Hollis Tribune (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1910 Page: 4 of 8
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HOLLIS TRIBUNE
PUBLISHED BV THE
HOLLIS PUBLISHING CO.
HARRY HAMPTON WILLIAMS Eoitob
Entered io the po*tofflc«? at Hollia,
Oklahoma, as sfcond-clafs mail matter.
BE PATIENT WITH
THE POSTMASTER
He has troubles all his own
Just like You do
YOKE OF OXEN ON
HOLLIS STREETS
Bovine Pair in Subjugation Prove to be Faithful Servants
Autos and Oxen—-The Two Extremes Meet Ami< adly.
No man in Hollis has a busines*
proposition on his hands as per-
plexing as has Postmaster W. 0.
Allison. The business done by th<
postoffice is immense and rapidly
growing because of the great in-
flux of people to Hollis and Har-
mon County. Th - business is
vostly larger than it was a year
ago and still growing. And an
other thing is that practically all
the mail arrives on the forenoon
train, whereas in most all other;
towns doing the same amount of
business the mail comes in on three i
or four trains, thus not throwing.
such a large amount of work on'
the postmaster at one time. Whenj
the morning mail comes in here!
there are several sacks filled with
mail for Hollis, all our rural
routes, all the postoffices on the i
star routes north of town, about
half a dozen in number, all oi,
which means many hours of work
for the postmaster and his assist- j
ants. During this time the general |
delivery window is compelled to
be closed. When any one reflect*
that all this mail for this whole
section of the country comes in
at one time he is bound to realize
that there is an enormous lot of
work to do.
The writer spent three and one-
half years in the mail service and
was with a postoffice during tin-
days the town was developing rap-
idly, and knows at first hand some
of the hardships a postmaster un-
dergoes. At present the help al-
lowed the Hollis postoffice is en-
tirely insufficient to support it
properly. Mr. Allison is paying
add to the meager salary allowed
money out of his own salary to
Tuesday morning there drove
into town a young man by the
m ine of C. F. Randall. The young
man was a nice looking farmt-i
hoy of more than average intelli-
gence and when interviewed by
a Tribune representative proved
to be a well mannered, genial
ycuth. The fact that caused at-
tention to be directed in particu
lar to him was that he was driving
a yoke of oxen.
Oxen yoked to a wagon on the
streets of a city are an unusual
thing, hence the attention directed
to them. These oxen were driven
without a line of any sort being
tied to them, being guided
through the crowded streets by
words alone. When left alone
they stood contentedly in the
streets, seemingly oblivious of the
great traffic, with its noise and
bustle going on around them.
They could not have stood quieter
under a shade in the home pas-
ture.
Young Mr. Randall, the driver
said that the oxen had made a
crop this year, pulling a cultiva-
tor as cleverly as a team of horses
and what was more remarkabh
still, had oftentimes been driven
while to the cultivator, by a little
ten-year-old girl that wanted tc
plow her papa's cotton.
At one tune in his life, which
time was long years since, the
writer thought to be. a good, up
to-date, reliable bullwhacker, and
he achieved a smattering of th<
art of emitting the deep, soulfu"
tones by whose magic the oxer
are lulled to a state of subjuga
tion. It only lasted a few brief
days, at the end of which timr
he concluded that a yoke of oxer
was one of the few things that h<
never again would want to thin!
of. Rut the hands of time toucl
gently many things and we comi
to be pleasantly interested ir
things that once were odious. The
driver missed a quarter from m
by not takinir una collection.
Mr. Randall lives 12 miles nortl
and 3 miles east of Hollis, where
the oxen were used in making s
crop.
to an assistant by the postoffice
department at Washington, and in
addition is having to pay for the
drayage of the mail to and from
the depot, the department not yet
having made allowance for that.
By and by, when the volume of
business has grown and grown
and for weary months and months
the postmaster has stood the test
of flre, there will be help accorded
in the way of more and better paid
clerks. Then and until then, the
people of Hollis should be patient
with the service. These things gr
through the department slowly
and it is up to the postmaster a
good deal like working for a long
time free in order to get the job
later when the pay comes. The
office will simply have to stand
being overworked and underpaid
for about a year proving its case
i before it gets relief.
King Dramatic Company Coming.
The well-known Charles King
Dramatic Company will play
on the 18th inst. Mr. King, the
manager, was in Hollis Tuesday
and made arrangements for th<
coming of his company here.
Charles King has a company of
players that have a reputation foi
delivering the goods and the Hoi
lis people are guaranteed a good
show when they come here. They
have played here before.
.Miss Florence Orth of Oklahoma
City arrived Monday to visit with
her sister, Mrs. J. L. Gilliland, and
her cousin, Miss Ruth Cowles. She
left Wednesday for Mangum
where she goes to visit with other
relatives before her return home.
THE MAN
TO SPEND
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YOUR MONEY WITH
is the man who sells you goods when you have not
got the money. Why do you want to spend your
money with a man who would not sell you a sack of
flour on credit if your family was starving. Do not
spend your mney, when the fall season is here, with
a man who wouldn't sell you a shroud for your dead
baby if you didn't have the money.
I have everything in the Dry Goods line that you could possibly want, in addi-
tion to my fine line of Greceries, that are going at a special sale.
I have just returned from the northern markets with a fine line of Fall goods
that are going at the best prices in town. We can fit you for anything yo*i want.
The Mrs. Pattersons have at my place the most up-to-date stock of millinery
m Hollis. LET THEM SHOW YOU.
Remember to spend your money with the man who
favored you wlu** * cu didn't have the money.
J. K. LUNN
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COX & EVANS
Contractors and Builders
All Kinds of
Concrete and Plaster
Work Done
COX & EVANS
Take a Free Guess at the Bottle of
Beans.
Swofford, the photograph man.
has a bottle of beans on exhibition
at his studio and any one may
have a free guess at the number
of beans in the bottle. It doesn't
cost you one cent to guess and if
you are the lucky one you will get
a $5.00 lot of photo work done ab-
solutely free. All you have to do
s to come and make a guess. This
is no lottery scheme; they simply
want you to come and see them
ind they want to try to make your
/isit agreeable. And as tKey can
not give everybody five dollars
worth of photos for Christmas
they will give them to the one
guessing the nearest to the right
number of beans.
The count is to be made on
Christmas eve, and the photos are
to be a Christmas present to the
fortunate one.
Notice to Contractors
Sealed bids will be received un-
til noon, Dec. 7, for the excava-
tion of the basement of the Jones
and Pendergraft building. See
plans and specifications at the
office of Merriman & Prim.
Dr. J. E. JONES.
FOR SALE.—2 lots and dwell-
ing house at Dodsonville, Texas.
Also 136 acres sandy land farm,
2 miles of Dodsonville. Address
T. 0. HILL, Hollis, Oklahoma,
R. F. D. No. 3. 2t
Mr. and Mrs. McCauley Entertain
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. McCauley
entertained a few couple oi
young people at their home in
the west part of the city, last
night in honor of Misses DeLamai
and Grissom of Hollis.
Miss DeLamar rendered some
excellent music, which was enjoy-
ed by all. Then the selection of
partners for a game of progressive
forty-two caught the attention oi
all present. After this popular*
game began to drag, refreshments
consisting of chocolate, punch and
other delicacies, were served, to
the delight of all the guests.
At a late hour the guests bade
their host and hostess goodnighl
and departed for their homes, glat'
that they were living and that
there are such excellent entertain
ers here as Mr. and Mrs. McCau
l\y.- Wellington Leader.
Miss Will Dollerhide, of Mid-
land, Texas, is visiting her sister.
Mrs. ('. W. Gilliland.
B. W. Coffman, one of the sub-
stantial farmers of Route 2, paid
The Tribune a pleasant visit Tues-
day.
Mr- .and Mrs. I. G. Douglass
spent most of Jast week at Sandy
visiting with the family of Mrs.
Douglass' uncle, J. 1$. Graves.
N. E. Bostick, Elmore Burrows.
J. L. Davidson and Simp Simpson
of Duke were in town Tuesday.
Mrs. Effie Hopkins and babies of
Frederick arrived Wednesday for
a visit with her uncle, Rile Riding
and family.
D. C. Crabb, who has been on
a two weeks' visit to Limestone
county, Texas, returned Wednes-
day. He went back to the old
home but found it ^o different
from what it used to be that he
comes home butter satisfied than
ever. His nephew, J. 15. Ball
came with him and will make his
home here.
The families of H. R. Ramsay
and C. L. Henderson came in
Wednesday to make their future
home near Hollis. The men them-
selves are coming on with a car
of household goods and stock.
They are from Hill county, Texas.
IF you want a farm loan, and wish to get the best
rate in the County, come to see Denton Bros., at
Hollis. They draw your paper in your house and
pay the money just as soon as you sign up. No red
tape to our business. We are now lined up with an
imigration company, who will furnish us the buyers
if youwill furnish us the land. Call and see us.
Denton Bros.
First Door North of Groves National Bank
BOONE & KISER MARKET
Have a good line of meats on hands. Posi-
tively handle nothing but the best of butcher
stuff. This is our steadfast rule. Come and in-
spect our meats. Will buy good country pro-
duce. Anyone having fat cattle for sale see
or phone Mr. Boone at his ranch, and anyone
having fat hogs bring them to me and get
highest figure, at the ....
Farm Loans, Real Estate and Insurance
Don't be led estray by the 8 yer cent straight gag, but come
to see me and get a truthful explanation of the loan- proposition
I. G. DOUGLASS
Office over Groves National
Bank
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FLOUR! FLOUR!
FLOUR
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Flour of Mark. — We have it
The highest patent, selected winter wheat
FOR $3.00 PER HUNDRED
High-Grade soft wheat flour
FOR $2.65 PER HUNDRED
FRESH VEGETABLES
and Produce Coming in all the time
WE BUY PRODUCE
Our Motto:
Careful Attention and Quick Delivery
CITY GROCERY CO.
STOKES & JOBE
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j Mrs. D. W. (iollihugh, who lives
j midway bpfween Mangum and
I Duke, hat; been vining her son.
j Amos, Jiving i'o.ur mile^ north pf
' town, for several weeks. «5h$ left
ior howe Wednesday.
Mr. Rufus D. Chapman of No.
2 paid the Tribune a pleasant visit
Wednesday.. Rufus of thp
wideawake progressive young men
of the country. This year he
makes 14 hales of cotton, besides
plenty of feedstufFa. This is a
prosperous year with out farmers
and young Chapman is in it with
the best of them.
for 21 years, and has seen this
country develop from a wild, un-
broken prairie to the beautiful and
prosperous country it is tpday,
J. M. Combs of Looney was in
town Thursday and paid the Trib-
une a pleasant visit. Mr. Combs
S. M. Lay, of Montgomery,
Alabama, has arrived to take
charge of the pharmaceutic work
at the Hollis Drug Co., which
place was made vacant by the
leaving of C. H. Madden to at-
tend the called session of the
legislature.
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Williams, Harry Hampton. Hollis Tribune (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, December 2, 1910, newspaper, December 2, 1910; Hollis, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc234422/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed August 15, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.