The Sentinel Leader. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1917 Page: 1 of 8
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Historical Society
The Sentinel Leader
VOLUME 14, No. 21
SENTINEL. OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, OCT. 12, 1917.
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Owing to tiie present condition of the
fi nancial world each individual
should prepare himself financially,
for any unseen emergency that may
arise. There never was a time in
history when such preparation was
so necessary as today. | The beat way
to do this'is to carry a
a&uni
We are ready at all times to render
you our safe and efficient services
and will appreciate your business.
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ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
:
(must make twelve hits out of
j twelve, in one minute and thirty
seconds ac fifteen thousand
yards. -If I qualify I will win a
$20 prize for each of my eighty
men and ten dollars a month ex-
tra for a year for myself.
Am sending the picture of the
| Woolworth building. I have
i just come from the top of it. It
os the largest, highest and costli-
[est building in the world.
Will close as I am thinking of
I a place in Wa hita county, Okla-
| homa.
Your son and friend, age.
Charlie,! Pmuig,
Charlie Page, U. S. S Wyo
In care of New York Postmaster
N. Y., Box 2.
Letter From J. P. Timmons
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF SENTINEL
C. H GRIFFITH, Pres.
: J. A. HYNDMAN, V-Pres.
R. A. CHAMPLIN, CasWor
L. I). GALLOWAY, Asst Cash.
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Ori mt Excursion
Ringling Brothers Circus
CLINTON. OCT 19th
Leaves Sentinel 8:08 a. m. Arrives at Clinton 9:15 a. m.
Leaves Clinton 6 p. m. returning
$1.00 EXCURSION RATES $1.00
Letter From Charlie Page
New York, Sept. 29, ’17
Dear Father ana Mother and Old Friends.’
You have asked me to write a
letter to be published in the
Leader and Beacon. To begin
with, I am not allowed to give
a y secrets of our where-a-bouts,
but will try and interest you by
telling you of some of my
troubles sjnce I enlisted.
As you all know, I left Senti
nel on Easter Sunday with Buel
Mogan, Leonard Anthony, Tom
King, Carl Crump and Caleb
Kirkpatrick. We went to Okla-
homa City where we stayed all
night. The next day we went
to (he recruiting office and were
txamined and three of us were
accepted, Buel, Leonard and
myself. Thai night I shook
hands with Kirk and bid fare-
well to the best state and people
in the world.
At six o’clock the next morn-
ing we ate breakfast in Kansas
City and at six o’clock that
night we ate lunch in Chicago
We caught a train to the Great
Lakes Training Station and got
there that night at twelve.
For two nights we had to sleep
on the hard deck, or floor, with
no cover. But we only stayed at
the Station two days, then we
were transferred to the U. S.
S. Wyoming which is a great
home. You will say so too when
I tell you that it cost up in the
millions. Since I have been on
the ship I have gotten along fine.
I have been in nearly all of
the largest cities in the East. I
will name them. Frst, we went
to New York, where we took the
ship in to dry dock for repairs,
While there a party of sixty men
Sentinel Leader and its Readers:
I just thought I would tell you
about our trip, or a part of it at
least, through Texas, New Mex
ico, Colorado, Kansas and North-
ern Oklahoma.
We left August 6th, as you all
remember. It was very dry,
and as wt went through Texas
it didn’t look as though the
crops would make anything. We
3tayed in Amarillo two days and
nights. It' i3 sure a beautiful
„ town. We then went to Clayton,
. New Mexico, and there we met
j our old friend, R. G. Cox f Port.
We sure enjoyed ourselves while
there, and they are all in the
very best of health. We also
met our old friend, Roy Reeve,
but did not get to be with him
as long as we would have liked
tr>. After visiting there a few
days we went on to the Rockies.
..... ...... ..... .....‘ We stopped a short while at
• — •---.....Dcmming, N. M It is a beauti-
shoved off for the “Rifle Ranee,’ ful little town. We next came
in Winthrope, Md. As t was i to Trinidad a larger town and
pretty well liked, I got to go. very beautiful. At the Rattoon
On our way out we were in the Pass ovfcr the mountains we saw
cities of Baltimore, Philadelphia, b autiful mountaiu scenery, high
and all night in our capital, drives, coal mines, and coal
Washington. Next morning we dumps. Our next stor was at
took a tug boat and motored up Waisenburg in; the gaps of some
the Potomac river to Winthrope. large mountains where there is
While there I made sharp shoot- an auto camping ground, free to
ep-in both the army and navy all nicely furnished for tourists,
courses. We stayed there three At Colorado Springs we enjoyed
weeks, and came back in time 1o the mountain scenery, the high
shove off with the ship as it was drives on the mountains, the
leaving New York. From New cave of winds and the fine parks.
York we went to Port Jefferson Of all the cities we visited we
on Long Island. While thert: think Denver the most beautiful,
we went out into the war zone, At Ft. Logan we met Mr. Wm.
and once was only a distance of Ramsev, a son of George Ramsey
a two days journey from the j of our town. Wm. Ramsey is a
coast cf France. “Sea sick,” son-in law of Albert More of
well I wont say. iSpring Creek. Mr. Ramsey,
Friends, it might interest you ! was proud to show us through !
to learn that I am “Firing Point- i the fort and we cannot explain !
er” of two twelve inch guns, how well we enjoyed ourselves
We fire next week and if I make there.
good I will write you and let you ’ On our way to Ft Collins we
know. What I mean by “Firing passed through the irrigated'
Pointer ’is there are only three belt of Colorado. Here are many !
men that really fire two guns, large beet fields, and wheat
in fact, only one, although it that yields so enormously,
takes at least eighty men lor a We camped about a week at'
crew. There are two pointers the foot of the Rockies near
and one trainer. The pointers on (Cheyenne, W. Y. There we let
the starboard, or right gun, ele the fa nily fish (of course the
vates and depresses. The train- men didn’t ffsh ) One day they
er changes the gun from left to caught 106 fish.
Music and expression Teachei,
Miss Mary Monroe arrives to-
night from Glasgow, Ky., t o
teach music and expression in
our town. She has had the best
instruction she could secure in
her native state and has had
several years experience teach-
ing. She posseses a pleasing
personality and is devoted to her
chosen line of work.
Call 144 for terms and further
information.
P. B. Woodruff sold J W.
Conklin a Chevrolet car, and we
would tell Joe’s wife about the
joy rides Joe is taking but we
don’t want any 'disturbance in
the family circle. But aside
from jokes, Jpe is a hard work-
ing farmer and is worthy of the
good things of life.
Tnurday of last week Miss
Nora Lyons left for Shawnee to
attend the Baptist college dur-
ing the fall and winter terms.
Mrs. Henry Ellis was last
week visiting her , sister, Mr?.
Salman of Lone Wolf.
Henry Ellis has opened a fruit
store next to the city hotel on
the west.
A. R. Bannister has bought
lis partner's interest in the busi-
ness of Bannister & Goodman.
Ed Goodman is now devoting
all his time to his tailoring and
cleaning business.
Have you bought one of the
Seco Liberty Bonds.
The man with money keeps it
in the Bank where it is safe’
'from fire or burglars or his
own extravagance.
It takes cents to make dollars. It takes sense to keep
dollars. This man knew enough to put seed into the ground
and it grew into a crop Now he knows enough to put dol-
lars in the bank and grow a tortune He knows if he plants
grain it grows; if he plants dollars they grow. But dollars
don’t fear weather conditions.
Put your money in our bank. We pay ^interest
Oklahoma State Bank
Sentinel, Okla.
C. H. Johnson L. N. Jerome E. J. Winningham
General Line of Insurance
See us for Farm Loans
DEPOSITS PROTECTED BY DEPOSITORS'GUARANTEE FUND
Stoves! Stoves!
We have the best
line that has ever
been shown in
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right, while the pointer on the
leit only fires the two guns. I
am on the left side. It takes
four bags of powder, each weigh-
ing eighty pounds, to shoot this
gun, as the shell weighs eight
hundred and fifty pmnds. I
have fired once i-ut 1 did not
qualify, as I only got eleven hits
out of twelve at nineteen thou-
sand yards, in a minute and
forty seconds. To qualify one
We drifted down the*Arkansas
river into Kansas, seeirg the
large fields. There had been a
general rain almost all over the
country and by the time we;
reached Guymon, Ukla., the'
crops were as fine as could be. I
Row crops are extra fine all over
the plains.
While in Colorado we went
through a famous canyon and all
through Estes park where the
healthv water and air make a
person feel as though he would
live 100 years. J. P. T.
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Majestic Ranges, German Heat-
ers, Cole’s Hot Blast Heaters,
Woods’ Everts Heaters and
Cook Stoves. See them be-
fore you buy. We are making
cost price on all Summer goods.
We will save you money on
good goods. We carry no junk
B0L0N BROS
SENTI NE
OKLA
Quality The Rexall Drug Store Service
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Fields, John. The Sentinel Leader. (Sentinel, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 21, Ed. 1 Friday, October 12, 1917, newspaper, October 12, 1917; Sentinel, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc937729/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.