The Cimarron News. (Boise City, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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OFFICIAL PAPEH
CIMARRON COUNTY
Subscription Prloo
The Cimarron News.
VV/A' Hoist: (TI)' Tlx 1I! IWE CONSOLIDATED WITH THE NEWS JUNE 15th 1911.
ESTABLISHED A"
KENTON. OKU
AUGUST 11, 1808.
Moved to Bolt* City,
Maroli 24th 1910.
FOURTEENTH YEAR
BOISE CITY, CIMARRON COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1911
NUMBER 1
Joseph i. Pulis Passes Awgy
Aftot' a lingering illness of
throe years, the life of Joseph J.
I*u 1 i * peacefully passed away at
Ilia home on oust Main street at
11 o'clock last night, July l'Jth.
Three years ago ho was taken
with what the physicians thought
to bo a form of rheumatism lmt
it eventually developed into tab*
erculosis of the bones and for
the past eight months he has
been confined to hit* bed continu-
ously ■ He was a man that earli-
er in life had possessed a very
rugged constitution and we never
■witnessed a stronger tight for
life than the one he made, though
he had given up hopes of recov-
ery several weeks ago. Ho was
born in Knox county. Mo., April
15th. 1H55. and had lived in that
state all of his life until moving
here about five years ago- He
settled on a homestead near Mid-
well in this county but for the
past three years has run a food
yard on oast Main street in this
city. He was a loyal Odd Fellow
being a member of the Ethel,
Mo-, lodge of that order, a con-
servative church member and a
good citizen. He is survived by
a sorrowing wife, two daughters,
Mrs- Robt. Brown of Hurdland,
Mo., and Miss Maude, and two
sons, George and John, all of
■whom wore with him at the last
except Mrs. Brown who was
kept away on account of sickness
in her own family. The family
have the sympathy of the entire
community in their bereavement.
Funeral services take place at , j
the Methodist church at 10 a- m. j]
tomorrow (Friday) morning, un-1J
der the auspices of the 1.0- 0. F.
lodge, after which interment will
take place in theGarlington cem-
etery-
Success Is Yours
Give lightness to your heart, freedom to your
thought, common sense to your whims, cau-
tion to everv-day life, and that which follows
must be success.
CAUTION is earning some, spending less,
having a bank account, keeping a check on
expenditures, asking the banker's advice in
doubtful business transactions.
Do your bapk business with
The irst sNotisocil Book
Of Texhoma, Oklahoma.
160 Acres for $235
The J, C. Moore homestead,,
northwest of Poby, sold at sheriff's.
Bale Monday afternoon at the wry {
low price of §285. This is the low- j
est price we ever heard of Cimnr- • than anything.ds«. We will hnre !
ron county dirt, selling for and this ; a lot of fun and learn a whole lot ■ "jf81
ahourd have brought more' as it is ' about such thinsjB that we would |
worth more money but there were j otherwise miss. In the cities the f
only a few present and they did j school gymnasiums and the Y. M.
not seem to have the money. The IC. A. afford the boys a chance to
Texas State Bank of Texhoma held | learn these exercises, but as a gen-
a mortgage against, the land for a j eral thing they have been denied
little over a hundred dollars and to the country boys, but the bovs
had the land sold to satisfy tbeUround here aim to take on tin-
mortgage. I. H. House of Tex-j city ways and have all the fun
homa who owns a farm near the I that's coming.
land bought it. in arid, while we do! Until the can secure a suitable
not like for Cimarron county land I building, they intend to i'ense off a
to sell so cheap, we are glad lie got. | place on the public square "for a
it. ! practice grounds. Their meeting
j will be free to all and everybody
Athletic Club Scing Formed | that wants to box, fence, wrestle,
Cimarron County visited by heaviest
Rain of the Season.
FALL ESTIMATED AT 4 INCHES.
An athletic club is being made!
up by the local sports and every
summer sault, skin-a cat or stand
k
on his head is invited to come and
-th'rai now look. n. tboagl. it wuoid j J."11" p"r> Thev "ill Imv,. tl«.
be in full opumtioi. soon. Later i r" ' "" S°°" °S the Kr0°"d
ou, a full gymnasium course may PreP<jre •
be put on if the interest manifest.-1 Mrs. G. F- Vanpelt brought in
ed at this time keeps up. Willmm' some mighty fine cabbage to the
O'Neal, a past master in boxmgj Boise Hotel Wednesday- One of
science and gymnastics has agreed (the heads weighed four pounds
to act as instructor. He has j and there were several nearly as
taught several classes before and [large- Vanpelt has his garden
thinks we have the makings of a; irrigated from the windmill and
dandy club here if the boys will all j is making a success of it. He has
get in on the proposition. It is j eight hundred heads of cabbage
not the intention of the manage | about ready for the market, be-
ment to have any matched contests; sides lots of other stuff. Still
and prize fights or the like. The j lots of people will try to tell you
club here will be more of a school I thai; it don't pay to fool with ga -
of instruction in athletic sports j den stuff.
Boise City seems to have been | Fine Showers
about the center of a cloudbu rst j On Wednesday afternoon of last
last night. It began raining' w"cek there fell one of the most glo-
here at 9 o'clock at,d continued rious showers that ever fell in this
for forty-five minutes. duringyj'P^ an<l ot1 Saturday afternoon we
which time something near four received another that almost at-
inches of water was poured out tained the proportions of a cloud
upon the prairies. It was by j burst. While the showers that fell
far the hardest rain of the sea- here did not extend but a few miles
son and the prairie lakes >nd | in any direction, we have reports
streams are all full today. Jhe i from all parts of the county and
streets of Boise City were turn- i they state that they have received
ed into veritable rivers for a j like showers at different times ami
short time and flowed knee deep, j that crops are looking fine. We
Every frog in the county under i have never seen rain so spotted as
two years old was seized with j the recent showers seem to be and
nervous prostration as they had i about the only one that reached
not seen water in that time and j further than a few miles was the
they set up a noise that discoun- one that fell over the" west end
ted the Boise City band practice j about a week ago. It was report
mean is ed as extending from Doby to the
Dozens of far-
about 16 to 1. What we
that it rained a toad-strangler
and the drouth is effectively bro-
ken so far as this part of the
country is concerned. The rain
seems to have covered a wide a-
rea but south and east it was not
so heavy. Willowbar and Hur-
west county line,
uiers have been in town the past
few days and told us that they had
the best crop prospects right now
that they have ever had since they
came here Some that had made
lpplication for proof have with-
320 acres sub-irrigated
alfalfa land - - $4000.00,
half cash and terms to suit.
.Absolutely the best proposi-
tion on the Cimarron.
JGO acres 3 miles of Boise
City, fine land $900.
WJJfT 10 Ma,in Street
Lots in Boise City, quick.
11. C. Thomas
Boise City, Okla.
ley each report the fall at an inch, drawn it and will stay with the
Doby received about as much as j country Those that hiked out of
' here- The fall was lighter at J here early in the season expecting
Garl-ington but they received e- to strike it rich some other place
nough to help crops wonderfully, j are going to wish they were back
The rain put the telephone j here, In fact a score or more have
system out of commission and already written us that
we were unable to hear from oth- j would be here
LOCAL NOTES.
It. A: Williams of Doby was
hero yerterday.
S. T. Smith made a trip out ti
Kenton Tuesday on official busi-
ness.
Mrs. Ilettio Britton was visit-
ing at t he Pulis home in the city
Sunday.
J. A. Sizemore and family of
Sauipsel and sinter, Mrs. J. H.
Shaw of Texas, visited at the
Petors' and Guin homes over
Sunday.
R G. Kimse.v, H. P. Ash by
and A- L. Hawkins, three of the
good citizens of the (irings com-
I in unity, were up Wednesday to
visit the county seat.
i .I T. and .1 E. Bellomy of Wil
jlowbarwere attending to busi-
ness here Monday and called at
i the News office.
Wanted —Two or three miles
offence. Be quick. State all
tlrst letter.
i-t J. S. Hammond, Boise City.
Miss Lula Cofer of Marella
I made proof here Tuesday before
Commissioner Denny.
I. H. House of Texhoma was
here Monday and was the sue
cessful bidder on the Moore
j tract of land which was sold at
Sheriff's sale to satisfy a judge-
J ment.
j H. N. Clark and D B Ingle.
| two of the live scouts of Marella,
j were on our streets Tuesday.
, Henry Hood of Cold Springs,
j Boone Hood of Currumpa, N. M .
and Lige James of Colorado were
Boise City visitors MVmday.
Mr. and Mrs C- D. Johnsey
arrived from Oklahoma City on
the mail stage Friday and moved
out to their farm near Hurley.
Hon. o. J.\ Easter wood, one of
the legal lights of Clayton, was
in the city for a short time Mon
day on business connected with
his profession. Allen Wikoff
brought him over in his car.
Mr. Nixon, connected with the
Denver U. S. Land Office, has
been about the county the past
several days looking after land
matters.
Rev. A. L. Castleberry and
daughter, Eunice, were over
from Bertrand Saturday and
Sunday.
Messrs and Mesdames H. and
B. F. Houts were shopping in the
city Saturday, from west.
Mesdames Belt and Bnsming-
er returned to Dee Saturday af-
ter a several days visit to rela-
tives in the city.
Prof. J. L. Kinsey has been
in town several days this week
from his farm near Hurley.
Fred Shackelford went to Tex-
homa Tuesday for freight for
our merchants.
Frank Homer and a bunch of
anglers from Halley passed
through town Monday on a fish-
ing trip up the Cimarron
Mrs. Brown Mitchrdl and chil-
dren of Griggs visited at the
Wrinkle home first of the week.
.Tack Mavfield and wife were
in the county seat Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Allison and
Mrs |{. C. Thomas were driving
on the extensive thoroughfares
of the city of Doby Sunday after-
uoon.
Prof. Laughton of the Panhan-
d'.j Agricultural Institute at
Goodwell has been in the county
since Tuesday boosting for hi*
school. He is a master musician
and it is indeed a treat to hoar
him on the violin. H- and Supt-
Kennedy went to Kenton Wed-
nesday and he is to speak, sing
and play the fiddle here tonight
(Thursday).
Perry Wilcox, wife and daugh-
ter, Miss Ursa, were in Boise
City from Willowbar Wednesday
and favored the News with a call.
Mr-Wilcox left his ad with us;
read it in this issue-
Mrs. Will Mitchell and chil-
dren returned to their home at
Tecumseh Wednesday, accompa-
nied by Mrs. W. L. Wrinkle how
goes there with the hopeof bene-
fitting her health as she Iiaa nev-
er completely recovered from
the injuries received b.v a bad
fall several weeks ago. Mr.
Wrinkle will remain here to look
after his farm and livery barn.
Robert Vanpelt and sister,
Miss Maggie, returned from
Mineola, Kans., Monday where
they have held positions for the
past few months. Robt. came
by and renewed bis subscription
to this household journal.
A. Snider of Wheeless passed
through town Tuesday on his
way home from the Kansas har-
vest and stopped in to renew his
subscription He says things
look about as good or better here
than any place along the road-
He came by the deep well over at
Hooker, and says they are laying
off waiting for a now drill bit but
think they will tind flowing water
pretty quick after getting start-
ed again.
John Hughes and family mov-
ed to Kenton Monday. Mr.
Hughes recently bought 40 acres
of land over there, part of the
Eddleman tract at the fancy price
of $100 per acre. That is getting
Cimarron county land up to about
what it is worth. Of course
Hughes' land is very fine alfalfa
land and is irrigated, but our
(land right here is a whole lot bet-
j tor soil and would be worth more
money if it only had the water on
it as his has. The trouble is ours
has the water under it, an inex-
haustible sheet of it down about
150 feet. Why not turn it bot-
tom side up and have irrigation
j and alfalfa? Just wait until we
get that #owing well and we will
show you land worth $200 per
acre. ,
Arthur Russell lias purchased
the interest of H. J. Hepoard in
the firm of Edgar and Heppard
and has taken his place in the
store- Mr- Russell is a grocer
of several years experience and
the new firm starts out in good
shape.
For Sale
Work horse, cow (fresh), year-
ling heifer, windmill complete,
50 bbl. tank, riding cultivator and
buggy (nearly new), turning
plow, disc, wagon, 1200 lbs. wire,
400 posts, bedstead, davenport,
range, buildings, etc.
Perry Wilcox,
3 mi. W. 1 N. of Willowbar.
they
us
I w ocic as soon as they
j er points but, it is the general o- j could get the money to get home
j pinion here that the rain extend- j on. From what we can learn from
ed over the west end- It is re j reports of conditions fuatherdown
j ported from five miles west that' the stated Cimarron county is in
r_i, xi • . the best shape of any county in
that the rain fell there in tor
rents. Pasturas west were get-
ting short and the rain will mean
thousands of dollars to them.
Crop conditions over most of the
county could not be better and
there are just lots of farmers
that are mighty glad today that
they did not prove up and hike
j as some did.
As we go to press, the clouds
I are still hanging about and it
looks like we may have another
I tonight.
Oklahoma. The Commercial Clubs
are buying kaffir seed for the far-
mers to plant down in there. The
farmers around here have not had
to call upon the Commercial club
to furnish seeds. They raised
them last year. Better study a
long time before you hike out
hunting a better place than right
here. There's not but one better
place and the airships don't go
half way up to it. What we mean
is— stay with it.
D. C. Gamble.
R A. OWENS
Boise Citg Drag Slate.
Gan)ble & Ower)s, Props.
Drugs, Medicines, fa
Chemicles, Toilet
Articles, Rubber,
Goods, Paint and
JI Shaving Brushes,
y Combs, Perfumes.
> JEWELRY and CLOCKS.
PRESCRIPTIONS: Ounrantccd to be filled Promply and Accuratly by a Registered Phar-
macist of many years experience.
Dr. Gamble will office in Drug Store.
Calls answered day or night.
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