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RENFREW'S RECORD.
Vol. 4.
ALVA. OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. THURSDAY. AUGUST 10, 1905.
No. 40
A. STIXK, Hrr»iileiit.
G. K. NICKEL,, Cashier.
GKo. W. CKOWKLL, Vice-President.
FKAXK G. MUNSON, A»»’t Cashier.
No. f»/tS7.
THE
NOTES BY THE WAYSIDE
First National Bank.
On the Trio to Portland
the N. E. A.
with
and will be a unique resort when is crowned with snow most of the
completed. Canals will alternate year while at its base is found
with streets and gondoliers will the frostless belt where the ten-
transport you to different parts of detest plants can be left in sate-
Oklahor-1 itcmrban Trartirn
C iinpany.
The editorial party stopped at
. Riverside a half day, being treat-
Accounts of Merchants, Stockmen, Farmers and Indi viduals solicited. gd f .. , the receptjon Com-
Every accoramodaUon^exten^ Wlth * mittee and citizens. Riverside
OKLA. is a city of about 10,000 inhabi-
_________*__^ tants, itself an orange grove with
y. , l . . . . tbowiog th»l freiuttl MW deU,htl.Urra..,.botJ.»4 »ttb , Uo.lc.
»*********e*^ ctu„ him t0 for yel- P-PP" tell,, where we soon In,
“I tvr 1 ____,__'r . . .x.,______and palms. The Record party iti w,pj T.^Vm H
4 Woods County
T A Gleanings. A
ATTTTTTTTTTT^
low-legged chicken.The music of
j* the mill whistles have no charms
to soothe his savage breast.
When the whistles blow he
chimes in with a series of quick
Cleo will celebrate the opening j barks, yelps, and howls which
of the Cherokee Strip, Sept. 14-
15-16.
Claud Paul aged 22 died at his
home seven miles south of Fair-
view, July 27th of typhoid fever.
Frank A. Salter, editor of the
Carmen Headlight returned last
week from a protracted visit to
the Pacific coast.
continue until the whistles give
up the unequal contest and quit.
The coyote theii smiles and licks
his chcps as though he thought
he was the boss noise-maker in
tcv;n.
Life in Oklahoma.
J. A. VanDemark of near Da-
coma had the surprise of his life
on Wednesday, Aug. 2nd, when
_ 40 of his neighbors drove in and
The ladies are beginning to; ordered dinner. ■ Van crawled
leave large apples and samples of! down off of his new barn where
choice grapes, home grown, with was at work and asked what it
the editor of the Ringwood Lead- a^ meant.
Happy Editor Watkins. Oat of the neighbors said,
_ j “you have a birthday about once
Cherokee has at last secured a Year» don t you?
er.
at
theD. E. & G. R. R. and work
■will commence all the way from
• the Salt Plains to Cherokee as
soon as the cross sectioning is
completed.
Wm. LeRoy Boyle ?died at his
home six miles north of Sing-
wood July? 27th 1905, aged 15
years. Rev. A. W. Wentworth
conducted funeral services on the
-following day.
Van remembered then that he
was just 53 years old and that
this same neighbor had shrewdly ; peaches, prunes, grapes, in
drawn the information from him
a few days before. “Oh I see,”
remarked Van, “the next time
you ask questions of me, I’ll tell
you none of your business.”
He then threw the doors of his
comfortable residence open and
invited them all in. The ladies
soon prepared a feast fit for a
; king. Mr. VanDemark was then
presented with a fine rocking
i chair with cushion, throw and
all complete and was made to sit
at the head of the table.
About 60 neighbors were im-
nd palms. The Record party
left at 6:20 Sunday morning,June
18th for Pomona and Lordsburg,
about midwuv between Riverside
and Los Angeles, where we spent
a day and a half, visiting rela-
tives. We spent several weeks
here four years ago and absence
had not lessened our admiration
for this portion of Southern Cali-
fornia. One never tires of the
delightful climate and scenery.
The horizon on the north is
bounded by the noble San Ga
briel range of mountains, 15 or
20 miles away, with “Old Bal-
dy’s” lordly crown, snow-capped
and majestic, towering over all.
The southern boundary is the
low range of Chino Hills and the
lovely valley between is another
Eden. Twenty-five years ago
this valley was almost a desert
but irrigation has converted it
into one of the most fruitful in
the state. Oranges, lemons,
olives, figs, English walnuts,
fact
that
or
be
the city Other hotels, an audi-
torium. pavilion, bath house and
gymnasium are all under con-
struction, and the Venice of
America will soon be one of the
most popular sea side resorts.
Taking the car again,we passed
to Saw-
learned that
our old friend, John H.Williams,
had gone to the city, but was ex-
pected back soon. The Soldiers
Home here is one of the finest in
the United States. There are
many large buildings with beau-
tiful parks, drives and parade
ground. While waiting for our
friend’s return, we called on
Maior Wm. D. Graham, commis-
sary of the home. Major Graham
served in a Pennsylvania regi-
ment during the civil war and
was connected with the Kansas
City Journal for several years
following the close of the war.
As both were residents of Mis- 11usl<"""'
souri during that period.we spent
a very pleasant hour discussing
state officers and state policy of
the reconstruction period. The
Major gave us the following
items in regard to the Soldiers'
Home:
Attorney T
ty without sheiter the year round
The Southern Pacific forms a per-
fect net work of roads reaching
out to nearly every place of im
portance in the state and the San-
ti Fe :rom the Needles on the
Colorado, crosses the Mohave
Desert and down the San Joaquin
Valley to San Francisco, while a
most important branch from Bar-
stow, leaves the Mohave Desert
through the Cajon Pass and pass-
ing through the garden of Cali-
fornia, terminates at Los Angeles
At 8 o’clock Wednesdas morn-
ing June 21st we left Los Angel-
es for Santa Barbara where we
arrived about noon. J. P. R.
D. S.
known as
in Alva
after an s
in Oklahoma
the Record
pointers
urban 1
which he
'oodson, popularly
lajor” Woodson.was
*w days this week
nee of several weeks
ity. He called cn
end gave us setae
3 -ne Oklahoma Ict-'t-
a» tion Company, cf
- >ne of the principal
Normal Institute Notes.
Ilv I. S. K.
The Woods county normal institute
is drawing to a close, this being the
last week A pleasant and profitable
time has been had by nearly every-
one, hut we have an abundance of pity
for the poor school “marms” and
“Kents" who on Thursday and Friday i ing Oklahoma City
promoters which is capitali/.- d
at $300,co tnd will build frctu
Oklahoma C.ty to Lexington by
way of Nr-uan. The prelimi-
nary work .uch as surveying the
route, sec . ng the right oi v. y,
etc., is a.:*‘.dy mostly done is
far as Cap ital Hill.
Mr. W:: l; on has interest!.! L.
E. Patter, u 1 Texas, a espit .1-
ist and ba .m, to finance r«*j|-
estate deals amounting in pres-
ent values 1 P’,6,000. The com-
pany has - uicd a large amount
of beautiful suburban prep-
erty on Capital Hill adjein-
and as they
nearly all kinds of fruit
grow in the temperate zone
semi-tropical regions can
grown here.
Monday evening after a visit
all too short, we rejoined our fel-
low tourists of the car Ronen, at
The residence of Chas. Selett,
3 miles northeast of Lake, was
struck by lightning, July 27th,
and 26 persons who were attend-
ing an ice cream social there ... , . .
wet. Mined btt bom Mtiou.ly '"'P10'
hurt. ,D.C. Andrew, of Uke, th' b“>’ *'*,on o! ,h' *U
ilMt five heed of cettle killed hy! »°> be
lightning, the eeme evening, sey. Ur VenDemutk ulmoet loet
the Chronoscope.
the power of speech when he saw
the friendly invasion of his bach-
elor home, but he will not for-1
Spanish Missicn of San Gabriel.
It was founded in 1771 and is
one of the best preserved of the
old missions. The old bells,
cast in Spain more than a century
ago can be seen from the train.
The editors had been having a
good time before we arrived, hav-
ing had trolley rides about the
city, a visit to Pasadena and Mt.
Lowe. The ascent of Mt. Lowe
will b«- given .t chance to show what propose t j build the street cif
line throug 1 the property it v. 'll
Cha». McGill, Minsea Gertha KorbU | double and treble in value 1U *
and Grace Merchant were v'sl,1,r* at j sJjort time
the institute last Wednesday.
Territorial Superintendent L,. W.
Baxter gave 3,1 interesting and very
I instructive talk ou"A Trinity of Prin-
ciples," cheerfulness, courtesy and
conscience, last Thursday.
J. Wotnaik and wife
General O. H^LaGrange Gov- ^ one day week.
ernor; Major T. J. Cochrane,. ^ Cr>ven, repreteiltin(f the
Treasurer; Captain S. F. Reber, j unjvertaj Dictionary, spent one day
Quartermaster, Major H.E.Hasse last week among the teachers here.
Chief Surgeon, Dr. J. B. Benton, j a. Ferre and I). W. Lowrance,
representing the Interstate- School of
Asst. Surgeon.
Total number of inmates at the I Correspondence of Chicago, were here
a few days last week looking after the
interests of their school.
time our visit 2654-
Returning to the hospital we
found that Mr. Williams our old
friend and teacher had arrived
the Arcade depot Lot Angeles. ftpd we 8pent the next few hours
On onr way from Pomona, the
train stopped for a fev minutes
on the south side of the old
.sped^Uar^on the Rock Island | f** !^*g?lnd spirit that PIomPted by cable and electric car is a safe
brought 34 representatives of
the visit.
but exciting trip. The last
-eastern, people who have invested Tribulations of a Horned Toad thousand feet to the summit must
'in Aline town property, to that. Extract from a uarberco. (its 1 letter. 1 be made on foot or by burro. The
city to attend the distribution of! We had a new Pet yesterday. A summit of Mt. Lowe is 6000 feet
•town lots. Aline showed them a friend who has been visiting at above sea level. A magnificent
^ood time and Ed Marchant was Pa’s, has never seen a horned view of mountains, ocean, cities,
in his glory. The visitors are toad and as Van and I came home orchards and gardens can be
■from Springfield, Illinois, and all the other evening we found such seen from here.
^were delighted with Oklahoma. , a pretty little fellow. I got out, The next morning the majority
- ; of the buggy and caught him and 0f the editors went by rail to San
John Wesley Bishop has dis- we brought him home. We could
covered-a'bayonet, once the prop- not remember what to feed him
erty of Gen. Ethan Allen, the but Van gave him some kugar. I
: hero of Ticonderoga now the
property of Aunt Nan Camp of
Cleo, a distant relative of the
.general. The. relic now hangs
in the Chieftain office and we
• hope John will not tarnish its
• record or its lustre by jabbing it
into refractory republicans.
That Coyote of Dr. Hazel’s.
Dr. Hazel, the veterinarian has
• been fortunate in securing a
young coyote which he is trying
•to bring up in the way he should
,go. The young cub is secured
by a chain, attached to a wire
know they eat big red a*ts but I
don’t like to fool arcun4 an ant
hill much, mvself. He tried so
hard to get away, that I got sorry
for him,(as I would hav* to keep
him until Sunday evening) so I
let him loose. He paddled out
onto the porch ar.d thfn rolled
i off on the ground and a yellow-
legged Plymouth Hock nabbed
him. I ran him all ever the yard
trying to make hitr. drop the toad,
and finally I got close to him and
flapped a big white rag at him,
which scared him sc t-kat he op-
ened his mouth to give a big
which runs from the house to the stluawk and the toad d™pped out.
•sidewalk. The youngster is now
about half grown and when he is
not lying in a hole that he has
• dug among the morning glories
by the huusi, he is trying to be j
playful with persons going along
•the walk. He gets loo? e occasion-
ally and is usually found looking
•longingly at the neighbor’s
.spring chickens. When the early
roosters make morning vocal with
their joyous songs, the coyote
joins in with an accompaniment
of short quick yelps and howls,
He wasn’t hurt a tit. bat he was
mad clean through,
don’t know which,
scientific “tcadist
cr neared, I
net being a
myself.
Teachers’ Examination.
The next regular teachers’ ex-
amination will be held attheNor-
mal building, Alva, Okla., Aug.
10th and nth. The work will
begin promptly at 2 a. m. Be on
time if you expect to take this
examination.
S. V. McGRSBVY,
Pedro, 20 miles south and thence
by steamer to Santa Catalina is-
land 28 miles from the mainland.
It gave them opportunity to get a
taste of an ocean voyage and see
the submarine gardens from glass
bottom boats, for which Catalina
is famous. We wished to hunt
up an old friend who was in the
National Soldiers’ Home at Saw-
telle near Santa Monica, and did
not accompany the party to Cata-
lina.
Irving H. Cone rounded up a
squad of about 20 editors and
took us over the Los Angeles-
Pacific Electric Road 14 miles
west to the Venice of America, a
new pleasure resort now being
prepared for the public.
Mr. Abbott Kinney, a million-
are,has recently acquired several
thousand acres of salt marsh a
portion of which is subject to
overflow by the tide and is now
engaged in building a new Ven-
pleasantly talking over old times
comparing notes on the 30 years
or more that had passed since
we had seen each other. Leav-
ing our friend as evening ap-
proached, we returned to Los
Angeles and found that the
rest of the Record family
had just got back from the Cata-
lina trip having experienced a
fine touch of seasickness on the
voyage. Our better half, who
had planned a sea trip from Port
Los Angeles to San Francisco,
concluded that she would rather
make the trip in old Rouen.
Before going to Sawtelle we
had a short visit with Dr. W. W.
Murphy who was one of Alva’s
leading physicians and druggists
in the early days. He has one
of the best equipped offices, lo-
cated on the best street in Los
Angeles and is prospering. He
inquired after Billy Smith, S. B.
Share and other old timers that
he had known. It is a source of
regret that we failed to get around
to visit the doctor and his esti-
mable wife at their home, that
evening to which he had invited
us.
The editors on this their last
night in Los Angeles were well
entertained at the Chamber of
Commerce.
Southern California has now
become the most popular resort
in the United States and we be-
lieve it will be for many years.
There are beauties of topography
and climate in every state of the
Union but for a happy combina-
tion in a comparatively small
compass, of all that is beautiful
in nature aided by the hand of
man, Southern California beats
them all, and Los Angeles is the
hub. Within 20 miles of this
city many of the most popular
watering places can be reached.
Venice of America, Santa Monica
W. J. Peter* of Watongs, who at-
tended the xummer normal and the
teacher’* institute, left for hi* home
Tuesday.
Prof. J. H. Sawtell, principal of the
Woods county high school at Helena,
visited the institute Tuesday morning
and gave a short talk on the purpose
The Okahoma Interurban
i Traction C impany is the pioneer
in Oklahoma, hut it will be only
a short time until the territory i&
a net-work A “inter-reuben’*
lines, as ta<; Major” facetiously
calla them Mr. Woodson is am-
bitious, energetic and a aquare
dealer, ani we hope he will be
successful .n the enterprise its
which he is aow engaged.
W. G C*K)kaey, Dead.
Frank Cooksey, of the Cooksey
Bros. Lumber Yard, received tto«
sad intelligence Tueeday, froaa
W. A. Cooksey, that his brother
Grant, who has been an Invalid
for several months, had died afc
Battle Creek, Michigan, Sunday
evening, August 6th, and that
and extended an invita- the funeta. would take place
of the school
tion to the teacher* to be present at
the laying of the corner stone of the
building next Tuesday Aug. 15th.
Probate Judge L. T. Wilson and
Superint-ndent Mrs. McGreevy were
visitors last week.
Misses Maud Drake, Myriam Herod
and others were institute this week.
El Reno.
Frank Cooksey and Mrs. Y.\ A.
Cooksey and son left for
Reno, Tuesday evening, over r»w
Rock Island.
The sympathy of many friend*
are with the bereaved family i*
, ' their loss.
Arthur Share received a mes- j -
sage, Friday, from his father ask-; Mr. and Mrs. Will Drake ar»4
log him to come at once to Liber- The'y spent a week
ty, Mo., as his mother was very cacfa ftt Portland,Los Angeles au*
sick. Arthur left that evening Manit0 Springs and had a de-
over the Missouri Pacific from lightful visit.
Kiowa, but as no word has been ^ tQ extend our he rl.
received from them at this wnt'! fejt thanks to all who have
ing it is presumed that Mrs. j kindly aided us in the last illnesa
Share is much better. The many cf our wife and sister,
friends of the family hope to --e Vormington,
hear of her improvement soon.
Brothers and Sisters.
I
3
F. W. Hanford!
DEALER !N
ice. A big pier has been built,
a break-water over 600 feet long Redondo, Long Beach, San Pedro
is being constructed,a ship hotel, and from this port lovely Cata-
named Cabrillo for the navigator lina can be leached by a 28
who discovered California in , voyage across the channel.
1542, which is designed to repre- Within 50 miles to the
sent his galleon, is being built.! ward, Mt. San Antonio or
County Superintendent. The ship betel is 180 feet long , Baldy” can be reached whose top
MANDT WAGONS,
VAN BRUNT DRILLS,
Emmerson Gang and Disc Plows,
Defiance Gang and
Disc Plows,
| ^ few sets of Double Team Harness if
^ AT FACTORY PRICES. |
South Side Square- - - Alva,Ok. |
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