Mayes County Republican. (Pryor, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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Official Papar of Mayss County
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Vol: 4
PRYOR OKLAHOMA 'THURSDAY FEB 1 1912
No 44
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First State Bank
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You are not only in danger of losing your money jewels heirlooms
and valuable papers when you keep them in your house but you
are also in danger of losing YOUR LIFE At no time can you have
PEACE OF MIND when your precious things are in danger of FIRE
or BURGLARS
Put your valuables in our safety deposit vaults and KNOW THAT
THEY ARE SAFE We rent private boxes for $250 and $350 per
year Call and get full particulars
W L Jones
J C Martin Cashier
J S Ballard Ass’t Cashier
A Yestioghouse Electric Toaster-
Stove is a Delight to
t
Every Woman
THINK of having before you on the dining room
table a perfect little stove— one that will try broil
toast and broil that is perfectly safe and clean and is
always ready on the turn of the switch
- But the pleasure it gives is surpassed by its useful-
m
ness It owner can forget the kitchen and the cook
She knows that she can prepare the meals in a few
minutes and with little trouble And every member
of the family is always glad to see the Toaster-Stove
on the table They like the electric way of cooking
with everything served at just the right minute
The Toaster-Stove can be run from any electric
light socket at a cost of but five cents an hour It has
the Westinghouse guarantee Will last a life lime
Come to our show looms and see for yourself
Pryor Light &
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President
0 0 Snyder V-Pres
W 1L Oliver V-Pres
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loo Company
A Good Number
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The Trier Sisters Quintette who
were here Saturday night at the
Lyric were pronounced the best
attraction the Pryor people have
been fortunate enough to witness
this season They were the fifth
Number of the Lyceum course
There will be one more number in
February
Important Decision
A telegram addressed to the
Clipper this week from Congress-
men Davenport States: "United
States Supreme Court today decided
in favor of the Cherokee Nation
holding the Freedmen enrolled on
the Kern Clifton roll are not enti-
tled to enrollment" "
This is an important decision
and we understand it will affect
about 2200 negroes
Methodist Mention
Services last Sunday were very
well attended FourneW members
received at the evening service
The Pastor will preach Sunday at
1 1 A M and 7:30 P M The Sacra-
ment of the Lord's Supper will be
administrated at the morning sev-
ice The subject for the evening
service “Visions of God" All are
invited - R C Taylor Pastor '
Demonstration Train
The farm demonstratian train
operated by the Katy railroad and
the Agricultural and Mechanical
also the state board of agriculture
was in Pryor Saturday from 8 a m
till noon ’
Farmers from all over the county
took advantage of the opportunity
to better themselves and came to
hear the various lecturers and see
the many demonstrations on the
train A big crowd greeted the
train early and remained through-
their stay here It was one of the
largest crowds tnat has assembled
in Pryor for several weeks as the
coming of the train was well adv-
ertised And they were not dis-
appointed for they not only were
bent-fitted by the lectures'and the
demonstrationsbut were permitted
to meet with their fellow farmers
from all over the county and ex-
changed ideas and good cheer
The lectures included various
subjects of interest but dwelt large-
ly on the subject of pure seed pro-
per dairying and pure bred poultry
We will not attempt to give in
det ail all the good things this train
had in store for the farmers but
will say that you missed much if
y ou failed to be in Pryor last Sat-
urday Every farmer who attended
will never regret it
For Sale
100 acres of land lying
east of Chotau in Mayes
County Okla on the
Grand river and it lies in
the oil and gas district
and is valuable property
and must be sold at
once Price $3500 per
acre and all bids will be
given proper considera-
tion Address
XI D Robinson
Clinton Fcfre Vi
Thirty-Three Miles
of Road in a Day
Chandler Okla Jan 30 — The
"Thirty-three milds of road without
a cent association" — that's its real
name — took Lincoln County by the
bootstraps recently and lifted about
half of the country out of the mud
by building a highway ‘ thirty-three
miles in length across the country
This highway was graded and
finished in ten hours Fourteen
hundred teams and several thous-
and men including fanners mer-
chants doctors lawyers bankers
and mechanics did the work1 And
the taxpayers were not called upon
to pay a cent— -the highway was a
free-will offering by communities
that had grown tired of sitting back
and reading good roads' literature
without making any effort to build
good roads
This new highway now one of
the- best in Oklahoma passed
through Osage Union - Chandler
North Choctaw and South Choctaw
townships and on its route are the
towns of Chandler Agra and Meek-
er s‘fy
Among the progressive citizens
was a banker H M Johnson who
devotes his spare time to talking
and writing about good' roads He
has been doing this for many years
' Johnson Started the movement
that led to the "Thirty-thirty Miles
of Road Without a Cent Associa-
tion" and everybody that heard of
it helped him
The plan was first discussed in
the local news papers Then letters
were written to leading fanners in
the different towtships to Stir them
to action in getting their neigbors
to agree that on a day to be named
they would assemble along the
highway withftShif teains and im-
plements and at a given signial
begin work
Banker Johnson knew a thing or
two about how to do such things
and he invited the Road Overseers
ond the other officers of the differ-
ent townships to be his guests at
dinner in Chandler All of kthem
came with good appetites -
ROAD BOOMERS ORGANIZED
After dinner the proposal to build
a good road across the country in
a single day was discussed in de-
tail and approved after which the
Thirty-three Miles of Road Without
a Cent Association was organized
with LB Nicohls and GeoA Smith
both newspaper editors as presi-
dent and secretary respectively
Each township Trustee was made
a vice president of the association
and each Overseer a Captain of
work The farmers 'in each town-
ship were requested to organize
and elect additional captains if
necessary All the captains and
township officers were to select
labor from farmers and others liv-
ing in their townships and each set
of township officers was to be held
responsible for the work in their
respective township
The question of the route along
which the work should be done
foreboded trouble as each farmer
was desirous of having the good
road as near as possible to his farm
but the question was thrashed out
harmnniously and the route chosen
A week after the Johnson dinner
the township trustees and road
overseers assembled again in
Chandler and a report was made
upon a number of teams and labor-
ers that had been obtained The
five townships had an average of
of more than 200 teams each with
sufficient tool and Implements to
employ them
The towns of Chandler Agra and
Meeker came forward with 400
additional teams The Board of
County Commissioners caught the
good roads fever and voluntarily
gave all the giant powder that
might be necessary to blow every
tree stump rock or other obstruc
tion off the highway December 7
was set as the day for changing
one of the worst highways in Okla-
homa into one of the best x highway
PRIZES OFTERED TOR TOOLS
In order to get tools from adjoin-
ing townships a prize of $10 was
offered to the farmer that should
gather the biggest load of iroo
scrapers and deliver then to the
line of work This brought several
hundred extra scrapers The prize
was won by H M Henderson of
South Fox Township who had
thirty scrapers piled high on his
wagon when he appeard to claim
the prize money
Interest was lent to the approach-
ing event by a challenge issued by
Col Roy V Hoffman of Chandler to
Banker Johnsone defying the latter
to join him in working all day in
helping build the'road
Hoffman for many years has been
the commanding officer of the First
Regiment Oklahoma National
Guard and has held several import
ant official positions in Oklahoma
The challenge stated that the man
doing the least satisfactory work
should "stand" an oyster supper
at which all the j township officers
and toad captains should be guests
Banker Johnson instantly accepted
the challenge and went into train-
ing The Mayors of Chandler Agra
and Meeker issued proclamations
declaring a holiday and forbidding
their townsmen on that day to
engage in any kind of work save
that of road-building This was a
shrewed sceme as it caught doctors
merchants lawyers and county offi-
cials napping andf deprived them
of the slightest excuse for not re-
porting for work on the plea that
they were "kept away by business"
There was no business in those
towu8 that day— none except the
business of road-building
At early dawn all the country
side across Central Lincoln County
was aroused by blowing of whistles
the ringing of bells and the firing
of guns Through the length of
the highway at 7 o'clock was
streched an unbroken line of men
horses scrapers plows and graders
Men who had not swung an ax
for many years were there in their
old clothes and men who had for
gotton how to lift a shovelful of
dirt came with thick gloves on
their uncalloused hands
WOMEN SERVE DINNER
Impassible gulches and ravines
were filled and made level Here
a bend in the road because of wash-
outs was straightened and there a
ridge in the middle of the road-
wrecker of automobiles — was grad-
ed down Housewives came at
noon with baskets of estables and
with pots of steaming coffee
No man went hungry
The contest between Col Hoff-
man and Banker Johnson was wax-
ing fast and furious Three hund-
red invitations had been sent out
for the oyster supper wnicb in-
cludes cigars and both knew that
the looser would have to draw a
good-sized check for expenses
Both the challenge and the
challenger were widely known in
Lincoln County and all the road
workers took a lively interest In
the contest By’ rural telephone
bulieuns were sent the length of
the road every thirty minutes and
posted in conspicuous places for
the Information of the road -builders
At 5 o'clock the thirty-three
miles had been plowed crowned
and surfaced and was ready for
travel Miles and miles of the
roadbed will not have to be touched
for mounths while the other por-
tions will require only an occasi-
onal smoothing with drags '
The success of this road building
has set the grass afire elswhere in
Lincoln County and several town-
ships are planning to build connect-
ing roads with this cross-tountry
Resolutions
Coo-y-yah Lodge No 9 A O U W
Pryor Creek Oklahoma
Where as death has again inter-
ed our lodge and taken from us our
beloved brother John Morris Mit-
chell who departed this life Jan
24 1912 Be it resolved that we
extend to the husband's wife and
children our heartfull and sincere
sympathy in their great loss of hus-
band and father And that our
charter be draped in mourning for a
period of thirty days in memory of
our deceased brother
Jas Smith
J B Choate
F M Watts
Committee
Buys Interest '
Wednesday George Cobb bought
the interest of O O Smyder in the
Pryor Dry Goods Co He and T R
Crookshank are now the owners
This is a good investment for
Mr Cobb and his many friends are
glad to know that he has decided
to remain in Pryor This firm will
soon spread out and will occupy
4be building they are now in and
also the one where the Cater Groc-
ery and Hardware are now The
petition between these rooms will
be torn out so their stock can be
better displayed i -This
is a growing firm and in
order to take care of their fast in-
creasing trade found it neccessary
to take on more floor and shelve
space
T-
Dies Suddenly
Mr Ed Suggs died at his home
Sunday at 1145 of heart failure He
was sitting in a chair when death
struck him and raised up to go to a
bed but only fell besMe it on his
knees dead He was subject to
heart trouble but seemed to be in
in good health about as he always
was But God called him to his
bright home he passed away so
peacefully
He leaves a wife and three child-
ren a mother father and four
brothers and a host of friends to
mourn his loss He was a member
of the Holiness church' was saved
about three months ago and has
been a faithful boy He was loved
by all who knew him
Contributed
We are moving this week to our new location in
the Harrison Building on Main Street opposite the v
First State Bank
We will be pleased to meet all our old customers at
our new location and invite new ones If you are
not already a regular customer of ours then come to
our new location and we will prove to you that we
will make it worth your while We are selling our
goods at very low figures now as we are selling for
cash
We again desire to thank you one and all for your
liberal patronage at our old location and extend you
a cordial invitation to come in any time
Yours for business ’
Bible Temperance Lecture
Sermon
At the M E Church South Thurs-
day at 7:30 p m by Dr D B Ray
Chaplain formerly of St LouisMo
Admission free All are invited
Christian Chinch Notes
Is there any business any pro-
fession any form of pleasure any-
thing more vital to a community
than its churches Pryor has the
churches and people enough to
more than fill them
The Christain church wishes to
share its portion of responsibility
and to do its full quota of work
To that end all people who are not
directly connected with a local
church are invited to not only
worship with us but to identify
themselves with the churches ac-
tivities A series of vitally important sub-
jects have been chosen for the
eleven o'clock service for the next
few weeks They pertain to the
Bible school The pastor and his
wife are both Bible school specia-
lists having been honored with
places in district state and nation-
al progresses many times One or
both will speak during the course
of this special series
A "Training for service" class
has been formed and meets' for
for study at the church each Wed-
nesday evening at 7:30 for one
hour All people ard cordially in-
vited to attend whether you join
the class or only a listener
Next Sunday morning at the
Christian church the subject will be:
“The Bible school— How Souls are
Won" - Feb 1 1 The Bible sbhool—
1912 Front Rank" Feb 18 "The
Bible school — Training for service”
Febuary 25 "The Bible school—
Adult organized classes" Evening
services during February bigins at
7:30— H A Pierce Pastor
A very enjoyable entertainment
was given by Mrs J WMcSpadden
the early part of the week in honor
of her aunt Mrs El M Alberty
An elegant supper was served and
there were a number of friends
present — Tahlequah Herald
Ibi Palace Diag Ccnpacy is moving
this week to tbeit new location in the
new Markham building The Star Groc-
ery Co is moving to the building just
vacated by the Palace Both moves are
good ones for both Hr ms v
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