Comanche Reflex 7 Jul 1905 - Stephens County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Nita E. 20 Nov 2005 Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DZB.2ACE/1105 Some Items The Comanche Reflex Comanche, Indian Territory (Comanche, Stephens County, Oklahoma) Friday, July 7, 1905 The Celebration Again on the 4th, Comanche sustained her reputation for taking care of a crowd and doing what she advertises to do. That's why people are not afraid to come here when a picnic or carnival is announced… The processions was formed about 10:00 and headed by the Border Queen Band, marched to City Park where the regular program was taken up by Master of Ceremonies, COL. H. W. SITTON. Ex-City Attorney V. PIRKINS introduced and delivered the address of welcome… HARRY JOHNSON, living over in Comanche County and one of our high school boys, responded to the address of welcome and acquitted himself with credit. The next on the program was the reading of the Declaration of Independence and comments by Attorney J. B. WILKINSON. Prof. REYNOLDS followed with a brief talk. This was followed by a flag drill by a number of little boys and girls. MISS BONNIE MASSEY delivered a very interesting recitation. ELDER WARLICK delivered one of his characteristic speeches whic! ! h was enjoyed by all. Dinner was announced… Those Sanitary Cases … the case of J. D. COX… ¦ A Runaway DR. COOK of Corum was in town and called at our office and related quite a remarkable runaway which happened to him Saturday… J. P. CLEMENTS read our item about the onions brought to this office by JOHN GUEST and immediately went out to his patch and gathered us a bunch that beat the Guest onions. The largest one measured 14 1.4 inches in circumference . He also says he can beat the peaches MR. LESTER brought. MISS ALTA TANKERSLEY who went to Wichita Falls, Texas for a visit with her grandmother has been quite sick since her arrival there. MRS. TANKERSLEY and son ARTHUR went there to be with her. Little “DIGGER" ALEXANDER happened to quite a painful accident while handling a loaded shot gun shell. He found an old shell and removed the shot, then applied a match, causing an explosion which burned his hand severely. SKIP FRENCH, BOB DEATON, ANDREW BRANCH, ERNEST RAY and ANDREW RAY came in the first of the week to spend the 4th with home folks. FRED LEACH and GABE YATES, who are attending school at Fort Worth, came home Sunday for a week with their parents. Street Commissioner DEATON with a grader and a force of hands did some excellent work on our streets last week. CAPT. C. W. BROWN returned from a business trip to Arkansas where he has large mining interests. Master CLAUD EPPERSON of Ryan spent the first of the week visiting CHESTER and GLENN HARDY. MRS. JAMES YOUNG returned from an extended visit with relatives in northern Oklahoma. MISS ANNA FUNK of the Plover neighborhood spent the past week in our city as guest of MISS MAUD STEVENSON. Comanche Business School, D. S. LIGON, M. Acc't., Pres. C. H. HANNUM, real estate, the hustler. Our Correspondents Walker Valley news CLAUD OWENS bought a fine team. Price $800. Mr. and Mrs. WAREHAM have their daughter visiting them from Kansas. I see great flocks of chickens in the neighborhood old enough to kill. They don't have to be as old here as the old woman in Arkansaw said they had to be there before they old enough to kill. OLD MAN HOWE is truly entitled to the sobriquet of "the man with the hoe." As soon as he gets over the corn and cotton, he goes back and commences at the beginning again. He says if the cotton and corn grew as fast as the weeds, we would have to get step ladders to pick the cotton and balloons to gather the corn. A neighbor going by MR. SHAW's cotton field the other day and ran across BERT lying in the shade of a cottonwood tree. He said, "Hello, Bert, what are you doing here?" "Laying by my cotton, said Bert. Deer Creek Items L. P. THOMPSON bought the Hat H brand of cattle belonging to MR. HARRIS of Harrisburg. He also shipped a car to Fort Worth this week. J. N. LITTLE made a business trip to Hastings. ARCH DYER and W. L. RUSH of near Shawnee was in the community several days. HAMILTON FRAZIER was seen smiling around MR. CHANEY's dinner table Sunday. G. M. CAUTHON and family visited J. M. B. FRAZIER's Sunday. Some of the Red School house boys want to know if NEW LITTLE's lover ever found him when he was lost in the cotton patch, sure boys, and are ready to help JOE, JOE, the dog faced boy. ODE MCMASTERS, who has been helping FRANK HOWARD out of the grass, returned home Saturday. MR. BOULWARE and wife were trading in Comanche Saturday. J. H. THOMPSON, wife and daughter MISS ELLA were shopping in Comanche Friday. MR. MORGAN, who has been confined to his bed for several weeks, is reported no better. Well, farmers, bring your wagon tires to W. A. ISAAC and he will do you right. Willow Point Mr. and Mrs. POOL and daughters, PEARL and ELVIE, were visiting Mr. and Mrs. J. L. CLARK Sunday. MRS. KATIE SIMPSON was visiting at MR. LESTER's Sunday. B. E. MASSEY donated the United States flags for the Willow Point school house and they will be placed there by MR. LESTER. Mr. and Mrs. MENDENHALL, Mr. and Mrs. MAUDLIN, FRED DOVER, and JESS RELMS were visiting at Mr. Lester's Sunday. They were treated to some excellent plums and peaches. A. B. WEAKLEY, the druggist. DR. J. W. DUNCAN, physician and surgeon, office at Weakley's Drug Store, Phone 5, residence phone 37. WILLIE COOPER for city bill posters. C. C. PRUITT, M. D., physician and surgeon. Graduate of one of the best eastern medical colleges. Upstairs in Bank of Comanche. The Model Barber Shop, hot and cold baths. C. J. CARUTH, prop. LOCKETT & SITTON, attorneys-at-law JOSEPH E. TUTTLE, auctioneer at Corum. C. H. HOWELL, M. D., physician and surgeon. Residence phone 35, office at Miller's Drug Store. Golden Gate Coffee at J. B. NICHOLS & Co. News Gathered During the Week WARREN JAMES of Fort Worth celebrated here. MISS DOLLIE LOVE returned from a visit with relatives at Walters. JOHN MYERS, the hardware man, headquarters for guaranteed paints and oils. Mr. ALLEN of near Grady was the guest of GEORGE WELDON. J. A MCCAMPBELL of Manhattan, Kansas was here the guest of his son. BOB HAYES, who is engaged in carpenter work at Hastings, spent Sunday here with his mother. Good ear corn for sale, raised in the Beaver bottom, 50 cents per bushel by W. E. SCHWABA at the mouth of Walker Creek. J. F. BROWN is among the number who have deposited $1.00 with us for Comanche's popular paper for another year. W. M. DIEHL's new house is beginning to loom up. It will be one of the nice houses in Comanche when completed. The Border Queen Dining Parlor, meals 25 cents. Opposite post office. MRS. H. A. HALL and daughters MISSES MAGGIE and ETHEL and little grandson WAYNE went to Gainesville Saturday to visit with relatives. MISS WINNIE PERRYMAN of Gatesville, Texas arrived for an extended visit with the family of W. E. LOVE. HENRY ROWLAND and wife of Doyle, I. T. spent the 4th here with relatives. LAWRENCE ALEXANDER, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. ED ALEXANDER, arrive home this week form a month's visit with his grandparents at Waco, Texas. JOE J. SPARKS called the latter part of the week and besides giving us a nice order for job printing, ordered us to send the Reflex to his address. A union revival meeting will be commenced at Oak College on Saturday night before the first Sunday in August by REV. W. F. WHEELER for the Methodist Protestant and REV. D. P. WILBURN for the Methodist. MRS. H. R. HERDON of Anadarko, accompanied by three of her little nieces, are spending the week here the guests of relatives. REV. J. L. WALKER of South McAlester will occupy the pulpit at the Baptist Church Sunday. Our good friend, J. ED TRUITT, manager of the lumber yard at Cornish, was here to spend the 4th. He called for a pleasant chat and favored us with a renewal of his subscription. OTTO BROWN returned the first of the week from Hastings where he has been in charge of the Farmers Exchange Bank during the temporary absence of Cashier CARDEN who went to Kentucky to accompany his wife home. Mrs. Carden has been in poor health for the past several months and we are glad to learn that she is somewhat improved. A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. BLAKEY on Wednesday of last week. GREENUP PEVELER and sister, MRS. THRESHER, moved into the residence vacated by R. P. PAYNE and family. C. D. LAWRENCE and family moved into the LEWIS DIEHL property just north of the school building. MRS. H. W. SITTON, who has been visiting at her home in Arkansas, expects to leave there in a few days, en route home, she will visit a sister in Okmulgee before arriving here. CHARLES BRADFORD returned the latter part of the week from a month's trip through Texas. SAM HALL and family returned Sunday from a visit with relatives in Texas. "White Man," the delivery horse of WEBB Brothers, got "foxy" Thursday morning and ran off with GRANT FARLEY. Grant got scared and jumped and hurt one of his legs severely. WELCH HANBERRY went to Oklahoma City where he secured employment with the Oklahoma City Times Journal. C. J. EPPERSON of Ryan came in Wednesday. CAPT. O. W. BROWN and sons, STEPHEN and OTTO, and J. B. POWELL and son and E. O. SLOAN were visitors to the mines Thursday. --------------------------------------------- Friday, July 14, 1905 Indians Want to Move Article about a company organized to consider moving some full blood Creeks, Snake and Cherokees to Mexico. Called Home EMMETT, the 18 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. G. M. MONTGOMERY living on Walker Creek, died Sunday morning at about 9:00 after a very brief illness of inflammation of the bowels…. The remains were laid to rest in the city cemetery here Monday, followed to their last resting place by a large procession of friends and neighbors of near his home, also many from this city. Our Correspondents Beaver Items GID RAGSDALE has returned from Chickasaw country. MAT HART is baling hay for CHARLES HARTMAN. BOB ROGERS and family are visiting relatives in the Chickasaw Nation. G. A. PALMERS are getting their cane mill ready for business. MRS. G. W. SMITH's sister, MRS. HOWARD's nieces, MISSES MAY and FAY HOWARD, are visiting her. MR. GLASSCOCK of Gregg was in this neighborhood one day last week working in the interest of the Columbia Publishing Co. MR HAM is reported on the sick list. DR. YOUNG is attending him. MR. WALLINGS' brother and family from Chickasaw Nation are visiting him. Diamond Items Mr. and Mrs. JAMES MCDONALD's baby died Sunday and was buried Monday. JOHN BARKER is very sick. MR. MEAD and family have gone to Nocona, Texas in answer to a telegram stating the death of Mrs. Mead's sister, caused by a cyclone that passed through there. It was thought that other members of the family were fatally hurt. MR. COX is having a good barn built on his farm. TOM BARNES has built a new granary. H. L. MCGUIRE is building a new barn. ROB JOHNSON and MISS ODA MARROW were married the other day and I hear they have gone to north Oklahoma to make their future home. ED PRICE has gone to Kansas. Singing at G. W. BAILEY's Sunday night. J. P. CARTER marketed three bales of cotton in Comanche Tuesday gaining about $20 per bale by holding. Deer Creek Items I. P. THOMPSON and family went to Temple to visit. REV. J. V. HOWARD and family returned home Sunday. J. W. BROW, of El Reno arrived at J. H. THOMPSON's Friday, returning to El Reno the next day accompanied by his family. BILL THOMPSON and HENRY HOWARD were visiting their best girls Sunday afternoon. Henry says he is all right and he has a cook spoken for. C. H. BOULWARE has become a great ant catcher. He catches them by the cart load. C. R. JONES was short 30 turkeys last week. He says some boys better watch out or he will catch them. REV. BOWMAN of Comanche preached here Sunday. J. W. MARTIN of Duncan was in the neighborhood Monday buying cattle. Oak College Chat The Oak College Sunday school are preparing quite a nice program to be rendered Saturday night. The Singing Convention convened next Sunday. All are cordially invited. Mr. and Mrs. JAMES MCDONALD's baby died last Sunday and was buried Monday at the Diamond cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. FRANK HILLERY called at MR. CONOVERS Sunday. Quite a number of men joined in a wolf hunt Tuesday and succeeded in killing four wolves and crippled some more. BRO. TUBBS will begin a protracted meeting at Oak College. CORA HEFLIN spent Sunday with LEE REYNOLDS. MIKE ENRIGHT and MISS HOAGLAND called at Mr. Conovers Sunday afternoon. Red School House Items G. T. BURK and family returned home Tuesday from Lexington, Oklahoma. LEE CARD of Lamont is visiting at the home of J. L. COX. EUGENE CARUTH left last Saturday for Bowie, Texas where he goes for an extended visit with relatives. ARTHUR MOORE made a business trip to Hastings. MISS CALLIE KISSELBURG and mother of Marietta, I. T. are visiting relatives at the present. Miss Callie was formerly our teacher at Red School House and all the pupils are glad to see her and give her a hearty welcome back to our community. W. T. CLICK and wife and W. L. CLICK and wife will leave Thursday for Nocona, Texas for a short visit. The farmers will soon have possession of a new gin which will be erected on R. E. MOORE's place. MRS. NELSON and family left Monday for Texas where she will visit her sons who were badly damaged by the cyclone which took place there last week. Raccoon Bend on Beaver Creek MR. PHIPPS and family and MR. SCOTT and family visited at E. B. FERGUSON's Sunday. WILLIE PERSON and wife visited J. W. HUMPHRIES Sunday. JOHN FERGUSON and family visited MR. ELLIOTT's Sunday. Walker Valley News Mr. JOHNSTON and wife and little son from Oak College spent Sunday at H. H. GOODNIGHT's. MRS. LULA LUMPKIN and daughter NINA are spending a few days with her sister, MRS. OLA LORENCE. BERT SHAW is attending the singing school at Willow Point. MRS. BURGETT and daughter were trading in Comanche Monday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Stephens County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/stephens/stephens.htm