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THE SAYRl HEADLIGHT
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A Progressive Republican Journal. Established 1898.
Vol. 13.
Truthwe^n. ma.k; bow, at n, human shrine; seek, neither p!,ce nor appUusTHiTe on.y asks a
SAVRE, BECKHAM COUNTY, OKU., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER I, 19)1.
SI.
No. 2
Commissioners court met in
adjourned session Aug. 2f)th,
transacted ' ** )Llsineas! conditions would have to be re- ,,or evidence of Ihe duplicity Switch neighborhood, and two
f> -1 ,U . . . . _ . traded; that everything was go- , general cus«edness of the.-wns, brought in three young
01 ing glimmering and that we were , un,amentetl damphool legfis-lmen Wednesday night charged
, up against the hardest times and latur€- hunt up the house journal j with breaking into his dwelling
the tightest money market we 1,. T lo house bil1 No. 419. j and stealing a pair of pants.
transacted.
^ Bond of C. A. Lyle as J. P.
Erich was approved.
T. M. Lowry was appointed
deputy district clerk and to be-
gin work Oct. 1st, 1911.
Contract with Kansas City
Bridge Co, to build bridge over
North Fork at Red Austin cross-
ing was approved.
The petition to form a good
roads improvement district after
specifying certain meets and
bounds in the city of Sayre, be-
gins at the foot * ‘ '
the tightest money market we 1". ° hoUSe bil1 Na 419. and stealing a pair of pants,
had ever seen. lhls bl passed both houses and Mr. Beadle, who lives near the
Our answer was that we would ITCneof the bullchof pernictous' railroad, was absent on business
e when Jan. 1 1912 cam. bl s vetced bY Coy. Cruce. It and his children were at the
CLOTHING
see when Jan. 1, 1912 came1 vetoeU by Coy. Cruce. It and his children were at the
whether we were right or not icreated rT1ore tllan a score of ap- j school house rehearsing for some
and took occasion to assert that P°!ntlVft office8'each carrying a exercises. On their way home
if we did have hard times it*™ ary 8rouT,d ^,000 p2r year. !tbey net the young men. and
would not be because of our 1,ieradvantaRe accruingto the their attention was attracted by
failure to produce enough but pubbei'^ tbe b:b passed muster the looks of a pair of pants one
because of the lack of money <Was not apparent, but the ad- of them was wearing. When
“Money nothing,” our friend vantaf7e accruing- to the machine they reached home an examina-
,id. "If you had all the money m increased strength stood out fion of the premises showed a
gins at the foot of 5th street ., oy nothing, our friend
«»'>• * iviI broken window and ^
■id road with the *«£ lin.! “>1 ” ;^,he,“'.b« .P!"“ S*"* Ihe. »« mm
WwwnSe^Man^Mml ***•' “We still haveour abili-!the. hoJ“ c'wk ««rded him a»medthemselves and started in
9north. Range 23 W. ,. ......
—.......... “Btuiioi- mis uni, out Muojjiiy, me uvo sons
the house clerk recorded him a™ed themselves and started in
°theno?:* .4««.** L*.
tion^Tnsaidbwnshb 't0 seIi inorder to get money.” ! "Iti8 )]ot wbat I desire to do, tbis ,ime Mr. Beadle appeared
cast to the northwest corner < fi "With 03 much work a i we'UU fn ,he tax-ndden. poverty on the scene and took the hoboes
section 5 in townnhin a in 1 bave needing to be doneonevery srKCen 1)eo^e stat!d it? They m charge, one of them was wear-
99 in i u /.l.L anp0 hand labor alone should hp Knf. are now fleeced with taxation co inS the stolen pants. Upon
section 5 in townshin 8 in r»nm» bave needing to be doneonevery *»na UT They enurge, one ot
Ihem two razors and
Sr'S! and our .lend
Beckham Co Improvement Disr and left us without our fT tbe,rbrea(i bytbesweatof ^newhere east of Sayre, the
No. 1. Election to be held on the bein8: abIe t0 saya word ln ex- br°WS’ 1 sbaT ' ote no and °!VTi °.f wh,ch property is
9th day of Sent 19H «t 1 planation, so we are left to carry n da,!ger comes, I shall be just, PCcted here on train 41 this
Odd Fellows Hail in Sayre, t0 on onrinvestigation alone. as ready to meet it as I am now ra®™,n&
vote on the question whether n- Let’s see about this. anxious to avoid it j The parties were arraigned be-
not the Board of Commissioners UilcleSam ^ building 3 or 4 Hep™tative Lewis made in- Judge Andrews this morn-
shall issue bonds running 2', years more great big war veGSe!s every ^y 01 tbe ker of the bouse j aad gave the names of Geo.
and bearing 5% interest per an ; year at a cost of not less than 5 b> he had been recorded as B* Learning, Claud McAdams
num in the sum of $20 000 to pay m''lion dollar5- These we all for tbo bdl; and riCeived ana !• red Johnson. Leiseraing
the cos: of good road’ improve !lisve to 1)e a wilful waste, at tac CU1'L rcc‘y; Vou voted for P-ead guilty and waived examin-
ments in Beckham Co. Road i„JIeast most of us do- and some of If or )our,vfte would not have atlon and McAdams and John-
____________ rv-. . . us know that th^ao chin.. been recorded. son will nave a hearimr Saturday
You will like the Clothing we sell
because it has an individual style
about it which is distinctly its own.
Clothing with a repose about it and
just enough dash to make it a little
bit different from the rest. We sell
Clothing Satisfaction instead of just
clothes. Here you will find correct
styles and durable fabrics made up
into suits that are right all the way
through. A splendid assortment.
Prices range from
$6.50 per Suit
and up to
$40.00 per Suit.
11 sirs
No. 1 - .he,; ship, ‘ are
__ hardly any more than in com- response Mr Lewis placed at 19:00 a., m. Leiseming and
m umuce unur ! mission till they are virtually h.ls index. on the cxplana- Mc-A-dams claim to be from Mus-
lilL llULInLO flUnt. j^ready for the junk heap. j tmn of his vote, which inadvert- bogee, and Johnson, who does
- ! There we have thousands ^ ^"^y wet incliided in thejoun.ai, not !ook ^ be over 20 years old,
Mrs. L. A. Newberry of Okla. Imen at'vork and drawing money and ^marked, "There, Mr. sa>’3 he is from Tennessee and
;ty, representing “The Holmes; f°r their pay. Speaker, is proof positive that bas only been away from home
ONI PRICE—CASH.
I
SAVRE, OKLAHOMA.
City, representing “The Holmes; fcr tbeir pay. , - ■ - -—
Home of Redeeming Love” of "Yes, but they are doing work;my vol,e, was not correctly re-
Oklahoma City' was in the city that is needed even if it is for a corded ” The speaker looked
last week soliciting contributions, wasteful purpose, and we have askance Rnd 8iid: “Seem8 a
fur the benefit of the home. i nothing here to employ men at. ’’ mistalft: was made. We will cor-
Thc home is one for fallen but! "Look now! We said hard rect tbeiournab” But Mr. Lewis
repentant girls and is a consoli-! bmee, if we have them, are be- madereply: “You shall not cor-
dation of the Guthrie and Enid!caus(1 °f the lack of money or a jrect the journal; it shall remain
Radi. j. " • as it is, a silent, j’et faithful
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Rescue Humes. j circulating%edium of exchange.1 as 11 ls* a 81*ent» i?et faithful
These institutions are well j If there was money encugh put!wdness 10 the double dealing of
worthy our aid for if there is one ;out into the channels of trade the macb‘ae which controls this
item in human affairs in which there is work on every hand to body'
the race is crueally inhuman and
be done. And now the reapportionment
One of the ways by which this1 wb'eb awarded > Oklahoma
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unjust it is in our treatment of One of the ways by which this W llcn awarded ,to Oklahoma
the gentler sex when one is said I money could be put in circula-1liiree addilional representatives
to have “fallen”, and yet they tion. thru iahor alone, is in the jnthe tower house of congress
never "fall” alone. There are building of good roads. Our 's to be made an excuse for re-
always two in Ihe fall and our Uncle Samuel could build a fttod asseiT|biing this same damphool,
experience among men leads us ir°ad across the continent from macb!nc-controlled legislature in
to believe that of the two man is | Norfolk. Virginia, to Santa Cruz. sptcial fcession to redistrict the
^ ,• . .. state.
oftener and most severly the California, on a direct line, over st;ite< Yhe additional congress-
deepest sinner, yet who ever a distance of about 255<J miles men cou‘d be elected at iarge,
heard of a “kome for Fallen bit !and runr.ing thru the states 0f !^bu8 Vetoing the heavy expense ,v“* e-mtuwa ur mecnoas wmci
Repentant Men.” Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri. a special session of the legisla- twenty years ago seemed im
Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona! ture would entail- b«t the ma- practical or even foolish. But
I Nevada and California. chine d°asn’t want it tfiat way whether I agree with the social-
about three months.
Eph Johnson, who has been in I
Aew Mexico the past month re- •
The Place to Buy Shoes.
turned Sunday much improved
in health. j
THE FAMOUS PECOS VALLEY.
county attorney go get that At Lima, Ohio, Aug. 19th 1911 We have opened up negotia-
money “Gip” says that $1,030 Miss Maude Jones, danger of
would help some in the maiterof Mr. and Mrs. William Jones, and
. i renasing furniture for the new Clyde L. Wamsley, of Savre, property in Oklahoma fo-A No
court house. Okla. Mr. Wamsley has been a } ’ligated land in the Pecos VaL
resident of Savre about a your Kemember this land is not
and has held the nosition irngated,
"l am not a socialist, though ;and has held'the position of be irWed. or
I believe in some ideas advocat- prescription clerk at the Owl!that is lYrigSelT^fw theBOT*’
ed by that Dolltical nartv Snmn Drmr Stnro onrl l,r,o _____.nrnmont;., k-L- j e ^0V*
ed by that political party. Some Drug Store and has made many eminent is behind the project
o: tbe teachings of socialism I friends in Sayre who extend to and furn!sbes the water to the
believe to be unwise. Neverthe- him and his fair bride their con- ?\ent or 36 incbes. psr annum
ess, I freely admit that I may ffratulations and wish, them a iVri^pHifn'rf'. Tkhis ‘Skthe fi,rst
3e wrong and tliev mav he ri«rhi lone and nrrtsnornnc murm.j i;#_ L. . A u? bave been able
I Nevada and California.
. , as much in
this good road in a year as he
If he will invest ns inn/»h in aild there s a reason.
The court town daddy, whose
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Wednesday a hunting party does in his bad ships he will in- hon,e.Is on tbe raITing Elk, is
omposed of the Thurmond Bros., vest 5 million dollars at the rate espec!all.v anxious for the stag-
....... ......... i i oiiip uc Will HI-
composed of tiieThurmond Bros., vest 5 million dollars at the rate ^viuii.v anxious ior tiie stag-
Mr. SturdevantofSt. Louis, Mo., of about $2,000 per mile and for T tfie rt-disiricting stunt.
Mr. Hale and Judge Hooker of this sum we will undertake to ^be contTres-ional b. e buzzing
Okln. City, C. E. Steelo and J. build the road, mound in his garret is respons-
A. Williams left. Sayre fo- n two This would give Oklahoma lble for bis anxiety.
we?ks hunting trip at Meridian: vSoO.OXi as her share and do you
Lake, i he party had 2 autos, 3 behove we have not got the Swne time ago a dissertation
U01". iiuu ^ autos, ii oe: eve we navo not got the U"UI? ^ a mssertaiion
hacks and two chuck wagons, laborers ready for the harvest of on tbe LTfth street court house!
Allot Carmichael wentalong lo dollars if our Uncle Sam is ready aad sites aopeand in the
look after the cooking part of the > for tbe job?” "Musing* of ihe Old Kt
bd wrong and tlle-v raa-v bc r‘ght. | long and prosperous married lit^ | ISre for exiha^w a^theie
Many of us are believers in polit- We extend the hand of welcome is only a limited amount of it
ical principals or methods which ;{o Mr. and Mrs. Wamsley. Much of it is already-taken. If
twenty years ago seemed im- We have been requested to1 'h11 bavf anytbing to offer in ex-
ists or not, and whether time
caied for and will lie in readi-; and give them a full description
.— „I1U „1JCl„er ume | ness to convey Clyde from the of yours,
shall disclose that they are in -depot to the city. They will be'tf SCOTT & GUM
error or that I am, I shall not at bome about Sept- 1Cth- _ ..._
charge them with advocating1 ” —— .. ,
ciianges in governmental form j W. H. Haddock, a fame- of the moJey yoTaw’losml bv^ot
tor the mere salfe of change, i ^nson, Harmon Lo. was in Say re saving your butter fat Get a
know ol no class of people who}iaesday cn business. j cream separator and see.
are more zealously devoted to --- \\e will put one in your house
principles in which they believe ll/mcn and show you. It don’t cost you
HHi!ILL'. one cent to try an Iowa Dairy
look after Hie cooking part of the j for the job?
U.. . tr i . ... :
I™ '9 or 12 me. to can vass --$100
business. We hope they will
have p’enty of chicken to eat and
fish to fry.
Yes but
'But'what?”
C. T. Craft, of Erick. in » OWNERS ME NOTICE.
town Monday on business. He - -»^wvVu„enowtnepro?-
informed us that the residence ^bc Lawton Land Office will erty cost tbe c°untv, but to date
of E. M. Green, one of the lead- close 0ctobe'' 31. 1911. If you jno one has cssa>'ed to give any
imr mprphftnfji nf JTri/ib have a final nroof to mnkp nr ir'forniation on that point. Si
Musing* of ihe Old Kuss.
fully expected some one.next to
the deal to come to the front and
inform the public that a certain
promissory note in exchange lor
i building* situate on the lots cov-
ers $1,000 of the $1,600 the prop-
ing merchants of Erick, was nave a linal proof to make or “liWU,lttUon on tnac point, bl
totally destroyed by fire Satur- ,otber business to come before l^nce g'v<iS c°tor to the rumor
day and nothing saved. The: tb's °®ce vfnI Wld ffovern your- tbat the iwrty who made the
fire was supposed to have beeni8(df accordingly,
caused by the explosion of aj _
gasoline iron. The house wai Mrs. E. k Thurmond left I1IS *™‘Iur entert:<ln'nff such
built about two years ago. and Tuesday for a two weeks visit '!
was one of the nicest in the city.! with hef sister at Shattuck. 0k.' will overhke hhm W^ ycS
by a more unselfish desire to' or t^men to canvass $
Premote the general welfare than!PC1 m0nth ma,de e^ily' See . market
are the social^ nnA ,1 ^ ^sJvreV’a
ic to be presented for payment.
His reason for entertaining such
are the socialists, and while 11
may net agree with all their
views, I do not question the pur-
ity of their motives or the sin-
cerity of their efforts to secure
what they believe to be a change
for the better.’’-Extract from
speech delivered in the United
States senate August 5th, by
Hon. Jonathan Bourne, Jr., in-
surgent republican, of Oregon.
The foregoing extract is re-
spectfully dedicated to the
prayerful consideration of small
bore preacher-politicians who
are galavanting around the coun-
try howling about the menace of
socialism at $50 per howl. I
Sold by
J. T. Waikup,
Sayre, Okla.
We
* v w represent some
good Insurance Co’s,
and would appreciate
a share of your busi-
ness. Lets talk it over.
Fred Livingst
SsHi
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Seifert, George W. The Sayre Headlight, Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911, newspaper, September 1, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405574/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.