Free Lance 1906-Jan 11 - Jefferson County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita E. 20 Nov 2005 Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/CaB.2ACI/783 Some Items The Free Lance Addington, Indian Territory (Addington, Jefferson County, Oklahoma) THOMAS J. CROSS, publisher and editor Thursday, January 11, 1906 Vol. 1, No. 33 Pioneer Hardware Company W. H. THOMSON, president; JNO. T. THOMSON, sec.; S. HOLLISTER, vice-pres.; JAMES H. THOMSON, treas. First Bank of Addington H. J. HENSLEY, pres.; J. E. EVANS, cashier; J. B PRICE, vice-pres.; JOHN L. EVANS, cashier Stockholders: H. J. HENSLEY, J. S PRICE, A. M. BOONE, J. L. EVANS R. E. ADDINGTON, livery and feed stable GOLDEN's Ice Cream Parlor Carrie Nation in Addington (article about Carrie Nation speaking in the Addington church) Personal and Local Mention CHARLIE HUCKABEE is among the sick list this week. L. B. STEVENSON made a business trip to Waurika Tuesday. J. J. PATTERSON and family moved into the C. W. WILLIAMS house. Some sleighing Wednesday. This reminds us greatly of olden times. REV. TURNER, pastor of the M. E. church, preached for us last Tuesday. JNO. VAUGHN was in Ardmore filing some Indians. WILLIAM JETTON is building a house for Mr. BEAVER and MR. EDWARDS on the farm near Mud Creek. MISS MAY ARNOLD entertained a number of her young friends at her home Tuesday. M. P. SUTHERLAND, our gents furnishings goods man, went to Oklahoma City. REV. SMITH is building a tenement house on S. H. WITHERS' lease, 4 ½ miles east of town. L. B STEVENSON has sold his interest in the real estate firm of VAUGHN- STEVENSON to ALEX MCGRADY. MRS. J. T WAYMIRE, who has been visiting her daughter, MRS. TURNAGE at Grapevine, Texas, returned home. R. M. GOLDEN sold his North Fort Worth lot he drew a week ago to DR. ELDER for just double what it cost him. MR. MULLINS of Madden Grove was here Wednesday. He is building a nice residence and barn on his place and is well satisfied with this country. ELDER LAFAYETTE NORRIS will preach at the church house Sunday January 14. LEWIS BINGMAN of Monroe County, Iowa arrived Tuesday and is visiting his uncle, L. M. BINGMAN. He is confident there are opportunities here for many young farmers and thinks he will return here next fall and locate. R. S DILLINGHAM, the painter, is encountering some pretty bad weather for painting RICHARD MCKINNEY's house, but it will present a handsome appearance. The entire inside of the house is to be painted and papered and we venture to say when Mr. Dillingham gets through, it will be as tasty a job of the painter's art as can be seen anywhere. Mr and Mrs. W. RYLE gave a social dance at their home Monday night. An appetizing lunch was served and the well known hospitality of Mr and Mrs. RYLE make it a desirable place to be invited. CAM EDGAR was in after medicine for a horse Thursday. He says there is a disease among the horses called distemper and it is very bad. A traveling man was in the drug store the other day and said there was lots of smallpox at Terral and among those afflicted were the children of TOM HIGHTOWER, an old friend of ours and uncle of ALDERMAN HIGHTOWER of this place. While out near the Paschal school house Tuesday, we visited the school taught by J. H. WILCOX. We found it to be one of the nicest, most orderly rural schools we had ever visited. The scholars were bright, intelligent, and had that rosy health tint which lends suppleness to their mental and physical faculties alike. The father and mother of MRS. BRESINE, living 2 or 3 miles east of town, arrived from Europe last week and will make American their future home. The more people of that king, the more rapidly will our wild lands be turned into valuable farms. They are industrious people and go to work the next day they get in this country. The annual election of officers and teachers was held at the Sunday school Sunday and the following were elected; J. H. WITHERS as superintendent; MRS. J. C. SUTHERLAND as assistant super.; MRS. J. L. CASS as secretary; MISS FRANKIE HUFFER as organist. The teachers; Bible class with MRS. WITHERS, Class No. 1 with J. W. HEFFER/HUFFER, Class No. 8 with MRS. HENSLEY, No. 4 with MRS. SUTHERLAND, No. 5 with MR. HOLLISTER. J. F. MACA and ELBERT PRATT, living east of town, were in the city Saturday and made this office an appreciated call. Mr. Maca is one of our subscribers. He paid up for a year in advance for the Free Lance and got 100 nicely priced envelopes as a premium of only 10 cents additional. Mr. Pratt handed us a dollar and ten cents and became a new subscriber and also go 100 printed envelopes. Mr Maca and Mr Pratt are two of our energetic and intelligent farmers, as are nearly all the people who come from their country. A community of them will raise the value of land much quicker than equal number of Americans because they are so industrious that they get every dollar out of ti and the more the land raises, the more money it is worth. Fresh from Sweater's Row (tall tales) Correspondence from the Sweater's Bench DOCK GARRETSON tells that he once knew a cow that got into the apple orchard one night and ate three bushels of apples, and the next day, she gave milk when churned made a gallon of the best apple butter he ever saw. BILLY CAMPBELL says that was nothing, that he heard of a man who had a cow and one night, a rooster roosted on the manger and said cow chewed off the rooster's tail, that she gave a quart of the best cocktail that man ever drank. RAD ALLEN says he hauled 112 bushels of corn at one wagon load to market and it was only a pony team. Our Addington Blacksmith Short bio of T. J. PRICE, the blacksmith. Madden Grove Items MR. BAKER has rented MR. REINER's place in Texas. PROF. DAVIS, the singing teacher, is in our vicinity at last. J. D. MCCOY is busy gathering out his bounteous corn crop and storing it away. Also improving his dwelling by tin draperies around the deck and ceiling his rooms. Pascal School Report The following list of my pupils have neither been absent or tardy the past month: HUGH MCCOY, MAGGIE MCCOY, LOTTIE MCCOY, EDWIN TAGATZ, ALFA TAGATZ, GILBERT TAGATZ. By J. H. WILCOX. Additional Locals WHIT RYLE sent his brother-in-law to Comanche on business. W. A. MANIRE of Montague, Texas was visiting his brother, TOM MANIRE of this place. TOM MANIRE's sister, MRS. ELLA HELM of Chickasha, was here visiting Tom and family. At the last meeting of the school board, it was decided to charge $1 per month for non-resident pupils. E. L. BECK Boardinghouse, nice clean beds, opposite Elite Hotel H. L. WELCH, attorney-at-law The Prohibition Federation of Addington meets in the hall at Addington every Friday night before first Sunday in each month… MRS. C. V. NORRIS, third vice-president. Fire Fiends at Duncan …. Large barn of JAMES A. TUCKER, just outside South Duncan, was on fire -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Jefferson County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/jefferson/jefferson.htm