The Ames Enterprise. (Ames, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1903 Page: 1 of 4
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: Oklahoma Digital Newspaper Program and was provided to The Gateway to Oklahoma History by the Oklahoma Historical Society.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
Voi i
AMES WOODS COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY DECEMBER 4 tgoi
Nd t
ua
S T Goltry Pres ' ' Joe Harp Cashier
fc W Goltry V J
FARMERS STATE BANK
OlflMES
Every accommodation given customers consistent with conser
vative banking Farm loans solicited
ENID MILL and ELEVATOR GO
Pays the best price for wheat and can supply you with
Flour Ship Bran and Corn chop Du the sack or In 500 ID lots
TW ANDERSON
Dr S H McEvoy
Ames Oklahoma
A Williamson
Notary Public Commission
expires April 5 1905 Conveyan-
ces and Legal papers certified
Ames Feed & Grist Mill is the
place to get first class corn meal
and graham flour the best made
Agent for Fairbanks Windmill
J L NORMAN
EDWARD MULLIKIN
PRACTICAL BLACKSMITH
All kinds of repairing and
Plow work done in first-class
shape
AMES - - - OKLA
Garni that Load
II uou like Dut
JKD L DcWittC
THE DRAYMAN wants all the
hauling he can get
G R Benjamin J H Maxson
Contractors & Builders
Get our estimate and bid on
that building before letting the
contract It will be to your in
terests -
AMES
- OKLA
BRING YOUR
"©a
X PRODUCE
TO
J A WALTERS
Aud get the highest cash price
THE COMMERCIAL HOTEL
BOARD by the DAY or WEEK
Best accommodations in the city
Opposite Depot
J A MITCHELL Proprietor
Come to the
FARMERS RESTAURANT
To get a Good
Square Meal Cigars etc
PLEM MASSEY Prop
W E MANSUR MARY L MANSUR
Dr Mansur & Mansur
Calls attended day or night
Ames - - Oklahoma
A WILLIAMSON
WATCHMAKER
All work warranted)
AT POSTOFFICE
National Insurance Co of
Dover Delaware Phoenix of
Brooklyn A)
A WILLIAMSON Aocnt
TOWN AND COUNTRY
Mr Frost is worse again
J H Gumsey of Enid was in
town Wednesday
Dr Mansur’s have moved into
their new residence
LOST: Money by not having
Branson to repair my wagon
F E Hollingsworth of Denver
Colorado was in town Wednesday
De Blacks mit shop is to home
Go to Branson to get your work
done
Frank Anderson started to Bea
ver Co Tuesday to look up a lo-
cation Seth Edwards and -Judd Will
iams started Tuesday to their
claims in Beaver County
Charley DeWitt went Saturday
to Siboney to help put up J J
Hughes’ bank building there
J R Sturgeon & Co have just
received the finest line of X-mas
Candies ever shown in Ames
Frank Williams went Tuesday
to Enid to look up a location He
has rented his farm to Seth Ed-
wards '
Mrs Hutchins is expecting to
to take the Lynn School as soon
as she gets a temporary from the
County Supt
Tom Wilson is reported to have
a fine trade at Siboney where he
is now located Of coarse he
swears a little
The school-land lessees will
hold a meeting at Carmen Dec 18
at 1 o’clock p m Everybody
interested should be there
Geo West has returned from
Guthrie where he has been at
tending ministerial meeting and
he is now ready to do repair work
again
Mr Strong will erect a build-
ing on the lot east of the Lehen-
jauer building in the near future
He expects to put in a stock of
teed flour etc
Mrs Nelson Sturgeon received
the sad news Saturday of the
death of her aunt Mrs Joe Dill
of Tacoma Washington Mrs
Dill leaves a husband and three
children !
A letter from Miss Atha Stur-
geon who is attending school at
Fayette Mo to her parents H
V Sturgeon’s dated Dec 1
states that it was then snowing
there It was a nice day here
TO BE GIVEN AWAY
We have just received another
lunered of those beautiful En-
ameled Pastell Pictures iSxaoand
we are going to give them away
FREE
J R Sturgeon & Co
Try Ed Mullikin for black
smithing
Nathan R&zey of Enid was In
Ames on business Monday
FOUND: In Ames a place to
get pour saws filed at Branson’s
Blacksmith Shop
J B Shoemaker has a full-
blood Duroc-Jersey male hog that
he wishes to sell
H I Switzer and Sam Wood
have bought the Woods County
Telephone System
In the trial of C B Cowels and
Mr Messelrole vs A1 Jones the
defendant takes a change of
venue
Geo Evans a brother of John
Evau’s came in Saturday from
Cloud Co Kansas where he says
he has been husking corn that is
making seventy bushels per acre
A letter from Ben Masemore
gets here too late for this week’s
paper He seems to think that
Washington is a good place to
live but we look for them hack
to Oklahoma by June
Knowing that you have an ex-
perienced hand to do your horse
shoeing is quite a satisfaction
W G Bentley who works in Ed
Mullikin’s shop has had several
years’ experience as a horse-
shoer Try him
A party was given at Pearl
Hoisington’s Monday evening in
honor of Miss Clara’s birthday
Quite a number were present all
enjoying themselves — especially
John Hoisingtonf - who- partook
quite freely of thfe flowing bowl
The Frisco engine set fire Sat-
urday to the dry grass one-half
mile west of town which burned
dangerously near to John Hughes’
house and barn but was extin-
guished by the section men and
agent before it did much damage
Uncle Henry Moyers ’ went to
Guthrie last Friday returning
Tuesday He reports that the
lessees of school land are refus-
ing to pay the high rate of rent
put on their leases are organizing
all over the territory for mutual
protection
The Ladies Aid Society of
Ames will have a Bazaar next
Friday and Saturday Dec 12 and
13 for the purpose of disposing
of doilies quilts mats etc pro-
ceeds to go into Baptist church
fund ' The Bazaar will be held
n the Bank of Ames building -It’s
not because there is so
much sickness that Dr McEvoy
s kept so busy but because they
send for him for miles in all di-
rections 'Every ‘ report that
comes to this office is very flatter-
ng for the Dr If reports are
true he is among the best of
practitioners
Mr — — — Hayworth was the
most fickle-minded man in the
town of He would have
tried to fill every office of his
township and school district in
a single year He would have
followed meanwhile every busi-
ness avocation in town An old
citizen returning from the west
lalted at the livery barn the boy
n charge was “boozy” jt being
a legal holiday The traveler
with hungry jaded teams asked
“What’s hay worth now?” “Hay-
worth? C’m see He is consta-
ble and note republic aud school
commissioner and druggist and
runs this ’er stable when I alnt
year”
Here am Again
With the first issue and still believe
in advertising Lei tne figure on
your Building Hardware
Perhaps you need a pump or windmill or may want to paint youf
house or bafn If so see me before placing perhaps I can
make it to your advantage Also fall line of
Shelf and Heavy Hardware Stoves
Cutlery Guns aud AmmunitlotL
GEO E BAKER
we give awan FRFFFR HR
TO OUR CUSTOMERS
One $5 Crokinole Board
One $5 Album
One $5 Doll and —
$2-worth of Glass-Ware
You get a ticket with every 50-cent cash purchase of Holiday
Goods Call and see our Holiday line as it is now on exhibi-
tion at Sturgeon and Son’s Drug Store and it is the biggest line
we have ever shown A complete line of Drugs Paints Oils
'Glass Wall Paper Clocks Jewelry Books Magazines Lamps
Cigars Tobaccos Candies and Perfumes We have wbat you
want If you don’t se it call for it We have got it
STURGEON & SON
The Long-Bell
Lumber Company
Dealers in Lumber Lath Shingles Lime
Cement Brick The Celebrated Mound
City Paint No better made3£
Let us figure with you
when wanting anything in our line X X
B F HOGARD Manager
FREE! FREE! x
DINNER SETS
The celebrated Semi-Vitreous Porcelain Hand-Fainted Dec-
orations with Gold Trimmings Given away FREE to Our
Customers We have saved no expense in getting up the
Most Beautiful Patterns ever made
YOU CAN GET A DINNER SET FREE
Given away with oar cash sales piece by piece and contin-
ued until you get a complete set Set consists of cups and
saucers pie plates breakfast plates dinner plates sauce
dishes platters vegetable dishes sugar bowles etc Any
thing which goes to make up a fine set x
We carry a complete line of Fancy and Staple Groceries Dry
Goods Boots Shoes Hats Caps and Ladies’ and Gents Furnish-
ings We also have a nice line of Crockery Queensware China-
ware Hardware and Tinware Ammunition of all kinds American
Hog-Fence Pumps Piping Tanks Windmills and Barbed Wire
If you are going to build a house or barn it will pay you to get our
$S and cts on Building Hardware
J R Sturgeon & Co
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
RMES ' OKLfiHOMfl
flmes Oklahoma
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Switzer, H. I. The Ames Enterprise. (Ames, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, December 4, 1903, newspaper, December 4, 1903; Ames, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1761375/m1/1/: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.