The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1916 Page: 2 of 8
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Brittains is Always a Busy Store?
We have the Goods at the Right Prices
Study These:
Screen Door Springs 2 for 15c
Screen Door Springs extra large 10c
8 inch Files 10c V
10 inch Files 15c
12 inch Files 20c
5 qt Enameled Stew Pans 15c
2 and 3 qt Enam Pudding Pans 10c
Biggest and best stock of Notions and Dry Goods Specialties'
in the city Lowest Prices
Overalls best made for One Dollar
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RQ6K CREEK
VIOLA
This part of the country was
frisked by a nice shower Sunday
morning and evening and anoth-
er on Tuesday night
Bert Brown lost a valuable
Ihorse Sunday death being caused
Iby quick pneumonia
Mr Travis also lost a horse
Sunday The animal was killed
by lightning
Born to Mr and Mrs Lee1
SStewart a fine boy June first
The children’s day services
were well attended Sunday A
mice program was rendered and
vwas enjoyed by all
' Mr hnd Mrs Monroe Palmer
of Mari w called at the home of
nheir uncle and aunt Mr and
Mrs Piemons the first of the
vweek
Emit Piemons is visiting his
itcousin Tyrus Bledsoe at Marlow
rSorne of the young folks of the
vaeihb rhood enjoyed a party at
r R c'iey home Saturday night
Fred -rick Chapman called at
‘thehomeof Mr Piemons (?) Sun-
day
Mead ir and Joe Tillerson at
‘utended religious services at Rock
Creek Sunday' j
Clifford McDaniel left Thurs-j
day for Norman where he will '
attend school this summer I
Most everpone is through chop
7 ping cotton j
Mrs Eddie Womack of Okla i
tdoma City has been visiting her
uncle Jim Hines !
The ladies are busy canning
berries and grapes
G W Bolton has a new Ford
Warner Brown went to Tem-
ple last week where he purchased
five barrels of good gasoline at
19 cents per gallon
LOZIER
SCRIBE
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The rain we had has been very
beneficial to crops
The young folks of Fair have
organized a tennis club It is
known as the Racquet club
Lowes and Charley Brigham
spent Sunday with J Will Smith
of Cotton county
The Philathea and Baraca
classes of the Fair Sunday school
had an ice cream supper at Sam
Britton’s last week
Dwight Jefferson and Lloyd
Rinehart are spending the week
with relatives in Cotton county
A number of Fair people at-
tended Memorial Day services at
the Duncan cemetery Sunday
Sunday school was well attend-
ed Sunday but B Y P U was
rained out
A number of boys of the neigh-
borhood have left for the Kansas
harvest fields
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BEAVER
CHERRIE
Hurrah for the rain! It came
just at the right time Every-
thing is looking fine '
The grain is ripening very fast
and it will soon' be harvest time
The health of the community
in general is very good
J-L Markham
Handles the best
Lumber and Building Materials
Paints -Oils Brick etc
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His Prices are Always Right
iLet us Figure on Your Bill
The rain scared most of the
Beaver folks away from Sunday
school Sunday
Mr and Mrs Caswell Greg-
ston visited home folks Sunday
Everybody is busy chopping
cotton and hoeing corn
Mrs Lee Shaffer of Duncan
visited home folks Saturday and
Sunday
Mrs Laura Funk and children
suffered a seveve shock from
lightning Sunday morning It
did not seriously injure any of
them we are glad to say
NELLIE
' RURAL MAID
We have been having some
fine rains that were badly need
ed on the corn and small grain
Luther Shipman and family
visited I P Shipman and family
Saturdayand Sunday
The ice cream social at the
home of L H Richey Saturday
night was enjoyed by a large
crowd
Dr J J Chapman and family
attended the commencement ex-
ercises Thursday night
The corner stone of the Bap-
tist church at Nellie will be laid
Saturday at 11:30 o’clock
Quite a crowd of people from
the Nellie community attended
the Children’s Day exercises at
Rock creek Sunday
There will be an ice cream sup-
per at the Nellie school house
Saturday night Everybody in-
vited Saturday evening a large
crowd of children attended a
birthday party at the home if
Letha Ball Everyone' reported
an enjoyable time
Curtis Nelson who has been
attending school in Oklahoma
City returned home last week to
Bpend vacation
C C Ball sold a big bunch of
fine pigs to Mr Howard this
week
John Hightower made a busi-
ness trip to Duncan Monday
Sunday school and church Sun-
day morning B Y P U and
Church Sunday night Everybody
invited
PLA1NVIEW
8LIM
The health of this community
is good so far as I know
The farmers of this neighbor-
hood enioyed another good show-
er Suesday night and Wednesday
morning
Cotton is looking fine and hoe-
ing and plowing is the order of
the day and all' seem to be very
busy
Our Sunday school came near
being rained out but the weath
er cleared in time for tervices
We have changed our Sunday
school hour from morning to af
ternnoon We hope interest in
the services will continue good
Mr Pitman lost a calf a few
days ago from blackleg
Ed Watson entertained the
young people ' with fin ice cream
social Saturday night A good
crovd attended and all redorted
an enjoyable evening
Mr Boggess has Mr Murphree
doing some repair work on his
residence this week
Do Your Glasses Fit?
Are you near-sighted or far-sighted? Do you continually
suffer with headaches? Do your eyes suffer a ‘dull pain after
you have worn our glasses for several hours?
If your answer to any of these questions is "YES” then
you require glasses that fit whether you already wear them or
not
Every piece of work we turn out bears our unequivocal
guarantee And you will always find us right here in Duncan
to make good any imperf ec' ions if there are any
FINKS JEWELRY CO
At Palace Drug Store
WATCHES CLOCKS AND JEWELRY
Or ALL KINDS— REPAIRING
v ARTHUR
SUNSHINE
The health of the community
is fine at this writing
Mr Posey and son Mack have
returned from Arkansas where
they went for the benefit of the
elder gentleman’s health Mr
Posey has recovered sufficiently
to take part in his farm work
Mock Posey returned to Arkan-
sas Thursday where he has se-
cured employment for the bal-
ance of the year
Miss Ruby Keith left Monday
for Edmond where she will at-
tend the summer normal -
Grandpa Sawyer went to Com-
anche last week to undergo an
operation for cancer of the ear
Jesse Hamon will leave Tues-
day for Bowie Texas where he
will meet Grandpa and Grandma
Newman who have been visining
in that state
Mr Scott Hall and Miss Pearl
Gentry were united in marriage
Saturday afternoon We wish
them a long happy life
Tne party at Mr Tate Parker’s
Saturday night was well attend-
ed and all report a nice time
The Arthur Sunday school is
growing We have a large at-
tendance every Sunday
Wheat I and oats are looking
very well Harvesting will soon
commence
Little Ruth Harmon who has
been very ill is recovering
There will be singing at Ar-
thur Saturday night and the
choir will peactice for the Child-
ren’s Day exercises
' Mr and Mrs Roy Langham
Miss Bess Frost and Ralph Me
Lendon are spending the week
at Medicine Tark
Barney Whisenant Nolen
Fuqua and J D Cox are home
from Norman
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YOU SICK AND A0U LOSE
A DAY’S WORK
Every druggist in town— your
druggist and ‘everybody’s drug-
gist has noticed a great falling-
off in the sale of calomel They
all give the same reason Dod-
son’s Liver Tone is taking its
place -
"Calomel is dangerous and
people know it while Dodson’s
Liver Tone is perfectly safe and
gives better results” said a pro-
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Liver Tone is personaliyguaran-
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it A large bottle costs 50 centp
and if it fails to give easy relief
in every case of liver sluggish-
ness and constipation you have
only to ask for your money back
Dodson’s Liver Tone is a pleas-ant-tasting
purely veget able
remedy harmless to both chil-
dren and adults Take a spoon-
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fine no biliousness sick head-
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bowels It doesn’t gripe or cause
inconvenience all the next day
like violent calorpel Take a dose
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you 'will feel weak sick and
nauseated Don’t lose a day’s
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vigor and ambition
Get A
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Our new 60-page Premium Catalog is just off the
press and wewant you to have one— sure
It lists more than 2000 handsome premiums to choose from and is
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A Post Card Will Do
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Fine Prospects for Bi Fair
It is doubtful if finer prospects
ever proceeded a Mg and success-
ful State Fair than those now
prevailing in the ten years in
which this Fair has been estab-
lished '
Financial and economic condi-
tions throughout the state are in
splendid shape The influence
of high prices for all farm pro-
ducts raised last year coupled
with a big yield has created a
condition of prosperity felt in
every corner of Oklahoma Oil
is bringing topnotch prices and
every business touching it is
prosoerous -Development
work and broader
effort among the many agencies
of the state and government is
more noticeable each year" In
providing a display place to show
the many resources of the state
and in offering thousands of dol-
lars in premiums yearly is an in-
centive to thA progressive stock
raiser housewife farmer and al-
so to the young generation who
are finding in the various Boy’s
and Girls’ clubs a great vehicle
of education officials of the State
Fair are building for a greater
and wealthier'ad more progres-
sive Oklahoma
The Fair dates this year are
September 23 to 30 — eight days
Do You Know That
Rural sanitation is a health pro-
tection to the city-dweller?
It’s foolish to educate a boy
and then let him die of typhoid
faver?
Exercise in the garden is bet-
ter than exercise in the gymn-
asium? Clean water clean food clean
houses make clean healthy
American citizens? i f
The State of California has re-
duced its typhoid death rate 70
per cent in the past ten years?
Rats are the most expensive
animals which man maintains? -
It is estimated that the average
manure pile will will breed 900
0X) flies per ton?
Dirty hand spread much dis-
ease? A high bred dog has a right to
have his birth registered— so has
a baby?
Health is a credit with the
bank of nature?
A clean garbage can is a good
example to the family?
Filth breeds flies— flies carry
fever?
Slouchy postures menace
health?
Health brings happiness -sickness
sorrow?
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Leeman, Ed J. The Duncan Banner (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 41, Ed. 1 Friday, June 9, 1916, newspaper, June 9, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1742189/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.