The Times--Record (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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PoDUsbed Every Tnursday, at Blackwell
Ukla. Ty , By
RANDALL & McDOWELL,
Editors and Proprietors.
Phono 50.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Thre month*).................... 26
Sis " ..................... 56
One year..........................1.00
Payable in advance.
it will be necessary to build can.
als and dams. These, or at
least the main one, will be 94
feet thick at the base, tapering
to 86 feet at the apex. It will
be 210 feet high and 150 feet
long.
The Sherman Machine Com-
pany will have three years in
which to complete the work.
At least 300 men will work on
the dam and 40,000 barrels of
cement will be used, which will
be furnished by the government.
— Oklahoma City Times Journal
the new magazine as it deserves.
Send your subscription to Irl R.
Hicks, St. Louis, Mo., one dol-
lar per year or ten cents for the
October number.
Hicks predicted seismic dis-
turbances for August, and the
dispatches announce well de-
Tuesday October 17 is really the I Mrs John S. Butcher has been
Urst day of our fair and contrary to quite |0w this week, but has ralliM
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and was reported some better thij
Thursday.
generally established rules it will be
one of the best days All stock and
other exhibits must be in place on
the ground, and they will then be at
th-ir best. The speed urogram Is by
*' me considered the best of tne week
Including as it does the free for all
trot, $600. purse; two year old pace,
*200. purse; 2:25 pace, $400 purse and
fined earthquake shocks in St.,. , „
Louis, Kansas City, and di«r,r. ?££ “~
Advertising Bates
Heading locals 5 cents per line for
each Insertion.
Business cards 50 cents per month.
Display ads il an inch double col
ump per month.
All advertising continued till order-
ed out and paid for. Statements will
be presented at close of each month.
We this week publish an or-
dinace of some length. It is
known as a criminal ordinance,
and is really the first general
ordinance of that nature passed
since we have become a city. A
reading of the ordinance may
keep some from being guilty of
a misdemeanor. There are oth-
er matters that will later re-
ceive the attention of the coun-
cil.
Weather report for week end-
ing August 21, for Osage, Kay
and Grant counties, is as fol-
lows; Good rains were benefi-
cial to all crops during the week;
threshing about completed;
plowing well advanced, with
ground in good condition; corn
maturing and being cut; grass
revived and stock doing well;
apples dropping and wormy;
grapes in good condition and
ripening.
The past ten days have been
the hottest of the year, and no
section ot the country has en-
tirely escaped, In Kansas, Ok-
lahoma and Indian Territory the
thermometer lias ranged from
the nineties to as high as 104 in
the shade. The mornings and
evenings have been very pleas-
ant, but the middle of the day,
from 10 o'clock to 4, have been
blistering hot. A uice breeze
part of the time has, in a de-
gree, ameliorated the heat, and
there have been few, if any,
prostration. In any other sec-
tion of the country such extreme
heat would mean death.
The Enid Eagle publishes a
list of the principal contribu-
tors to the Snyder cyclone fund,
In Oklahoma Kingfisher, Ho-
bart, Norman and Snyder con.
tributed over *500; this city was
next even $500. Chicaskia was
the big contributor from the
Indian Territory, with $-<09.90.
Dallas, Texas, and Sherman
are both between $500 and $1.-
000; Wichita, Kans., *1,049.90;
New York City, $800; Fort
Smith, Ark., $786; St. Louis,
Mo:, $1,365.50 and Kansas City
enjoys the distinction of the
heaviest contribution in cash,
amounting to $3,140. Thous-
ands of dollars worth of sup-
plies were contributed, and the
total cash was $28,785.04.
An Oklahoma City firm lias
again taken the lead with the
government work in the irriga-
tion business, and the N. S.
Sherman Machine Company, of
this city, has just received a
telegram stating that their bid
on this work is accepted. Their
bid was *459,260.
This work is for the great
Pathfinder dam and auxiliary
works at Casper. Wyoming.
The proposition is to enclose
100,000 acres of laDd and irri-
gate it. This is at present to-
tally arid land. For this work
The peace commissioners at
Portsmouth, have accomplish-
ed little or nothing this week.
They have been tied up over
the indemnity, interned war-
ships and Sakahlin questions.
President Roosevelt made a
suggestion which was cabled to
both governments, looking to a
compromise and if absolutely
a referring of the unsettled
questions to the Hague tri-
bunal. The Russians are quot-
ed as saying that the govern-
ment will not consent to the
surrendering of Sakhalin, in-
demnity or the interned war-
ships. One suggestion credit-
d to President Roosevelt is that
lie Russians cede Sakhalin to
the Japanese and then turn
around and pay the Japanese a
sum equal to the indemnity ask-
ed for Sakhalin. Japan may
yield a point or two in her de-
mands, but if she does not and
war is resumed, Russia will
never be able ugain to settle on
as favorable terms.
ent parts of Missouri and Illi-
nois. The Kansas City papers
announce that a shock was felt
there Monday night of this week
at about 11 o’clock. Slight
shocks are recorded for October
31, 1895, and December 2, 1897.
A case of yellow fever at
Gregory, Missouri, not far from
Keokuk, Iowa, has alarmed
that section of the country de-
spite the positive assurance of
physicians that the disease can
not spread in that section of the
country. The victim was a
Greek railroad hand who had
gone there from Natchez. Towns
along both sides of the Missis-
sippi river have quarantined
against Gregory, and all the
other railroad hands are isolat-
ed and quarantined.
races for that day. Many have de-
ci r : io take advantage of the asso-
r'at.ons offer and buy a season ticket,
that will admit them each day, and
as many times a day as they care to
go in and out of the grounds.
The annual reunion of the South-
western Soldiers Association will be
held at Riverside park, Arkansas
City, Kansas, September 12 to 15,
1905. The reunions of the South-
western Association are the largest
in Kansas except the state encamp-
ment. Tents, straw and lire wood
will be supplied free to all members
of the G. A. R and their families.
Free concerts every day by military
band. The Hendricks Amusement
Company has been secured for the
entire week and will ^present a num-
ber of free attractions that are unex-
celled. Sprecial rates on all rail-
roads
M. W. Billings was up from Ton-
kawa last Saturday for a short visit
w-ith old friends. Mrs. Billings has
about recovered from a severe illness.
Work on the lateral sewers is pro-
pressing in spite of the fearful hot
weather. Both sewers are practical-
ly to Blackwell avenue and the woric
le to be pushed as fast as men can be
obtained.
B, F. Loomis and T. S. Chambers
returned Wednesday evening from
their fishing trip to Colorado. They
had a good time and would have
stayed longer had not important bus.
iness necessitated their return home.
One of the sewer contractors went
over to Ponca City Thursday even-
ing to secure if possible, some men
for work on the sewer. They are of-
fering $1.75 per day for good men.
The Arkansas City Traveler re-
cords the fact that James Turvey
and wife and Miss May Turvey, who
had been visiting there this week re-
turned to their home in Blackwell.
Work on the Welge-Onstott build-
ing has gone along very smoothly
this week. The granite columns are
in place and the brick work is now up
to the second story and the stone sills
are being placed this Thursday.
The building is not only one of the
prettiest in Oklahoma and will be a
credit to architect, builders, owners
and the city.
Edward H. Conger, ambassa-
dor to Mexico, has resigned, to
take effect October 18. Mr.
Conger was minister to China
during the boxer uprising and
rendered valuable service, not
onl}’ to this country, but to oth-
er civilized countries as well.
He ha6 been one of our best men
in the consular service, and re-
signs to give bis personal affairs
his attention.
The Coffeyville, Kansas, Rec-
ord recently published a column
or corn disaster telegrams which
indicate a peculiar state of af-
fairs in Kansas. From Wichita
the report comes that during a
light storm a cornstalk was
blown over on a farm house,
crushing it in like an egg shell,
and killing nine people. Near
Hays City a boy was robbing a
crow's nest in a corn stalk when
he fell to the ground, a distance
of thirty, feet, breaking both his
legs. The farmer took the boy
in his auto and scorched for a
city doctor.—Pointers.
Some of the nespapers are in
dined to attach some import-
ance to the separate statehood
convention now being held in
Muskogee, expressing the fear
that it will result in complicat-
ing the statehood situation.
This is probably more than even
the leaders of the alleged move-
ment expected to accomplish.
It will have about as much ef-
fect upon the statehood situa-
tion as a Ponca green corn dance
would have on the peace nego-
tiations at Portsmouth.—Ponca
Courier.
Commencing with October
Rev. Irl R. Hicks will issue
Word and Works in magazine
form, and has announced his in-
tention of doing away with his
annual almanac. The magaziue
each month will have a more ex-
tensive forecast of the weather
than even that contained in
Word and Works, and in addi-
tion will be a first class home
magazine. The change will ne-
cessitate a great expense, but an
appreciative public will support
TO OUR PATRONS
JLiEGINNING September ist we will adopt a strictly
cash system; there will be no deviation from this
—and all accounts will be promptly closed on Sep-
tember 15, and believing as we do that there is no sys-
tem like the cash system, and knowing our ability to
serve you better than ever before has caused us to
adopt this plan, you will not only be able to buy your
groceries at the very lowest cash price, but it will also
relieve you of the necessity of helping to pay dead
beat bills, overcharges, monies paid on account of
which you have no credit, etc. Knowing that this will
be to our mutual benefit, and hoping that it will meet
with your approval, we are
Very respectfully.
STEPHENSON GROCERY CO.,
Blackwell, Oklahoma
Kermit Roosevelt, son of the
president, is having a strenuous
time in South Dakota, the guest
of Chaplain Setli Bullock; Miss
Alice Roosevelt, a daughter,
has been offered the hand in
marriage of the Sultan of Jolo,
on the occasion of her recent
visit to that island, and Presi-
dent Roosevelt himself is not
doing any loafing just at pres-
ent, with the peace commission-
ers on his hands, The Roose-
velts are very much in evidence
and all are fulfilling the expect-
ations ot their friends.
We acknowledge the receipt
of a copy of the illustrated edi-
tion of the Sparks (Oklahoma)
Review. The edition is a mam-
moth one and would be a credit
to a city of 50,000, let alone a
town of 1,000. Arthur H. Mar-
lin, formerly of this city, is ed-
itor, and is entitled to the cred-
it for the pictorial edition
REVISED COURSE IN HIGH SCOHOL
At a meeting of the board of edu-
cation on Monday night a revised
course of study was adopted and a
committee appointed to have it
printed. In the High school there
will be three elective courses, name-
ly, a latin course and a normalcourse
of four years each, and a short com-
mercial course of two years. The
latin course is the regular High
school course and is intended for
those who wish to take the standard
High school work or propose to en-
ter the University and prepare for
a profession.
The normal coarse is arranged to
prepare pupils who intend to engage
in teaching and later to attend the
Normal school. In addition to a two
years course in Latin, all the neces-
sary subjects for a first grade teach-
ers’ certificate are included in the
course. Pupils taking the course
will be expected to pass the exam-
ination for a first grade teachers
certificate before being allowed to
graduate.
Stenography and typewriting will
this course, those intending to take
it should inform Prof. Bunten at
once.
Ora J. Gould, who is running excur-
sions to old Mexico, has just returned
from taking a crowd to that country.
On the way back he concluded to
stop off here and visit with his oar-
ents. Today he went to Kay county
to visit with his sister, Mrs. George
Love. Mr. Gould stopped in New
Mexico for a few days. He thinks it
is much cooler there, especially at
niRht, than here He saw Jerry
Simpson while there. He thinks that
It will be impossible for him to live a
great while longer.—Arnansas City
Traveler.
W. S. Baird,the veterinary surgeon,
brought to this office a few days ago
a specie of the “hoop" snake which
had been killed in Brewer’s barn,
says the Jefferson Review. it was
only about a foot In length, but the
tail for over an inch was of a hard
horn substance with a small aperture
just under the point from which the
be special subjects of the commer-1v etl0m ** excluded. Dr. Baird says
that he has seen a number of hoop
snakes in Southern California and
that it was one of that species.—
Jefferson Review.
cial course and pupils who take
those studies will pay a fee of *5 per
month. As special arrangements
will ha\*e to be made for carylng on
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Randall, J. W. & McDowell, T. H. W. The Times--Record (Blackwell, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1905, newspaper, August 24, 1905; Blackwell, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1138566/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.