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alston
THE TRAVELING REPRESENTATIVE OF A LIVE TOWN.
Vol. 6.
 
Ralston, Pawnee County, Oklahoma. Friday, July 14. 1905.
No. 4.
COUNCIL MEETING.
City dads meet and swap opi '
Law laid down in regard to
In discussing the duties of the
town Marshall and justice of the
peace it was brought out that a
fight had occured on the streets
of town some three weeks ago.
The marshall did not see the
fight but appeared on the scene
her a lenghtv visit.
Plumbing, grkping, and fish-
ing complete the order of the
day.
Mrs, Delapi), who has been
criticaly ill, is slowly improving.
Mrs. F. 0. Edler and son Jim,
The board of trustees of the
town of Ralston meet in regular The other man
session in town hall last Mon-
day night with all members
present. The meeting was call-
ed to order at 9:15 by chairman
a few minutes later he asked one of Ralston were in our vicinity
Saturday.
Quite a crowd from Pawnee
were plumbing, on our Holle-i
Banks, Sunday.
Threshing commenced again to-
day with renetved vigor, Farm-
ers say their grain is badly dam-
aged from so jhuch rain.
People in this locality are look-
ing forward with great anxiety
to the coming^ of the telephone
through our Holler, for we're all
anxious to talk.
of the participants if he had
been fighting; he replied that he
had been defending himself.
who was "all
over blood" said he had been
hit from behind and couldn't
say who did it. The marshall
placed both men under arrest
KORN KARNIVAL.
Something of importance that ought
interest every citizen of
J. W. Williamson finished
planting broom corn last Week.
'A Howler, from the Holler."
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Public Sale.
I will sell at public sale at my
farm 3miles west and 2 miles
north of Ralston, in Pawnee
county Okla., on Wednesday,
July 19, 1905. Commencing at
Whiles and the minutes of prev and took them before the justice
ious meeting read and sppro ed but as no complaints were sworn
A number of bills on file with- out and the marshall had not
the clerk were presented and seen the fight, the parties were
bills c^min? to $—ware allowed turned loose. It was the view
several others being laid over. of the council that it was the We have organized a Sunday
The question of draining the duty of the marshall in this and School at Scrap Ringe, but as
pond in the south part of town all similar cases to make com- yet attendance is rather slim,
was brought up for further con- plaint and see that all offenders
sideration but it was reported were brought to trial.
that the matter had been placed Marshall Proctor reported that
in the hands of the county board he had arrested a number of
of health for final disposition parties for gambling and they
and would not likely require any had been fined, but it was stated
further action on the part of the that gambling was still carried
council. I on and the questioqas to wheath
Street Commissioner Myers er a man must gamble a month
made a report as to the work before being required to pay an
done during the last two weeks "assessment" or wheather he
and stated that he was unable i becomes a law breaker every 11 o'clock, the following property
to get a man with a machine to j time he gambled for money. The' 12 head of milk cows, 10 head of1 citizens be called as early as can1 new or newspaper type, be-
Now that most of the other
towns in this part of the country
have spent their surplus energy
in celebrating the glorioug Fourth
it seems that it is about the pro-
per time for Ralston to wake up
on the proposition of a fall carni-
val. It has now been more than
one year since anything like a
public celebration has been had
in Ralston and there is no reason
why a good carnival could not be
given here in September.
Two months ago we talked to
quite a number of our business
men and others in regard to cel-
ebrating the Fourth and it seem-
ed to be the general opinion that
a reunion or carnival this fall
would be more satisfactory and
it was with this understanding
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Who Pays the Freight
We have been asked a number
of as to who is paying for sprink
ling the streets of Ralston, who
owns the engine, if Sherwin do-
nates the water and a number of
like questinos, in fact a very
few seen to know just how the
matter managed. For the bene-
fit of the public it might be well
to state thot the town agreed in
the spring tofumshingwaterina
conveinent place if the business
men would qay for the sprink-
ling. In order to furnish this
water it was found necessary to
rent the Sherwin well, pump and
tank, paying $10 per month for
the same, also tn procure an
engine, which was done at a
cost of$135,00 and buy gasoline
to furnish power besides keeping
the same in repair. So it will
be seen that it costs a neat little
sum each month to keep down
the dust in a very limited space.
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A Word to Onr Patrons.
We wish to call the attention
of our readers this week to the
that the celebration was passed improved appearance of the pa-
,UP- t | per. Since our last issue we
The-time is now ripe to do have installed a large newspaper
something along this line and press of the very, latest and best
we suggest that a meeting of makCf a 24 inch paper cutter,
cut weeds on the streets for1 marshall was ordered to arrest sucking calves, 15 head of shoats | be convienently done and get sides about 300 pounds of the
more than one-half day, that' every man seen gambling, and • 11 head yearling calves, 7 two- the work under headway. I verv iatest ;0k an(i disDlav tvne.
   It has been .uggert*! that aa [ w7h.veT3 horaepler^Z,
considerable cutting had been every time he was seen gambl- oear-old heifers, One Bay Horse
done in the west part of town 1 ing, if it was every fifteen min- ten years old, 1300 pounds. One this is a good corn country we1 engine ordered which will
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by hand.
The question as to the effic-
iency of the water supply for
sprinkling was discu ssed and it
appeared that while the well did
not furnish as much water as
could be used that it does fur-
nish from 15 to 18 tanks per
day.
Levick and Lang were award-
ed contract for putting in stone
sidewalks on west Main street
where the same had been order-
ed placed and property owners
had failed to do so, at 48 cents
per runing foot.
The proposition to establish a good.
city rock pile was brought up Crops, gene:ally,
and discussed but no definite promising.
action taken but the matter, it1 "*Mrs- Camel's daughter and
being laid over till next meeting, sister of Tulsa, I. T. are paying
Black mare ten years old. 1300 have a corn carnival.
our plant complete in every re-
It has been a habit of the mar- pounds. Terms all sums of $101 One of the first things to be !8pe^t. We have felt  
shall and council heretofore to and under, cash. On all sums remembered is that celebrations this additional outlay owing to
allow a general laxity in the of over $10 a credit of 6 months j cost money and that a cheap the liberal patronage accorded
way of enforcing the law.
will be given, note bearing 10 sham costs a town what
5 per
This kind of administartion per cent interest.
has been stoutly condemned by discount for cash.
the present council which has Jeff Wardlow. J, G. Sandbach,
declared emphatically in favor
of law and order.
j The meeting adjoining to
meet again in two weeks.
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Pumpkin Holler Howlings.
Health in our vicinity is very
are extra
Auct,
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ingraham j
is more ■ U8 ^ trust that we duly appro-
cent that money, reputation. There-1 ciate the same. We are now bet-
fore lets have a genuine, rousing ter prepared than ever before to
three days celebration that will1 gjve you ja better free press
cause peop le to go home and tell and ^ the co-operation of our
about what a good time they had friends in our efforts to do so.
at Ralston.
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returned Tuesday from a visit,
at the home of Mr. Ingraham's! The regular weekly band con-
father J. W. Ingraham near ; cert was omitted last Saturday
Grayhorse. Mr. Ingraham has night on account of bad weather,
been seriously ill for some weeks * **
and is growing steadidly worse. I We are printing this week
As he is pretty well along in items from Pumpkin Holler,
years there seems to be little W  have made arrangements to
hope of his recovery. have them sent in each week'
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Grandpa Cockrum instructs
us to send the Free Press to him
at Novelty, Missouri, from this
on. He and Mrs. Cockrum left
Wednesday for that point to
sqend a few weeks with their
daughter who is in very poor
health.
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have been in the
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Gents Furnishings &c. ' If you will watch this space it will save
you many dollars and you will have the satisfaction of knowing
you are wearing the best! When you think of Quality think of
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