The Duncan Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF STEPHENS COUNTT
VOLUME XVI
DUNG AN OKLAHOMA THURSDAY NO V 11 1909
NUMBER 3
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A temporary disaster resulted
'from the electrical storm Sunday
afternoon Lightning struck
one of the main cables leading
out from the light plant and
went into the plant with such
force that it burned out and short
circuited the dynamo As a re-
sult Duncan was in darkness
when nightfall came on no stores
open no candles to be had and
lamps only available in small
quantities The city went back
to old times on extremely short
notice without even a supply of
tallow' with which to make dips
- But we managed People here
are good natured and brotherly
They dug up what candles they
could cut them in twos anc
threes and people went to bee
early The trouble was still on
Monday night and Tuesday night
but the supply of lamps and can
dies had increased by Monday
night a great many stores were
open for business with numerous
candles for light The few gas
oline plants made a wonderfully
good showing and seemed to
draw people about them like the
lone light draws insects in sum
mer
To add to the discomfiture o::
the occasion the burn-out at the
light plant ’ also shortened the
city water supply The wells
supplying the city water are op-
erated by an electric motor the
power being secured from the
light plant Of course the pumps
had to stop when the source o: !
power gave down and by Mon-
day night the city water tank
had been drained for public use
it being the general impression
that the plant would be in opera-
tion Monday night Wells and
cisterns were brought into re-
quisition and borrowing a bucket
of water from a neighbor's well
was a common occurrence Great
care was exercised against an
outbreak of fire and luckily no
alarm was sounded The acci-
dent made the people of Duncan
realize the great convenience of
oth electric lights and water-
works -
Married in Bush Hotel
Duncan in Darkness
' Without Water
On Wednesday morning short
ly before noon Mr J B Smith
and Miss Icie V Richardson were
united in the holy bonds of mat-
rimony in the parlors of the
Bush Hotel in this city Deputy
Tom Wilkerson of the County
- Judge’s office performing the
ceremony They are fram Mar-
low and were accompanied by a
party of friends from that place
The groom is a promising young
man and the bride is the daugh-
ter of Ben Richardson They
returned home in the evening
Revival Meeting at the Presby
terian Church
' Beginning the first Sabbath in
December there will be held a
aeries of revival meetings in the
Presbyterian Church Rev S
L Hogan Walter Okla will
assist Evangelist J C Story in
these meetings A cordial invi-
tation is extended to everybody
to participate in these exercises
W CT U Organized in Dun-
can Sunday
The State Organizer of the
Womans Christian Temperance
Union Mrs Nellie Sheplor vis-
ited our town this week to effect
an organization of a local union
here An enthusiastic meeting
was held Sunday afternoon re-
sulting in the election of Mrs
John Stone as President who is
admirably suited to the work
An urgent call is made to the
ladie3 of our city to meet with
us and take part in this very im-
portant work
On Sunday Nov 14 at 4 P
M all are earnestly requested
to attend our call meeting at the
Methodist Church when the or-
ganization will be completed by
the election of some of the very
important officers and the selec-
tian of the places of meeting
Special Demonstration Work
A subject every one is inter-
ested in either directly or arounc
the table is cooking Just ai
present Duncan is being treatec
to some special demonstration
work along this line H A
Spencer representing the Calu
met Baking powder Co o'
Chicago is here with a bevy of
young ladies giving house to
house demonstrations of what
can be done with this popular
brand of baking powders ' The
ladies are Misses’!! CSiple Wy
cuff Carr McLaughlin 'Huff
Ogletree and Chamberlain
On Saturday they will make
public demonstration at the gro-
cery store of G N Williams on
Main street to which all are in-
vited Drop in there that day
and see what delicious produc
tions can be compounded and
cooked by the use of Calumet
powders also get acquainted
with Mr Spencer and his attrac-
tive corps of demonstrators
The Opening Downpour
On last Sunday afternoon the
clouds opened up and delivered
the long felt want in a copious
shower of crystal sparkling jew-
els that soon routed the dust devil
and caused the smile and dimple
o re-appear upon the face of
mmanity all through this sec-
tion Although too late for the
crops it was a Godsend replen-
ishing the wells and supplying
water for stock Since then
weather indications have been
pointing to more rain and every-
one is hopeful that it was the
opening shower to a season that
is to break the long drouth and
iven up things generally
District No 52
Report of Rock Creek school
::or the second month beginning
October 11 and ending Novem-
er 5 1909:
Total enrollment 67
er cent of attendance 80
er cent of punctuality- 97
The names of those neither
absent nor tardy during the en-
tire month are: Leonard and
Charlie Ketchum Cora Grace
tuth and Hubert Wright Vera
Castle Vernon Barrett and Ruth
Castle
Iva E Winchell Teacher
VARIOyS NEWS NOTES
While confined in jail at Ryan
Harve Powers who killed Bob
Garrett at Hastings three weeks
ago tried to commit suicide by
cutting his throat with a razor
The quail season opens up on
the 15th and reports put it that
there are a great ipany of them
in store for the crack shot sports-
man The “pot hunter” wil
also have an opportunity to get
in his work
Messrs Evans & Smith of the
Chickasha Express are just now
reaping a harvest of legal adver
tising shown by their weekly
edition It not only carries the
tax list but eleven colums of le
gal ads besides
The Temple Tribune— Last
week N T Gilbert and A B‘
Dunlap both connected with the
Lawton State Bank purchasec
the interest of J C- Tandy anc
Lon Morris of the First State
Bank of our city These gentle-
men are interested in eleven
hanks throughout this county
Marlow Review:— A M
Thomsson is erecting a handsome
and convenient warehouse 25x75
feet at the rear of his dry goods
building ' Re is also making an
extension of 50 feet to the main
building as well as a 25 foot new
front on the west of the old one
He will soon h$ve one of the
best business houses intHerc!ty
Shawnee is laying some store
upon the 1 pecan crop in that
county ' They say $15000 is the
amount now estimated that the
dealers there will pay out for
pecans this fall There are
small forests along the Canadian
river in Pottawafcoma county
largely consisting of pecan trees
and the crop this year is fine the
price now being six cents a
pound
Advertised Letters
List of letters remaining in the
Post Office at Duncon Okla for
the week ending Nov 7 1909:
Buckner Katie
Hadaway Walter
Hanson Flora
Hensley F M
Lewis Elcie
McKinney Anna
Newman Harry '
Pritchard W J
Stephens W C
Smith Willie
Shuder G W
Thompson E D
Wood C P
Yount I E
In calling for the above letters
please say advertised
Harry S Bockes P M
It Pays to Advertese
West Texas Journal: An Ex-
change tells of an Oklahoma girl
who advertised for a husband
and got one The total expence
of the advertising and wedding
odtfit was $1L In a year he died
leaving her an insurance policy
of $10000 And some say it
doesnotpay to advertise The
leart-broken widow at once
wired her father “John died
his morning loss fully covered
by insurance”
THE STRENGTH OF A BANK
Is generallyfnoticed byits ability to meettfie various
condi tionshat may arae jt
BANK isffenerally able tosatisfy the de-
all legitimate undertaking? Accommoda-
red on conservative basis
THIi
mands o
tions chee
The
SOUTH COUNTY NEWS
From Comanche Reflex: '
The Mobley brothers received
the sad news Monday of the
death of a sister a brother dying
and another brother very low
with typhoid fever at Atlanta
Ga Roy and Robert Mobley of
this city accompanied by their
brothers Will of Ryan and Ben
of Eolian Okla left here Mon-
day for that place A bridge
has been built across Mud Creek
eight miles east of the city
Mrs Nelson aged 64 who resid-
ed eight miles west of Coman-
che was buried at Diamond last
Friday after an illness of several
weeks The roof has 'been
placed on the new brick school
juilding at Comanche and will
se a very neat and substantial
seat of education
Notice
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77
Notice is hereby given that
! 3oard of County Commissioners
are hereby called to meet in spe-
cial session at the office of the
i bounty Clerk on Saturday Nov
3 1909 for the purpose of pe-
titioning the Governor to send a
SpecialExaminer to check up the
jooks of the various County
Officers of Stephens County
Witness my hand and official
seal at Duncan this the 9th
day of November 1909
B A Barns County Clerk
A New Firm
A new real estate firm has
opened up in the O’Niell building
Messrs C C Forward and T E
illy They will buy and sell
real estate loan money and
lelp to boost things for Dun-
can and Stephens county They
are men of good record and pro-
pose to treat the public right
asking those that are interested
to call at their office and make
their wants known See their
ad in another column of this is-
sue Caught in the Act
Some of the Duncan boys got
caught in the toils Sunday morn-
ing for engaging in the seductive
pastime of craps They ought
to leave that sport for the indi-
vidual of color and it serves them
right that the proper officials
happened along just at the crit-
ical 7 come 11 stage of the game
Marriage License
John B Smith 37 and Miss
Icie V Richardson 25 Marlow
H C Stotts 22 and Miss
Maud Bomland 18 Duncan
Walter Smith 23 and Miss
Ellen Patterson 19 Velma
National Baipi
Oklahoma Ginners Report
The State Board of Agricul-
ture finds that 332971 square
bales and 13966 round bales
were ginned froni the Oklahoma
crop of cotton for 1909 up to Oct
31 says a Guthrie dispatch for
Saturday It says:
In arriving at these figures the
board has received reports from
581 gins and has added to this
number the rsports of 138 gins
made up to October 15 Count-
ing round as half bales there
have been ginned to October 31
339954 bales as compared with
225470 running bales up to Octo-
ber 15 showing that 114484 bales
were ginned during the last half
of October Up to November J
last season according to the fig-
ures of the United States census
bureau there had been ginned in
Oklahoma 217629 bales and dur-
ing the last half of October last
season according to the same
authority there were ginned on-
ly 75073 bales
The board is not satisfied with
the manner in which ginners are
reporting It has on its list 1002
gins It has received reports
during the season from 733 and
of this latter number 138 have
failed to report on November 1
The board will at once furnish a
list of the delinquent ginners to
the county attorneys whose duty
it will be to enforce the pro-
visions of the law requiring gin-
nersonakeheseeport OPERA HOUSE
Three Nights
Commencing
THURSDAY NOV II 190
Geo W Rehn’s Famous
Musical Comedy
Company
Singers Dancers j
Comedians
Pretty Girls
Thursday Night PAQUITA
Program changed evrey
night Seats on sale at
Duncan : Drug : Company’s
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Woods, J. G. & Woods, Lee. The Duncan Eagle. (Duncan, Okla.), Vol. 16, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1909, newspaper, November 11, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2027904/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.