The Post. (Brule, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1905 Page: 2 of 8
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THE POST.
July 7, 1905.
Flat News.
This vicinity was visited by the
heaviest wind and rain storm <
the season Saturday night. <•
number of fences were washed
out but not a great deal of dam
age done to crops.
Mr. Toliver Sanders and wife
went to Ashland Saturday.
Mr. Anderson Hackney has re-
turned to his home in Missouri
for an extended visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarance Taid
were in the Flat community Sun-
day visiting Mrs. Taid’s parents
Mr. and Mrs. Toliver Sanders.
(This letter had no name or ad
dress and we therefore can not
tell who to credit with. Hon t
forget to put your name and ad-
dress on all letters. Ed 1
In and about Shawnee, the cen-
ter of the great potato raising
country of Oklahoma, the people
have been fearful in regard to the
price of the spuds which have
been selling at 15 cents a bushel.
with a possibility that the price
may go to 25 cents._
The Fourth of July Celebration
at Brule wTas attended by a crowd
variously estimated at from 30t>
to 500 people big, little, young
and old of both sexes, and was
success coming up to expectations,
with the exception of the schoo
land lessee discussion, wherein
the speakers were not present
The after dinner sueech of Prof.
Johnson was an able address anc
attentively heard, but rather
lengthy to be encored. The k He
ciaration” was read by the only
Brule editoi, and. of course, was
read with distinct utterance,
clear emphasis, bringing out all
its strongest points but the docu
ment is a little old to fascinate
our modern audiences. Some of
our modern statesmen would rel-
agate it to the dusty tomes of
historic law and substitute a more
up to date “Declaration.'’ The
songs consisted mostly of Nation
al airs and were pleading features
of the day. The Oration, by E
S. Nichols, was a skyscraper and
caught the crowd at aoy altitude
The addresses by the various boys
and girls were rendered with en
terprize and zeal, and assures us
that our future greatness, patriot -
ism and prosperity, is being built
upon a sure foundation. Kid.
Brockman struck the keynote of
American thought when he declar
ed in a brief address that illitera
ov was the greatest danger that
menaced our national prosperity.
Home and County News.
Supply will receive her mail
from Tangier instead of Wood
ward after the 19th.
Little Miss May Temple is tak
ing music lessons under the in
structions of Mrs. Hawkins.
A good solid roof wa^ blown
from the residence of J M. Rose,
a worthy citizen of this vicinity,
during the late storm.
Miss Nora Brink's health is
somewhat better. She was able
to be at Sunday school and
preaching at Pleasant Valley Sun-
day.
Clinton, in Custer county, has
beeu selected as the place for the
Reunion of the blue and the gray
this year, the time being Aug. 10,
IL and 12.
Rev. P, Shane is very proud of
us new drilled well. It was
tested bv drawing with a horse
or about 10 minutes, lowering
he water only about 2 feet.
John Robertson, the U. S-
Court Commissioner, has ordered
his Post changed from Charles
ton to the office in Brule. Our
little town is becoming more and
more a place cf note.
W. H. Temple is building a
granary, and, though his crop is
light this year, he says he will
sow more wheat this year than he
did last year. His granary will
be ready for next crop.
Master Owen Temple, a 7 year
old boy, small of his age, created
quite a flurry on the streets and
under the arbor at Brule on the
Fourth, by his well executed feats
on his baby bicycle. The boy
was very small but quite manly
in appearance and the little wheel
was a perfect picture in its
Mr. Weber, of lCibby. will
teach the Buffalo Flat school Ibis
winter.
The Holiness camp meeting
commences at May on Joly 19
Everybcd> invited.
E L Austin has the contract
for building the new Christian
church at Woodward.
The star routes out of May to
Bethany and Cupid were discon-
tinued Thursday, of last week.
Roy S. Hoff, a young man for
merl.v of Brule changes his Post
from Wichita, Ivan., to Helena
Woods county. O. T.
Several of the leading vocalists
of this vicinity met with The
Post family on last Saturday ami
Sunday to practice National airs
for the Fourth.
Our aged friend, Hr J. H.
Robinson, was among our esteem
ed visitors on Wednesday and pre
sented us a few clippings of pecu-
liar interest, which we will De
glad to give to our readers as we
have space and time I he doctor
is now' on the down hill side of the
fleeting years, but not too old to
read.
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DESIGNS i
TRADE-MARKS i
AND COPYRIGHTS 4
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toVri'e for our confidential leU it befo.-e ap-
PATENTS
the best legal service and advice, and our
charges are moderate. Try us.
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Patent Lawy&rs,
0pp. U.S. Patent Officc.W^hington, D.C.
The Post will complete all un
expired subscriptions to the Cor
dell News and stop each of these
subscriptions promptly at the end
of time paid for. Of course we
will be pleased to accept renewals
of these subscriptions.
If you are readv to prove up on
your homestead see the L . S.
Court Commissioner in Brule on
Friday or Saturday of each week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harrington and
two children of Quinlan passed
through the city Wednesday on
rv 1 jee 1 overland trip to New Mexico,
J Colorado and Nebraska. They
was a perfect picture in its exactj expect to gone two or three
proportions and was strong and j m0„ths. — Woodward Dispatch.
well built, being the workmanship | ------------------
of his father and uncle in Kansas, Secretary of State * ° n a^
made for the little fellow some j died at, Newberry, N. • onva'
t>vo or three .years befor,e. H^urday morning, Julv 1st. 130o. »f-
was easily the champion bic.vcle ter an illness of some months,
rider of the day.
I. C. Jones, whose house was
destroyed by the cvclone last
Saturday night, w-as in town Mon-
day and became the recipient of
of quite a number of valuable do
nations, bv our business men
His duelling was a box house
The Woodward County Normal
Institute will be held beginning
July 18th. The corps of teachers
are H. C. Fellows Conductor, and
J. P. Evans and R. E. Johnson
Instructors. The outlook tor a
large attendance is vctv flattering
and Superintendent Dixon is plan-
ning to make it the very best in-
------1 stitute ever held in the county.
strongly j Arrangements for caring for I he
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The name Eldredge has stood for the
B CST,i"rf,,Sr^Y,rte °BETTE R
ThirtV than EVER, and Superior to a l
I lill IV others. Postive take-up; self set-
ting needle; self threading Shuttle;
Y DOfO automatic tension release;automatic
A Cello bobbin winder; positive four motion
feed- capped neddle bar; noiseless self adjusting
roller bearing wheel, steel pitman; five plv
laminated woodwork, with a beautiful set of
nickeled steel attachments.
\sk your dealer for the Improved Eldredge
and do not buy any machine until you have
seen it.
National Sewing Machine Co.
PELVIDERE, ILLINOIS.
BUY THE
weather boarded, and ~ | ^rrangt-meuw iu> • — - —
built, but as ‘T. C.” would say it large number of teachers must be
proved scarcely a circumstance made soon and all who contem
, • , 1 • . - date boarding or rooming normal
in the path of .he twister. Their phou,d notify Superin
house, household goods and wear- I teDdent Dixon —May Monitor.
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ing apparel wa9 almost an entire
loss. They were in a dugout dur
ing the storm and thus secure
The International Sunday school
mg me cmiiu convention at Toronto, Canada,
from injurv, but the most unfor- began on the 20th, and closed on
tunate of all was his loss of cash— the 24th ult. inclusive. Ten del-
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having $110 in a safe in the house, j egates with their alternates were
nenaced our national prosperity, consisting of bills and $5 in silver. ; selected to represent a 'oma
Altogether it was a pleasant and i The silver was found in the track at this great convention. he
a well spent dav, and we feel i of the storm, but the bills had gone ! Post does not know w lat nura er
sure that not many years hence a glimmering like the last chapter j attended, but does 'now
Fourth of July at Brule will, in jof a miser's dream. “I- C. will , Mrs. Miller, the ab e repre^en a
stead of its hundreds, bring to be a bard money man from now tive from this point was promp
gether its thousands. (on \ a* ^er
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Before You Purchase Any Other Write
THE HEW H0r:.£ SEWING MACHliiE COMPANY
ORANGE, MAGS.
Many Sewing Machines are made to sell regard-
less of quality, but the “ New Homo” is made
to wear. Our guaranty never runs out
We make Sewing Machines to suit all conditions
of the trade. The “Now Homo” s'andsattbe
head of all High-grade family sewing machines
Hold by .ut u dealer* ouijr,
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Forster, William. The Post. (Brule, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, July 7, 1905, newspaper, July 7, 1905; Brule, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc942021/m1/2/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.