The Eldorado Courier (Eldorado, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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KLUOHAUO, IAOICWX UOITKTT. OKIAUOMA. ritlDAV, M.y ■■>. ,B,,'
jOREW DRIVES
|'FROM CHILDRESS J
I Ah we ltu\o alrctuiy
! *»nl to the |»ul»U«' we
j have an U|M'*-tlt«te
I net "f »'j»tnul in*tru
5 mcitt* aikI Imve a
I nice office and ate
J fully laepaied to take
I care ».f your optical
wants. Now wo witth
» to any utruut we have
1 oniployed Mr. Wood
X to tako all oxumiua-
Ition* for u« and na
ho U a graduate ot a
c leading optical tin»ti-
■ tute and also holds a
J porn it- from the state
2 .boa ni of optometry
I of the stato of Ok!a-
* homa. Wo are sure
it won 1<1 he to your
interest to t>ee hiin i
and consult with hi in :
if you need glasses
c at all. And we fur- !
titer say we are pre- j
i pared to duplicate I
j aii3' old prescription j
I you may have or old
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TO PLAJNtlEW1;^^:
"•rt> of U* bui Ih• fun «M
«rZTJZt That Spot
tettWafciN.
M«I
C hildrftM «» w*fit to
l.akr Kola and Ma>«d two da>».
IaKc Kelt belong* to Ihv tHnvrr
I'Paaple. There i« » pumping
{plan! Ihtrt. Waler i« forced
two mil*. Work »< dor* with l ' *
enid, all Hi'h . tw.h- k.~. toNorth Uk#» good
la the moentii* .hm »r km! to
** ««. I« MIJJ mJoe* tom
«e fui our h«a4* in ih* wagon.
^ l«ai»b» »rtii to a lam-
'*■' >»H M » o«w |«|»
made. W»|N|| yp th« Irtil in
the rmin. up oar map »tm»
<n*de and had mm breakfasti
•bout II ovia*, which we »n-
jo*ed, It cleaned o|f >«iurd»>'
and *e got e\rr>thing in *<*1
•hape.
Wbilt l*bh« t»a* taking (he
tMnn* Irwb > uor
r~f«e*al appr%ranr«
Jim Ml Ib« Mil
a»er la u».
We'll clean aad pre**
It H'U loot frewfe
and new
It's worth t lot to
J«u to be rarvtaking
in to«r attire
Le* ui convince you
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No none nites
Lice or Blue
Bugs.
crud, oil. alth • twalw hor»c>.
poaur rnginc. The lakr t« 2|
f»wt d«H*p and cover* «e\eral
•crw. People luh hrr<> for
thojgh there were none
caught to «pi«k of while we were
there. The npillway to Lake
kela ii eighty-two >ardi long by
forty-live yard« wide, made of
solid concrete, with a drop of si*
feet. South Lake is one-half
mile south on the same canyon.
another pumping plant for the gUc«.«4
I to... TI .i . . llF".
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Denver. Then there is Uke
Scott and Lake North, where the
city water is pumoed from.
From Lake Kela the toil
changes to ashy sand, then to
woman told him *he had somt
milk to give him. So he brought
• gallon, and he was »o anxious
to take the bucket back 1 won
red at it. ||« explained that
there was a meeting or some*
thing going on that prompted
her to look on us with pity.
When he returned from taking
the bucket he told me sure
enough there wa» a big protract-
ed meeting going on with great
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red. then to gray on the road to!7* . * went int0 MaU»"
Tell. Texa- an iniarwi I I? f abcut one mile south
C rossed Pease ri\er. Very
sandy; no water except in holes,
t assetl through Northfield. Mon
lev county. Texas. Soil is dark
red sand. We went into Mata
getting a lob milking those cows.
He seemed to acquire a tante for
niilk til at once. Now I would
not tell this il he were here, but
he has gone out with a gun to
•ee the sights.
Saturday camped on the lost
bench below the can rock of the
Plains country. The soil chang-
es from deep red to gray, rocks
from gyp to white sandstone. A
fcwfetofvaa
On Friday night. Mat 12. thai
Eldorado tilee Club will reader
a program at th» auditorium for
the benefit of the library aad
' rest room.
_ '
*<«•<
1 hate nioted my office to the'
Cut Kate lirug Stcre and would
be please nieet my patrons
and friends.
H. R Taylor. M D. I
Residtacr Boraed at Is sac r
Monday the handsome resi-
dence of Wm. Robinson of
Loonev was burned with all ita
contents. No one knows the
origin of the fire. There was
an insurance policy for $snu on
the house.
Immediately
faw farms just belowThe cap nf ^ *ood p<op,e
Tell Tf<a< «n'inian7/«J wjuor pasture abcut one mile south rock. Today I saw one of .i, < °f , ne* s,art«d a subscription
the southwest corner of Childraw I °,ch«r<1'in the ,4mil>''10 whlch
i
5 broken lenses, if you
A can bring the old
piece s.
| Corner Drug Store j
| the ,
* store |
•v"' .wAao. an iman<i iown in
the southvs est corner of Childress
county. From there poor rolling
land with rocky points. Two-
thirds of the planted crop is cot-
ton: there w plenty of maize on
hand and lots of roughness.
Land is mostly worked by ten-
ants: some land heavily mort-
gaged. Tell is a nice little town
with a few good business houses,
church and school. Thev freight
everything with teams and wag-
gons.
I forgot to tell you what hap-
jjpened at Childress. It rained
incessantly. About 12 o'clock
_ Dabbs hollered, "Here she
|comes!" i raised up and the
Hater in tanks. Have passed
through three gates and nooned
near the fourth. Not many cat-
tle. but they look well. Have
seen but one young calf. There
south or west loaded with fruit-
apples. I peaches. plums, pears
and grdpes.
Moved up on the Plains Easter
Sunday and stayed over with an
• was a liberal respond.
inere ounu«jr anu stayed over with ar
18 80me ver>' K<*>d sand in the old friend. Henry McBride, for
pasture and some very rough. I merly of Eldorado.
.... - iuuku.
Water is gyp and from fifty to
two hundred feet. Where we
camped at night the only thing
to remind one of civilization was
a telephone line. We met two
autos while coming through the
pasture. Only one watering
Place on the road-a small tank
near the road. Most water is
4
W. H. DREW.
School Meet.
Goou Plays Given.
The Empire Theater had as an
attraction Tuesday and Wednes-i
day of this week moral and tern-1
peiancephotoplays which besides!
having a very uplifting tone pos-j
sessed strong entertaining fea-l
tures^ Ic has been the policy of I
Mr. Power to have only the best
service, and in bringing Mr !
Thomas with "Alcohol." "Ten '
Nights in a Barroom," and "The
Snares of Satan," our people
were permitted to witness moral
The Farmers & Mer-
chants ' State Bank
of Eldorado, Oklahoma
THE GUARANTEED BANK
F. G. DENNIS, President
W. E. JOYNER, Cashi.r
Always in the market
good chattle loans.
At the county annual school
meet at Altus last week Eldorado
pupils were there in large num-
bers.
near me roao. Most water j8j No* only were they there, but were nprm.^T' ."ur
from one-half to one mile off the Ithey were seriojs in their con- !rmnte° to witness moral
road. test for county honors, as is' in- < ^gest,on3 of » very salutary
It seems good to get out on the dicated in the ,ar^e number of na ure'
open again. Ons feels larger awards accredited to scholarship
and better in an open country, j athletics to Eldorado stu-
While nooning an old trapter |denta-.
with his two burros and saddle I. ^'Ms Johnson won fiirst place
horse came up to camp and asked iin orator>' a°d spelling in the
for water. Said he was camped jseven,h grade.
about a mile from us last night' Miss Dora Shen'ff received hon-
and did not know it until morn-jorary men^,on in oratory.
'ng. Said he had a bum outfit in 1 L°raine Kelley won first place
in fifth grade spelling.
Garland Talbott broke all pre-
vious county records in the shot-
put contest.
Eldordo won the county cham-
pionship in baseball,
Our line of Pratt# 4
Ume and
M*le Killer ha* -ar.
m«d. ureparation*
are ab«o!utely guaranteed
do the work or your
money will be refunded
Tbe Pratt* £ Lee'«
product! are widely known
and extensively u»«-d by tbe
greatest and largest poultry
fanciers in the United
State*. They »pee* for
them«elve«. Once uied al-
aav« u*ed.
Pratt'a Chick Food
!• a wonderful preparation.
. It givet to the young chicka
| Tood that requires no ef-
fort upon the digestive cr-
«aiis. which enables the
chica to grow rapidly and
be readv for market in a
very short time
We have Lee'a Germi*
zone, Pratt's Dip and
Cholera medicine and
animal Regulator for
Horse. Sheep, Cows
and Fowl
These goods are on dis-
play at our store. We will
be glad to furnish vou out
a nice book dealing with j
the care of voung chicks '
and explain the good merits
of these goods to you and
return your money cheer-
fully if not satisfactory.
CUT RATE
Drug Store
camp—lost all his grub, about
S25 worth, and could not account
for it. only when he unpacked
he threw a pair of saddlebags on
the grub pile with matches in
them. He had only his small
teepee and bedding in another
pile. He said his name was Lit-
tle and he was just in from Ari-
zona where he trapped last win
Tuesday Afternoon Study Club.
Mrs. F. G. Dennis was hostess
to The Tuesday Afternoon Study
ter. He is going southwest J ^
here to trap loafers. Says there -jj Highsmith
are a few here but they only pay Dres,ld®d- After the regular rou-
$50.00 a scalp while where he is'tme bus>ness the final ar-
rangements for the annual Club
Cattle paper a specialty.
If you desire to be indepeiv
dent start with a few cows
Talk it over with us. We
will help you.
Personal attention to
business entrusted to us.
I going they will pay $150.00.
We crossed Turtle Hole creek
about half way through the pas-
ture. It is about as large as
Boggy with a dry channel. We
are camped tonight (April 21)
near White Flat, a small inland
town in a valley six miles long
by three wide. We could hear
I the train at Matador this morn-
ing. The Matador ranch was
established by a man named
| Campbeli in the seventya. He
I was known among cowmen as
1 Paint Campbell on account of
one side of his face being marked
red. Land here is worth from
I il5 to $60 ner acre. It is tbe
best of red sand. Water is gyp
and from 25 to 200 feet deep. I
[have seen but one silo in several
days travel Near where we
I camped there lived a widow wo-
man with 100 head of whiteface
j cattle in sieht, and I had ali I
> to
keep Bro. Dabbs fro*
entertainment were made, which
will be at the Masonic Hall the
evening of May 5. It being the
time for the election of officers
to preside over the Club work
for the next year the following
were elected: President Mrs.
C. C. Baker; vice president Mrs.
S. B. Heard; second vice presi-
dent Mrs. Geo. B. Davis; record-
ing secretary Mrs. D. L. Estes:
corresponding secretary and
treasurer. Mrs. W, C\ Reeves:
critic and reporter Mrs. F. G.
Dennis. Mrs. Baker appointed
Mesdames E. F. Kennedy, W. C.
Austin and H. R. Taylor on exec-
utive board and Mesdames C. S.
Highsmith. W. C. Reeves and A.
P. Pierce library committee.
Mrs. M. C. Melton was gueat
af the hostess. A delicious
luncheon was served at dose of
Club.
Hail, Fire and Tornado
INSURANCE
I will again be with the old reliable St
Paul Insurance Company writing Hail
Fire & Storm Insurance. Be sure that you
see me or my representative before placing
3-oui insurance. We pay our claim in
cash not by promises.
R. M. THORP
Office in Rear First National Bank
" iMxwy-ii iin iiiiiimjm IULL
First National Bank
CAPITAL
SURPLUS
and
PROFITS
$45000
Tbe Courier $1
a year.
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Association ot United States
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Thacker, John Riley. The Eldorado Courier (Eldorado, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 5, 1916, newspaper, May 5, 1916; Eldorado, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc403193/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.