The Medford Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1906 Page: 1 of 8
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Okla. City.
The STAR Prints in Full all the Proceedings of the Board of County Commissioners
TrtE MEDFORD STAR
OFFICIAL CITY PAPER.
Tr* County Index Succeeded Tlie Farmers Union July H, 1904; Consolidated with The McdTord Star January 26, 190ft
MEDFORD, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY JUNE 28, 1906.
VOLUME XIII. NUMBER 4.
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The Boston Store,
J. J. KORAN, Proprietor,
Hertford, Oklahoma,
Hurrah For the 4th!
Where are you going to Spend the Afh?
WHY NOT COME TO MEDFORD TO CELEBRATE ~111*
A Good Time Assured Everybody.
And while here make this store your headquarters
"you are as welcome as the flowers in May." Tell
your friends to meet you at the BOSTON STORE.
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While here we would be pleased to have you
look over our Dry goods, Ladies furnishings
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Hosiery, Underwear, Men's work clothes,
gloves, shoes, notions, Groceries, etc. Our
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Millinery is up=to=dateand prices the lowest
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WE HOPE TO MEET YOU HERE SOON.
THfi EAGLE WILL SCREAM!
InMedford on the 4th of July
COME AND HEAR HIM.
The following committees, wlin are
at work for the big Fourth of July cele-
bratiou at Medford, is assurance that
everything will be according to 'Hoyle,'
and the best will he had:
ON Finance—F. O. Dort, J. P. Beck-
er, Chas, Matthews.
Speakers—I. R. Heasty, Lew E. Dar-
row.
Programme—A. N. Pickerel, Cora
Strandberg, Cora Palmer.
sports—Fred Godfrey, J. L. God-
frey, Clyde Palmer, Joe Vaughati.
Stand Rights—Ed Stetler, i.. Smith
M. Fast.
Executive Com. —o. J. Pisliuey, A.
N. Pickerell, J. C. Bingner.
Medfoid's Celebration on the Fourth
will be unequaled, and the program will
contain many features not given below.
Don't fail to come; everything free.
Barrels of ice waier will be on tap at
every point. Ccnie early, bring your
family and stay all day.
program.
Foot race, 100 yards, ist prize, f3.r0;
2nd prize, $2.00.
Foot race, 50 yards, 1 at prize $2.00,
2nd prize, $1.00.
Ball game—Medford vs. Lamont, #4".
Tug of war—Medford vs. country,,$2.
Slow mule race, 1st prize $3.00, 2nd
prize, $2.00.
Boy's foot race, 75 ydJ., ist prize, $2.00
2nd prize, # 1.00.
Novelty wheelbarrow race, 1st prize,
$3.00, 2nd prize $2.00.
Pouv egg race, 1st prize, #3.00, 2nd
piize, $2.00.
• Three-legged race—Boy's under 15
years, 1st prize, #1.00, 2nd $1-00.
Water bucking contest, #5.00.
One of the leading attractions of the
entertainment will be the flambeaux
club at night, witfl its blaze of Roman
candles and skyrockets.
Connected with the hqnd will be the
smallest snare drummer iu the world.
The days entertainment will conclude
with a grand twll at the opera house,
under the uiauagetneut of the Medford
band.
OAS! OAS! 1 OAS!!!
Blackwell, Ouly 20 Miles Away, has
a Spouter. When Is Medford
Uoiiig t< do Something?
Wake IJp.
We clip the following from a daily pa-
per, under date of June 23, which we re-
produce for the benefit of the Star lead
ers, and to stimulate our Medford busi-
ness men to orgauize a prospecting com-
pany to make an effort to find gas here;
"The Union Gas and Oil Co., (home
company) have just brought in their
well No. 3, and it is the greatest well
yet found in Oklahoma. The sand was
tapped at 65(1 feet, raising the drill and
stem and shooting col minis of water and
rock.
Last evening about 8 o'clock it threw
an 8-inch column of water and rocks,
weighing 5 and 10 pounds, to a height
of a hundred and forty feet. Seguiue G
Frater, the men who brought this well
in, are old experts. They have worked
in the greatest gas fields in Pennsylva-
nia" Ohio and Kansas and they pro-
nounce this well the best iu this part of
the country. The well is 011 the Whee-
ler farm, one and a half miles northeast
of the city. The drillers are experienc-
ing much difficulty iu getting the casing
dowu, and the packer adjusted, because
of the great pressure of the gas. Our
people are jubilant and the officers and
stockholders of the company are re-
joicing.
Last evening this same company, hav-
ing their second rig 011 the Bucholz farm
two miles north of town, struck a fine
dow of gas iu that well, making the Uu-
ion company three wells here and the
St Louis company two wells.
Mr. E. C. Austin, division superin-
tendent, visited the big gusher this fore-
noon aiid said it was certainly a great
well.
It is expected that the well will lie
capped, by increased assistance, by Sat-
urday night and arraugements are being
made to bring some excursion trains in
stfbn, that the outside people may know
that Blackwell is in the heart of the big
gas belt."
t t t MILLINERY, i i I
We still have a few Ladies trimmed, ready to wear, street and dress Hats, In different '
colors and shapes, that we are closing out at COST. A! so some untrimmed hats, flow- J
ers and foliage. In order to clean up this stock we are going to cut it
AT WHOLESALE COST.
Don't fail to take advantage of this offer, if you are in need of anything jn this Hue come and see 11s at once.
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Rural Phone No. 20. Pioneer Phone 48.
X3he Boston Store
0 Tile Boston Store, J. J. KORAN, Proprietor, : /Medford, Oklahoma.
JEFFERSON
W S Myers was in town last week
and said he would lose over$.">0 worth
of cherries because he can not get
the necessary help to pick them.
Chas B Hacket, a carpenter who
owns a farm south of Wakita, suffer-
ed a stroke of paralysis last week.
His chances Of recovery is doubtful.
W J Raskins has put an awning in
front of his shop.
Dr Hazelton sells a $3 fountain pen
for a ■$.
E A Watt has sold $200 worth of
harness, Hy nets, robes, etc., this
month.
.1 .T Hancock was the first to harvest
thresh and market his wheat here.
JiS Keller and wife gave a reception
last Thursday evening.
The LAS served ice creaiu last
Saturday.
Henry Schucrman reports the- arri-
val of a girl at his home.
Mrs Robert Dean and sister was in
town shopping Saturday.
Soldiers reunion, county fair and
race meet the. first week in August.
Pvichard Chew, an expert candy
maker, is here with his wife to remain
this season.
Dr Hazelton sells specks and tits
glasses.
John Anderson was in Pond C'reek-
last week.
P H Coney, Department Commander
of the G A 1! of Kansas, will speak at
the Soldiers reunion here the 1st week
in August.
Our mill has secured a first class
miller from Peabody, Kans.
Dr R F O'Rear came home from his
"Old Keutucky nome" last week.
A keg of beer in the park last Sun-
day was the prime cause for three or
four fistic encounters among a few
young men who congregated there to
celebrate a dry town.
G D Walker is repairing the side-
walks.
Lightning struck the grand stand at
the fair ground Sunday morning.
% The Big Pasture Opens this Fall
And all kinds of riusical Instruments will he sold at
A Big Discount for the Next 60 Da.ys. 5
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Don't fail to call or write, or phone if you are interested iu Musical Instruments, as I have something that
will interest you.
he best
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TL{nL 'J. A Lakeside Organ for $35,00, and £too.oo will buy ti
1 11111 iv U1 llj Lakeside Parlor Organ on the market and nothing b
'IANOS, like watches, vary in price,
TRYBER, LAKESIDE AND CABLE-NELSON PIANOS
can be relied upon and can not be excelled in tone and workmanship. I have a number
of these Instruments on hand and will be sold at A BIG REDUCTION in price.
You can't afford to miss this opportunity of purchasing a fine Piano or
Organ. I also have quite a stock of small instruments and
grophophones that will go in this sale.
Remember, this is the only complete music store in Grant county. You should call early
and make your selection.
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35 A. N. PICKERELL. Medford. Okla. S:
Harry Kalblleisch is working at the
depot.
Lightning struck a cottonwood tree
in town during the heavy rain storm
last Sunday morning. <
Geo J Hoffman, the railroad agent,
in building a lawn swing.
Kohl & Walker finished the Slater
residence, near Medford, last week.
A1 Courtney visited his best girl at
Enid, Sunday.
lCd Cobb and Chas Peacock took a
day off and went fishing.
Dr Hazelton is putting a nice show
case in his drug store.
.Tas Downing is home from his
claim.
We had a fine rain Monday morn-
ing.
Sheriff Brattain was iu town last
week getting witnesses to attend Dis-
trict court.
Four head of horses and one Cow
were killed by lightning in Dr Rosa
Hicks' pasture, during the storm last
week.
G WT Lewis, one of the leading farm-
ers of Grant county, was in town
Monday.
Dr Hazelton's Pink tablets cures
constipation.
H J Smith, the Hacket man, bought
a Dayton, Ohio, counter scale, cost-
ing $110. It's a beauty.
Chas Mercer and John Jordan are
training some fine horses for the race
meet the first week in August.
Dr Hazelton sells gall cure and ev-
erything iu the drug line.
D E Neff has the linesf garden in
town.
Jtuch Wheat Burned
Last Friday afternoon the passenger
train on the Sauta Fe threw tire from
the engine into severai wheat fields be-
tween Medford and Blackwell. A fire
was also set out near the Rock Island
crossing north of this city, and about 3
acres of shock wheat destroyed for Mr.
Fast. About forty men gathered and
the fire was soon put out. It was fortu-
nate that the lire was near the east side
of the field and the strong breeze, that
was blowing was about one point west
of south, else the damage would have
been much greater.
Af leaving here another fire was set
out this side of Wakita: we did not learn
what damage was done by it. Still an-
other fire was set out near Gibbou, de
stroying 60 acres for Mr. Post, of very-
heavy wheat, which was estimated at
cutting time, at 30 bushels per acre. It
would be no wild guess to say it would
have threshed out 25 bushels per acre.
Fire guards should be made very soon,
as there is great danger of destructive
fires, as long as soft, light coal is being
used on engines,
You can make your starch glad with
• THE ALTON GOODS."
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Wood, E. A. The Medford Star. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1906, newspaper, June 28, 1906; Medford, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc186327/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.