Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1903 Page: 1 of 16
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Edmond Enterprise
AND OKLAHOMA
COUNTY NEWS.
THURSDAY,
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA.
MAY 7, 1903.
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MEMORIAL DAY.
THEG. a. R. Post of Edmond met
last Saturday and appointed
committees to arrange for a Memorial
Day program. Walter Olds in his
Asher Alturist has the following to say
of Memorial Day which holds as true
in Edmond as in Asher, The article
is as follows.
"May 30 is reputed to have been the
date of the discharge of the last Union
soldier who was enlisted in the civil war.
For many years it was called Memorial
Day. and then the habit seems to have
grown up of speaking of it as Decoration
Day. The older name is the better
one. It conveys the idea of the found-
ers of the custom. The term "Dec-
oration Day" has come to mean some-
thing of a frivolous nature, something
of the nature of a festival. Memorial
Day should be the most solemn and
sacred of the year, not wholly of religeous
nature, and the element of religeous
observance should have a large part in
the exercises of the day. A day that
is dedicated to the memory of men who
gave their lives—"the last full measure
of devotion"—to the service of the na-
tion, and to decorate the graves of those
who have died since the close of the
struggle, is not properly celebrated with
ball games, horse races, and debauch-
ery. Let Asher and the people of the
surrounding country join'together May
30, 1903, and fittingly pay tribute to
of respect and honor to the nation's
dead. Let there be no North and no
South that day.' Let none forget, in the
enjoyment of the liberties for which our
fathers died, the debt we owe, and let
us remember that the least we can do
is to refrain from unseemly sport, even
if we give th?m not the measure of
honor that is due. Let the boys who
carried the flag to victory in Cuba, the
sons of the old veterans on both sides,
the wives and mothers and sweehearts
and sisters of them all, and the untried
boys of the National Guard, join with
the schools and civic societies in keep-
ing green the memory of the soldiers
dead. Though as a nation we have
never suffered defeat, yet many have
been called upon to make the supreme
sacrifice that Columbia might live-
that the Union might endure and Lib-
erty ever be our patron goddess. Come
on the day set apart for that purpose
with saddened yet thankful hearts, and
scatter sweet flowers over the graves
of the heroes who are gone. Not in a
spirit of worship, of which they have
no need, and for which they least of all
would wish, but as drawing from their
example an inspiration to noble deeds,
devotion to duty, honor, loyalty, and
patriotism."
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CHILD BURNED.
Left by a Fire in the Cotton Field.
Death Results.
About the Rural Routes.
Delegate McGuire forwarded the
following letter to J. T, Wise, which
gives the latest official information re
gardingthe rural routes.
Washington, April, 20, 19C3.
Hon. B. S. McGuire, Guthrie, 0. T.
Sir:—I have your letter of recent
date enclosing one from Mr. J. I".
Wise relative to delay in establishment
of proposed routes from Edmond. O.
T. Favorable reports from three
routes from Edmond have been re-
ceived at the department and orders
will be issued for installation of the
routes effective July 1, 1903, the
earliest available date.
Very respectfully,
A. N. Machen,
General Superintendent.
Free Deliwery System.
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Athletic Contest.
THE local athletic contest occurred
Friday. Professors Imel,
Turner and Tbatcher were judges.
The Inter-collegiate contest will be at
Oklahoma City the 22d.
The following are the successful
contestants in the order of places won
by them:
Hurdle race—220 yards,—Lovell
Davis, Comstock.
Shot put—Campbell, Shuff, McCar-
roll.
Running high jump—Roy Jenkins,
Klein, Armstrong.
Hurdle race—120 yards—Fred
Hurtt, Chas Herbert, I. Lovell.
Pole vault—Barlow, Hiatt, Nihart.
Running broad jump—Rankin, Bar-
low, Strunk
Hammer throw—Campbell, Mc-
Burney, Armstrong.
Half mile race—Hartson, Rankin.
Hundred yard dash—Davis, Trueax,
McBurney.
One mile race—Jas. Beall, Fred
Hurtt.
Four hundred and forty yard race-
Davis, Trueax.
Bicycle race—Warner, Henry.
Two hundred twenty yard race—
Herbert, McBurney, Fisher.
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Prairie Dell Items.
Mrs. C. W. Poage and Mrs. Boyd
went to Oklahoma City, Friday.
Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Gerard called
on Mrs. J. Parks Wednesday afternoon.
Mr. Debolt of Oklahoma City has the
lumber on the ground at Witcher to
build a cotton gin and lumber yard.
The fencing gang on the Katy rail-
road ar-e camped near M r. Shackelford's.
Mr. and Mrs. Will Steward visited
Mrs. Piper Sunday evening.
The Misses Boran spent Sunday with
Mrs. J. E. Parks.
The big frost Thursday night killed
lots of the fruit in the bottoms. Mr.
E. W. Parks had 4000 sweet potatoes
out and most of them were killed.
FARMERS INSTITUTE.
A colored family by the name of J.
Jones lost a two year old child Monday,
of dropsy of the heart brought on by a
very severe burn last winter. The fam-
ily are ne w comers to this country and
were out picking cotton in a field near
Waterloo, last winter, when they ouilt
a fire and left the child by it while they
were out picking the cotton and in some
way the child's clothing caught on fire
burning it very badly from the waist
down. A complication of trouble set
in which proved fatal as stated above.
The child was buried in the p' tters
field of the cemetery here.
Luther News.
C. S. Kisling's lost their baby.
The coming switch from the Frisco
to the Katy will enable track laying to
proceed north.
The Luther postoffice was broken in-
to but only $1.20 in pennies was taken.
L. a. Ferrell, a well known Nor-
mal graduate, is now cashier of the
bank at Lahoma.
Shirley Dyer, the well known deputy
sheriff, has been appointed assistant
cheif of police for Oklahoma City.
A FARMERS institute, under the
supervision of the state board
of agriculture, will be held in Edmond
Saturday May 16th. It Is urged that
as many farmers as possible make
their arrangements to attend thiinsti-
tute. A free exchange of ideas and
experiences can not but help prove
beneficial In developing the farming
interests. Some of the small towns in
Oklahoma now have organized a ship
ers association that will mean much
money to them. But here we have
done nothing in this line. The board
of agriculture of Oklahoma is now en-
tering upon its first year's work and
should be given all the support possible.
Whether further meetings are held in
Edmond or not depends upon the suc-
cess of this first meeting, so we hope
that everyone will make an effort to
be here, Saturday 16th.
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IT'S UP TO EDGAR.
Governor Ferguson paper prints the
following under the heading "$ 1,000.00
Reward:
"Some time ago it was stated in the
papers that Edgar Jones, of Guthrie,had
been requested by the interior de-
partment to take the evidence in the
sanitarium legislative investigation to
Washington. This paper will give one
thousand dollars for the production of
any authorized letter from the depart-
ment making such request."—Waton-
ga Republican.
Lockhart Items.
The frost killed most all of the black
berries, some apples and many of the
gardens. People however are replant-
ing their gardens and hope to have no
such misfortune again.
Commissioner Dr. Comp was out
from Edmond Saturday looking after
the bridge that was lately built across
Bluff Creek.
Guy Hardy and mother have gone to
Kansas City, Mo. for the benefit of Mrs.
Hardy's health.
A number of people of this neighbor-
hood attended the show at Oklahoma
City Monday.
V. B. Ingraham and Tom Perry
made a business trip to Edmond Mon-
day.
County Superintendent C. H. Meeker
and wife are here from Norman this
week visiting his parents.
George West and Miss Stover visit-
ed the Misses Ruth >nd Bertha Dough-
erty Sunday.
Emma Meeker and father left the
first of the week for Harrison, Oklahoma
where Miss Emma has a farm.
Mr. Guernsey made a business trip
to the City the first of the week.
It is said that J. M. Eberle an Okla-
homa City ticket broker, is to build a
twenty room hotel at Arcadia.
John Higbee foreclosed on the old
merry-go-round for rent and bid it in
Saturday for $14.00. He has taken it
to apart and stored it in his barn.
John Higbee sold his lot and black-
smith shop, south of the Enterprise
office, to Jack Bennett, the prosperous
nine- mile-flat farmer who will build a
brick livery barn this summer.
The latest railroad proposition is for
a belt line to run a circle taking in
Oklahoma City, El Reno, Kingfisher
and Guthrie and furnish switching fa-
cilities for all manufacturing industries.
Tom Cat, and Not Cat Fish.
John Buss, the well known fisher-
man, hunter and sportsman, has now
a reputation as a catenery surgeon the
result of a fishing expedition during the
interval between the closing hours of
Saturday and opening hours of Monday
morning. It is said that Messrs Buss
and Menhusen found that the cat fish
were not biting and lohn in disgust
threw his pole down with hook out on
the bank, and was soon carried into
the land of Nod by the soothing influ-
ences of an Oklahoma breeze and the
balmy spring sunshine, After a time
he awoke with a start and seeing his
pole moving yelled; "A bite! a bite!"
He reached for his pole but his yell
had started the pole up the creek and
across lots. John pursued the ' pole
and after a chase over a half section
of corn fields and meadows, through
fences and over ditches, he caught the
pole and brought the cat to a stand-
still. The catch proved to be not a
cat fish but a Tom cat that had strayed
down by the river side and took a fancy
to the beef steak on the hook. This
part of the fishing expedition was tame
compared to the task of taking the cat
off the hook. It is said that, after
much experiment, Menhusen held the
Thomas cat white John cut the hook
out with a jack knife. The cat was
doing well at last reports and the title
C. D. is now appropriately written after
the name of Mr. Buss.
There was a big crowd of people at
the circus at the City Monoay. and as
reserve seats were 50 cents extra and
half way rour.rl, the show must have car-
ried away a car load of money. The
little old dutchman, with his chin whisk-
ers, was there taking peoples pictures
as they came in, and as old as the gag
is, he was busy all the while catching
suckers. The only new clown joke was
a good one. A clown came out dressed
as a rooster, and his costume is made
up of feathers, with immitation bill,
comb, and feet so that he looked like
the real article. After a lot of funny
business, another clown brought out a
big egg, which the rooster shys around
awhile and lets out a crow as if it was
his own work. Then he pecks the shell
open and out jumps a sure enough
rooster. The big fellow scrapes a-
round and picks a tight. The real
rooster jumps high in the air and spurs
the big fellow. The fight keeps up un-
til tne big rooster runs away, gamely
followed by the little fellow still lighting.
Two of the usual show features were
missing, there was no trick donkey, for
the urchin to ride, at $1.00 if they stay
on; and the disguised show woman who
refuses to pay for a reserve seat and
kicks up a big rumpus was not present.
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J. Q. Adamsom has finished the
work of assessing the township and the
following figures are given from his
book: Population of township 470
with 176 in outlying town additions,
not yet taken in. The personal prop-
erty is assessed at $32,377 and real
estate at $79,822. There are 4,555
acres in wheat. The number of tax-
able horses are 459, of mules 120, of
cattle 1008, of sheep and goats 66 and
the number of hogs over three months
old was 377. This is a very poor
showing. Wonder if there are not a
good many hogs that never get over
three months old.
The Oklahoma City Driving Club
open their season May 17th and ex-
pect to have races every two weeks
thereafter.
HURT BY FROST.
' I "HE amount of damage from the
* frosts of last Thursday and Fri-
day nights is variously reported, but,
as near as we can gather the facts,
there was but little damage on the
prairie, while in the bottoms garden
stuff generally was hurt and grapes
killed. There may be some fruit fall
off in the bottom orchards, but at this
time it is thought that but little dam-
age is done in the orchards generally.
The vinyard has been the most serious
sufferer, as there will not be a grape in
many lowland vinyards. The greatest
damage, probably, from a dollars and
cents view, is to the potato crop.
These vines were cut down and will
not now develope until ten days later
than usual. This ten days means
missing the early market and will bring
our potatoes in Chicago in competition
with the Kansas Kaw Valley crop.
This will mean a lower price by 15 to
25 cents. And more over the crop is
liable not to be up to the usual yield or
quality. This frost is said to have
been the latest In ten years. Mr.
Oder says that on the low ground on
Deep Fork, most of the peaches and
apples are killed.
Since the foregoing was in type, Mr.
Bonner, of The Enterrrise force,
asked the question why our potatoes
would come in competion with the
Kaw Valley crop, when Kansas was
also frozen down last week. The writ-
er was talking last week with Mr. Ken-
yon, a Kaw Valley man, who Is now
raising his third crop in the Canadian
valley here and he explained that very
question when he said that potatoes
matured the quicker the further north
you go.
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Tuesday there was a splendid rain,
seven-eighths of an inch falling in the
afternoon and about one-eighth inch
sprinkle during the night. At this
writing Wednesday morning it is still
cloudy but warm, and everything with
life will have a avorable opportunity
to start after the frost.
There will be a rate of one and one-
third fare to Oklahoma City for the
contests. Tickets will be sold 20-1-2
with return limit on the 23d.
A third of an inch rain only at the
City Tuesday night.
There was a good shower along the
Canadian, Monday morning.
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Citizens' Ticket Elcctcd.
Monday was election day, did you
know it? Those elected and their
votes were: H. H. Moose, city clerk,
34; C. R. Day, treasurer, 38; Geo.
Klein, assessor, 38; M. A. Hunt, jus-
tica of the peace, 36; W. K. Chap-
uaan, councilman 1st ward, 14; C. E.
Tool, councilman ^nd ward, 14; Frank
Dawson, councilman 3rd ward, 11.
The total vote polled was 56, but there
were 15 mutilated ballots. Last year
the total vo'te polled was 384.
The following were the officers of
election: Henry McCoy, inspector,
Peter Mades and J. S. Stewart, judges,
C. E. Hunley and Fred Hurtt, clerks.
There was but little interest in election
as there was but the one ticket in the
field.
Monday, at Oklahoma City court ad-
journed right in the middle of a case to
attend Forepaugh &. Sells' Bros, circus.
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