The Davis News (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 27, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE DAVIS NEWS
VOLUME XV--NUMBER 2
OFFICIAL PAPER FOR MURRAY COUNTY AND TOWN OF DAVIS
DAVIS, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1908
$1.00 A YEAR
Okla. Historical Society
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Oar Prices, like these letters, are small. We sell
Hardware and Lumber and then some.
11. C. DRAUGHON S SONS CO.
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PRICES.
I appreciate the
suffered from the
fact that we have all
:cessive rains and
floods in this section of the country, and to
show you that my heart is on the right side,
we'll make you
Prices
■■J HASKELL AND FLYNN TO
• DEBATE.
Gov. Haskell and Douuis T.
Flynn, Republican nominee for
United States Senator, will
meet in public debate upon po-
litical issues at a picnic to be
held at Marietta August 27. An
invitation was extended to uov.
Haskell and be requested tbat
the Republican party be repre-
sented aUo. This afternoon
Chairman Norris of the Republi-
can State Central Committee
notified Senator Clint Graham of
Marietta that Mr. Flynn would
be there to divide time with the
Governor.
"What will they talk?" re-
peated Senator Graham to an
inquiry.
"Just politics, State or Nation-
al; it makes uo difference."
In consequence of the event
Marietta is anticipating an inter-
esting day. The local commit
tees will arrange the time.
on anything you need for the next sixty
days.
An opportunity is all I ask to prove my
assertion. Mr. Love Morton will take pleas-
ure in showing you.
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Death is caused by hydrocyanic
(prussic) acid which develops in
sorghum sometimes. It acts vory
quickly and there is uo remedy.
But this trouble is vory unusual
Oklahoma. In Kansas and
Nebraska losses are more fre-
|uent. It seems that when sor-
ghum is stunted, either through
lack of cultivation or prolonged
drouth the poison may develop.
If you want to make sure be-
fore turning your valuable ani-
mals on sorghum, try it on the
poorest one you have first. If
he survives it will be alright.
Bloat may be prevented by
keeping the cattle out of the
sorghum when it is wet and by
seeing to it that they are not
turned in when hungry and
thirstv.—Ex.
Is Your Chain
of Title Broken?
THE SULPHUR ABSTRACT & TITLE CO. has
tne only COMPLETE copy of the Records pertaining
to Murray County that has ever been made. We are
prepared to make Abstracts on all properties in the
County, either farm lands or town lots. Let us make
your Abstracts that you may know your "title isclear."
O. G. McADAMS, Pres.
Office: First State Bank building, SULPHUR, OKLAHOMA
w.
HILLIS
FURNITURE AND HOUSE FURNISHINGS.
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HUTCHINS BROS.
Undertakers
and Licensed Embalmers.
Caskets, Coffins, Robes, Etc.
The Campaign is on in Earn- Commission Orders Santa Fe
to Restore Trains
The new forms of mortgage
blanks, either single or in dupli-
cate, at this oflice. Work first-
class and prices right.
Farm loans on equitable terms.
E. M. Klkins, Sulphur, Okla.
est-Who Will be Presi-
dent?
To form your opinions and keep
in touch with the progress of the
campaign, you will need first
class newspapers.
W e have a n arrangement
whereby you can get The Dallas
Semi-Weekly News, and the
Davis News both one year for
$1.76 cash.
This gives you a live metro-
politan paper and a live local
paper, ti papers each week, not
only through the campaign and
election, but for one whole year,
l'lace your order NOW, with
DAVIS NEWS
The State Corporation Commis-
sion has issuod an order restoring
trains Nos. 15 aud 10 on the San-
ta Fe between Guthrie and Mari
etta, effective Sunday, Sept. ti.
The schedule will be: Leave
Guthrie 5 p. m., arrive Marietta
about 11:20; leave Marietta 5:1)0
a. m., arrive Guthrie 11:2B a. m.
The northbound traiu will con-
nect at Oklahoma City with the
Frisco from Lawton and for
points east of Oklahoma City.
The southbound train will con-
nect with the Rock Island west
and the Frisco to southwestern
Oklahoma. Petitions for restor-
ing of the trains went to the
commission from Berwyn, Davis,
Wynnewood, Pauls Valley,
Wayne and Edmond.
Buried His Bank Roll,
Washington, Aug. 21.-
$10,000 in decayed greenbacks
seut to the treasury department
for redemption by O. D. Earle of
Morrillton, Ark., all but $25 has
been identified and a check for
$9,975 was mailed to Mr. Earle
today.
Fearing the banks were unsafe
Mr. Earle buried his savings in
an old pail in 1904. Recently he
dug up his treasure, only to find
that the bills were so decayed
that he could not discern their
numbers. All that was left of
the roll was a bunch of paper
resembling a package of dried
leaves, with here aud there the
torn end of a note displaying a
tigure. Mrs. A. E. Brown, the
burnt money expert of the re-
demption division, was given
custody of the unrecognizable
mass when Mr. Earle forwarded
what was left of his fortuno to
the treasury department. After
much tedious work she has suc-
ceeded in identifying most of the
money.
Mrs. R. T. Sheegog had a nar-
row escape from death Tuesday
morning caused by her buggy
horse becoming frightened and
ran away. It was at first thought
she was injured internally, but
it was found to be only llesh
wounds. She had two teeth
kuocked out aud her face badly
torn, with a few bruises on her
body. The runaway was caused
by a loose telephone w ire hang-
ing on the umbrella top of her
buggy. The seat was tom from
the buggy. The accideut occured
south of town on the hill road
leading to Elmore. Mrs. Shee-
gog is resting nicely, and will
be up in a few days it is hoped.—
lJauls Valley Democrat.
Sorghum Poisoning.
Sometimes cattle die after be-
ing turned on sorghum. If they
bloat, there is some hope of sav-
ing them by tapping the stomach
and letting out the gas. If you
don't know how to do it, learn
how.
If the cattle die quickly, that's
because of sorghum poisoning.
Baseball at Night.
W. W. Hurst, manager of the
Argenta baseball team in the
Arkansas State leage, today an-
nounced th&t an exhibition of
night baseball will be given at
Faucette park, Argenta, just
across the river from Little
Kock, next Saturday night, when
the Argenta team will play the
Cherokee Indian team by elec-
tric light.
Only seven men will bo played
on each team at the night game
as there will be no shortstop or
second baseman. The ball to be
used in the game will be a hol-
low rubber one in order that the
danger of injury to players may
be lessened.
The announcement of night
baseball has created a sensation
in local baseball circles, and the
innovation may become popular.
If the first game is a success
more will be played at night.
Scheme to Defraud the
Newly-Weds.
Guthrie, Okla., Aug. 24.—Carl
McDonald was released from the
federal jail here Saturday after
having served a year's sentence
on the charge of using the United
States mails with intent to de-
fraud. McDonald's scheme was
one of the unique criminal ideas
which have been put into prac-
tice in this state. Carefully
watching the papers for an-
nouncements of coming mar-
riages, he would write the pros--
pective bride and groom stating
that an expensive wedding pres-
ent had been left in his care for
them, but because of some delay
in liandliug it, there were stor-
age charges to the amount of two
dollars on it, which amount if
they would send him would re-
lease the bundle. After workiu
his graft successfully for some
time, poBtoflice inspectors arrest-
ed him on the complaint of the
parties who had taken stock in
his scheme and sent him money.
He would get the $2, but always
failed to deliver the goods.
Being Overstocked
in Watches, Solid Gold Plain and Set Rings and
a few other items, I will, during the month of
August, offer extra inducements to buyers in
my line. Special bargains in Watches, Clocks,
Solid Gold Rings, Chains, Pins and Buttons of
all kinds, Bracelets, Spectacles, etc. Eyes
tested and fitted at lowest prices.
R. W. Kay.
Local inspector for Santa Fe Railroad.
The taxable values of Garvin
county, including railroads and
a raise of 25 per cent on assessed
values by the board of commis-
sioners, totals $9,805,812. There
is quite a lot of lands and other
valves not yet in, and it is be-
lieved when all is completed the
valuation of Garvin county will
reach $12,000,000 or there about.
—Pauls Valley Democrat.
Your Town.
More towns die for the want of
confidence on the part of busi-
ness llieu and lack of public
spirit than any other cause.
When a man in search of a home
or a business location goes into a
town and tiuds everything brim
full of hope and enthusiasm of
the prospects of the place, and
all earnestly at work to build it
up, he soon becomes imbued
with the same spirit, and as a
result he drives down stakes and
goes to work with the same in-
terest. When however, he goes
to a town where every one ex-
presses doubt and apprehension
for the future prosperity of the
place, moping about and indulg-
ing in mournful complaints he
naturally feels that it- is no place
for him, and he at once shakes
the dust oft' his feet while he
pulls out with all Lossible speed
for some other place. Conse-
quently try and make a live, en-
terprising town out of the town
in which you live. When you
are working for or saying a good
thing for your, town you are ac-
complishing all the more for
yourself.—Ex.
An Oklahoma paper, whose
editor isn't emulating the late
George Washington, says that
one day last fall a farmer went
out after a load of straw. Hav-
ing no pole with which to biud
hiB load lie took his ax and com-
menced to chop down a stalk of
corn for that purpose. He had
it nearly cut in two when one of
the ears of corn became detached
and fell, crushing him to the
ground. It broke his ueck and
one of his legs in seven pieces.
He would have died but for the
health giving properties of the
Oklahoma climate, which made
him a well man before he had
walked half way to the house.
(First published in The Davis N< ws
August 27th, 1908.)
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Rock Creek Bridge, Palmer,
Murray County
I The Board of County Commissioners
j of Murray County, Oklahoma, will re-
ceive sealed bids till 9 o'clock a. ni. of
Saturday, Sept. 19th, 1908, for the
I labor, material and complete erection
of a 50-foot, steel, pony, through truss
with two wooden (pile) approaches of
34 feet each to be located on the north
line of Section 13 (1 N, 3 E) three-
fourths of a mile northeast of Palmer,
per plans and specifications now on
I file in the County Clerk's office at Sul-
| phur, copy of which may be obtained
! by sending one dollar to H. V. Hinck-
ley, Consulting Engineer, Sulphur,
• Oklahoma.
! Each bid must be accompanied by
' an unconditioned certified check for 10
■ per cent of bid, payable to the Treas-
j urer of Murray County, which check
I shall be forfeited and cashed into the
county treasury in case the bidder is
successful and fails to furnish—within
10 days from notification—a surety
company or other satisfactory bond in
the sum of $500 to insure the comple-
tion of the work and the payment of all
labor and material bills. Bids should
be addressed to Elmer Cleveland,
County Clerk, Sulphur, Oklahoma,
and envelopes should be marked, "Hid
for Palmer Bridge." The right is re-
served to reject any or all bids.
D. F. Ellis, Chairman.
Wynnewood is making elabor-
ate arrangements for a two days'
picnic in the city park on Sept.
4th and 5th.
SEE
IKE ADLER
FOR
FARM LOANS
Lowest. Kates and Liberal Terms
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