The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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IN FAT AND LEAN YEARS THE ENTERPRISE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A BOOSTER
During tho Urns ihat -u.lct Jl/dtr owned the | ape:
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" By K. C COX
,IFTEKN YEARS AGO TUE GRANITE ENTKR- lta£ J
II RISE w*. launched on .he * of juumnlism J"*, Hyjcr waJ «cwn Installed as editor «nil mnnatfi-r. arol o." the J. B. Jones ^'/"' j'7/iTriiTOnlw shui>. "
wilh Mr. Jam*. Searbrough as editor «■*" ? " ^ „kv-m H -made. aodally, pollUeally and ed.ton.lly-- .... Maini tiwel, all, ;l| lor „
hitcr. Th |wijht whs pub uhed in the rear of a financially—will b& a never-ending source of' Underevery ohnwip "* I i .. fulJ nxvftrtf
little office 14x16 on the lot where The Dixie Stow j t him and hi* many friends for years to comeJbetUr town, .s should be a town of
now stud* the rait of the building was oaed ss a town- P ^ h month, the town had aix hoUla.[UiatGranite with
Mtc office The liranlt* .State Bank. or what is now the ^ ^ ft flour jjthin|f bttg|netff twelve or thirteen wiloona. |rtleaat flv thoutand people.
State Guaranty Hank, wna located on ihe lot on |um|vrya„uand kind of bu«in«won nearly ever>*. -
the r splendid two-story building now-stand*. The bwir^ ^ io {\w depot. (Some people may not
wa in a tent; a huge second-hand *afe occupied one #lJ*|kn0W whut that last expressi on moan*. but that is not oui
of the tent and a noods box, somewhat larger than t| <• fl|Ujt j xhis« may aound a little "fishy," und aa Th«* Lnttr-
wife. waa on the other ide. AH the books :<nd pap^r*1 ^ vcpy ud of ita reputation for truth and yt racily.:
that could not be crowded into the safe wero kept in the roj«j,r be better to explain that thia waj before tho Choc-
box. and the top of the t>ox served as a cashiers dchk. Uw bui|t we(lt from K| j{en0 an<| cut off nn alirxft tmHm-
the lobby wa« about Cx 12 in the front | art of the ttni.. Urrilory north of uaand the people for forty and fifty;
Claud Rorer was cashier and Mr. Waddc 1 was present an(] west and seventy miles north never had a
of th - institution. Perhaps it would be like tellingjam chancc to tratli, Jlt a railroad town before.
lv secrets to tell how fast they made money, and then u Had th0 raiiroad nut built west to Man* um the town-
would be an unpleasant story for some present day people ^ haytf becn R ,ittle fol tirnc to its owr .is, I- t ns
that are bitterly opposed to usurious intewt-but jt waa< it Ct 8, n arly a.^ much as the town was worth to
anyhow, we will venture the information that Claud otten ^ frum . tQ the whisn lg gtation c!ass.
said that they tried not to charge more than 2 per cent
a mi\Vith the historv of The Enterprise comes as well the
history of Granite, and, if space would admit it a !, the
small 1) r; v.'e'ilU no: have any use lor his dur.e novol for a ;
Tho t v.... surveyed in th? m*nth c f May,
1))) b Mr. Worrc\l,chiof engineer of the party that sur-
vived the railroad through Id Mangum, and the first train
that ever touched Greer county coil crossed North fork or
Red River on the 13th day of July, 1930, and then Main,
street in the town on 2 o'clock on the loth. ,
Of course, there could not be a live town without a I
newspaper, and the folk got busy and thore was quite a
*,"ramble for awhile to see who could get here firat, but
"Sunny Jim" beat them to it, and The Enterprise was born.
When Mangum began to boom, Jim wanted to get back
home, ind about that time a real newspaper man appeared
on the scene. As he often said himself, he came to town
on the running gear of a freight wagon, wearing about
$2 75 worth of clothes, including the red bandanna that he
wore in lieu of a collar and tie, and with 30c in his pocket.
Cotton Scene in Granite
Bird's Eye View of the Town of Granite
Hard Times Never Overtake Those Who Have Money in the
STATE GUARANTY BANK
Officers
D. A. BELMORE,
1'residei.t
G. W. WILEY,
A; ice- President
W. E. BOGAN,
Cashier
DivcciOi*:
D. A. B2LMORE
G. W. WILEY
J. H. HOLD EN
A mm ^ r\r\ A Deposit with THIS BANK u a guarantee against hard times in
and Surplus, oldage. Start now. Deposit, guaranteed by State of Oklahoma^
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The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 7, 1915, newspaper, May 7, 1915; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280977/m1/4/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.