The Willow Times (Willow, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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THE WILLOW TIMES
VOL 2
WILLOW GREER COUNTY. OKLA.
FRIDAY. May 25. -17.
NO. 4
wore
Ford
New Elevator To Be
Erected Nere.
Mr. Cox, of the Cox Henry m
Grain Company, was hero from Okla Robert* and family
Carmen, Okla., last week looking'ou* niotoringjn their new
over the ground with u view to Sunday. •
building an elevator h^re. He was Claud McGowan repor.fi the
evidently very favorably impresf- na'e of a thng'iing m-chine to
ed with the oit'ook fo* on Rowe Wyatt of Marie, and one
Sunday a telegram was received to Richard Strouhal also,
her? stating that the Cox Henry t. I), Scott, Walte.- Adams,
Grain Co. would take the thrie pred Jones, W. T. Norris and Kl-
lots and office offered for sale by m . r Hudson were some who at-
J. H. Holden, and begin work on tended the class initiation at the
an elevator right away At this \y. q. W, Ixxlge at Granite Mon-
writing (Tuesday) their rjpre- day night
sentative has not come in but is j Mfs w jj pattil, (mis.
expccted at any time as their ele- ^ at WH|ow 0kla., is visiting
gram statedI that he would be her ,ut M„ j. j. ,!ai!(>Vi an<)
here soon. The Cox Henry Co. ni<?{.e Mrs w w Smith._Gains.
.s a strong company, already |vi]|e (T Dai, R igtei,
owning a string of elevators thru- . . , VT a_,
out Okla., and we believe Willow! !fl,reJour cr°P «"th, North-
is very fortunate in having this N^toonai at the old rate,
company cast anchor in our town. | Ho,den and Ba«t ' ly.
The elevator proper, we under-; ANNOUNCEMENT
stand, will be erecte<l on the rail- j I have closed a contract with
road right-of-way south of the de- the National Marble W orks of
MANY ODD HOUSES
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' Great Number of Queer Habita-
tions Found in England.
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Never has
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Atlanta. Ga., one of the largest
tombstone manufacturing con-
more favorable for an enterprise eerns in the United States. Any-
of this kind in W ltv>w, for there 0ne desiring a monument please
is a considerable acreage of whV.. j m [tc, {>hone or call on
in this territory and the recent j T. Iv. Underwood.
rains have practically assured the
farmers of a good yield. This,
Jim and Horace Walker, Oscar
Hagee, W. S. McDonald, and J.
together with the high pricj of | w Stevenson went fishing over
wheat, makes this a mod oppar- cn Elk Creck Monday, but report
tune time for the location of an
elevator here.
While there has always been a
considerable quantity of wheat
marketed in Willow, the tc wn has
heretofore been at a disadvantage
because of the lack of facilities for
handling same. With the elevat-
or an assured fact this feature will
; poor success.
J. H. Eslinger of Jester purchas-
ed a new grain header from Claud
! McGowan Saturday.
Will O'Cjnnell was in Mangum
Monday.
J. J. Baker and Okla Robeits
attended the W. O. W. lodge
0<d Cottage That Is Much Like Peg. *
goty'e Boathoute and Other Freak
Dwelling* Are encountered.
The largeat private dwelling houne la .j,
Ku u hxid w* know. It U Went worth-
WwhIIjuuw, the neal of Eur^PltswlI-j...
Bum. In Turkahlr*. The oldest lnbab* [
Ited buune Is suld to be the so-culled
"Jew's Iioum'," In Uiii'uln, of the Nor* j
limit period, about eight hundred years
old. Hut which and where 1* the most
curious habitation In these lMlnuds?
fihkx n writer In London Answers.
Many tourists who know Conway j £
will no doubt nt once declare for ;ho! v
miniature house to be found in that! *j*
town un the quay, and actually built i
beneath the grim, undent walla of Ed-' *•*
ward I s massive mstlc. It thus form*
an extraordinary contrast with that
great fortress, for It Is "the .smallest
house In Great Brituln," as the noUce* j *
board on its very miniature frontag^! *
declares. ' | *)*
The people of Conway seem to be \
rather more proud of the fame this lit- j *|*
tie slip of a house brings the town than
of the greater fame brought by the big-
ger building, and picture-postcard ven-
ders do a large trade in cards of it.
Between Gravesend and the village
of Chalk, and situated in a curious po-
sitlon, with the Thames on one side
und the Thames and Medway canal on I
the other. Is an old cottage that is half
a boat. It has stBud there certainly
since the time of Charles Dickens, who
lived In the neighborhood and may
well have had It In mind when he In
The v are no disputed accounts when you have your
cancelled Checks to show what vou have paid. Hone# t er-
rors have often been made that have caused accounts to
Ik* paid twice, but if you have your cancelled checks to
show, this does not iupoen.
Let this Bank keep Books for You
nnd we will mail you a monthly statement of your ac-
count, with all paid vouchers, and these will serve at the
end of the year to show you how much business you have
done.
Do your banking business at home
and when you need an accommodation we are in a posi-
tion to take care of you.
Let's get acquainted and boost for a better commun-
ity, for bet ter roads, better schools, better churches and we
will all feel better over it.
THE FIRST STATE BANK
Of Willow, Okla.
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E. K. Thurmond, Pres.
Guy Ford, Vice-Pres.
II. C. Ford, Cashier,
DeWitt Holden, Ass't Cash.
The Future of the Classics.
The languages and literature* of
| Greece and Howe will always remain
vented PeggottyV boathouse on Yar- attractive fields for students whoso
mouth sands In "David Copperfleld.". tastes and natural capacities are chief-
This is almost such another, and Is
formed from one of the bouts of the old
wooden man-o'-war Wellington, sold
out of the servce In 1822. The boat,
"upside down, forms both roof and up-
per floor of the cottage.
ly literary, and especially for men of
fetters, authors, and professional stu-
dents of language; but It Is* certain j
that they are soon to cease to make a I
prescribed part of general secondary i
and higher education, writes Charles j
Louis Joseph Vance
A whimsical freak house of consider-1 ^ ®H°t tl,e AUuntic. There ara
Interest-Is that to° niany histories, too many new
sciences with applications of great Im-
portance, nnd too many new liters*
lures of high merit which have a va-
riety of modern uses, to permit an^
one, not bound to the classics by af«
able size and great
known e the "Tripod house," standing
In the village of Goodrich, on the River
Wye. It was built in 1G36 by Rev.
Thomas Swift, vicar of Goodrich and
grandfather of the famous Dean Swlfi.
be eliminated and there is ce.-tain ! meeting at Granite, Monday
to be much more wheat market- night.
e:1 here this year than ever before. Mrs. McDonald, Mrs, Walter
Another benefit to te derived Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
from the erection of the elevator Ziegler, Miss Clarice Sirgley and
here, aside and distinct from the j E. C. Cecil attended the recital
advantages it will afford the farm-
ers of this community, is the ad-
vertising it will give our town,
threby probably attracting other
business ventures here.
at Brinkman Monday night.
Auto Fop Sale
One Chevrolet automobile for
sale; run about three months;
good as new. Will take good note
and part payment.
Okla Roberts was in Brinkman
Tuesday afternoon. Jim Hughes was in Mangum
Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Ford and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Claud McGowan B. H. Baggarly has been out of
motored to Granite Sunday. j town most of the week writing
C. L. Raulston is having an ad-' hail insurance for the farmers,
dition built to his residence east j The Times wants a correspond-
of town this week. Uncle Billy j ent from every postoffice and ru-
Ross is doing the work. ! ral community in the county. We
Buy your groceries where you vv*^ furnish stamps and station-
get a greater quantity and a bet- ary. Come in and get a supply.
tt*r quality for the lea^'t money, j Roy McAllister and wife and
That is at T. K. Underwood and wife at-
Underwood's Grocery. tended the school entertainment
Mrs. T. K. Underwood taught at Mangum Monday night.
school this Week during the ab- Ben I^ack attended the show at
sence of Prof. Kn'ght, who was in Mangum Monday night.
His idea was to tbu* typify the trinity, f^on"te associations and education-
- al tradition, to believe that Latin can
maintain the place It has held for
Oklahoma City.
Try Beef Wine and Iron for a
morning tonic. For sale by
Post Office Drug Store.
Hever went up to ^'k
•^Turning Saturday.
Miss Bessie Dooly attended the
and to do so he designed and built the
house on this curious plan—a central
hall, with three wings branching from
it at equal distances.
The unfortunate vicar and builder of
this quaint house was a devoted royal-
ist, and as such his odd duelling was
pillaged no fewer than twenty times
by the soldiers of the parliament, who
also stole all his cattle aud farm stock.
He did not live to see the restoration
of Charles IJ, dying, as he did, In 1656.
Our next example of an eccentric
dwelling house Is to be found in a very
different part of the country—away in
Lincolnshire, near Horncastle. From
Its fancied resemblance to a teapot it
Is locally known as "Teapot Hall." It
was built, according to tradition, by a
retired captain of one of the old "tea
clippers," as the fast sailing ships in
the China trade used to be called.
A very fine and particularly striking
residence Is that known as "The
Grange," Leominster, Herefordshire,
and it hns en astonishing history, hav-
ing once been the town hall and But-
ter Cross. Built In 1033 from designs
by the famous Herefordshire architect,
John Abel, who worked chiefly in tim-
ber, if Is a structure entirely of elabo-
rately marked wood, and formerly
stood in the center of the town. It had
an open ground floor used as a butter
market. This extremely beautiful relic
of the seventeenth century was In 1853
found by the town council of Leo-
minster to be In the way nnd It was
sold at auction for £95.
Rev. C. H. Montgomery, Bap-
tist pastor in charge of the church
centuries in the youthful training of
| educated men, a place which It ac
| quired when It was the common
speech of scholars, and has held for j
centuries without any such good rea- i
son. For this loss of status by Latin
genuine classical scholars will natur- I
ully console themselves with the re-
flection that It has never been possiblo
to give an unwilling boy any real ao
quaintance with the Latin language
or any love of Latin literature by
compelling him to take three "units" j
of Latin nfr school nnd a course or
tvro of Latin in eollege.
Has written many
splendid stories, as
everyone who has read
"The Brass Bowl,"
"The Black Bag," or
"The Bandbox" ls
ready to testify. We
take pleasure in an-
nouncing as our next
serial a new story by
this author, probably
the best story he has
ever written,
Watch for and read
The Destroying Angel
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: school play at Mangum Monday, here, has moved his family from
night. I Elk City to Willow in order to be:
near his work. We are glad to j
G. M. Joiner, wife and Okla ^ave these good people with us. ;
Roberts and wife were visitors at u„ cm!,L ne rarf0(.
the home of Oklas father Sun- Harrison Smith, of Carter, was ^
rjgv. j here Monday.
A FARMEK carrying an
** express package from
a big mail-order house was
accosted by a local dealer.
"V/hy Cidn't you buy that Ml
of good* from mc? I could have
need you the express, and besides
you would have been patronizing r
home store, tchkh helps pay the
taxes and build* up this lability.
The farmer looked at the mer-
chant a morrtei i Mid then scid:
"Why don't you p-jtronbe your
home paps and advertise? I read it
anJdidn thnoiclh-'you hadthcsii^f
/ hace her*. "
MORAL—ADVERTISE
Home Again.
After an absence of several
months we have again taken
charge of the Times, and are in-
deed glad to be back in Willow,
and we cxpect, with your cooper-
ation, to print as newsy ::nd re-
liable a paper as possible,
We urge those who are ijot now
subscribers to hand in their sub-
scription as soon as possible for
more subscribers means more ad-
vertising and more advertising
means more money and more
; money ir.?ans a better paper.
E. H. Beverlv.
W. T. Greenlee is the owner of
« new Maxwell auto.
W. K. Zieglcr and family and
Mrs. Walter Jackson were iu
Britikniau Sunday.
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Beverly, E. H. The Willow Times (Willow, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, May 25, 1917, newspaper, May 25, 1917; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc276366/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.