The Dacoma Enterprise (Dacoma, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1916 Page: 1 of 8
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The Dacoma Enterprise
VOL. 5
Dacoma Woods County, Oklahoma, Friday August 11 1916
NO 15
THE R. R. STRiKE
1liable to lx calod now any ua>
t he men and railroad o’fieials are
apparently a - far apart a* over.
In the event h strike is called it
Two Fires in a Week
On Thursday morning the op-
erator at the telephone office sent
out a general call announcing (
majority of the people want, j wife apent fsawrday afternoon at
Now is the time to^ take action Cherokee.
land not wait until it is too late. I Jim Dugan ami family \yer«
Qierokee callers Saturday alter
ternoo i.
that Hiram Hiatt’s house, two
miles northeast of town was on
tire. In a few minutes men m
will paralyze the whole country. aut.omobiles were racing down
It. will be impossible to receive the road towards the fire. The
. • > i fire was put out quickly by those
oi-sh,!.anyth.nir.;r,u^-1.., *ll, U, who ^ the (UkTBWW
tilled f> overflowing and stores
will soil out all their goods and
Mt. Zion by Cousin Phoebe
Miss Elizabeth Poison worked George Hixler took supper with
for Mrs. M . Leslie the past. (Chester Muse Saturday.
‘ Roy Sellers spent Monday
night at Mrs. Minor’s.
The party at Arch Elliott .-
Saturday night was attended b\
Mr. and Mrs. Rush arc moving a large crowd,
to a place near Lambert. ; j.j Muse and wife attendee
Erwin Kerry fell from a bug- ( Konnie Cornelius’ funeral at Alin
Tuesday.
week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. J.. Hill and
daughter Clara spent Sunday af-
ternoon at Earl Glasgow’s.
and the prices arc right.
M. P. FENNESSEY
Mrs. Joe White is slowly im-
vv ill amount to less than $100.
The fire started in the kitchen,
ih"tra-«Hnffpnl.Uc win have to‘ to”the cMimiw ori*y Thursday evening and broke
i n T ia.cn c P ^ stove and it was burning all over his C()llar bone>
s:ny at bo ne and the mails will (>ne slde of the mom when it wasj R R ffiatt and family, accom-
be uncertain, bat wo have made first noticed. ! panied by Mrs. Minor spent Sun-
F Last week a prairie the came I day at J. E. Williams near Alva.
.uj.mg~.ncn very near burning Tom New-j Miss Francis Hill spent Sunday
c us to ners, strike or no strike and som»s hou9c an<4 but for the work j wit.Vi Miss Wilda Young.
have both our store and wave- of a party of men and boys from j Mr anj Mrs. Claude Finicum
. .. t. , 1f. town would no doubt have burn- anent Sunday at Frank Carter’s.
h.>,, n- rull o. Wxxl «•» < * . ^ the housp and outbuildings.
j This is bringing it home t.6 the • proving
i people of Dacoma that we have Miss Esther Belknap of Car-
__________________ ! i,o fire protection. If a fire! men spent a few doys last week
-•Henry Quinlan who has been should start anywhere along the j at W. S. Belknap’s,
very lo .v with typhoid fever was east side of the business portion Misses1 Elizabeth Poison, Syl-
r< marled some belter Thursday of town it would all burn with | via Hiatt and Messrs Willie Hiatt
morning. ! the possible except ion of the four j and Ivan ljurd;V, spent Sum ay
| bricks. While the town is not Alth Hllca 1 u
Colonel S. P. Buckley j >*rge enough to justify Puttingla,^“k ^ (^4r“y1o
AUCTIONEER ; an expensive »>btem of ^at^! find a place. As soon as they
15 years successful exnerince in , works, yet it looks ns though. find a piHce they will move to it.
Woods County satisfaction gum- something should be done. A, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hiatt and
anteed make dates at LHicoma portable chemical engine, thej children accompanied by Mrs. A.
same as has been used for sever- ; Minor and Mr. Jones, left Tues-
p mt al vears by Carmen, Cherokee, day for an extended visit in Mis-
1 Aline and many other of oursouri. Mr Hiatt’s will go to
j neighbors would be a big help m j Minor to Trenton and other
j ease of a fire and would eventual- They went overland in
ilysave many thousands of dol- Mr. Hiatt's and Jones’ ear.
anything goes wrong with lars. One Dacoma man can speak
vour ear or engine bring it to -from experience regarding the
.........4 44 in I-lvJF . i •
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Rank or Enterprise omee
Daeorna, Dkla. 5 ho
WHEN
tsssmsi t,* z
For sale 2 months old Jerse>
bull calf $10. John Zimmerman.
1 received a letter from one o.
the leading Loan Companies ii
which they advised me that the-,
would expect me to place
$50,000.00
on well improved farm land it
Woods and Alfalfa counties, that
the rate would he 5£ per cent an*,
that the borrower would have
the priveleg# of paying a portioi
or all at any interest paying tim*
and stop the interest on the
amount paid.
MONEY READY WHEN PA-
PERS ARE SIGNED AND TI-
TLE O. K.
NO NEED TO GO ELSE-
WHERE TO GET A LOAN, M\
SERVICE IS FIRST CLASS.
ASK PARTIES WHO HAVE SE-
CURED LOANS FROM ME
i THESE PARTIES ARE MT
Mr. and Mrs. Ear! Glasgow and IWpT REFERENCES.
your car or engine ui&«ig from experience ro^ammg ».*«c Freda Poison spent Saturday I will appreciate voui uusmes.
i.is we can put it in first class effective work of this type of ma- night at Hiram* Hiatt’s. and will attend to the business
running order for you> at the , Vnur vumN sum a building! Chas. Cox was an Alva visitor I entrusted to me in a business
not come to us
phone and we ! belonging to George Weaber and Saturday evening.
j located in Carmen got on fire and
' their chemical engine was rushed
j iike manner.
will come to yoi
TROUBLE
»■ WRy s. °°™e*, wv!^_n ' to tl ie building and the fire ex
^Ln cSiiA We can' weld | tinguished in short order, with a
it with our up-to-date Oxy-. loss to the building of less than
Acetylene welding'outfit and ^fo..0(), but had it not been for
guarant-ee it to stand as mr.ch the chemical engine it would have
of a strain as before it was i a tota| joss a« they were
work and our garantee gar-j without pressure on the water
antees as we make it g'>od. works.
Tires. Tubes, and Ford Re.pairs ? if you are in favor of some-
LAUGHMAN’S thing to protect your property
ifrom fire tell the council, they
are ready to do anything that a
Hiram Hiatt,
children and Earl
and
Glasgow
wife
two-
and'
GEO. WEABER
MACHINE SHOP
City—Farm Loans
ADMINISTRATOR. GUARDIAN, COURT
and all Fidelity Bonds written
Phone 165
France & France
OftW in Schnitzel’ Building. Alva
Free! Free!
One 43 piece Dinner Set, given away free e«eh First
and Third Saturday of each month and also on 1 rades
day. First set will be given away
Saturday, Aug. 19
at 4 p. m. Come in and see those beautiful sets and
we will tell you all about them.
100 piece set will be given away free on December 23.
Don’t fail to ask about these beautiful sets.
C. H. McCULLY
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Watrus, P. B. The Dacoma Enterprise (Dacoma, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1916, newspaper, August 11, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc826211/m1/1/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.