Hlitorlcal Society
The Darrow Press
VOLUME 2
Taking on City Style
The Templin Drug Company
sold one of their show cases to
j a Snyder and bought a large
plate glass case. The addition
is quite an improvement and
makes the drug store compare
favorably with a city pharmacy
Our Minstrel Shew Boys
The Darrow camp of M. W. A.
is preparing a Minstrel Show to
be given at some future date.
By all indication it will be a suc-
cess, for the players talk like
niggers, walk like niggers and
act like niggers. This fact
gi"es us the clue why Mrs. J. D.
Pratt is selling off her chickens.
Where Something) is Doing
Many people of neighboring
towns have been flocking in late-
ly to see the drilling process at
the oil rig and take in sights
generally. We don't blame them
for coming to a to wnaccasionally
where there is something doing.
It will be worth your while to
visit a town one year old, that
has accomplished more than
many towns do in 12 years.
DRILL IS PENETRATING
The drill at the oil derrick is ]
hammering away at the same old
speed and everthing is in appar
ant good order. Considerable
cleaning up had to be done first
before the drill could operate
which could only be ex-
pected after so long a delay
waiting for repairs. Sihce yes
terday the drill is in operation
day and night.
The new driller, Webster
Detare. of Bartlesville, I. T.,
arrived the first of the week and
is operating half the time, alter-
nately with Mr. Hamilton. The
same engineer, C. A. Stewart
and Sam Aeckard, are working
[alternatively as before. Every
thing is progressing nicely now
again and the D O., G. & . M. Co.
is wearing a hopeful smile as
before
Printed the Paper with ' Mud"
The Press force was "out of
sorts" last week for want of ink
with which to print the papers
The shipment of ink had been
lost on the road for some time
and had not yet arrived on press
day. We did the best possible
by mixing some black and red
ink and other smear we had in
the house, but it did not work
well. If any of our subscribers
mixed a few "cuss words" in the
endeavor at reading last week
we will not be suprised.
Are Spoiling the old Quilting Parties
Means & Johnson are operat-
ing a patent quilter these days
Now, we are glad to see such an
industry as that in town, but
we believe it will rob the country
of the old time quilting parties
No doubt every reader can recall
the "match making" that added
so much exhileration to a guilt-
ing—how the good old ladies
would sit together for hours at
quilting and scheme to help
some bashful young man to get
a wife. And what times you
used to have when young and
old would gather at the quilting
after supper and engage in a jol
liete; when matches and mashes
were made, and woo and coo was
proclaimed from the house-tops
and basked in shaded corneis
in the parlor until even cast-iron
Cupids couldn't hide their blush
Now comes an industry along
that knocks all that in the head
right here in Darrow where
their are already such an array of
bachelors, a few widows ond old
maids; right at this golden sea
son when birds begin to prate
and the marriageable men and
maids are liable to mate.
We are perfectly willing that
Means & Johnson do a good busi
*ness, provided that some other
function be inaugerated to fulfil
the mission peformed by the
old time quiltings.
Take Your Chance
Stay where you are and you'll
grow old and gray and bent.
Your boys will scatter out with
no definite hold on life; the girls
will go out to work for others.
When you get so old and doubled
up that you can't work any long-
er others will take your place,
and the fields you have tilled will
still belong to another. Come
out here, where the sun shines
and the alfalfa greens, and where
there is some use in living, and
in ten years you can give your
boys a farm, see the girls well
married, and when you come
around to the point where you
are through with hard work
you'll have something to show
for it, and greatest thing of all,
it is your own, not another s.
But you've got to make the
start, Fortune will knock at
your door but isn't going to hall
you out bodily. Get up, man,
and take your chance!—Thomas
Tribune.
Standing Together Makes a Town
If a town wishes to make a
good city its citizens must stand
together! It is only the shal-
low, narrow gauged sort of a fel-
low that takes personal matters
against a fellow townsman to the
detriment of the town as a whole.
Men of ordinary intelligence
ought to have enough of self-
control and consideration about
them to bridle their personal
prejudices or dislikes enough
to help clear the way for the
fittest; the end to be accomplish-
ed should do the prompting.
It is a sad fact that eveiy
town has its kickers and knock-
ers. There are always a few
tired lellows" that hunt for the
tortoise-pace of their own gait
in the other fellows hip. Be-
cause the other fellow makes for
success and they "drift ,the con-
clusion is formed that some plot
is the cause. Failure ef success
usually lays within the one that
fails rather than with the other
fellow. Your neighbor may not
be the fault that you struck the
wrong avocation in life—perhaps
you misinterpreted the "call".
Fault-finding amd kicking dis-
perses the unity in accomplish
ing big success; it enstalls fac-
tionalism in lieu of harmony. It
is insane to endeavour to dis-
rupt a good move on accout of
jealousy and prejudice. Every
citizen of a town should stand
for and urge unity among its
people—it is the key to thrift,
progress and public enterprise.
About the A. S of E Convention
Reduced rates on all railroads
for the A. S. of E. convention to
be held at Okeene, Okla , March
28 to31. Ex Governor T. B. Fer-
guson will speak at 10. 15 a. m.,
•March 30th.
An oyster dinner will be given
at the Equity hall each day.
Get your tickets early. Farm-
ers! take your vacation on these
dates and attend.
A prize of $1.00 in cash will be
given the lady that furnishes
the best layer of cake. Also a
prize of $1.00 in cash will be giv-
en the lady furnishing the larg-
est number of pies. All cakes
and pies must be in the Equity
Dinner Hall before 11:45 a. m.,
March 30th.— H. E. Rindfleisch,
Pres.
Could Not Buy to Suit
C. W. Warren returned from a
trip to Ceiling and other points
northwest of Darrow. He made
the trip for the purpose of look-
ing at land with a view of buy-
ing, but a Blaine countyan is not
so easily pleased elsewhere, so
he returned without making a
deal.
Darrow Talks Good Among Strangers
Manager Lang, of the Darrow
Mercantile Co., was in Oklahoma
City the first of the week buy-
ing goods for his store. He was
pleased to hear so many favora-
ble comments among wholesalers
and traveling men about Darrow
push and enterprise, the old
saying that "you can't keep a
good man d«wn" applies splend-
idly on Darrow collectively.
"Tompkin s Mired Man' by Kiel Talent
"Tompkin's Hired Man", an in-
teresting drama of three acts,
showing how "Tompkin's Hired
Man" regains his daughter.
This play will be given at Dar-
row next Saturday night, March
24th.
The play is filled with humor
and pathos, and never fails to
please an audience. The drama |
will be interspersed between |
acts with music, songs, and
other specialties. Every phase
of the play is clean and portrays
the realities of life in an inter-
esting way- This play is to be
given by "Kiel Home Talent",
consisting of 8 players.
The talent dramatizing this
story are popular young people
of Kiel, and we hope to see a
good patronage. The play will
be given at the town hall. Ad
mission, 15 and 25 cents.
from Snowy Nebraska
Joseph Lollman, of Falls City,
Neb., is visiting with his son,
T. J. Lollman, of near town. He
tells us that Nebraska is having
plenty snow now; when he left
home they had 4 inches and still
it was snowing.
Working the Streets
Street Commissioner Carter
is having a force out at work
this week making crossings and
doing some ditching. He put in
several cinder crossings and
otherwise improved the street.
Let the good work go on.
A Visitor From Arkansas
Robert Over by, of Jonesboro,
Ark., is in town this week enjoy-
ing the hospitality of the Lang
family. We imagine the world „
looks a whole iot bigger out here
to a man that comes direct from
the forest of Arkansas.
Office Location Changed
Ttie Guthrie Fairview & West-
ern Construction Co., moved^
from the concrete bulding to the
"Blue Front" a couple of doors
furteer west, last Monday. The
Blue Front was vacated by
Chief Engineer Cowles, who now
has his heabquarters in the
Darrow Bank building.
Declamatory Contest
On Friday night, Mareh £3rd,
there will be a declamatory con-
test between Homestead town-
ship pupils at the Hemestead
school house. The winner in
this contest will entitle the pupil
to enter into the county contest
to be held later in the season at
Watonga.
Visitors of Kiel
Bert McClelland, J. N. God-
frey and R. V. Mclntyre, of Kiel,
were at Darrow Sunday. They
came up by team and returned
the same day. They will return
next Saturday and in company
with some other young people of
Kiel,give a public entertainment.
Tree Planting Postponed
The cold snap delayed tree
planting at Darrow. We under-
stand, however, that the commit-
tee has made preparation to
plant trees on the school ground
at a convenient time. They also
induced several let owners to
plant trees.
Put your Legal Notices in the Prsse
When you have legal notices to
be published in a newspaper, re-
member that the Press has com-
plied with every requirement
prescribed by law to entitle it to
any and all sorts of legal print-
ing. Friends of this paper are
expected to patronize it with
their legal printing of all dis
cription.
Renew your Subscription
Within the next month many
subscriptions to the Press ex-
pire; and as it is our rule to take
from the list all names whose
time is up, we will discontinue
unless you renew. This paper is
only 75c the year, and gives the
subscriber more reading than
many newspapers do that are
$1.00 per year. You should keep
a watch un Darrow during the
next 12 months.
Dog Taxt Summed Ip
The Press has figured up the
amount of dog tax coming to the
town ere long, and we find that
the treasury will be flooded with
about *20.00. Either that, or
[the town will witness quite a
\ number of dog funerals.
A Cabinet for the Press Office
W.B.Harmon is building a
cabinet thisweek for the Press
office. It will be 4 feet wide, 28
inches deep and 8 feet high, and
contains five compartments suit-
able for the keeping of printers
stock away from the dust.
Prof Burt, of Homestead, was
in the city last evening.
An Old Timer" from Bond
J. H. Templeton, postmaster
at Bond, was a pleasant visitor
at Darrow yesterday. He came
over in company with his cousin,
Mrs. McGregor, of El Reno, who
returned home by train last eve-
ning from a visit with them. Mr.
Templeton is an old tinier in Ok-
lahoma and has been postmaster
at Bond about 4 years.
NOTICE
To whom it may concern:—All
persons are warned that tres-
passers on blocks 125 and 126 in
Darrow and especially upon lot
7 in the latter block,will be pros-
ecuted to the full extent of the
law; and especially those who
in any manner interfere with the
shrubbery and prperty on said
lots—Central Oklahoma Immi-
gration Co.; M.N. Tomblin, Pres.
W. B. Harmon went %o Wa-
tonga the first of the week on
special business.