The Rocky Weekly Advance. (Rocky, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 26, 1907 Page: 1 of 4
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Rocky Will Have A First Class Lyceum Course the Coming Season.
Watch For Further Particulars.
THE ROCKY WEEKLY ADVANCE.
Entered as Second-Class Mail Matter, April 26th, 1906, at the Post Office at Rocky, Oklahoma Territory, under the Act of Congress, of March 3, 1879.
VoL No> ® Stops after noti,-,-. Renewal requested. ROCKY. OKL VHOMT, SEPTEMBER ife 11)07. (Pencil Mark Here Moans Time Out. ) Brice, |1.00 A YeaVin Ad^i«r.'
A JUICY PROPOSITION
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Beiug an account of a certain
Business Transaction which
took place in the early
days of the T owu
Between
A Benevolent Grandpa, Two 5 year
old Kids and involved a 10-Cent Dog,
and lots of watermelons.
This is the watermelon season the tl ip to Grandpa’s with the
and when we saw Grandpa Bur- lod wa8on and the dog to
row taking home that little red CO,ne back a little later with no
wagon it brought to mind a cer- do® kut a r*cdl Ju*cy melon in
tain business transaction, which the freight wagon,
took place in Rocky three or four ^ ko do8 would generally over
years ago, in which a little rid *ake them becau°e Grandpa al-
wagou figured prominently. "ays turned him loose as soon
The transaction was between as ^ started.
Grandpa Burrow, party of the ^ fter.a while the boy: found
f rst pari and Clayton Carder that it was quite a job to find
son of Postmaster Carder and
Roy Johnson son of C. J. John
sop, then of Rocky but now of
Denver Colo, parties of the se;-
ond part.
pieces of rope to lead the dog
so they said “Leave the lope on
him. Grandpa ” thus disposing
of one difficulty.
Now it is of record that the
The dog was tbe third party harder and Johnson families
and involved the ownership of a suGored much from cholera
dog, of tho market value of ten m°rhus f°r a while and a water
cents, and which both parties to mtdon became an abomination
the deal were trying to ge' rid of. kl their hut as tjie dog
The deal came up in this way faithfully kept coding home
The party of the. first part had thus calling for another trip to
a patch of fine melons, just Grandpa s there seemed but one
south of li K.'ky and the parti< s VV l1^ out and at a council °f the
of thfe'^rcond part, being then two families it was decided that
about; five y.ars old had famous ke on^ thing to do was to kill
appetites for melons. the du8-
One day Grandma told them But they happened to think of
Mr F W. Morgan left Friday
for Manitou, Okla, where he
has accepted a position as man
ager of a gin.
He expects to he gone unti
Spring except foroccasonal visi,
with old friends in Rocky.
Manitou is to be congratulated
on securing an all around goot
man. In taking care of the
sick'there a e few better nurses
than Fred Morgan.
it that it wasn’t their dog and
they had no right to kill him,
anil as Grandpa was having too
much fun out ofithe situation to
kill the dog, it was decided that
unless he stopped sending the
to come down with their little
red*wagon and get a melon.
Whoa they came they were
accompanied by their dog.
Now Grandpa had no use for
a dog hut just to have fun wi h
tire little emps. he offered them nUiIons tho l)()>’s mi8ht disl>ose
ten cents for him. of th' ,n to the other kids-
-They promptly closed the deal This opened 0 w^v to a new
and started home. field of commerce anti of course
Grandpa tied th dog until they objected to any proposal on
the part of Grandpa to cancel
tl»ey were gone and then let him
loose and he went home too, as
Grandpa knew he would.
Next clay the boys br ught
the dog hack.
Grandpa told them to come
d6wn next day with th ir little
the con'ract. From that time
on the melon became legal end-
er ir ong the kids in Rocky for
candy, marbles, rubber halls,
chewing gum, nigger shooters,
i ill all the forms of personal
the ju-
wagoh and he would give them property recognized y
a melon for bringing his dog vnule codo*
jlomo When the other kids suggest
To tied him up again and a ed thafc the^ were ftskin« to°
gain fefr him loose, and when much for their melons, the boys
the boys came next day with answered in the true monopolist
style, •* If you dont like our
ttffiwngo for their melon the
d»g he w me also.
, * At first the hoys were dispos-
ed to think they ought to have
t%p juelniis because they had
brought him track twice!
They finally waived their
figgers, get you an own dog.”
But all good things have an
end, and one day Grandpa’s
melon season was over but it
lasted long enough to give Clay-
ton and Roy all the loose boy
claim to tin second melon but Property and the other kids all
on condition that they should the Vholor* *«orl>us in Rocky,
hdvoa melon every time they All Summer Goods At
brought li'm homo.
Grandp i consented to this ar-
rangmort provided they cidn’t
bring him more than once a day!
This ai r mgmont held good to
tho end of the watermelon sea-
son, and for a month the kids
cost In our Big Reduction
Sale.
Robinson Drug Co*
Mr A. L. Bearden of Olony
Young Co Tex. has been visit-
ing his son-in-law, Mr Will Hill
north oast of Rocky and gave
us a cull.
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Jim Olive has bought a lot in
the Means addition and put
down a well, preparatory to
building a house on it for a fam-
ily residence,
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Mr Dan Hughes, of Illinois
arrived last week and found his
brother E. B. Hughes greatly
improved, hut still very weak.
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Mrs. W.C.Hart of Paris Tenn
one of our earliest readers,called
at the Advance office last week
in company of her Mother,
Grandma Baucum, and her
irotlier and wife Mr and Mrs
D. R. Baucum.
She is here on a thirty-day
visit and is kept i ight on the go
among the Baucum families
and other old friends. She i6
very much taken with the
country.
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Please excuse us if this item
is not very bright.
We are writing it just aftei
a personal encounter with a
great big watermelon and an
overgrown cantcloupe, which
Grandma Burrow brought to the
office this morning and left here
with her personal compliments,
Under the circumstances a
fellows thoughts all take flight,
and he is left with only a feel-
ing of gratefulness c r rather of
great fullness.
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Found A Lap Robe
Owner prove property and pay
for advertising
Advance Office
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Dr, Slattery, the Dentist, will
continue his visits to Rocky on
ruojt 11 d Wic iiokUye.
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to
to
See Bergnia Counter
at Robinson Drug Co.
Big Reductton Salo,
Now On.
At Robinson Drug Co.
ATTENTION
On and after Oct. 1-07 our
books will be closed.
No more credit.
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Robinson Drug Co.
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Mis W. L, Parker has been
entertaining two of Mr Parkers
neices, Misses Hattie Clevenger
and Onice Brown, and Miss
Sudie Me Kec, all of Salem Ok.
The entiro party together with
Mrs Parker’s daughters favored
the Advance office with a call
Friday,
TO THEJjPUBLIC
I always make it a rule to he
candid and straight forward in
all my dealings with theppublic
and when I have anything to
say I try to say it in a fair and
straight forward! ■ way, and in
order to get as ;wide a circula-
tion as possible for what I have
to saytat this time.Iidecided the
best way would be to buy what
space I need;in;the;Advance for
my remarks.
This is really necess«ary be-
cause I have^ not the .time
spare that would be needed
talk to each individual and tel
him my side of the matter in re
gard to certain things which
have recently come up.
In regard to the matters them
selves I will say that thoy are
in the shape where the truth or
falsity of the statments as to the
way I have conducted myl bus-
iness, will he determined in the
iroper manner when'the courts
lave time to take them up.
Meanwhile, il .feel,' :howevei
hat I am entitled.to the benefit
of the doubt and I naturally dis
ike to see my business suffer-
ing injuryiby|reason of unfavor
able feeling and opinion growing
out of reports placed in circula-
tion which are wholly untrue,
and without foundation what-
ever.
I therefore feel that Ijhave
jood reason to ask the people of
tocky and vicinity, to give me
the benefit of the doubt, at least
until the question can he legally
and properly decided.
While I have no desire to as-
sert that my way of doing bus-
iness has been satisfactoiy to
every body, ( nobody can suit
every body ) I wish to say that I
have frequently gone cut of my
way to accomodate some of the
very people who are actively
circulating reports to my injury
and I further want to say most
emphatically ;that there is no
truth in the story that I refused
to sell ice for sick people, when
I knew whom it was for.
In one instance 1 declined to
go and getisomo ice after I had
closed up the shop on Sunday
forenoon at the request of a boy
who did not say anything as to
its being wanted for anyone elsi
It turned out that the ice was
wanted top a sick man, but I
bad no way of knowing it. Had
I known the circumstances, I
would have been only too glad
to accomodate him.
I have during the past few
months furnished ice for weeks
to sick persons, and charged
them nothing whatever.
I admit I have my faults, as
we all have, but they dont run
to the disregard for the plain de-
mands of humanity, and proper
consideration of tho needs of
the sick.
No. my friends, that is not my
style, but the story is going the
rounds and no doubt, a good
many believe it, and of course it
hurts my business, as it ought
to if it were true.
As to the motivo behind all
tins talk, it is not necessary to
go into that at .tho’present, be-
cause that is a thing that will
be fully investigated later on,
but it is well to romemb er tha
these stories’gotinto:circulation
shortly after my article appear-
ed in the Advance a few months
ago. in regard to the meat ped
dling wagons.
Every body can draw his own
conclusions. I am not kicking
on a new shop or fair competi-
tion, and I do not believe that
x hen the public understands
the real facts that there will be
any ground for complaint,
As a business man, I must ex-
pect competition and now that
my competitors havo money in
vested in tho business I make
no complaint.on that score.
What I did object to'was: the
unfairness of, the competition of
of any one who had nothing in
vested, Now that iny competi-
tor has money invested the same
as I have, I have nothing to say
As to the attempts to injure
me by malicious .stories that is
another matter.
Mean while I am selling moat
at the old prices v hich 1 reduced
before I had opposition, and
which you will find elsewhere in
this issue
Yours Respectfully
J. A. Olive
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A. F. Ralston, writes us to
foiward his paper to him at
Chatanooga. Okla.
They arrived Ok.
NO CHARGE FOR IT.
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OLIVES PRICES
Here are th§ prices of Fresh
Meats and Cured Meats.
They are exactly the same as
when I had the only shop in
;own, and the:ewas no competi-
tion.
Beef, ■
Hindquai ter sliced up. lOcts
Forequarter 8cts
Rib Roast Celt
Fresh Pork lOcts
Pure Hog Lard lOcts
Cudahy’s Gold Bn 1 Hrn 16cts
Yours for square business.
J. A. Olivo
Rocky Okla.
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The Rickey Elevator is now
lining fitted up with complete
corn chop and corn meal ap-
aratus. It will be arranged so
that every customer can got the
identical grain brought by him
This is particularly desirable
in tho caso of ''orn meal, and
;bis feature will be appreciated
iy those who want their own
stuff.
In the case of chops it will be
so arranged that tho customer
simply dumps his bad of either
rusked or snapped corn at one
place and drives round to an-
other place where the chops are
coming down a spout right into
iis wagon.
Nothing is handled by hand
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Made Him Rich.
"How rlclicttlouH It Is," remarked the
wealthy tailor, "to Hay that clothes
don't make the man."
“Think to?" queried hla friend.
“Why, of course; they've made me."
The Laundry Man Gives the Bachelor
Man a Little Lesson In Norve.
"When I came to open my bundle
of stuff sent home from the laundry
this morning," said the bachelor
innn, "I found in It, sent back washed
hut not ironed, one shirt that had
pinned to it a ticket reading tike
this:
We are returning this shirt on ac-
count of it not being In a condition
to withstand Ironing.
"This was a new one to me, but
when I came to open up the shirt and
looked It over I didn't wonder that
they hadn’t tried to Iron it; one arm
was all but torn from Its socket and
there was a hole punched through one
cuff, with a tear extending from thla
hole for an Ihch or two up the sleeve.
The shirt was sure not In condition
for Ironing, but how did It get so?
"I certainly never tent It to the
laundry in that shape. I’d hare had
hard work tearing the sleeve out of
the shoulder the way this one waa
torn, and I couldn't havo made that
hole in the cuff without some sort of
a sharp and big punch. Clearly the
shirt had been torn and mangled in
that manner by being caught in the
laundry machinery, and so I wrapped
it up in a neat little bundle and took
it over to the laundry office, intending
to make a claim for tho value of !L I
Bpread the shirt out on the counter
and cnlled the clerk's attention to H
and told him that I couldn’t have torn
the shirt in that manner, it must have
been done in the laundry, and how
about it?
" 'Well,' says the clerk, 'we made no
ehnrge for It.’
"As the full significance of this
came upon me—they had torn my
shirt all to pieces, but they didn’t
make any charge for it!—I staggered
back, and I kept on staggering that
way until I had got out of tha door.
“I shall never make any further
claim for the ahlrL I got back far
more than Its value In that lesson In
clear, cold nerve."
Wife—Boat.
Two fishermen named Smith, living
near each other, had met with misfor-
tune, the one having lost hla wife and
tbe other his boat.
A lady visitor called on the one
who had lost his boat, thinking t was
the one who had lost his wife. “Good
morning, Mr. Smith. 1 am sorry to
hear of your sad loss.”
"Oh, it ain't much matter, mam.
She warn’t up to much."
"Dear me, you don’t say so."
"Aye. she waa a rickety old crock.
When I went out with her I was al-
ways In danger of my life. Indeed,
I offered her to my mate only last
week, but be wouldn’t have her. I
have had my eye on another for some
time now."
But the old lady could stand no
more of the old man's denunciations
of tho weaker sex, and hurriedly took,
her departure.—London Tld-BIta.
Missouri Mystsry Cleared Up.
Thousands of hogs In southeast
Missouri are fattening on a crop that
was planted 17 years ago—a crop of
17-year locusta.
Since early spring the hogs of the*
farmers In this section have been get-
ting fat on something they found In
the woods, and each farmer secretly
wondered whose corn crib hla pigs;
had found, for they came home each
night not squealing for their food, but
only to sleep; and every day they
brought home a layer of bacon and
lard added to thelf once lean and-
hungry bodies.
The "rail splitters" of South Mia-
sourl and ArkuiiBas were fast being.
turned Into prize Berkshire's mad
Polands by what or whom tha farm*
er did not know until a faw days ago,
when the woods were filled with the
song of the 17-year locusta.—Kansas
City Journal. .____
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Another Nature Fake.
In 1884, says Henry B. Warner I
met Mr. Joseph Mulhatton, a Journal-.
1st of wide repute, and went with him
to South Africa, where we studied tbe
habits of Boers and other wild ani-
mals for two years. Among other
things, we took with ua a pocket
piano, on which Mr. Mulhatton used
to make beautiful music, to the great
distress of our dog. which howled
solos at every performance. We cap-
tured a monkey, an anthropotdean
quadnunanniiB mammal with prehis-
toric feet and a long tall, we\J known
to -the natives. We trained him to
wait on the table and perform other
domestic services. One day Mr. Mul-
hntton got out his piano and waa
about to play “Give My Regards to
liriMdway,” which had not then been
written, when the monkey stepped up,
gravely pushed him aside, and picked
the tune out himself with both hands,
both feet, and his nose. He played
many times for us, but always labored
under the disadvantages of not being
able to stretch an octave.—N. Y. Sun.
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