The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1903 Page: 4 of 8
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THE GRANITE ENTERPRISE. THURSDAY, JANUAKY ,8 iqoj
Granite Enterprise.
Issued Every Thursday By
THS ENTERPRISE PUBLISHING CO.
TCLCPHOm NO. 30.
J. W. RYDER, Managing Editor.
Entered at the PostolEce at Granite, Oklahoma, for transmission through the
mails as Second-Class Matter.
SUBSCRIPTION,
$1.00 PER YEAR.
Thousand Claims On The Normal.
THERE are at least one thousand reasons why the Southwestern Nonmal
should be built in Granite as originally contemplated by the Legislature
which passed the bill and the only trouble in presenting them to the
public is that of writing them. But here they are:
1. The idea of a Southwest Normal was first advanced by the people of
Granite.
2. President E. D. Murdaugh in the summer of 1900, when making an edu-
cational address in one of our groves said,' «I have been told that you people hope
"ome day 10 locate an Oklahoma Normal school near these beautiful groves and
mountains. There is surely no other location like this in Oklahoma, and I right
now pledge you my support in your efforts to secure it.
3. There are fourteen counties in one solid body in the south and western part
of the territory including Kingfisher and Canadian counties that have not a single
territorial school within their limits, or south or west of them, notwithstanding they
comprise two-thirds of the area and nearly one-half of the wealth and population
of the entire territory.
4. The other twelve northern and eastern counties have the university at
Norman, normal at Edmond, A. and M. College at Stillwater, university and
normal at Langston, preparatory school at Tonkawa and normal at Alva.
These schools with our public school system are the crowning glory of all
Oklahoma and while they have cost $500,000.00 they will be the pride and price
less boon of Oklahoma for centuries yet to come.
5. It is not fair nor just nor right that Southwestern Oklahoma with all her
wealth and intelligence should forever be ignored.
6. There are at least four hundred pupils in the Alva Normal today that
would never have received normal training if the Northwest Normal had not
been built.
7. Granite is in the edge of Greer, seven miles from Washita and Mills, two
miles from Kiowa and in close touch with Caddo and Comanche counties and
with our beautiful surroundings, splendid sulphur and freestone water, would
nave five hundred pupils in less than three years time.
8. Weatherford is closer to Edmond than it is to Mangum, and Custer county
is only twenty-five miles from Woods county. Why should another normal
school be built so close to Edmond and Alva? They don't need it, they don't
want it, the Southwest does.
9. Granite is the only town in Southwestern Oklahoma that has an inex-
haustible supply of building stone and first-class brick shale.
1(). The freight alone on the material shipped to Alva cost over $10 000.
This would be the case again if the school were built at Weatherford, while sand
gravel, brick shale and building stone are all on the ground at Granite
11. If the proposition to locate the school at Weatherford had come up in
the legislature that passed Mr. Mathews' bill no one has ever seen a member that
said he would have voted for it. On the other hand as is shown by published let-
ters in this issue, everyone would have killed it as dead as. the conscience of
onylock.
12. There never was a man from Weatherford that took any interest in or
urged the passage of the bill.
13. The entire legislature with a host of their friends visited Mangum and
Granite, transportation free, and were royally entertained and "Weatherford oh
where was she ?" '
14. The supreme court decided that the Barnes committee was the legal
committee but there is not a member of the court that will say that Weatherford
is in Southwestern Oklahoma or that Weatherford is in any way entitled to the
school.
15. The bill plainly and positively says Southwestern Oklahoma. Governor
Barnes in his report refers to Weatherford as being in west central Oklahoma.
16. Granite has made a diligent, honest, earnest effort, and has worked for
the bill on her merit. Her people have always been an enthusiastic school people
They have resorted to no unfair or shameful methods in this contest and as firmlv
believe they will succeed in the end as they believe in the survival of the fittest
17. Hundreds of fair minded an3 disinterested men have viewed the campus
at Granite so beautifully located at the foot of the mountain, surrounded by
beautiful groves, with its everlasting springs of pure freestone water, encircled on
the west with a grove of elms, and have said, "oh, would it not be a shame to place
this school on the bleak prairie where gyp water and dust reign supreme ! "
18. II the school is at Granite the town will not depend on the school but
with our natural resources in oil, gas, granite and rich surrounding country *e
will have a town that the school can depend on. 1
The other 982 reasons are shown in the illustrations this week showing that we
have the ideal location and every bit of the material necessary for its construc tion.!
Leger seems to have an epidemic of
weddings.
Our genial old friend, J. B. Snyder,
erstwhile pill roller, and "till yet," the
bell wearer of th socialfiock is the
victim of the latest. The boys say he
came to Granite from his ranch near
Erick for a load of oats, and didn't get
back for stx weeks His livery bill was
$21.00.
The Weatherford Chronicle in com-
menting on the fact that Granite raised
$150 to file an injunction in the Normal
case says:
"Yes, and your $150 and injunction
will last ahout as long as a snowball
would in the abode of Dives."
Don't get excited, brothel", $150 is a*
good in a "show-down" as a million.
ADVERTISING RATE8.
Display advertising 50c. per polumn Inch pnr
month. Readers, or local*, 5c. per line per Istiiif-.
Liberal discounts on large spai-e and tlmenon-
trartU.
Obituary poetry and notleeH charged at lln.-
rates.
riTY OFFICIALS.
J. W. Ryder Police Judgo.
J. L. Broadie. Marshal.
A. S. Ross. Night Watch.
G. W. shaw Clerk, Assessor & Tress.
T. M. Robinson .. City Attorney
CITY COUNCIL.
D. A. Belmore, President.
W. A. Bennett. W. C. Johnson.
Something got wrong with the com-
bination of Ross Goodner's safe the
other day and Doc Wiley jokingly pre-
scribed a hot water bag. Lee Smith
applied it directly over the internal
organsof the brute and, Presto! Sesame!
It worked like a charm. Lee is contem-
plating "hitting the road as a journey-
man 'crook.' "
If. I
No. 134
No. 252
No. 140
Quay and Statehood Beaten.
A Washington dispatch says that the
omnibus bill is undoubtedly beaten and
another to the State Capital Repub-
lican says the Nelson bill will never be
re-introduced and theomnibus bill will be
talked to death. The people who relied
so implicitly on the pre-election promi-
ses of "McGuire and Statehood" will
drag along under carpet bag rule.
Weatherford Bonds N. Q.
The recent Weatherford bond issue of
$5,000 for the purpose of beautifying the
grounds of the Southwestern Normal
School have been rejected by the audi-
tors office where they were sent for fil-
ing. Under the date of December 30.
Judge Geo. S. Green, attorney for
Granite says: "They were issued in
denominations of $1,000 instead of $500
as the law provides and were found
faulty in other respects. They have
been returned to Weatherford for cor-
rection. Judge Green further says it is
undoubtedly true that Weatherford has
already exceeded the bond limit al-
lowed by law and the issue is therefore
illegal."
On this subject the Oklahoman says:
"Weatherford may lose the school as
there is a question whether the bonds
are not in excess of the 4 per cent limit
of indebtedness. If the school district
should include the town of Weather-
ford as alleged by many persons, the
limit has been overreached, but if the
town is separate from the suburban por-
tions of the district, the bonds are under
the limit."
No. 139
No. 251
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Jasper Messmore,
l.a\v, Real Estate, Collections.
Insurance and Rentals.
Granite.
Okla.
H. B. KINSEL,
ATTORN EY-AT-LAW.
rwal Estate and Insurance...Collection;
a Specialty.
KKANITE. OKLAHOMA.
J. E. TERRAL,
...LAWYER...
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T. M. ROBINSON,
Attorney at Law.
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Jas. A. Craine & Co.
EXCLUSIVE
ARCHITECTS AND
SUPERINTENDENTS
LAWTON, HOBART, ANADARKO
THE ENTERPRISE,
SI .OO Per Year.
Single Statehood.
A special to the Denver Colorado Re-
publican says that "Chairman Hopewell
of the Democratic central committee of
New Mexico has announced himself in
favor of single statehood for Arizona
and New Mexico." This is believed to HUNTERS, BEWARE
be Quay s latest scheme and a bill to
this efTect will likely be introduced in
the event the single statehood measure
falls down. Such a measure earning
single statenood for Oklahoma and In-
dian Territory seems the only sensible
solution of the whole affair and would
pass by a large majority as it would
reconcile all the conflicting elements.
^ ou are hereby notified that you will
will be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law if you trespass upon the follow-
ing described lands: N. 1-2 section 19,
T. 6N., R. 20 W., section S.T.6N.,
R 20 W. K. Williams,
D. C. Williams,
Hettie Williams,
Et.iza Williams.
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Ryder, J. W. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1903, newspaper, January 8, 1903; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc403632/m1/4/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.