The Kinta Enterprise. (Kinta, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1905 Page: 4 of 4
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We Buy In Car
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HAVE JUST RECEIVED
We also carry a complete line of Dry Goods Clothing Hats Caps Boots and
Shoes' Hardware Queens ware and Groceries which we buy in quantities to get
the best prices
A COMPLETE LINE OF COffINS AND CASKETS
Will Pay the Fail Limit For
Your Cotton
You are cordially incited to call in and examine
our goods
Fears Sims & Hen derson
TRADING CO
Kinta Ind Ter
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JLEVANS
QfigDealer In
fey Goods
V Bpofc? and Shoes
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s Hats and Caps
Hardware and Grooceries
THE ONLY CASH STORE IN TOWN
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KINTA I T
L D Allen
-Dealer In-
Drugs and Medicines
Pure Chemicals Toilet Articles
Perfumery and F ancy Goods
Prescriptions : Carefully : Compounded
Kinta I T
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THE KINTA HOUSE
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$125 Per Day Meet all trains
First-class Accommodations
KINTA I T
Reynolds DaOis Co
- Wholesale Grocers
Fort Smith - - Arkansas
We supply good things to eat and guarantee
satisfaction Send us your orders We sell
to merchants only
AMERICAN
NATIONAL BANK
FORT SMITH ARKANSAS
W R ABBOTT President ( j I
T W M BOONE Vice President r f
P A BALL Cashier I
A S DOWD Assistant Cashier
Capital
Surplus
$20000000
$12500000
Comparative Statement of- Deposits
of August 25 for Five Yetfrs : j
1901 333000
1002 - 8550000
1003 - 8005006
1904 - 8884000
1905 - $956000
ALWAYS ASK YOUR
DEALER FOR
Spear Edge
Fools and Cutlery
And You Ae Sure To Get
The Best
Manufactured For
Speer Hardware Co
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Fort Smith Ark
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Wiiiard S- House
LIVERY FEED AND SALES-
STABLE! Kinta - Ind Ter
All hinds of dray work done prbraptjy -First
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- class Rigs Meet all trains- JDnves made
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B P RENFROE Editor
" Application has been made to
enter this publication in the post
office at Kinta I T for trans-
mission as second-class mail
matter
Subscription Rates:
One year $100
Sixmonths 50
Three months 25
TIME TAI1LE-
Fort Smitli & Western Railway
Kinta I T
West Bound
No 1 Passenger due 11:42 a m
No 8 6:33 p m
No 7 Local freight due 2:45 p m
daily except Sunday
East Bound
No 4 Passenger due 0:18 a m
No ? 4:22 p m
No 8 Local freight daily except
Sunday due 11:42 a m
‘‘SEQUOYAH’'
Gabriel from the sates celestial flew
Roamias realms of faucy throush—
This Injunction to him irtven:
AD paths of bloom mayest thou pursue
AU matchless landscapes thou review—
Save one— Land of the Fairy God
This luring scene must thou avoid
Lest enropt forget thy post in Heaven
Don't be a knocker
Come to Kinta Nov 7
Give us your job work
Bring your cotton to Kinta
Why not incorporate Kinta?
Get the habit of boosting for
Kinta (
Lets organize that Literary
Society
Harry Lee was on the sick list
this week
Brack Houston spent Sunday
in Fort Smith
Dr Johnson was on the sick
list several days last week
Be sure to remember that we
are prepared to do job work
t '
Chas England of Stigler visit-
ed relatives iaKinta Sunday
V W Rambow visited South
McAlester last week on business
Rev Sturgeon filled his regular
appointment here Sunday night
George W Scott is receiving a
large stock of goods this week
Don’t be backward but come
in and subscribe for your home
paper 1
Mrs Mabel Henderson spent
several days in McCurtain this
week
E M Tidwell went to Fort
Smith Sunday to meet his
mother
Take it upon yourself to solicit
subscriptions for your home
paper
County Clerk H M Moore at-
tended Council at Tuskahoma
this week
S J Hitcher assisted the pa-
per man Saturday in hustling
subscribers
Mr Cole the jovial engineer at
Scott’s gin gave us a short call
Monday
- It is admitted by everybody
that Kinta is one of the prettiest
townsites in the Territory
A very large number of people
are expected to visit Kinta on
the opening day
Noone comes to Kinta and looks
over the town and country with-
out going away well pleased
C A Queen was considerably
bruised up at Scott’s ranch Sun-
day while riding a bronco
The series of meetings con-
ducted by Eld Smith closed
Sunday at 11 o’clock
If you are looking for a town
in which to establish an enter-
prise of any kind come to Kinta
Get your little horn out and
blow it for the advancement of
Kinta and Sans Bois county
Kinta is the best cotton market
In this section If you don’t be
lieve our merchants' will pay you
the limit try them
Mrs Sarah Tidwell who has
been visiting her daughter at
Chichalah Ark returned home
Sunday
“Kintah Sequoyah” sounds
good
The first frost ' of the season
came yesterday morning
Lee Dunkin spent Sunday
night at Sansbois
Miss Cora McCurtain is attend-
ing school in Fort Smith
Mrs II C Tidwell' and chil-
dren went to Lequire Sunday
J M Lee attended the Farmers
Union meeting at Star last Week
Miss Belle Smith and John
Farris visited Sansbois Sunday
New goods for all of our mer-
chants are coming in every day
Mr Hopper and family of Bo-
koshe moved to Kinta last week
Be sure to hear Judge Po1ts
on separate statehood tomorrow
morning
Sore towns are sore because
they know that there is no chance
for them to have' a courthouse
The weather for the past few
days makes a fellow winder what
he did with his summer’s wages
Charley Pucket has been in
the country this week collect-
ing for Fears Sims & Hender-
son John Farris tried to stop the
gin with his finger Tuesday and
consequently got pretty badly
hurt
Bob Skinner the popular rep-
resentative of Eads Bros’ Furni-
ture Co was in Kinta last Sat-
urday Born to Mr and Mrs Jason
Simmons Monday morning a
daughter Mothey ahd babe do-
ing well ''
A town is just what the people
make it Let’s go to work and
make Kinta the best town in the
Choctaw Nation
Get enthusiastic about the up-
building of Kinta - If the peo-
ple living here don’t push Kinta
to the front no one else will
S C Shepard Z T Carshall
HarryLeeandMr Grey took a
drive over the country Sunday
visiting Scott’s ranch on the trip
Kinta is sure to be the county
site of Sans Bois county so if
you want to be in the best
town in the county come to
Kinta
Barber White quit
iulity af 1
for' R25lf ner w
cutti 1
hair long enough Tuesday to try
his hand at squirrel shooting
He is an old hunter and always
gets game when he goes to the
woods
“Uncle Bill” Cole the engi-
neer at Scott’s gin was pretty
badly scalded last week while
working on the boiler He had
a very narrow escape from being
very seriously hurt
Mr E E Pendergrass mana-
ger of the O’Harra-Pendergrass
Realty Co was in Kinta a few
hours' last Thursday He says
the sale of lots is progressing as
nicely as could be expected
The Enterprise wants a good
live correspondent at every post-
office in Sans Bois county A
copy of the paper will be fur-
nished free to each correspon-
dent Send in the news of your
community
- An exchange tells of a church
in a certain town where the con-
gregation is so small that when
the preacher says “dearly be-
loved” the only young lady in
the congregation thinks he is
proposing
Dr E Johnson was a very
pleasant caller yesterday after-
noon The doctor is a genial fel
low and is certainly a friend to
the newspaper man He added
two wheels to the running gear
of the Enterprise
D 0 Vanderpool formerly of
Los Angeles Cal has accepted
a position in George W Scott’s
store Mr Vanderpool is an up
to date salesman and invites the
public to call and see him He
will jnove his family to Kinta as
soon as he can secure a house
“A country editor is close to
his constituents” remarks an
exchange whereupon a philoso-
pher observes : “If many of his
constituents were not so blamed
close the country editor would
oftentimes be better off finan
dally”
The editor has been freely
complimented by everyone on
the neat appearance and general
get-up of the Enterprise We
feel thankful for these words of
praise but it takes money to
“make the mare go” also to run
a newspaper Come in and sub-
scribe for the paper and thereby
help build up your town
The very best qua
is selling in Kinta for' $25 J per
ton f
Mr Eichenberger traveling
salesman for 0 Echols
house of Fort Smith
Kinta yesterday
Misses Lochie Dora
and Master Wesley Watkins
were pleasant callers at this offi-
ce Saturday morning !
Charley Short manager of the
Scott ranch added four names
to our subscription list yester-
day He is the kind of a man for
a newspaper
1
George Lance the hustling
blacksmith gave us a nice order
for job work yesterday Mr
Lance is a fi&it-class workman
and is kept busy
Tom Lyle is learning the mys-
teries of the “Black Art” in the
Enterprise office Tom is a !
bright boy and will soon be i
sticking type like an old-timer '
Hon Theodore Potts of Wagon-
er I T will deliver an address
on separate statehood in Kinta
tomorrow morning (FrUay) at $
10 o’clock- Everybody invited and
especially the ladies are urged to
attend i '
We understand that the firm
of Satfyer & Mason of Sane
Bois will erect a business house
at Stigler and open a stock of
general merchandise there Why
not locate in Kinta the coming
town of the Choctaw Nation
Gov McCurtan C - C Well-
shear and George W Scott came
in from Tuskahoma last Friday '
and spent Saturday and Sunday
at home while council was ad-
jouned out of respect to Judge
Garland who died a few days ago
Mrs Mabel Henderson and
children of Springfield Mo is
here visiting her brother Arthur
Willard Mrs Henderson is
thinking of opening a millinery
and dressmaking establishment "
in Kinta There is a fine opening
here for such an enterprise and
we hope she will decide to locate
here !
After printing a prediction that
all of the old maids in town would
be lured into the happy state of
matrimony before the “stinging1
i! Efts of winter come” the ed-
itor of the Checotah Times sud-
denly found himself the mosVpop
ular man in town and he is now
heralded as a public benefactor
We want to run a directory of
agents in the Enterprise and
want the name of every agent
selling lots for OHara-Pende-grass
Realty Co It will only
cost each agent $100 and the
name will be kept in the direct-
ory until the opening Send in
your name and dollar Mr Agent
and get your name before the
public
In this issue of the Enter-
prise will be found - the ad
of the American National Bank
of Fort Smith Ark This is one
of the best and strongest finan-’
cial institutions in the Southwest
The deposits have increased
over $ 60000000 in five years
showing that the public has con-
fidence in the institution P A‘
Ball is cashier and is courteous
and accommodating
J R Robertson J W Baugus
and Julius Edwin Wright of
Davenport Okla were in Kinta
Tuesday and Wednesday looking
over our town All of these gen-
tlemen were highly pleased with
the town and predict for it a
grand future Mr Wright is
interested with Mr Pendergrass
in the townsite and Mr Robert-
son is one of their agents and he
came to inform himself about the
town and country Mr Baugus
is in the mercantile business at
Davenport He was so well pleas-
ed with Kinta that he purchased
ten lots
If a farmer raises a thousand
bushels of wheat and wheat was
worth a dollar a bushel his crop
would be worth a thousand dol-
lars If he sold it and got the
money he would have a thousand
dollars to do business on If
however he dribbled it out to a
thousand different people and
waited a year for his pay he
would not be able to do any busi-
ness but would be compelled to
go out of business and join the
Grand Army of Tramps A
newspaper does business on the
latter plan It has however tol
pay for stock and material every
thirty days The situation
easily figured and we leave y£-
to draw your own' conclusions
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Renfroe, B. P. The Kinta Enterprise. (Kinta, Indian Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1905, newspaper, October 12, 1905; Kinta, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1921723/m1/4/: accessed February 13, 2026), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.