Britton Weekly Sentinel. (Britton, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 6, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 17, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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BRITTON WEEKLY SENTINEL.
Published at 217 North Harvey St., Oklahoma City, Okla., by The Suburban Newspaper Publishing Company.
VOL 2 NO <>.
BRITTON, OKLAHOMA, SAT IK DAY, APJUL >7. 1 0 .
Sl.00 PER YEA!
I HI LL & TRAUGHB ER
DEALERS IN
\ GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE & NOTIONS
BRITTON, OKLAHOMA
I COMPUTE AND UP TO DATE!
! DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT
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| Come in and inspect our Dry Goods,
| Notion and Furnishing Department.
You will find here Quality and Prices
to your utmost satisfaction.
Bring along your produce as our prices
are always the highest.
HILL&TRAUGHBER
OPPOSITE INTERURBAN DEPOT
1HE
BRITTON SENTINEL
Itiued Weekly
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR—CASH.
horse thief visits britton. |
On last Saturday night .Mr. Sailing's
team was stolen frftm his barn and
no traco of thi'in could bf found. 11
notified the official* of the county and
offered a reward of $50 for the arrest
I i1El5i«?d V "e'wd-fiu** matter. October ' and conviction of the thief an,I 2j
31, 1808, at the pontofflee at oklahoma, . . -
j oklahoma, under the Aet or Man h I ro' "u' recovery of the team. He sent
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Published By
SUBURBAN NEWSPAPER PUB
217 Nortth Harvey St.,
OKLAHOMA CITY • OKLAHOMA.
H. W. Smitn, Mgr.
Subscription price I4 fl.wo per yt-ar, ill-
' variably in advance. Six months, 50c.;
I three months, 25c.
Advertising rates—Our advertising rates
are u3 follows, and no deviation will be
wade therefrom except on long time con-
tracts;
Display advertisements, per Inch per
week, 10c.; reading notices, per line per
a cek, 5e. A special rate for contract ad -
vert'sing will be made where the con-
tract runs for six months or longer.
cards with a description of the team
j and reward In all directions Tuesday
CO., 1 he received a phone men
j sag< that they had his team at Paul
Valley. Mr. Freeman and Mr.Ho-
cock went down on the noon train
and learned that the thief had taken
them out of the barn here,, rode one
and led the other, got a wagon and
harness two miles south of the city
and drove to Pauls Valley and put up
at a wagon yard for the night. H«'
said I** wanted to get an early start
in the morning and paid the yardman
when he drove in. He got hi 4 early
start but his action tended to arouse
Communications—Address all communi 1 suspicious and when it vas learned
cations to thv .cfiior of the paper. Write .
on one si..«* of the paper only, and be ihat a store had been entered during
very cr.refut to see that all proper name!) I the night and a number of goods
are .<c-Ileil correctly and plainly. . , , , , *
1 stolen, authorities started in pursuit
MRS FLORENCE STKWART and captured him with the goods,
twenty miles south of Pauls Valey
| Then it was that .Mr. Sailing's cards
oklahoma. lllto p]ay as the description lit
- ted the team witli the exception of a
white spot in the forehead of one of
| them and it was discovered to have
.... _ been painted with Iodine. Mr. Sail-
Mr. Ilarrv Orr lias . . , , , ,
• Ing was informed and the above nam-
ed men went down. The team hcAv-
ever are so badly used up that they
are as yet unable to be brought home.
They are holding the man in Purcell
for the robbery he did there and he
surely did a plenty to send him up.
Local Editor.
BRITTON
britton news.
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j H. L. Blackburn Co.
I STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES
I HARDWARE AND TINWARE
t SEE OUR LINE OF MILLINERY, DRY GOODS AND NOTIONS
jj* All Goods DiliversJ
| FLATIRON BUILDING BRITTON, OKLA. +
Our new baker
! moved his family into Mr. Mccarty's I
new cottage. Mr. Orr informs us he j
wil be prepared to begin baking next!
week. He has a neat little bakery i
and housewives should patronl/.e him 1
so he can afford to stay with us. j
Rev. C. E. Wright and wife of La- j
iioma were visiting friends in Britton, |
| Wednesday- and Thursday. They j
spent the day in Thursday at the j
Bower and Ilaker home3. Bro. Wright i , , , , .
uii i„. 1, , le,es a homo in East Britton
wn be temembered by a number of | t[
i Britton people as our former pastor '
at the M. Church.
The organized class of the Deep
1 Pork Sunday school wil give an enter-
tainment on the evening of the 17th
Through Arthur & crtim .Mrs. J.
F. Ryan of Oklahoma City has rented
a house in Britton Park until she cum-
fuldl-
The M. K. H T. railroad authorities
are preparing to move the road west
of the one now in use. It will not cross
the creek as orten then. It looks like
of i„rti o, ,i.„ r. , , | the town of Witcher will have to mov
or April at the Deep Fork School ' jj
house. The class will render Se 1
laughable rarce "The Irish Linen Ped-
| dler" in connection with a box supper.
Admission 10 and 25 cent s. Ladies
bringing a box wil be admitted frae.
! Everybody Invited.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin who live
[ Tulsa, Oklahoma, came to their old
home at Witcher to attend to some
business. While there Mrs. Martin
took rick with pneumonia and lived
It has a railroad.
! Mr. Pinkerton was a business cal-
I ler in Edmond last Saturday. He
I says he returned by the way of Ok"
: lahoma City, going from Edmond to
j Ih ■ city on the noon passenger and
! HRuritlng to Britton on the Intenir-
i ban.
| Mrs. Good of the- 'Carson neighbor-
hood informs us she is expecting her
mother and sister from Reasnor, Iowa,
SPEAK LOUDER
only a few days, dying Sunday, April
4, 1909. She was buried Tuesday the
fith on their old home place by Bro.
Spencer
next week. They will stay a mouth or
two.
We are informed that Mr. .1. P.
Carson who formerly iived west of
BUY LOTS NOW
ALTAVUE ADDITION
I HIS 1 OWN has more than doubled in
the past six months. I he most pessimistic ad-
mit that we w ill have more than I 000 people
here before another New Year.
good money
Look around
If this is so YOU are losing
by not buying cheap lots NOW.
and then come see us, we have the nicest resi-
dence lots in the town, on the hill near the school.
We have nine houses on our addition now and
will have twenty-five more before six months
from deals already made. We will for a short
time, sell you nice building lots at $200 per pair-
Less than six months from now they will be
selling for $300.
BUY IN ALTAVUE ADDITION.
STEALEY REALTY CO.
Phone 1888
OWNERS
132 1-2 W. Main
i
It is not what we are going to do
but what we are right now doing
that makes Britton Park lots the
safest, most desirable and cheapest
lots for sale in Britton.
If you are a Britton knocker
crawl back in your den and shut
up. You do no one any good but a
whole lot of harm. Nine men out of
ten who are knockers are ignorant.
BOOST ALONG AND YOU WILL
SLEEP BETTER
REMEMBER the firm to see is i
the one who develops and sells lots;
who raises prices when justified;
who will make you the most money
on your investment.
BURTON LOAN & MORTGAGE CO.
103 West Grand Av.
Suburban Dept. H. S. Karns, Manager, Phone BBX 92
Mrs. Cobb who has been spelling town has purchased a farm near Wo; \
thme winter with her sister, Miss Bor ! vl"e. Okla. Mr. Carson Is not farming
land, who lives east of Britton left for himself but is engaged in garden-
her home in Pittsburg, Penn, Wed- ! inS on a smaller tract near his daugh-
nesday. • ! ter's home.
Mr. Sellers from LeGrange, Mo., ar- Mr. Geo. Santee who was called to
rived in Britton Thursday p. m. He in Iowa by the death of his father, rc-
a friend of Dr. Young and came down turned to Britton Monday morning,
to see if he would rather live in Okh* He reports cold, freezing weather tip
hotua than Misouri. | north.
Mr. Heald of the North Star re- Mr. J. S. Vincent is a new reader
turned to Britton last Friday from of the Sentinel also Mrs. Mollle Shores
his old home in Ohio. He was acom "f Yadkinville, North Carolina.
panied by his wife and two daughters. Little Lela Shores
A number of the old subscribers at the Stewart home.
are taking advantage or the 50c rat. Miss Loulha Leasl
and renewing their subscription*
spent Saturday
was visltlnc
IU a .. , at "le home of Mr. Shores last week
the Sentinel. Let others folow as this glit
iate wil not last alwavs.
A daughter of Mr. Teague, living
xpects to soon go
sister in Kansas.
Mr. nnd Mrs. Alonzo Burd.^
it her
Wei i
or six miles east of Britton has visitors at Edmond last Sundav.
Mr. J. S. Vincent went up to Ed-
niond Tuesday returning Wednesday.
He was visiting his son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. .1. S. Darby.
Mrs . Stella Wletner and, little
daughter, Genevieve, from Lai/ton
were visiting Mrs. Shintaffer the first
returned
e.v have
live
been dangerously III .but we are glad
to report his improving.
We heard from two different parties
last week that Mr. Grant Smith had
his leg broke and so of course wo
made a note or for the eSntinel. But
we are glad it was a mistake, altho
we felt rather "cheap-- when we hear.! j of thls w-eek.
some one say that they had seen bin' Mr. and Mrs. Burdge hav<
jumping out of a wagon In the City from their eastern trip. T
last Saturday. been gone several months.
Mr. S. L. Shlntaffer and two grand '^°"glas is having a serious
sons, Mark and Dale Rorem were talc- t'lne with sickness. She Is now suf-
fering with rheumatism.
Mr. and Mrs. Ferris were t^dmond
unable to attend to her duties in tin vl"l,°''8 ^'>'<l>iesdny.
post office. ) • * 'ayton from near Piedmont
William Basle, sheriff of Fulton " ^ ■
county. Illinois, and who*, home is in bluff "creek news.
p v f, " ■ s n',s- lr- and Mrs- Vh cent K""hj returned home
\t ' .1 U lul ,h( |)ast from a visit with her son't family at
Mr. and Mrs. A. Arthur enter- j Greenfield. Okla.. and report* crops In
talned fred Bnedlnter, of Astoria,111., fl„e condition andl much farther ad-
the first of the week. Mr. Snedingei vanced than here
is out here Hiking over tne oil fields \ Miss Katherine Gleason, a dress-
and elsewhere with a view to Inve..- maker from oklahoma City spent East-
t Sunday with her auut, Mrs. ,1 \
Starry of Edmond will build Cray, returning Mondav
ing in the City Thursday.
Mrs. Nutter was 111 Thursday and
ill the 1
i tin a Hiiun vian.
'lie Stork visited the home of Mr
lovers last Sunday and made them
rltici
ment.
Wait<
E PEOPLE
ad
a D-room house in Altavue Just north
of the park. It is announced that I)
A. Starry will later build 011 the
joining lots.
A. E. Davenport of Joplln, Mo.. Is
putting up a house in East Britton
011 lots purchased rrom R. M. Con-
way, Inc.
A. F. Nilson acom,,anie.l .Mrs. Nil-
son to Oklahoma City Thursday. Mrs.
NIIbou is on her way to her old home
in Sweden to get her mother and
bring her to Britton. She will be gone
about three months.
morning. A
^reat many will remember Miss Old-
en as a former resident or this place.
■Mr. Less Dixon will read the Senti-
! nel in the future
Miss Christine Kunr, a dressmaker
! from Edmond is sewing this week for
jihe Misses Kratzky. We art- looking
or something to transpire soon.
Those windy days remind 88ers or
arly days, and it is not as pleasant j
ihing to remember.
Mr. Orvllle Bridges and Mr. Wood |
j ef Newcastle were business calers
I here last Monday. I
DEEP FORK SUNBEAMS.
It seems as though the recent boom
which has struck Britton has. extend-
I to our quiet and secluded bjrg. All
lay Sunday real estate was changing
hands at a rapid rate.
Mr. Fields and son have been very
sick. His son is yet "11 a serious con-
dition, accompanied with an attack
of the lagrippe and formerly badly
burned 011 his lower limbs and was ex-
pecting to be able to oe out toon but
now Is confined to the bed again.
C. W. Calerman expects to leav.V
for Holton and other points in Kanaas
next week 011 a short visit.
Tlu
Tinl
a present of a fine bain bov. All doln>
well.
"The Irish Linen Peddler" the ph-y
which will be given by the young pen
pie of our burg will be given Sat-
urday night at Deep Fork scho d house
and if you have the blues it Is your
duty to come to the hear the play.
Ii is chuck full of fun from start to
finish. Box supper In connection, in
vitation extended to all.
Mrs. Black of Witcher i
ill with consumption.
Mr. ('has and Ru< 1 Co;ik two of our
hoys living near the city had their
had their horse and buggy stolen w hile
attending church there.
August, the son of Mr. Aram.-., while
ttt school received an lnjuryln the
stomach which is feared will
fatal.
Mrs. .1. W. Cook has gom
home in Tennessee on a
we wish her a pleasant trii
return.
Mr. F. E. Williams and family have
removed to Oklahoma City, lie has
a position with the Pioneer tele| bone
company.
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1 YOUNG & STEWART |
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Physicians and Surgeons +
Ul rail, promptlv •ttrnded tn day or nigl.t j*
>fflce ju.l wr,l of Dr re.idrn. r ▼
BRITTON, OKLAHOMA {
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LEO LAND 1
| RICHARDS AND ESTES |
! DEALERS IN :
I FRESH & SALT MEATS a
We koep always on hand a stock J
of fresh, pure lard, hamburger, •!•
steak, sausage, etc. No cold- V
storage stock in our shop. Give X
us a calL i
Britton, Okla |j!
Restaurant...
A. G. WENGER. PROP.
SHORT ORDERS SOFT DRINKS
any time. Cigars,
prove
io her old
Vlrfit and
aril a safo
Meals served at
Confectionery, Fruit, etc. Give me a
call when in Britton. Hight at the
loop. Agent for Mode! Laundry.
LEWIS BROS.
CARPENTERS
R, F. D., Britton, Okla.
1 1-2 Miles West of Hank.
Phone or Write
Call
DR. W. L. MAUPIN
DENTIST
Specialty: Bridge and
Crown Work
Suite 1, 2 and 3. 116 1-2 Ma.ii St.
OKLAHOMA CITY
Britton
Oklahoma
L. J.STUBBS
BRITTON 3 BARBER
Clean and satisfactory shaves,
shampoo and hair cuts up-to-date.
1 have a dandruff cure I guaran-
tee. Call and see it. Laundry
sent Wednesdays. Clothes clean-
; ed and pressed.. Next door to
Dye's store.
GENERAL JOB WORK
Cill on me for Fraaet, Scretu,
Stair Work, Store Front*. Shelving,
Counter* and Cabinet Making
Shop 0pp. Hedge Lumber Yards
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Wm. Edmond
I km n 11 m) it I Km NURSERY
STOCK. TREES. SHUBBERY, ETC.
Call nnd mc
BRITTON, OKLAHOMA +
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