The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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Granite, (ireer ( ountv. Oklahoma. Friday May 2. 1913
NO. 51
PRICE
PASSES AWAY
Tht« town of Lone Wolf ha* been
having a «ri at deal of trouble
for some time. The council re-
eentlo st-cured a man from St.
Louiit to take charge of the plant
but he was caught in the belting
[and instantly killed shortly after
Old and Highly Esteemed taking charge. Mr. Arnett is
} Citizen of Granite Died qualified for the work de-
Last Friday Morning • m,ind*d of him. the town is
COTTON CROP
A GOOD ONE
DISTRICT
MEETING
to be congratulated on
his services
securing
I Richard Price, an old and high
py esteemed citizen of Greer {
tounty di^d at his home throe |
liles north of town ut 2 o'clock j
Friday morning.
Mr. Price was born of English j
rents in Cork, Ireland In the
year 1849, and was about f>4! METHODIST CHURCH NOTES
Gins at Granite Near Double | Of Oddfellows and Rebekahs
Was Held at Granite Last
Saturday Afternoon.
Amount Ginned Last Year
at this Place
0
years of age at the time of his
death, which was due to valvu-
lar heart trouble of long stand-
ing.
While yet a small child his
parents returned to their home
in London, where young Price
grew to manhood.
When a young man he went to
Australia where he spent some
years. After traveling twice
around the world he finally set-
tled in Oregon. From there he
went to Western Texas in 1893,
where he lived for several years,
and was married to Miss Armeda
Bristow, daughter of our fellow
townsman, J. J. Bristow, in 1895.
Three years later he moved with
family to Arkansas, and spent
three years there, after which
he came to Greer county, where
he has lived ever since.
Deceased is survived by his
wife, one daugther and four sons,
the daughter about ltjl years or
age, and the youngest son about
three years old. He is also sur-
vived by a brother who is a sur-
geon in the English army, now
stationed in India.
Mr. Price had been sick for
several weeks but the hight be-
fore he died he told his wife
that he fait a great deal better
and expected co get up next
morning.
Mrs. Price had been sitting up
with him for a long time, and
was completely worn out' Only
a short time before he died he
told his wife to lie down on the
bed beside him so he could touch
her if he wanted anything.
Shortly afterward she felt him
give a convulsive shudder, and
when she raised up to look at
him he was dead.
The funeral took place Friday
afternoon, Rev. Moore being in
^charge, with interment in the
City cemetory. Mr. Price's
father was a Methodist minister
1 and he belonged to that church,
I his membership now being at
I Retrop. His bereaved wife and
^ > little ones have the heartfelt
sympatey of the entire commun-
ity in their great less.
t.
Spring time in good shape and
fine spirits. Under ordinary
conditions from now on until
October, this pastor puts the
whole preaching service within
sixty minutes. Our church is
splendidly situated and con-
structed for ventilation, and we
are going to do everything possi-
ble for the comfort and religious
help of those attending our ser-
vices.
Next Sunday is onr regular
communion Sunday—we desire
all our own members and our
friends in other churches, to
meet at The Lord's Table on
that occasion.
The Service at night will be in
charge of W. W. Robinson and
the Leagne. It is the 24th anni-
versary of the organization of
this Young People's Society.
They have a good program and a
delightful evening is in reserva-
tion for all friends of our dear
young folks.
On May 11th comes the an-
nual Mother's Day service. Our
North Methodist brethren, at
their General Conference last
May, made this one of the "fixed
days in their Church Calender,"
and most other churches observe
the day. We will have a pro-
gram, the Leaguers will try to
have a flower for every mother,
and the pastor will preach a
special sermon.
Our third quarterly meeting
comes May 17—18. It will be
held at Mountain Home School
house. Bro. Mitchel desires to
preach at.2 P. M. and hold the
business meeting immediately
after the sermon. On Sunday
we desire to hold an old fashion-
ed Love Feast at 9:30 A. M., and
then the sermon and the Holy
Communion. Let us plan to
make that the greatest day reli-
giously. that ever was at Moun-
tain Home.
H. 0. Moore, Pastor.
Three of the gins at Granite
have closed for the Reason, with
the bent run experienced in sev-
eral years. A total of 6376 bains
were ginned here thin season,
distributed a* follows:
Tiniley & Slaton 1710
Farmers' Gin 1708
Peoples' Gir 1543
Potts Gin 1115
Mr. Paul Slaton, of the Tins-
ley & Slaton gin says he will run
tomorrow and possibly next Sat
urday before closing down for
the season. The Farmers'. Peo-
ples'. and Potts gins have alrea-
dy closed.
Compared with the figures of
last year, 3308, this shows an in-
crease of almost double the
amount of the staple ginned here
last year.
Granite banks show deposits of
last year, 3308, this shows an in-
crease of almost double the
amount of the staple ginned here
this year.
Granite banks show deposits
of nearly $180,000 in their last
statements, against a showing
of $110,000 at the same period
last year. This says much for
the prosperity of the community.
Another thing speaks well for
conditions here. Last year $70-
000 was sent out of town to buy
feed with. This year the far-
mers have their own feed and
that money is being kept at home
In proof of this we quote Mr.
J. E. Burke, feed merchant of
this city. He said,
"I have not sold $20 worth
of feed to farmers this year.
Last year at this time my daily
sales averaged double that
amount."
One old gentleman said to The
Enterprise man last week: "I
have been here twenty-four
years, and we now have the best
prospects for crops I ever saw."
With such a showing as this,
why not come to Granite now?
Lots of good people are doing so
and dozens who have left are
coming back.
A Fine Attraction.
Manager Stratton has secured
for tonight a moving picture re-
production of the sinking of the
Titanic. The pictures are said
to be the most realistic thing of
the kind ever attempted, and
cost over $1,000,000 to produce.
Mr. Stratton assures his patrons
that they will certainly get their
money's worth when they see
this wonderful 3000 foot reel of
pictures graphically reproducing
the greatest sea disaster of mod-
,cih history.
Preparing to Move.
Harmon Smith is this week
remodeling the Old Ford build-
ing on Lower Main Street, and
the place will be occupied by
Walter Bryan as a restaurant
about the 15th. The building is
being improved by taking out
the barber shop and putting in a
new front. Mr. Bryan will have
a fine location, and promises the
hungry public a cafe second to
none in this section.
Township Board to Meet.
The Granite township board
will meet at the Farmers State
Bank at 10 o'clock, Saturday,
May 3. All persons having bills
against the township are request-
ed to present them at this meet-
ing. Julian Haynes. Trustee.
Move to Lone Wolf.
Mr. and Mrs. Hollis Arnett ' Sweet Potato Slips.
left Saturday for Lone Wolf, j Yellow Yam slips at $2.50 per
where they will make their home j Harry H. Beard, Hobart,
for the coming year. Mr. Ar-
nett has accepted the position of
superinteneent of the water and lf ,, - „ .
. . .. - , Alfalta Hay for Sale—$10 per
light plant at that P*a«e. and ton> jn any puantity. See Mess
took eharpe of the work Msnday.1 more Bros.
Southern Inventors
The following patents were
just issued to Southern clients
reported by D. Swift and Co.,
Patent Lawyers, Washington, D.
C. who will furnish copies of
any patent for ten cents apiece
to our readers.
Oklahoma.—John L. Breere,
Centrahoma, Cultivator attach-
ment; William H. Futhey, Chil-
dress, pump supporting attach-
ment for cycles; P. A. Huddles-
ton, Oklahoma, Electric annun-
ciator and lightening mechan-
ism; B. T. Lawson, Ada, wire
twisting tool; Joseph L. Pritch-
ard, Oklahoma, Irrigation plant.
Texas.—William J. Rice, Cor-
pus Christi, scale alarm.
Oddfellows and Rebekahs of
Greer Kiowa counties met at
Gradite for their district meet-
ing last Saturday, and the gath-
ering was pronounced by all to
be one of the most pleasant and
instructive ever held since the
organization of the association.
The crowd was estimated at
from 800 to 1000 people, and was
said to be by far the largest ever
attending a meeting of this asso-
ciation.
After an interesting program,
a special session of the Grand
Lodge was held, presided over
by the Grand Master Oliver C.
Black, of Oklahoma City. The
Grand Codge degree was con-
ferred on several applicants and
a school of instruction held.
At the same hour the Rebek-
ahs held their meeting in the
Schave hall, the time being used
by exemplification of the secret
work.
At 6 o'clock an elaborate ban-
quet was served in the McGehee
building, after which the work
of the two orders was resumed
and continued until a late hour.
Conferring of degrees by the
Oddfellows was as follows:
Initiatory Degree, Willow
lo^ge. First Degree, Hobart
Sefitr d Degree, Mangum lodge.
Third Degree, Lone Wolf lodge.
Exemplification of the Rebek-
ah degree work was given by the
Mangum and Lone Wolf staffs.
ration will be to aee that the
counties of Oklahoma are well
represented at the International
Dry-Farming Congress in Tulsa
in October, both through exhib-
its and delegates. F. J. Meek,
secretary manager of the Okla-
homa Retail Merchants Associa-
tion, and Charles U. Caldwell,
secretary of the Oklahoma De-
velopmene Commission, will visit
every county in the state during
May as exposition commissioners
for the big Congress. They will
work with the county commit-
tees alreadv appointed ane will
confer with local business men
for new work where there ia
now none. Blaine. Tulsa and
Muskogee counties have already
guaranteed $500 each in special
piizes to the winners at Tulsa in
October, and it is expected that
every county in the state will
follow suit.
THE SILO IN
OKLAHOMA
Two of Them Net One Feed-
er at Profit of over $6000
Last Year.
APPROPRIATION
For Reformatory Buildings
Passes the Senate Tuesday.
Special to the Enterprise.
Oklahoma City. April 30th.—
Senator Carpenter's bill pro-
viding for a new board of control
passed the senate today.
The bill appropriating $295,000
for Reformatory buildings passed
the senate yesterday.
Maintainance appropriation for
Reformatory was cut out of the
house bill today. Common talk
here is that it will stay cut out
under present conditions.
Working for Granite.
On receipt of a letter from
Schuyler Powell asking to see
him in Oklahoma City, K. C.
Cox left Tuesday for that place.
Mr. Powell is owner of the
Southwestern quarries at this
place, and offered to meet Mr.
Cox for the purpose of placing
Granite's advantage before the
public building committee which
has the State capitol matter in
chaige. The two gentlemen
are deeply interested in Granite,
and want to see the capitol built
of stone from this place, no mas-
ter who does the work
FOR BETTER FARMING
Permanent Organization For-
med as Result of Tulsa
Conference.
Board of Agriculture.
We have received a copy of
the quarterly report of the Okla-
homa State Board of Agriculture
ending March 31st, 1913.
This report contains articles
on the preparation of soils, and
upon the cultivationrand harvest-
ing of the following staple crops,
to-wit: Oats, corn, cotton, non-
saccharine sorghums, broom
corn, kaffir, milo, feterita, pea-
nuts, cow peas, alfalfa, sweet
potatoes, Bermuda grass, Irish
potatoes, Mexican beans, wheat,
saccharine sorghums, sweet clo-
ver, onions; also for the destruc-
tion of and prevention from the
ravages of the cotton boll worm,
web worm, chinch bugs, Hes-
sian fly, etc, and for the protect-
ion of seeds from mice and
moles.
The information is of inesti
mable value to the progressive
farmers of Oklahoma.
Copies of the report will be
sent free upon request to the
board.
Seed Peas For Sale!
I have a lot of Whippoorwill
seed peas for sale. Special pr ices
on five bushel lots Rob't. Briggs
Granite, Okla.
Okla. Leave orders at Hackett's
i store, granite Okla
Good Pasture.
i will take your cow to a good
pasture and return her to vou
each night for $2.00 per month.
E. O. Tompkins.
Tulsa, Okla., April 30-A per-
manent organization for "better
farming and better farms" in
Oklahoma is the result of the
Oklahohia State Development
Conference held in Tulsa on
April 24. The Oklahoma Farm
Congress Association was organ-
ized with .T. F. Darby cf Musko-
gee as President and O. H.
Leonard of Tulsa treasurer and
Julius Letcher of Tulsa secretary
Two vice presidents were elect-
ed from each judicial district of
the state os follows:
District No. 1: J. H. Jackson,
Enid; O, F. Grecion, Stroud.
District No. 2: Frank Thralls,
Anadarko; George Curtis, Okla-
homa Citv.
District No. 3: William McAr-
thur. Bixby; E. B. Shotwell, Ok-
mulgee.
District No. 4 A. F. Snoddy,
Stratford; J. T. Leard, Hugo.
District No. 5: C. C. Henrv.
A Good Idea.
A map showing a plan of Uni-
ted States Senator Newlands by
which he proposes to stop flood
disasters in the Mississippi val-
ley will be found in the Enter-
prise this week. The idea is to
cut a canal across the part of the
states of Nebraska. Kansas and
Oklahoma, turning the waters
of the Missouri river down that
way, finally leading them into
the North Fork, and on to Red
river. This plan carried out will
mean the saving of millions year
ly to planters of the big valley
who are flooded so badly, and the
waters thus diverted would irri-
gate millions of acres that are
now worthless except for graz-
ing. It would make Y estern
Kansas and parts of \\ >stern
Oklahoma, now considered only
good to raise jack rabbits on,
the garden spot of the United
States.
A feeder in Stephens County,
Oklahoma, built and filled two
200-ton silos last year. He
Oought 200 steers, fattened them
on silage, chop and cotton seed
meal. After deducting the cost
of all other feed and expense,
the steers returned $5, 060.00
for the silage and profits. He
will erect four more silos this
summer.
This is a fair sample of the
profits Oklahoma feeders have
made from silage fed to beef
cattle. Conservative business
men say that 400 farmers in
Garfield county and 200 in Stev-
ens county will be put up silo*
this season. It is probable that
10,000. silos will be built this
summer in Oklahoma if the mat-
erial can be secured.
The time is earning when
every good farmer in Oklahoma
will find that he can not afford
to be without one or more silos.
Silage used for beef produc-
tion gives a large income per
acre. When a farmer lacks cap-
ital but has well filled silos he
can borrow all the money he
needs for feeders at a low rate.
Silage fed to fattening cattle
will bring profits quickly.
The silo is not only going to
secure profits for Oklahoma far-
mers from winter feeding, it is
going to become one of their
chief standbys in summer.
Whenever pastures get dry, sil-
age will be feed and the cattle
will keep on making as good
gains when the drought is severe
as they did when pasture was at
its best.
The better the green material
put into the silo, the mose valua-
ble will be the silage. There is
just one crop that it will always
pay the Oklahoma farmer to
raise for silage-Kafir. The
large cattle feeders of Blaine
county say that it is a waste of
time to fool with other crops.
Sometimes other crops will pay
but Kafir pays every year on
every kind of ground. These
men feed many thousand beef
cattle every year.
Kafir for silage should be
grown to produce the largest
yield of grain per acre and
should be cut and put in the silo
when the seed is in the dough.
Particular attention should be
paid to selecting Kafir for seed
that is of the type that yields
high in grain.
H. M. Cottrell, Agricultural
Commissioner Rock Island
Lines.
Freah iish at the City Market ■ Altus; F. J. Meek, Duncan
roday and tomorrtw. The first work of the or
T&ey Come to Granite.
People in all parts of the
county read The Enterprise, and
of course they see the Dixie
Store's advertisements in this
paper. As a result this popular
store was visited this week by a
party from Mangum who bought
$15 worth of shoes alone, beside
other goods. Another party
came from fifteen miles north of
Willow in Beckham county, also
several people came from Lades-
sa, all of whom bought a large
bill of goods at the Dixie. Moral:
Why go away for your dry
goods when you have a store of
this kind right at your door?
Money to Loan
I have some private money to I
j loan on farms at a reasonable Ked top, Shumate and seeded
. . J?1* interest. See David ribbon c^ce seed for sale. Mess-
orgam- Hand, Granite. Okla.. ' mdte Erds.
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Hill, Charles E. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1913, newspaper, May 2, 1913; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280889/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.