The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Indianola, and Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1915 Page: 1 of 8
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Crowder City Guardia
Indianola Items and Canadian News
VOL. XI
Publication Office:
Crowder. oklahoma
CROWDER, INDIANOLA and CANADIAN, OKLAHOMA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1915
NO. 8
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COURT COMMENCES
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1st
Three Days Term will be
Held—First Day Crimin-
al Cases, Second and
Third, Civil.
No. 180 J. Y. Toole
M. K. & T. Hv. Co.
No. 11)0 A. F, Pollock & Co.
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The November term of Court
in Crowder will be h<^0 com
mencing thp first Monday in No
vember, which is the tirst calan-
der day of the month, Judge
Brown presiding.
Th. ?re are but two criminal
cases to come before the Court,
und thofo occupy the first place
on the docket, the remaining
cases being civil and will be heard
as reached. Demurrers and
other pleadings will be heard by
Judge Brown on Thursday, Oc
tober 2ist, when some of the
cases docketed will probably be
disposed of. The docket follows:
MON DAY. NOV. I. 1915
L. C. Featherston, et el
J. C. Powell
vs
Edmond Krebs
Browne Mer. Co.
vs
Dutf Ceuser
Incorporated Towii of
- Quinton
vs
W. C. Mills
WEDNESDAY. NOV 3. 1915
No. 166 State of Oklahoma
vs
T. Ij. Alexander
No. 157 State of Oklahoma
vs
Osie Alexander
No. 172 Western Indemnity Co.
J vs
Dick Smith
No. 175 S. P. Newberry
vs
B. F. & Sallie Ervin
No. 17« J. E. Dyer
vs
Paul Baileax, et al
No. 181 J. B. McKinney
vs
First National Bank of
Canadian
No. 18li Nathan-Stein Co.
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O. B. Smith
No. 196 Incorporated Town of
Quinton
vs
W. S. Southard
No. 197 T. J. Smith
vs
M. K. & T. By. Co.
No. lt 8 J. H. Oann
vs
M. K. & T. By. Co.
No. 199 Riley I'urk
vs
Ft. S. & W. By. Co.
No. 200 Edgar Rolierts Mfg. Co.
vs
W. E. Crowder, et a I
No. 201 Incorporated Town of
Quinton
vs
John Bliss
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Council Hcstina Hay ttigiit
The regular meeting of the
council was held Tuesday eve
ning at which the usual routine
business was transacted, in addi
tion to which some claims against
the city which have been pend
ing for some time were passed.
No business of special import
ance was taken up, and the meet
ing adjourned to the next regu
lar meeting night, Tuesday
November 2nd.
TUESDAY. NOV 2. 1915
No. 187
Fred Browne
Ft. S. & VV. By. Co.
No. 188 First National Bank of
Quinton
vs
J. B. Flood
-oOo-
J. M. Williams, of Weir, Miss
issippi, father of Dr. .1 M.Wil
liams, arrived Tuesday for an
extended visit with his son. Dr
Williams met him in McAlester
escorting him here.
W. K. CROWDElt. Pres.
R. S. A. CROWDER. Sec y.
K. I*. BYARS. Tre#s.
CROWDER REAL ESTATE CO.
Fire, Life, Sick and Acci-
dent and Tornado • - ■
Are now prepared to make loans on city
property in Crowder, Canadian, Indianola
and Quinton at a reasonable rate of interest.
Til/IOC wishing Loans on City Proper-
nUuL ty will do well to see us
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and City
Loans A
Specialty
Easy to work
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ClOMMENCING this week, the Guardian
4 will be printed on Wednesday of each
week, instead of Friday, as heretofore.
The reason for the change in date is due to
installation of a rural mail route out of
Crowder, which is to be started Tuesday,
November 2nd, and it is our intention to
print the paper so that the patrons of this
route may be served with their copy of the
paper on Thursday, thus enabling them to
get the news earlier than has been possible
and also to enable the merchants of this
section who wish to take advantage of the
trade territory naturally theirs to reach the
consumers with their advertising in time to
give their customers an opportunity to see
what is offered them in the way of their
needs and at what prices, so they can make
up their shopping lists for their Saturday
trading.
In order to make this change of service,
it will be necessary for us to have all news
and advertising matter in our hands not
later than Tuesday noon, and in this we ask
the co-operation of the people in aiding us
to give a newsy, snappy paper to the 3,000
readers of the Guardian.
Water Does Much Damage Death of Mrs. Wirt Byars
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Rural Route Assured
![ That phrase has been used in connection with the Lumber
\ that we sell. Try us for the next that you need and g«t our
I SERVICE VALUE
P Everything for the Builder.
Southwestern Lumber Co.
G. G. TISDALE, Manager.
Change in Time
On October 17th, many important changes will be
made in the time of M. K. & T. Railway trains.
Patrons should obtain information as to
arrival and departure of trains from ticket
JnMtt agent
Avoid getting left.
On their return from an in
spection of the proposed rural
•oute out of Crowder, which is to
be inaugurated Tuesday, Novem-
ber 2nd, Postmaster Couch and
J. It. Banks, who have been act
ive in seeing the route put in, re-
ported that it was practically a
dead letter, the requisite number
of boxes for the route not being
up, the department requiring
that 5 families must subscribe
to the agreement, while by a cen-
sus taken by these gentlemen
but 77 could be located, and on
this showing it was a certainty
that the department would not
authorize it.
As the loss of the route meant
the loss of prestige to the busi
ness people ofCrowderand would
indicate a lack of energy on the
part of our people in the advance
ment of the best interests of the
town, the editor of this paper un-
dertook the task, with the aid of
Mr. Banks, to see that it did not
fail. Accepting the proffered
use of the rig of Mr. Banks, the
two loaded up a number of boxes,
and started over the route, de
tennined to do or tear the traces.
leaving Crowder at 2-30 o'clock
in the afternoon, with but about
three hours in which to do the
work, and in the face of a threat
ening storm, the start was made,
and before dark overtook them,
the pair had placed nine naw
boxes on the route, returned
home and reported their victory.
The route was saved, and will be
started on schedule time, and,
while we do not indulge in much
bragging, right here we wish
impress on the goo J i>eople of
Crowder, that had it not b<?jn for
the activity of Mr. Banks and
your humble servant who is pilot,
ing this sheet, there would have
been no rural routs out of Crow-
der for the present at least.
Since the route has been
cinched, some little objection lias
been raised to it, but ror what
specific cause, and with what
good reasou, is to us a mystery
profound. The route cannot
help but be a benefit to our town
if the advantage given us by it is
used us it should be and our bus-
iness men will let the good people
living on it know that they are in
business, that they want their
patronage, and that they will buy
their farm products at a fair
price and sell them goods at no
higher prices than they can buy
them elsewhere. Of course the
"mail order" houses will imme-
diately see the possibilities of
new channels of trade, and will
not be afraid to tell them so, and
if the merchants of Crowder will
use the columns of the the Guar-
dian each week, telling these peo-
ple that they have the goods, the
prices and the desire, they can
secure for themselves the busi-
ness which they fear will leave
them.
The Guardian will be mailed to
every patron of the route this
week and next, and following
this a personal canvas will be
made all along the line for |>er
manent subscription, and the
home merchant will be put in
almost daily touch with them.
The Guardian is now reaching
over live hundred families in
Crowder trade territory, giving
to the merchants of the town a
better opportunity to increase
their business, and at a much
less expense than the mail
order house. The advertising
rate is low and the service this
paper is rendering is high.
The time to get in close touch
with this new avenue of trade is
NOW.
The heavy rains last Friday,
Saturday and Sunday are re
sponsible for a great amount ol
damage to ,'rops in Ibis section,
many fields in the prairie south!
of town nd in the Gaines ert ■ !;
bottoms being inundated Tues
day morning, it being estimated j
that at least 0,000 acres or more I
of land was under water at that
time.
South of town, from the foot of
the mountain almost to the Ker-
ry McAlester ranch, Mas a solid
sea of water, and to the east along
Gaines creek, and extending be-
yond that stream many fields are
inundatecT. The loss to cotton
and corn in the fields will be
great, though at this time it is
difficult to make any ace,urate es
ti mate as to what it will be. Some
place the probable loss at, from
$20,000.00 to $110,000.00, while
others, more conservative, think
that $10,000.00 will cover it.
The flood comes as a calamity
at this time, when thecotton crop,
while short, was bringing a good
price, and it is thought that much
of that in the fields will be lota
ly ruined. Not half the crop has
been picked, and much of it will
never be worth the picking, so it
is claimed by the growers.
the linal count showing it carried
by a vote of 90 to 40. In the In-
dianola district, No. the total
vote cast could not be learned,
but it is stated that the measure
carried there with a majority of
What little opposition whs
brought out did not materially
affect the result, and, doubtless
after the law is in effect a suffi-
cient time, those who opposed it
will see the many benefits to be
derived from it and chunge their
opinion as to its value.
John D. Bender and Doc Pat
ton, of Canadian, were in Crowd-
er for a short time Tuesday, en
route to McAlester to attend the
funeral of Mrs. Wirt Byars.
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The McAlester News-Capital
of Tuesday has the following re-
|yarding the death of Mrs. Wirt
A. Byars, wife of Wirt A. Byars,
Hi the Canadian Trailing Co.,
in Canadian, which occurred in
McAlester Monday.
M rs. Wirt A. Byers of Car ,v
Idian died at the home of her
father, Fred I. Lewis, 42t> West
Grand avenue, at8:00 last night,
following several weeks of criti-
cal illness. Funeral services,un-
der the direction of the Elks'
lodge, of which Mr. Byars was a
member, were held from the
I/)wis home at 4:00 o'clock this
afternoon and burial in Oak Hill
cemetery.
Mrs. Byars was for more than
a month a patient at All Saints'
hospital, during which time she
endured the greatest suffering
with uncomplaining fortitude.
Yesterday morning she asked
that she be removed to her par-
ents' home on West Grand ave-
nue. She seemed stronger than
for many days and the request
was grunted by her ptiysiciaiui.
Only a lew hours later, with her
husband, father mother and oth-
er relatives at the bedside, she
fell into a peaceful slumber from
! which she never wakened.
The deceased was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J.Lewis
of this city. She spent several
years ol her young vvointinhood
here and was beloved by all who
knew her because of her sunny
disposition and admirable traits
of character. As Miss Allie May
Lewis she was a teacher in the
Canadian schools where she met
Mr. Byars, a prosperous young
business muu of that place, to
whom she had been united in
marriage but a little over iyear
at the time of her death
The funeral serrlces were
beautiful in their simple impres-
siveness. From both Canadian
and McAlester the many friends
of the deceased gathered to pay
a last earnest tribute to one
whom they tad loved and admir-
ed in life, and to sorrow with the
grief-stricken husband and par-
ents in their great bereavement.
Bank cfthiNatlMrknfe
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Hou Law Carried by Good Vote
Flections were held Saturday I
in stock districts Nos. 1 and !>,
for the purpose of voting on the
question: "Shall sheep, goats and
swine be iiermitted to run at
large?" the election in district
four being held at Reams and in
district five at Indianola.
In district four some early op-
position to the measure was
sprung, but was soou squelched,
{T The great banhing Institution pic-
tured her* was the first to undertaKe
what is today the principal function
of all banKs—the Keeping of deposi-
tors' money safe and accessible.
{T The ability of a banh to perform this
function — heaping depositors' money
safe end accessible — represents its
value to the people of the community
which it serves.
IT Money deposited with us is safe, and
yet it is at all times accessible. It is
where you can secure it at any time
it may be needed, and where you
are assured of its being tn safe hands
until you want it returned to you.
fl A savings account means the culti-
vation of the habit of thrift.
• • C. Start a banh account with us today.
The Bank of Crowder
Deposits Guaranteed
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Jenkins, O. D. The Crowder City Guardian (Crowder, Indianola, and Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 11, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 21, 1915, newspaper, October 21, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc274097/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.