The Shawnee News. Daily. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898 Page: 1 of 4
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The Shawnee News.
DAILY.
vol. i.
SHAWNEE, POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY] KEBKl"'AI{Y"litSMi."
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J, W. Draughon has
reserved this space to
tell you about his
SPRING STYLES
in shoes.
We are Here To Stay And Do Business.
We have, and will keep a full line of
Hardware, Builder's Hardware,
-Locks and everything needed in
putting up and furnishing a house.
*•••••••••••••••••••••••••••
Our stock of Pumps Pipe and Fittings
is complete and with the quality of
our stsck, we can save you money.
We have the Rushford and Moline
Wagons, all kinds of Mill Machinery
Ideal wind mills, etc.
s
We wish to call attention to our line
of G-ranite and Tinware, we believe
it is the best and cheapest. We al-
so carry wire, Nails, Iron and Steel,
We are handling the John Deere and
J. I. Case Plows, Cultivators, Har-
rows, Stalk Cutters, and Listers.
les,
IN THE OLD ON/EFtST REET STORE BUlLDlNQ.
"We handle the genuine Olliver chilled
Plows, and the Jno. Deere Steel
Wagons.
Wagons.
Call and inspect our stock whether you want to buy or not
Let] ir] an
Bailey On Free Homes.
Hon. J. W. Bailey,.' the demo-
cratic leader of the . House, under
•date of Feb. 21, writes .the. editor
ot't.he News as follows:
• Yours of the 15th instto'hand.
I am not able to see any good rea-
son for treating settlers op Indian
lands differently from the way in
^hieh settlers on other public lands
are treated, and I therefore intend
to suPPort the free homestead
amendment to the'lndinn Appronri-
ation bill."
The Perkins trial at Tecumseh
ls still going on. The preponder-
ate of the evidence, so far, seems
*nhe in favor of the defhudant-
f oster, Jr of the Democrat,
i' yesterday.
New. houses going up all around.
The News.has.been rushed to*
day.. •' .
Papers with war news go like-
hot cakes in Shawnee. *
• The farmers in this section will
plant cotton this season as much as
ever.
Last night about 10 o'clock ev-
erybody was surprised when the
electric lights suddenly flashed out
all over the city. Let us hope we
will not be left in darkness again.
With the lights in full blast, a
telephone exchange in oparattoo,
an oil mill building, an ice plant un-
der wavjthe railroad shops running
on full time, the merchants all busy
and the News force working night
and day it does not look as if Shaw
uee were dead,
Our hotels and boarding, houses
are crowded.
The sale at the Mammoth draws
big crowds.
Extensive improvements are go-
ing on at the Callahan building.
A new sidewalk has been built and
a neat awning is being run around
the south and east fronts.
^ here will be services at the
Presbyterian Church, corner of 9th
and Bell strees, next Sabbath,
morning and cvejiug. The new
pastor, Rev. S. WVireffin, is very
anxious to have all the members
and friends ofjthe church present
if possible, Services, 11 A M (and
7:30 P. M, Sabbath school' IDA
M. sharp. Y. P. S. C.'E.,6:30 P
M. Most cordial invitatioivttf ev-.
ery body. Strangers villi receive
a hearty welcome. £ m
One good thing the war scare is
doing. It is making American*
stand together. When the shock
comes there will be tio north or
south in it. The southern people
will-forget that. Gen. Mile- fcaght
against them. And |the whole
country will admire Fitz Hngh Lee
regardless of the fact that he faced
Sheridan on a dozzen battle fields,
and is a nephew of Robert E. Lee.
The Hawaiin matter seems to
have been lost in the Maine excite-
ment. But it will come out all
right. We believe it is the safest
thing for this government to do [to
annex the Islands, as we have to
see that they are not grabbed up
by any other nation, Perhaps it
would be well to Japply the same
reasoning; to Cub#,
Speneer's railroad outfit went to
Chandler today.
L. G. Pitman went to Oklaho-
ma City last night.
J. A. Mays returned from Ard
more this morning.
Mrs. C. Noll has sued her husb-
and for divorce, alledging cruelty
as the grounds. Wood & Keetler
represent tho plaintiff.
Up to noon today, County
weigher Tnieblood, had weighed
14,409 bales of cotton this 3eason
at his yard.
I. S, Wilsie of Avoca, was it]
the city today buying supplies-
Mr, Wlfeje had Mhe misfortune of
having had1 everything destroyed
by tiie recent cyclone that passed
through the southern part of the
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The Shawnee News. Daily. (Shawnee, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 17, Ed. 1 Friday, February 25, 1898, newspaper, February 25, 1898; Shawnee, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc97844/m1/1/?q=%22United+States%22&rotate=90: accessed June 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.