Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 23, 1903 Page: 3 of 16
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THURSDAY
The EDMOND ENTERPRISE,
APRIL 23, 1903
VARNISh TILE PAPER
For Kitchen and Bath Room.
Has a surfacc like oil cloth, and a paper back to
paste to the wall. Can be washed like oil cloth.
Price: 30 Cents Roll.
Different designs and borders, Handsome and Sanitary.
Full line of Lineoleums, Oil Cloth, Mattings, Etc.
L. V. FORD & Co.
The Edmond Furniture Dealers.
Value For Money.
Excellent groceries—that is
our line
Composed of assortment pure,
fresh and fine
Our staples are good—teas,
coffees and spices,
Nice grades of goods at mod-
erate prices.
Or canned goods are here of
popular brands.
Meats, fruit and fish at your
command.
Yov are suited in dried fruits,
breakfast foods, too.
Splendid assortment of ele-
gant shoes,
The best makes of footwear
found in our stock.
Our figures are down to low-
est bedrock
Remember these statements
we can prove true—
Every trade at this store saves
money for you.
BARRETT & BRYANT,
Phone 58. Edmond, Okla.
GROCERIES AND SHOES.
MY YOUNG HORSE
AND
THE BOWMAN JACK
Will make the season of 1903 at my
barn 1 mile north and 5 miles west of
Edmond.
The horse is a coming 3 year old, 15-£-
hands high, weighs 1,300, dark
iron grey in color, and will serve
to insure living colts at $6.00.
The Bowman Jack is a big, dark Ken-
tucky Jack, 16 hands high, and
will serve at $8.00 to insure liv-
ing colts.
Mares parted with or removed from
county forfeits insurance, and service
fee becomes due and immediately
payable.
Mares held for service fee,
T. DAVIS.
NEWS NOTES.
J. W. Isle leaves Thursday for his
claim near Mt. View.
Henry Brauer will be through asses-
ing the town next week.
W. H. Oder was out cutting some
of his alfalfa this week.
The public school closes next Wed-
nesday, the 29th with a picnic at Dob-
son's grove.
The local Athletic contest will be
held on the first day of May on the
Normal Campus.
Rev. Betts, of Bethany hospital,
Kansas City, Kansas, will lecture at
the M. E Church, in the evening of
May 12.
Allen Hudson, of Iowa who has been
visiting his cousin, S. W. Morgan, all
winter, has gone to old Mexico for his
health.
Mrs. W. S. Hunsecker returned to
her home near Eda last week from the
hospital at the City, and is enjoying
good health.
Side tracks were built at Witcher
last wee'.c and the construction gang
have moved their camp from near the
City to Witcher.
Sheriff M. A. O'Brien lost his 16
months old child Tuesday. The funer-
al was held at his home church, St.
Potrick's, on Deer Creek.
Mrs. Moore and daughter, Dixsie,
were over from Lawton last week visit-
ing at Dr. Howard's. Mr. Kittinger,
of Kentucky, was a-lso here.
Rev. A. E. Wardner is attending the
meeting of the Presbytery at the City
this week, but will return in time to
conduct the usual Sunday services.
M. D. Tudor brought in samples of
alfalfa, wheat, and lettuce from his
Deep Fork farm Saturday. The let-
tuce was volunteer and great big heads.
The Normon University ball team
will be here Friday afternoon for a
game with the Normal team. There
will be an admission of 15 cents charg-
ed.
It is hoped that the census now be-
ing taken will show a population of 2500
so that Edmond may become a city of
the first class. The council are vot-
ing in the various additions.
No fancy prices on lots in Patten's
addition. Buy now.
Lenox Soap pleases everybody that
needs a good soap.
Mrs. Kibby secured 135 chickens in
an incubator hatching, with 198 eggs-
D. W. Davis is going to Muscogee
this week and will work at the carpenter
trade while he keeps his eye open for
land. Mr. Davis is a square fellow
and the people where he goes will find
him a good workman, and all wool and
a yard wide as a man.
Edmond lodge 1.0. 0. F. celebrates
the 85th anniversary of the founding of
Odd Fellowship in America Saturday
with an all day celebration. There
will be a banquet at noon and a pro-
gram in the morning and afternoon.
The local speakers will be Dr. Day,
A. Spangler, Dr. Comp, and others.
The Dawson, Caldwell, and Hitschew
case was settled Saturday before a
board of arbitration consisting of Thos.
O'Toole, J. W. Waller, and Mat Rey
nolds. The decision gave L. A. Cald-
well $270 and Mr. Dawson gets pos-
session of his farm and retains the
money from hogs he had s old. In the
Hitschew matter, Hitschew was given
$40 and is to surrender posession of
the place to Mr. Dawson.
Forster and Thompson sold out yes-
tarday to B. Pallewoda, of Minter City,
Mississippi. It was just 14 years ago
that G. C. Forster came to Edmond,
the day of the opening. He engaged
in the grocery basinsss and eignt years
ago D. C: Thompson bought an interest
in the business. The linn has always
been the leading mercantile house of
Edmond. These gentlemen have a
host of friends who will regret to see
them leave here. Mr. Forster has in-
vested at Roswell and expects to move
there as soon as he sells .his house.
Mr. Thompson says that he has not
decided what he will do, but there is
good grounds for the suspicion that he
will engage in the lumber business in
one of the new towns. Mr. Pollewoda
comes well recommended and appears
to be a pushing business man. He
has rented one of the Franklin houses
in west Edmond.
German Millet Seed For Sale.
1000 bushels first class german
millet seed for sale. Write us your
order at once. $ 1.00 per bushe! at
our storage house, or f. o. b. Oklaho-
ma City, 0. T. All sacked and ready
to ship. Order now at reduced price.
Address, Stone Bros.
432 Jones, 0. T.
George Wahl is in Illinois.
The new postoffice boxes have ar-
rived.
A. Spangler, attorney for the city;
won the case Wednesday wherein
Stella Zella Micky was s'eing for
damages for falling in a ditch. She
did not get a cent.
Di<trict Court.
King Davis, the negro preacher, who
was charged with shooting another
negro near Tecumseh, was convicted
and sentenced for life.
The indictments agarnst Lee Elrick,
Tom Terry, and Lee Ballou, charging
them with stealing domestic animals,
were quashed Monday and ordered re-
submitted to the next grand jury.
The case of Wm. Patterson, charged
with burglary, was dismissed for want
fo evidence.
The case of" Big Ann" who was in-
dicted on the charge of rape has been
continued for the term.
Riley Seward plead guilty to stealing
a horse and received a sentence of one
year and a day.
Hindes and Henderson were con-
victed of robbing Henry O'Neil on the
lock trick.
Lenox Soap Is the soap to buy for
kitchen use. *
The lots in Patten's addition are
right in town.
Try the new blacksmith shop, north
of Klein & Baker's store. Always
there and ready to do work.—J. F.
Baldwin. 41 tf
A limited number of cabbage and
tomato plants for sale at W. H. Bon-
ners, 3^ blocks west of Klein 8t Bak-
er's store.
Wanted —A few horses to pasture.
E. Blades, two and one-half miles west
of Edmond. 432
We will soon have another car of
those building blocks—Thos. Hollis
lumber Co. *
Light Brahma eggs for sale by Joy
J Perry, Edmond, O. T. 4-1-tf.
Farm for sale or rent, 2 miles from
town—inquire of George Klein. 23-tf
NORMAL
HEIGHTHS
Addition To
EDMOND, OKLA
Look Over This Beautiful Site
Before buying. You will be pleased and want
some Sots.
THE TOWN is GROWING RAPIDLY and all of
the lots will be needed for homes.
It is right in the LINE OF MARCH
And the building in this direction cannot be
headed off. A school section blocks the game
on the south and the railroad on the west.
THE CHOICE RESIDENCE PORTION
Of any city is on the high ground. These lots lay
high and the prices now are low. 4 blocks north of
the public school. 2 blocks north of the Normal.
For particulars address:
H. W. CLEGERN, Oklahoma City.
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EDMOND REAL ESTATE DEALERS
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