Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1906 Page: 1 of 12
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Edmond Enterprise
AND OKLAHOMA
COUNTY NEWS.
THURSDAY,
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA.
MAY 31, 1906
ENTERPRISE WRINKLES.
By A Disbanded Volunteer.
Down through the misty air,
Down from the gloom above,
Falling, pattering everywhere,
The rain comes quick with love.
Softly the missel thrush
Sings in the golden storm ;
The robin under a laurel bush
Waits for tomorrow morn.
Drip, drip, drip from the eaves.
Pit, pit, pit on the pane.
Swish, swish, swish on the drenched
leaves.
List! 'tis the song of the rain.
Grasses are bending low,
Green is the corn and thick ;
You can almost see the nettles grow,
They grow so strong and quick.
Soft is the wind from the west,
Softer the rain's low sigh ;
TI e sparrow washes his smoky breast,
And watches the gbomy sky,
Stfrred are the boughs by the breeze,
Scarcely a leaf is still,
Something is moving among the trees,
Like a restless spirit of ill.
Standing watching the rain,
Do you not seem to hear
The voice of God outspeaking again
To man's ungreatful ear? -
Promising plenty and peace,
Garners with treasure heaped
That seed-time and harvest shall not
cease
Till the hsrvest of earth be reaped.
—Anon,
The Ice Trust will be frozen out in
December.
The best cure for the blues is to get
out and hustle.
Talk about earthquakes, look at that
republican upheaval in Kansas,
The rate bill out of the way, makes
room for the State of Oklahoma.
A woman speaks of the latest new
style of hats as'-fearful, but lovely."
The San Francisce earthquake is
still shaking—the insurance compa-
nies.
Probably what you need most is
more useful work and less needless
loafing,
The more they play politics at
Washington the worse it is for the
country.
If Speaker Cannon wants to be
spiked let him defeat Statehood for
Oklahoma.
A Pawpaw young man is going wild
over a silly girl. They both need a
good spanking.
The injuries we do and those we
suffer are seldom weighed in the same
scales.—Horace
A drunken fellow from Guthrie was
in Pawpaw Monday and a lot of wo-
men set the dogs on him. He hiked
out.
You don't know wha* you might do
to yourself if you proved to be as big a
fool as you think the other fellows is,
now do you ?
We had no idea that old age was be-
ginning to tell on Senators Morgan and
Pettus, but they both voted against
the railway rate bill.
Senator Foraker was the one repub-
lican senator who voted against the
rate bill. Ohio won't do a thing to him
until it has a good chance.
The greatest advantage 1 know of
in being thought a wit by the world is,
that it gives one the greatest freedom
of playing the fool.—Pope.
You never knew a loafer to succeed.
If you have been reading the at-
tempted explanations of the California
earthquakes by the so-called scientists
it is no wonder that you are suffering
from violent attacks of sick headache.
The republican fight on Roosevelt
in the United States Senate was a
victory for Teddy. The Standard Oil
crowd kerflumixed 1 Poor old Senator
Aldrich ! Goodbye John D. Rocke-
feller.
Why any man, young or old thinks
it smart to get drunk and act the fool
is what we have never been able to
understand. Whisky drinking kills
more men than war, pestilence and
famine.
If you are careless or tricky in busi-
ness you will never make a success.
Nothing pays so well as just common
old fashioned horse sense and strict
honesty. The young man without
those two qualities is in a bad row of
stumps.
The fishing Saturday was good. I
caught one as big as my little finger
and fell into Deep Fork and got awful
wet, and got a spanking when 1 got
home, Hope to be able to go again
next Saturday. Fishing is great fun.
1 got the licking because I forgot to
weed the onions before 1 left. If 1
think of it 1 will not forget again. The
spanking didn't hurt much, but I yelled
so loud that half a dozen women looked
awful cross ot papa,—Johnny Pepper
pod.
A little Missouri town gives out this
horse story: A horse performed a feat
that seems hardly possible for a horse.
Just east of town is a trestle about 200
feet long and more than 20 feet high,
and the horse iri order to be with his
mate in another field, crossed the cat-
tle guard and walked (he ties across
the trestle. Not finding his mate in
the other field, he again crossed the
trestle and returned home with only a
slight cut on the hip. Parties who saw
the horse perform the feat say that the
sure footed animal made but one mis-
step.
Senator Tillman at the head of the
rate bill in the senate proved to be the
right man in the right place. He
proved himself a brave ana honorable
ftghter, and while he dislikes Roose-
velt he was loyal to his wishes in man-
aging the bill-, and proved himself a
gallant, honorable man, in giving the
president credit for the measure. The
manly action of Tillman is in marked
contrast with the mean littleness of
Aldrich and the Rockefeller crowd
who represent the Standard Oil rail-
way stocks. The debate on the rate
bill shows who are for the Square Deal
and who are for special privileges for
the few at the expense ot the many.
It often happens that children say
very bright things without futly realiz-
ing the force of their words. For in-
stance, read this one, vouched for by
Harper's Weekly: On a recent Mon-
day morning the pastor of a church in
Virginia was the recipient of a basket
of strawberries brought to him by a
little girl of the parish. "Thank you
very much my dear," said the minis-
ter, "these berries are as fine as any 1
ever seen. 1 hope that you did not
pick them yesterday—the Sabbath."
"No, sir." replied the child, "I pulled
'em early this morning, but they was
a growin' all day yesterday."
Commodore Noah has been dead a
long time, but his name came to life
in the Texas supreme court recently
in an opinion handed down in a suit
against a railway company for killing a
drunken citizen of Beaumont. The
decision says in part: "There was
evidance strongly tepding to show that
deceased was strongly under the in-
fluence of lfquor to such an entent as
to enable a witness to pronounce him
'considerably organized.' Men have
been getting drunk ever since Noah
celebrated the subsidence of the flood.
The ancient Germans, from whom the
Anglo-Saxon race sprung, used to pro-
pose their laws while drunk and con-
sider their passage while sober. And
it is suspected by some that their de-
scendants propose laws In legislatures
of the present day while In the same
condition, though their enactment may
not be considered while sober, as by
their ancestors Intoxication effects
different men in different ways. In
some it quickens the intellectual fac-
ulties and sharpens the physical sense,
and in some the first are for a time
destroyed, the latter blunted—it de-
pends largely upon the kind of men
and liquor.
To Patrons of l^ural Routes.
Post Office Department,
Washington, May 20, 1906.
On and after July 1st, 1906, pat-
rons of the rural delivery service will
be required to display signals on their
boxes when they leave mail in them
for carriers to cbllect, as after that
date carriers when serving their routes
will not be required to open and exam-
ine any boxes except those to which
they have mail to deliver and those on
which signals are displayed to indicate
there is mail for carrier to collect.
Those patrons whose boxes are not
provided with signals must attach
tjiereto some device which, when dis-
played, will plainly show passing mail
carriers there is mail to collect. It is
not .lecessary that such device shall
be either complicated or costly ; a very
simple arrangement will answer the
purpose.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.
*
Died.
John O. Smith, an old and well
known citizen, died at the residence
of his son-in-law. Joseph Walters,
three miles southeast of this city, last
Saturday morning May 16th, after a
six week's illness of cystites.
The deceased was born in Licken
county, Ohio, on January 17th, 1832,
and was In his 75th year. He came to
Oklahoma from Missouri at the open-
ing and settled on a claim near Ed-
mond, where he lived for a number of
years. About three years ago his
wife died, and from that time he has
resided with his children. For the
past year he has lived with his young-
est son at Chandler, where he was
taken sick. Thinking a change might
benefit him, be was brough here two
weeks ago. He gradually grew worse
until death relieved him of his suffer-
ings. John 0. Smith had a great
many friend in this community who
will learn of his death with sorrow.
The remains were interred in Grace
Lawn cemetery last Sunday morning.
A P E 0. Chapter Established.
Mrs. Dora Hallock, of Monroe, Mo.,
arrived in Edmond last Friday night,
and on Saturday she met with the
members of the Nautilus Club at the
home of Mrs. Beamguard, and estab-
lished the third P. E. 0. Chapter In
the territory.
The following ladies make up the
personnel of the chapter: Mesdames
Tool, Brigham, Hannah, Beamguard,
Bennett. Wardner, Luttman, and
Misses Johnson and Adams.
*
George W. Wagner, a former resi-
dent of this community, but now a
policeman In Oklahoma City, was shot
twice by a negro Monday night. The
shots took effect in his arm, and are
not of a serious nature.
*
Rev. Henry Gable has gone to Leav-
enworth, Kansas, where he he will un-
dergo treatment for his eyes. He has
suffered greatly with his e\es, the
sight of one being entirely gone. His
many friends hope that he may be able
to save the sigh' of the other one.
Rev. Walter Ross, the new pastor
of the Christian church, was here
Tuesday, making arrangements for a
house. His family will be here in a
few days. The people of Edmond will
heartily welcome their return. He will
preach at the Christian church next
Sunday.
Jefferson Byrnes, an early day set-
tler in the Arcadia neighborhood, and
well known to the old timers of Ed-
mond and vicinity, is now in jail at
Anadarko, charged with being an ac-
complice of Hudson In the killing of
Deputy Sheriff Bourland. Byrnes will
be remembered as the man who was
convicted and served a term for steal-
ing a team of horses from John Little
who formerly lived on Deep Fork.
Monday merning a young country
fellow came to this city, and on start-
ing home he went up Broadway. When
near the park he pulled a revolver
from his pocket and commenced to fill
the sky with lead. After shooting a
dozen times on Broadway, he crossed
the park and went out the Boulevard,
shooting as he went. It is supposed
he had bought a new gun and could not
wait until he got to the country to try It.
Many county politicians are making
this city these days looking over the
ground and lining up the faithful for
the fall fray. Almost to a man they
are waiting to see what congress will
do with the statehood bill. In the
event of its passage there will possibly
be no election this fall, consequently
the would be office holders who are
looking around are not openly announc-
ing their candidacy.
If the Oklahoma City papers are to
be believed, that town is getting no
better, "mighty fast," morally. With
seven hop joints running, It Is attract-
ing so many worthless negroes, that it
will soon out rival Guthrie for "black-
ness." From this distance, it looks
as though the police must rid the city
of a few hundred worthless negroes,
or the negroes will rid the city of a few
worthless policemen.
Rev. Wardner will return the latter
part of the week from Des Moines, la.,
where he and his wife have been at-
tending the sessions of the 118th Gen-
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian
church. Rev. Wardner will be in his
pulpit as usual Sunday morning and
preach. In the evening the annual
Children's Day Exercises of the Sun-
day School will be held.
Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Hunt this
morning awoke to find they had a
household numbering twenty-one souls,
i heir son, N. F. M. Hunt and family,
of Redfield. la , their daughters, Mrs.
Ed Fielding and children, of Youngs-
town, Ohio, Mrs. C. F. English and
daughter, of El Paso. Tex , and Mrs.
Belle Glasse, of Seattle, Tex., a sister
of Mrs. Hunt are all spending the week
in this city.
This office has just finished printing
an arithmetic for Prof. B. F. Nlhart.
This Is the second edition of Nlhart's
Arithmetic, and Is greatly enlarged and
Improved. The variety of problems
Is greater than that of most arithme-
tics. Part II of the book Is devoted
to solutions of problems, to explana-
tions of intricate points, and to rules
and definitions. Teachers will find it
adapted for use in eighth grade and
high schools. It will be used In the
Central State Normal School. Tljese
books can be obtained at the postoffice
book store.
Witcher Items.
A new bridge is being built across
Deep Fork at this place.
Mrs. Piper and family and Mr. Tay-
lor spent Sunday afternoon at Mr.
Gerard's.
John Harris has the help of two
hired men in his big cotton patch at
the present time.
Messrs Roeder and Ecker have
been cutting alfalfa.
Mrs. Gaugle's sister from Edmond
visited her last week.
Claude Parks and Josephine and
Ella Kennedy were Oklahoma City
visitors Friday.
Wm. Hammond and R. Martin
have the prize corn fields of this com-
munity.
Dave Gerard made a trip to the city
the first of the week.
There were several new scholars at
Sunday school last Sunday, and we
hope to see more.
Mrs, G. C. Kennedy has received
word of the death of her sister which
occurred on May 19th, after an illness
of three months.
Britton News.
Mr. Ecdol is roofing his barn and
siding it with the best patent siding.
It will soon be completed.
Arthur Puttman takes his mother
to Oklahoma City every morning where
she is undergoing a cdurse of medical
treatment.
There was young man held up and
robbed one mile north of Britton this
week. The young man lived near
Piedmont and was on his way to Okla-
qoma City. He proceeded to Britton
where he reported the matter to Mr.
Shores.
Arthur Puttman has recived an ap-
pointment as letter carrier in Oklaho-
ma City and will commence work
about June 1.
K. C. Puttman and family drove to
their farm this weak where their sons
are batching and farming. The crops
look well.
Rev. Draper the M. E. minister has
started a barber shop In Britton.
There was a little excitement in
Britton Wednesday occasioned by a
quarrel between Grover Pettigrew and
Mr. McCoy in which Pettigrew stab-
bed McCoy with a pocket knife.
Bert McGoy is selling stock and
poultry food for a Kansas firm,
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