The Edmond Sun (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 21, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 27, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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$1.00 GETS
IT A YEAR
The Edmond Sun
OFFICIAL PAPER OF OKLAHOMA COUNTY
$1.00 GETS
IT A YEAR
VOL. XVIII
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY. JAN. '27, 1910
NO. 2c
AN EAKLY SPRING ?
YES! SURE!
WHY?
Because as ueual—always in the lead
Forster ®L Jayne
we showing a beautiful aeieotion of New Ginghams—Repps
Poplins and all the new fanoy ootton goods for ladies and
ehUdrea's wear.
^ February and Maroh the months most favored by moth-
er* to do their sewing, and we have done our1 best to antioi-
pate their wishes and have this line complete, and yet
"Star Brand Shoes are Better."
Buy the "Patriot" shoe for men and get a handsome knife
FREE
Ladies Suits and Ladies and Misses Coats at
Half Price
The
Present Prices of Living
Requires conservative Buying
The SPOT CASH GROCERY
Ha* a fall line of everything in the Grocery line,
and at prioes that defy competition consistent with
the olass and quality of goods. The
O. K. Line of Canned Goods
Handled exclusively by us, is all high grade and
ohoiee quality. Why not buy this line at about the
same prioes as the cheap and inferior goods that are
on the market? We also have the exclusive sale of
the celebrated
CHASE & SANBORN COFFEE,
the best on the market, at 20c, 25o and 35o. The
best always goes the fartherst and is ther fore
the oheapfet.
V ■
BAGLEY & DANIELS
Phone 6
GOOD GROCERIES
CORRECT PRICES
We quote you the following prices on good
fresh Groceries.
DRIED FRUIT
Prune*
3 pound* tor
Reialo*
i pooodt for
Haltlni, Seedless
3 pounds for
Carraot*
1 poaod* for.
Aprloots
par pound
Feaehe*
pej- pound
Raspberries
pef pound
25c
25c
25c
25c
15c
10c
35c
CANNED GOODS
Peaches
2 can* for
Aprloots
2 can* for
Oreen Guaye plums
8 can* for
Faai'i
2 can for
Canned Corn and Canned Tomatoes by the case
Bour'* Coffees—Per pound 20c, 25c, 36c, Hunter's Creaui and Pon
oa City Bour, None Better.
25c
25c
25c
25c
JAMIESON'S 3D IDAHO LETTER.
IDAHO WINTEKS AHK EXTREMELY
SEVERE.
Poor Markets, o w Improved, Re-
tards Uevelopement of Rural
Idaho
Editor Sun and Friends:—
I promised to speak, in this letter,
about the prosperity and opportuni-
ties in this part of the valley. My
tirst impression was, that this was a
land of great prosperity; for 1 saw
the products with my own eyes. But
after I turned from crops to results
and prices, toere was a great question
in my mind. I asked myself, where
are all the large white farm houses
and red barns like those in northern
Oklahoma and southern Kansas; what
are the people out here doing with the
Income from these large crops?
The answer came in due time. In
the first place, this is a new country,
and perkapa half the people around
Idaho Falls have come here in the
the last five years. Many of them—
most of them—were poor, henco they
have been paying for their land. Then
prices are high. Think of paying 1115
for a good farm wagon; $05 for a set
of work harness; $17 for a pair of east
iron runners for a bob-sled, plus $0
to have them put on; $45 for a bob-
sled; $20 to $100 for a fur overcoat;
$2 to $4 fcr a suit of woolen under-
wear; $3 for a pair of overshoes; 15c
for a 5c bottle of vasaline; 35c for a
haircut: 25c for a pound of lard and
other prices in proportion. And what
is worse, farmers must buy all these
things. The cold weather demands
more food, clothing and food than a
milder climate.
For instance, how is this for a man's
dress? A heavy woolen union suit, a
heavy fleece-lined under suit, heavy
woolen overshirt and corduroy trous-
ers, heavy home-knit, woolen socks,
heavy shoes, overshoes hall-way to
the knees, a vest, a woolen sweater,
and a sheep-lined coat with the wool
on it. This is exactly what one man
whom I know out here wears every
day, plus a eap and heavy mittens.
And when he rides, he puts on a great
overcoat made of calf or wolf skin
with the hair on it. So you can see
another reason why the people here
have not built fine houses. It costs
so much to clothe and feed them and
kpep their houses warm. For most ol
their houses are poorly bnilt—in the
country—and they have to eat as they
dress—that is heavily.
There is another reason why the
prosperity of the valley does not ap-
pear on the surface. There has been
no market for agricultural products.
Only three or four years ago potatoes
were fed to stock by the car-load, for
the want of a buyer—even in the
spring of the year. And they were
only 30 cents a bushel up to Christ-
mas last fall. Hay was worth only
i from $3 to $5 a ton, with only a
home demand that, and other crops
^n proportion.
These tv.o things, then, heavy ex-
penses and low returns, have kept the
j glitter from appearing on the surface
of the country.
But a better day is at hand. Idaho
potatoes have found their way even to
Boston, and they are now being ship-
ped by train loads to Texas, Oklaho-
ma, Kansas and other states. Till
Christmas they were 30 cents, but
since then I have heard they are 45
cents a bushel. IIav is $12 a ton de-
livered in Idaho Falls. Oats 45 cents,
wheat $2.10, eggs 40 cents: apples from
$1.50 to $2: butter 30 to 40 cents; lard
25 cents retail; and so on in the
face of these figures, then, I believe
that the next flye years will show evi-
dences of great prosperity here; and
land that can now be bought for $75
to $100 an acre will sell at $200 an
acre.
Now, why do I make such a proph
esy? First, because the market has
been found, and a new railroad is
coming this way. Just to show you,
by the way, what the Oregon Short
Line thinks of the future of this part,
1 might mention that that company is
building, right now, nine miles of
side track in Idaho Falls, Second,
fruit Jand over at Payette, Nampa and
other points in Idaho is now selling
for from $300 to $1,000 an acre, I have
been unofficially informed; and thous-
ands of fruit trees are being put out
here. The land tha J speak of is al-
ready leveled, waU/od and proved
fertile; and the apples already raised
I here, though not many yet, are of fine
quality and without worms. On my
way up here, I brought a basket of
Missouri apples that were sold on the
j streets of Edmond during the days of
October, and nearly every one was
| wormy. Out here, I have eaten about
one apple a day for at least sixty
days, and have not found a single
worm. There are a few here, howev-
er, so I have been told, and it has
been predicted that they will come in
destructive numbers as the fruit crop
increases, but this is only a surmise
1 can bear witness that the tempera-
ture and other features of this elimate
are against the codling moth, the
peach aphis, the grape curculio, and
other insect pests that sicken the
heart of agriculturists farther south.
To make sure of myself at this
point, I stopped writing and asked my
landlady if they ever had chinch bugs
here. She jumped and turning to me,
said: "No; have you got one?" She
seemed to think I referred to some-
thing like the little domestic creature
that sometimes becomes so social at
night. But when I explained what
the chinch bug and the green bug are,
she replied: t4I never heard of sich a
thing;"and her husband has farmed
here for years.
Then, there is a third reason wliy
this land will be higher. People are
coming in fast from other states, not-
ably Missouri, Iowa. Nebraska, the
Dakotas, and Utah. I meet new-com-
comers every time I go into a real es-
tate office. And I was told by a real
estate man that land advanced 25 per
cent about Idaho Falts during last
summer and fall. A fourth reason
for ray prophesy is, that good farmers
are beginning to see that one family
cannot handle a large irrigated farm.
Hence they are beginning to cut the
holdings up into smaller tracts. One
farmer told me that he sold a part of
his place last spring, and raised more
on what he had left than he raised the
preceding year on his entire farm.
And his neighbor, finding that eighty
acres was too much for him to handle
last season, sold half It last Novem-
ber, so that he might handle the other
half to better advantage next year.
Last August as 1 stood in front of
the postottice in Edmond, a man who had
heard of this valley asked me how it
could be that the land about Idaho
Falls was so cheap, if it was good ag-
ricultural land. I answered with half
guess and half reason, that it had on-
ly lately been discovered. Since com-
ing here, 1 have found that that was
the correct answer. A real estate man
told me that he had traveled up and
down on the train through this valley
for years with the idea that it was a
useless desert. He had seen the ditch-
es made by the Mormons, but most of
the land was still covered with sage
brush. But one day, only about four
years ago, he chaneed to stop at Ida-
ho Falls, then an unimportant village,
as he walked around and saw some of
the possibilities of the soil, he began
to think and to speculate, in his uwn
mind, on the future of the valley.
That was the last trip he made for his
house. He got a few of his friends to-
gether and organized a development
company. They bought all the land
in and about town they could handle
then began to advertise the country.
Until then southeastern Idaho was
unknown as a farming district, except
to the Mormons, some of whom h*.d
lived here for 20 years. This, then is
why this land is no higher; it has on-
ly recently been discovered
But 1 have said nothing about op-
portunities. That will be the burden
of my next letter. Yours truly,
W. C. Jamieson.
Idaho Falls, Jan, 13.
50o and 75c men's and youth's
cotton underwear 33o.
Rucker's Closing Out Sale.
For ohoice fruit, shade, and
ornamental trees get in touch
with Oklahoma Nursery Co.
Phone 33.
More New Kduipnieat.
The Sun 'this week purchased new
type and other material, adding $400
worth of material to our present well-
epuipped office. A desire to turn out
orders with dispatch and a determina-
ation to make The Sun one of the
best equipped offices in Okfahoma, is
the reason for the purchase so much
new material.
The phenominal suooess of our
closing out sale has already bro-
ken the stock in many linea and
we will prepare a great bargain
feast for next week, and will sell
all remnants at prices never be-
fore offered on desirable mer-
chandise. Watch for speoial an-
nouncement. W. N. Rucker.
Don't oome to Edmond Wed-
nesday, Feb. 2d, as the big clos-
ing out sale at Rucker's will be
closed arranging for a Remnant
Sale.
PUBLIC SCHOOL REPORT GOOD
RECORD OF PAST MONTH SHOWS
GOOD WORK.
Atendance. Deportment Punctuality1
Features Worthy of Special
Comment,
Second Grade.
Perfect in attendance for the month
ending Jan. 21:
Gladys Kousie, George Harres,
Willie Pocock, Arthur Slohn, Kate
Roberts, Alberta McAninch, Sheldon
Mahlon, Ivan Lehrer, Leona Kearby.
Bert Holems, Hope Gable, Henry Ga-
ble, Homer Gossett, Viola Burge,
May Beam, George Boyle, Jennie
Boyle, Keneth Anglea.
Third Grade.
Neither absent nor tardy:
Eulalle Baldwin, Ruby Burgess,
Lester Cash, Charles Bearden, Har-
old Fisher, Ted Gossit, Edith Hughes,
Klonora Ilagen, Alma King, I phi
Mills, Addle Stephens, Frances
Smith, Donovan Tool, Arthur Van-
arnsdale, Fred White, May Wood-
rum, Rowena Wise, Vera Hlght,
Mary Morrlsett, Ruth Sims. Zaelen
Gllliland.
Fourth Grade.
Perfect in attendance:
Hunter Young, Lauretta Bell, Ir-
Burgess, Howard Morgan, Charles
Mason, Eunera Hurst, Nellie Cleaver,
Geneva Schuman, Ola Hughes, Fred
Gossett, Paulide Rousey, Archie
Kearby, Herman Carmichael, Gladys
Knack, Earlle McColgan, Virgil Cas-
to, Emma Vandegrif, Manilla Lea-
zenby.
Fflth Grade.
Perfect In attendance:
Clifford Bell, Ben Cleaver, Katie
Cleaver, Kenneth Gordon, Frank
Gossett, Howard Malone, Nettie Ma-
son, Clell Mason, Justice Taylor, Va-
da Byrd, Helen Barger, Fern Boye,
John Cornforth, Johnnie Dawson,
Henrietta Hagen, Dorothy Forster,
Wander Hurst, May Malone, Jessie
Roberts, Florence Morgan. Morris
Stewart, Joe Walker, Lucile Weisen-
bash, Emory Height, Gilbert McDou-
gall.
Those perfect In deportment were:
'Dewy Wise, William Shelden, Net-
tie Mason, Clell Mason, Clifford Bell.
The highest monthly average was
made by Clifford Bell, 90, in A Fifth.
The highest monthly average in 11
Fifth was made by Vada Byrd, 08.
Emery Height was absent Monday
and Tuesday, on account of sickness.
Sixth Grade.
Perfect in attendance:
Howard Patten, Kimber Cartel',
Harry Thompson, Jennie Lea zenby,
Letha Vandegrift, Mamie Vandegrift,
Louis isle, Ray McGaha, Cleo Myers,
Ned Brooks, Ruby Thurman, Cora
Harres, Mable Burge, Ralph Geyer,
Commodore Sheldon, Edgar Murphy,
Arthur Burge, Genevieve Farrar, Al-
ma Comstock, Mildred Fox, Martha
Hagen, Norva Barber, Dollie Mor-
gan, Beryl Haney.
Pcrfect in deportment:
Mildred Fox, Alma Bomstock, Isa-
bel Smith, Gentvlve Farrar, Elmer
Higbee, Ralph Geyer, Ruby Thurman,
Addle Wright, Martha Hagen, How-
ard Patten.
Seventh Grade.
Helen Bagley, Ethel Coffman, Flo-
ra Fisher, Edith Dawson, Ethel Gos-
sett, Bernice Haney, Mary Schuman,
Cora Sumner, Nora Taylor, Lois
Wood rum, Minnie Cartmlll, Dee Fel-
lows, Sam Gossett. Freeman Hughes,
Redford Weiser, Idus Lavrence, Ju-
lia Bryan, Grace-Elsie Farrar, Ks
ther Henry, Lillian Moore, Arlene
.Myers, Nellie Schlotzhauer, Goldie
Schlotzhauer, Lillian Taylor, Sadie
Walker, Mary Weisenbach, Mable
Jones, Clarence Casto, Oliver Corn-
forth, Byron McGaha, Thos. Strick-
land.
Lydia Habben has been absent from
school for several days. She is help-
ing her father on the farm.
Herbert Davis and Mary Crowley
were absent on Wednesday of this
week.
Lillian Spangler is still absent from
school on account of Illness.
Elgth Grade-
The following were perfect in at-
tendance in the eighth grade for the
month ending January 21st.
Photby Athey, Elizabeth Bagley,
Lucile Bagley, Lizzie Holmes, Minnie
Jeffries, Lois McMurray, Lewis Mc-
Afee, Ralph McCaulley, Claudis Mor-
rlsett.
STORE NEWS
We wish to announce to the public that
we have been to market and bought a
fine line of
SPRING DRY GOODS
which will be on our shelves in a few
days for your inspection. Sale prioes
are still in foroe on
Blankets, Comforts, Underwear
Outing Flannels, Dress Goods
RedFront
PHONE 6o
f SKM TSSSK!
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE
A BANK ACCOUNT
Start one as soon as possible. Money deposited in a State
Bank in Oklahoma is aa safe as it is anywhere on earth.
The Citizens Bank
offers every accommodation consistent with conservative
banking and wants your business. Interest paid on time
deposits.
Safety Deposit lioxes for Rent at $2 per year.
Citizens Bank of Edmond
Sample line muslin Underwear
at Ruoker* Closing Out Sale.
The Big Shoe Sale
Save More Shoe Money
Now. lime is.,Limited.
Ml Shoes Must Go
S7.00 Values $5.90
G.OOl'alues 4.90
5.50 Values 4.40
"i.OO Values 3.90
00 Values 2.90
3.50 Values 2.40
3.00 Values 1.90
2.00 Values 1.60
M. S. & F.
Shoes
119 W. Main
Oklahoma Citv
Strawberries and rhubarb are
very soarce this season, and il
you want yours, you had better
plaoe an order with Oklahoma
Nursery Co. before we are sold
out, Phone 33,
"The Church W
ith a Message and a Welcome for All"
Rev. Al
jiEiti EDGAR Wakdnkh, Jb,, PASTOR
Sunday, 11 a. m.
441 lie Lost Book"
OUIHU1J, I..W p. m.
"Will There Ever be a Union of the Various
Churches of Christendom?"
First
Presbyterian Church
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