Elk City News-Democrat (Elk City, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1920 Page: 3 of 14
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ELK CITY NEWS-DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1920
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Are You Looking for the Best Place in Elk City to Buy Your Christmas
ORANGES, NUTS, CANDIES AND ALL KINDS OF FRUITS?
If so, see HEWLETT’S before buying. Phone 14
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W. H. WINN & Co. |
Plenty of money to loan on good farms. Low rate of , Ti
interest.
7 room house, good barn, 4 lots, city water. Price
$2000.00; $600.00 down and time on the balance. ' p
3 room house, a good one, garage. Price. . . $1,250.00. j 1
Some good farms, all sizes and prices. (I
We write Fire, Cyclone, Plate Glass and Accident , *
and Life Insurance. '
Money! Money! Money! to Loan on Farms!
W. H. WINN & CO.
ELK City HEWS-DEHOCmi
PsbIUM Each Thursday
Entered as second class mail matte)
at the Postoffice at Elk City, Okla
homa, under the Act of Congress oi
March, 3rd, 1879.
W. L. and W. W. BLACKBURN,
Publishers and Proprietors
We are all interested in hearing
from those who are former residents
of o,ur county and when you send in
your renewals add a few lines for the
benefit of our readers.
Santa is ready for business It
would seem that Elk City is to be
his headquarters, as immense stoaks
of toys and Christmas presents of
all kinds are displayed on the
shelves of our advertisers.
The mid-winter meeting of the Ok-
lahoma Press Association will be held
in the banquet room of the Lee-
Huckens hotel, Jan. 7-8. On the af-
ternoon of Jan. 7 the editors will go
to Norman, where they will visit the
School of Journalism, and where a
six o’clock dinner will be served. A
session of the Association will also be
held at Norman.
Christmas is close at hand. How
many hearts will be sad from a lack
of stocking room to hold their pres-
ents, and many equally sad, for a
lack of presents to fill the stocking.
The News-Democrat sends a
Christmas message of good will and
best wishes to its thousands cf read-
ers. May the richest blessings of a
gracious Heavenly Father rest and
abide with all this glad Yuletide.
Let us make the Christmas of 1920
a memorable and happy one. Let us
stand up for Elk City and buy 9ur
gifts of our dealers who advertise.
Patronize home industries is one of
the very best plans for improving
our town.
The Oklahoma Cotton Growers As-
sociation is having a meeting and
banquet at Sayre today. A special
invitation was given to the editors
of the News-Democrat to be present.
LET ELK CITY BOOM!
Tell me not in mournful numbers
That the town is full of gloom,
For the man’s a crank that slumbers
In these blustering days of boom.
Life is real, life is earnest,
And the grave is not its goal;
Every dollar that thou tumest
Helps to make the old town roll.
But enjoyment fcnd not sorrow
Is our destined end or way,
If you have no money, borrow—
Buy a corner lot each day!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can win immortal fame;
Let us leave the chumps behind us
And we’ll get there just the same.
In this world’s broad field of battle
tie
In the bivouac of life,
Let us make the dry bones rattle
Buy a corner for your \vife!
Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate
Still achieving, still pursuing.
Booming early, booming late!
ANOTHER BUSINESS CHANGE
F. W. Snoddy has purchased the
business of J. A. Yarbrough and will
tke possession of the office about
the first of the year. Mr. Yarbrough
and family will leave the first Tues-
day after Christmas for Shawnee,
where they will make their future
home, he having resigned as county
commissioner last wees.
Mr. Snoddy has been the efficient
Court Clerk of Beckham county, and
ha? a host of friends everywhere.
Elk City people are indeed glad to
welcome him here, and we all bid
him welcome.
HAVE MOTOR COP
Chas. Smotherman is the new mo-
tor cop appointed by the city coun-
cil. You had better watch how you
speed, alsol earn all the city regu-
lation?. for he is here, there and
everywhere at once and intends to
look after the work right.
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To Hager’s
Where Holiday prices are being Smashed
Do your shopping early before the
Christmas trot breaks into a gallop.
Everything for Christmas presents
that men appreciate, carried in stock
at a Reduction of-
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Will give any mother a solid ^
gold baby ring with purchase of 'P1-*
Be sure to come in and look our
stock over before you buy. We
have bargain after bargain.
THE ELK CITY CANDY CO.
Many do not know that we have a
new industry in our town—a candy
kitchen that makes all varieties of
the finest kind of candy and whole-
sales it to our merchants here. They
also bhip hundreds of pounds to out
of town customers.
We have seen more drunkenness
on our streets the past few weeks
than in years before. There must be
stills around Elk City. Why men
will want to pay big money for this
damnable stuff, or slop, and help
some boot-legger to break our laws
we can’t see. If the men could only
have a picture of themselves and
hear the things they say, when under
the influence of liquor, we aVe sure
there is not one who would ever be
seen or heard. We could tell you
some instances the past week that
show 'now a man will act. Many men
think they can drink a little and no
no one know it, but if they could
only know how that breath of his
“stinks” he would go and do like the
ostrich—bury his head in the sand.
Your heme paper is really a tire-
less lerier writer if nothing more.
Week after week we prepare this
printed letter telling of marriages,
births, deaths, the coming and going
of people, of business efforts and
progress, accidents, crops, improve-
ments and so on. In fact everything
of importance and interest. If you
should undertake to write a letter to
an absent friend every week telling
him all the news, you would get a
faint idea of the task in preparing a
newspaper. And then it costs less
than five cents for the paper each
week. It would cost you more for
stationery, stamps and time.
Advertisers pay thousands of dol-
lars for one page in the Saturday
Evening Post. And their advertising
sections art always filled because it
pays. It certainly requires consid-
erable conceit for a merchant in a
small town to give it as his opinion
that “advertising doesn’t pay” or
that he can’t afford to advertise.
Modem business men in all lines
have come t^ the realization that
newspaper advertising is not an ex-
pense. but an investment and a
mighty good one when the columns
of the News-Democrat is used.
W. D. Matthews, state commission-
er of Charities, was here Monday to
inspect the jail and hospital. He or-
dered the mayor to put new bedding
in the jail and also paint the inside.
Guess he knows with this “boot-leg
rot’ that is being sold around Elk
Citv these days that they will need
vo have thing? fixed up nice, espe-
cially as this “boot-leg rot” is causing
so many deaths everywher e and they
want the fellows to nass away in as
"ice a place as possible.
If you want to have a real Chris-
tian Christmas, find someone who
will not have any Christmas joy at
all unless you take it to them, and
then take them a part of yriur hap-
piness—and in your sharing it with
others you will increase your own
store. It is easy to be selfish, in
onr joys, but it isn’t Christian.
“Make some other heart rejoice."
Joseph Watson. State Secretary
for Boys, was a visitor here yester-
day and met the High School boys
belonging to the Y. M. C. A. He was
much pleased with the spirit of the
boys manifest in the work and is
expecting great things from them.
George Peeler is president of the
Elk City Y. M. C. A.
DEATH OF oiSTER
Mrs. A.C. Comstock was called
to Wichita, Kans., Monday on. ac-
count of the serious illness of her
sister, who passed away Wednesday
morning. Our deepest sympathy is
extended to Mrs. Comstock.
| ^Announcement
DIED
J. C. Payne died at his home on
West Second street Tuesday after an
extended illness of cancer of the
face. His body was prepared for
burial by Mr. Robinson and was
then sent to Dempsey, in Roger Mills
county, his former home, for inter-
ment.' He was fifty years of age.
A LITTLE REPRESENTATIVE
A baby boy was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Grant McColgin of Rankin,
Okla., on Sunday, Dec. 5th. Mrs.
McColgin is the lady representative
elected from Roger Mills and no
doubt she will want to name the little
one “Roger Mills”—or Warren Hard-
ing McColgin.
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big line of U. S. Army goods.
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Try a 73 c«tn< box at our risk.
HIXON DRUG STORE
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1 have opened up for business -f1
in the old Farmers State Bank
Building with a house full of f
Flour, Feed and Hay, also a 1
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Consisting of— f
Officers Shoes Mackinaws
Work Shoes Overseas Caps jp
Hobnail Shoes Belts •>
O. D. Wool Shirts Wrap Leggins
Wool Underwear Canteens V
Wool Socks f
We will add to this stock in time. JT
WATCH FOR THE U. S. ARMY GOODS SIGN
J. C. WORD
Phone 324
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Hager’s Gents Furnishings
I West Broadway, Elk City, Okla.
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If you have friends visiting you
from out of town, or you are leaving
town on a visit, or you have a party
or new arrival at your home or any-
th ;ng you like to read about anybody
eke, phone it to us and we will do the
rest. Phone No. 97.
Burke & Volk are the names of
the band boys who will play a bass
<olo at the free-entertainment by the
Band boys rfext Sunday afternoon.
You will want to donate two times
in the chimney when you hear them
See our 4 1-4 pound, 66x80 Plaid
Woolnap $7.50 Blanke’ at $5.95.
Herring & Young.
CDUICK capacity for hard work
^ is strikingly combined with
graceful body lines and fine ap-
pointments in the new Buick Nine-
teen Twenty One cars.
Because of its roomy capacity the
new Buick Seven Passenger Open
Car is the choice of business men
and their families.
Authorized Buick Service every-
where reinforces Buick reliability.
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KINCAID & EDGAR
ELK CITY, OKLAHOMA
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Elk City News-Democrat (Elk City, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1920, newspaper, December 16, 1920; Elk City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496625/m1/3/: accessed March 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.