The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1908 Page: 3 of 4
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BILLINGS STATE BANK
M. R. Conway, Pres.
C. E. Pierce, Vice Pres,
D. C. Fraizer, Cashier
Henry Murray, Asst. Cash.
Capital Stock $15,000
Surplus $2,5OO.oo
DIRECTORS
M R. Conwnv C. E Pierce W W. McCullouah
(ieo. Seegers C. E. French H. Murray D. C. Frailer
Our Depositors are protected by the Guarantee Deposit I' und
of the State of Oklahoma.
Business locals 5c per line lor each in*
sertion. and to run until ordered
ou. and Da id for.
When you want grinding done go to
Sterrett’e Elevator.
G. M. Dizney made Enid his head-
quarters last Sunday.
Frank Wright went to Tulsa again
last Sunday on business.
Emanuel Smith was an Enid bound
|passenger Tuesday on business.
Geo. Lowry of Perry, came over
Tuesday to do some piano tuning and
repairing.
Elmer Brown and family went to Enid
last Saturday to spend a tew days with
Ids parents.
Bert Wood and wife of Newkirk,
were registered at the Rock Island
Hotel Monday.
Ollie Potter started to the K. C. mar-
ket last Saturday with a carload—33
head—of cattle.
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Wright went to
Blackwell Monday to spend the week
risiting relatives.
Bell Coflee ia as good as you can buy.
Sold in either package or bulk by St.
Clair k Moncrieff.
Blakeiey & Faria ia the place to go
for sheet music, books, stationery, fine
candies and cigars.
We handle a full line of staple and
fancy groceries, candy, and fresh fruits.
—St. Clair & Moncriefl.
Leo Walsh got the roaming fever
again la6t week and Sunday pulled out
for Cheyenne, Wyoming.
You only live here once, then why not
live on the best? Ours is the beet,
“THE ALTON GOODS.”
Miss Cora Carroll of Gotebo, arrived
here Monday to make her friend, Miss
Jennie Opdylke, a short visit.
E. O. Brewer and family of Salt
Fork, were down visiting the former’s
parents on the farm, last Friday.
Mrs. Hariy Koons left Monday for
Anadajko to spend a week visiting her
brother, Elmer Riley and family.
Money to loan on real estate or chat-
tels, on either long or short time.
S. D. Crosby.
Rev. Thos. Allison joined Mrs. Alli-
son and babe at Union City, Monday to
spend a week with hie old parishioners.
Wood Cooper came over from Enid
Tuesday, where he hae been clerking
the past two months, for a visit of a
day.
A. H. Chiles was over from the reser-
vation again Monday. He spent Sun
day evening visiting Jas. McCluskey
and family.
Leave your renewals and subscrip-
tions with Mrs. McMillan at the News
Agency. Office in O. W. Long’s Fur-
niture Store.
Blakeley & Faris have two of the
best makes of pianos on the market
today. They are the Kimball and
Adam Schaaf.
An editor 6aid to us once, “1 like to
publish your advertisements, because
your statements are true of “THE AL-
TON GOODS.”
Mies Luna Young, teacher of vocal
and instrumental music, can be found
at the home of Mrs. Chas. Culp, where
ahe is giving lessons.
H. C. Graves and W. W. Sears were
up here from Perry last Friday, the
former on business and the latter re-
newing acquaintances.
Will Brown of Perkins, nephew of
Mr. ar.d Mrs. W. F. McMannis, arrived
here with the former from Bliss Tues-
day evening for a visit.
C. S. Hinman took Mrs. Hinman to
Bliss Wednesday morning, where she
took the train for Topeka, Kansas, to
make a visit with her parents.
T. W. Prather took a run over to
Enid Tuesday to do a little looking
around to see if he could find anything
in the employment line to suit him.
RES OL.VED
That we have ml of os
been in a tight squeeze at
sone dme cr'mother- But
A Lirp-E ECoNonY AND CARE
WILL SAVE US E0T5 oF WORRY-
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WE CARRY THE
"Kabo” Corsets
BECAUSE THERE ARE NONE BETTER AND BE
CAUSE OUR PATRONS HAVE TOLD US THAT THEY
NOT ONLY GIVE THEM GOOD FORM, BUT THAT
THEY ARE COMFORTABLE AND LAST A LONG
TIME. A CORSET, YOU KNOW, IS THE ONE
THING WHICH MOST OF ALL DETERMINES ONES
APPEARANCE, BECAUSE THE CORSET IS THE
PLAN FOR THE BUILD1NC OF THE ATTIRE. BE
CAREFUL THEN ABOUT THE KIND OF CORSETS
YOU GET. WE CANNOT RECOMMEND THE
"CABO” TOO HIGHLY. IT SELLS FOR
5OC., $1.00 AND $1.50
WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO HAVE YOU SEE OUR
CORSETS AND OUR OTHER WEARABLES THAT
GO WITH THEM.
Baum Hinman.
Mrs. M. L. Lyons of Wiley, Kansas,
sister of W. F. McMannis, came in
from Bliss with him Wednesday eve-
ning to make him and family a visit.
Don’t be fooled by a fancy label. It
is the contents you eat and not the lab-
el. Our labels are not fancy, but the
contents are, “THE ALTON GOODS.”
Mrs. Thos. Allison and babe went to
Union City, Okla., last Saturday for a
two weeks’ visit with friends of theirs,
made while Rev. Allison was their pas-
tor.
Fred Holeenback and daughter of
Wellington, father and sister of Mrs.
H. B. Stroup, returned home last Sat-
urday after a week’s visit here with her
and family.
Mrs. C. B. Kirk has for a guest her
mother, Mrs. Gibson, who lives near
Pattonsburg, Mo. She arrived here
Friday of last week and will remain
some little time.
Mathew Chestnut, as a delegate from
the Reformed Presbyterian church of
Billings, left Monday to attend the
Presbytery, which ia held this week at
Blanchard, Iowa.
Mrs. Wm. Guckian and two children
arrived here from her home in Okla-
homa City Tuesday to visit her pa-
rents, Mr. and Mrs. G. J. Greenwood
and other relatives.
“They are just aa good.” That is
what some dealers tell you when you
ask for ours. Substitutes are never
equal to the original. Insist on having
"THE ALTON GOODS.
Charlie Russell took passage out of
Billings Tuesday, saying he was just
going down the line a short ways. We
couldn’t learn whether he went as far as
Garber, Enid or the Gulf.
Alex McCluskey drove to Perry Sun-
day to bring the family home, but the
extra heavy rain that struck there that
evening, made him change his mind, so
he left them and returned alone.
Joe McKeown started for El Campo,
Texas, late last week, but only got as
far as Fort Worth, where he learned
conditions were not satisfactory there,
and returned to Billings Tuesday.
L. S. Clarke and wife returned to the
vicinity of Billings Monday from near
Como, Oklahoma, where Lewis farmed
tne past season, to help bis parents
who need his assistance on the farm.
Geo. Rogers accompanied his sister
and husband, Mr. and Mrs. John Jen-
kins, who visited him and family four
days the week before, to Pawnee early
last week for a week’s visit at a sister’s.
J. W. Parks is taking his yearly va-
cation and left here Monday to be gone
thrce or four weeks. He expects to
sperd most of the lime in s tuihern Texas
and may go to Old Mexico to see the
sights.
Mrs. L. D. Jones of Columbus, Kan-
sas, arrived here last Saturday to
make a couple of weeks visit with her
cousins, Mr. and Mrs. O. W. Long.
Mr. Long had not seen her for thirteen
years.
A. H. King of Salina, Kansas, and
vice president of the Wesleyan Uni-
vers ty of that place, arrived here on
Monday’s train to spend a few days
visiting his brother, W. L. King and
family.
Dr. Lukens of Enid, will be at Dr.
Renfrew's office Monday, August 31
and Tuesday, Sept. 1, to do eye, ear,
nose and throat work. Parties desiring
to see bim should do so for this will be
bis last trip this fall.
Mrs. John Landes left here Monday
to join her husband at their home in the
big pasture country near Randlett. He
preceeded her there over a week before,
going from Enid after attending the
Wright-Koons trial.
Emerson Calkins, who owns land ad-
joining the townsite on the southwest,
returned to his Illinois home last Sat-
urday, after a week's stay here plan-
ning the work to be done on thiB land
for the season to come.
G. W. Kitchen of State Line, Indi-
ana, arrived here Wednesday of laBt
week for a five week’s vi6it with his
son, William Kitchen and family, who
reside several miles to our southeast,
and a brother near Salt Fork.
Mrs. Orlie Cox and children left here
last Saturday evening enrsute to El
Campo, Texas, to join Orlie, who has a
good position there. They remained
over night with her parents at Polo and
took the train from Perry, Sunday
Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Quillen leave here
today for a two months' trip to points
in the south and southwestern part of
state. They will be in Oklahoma City
visiting their son during the state fair,
which is about the middle of October.
Mr. and Mrs. N. J. Beach left here
Wednesday to enjoy a vacation at the
old stomping grounds in Kansas. They
expect to be there to attend the fair and
see all the neighbors and will surprise
their daughter and family *t Towanda
by dropping in without notice.
Delbert Belsche again shook the dust
of Billings from his feet Tuesday. This
time he has gone to Quiney, Illinois, to
enter a business college and complete
himself fora business career. Success
to this young man, who hae proven
himself worthy of anyone's hire.
Mrs. E. G. Greenlee left Tuesday
morning fora few weeks outing in the
scenic Rockies with her mother, Mr6.
Hutchison, who has been there some
time past. Her brother Otto, came
over after her Monday evening and she
left from Tonkawa Wednesday morning
Henry Katsehor of Piper City, Ills.,
who owns what is known as the Foster
farm 2^ miles north of Billings, arrived
here Thursday of last week to try and
make arrangements to have the place
put in wheat this fall. It ia his inien-
tion to then move hie famiiy here and
become one with us. We hope he can
make arrangements to this end.
Claud Macy recieved notice Monday
of the marriage on the eighteenth of
August of Mr. Thos. M. Miller to Mirs
Muriel Renich of Covina, California.
Mr. Miller will be remembered as being
president oi the Citizen Bank of Billings
in its infancy. Hie first wife died about
two yearB ago. He has made his home
in California for some time past.
The W. E. Huff public sale Wednes-
day of last week drew a large crowd and
good prices prevailed, in fact, the
amount realized was greater by about
$300 than Mr. Huff had figured on get-
ting. He and family left this week for
visits at Tonkawa and several points in
Kansas and expect to settle down to
work in about a month at Miami, Okla-
homa.
Our auctioneers have all been beyond
the natural limits of Billings’ territory
this week crying sales. Williams
Kingery cried a sale Monday near Sail-
ing for Sam Merrifield and J. M. Sand-
ers interested a crowd of buyers for
parties near Cleo, Wednesday. Merit
always commands reward and our wor-
thy auctioneers are getting a share of
theirs.
Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Taylor entertained
for a week a brother of the former, C.
H. Taylo-, and a Mr. J. L. Kelley, both
of near Oklahoma City. They came in
Tuesday of last week and left Tuesday
of this week. This waa Mr. Taylor’s
first visit here since the railroad was
completed into Billings, eight years
ego, at the time most of the buildingB
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Violet Talcum Powder
Its absolute fineness, its unequalled smooth-
ness, its perfect softness, causes it to cling to
the skin, which, with its delightful, individual
odor of violets, makes it the ideal face powder—
toilet powder, and baby powder.
By-lo Violet Talcum Powder is individual
in its elegance, and is a great favorite with
women of refinement everywhere.
A great treat to men after shaving.
I1
SOLD AT
CORNER PHARMACY, t°oeuwe
Residence Phone 38 Business Phone 4»
The Christian church has called Eld-
er Rolla G. Sears, professor in the
Bible college at Enid, to be its minis-
ter. He will preach every Sunday.
His next appointment will be the first
Sunday in September. Prof. Sears re-
ports that the University will have
about 400 students this year. He is
expecting about 100 ministerial students
There were 54 preachers last year from
17 different states.
Does your back ache? Du you have
sharp pains in lhe side and the small of
the back? This is due, usually, to kid-
ney trouble. Take DeWltt's Kidney
and Bladder Pills. They will promptly
relieve weak back, backache, rheumatic
pains and all Kidney and Bladder dis-
ago, at the time most oi me uuutiingB pains ami all Muney ami mnuuu <ua-
at White Rock were being moved over orders. Sold and recommended by The
here> I Corner Pharmacy.
Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Van Deren got
back home from their Texas trip Mon-
day highly elated over the country they
■aw. They were greatly impressed with
the irrigation section in the extreme
western part of the state, next to the
mountains, and brought home some
samples of fruit and vegetables raised
there. An onion they brought along
weighed two pounds and measured at
least five inches across. The pears that
are raised there were something wonder-
ful for size.
When the baby is cross and has you
worried ami worn out you will find that
a little Cascasweet, the well known
remedy for babies ami children, will
quiet the little one in a short lime. The
ingredients are printed plainly oil the
bottle. Contains no opiates. Sold by
The Corner Pharmacy.
There!
Yes, we
have
some
hay here.
Lots of
hay tools
too
When it comes to mowers. Our Standard mower is in a class by itself. We
ean sh™you why if you will come in and let us. We also have Peering
Acme and Plano mowers at prices that will talk. Osborne and Emerson hi >
Stas “heavy frames, one-Llf inch tooth, self dump. etc. Dam sweep
rakes Dain stackers and loaders, Bale ties and Lightning hay pu sses.
vou look at the press! If you did and are going to need one you will look
no farther. It sells itself. tVe have hay tools and we arc “going to the hay.
M°CLUSKEY BROS.,
BILLINGS,
OKLAHOMA.
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