The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1906 Page: 3 of 4
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BILLINGS ST
FRANK WRIGHT, PRk*.
CLAUDE MACY, VICK PRC*
L. H. SIMMONS. CABMICA
O. C. FRAZIER, ASST. CASH
..CAPITAL STOCK, $15,000..
DIRECTORS
Frink Wright
C. E. Pleroe
Claude Msoy
R. F. James L H
W W McCullough
Borland M R Conway
FARM OR CHATTEL LOANS __
ON SHORT OR LONG TIME.
Notary Public always present to make your legal papers.
Business locals 5c per line for each in-
sertion, and to ran nntil ordered
on. and paid for.
For Loans and Insurance see Op-
dylke.
A. W. Cruson was among our Satur-
day callers.
If you need ground feed you can get
it of Davis & Kern.
C. H. Fielder made a business trip to
Gnid Monday and Tuesday.
Take your produce to Carter A Hop-
kins. Highest market price.
P. E. Wikel and wife, of Bliss, were
guests of the Rock Island on Saturday.
Dr. C. J. Lukens, Eye, Ear, Nose and
Throat Specialist, Enid. Glasses Fitted.
Heniy Hampton of Medford came in
Monday, for a visit with friends in this
section.
Carter Sc Hopkins sell just as they ad-
vertise. We have good, fresh groceries
coming every day.
P. H. Marsh, veterinary surgeon of
Tonkawa, will be at Kennedy * Sanders
barn in Billings on Monday, May 28.
Lew Thomas left Monday for Hennes-
sey, to look at a farm for sale down in
that region, which he is more likely to
buy than not.
W. A. Blakeley, division superinten-
dent on Rural R. No. 2, is now regular
afternoon assistant at the Greenlee Mer-
cantile Emporium.
Geo. Dimond, of Cooper Sc Dimond of
this place, and A. M. Hutton, of Coop-
er, Hutton & Dimond, of Tonkawa, the
former of Wichita, the latter of Tonka-
wa, drove to Billings from Tonkawa on
Monday, to look after matters of busin-
ess at this place, returning to that town
in the evening.
Go to Carter Sc Hopkins for good,
fresh groceries.
Mattings, mattings and then some
mere mattings at Long’s.
Born, on Thursday afternoon, May 17,
to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hayton, a boy.
J. P. Opdylke has some choice farms
For Rent, and some are close to town.
Mrs. Tom Walter Anderson, teacher
of Voice, Piano and Organ. Terms: $10
for term of 24 lessons. References fur-
nished.
_ J. 8. Landes and wife have been en-
tertaining the past week S. F. Weir and
wife, of Keil, Kingfisher county, here
on a visit.
Young men and women just starting
in life will find it economy to use the
best. Ours are the best, "THE ALTON
GOODS.”
Hutchison A Hawkins want a chance
to figure with you when you need a well
or cistern made, or any kind of cement
or rock work done.
Rev. J. D. Watkins preached morning
and evening at the Baptist church, Sun-
day last, and will conduct services there
again next Sunday at the same hours.
L. C. Brown and family and Dan Det-
wiler and family spent Sunday in the
country, the guests of Mr. and Mrs.
John Mason, at their home near White
Rock.
A. E. Buzard sought, accepted and
paid for the services of Peter Murray, as
forked-stick water expert, sometime a-
go, the latter performing the function
desired and indicating to the former ex-
pressly where to dig for water. Mr. Bu-
zard alleges that he has faithfully dug
in accordance with the specific instruc-
tions of said expert, but that his consid-
erable outlay of time and muscle and
patience and pesos have utterly failed
to bring the liquid relief covenanted and
guaranteed by the expert aforesaid,
wherefore he demands redress and dam-
ages, and to obtain the same will pros-
ecute the said Peter Murray to the full
extent of the law in such cases made
and provided. Mr. Buzard has, we are
informed, retained Mr. Burnett as chief
counsel, which insures a prosecution at
once short, sharp and snappy. Judge
Faris has already begun to part his hair
in the middle and dust the judicial er-
mine in order to present an impressive
dignity in court when the case of Bu-
zard vs. Murray is called. We publish
this item that the defendant may have
ample time to brace himself for the con-
test or take to the tall timber on the Ar-
kansaw.
Jacob Lowe returned the past week
from his trip out into the Panhandle,
and to say he is pleased with what be
saw and learned, and also bought, is to
very imperfectly express his state of
mind regarding that nascent agricultu-
ral empire. He bought while there two
sections of land, in Ochiltree county, at
$6 an acre, $5 cash and one dollar per
acre to run at 3 per cent interest, and
since he left there his son has probably
concluded a deal for 1700 acres more at
$4, in the same county and joining the
line of Beaver county on the north. It
is all nice, level land, with deep soil,
and there is little doubt but it will be
worth $10 an acre in a few years.
As a matter of local and general in-
terest we note that one E. G. Cash, of
Hennessey, applied to Ira D. Mullinaux,
editor of the Kingfisher Time*, to print
a notice looking to the seourance of a li-
cense to sell liquors by the former, which
it seems the newspaper man refused to
insert. The case was referred to dis-
trict Judge Irwin, who ruled that the ed-!
itor or publisher of a newspaper could
not be compelled to print such a notice
any more than he could be compelled to
sign a petition for a license. The mat-
ter went before Judge Burford, who de-
cided that Mullinaux must print the no-
tice as applied for, or go into court and
show cause why he Bhould not be com-
pelled to do so. We presume the news-
paper man can escape from the muzzle of
this alternative mandamus bv a solemn
oath that to publish such a notice would
outrage his conscience, as a temper-
ance man, and put him in a position of
sad inconsistency. As a ho'el must ac-
commodate the public within certain
limitations, a merchant sell goods to all
who properly call, a railway accept for
transportation all ordinary freight and
passengers, so a newspaper must accept
all legitimate business. The Iaw legiti-
mates liquor notices. But we think one
could escape by averring infraction of
honest conviction.
Lowe
says
A generous portion of Ice Cream (Stef-
fen’s) made of the finest Jersey Milk and
Cream covered with luscious crushed
fruit—that is the way we serve our Sun-
daes.
Good Soda is one thing you can get
at our fountain.
Good Service is another.
The very best dinner won’t tempt
you if it is served badly. Same with
soda water. The best evidence we have
is that people like to come to our fountain
often.
BillingsDrug-Jewelry Store
(SMITH'S OLO STAND)
Business Phone 49 ftes. Phone 39
All old soldiers and their families and
everybody else who can are requested
to bring their baskets full of choice Ok-
lahoma victuals, and enjoy a big dinner
at the Hall, on Decoration Day.
E. H. Perry and L. H. Simmons, the
former accompanied by his wife, left on
8unday for Oklahoma City, to attend
the Bankers’ Convention in session
there Monday and Tuesday.
Our amateurs bad the nerve to tackle
the Red Rock professionals here on the
ball ground, Thursday, the 17th, and
were trimmed down 13 to 0. Our boys
did their beBt and got some mighty good
practice, but it was a walk-away for the
connoisseurs down the creek. A lick-
ing don’t taste good, but it often pow-
erfully stimulates exertion which leads
to ultimate victory. When one bites off
a hunk too big for his maxillary machin-
ery to comfortably handle trouble nat-
urally results.
Mrs. Mabel Goodwin and baby daugh-
ter are here this week from Tonkawa,
visiting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
O. W. Hutchison, and sisters, Mrs. E. G.
Greenlee and Mrs. Henry Bird. Otto
drove over after her Saturday afternoon.
A very pleasant afternoon was spent
at the home of Val Elliott on Wednes-
day the 16th, when Mrs. Will Elliott,
teacher at White Rock, entertained her
pupils with music, games, refreshments
and a most enjoyable time. (Every pu-
pil but Myrtle Lawson, too ill to attend,
was present, the company feeing Belle
Beach, Anna LawBon, Bertha Davis, El-
la and Rhoda Lyon, Maude Pierce, Mil-
dred Humphries, Goldie LawBon, Lola
Davis, Harlan Armstrong, Walter, Ray,
Claude and Clarence Humphries, Clar-
ence, Edgar and Millard Pierce, Vera
and Ruby Osborne, Arthur Davis, Mrs.
C. E. Pierce and Mrs. N. J. Beach.
We desire that all those who expect
to attend the home-gathering of Ken-
tuckians at Louisville, June 13, from
this section, notify us of the fact, as we
wish to publish their names in the News
in the interest of our patroBS in general
and Kentucky patrons specially. Phone
right into our office. There are 11,715
Kentuckians in Oklahoma, and a whole
lot of this number will journey back for
a grand final visit in the Commonwealth
of Boone.
Rev. Rhoades, formerly the Christian
minister at Perry, and who conducted a
series of meetings here this spring, has
accepted the pastorate of the Christian
church at Newkirk and moved there
with his family the past week.
P. A. Becker, of Jefferson, was elect-
ed commander of the Oklahoma G. A. R.
for the ensuing year, and the veterans
of this section will be glad to learn that
the next annual meeting is to be held at
Enid, as it will make it easy of access
for all who survive until ’he next reun-
ion in Oklahoma. Commander Beoker
is the father of Mrs. H. B. MoCorkle, of
Billings, and the Billings contingent at
the Reunion contributed much toward
his election.
A. E. Buzard loaded 80 light hogs in-
to a Rock Island car Saturday, and bill-
ed the bunch for Kansas City, in charge
of Porter McClanahan. The lot aver-
aged about 190 pounds, made up as fol-
lows: McWaggoner, six head, weight
1320; T. J. Mehuron one, 230; — Starm
eight, 1280; Chas. 8eite four, 870; -
Wray seventeen, 2650; J. 8. Ward five,
810; J. N. Moore thirteen, 2900; J. C.
Noonan four, 620; Wm. Sutherland two,
465; Frank Wilkins ten, 2160.
Geo. C. Leffingwell, a moneyed man
of Valparaiso, lnd., and A. N. Leffing-
well and E. P. 8awyer, of the Cropper |
State Bank, have bought and taken pos-
session of the Covington State Bank.
E. P. Bawyer now becomes cashier of
the Cropper bank. The new owners of
the Covington bank propose to at once
erect a new fire-proof building
A. F. Scott drove in late Thursday
evening of last week, direct from Chi-
cago and adjacent points, accompanied
by a couple of gentlemen from Indiana,
who came to Oklahoma to size up this
country with the object of buying land
if favorably impressed. Mr. Scott state*
that dry weather has hurtfully prevailed
in northern Illinois, and in the lake re-
gion generally for sometime.
A. Branson made us a call Saturday,
and be states he has rented bis plao* to
B. E. Guffey, to give possession Aug-
ust 1st, on or before which time he and
his family expect to leave for an exten-
ded trip back to the old home.
Chas. Ward was in town Monday, ex-
hibiting a pair of badly carved fingers,
the result of a slip and a wholly unin-
tentional contact with the business edge
of a sharp knife while trimming a tree
the past week.
Farm Loans made di-
rect to the investor
at Billings State Bank
no “rake oft” for the
middle man. Call or
j write them for rates.
$ I 4
Binders \
Binder Twine
We Have Them Both
Our Binders are moving
nicely, simply because
we have sellers.
The Deering machine with a knotter head that has been
the same on everybody’s machine for 17 years.
The “Johnston”, well you know what it is. It simply
goes out and does the work. We have sold over 50 o. them
and sold less than $10 worth of repairs last season. And
our “Hodge Queen”, you had better look it over before you
buy, we can show you something.
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The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1906, newspaper, May 25, 1906; Billings, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1173368/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.