The Devol Dispatch. (Devol, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL VII
DEVOL COTTON COUNTY OKLAHOMA FRIDAY JULY 2 1915
NUMBER V
CHURCHES
BAPTIST
Key K L Thornton jrill hold service
the 1st and 3rd Sundays of each month
Morning service II o’fdoek
Sunday School every Sunday morning
lo o’clock N Jj Billow Sudt '
PRESBYTERIAN
lte Griffiths will preach In the Pres-
byterian church the fourth Sunday of
each month at 11 A M and 7:30 P M
Sunday School every Sunday at 10 A
M W L McNatt Supt
CHRISTIAN
Kev Rees will preach In thfCiiri-t-J
an Church the 2nd and 4th Sundays In
each mouth at 11:00 a m and7:30p
m
Union Sunday School every Sunday
moaning at 1000 a in All denomlna
tiers cordially Invited to attend C
jiTatun Superintendent
ChrWtian Endeavor every Sunday
evening from 030 to 7:30
M E SOUTH
r Hev Armstrong will preach In the
Presbyterian Church on the 2nd Sunday
of each month at 11:00 a m
Lodge Meets
The AF AM
Mefcts the second and fourth
Tucsday in each month
L G Brown WM
A J Emery Sec
O E S
Eastern Star meets 1 st and 3rd
Monday nights in each month
Mrs Housewright W M
Mrs W R Anderson Sec
J I O 0 F
Meets every Saturday night
' J A Booher NG - -
Wm Bates Sec
Clyde SiffordVG
Rebecca
Meets 1st and 3rd Friday nights
in each month
Mrs T C Dillow N G
Mrs J H Landers V G
Mrs J A Yount Sec
W 0 w
Meets 1st and 3rd Thursday
nights in each month
F T Long C C
E G R Clerk
WOODMAN CIRCLE
Meets 2nd and 4th Thursday
neghts in each month
Mifs Mabel Hall Guardian
Mrs Lily Rees Clerk
IMW A
Officers-—
J C Dulaney V C
Frank P Devol Clerk
Delay
To-morrow morrow not to-day!
Tis thus the idle ever say
To-morrow I will strive anew
To-morrow 1 will seek instruction
To-morrow I will shun seduction
To-morrow this and that will do
And wherefore not to-day? to-morrow
For thee vyill also be too narrow
To every day its task allot!
Whate’er is done is done forever
Thus much I know but whatsoever
May hap to-morrow know I not
On! on! ojr thou wilt be retreating
For all oyr moments quicker fleeting
Advance nor backward more inchnp
What we possess alyne is ours
The use we make pf present hours
For can 1 call tLe future mine?
And every day thus vainly fleeing
Is in the volume of my being
A page unwritten blank and void
Men write on its unsullied pages
Deeds to be read by coming ages!
Be every day alike employed!
o:i the market at a cent an acre
was in high demand at a $100 an
acre An investor could have
made 10000 per cent on his mon
ey in a fortnight And instead of
a malaria breeding swamp New
Orleans has a rising suburb on the
most fertile soil in the world
GO A-FISHING
White’s lake on the Deep Red
was the scene of a jolly fishing
party Monday when Mr and
Mrs A H Lee Mr and Mrs P
McCallum J C Wright Frsnk
Eddings O D and Lee Yeager
t ied their luck with the finny
tribe We don't know-how many
fish they caught as some of the
party expressed pleasure in their
catch while others say they had
poor luck At uny ‘rate O D
Yeager w s under the weather all
of the next dav He probably ate
too many fish
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NEW RESTAURANT
Fain and Harmon are the pro-
prietors of a new restaurant in the
Wallace building These young
men seem to thoroughly under
stand their business They ask
for a share of the restaurant busi-
ness and promise a courteous and
fair treatment to all
the route has been tentatively se-
eded by the various counties to
then call a meeting at a central
point to log the route and perfect
an organization
The plan as outlined is receiving
the hearty support of the business
men of the different towns along
the route who realize the imp'
tance -of automobile trails
J Ilarvey llansen
Physician and Surgeon
Spectacles Fitted
Grandfield Okla
Phone 10 '
At office in Devol from 2 to 4 p
m Tuesdays Thursdays and Sat-
urdays Auto Service
We meet all trains
We make trips to all points at a
rcasonadle rale
We make a round trip with the
mail car to Randlctt and return
(same day) for one dollar
N W CARTER
HOTEL DEVOL
AUTO TRAIL FOR DEVOL
Plans have been made for the
immediate making and construct
ion of a noith and south auto
route across the western part of
Oklahoma from Woodward to
Frederick Okla thence ta Wichi
ta Falls Texas
C C Hoag Secretary of the
Commercial Club has completed
plans for enlisting the support in
all the counties thru which this
trail will be constructed whereby
the county commissioners of the
various counties will be requestec
to adopt this trail as the State
road The route under consider-
ation between Woodward and the
Texas state line begins at the
southeast corner of Woodward
county where it intersects the O-
K Northwest Trail from Oklahoma
City to Denver Colo and passes
thru Seiling Taloga Putnam Ara-
paho Cordell Hobart Roosevelt
Mt Park Snyder Manitou Fred-
erick Grandfield and Devol
thence into Texas where it con-
nects with auto trail into W ichita
Falls It is the as oon as
RAILROAD TIME TABLE
WJCHITA FALLS ROUTE
J West joun J
Vo 1 D:i!y ?:V) p m
Vo 3 7:4) n ri
K a! to mil
Vo 2Pi:y
Vo 4 7: 17 p m
SOMETHING THAT “BEATS THE
DUTCH”
‘It beats the Dutch ' is an ole
proverb often used in referring to
some unusual happening This it
the world’s -testimony to the in-
dustry the perseverance and the
ingenuity of the people of Holland
But it so happens that the
United States has had a chance k
'beat the Dutch' at their own
game and has done so And
among the first people to recog-
nize America’s triumph were the
Dutch themselves
A tract of country lying under
water part of the Missippi swamp
land around New Orleans was
plotted out by surveyors 1 he
amount of land was a trifle larger
than the amount which Holland
has drained from what used form-
erly to be the Zuyder Zee
- The land having been mapped
out dikes which were built all
round it similar to the dikes
which have been built in Holland
and are always a-bnilding and a
few pumps were startedi So far
the system was the same as that
followed in Holland
But the pumps in’ Holland are
quite small driven by the large
leisurely win ’mills The American
pumps are driven by electricity
with a capacity of a million gallons
a minute Five of them were put
at work Five million gallons a
minute is calculated to empty al-
most any place in a huny It took
the New Orleans men exactly 8
days to clear away from water a
tract of land as large as the one
that
PROBLEMS OF COMMON LAV
In the early history of the com-
mon law when recorded prece
dents were far less numerour than
they are today and when learned
glosses and commentaries were
ew it was more nearly possible
lor an industrious lawyer to know
them all Just as Dr Samuel John-
son ventured to write a dictionary
of the English language out of his
own head so did William Black-
stone and James Kent attempt to
state the entire common lav He
would be a bold and an ill-advised
man who would attempt to do
either todav
In their day it was possible to
regard the opinion of a judge in a
litigated case as the last word up-
on the subject of his decision So
also the opinions of the few learn-
ed commentators like Coke and
Blackstone and Kent were re
garded wjth much greater vener-
ation than are the opinions of their
modern successors
i s
The modern judges and writers
are often compared much to their
disadvantage with these venerable
masters of the past But but this
is far from being wholly due to
the superior Irr-i' nd ability
of the ancients it iidue in part to
:he greater simplicity of their prob
lem and in part to their lack of
competitors on the top rounds of
the ladder
J A YOUFIT
Dray Lino
Jbipments looked rfif-r rnl !iu!
ed to ant- part of the c -ty— Pi icc3
Reasonable
OevoL Okiahanna
City BariiepShoy
cf Devoi 0’!a
Shaving1
Hair Cutting
Smoothly and Neatly cjoiu:
J H Frye Proprietor
Agents Fcr
WiCHlIA STEAM LAUKDRlf
Dr J W DuVeJ
SPECIALIST
EYE EAR NOSE TKKCVV3
GLASSES FITTED
Wichita Fells
T
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A H LEE’S FATHER DIES
The following was taken from
in Alabama paper and refers to
the father of our townsman A H
Lee of Hotel Dgyph
Polk D Lee one of the oldest
and best known citizens of this
county died at Birmingham Sat
urday and was buried at Ivalee
Sunday
He suffered a stroke of paralysis
some time ago and last week he
was again stricken
The deceased was 72 years old
and he leaves five children: Fitz-
hugh county surveyor Alex of
Oklahoma Forney of Alexandria
Mrs W W Panell of Ashville
Robert of Tennesee
He served four years in the Cor
federate army as a member of
Company A Tenth Alabama ref i-
ment When death came he was
72 years old
There are no better men any
where than Polk Lee He served
his country faithfully and well and
was never found wanting when a
crisis arose He was honored and
respected by neighbors friends
and acquaintances and news of
his death will cause profound sor
row thr rughout the county
The dispatch extends sympathy
to Mr Lee in his sorrow
jn Ki-:ioriJE-
Physician and Surgeon
Call Dulaney’s Drug Slor
or Hotel Devol
Devol Oklahoma
ogeazscasi
HOTEL DEVOL
The best $200 house in
Southern Oklahoma
Clean comfortable fooms
We most cordialy invite the
armers to visit us Rates made
A H: Lee Prop
Go to
L W Moore’s
when you want your old plows
made new
Anything you want m wood or
iron
Blacksmith slihI
Gar&rfe
Devol
o’
Okla
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
J L Moorhead purchased 3 lots
on the corner of Wichita Avenue
had taken Holland seventy-! and Poplar Street from W T Huff
five years 1 last week Mr Moorhead intends
The immediate value was enor-Jto build a f ne residence in Che
mou- Land that had been a drug near future
J Belton Mattnews
Jeweler and Engraver
1 guarantee my work to give
Entire Satisfaction for 12 months
Grandfield Okla
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Hannifin, Steve. The Devol Dispatch. (Devol, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1915, newspaper, July 2, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1763770/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.