Weekly State Democrat (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 178, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 1907 Page: 3 of 12
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Who Makes the Cigars You Smoke
Perhaps you never thought the matter The American Cigar Company stands
of very much importance—but consid- back of its brands with a responsible
ered it enough to know the retailer from guarantee of their quality. We stamp
whom you bought. the boxes of our standard brands with
But when you are repeatedly stung our Triangle A merit mark so you ean
with poor cigars you cannot always blame immediately distinguish them wherever
the retailer—that isn't the way to avoid ~~
unreliable brands. Because that very _
. , UT . . , : Then we invite you—even urge
same retailer probably carries in stock , , , , , , _
, i * • , to go to any store and ask for any one
the best brands of cigars made-if you ^ Trjang]e A brands_then judge it
Qn y as or em. strictly on its merits in critical compari-
low ought to Kl\OW ^ gon cjgars of any other manu-
When you get a poor cigar—and you
don't know who made it—how are you
going to avoid the other brands of
the same manufacture?
Don't you see that there
is no way to prevent dis-
honest or incompetent
manufacturers from re-
peatedly imposing on
you by offering you
unidentified brands of
different names?
The NEW
is convincing evidence of the improved quality which
the Triangle A guarantees. Every box is extra-
wrapped in glassine paper to keep the cigars clean,
fresh and in perfect smoking condition.
facture sold you at the same price.
Isn't that a square deal ?
Do you know any
other cigar manufac-
turer who stands back
of his product in the
' same unmistakable way
and on the same re-
sponsible basis, with as
plain a guarantee of
valv--?
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MEDALS AWARDcD
COMPANY
Alma Green and Waller Rose Proved to
be the Winners (if the 0«rrett Prize
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JOBBERS and RETAILERS of
Hardware, Implements, Wagons,
Buggies, Harness, Stoves and Ranges,
and FURNITURE.
Machinery, Contractors and Builders' Hardware 25 per «ent.
cheaper than any house in the Southwest. Try ug-
In order to reduce our stock of Buggies and Implements to make
room for factory shipments, we will give 10 per c#lit. dis-
count on this stock until sold,
We heartily Invite all patrons of the G. W. BROE Hardwar. and
Implement house, and the public in general to give us a social call,
get our prices and look at our mammoth stock.
The LAWTON HARDWARE Company
wants pour patronage, and will get it if fair treatment
[ and prices of goods are considered,
Yesterday at tbe higb eohorl building
in tbia oity the Barrett Medals were
loonteated for and won i,jr pupils of the
rural districts. Tbe contest *as close
and interrating snd not UDtii tbe judges
had made tbeir final decision cnold the
audisnee fully determine who tbe wie-
ner! would be
Tbe medei for the test reoitatinn wag
conteat,vJ for by Alics Ferguson «nd
Alma Green and while e cb ol the giiis
acquitted themaalveg creditable little
Misa Green w«a ths winner
Walter Rose and Henry Haaenback
delivered deolamatlobs la a manner that
was both surprising and pleasing and
while Mr. Rose won tbe medal Mr.
Haaenbeck was indeed a close second
Much interest was ehown in tbo oon
test and all who heard tbe boys and
girls were loud in praise of the forensio
ability of eaoh contestant.
TO BEGIN
IN MARCH
THE WORK OF CONSlMJCTINi THE
WICHITA FALLS S LAWTON H. R.
IS PARTLY BUILT
tEl
I Lawton Hardware Co. j
)kla. L
G, W. BROE, President and Manager.
LAWTON and WALTER, Okla.
Airsady Constructed Iroiu Wietlt*
Falla to Red River, and me Bridge
Aoross that Rivtrie Now
Being Put In
tbe Big Higture, whe"« the railroad
company will lay off a townsite and es-
tahiieb a town, somewhere in range
fifteen west.
The new line into Liawtoi will not
only open up a new line to the ffulf, but
it will open up a new line into tbe lum-
ber and coal fields, and tbe need of iust
nuch a line baa been a long felt want in
ibis city. It will result in obeaper
lumber and obeaper coal, and tbe sooner
it is completed ths sooner will the peo-
ple of Lawton and vicinity enjoy ths
benefits thereof. In addition to tbe
above it will give Lawton a better trade
territory, as it makos the oountry
through which it passes directly tribu-
tary to this city.
Chart** €brtamaa, a jo«*g mam lit-
ioj asar Frederick baa jvat raaovaiad
lonselousnast, after lying In a somatoaa
condition fo: «,tvsn diya aa a ssault af
bight and a sboak to hi* nerves. It
aeemi tbst Cbarlss Cbrisnan and Rob-
ert Yates wers two members of a party
that went bunting cn.ms one night la
the Big Pasture. It had been previou*-
ly arsnged to play a practical joke on
Cbrisuian and frighten him.
According to the previously arranged
prograui, Robert Yates dressed himielf
in a woman's dress, threw a sheet over
his bead to represent a ghost or witch,
and at a oertaio point in ths woods,
armed with a large butcher knife, be
sprang out of bis place of conceal-
ment and rushed at tbe party of which
| Chrisman was a membtr. Of course
all were familiar with the play exoept
Cbriaman, and they fl^d in appaisnt
fright. The witoh however singled out
Cbrisman and pursued him through tbe
woods and out upon tbe prairie.
Cbrisman was so frightened that ar-
when be reached bis home be rushed ic-
into the bouse and fell senseless upon
the fljor. Pbyaioians from Frederiok ~;ha
were sent for and they did all in their |a ia
power to restore tbe young man to oon- road
sciousness, but for eleven days he lay in onea
a atupor like one dead. Robert Yates, a city
| the young man wbo was responsible for opt-
(.'hrieman's Irigbt, was almost prostrat- *d,
ed with griel and fear that bis thought- ' '< *
less joke would result ir, the death of
hia friend,
Within the past day or two, however, *aa
Chrisman has regained consciousness ■/
and come out ol his comatose condition. ■ O.
and tbe physicians sar that while hi9 'h*t
nerves are in a badly torn up condition, took
and will be for some time to come, he ia inted
now ont of all danger and will reooter. wera
Tbe Frederiok Leader, in speaking of Then
ibe affair, says it is one of the most pe- ' lha
ouliar cases in medioa) soienoe, and it oitjr
will doubtless bs reported to some of lis ia
tbe leading medical journals and die- irday
sussed in medical convention*. bably
SHE DRtW
A SAND BANK
tdsle Frsuoh Who Bid on 1,820 Tracts,
Gets a Band Hill on Red River.
It will be remembered that at the
pime of opening the bids on the pasture
eserve lands, the longest bid filed was
the one filed by Adele E. French, of
p >uth MoAllester. Her bid contained
bids upon 1,820 tracts. In fact she bid
pn nearly every piece ef land that was
pot sale in the big pasture. Did she
anything? Tea, bnt it ia bert^r
hie lb* will ha fleaaed witk what
she got. She is among the list of auo-
oessful bidders who are to tile on Marob
18th, and tbe pieoe of land awarded to
her is the northeast quarter of seotion
3t township 4 souio, range 14 west, and
the price she got it forie $830.
At the time ol writing this artiole the
writer has before him a large descriptive
map of the Big Pasture, and tbe quar-
ter eeotion awarded to Adele Frenoh is
within a few rods of the bank of Red
river, while printed across the tract she
geoured are tbe words "sand hills.'
This is too bad, aa evidently the lady
wanted a borne in tbe big pasture, other-
wise she would not have bid on every
quarter. The general land offioe has
ber bid in Washinutor, where ii ia hung
up as a ouriosity, and it looks shabby
epon the part of the general land office
to assign this most eaergetio lady to a
Mad bill «a the baaka * Bad *•'•
D DNT KNOW HER NAME
Dave Cole, properly named, for he
was aa black as ooal, in faot so blaok
that he spits ink, and hailing fiom
Frederick dropped into the probate
court yesterday for a airriBge lieenBe.
He experienced no diftioulty in answer-
ing tbe questions relative to himself but
when tbe clerk began interrogating hiui
about the prospective blushing bride,
he was up a stump. He oould tell her
age alright, but he didn't know her
name. Now just imagine a fellow mar-
rying a girl whose name he didn't even
know. That was tbe predioamcni Dave
Cole found himself in. All he knew
about her, aside from her age, was that
her name is Janie, but whetbor It was
Janie Brown, 8mitb, Jones, White or
Johnsing, he didn't know, never heard,
and couldn't tell. But be got tbe li-
cense just the same.
J, L. Cosens has sold
grocery to a party from New
ad will aso e te Kansas C j,
his 0 eva cue
Mexioo,
Tbe committees in charg of raising
tbe bonus for the Wiohita Walls, Law-
ton & Northwestern railroad are meet-
ing with enoouragiog sue c as, and ex-
peot to have the entire amount raised by
the first of tbe ooming ween As goon
as it is raised J. M Bellamy will le-ve
for the east to olose up wme milters
with the company, after which the work
of construction will begin t once.
Iu a peaking of the matter yrsterday
Mr. Bellamy said he expec'ed congiruc
tion would begin by ths middle of
March, and it will be pushed rapidly to
completion. The road is now completed
from Wichita Falls, Teias, to Red
river, and the bridge aoross Red river is
now being put in. From the point
where the road crosses Red river it ia
tbirtj-six milee to Lawton, over a stietcb
of oountry that ie moetlj level *s * floor
and the work of ecnstru ting the road
from Red river to tbie city will be a
Tery ehey task, so if the o. mpany geta
to work upon congtruciion ny th« mid
die of Maieh the road will be finished
into Lawton iu a remarkably Bbort
ti ue.
Another line of thie road branoben i 0
juat this aide of Red river and rune off
[in a northwestern direction lor about
I eighteen er Iweaty ntua to a point ia
THt BANKLRS MELT
The Comanche County Banker* Asso-
ciation held itstfourth annual oonven
tion in the Chamber of Oommeroe in
thla tity, Friday Quite a number of
the bankers throughout the oounty were
present. Tbe following officers and
board af directors were selected for tbe
ensuing year: Preeident, J. C Tandy of
Temple; Vioe president, J. B. Steele of
Hastings; Secretary, F. W. Smith of
Liwton; Treasurer, F. M Knglish of
Lawton. Board of direotore: J. C,
Tandy, F W Smith, J. B. Steele, G. C.
Ribertson, B. S Coleman, T. H. Dunn
and F. M. English.
There will be held a meeting of the
bankers of tbie and adjoining counties
TO BUCK
THE STANDARD
Ths Uncle Sam, an Independent Oil
Company, will Locate a Branch
in tbia City.
here on Arbor day, in April to form
district association, and the territorial
oankers' aaeooiation, that meets at
ChiokBBha in May will be asked to set
apart this association as a district oon
vection.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
The following marriage licenses were
iaaued ont-of the probate court yester-
day.
Jamea Layman and Blanche King,
boto of Faxon.
Henry Allison aid Mary E. Barnard,
both :>f Walters.
Walter Young ol Lawton and Willie
Wilkes of Frederijk.
□Howard Tinsley, of Nellie, and Iris
Looney, ol Marlow.
Charles Ogilbee and Franoia M. Jones
both of Temple.
If there ia anything in competition
Lawton should soon have oheaper ooal
oil and gasoline. R. I\ Sunday, re-
presenting the Unele Sam Oil oompany
has moled hie family to this city and
located here, and as soon aa he can se-
cure a site on tbe Frisco right-of-way,
will construct an oil station in thil city.
Thp Undo Sam is an independent oil
oompany that is bucking the Standard
Oil trust. It is a Kansas concern, and
ita effect oan be fully appreciated from
the faot that since it opened bngioesa in
Kansas, coal oil now sells for twelve
oents a gallea in that state, the aame
quality of oil that sells for twenty-five
osnts a gallon here in Oklahoma.
The Unole Sam owns ita tank cars,
and has refineries at Tulsa and two in
kanaas. Mr. Sunday has been hers
about three weekaendeatoring to secure
from the Frisco a site for an oil station
nnd yeeterday stated that be felt that
he had suoceeded, and that the Frisco
company would probably lease him a
eite about two blooks west of tbe Frisoo
depot.
The faot that the Uncle Sam ha*
forced tbe prioe of oil in Kansas down
from twenty live oents to twelve oents
per gallon, justifies one in believing that
ita entering this section ol the oountry
will result in reduoiog the prus ol ooal
oil and gasoline her*.
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Neff, Robert A. & Bixby, T. M. Weekly State Democrat (Lawton, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 178, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 28, 1907, newspaper, February 28, 1907; Lawton, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc123122/m1/3/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.