The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1909 Page: 1 of 9
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The Konawa Chief-Leader.
Consolidation of The Konawa Chief-Leader and The Konawa Times.
Best In the County.
FIFTH YEAR. NO. 14.
KONAWA, SEMINOLE COUNTY, OKLA., FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1909.
ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
MORE BUILDING FOR K0NAWA-
THEY DID SLAM
IT'S A BOOM YOU CAN'T STOP ^ in p°ike
Court for Their Fun.
Five Big BricK Buildings
For Broadway.
KILLED NEAR HIS HOME
RESIDENCES
KEEPING PACE
Might as Well Set Up Another
"Aisle" For Broadway is
Going to be Jammed!
The substantial building boom
started last week continues to
g+ow.
With several new buildings un-
der way it is announced that in a
short time many more will be
going skyward. The Hoi man and
King building is to lmve compan-
ions. On the south of this build-
ing work will soon begin on a
structure 50 feet wide and 90 feet
long and on the north a similar
sized building will be erocted.
With the completion of these
three buildings West Broadway
can boast of nearly three blocks
of solid stone and brifk buildings.
The west side, however, is not
to have a monopoly on the im-
provements.
Good authority announces that
work on three large, modern busi-
ness buildings will soon start.
This will cause the tearing down
of three frame buildings, which
Konawa has outgrown.
more residences.
Several citizens who have pur-
chased lots in Highland addition
and elsewhere in the city will
shortly begin building handsome
residences. Several new residences
will soon be ready for the moving
van.
A. A. Bobbitt, Wealthy Cattleman,
Killed From Ambush
Near Ada.
A. A. Robbitt, a wealthy cattle-
man and former U. S. marshal for
this district, was waylaid and kill
ed last Saturday evening about
dusk while on his way to his ranch
home which is situated seven miles
southwest of Ada. The assassin
shot him from behind, the bullet
striking him in the back and pass-
ing entirely through his body
Bobbitt was about one mile fiotn
his home when the tragedy occur
red, and was taken to his home
where he died three hours later
FOOLISH, BY GOSK! ROAD IS OPENED
A Useless Fxpense of Money to
Build Sidewalks.
FIVE AND COSTS, PLEASE
They Had the Spondulix, Paid the
Damage and Once More
Returned Home.
Konawa Scores a Great
Advantage.
DONT NEED 'EM AT ALL IT SAVES FOUR MILES
A Farmer Talks on the Subject
While in Town Sat-
urday.
MUSIC IN THE AIR
Got a Good Start for a Band-
Boys Get Down to Business
Monday Night.
Konawa is now getting what it
has needed for quite a while.
'Tie a band to which we refer.
About a score of our musically
inclined young men h ive purchas-
ed instruments and they met for
their tirst try out at the city hall
Monday night. C. E. Blessing is
the teacher and under his leader-
ship the boys are expected to soon
be giving us free concerts every
Thursday evening.
MORE COTTON SHOWS UP
More Brought in Saturday than
For Several Weeks.
Until Saturday the general
opinion was that the cotton crop
was all in, but on that day more
cotton reached the city than has
been brought in for weeks. It
sold for eight cents.
A fellow who knows what to do
when his throat gets dry and there
is no water in sight, came to town
Saturday to view the improve-
ments under way.
He hadn't been here longer than
a week or ten days until he h> d
found a jag somewhere and by
trying it on found it to be just a
tit! Then lie started out to see if
the buildings and sidewalks were
being propeily constructed.
He wore the jag to where one
of the new buildings is going up,
v here a quantity of his a'coholic
load was jarred off him. Not jar-
red off by a charge of dynimite
but—he got in a jungle with an-
other sightseer who was witness-
ing the up-building of a hustling
city.
During this jangle—plain tight
it was—the gentlemen slammed
each other in the face a few slams,
the gent with the loud breath be-
ing knocked down several times
in the slamming.
The pair, and a third fellow,
who SBemed to be a second of ore
of the fighters, weie ushered to
the city hall, where Judge West
advised the midlists they owed
t'ie city five wheels and the fringes
while the "second' loosened up
one round one and the trimmings
for his activity.
These fellows were all who were
caught in the police net in that
big Saturday crowd.
People of Vamoosa and Sasaka
Also Benefited by Open-
ing of New Road.
A gentleman living a few miles
from the city paid Konawa a visit
Satuiday.
While the prosperous farmer's
wife was trading out the eggs and
butter he rambled out to see what
was doing. The first thing that
caught his optic was the grading
for the sidewalks. Edging up to
a citizen he asked what it all
meant. The citizen told him it
meant sidewalks. The farmer de-
clared sidewalks were a lot of fool-
ishness and that the town was
going to a lot of useless expense—
just simply a waste of money.
Said it made no difference what
anybody else said about it—he
knew what he was talking about.
That settles it.
Once again the city has gone
wrong because advice came too
late.
The county commissioners have
ordered tne road leading from
Konawa to Sasakwa and Vamoosa
to be opened at an early date and
the old bridge on the Violet road
north of town will be condemned.
For more than a year efforts
have been made to get this road
opened and it is good news to
Konawa and to the people east of
the citv, as it saves them four
miles in coming to Konawa and
returning home.
ll means increased business for
Konawa.
Hitch to this Rack, too.
The Wewoka Democrat said last
week: "Hitch your wagon to the
Democrat.""
.Just add another dollar and
hitch your old trap to the Chief-
Leader while you're at it.
Curbing Completed on East Side-
Work on the Walk Has Begun
Yesterday afternoon the side | before work is begun on the west
walk curbing was completed on | side walk. I his is the proper di
the east side of Broadway. Today
the actual construction of the
granitoid walks will begin on the
east side, which will be finished
do. We'll have one whole walk
on which to trod while the other
is being made.
This looks good.
BUCK HARDING SELLS
A Good Bank
In A Good Town
The man who has a bank account starts the new
year under much more favorable circumstance than
the man who has not. A Dollar in a bank repre-
sents a dollar saved. Start the new year by opening
an account with First National Bank. We receive
deposits of one dollar and up.
The First National Bank.
$5.00 REWARD!
H. T. DOUGLAS.
President.
W. H. HOLM AM,
Cashier.
F- P. SWAN,
Asst. Cashier.
T. C- Smith of Stillwater Buys Interest
of Hardware Store.
Another change in the city's
business enterprises occured last
week. Buck Harding, who has
been associated with Mr. Spurgin
in the hardware business for a
couple of months, has sold his in-
terest to T. C. Smith, one of Still-
water's leading business men.
Hereafter it will be Spurgin &
Smith, who will make the store
better and better and are solicit
ing a share of your patronage.
Mr. Smith and his family will ar-
rive in Konawa in a few days.
Church Announcements.
METHODIST.
Willmore Kendall, pastor of the
Methodist church, announces that
Sunday evening he will begin n
series of lectures on English Lit
erature. The theme at the ser-
vice next Sunday will be "Dr.
Jekel and Mr. Hyde,"
John Deere implements, the
best on earth, a great variety at
Spurgin & Harding.
I will give five dollars for infor-
mation leading to the identity of
the person who took the batteries
from the telephone at city hall.
C. E. Danner,
Local Manager.
Prominent Indian Dead.
Joe Gracen, a prominent Indian,
died Tuesday at his home a few
miles north of Konawa. He was
buried at the family cemetery
Wednesday. For many years de-
ceased was a Baptist minister.
He was 55 years o 1 d. Oth er de-
tails of his death are unobtainable.
r n
U/ye Konawa National
Bank
PAY YOUR TAXES
We have/the Tax Rolls of both Seminole and Pot-
tawattamie counties, and you can pay your taxes with-
out going to either Wewoka or Iecumseh. The law
provides that all taxes become delinquent on Jan. 15th.
KONAWA NATIONAL BANK
C. B. HYDE, President.
V.
H, E. FULLER, CASHIER
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Nation, W. Hamilton. The Konawa Chief-Leader. (Konawa, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1909, newspaper, March 5, 1909; Konawa, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc98590/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.