The New Era (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 21, 1910 Page: 1 of 4
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I DEPENDENT
IN POLITICS - A FAIR
DEAL FOR EVERYONE
THE NEW ERA
DEVOTED TO THE IN-
TERESTS OFONE OF
THE REST TOWNS IN
OKLAHOMA
Vol. 2. No. 13.
DAVENPORT, OKLA. THURSDAY, APRIL. 1910. 21
$1.00 per year
To Advertise
Davenport
The irresistible Okla. boost-
er spirit, which has always been
present in Davenport, broke out
afresh during the past week and
with such violence as to astonish
the most sanguine. The town,
it seems, has started out to lit
erally out boost the boosters.
At a meeting last Friday
night in the Woodman hall com
posed of about 125 men and a
number of women, plans were
discused for a campaign to put
Davenport on the map in big
type and before the meeting had
closed *f>80.00 had been subsci ib
ed by those present for advertis
ing and other purposes and it
was announced that with the
subscriptions that are expected
from several non residents and
others who were not present tli9
amount would easily reach
*1,000.00
Dr. J. R. Handles, town build-
er, and advertiser, of Shawnee
addressed the meeting and out
lined some plans, which are be-
ing formed by himself in connect-
ion with the representative of
the townsite company to bring
the advantages of Davenport to
the attention of investors and
various industries that are now
seeking locations in Oklahoma.
Dr. Randies comes well recom-
mended as to his ability as a
booster and the general opinion
is tnat Davenport is to be com
gratulated on securing his service
Monday night a reorganiza-
tion of the Commercial Club was
effected. Pursuant to a call ab-
out 75 citizens met in the Wood-
was elected as follows, R. C.
Price. A. E. Hang, E. B. Moore,
T. S. Watts and C. T. Hedges.
Othei matters of interest to the
town were discussed and the
subscription to the advertising
fund was materially increased.
It is desired that every one
understand that there are no re-
quirements for membership in
this organization other than
that the applicant be a booster
for the town of Davenport.
There will probably be small as-
sessments from time to time for
the running expenses of the
Club but such will not be heavy
enough to cause any one to hesi-
tate to become a member.
Every resident and every pro-
perty owner should be enrolled
in this organization and lend all
his aid and influence toward,
putting Davenport on the map
Caught With
The Goods
Don't Forget
Don't forget the big sale day
the coming Saturday. Bring in
your stuff. The more the mer-
rier. There will be a big crowd
here some good music and Cul.
Cline to sell your stuff free.
The Lincoln County
Farmer
h Little Foolishness now and than
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Women to
Clean House
NOTICE
There will be a regular communica-
tion of the Davenport lodge No. 260, A.
j F. and A. M. at the lodge hall over the
\ First National bank, Saturday evening
! April 23rd, 1910, beginning promptly at
j 7 p. m. Work in the first a:nd third de-
grees in the new work. Masons are
, fraternally invited to attend.
A. B. Clark, Secretary
A. C. Rankin, noted temperance
lecturer, will speak to men only at the
Christain church, next Sunday at 2
p. m. on the subject 'A hard Row of
Stumps for Men and How to Get
Through them."
A young man drove into town
Tuesday night, with a rubber
tired buggy and a strawberry
roan horse. He put the rig up
over night at Sawyers barn and
Wednesday morning started out
of town north. As he passed
through town Deputy Sheriff
Burgess noticed the outfit and
connected it with a reward card
he had received the evening be-
fore from Oklahoma City. Has-
tily hunting up the card the de
scription wa3 *arified and Bur-
gess accompanied by Dr. Baird
in the latters bug^v started i.i
pursuit. They over took the
man near the overhead bridge,
brought him back to town, lock
ed him up and phoned Sheriff
Binion of Oklahoma County who
announced that be would be In re
on the first train. He ai rived
on the afternoon train, took the
rig and man to Chandler where
the owner was waiting, turned
his property over to hiin and
took the prisoner whom he had
identified as Lee My res back to
Oklahoma City.
O. C. Burgess and Dr. Baird
received $25 each for their work.
Produce Prices
Davenport produce buyers
will pay the following prices for
country produce until the end of
this week.
'23c
17c
16c
10c
10c
T. W. Smith is renovating the for-
man hall and after adopting the , mer Fessenger market and is moving
name "Davenport Commercial
Club, elected R. S. May president
and J. G. McCue, secretary. A
committee composed of W. Jones
R. C- Price and O. Gr Robertson
was chosen to draw up consti
tution and by laws and report
Thursday evening.
An executive committee
his market into it this week. He has
installed a cream tester and will now
be prepared to test cream right here
in Davenport.
The Christian Ladies will
serve ice cream to-night instead
of strawberries. Owing to the
fact the strawberries could not
be secured.
Cream
Butter
Eggs
Hens
Turkeys
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Special Cash Prices
ON FEED AND FLOUR
SATURDAY, APRIL 21
Mill run bran, per cwt. - - $1.35
Chops, per cwt. - - 1-35
Kansas Diamond flour, cwt. - 2.75
Diamond K flour, per cwt - 2.75
Yukon Best, per cwt. • 2.75
Bull dog, per cwt
Empire, per cwt.
WATTS' FEED STORE
F. A. Mitchell, J. G. McCue and C.
W. Slack attended a meeting of the
Presbyterian church at Meeker, Tues-
day.
Dr. T. E. Evans of Shawnee,
while speaking of D.ivenports
boosters campaign to the Era
man took occasion to hand Dr.
Randies a bouquet by saying
that he had the reputation of be-
ing one of the livest boosters in
Shawnee, had always made good
on all his deals and was consid
ered one of the strongest real
estate men in the business.
2.65
2.65
How about a Ladies Booster
Club? It has not been definitely
announced but it is said that a
meeting will be callud next week
to consider the subject. The
Era serves notice right here that
it is "fer" the proposition.
Ice Cream—At
day and Sunday.
Clarks Satur-
C. Stacy. Cashier
R. S. May, Sec'y
Chas. Berner, President
J. M. Gossett, Vice President
The Up-Building of This Bank
isYHie to the fact that \> e have ample capital and that we have adhered to a
policy which has been conservative, yet along progressive lines. We offer to
our customers modern facilities for the prompt and proper transaction of their
financial affairs; ample vault and safe room for storing and safe-guarding of
their money, notes, insurance policies, and other valuable papers and such
liberality of treatment as is consistent with prudent banking.
YOUK account is cordially solicited
Davenport State Bank
NOBODY in Lincoln county has been
kind enough or wise enough to
help me out of of this Wright brother
tangle so far, and I feel as though I
had to give it up. B Jt there's another
new thing just out and this time it is
in 1 he hog line. 1 got a letter from a
man in Canada, who read about those
valve cattle out in California, and he
says that California ain't in it by a long
shot. He says that he has hogs up
there that have eight legs, fcur hams
and four shoulders. When they walk
four of the legs point to the clouds and
the other four rub the clods. I didn't
believe it at first, but in his letter he
sent a photograph of each leg taken
separately and that settled all doubt in
a hurry. As I said before, four of the
legs point up ana four of them down.
The biggest advantage in this explains
itself in the follwing: You know that
hog sheds in Canada (and some in Lin-
coln county) are usually poor in winter
during the snow time and the floors get
slopping wet when the water runs in.
Well sir, when the mud in these sheds
gets so deep that the hogs can't navi-
gate there any more they put the up-
per legs to work and walk on the ceil-
ing. While they are walking on the
ceiling they use their lower 1 gs for
bal'a&t. to keep them from rolling over.
In summer time, he says, these hogB
would be great for the farmers down
south—there would be no danger of
having them killed by lightning. All
that is necessary is to put a corper tip
on each of the four legs pointing to
the sky, and cach hog will have four
lightning rods for protection. Not the
leaBt bit of risk; and, another thing,
the electricity as it passes from the
cloud to the hog will so treat the hog
that there wi'l be no rheumatism
among the animals. But the biggest
feature about these hogs is that the
double running gear brings us twice
the amo.iut of hams and shoulders in
ho# Villing time, and also another back
bone from each hog. Some people will
get up and sav that this means more
work, more hickory wood smoke, etc,
but they are on the wrong track to
Richville and I pay no attention to
them. Then there is the difference in
the sausage. This is the p:culiar part
that is stranger than the funniest. In
stead of being round the sansage from
these hogs is square. This will save
a lot o time at hog killing season and
also at the packing house, as it will be
easy to figure out the number of
square inches of sausag3 it will take
to fill so many square inches of casings.
These are all the features 1 will out-
line today, or until I get a few of the
hogs and learn more about them. But
I will experiment further. When I get
these porkers, 1 will try to raise them
with two heads, a head on each end.
Hold on! don't all stand up and say
that these two headed hogB will eat
double the amount that others do, be-
cause I've got that part of the game
cinched. When I get these animals
bred up with two perfect heads I will
prove that I wont use half the amount
of feed for my double headers that we
now use for our old fashioned one
headed hogs. Here is the way I will
work it: When I go to feed I will stand
the hog between two posts so that it
cant turn, Bet a bucket of slop at each
end and at the same time take a pad-
dle and splash around on one side to
make a lot of noise. When the head
on the other side hears thiB noise it
will think that the head on the other
side is eating and therefore won't
make any effort to get the slop. At
the same time the head on the noisy
side thinks that the othr side is eating
peaceful'y and so it don't bother the
bucket that I am paddling.
Thus I will practically raise my hogs
on wind.
Some of the ladies of Davenport have
organized themselves for the purpose
of giving the town a thorough house
cleaning next Saturday. The school
children have been asked to assist in
the work and when the old cans, pa-
per, etc. have been collected the town
council will be asked to have the stuff
hauled to the dump.
Four captains have been chosen to
direct the work in their respective
wards. Mrs Quackenbush, Mrs. Dye
Mrs. Trumbo and Mrs. Colvin. The
school children and all who are inter-
ested in the movement are requested to
meet at the homes of the captains
Saturday morning at 9 o'clock with
little wagons, baskets, otc and the
work will be started as early as possi-
ble. The Era commends the move as
a worthy one and urges that it be sup-
ported. There should be a number of
men in the clean-up crowd.
J. C. Boggs made a trip to Tribby
this week, returned by way of Shawnee
saw a moving picture show, he says,
and reached home unhurt.
E. B. Moore & Go.
We will pay 25c for this Ad on bills
of $1.25 and over, just as well clip out
this all and bring it with you—its 25c
saved—Our store is the only place in
town where you can get the Pride of
Perry flour. We have just opened up
a nice line of shoes—Have a nice line
of overalls, work shirts, collars, ties,
gloves etc next week come in and look
through—Dont forget to raise a better
crop of potatoes than any body else
and get the $5 cash prize—Bring your
cream Wednesdays and Saturdays
cream Separators on fall time—We'll
sell goods at auction every aution day.
E. B. Moore & Co.
Even a kick
your going up.
Miss Pearl Warren is home again hav-
ing completed her term of school near
Mounds.
Mrs. Alexander moved into the
Swarts house in north Davenport this
week.
Mrs. Ella Painter returned last Sat-
urday from Whitehall, 111., and is mak-
ing her home with her daughter, Mrs.
Grace Swarts.
Rev. E. R. Williams, secretary of
the Civic League of Lincoln county,
lectured in the Baptist church last Fri-
day nignt.
j The high school base ball team play-
is a boost when ed at Bristow last Sunday and were de-
feated 15 to 0.
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Livery
The Very Best Turnouts
Always Ready
Phone No. J
B. H. Christy - Davenport,
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Married
Cline's Second Sale Day
Saturday, April 23
Col. Cline will hold another big
sale in Davenport on the above date,
and will sell for you, FREE, anything
you want to convert into cash.
There will be no by bidding but
where a horse is knocked off the own-
er may redeem it by paying to the
successful bidder 50c. The fee for
cows will be 25c.
Cline's string band will furnish
music throughout the day
Fresh Groceries
If you are not one of our customers, you
should make it a point to inspect our grocery de-
partment. We have a good selection of fresh
staple and fancy goods and are prepared to sell < j
them cheap.
Miss Mary Keeton and Mr. Geo.
Will's were married at the Jessamine
Hotel Tuesday evening by Rev. J. F.
Terrill of the Methodist church. The
bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
L. M. Keeton of this place and is well j X
and favorably known to Davenport j |
people. The groom has spent several i
months here and made many friends. X
The young couple dep"rted for their j
Colorado home Wednesday followed by I j
the best wishes of their friends here.
We want your produce and are willing to pay
the highest cash price for it.
W. R. SMITH
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