The Altus Times. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909 Page: 2 of 6
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The Altus Times
(fORMCRlV LEOKft TIMC«>
11.00 Per Year.
8HEPARD 4 8HEPARD,
Publishers and Propristori
asis ¥. Bbepsrd, \ Editors sad
eras* W. Bbepard, > Business Mg'rs.
Thursday, May 5, 1900.
r. TIME TABLES.
K. C„ M. &
ORIENT.
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I Do Watch Repairing
I Do Satisfactory Watch Repairing
1 Guarantee All My Work
©No matter what the trouble, bring your wateh
to me; I'll fix it, and I'll fix it right—right
in workmanship and right in priee.
Promptness, courtesy and square dealings is my
motto.
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No. IB—I^m-hI freight, dully Ex. Sun
>Oghfolght,rf«lly
oouuty, who should havo had as
much voico in couuty affairs as
' 'in-Tvo1' i she had And it looks very much
So. ^^"^hLdaii'vicx.'su'n "iaopimijas though the new county of Har-
• soXi j rnou will carry by a large ma-
R.ojtrry ^l'^..[ll«.;»»d I
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No. 401—Pnsneiwr
No. 47B.—Local FrelKlil
No. 41*.—Paiscngc!
Kasl Hound
No. 40J— I'atnenRor
.11:80 a m
. p. m.
Onk of the greatest advantages
of the now W. F. & N. W. rail-
road will be the reduction in coal
freight* we should receive by
shortened ilistauca from the
mines. Iu Vouug couuty, Texas,
of coal is
is shipped iuto
Wichita Falls at about ouo-tbird
m a splendid quality
drilled, aud it
Skcrktahy Gohi.kk of Wichita
Kalis, who lectured before the
Commercial Club here Friday
night, holds u remarkable r<>o
ord. Siuoo lie went to work in
Wichita Kails a few mouths ago,
real estate values have nearly
doubled there, all ascribed to or-
gsuixml and systematic boosting.
No better investment can be
made by auy town than by sup*
porting a good, live commercial1
organisation.—Quauah Tribune*
Chief.
Tbia is but another argument
iu favor of a live commercial
aeoretary for Altus; a salaried
mau, who will devote his entire
time to the work, and keep Altus
prominently before the world,
through every chanuel which ap-
peal* to him and to the club bo-
hind him. Wichita Kalla has been
made tho live city that it is
largely through tho efforts of Mr.'
Gohlke, and aa tho towu grows
.... ita horizon widens, and new
publisher iu , -' .
avenues of publicity and en-
» doavnr are constantly opening
Altus got hers, Hollis has »P- Altus should reorgani/.e her
spoken for hers, and new if there Commercial Club without fur-
is any other ambitious little town ! ther dolay. There are inauy
in Southwest Oklahoma that propositions before us right now J
would like to have a slice off .which neod the attention of the
(once) Graud Old Greer's mag-1 •wBiueis mou, and these matters'
uificent domain let fhem speak should be handled through some
up quick, for the stock is gettiug! coutral business men's orgnima-
low and can never be replenished, tiou, with power to act.
—Mangam Sun-Monitor. T,t TrlbDM.Cblef it priutiug
this week 10,000 sixteen page
Childress, 3SE
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every printer and
his distriot.
In thr death of Rufe Kohola, folderi for th'e Quauah Iuvogt.
mayor of Mangum and former mentOr.. There is nothing small
jto oue-half of tho rate paid by'editor of the Star, which occurred about the way our real estate
Thk dothroned sultan of Tur-, Altus from McAlester. It ought jat his homo in that city last ™0V are advertising.—Quauah
key recently stalibed his favorite ; uot to cost much more to bring it I week, one of tho best men in
wifo to death and throw her body on into Altus. The good Lord | Western Oklahoma has been called
in the Bosphorus. Which had 1 knows that wo need relief from! awav. Rufe had his faults, as all j
you rather be, or the wife of the the fuel robbers worse than auy- men have, but ho was onff-of na- ... , . . . . ,
inltan? thing else. We ought to be abl. 1noblemen, . veritanle !mk '» the., bargam,
of the earth, aud no mau
are
Tribune Chief.
Tho Times has often wondered
why some of Altus' real estate
men do not use moro printer's
Altus is certainly becoming a
modern city. For proof wo cite
to save the piico of the bonus iu
a voar or so on reduced coal
you to first Monday, when there rei8
was almost as many side shows
as legitimate businesses on the
public square. Wonder how many
of them paid a city license?
Thk "New County Hub" is the
title of n new journalistic venture
published at Gibson, a townsite
on the A. R. «fc E. P. railroad,
The concrete sidewalks now be- abo"t ^ miles west of Altus, aud
iug built in Altus will be a splen* between Hollis and Duke. The
did thing for us wheu wo get free: PaPer '8 f°unded upon tin re-
mail delivery next year, and they mains °f the Looney Record, and
should be extended to evsry street tbe plant has been removed to
iu the towu just as soon as pos- Gibson, where it will be issued in
sible. If people ou the main kbe future. The first issue shows
streets leading from the square iK°°d mechanical make-up, a
are able to build, every lot holder'B°°dly number of ads., aud aufti-
in the towu is equally as able. cient reading matter for a town
——of that size. H. H. Fielder, of
prince of the earth, and no mau R,,d at tbel 9ft™ time *,ve tl,e
had more or warmer friends. Al-|towu th* bleneflfc their Pub'
ways a town booster and builder,! ll0,tv- NotlmiK 90 advertises a
progressive in private life as he towu as
was in his newspaper, he was the'r0ft e8ta,e meu'
backbone of everv progressive R thoU8a»l1 a"d
idea in Mangum, aud whenever' whtch their activity could result
anything was to be done, Rufe iu «ood {°r ,he community. A
was called upon to bear most of S°od' wel1 *r,tteu ^eror
the burden. His acquaintances' ParaPhlHt. describing the town
hustliug set of
aud there are
ouo ways in
iu tho newspaper field have noth-
and at the samo tune enumerat-
ing but praise for him, and their! ,u8 tbe bar«alU8 m fan" and cit>'
sincere sympathy is extended to Pro»,ort-V °neryd t0 tho P,,blic
the bereaved family. would be a 8tro"R dra*'i»g oa«"d
for the firm issuing it; yet mighty
Officers of the law ofteu make little of this class of literature
a great mistake in their treat- has ever beeu issued from Altus,
meut of newspaper men aud re- In fact, the buly folder in exist-
porters. Iustead of taking them eDce regarding the town is one
iuto their confidence aud telliug written by the editor of this pa-
thom details of oertain crimes P*"" several years ago while he
where the accused is uot in cus- secretaiy of the Commercial
tody, they endeavor to couceal Club> printed gratuitously by
j everything from them, and in : him, and circulated through the
The Time, is glad to state that moBt cai0B ou|y bucce®d in m.k- med,»m of bus,.,... correspood-
o I -i- determined ence- There ought to be more of
to learn the facts. The Times *biB class of literature, and the
As an instance of the value of this city, is president of the Gib-
railroads to a towu, the Times: son Townsite Co., and is selling
would like to suggest that 721 quite a number of lots in the
people are ruuuiug iu and out of new town.
Altus over the Orient railroad at
present, and this number is in-
creasing all the time. If we se- i Scott Ferris, representative from j 'nR tbe rePorter more determined
cure a divisiou point from the the Fifth Oklahoma District inj"" —«— -*•" ■
" Wichita Falls & Northwestern, Congress, is one man who stands ]doe8 ll0t be''eve tbat auy fair rea e8 8 6 ® er® a^e e ones
our future as a railroad center is squarely against the government's | m'uded' honest newspaper re- uaa y oo e o o a e e
assured. pernicious .practice of P°fter would violate a confidence, initiative.
Just at the very time the street .. . .. . ,,. , ,
... ' , . .. them to the general public below
sprinkler was needed worst the t
. . , ,, cost aud free of all transporta-
wator became so low iu the wells ,. , Tr , , ,
tiou charges. He believes that it
stamped envelops and furnishing and' publish details of a case pre- pRQM
at tbe pumping station that the
council ordered its use on the
is wroug for the government to
. .. a- j a i .u- compete with the printers of the
streets discontinued. And this V , . „ . ,
. . . ., , . . country, aud especially in the
happened iust ks the dust began . . • . • f
rr •' ° lifiFoir mannar it. n> K ■ n h
maturely, after having
warned uot to do so. But if he
is taken into confidence he has
the main details the story iu his
mind, aud when the culprit is
ROUTE FIVE
unfair manner in which the en-,
4 , 4 velop game is run, and says that comP0lled to di* ik a11 UP from
seems to be no wiyjo Re^nway fae wlU VQfce gud wofk for , bin the time of tbe arrest. Jackson
to rfpeal the present infamous
. . .-a ,• , law which permits it. Hurrah
to keep a stiff upper lip and gnu1, ,, _ ' . , „
p for Scott Ferris! He has the
courage of his couviotious, and if
he stands pat on this proposition
he can count on the support of
to blow iu terrific clouds. There
from the dust iu this country.
About the only thing possible is
and bear it.
captured he can prepare his story M ^ .... _ ,
>o much better advautage thau irN<*~ °<Tho.eWho Come and
This country is badly iu need
of a good, heavy, soaking rain, a
rain which will be gentle enough
to soak iuto tho ground and of
sufficient duration to give plenty
of water. Already fields are be-
ginning to show the effects of the
long continued drouth, and un-
less rain falls pretty soon wheat,
oats, and other small grain will
l»e practically lost. We are not
posing as an alarmist, but we
would like to see a good rain
right away.
Pook old Greer couuty is to be
carved agaiu, and the Mangum
papers are wailing over it to beat
the baud. They kick because
they have no voice iu the matter,
entirely overlooking the fact that
the people of Old Greer county
had do voice in buildiug the court
house. Poor Msngum' She is
reaping the harvest of her mis-
daeda, and her srr^gaut. defiant I
irsaUBSOt of other towns iu the |
Go on the Kaffir Corn
Short Line.
couQty officers have been very
liberal in this respect, snd there R. F. Reid cut his alfalfa Sat-
is uot a single iustauce on record1 urday.
of their confidence having been j. 0. Baker was m towr. Tues-
violated.
Rea^the Timet for alt th« news.
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Phone 36
Open Day and Night
Oklahoma
Undertaking Co.
Wilbur McCleary, Manager.
(Successors to T. L. Baucum.)
Funeral Directors and
Embalmer
We also carry a fine line of Picture Mouldings and
are prepared to Frame Your Pictures at any time.
day trading.
W. H. Henderson is nursing a
swell case of mumps this week.
Carrier Sloan of Route Four,
left Wednesday for Miueral
Wells, Texas, for his health Mr.
Sloan has been in poor health
for the past mouth. The carriers
all hope the trip will prove bene-
ficial. He will be gone a»>out two
weeks.
The friends of Carrier W. W.
Loyd of the Meteor Line are be-
coming alarmed over the condi-
tion of his health. Ho hat a dis-
ease very prevalent among the
younger set, which has becu di-
agnosed as heart affectation. He
has been advised by the other
carriers to take something for it,
snd he has shout concluded to
take one of the charminp voting
ladies residing on his liue. Flute
irons seem to do him no good ss
he hss be«n taking them for the
month aud has derived no benefit
whatever.
WE DON'T BOAST
When wc say wc can fit you better
and cleaner and with more style
than ANY LOCAL TAILOR can.
We utter only a clothing fact, for
STEIN-BLOCH
made our summer styles; and we
can do all this at a saving to your
finance that will surprise you.
Stein-Bloch Suits are in a class to
themselves—they are the kind of
clothes that WELL DRESSED MEN
wear. Stein-Bloch will not put
out these "Freakish Models," and if
you want to be dressed correctly
$tay away from such folly—you pay
your money for one of those gar-
ments with pockets in the center
of the back and on the sleeves, and
button-holes cut Tike "half moons,"
and in a month's time you become
digusted, and the man who has on
the neat, highly tailored Stein-
Bloch Suit would look mighty good
to you. These suits begin at $20
and go up to $30.
We sell Manhattan Shirts,
Stetson Shoes, and the best
of everything.
GR1SHAM-HULETT
DRY GOODS CO.
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Shepard, Susie W. & Shepard, Horace W. The Altus Times. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 6, 1909, newspaper, May 6, 1909; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc403671/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.