The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1903 Page: 1 of 8
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NO. 42.
VOL. 11
ft BIG 25 PER CENT. REDUCTION
In all Summer Fabrics, such as Lawns. Dimities, Linens and White Goods of all Kinds during the next
Thirty Days. Now is the time to buy at Reduced Prices, while the season la>ts.
^ l)o not fail to take advantage of this sale.
WE have ridded to our stock a nice line of
Ladies' Fancy Petticoats; nice styles and
well made, at prices ranging from $1.00
to $2.00. They are extra good values and will
certainly please yoii.
WE ALSO have some specials in the way
of Men's Shirts, worth from 50 to 65c,
for 39c. Another line of 75 to hsc Shirts
for 50c. Still another line of $1 Shirts for 75c.
Some Extraordinav Shirts for qoc to $1.00.
ALSO a large shipment of Men's Shoes.
This makes our shoe department com-
plete. Can fill your wants in nearly any
kind of a shoe you may want. We are making
special prices on all Ladies' and Misses Slip-
pers for the balance of the season. It will
amount to about 1.5 per cent, discount, (iet
them now.
WE HAVE had an enormous trade on
Gloves this season, but have been able
to meet the demand. We buy our Gloves
at the Lowest Possible Notch, and can name
you some very Low Prices on them. We al-
ways have a full line of Harvest Supplies, such
as "Straw Hats, Gloves, Handkerchiefs, Sus-
penders, Overalls, Jackets, Shirts, Ltc., and it
will be to your interest to visit our store when
vou buv.
A SPECIAL lot of Hen k Black
All colors Men's Fancy Half
Men's Fancy Lace Half
Infants Fancy Red Hose for
Infants Fancy Lace H se, pink
Half Hose, 7JC
Hose for 10c
Hose for i2jc
10c
and blue, 15c
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WE HAVI-jus*t recervefl the swetlest Tine
of Hisses and Babies Fancy Shoes on the
market. They are beauties and will
range in prices from '65c to $i.^s. Just give
them a look—they will please you
n..r firocerv Department is Complete with Bargains. Are too busy to name any special prices, but will
- J., will yuarantee Lower Prices for Good Goods than any place in the city.
It pays to trade with
THE BIG RACKET STORE.
CASHION BROS., proprietors. ,=== =5- HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA.^
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About Delinquent Taxes
Attorney (ieneral Robert in a recent
•opinion lioUte that one-hoM of the tsix.es
assessed in the spuing o! HR>. will he-
come delinquent on the third Monday
4n .January, IDIH, and the second hall
on the third Monday in January, 1«.K)5.
A request for an opinion on the subject
tcame from T. A. Edwards, county at-
torney for Washita county. The law
provides that oue-ihaK of the taxes be-
come due on .l-une 1A of each year and
-1 he second half en December Ifi. I here
is nothinp in the statutes which says
positively when all tax.es become delin-
quent, it being simply stated that taxes
become delinquent 011 the third Monday
in January • of each year. As the first
•half is due in December and tJlio second
half in .>u no of the vear following the
attorney general hold*, that the .second
half could not possibly 'become delin-
quent before they were due. therefore
t,he second hall' is not delinquent until
just one year aftor the first haif becomes
-delinquent. The attorney general says
•the statutes of 'Oklahoma are very *hy
of facts on the question.
fine Cotten
.1. "N. Holt'brought -in a -sample of
cotton Monday aliternoon, which was
frown on his farm site imilos southeast
of town. The^talk Mr. Holt showed us
was over two feet tall, and k just begin-
ning to "square." We says it «will ma-
mure and a good yield will be 'lrad. Mr.
Holt has about 115 acres df the cetion
on his place, and, after having had
■considerable trouble in getting a good
<stand, is quite proud of the field. Owing
'to the weather being very unfavorable
alxuit planting time, 'it 'wa&a thought
that not much -cotton would be grown
•in this vicinity this season, but it i«
■showiug up <so nicely now, that a great
deal of it is certain to be marketed here
i-his fall anil wintor
Notice to To* osbip Justket.
The Pkkks-I emockat keeps for sale
•everything in the way of justice of the
peace blanks, as wetl as all ot/lier legal
'blanks, iaclnding deeds, mortgagas, re-
lease of mortgage*, 'farm lease*., etc etc.
When in need of / any >kind of legal
•blanks Ctttl and see us.
Waukomis Hornet: Edlteap was up
from Hennessey Monday to see about
^repairing the damage done to their
building on the account of Friday night's
wind. Ed. say* they will have to
<bi>ild a brick to Ueep up with the pro-
cession.
LECTURE COURSE.
fienaeise) Contracts ior a Fine One ol Five
Numbers
On Tuesday afternoon a committee of
representative business men of this city,
contracted with the Central Lyceum
I in reau of Kansas City, for a five number
lecture course for Hennessey next
winter The attractions of the course
consist of Col. II. W. J. Ham, the great-
est of southern humorists; the Koston
friars, a musical aggregation; I' red hmer-
son Brooks, poet: the Kallir Boys' choir
from South Africa, who actually gi\e
Africa in song and story, and Rev. Ora
Samuel Bray, a young lecturer who
has frequently been compared to Cod-
man, Corn well, Hillis and DcMotte,
men who cost from S100 to $150 each.
These attractions are all good ones,
and show that Hennessey will have as
good a lecture course as any town in
the country. The contract made with
the Lyceum bureau is conditional upon
the securing of a building in which to
hold the attractions. The members of
the Methodist church are contemplating
the building of anaddilton to the church
and if they do, the lecture course will
iprobably be held there. The only other
available building is the Christian
church, but it ie considered too small.
Perhaps the new opera house will be
built in time to be used lor this purpose.
This certaiuly should be an incentive
il'or the business men to take hold of
the qpera house proposition, so that we
can get the lecture course.
The Union services on the vacant lot
North of O. 0. Saur's residence drew a
large crowd last Sunday night. Pro-
vision had been made for seats for :S00
people, which were all filled, and it is
estimated that fully 100 more sat in bug-
gies and carriages and stood or lounged
en the grass. Owing to the lights being
hung too low the insects whlqji swarmed
around the lights made it somewhat un-
comfortable for those sitting near them.
Rev. Bowerman preached an interesting
sermon. Uov. J. G. Schliemann, pastor
of the Baptist church, will deliver the
sermon next Sunday night. There
will be seats sufficient for all, and every-
one is invitod.
Forty Million Bushels for Oklahoma
Oklahoma City, O. T., July 10. The
territory of Oklahoma has again aston-
ished the world by producing another
wonderful wheat crop. At the most
dous and unique a thing as the great
land lot tery was at El Reno.
The land was at that time set aside
for the use of the Kiowa and Comanche
Indians, who failed to make use of it.
conservative estimate the wheat crop 1 There are 1,15(1 terms or 1«0 acres each I ^
of the territory this year will amount | in these lands. If the land sells at g: u DL-la
to over forty million bushels, says the an acre, a very low estimate, the sale g; Hennessey, U Kdd,.
oklahoman. | would aggregate $2,500,000. | 8=
Captain iiimmick. county commission When the contract lor alloting t he
er from Jones City, talked interenl ingly , lands in the Kiowa country was entered
of the crops. i'110- t,le government agreed to sol apart 1
"The wheat out our way and the re- ror the Indians 1X0,000 acies of land r«,r i g.
ports from other localities in the terri- pasture, the rentals to go to the Indians , g;
tory," said he, "shows that wheat has This was 160 acres of land for each g:
averaged about thirty-one bushels on the Indian The number of towns tied up
lowlands and from eighteen to twenty- m the Kiowa and Comanche country ks g:
five bushels on the uplands. This is ac- exactly equal to the Indian population, j g;
tnal. Ol course, we hear all kinds of j The big Comanche pasture includes a j g-
stories of marvelous wheat crops and i;reat deal ol the Red river bottoms. I
wonderful isolated Instances of remark- It is said that no lands which were
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opened to settlement through the Ill-
able productive soil, but when any sec-
tion of the country produces a regular,
averaire of thirty bushels of wheal to
the acre any good farmer knows it is
the land flowing witli milk and honey.
"And the corn is looking as fine as
you ever saw. With another rain this
month we will have a bumper corn crop. | - ^ (o see]
It looks now as though good for sixty
Reno drawing has such a large body of
uniformity good land as that in the
4H0,000 acre t ract immediately south of
Lawton.
-special Attention Given 10 Trunks and Bauuaue 3
^ Pianos and Household Moving Our Specialtu J
bushels to the acre.
"My black bottom lands were over-
flowed this spring and ray wheat drown-
ed, but 1 replanted it with corn that is
now in fine shape, and this fall I will
grow a good crop of potatoes, millet and
other products. lk> you know that is
what makes Oklahoma farm lands the
most valuable 011 earth'.' Why, if you
sutler from spring overflows, it merely
gives you a little trouble in planting
other crops, and there is no such thing
as a total crop failure here.
"The oats and cotton crops will be
-short, but the shrinkage in these crops
will scarcely be noticed in the final re-
counting of the year's businoss on the
farm.
"'When Oklahoma farm lands are thor-
oughly developed, it is difficult to esti-
mate what their valuation will be, al-
though the figures are certain to be in
the fancy column."
Big Pasture Reserve May be Opened.
It is talked and currently reported
that the United States government will
throw open for settlement the great
The Junior .Union will .conduct the pasture reserve in Comanche county,
services at the Baptist church next The land will be disposed of at l.awton.
Sunday morning. They will have a 1 A bill has been introduced in congress
normal drill to show the nature of the for that purpose, says the Mulhall
work at the Junior 'Union. All are
viled
^ Journal.
Iu many respects it wi'l be as sliipen-
W.8. Tryon, who sold out Ins interests
here, on the first of July, and with his
i home be-
yond the Rocky mountains, has written
back to an old friend telling him ol his
pleasant trip and arrival at Tacoma
City, Washington. He pictures in
glowing words some of the attractions
and sensations. He says; "We passed
through beautiful countries, fine forests,
by deep canyons, and up picturesque
mountains. One mountain top we reach-
ed by a winding ascent, until we merg-
ed into the clouds. I felt a congealing
sensation creeping over me as if I was
in a cold storage. I looked out and the
air was white with falling snow, re-
sembling a January storm. I pulled
some heavy wraps around me, and
asked a fellow traveler if this was the
north pole. He said no, it's Mount
Tacoma, Washington. Soon the train
made a decent move and slowly slid
down through clouds and came out in-
to the bright sunlight and balmy air,
then passed down the western slope in
to rich and boundless plains, with its
large golden fields of billowy grain, so
much like Oklahoma. I expected every
minute to hear them call out the next
station this train stops at is Hennessey."
Mr. Tryon must have been reading
Bill Nye, but his application to Okla-
homa is very suggestive and timely.
If you want tosell your farm, list it
wttli Perkins A Fisher.
I). A. ESPY,
PHES1HENT.
11. MOORE,
VIOK 1'BESIDKNT.
GEO. E. GILMORE,
CASHIIVK.
NO. 6111.
HENNESSEY NATIONAL BflNIl
htnnessey, oklahoma.
CAPITAL, - $25,000.00
Accounts of Individuals, Firms find Corporations "Solicited, Kverj
Courtesy Extended Consistent with Safe
and Conservative Banking.
Foreign Exchange Issued—Available in Any Part of the World.
DIRECTORS;
C. O. GOSE, G.'E. GILMORE, O. J. FLEMING,D. A. ESPY, CHAS. H. MOORE
BARNUM.
Ice , lan.
'PHONE 87.
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Fisher, A. C. The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 42, Ed. 1 Friday, July 17, 1903, newspaper, July 17, 1903; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc98370/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.