Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 18, 1903 Page: 1 of 16
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Edmond enterprise
THURSDAY,
EDITORIAL NOTES.
GLORY! Peaches are here. As
usual W. A. Henry was on the
maiket first. He was in town Monday
with the first ripe peaches of the sea-
son. The season of peaches now holds
until fall. Mr. Henry has his orchard
arranged so that he has*peaches com-
ing in all the time. These first peaches
were of the Snede variety. In another
week the Alexander and Amsden will
be ripe. The following week will see
three well known varieties ripe, the
Early Rivers, Miama Ross, and Hale's
Early. Next will be the St. John and
Rogers, which will b? followed by the
Early Crawford and Family Favorite
and others on up to the time for trie
Chinese Clings and Elbertas. Mr.
Henry only has eight acres of young
peach trees and last year with about
half in bearing he sold $420 worth of
peaches off of the eight acres, Mr.
Henry's farm is northeast of Edmond,
three miles east of Waterloo. He
has given The Enterprise a collection
of peaches each year. And some of
last year's samples are now on the
"display" and have been viewed by
many Oklahoma visitors the past win-
ter.
THE writer attended a meeting of
the Oklahoma Historical So-
ciety at Oklahoma City last Friday.
Some of the people of the Territory do
not, perhaps, appreciate the york of
this society. During the past year
Hon. Sidney Clark presented a col-
lection of the maps and reports of the
early explorers and travelers in this
country. These ware gathered by the
National government when the case, of
whether Greer county was in Oklaho-
ma or Texas was pend'ng. Anyone
having relics or records bearing upon
Oklahoma should present them to the
Historical Society where the owner as
as well as all others will have access
to them at any time, and where they
will be preserved for future generations.
It is from the material gathered in the
Historical Society rooms that the his-
tory of Oklahoma must be written.
Bound volumes of all the newspapers
of the territory are kept on file so that
dates and facts of past events can be
looked up. The upper floor of the
Carnagie Library is being used until
there is a Capitol building.
One of the Guthrie papers talks as
if the interurban electric road would
draw trade only to Oklahoma City.
As a matter of fact Guthrie has as
good a show to get trade as Oklahoma
City. Trade will go where the mer-
chants < ffer the best goods for the least
money. When the interurban road is
built, here is about the way ladies vis-
iting together at an intermediatg point
will talk. One lady will say; "I tell
you it is a great advantage these elect-
ric cars, I can go down to Oklahoma
City and buy things now when before
it was too far to drive." The second
woman will reply, "I went down to
Oklahoma City once, but 1 buy now in
Guthrie as things are so much cheaper
there." The third lady in the party is
a very observant, and sensible woman
and she replies to the other two; "I
tell you, about once a year I like to go
up to Guthrie and look around in the
stores and see things, and sometimes
I like to go to Oklahoma City and see
how the town is growing but when
it comes to buying things week in and
week out I find that we can buy nearly
everything as cheap and a great many
things much cheaper right in that l.ttle
tjwn of Edmond than we can buy them
In either Guthrie or Oklahoma City,"
This is about the way people will view
the trade situation.
The merchant that gives the values
and advertises that fact will get his
share of the trade. Edmond can be the
best trading point on the line and draw
business right from under the shadow
of both terminal cities of the electric
line.
A Story.
A NEWSPAPER man reading a
good many other papers, "ex-
changes" we (editorial we) call them,
occasionally sees an item that travels
week after week through the papers.
First it is in one paper and then in an-
other and the same story is seen in
some paper for two or three months.
The story about the farmer who built
a barn on green willow posts and in a
few years was able to build a first story
under the original barn, and was getting
ready for a hog lot under that as the
trees grew, has been appearing in the
territorial papers for the past three
months. We have resisted the temp-
tation to print this story. There is an-
other story that we have read several
times, but this Monday it struck us so
funny, and being short of copy, we
have fallen by the wayside and will
print the story. It is taken from the
Asher Alturist and they credit it to
the Osage Journal, but having sold the
"exchanges" of the past weeks for old
papers we are unable to give its pedi-
gree any further back. Here is the
story:
"how's this for a tenderfoot?"
"A tough, wiry-looking man called
on a banker and asked for a job. The
banker asked him what he could do.
"Well, I used to be a foot racer,"
the man replied. "1 am the fastest
man in the country."
The banker replied that he could not
use a loot racer, however fast he might
be, but finally told the man he would
give him work on a sheep ranch he
owned in the short grass country. The
man went out there, and in a week the
banker followed.
"How are you getting along?" the
banker asked the new man.
"Oh, well," he replied, "the sheep
are all right, and easy, but I am having
a good deal of trouble with the lambs."
"Lambs!" the banker exclaimed, in
surprise; "I have no lambs."
"Oh, yes you have," the new man
replied; "come out here and I will
show them to you. I had a hard chase
after them, but finally caught them."
Whereupon he led the banker out to
the corral and showed him ten jack-
rabbits carefully tied to the fence with
strings."
Not So.
Some of the democratic papers
have been publishing stories to the
effect that there is a great row on be-
tween Flynn and Ferguson on account
of the latters freindship for McGuire.
This story is a canard as is shown by
the following item from Governor
Ferguson's Watonga Republican of
last week;
"in memoriam."
"Dennis Flynn is dead, so the papers
say-at least some of them do. Put
"crepe on the door." Step softly in
the presence of death. Drop a free
home flower as a tribute to his memory
and an exter.sion-of-time tear upon his
bier. Call the farmer and the farmer's
wife to view the remains. With bated
breath and solemn face point to him
with a "hie jacet." The man who
secured free homes sleeps in forget-
fulness after "life's fevered dream
' "Publish it not" in Ascalon; tell it not
in"Gath," least the hordes of the un
washed rejoice, lest the hosts of the
insurgents triumph.
But let it oe remembered that Den-
nis is an Irishman and you can never
tjll wha an Irishman will do, dead or
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA.
alive. Some of these days there will
be an Irish resurrection which will cause
"Tim Finnegan.s Wake" to pale into
dim insignificance. Pretty sure to be
an old fashioned wake and then you
can watch the fellows who come to at-
tend the funeral take to the woods with
"niver" a one of them left on the
ground to pay honor to the corpse."
Letter From a Lady Reader.
Sedan, Kiowa Co., 0. T., June 11, 1903
Editor of Enterprise:
1 am a subscriber of your paper, also
an old settler of Oklahoma county. I
was reading in your paper last night of
some one bringing a potato to the of-
fice as large as a hen egg. I can
beat that. We have plenty of potatoes
as large as a goose egg. We have
neighbors that have had new potatoes
for the past three weeks. I will give
you a brief sketch of our beautiful
Kiowa county around Sedan. To the
north a beautiful scope of country as
far as the Washita river; to the east and
to the west of us are the foot hills of the
Wichita mountains; and to the south
are the beautiful and rugged Wich-
itas. We have a beautiful and fer-
tile country. I saw some where not long
ago where wheat was a failure here, but
that is a mistake or at least so, it is
around about Sedan and vicinity.
Only for the damage the hail did, our
wheat would have made an average of
twenty bushels to the acre. Can Ok-
lahoma county beat that? Oats are
fine. There is not a very large acre-
age of oats. I will bring my letter
to a close by saying, if it does not find
its way to the waste basket 1 may
come again.
Yours respectfully,
Mrs. 0. 0. Wildman
i-c
A Mysterious Death.
Mr. Crober, who lives 13 miles
north of Yukon, received a telegram
Tuesday that his son who owned a
claim nine miles north of Hydro, was
dead. Mr. and Mrs. Crober hastily
come to Yukon and took the train for
Hydro. On their arrival they learned
that their son had been found in his
house hanging by his neck with his
hands tied. An inquesi had been held
and the body buried. The case is
surrounded by mystery. Young Bruno
was a steady, young, unmarried
man, in comfortable circumstances
and no reason is known why he should
commit suicide. He was seen by a
neighbor about noon on Monday ?nd
another neighbor calling about 3:00
o'clock in the afternoon found him as
above describe^. He had no enemies
so far as known. Mr. and Mrs. Crober
returned Wednesday, grief stricken over
th<Mrpcedv Thevare hij?hlv respected
in their neighborhood and have the
sympathy of all in their hour of trouble
—Yukon Sun.
It was rumored around town last
week that there was going to be a
wedding and sure enough there was.
How the tin pans and cow bells did
rattle Friday night after it was learned
that Bruce Webster and Mrs Dora
Graves had returned from Oklahoma
City as man and wife. They were
married at the City by Probate Judge
Harper and will make their home a-
mong us. Mr. Webster is a jolly good
natured fellow, a carpenter here and is
engaged in the business with J. N.
McCoy. Mrs. Webster is an admir-
able woman, whose friends are num-
bered by her acquamtances. They
both hold the respect and esteem of
all who know them and all join in
wishing them much joy and happiness
through their wedded life.
vv
Appricots began coming in Monday,
AND OKLAHOMA
COUNY NEWS.
JUNE 18, 1903.
ABOUT THE FLAG.
WE all love the flag yet how few
there are who know the history
of its introduction as a national banner.
June 14th is flag day and the following
information will give some interesting
facts in regard to the flag taken from
the National Tribune.
"It is now a well established fact
that Flag Day, the 14th of June, is
one of the days that all patriotic schools
should observe loyally. It was the day
on which our young nation severed ir-
remediably its last connection with
England It had declared itsself "free
and independent" nearly a year before,
and had been fighting a desolutory sort
of a war to back up that declaration,
but up to June 14, 1777, yet waving
over the young Colonies, was the Union
Jack of Great Britian, and various
other emblems in which bugs and bears
and various other beasts; reptiles and
vegetation from lillies to palm trees
played a part, but there was nothing
distinctly "National" in the character
ot any of them.
Suddenly, on June 14, 1777, there
was introduced into the Congress a bill
to establish a National Flag. The
American Congress that day in session
in Independence Hall in Philadelphia
"Resolved, That the Flag of the 13
United Colonies be 13 stripes, alter-
nate red and white, that the union be
13 stars, white in a blue field, repre-
senting a new constellation."
So much we know and nothing more,
of how the Flag came to be just the
beautiful thing that it is. Not a scrap
of writing or print has come down to
us to show who selected the stripes,
the stars, or the combination of red,
white and blue."
Although the resolution establishing
the Flag was not officially promulgated
by the Secretary of Congress until
September 3, 1777, it seems well
authenticated that the Stars and Stripes
were carried at the battle of the
Brandywine, September I I, 1777, and
thence forward during all the battles of
the Revolution.
Soon after its adoption the new Flag
was hoisted on the naval vessels of the
United States.
The ship Ranger, bearing the Stars
and Stripes and commanded by Capt.
Paul Jones, arrived at a French port
about December 1, 1777, and her flag
received on February 14, 1778, the
first salute ever paid to the American
flag by foreign naval vessels.
The Flag of the United States re-
mained unchanged for about 18 years
after its adoption. By this time two
more states, (Vermont and Kentucky)
had been admitted into the Union, and
on January 13, 1794, Congress en-
acted:
•That from and after the first day
of May, 1795, the Flag of the United
States be 15 stripes alternate red and
white, that the union be 15 stars, white
in a blue field."
This flag was the National banner
from 1795 to 1818, during which
period occured the War of 1812 with
Great Britian.
By 1818 five additional states
(Tennessee, Ohio. Louisiana, Indiana,
and Mississippi) had been admitted into
the Union, and therefore a further
change in the flag seemed to be re-
quired.
After considerable discussion in
Congress on the subject the act of
April 4. 1818, was passed, which pro-
vided-
First. "That from and after the 4th
day of July next, the Flag of the
United States be 13 horizontal stripes
alternate red and white; that the Union
have 20 stars, white in a blue field."
Second. "That on the admission of
every State into the Union, one star be
added to the union of the Flag, and
that such addition shall take effect on
the 4th of July next succeeding such
admission."
The return to the 13 stripes of the
1777 Flag was due, in a measure, to a
reverence for the standard of the Rev-
olution; but it was also due to the fact
that a further increase in the number
of stripes would have made the width
of the Flag out of proportion to its
length, unless the stripes were narrowed,
and that would have impared their dis-
tinctness when seen at a distance.
A newspaper of the time said:
"By this regulation the 13 stripes
will represent the number of states
whose valor and resources originally
effected American independence, and
the additional stars will mark the in-
crease of states since the present Con-
stitution."
No act has since been passed by
Congress altering the feature of the
Flag, and it is the same as originally
adopted, except as to the number of
stars in its union.
In the war with Mexico the National
Flag bore 29 stars in its union; during
the war of the rebellion 35; and since
July 4, 1896, 45 stars.
NEWS NOTES.
Mrs. Percifieid and children went to
Oklahoma City Saturday.
Many harvesters were busy Sunday
in the flat taking care of the grain.
Wahl Real Estate Co. sold the R.
Sable house to Mary V. Martin for
$1300.
Obie Offield was in town Sunday
and Monday leaving for Sulphur Mon-
day evening.
Rev. Gable went out Monday morn-
ing to paint the Combs house 4 miles
north of town.
L. V. and Geo. Ford have made a
couple of trips to Kansas City within
the last ten days.
Mrs. Scroggins returned from the
nine mile flat last week as Mrs. Joe
Scroggins was better.
Oklahoma City is going to spenJ
$ 1,800 for expert accountants to check
up the city's books.
There was a dance and general good
time at Powell Manun's 5 miles north
west, Saturday night.
Mr. Win. Weaver went to Oklahoma
City last Tuesday for a weeks study at
the teacher's institute.
B. B. Boyland at the Hollis lumber
yard is serving ice water now. Give
him acall if you are dry.
J. E. Houtchen lost a valuable year-
ling steer, two weeks ago, presumably
by getting too much alfalfa.
J. G. Harkins, of Cement, Oklahoma,
was in town Friday and Saturday with
some horses which he was selling.
Since the high water's the mosqui-
toes are in swarms on the wet places
in the flats along the Canadian river.
Goe Baker, Roy Brown, W. J. Moody
and Henry Miller were in Oklahoma
City Monday.
The «ight young people who went
f.shing cnChisholm creek Sunday repor:
a howling success, more howling than
success.
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