Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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Edmond Enterprise
AND OKLAHOMA
COUNTY NEWS.
THURSDAY.
ENTERPRISE WRINKLES.
By A DUbandcd Volunteer.
None of us are as good as we Ihlnk
we are.
Say! Has August been hot enough
(or you?
The more you do (or some people
the more they kick.
It is very wrong (or others to growl;
we want to do all the growling.
When a man Is dying, people who
really hate him protess to be sorry (or
him. -
Pawpaw lies in two counties and
some Pawpaw people lie In seven dif-
ferent languages.
The more 1 try to be good the worse
I seem to be, but 1 shal1 keep trying.
—Norah Headstrong.
If you was probate judge would you
be guilty o( issuing a marriage license
on a hot day in August.
Pawpaw has a woman who gets
drunk. That makes the town drunk-
ard ashamed of himself.
When an old man Is real sick he
thinks of the prayers his mother taught
him seventy or eighty years ago.
Deacon Dilno is one of the holy ones
In Pawpaw but we heard him say
wicked words about the weather.
It was so hot In Pawpaw one after-
noon lately that the door knobs melted
and women cooked dinners in the sun.
If we were one half as kind to nature
as nature is kind to us, we should all
lead better lives and come nearer to
heaven on earth.
Do you growl too much about the
weather? Don't you know that If you
had the making of the weather you'd
sure make "a botch" of it?
Plenty of men who maKe a success
of life fully understand that they would
have failed had not some one knocked
the swell head out of them years ago.
Consistency is a jewel. The gover-
nor of Kansas said nothing but water
should be used In christening that new
battle ship; then the Kansas party
drank punch at a naval officers party.
The water bottle made It square at
Topeka and the punch rounded up
matters at the ship yard.
If an evangelist should come to
Pawpaw during the hot spell and prove
that the streets of New Jerusalem
were paved with ice and that ice tea
and frozen lemonade was free to all
the saints, he would gather in every
sinner in this neck of woods inside of
two days. Talk of hell fire don't go
now.
When a man gets old and worthless
the most cruel blow he has to bear is
to hear the mother of children he loves,
say: "The sooner you die the better
it will suit me. If you are too mean
to die you had better pack your duds
and move away where 1 will never see
you again!" * * * Such talk shortens
many a life; drives men to drink; to
crime; to suicide's grave.—Old Bill
Smith.
It is all right to be wisely and con-
stantly economical, but that does not
justify you in being so stingy that you
cannot deal fairly by your neighbor.
Economy is good business sense.
Downright stinginess is personal mean-
ness Take old man Grabitall, for in-
stance, the richest man in Pawpaw.
He thinks he Is wisely economical,
but in fact he is so stingy that his wife
is not decently clothed and the children
not half fed.
To read some newspapers and hear
some people talk one would think that
the only object in making a state of
Oklahoma is to make certain men se-
cure in fat offices. Wonder l( it ever
occurs to certain self appointed fixers
and managers that the voters of Okla-
homa may conclude to manage public
affairs in the Interest of all the people
and not for the sole benefit of a lot of
politicians who cannot live without
sucking the public teat.
Papa gave me a switching with a
crab apple sprout last week and the
next day he was tak«n awful sick. 1
don't know as he is sick because of
my loud yells when he whipped me,
but Iv'e heard him tell how he believed
that men get their punishment as they
go along. So I got my punishment
and now papa Is getting his punishment
and he takes on terribly—worse than
1 did when he crab apple sprouted me
right on my legs. My legs were tanned
long before he struck me and he tanned
them again. Hope papa will get well
sometime, but I'm having fun now.—
Johnny Pepperpod
The most baneful lessons inculcated
upon the minds o' the young in the
early development of their mental
faculties are chargeable in a Urge de-
gree to the lamentable and unfortunate
exploitation by enterprising and con-
scienceless writers of crime and its
abhorrent successes through the medi-
um of the dime novel series and kin
dred publications. The education de-
rived from the perusal of yellow backed
periodicals is the most potent and vital
agency extant in the augmentation of
the horde of criminals which infests
modern society. That the floodgates
of these polluted and crime breeding
sources should be ruthlessly thrown
open and permitted to contaminate
our youth, without being restrained by
the salutary action of legislative inter-
ference, is but another peculiar and
unexplainable phenomena in our social
condition of this era.—These are the
words of Mrs. Keough of the Chicago
board of education. Her strong state-
ment of the case is as valuable in Ok-
lahoma as in Chicago. If you know
the books the child reads you may
know the bent of the child's mind.
Half the boys who become criminals
were started on the road to the peni-
tentiary by the constant reading of the
yellow back novels that flood the coun-
try and corrupt the mind of our youth.
&
You can hardly tell how far out into
the clear, bright glistening water a
dirty muddy stream of water may run
into the clear, bright and pure river.
Before you could discover no trace of
the dirt, filth and mud it keeps boiling
up and scattering into the clear brook
Neither can you tell the time nor see
the end when the traces of a man or
woman's life of shame, vulgarity,
smutty or low talk may have on the
lives of the family who are brought
into contact with such parentage, the
clear stream, may become to some
extent muddy, but the muddy rarely
ever becomes clear, bright and pretty.
Just so with the family relations. * * *
*
Sunday Ifain.
Sunday morning this city and com-
munity was treated to another one of
Oklahomas refreshing rains. A good
deal of lightning accompanied the
storm. One bolt of lightning struck
the telephone wire near the Souths!de
Bakery and Hotel completely destroy-
ing the wiTe. Pieces of the burned
wire fell to the ground In masses burn-
ing the green grass where It fell. A
cloud of smoke from the burned grass
arose which looked like a powder ma-
gazine had exploded. As far as we
have been able to learn the rain was
general.
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA.
Forster & Jayne.
It gives us great pleasure to announce
that Edmond will have an up-to-date
Ladies and Gents furnishing house.
The room which has been occupied by
the Red Front for the past year has
been leased by two of Edmond's old-
est and most respected citizens who
on Saturday of this week open their
doors for business.
The names of this firm are G. C,
Forster and E. H. Jayne. As all "old
timers and new timers" will remember
George C. Forster who opened the
first grocery store in Edmond at the
opening and remained In business-until
about one year ago when he sold his
store to Lynch Bros. &. Starr. His
first business venture in Edmond was
in the grocery, later he took a partner
in the person of D. C. Thompson, and
they added dry goods and furnishings.
They disposed of this store Mr.
Thompson going to the Indian Terri-
tory and Mr. Forster entering the hard-
ware business. In all lines of trade
he has been very successful.
Mr. Jayne, who for the past six
years has been our efficient postmas-
ter is one of our best known young
men and has made a host of friends
during his residence here. Before
entering the postoffice Mr. Jayne was
engaged in the grocery business and
as a business man is well known.
The line which these gentlemen
have installed is new and fresh. Mr.
and Mrs. Forster have been engaged
for the past several weeks looking up
the newest things, and as buyers they
are both well known. It consists of
ladies and gents furnishing goods, dry
goods, shoes (or men, women and
all things needed tor the installment of
an up-to-date store.
Mr. Jayne will net take an active
part in the business but will be very
able represented by Charles L. Pitt-
man, who has had years of experience
in the dry goods and furnishing busi-
ness, in California and the northern
states. He has resigned his position
at the Edmond Lumber and Hardware
Co., and assumed his new duties with
this coming popular firm.
We predict for this firm nothing but
the best of success which they will de-
serve. Such men are the ones to
make Edmond a better trading point.
Don't Mix 'Em.
Tuesday morning L. V. Ford
stepped into the office and delivered
the following injunction to the editor,
"Don't get my boy mixed with that
bunch of girls you have been reporting."
It all happened at 8:30 and Lewis was
as happy as a new crowned king.
Mother and child are both doing well.
Mrs. Ollive Ford and Mrs L. W
Baxter were down irom Guthrie wait-
ing on the lady and the young man.
DeFord's Gone.
The DeFord Mercantile Co., which
has been a prominent firm in Edmond
for a number of years have packed
the remainder of their goods and are
shipping them to the different points
where they will locate. Part of the
goods are being shipped to Anadarko
and the rest to Ponca City. We are
sorry to lose these two families but
what is our loss is the gain of the towns
to which they go.
&
Pitcher Sherwood who covered him-
self and the Edmond ball team with
glory the first part of the summer won
new laurels at Oklahoma City when he
tossed the sphere to a bunch there in
great style.
AUGUST 24, 1905
Should tie Cut Out.
"For the past two weeks the daily
papers of the country have had from
one to two columns per day filled with
detailed accounts of the trouble in the
Taggart family. Maybe the public gets
some benefit out of that sort of stuff
but we doubt it.
It is a putrid mess, a disgusting
story of tnfieelity and debauchery.
The only possible benefit that we
can figure out of it is that it may open
the eyes of the general public to the
social conditions in army circles and
teaches again the old lesson that idle-
ness leads to evil generally if not uni-
versally.
Around army posts In time of peace
officers and wives of officers have
nothing of importance to do. They
dawdle away their time, drink a good
deal of liquor and devote themselves
to social pleasures. The life breeds
extravagance and dissipation. Unless
the aimy officer is possessed of unusal
strength of will he is drawn into the
whirl, becomes a drinker and gambler,
spends more than his salary and Is per-
petually in debt. The ladies about
the army posts in time of peace, or for
that matter at almost any time, have
nothing of consequence to occupy their
attention. With this sort of sowing It
is no wonder that there is a crop of
scandals to reap
There may be. as we say, a lesson
in this Taggart business but at least
four fifths of the details could be cut
out without detriment to the reading
public "—The above article was clipped
jrom the Mail and Breeze, of Topeka,
Kansas, and just about strikes our
sentiments right. The long letters
and depositions which have been read
in open court and published through
the dally press are as demoralizing in
their ef(ect as are the social conditions
of the regular army officers life.
Wednesday morning Mrs. R. M,
Wnisler was at this office and report-
ed that some person or persons had
stolen a good team of driving horses.
Just one week previous to the stealing
of the team or the 20th of August she
had a good set of harness stolen. She
also reported the stealing of a saddle
from W. L. Whisler of the same
neighborhood. A good deal of petty
thieving has been going on for some
time and suspicion points strongly to
local crooks. It is to be hoped that
the guilty pa;lies will be caught and
justice meted out to them in a hurried
manner.
Ira L. Griffin, well known In this
city has accepted a position with Noah's
Ark where he will take the place of C.
E. Tool who will assume his new du-
ties in the Citizens' Bank on the first
of September. Mr Griffin Is well
known west of this city where he has
spent many years of his life. He is a
graduate of the Central State Normal
and spent last year teaching school.
Noah's Ark is to be congratulated upon
the selection of so popular a young
man.
R. H. Bernard went to Edmond
Wednesday to secure a house to live
in at that place. He will move soon,
so his children can attend the normal
school.—Yukon Sun. The above item
is only one of the many which we no-
tice tn our exchanges. The fame of
Edmond as an educational center has
been spread far ani wide. The pros-
pect for the largest attendance in the
history of the school. Come one.
Come all. You will all be welcome.
Changed Location).
Deselms & Emery, proprietors of
the Red Front, Saturday night com-
menced the removal of their general
merchandise stock from their old stand
to the room formerly occupied by The
DeFord Mercantile Co., as a dry goods
and millinery stand. This is one of
the best rooms in Edmond and with an
enterprising firm like the Red Front
have proven to be, will be one of the
largest general merchandise establish-
ments in Edmond. They already
have a large trade and with the In-
creased room their business will no
doubt double. The Fashion Store
has occupied the south room of the
same building this week. A screen
with a swinging door has been placed
in the large arch and patrons of one
store may go from one to the other
without leaving the building.
They have moved their shoe shop to
the same room where they have a
good shoemaker.
*
F. E. Rosenburg Up Town.
The many friends of F. E. Rosen-
burg will be pleased to know that that
gentleman after an eight weeks attack
of typhoid fever is able to be up and
around. Saturday he was at his fur-
niture store for the first time and is
yet a little too weak to walk without
the aid of crutches, but we hope that
in the near (uture he will regain
strength enough to mingle with our
good citizens.
*
Monday evening Uncle Guy Smith
brought us two heads o( milo maze
the great roughage lor stock which are
the finest we have ever seen in Okla-
homa. They were raised on the south
side of Edmond on the tract of land
owned by R. B. Potts. Two heads
weighed one pound and If a large field
produced as well there would be a
great deal of feed.
Tuesday morning J. C. Barnes
stepped into the office long enough to
tell us that he held the record stalk of
corn in the number of ears produced.
He told us confidently that the stalk
had a total of eight ears and all fairly
well developed.
*
Lon Crabtree, who was sent down
here from Luther to take charge of
the Frisco section during the absence
of Foreman Starbuck, met with a bad
accident Saturday. The men were
engaged in raising some track when a
jack slipped and the handle struck Mr.
Crabtree on the chin, the blow being
of such great force as to break his
lower jaw in seven places. He was
sent to the company hospital at Spring-
Held, and was accompanied by his
wife. It Is hoped the Injury will not
result seriously Jones City News.
*
The police matron muddle in Okla-
homa City has been ended by the
action of Mayor Messenbaugh in re-
moving Mrs. Bond and appointing En-
sign Nora Hill, of the Salvation army,
to the position.
President Umholtz, of the Edmond
Normal school, was among the out of
town visitors at the assembly Sunday.
—Guthrie Leader.
J. W. A. Potter of Edmond was
over the first of the week looking after
his Interests here.—Luther Register.
*
Major E. H. Jayne, of Edmond,
was in Mulhall Sunday, the guest of
Miss Lena Wood.—Mulhall Enterprise.
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