The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1911 Page: 5 of 8
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Stories of Success
Sen A J Beveridge
The talent tot
success is noth
lng more than '
doing whatever
you can do well
and doing well
whateve r you
do without a
thought of fame
Senator Bever-
idge is essen-
tially a self-
1 made man whose
success Is be-
gotten of hard
unflinching
work Once ask-
what he considered the prime
requisites for a young man’s suc-
cess he answered "first -energy
then determination” To these
every thoughtful student of this
life so full of brilliant successes
would add thrift and industry
u ithout thrift Senator Beveridge
could never have secured a college
education fitting him to fill with
honor to himself and his native
state the high office of United
States Senator from Indiana With-
out some saving principle no young
linn can confidently meet life’s
emergencies or its opportunities
Begin to save now Open a savings
Bccount with this bank todav and
prepare yourself to fill credit)’ the
positions of trust and honor that
may come to you in the future
First National Bank
Okemah Oklahoma
Dr C J Holloway
DENTIST
Years of experience and mod-
ern methods combined with fair
dealing and reasonable prices en-
able me to please those who are
particular and want their work
just exactly right
Rooms 7 and 8 over post-office
building
XX A May ' -
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office over the postoffice
Okemah - J - Okla
J W Board
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Phones— Residence 183 Office 20
Office with Dr Holloway over
post-office
Dr W M Call ah or
SPECIALIST
Eye Ear Nose and Throat
At Broadway Hotel Second and
Fourth Saturdays in each month
’ Permanent office Shawnee Okla
Glasses Fitted
Ladles Remember!
MRS SHERO will make ybur
waste hair into switches puffs
curls or any form you may desire
Dyeing and bleaching a special-
ty Human hair bought and sold
Satisfaction guaranteed
A L Atchison
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE
Office in Ryel building
- Okemah - - - Okla
Mosier Palace
Barber SJaop
For first-class work
Hot and cold baths
Scissor grinding a specialty
Okemah - - Okla
O XX Bradley
LICENSED EiUBALMER
x Sanitary disinfector
Calls answerd day or night
BOLEY - - - Okla
Xi A XTye M D
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Surgeon for Ft Smith & Western
ailway
Special attention to diseases of
ie Eye Ear Nose and Throat
Glasses fitted
flUlce in Patterson building j
f Aones— Residence 146 Office 165
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C S Stiles
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Micawber - - Okla
J J O’Baanon
CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER
Phone No 159
t Okemah - - - Okla
Dr Bovelady
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office up-stairs in Bowler-Wil-son
building
Phone 171
Dr C A Reber
Phones— Office and Residence 4
T®ce up-stairs in J S Stone’s
buiifding
Okemah - Okla
Dr J P Neville
- DENTIST
Ro6m 2 Patterson building
j Phones— Office 165 residence 18
I Examination free and work guar-
anteed Wait if you can until
JK Conley
he Rawleigh man comes
He will be at your place soon
‘I AM BOY BLUE"
I AM BOOSTING FOR THE HARDWARE STORE IN THIS
TOWN THAT STRIKES ME BEST BECAUSE THEIR ISIVES
HOLD THEIR EDGE THEIR TOOLS LAST THEIR BUILDERS
HARDWARE IS STRONG AND ORNAMENTAL AND BECAUSE
THEY ALWAYS G1VETME A SMILE WHEN I COME IN AND A
SQUARE DEAL WHEN I BUY
I BUY FROM
John D Richards
m
Okemah Oklahoma
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PERSONAL AND LOCAL J
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Let Greeen & Lasater be your
merchant-tailors
Lake Moore who has been out
at Klamath Falls- Ore is again at
home at Weleetka '
Remember J H Nelson’s new
bus meets all trains rain or Bhine
Miss Gertrude Hibler who has
been visiting friends at Keets-
ville Mo arrived home Tuesday
Car load of Hunters Cream
Flour just reeived at J A Alex-
ander's -Bedford Keen ' leaves today
(Thursday) for Bellbuckle Tenn
to re-enter school for the com-
ing term
N J Marks went to Chicago 111
Sunday where he will be gone ten
days looking over the market for
fall and winter goods '
Steve Nichols Niffie Grant Mr
Reed Ceaser Timer and J T
Jeffries all of Paden and vicinity
were in town Monday
To enlarge their unloading facil-
ities for the fall -season- the Fort
Smith & Western are making some
fills on the swtehes east o-f the
depot
Mr and Mrs L A Lasater left
Sunday for Winslow and other
points in Arkansas where they
will visit (friends and relatives for
about ten days
Taken up one black sow weight
about 150 pounds both ears crop-
ped owner can recover toy pay-
ing damages H F W’eaver 2
blocks jio-rth of Depot
Miss Anna Dossey of Riverside
Calif arrived here Sunday to
spend a m-onthi with her parents
Mr and Mrs D J Dossey and her
brother Natt and W M Dossey
and families
One Ibrown horse pony about 3
years old branded H ion left
shoulder and x on left jaw about
13 hands high weight about 700
Call at W M Scott 4 miles north
and 1 mile west of Wetumka Okla
2wk
Mrs J D Nelson returned home
Sunday from Kansas City where
she was buiyn®1 a new stock of
fall millinery Miss Nola (Taylor
cf Prague accompanied Mrs
Nelson home and will remain here
this week tor a visit
Mr and Mrs John So-lberger re-
turned to-ome Friday after an ex-
tended -stay at Colorado Sprigns
Colo John -said that after all the
Okemah colony left for home he
got lonesome and come too John
sold lots of his medicin-e while
out at the -summer re:-ort
J n Tedford C G’ Amtorister
and W W Brown and wife took a
drive in (Okfuskee county Tuesday
and Mr Tedford reports cotton
good' in that part of the country
they drove over and the most of
the farmers are feeling optimistic
over the Output of the 1911 crop
He will return to his h-o-me in
Tennessee in a short time and we
believe that he will be able to
make a very favorable report to his
neighbors in that stats about Okla-fyojnv-Rrague
Record ’
S C Wilson has pure Turkey
Red seed wheat at $125 per bushel
A L Atchison is out at Colo-
rado Springs Colo enjoying :a
ten days vacation
Bure Turkey Red seed wheat
$125 per bu-shel atf S C Wilson’s
J)Ir and Mrs W L Robins-on
were guests of Holdenville Okla
riends from Saturday until Mon-
day Get pure Turkey Red seed
wheat at S C Wilson’s at $125
per bushel
Mr and Mrs 0 C Gaston and
son Frank are guests of E Mc-
Clung and family at Holdenville
this week
Miss Jo Duling -of thfe Fir'-1'
National Bank arrived home Fri-
day after a month-3 visit with a
sister at Denver Colo
- Mr and Mrs G V Skelton of
Republic Mo- arrived here Mon-
day for a visit with- their f-on
A V Skelton and family
'xnisrMiApt
Mrs Ballard who has teen the
guest of Mr and Mrs tW P Rorax
io-r seveal weeks left Monday for
her home at Sherman Texas -W
K Jones of the bouthern
part of Creek county wasdn town
Saturday During cotton itepson
Mr’ Jones will work alt the
Welty gin
A car load of cotton hulls and
meal at the old price Now is the
time to get cheap feed C R
Lindsey with Arkansas Cotton Oil
Company
Mr and Mrs Heber Clugh- of
Childress Texas are the guests of
Mr Clueh’s parents Mr and Mrs
J M Clugh and will remain here
several days
’County Attorney J C Wright
was in Oklahoma City Saturday
and Sunday and then attended
county court at Weleetka Monday
while Judge W A Huser set the
county court docket at that place
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Wanted Ito lease f-or five years
240 acres 80 acres in cultivation
160 acres good pasture with plenty
o-f water anii grass Cash or a
good trade See Harry Douglass
or (enquire at Citizens State Bank tf
S L O’Bannon went to- Lamar
Okla Monday to look after some
legal business Mr O Bannon took
liis vacation at ho-me this summer
taking -a fishing trip out -on
Deep Fork and then remaining
away from the -office and loafing
around h-omne
Saturday August 26 there will
be an all day picnic at the grove
in Paden given -by the citizens
and farmers of that vicinity
Among the features of the picnic
will be gcod epeaking and a colt
sh-ow and a good crowd and a
general good time is expected
J R Hogan Wm Dukes and J
I Dukes and J B Donathan (o-f
Paden and vicinity were In town
Saturday lo-oikiug after township
affairs Mr Donathan reports that
up in Creek township the town-
ship board have been bu3y ail
summer building bridges and
about have all the bad places
bridged over and can now get -out
to njarket without 'driving through
the creeks
S C Wilson has pure Turkey
Red seed wheat at $125 per bushel
W A Davis of Paden Was in
Saturday looking after business
affairs and greeting friends
Get pure Turkey Red seed
wheat at S Cj Wilson’s at $125
per bushel - i
Martin Frerichs i3 in Lincoln
Neb taking a -short vacation and
wilLbe gone several days
You can -still get groceries at
Green & Lasater’s at wholesale
prices and until their stock is sold
out- -
Claude Seran -of Castle and J H
Patterson oi iRrague were buk-i-resa
visitors in the county seat
Friday
J ' C Bible Bill Worley and
Toney Novanty of Norman arrived
here Tuesday to get the Bible gin
ready for operation
M L -Fullbright of Castle ’was In
town Friday Looking after business
affairs Mr Fullbrigh-t Said that
his son Walter Castle’s famous
left han-d (base ball pitcher was
back home again after a months
trip out Ion the road playing ball
v ith a Seminole team
Office Phone No 11
Veterinary Surgeon
Dr JOS M GREINER
' Office at
J H NELSON’S LIVER BARN
Graduate of Indiana Veternary
College
Residence Phone No 235
OKEMAH 6KLAHOMA
THE SEALE) CO
-We liave opened a new
grocery store at the corner
of Fourth and Broadway
and we want every citizen
of Okemah and vicinity to
call and fook oyer stock
We have everything usually
kept in a first class grocery
store Everything is new
and prices as low as the
quality will allow
If you have not time to
come and look phone 266
and your order will have the
same care and f’ou will get
the same prices as if you
were here in person Thank-
ing you in advance for any
favors shown us
Goods delivered to
Any part of the City
THE SEALEY CO
Phone 266
Okemah Okla
Canned Goods
That Taste
Like they did when they
came from the garden How
hard it would be to get a
meal at this time of the year
to please the family if it
were not for the fact that
you can get canned goods
like we handle which are
fresh and from which the
flavo? has not been taken
If you have 1 not had the
pleasure of eatiDg our can-
ned goods you don’t know
how good they are
Phone 103
WILSON & JOHN
Okemah Okla
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There is
A Place A Season
And a Reason
For Every Thing!
This is The Place
For Every Seasonable Thing
In the Grocery Line and
There’s a Reason Why
We Sell Then
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OKEMAH MILL At ELEVATOR CO
Headquarters for
Flour Feed and Grain
Place your order for
Seed Rye Corn Etc
With the
j Okemah Mill & Elevator Co
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S D Phelan
Phelan & Wilson
New Real Estate Firm
Succeesors to McClung & Gaston
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List your property with them All business given
prompt attention
Phone No Okemah Okla
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EDWARD R NIX £ GO
Real Estate and Farm Loans
We have plenty of money to loan on good farm
security Quick returns No delay t
We examine security offered and prepare our own
papers without delay
EDWARD
Holdenville
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KIMBALLPIANO’
SMITH & BARNES CHICKERING
BROS KNABE JANSSEN PACKARD
M SCHULZ CO PRICE & TEEPLE
and many other makes which space will not permit us to
mention We desire to lay specail stress upon the word
“KIMBALL ” We can recommend the pianos to our irienas
for we have tried them and they never fail they are recom-
mended by the musice loving world and sold on our small
payment plan which makes pinao buying easy t
We want to tell you about the different makes of pianos we
handle and for this reason we are offering to send absolutely
free the Musical Herald containing valuable piana mforma
tion and the beautiful song We Parted by the Riverside
words and music and the music to the beautiful reverie The
Last Hope” to all persons who are interested in the pur-
chase of a piano
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Gaston, O. C. The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1911, newspaper, August 24, 1911; Okamah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1860534/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.