Beaver County Republican. (Gray, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, April 7, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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The Beet Adverts to*
Medium in the Best
Part of Beaver County
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CRAY, BEAVER COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY APRIL 7,19U.
NO. 12
H.-W I'.tfi L ih cx>af)DO>t to
- Wiethi wwfcwithtsrioaesteaMh
-T.^ale
A ..".bel UergMt wu laid op (rambis
cutics at the Hartww. store this week
with a oavare tol4
Mra Martin II J«*t of Ptirrit*,
ik h re viiitir jr hev d&uchter Miss Lean
. UBt and ot*wr tvUtivee.
Broom cor* eeed fjr *t 60 centi
per bushM. J L. Kerny.
8-12 milci weet sod ? mile* ncrth of
Otay* Okla,
Henry Sapantgk* mk] wife, of Caddo
county, Okie... are here visiting relat-
ives and looking mr the country with
a view of inveetiag ?n land.
— Eight Fox Terrier pupa for sale at
$6 each. Reaay u take away in two
weeks. Addraes L. E. King
Ochiltree, Texas
t. Li. Iticfc . who ueed to be in part-
tieiahip with Geo. R. Bagsdale in the
R trcan tile busmeea at Liberal, visited
over Sunday be** with the Ragsdale
latnily,
—If J<* have net given in your
aseilament thia week andean not
ket to Reaver City to de se ceil at the
Fa publican office ted we will .fit you
out.
A. 6. Poer and sona Edear and Jim
relumed Monday fram their trip tc
Cd or ado. They report that they pur-
chased a cattle ranoh about 30 miles
eootii of Lamar and that Mr Poer, Sr.
and James Cessna both filed on a claim
fcfcere. The Poer'a are making arrange-
ments U' at once iiiove their stock from
Ochiltree county to their new Colorado
ranch.
The parties that came here last week
and bargained with Joseph Bradley for
(he Pioneer Restaurant failed to return
vtf tekt eharge of the business at the
Ufne specified, consequently the trade
tell tbrougfc, and the butineas ia still
befog conducted as before Tbia may
net ^ 88 pleating to Mr. Bradley and
flMl?. bet it ia eminently satisfactory
|o Die board* ra and other eitiseas of
fi y FenHerron will nold a sain of
toflr, person*' property on their farm
w^cre the Peter porioffice uaed to be 2
kilea Foulb of Boyd poetofflee on Wed-
MUrfev, April 12 after which they will
!**?« for a flarotner a sojourn in Osark
■*ti afns in Miesoori. Mrs. Mary E,
Itttael, who owna a half section of
eix 'lep north of Gray wili ae
*M#any Nietn m far m St Louis,
r ahe frill spend the summer viait
(if rt'stJvwj.
ftr. W. H. Rhodes reports the arrival
af h boy at the home of Claude Newman
MBtbttert of Gray in the Texas Panhan-
•teOfc Monday;that Herbert Johnson, the
si JfteroM son of Andy Jonaon. ia ssr-
*4Utty *lek with peumonis and other
complications following a spell of the
OttOateA, that Charles Stagner's baby is
siak with pheturoiua, that JohnC. Hull's
to) ia mute sick; and that Mrs. J. W.
ielaby, an (rfd lady ia aick with paeum
erne at the home ef her sen in the Texas
panhaadls.
B. Auveneline, of Liberal, haamoved
his family here ar.d accepted a position
with the Gray Auto Supply Company.
Miss Mattie Ackrey, of Bradford,
Texas, is here this week visiting, the
guest of the family of her uncle, B. F.
Baker
Oa Tuesday of thia week aa old lady
named Childera dropped dead at her
home near Grank Valley with heart
disease.
S. F. Deroeaet has arrived here and
taken up bis residence on the farm be
recently purchased in the New Hope
neighborhood northwest of Gray.
W. E. Lilly is erecling a residence
went of the Gray Auto 9upply Co'a
garage, which will be occupied by the
family of the blacksmith employed by
this Arm.
The fine Registered Percheron Stall-
ion that T. W. Gray recently purchased
srrived last week and was and objeet
of sdmirstion by most oi the farmers
that visited the town Isst Saturday.
H. P. and Esrl R. Evsns snd families
left last Sundav in their ear for a two
weeks visit among relatives in southern
Oklahoma. During their absence M.
O. Willis and wife are looking after
the post office.
Ike Henaline and wife arrived here
from Helena this week to joia with
Robert Hefiline and wife and J. R.
Henline in taking up their residence
on the farms they recently purchased
northwest of Gray.
It is mighty essential now that every
voter begina to impress indeliably upon
hie mind that he roister someti"
between the 1st and 10th day of Msy
'o avoid permanent disfranchisement
ia the State of Oklahoma.
County Superintendent G. T. Ayers
has announced that the snmmer Normal
will be held at Beaver City commencing
on Monday, June 5th and continue four
weeka. Superintendent Homer Hill,
of the Beaver high acbeot will conduct
the Normal.
SPECIAL.
We have dneMed to put on p
Ppeeiil Cash Bargain Counter
fop fchw benefit of the public, be-
Saturday. April 1st. It
wiit vou to visit our *tor#>
!t n<t fay in a auuply at then?
Prices. Something new every
Samjrday, Respectfully.
Geonre R. Ratrsdalp.
On the 17th of this menth J. H. Wart
and family who haye been managing
the telephone office here for the past
three years will resign their position
and move to their claim near Spring-
field, Colorado. A gentleman by the
name of Melton, of Ochiltree, with hit
father mother and aister have con-
tracted to take charge of the office.
We dislike to see the Wards leave here
but wish tbcm the best of success in
their new home.
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THE RAGSDALE GROCERY
FAUST BRAND.
Cream of the Best. Quality Guaranteed
Many of Our Customers Know of the Superior Quality of
Faust Brand Goods.
Voile & Marquette Curtainings
Spring Cleaning Requires New Curtains. Nothing Adds
^ to the Appearance of a Home Like New Curtains..
Laces and Embroidery.
¥fe Show in Embroidery Attractive Designs Adapted to
Cambric/Nansook, Bastiste, S* iss and Organda.
We are Prepared to Shew Laces in Pleasing Variety
Admirably Suitable to Trim this Season's Dress Matoerials
AF.brkye Devonshire Cloth. °£,u r'
None Superior in Quality, Color or Finish. None Better
Adapted for Smart House Dresses and Youngsters Tub
C)0t}\ps,
Color Woven in NOT Printed On.
Qeo. R. Ragsdale. Gray, Okla.
YOU ARE INVITED
To Come to Our Store the First Time You
Con; 4 to Town and Ask to See
OUR SPRING LINE OF
Oxfords & Shoes
Triton Registered No. 61.
Notice is beteby given to more own
ers in the vicinity of Gray that Trite*
will stand this aeaaen 2 1-2 mile* wim
and * miles north of Gray.
Triton is a black Percheron Stallien
4 years eld this spring.
There id stock on the farm asw to
abow bia breeding.
After May 1st, 1026 mares brought
from a diatance will be famished free
pasture fer thirty dsya.
Service fee $12 to insure colt t*
stand snd sock,
4-6 J. L. Kerns.
'mm*
An Unusual Wedding Cere-
mony.
Last week Joseoh Bradley and wife
«ent out invitations announcing that
their youngest daughter Miss Erma
Ester Bradley would be united in
•narrage to John Martin Beagle at
their home in Orav, Okla., at three
o'Mock in the afternoon on Sunday,
Anvil 2nd. Accordingly prompily at
the annotated time the family and in-
vtterl guests all assembled in the front
room of the residence, and Elder J. W.
Ouff stepped out in the store room ad-
joining, bnt returned in a moment
"o'^wed Vv th ^r d and proom and *ak
inr their plaees in the center of the
ilnnr the minister turned feeing the
'oun'e. Tb* bride was arrayed la a
ta>antift l whits weddfng costume of
'attest atvleand desipn, while a mae-
<iiSeent white hridal veil adorned her
heart and trailed heMnd. The grenm
was dressed In the conventional black
and aa they marched into the room
presented a moat beautiful and pleasing
oicture. The guests eat looking at the
Hride end groom, wondering why Blder
Ouff did not proceed with the ceremony
when, with a smile, in a clear, diatlnct
voiee he pronounced these astonishing
and unei peoted wordi: "Ladies and
gentlemen, yeateuday wm the first day
of Apiil, today is the 2nd. I take
pleasure in introducing you to Mr. and
Mrs. Beagle, whom 1 married yester«
day afternoon at my home. Congratu-
iationa are now in order."
Thia was certainly like throwing a
bomb shell into the room and for a
jpell all were so dumb founded that not
) word was apokon, hut wben it Anally
lawued upon the gueata that tbey had
oeen gloriously April fooled there wes
>.n uproar that could have been beard a
naif mile.
These contracting parties are amoung
our most worthy young psople, the
bride, an accomplished young lady, be-
ng the youngest daughtei of the pro-
prietors of the Pioneer Restaurant,
-vhilw the groom is a yonng ranchman,
jt excellent moral character, honest
and induatrieus. They will make their
home on the Beagle ranch, 20 miles
southeast of Gray in Ochiltree county,
Texaa.
The happy couple left Sunday even-
ing in their car for a honeymoon trip
io Shattuck, Oklahoma City, then to
Sulphur, where they will visit the family
of Mrs Elmer Symmons sister of the
u^room and from there they will go to
Arnett to visit the family of Mrs. Harry
Bddie, sister of the bride.
The couple were the recipents of the
fullowing presents; Buck handle carv-
ing set, by Messrs. Hal Jones. Harry
Ratllff, Otha Louis, sad Roy Tollman;
cake plate, Mr. and Mrs. Forrest
Beagle: salirf bowl, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde
Bradley; tancy towel, Mr. and Mra.
Robert Henline, towel, May Otey;
net of dishes, Oma Bradley; silk boudoir
cap, Margie Smith; silver set and table
linia, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bradley;
stlid bowl, Mr. and Mrs. HarTy Eddie;
cake plate. Mr. and Mra. Geo. R. Rags-
dale; table linen; H. W. Hill.
Thia worthy couple have many friends
in an4 around Gray, whom the Beaver
County Republican joins in wishing
i hem a long and prosperous life.
—I am agent for the Avery thresh-
ers, gat tractors. Vnd lightning exten-
sion feeders. Call and let ma figv re
with yoa^oa'a new rig.
Bert Allen.
fi,3 3-tf .. Litaral.Kaf'
Died.
Mrs. Elsie Kerns, wife of Gerald
Kerns, died at her home northwest of
Gray after a brief illness on Tuesday,
Aoril 4th. The funeral aervices were
held Wednesday afternoon in the First
Christian Church at Gray conducted by
their miniater. Elder J, W. Duff, the
remains being laid to rest in the Gray
cemetery.
Elsie Botts Kerns waa born Nov. 28,
1897, and was married to Gerald J. Kerns
Nov. 28. 1914, and after a short happy
married life, paased peacefully awai
in the trumph of a living faith in her
Saviour. Elaie was an orphan girl,
b«r father and mother dying some
years ago, leaving her, a -aster,
Mrs. Cliff Speingmeyer, who waa
at the bedside to comfort her in a*.
dying hour and two brothers, E«t Botts
of Sharon Springs. Kansas, arri Glenn
Botts, of Ames Okla
Elsie had a host of friends, all ac-
quaintances having lesrasd to love her.
Her husband's father and mother, said
she was as near and (bar to them
as one of their ewn daughters.
May the Lord bless the sovowing.
Elder J. W. Duff.
The End of the Farce.
On Wednesday of the week this final
chapter in the great farae instigsted
months ago by wonld-be public officials
was closed, when ths trial of Joe Rags-
dale, charged with fast driving and
cruelty to animals took place before a
jury in district court at Beaver City
As was generally believed there was no
merit whatever in the caae, which was
brought selely and wholly in a spirit of
revenge, and the tax payer" foot the
bill. The case grew oat of the fact that
Joe Ragsdale drove a team from Liberal
belonging to his brother George and
shortly after h arrival home one of
the hoises died, presumably with the
colic, and while the owner of the borse
was satisfied that the animal had not
been mistreated, but the miaeoief
makers got busy and tried to get some
one that had seen him on the road to
make a complaint, but several abso-
lutely refused to do so. Finally by
misrepresentation tbey persuaded a
farmer southeast of town to make a
complaint, bat soon after he discovered
that he had been wrongly informed in
regard to the case and seeing he was
wrong tried to withdraw the eharge,
but was not allowed to do so. The pre-
liminary hearing was held in justice
court here, and while the evidence did
not ia the least show that the animal
bad been mistreated, of courae, for
personal and revengeful reasons Rags
dale was bound ov«r to ths district
court The esse came up last fall,but was
continued to ths spring term.
It ii said by tboss in atteadance at
the trial that the caae was a faree ia
every particular and that none of the
witnesses, evaa the one bringing the
charge gave any incriminatiag evidence
whatever The jury was out only thirty
minutes and it is said that at least
twenty minutes of that time was spent
by the jurors in visiting with eaeb otbet
when they brought in a verdict not
guilty, a verdict that was exprcted by
every one in attendance at the trial.
Statement.
ef ths ownership, maaagement, elreul-
atioa, ate required by act ef Congress
ef August 24, 1912, of the Beayer
County Republican, published weekly
at Gray, State of Oklahoma, Beaver
County, aa.
Before ma, a Notary Public in and
for the state and eeunty aforesaid per-
sonally appeared Haryey W. Hill, who
having been duely sworn according to
law depoeea and says that he is the
editor and proprietor of the Beaver
County Republican and that tfie follow-
ing is to the best of his knowledge and
belief a true statement of the owner-
ship, management, cte., of the afore-
said publication fer the date shown in
*he above caption required hy the act
, l*4jut, 24th, URL TWt the a/ws
' and addifaw ti the publisher, <v/'(or,
managing editor «nd huainea* manager
and owner are Harvey W. Hill, of Gray,
Okla.,
That there are no known bondholders
mortgagers snd othsr security holders
owning or holding 1 per cent or more
of tetae amount of bonds, mortgages
or other securities.
Harvey W. Hill, Owner.
Sworn to and subscribed befoi e me
this 29th day of March, 1916.
Cora Fee Gray
Notary Public.
My Commi&aion expires Nov. 27, 1916.
Notice to Holders of School
Land.
This eAee is ia reeeipt of a eopy of
the list of Beayer county school land
to be sold at Beave r City on Wednes-
civ, May 4rd. The list gives the names
ef the owners of each tract, its ap-
praiaed value and ths appraised value
of the improvementa. Any one inter-
eatod in acheol lands «an examine the
list by calling at this office.
Harvey W. Hill.
Public Sale.
Having made arrangements to moytf
to Texaa I will sell at auction at my'
farm, 4 milea south and 4 miles east df
Gray. 9 miles south snd 8 miles west of'
Balko, on the Tetas line the property
herein described at 10 a. m. on Thurs-
day, April 13,1916.
Bay horse, 4 years old, weighs 1300 lbs;
Dun horse, 11 years old, weighs 1400'
lbs; Black horse, 7 years old, weight
1876 lbs; Black horse 3 years old, weigh*
1300 lbs, Brown horse, 3 years eld.
weighs 1000 lbs; Black eolt 2y«ars eld,
weighs 800 lbs; Black eolt, 2 years old,
weighs 900; 8 mule celts 1 year old,
16 cows some with young calves; 4
heifers, 1 year old; 4 heifers 2 year#'
old. They are good milk stock.
5 sows with young pigs; 3 sows to
pig soon; 2 pigs weighing 129 lbs each,
10 sheets weighing from 60 to 100 lbs.
( doxen Rhode Inlend R ^ he's.
Weber wngen nearly new; Steel King
wagon in good shape; Weber Wagan;
Tip top box for caeh wagon; Spalding
hack; Boggy and single haraeas; *16-14
disc harrow; 2 drag harrows; 2 raw
lister; 2 row moaitor; 2 row planter; 12
disc Superior grain drill; Campbell Mb*
surface packer; McCormiek grata
pinder; McCormiek corn harvester;
Deering header A t bargee; 14 inch
breaking plow; 2 one row cultlaatars
1 sled; U0 egg Old Trusty Incubator;
pair leather harness; pair chain harnees,:
saddle and bridle; ail barrel; 16 barr#*
i water tank; Bowser feed grinder; ti'
11,ash — --lav
Kiitcbsn cabinet; stde-boefd, 3burner
011 "toea; range Move; heating stove,
teco*iomy Chief cream superator; Iran >
bedl stead; folding bed;q'flvenpert;atanc 1
tablV; chairs, sevcml Ua>2en fruit jarg'
shot £.un.
Free Lunch at noaa.
TERMS:-On all soma uodor llOffaAk
On all sums over flO a credit of 9 month*
will be given with 10 per sent internet.
and 5 per cent discount for
F. F. Lovelace^ Owner.
J. H. Neufeld,
Cletk.
Littleton
Auctioneer
For Sale*
The building that used to be the -
postoffice, oatt Ford ear, a ward robe,
dresser, couch, library table, beet
case, sewing machiae, cot. talking saa -
chine and half dozen records, cupboard
kitchen cabinet and a washing marhiae
with wringer attached. Parties iator -
ge
rated inquire of
Mr. aad Mrs T. W. Gray
—Full blood Buff Orpington egga fer
anle. Flock beaded frem first prise
winners at Dallas State Fair 1914, ex-
hibited by Geo. Ellis, of Houston.
Texaa, 76 aenta per settiag of 16.
Address J. V. Ferguson.
J24 2fitf R. 2, Box 7,.Cray, Okla.
Ready for Breeding,.
I now have my 2 year aid
BELGIAN STUD COLT
in shape for breeding. I wili;I
breed a
FEW MARES
for the Public thia Season at MY I
FARM 3 1-2 milea east of Grav, ,
Okla. Respectfully.
C, E. PATTISON.
ti
—Texas Red Seed Oats fer sale.
J. W. Sans.
2 milea aouth of Gray.
-Seed for Sale:-1 have about 9D0
t ufhala of seed spriag wheat fer sola
f W. Gta*.
We now have in stock a Complete, Line
of
JOHN DEERE AND
MOUNE LISTERS.
AND
Single and Double Row Lister
Cultivators.];
AND
KeystoneDiscHarrows.
"Anything in Farm. Machinery and
*—* Shelf*: Hardware.
Plainview Hdw Co.
Gray,, Oklahoma.
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