The Blair Progress (Blair, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1912 Page: 2 of 6
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The BlairJPublic School
Opened Monday With the largest First Day En-
rollment In the History of the School
The Blair Public School open-
ed Monday with the largest en-
rollment of any first Sday in the
history of the school. Two hun-
ind twenty-nine students
enrolled the first day and
it is expected that this number
will reach two hundred nnd fifty
by the <*1ose of the week. A re-
markable thing about the school
this year is the extremely large
porportion of High School stu-
dents. Forty-five students do-
ing purely High School work
were enrolled Monday and the
number doing departmental
work in the High School and
eighth grade is about sixty-five.
The heavy enrollment in the
upper grades is partly due to
the large eighth grade graduat-
ed last year and partly to the
large number of students from
other 'towns and districts. A-
mong the students from other
places are Messrs Jesse Thom-
son and Oliver Coleman from,
No. 849
lit. r of the condition of
Tim Blair State Bank
At Ulai., in the State of Oklahoma, at
the close of Business September 4,
1912.
resources
Loans and Discounts $39,91S 72
Banking House, I.813 *»3
Furniture and Fixtures - 1,2M 11
school for a time a little later
in older to help with the cotton
picking and other fall work, yet
we earnestly hope that every ef- 0^'J^ge^red*nd
fort will be made by parents to i un3ucul.cj . 30 86
keep them in school regularly : j)UL> from uinks 6,616 02
and if they must stop that it|c»»K io B*ak ^
will be only for the shortest
possible time.
As I said to parents in my
letter last year, the time is
surely coming when you will
cease to care much for your
own material advacement and
prosperity and will come to find
your greatest pleasure in the
success of your children. The
best and greatest heritage that
can come to any young man or
young woman is a good educa-
tion. We believe that the Blair
school is prepared to offer ad-
vantages and opportunities ex-
celled by no school in the coun-
ty cr in Western Okla. And be-
lieving this we ask of patrons
the same earnest co-operation in
Headrick, Edgar and Clyde |ths future that you have ac-
Milligan from Martha, Edgar corded us in the past. You arc
Vaughan, Arnold Thompson1, cordially invited to visit school
and Misses Elvaree and Louellalat any time. The school belongs
Moore from the Consolidated to you and to your cmldrcn and
District, Miss Fannie Fullerton wo hope that you will come out
and Miso Freda Bowman of and sea our work and how thes*
^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
' We Have Received
Checks and Other Cash Items . 1!>1 lft
Total
liabilities
Capital Stock Paid in $10,000 00
Surplus, - 5,000 00
Undivided Profits less
expenses and taxes paid 2,379 25
Depjsits subject to check 20,066 84
Time deposits 1'175 00
Dills Payable 18,000 00
TOTAL $51,621 09
s3.
Star Texas.
The opening exercises were
well attended by patrons and
members of the School Board.
Short talks were given by Mr.
E. E. Snodgrass, Dr. Taylor,
Rev. Hawkins and others. Thesej
talks as well as the prence of j
so -many of the patrons gave,
much pleasure to both teacher |
and pupils and will be a source i
of help and encouragement to all
in the strenuous work of the
first few days.
While some of the pupils now
enrolled may have to stay out of
children are being cared for.
Thanking you for the hearty
support given us the past year
I am,
Yours for a bigger and better
school.
E. E. Dale, Supt.
STATE OF OKLAHOMA,
County of Jackson,
I, F. a. Hubor, Cashier of the ubove named
Dank. <lo solemnly swear that the ubove htato-
rrent 1" t'.uo to the Ueot of rny knowlcdifo uml
belief to help mo 0< d.
JOSEPH HUBER, Presiddnt
tv.ibacrilK.tl and sworn to before me thi« 11th
day of
September 1!)12.
el-Attest WYLIE m. SNOW, Notary
My commission expire* Jan. 10, 1916.
ANTON 11UBER
Directors.
Hind Parent
Cash
For eggs and chickens. High-
est price paid. Deliver at White
and Zinn's J. W. Baston.
"Dad," said a Bartesville kid
to his father the other night, ''I
want to go the show tonight."
"A show at night is no place
for a kid like you. You should
be at homo in bed."
"But i peddled bills and have
two tickets, said the kid as he
began to snitlle.
"AH right then,' answered
dad, I will go with you and see
that you do not get into trouble.
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Men's
Come in and See
Them
School Books and Supplies of
all kinds at the Blair Drug Store.
Des:grtftl by
Spcro, Michael & Son
l\leu> York
£\Cak.c*» of
"Clothes Thai Satisfy"
L N. Lewis & Co. •;
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FLOUR - SUGAR -
Se5<riT'3»
We are now selling for Cash only and at prices
which we are sure will be interesting to you. We
have plenty of the above in stock and also some
other items which we have not had for the past xetv
months have been added to our Grocery stock ie-
cently. Before buying your flour let U; make you
a price on 500 lbs. or more. Plenty of Colorado
Potatoes this week and rember we sell the at cash
prices.
We buy your eggs and chickens and pay as high
price as tne market will afford and we pay cash or
trade.
This week we received a full line ot men s and
boys clothing and next week v/e expect a BIG
SHIPMENT OF LADIES AND CHILDREN'S HiJIS-
KAMP SHOES IN ALL THE NEW STYLES.We're
after your shoe business.
P. S. We are running our deLvery wagon and will
deliver goods to any part of the City.
THE BLAIR PROGRESS
BLAIR, OKLAHOMA.
Published on Thursday of each week by
PROGRESS PUBLISHING CO.
dennis beaver. Mitr.
hen beaver DENNIS beaver
BEAVER BROS., Editors.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER ANNUM
Entered as second-clasa mail matter
Jun. 27, 1907 at the post office at Blair
Oklahoma, under the act of Congress
March 3, 1879.
Editorial
Tafts bitterest enemy must
conced that the presidents to be
commended for not making a
long eared animal of himself by
taking to the hustings in behalf
of his own candidacy. It would
degrade the high office that he
j holds, and a fools errand besides.
The Ellorado Democrats says;
Sea that the boys let the cows
take their time to and from the
pasture. A boy and a dog are
combination
watching.
that: wjjl bear
WHITE
Old Duke is to be moved to
New Duke this week. Looks
like that could have been dont
long ago, and have been leas ex-
pense to both towns. There have
been several thousand dollars
spent in this fight which has only
made th people of each town
envy -jach other, but we hope
since both towns have come to
this understanding they will get
along as brother and sister
ought.
If you want to live in a real
live town, come to Blair, it is
not what some people call a city
but is large enough for any one
that want3 to live in a good
town. Blair is located in one of
the best farming districts in
Southwest Oklahoma and it is
with tho help of the progressive
furmeM that we havo tho town
we have the town tint W(* have.
We havo one of the best set of
business men that can bo found
in tho state. They appreciate
the trade of the people. They
do not sit down and wait for the
trade to come to them but they
go after it. We noticed in sev-
eral of our exchanges that the
editors are insisting that the
merchants advertise in their pa-
per. Here in Blair we do not
have to print long articles about
our merchants not advertising
for they believe in it and give
it to us freely. Whats the use of
a man trying to run a newspa-
per in a town where he has to
fight his brother, tin merchant.
One of our exchanges for last
week had this little statement
in his editorial.
"Business will soon pick up
and it will be of the greatest
importance to the good mer-
chants to think about advertis-
ing. The farmer plants his crop
and it grows, and so it is with
the merchant who plants his ad
in the paper his business will
grow.
This is not at all our way of
you are looking for a town where
you may educate your children
among refined moral and Chris-
tain people, come to Blair and
make your homo among U3. Our
people will welcome you. If you
have to send your children away
from home to be educated,
send them here, and you can
feel that they are surrounded
by good Christian influences,
will have educational advan-
tages equal to those of any
school in this part of the state.
Blair is situated on the K. C.
M. & O. Railroad in the heart of
one of the richest and most
beautiful farming counties in
the statp. Across the fields of
cotton, corn and alfalfa can be
seen the beautiful pea.es of the
Wichita Mountains.
Our business men are active,
enterprising and prosperous, as
can be seen by looking through
this paper. Watch for the bar-
gains that they are offering
from timeiro time. Nearly half
a mill'on dollars worth of cotton
zett'ni the merchants of Blair was markct3d hare ,ast „„„ be
to advertise. We dontilove to ^ ,U#J o£ hay
raise a big howl about them not
patronizing the Progress for
grain and live stock.
We want you to come
help U3 make a bigger and
ter Blair.
and
bet-
Deal!
they do. We can truly say that
the Progress is represented as
good, if not better than any pa-
per in 9 tpwn the size of Blair
in the way of tho advertising! Big" uTOCOry
patronage than any paper ill ,
Oklahoma. Our business men! Ij.IIii,
knowthatit pays to advertise 11115 l>(5St,
in a paper that brings Jesuits. ,, [}{% (JoU'eO, tllft
Who has made the Progress! '7
what it is? Is a question that|b<»ttt W i ll KTi ll<l, 30<\
could be asked. The ed tor of|uv,.,,n Vmn 70<1
any psper may do all he can to j' ^ '
make a success of his paper but I Ht'.sl A p pi 15 YlllOtfUl'
he can do nothing unless he has
the help of the people. The
subscription list ii not as much
as it should be on account of tho
bad crops wo have ha l tho List
three years, but this year a good
crop is being harvested and we
want the people to co-operate
with U3 and double the list be-
fore the first of tho next yeiu
Again we say if you want to
come to a good town come to
Blair. We have all of the lead-
ing churches represented and
one of the best Hchools in this
part of the state. Out of the
grammar school graduates for
last term Blair furnishud Ul. H
per KH.
lllyli Pal <5iit Four
porHiick, l.M
I'lli*<5 (a. Honey 10<?
Can goods of all
| kinds at lowest pri-
ces.
Butter, Eggs and
Chickens always on
hand.
W, L. Reeves,
A
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Beaver, Ben & Beaver, Dennis. The Blair Progress (Blair, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 12, 1912, newspaper, September 12, 1912; Blair, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc287771/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.