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i We are the People.—Shoes, all Kinds, all ®
O Sizes. Our special sale of Ladies' and Chiltlrens' Slippers now 'b$
going on. We can please you.
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We do not mean to bs personal,
But would like to furnish
you your paint 
We carry a full line of Paints, Oils, Lead, Etc. We alsoha\e a
Fresh, new etock of DRUGS. Call and see us.
THE OWL i DRUG STORE.
1st door W. of Red Front.
LEXINGTON. O. T.
Do You Need a Trunk or Valise??
OUR STOCK IS CUMPLETE.--ALL SIZES; AI L PRICES.
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Our Fine Line of Shirt §
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Prices From 35c to $1.50, 4
We are taxed for many things I fort to make like provision for
which benefit us only indirectly, country children. Now, Okla-
I but are of general benefit to the i homa is abreast of the movement
community or country. New which is sweeping1 over the states
England helps pay for dredging 1 to offer country children the same
the Mississippi river and for im-! advantages that city children
proving the San Francisco har-lhave. They need a high school
bor. Cleveland county will pay j education as much and will make
her share toward building a cap- 'just as good use of it as will the
We buy for cash and we will sell for cash, and lead in low prices,
call. We'll treat you right.
Your Friends,
Cive us a
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$ GORDON & GORDON, §
Lexington? - Oklahoma-
itol building for Oklahoma, yet
a majority of her citizens may
neyer see the inside of it. It is
an established principle of our
government that all property
owners, irrespective of personal J no provision is now made.
benefit, should pay fur the sup-1 ' "
port of free public schools. Ai Property is now assessed at prob*
common school education is be- \ h] m)t more than one.third it9
coming more and more inadequate i / .
j to the needs of this advanced Jvalue- 1 his being true the support
j age. The youth of our land of this high school would cost only
crave more. The high school is about $1 for every 13000 worth of
i the next step. A century ago it | property. If you live within 15
[ was thought almost useless to miles of Lexington you need not
schools for girls, doubt but that your property will
city child. If it is good for one
it is good for the other. Let us
have a free high school estab-
lished especially for the benefit
of the country child, for whom
establish free
Now they have every advantage
I that a boy has. Until the pres-
!ent time most communities have
be increased in value by from one-
fifth to one-twentieth. One-twenti-
eth of $3000 would be $lf>0. As a
! acted on the theory that it is onlv $3000 property is only assessed at
You Alls Doins ^™DL,M1"Higl1 tSetot>!
* w 1 bo that your chilureu may—free of
MARY L. STEVENS,
PBOI'BIETOll.
Entered at the Postoflice at Lexington;
Oklahoma, an mail matter of the second-
ir.ti«ss.
tutitiou—prepare themselves to enter
the Territorial Univesrity.
the town or city children who
J need a high school education.
! H-nce in neariy every town and
jcityareto be found good high
 —————      ' schools for the free education of
... . „ city children, but only until the
last few years was there any el-
would be ¥1,844.74, which will j
very likely be sufficient to
about $1000, the extra tax per an-
num would be only $1. So, you
see, the increased value of your
property amounts to the tax for 150
years.
Booker's baths are the best.
tain the high
built. Five
main-
school after it is
mills will make
JPoblished every Thursday. Subscription
price One Dollar per year in advance.
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FRIDAY, MAY 31, IUU1.
HIGH SCHOOL
JUNE FIFTH.
ELECTION
.'Nou.iia'?:
see plant
is making a pull for an
ti® Abe polls and
Wednesday for the high
be located at Lexington.
vote next
school to
Nearly everv eouutv in Oklahoma | ^w''ich will be amply
, . , , . , \ .. . , sufficient to build and equip the
has taken steps to establish a county building. A one "
Tne three petitions
on
mil! levy
,000,000, our probable assess-
ment for this year, will make
$.000, and a five mill levy will
* 10,000.
high school.
circulated iu Clevelaud county,
questing that this school be
tablished, were sigued by over
voters. Tbere should be no question i  
about the proposition carryiug. [ The streets of Perry could be easily
vastly improved if property owners
and renters would slaughter a few
ad- -
S~—
It is just, right, and proper that
the south half of the county—that... , . .. , ,,
• . . i • r • I weeds in the streets and a evs
part especially interested in Lexing-1 . . _
ton, should have this high school. j',c,int to their premises Theappear
This is the only county institution ance of some localities reminds us of j
we can hope to obtain. We are the domicile of the sluggard, who is 1
nearer the goal now than wc could bt)d up ,0 ridic.u)e jn tLe andeDt I
Do You Like Fresh bread ?
Pies. Cakes, and all kinds of Bakery
Goods ? ? ? ? ?
- - FOX'S BAKERY - -
Is the only olace in town where all kinds of Bakery
Goods are bakeJ every day. A full line of Groceries.
North Side East Broadway. Lexington, Oklahoma
The high school should and wil
be established somewhere m the
county. Vote for Lexington.
The world needs educated men
and women. Vote, next Wednes-
day for the education ot your child-
. ren.
ever possibly hope to be again. Let .
." , j • i .• text books for very young school
every one interested in education t j • "
and in the establishment of this i children. Next to the poor sidewalks
school at Lexington do their whole; the luxuriant growth of weeds is the
duty, that the result of the election next worst eye sore Pern ha^ to con-
on .1 une 5 may be as it should be.
Out of llfte 0072 school
in the county -3tHi3 are in tin
half. Vote to put the high
'here.
' The election June 5 does not, un-
less it carries, decide whether we
shall have a county high school but
only whether we shall have it at
Lexington. The question will nev-
. er be decided until the school has
children , |jeeI1 located somewhere in thecoun-
south | fV Norman with her 1200 name1
tend with just now—Perry Republi
can.
The above applis with equal force
to Lexington.
A tax of one mill support the
high school after it is built.
OUR P1UCES ON HOME CURED
MEATS ARE
EYEOPE>EK«
Also a full line of Fresh Meats
at the same prices 
Bell Meat Market, J"V™rpT.,ord
school; petition could have an election call-
Frank Smith will probably be one
of the new sheriffs iu the Kiowa and
Comanche country. He is chairman
Talk to-your neighbors and get
them to quit work long enough to
go and vote to locate the high school
it Lexington.
It is to the best interest of the
• entire county that the high school
? e located at Lexington.
ed 20 days after the commissioners
next meet then she would get the , . ,.
school without a doub\. unless she of tbe republican county eeutrabcom
should consider it. policy to wait a mittee, has done earnest work for
few months. This is Lexington's | the party and is iu every way capable
last and only chance to secure the and trust-worthy. His endorsement*
high school. Vote for Lexington. | for <h„ po„iti(JU Hre gjlt
Norman Treoscript.
t He Don't Weigh lvfo 1-500 lbs
*
Truly these are busy times, but
you cannot afford to stay away from
the polls next Wednesday, June 5.
But He is Naur
The high school is sure to be es-
tablished. Where do you want it
to be located? If at Lexington, bs
« ure to vote next Wednesday.
Having talked to many of the rep
resentative farmers of Lexington,! - -
Canadian and Noble townships, in Tiie reeeut legislature passed a lav
regard to the location of the county hv which the inhabitants of aii> conn
seat, we lind them almost unanimous. u (lf 6 ()0() or morfl pop(|llltion CO|lll, j j
lv in favor of Noole should it ever . .. , , . i
. . v ,1 .ii es ablian a county high school to he <4
come to a vote. Noble is centrally1 . i
located, well watered, well drained, designated by a mijuitv of the votes
cast at a special election called for
that purpose This election can be
Do you want the county high
rtuhool at Lexington or somewhere'
ti la 3? That is the question.
. The south half of the county has
altvairft been ready to Ir.'lp Norm in
oat. Now it i-< her tiiua to pay back
fhe favor. '
nearer for these farmers and in many
ways better adapted than Norman
With five years more growth on Lex-
ington Oklahoma admitted to state
hood, and the county squared out, it
will be an easy matter tor the souih
half of the county to place thecoun
ty seat where ever they please. Even
if the coutest were to eouie uuderthe
preseut conditions the outcome would
appear favorable to Noble siuce it
only requires a nnj iritv vote to cir-
cuited by the county commissioner.-,
if they so desire without a petition
or must be called when one third of
the voter« petition the county to call
it and then it must be located, if the
petition carries. A county school
would be of great benefit to Payne
county, it occurs to us.--Perkins
Journal'
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Nice, dry ceiliug. In fact we are getting our yard iu line shape. A
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talk politics. ' ^
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