The Messenger. (Earlsboro, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1914 Page: 1 of 4
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circulation.
Consolidation of the Wanette Press, The Messenger, and the Me Loud, Press.
Vol. 2, No. 52.
FARM LOANS
We have unlimited outlet for first-class Farm
Loans; prompt and personal service is given; low
rates, and the best of terms are granted.
We solicit your business.
GEO. E. McKlNNlS CO.
103 N. Broadway. Phone 1100 Shawnee, Okla.
LUMBER! LUMBER! LUMBER!
We have the lumber. Come in and we will
SHOW YOU THE BEST STOCK OF LUMBER IN THE COUN-
TY. WE WANT TO FIGURE YOUR BILLS FOR YOU. WE
FURNISH YOU EVERYTHING COMPLETE FOR BUILDING
your house. Builders’ Hardware Our Specialty.
E. S. Billington,
Lumber Dealer.
EARLS BOKO, • • OKLAHOMA.
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Strictly Modern.
Shawnee,
Rates 75c to $1.50 per day.
Shawnee’s Best Hotel.
THE NORWOOD
Norwood Hotel Company, Proprietors.
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VAUDEVILLE
3 "Big Time” Feature Novelty
Acts 3
Come to the Saturday Matinee
Every Saturday. Only
10c at Matmee 10c
S/arts at 3 o’clock.
Shawnee’s
Family Vaudeville Theatre.
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♦♦♦♦
“LUCILE LOVE”
“Our Mutual Girl”
and all the Best Stars in the
Movies at the
ODEON.
Shawnee’s Best Motion
P.cture Theatre.
Your visit to this city is not
complete without a visit to the
Odeon.
Do you want value received for your money?
SURE YOU DO!
and
That is what our store stands for. Let us sell you
yojar Clothes, Hats, Caps, Shoes, Shirts, Socks, Und-
erwear, Neckwear etc.
Your money’s worth or your money back.
We keep your suit pressed, FREE.
HALLEY-WHITE CLO. CO.,
Earlsboro, Oklahoma.
UKUHOMAJEWS N0TE5
SHADOWS OF COMING EVENTS.
May 5-8—Confederate Veterans Re-
union, Jacksonville, Fla. „.,or,tlnn
May 5-8—State Firemens comention,
Oklahoma City. i.tion
May s-s—Slete Editorial Associat o
AMrTy a—State spelling contest, Oklahoma
C*May 10-12—Knlphts of Columbus state
convention, Guthrie. , -nth
May 11-14—State convention •*'d
anniversary celehratlon. Knights of F>tn
ias, Oklahoma City. , n .
May 26-27—Ozark Trails Good UoadS
Commission, Tulsa. . rtuth-
May 27—Annual Santa Fe picnic, t.utn
July 6-Aug. 1-Cotton school.4 StiU"
WsV..t 8-8-10—Caddo i-oumv fair. Btnger.
Sept. 8-10— Fhotograpners contention.
Oklahoma City. nkla-
Sep'. 22 Oct. 3, 1914—State hair. Okla
homa City.
Oct. 7-17-Dry Farming Congres .
Wichita ...
Octnker—Southern commercial con
greas. Muskogee.
A test well is being drilled at Vlan.
The socialist party of Jack -on coun-
ty will have a full county ticket in
Ihe held this fall.
One Guthrie stockman has fed 3,500
cattle during the past winter and just
marketed them, the cattle bringing
$300,000.
About sixty delegates attended the
sessions ot the district ir.-eting of
the Baptist Ladies’ Missionary socie-
ty at Hobart.
Mayor Beach at Altus has called a
mass meeting of the citizens of Altus
for Tuesday, May ?8, to consider the
relection of a regular ’’good roads”
day.
The Eufaula hoarding school pre-
sented the Indian operetta, “The Feast
of the Red Corn,’’ Wednesday even-
ing. The perforate!» were all Indian
girls.
While attempting to drive some
cattle across Sugar Creek, near So-
per, which was swollen by recent
rains, Anson Riggs, aged 20, was
irowned.
The annual Santa Fe picnic will this
year be held at Guthrie, Sunday, May
27. Special trains over all lines will
bring more than 1,000 employes and
their families to Guthrie for that date.
The First State bank of Ringling
has been organized with $20,000 cap
ltal by J. M. Robertson and J. F.
Stotts of Loco and others, and it will
be opened for business as soon as a
juilding can be completed.
A. M. Funkhouser of Fort Smith
Ark., who had been operating in the
Healdtou field, dropped dead in his
-oom at the Whittington hotel in Ard-
xiore. Heart disease is supposed to
lave been the cause of death.
Henry Landers, a 14-year-old full-
blood Indian of McClain township,
Muskogee county, won the first prize
In the county spelling contest, and
will represent Muskogee county In the
state contest at Oklahoma City May 9.
Statisticians who have been enu-
merating the wars of the past quarter
of a century have been purposely and
maliciously slandering this state by
emission. Nothing was said of the
Crazy Snake, Jay or Tulsa rebellions.
A coroner’s jury at Tulsa exoner-
ated Deputy Sheriff Bob Atkins cf all
blame for the killing of Frank
Fridges, an ex-convict, who was shot
nd killed while trying to escape, aft-
jr being arrested on a charge of burg-
lary.
James D. Flynn, editor of the Sa-
pulpa Daily Argus, took over the sub-
scription list arid advertising con-
tracts of the Daily Democrat of that
Lity edited \jj Vied C. JoL«»*.i.0b atul-
wiii coiibolivi j * e the Kittor sheet ,\ild
bis own newspaper.
Security State Bank
Shawnee, Oklahoma
•
We buy SALE NOTES, anti always have
money to loan to responsible farmers at
a reasonable rate of interest.
W. S. Search. President; F V- Askew. Vice President;
C. R. Wallace, Cashier-
Our advertisers will save you money. Patronize them.
CLARKE’S SEED STORE
Clarke & Keller. •
We are ready to supply your wants for Field
Seeds of the very best stocks. Our stocks of
Sweet Clover, Alfalfa, Millet, Cane, Cotton Seed,
Texas Red Oats, Garden Seeds are the best in
the state. Place your orders early to secure the
best. “Root’s beekeepers Supplies.” “High
Grade Fertilizers.”
Phone 140. Shawnee, Okla. 208 E. Main.
Jack Htywocd. Cud Snehinjj*.
Reekie Barber Shop
Haywood & Snel ings, Proprietors
When in Shawnee call and see us. All kinds of fiist-class barber work.
"f"lie Greatest Values Ever Offered in
f $15.oo and $20.oo Spring Suits for
Men in Serges, Worsteds and Cassimeres.
“Xtragood” Suits for Boys at all prices.
__________Our Motto:______________
“Your Money’s Worth Every Time.”
DICKSON CLOTHING COMPANY
4 East Main St. Shawnee, Okla.
16 E. Main Street,
Shawnee, Okla.
Vote for \Y. V. Lors on.
Two banks of Tecumseh have com
bined deposits of $185,000.
Tillman counly’s second annual
poultry show will be held in Freder-
ick December 14 to 19.
Thomas Pryor, 35 years old, shot
and killed his wife and fired a bullet
into his own brain at Ardmore. The
couple separated several weeks ago.
C. M. Fecheimer, a Chlckasha at
torney, died as the result of having
fallen from the roof of the First Na
tional building into the alleyway be-
low.
John Jenkins, of Hickory, was kill
ed by Dick Eli ott, his stepfather, who
says that he shot Jenkins after the
latter had attacked him with a knife
Elliott will plead self-defense.
Sunday evening, while all Chicka
sha was at church, a thief entered the 1
First National Bank building, forced |
the doors to three dentist offices anil t
procured a total of over $300 worth ol
geld.
For threatening to behead his 1S-
year-cH daughter with a butcher
knife, W!'l Hinton, proprietor of a
rooming and boarding house at Tulsa,
was sentenced to jail for forty-five
days. . „ , _„
Drs. Gallaher & Stocksbury,
SPECIALISTS
Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat
Third Floor, Mammoth Buildir.g
Shawnee, • ... Oklahoma.
Setting forth thirty-nine errors in
the trial of W. R. Wainwright of Vr
kogee and his subsequent convictm t
on a charge of embezzlement, attm
neys for Wainwright filed an appe I
In the criminal court of appeai-.
Wainwright, former treasurer of Mus-
kogee county, was convicted of em-
bezzling $7,500. He was indicted ' v
a grand jury. As a result of the tri 1
he was convicted and sentenced to
serve fourteen years in the state pm.
ftentiary at hard ltfbor and to pav i-.
fine of $16,000. both of which he ob-
jects to doing.
After watching Fred B. Jones, «
veterinary of Atoka, Okla., for sev
eral weeks under suspicion that, he
v/as an agent for white slavers, St,
Loris rtdif’*’ nrreste-1 'll™ «t his room
After he had escorted a woman from
the union station to a rooming hom<M
under guise of offering her preie<
ion.
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Resch, Francis X. The Messenger. (Earlsboro, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 7, 1914, newspaper, May 7, 1914; Earlsboro, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc860565/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.