The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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The Okeene Leader
J. H. RAG!-AND
Editor »nd Proprietor
O.NK HOLLA K I*
■KH YRAk
Kidcrvd at tht* «»!!'•-■•* a* 1
t <)kn*nr-, Ok'«hoai4.
Ljiil matter.
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people that bad sj>ent about all
their life’s earning in running
from one place to tiie other iook
ing for desir&Dle land and the
railroad co., that puts out the
abundance and tine water as any
one ever drank and taud as level
yju cau see for many miles away
a prettier level country no one
ever saw, and grass wild and
More Canada News
phamphlet says tnese 35(x/» t3mc. grows fine alfalfa Grows
free homesteads are within twen timothy live or six ft, high as
! ty miles of their line. Now feu Four head and oats above the
j lows l dont doubt the nutubei I top of a binder and wheat never
steps growing li.l frost gets it.!
Sounds big don’t it Well here
is the bad. 55 miles from rail
Liberty. SiSjt., Canada |0f homesteads for I didn’t find
May 5tb, 1918 a single farm I would live on one
Okeene Leader aud many friends , year for and I was wanting land
of Blaine county. lo° ^ome places I didn’t stop
I will try to tell you something I al miles but went 100 miles
more about this country. As I and found everything taken of
have spent lots of money travel and value and lots taken that i>
ing the country over to find good of n° v-lue. Some places I wad
homestead land. I ha*. -• visited ed snow and water knee deep.
1 he livery barns ask £<,00 per
Id n't
road, muddy roads to go over, j
because the country is to new to!
have good roads, yet land is so;
rich that wheat w -nt stop grow-
ing ; u frost, yust ;.\e wheat a.
round an old straw stack a wet
Ui1 the cities of Alberta * mm very oarns asa per j season in Oklahoma. Ground
utd wouldn't j» mostly all covered with scrub
Well w<* |j.pj , , re. i ce ci« goaranteo to drive over thirty not i rees but in- re.y brush that
t. s, clean and 0. K. If a per. miles a day. Well of c urse I is easily kid« d by tire. Roadsi
sou have done made their for- talked mostly, for I figured 3t will have to be graded to give
tme and wants t ivlire th* miles per day I wou d make at good drainage to tr.e country.
. ,, , „ | ,,j - $7. O'.'* a day and bau ■: y pay Good prosyecis tor raiiruad this
rest of their
my pocket, so you see I made this fall, and I think anyone get*
l in-
fer Iiv« 'yme money after all. Well oi ting a farm there is doing awful J
c urse I drove tut some when well ana I have spent lots of
there was a large bunch and money locking this country over
sometimes I could catch a ride | and learning what I know,
with a farmer going out driving) Lots of Ssh i(1 Carrot river,
bis builmobile. Well. I should
better have a pretty
come or die pretty soon
ing is certainly high up here.
Well, I will speak of a few
cities I have visited, not men*
tioning bundied.s of smali towns
I have saw Winnipeg is the best "««. 1 SUUU1U j two miles south of me. A few-
on- to try ‘kmc. ft ha- a pop- s:iy that ,s P™'1’ slow but lhe> ®Ues north is the North Saskat-
ulation of 185.43 ) it is situated ;ir‘; $ure; I expect ?o nave m^ebwan river, which is navigati-- j
in tin - vuthern part of Manitoba a bul!mobile ->efore another year bje> A few nice farms left yet
and ha-, some tine country near \ Lii’ 1 dec,dea 10 ?° t0 th* piece but iuside of a year, all will be
it, but of course land is hi&b, but! nv®r district, hut found that my gone. It is in a pan of the!
there is tine buildings and prob- j P°cketbook wasn 1 !ar?e enongb country, the land boomer hasn't !
ably raise just as mg crops as
got hold of yet and it isn't ad*
j nor I didn t value land worth a-
you see advert sed, then comes much as die expense of proving j vertlsed very much. I have lots i
Reuina.it has . population oi a UP' fori-r a person had money j 0f Oklahoma people for tcy neigh
4l md !s in a tine fanning —°agh to ffOJhat far and prove : bors., large settlement of A men i
up land they could buy la.nd jioarss, Cx. H. Mitchell and son of
country aud raise good crops,
and if a person will get
little ways from town, can buy j
land worth the money, and
Moase Jaw :ies west of liegina =
both m Sask. prov. Its popala wa> tbe^crow flics
tion is -0 0N3, very nice country
land and can be bought reason*
ably eh ap and further west
biCa a |clo5e to some good little town all
ready for farming. 1 iound
froc; Edmonton it was about 6'
nai es the best I could learn the
To the heart
j! the Piece River country ii
will cost $l.oO per meal and $1.00
■‘or bed the cheapest a person
comes S;v :: Orrent population c00,d besides traveling ex
9o«.», and nej t is Medicine Hat
pop llbCj and t’uc-n comes Cal*
c ry p :> -i 'A and then Edrnuo.
ton has p >p 5.1.* 11. The last
lew being in Alberta of which
province I think the least cf for
^-vrrai ' rea-ons. So then we
came b3ck ec~t to north Battle-
f. rd pop 37 - and from there to
Sa-katoon population, I judge
auont like some of tlie larger
town-. 1 have mention. Then
comes Prince Albert with poj
12.5"“. it being a boat landing
town or. the north Saskatchwau
river and there many smaller
i ovns I have failed to mention
but I mentioned those so as to
-show that I have traveled over a
vast territory. When I first
started out I got hold of a rail-
road folder telling of 35,oOO free
Homestead in tht three prov*
inces and it tabes up each differ*
ent place and gave a brief sum
rnary of the land and country in
general and made it look awful*
g'.od, (to a su< ker) that was look*
mg for land, and 1 found lots of
mm.
Constipation, if Neglected,
Causes Serious Illness
(."• n-tipat;• n, if n> elected, leads
to aim<-t innumerable complica-
tions affecting the general health.
Many cases of
typhoid fever,
appendicitis a n d
other severe dis-
eases are trace-
able to prolonged
clogging of the
bowels. Regard-
t h e effects o f
constipation, C.
E. Ayers, 6 Sabin
St., Montpelier,
Yt., says:
"I was afflicted
with constipation
and biliousness for
yearn, and at times became so bad l
would b.vomo uncon sole- s. I have been
found- in that condition many times.
Physicians did not f ni to he able to
do me any good. I would become
weak and for days at a time could do
no work. Not long aco I got a box
of Iir. Miles- laxative Tablets, and
after using them found I had never
tried anythin.-* that acted in such a
mild and effective manner. I believe
I have at la-t found the remedy that
suits my case”
Thousands of people are sufferers
from habitual ■ constipation and
while pos-ihly realizing something
tf the danger of this condition, vet
neglect too long to employ proper
curative measures until -crious ill-
ness often results. The advice of
all physicians is, ‘ keep your bowels
clean,” and it’s good advice.
Pr. Miles’ Laxative Tablets are
sold by all druggists, at 25 cents a
b x containing 25 doses. If not
f uind satisfactory, your money is
returned. 1
MILES MEDICAL CO., Elkhart, Ind.
penses 1 saw one fellow that haul
J one load over there last win-
a
er he said he got *150 for one
vrip with two horses and when
he got back, he had spent all of
the hundred and fifty dollars
for expenses, flour, $15.00 p«r
9- lb and everythin" in propor
tion, so I will quit at this, you
can guess why 1 didn't go.
So gentleman there is bitter
with the sweet, good and bad
and I am trying to tell an equal
amount of Dcth without exagger-
ating either way and you can
form your own opinion, but il
you listen to some of those wind
jammers and one horse laud
sharks, you may Iook for the
honey pond and gold bugs up
uere. Weli I must say their is
lots of ponds in parts, but the
honey is gone. Lots of bugs but
more humbugs than anything
else for 1 never have saw any*
thing I knew to be real Ameri-
can gold, yet. Well, in my trav-
els cheap beds are 75c over night
and and a very cheap meal 35c,
and every town is just filled with
men wanting employment but
the cry is the money market
Money is scarce, well this coun*
try isjust like our states. Mon-
ey owned by few and a few men
run 1 lie government. I have
been tc Id by good authority that
the C. P. R. is about all the gov*
eminent we have up here, with
•ui any doubt the C- P. R. rail*
road is the richest road in the
world.
Well, for me I happened to
stagger on a location about Iifty
miles from railroad, there I put
my John Henry to a quarter sec*
tion of iand, of which I am proud
of because there is good pros*
pects of two roads soon. Now
listen, here is some good things
about it. There is lots of moose
deer, bear, elk, rabbits, squir-
rels, grouse, pheasant and 1
don't know what all, anyway I
had ail the moose I could eat
while out among the farmers aud
1 saw their tracks as thick as
rabbit tracks in Oklahoma and
saw almost every farmer had 2
or 3 lodes of the orie, so that
was good sigus.
Weli, my farm is in the richest
land In the world and straw ber*
ries, raspberries, black berries
and in fact all kind grow wild in
Okeene, lives close, one of the ;
Nichelson boys from Fatrview. |
some from H-.rae-t^ad aud sev-
eral from Ames, ail of Oklahoma
live near.
There is no rock, no hills of
any kind, no sand but is a fine
real black loam soil, very rich
where I filed, hasu t been open*
ed up very long and will be some
more opened this year sometime.
For the man that can pay from
$13 '.0 £3o per acre for iand there
is good investment almost any-
where back from large towns
and bacic 0 to 12 miles front
road because the land surely
produces big crops, but if you
only want homestead laud you
may be cue out of the thousand
that will get desirable land where
you may find one good farm
there is hundreds that will spend
what httle money they have got
and go home disgusted or go in
the towns to hunt work. My
opinion of all the towns and cit*
ies are over doue, they have
grown so fast that they have got
to stop somewhere, and as many
peopie keep coming up here and
don’t know where to go to find
good cheap or homestead iand
and it costs so much to travel
out o\er tiie country in rigs there
is millions of dollars spent try
ing to hnd a location for the
the young man that wants to
hire out on the farm in this
country is the place, not in town
He can get $40 per month and
board, eight months out of the
year, so you see he has the big
wages in tbe city skinned and
pay board.
Now friends I have tried in
this letter and also in ray otuer
letter that have been published
to give you both good and bad
as I see it and can learn. For
me 1 aim to try it up here a few
years any way. We have some
fine weather and some darn bad
weatner. Just may 5tn, I woke
up and try about six inches of
snow all over every wnere before
eight, it was all gone. Most of
tbe past t,ro weeks it has been
snowing and raining one hour
and maybe the next would be
nice sunsbiue, so you see good
and bad goes together, 1 never
have saw any wnere but what
mere was buier with sweet all ol
my bunch that came from Home-
stead is well pleased, all are
getting them nice homes and 1:
anyone wants anymore informa
tion concerning wbat I know
about what may be left to file on
1 couldn't tell them anything
about it for I knew of 25 that
probably will file in the next
week and maybe 2 or or 3 hnne*
Free
Free
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\00 Yvece Cme 2/o V'wcs SlYoer StY
■5Y \(.2Av<isme Stmwo, T{Yae\\u\e,
All the above will be given away free. Remember
July 5th We will
HIVE AWAY THE SEWING MACHINE.
You need not buy any goods to get tickets on this ma-
chine. They are free if you will just ask for them.
Let us explain this grand Contest to you.
Okeene Ft
factory,
South Main St. Okeene, Okla.
red a person cant tell people
are grabbing all the good land
just as fast us they would grab
hot biscuits in time of a famine
*
Well 1 am back to Liberty to-
day and have just hired to a f<. -
low no fish for six months, I get
$40 and board for four months
for fishing and hunting, I
guess you hardly ever see a fei-,
low down your way draw salary j
for fishing and hunting.
Well if the good old editor ha-
patience to print this.I will write
a letter later on telling ab ut]
how crops look and maybe soiii*
fish stories that you wont be-
lieve, so 1 will close with my
best wishes to all.
Sincerely your friend
Chester B. Riekner.
Liberty, Sask., Canada
Adventists At Capital.
Washington, May i4.—The
worlds conference of Seventh
Day Afi veilli sts will on here
to-morrow with a :out 3,000 dele-
gat >, representing almost every
'."irlstian mission field. The con-
ference will be h.eld in a city of
tents er. Mod in ihe outskirts of
ti.e city at Takoina Park.
S. M. Poppenga J. H. Scliroeder
Poppenga & Scliroeder
Successors to Henry Slsghfc
DRAY LINE
Phone 45 or leave call
Sahm drug -tore.
Rock IslandTime Card
South Bound
No. 731 .Motor.... doe 8:00 p m.
No. 703 . Passenger •• 12.45 a. m
No. 7"7» .Leal Fgbt “ 10:25 a. m.
Freight south Mondays Wednes-
days and Saturdays.
North Bound
No. 7. 4 Passenger due 2:25 p. m.
No. 732 Motor........ ‘‘ G:25 p. m.
No. 7”G ..Local Fglit “11:30a. m.
1'reight north Tuesdays, Thurs*
days and Saturdays.
Frisco Time Card
South Round
No. 073. Motor______due 7:27 a. tn.
X 011 Passenger “ 2:27 p. m.
No. 047 L .cal Fgbt “ 10:10 a. in.
North Bound
N*». 072 Motor due 1:27
■ t li e . -«oior aue i:”» p.
No 67• > Passenger “ 5:18 p.
No. 6:40 Local Fgbt “ 2:30 p.
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Iced Tea Blend
A tea to tit every ta-te and
every pocket-book.
We pack nothing but the
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w
makes
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Ragland, J. H. The Okeene Leader. (Okeene, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, June 13, 1913, newspaper, June 13, 1913; Okeene, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173262/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.