The Weekly Chronicle. (Weatherford, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1901 Page: 4 of 5
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GO WITH THE CROWD TO SULLIVAN’S CYCLONE HOTEL AND RESTAURANT GOOD MEALS so Cts CLEAN BEDS RATES 85CTO lio PER DAY
Our store is full of new Spring and Summer Goods We quote you a few prices to prove to you that
Our Prices are the Lowest —
CLOTHING SHOES
- “
A boy’s Knee Pant Suit 65c Men’s good serviceable Shoes 95c
" - - “ “ 90c “ “ dress “ $150
A youth’s 3-piece Suit $350 Ladies fine Shoes r $100
A man’s good Suit for - 83 50 “ “ “ a beauty ‘ 150
A man's better Suit for 1 8500 Ladies’ heavy and serviceable Shoe ' 110
Big line of CLOTHING DRY GOODS SHOES HATS TRUNKS &c We are the people that are turning out
so many tailor-made Suits Call and see line of samples and get our pricfes
Huber Block Weatherford ' THE LEADER
CHURCHES
Sunday services at Congregation-
al church: Sunday school 10 a in
preaching service 11 a ni Junior
and Intermediate C E 3 p m Y
P S C E 3:30 p m Gospel ser-
vice 8:15 p m
Methodist Church Siouth — On
next Sahhuth and during the win-
ter the evening services will la? ns I now
follows: Epworth League 0:30 p I tribes will render iniprot table any
Speedy Extinction j
The annual report of the Board
of Indian Commissioners expresses
a confident view of the Indian sit-
uation and says that the policy of
justice pursued by the government
and the better knowledge of the
power and resources of the govern-
ment jt the Unit'd States which
prevails among the Indian
- ra Church service 7 :30 p m
Preaching at theCliriatian church
each 'Lord’s day at 11a tn ahd
7:45 p in Sunday school 10 a in
Y P S E 0:30 p m Everybody
cordially invited
U S Renfrow Minister
SOCIETIES
renewals of serious lioting and at-
tempted war on the part of the In-
dian tribes The report says there
is a need of comprehensive and
continuous policy of administra-
I tion in Indian affairs which shall
look to the speedy extinction of a
separate bureau for Indians and a
separate administiation -It says
that one of the difficulties in ad
ministration has been the pressure
by whites to secure ixissession of
Horae Race Versus Lottery
The secretary of the interior will
no doubt try most earnestly to
eliminate the unfortunate and un-
fair features of a horse race for the
Kiowa and Comanche lands but it
will be a very difficult task to de-
vise a means whereliy exact justice
may be done to all when ten dollar
land ia to be given to the uublio at
oue-eighth that price A lottery or
drawing is suggested - Would that
give the lands to those who most
need it? We do not believe it
would and furthermore we believe
that it would cause thousands of
well-to do people to seek claims
who would not endure the hard-
ships incident to a two weeks camp
on the bonier and a race for a
claim The trouble is to exclude
those who do not derserve the gift
of land Congress has taken one
step in the direction of excluding
those who should not be benefi-
ciaries of a land distribution by ex-
cluding those who are already the
WEATHERFORD LODGE! O O F NO 34
Meets every Tucs-
tdav evening All I Dy wiuies 10 secure nsscniuii ui i o — — ----- -
k' V veniug mi J possessors of 160 acres of land but
'Odd fellows in good the large areas of lands held by the thTmarx who iu the owner of mil-
standing are cordially invited to at- Indians Hnd of no use to them jions of dollars worth of stock or of
tend M t Baker N (t noW) the dixapjiearaiice of game I city real estate of fabulous value is
HARDING free y - having deprived them of their value not excluded and so long as they
Custer Lodge No 25 K of P s hunting lands - re not excluded bylaw the secretary
Meets every Monday The leixrt recommends the
NOTICE OF PUBLICATION
Before Jerry fcienlly Justice of the
Peace in and for Custer county
First National Bank Plaintiff
vs
Ben J Martin Defendant
The defendant Ben J Martin
will take notice that he has been
sued in the above named court and
that an order of attachment haB
been issued against his projierty to
satisfy the claim of the above named
plaintiff in the sum of thirty-seven
dollars mid fifty one-hundredths:
($37501 and that unless he an-
swers plaintiff's hill of particulars
on or liefore March 30tlr 11101
judgment will be rendered against
you for thirty seven dollars and
fifty one hundredths ($3750) and
costs of suit and property taken
under said order of attachment will
be sold to satisfy the same and of
this you will take due notice
Jerry Scully
Justice of the Peace
Wilcox & Cardwell attorneys for
plaintiff 42 4t
can make no rule which will ex-
elude them Even under the race
All KP’s in good stand- choice of competent inen as Indian pan possessors of $50000 worth of
ingare invited to attend
Dr Geo RcddellC C
Wm Walker
K of R & S
Western Star Lodge A F&A M
Under dispeusation
lias regular meetings
' the First and Third
Thursdays of each
month Masons in
good standing bit cordially invited
lo meet with us I
O BKee W M-
Dr J J Williams Sec’y
agents and permanent tenure for
the agents who show themselves
qualified It also recommends the
hrenking up of Indian trust funds
into individual holdings und the
fixing of a date at which the hold-
ings shall be paid to t::e Indians’
entitled to thenu It is urged that
Indian children be placed in the
property hnve joined in the mad
scramble With a plan in vogue
which disposes of the disagreeable
race features the number of rich
men who would seek claims would
be vastly increased and speculators
would reap a rich harvest After
a thorough study of the situation
and with an intimate Knowledge of
the methods and devices of claim
speculators we are of the opiuion
public schools and territories wher- that a race will more nearly ap-
ever it is practicable proach the desire and purjxise of
The report says that the work of the administration to put the lands
— I witkin wnnnli f llACA llliidt
alluring lands to the mission In-
tXVlDENTAL CHAPTER ORDER EAB
- TEEN STAR
HaSTegular meetings second and
fourth Thursday evenings of each
month Members of the order in
good standing are cordially invited
to attend-
Du J J Williams 8ecy
Mrs O II Cafky W M
PROFESSIONAL CAROS
within reach of those who must
deBerve them The mail in need
of a home is willing to undergo
more hardships than the rich man
There is small profit in clnims in
the first year after opening some
of them selling for little more than
$1000 which is scarcely enough
to tempt a rich man to 8iend
his glory now while the lyear o the frontier in addition to
the hardship of the scramble of
saloonkeeper and the jointist are hone LTimes-Journal
I in' hiding He flourishes in dark
hallways in' back alleys in livery
D COLLELMO M D
MMxuran OWLA
(Member A men sen Medical Awociatiou )
5pccial Attention Given to Sur-
gery and Disease of Women
OFFICE AT OWL DRUG STORE
Office 'Phone 39 Res 'Phone 53-
E H COOKE H D
’ General Practice of
Medicine and Surgery
ALL CALLS PROMPTLY ATTENDED
‘ orric ovkw weAvstaroao statk
WEATHERFORD MACHINE SHOP
M Jks
specialties:
BRAZING
SOLDERING ‘
GUN STOCKS
SOLAR LAMPS
CHOKE BORING
COASTER BRAKES
HAND-LOADED SHELLS
Bicycles Guns
nition
Amniu-
LIGMT AND HEAVY TUNNING
W J Newsam
PROPRIETOR
JERRY SCULLY’S
BARGAIN COLUMN!
People whe buy wall paper want
to see the gixxls and they want to
see a variety of patterns and colors
and it tAkes nearly as lung for a
woman to select wall paper ns it
does fur her to select a dress pat-
tern This is natural and reason-
able The wall paper is not going
to tie changed as frequently as the
dress is and it must be constantly
before the eyes of the inhabitants
of the house Therefore buyers do
well to ehco-e carefully Penn
carries the ties! line of wall paper
in town and you will have no diffi-
culty in making your selections
REGISTRATION NOTICE
To tlie Voters of the City of Weath-
erford: The office of the City Clerk of
City of Weatherford will lie open
for the registration of all who are
qualified voters of said city from
9 o’clock a m to 6 o'clock p in
March 18th and 19th and March
25th and 26th 1901
John W Flournoy
City Clerk
160 acres — all pasture — Price
$400 On Choctaw extension
Four hundred lots in the city of
Weatherford adjoining -the Wich-
ita reservation
Good 4 room house 2 lots well
and pump storm cave cow shed
good fence $650
Good level school section 6 miles
from Choctaw extension now be-
ing built one mile from postoffice
House 14x20 ceiled and weath-
erbourded near depot small barn
$160
Three claims in Roger Mills
county abont 12 miles from Choc-
taw extension each $400
14 room hotel and three lots all
furnished within one block of Main
etreet city of Weatherford doing
a good business Price $1475
School section 640 acres all
fenced with two wires and good
Five miles from Weatherford 20 feet apart good tank for
0 acres ( 20 acres under cultiva-1 watering stock can cultivate 300
tion 10 acres fenced with two wires I t: cjxi m
CHAS
DAVIS M D
Diseases of tbe
EYE EAR
- 4' NOSE AND
'£1 TOROA
A Specialty
DIMM PltmS Carracttr HI
Office Over State Exchange Bank
We understand that C Kiminel!
- t10 1 of Weatherford is doing a whole
stables where access is easy y jobbing business Judging
alley -way He spots li is victim as f ro(n j jg rep jf prices of cultivators
easily as the hunter marks down wagons and plows he is certainly
his bird and only a wink is neces- prepared to - make close price' on
sary to land him He is shrewd sll kinds of goods
usually too and hard to catch
He has a base of supplies some-
where moving it as often as neces-1
sary and if he is caught red-handed
he has only a small bottle for his
own use out of which he was giv-
ing a friend a drink not for pay
but merely as an accommodation 1
to a mnn with a thirst He is foxy I
and he knows at every minute of
the day the precise location of
every policeman in town Practi-
cally he is Immune from arrest It
only when some poor victim
gives him away to the officers that
he ever gets into trouble He flour-1
iahea only where the saloon is un-
known but in order tp make up
for time and place loet lie flour-
iehea gloriously there He is in I
every town of mors than a hundred
people in Kansas to-day Hia mis-
sion is to quench thirst at 10 cents I
C Kimniell is building a large
warehouse and enlarging his pres-
ent store building Mr Kiinmell
is one of our best and cheapest
hardware merchants and we are
glad to see his trade increasing
every day
GEO RUDDELL D D S
DENTIST
Office over Weatherford State I per quench and while the saloon
Hnk - I may come and go may thrive and
1 - be smashed he rejoices only in its
a w wilcox w o c a sdweix downfall and labors for iU i deatrno-
- tion knowing that when it ia gone I
VVlLCOX & CAWPWCLt-' his bnsineas will be like onto that
attorneys at law 0f the wheat buyer at harvest or I
WfCATHClfFOIID P00 man at ciTCU'
Bare Walls!
There is nothing that makes the
home look so incomplete
Cheerful rooms are an impossibil
itj with uncovered walls!
You Have No Excuse
For Such! 1
' v'
When numberless delicate patterns
in all grades of
WALL PAPER
Can be obtained at Very iToderate
Prices of
THE WEATHERFORD
DRUG COMPANY
160 acres ( 20 acres under
i
dagout and small house Price
$000
160 acres 100 acres under culti-
vation 60 in pasture one log house
14x32 good well and wind mill
sheds all fenced 50 fruit trees
Price $2000
'Good level school section all
fenced with two wires good run-
ning water 6 miles from Choctaw
extension now being built 1 mile
from postoffice 10 Btores and four
room school $1000 A bargain
160 acres 15 acres in cultivation
140 acres hay land house and dug
oat harn 12x12 rolling prairie 24
miles from Eammon postoffice 4
horses 1 cow 5 hogs wagon and
harness 2 plows relinquishment
$1100
Forty acres 22 acres in cultiva-
tion 10 acre in pasture all can be
cultivated well of soft water 25 ft
deep 2 room house dugout corn
crib hold 300 bushels corn out
honses 2 miles from Weatherford
relinquishment $450
160 acres 60 acres in cultivation
13 acres in wheat all farm fenced
and cross fenced level no draws
every acre can be plowed good
well anil windmill 16 barrel tank
box home 14x32 4 rooms all ceiled
good grainery holds 500 bushels
corn crib holds 800 bushels ear
corn out houses lota and corrals
relinquishment er deeded 10 miles
from Weatherford $2700
160 acres 100 acres in wheat 35
acres pasture 2 wire fence 25 acres
hav bind frame honee 24x24 gooci
welfcorn crib 500 bushels corn
400 bnshela of wheat in bin 4 good
young horses guod harness 1 cow
2 calves 2 heavy wagons nearly
new spring wagon 7 hogs 150
chickens harrow plow- mower
hone rake new binder lister cul-
tivator disc drill Good bargain
Prim $3500
acres Price $600 Cheap
160 acres ten miles from Weath-
erford 105 acres under cultivotion
ood rolling land well of soft water
ugout stable 70 peach trees
Price $1200 A bargain
240 acres 60 acres in cultivation
100 acres in pasture stone barn
18x29 stone chicken house 12x16
etone cellar 10x14 box house good
spring soft water $25 of shrubbery
loam soil will sell 80 acres sepa-
rately $1600
Half section of deeded land 8 -miles
from Weatherford 120 acres
nnder cultivation 200 acres pasture"
all fenced with three" wires and
walnut and cedar poets 7 room-
house dugout summer kitchen
garden fenced hog pens barn cat-
tle corrals loam Boil Price $3000
One quarter section deeded
smooth land 100 acres under culti-
vation all fenced and cross fenced
house cost $1000 — new — 200 bar-
rel cistern good well corrals and
ont-honses Also half section
school land joining living stream
of water all fenced with three wiree
in Washita county Price $3200
160 acres two miles from South
Canadian river 10 miles from
Geary 40 acres nnder cultivation
all fenced and cross-fenced 3 wires
around moat of it half dugout with
shingle roof frame house built of
native lumber 110 acres smooth
land 50 acres pasture with running
weter the “year round Deeded
$1500
160 acres deeded land 80 acres
nnder cultivation 80 acres grass
35 acres growing wheat all fenced
with two and three wires with cedar
poets rod apart two wells soft wa-
ter windmill in well at the house
frame house 14x18 grainerv 14x18
shedded all round loam soil Prim
$2000 $1100 cash good time oa
the rest Eight miles from Weath-
erford a bargain
For any information address
Jerry Scully's Land and Loan Office
WEATHERFORD Oela
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Baker, N. J. The Weekly Chronicle. (Weatherford, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, March 22, 1901, newspaper, March 22, 1901; Weatherford, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2307782/m1/4/: accessed June 3, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.