Durant Weekly News (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1, Friday, December 17, 1915 Page: 2 of 10
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Holidayfjifts
SHOP "" EARLY
SUGGESTIONS
From Durant'c Mot Popular Men's
Boys' Clothing Store
We personally invite you and every
woman and child in reach of us to come in
and inspect our enormous display of Holiday
Gifts. Every department is overflowing with
practical useful gifts for men and boys. You'll
get the Christmas spirit the moment you
enter this store.
OUR LIST OF USEFUL GIFT SUGGESTIONS FOR
MEN AND BOYS.
Bath Robes House Coats Sleeping Garments
Underwear Gloves Leather Novelties Neckwear
Sweaters.. Hosiery Suit Cases Traveling B?g? and
Umbrellas.
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The Live Store For Practical Gifts !
MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED
HECTION CHEW HAS
A NARROW ESCAPE
Oa Monday aftornoon as tho mo-ler-car
was speeding north at about
a 35-HiUe por hour clip just before
Teaching Bluo bridge on a curve it
net the section hands on their hand-
r car who wero coming up-grade.
The motor engineer did not see tho
hand-car until within 150 foot of it.
The
Christmas Suggestions
Tho best and most appreciated gifts you can glvo for Christmas
arc not tho useless foibles and trinkets which aro fit only to look
at and to buy but rather tho articles or commodities that are of ov-ery-day
uso to tho recipient of tho gift.
Naturally wo want to soil furniture but whllo tho subject la
pen what makes a better gift than a nlco pleco or set of House-
hold Goods? Scan tho following few gift suggestions picked at
random from our largo stock the most comploto in Southeastern
Oklahoma.
'leather Rocker Chiffonier Dressing Table and Chair Birds-
Eye Maplo Bed Room. Sulto Circassian Walnut Dining Room
Suite Fumed Oak Dining Boom Suite.
Oak Walnut or Fumed Oak Dining Tables Parlor Sot Wnrdrobo
Itecllning Morris Chair Axminstcr Velvet or' Brussells Art
Squares Largo stock Small Velvet Rugs.
Framed Pictures for tho WallB Hall Clock Settee several stylo3
Hall Backs Kitchen Cablnots Buffets.
And hundreds of other usof ul articles suitable as gifts for all tho
members of the family. Lot U3 show you. Prices lower than they
ought to be this season of tho year.
Durant Furniture Co.
BROKEN WATER LIN
Ike city water department had a
3fc on Ha. hands this week when it
wtus found that tho water mainon
Maia street betweon Second and
Yhlnl avenues had beeu broken and
tiA repairing at onec. A patch
m heavy brick paving about six
COAL
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Prices right Prompt delirtriM
Durant Cpal & mood 0.
PHONI
Tho section men Jumped clear of!
tho car and an nistant later tho mo-
tor struck it with a forco that sent
It csurrylng in tho opposlto direction
and it was at Isca to quarter of a
nillo down tho track where tho sec-
tion foreman found it shortly after-
ward uninjured.
Fortunatoly no ono wa3 hurt. The
only damage was to tho pilot of the
motor-car. Keneflck Dispatch.
Best
feet squaro had to bo lifted as woll
as tho baso of tho paving aud work
men had (o dig down to tho main cut
off the water and patch tho leak.
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SUITS AND OVERCOATS
ForXrnas gifts are the most practical gifts of all.
Here you'll find the largest assortment of high grade
Suits and Overcoats in Durant. Up-to-date models of
every oolojr imaginable ranging in price from $12.50 to
$25.00.
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THE "GREEN BUG" 1LS
AGAIN PUT IN APPEARANCE
Measures Recommended by tho De-
partment of Agriculture to Min-
imize Dniigcr of Serious Out-
break in Coming Spring.
Washington D. C Dec. 15. Tho
"green bug" othorwise known as tho
spring grain aphis has mado Its ap-
pearanco In Tennessco Texas Okla-
homa Kansas and Now Mexico. Far-
mare aro urged by tho United States
Department of Agriculture to watch
their fields carefully for spots where
tho pest Is aboundant and tho wheat
plants chango to rod or yellow color.
Such spots or areas should bo immed-
iately plowed under and rolled or
if stray is abundant this should bo
spreadover tho spots and burnod.
The danger of a serious outbreak In
tho coming spring will depend upon
weathor conditions between this and
April 1.
DEATH OF W. P. HOUR
W. F. Houk aged 51 years-died
Sunday afternoon at tho homo on
East Main street after a prolonged
illness with pneumonia. Funural
services woro held at tho homo Mon-
day at 2:30 in tho afternoon follow
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Hard Times Suggest
Useful Presents
Give Tke Loved Oaes Useful GIFTS Iastead of Useless Trinkets
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CASH TELLS THE STORY COME AND SEE
A. L. SEVERANCE HARDWARE CO.
209 Main Street.
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Ok. Ill
ed by interment In Highland ceme-
tery .Deceased had been in tho dray
business hero for a long time.
DURANT NOW
HAS A TANLAC
AGENCY
Tho remarkable now preparation
known generally as tho "Master Med-
icine" which has created such aston-
iaing results in tho East and Middle
West will 'bo distributed in Durant
by tho Corner Drug Storo exclusively.
Tho Tanlac man said:
"Probably tho most distressing
and prevalent disoaBo to which wo
Americans aro heirs is Catarrhal af-
fections of tho mucous membranes
causes of dyspepsia Brlght's disease
and kindred disorders. We are re-
ceiving dally statements from some
of the most prominent people in tho
country who have found rollof by
the uso of Tanlac for such troubles."
Call at tho orner Drug Storo and
tecuro a bottle of Tanlac for stom-
ach liver kidney bowels or catarr-
hal affections. (Ad)
SEE OUB "BLUE RIBBON"
SEWING MACIUNE AT
$
15
.00
A High Grade Machine with
full set of attachments. For-
merly seld at $20.00.
We are offering bargains
in other articles suitable for
Christmas presents in Cut
Glass Queenaware Casser-
oles Pocket Cutlery Boys'
Wagons Guns gloves Etc.
Durant Okla.
THE "OLD COW"
BEST FACTORY
Sdhl Thut TMe CowmmKy Um N
CMm tm Fnciorien Bt HW Neg-
lected Ita Oreeteet GworttmUj'
and Tbftt to Dairying.
(Note: Following Is the address
of W. F. Peadleteh' at the 25-Expn-
rtfea Club Booster Lunch last week
oh the subject "The Need of Factor
ke." Mr. 'Pendicle cays la bMef
that this section ha no immediate
claim on Industrial factories eying
te tho lack of raw material and cheap
fuel and asserts that eur greatest
asset awl which we aro permitting
to go umlDvelofrcd is that greatest
of nil Industries In diversified farm-
ing countries Dairying. Mr. Pendle-
ton fs not a theorist on tho contra-
ry ho is ono of tho most succeBJihil
of our practical dalrymon. Hn owns
a fine dairy fnrm In Texas and al-
though he hires all tho work done
earns n substantial profit on tile in
vestment) : m
Mr. Toastmaster and Gontlcmon:
Tho subject Of "Factories in Du
rant" which I understand wis ffist
assigned to mo was ono upon which 1
could work up very llttlcenlhuslasm.
Tho first Improssion of ' tho word
"Factory" brings to our minds is t
picturo of buildings full of raw ma
terial and manufactured products
smokestacks pouring forth a steady
stream of black smoke and hundreds
of laborers with wolMIHed dlnnor-
pails. Tho picturo is a beautiful ono
but in my Judgment it will bo sevoral
years yet boforo wo of Durant will
bo nblo to view It in our midst.
As an economic business proposi-
tion capital for building factories
goes to tho raw material and you
havo no raw materlnl heVo r.-hich will
Justify Wasting much onergy on In tho
promotion of factorlos as pictured.
I shall discuss briefly only ono
kind of factory now' for this section
tho promotion of which will itipay
you for all tho energy you may ex
pend and that factory is just tho
plain old cow. We have hero an- ag-
ricultural and stock-raising section
unsurpassed anywhere and It tho
proper energy woro expended in the
education of our farmers along theo
lines you would bo astonished how
rapidly it could bo developed. You
csk mo whoso duty it Is to propagalo
this campaign of education. I toll
you it is yours. It Is tho duty of the
merchant tho banker tho manufac-
turer tho land owner to start such a
campaign under such mothods as will
bring results Tho details of suh a
plan havo no placo horo tonight and
my only desire- is to got you to think
becauso thoro is always salvation for
men who think.
When a man requests a loan from
ono of- you bankers for tho purpose
of buyiugr a dairy hord you let him
havo it if tho present security looks
good but without an yidca ot what
kind of catUo ho is going to buy
what experience ho has hadwhothor
or not the cows havo been tested by
a Babcouk tester to usee tain if 'they
are o bo boarders or vnoney-mnkerB.
Some of you land owners require
your tenants to plant all cotton be-
causo you say It Is your monoy-crop.
Others never advise with their ten-
ants about a division ot crop to be
planted and in all I am compelled
to say wo havo slipshod farming a
poor examplo of stock-raising in one
ot tho best farming aud stock-raising
sections of the South.
Becent statistics show that there
Is shipped into Texas four milion and
in Oklahoma one million dollars'
worth of dairy products every year
from lowu Kansas Nebraska Mis
souri and Illinois. Can tho farmers
of thoco states manufacture dairy
products cheaper thau Oklahoma?
Let us soe.
They buy your cotton seed meal
tho richest concentrated feed in the
world Jlhd the cheapest pay the
frolght feed 1t to their dairy cows
and Sell you the product. Thoy are
compelled to house tholr herds from
eight to nlno months in tho year and
graze them three to four menths. Wo
grazo nine months and are compelled
to house not more than three
months. They have high-priced land
we have cheap land and yet tho
farmers of those" states hold mort-
gages on lands In Oklahoma and
Texas and will continue to own them
until by some means our people are
educated along the lines of better
selection of stock better manufacture
of product and then the markotlnK
problem will to a great extent take
care of itself.
. I' trust tho day is not far distant
when the products ot the farms ot
Oklahdma will be consumed on these
farms sold on legs or wrapped in
cil paper and cheese-cloth.
The need of factories firings to
mind again ample rawmatertal? un
employed labor and profitable nuvr-
)jst for the manufactured product.
Belthar pt whUh oaa DuraaJ beast of
The hum akoth&.ef energy ad
OM-thlr4 the rteney which it woald
require to prmntt one average rflan-
vfaetnrlBK owtcern if expended bi
the propmafkm of bettor knowlMfe
ef stock-eetectron eaUle-ralslnc and
rJalry-Jmebandry ne ear people
would return to Bmtrt m a fettetfteM
proposition ten-fold fcne In wealth
and better elUcmship and in the
way of a eottiewied hippy pwp4e.
KKLIiKY OFFKRKB COACMUfa
POSITION AT CATjiroRtftA U.
Had tteeeetful Year at Curliele XtMttfta
School. Football AbolMicd t
That School. la Miifloissd t
My MOrH. Jiv C0IM5MWU I
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Victor M. Kelley. el Durahl ath-
letic director ad football coach ef
the famous Carli9telnaiaa' School at
Carlisle I'ennsylvaRla aad wheoo
job rums out there by reason f tho
bbollshm-cnt of feetball aftd ether
strenuous athletic games at the
school has alroady been offered
three lucrative positions as nthlotlo
VICTOR M. KELLEY
trainer ono of which ho will accept.
Tho most favorable offering accord-
ing to Vic's judgment Is that of the
Unlvorslty of California wblch-'pays
mi annual salary of $3500.00. Other
coaching positions profforcd him are
those of Iowa and Nobraska State Un-
iversities each of which pays a sal-
ary of $3000.00 a: year. In addition
to those offers several smaller insti-
tutions havo been bidding for his ser-
vices. Practically every athletic d
rectors of tho bltr eastern universities
Is endorsing Kelley for the California
job which fs probably In part the
reason for his being offered tho po-
sition. At Carlisle tho past soason Vie
took a bunch of raw green material
and whipped it Into good enough'con-
dltlon to hold tho groat Harvard Un-
iversity to a 25 to 7 scoro tho In-
dians at that gaining moro ground
than did Harvard tho lattor playing
In good luck. Harvard later beat
Yale 41' to 0. During tho season
Vic's Indians won three games tied"
two and lost six a rocord tho school
has not qquallod In several years ov-
en with experienced plnyors as a nu-
cleus for tholr teams.
VIcto and Mrs Kelley andjjthelr
young son arrived here Saturday to
spend tho. Christmas holidays.
SPRAINED' AN1CLE WHEN
iionsE threw inai
Lewis Paullln Jr. received a bad-
ly sprained ankle Monday morning
when his pony throw him. Lewis
and somo men from town had started
to round up somo stock that they
woro going to tako to market when
the pony becamo fractious taking
Lewis unawares and precipitating
him to tho ground.
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Rates
via
(Texas TraeliOH Company)
Frm Delwm and Sherman
to
Delis Ft. Worth Corslcana
and Wrca
will be in effect Dee. IS 23
24 25 and 26 1915 and Jan.
1 1 1910
Final return limit Jan. 5 191C
Special Holiday rates shown
below;
From Denlson From Sherman-
To Dallas c$2.80 $2.40
"Ft. Worth 8.80 3.40
"CorBlcana 4.90 4.80
"Waco 6.66 6.25
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Evans, E. M. Durant Weekly News (Durant, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 50, Ed. 1, Friday, December 17, 1915, newspaper, December 17, 1915; Durant, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc82682/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.