The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 24, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, August 4, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME 24
MANCHESTER, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1916
NUMBER 10
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
ABOUT THINGS AND PEOPLE YOU KNOW.
Fred Thrasher and family spent
Monday in Anthony.
Mrs. Nellie Hess was reported by
I)r. Hamilton as being very sick the
first of the week.
George and Daisy Mingle left Thurs-
day for Oklahoma City, to visit their
brother, Frank.
Ross Helms and family and Mrs. E.
A. Wood motored up to Anthony Mon-
day afternoon.
C. T. Littlepage and L. C. Roach,
tore the ceiling off from Plain View
school house and replastered it last
week.
Charley and John Cary of Anthouy,
were down this week to visit their
sister, Mrs. W. E. McAdams, south of
town.
C. M Smith wife and baby, Miss
Nina Miller and Mrs. Chas. Cordray
drove up to Anthony Monday evening
in the Smith car,
Mrs. Walter Thomas and three
children arrived from Trinchera,
Colorado, Monday noon and will visit
with relatives here.
The Stork piloted by Dr. HamilLou,
made a cal! at the home of Mr. and
Mrs Jesse Harding and left a 12 lb.,
boy some time last Friday.
Prof, and Mrs. W. T. Clark, are
spending a month at their home in
Manchester, until their school com-
mences next mouth in Waklta.
W. E. Brewster and Attorney E H
Bteeden of Medford, accompanied by
their sons were Manchester visitors
Monday afternoon of this week.
W, C. Stone and Billy Bailey were
down to Gibbon a day or two last week
repapering a couple of rooms to which
the phone central had been moved.
Miss Nellie Helms is enjoying a two
weeks vacation from her duties at the
telephone office. Miss Nellie is spend-
ing a few days with a sister near Cor-
win.
Mrs. G T. Price came homo Monday
from her Colorado outing, She had a
line visit with her sister, but said the
climate did not suit her as she had
anticipated
Miss Elsie Montgomery of Gueda
Springs, Kansas, came down last Sat-
urday to visit her sisters Mrs. Electa,
and Mrs. Maude Ricks, a few miles
southwest of town.
Mrs. W. C Stone received a telegram
Wednesday that her sister, Mrs. Clark
Botkin of Gerlane, Kansas, was very
sick. Mrs. Stone left Thursday fore-
noon to be w ith her.
Mrs. Miriam Wilson of Wichita is
here on a visit to the family of her
daughter, Mrs E. V Smith and other
friends. She but recently returned
from a trip to California.
C H Eldridgehas moved his store
into the C. M Smith store room in
the corner building opposite the pro-
duce house. He will considerably en-
large his stock as he has plenty of
room.
We were glad to see E. R. George on
the streets Wednesday after his long
spell of suffering with an abscess on
his left cheek boue It seems to be
healing nicely and we hope will soon
be well.
C. M. Smith took ttie following
named friends over to Drury in his
car last Sunday, Ted Phillips, Arch
Heel and Joe Ackridge, This jolly
quartette had a full coop of fried
chicken.
Commissioner I, D Jones was_up
here the first of the week starting the
grading on the State road running
south from Manchester. R. H. Stroud
is pullnig the graders with his big
threshing englue.
John Powers and family, George
Powers and Mrs. Celinda Powers
spent the day Sunday, at Drury. The
trip was made in John’s Ford.
D. S. Harshbargei and wife of
Byron, Okla , spent Saturday and Sun-
day at the L. P. Roacti home. Their
visit was a very pleasant occasion, as
the families were former friends in
West Virginia.
Wm. Gillaspy, who left here several
months ago for Hunnewell, Kansas,
came back last Saturday and said he
had been out to Gove Co., Kansas,
and up to White City, where his sister
lives since leaving here.
The following have bought new
Fords this week. I. E. Melcher, Paul
Burnet and Chris. Jensen. Earl V.
Smith a second hand Ford and James
Clary a second-hand Jackson. The
Fords were sold by T. E Buckies.
John B. Miller and family passed
through Manchester last Monday en-
route to Lamont, where he has pur-
chased the News plant. The Miller’s
have been our, in western Kasans and
the last few years at Bucklin, Ivas, as
editor of the Banner, Mr. Miller was
one of the founders of the Index at
Manchester, which was later moved
to Medford and consolidated with the
Star. The Journal feels pretty cer-
tain that Lamont will have a good
paper and that is the kind they have
been used to under Miss Lanning’s
management.
An Accident At The Oil Well.
A Trip To The County Seat.
Last Friday we accompanied
Emil Friedel, down to Medford, in
his Ford, driving down past Wm.
VanBuskirks to take him along, as
all three of us were going after
Election Supplies for the Primary.
We noted the condition of crops
along the road, * going south from
Mr. Van’s place to the section line
running through Wakita thence east
till we were north of Clyde thence
south to Valley Center school house,
then straight in to Medford. Along
this route we saw one or two fairly
good looking fields of corn some
three or four miles west of Wakita,
from there, on either side of the
road the whole distance did not
notice what would be called a well
worked field and all showed that it
was pretty badly injured by the
Jrouthy conditions that had pre-
vailed so long. It did not seem
that the rain that came the week
before had helped either the corn or
kaffir, as the weather following was
so hot and sultry that some of the
worst injured looked like it had
been scalded. We believe the best
corn we saw on the whole trip was
on Clyde Harding’s farm two
miles west of Manchester, this field
and one on Frank Rife's farm ad-
joining Manchester on the west
looked to be the cleanest best work-
ed fields that we 9aw and the corn
showed up for it too.
Arriving at the "hub” we w'ere
kept pretty busy shaking hands till
noon with many old acquaintances
and a few friends, who were on the
same errand as ourselves. We met
Sam Flores, of the LaNoria Grande
Oil Co., who informed us that the
material for the derrick to be plac-
ed somewhere near Florence P. 0.,
had been bought and the exact lo-
cation would be decided on in a few
days. This company is going to
make a thorough test in this county
for once and all. They will possibly
drill several wells in this locality
and Mr. Flores assured me that
when they started on a location
they wrere going to the bottom be-
fore abandoning it. Several geolo-
gists have pronounced the territory
from Pdorence to Waldron as very
promising, so we hope that between
the LaNoria Grande people and the
Waldron-Manchester people, this
territory will be thoroughly tested.
TWENTY YEARS AGO.
HAPPENINGS OF TWENTY YEARS AGO.
Miss Katie Bowen is attending
the Grant county normal.
J. W. Smith and C. E. Scott
visited Medford on business last
Saturday.
S. B. Fling and L. F. Starks
made a business trip to Medford
and other points in Grant county,
the latter part of last week.
Hay making is all the rage now
and a vast amount of it is being. , . . , , ,. » « *
. . iL , . ,.. . „, absolute free and unlimited coinage
put in the stack this week. 1 he | ...
J. A. Lydick is free silver man to
the extent of the American output,
but he is now fully convinced that
quality is excellent.
would be the proper thing.
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SANDS OF TIME
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Last Saturday evening they had
1058 feet of casing in the well and
Monday forenoon after they had re-
sumed drilling the foundation under
thecasing gave way and it settled
down about ten feet and kinked near
the bottom, as they could only pull
the drill up about 30 feet till it stuck.
It is reported while trying to pull the
casing that about 50 feet was broken
off the top of the derrick, We are in-
formed that the derrick has been re-
paired and as soon as possible drilling
will be resumed.
ALABAMA IS WET.
J. R. Green received a letter from
his wife who is at Gadsden. Ala-
bama, a few days ago telling the
conditions there. She said for
about the first three weeks she was
there it rained every day and that
the natural outlets for the water
was not sufficient to carry it off,
livers, creeks and ditches all be-
came filled and overflowed all the
lower lands. The crops were ruin-
ed and that some of the denizens of
those parts improvised boats, rafts
and scows, out of anything that
would float to go from their houses
to the pastures or bams to take
care of their stock, do the milking,
etc. For several weeks they had
no mail till one day an enterprising
man took a boat and followed the
creek around about twenty miles,
to the post office which was only
twelve miles awray when the roads
could be traveled. She says that
everything in the houses became so
damp that mold covered them over
and they had to actually build fires
to dry their clothing and bedding,
as the humidity was so excessive at
all times with little or uo sunshine
that it was impossible to dry things
out otherwise. What a pity that
the whole middle of the United
Stales could not have had a gener-
ous proportion of their excessive
moisture in the past thirty days.
While Alabama and several adjoin-
ing states have been practically
drowned out, Kansas and adjoining
states as a whole, have had the
longest midsummer drouth in his-
tory.
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THE PRIMARY.
Passed off very quietly here and
the results of this precinct as post-
ed were on the Democratic county
ticket: For Co. Atty., J. E. Falken-
berg 22; For sheriff Frank Hamilton
23; For Court Clerk, Lu Walker
21; For County Clerk, J. 0. Rob-
inson 22, Lee A. Card 1, F. P. Pri-
vett 0; For County Treasurer, G.
W. Guthrie 19, D. L. Cline 4: For
County Surveyor, J. L. Armstrong
21; For Co. Superintendent, John
W. Williams 23; For County As-
sessor, J. T House 23; For County
weigh ter, II. X. Carney 23; For
County Commissioner First District
M. Sharkey 23.
The Republican vote in this pre-
cinct gave Judge Stephensen 17 for
County Judge; For Co. Atty., A. C.
Glenn 15; For sheriff, G. W. Smith
10, W. Baty 8; For Court Clerk,
E. A. Shire 15; For County Trea-
surer, L. I. Black 8, E. M. Moss 6,
A. J. Batchelor 5; For Co. Superin-
tendent, C. M. Sprinkle 16; For Co.
Assessor. R. W, Crockett 8, G. H.
Belcher 10, Jas. Wharry 0, V. W.
Garrett l, Sabert A. Hott 10, T. M.
Adams 2, T. J. Palmer 4; For Co.
Commissioner First district, E. L.
Randels received 15 votes. None
of the above where but one name
is given for an office had any oposi-
tion in their respective parties.
Of the 22 Democratic votes cast
here, for corporation commissioner
(long term) Henry Willtnering re-
ceived 17. For the short term W.
D. Humphrey received 10 and the
rest were scattering. For Senator
Sth District, R. L. Hall received 17.
J. E. Lemon for county representa-
tive, having no oposition received
22.
The nine amendents to the con
stitution we believe were all defeat-
ed.
The editor of the Journal took
the returns to th3 county seat Wed-
George W. Tool and Charley
Charley Spidel has accepted a I Christian have each secured a leave
position with Dr. Saffold and the of absence from their claims until
boys now greet him thus, “Good March 1, 1897. Their applications
morning Doctor.” | Were made through this office.
There is still some petty thieving 1 Ed. Sibly and Mell Himes are so
going on in the country and the fond of using the harp and banjo
Journal would urge everyone to be Dn the road, that we would be
on the alert to learn who the guilty pleased to have them join the Sand
parties are and expose them. The Hill brass band.—Sand Hill Items,
sooner we get rid of such people the Xhe writer took a drive over
better for all. When thieves are northeast of Bluff City a few days
exposed they generally seek a new ag0 The farmers over there have
location. quite a bit of corn, but the crop,
generally speaking, is much lighter
than in this vicinity or anywhere
| else that we have been.
Howard Fling met with an acci-
[ dent Monday which came very near
proving fatal. He was leading a
milch cow which made a break for
a dog which was with him. In try-
ing to hook the dog the cow’s horn
struck Howard in the left breast
[just over the heart, penetrating al-
most to the hollow. Dr. Saffold at-
[ tended the wound, which he says
was a very close call for Howard’s
| life, but he will recover rapidly.
J. J. VVamock opened the Man-
[ Chester House to the public last Sat-
urday, as announced in this paper
[last week. We welcome Mr. and
Mrs. Warnock to the business and
| society circles of Manchester. They
are highly respected people and we
| hope to see them succeed in the
hotel business. Remember the Man-
| Chester House is open to the public
when you come to Manchester and
that you will receive nice treatment
| and first class accomodations.
Cal. Wilson, who sold his claim
I seven miles south of Manchester to
A. Burg of Iowa for $500 informs
us that he will leave for Missouri in
about two weeks. He says this
country would suit him fine had he
the money to buy a bunch of cattle
I to handle while farming, but this he
did not have, hence the sale of his
farm. Mr. Burg represents a num-
ber of fairly well.to-do Germans in
| Iowa. He will be here in a week or
I two and it is very likely that others
| will come with him to buy farms.
July has come and gone. The
l month which decides whether the
corn is to be or not to be. The
| weather clerk has dealt generously
with us and the ground has been
| soaked with water the entire month
nesday morning and was informed and DeVoe, Hicks and other pro-
that it would be late in the even- pheta may now pass over their dip-
ing before anything definite would lomas. The wind has several times
be known so we returned on the shifted to the southwest and the
forenoon train, but it was conceded sky assumed that well known brassy
that L. I. Black had received the hue so indicative of dry weather,
nomination for Treasurer on the that causes the brow of the obser-
Republican ticket and George W. ving farmer to wear an anxious
Guthrie on the Democratic. “Bess” look. But every time the clouds
Robertson’s nomination was con- rolled down and knocked the hot
ceded as commissioner in the Med- winds into a cocked hat, and today
ford district. The race between J. we can boast of as fine a crop of
O. Robinson and Lee Card was close corn as was ever raised in a western
and it would take the official count country. “It is well.”—Jottings
to determine who had received the I from Jet.
nomination. . „ , . . .
T j , Morris & Holyheld, who have beeu
Later, the report was phoned . o- « « ,
.. . , , . running the btar Cafe, since April,
that Card had won. I ' ........ . . „
have disposed of their interests to O.
Chas. Morawltz was in Wednesday I Q. Neyland, Wednesday of this week,
and said that they had just removed i Mr. Holytield, wife and children have
about 100 pounds of honey which was gone to spend a month with relatives
as fine as could be. He says he has at Geary, Okla. Mr. Morris will re-
lost several swarms this summer, by j main here till the end of the week
their coming out unexpectedly and j when he will return to his home at
then leaving. | Binger, Okla.
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