The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1903 Page: 1 of 6
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The- Granite Enterprise.
Vol. 3.
Granite, Oklahoma, Thursday, January 29, 1903.
No. 40.
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EVERY-DAY STREET SCENE IN GRANITE DURING THE COTTON SEASON
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LOOKS LIKE BUSINESS.
Complete Quarrying Outfit of the
Granite Quarrying Co. Arrives.
About three months ago Mr. C. S.
Ranier of Abilene, Kansas, visited
< Jranite for the purpose of examining
the mountains of fine red granite north
< f town. While here he didn't indulge
,in a great deal of blowing and say that
lie and the eompany he represented were
going to prize up this end of Oklahoma
and put a chunk . under it—in fact Mr.
Kainer didn't thunder in the index at
all, but in a quiet way he did a great
deal of investigating, purchased ssveral
blocks of the mountain and returned to
his home in Abilene to make thd neces-
sary arrangements to ship, a- quarrying
Outfit to this plaoe and get to work. At
this writing Mr. Rainer has not returned
and it is not known how large a force
will be put to work, but from the looks
of the outfit, it will take a large number
of men to operate it, and an industry of
that kind, of course, means a great, in-
crease in the, business of the town. So
mote it be.
Oklahoma Live Stock Association.
The ninth annual convention "of the
Oklahoma Live Stock Association, pf
which Abner T. Wilson of Kiowa, Kan-
sas, is president and Wm. E. Bolton #f
Woodward, Okla.f is secretary, will
held at Oklahoma City on February 10,
11 and 12, and promises to be the larg-
est attended and most interesting in its
history.
This association has grown from a
small beginning to a powerful and in-
fluential organization; each succeeding
year the membership has grown; the
attendance at its conventions, and in-
terest in its deliberations and pleasures
have inci eased to such an extent it is
conservatively estimated that 20,000
members and visitors will be present at
the opening meeting.
The people of Oklahoma City are
making preparations to accommodate
and entertain on above basis and pre-
paring an elaborate program for enter-
tainment, consisting of fine theatrical
attractions, a grand ball, races, chases,,
cattle roping and bronco riding contests j
for which valuable prizes will be offered. I
"Bossie" (Miss Lucile Mulhall) the |
only lady roper in the world, will take
part in these contests.
The railroads have made unusually
low rates over all lines from points in
Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas and
Oklahoma with one fare rates from
other points. See your local railroad
agent. '
PERCY SEAWELL ARRESTED.
Drew on His Father's Bank Account
and Is Now In Trouble.
"The new bridge over North Pork, east
of town is nearly completed, and Granite
will soon be getting trade from the east
that has heretofore gone elsewhere.
Friday afternoon Deputy Sheriff G.
W. Shaw received a telegram from Ft.
Worth to arrest Percy Sea well and put
him in jail. This Uncle George prompt-
ly did, taking him to the county bastile
the same afternoon, and Saturday
Deputy Shreiff C. E. Parsley of Ft.
Worth came up and escorted Mr. Sea-
well back to Ft. Worth.
The cause leading to young Seawell's
arrest seems to be a coritrovesy between
W. P. Seawell, Percy's father, and his
banker over a check for $100 issued by
Percy about a year ago. From what we
can learn of the case there was nothing
of the nature of a forgery about it, for
in signing his father's name to the
check he wrote "per Percy Seawell"
underneath. It looks as though young
Seawell's arrest on this occasion was
brought about for the purpose of giving
him a lesson more than anything else
—to show him that it will not do to
monkey with the buzz saw or the old
man's bank account.
Percy Seawell will be remembered as
the young man who killed a man in a
house tff ill-fame in Kansas City about
two years ago, and since getting him
out of that scrape his father has . refused
to have anything to do with his way-
ward son.
Percy had only been in Granite about
a week when he was arrested. During
his stay here on this occasion he con-
ducted himself in the most proper man-
ner, though when he was here in the
early days of the town he was rather
reckless and had the reputation of be-
ing a dead game sport.
CHURCH DIRECTORY.
Regular services at the Cumberland
Presbyterian church on first and
third Sundays of each mounth at 11
a. m. and 7:30 p. m., by the pastor, Rev.
Willis Smith. Union Sunday school
each Sunday at 10 a. m. Union prayer
meetingWednesdays at 7:15 p. m.
The K. L. C. E. meets every Sunday
evening immediately after preaching at
the C. P. church. Everybody welcome.
Services at the Quartz School House,
next Sunday at 11 a. m. and 4 p. m.
conducted by the Rev. J. Cal Littrell.
All are invited to attend.
To the Mardl Oras.
Come and trip it as you go,
On the light fantastic toe.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma Se Gulf R. R.
will sell excursiod tickets at one fare
plus two dollars for the round trip, Feb-
ruary 17, 18 find 19, limit for return,
February 28, subject to extension. Ask
your ticket agent about it.
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Ryder, J. W. The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1903, newspaper, January 29, 1903; Granite, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc404459/m1/1/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.