The Stroud Star. (Stroud, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, May 15, 1903 Page: 1 of 12
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THE STROUD STAR.
VOLUME VI.
STROUD. LINCOLN COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. MAV 15. I90J.
NUMBER II.
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•peetion trip along the line of the
5 S S. Telephone Co. between here
and Shawnee.
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Henry Phileo says that hie oat*
crop looks very promising. His
wheat. of which he has forty
also looks splendid.
acres.
J. W. Hillis reports that he ex*
pccts an excellent yield of wheat
and oats this year. The rain which
fell this month has worked miracles. !
Rev. J. A. B. Oglevee was called
to Perry, last Sunday, to officiate at
the funeral of a decascd member of
his former pastorate. ||
J. F. Kaser. a prosperous Creek
land lessee was in Stroud, Saturday.
John wears a more genial smile than
ever before on account of the fine
crop prospects.
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The seventy dollars represents the
amount you will have at the end of
190J if you save only the small lum
of two dollars a week.
JO cents is the way you will feel
when next Christmas rolls around
and you realise that you have spent
and wasted all you made.
A good time to start to save is the
beginning of the new year.
A good bank in which to keep the
account is the
riRST NATIONAL BANK
Stroud, Oklahoma.
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YOU
will have no cause
to be nervous
if your funds are
deposited
with the
FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
Stroud, Oklahoma.
The editor is in receipt of a letter
from a nephew of his who lives in
Woods county. Wheat in that sec-
tion never looked better, he says.
Oklahoma can beat any old state
any old time.
C. C. and Mrs. Christal of
Chandler spent Sunday in Stroud
visiting Mr. E. Bowman and family.
Mr. Christal returned Sunday even-
ing while Mrs. Christal remaind for
a longer visit.
Major Ross Guffin, agent at Sac
and Fox, has been appointed super-
intendent of the training school at
that place. His duties will be prac-
tically the same as those of agent,
which position is to be abolished
July 1.—Chandler News.
earned cash, suppoing he was get-
ting a perfect title. Now a claim-
ant turns up and Mr. Keeler is forc-
ed to contest, a very tedious and ex-
pensive proceedure. We hope that
Mr. Keeler will win out.
C. E. Hildebrand has bought three
lots immediately north of W. G.
Pardoe’s residence where he will
erect a fine dwelling. Charlie is a
good boy and a good neighbor, and
all his neighbors on E. Second street
regret that he is going to leave.
Henry Morss was at Okemah,
I. T., last Saturday. He reports
that the tracklayers of the Ft. Smith
& Western have just reached there.
Okemah, he says, is a thriving town
and he may possibly invest there.
Why don’t you stay in Stroud, Hen-
ry?
Scientists have now discovered and
announced to the world that it is
dangerous to eat strawberries. The
toothsome fruit, it is said, produces
a depressed state of feeling and is
liable to lead one to commit suicide.
It seems now as if there was nothing
left but to chew the rag and gaze at
the stars.—Stillwater Advance.
W. H. Keeler of Arbor G ove is
having a whole lot of trout ;, we
are sorry to say. Almost t.w years
ago, Mr. Keeler purchased . valu-
able farm in the Arbor Grc e dis-
trict and paid for it in cold, hard-
S. W. Provolt, the newly elected
police judge, tried his first case on
Tuesday morning. Jacob Weymam,
an Iowa Indian stood before the bar,
accused of having been drunk and
disorderly. Defendant plead guilty
and was fined $1.00 and costs. In
default of paying his fine he was com-
mitted to the tender mercies of the
marshal to remain in his custody
until fine and costs are paid.
“Patronize home industry,” is a
good motto and one we fully believe
in, but when we see this motto hung
up in a conspicuous place in busi-
ness house or printed on the advert-
ising matter, letterheads and other
stationery used by a firm and then
look at the imprint on their station-
ery etc, and find that they have sent
out of town for this work, we are
forced to believe that they have this
motto only for other people’s use.
The announcement is made from
Washington that E. H. Newell, the
government expert who recently vis-
ited Oklahoma, has stated that in
all probability the plan to establish
irrigation systems in Oklahoma will
be abandoned because the farmers
of Oklahoma have not taken suffici-
ent interest in the matter to guarn-
tee the use and pay for water from
an irrigation plant if one were es-
tablished by the government.
councilman, and will make a good
mayor. No appointments for mar-
seal, night watchman, street com-
missioner, or city attorney were
made. The board will hold an ex-
tra session, next Monday night for
the purpose of making these appoint-
ments,
The final figure- relating to cotton
production, obta. . from the reports
of the cotton ginners throughout the
cotton growing sections were given to
the public from the census office, a
few days ago. The quantity of cot-
ton ginned from the growth of 1902,
exclusive of linters, amounted to
11,078,882 running bales, an increase
of 728,668 bales over the avarage
year. For the crop of 1902 there
has been a general increase in all
states both east and west of the Mis-
sissippi river, with the exception of
Alabama and Texas.
The old Board of Trustees wound
up their business on Monday night
and then turned over their seats to
the newly elected members. O. L.
Dowell was unanimously elected
chairman of the new board. Mr.
Dowell has proven himself an able
“Uncle John” Meinecke thinks
that such a trifling affair as being
sick should not interfere with a fel-
low’s having a good time. We are
told that he was sick a-bed the day
before the “Dutch wedding,” which
everybody talks about, this week,
came off. He would not let anything
prevent him from going. Conse-
quently on Thursday morning he got
up and drove out to Pawnee township
where he acted as gay and spry as
any youngster of twenty. We have it
on good authority that he indulged in
no small amout of dancing and flirt-
ing with the goodlooking German
maidens.
Floyd Campbell, a son of Mrs.
Wm. Lippert, met with quite a
dangerous accident, the other day,
but fortunately for him it did not re-
sult in any serious injury. Mrs.
Lippert was holding a pony by the
halter rope when Floyd came up
from behind and without any warn-
ing jumped onto the unsuspecting
Aftmmars bark. Taken thus by
surprise (be pony which is gentle
enough otherwise, took fright ami
broke away. It ran for some dist-
ante when it stumbled and fell. In
falling the pony fell on the boy who
was badly bruised. Fortunately no
bones were broken and after spending
a few days in bed he ts able to be
about again.
POLITICS IN LOCAL ELECTIONS
Politics in an election in so small
a place as Stroud count but little.
Political organizations are the out-
come of a natural state of affairs, just
as the various religious denomina-
tions. Being a member of a certain
denomination does not of necessity
constitute anyone a good or a bad man
and adhering to any political party
is no test of good citizenship. There
will be but one church and creed and
all party lines will be obliterated
when all men shall be of one mind,
and that will be when the millennium
dawns.
Yet party organizations are of
some use even in *such minor elec-
tions as the one just past. Never did
an army like a powerful machine of
war sweep everything before it that
had not previously been carefully
drilled in squads, companies, battal-
ions and regiments. So it is in pol-
itics—we must win minor engage-
ments if we would conquer in state or
national campaigns. Here however
the comparison ceases. All must be
loyal to their flag and country. Loy-
alty to party is less binding. While
everybody should, of course be true
to his party, yet nobody can seriously
be censured for voting for a candid-
ate of the opposition if he should con-
sider him a better and more qualified
man. Of course we here only have
reference to unimportant local elec-
tions.
The election just past was one of
the most bitterly contested. Nearly
all the candidates were influential
men, and. with two exceptions, the
successful aspirants had anything
but a walkover. As regards the
outcome of the election we have no
reason for regrets. The men who
were elected stand above unfavor-
able comment or reproach. While
some of them belong to the party in
opposition, yet we know that each
one of them has at heart the best
interests of Stroud.
We are glad to notice that all de-
bated candidates are dismissing all
feelings of resentment and admit that
hey have had fair play and were
Deaten by fair means. It has ever
been the chief principle of democracy
that the will of the unprejudiced pub-
lic shall be the last and highest court
of appeal and that all shall abide by
the decision of the majority. It is to
be hoped that all alike will stand by
the newly inaugurated council and
assist it in any effort it may make to
promote the wellfare and progress of
Stroud.
Murray & Rich our enterprising
real estate men,had some advertising
folders printed in this office this
week. Call on them and get some
of the folders to send to your frierids
in the states that they may get an
idea that Oklahoma is O.K. 8-20.
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