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Vol XII
Bokchito Oklahoma Thursday August 9 1917
No 13
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You will find everything you need in our BigStores in
Dry Goods Groceries and Hardware
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We always pay the highest market price for your chickens
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implements:
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The Cornet Drug Store
Bokchito and get the Purest
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Drugs Finest Stationery and
all goods kept in a first-class
Drug Store Gall and see us-
Corner Drug fcitore
The House of Pure
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Sunday Outing with Barbecue
Suuday Mr and Mrs J A Frank-
lin and children made a visit to
the big farm and ninth of Mr
Lafe Dull son of Mrs Franklin
Their trip was a pleasant one en-
joying the sight of beautiful anil
bounteous crops
Mr Hull has a largo and ranch
beyond Boggy on which lie has
fine diversified crops — cattle hogs
and goats— of the tatter over 400
head All are in fine' -condition
Mrr Hull treated his guests to a
sumptuous dinnei — the choice of
the courses being barbecued 'goat
The party went Over in their fine
automobile '
Grand Stand to Be Doubled
At a meeting of the officers and
directors of the Bryan County Fair
Association held at the Commercial
building it was decided to double
the capacity of the grand 'stand for
this year’s fair -
The House that appreciates your business
BOKCHITO
OKLAHOMA
V Villa Getting Busy-
El Paso August 7 — The United
States bolder patrol at Presidio
Texas was doubled today in antic-
ipatibn of an attack upon the
Mexican town of - Ojiuago just
across the border 'Villa is report-
ed a few miles south of the town
and is expected to attack hourly
Asks Death Penalty
’ In the trial of the 250 anti di aft
rioters going on at McAlester the
district astorney before a United
States Commissioner asks that the
rioters be bold for treason and
that prohibitive bonds be named
Two of the national organizers
are in the bunch
The-entire organization is broken
up with exception of a few small
squads hid in the woods
J A Franklin made a business
visit' to Durant Tuesday
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Thanking Bokchito Friends
Fort Sill Okla July 30 1917
My Dear Colonel Story r
Received the box today and
assure you that “the boys” appre-
ciate the good people of Bokchito
more than ever The baseball
goods will come in handy on Sat-
urdays and Sundays as those are
the longest days we have up here
The cakes are appreciated because
they are home cooked and also be-
cause' the best women in the world
made them -
It will be a bard matter for us
to let you know when we will leave
for Fort Worth The Eighth Field
Artillery that has been camped
here tb ree months loaded last night
and no one knows where or which
way they went When wo leave
it will be after night and we will
not know the hour we will leave
here ThcSe movements are all
scciet as there is some danger of
wrecks that no one could accuuut
for
It is not certain that we will go
to Fort Worth but it is the gen-
eral opinion of officers and men
that we will leave here before long
but no one knows where we will
stop'
Tonight we are having a night
attack- Of coarse you know some
thingof these surprises It is not
very well known among the boys
but being in the office I learn some
I understand several Bokchito
boys missed the first lottery but
tablish outposts and then entrench! they are jnst having a rest spell
for the second battallion- You and they will get a chance to see
know the old game of war - It is what it is to be in the service
exciting at times but here's hop The First Oklahoma Infantry is
ing - If we go Oklahoma made of several classes and no one
will give a good account of herself" is better than bis fellow soldier can be kept down who wishes to-
! The First Oklahoma Infantry is when it comes to the work Law- rise
things that the others do not' I
think we march five miles and es
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(strictly a volunteer organization
and yon know volunteers are gen-
erally the ones who do the fight-
ing — mostly The Canadians have
shown the English what the Yan-
kee will do but although we are
not Yankees we are Americans and
they are the same as one It is no
wonder that the Allies want to see
more American troops on the field
as they know the spirit that we
will bring across will win more
battles Than heretofore The Amer-
ican soldier has a reputation of
winning by bis ‘hideous’’ yells but
he is also kuown to be an expert
with the rifle x 1
This is the last day for volun-
teers afid we have three new ones
with us tonight while some of the
other companies got as many as a
dozen -1 think something like 60
enlisted at Oklahoma yesterday
and they will be coming in all this
week Of course there is the man
under 21 that can volunteer also
the man over 31 but we don’t look
for many of these in the next few
days Of course if this war lasts
long enough they will all have to
shonlder a gun But some of them
are naturally timid about taking
the final step From all the news
we get here there is some possibil
ity of seeing the Missouri Kansas
and Arkansas troops in the next
few days
yere and farmer tramps and “so-
ciety" mingle ae one There is bo
distinction up here We are all
on an equal
Just to celebrate the baseball
goods you sent us Company H will
wallop the Machine Qua Co early
in the morning' aa our drill sched-
ule will lie called off to let ue rest
after tonight’s march All the
Indian boys are having a pretty
good time and it is a pleasure to
watch them out showing the train- '
ing they received at the Academy
Their aer vices- on the regimental
ball team are almost necessary to
win I think Prof Farrer has -’
turned out some of the best sol-'
dien that are in the service of -their
Government They learn "
easily and are obedient Yon nev-
er Lear-one of them say anything -about
what they are told to do '
They go ahead and do it the best
they can
Prof Farver has shown that be
is capable of turning out veal gen-
tlemen as well as soldiers and the
people of Bokchito should do all -in
their power to keep him at the
Academy if he wants to stay or
better have him train the younger
boys in Bokchito who are jnst now
coming Into the right age
Well Colonel I must cut this
short and go see what I can do for
the good of our country
Again I wish to thank you in
behalf of all the boys and wish
that it was so yon could be with
us in this great fight
Your old frfend
- CLAUDE RIDDLE
Co H First Okla In L "''v'
Foas Ala Co 7:ra for
-- Horace Greeley was the son of '
a New Hampshire fanner and oblige
ed to work hard from his earliest
years
Andrew Jackson was bom in a -log
cabin in North Carolina and:
was reared in the school of bard
work
James A Garfield was another
log cabin lad A farmer boy and
a worker on a canal
Abraham Lincoln not only was
borniua log cabin but lived in
one until he was a man
James K Polk lived and worked
on a new and ragged farm in North
Carolina all his boyhood then was
a clerk in a country store -Benjamin
Franklins early strug-
gles with proverty are well known '
A printer’s boy he became one
whom all the world held in high
estimation — -
James Buchanan lived in boy-
hopd in a cabiff in the Allegheny
mountains His father was a pio-
neer Stephen Girard once the richest
man in America was born inx
'France and came to America when
fourteen years old He was a
cabin boy in early life
Martin Van Buren was born in
New York His parents’ circum-
stance were humble and acommon
school education was bis only prep-
aration for future
David Crockett was a Tennessee
lad whose only schooling was two
months’ instruction’in reading and
and writing ‘ '
Daniel' Boone was bom in Vtr-
ginia in lowly circumstances As
a pioneer and explorer he had no
equal
If any lesson is to be drawn
from this list of poor boys who be-
came noted men it is that no man
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