The Medford Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME XII.
THE MEDFORD STAR.
Tr^Cou-uy index Succecfled The Farmers Union July 8. .* ; Conso.ldated with Tho Medford Star January a ^
MEDFORD, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY OCT. 26, 1905.
NUMBER 21.
Blankets,
AND SAILER
Blankets,:
KRUAUT
Now that certainly is a peculiar combinaaion of merchandise and sure looks queer as a leader for an id R„t i if •„
minutes you w. 1 agree with me that both of the above items are of interest to most of us. That is what we want is to in ^ m *t°P *° COnsider for a few
say y.„ don't l.te Saner Kra,„? Wei!. most ery do,, „„J if yo„ t|,e„ ,„e Blanket propo"ito "I Z!i lo 1^"" - « • V«
■world than Heinz's, than we will sit
, , down. Sauer Icraut and spare ribs,
served good and hot jnst about noon sounds good I guess Well
we are the people that sell that article until you would think we
were the only ones that handled it. Now Saturday and Monday
we want you to bring a pail, dish, crock, wasli boiler or anything
! that will hold this good kraut to our store and we will give yon
96 Ounces for 25 Cents
Take it home and if you don't say it is the biggest and best bunch
eating you ever got for two bits" we will give you that much
more for
It pays
to trade
at
the
Boston
About the Blankets.
We want to tell you that next Saturday and Mon-
day, October 28 and 30, We are going to elve VouTn
opportunity to buy blankets at K y "
45 Cents per Pair
We absolutely know that „e are in on the ground floor on the blanket
leal. Don t pny from 48 to 75e for l(„,e> „lin bllnkc,s
than a eo.n.non towel, but get here early and get a genuine bargain
We are the people that make your old iron dollars into Indian rubber ones.
See?
The Boston Store, J. J. Koran, Proprietor. medford, Oklahoma
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We Are Here to Stay
Call and See the "Star" Boys Wagon
It has roller bearings, runs easy and is the strong-
est wagon made.
New crop clean alfalfa seed and Kentucky Blue
Grass.
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COLORADO LETTER.
Red Stoke, Colo., Oct. 16,
Editor Star:
on cook stoves this month, take a look at them.
Have a large stock to select from.
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Beautify your furniture and houses.
We carry the largest, best assorted and most up-
to-date stock of
Hardware Buggies and Implements
in the county. When you want anything you can
get it here. Our stock is especially full on enam-
el-Ware, stoves, paints, oils, cutlery and lamps, we
are making some very low prices.
Let us figure on your tin work.
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| Are You a Customer of Ours? |
♦ !M IF NOT WHY NOT? HH I
Z We certain y can sell you your drugs and sundries f
♦ as low as anyone, quality considered and would like ♦
« to have you trade with us. Give us a trial and see t
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| flEDFORD DRUG COMPANY, !
J "WILSON'S." !
| We try to please .... Medford, O. T. J
I Talk About Money. I
o If you WANT to make a Loan on your Farm we will make as 2
Low Rate as the LOWDST, and make it on the nuiet and have ♦
your money when you sign the papers. ♦
We offer the best Inducements |
Of any tirm in the county See us before placing your loan. Z
Pond creek, o. t. Sullivan & Myers, i
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When r last wrote you I had just
arrived in Portland: visited the fair a
few days. The fair is pretty good,
but a small atfair.compared to the St,
Louis exhibition. We saw Baldwin
go up in his famous air ship. He sail-
ed all over the fair grounds as grace-
ful as a bird.
Portland is a line city on the Co-
lumbia river, some 50 mile* from its
mouth, with Mt. Hood Mt. Adams anil
Mt. Helena looming up in the dis-
tance, snow-capped the year round.
The most original and wonderful of
all the buildings is the forestry build-
ing; it is something the world has
never seen before. It is composed of
large logs, none of which are less
than 4 feet in diameter, and on up to
8 feet. In the center are great shafts
of red wood, 50 feet high, each con-
taining about. 8,000 feet of lumber.
There are about fifty-two miles of logs
in the building, containing enough
lumber to fence^the whole territory of
Oklahoma.:, Andlf we.had tiie lumber
in Oklahoma that is going to waste
here and beingjfdestroyed by lire, we
would feel rich. And 'the lish indus-
try on the Columbia river is some-
thing immense,"but.then .we believe if
some people>ho ,are so fond of sal-
mon could;'see>hem put up, that they
would lose their taste for them.. j
The Columbia is a wonderful river. I
We traveled along its banks, on the
Oregon Shortline, for two hundred1
miles, and.for line scenery the world I
can't beat it; it is peerless in its beau- ]
ty for twolhundred miles or more. It
forms the boundary^Ti n e between
Oregon and Washington, and for the
greater part of the distance we see
steameis",'going;up'and down ;loaded
with"!umber and.grain. , Atltimes one
can look down to the water hundreds
of feet below, with the.falls on one
side and the river on the other it keeps
one guessing. There are many points
of historical.interest, and it is impos-
sible to mention them all.
Our first,stop, after leaving- Port-
land. was at Salt Lake City, and to
see this city is well worth a trip around
the world. We visited all the places
of interest. Had one of the nicest
ladies we ever met for a guide. Thi
Tabernacle had one of the largest
wooden arches in the world; it is I50
feet wide and 250 feet long, and there
is not a nail used in its construction,
being put together with wooden pins
and tied with rawhide. You can hear
a pin drop from ono end to the other
and hear one.speak in a whisper. It
will seat comfortably ten thousand
people, and the building has (i large-
doors on each side and can be emptied
in four minutes. In this buiiding we
saw one of the largest pipe organs in
the world, and is 30x33 feet 4# feet
high and contains 5.500 pi|>es. It was
built here in the building, of native
lumber, and cost $115,000.
We would like to write of the salt
water bathing resorts, where a person
will tioat like a stick of wood, if we
had time and space, but we don't want
to try the editors patience too much.
but will say here tlftit our opinion of
the Mormons has undergone a decided
change.
We are up here on the western slope
of the Rocky Mountains on Crystal
river in Colorado, and will try our
luck in a bear hunt, and if this es-
capes the waste basket we luay write
again. As I write I can see the set-
ting sun burnishing the top of the
snow-clad peaks with gold, and it re-
minds a fellow that he is a very small
part of the general make up of crea-
tion.
The game laws here are very strin-
gent: that is, if yoy don't wear a brass
collar. President Roosevelt had his
plans laid for a hunt here at Red
Stor.e. It is one of the best places
for jrame in the state, but the Presi-
dential party did not get here on ac-
count of the' deep snow. There are
elk. black tail deer, mountain sheep
;>nd lots of bear, and if we kill a bear
we may bring the editor enough for a
taste- that is if we survive.
Respectfully,
T. P. Neville.
Conferense.
Phe Fourteenth Annual Cenference
of the M.' K. church of Oklahoma clos-
ed at Blackwell on the !>th. The
Blackwell Times-Itecord says the at-
tendance was much larger than was
| anticipated, and the interest some-
j thing unusual.
The appointments for the succeed-
I ing year were made just before ad-
[ journment. Those for this, the Enid
district, are as follows:
j C. S. Birchfield, Presiding elder.
I Alva—I. F, Hodge.
Avard circuit E.F.Williams.
Brule circuit—.1 A Brown.
Byron—G A Strouse.
Capron—E J Thompson.
< armen—H C Johnson.
C'edarvale circuit—G W Burnett.
Cherokee—J W Kendall.
Dacoma circuit — C W Cox.
Enid—G W Martin.
Faro-o circuit F L Haramand.
Freedom circuit—to be supplied,
llasken circuit—W H Ellis.
Hawley—I A Rader,
Ielena —Orlando Taylor.
Ingersoll and Driftwood S F Beid-
erwell.
Jefferson—H M Chambers.
Kremlin—F M Calame—
Lahoma .1 C Henderson
Lavergne circflit i W Danewood.
May and Supply J A Webb.
Medford Peter Parker.
Moorelands S C Berko
Pond Creek—S C El well.
lenfrow W H Berke.
ringwood W E Bonafield.
Timberlake circuit—J M Meloy.
Wakita? H O Moore.
Waynoka .F D Camp.
Woodyard R S Finley.
Yellowstone—to be supplied.
-A. K. Newell and wife were here
fiom KIReno last week, visiting the
boys in his store. He called at this of-
lice while wc were at the Blackwell fair.
We are sorry we did not meet him. He
i . well pleased with their husines here
and their patrons are as well pleased
with the management of the store.
The Inter-state Fair at Blackwell.
The fair was a success surely, as
far as attendance was concerned, for
we saw residents from Missouri, Illi-
nois and Iowa, who said they had
come from their distant homes just to
attend this big exhibition. As is
pretty well known, the speed ring has
no great amount of charms for the
writer and after watching half an hour
to see fast horses hitched to go-dev-
ils on bicycle wheels get off together, we
were tired out with hanging on I'l.the
fence, so we took a stroll through the
exhibits. The hogs were very line
and shown in large numbers. This
display alone was worth the trip. The
cattle department was well iilled.
< roft & Sons had a dozen or more of
their black polled cattle which seemed
to take the eye of everybody. Prof.
J. A. Alderson, of Pond Creek, had a
large bunch] of his registered Short-
horns there and received four first
and three second premiums. They
are beautie§. The exhibit of fast
horses was good, but there were only
a few specimens of that noble animal
the draft horse -in evidence. One
span of line'draft mares took our eye:
they were the finest animals we saw on
the grounds. The little Shetland po-
nies as is always the case had a
large number of admirers among the
children. There were some fine mule
colts shown, and there is something
about, this class of stock that always
strikes ones fancy. We have often
thought if the faruers of the west
would discard the breeding of trotting
and running horses and raise more
drft horses and mealy-nosed mules,
they would make thousands of dollars
where they now make cents.
The display of poultry was grand,
and nearly every known breed was
represented.
The grafter, the fakir and numerous
fake shows were there to pick up every
cent that could be grafted from the
people attending. Nowadays the
county fairs are run too much on the
"gambling scheme" order. We would
like to see a great reformation along
this line.
The agricultural display was good.
All kinds of farm crops were shown.
The display of corn proved that the
C'hicaskia valley is a world beater.
Blackwell is growing, and some
very fine buildings are under process
of construction. The hotels were
crowded; and had it not been for our
old friend, fi. T. Price, of the Black-
well Mill and Elevator Co., we proba-
bly would have had to sleep in a chair.
"Gip" has our thanks for his kind-
ness in sharing his room with the
St ah man.
We have been careful to save a
copy of each issue of the Manchester
Journal since coming to Medford,
knowmg full well that it would say a
thing in one month and deny it the
next. Any one doubting that Sim-
mons called Medford "Buzzardville"
twice—and for which he lost a score
of subscribers are at liberty to call
and examine the papers, for what he
said in September is denied in Octo-
ber. Holy smoke! Ain't he a daisvV
Among Our Exchanges.
Grant County News.
The work of preparing the Diamond
building at the corner of Broadway
and Eighth streets for occupancy by
the National Bank of Pond Creek is
being pushed rapidly. A force of
stone cutters have been at work for
over a week now, dressing the stone
for the front of the building.
The McKipley store btiHding has
been moved into the street ami wiirk
will begin at once on the new brick
building for the First National Bank
on the lot where the store formerly
stood. The bank will put up one of
the handsom'est two-story brick build-
ing^ in the country on this corner.
They will push the work rapidly so as
to get it enclosed before extreme cold
weather comes.
The preliminary hearing of W. M.
Roberts, charged with forging the
name of Geo. Glascoe to a check for
$30, which he afteward cashed at tbe
Boston store, was held before Probate
Judge Glenn Saturday. The evidence
introduced by county attorney Wall-
ing, disclosed the facts to be about as
stated in this paper last week. The
The defendant introduced no testimo-
ny. The court bound Roberts over to
await the action of the grand jury,
fixing his bond at $500. which he gave.
Sumner Comity Star,
F. M. Borders, administrator of the es-
tate of John T Stewart' has bought ;i
wagon, two barrels of paint, eight ke^s
of nails, a case of hinges, hired a painter
and started^him out„ over the county
He will paint every house in Summ-i
county tbats.belougs^to^the Stewart es-
tate. repair the roof and weatherboard-
ii>K and put the premises in order.
T. T. Godfrey, manager of the John T.
Stewart interests, has bought the Ed T.
Hackney residence property and will
move his family to this city. And in
this connection it is proper to state that
all the institutions, banks.mills' lumber
yards and other interests of the Stewart
estate will be carried on audjmaintained
011 exactly the same lines followed by
Mr. Stewart in his lifetime. There will
be 110 changes of policies, 110 withdrawal
of supervision or of protection, if uec-
essary.
Mrs. T. T. Godfrey and daughter ait.
here from Medford. O. T. visiting thru
husband and father.
The Vidette will print the tax list
next week or the week after. It will
also be published in the Deer Creek
Times. The publishing of the delin-
quent tax list is under the exclusive
control of the county treasurer of each
county, and the treasurer of Grant
county being a republican has placed
the business with republican papers,
as a matter of course. Mr. Anderson's
only regret is that^he cannot have the
tax list priuted in every republican
paper in lhe county.—Grant County
Vidette.
This is a little "tuff" on the "ofti-
shul" (poor thing! paper who had ex-
pected to get $100.00 out of this work.
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Wood, E. A. The Medford Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 21, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1905, newspaper, October 26, 1905; Medford, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc186128/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.