The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, June 25, 1909 Page: 6 of 12
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cess, lie curries a line line of nm*tl
Jewelry, cut gluus, silverware, etc.,
wlili Chrlstmus goods in abundance
during the holiday Rcunon. He does
lernl repairing and devotes himself
thought fully and painstakingly to the
optical business. for which he had
been t'Mp.-v ially fitted. If he has any
specialty in connection with IiIm trad.
It is that of engraving in which he I.;
reputed to he an adept. Mr. Brewer
was horn in Emporia, Kan^ax. lie
cam© to Oklahoma early in life and
settled with his uncle four mlh s
southeast of the present site of the
town «*f Amen, lie came to llcunes-
Mey fifteen years nK" and after flu-
ff-111 ng school for three years hid
cliurgo of the city lighting syvt
In the meantime he studied the optie:ii
business and took a training in me-
tal engraving in Kansas City, wln-re
he graduated from the optical de-
partment of the llorologlcal school,
taking* a special course therein. He
ugaged In the Jewelry business at
\iuls Valley, Oklahoma, hut returned
to Hennessey about a year ago. He
has some reputation along the line of
his speciality. He is personally very
popular not only with his special
trade but socially and personally with
all the people.
of whose Integrity no llvlnv man has
an Intelligent doubt, fie was born In
Chlllloothe. Ohio, in 1H44. In 1854 he
went to Bloomington. III., and In 1877
i to Wichita, Kansas, where he was a
farmer. lie came to Oklahoma in
j 1m 2. When the Cherokee strip open*
I ed, lie made the run and lodged for the
j night on a farm east of Kremlin in
i 'Jarfield county. lie did not like the
! appearance of the farm, however, and
i went on *° set a beter one. In this
I way. he failed- to get any. and the
farm which he passed up afterwards
I sold for 97.500. Mr. Oliver estab-
| llshed a grocery and feed store, but
later disposed of this to sell the Oliver
| addition which he laid out. When he
had sold this out. he returned to the
grocery business from which he later
retlrod In favor of the seed business.
Mr. Oliver Is a member of the Knights
of Pythias.
FARMERS AND ME RCHANTS RANK
l'\\VIMKits' A MUNCH*VI'*' HANK.
The Farmers' & Merchants' bank en-
Joys the distinction of being the old-
est bank in Kingfisher county, as In-
deed, it is one of the most flourish-
ing. It began business in 1891 with a
capital stock of $f>.000. Hh founders
were M. A., S. P. and A. C. Richard-
son, who conducted its business for
some time. In 1905, .1. W. Smith and
his brother. C. C. Smith, bought an
Interest in the bank with Mr. S. I'
Richardson. The latter retired In
190S leaving the entire ownership of
the bank to J. W. and O.
Smith.. In February, 1909. the present
owners of ihe bank bought It from
the Smiths. They are K. H. Cock-
rell, A. W. West lake, 1.. A. Wilson
and Floyd E. Felt, who constitute the
board of directors. The growth of
ihe hank may heal and most forcl
bly be shown in the figures represen
ting Its resources ami deposits. Tin
capitalization has been Increased to
912,500 and a surplus of 97,500 has
been accumulated, making $20,000 In
all. The deposits of the bank In 1K98
were 969,000; in 1900. 991.000; in 1905
$99,000; in 1907, $120,000 and in 1909
$190,000. This wonderful growth o
business shows Its largest develop
ment under the present new manage
ment which is the highest testlmon
lal that could be given as to Hh pop-
ularity. It claims distinction as the
only bank In Hennessey whose de-
posits are guaranteed by the Depos-
itors Guarantee fund. Certainly the
business it has done and the busl
ness it Is doing Is n sufficient as-
surance that the people believe in its
Inherent as well as in Hh official
strength and have con^dence in tlu
men who have charge of it.
The of flours of the bank are Pres-
ident E. B. Cockrell, vice president
A. W. West lake, cashier Floyd TO
Felt, assistant cashier Charles K. Stet-
ler. Its resources were 9212,065, as
shown by Its last sworn statement
of April 28th. Besides the surplus
attained this place through meritor-
ious service in the banking business
Itself. Mr. Felt was horn at Minneap-
olis, Kansas, in 1887, and therefore is
but little past his majority. When
lie was five years old, lie moved with
his parents to Hennessey where he
attended the common schools and
graduated from the High school
was in the postoffice us a clerk and
as deputy postmaster for nine year
Three years ago he entered the Fan
ers' ^Merchants' bank as bookkeepi..
lie was first promoted to be second
assistant cashier and then was mad.
assistant. With the reorganization in
February. 1909, he was made cashlei.
Ho is the son of Postmaster J. A.
Felt, one of the foremost citizens of
Hennessey. In his banking expet
lence, he has shown an adaptability
lo the demands of his position, a
Judgment of men and affairs and
insight into conditions most remark-
able in one of his years. He seems
to be a born hanker and his success
and effloency in his present relations
has fnarked him for higher distlnc
lion in the busineBs to which he has
devoted his life. Personally, he Is
an amiable gentleman of a rarely
noble character in thought and pur
pose and he has won from the busl
ness community, as also from the
common people, a meaure of esteem
ami affection such as Is not usually
R. W. WE8TLAKE
Iif >7,r.00, tli. re are undivided profit*
amounting to |1,847.9a to be added to
lis permanent foundation.
Mr. A. \V. West lake, vice president
of the bank and its acting executive,
was born on a farm in Nemeha Coun
ty. Kansas. In 1871. He obtained a
common school edueiiilon and grad-
uated from the High school at Sene-
ca In 1890. He devoted himself to
teaching school. In 1894, he came to
Oklahoma and located upon a farm
ten miles northeast of Hennessey
where he remained for six years. At
that time he moved to town and en-
gaged in the real estate business. At
Ike reorganization of the Farmers' &
Merchants' bank In February of this
year, he became vice president In
charge, in the absence of the presi-
dent. He was married In 190:1 to Miss
Rlva Ralney and they have two sons
They are members of the Methodist
church and Mr. Westlake affiliate*
with the Masons and the K of 1'. He
has accumulated two fine farms and
considerable city property. Although
a comparatively young man. Mr.
Westlake has made a great success or
banking and has shown a remarkable
capacity in building up the business
of the Institution in his charge He
is a man of genial personality and his
earnest handshake. Indexing his sin-
cerity. makes him friends wherever he
goes.
Mr. Floyd Felt, the cashier of the
bank, enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the youngest cashier in Oklahoma
Indeed, I believe It Is a fair state-
ment to say that the distinction cov-
ers even more ground than that and
that he is the youngest cashier of a
banking institution of any size or
importance In the world. This Is an
honor of which he and his friends
have a right to be proud, especially
when It Is considered that he has
FLOYD E. FELT
given to one of his years. Mr. Felt is
unmarried an yet. He is affiliated
wIWi the a. o, IT. \v , m. of .1. and
Ihe Royal Highlanders and Is ictlve
in tho fellowship of the Congrega-
tional church.
Mr. t has. K Slotler. tin1 assistant
cashier, was born In Minneapolis,
Kansas, in 1S86. His father made the
run upon the opening of Old Okla-
homa and located upon a farm east
of Hennessey. He attended the com-
mon schools of this town and grad-
uated from the High school. For
live years lie followed the threshing
business as an engineer. He took one
year's study In the a. * M. College
at Stillwater. Filtered the Farmers'
(i Mechanics' bank and became book-
keeper and then second assistant
cashier, which position lie held only
two days until attaining the place of
assistant, lie fits naturally and well
Into I lie business and seems destined
lo a long and useful career in bank-
ing He has warm friends who have
been won lo him by his splendid
qualities of mind and heart.
IIKMtl OI.IVKIt, SIUOIIS Rft'.
Mr. Henry Oliver Is one of the pion-
eer characters of the town. He is en-
gaged during the season In the seed
business, every variety of them. While
the demand Is on, he caters to It in-
telligently. faithfully. vigorously.
When It Is'nt he closes his doors and
waits for the cycle to come around
again. Mr. Oliver has a wide acquain-
tance anil a farmer who does not know
of him and of his fair dealing in bus-
iness Is a rarity in the territory aux-
iliary to Hennessey. He Is a fine
old chap whom everybody respects and
I. II. Meltkv/.iio, iiaki:ii <:n<M i:ii
Mr. I. II. McKenzle began ills busi-
ness career as a grocer and baker only
last April when he bought the business
establishment of Mrs. Abble Kasebeer
on Main street. He deals In all classes
of baker's goods, and has likewise a
fine fresh stock of groceries, candles
and fruits, cigars and tobacco. For a
new man at the business. Mr. McKen-
zle does remarkably well, showing
that he Is well adapted t0 the trade
and that there was born Into him some-
thing of the natural qualities of a mer-
chant. He was born in Boone county,
Missouri, May 6th, 1868, and remained
there until 1889 when he came to
Guthrie, later moving to Hennessey.
He divided his time between farming
and blacksmitliing in each of which he
was proficient.
Mr. McKenzie has an Interesting
family, consisting of a wife and one
daughter. He is a member of the I
O. O. F. lodge.
STAR Mil.I. AND EL3VAT0R C'O.'S PLANT
1
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CLARK AND JONES MEAT MARKET
CI.A UK A .KIVHS, Ml'.AT MAIIKI0T.
It is fair lo say that neither Oklaho-
a City nor Enid, nor yet any other
city of the stnte. has a more complete,
re convenient, handsomer or better
regulated meat market than that Df
I'lark X- Jones, on Main street, in the
town of Hennessey. This firm bought
the market In 1907 when it was small
and dingy an had a fixS ice box. The
former owner was r>. E. Miller. The
new firm at once set a'bout making a
real market and wonderfully they have
succeeded. They now have a large
room, an ico box ten by twelve, a re-
frigerated counter and all the improve-
ments to be found In tho fines! shop
mi anywhere. They slaughter their
11 meat, buying fine cattle and stock
of the neighborhood, make sausages
and holonga and carry a line equal to
that of the metropolitan markets.
Whenever there is a late process or a
new method that will improve their
service to their customeis It is put
In. In fact Clark .St Jones not only are
up-to-date but keep up to date. The
partners are George A. Clark and 13.
I.. Jones. The former is a native of
Grand Rapids, Michigan. At the age
of twenty he came west to Missouri
and sixteen years later he adopted Ok-
lahoma as Ills home, settling first in
Kingfisher and then In Hennessey. He
became Interested in the present bus-
iness in 1907. Mr. Jones was born in
Southern Illinois In 1860. He lived
there until lie came to Oklahoma, fet-
tling at Hennessey two years ago. lie
has been a butrher all his active life
anil understands the business from the
foundation.
MTAIt Mil,I, A; UI.KVATOIt CO.
One of the live and substantial in-
dustries of Hennessey Is the Milling
cMabliahement of the Star Mill & Ele-
vator Company; of this company Mr.
Jesse Baughman Is president; W. .1.
tallies is manager, and A. C. Black is
ice president and treasurer. This
company bought tho present property
from the Farmers Milling Company
four years ago; at that time it thor-
oughly rebuilt and refitted the mill,
doubled Its capacity and added the
very latest labor saving and efficency
adding processes.
The mill now has a capaciy of .100
barrels of flour and 100 barrels of
meal. Ordinarily It is operated stead-
ily to its full capacity, but at tills
linie It has some difficulty in getting
the wheat that is necessary. Its pro-
duct Is In great local demand in
Hennessey and surrounding towns anil
In the southeast generally, but it also
goes to England, to the ports of
Glascow and Liverpool, to Cuba and
to other foreign ports.
It has the Greal Western machin-
ery and has recently added the self-
lontrollable sifters. Tho mill em-
ploys from 11 to 17 men. Mr. D. J.
Tate is head miller and he has had a
large experience anil understands Tils |
j business. The president, Mr. Jesse
Baughman, is a resident of Kingfisher;
he has milling interests In Oklahoma
City, Pond Creek, Hutchinson and
Abellne, Kansas. Mr. W. J. Balnes, the
manager, is 41 years old and form-
erly resided at Denton, Texas, where
he was the grain buyer for about 18
years of Ihe Burrls Mill & Elevator
Company. Ho was also the Oklaho-
ma buyer for the Cameron Mills of
Fort Worth, Texas, at Kingfisher, be-
fore coming to Hennessey. He has a
wife and five children; is a member
of the Baptist church and belongs
lo the Woodmen of the World. Mr. A.
C. Black, vice president was born at
Hutchinson, Kansas, in 1874; got his
education in the common schools and
in the Western Normal College at
Lincoln, Nebraska. Lived for a time
at Carthage, Missouri, was for some
years a telegraph operator and sta-
tion agent. He came to Kingfisher
and was engaged v.Ith Mr. Baugh-
man as a salesman fur his milling
products. From this position he was
chosen for the place which he now
occupies.
He has a wife anil two children;
Mrs. Black belongs to the Methodist
church. Mr. Black affiliates with the
Masonic. Workmen and Woodmen fra-
ternities.
VHMAVTHOIT ItKOS., PHOTOS.
Hennessey Is not without art. as Is
shown the casual \ Isitor to the popu-
lar photograph gallery of Arman-
trout Bros, which is owned by M. I,
and W. O. Armantrout. who also have
a gallery under the same name In
Guthrie. The Hennessey gallery was
established in 1898 and is In charge
of W. O. Armantrout, while the Guth-
rie concern is In charge of his broth-
er. The Armantrout gallery has built
up a great reputation for fine woflc
in the ordinary forms of photography.
It also does a considerable business
HtSHMKVr HAHIIEll SHOP.
Edward A. Ralney Is the owner of
Hennessey's leading barber shop, that
In the basement of the First National
bank. In lis appointments and facil-
ities this Institution is all that could
be asked or desired by the most dis-
criminating and fastidious. There is
all the features tQ be found In a flrst-
class shop and what Is more there are
competent, high-class experienced
men to operate them. Every man who
gets work done In a barber shop knows
H. II. IIKKWKH, .IEM El.Eli.
On the first of January, 1908, Mr.
H. D. Brewer bought tho jewelry
store of W. C. Stairs and he has been
operating it since with signal suc-
II. D. BREWEIi
EDWARD RAINEY
what that means—it means everything.
Mr. Ralney was born In Gentry coun-
ty. Mo., in 1S79. At the age of ten. he
moved with Ills parents to Kingfisher
county, locating twelve miles east of
Hennessey. He learned the barber
trade In 1902. He went to Beaver
county the same year and took up :i
claim near Conch, twenty-six miles
southeast of Liberal, Kansas. He made
proof last January. Mr. Ralney barb-
ered on Ills claim, serving people who
came for twenty miles around to get
hair cut or shave. He was married to
Miss Pearl McKlsslc In October 1908.
who had just completed a course a.
Blackwell College. They are mem-
bers of the Ilnptlst church and Mr.
Ralney belongs to the K. of p. and a!
o. U. W. Mr. Ralney is also a mechan-
ical and elecrlc massage worker.
PATHK'K O'SIIKA, It Ml.HUM) A<iT.
Patrick O'Shea Is one of the pop-
ular fixtures of the town. He is tlie
agent of the Rock Island railroad for
Hennessey, and he Is such an agent
as every railroad ought to have at
every station . Mr. O'Shea never loses
his head, nor his temper. He Is on.
of the few agents of which this can
be said. He withstands a fire of even
impertinant question with a full sur-
vival of courtesy and good nature. In
tills way he Is a paragon and that Is
W. O. ORMANTROUT
In the enlargement of photographs,
and In picture framing. The business
has grown in n manner altogether
marvelous, and the drawing power
has been good and well finished
photography. Mr. W. O. Arman-
trout was born In Peru. Indiana, in
1870. lie got Ills education there and
went to Kingman, Kansas, in 1889.
He engaged In the picture business
at Anthony later and again at Cald-
well, Kansas. He Is blest with an
artistic conception, which accounts
for the high class work he turns out.
Personally, Mr. Armantrout is a man
of fi-linement and high tastes. He has
a wife anil two children, llis rellg
ious affiliation is with tho Congrega
tional church and he belongs to the
Masons the K. of P. and the A O
II. W.
The Armantrout gallery Is on tlu
ground floor and is located on South
Main street, just south of Fourth
street.
store of Holmes Brothers. The pres-
ent firm bought the business in 1907
of C. A. Ball, who had conducted it
for twelve years, three years in the
same room. They keep a complete
line of jewelry, phonographs, musi-
cal Instruments, chiefly stringed in-
struments, watches and optical goods.
Mr. Holmes, who conducts the store, is
a competent optician and is thor-
oughly prepared to do fitting and to
test the qualifications of the eyes. He
has all tli e instruments for this pur-
pose. The store is under particular
charge of CJ. B. Holmes, as his broth-
er. P. W. Holmes is running a jewelry
store at Sayre. Okla. The brothers
were born In Brown County. Kansas,
but came to Oklahoma twenty years
ago. P. W. Holmes received his edu-
cation in the common schools ami in
the State University at Edmund. <1. B.
got a good common school education
after reaching Hennessey. lie is a
member of the Modern Woodmen and
Royal Neighbors. Although an ex-
ceedingly modest man, he impresses
you as a forceful, earnest, industrious
and thoughtful tradesmen, whose
highest ambition is to lie faithful • to
the duty which he serves.
HOI.MUS IIKOTIIHItS, JMUKI.KHS,
A progressive institution and one
that deserves well at the hands of tlu
people of Hennessey is the jewelery
PAT. O'SHAY
why the people of Hennessey, with
one accord, honor and esteem his,
though he has only be on here seven
months. Pievlous to coming here,
he was agent for eighteen months at
Lone Wolfe. Oklahoma, and when he
left, the people there, mourned the
departure of a brother. At Anadar-
eo and Hobart he left the same im-
pression and all because he realized
that he was really a servant of the
people. He was born in Diniplian
County, ansas. thirty-six years ago.
but afterward moved to Benden*.
Previous to entering the railroad
business he worked on the farm. He
has a wife and two sons. lie is a
Catholic in his religion and affili-
ates with the Knights of Columbus.
GEO. HOLMES
ROY LEWIS
OH. A. P. MUHHIMj, DENTIST.
l>r. A. F. Merrill is a member of the
splendid professional coterie of Hen-
nessey. lie has been in the active prac-
tice in this town since J903, and In that
time has commended himself in every
way to the people of the vicinity. He
was born in Brunswick. Maine, in
1N66. He got a common school educa-
tion at Brunswick, which city he left
upon reaching his majority. He spent
three years in St. Paul and then went
to Cincinnati to the Ohio College of
Oontal Surgery, which is the second
oldest dental college in the United
States, where he graduated in '94. He
located in Iowa In '9fi and from there
came to Oklahoma practicing at Potul
Creek nnd Medford until his removal
to Hennessey in 1903. He goes to
Hover on Tuesday of each week and
Iils n considerable praotlco at that
point. His family consists of his wife
and a son, Leonard, 11 years old. who
has distinguished himself as the agent
for the Saturday Evening Post and
Ladles Home Journal, which position
he has had for four years.
Hr. Merrill is known throughout the
territory embraced In the Hennessey
trade district, as a man of kindly heart
and lofty purpose. He had met the
people In such a way as to win their
affection and they all have a kind word
to say of him whether as a gentleman
or a dentist. Among his immediate
neighbors he has won a place rarely
Kiven to the busy professional man. He
Is a member of the Masonic and Odd
Fellow fraternity. A. O. U. w, Yoeman,
and a man of a large measure of civic
pride and patriotism.
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