The Vici Beacon (Vici, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1919 Page: 3 of 8
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THE VICI BEACON
The Vici Beacon
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Vici Oklahoma
R-H SPECK EDITOR ' -
Entered nt the Post office at Vici Oklahoma as second class mail
-jnder act of March 3rd 1879
Published Thursday of Each Week
ADDITIONAL
1 OCAL
Mrs W P Cuberly 13 report-
ed to be neriously ill th:s weak
Basing an opinion on the pres-
ent indications this portion of
Oklahoma is destined to produce
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a bumper wheat crop the next
season If moisture i necessary
to insure a crop theje is no rea-
son why this m-iy not be as th-
arth is bimply full of w ater and
tb-3 stand is first class n all
stages of sowing
A small son of G H Turner
is reported as being i 1 with that
popula ailment this week
Not many escaped from this
disease as most of the population
of the town and surrounding
community has had it at some
stage- of the season ' In conver-
sation with Dr Houser we learn-
ed that there were in excess of
four hundred esses u dor his
his c re during the winter of
which number he lost but t o
cases a record to be mentioned
with pride
During the recent snow storm
f r Houser had at one time sev-
STABILITY
Stability for a Bank means some-
r thing more than mere figures in the
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financial statement
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Stability means character and I
community standing It means fin-
ancial acumen experience alertness
courtesy and service to its patrons
Ever since this Bank was -organ
ized it has been building up and ad
ding to its reputation for Stability
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Citizens State Bank I
BOUQUOT & LUDWCK
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Successors To
ALVA ROLLER MILLS
drain Flour ami Feed
'“HONEY BEE FLOUR”
W H EDWARDS Mgr
VI Cl GARAGE
Good work at the Lowest Prices
Satisfaction Guaranteed
C H Bohnert Prop
enly five care ai d the onl
‘method of transportation w3
the “hops-bac'i” way eating hi?
meals and catching a wink of
sleep w hen and whee he hap-
pened to be
Lemans Sarthe France
Dec 22nd 1918
Dear Mother
The last letter I got
from you seems to show that
you haven’t been receiving my
letters I -hope they got on the
right taack at last There is
at least one for each week on
the way I always wrote when
I could — some times when I
couldn’t and got them back to
the post- ffice if I had to take a
big risk to do that Once I was
writing a letter to yuu when I
heard a German ‘‘Box car”
coming Any sensible soldier
always ducks when he hears a
shell coming I is 'way and they
dive I made inti my dug-out
about : 'en feet awa- Would
have made a prairie dog asham-
ed It was a shraprel Shetl and
borsted overhead and one slug
went through the letter I had
abut finished and into the
ground I thought some cf
se iding the letter any way rnd
telling ybu how the hole was
mad in it bat I didn't know
that before ul get it you
might hear that I’d been ‘‘bump-
ed off and 1 decided to writ an
dlherl-tter I still have the
pi oe of shrafne! though I’ll
write to urn The Y MCA
is alright I’m in he YMC
building in LeMans (his even-
ing Come in Jtown early ard
have spent u wonderful day here
Will ? ell you about it later bt
must close as it is about 7 p rn
and I mu t be back ’ at Carrjj
D’Aurours (12 Kilometers) at
10 ' I mao have to walk it This
news I hear about the Spanish
Infiut-nzu doesn’t suit me I’m
uneasy about y-u at home Flu
is worse than the dutch If
there are any Huns about its
easy to fix baynon-ts and start
toward them and they - “haul
out”iotso with the flu I’m
hoping you are all ri:ht but I’d
I ke to know that its that wry
wap Your Son
I Pvt Waller R Smith
Classified Advertising
200 Bushels of
nice White coni
at $155 per bushel 6 miles
west of Vici
J W Vanhorn
I have taken up one b ack hog
weight about 150 lbs Owner
can have same by paying dam-
age feed bill and advertising of
same Ira Virgil 2t 13
A few Brown Leghorn Roost-
ers to exchange even for Pullets
of most any strain CH Pfister
: 213
Pure Bred Barred Rock Cock-
erls New Lot S — Ranch
Phone 515 Line 1 3t20
FOR SALE Ev‘h7
owned by
either of us in Vici which in-
cludes the Central Telephone
properties the S & C Garage
and two residences
E A Speck
Lee B Clark
RICHARDS MEAT -MARKET'
Fresh and Cured Meats
All our Meats are Inspected
J D Richard Prop
CALL IN NOW
When you want first class
stock and “B & Better’
Service
We appreciate the calL
Me furnish the service
They call again
YorkKey Merc Co
Phone 17 Vici J T Pimlotf Mgr
aw3ras-3Kgg-a3E3
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V I Cl OK LA
REAL ESTATE & FARM LOANS
Oil and Gas Properties
C--il or rife n c f r r r j l! ir- ii rm line I will ap
predate your budjts? I'y mc-to i- Square Dealings
Will AT -
On East Broadway
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
We Now Slave
FORD CARS
First here First Served
if you want a Ford get
busy
Thomas & Keeney
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Speck, Robert H. The Vici Beacon (Vici, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1919, newspaper, February 6, 1919; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1978088/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.