The Hollis Post-Herald (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Okla Historical Society
THE HOLLIS POST-HERALD
VOL. 6. NO. 50.
HOLLIS, HARMON COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1909.
$1.00 a Year.
Such Beauty has never aeen Seen
As We Now Have In Our Complete Line of
Buggies^ Surries and Hacks,
If it is a "MOON" that is all you need to know. The prices are right and the
styles are the latest. If you want something swell, which carries with it durability, High fin-
ish and first grade material, BUY A MOON. ... A
We have left a few Planters, Cultivators and Harrows. Don t delay if you need one,
RT N. Spooner
From Gov i Harmon
The following telegrams have
been received from Gov. Judson
Harmon of Ohio, for whom this
county was christened:
Columbus, Ohio, June 4,1909.
J. J. Savage, Hollis, Okla:
Dispatch received. I thank
you and the citizens of the new
county for the honor done me,
and wish it may always be the
abode of prosperity and happi-
ness. (Signed)
Judson Harmon.
Columbus, Ohio, May 25,1909.
W. B. Groves, Chairman Central
Committee, J. J. Savage, Rep-
resentative, Guthrie, Oklahoma:
I wish the new county all the
blessings of prosperity and lib-
erty under the law.
(Signed) Judson Harmon.
Normal Singing School Begins.
Sunday at 3:30 o'clock in the
afternoon Prof. H. N. Lincoln of
D illas, Texas, and the citizens of
Hollis and vicinity met at the
Baotist church for the purpose
of organizing the vocal music
normal which was to begin Mon
day morning. After an hour or
two of class singing the commit
tee discussed the best method of
organization, and invited the pub
lie to attend the opening session
Monday morning.
At a stated hour Monday
number of the citizens of Hollis
and surrounding country met at
the Baptist church aud after
singing a few sacred songs, or
ganized a class of about thirty
five or forty members. The very
best voices in the town are em
braced in the class, and the influ
ence of this school in after years
cannot be estimated•
There are pupils from different
section of the country—even as
far away as the Blue Grass state
—and they came here to study
the rudiments of music. There
are but few teachers in the
world who are in the class of
Prof. Lincoln, and it is to be de
plored that any young person
should be prevented from attend
ing this series of lessons.
special timbers, and these must
be of large trees, which are not
easily found. A considerable
length of time is nescessary for
the timbers to be cut out in the
sawmills and shipped to the dis-
tributing point, and just as soon
as the bridges are finished track
laying will begin. Mr. Aymond
says his force can -easily lay one
and a half miles of track each
workable day. The road will
use the -60 instead of the 10
pound rails, which will be much
better than the heavier steel for
the present.
The fact that the road is going
through should reconcile all who
at first opposed it, and influence
them to work for the county en-
richment which this road implies.
Mr. Aymond said that the road
would be finished before the
time specified in the contract.
A JOYFUL RETURN. I camped ner the head of Elm,
As the imperial sun sank be- while moving through the conn-
hind the western rim of the try in a covered wagon. Ihey
Ed. Kennady Here.
Friday of last week Ed Ken
nedy, president of the Altus
Roswell & El Paso Ry. Co., VV
V. Kennedy, his son, Carey
Shaw of Houston, Texas, his at
torney, and F. L. Aymond, con-
struction contractor, were here
looking after the interests of
the company. They went from
here to Memphis, and seem
pleased with the result of their
visit.
Mr. Aymond told the Post-
Herald man that the bridge work
over the four streams between
here and Altus must be com
pleted before the rails are laid,
because construction trains can
not run over the line till the
bridges are finished.
Old Soldiers Reunion.
Soon the old soldiers are goihg
to ask the people to help them
commemorate the deeds and ser
vices of the civil war in an Old
Soldiers Reunion at Hollis. Only
one day will be devoted to this
reunion, and the proceeds are to
go toward keeping alive the Uni-
ted Confederate Veterans' camp
here. Let us give all the encour
agement possible to the enter-
prise. Besides we need the en
thusiasm which this will bring
into being. It will be the first
Ex-Confederate Reunion of Har-
mon County.
New Lumber Yard.
Hon. S. G. Ashby of Eldorado,
representing the Dascomb Dan-
igl Lumber Co., was here last
week figuring on the establish-
ment of a lumber yard here.
This company is well founded,
has ample resources for carry-
ing a diversified stock of ouild
ers' materials, and will add
strength to the wealth and credit
of the town.
Mr. Ashby has for some time
been manager of the Eldorado
branch of this company, and by
discreet business methods, judi-
cious anvertising and courteous
treatment has built up an envia-
trade, we gladly extend the right
hand of fellowship to the new
enterprise.
Commissioners Court.
The commissioners court of
Harmon county held its first
meeting Friday. At this meet-
ing the bonds of the various
county officers were approved
and C. W. King was appointed
county judge.
Summer Normal.
Are we to have a Summer
Normal? The Vinson News has
an article by the teacher of the
public school there offering the
use of their magnificent school
building, and it may be to the
world Thursday night of last
week a large concourse of eager
men gathered on the principal
streets of Hollis to take part in
the great celebration which was
to take place as soon as the com-
mittee from Guthrie arrived to
bring to the waiting multitude
the Proclamation from the Gov-
ernor.
Constant communication was
held with the committee, and it
was known almost to a minute
when the delegation would ar-
rive in Hollis. On the way the
citizens of Martin requested the
committee to go by way of that
thriving town* as a special recep-
tion had been prepared in their
honor. Some half hour was spent
with the enterprising and pros-
perous citizens there, and they
were the recipients of a dazzling
ovation.
At about 10 o'clock a proces-
sion under the direction of J. C.
Gam bill, J. N. DeLamar and H.
N. Spooner started for Tom Cun-
ningham's place, east of Hollis.
Several hundred men and boys
joined in the procession, and up-
on arriving at their destination,
sang "America," "Nearer My
God to Thee," and other sacred
and patriotic songs, led by Profs.
A. W. Goodwin and G. L. Lind-
sey. Occasionally a gunshot
would pierce the evening jubila-
tion as a punctuation of the in-
cessant good fellowship which
predominated during the cele-
bration.
Several times the company
formed in twos and marched up
and down the road in military
order. At last as the Guthrie
delegation came in sight, they
formed on either side of the road,
and the committee with bared
heads marched between the col-
umns, the band playing and
chorus singing "A m e r i c a ."
Then the entire body marched
back to town.
Upon arriving in town Prof. T.
P. Redman was called on for a
speech, and responded with a
short address. He was followed
by County Attorney E. M Stew-
art, I. G Douglass, C. H. Mad-
den, Hon. S. G. Ashby of Jac*
son county, W. S. Cross, W. B.
Groves, and perhaps others.
interest of the teachers to inves-
bridges are un. u u. He" says tigate the prospects of a session
. • « ,,;_0 for Harmon county ti.is summer.
that the large ondges require ,ur lliXl
Captured By The Indians.
Published by Request.
BacK in the day* of Montague
County, when Indians roamed
through the forest, bitter with
hate of the white settlers who
had driven them far to the west
ward, except when revenge or
need of horses drove them back
to their old haunts, was enacted
in the vicinity of Saint Jo a trag-
edy that is still fresh in the
minds of the old timers.
About 1168 a family by the
name of Box or Bochs, was en
had unhitched their horses,
which were grazing peacefully
on the hillsides, and were en-
gaged in preparing a meal, when
like some venomous snake, a band
of Kiowa-Comanche Indians fell
upon them.
The band, headed by Satanta,
Big Tree and other chieftains,
had grimly watched the family
making its camp, and had bided
its time for the slaughter.
Box, the head of the family,
and his wife were killed instant
ly, and the savages, gleefully
screaming, seized the three half
grown girls and the baby, which
completed the family, captured
the loose horses and disap
peareti among the valleys.
JpBeveral cowmen at a distance
savTthe deed, but were too far
away to help, arriving at the
scene of the late peaceful camp
in time to find the two dead
bodies, scarcely cold, the disor-
j der of a ravished camp, and the
tracks of scurrying ponies.
Hurried pursuit by all the set-
tlers in reach brought to light a
deed of still greater brutality
The body of the baby, with its
head crushed, was found on the
trail, where mocking brutes be-
fore the eyes of the child's sis-
ters had dashed it to the ground
and left it.
The savages with their cap-
tives made their way to the
neighborhood of Fort Sill, then
an Indian stronghold. Efforts of
the agents in charge of peaceful
tribes were made to find the
three girls, and two years later
they were found in the hands of
the Indians there.
The old timers remember that
the Government made some sort
of bargain with the captors
whereby the girls were to be re
turned to the place where they
had been captured, which was
three mile out of Saint Jo. One
on the line between Montague
and Cooke Counties, and in
course of time they were re-
turned.
The girls had been badly mis-
treated, and as a further evidence
of savage brutality had been
compelled to walk all the way
from Fort Sill to Saint Jo. One
of the girls was named Katherine
one Margaret and the name of
the other has been forgotten
The captives were turned over
to the Government in Howell's
store in Saint Jo by their Sullen
captors, and by the Govern-
ment's representatives turned
over to relatives, thus closing
one of the darkest chapters in
the story of final subjugation of
the warlike tribes of Texas.
YOU MAY
have friends galore, but
you will have none more
steadfast, more ready to
respond to your wants,
more capable of pushing
you ahead, more of an in-
centive to forge to the front
than a growing bank ac-
count.
This Bank will help you.
Come in and make this your
banking home.
The First Mat*| flank
Railroad Progressing.
Mr. Edward Kennedy informs
us that he has let the contract to
E. J. Hines of Frederick, Okla.,
for the twenty-three miles of
grading between Wellington and
Hollis, also thirty miles of grad-
ing to start at Memphis and go
west toward the Cap Rock and
that he will let the contract on
the 10th of June for the grading
of the Cap Rock. This work is
all to be rushed as rapidly as pos-
sible. A townsite company is
being organized and the woik all
along the line ana in all the dif-
ferent branches of construction
work will then be pushed to com-
pletion. The headquarters of
Mr. Kennedy will beat Memphis
and all contracts will be let here
at Memphis.
Memphis will also be the head
quarters of the inspectors of
steel and timbers. This will
bring ten or twelve families hero
at once to make their home. The
grade between Memphis and
Wellington has not been definite-
ly located yet but will be within
the next few days.—Memphis
Herald.
Halsmith Happenings
The patrons elected to take the
partition out of the old room
of the school house and to build
a new room joining on the east)
20x30 feet. It is likely they will
employ our last teachers.
Bro. Hoi man filled his appoint-
ment here Saturday, Saturday
night, Sunday and Sunday night.
Singing Sunday afternoon with
a large crowd in attendance.
Mr. Cornell and others from
Mesquite sang for us.
Messrs. Worrell, Daves, Mc-
Murray and Teague are having
telephones put in this week
something we all need. A Boy
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F. P. Salmon of Utica, Ky„
came in Tnursday to attend the
Lincoln Normal of music.
Own Your Own Home.
NO NEED TO PAY RENT
Easy monthly payments at less
than rent. ^[If you own a lot
and want to build a home come
to see I. G. DOUGLASS and
he will tell you how to get the
money. If yon are paying rent
Don't Delay, But Come Now
/. G: Douglass,
Hollis. - - 0k,a-
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Thacker, John Riley. The Hollis Post-Herald (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 10, 1909, newspaper, June 10, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc185412/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.