Edmond Twice - A - Week Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 21, 1908 Page: 2 of 8
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THE EDMOND ENTERPRISE
Vubliihfd Every Tut d y nd Friday By
THE ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING COMPANY
C. W GOULD • • • Editor and Manager
I year $1.50
6 months -- 75
3 months 50
Entered at the Edmond, Oklahoma, Post Office as second
class mail matter.
NO EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE
light
him
Dont knock. Dont croak. But get busy and
BOOST
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Cyclones and tornadoes are coming early this spring.
Looks like a good season for them.
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Mark this prediction - By September 1st, 1910. Ed-
mond will have a population of 5000 people
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The elements seem determined to make Oklahoma
WFT, even tho' a majority of the voters said DRY.
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With so much rain falling and water running down the
wagon tracks makes even the grown ups want to go bar#
foot and wade.
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Tell your councllmen that we want an electric
plant In connection with the waterworks plant and get
to support such a proposition In open council session.
* * *
Edmond Is certainly on the road to better things. If
you dont believe It, take a two years Rip Van Winkle
snooze and when you wake up you will be convinced.
* * *
Don't listen to the croakings of any old grouch about
lack of business, etc. Life Is to short and taxes to sure to
stop and argue about hard times.
* * *
Edmond has more miles of good brick sidewalk than
any town of its size in Oklahoma. That's worth remem-
bering when you want to boost your town.
* * *
Guess a few old ex soaks would be glad to see an-
other $27,000 worth of beer turned loose In the streets In
Oklahoma v^ity. Very little of it would ever reach the gut-
ters.
* * *
Frank J. Gould says that his wife suing for divorce Is
"another curse of riches." Well Frank, hand us over
some of your riches and we will guarantee that our wife will
stay with us
* * *
Southern Kansas banks seem an easy mark for bank
robbers. Its a dull week when someone does not walk into
a bank there, scoop all the cash Into a grain sack and take
a hike for the Osage hills.
V * *
When the Capital location question comes up the vot-
ers of the state will probably remember that it Is Guthrie
that gives the Icy mlt to the democratic legislature and i
that It Is Guthrie that must have a negro on the school
board
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If the legislature gives us a new Normal building and
the school section, and ihe Oklahoma Electric railway
gives us the Inter-urban road, and the Gas company gives
us natural gas. we should at least treat ourselves to some
better business buildings now that waterworks Is assured.
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The Central State Normal is the best known school
in Oklahoma and has the reputation of being the best
school. In the recent changes of faculty in the Normals,
It was highly complimentary to Edmond and the Normal
that a very large majority of the applicants for positions
wanted to come to this school.
i he word has gone forth from the Governor's office
that there will be no special session of the Legislature fol-
lowing the present session. The Governor Is correct In his
stand and his flat announcement will tend to hasten the
work of the law makers a little. There seems to have
been an idea pravalent that because the constitution allow-
ed an extra session of 60 days for the first legislature that
the Governor would take advantage of It and call the legis-
lature together Immediately after the adjournment of the
regular session. But in this they have been disappointed
and what they do not finish now must be left over for the
next legislature to wrestle with. We believe that a large
majority cf the members of the present legislature went
there to wcrk and want to expedite matters, but some have
played a delaying game and if anything Is done at all these
members must be dragged along rather than depended up
on to push. There was much to be accomplished and
much has been done, but there is much yet to be done and
it will take hard work, long hours and no monkey business
to get anywhere near done. Our friends of the opposition
party have not been satisfied, of course. They were not
satisfied with the work of the Constitutional Convention,
either, but the people were, and they placed their stamp
of approval upon it and they ill do likewise with the work
of the first state legislature. But even tho' this legislature
does not finish its work, the expense of an extra ression
would be unwarranted at this time from the fact that an-
other regular session will convene In January, or about 8
months after the prent session adjourns. We commend
the governor for the stand he is taking on this proposition.
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IN A FRIENDLY SOKT OF WAY.
When a man ain't got a cent, and he's feeling kind o'
blue.
An' the clouds hang dark an' heavy, an' won't let the
sunshine through,
It's a great thing, oh, my brethern, for a feller just to
lay
His hand upon your shoulder in a friendly sort o,
vayl
It makes a man feel curious; It makes the tear drops
start,
An' you sort o' feel a flutter In the region of your
heart;
You can look up and meet his eyes; you don't know
what to say
When his h«<nd is on your shoulder in a friendly sort
o' way!
Oh, the world's a curious compound, with Its honey
and its gall.
With its care and bitter crosses, but a good worl'
after all;
An' a good God must have made it—leastways, that
is what I say,
When a hand Is on my shoulder in a friendly sort o
way.
— james Whltcomb Riley.
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Is'nt this the limit—
"How sweet is spring, when
the birdies sing,
And the base ball fans,
And the also rans
Begin to plan th eir
Annual plans,
And the good housewife
With her head in a tow'l,
Tears up the house,
While the Babies howl."
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The way some of the Gould heirs are spending money
on actresses and paying debts of defunct Counts and
Princes Is enough to make old Jay wake up In his grave
and come forth to show his profligate progeny how to make
and pil« up the sheckels
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No Maude—"Sunny Brook" Is not the name of the
stream that flows thro' the city of Guthrie, but rather the
brand of booze the dispensary agent will hand out to you
when the doctor tells you you have the cramp colic, brought
on by a decayed tooth, caused by too long abstlnance Irom
the flowing bowl so rudely dashed from your Hps by the
voters last November.
^ & *
After all if you want good wholesome Americanism,
free from all contaminating influences of a foreign popula-
tion you must go the smaller cities and the country to find
It. The possibilities of acquiring immense wealth in a few
years by a manipulation of the markets and not by an hon-
est effort has created in many cases a contempt for time
honored American institutions and customs. And it has
also Instilled a desire to ape some broken down foreign
countries whose cussedness Is of such long standing that it
has become part of their nature. And then these same
Got Rich Quick Americans must cross the waters for hus-
buands for their daughters. They want something "Hen-
glish, don't cher know."
* * *
It looks like the Gould and.Vanderbilt dirty linen will
be washed out before the public gaze, and the cause of all
the soil in the aforesaid linen will be given to a public whose
ears are ever itching for the sensational. There is much
that could be said about the matrimonial farce an J the cor-
rupt proctlces of New Yorks 400. but they have been told
sc often about it that their finer sensibilities have become
calloused and they heed not the shafts directed at them.
But we can at least add our contempt to their actions and
say, FOR SHAME, FOR SHAME.
We wish to announce that we have a full new
line ot D. M. Ferry's and Sebethany Seed
Co. garden seeds.
We have a car load of the finest Seed po-
tatoes ever brought to Edmond: Tri-
umphs, Bnrbanks, Rose and Ohios, and a
fine line of groceries.
Shelden& Myall
A peaceful Happy Easter to all is the wish of
THE
FARMERS'
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We invite you to mingle your joys with ourj
patrons and supply your wants from our store.
\ ou can maintain lasting peace in your culi-
nary department with WHITE LILLY FLOUR
and good things to eat from our line of fresh
groceries.
Garden and Field Seeds, Cane, Kaffir, Cow-
peas, Cotton Seed, Seed Potatoes, Peanuts.:
Crushed rock salt is cheapest for
stock. 55 cents per hundred lbs.
Dwarf Essex Rape is the Great Hog Feed
VVe have Coal oil, Crude oil, Separator;
oil, Machine oil, Axle grease and Elbow
grease galore. =:=
Highest Price For Butter. Eggs:
| and Poultry.
We buy cream and pay cash
semi-weekly.
^ Phone 52
J. P. Roach Mngr.
W. S, PATTEN, President J. M. ANGLEA, Cashier
J. W. HOWARD, Vice-Pres C. H PROFFITT, Asst. Cash
THE
FIRST NATIONAL BANK,
of edmond, oklahoma
STATE AND COUNTY DEPOSITORY.
Capital and Surplus,
$30,000.00
DIRECTORS,
W S. Patten. J. W. Howard, C. J. Patten, 1. W. Rodkey,
J. M. Anolea,
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
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Gould, C. W. Edmond Twice - A - Week Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 23, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 21, 1908, newspaper, April 21, 1908; Edmond, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc140583/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.