat will make a grand yield.
Ed. Shields is home doing some
work.
The young people of the Hedgpeth
district are preparing a one hour and
forty minute play
H. Fledderman argues in favor of
check-planted corn. The argument
is all his way this rainy weather
Mr. Collins, from Missouri, has
moved on the farms he bought of
Ernest Bronson and Mr. Carrier.
They begin to show his strokes of
industry.
Will Compton and wife returned
from a visit to Pawnee. The boys
serenaded them last week and by the
way they wink at each other and the
talk of anvils, etc., we think there
will be a charivari soon
W. C. Nelson and wife visited at
Caldwell's last Friday.
Tim McNeal, our east side black
smith, is the busiest man in this part
of Oklahoma
Rev. Hawks preached an excellent
sermon at the Carrier church Sunday
He has a large circuit and meets his
appointments remarkably well.
Herbert Caldwell returned hom
from Canton, Kansas, where he has
taught school two years, the 6th inst.
He is pleased with the prospects.
The writer was mistaken for Mr.
Runyun at the postoffice last Satur-
day. It was probably on account of
my whiskers. The wonderful produ
tiveness of Oklahoma soil, the very
favorable weather, and the fact of
not having shaved for a week will
account for it.
The Deering binding twines
are the strongest and go fur-
ther than other twines per
acre. At Chapman & Steph-
enson's.
F. D. Reeves, wife and children
from Caluwell county, Missouri,
arrived in the city yesterday morning
and intend to establish a t.ome here.
Mrs. Reeves in a daughter of our
fellow citizen W. H. Edmondson, and
he was feeling awful good yesterday
on account of the arrival of his
daughter and grand children.
w. M. Obanion, of Pawnee, heaved
large, fresh and juicy potatoes from
the ground May lit. These are cer-
tainly the first new potatoes raised
is the territory this year.
The body of Mrs. Moore, a victin*
of the Guthrie flood, was found yes-
terday three miles north of that city.
It was half buried in the sand at the
junction of the Cottonwood with the
Cimarron
The colored Baptist church of Ok-
lahoma City had a baptism in the
Canadian river near the city Sunday
There were sixteen joyful negroes
dipped and their shouting attracted
the people to the spot in great numt-
bers.
At Atchison, Kansas, a neighbor-
substituted in the nest of an old hers
daily a boiled egg for the freshly iaidt
one. The owner of the hen was
paralyzed over this phenomenon..
The neighbor told him to feed her.
cracked ice a3 she was too hot inside
and the boiled eggs ceased coming.
The Hennessey Kicker is being
published as a howling daily this^
week, to give the encampment news,,
the first copy of which 'lies before
us. It gives the wave a little unirv-
tentional advertising on the start
Bertie will do the heavy work whiff
papa attends all the free lunches.
The Enid male quartet, composed
®f W. O. Cromwell, F. M. McClane
W. D. Coughenour and H. H. Ander
son will enliven t'ne visitors of the
G. A. R. encampment at Hennessey
with many of their selected melodi
ous strains on Thursday the 20th, the
second day of the encampment.
Mrs. J. W. Davis, of Soochow
China, who has been a missionary to
China for seventeen years, is now vis-
iting with our friend, Mrs. C. W
Smith, in Kingfisher. She has re
turned to America to educate her
children in the land of the brave and
free.
The Kingfisher Free Press
nounces that there is only one boy in
the graduating class down there thi
year, as if that was something
usual. There never is more than one
boy to six or seven girls in any gradu
ating class.
Some of the heaviest wheat
reported down. A hard wind just at
this time would do much damage in
that direction.
Mr. Loomiller, the blind capitalist
is in the city this week. He says the
country Iooks better now than he ever
saw it before.
Farmers are bringing in sample
bunches of wheat from three to six
feet long, and the heads are just
forming.
Rock Island trains are running in
all kinds of shape and sometimes the
locomotive is in the middle of the
It is reported that Hop-Lee and
Weed are to be divorced today after
a happy married life of nearly two
years.
Wes Droke hasn't gone for his bet-
ter half yet, but he looks over his
fields and counts the days. There has
been eight weddings in this neighbor-
hood within eight months. Why
doesn't some enterprising preacher
locate permanently with us?
H. Fleddermati advocates forming
jack-rabbit clubs. The rabbits do not
go singly or in pairs, but in droves.
The young fruit trees are growing
well. Some have fruit on.
I saw C. L. Holletn, of '*!-!), at Mc-
pherson before I left. He is attend-
ing the college there. He expects to
get through this year.
Mrs. Volklander, of Springdale, at-
tended Sunday school and preaching
at Carrier church Sunday.
Quite a number of Glenella folks
attended the Adyentist meeting at
Oak Grove Saturday.
Mrs. Robert Martin has been quite
sick for some time. She is recovering
slowly.
The Alvaretta young people had a
social Tuesday night.
The Glenella Christian Endeavor
will have one of their rousing socials
one week from Friday night. Every-
body come.
Novice.
Fishing is all the go now. The
average boy who has nothing else to
do, generally goes fishing.
The probate court room in the
court house has been handsomely
papered and looks nice.
Asel 1'. Rhodes proved up on the
northeast 21-21-3 at the land office
today.
How's the weather? The finest
kind, you bet.
Judge Scott, late of the supreme
bench of this territory is engaged i
constructing a railroad, in his mind,
which is to run from Chicago through
Oklahoma, Texas and just as far
south as the authorities will leave it
go, probably to Cape Horn. Frank
McMaster has been silent on Scott's
road so far, probably fearing the in-
flamed heat of the Judge's contempt
Valve.
President McKinley sent a prockt
mation to congress Monday convey-
ng that body the information that a
large number of American citizens in
Cuba were in a suffering and helpless-
condition and he recommended con-
gress to appropria.e $50,000 for their
relief. The senate immediately-
passed a resolution appropriating the
$50,000, but the matter was side-
tracked in the house.
QUICK JUSTICE.
Last Friday night a young man by
the name of Hunt, from Jack county,
Texas, stole a horse in Washita coun-
ty and sold it in Arapahoe. Saturday
morning he was arrested, indicted
and on a plea of guilty, was sen-
tenced to three years in the peniten-
tiary. This beats the record for
speed in such matters inOklahoma.
Supper Bell.
North Boundary street is being
repaired between Second and Third
streets.
Bruce Sanders is in town from Enid
today. His family has been visiting
here for some time. Mr. Sanders
says that he has on his farm west of
town fifty acres of the finest oats he
ever saw.—El Reno Supper Bell.
.Take Roach and a fellow the Kicker
calls "Mossback" Wilson have raised
the ire of the can tied to the Kick
er's dog's tail, over the leasing of
ground for the use of the encamp
ment. Jake will probably be scalped
and Wilson hoodood.
The trees on the square are a thing
of beauty already, but If the rye was
all assassinated for the use of the
town cows the trees would improve
and grow much faster.
Fremont Boyle returned yesterday
morning from quite a visit arcund
the towns of southern Kansas. He
reports Enid much livelier than any
place he visited.
Chas. Aurell, the shoe dealer, has
purchased lots on North First street
in Jonesyille and his house in North
Enid will be moved to the same in a
few days.
The next coming event in Enid of
importance will be the Decoration
day ceremonies and services. These
ceremonies are always interesting in
this city. ______
Dr. Champion bade goodbye to
family and friends Sunday morning
and took the train for Chicago,
where he will take a post graduate
course for three months.
Dave Wood took sick Saturday
evening with something acting a lit-
tle like cholera morbus, but he is get-
mg better.
The Knights of Pythias Grand
Lodge of Kansas convened at Wiclu-
ta this morning, also the Grand
Lodge of the Pythian Sisters. The-
sessions will last three days with tht-
usual parade. The attendance i
greater than ever known in the his-
tory of the chivairic order in Kansas.
The Wave would have been repre-
sented but sickness in the family pre-
vented our attendance.
Governor Barnes, J. Y Callahan*
and Dennis Flynn are billed to inakt
speeches at the G A. R. encampment
this week. Barnes will not arrive at
home until late Thursday night.
Flynn lias gone on a business trip t<
Arizona; hence, neither of the gentle-
men named above can possibly be
present unless Barnes comes down on.
the train Thursday night. Callahan
is at home and will no doubt fulfil
the appointment.
BARRISTER FLYNN.
It is said, remarked, and was re-
ported that Dennis Flynn woulS
resume his law practice in Guthrie.
This is a new one to us. When diiiS
Dennis practice law; if so, when did
he study law and where was he ad-
mitted to the bar?
Echo answers: He studied law
while handing out mail through the-
general delivery hole of the Guthrie-
postoffice during the early days.
Flynn would make an excellent attor-
ney in a suit for damages for running
a disastrous campaign on the frei-
home question.
HOT SHOT.
Col. Havens arrived at home from
Washington this morning accompan
led by J. B. Ferguson.
Miss Adah Smith will sing at the
G. A. R. encampment at Hennessey
this week.
Chas. Borders returned last night
from a business trip to Oklahoma
City.
Black Bear was up and a booming
Saturday night and Sunday.
The Enid Wave is discussing that
trite, and to it unknown subject, bap-
tism. However, the editor will be on
familiar ground when he gets to di«
coursing on circumcision.—Frank M-
Master's Weekly.
Circumstances, you mean, Brother
McMaster. We have frequently
dealt witlj circumstances as we catch
them—we have one in mind now
Your familiar ground is ostracism
Give us one on "The Beauties or
Ostracised Life, and Why the Judi-
ciary or Governor Should Not inter
fere."
The onions in the Boggy flats grow
so fast that their odoi can be de-
tected up at the ice plant.
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Isenberg, J. L. & Isenberg, Edna. The Enid Weekly Wave. (Enid, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 4, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1897, newspaper, May 20, 1897; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc112015/m1/3/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.