The May Bugle. (May, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1916 Page: 1 of 4
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THE
MAY BUGLE.
A Weekly Newspaper for the People.
(Successor to the Buffalo Bugle and May Exchange)
Subscription mce, $1.00 Per Year.
VOL 12.
MAY, HARPER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, JUNE 8, 1916.
NO .12
WINTER TOURI&T
ROUND TRIP FARES TO
Austin, Texas, Galveston, Texas,
Beaumont, Texas Ho.; c m, Texas,
Brownsville, Texas, Mineral Wells Texas,
Corpus Christii, Texrs, San Angelo, Texas,
San Antonio, Texas, and other Texas points.
SOUTHBOUND
SCHEDULE
Leave 9;09 a. m.
NORTHBOUND
1 SCHEDULE
Leave 7:08 p. m.
Terrific Storm Visits
This Section.
The best service and connections are offered if vour tickets
read via The W. F. & N. W. Ry. For lull information see
local ticket agent or write C. L. Fontaine, G. P. A.
N. A. Rice, Local Agent. Wichita Falls, Texas.
Heavy Down-poar of Rain Causes Great De-
struction Everywhere.
Rainfall Estimat-
ed at About 14 Inches.
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More than half the cars you see are “Fords.’
Over a million Ford cars are in use today,
rendering efficient economial service under
all kinds of conditions. 500,000 will be
buiit and sold this year. Low price places it
within your reach. Touring car $440; Run-
about $390; Coupelet $590; Town car $640;
Sedan $740 f. o. b. Detroit. On display and
sale at
The Ford Auto Supply Co.
We have a good s econd hand Ford
for sale
Sheet of Water Covers Ground, Water Runs Into
Houses, Destroys Clothing, Bedding.
Drowns* Poultry and Stock.
Notice
List your Land for Exchange or Sale with
F. A. dale:
Plenty of Money to Loan on Good Farms.
Special Rates on Live Stock Insurance.
c. B. C0ZART t
GRAIN C 0.J
May, Okla.
Phone 69 and 17
Highest Market Price J
Paid W Grain and
Seed.
The BEST Grades of
Threshing Coal from
Jl$6.00 to $7.50.
J Don’t forget the number. )
4 Cozart Grain Co.
BERT. FLINT,
Manager.
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BIHIMIA
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It Costs MoneyjTo j
Talk To Some People!
But we make no charge for
full and complete informa-
tion regarding the cost of
your building plans, Come
in, wind us up and learn
that which you wish to
Koberts Brothers.
While it ia we t and you have
nothing else to do it would be a
good time to pay up yoai' suo- p^one 21.
scription to the Bogle.
Lumber Co.
May, Okla.
For the past several weeks our
people have been wishing and
praying for rain, but not as much
as they got, and we heard of one
minister who, it is said, prayed
that it might rain and hold his
congregation so that he could
talk to them for two hours, if
this be true his prayers were
most certainly answered, for
Sunday evening about eight
o’clock it began to rain, not
shower, but the real rain, and
this continued for several hours.
This proved to be the heaviest
rain this section has ever receiv-
ed and the most disasterous.
Many old timers tell us they nev-
>r saw it rain so hard in their
lives.
The Government indicator at
the May State Bank registers
eleven inches and this ran over
and it is estimated that from 13
to 14 inches fell at least.
The rain came in torrents
which caused all the small creeks
and draws to overflow quickly as
well as the rivers.
From the south and west of
May the water came in a wall
and flooded the whcle south part
of town. Elmer Burkett proved
to be about the heaviest loser in
town. The water came up into
his house and was from one to
three feet deep all over his yard
and in the house, which ruined
nearly everything in the house
besides drowning about 200
chickens and about 100 rabbits
for him.
D. M. Sharp awoke about
eleven o’clock and started to get
up to see what was taking place
and when he got out of bed he
set his feet down in water near-
ly to his knees; imagine his sur-
prise. Bert Flint had about the
same experience, while A.
Smedley and family knew noth-
ing of it until next’ morning
when they found the mud and
water in their home and their
furniture had been floating
around the house.
Dave Hartman was another
who had to wade to get out and
lost heavy in chickens. While
the water did not get into the
house of Mr. Stagner, he lost
over 100 chickens.
When George Newman and
wife reached home they found
their house had been entered by
the flood and their rugs, cloth-
ing, etc., nearly ruined. George
V10 Inst- a lino- and two birds
lrtt ZjclIlllJaii waa »v
had his house invaded by the
deluge and everthing left in a
bad condition.
Monday morning F. J. Gould
found his yard covered with
eggs and where they came from
he did not know.
Nearly everybody lost chick-
ens. We do not know who all
lost nor how many, yet it is es-
timated that at least 1500 chick-
ens were drowned in the town
of May alone.
The water was into several
houses but those mentioned
above were the heaviest loses as
private citizens, while the eleva-
tors all lost heavy on account of
water getting into the grain pits
and bins and damaging several
hundred bushels of wheat and
Kaffir corn.
.The Beaver came up to the
high water mark, in fact it was
higher than it has ever Jbeen
known, according to the old set-
tlers. Part of the fill on the W.
F. and N. W. railroad bridge
was washed away here and the
center was taken out of the wa-
gon bridge and floated down the
river.
As the wires, both telephone
and telegraph, have been put
out of commission it has been
hard to find out what has hap-
pened along the line and what
reports have been received has
reached here in a round about
way, but we are informed that
the Laverne bridge is missing.
The bridge at Dunlap is gone as
well as the railroad bridge at
Supply and several hundred feet
of tracK between May and Sup
ply is gone and about the same
amount out between May and
Laverne and it was reported
Wednesday that it would be two
weeKs before we would have
train service again.
It, is reported in May that the
Santa Fe bridge east of Wood-
ward settled down with a ful
passenger train, no one was
hurt, only the fireman who is
supposed to be fast under the
engine. The engineer made his
escape and was found in a tree
the next morning. Word was
also received here to the effect
that the river east of Woodwarc
had changed its course so as to
leave the wagon bridge setting
high and dry out on a sand bar.
This proved to be a general
rain as far as we could get word
from with about the same de-
struction from all points.
The Beaver here at May has
been watched by manysinee ear-
ly Monday morning and the
banK has been cut away consid-
erably. in many places several
At the north side of W. F. Mat-
toons place the banK has wash-
out nearly to the fence.
Most of the small streams
were impassible the first of the
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If you are [not a
CUSTOMER
of this
BANK
we invite you to become one, prompt and
courteous treatment to all is our motto.
STATE BANK,
A HOME.BANK.
MAY, OKLA.
/‘Depositsl Guaranteed”,
1810
1916
Por more than a century the Hartford has
■ stood between its patrons and adversity.
For over one hundred years it has paid promptly
every honest loss—big and littie. A Hartford
policy is backed not only by ample assets but
by good faith and commercial honor fully prov-
en by its record.
Ng earthly power can guarantee that your
growing crops, representing the toil and ex-
pense of a year, will not be severely damaged,
if not completely destroyed, by hail. The sun-
kissed skies of today hold no promise? that the
setting sun will not be followed by disastrous
storms.
Ordinary prudence demands protection agpinst
such misfortune.
Hail insurance alone affords this protection.
The expenditure of a few dr liars now may
mean indemnity for a years labor. Take no
chances. Be safe rather than sorry.
For'Tull Particulars See
R. O. Allen I?
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Farmers' and Business Men's Co-Operative Association. The May Bugle. (May, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1916, newspaper, June 8, 1916; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc941219/m1/1/: accessed May 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.