South Pottawatomie Progress. (Asher, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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Soui \ Pottawatomie Progress.
VOL. 2
Reduction
Sale!
flies off his monarch while he's
sleepin’—the monarch I mean,
not Patty, sleepin’. Patty don’t
; sleep any this night. They give
! him ;i flshpole with a bunch o’
I rooster feathers tied onto the far
end an’ led him up to the block
an’just as he starts to put his
foot on it somebody jerks the
cfoth often it an’ its a big, square
cake o’ ice. They hustles Fatty
on an’ holds him there while two
made o’ rubber an' he needn’t be
afraid o’ them. Then lie reached
out his mit an’ felt <>1 em care-
ful ’fore he’d make a move to get
up on his pins.
He was fair spoiling for a tight
then, but somehow the boys got
him quieted down an’ started
again on his perilous journey.
The fellow that was acting as
conductor taken Patty by the
arm an’ they starts walkin as if
A Real Clothing SALE!
Commencing •
BAY DEC. 1
We will s. U the following lines at cut prices
as indicated ba.ow:
One lot Boys Long Pant Suits ■ • $1.75 to $4.00
Boys Knee Pants Suits
One lot Boys Ki e Pants
One lot Boys Corduroy Pants
Mens Overcoats i :om $3.00 up.
One lot Mens Dress Shirts
One lot Mens Hats
Mens Suits at Hall Price
Other Bargains too numerous to mention.
SALE BEGINS SATURDAY, DEC. 7th
Jir.I Schloss & Co.
(Ml dll * til 111 tin W*iv.^ .........
other huskies with a half bushel they's goin’ somewhere. AH the
measure apiece full of big, black while the conductor fellow is a
tacks, sows tli#m tacks all aroun’ telling Patty about a fellow called
that block so thick an’ so far out Charles the Hold, who is mailin'
Patty can’t jump over ’em. an’ all kinds o’trouble for the pore
there’s Patty holdin’ up first one, bootlegger till it seems to the
bare foot an’ then the other, an bootlegger like this life is just
a eussin’ somethin' awful. He one darn cote o’Inquire an then
got to move mighty careful, too, )a noti^r. He says as how they
or he'll slip off the ice an’ land on to unite an’ put this hero
the tacks, an’ it don’t make no Charles fellow out o’ business,
differunce which end he lands on an> thut's the mission they’re on
—he aint got no protection no- now. Then he tells Patty that
where, no more than a bootleg- he must do his share, an’ he is
ger in a court o' inquire. to set down in a certain place an
It was sure a sight, to see that keep perfectly still an' watch for
big. tat boob a dancin’ around on this Charley fellow to come along,
that there block o’ ice. He cuss- The editor says to cut this off,
ed everybody includin' his cross- cause he aint no typesettin’ ma-
eye majesty an’ hisself. He wore chjne; uU’ i didn’t get many
out his flshpole stabbin’ at ol postcards nohow, so I’ll quit till
Crosseye with it, which was the j sf>p ^ any more cards come,
only one he could reach. We all! ___
Half Price
25c
25c
50c
was disguised with false whisk
ers an’ hair so he couldn’t know
for sure who we was, but he was
that mad by now he’d lick the
flrst fellow he’d meet on the
street on suspicion if we was to
let him go. Ol’ Crosseye was a
lolling back in his throne chair
pretendin’ to be asleep; but even
though we couldn’t see his face
for whiskers we could see his
sides a shakin’, an’ Patty, he
seen it, too; cause he shook the
stump o’ his flshpole at him an’
yelled “You big slob, l wish yo’d
stand up a minit so I cud make
up my mind if yotire Green Per-
kins or Hill Wifsey. You’re
mean enough to be Perkins an’
lazy ’null' to he Wilsey. 1 wisht
I knowed how tall you be. L’ll
get you yet, an’ I’ll—” then his
NOT1CE1
Asher, Olila., Nov. 28, ’12
To Our Debtors:
This is to notify you that
on January 1st, HUB, all our
notes and accounts will be forced
into the bands of our creditors
and placed with an attorney for -
collection. As all our notes pro-
vide for attorney fees 1 will bo
glad to serve you myself on or
before that date.
Yours truly,
McKAY’S STORE,
By P. W. McKay.
(Advertisement)
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Initiation of the Fat Boy into the got it learned just perfectly my
.w* r»»v’ /mn’t nnmA it. to YO\
Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to BootleKfters.
by CORN PONE JACKSON
self yet, an’ can’t name it to you
all.
Then, after lie done took the
oath, they.taken off his blinders
an’ explained to him how he was
mine. The way they prepare a
candidate before they bring him
inside-is to take off all his clot lies
til r A | ililllldi hum " *— "
The Pat Boy was the first one i))()Ut to start on a long an’ peril-
seen go through after I got ous journoy an’ would need to
fortify hisself by a little stimu-
lant. As the goldarn sheruffs
insiutns W ww«=w.. .........—;• was so active they wasn’t any-
and put on him one o’ these little tbey COuld offer him but
dinky pair o’ cotton drawers some p0mebrew. They led him
with the legs chopped off about Uptowiieroa old fellow with
six inches above the knees, an a long w|sicers an’ long hair was a
little ol’ cotton shirt without no an’ they was a' big slop
tails to it. When they got the Fat . u, down by bis feel looked like
Hoy rigged out the pants was *<• was for b) Spjt tobacco juice in
tight they stopped circulation in lt was that spattered outside an
his laigs an’you could see ’em ! insi(le with brown splotches. The
gettin’ bluer an’bluer clean 1(1! 0)j tfeezer pulled a long handled
his toes. His tummy wasn t no tppper out from under the blank-
where near inside the limits o et he wa9 w’earin’ an’ rammed it
that little sleeveless and tailless mk) that slop jar an’sloshed it fought to get up-that a when
ol’shirt. It was worth the price .u.ound till the m0ss was good them little pants bust out behind
just to see his fatness come in, slirred; then he pulled up a dip -but they was too many t<»i
blindfolded an’ steppin’ high an fullof something dark brown him, an’ it was alright when they
careful. He made one quick jn cf)lo|. aft. 9mell_y0u could! told him what the stull was.
move, an’ that was when they ap- smell |t wep t.|ear over to where Next they leads the a >«.
plied the corkscrew from the ( set They offered it to the Pat up to the crosseye . ajes y am
SHHSrE
to show him it wasn’t going to
hurt nobody, the fellow that was
leadin’ Patty took an’ drink
about half was in the dipper an’
offered it to Patty again. Patty
got it up under his nose but that
smell was too much for him an
he handed it back. Then three
or four other fellows come up an’
they all taken a drink, hut the
Pat Hoy wasn’t game for it yet,
so they throwed him on the
ground an’ two of ’em set on him
an’ held his hands an’ laigs an'
a nother held his nose while the
fellow that was steering him
around stuck a funnel in his gul-
let an’ poured a dipper full o’ the
stuff into him. It was just plain
ol’ beef extract with a little lim-
burger rubbed on the aige o the
dipper for bokay.
Patty was mad, though, an hi
New Banker.
A new banker arrived in Ash-
er Tuesday, Dec.. 3. Ho is stop-
Jv, „............... ping just now at the home of the
foot slipped an’down he come, president of the Canadian Valley
kerllunk, in the thickest o’ them j3ank. The fact is, its another
tacks, with a yell they heard over | SOn, born to Mr. and Mrs. I). P.
to Tribbey. They was rubber Grist.
tacks an’didn’t hurt none, but -0--
pore ol’ Patty was so scared he
didn't know if lie was hurt or .1. h\ White, after an absence
not, an’he lay there not darin’h> nearly a 3,<M1 111 aioinia
Mill, illl IIC lo.v tlll-lt- imt uni m
move, till some o’the boys could and New Mexico, us " 111 n<<
stop laughin’ enough so they to Asher, and wi .in a 1*1 ,lst 1
could show him t he tacks was to see him again.
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For recent and chronic coughs and colds
25c and 50c sizes
Nyals Winter Cough Remedy
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Nvals l^ix-a--Cold Tablets
A laxative tablet treatment
Nyals Emulsion of Cod Liver Oil
A palatable preparation for the lungs
Price $1.00
Nyals Tonic
A splendid builder-up for weakened con
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Putnam, Henrietta. R. South Pottawatomie Progress. (Asher, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 12, 1912, newspaper, December 12, 1912; Asher, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc859234/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.