The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1911 Page: 3 of 10
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Open in Sample Room at Broad-
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Be sure and get in on our special
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PRICE & TEEPLE
WILSON PIANO CO
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and OTHER MAKES
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With the truly Xmas spirit and with the prices
o! many reductions on articles of food pure and £
wholesome that we advertised last week and
continue the sale of the same this week at prices £
announced in last week’s paper we solicit your
orders for all this week and for your Xmas dinner
We have the goods with which to fill your
orders and will handle the last of the week many
goodthings in the way of Fresh Vegetables Fruits
etc and are pleased to announce that we have t
added to our delivery service a brand new wagon
ituuvu w o g
which now makes us two wagons as well as two
phones These are for your convenience and we
assure you that we will be able to serve you well
and conveniently and make it a real pleasure for
you to trade at our store
This Week
15 lbs granulated sugar $1
10 lbs Morris & Cos pure
lard - - - $1-35
10 lbs Swifts Silver Leaf
lard - - $1-35
5 lb pail Morris & Cos
Pure lard - - 70c
5 lb pail Swifts Silver
Leaf lard - - 70c
10c package Argo startch 5c
Two boxes of matches 5c
7 bars Lenox or Silk '
soap - 25c
6 bars Bob White or Swifts
White soap - - 25c
6 bars Star Naptha soap 25c
6 Packages Star Naptha
washing powder - 25c
48 lb sack Acme flour $125
We have a small stock of
pure Moca & Java coffee
in 1 lb tins that retail re-
gulary at 45c per lb that
we expect to close out at
35c per lb This is an ex-
ceptional offer as this
goods can not be bought
wholesale now for the
price we are asking for it
Camps Fancy Yellow Yam-
sweet potatoes per
peck 35c per jaushel $125
Last :
Remember that we have two Delivery wagons
two Phones 103 and 288 and deliver free to all
parts of the city promptly
Wilson
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Phones-Office and Residence 4
Office up-stairs In J S Stone’s
building
Okemah -
Okla
G S Stiles
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Micawber - - Okla
OKLAHOMA
PIANO CO
WM SEARCY
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and Longer
Extra nice Irish potatoes
per peck - - 35c
Fancy yellow onions lb 35c
We hqve an over line of
catsup in 25c sizes includ-
ing Hymans Van Camps
Libbys Hale3 Leader
and Blue Lable that we
are offering for 20c a bot-
tle or two for 35c Here
is a chance to get a win-
ters supply at much less
than it can be bought else-
where Gallon Dawson Bros pure
apple cider in glass jars
something first class for
household use per gal-
lon 150
Fancy bulk kraut per lb 5c
3 large cans kraut - 25c
3 cans corn - - 25c
3 cans hominy - 25c
25c can Curtis Bros Oran-
ges Quinces -' - 15c
25c can Muscat Grapes 15c
25c can Fancy yellow free
stone or lemo cling pea-
ches in syrup at 20c per
can or two for - 35c
2 large cans best hand
packed tomatoes - 25c
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A X Atchison
LIFE AND FIRE INSURANCE
Office in Ryel building
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Okemah - - - Okla
Barry Edmistea
AUCTIONTER
— AND—
COLLECTOR
Okemah - Oklahoma
HE
IS CONGRATULATED
BY THE UNDERTAKERS
Miner Henderson Who Escaped Un-
harmed Grasps Hands of
i ' Burying Force
Bricevllle Tenn — Death cheated ol
one victim in the disaster in the
CroBs Mountain mine in the person
of William Henderson was jeered at
by the undertaking corps which has
been busy since the first of the fifty-
nine victims was brought out Hen-
derson who is sixty years old and a
miner of years of experience joined
the watchers at the mine entry and
shook hands with the undertakers
He was congratulated on his escape
and the burying force expressed Its
pleasure to the veteran that he had
made no extra work for its members
Henderson who was brought out of
the mine smoking his pipe has re-
covered entirely from the effects of
his harrowing experience He is over-
joyed at his rescue unharmed and
has declared that he will never enter
another mine
"No more mining for me” said Hen-
derson He expects to go to farm!r
when his strength has been fully re
stored
JUROR WALDRON RETURNS
AFTER MUCH WANDERING
Pale and Emanclated He Appear At
His Home and Hyde Case
le Halted
Kansas City — Harry Waldron the
juror whose disappearance blocked
the progress of the second trial of
Dr B Clark Hyde charged with the
murder of Colonel Thomas W Swope
returned to his home December 14
pale and emanclated after four days
of wandering over Kansas He was
brought to court by Mrs Waldron
and at once went into conference with
Judge Porterfield - '
Judge Porterfield after the confer-
ence with Waldron announced that
he would dismiss the jury on the
ground that Waldron was not men-
tally compettnL
Father Goes to Rescue
Seattle Wash — Former Governor
Malcolm R Patterson of Tennessee
arrived here to look after the Inter-
ests of his 23-year-old son Malcolm
G Patterson who is a prisoner in the
county jail held on a charge of as-
sault with Intent to kill R T Seal of
Port Orchard on December 7 The
injured man may recover
Dr Eliot Better
Colombo Ceylon — Good progress is
reported Wednesday by the physi-
cians in charge of Dr Eliot president
emeritus of Harvard university who
Is recovering from an operation for
appendicitis
Parcels Post Investigated
Washington — Complete information
of the operation of the parcels post in
twenty-one foreign lands has been
compiled for the use of the committee
on postolfices and post roads to be
used in considering proposed legisla-
tion to put a parcels post into the
United States Senator Burton chair-
man of the committee says that un-
der the parcels post rates proposed
fourth class mall matter would be
doubled or trebled without embarrass-
ment to the postoffice department
Suffering From Hunger
SL Louis Mo — The strike of the
railway clerks so far as it affects the
Terminal Railroad association has
been called off James F Riley of
Kansas City1 second vice-president of
tbs International Brotherhood of Rail-
way Clerks skid he believed the
glerks on the Illinois Central and
Iron Mountain railroads soon would
call off their strike too as the men
and their families actually are suf-
fering from hunger
To Favor Canal
Washington D C — To prevent rail-
roads from controlling the water lines
through the Panama canal Represen-
tative Knowland of California Intro-
duced two bills penalizing any coast-
wise water lines that may be conteoll-
ed by railroad companies
Tailors Abandon 8trlke
Berlin — The fifty thousand women
suit makers and three thousand tail-
ors who have been on strike In Ber-
lin since November 23 have tempor-
arily abandoned the struggle wihch
has been unsuccessful
COTTON CROP OF 1911
LARGEST EVER GROWN
Total Yield of 15000000 Bales Seta
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Staple Product -
Washington — The total production
of cotton in the United States for the
season of 1911-12 will amount to
7121713000 pounds (not Including
linters) or 14885000 bales of 600
pounds gross weight according to
the first official estimate of the size
of the crop Issued at 2 p m Monday
by the crop reporting board of the
United States department of agricul-
ture and made up from reports of the
correspondents and agents of the bu-
reau of statistics throughout the cot-
ton belt This is the largest crop
ever grown In a single season In the
United States
Heretofore the record cotton crop
was that of the year 1904 when
13438012 bales exclusive of linters
wore grown Other large crops were
those of 1906 which was 13273809
bales and 1908 when 13241799 bales
were grown In point of value how-
ever the crop of 191 0 which was
11608 61 bales exihbive of linters
was the record one the fiber being
valued at $820320000 and the cotton
seed at $142860000 a total of
$963180000 as the aggregate value
of the cotton crop of that year
NeW Record Was Forecasted
Conditions early fn the growing
season this year led to the belief
that the crop would be one of record
proportions First estimates of the
yield based on the condition figures
placodMhe probable production well
toward the figures of the biggest crop
heretofore grown
The acreage on which cotton was
planned this season was estimated by
the department aof agriculture to be
35004000 acrer a greater area than
ever before plcnted to cotton in this
country This vast area exceeded the
previous record of acreage by more
than 2600000 acres there havtngi
been planted 22444000 acres la
1908 and 32403000 acres last year
In the record production year of 1904
only 30053739 acres were planted
The figures for 1904 1906 1910 and
To Stop Opium Trade
The Hague — The International op-
ium conference on motion of the
United States seconded by China
adopted a resolution to limit the man-
ufacture and use of prepared opium
as well as the trade in that drug
making allowances for exceptional
circumstances in the countries con-
oerned Two Rebel Raids
Mexico City — To raids only a trifle
less daring than the recent asstlt by
Zapata forces on the town of Milpa
Alta In the federal district were made
by a band of robbers on haciendas
near Chaleo 23 miles southeast of
this city in the state of Mexico De-
cember 14
Panic Follows Move
Caloutta India — The transfer of the
capital of India from here to Delhi
which was proclaimed at the close f
the durbar after the coronation of the
klni-emperor has had a serious finan-
cial effect The shares of land own-
lug companies are glutting the market
so great is the rush to sell property In
Calcutta
Want Worldwide Peace
Washington— The board of trustees
of the Carnegie endowment for inter-
national peace held its annual meet-
ing In the capital Dec 14 The am
jiual report of the executive commit-
tee was received and plana discussed
for the future work of the organisa-
tion Students 6tart a Fund
Nashville Tenn — Vanderbilt uni-
versity students have started a fund
to be used in providing Christmas
presents for the children of miners
killed in the Bricevllle mine disaster
WE EXTEND TO
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FOLLOWING GEEETINGS
AMONG the privileges that
come to us at Christmas
time is that offering assur-
ances of good will to those
whose friendship we hold'
among our cherished posses-
sions To you we give our
heartiest greetings accom-
panied by the hope that thd
joys you have may never di-
minish and that others may
be added to them In wishing
you a Merry Christmas and a
Happy New Year we hut give
expression to a sentiment
that is always in our hearts
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our low prices
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The prices on Men’s
Clothing and Dry
Goods Shoes Hats
and Ladies’ Ready-to-Wear
Goods will
only continue for a
short time and you
had better hurry to
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Gaston, O. C. The Okemah Ledger. (Okemah, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 21, 1911, newspaper, December 21, 1911; Okamah, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1860643/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.