The Twice-A-Week Sun. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 19, 1913 Page: 3 of 8
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TWICE-A* WEEK SUN, OUTHRI E, OK LA
RAGE THREE
Garden spot ol Oklahoma
Crescent, the loyan County city, Classed as
Best Town Its size in Oklahoma
Considering the fact that Cres-
cent, probably the smallest Okla-
* homa cityjto ever entertain a big
statewide association, which they
will do on next Tuesday by handing
over the keys to the city to the
state association of 89ers, their
kindred and friends, it might be an
opportune time to draw aside the
▼eil of imagination and allow the
many thousands of Oklahomans
whose eyes art now on this beauti-
ful little city, and let them take a
glimpse of the reality, and give a
brief description of the progressive
little eity who now bids them wel-
come to the big feast of amusement
and gaiety that is in store for those
who intend visiting Crescent and
participating in the big celebration
that marks another milestone sep-
arating the great historic run from
the present.
Cresceat is a thriving little city
of 1200 population beautifully situ-
ated inside a crescent of weoded
hills and dales, from which fact it
derived its name, there being what
is known as "old town," which was
the original Crescent and has ex-
1 isted lo, these many years of strug-
gling privations, marking one of
the real trading points of the old
* regime of things that were. How-
ever, with the earning of the Den-
ver, Enid &Gulf railroad somo nine
«r ten years ago—it was in August
of 11102 that the necessary bouus
was subscribed and the railroad as-
sured for this small, though thriv-
ing village; so snugly located on
what is now known as the east side.
With the building of the railroad
ana the locating of the depot new
Crescent was born, and has for al-
most ten years enjoyed a prosperi-
ty that seldom falls to the lot of
smaller agricultural centers. From
the frame storerooms of the older
towa moved along with the new
townsite, sprang more commodious
frame structures, which now is
rapidly giving way to the perma-
nent brick and stone structures,
beautiful in architecture and up to-
dat* in appointments.
Four beautiful and up-to-date
permanent business blocks now
stand where oniy a short time ago,
stood th« frame buildings ©f the
pioneer Crescent City, with, pros-
pects for additional buildings of the
same type to come soon. A beau-
tiful grade and high school build-
ing now stands as a monument to
educational progress. The two
progressive and thriring banks
have handsome homes of their own,
with the most np to-date safety
rauits far the benefit of their de-
positors.
In caring for the great volume of
business which naturally.falls to the
lot of this little city, located as it
is, right in tke midst of the garden
spot of Oklahoma, we find that in
the great spread of progress, the
merchants are keeping up the stride
of their city's progress bv carrying
lines of goods seldom found outside
much larger cities, neatly displayed
in well lighted store rooms in a
most up-to-date manner, and with
up-to-the-minute methods of doing
business, they show up their spirit
of progressiveness, the brand of
which secured for this nice little
city the big meeting which is to oc-
cur there next week. •
To care for the great cotton crop
in this community, five gins are lo-
cated at Crescent, and truly the
streets of the city, and especially
the cotton market, inseasou, shows
tures of a. ctty and oae which any
oae wishiag to locate in the com-
munity always aslcs regarding first,
and that is the churches. There
are five denominational edifices in
the city, namely: Methodist Epis-
copal, Baptist, Christian, United
Brethren and Primitive Baptist.
With the five congregations and
six resident ministors, the moral
and religious spirit of the commun-
ity is dominant, which with a class
of people, hospitable in every re-
spect, welcoming strangers to the
city and treating all with that class
of hospitality so famous in the
southland, these who find an abid-
ing place within the couiipes of the
territory embraced by this thriving
little city and adjaaent community,
whether only temporary or perma-
nent, soon remark regarding the
high social class of the folks with
whom they come in contact in their
everyday life.
With that fraternity born from
such hospitality shown by the cit-
izenship of Crescent there flourish a
number of the prominent secret
orders, including the Masonic, I
O. F., K. & L . of S., M. W. A., and
the auxiliaries, O. E. S., and tke
Rebekahs.
Compared with other cities her
size, Crescent has so far outgrown
them that this city is in a cla?s all
her own, farther up in the scale of
the really progressive order of doing
proof of the proud boast of her
citizenship that she stands alone in
her commercial activities.
The city of Crescent supplies the
needs and necessity of a broad ex-i
panse of territory in this region
and wnen on the regular farmer
holiday on Saturday the various
conveyances and vehicles to be
found on the streets of that city is
truly amazing and to one unaccus-
tomed to seeing such mercantile
activity, it is extremely so. Hun-
dreds of farmer's rigs find hitching
room in Crescent during the week-
end shopping tour and they are at-
tracted from far and near by the
bargain offerings of dependable
tnerchaudise being offered by the
merchants of this truly progressive
bargain center .
Crescent, like many of her neigh-
bors, is laying great, store upon the
proposition that oii underlies her
soil and stranger than fiction are
facts themselves, and so sure are
various home, as well as foreign
companies, that oil is to be found
in paying quantities in this immed-
iate territory that thousands of
acres are already leased, with con-
tracts signed for drilling and ere
many weeks the actual work of
drilling in this coming field wilt be
in full sway.
Should oil be struck in paying
quantities, Crescent will take upon
herself the honor of giving to the
under the wire a winner among the
other towns of Oklahoma by a mar-
gin that will be phenomenal.
Taken all in all, Crescent is one
of the most talked of small towns ia
the state, outside the real oil boom
towns, but traveling men, out of
state visitors and strangers gener-
ally are ever afterward willing and
anxious to tell the advantages of
Crescent after one visit to this
beautiful litile city lying amidst a
dormant wealth which the future,
and the future only, can guess at
its greatness.
This is the small city upon which
all eyes are focused in anticipation
of the entertaining of the big state
meeting of 89ers; this is the small
city that with open arms will wel-
come you on next Tuesday with
hospitality unsurpassed. With a
program seldom excelled by cities,
this towu is prepared for not oue
dull moment during the twelve
hours she will entertain the great-
est crowd in the history of the city.
If you want to enjoy one of the
biggest times of your^life3 if you
wish to meet a host of the most
hospitable people on earth, if you
wish to visit a small citv with a
commercial foundation upon which
will be builded one of the really
great Oklahoma cities in coming
years—in tact, if you want the best
of everything, and enjoy a ieast of
fun, frolic, music and song, Cres-
cent stretches forth her arms and
cries ''Welcome'' to all far and
near, and asks that you come, hear,
see, enjoy and be one of them, and
if perchance you are looking for a
location, she doubly bids you wel-
come to cast your lot in the fairest
■ not iu the fastest growing state
iu the union, Oklahoma.
—See our watch nd in
column.
another
Go to Swearingen for best Photos.
0;H>< site Post Office.
—Old papers for sale at this
office, 10 cents per bundle of 50
papers.
ohuht conversation.
up to the best advantage the huge
amount of business done here. A
new and up-to-date milling plant
has recently been erected at a cost
of $15,^00 to take the place of the
plant burned some time ago, and
the Crescent Milling Company are
making a flour that stands high
with their many friends throughout
this section of Oklahoma.
Among other manufactories of
the city are cement block factories,
of w hich there are two, and a cigar
factory which has recently been
opened here, and is putting out a
home brand of cigars that is fast
winning favorable comment from
tht local users of the weed.
Among the most important fea-
things. From her birth she has
flourished exceedingly, adding each
year to her wealth of agriculture,
as well as mercantile and manufac-
turing progress, until now she
stands alone among those of her
size.
One of the surest signs of pros-
perity is to be found in the freight
people of the state the example of
what a truly great commercial
foundation upon which she is really
founded, for with the coming of this
great and added commercial activ-
ity, the town will grow as if by
magic, and with the already great
mercantile foundation from which
to build, she will within a few
receipts and forwarded records, j yeare he a city of the first class,
TheA.T. & 8 F. Ry., which now
own and operate the D, E. & G., is
the only line through the city, run-
ning from Guthrie to Kiowa, Kas..
and an examination of the records
of this company, one will find that
Crescent stands as that company's
best shipping point between the
two cities named. ThuB here is the
ready, to take her rightful place
among the bigger and best cities of
the state. With oil to grease up
the old wheel of progress, she will
spin along exceeding the speed
limit of her former efforts and not
stopping for the consideration of
anything but the greater things of
commercial actiyity, she will land
The Heroine—You're a serpent.
The Villain—You're a Bnake-charm>
THE HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING, CRESCENT THE BROWN BLOCK, CRESCENT, OKLA.
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Hubbard, J. H. The Twice-A-Week Sun. (Guthrie, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 24, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 19, 1913, newspaper, April 19, 1913; Guthrie, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc276830/m1/3/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.