Davis News 100 Years Ago - Murray County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Deborah <GenFriend@worldnet.att.net>  13 Oct 2005
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Surnames: Blackburn, Crossett, Fielding, Hale, Haynes, Jones, Lockwood, 
Luster, Kennedy, Monroe, Reese, Rogers, Walker, Wilson 

Originally posted at:
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The Davis News published this account, but I am sorry to say the date was 
torn off.  I would say it was published between 1999  and 2004.
"100 YEARS AGO:  'Some day our town will lay an 8 or 10 inch water main 
from Turner Falls and we will have the completest and most cheaply 
operated system in the B. I. T. (Bureay of Indian Territory).  It won't 
take so terrible much to construct such a water system, and it will give 
us pure water, good fire protection and reduce insurance so much as to pay 
for itself in a few years,' editor Fay CROSSETT said.
'At its present rate of growth Davis will soon be ready for a street car 
line and the man who invests in it can double his earnings by extending 
the line to Sulphur,' CROSSETT said.
'It has rained a great deal the past week and streams are up and in some 
places roads are impassable.  The road to Sulphur is in a fearful 
condition.  A telephone from Sulphur this morning says the creek is so 
high that buggies and wagons can't cross it,' CROSSETT said.
Davis had the following doctors listed in 'card ads' in the Weekly News:  
L. M. KENNEDY, Dentist; Dr. N. L. HALE, dentist; Dr. Tom WALKER, physician 
and surgeon; Geo. J. WILSON, physician, surgeon, accoucher; Dr. J. C. 
LUSTER, physician; A. P. Brown, physician and surgeron; J. W. Jones, 
physician and surgeon; Dr. W. F. HAYNES, physician and surgeon.  And these 
attorneys:  T. D. MONROE; J. P. LOCKWOOD and U. B. ROGERS; H. W. FIELDING 
and Geo. L. REESE, and L. L. BLACKBURN."
Typed exactly as spelled and as printed with the exception of 
capitalization of surnames.
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