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THE CHICKASAW NEWS
VOL. 4 MCGEE I.T. THURSDAY MAY 3, 1906 NO. 25
FOR TRADE DAY ONLY
20 lbs beat sugar.....$1.00
8 bars Silk soap.........25
4 cans Eagle lye.........25
at the I&Y GROCERY
Lee Jones has a baby on the sick list.
G.P. Yeager thinks it is time he was getting a new set of harness, and I think so too.
Elder McCracken preached two discourses at the Yeager school house Saturday night and Sunday. A large crowd attended.
Henry Yeager and family were visiting his Uncle, A.A. Patterson Saturday night and Sunday.
Crops are doing fine.
Mr. Meridith and family attended the big dinner at Center last Saturday and report a good time.
Little Willie Yeager spent several days with his Grandma Yeager.
Prosper Sullivan has been keeping the road hot to Byars, but he now says he has found him a girl closer to home that looks good to him.
Mr. Yeager and wife were visiting their daughter, Mrs. Odom Sunday.
Johnie Byford is getting very anxious for school to begin at the Burney Jones school house. He thinks he will visit it next time.
Some of the girls say they like the teacher fine at the Bowie school house, as they have already learned the first rule.
Will Hayes says he is going back to Arkansas where he can get plenty to eat.
Mrs. Cora Rogers intertained quite a crowd of young folks Sunday evening.
Mr. Russel has lumber on the ground to erect a new dwelling.
J.M. Patterson has been building a house for Mr. Lee near Maxwell.
Mrs. Gadberry of Story, was visiting relatives in the neighborhood the past week.
M.R. Frogge says he has been threatening to go to Arkansas so long because he wanted to marry, and the threat would develop the situation, but none of the widows seem to have got scared and he has concluded to stay.
20 ACRES-of land, 2 miles northeast of McGee, well improved, for sale. A.A. Patterson, McGee I.T.
W.U. Goodwin and wife went to Oklahoma City Monday.
Nat Bowie's house will have to be moved off the right of way and J.W. Torbert tells us he has decided to cut his well up into post holes as he won't be able to use the water out of it.
Nat Bowie returned from Purcel Tuesday. He went there to come to some arrangements with the officials of the O.C.R.R. in reference to the right of way through his farm. Everything seems to have been satisfactorily arranged. The company has agreed to put a switch, stock yards, and cotton platform, and to stop there for freight. The switch is to be named Lois, after his little girl.
W.P. Rotenberry, of Kansas City, is visiting his father, Capt. Rotenberry this week.
Born-Wednesday May 2, 1906, to Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Neal, a girl.
Prof. G.W. Neal was compelled to dismiss school this week on account of a supposed ulour setting up in his eye from a grain of sand that lodged in it during the sand storm.
FOR SALE - Yes, for sale, not to keep. My goods were bought and priced strictly with a view to selling them. The profit on them will not justify keeping then on the shelf. Don't buy before seeing them. I will buy your eggs. A.C. Cromer
Be sure to see S.S. Lee's line of New Dress Goods when in town.
W.T. Hayes' little son was very sick last week.
Roasted peanuts and pop corn at the McGee short order.
Sam Boatright will ship off another car of hogs this week.
250 bushels of millett seed for sale at Santford and Stricklands.
Virgil Wright visited Prof. Brandon last week.
Mrs. C.B. Belyeu was reported very sick last week.
C.L. Hart says "Crops all look promising about old McKinney town.
When you think of your home in the new town remember J.M. Gray the well driller.
Mrs. A.H. Godberry, of Storey, I.T., visited her sister Mrs. W.A. Brumley Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Watt Richards, of Byars, spent Sunday with relatives in the city.
Miss Pearl Robison, of Byars, visited at the home of her uncle, W.N. Young this week.
A.S. Morris has started his peanut and pop corn roaster and lovers of these delicacies can enjoy themselves.
J.M. Gray of Byars, tells us he is getting his well augur ready to bore wells in the new town.
I AM PAYING TOP PRICES for dry cows from one to three years old. K.W. Loyd, 2 1/2 miles N.E. McGee.
Messrs. Davis and Dry, of Maxwell, were here hunting a stray horse Saturday. They were lucky enough to find it.
Prof. Brandon informs us that school will close May 18, at which time there will be the usual closing exercises.
Bring your eggs to A.C. Cromer.
The Baptist held an interesting Fifth Sunday meeting at Hart, extending over last Saturday and Sunday. The work everywhere was reported prosperous.
W.M. Carpenter attended the Farmer's Union entertainment at Ellet Chapel Saturday evening and night. There was good speaking by W.H. Murray and others.
R.W. Roberts of Pauls Valley, was in town Saturday. He was on his way to Center where he was to be married Sunday to Miss Nora Brown of Stonewall. Rev. Butler officiating.
Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Honacker took dinner Sunday at the home of S. Dill north of town. They enjoyed the visit very much, and are loud in praise of the Dill's beautiful little home.
Several bales of cotton were on the streets Saturday. G.W. Merrill and Taylor Lanham each had a bale. Rather late for last years crop and too early for the new crop.
A.L. Cox has one of Henderson's patent tire setting machines at his blacksmith shop. It sets them cold and keeps the dish of the wheel just right by machinery.
J.M. Jones, who lives near the Iron Post school house, says that during the high wind last week, Taylor Lanham's hay was blown away because he wouldn't stay to hold it down and Mr. McKnight had the roof of his house blown off because he went off and left it.
A fine shower fell Sunday night putting the soil in just the right shape to insure a good stand of cotton. The planting of this crop was generally completed last week. As a general rule the stand of corn is good, and the plant is looking fine.
C.H. McCurdy moved his family up from Center Tuesday. He will occupy the Daveuport house. Mrs. McCurdy has just succeeded in getting rid of the postoffice business at Center.
During the high wind last week Clyde Benson's hat blew off about two miles south of town and was whirled over the barbed wire and through the fields out of sight. He has not yet recovered it. Fulton Harris found a hat in the edge of the town, but whether it is the same hat we have not learned.
Jeff Gabbert started up the trade day horse swapping Monday. The boys sung "The old gray mare come a tearin out of the wilderness" for him, as he led his prize away. horse swapping promises to be pretty lively on trade day.
G.W. Merrill informs us they are still cutting his wire: It is not alone a pasture as stated in the last issue of the News; but a cultivated field. He thinks they will soon be caught. The punishment will be all the heavier because the offense is repeated, and it is the fence around his crops. When the strong arm of the Federal court reaches them it will be a bad day for them.
GOOD BOYS - Crimer and Jesse Hart caught a wild turkey Thursday in a rather new way. The foul squatted in the grass and Crimer slipped up on it. But catching wild turkeys is not the only thing these boys can do. They have broken and planted 90 acres of cotton this year, doing all the work except a little replanting. Crimer is 13 years old and Jesse is 10. Now where are the boys that can beat this record?
BARN BURNED-About 10 a.m. last Saturday W.T. Weaver's barn was entirely consumed by fire. It is supposed to have caught in some hay at the side of the barn from some coals dropped while carrying fire from the washpot to the kitchen stove. Some corn, his millett seed, cotton seed and hay were burned. A quantity of corn was saved, some of it in a slightly damaged condition. A set of harness was also destroyed. The loss is estimated at $100; no insurance.
To Lease-Four hundred acres good grass land, situated 15 miles northwest of Purcell. Also five hundred acres of timbered land, unimproved, situated 1 1/2 miles northeast of McGee. Will cut timbered land in 40-acre blocks. Adress West L. Cunningham, McGee, I.T.
LIGHTNING STRIKES - Lightning struck J.P. Cook's house four miles southwest of town Tuesday night about 10 o'clock; ran down a stove pipe, thence down the wall smashing his looking glass and burning up his combs, but doing no further damage.
G.P. Yeager has sold his crop to M. Holbrook, late of Arkansas, and will shortly go to Comanche County, Oklahoma to harvest a crop of wheat on his farm near there. His many friends here will regret to see him leave.
J.P. Everett and wife, of Chism, were trading in town Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. A.V. Thomas visited at Tom Alexander's west of Byars Saturday, returning Sunday.
A.M. Jackson had part of the machinery for his manure spreader hauled in Tuesday. He will use it in enriching his alfalfa patch.
Mrs. John Flick will return from Austin, Texas this week, thouroughly cured, it is hoped, of any taint of hydrophobia in her system. She is stopping on her return, in Fort Worth for a visit with her two sisters. She has not seen one of them for sixteen years.
OBITUARY
Mrs. Martha Hyden, who departed this life April 22, 1906, was born and raised in Texas, and was 56 years of age at the time of her death. She was married to Mr. Whitt Hyden in Falls County, Texas in 1867. A large portion of her life has been spent in the Indian Territory, having lived here 24 years.
She raised a family of eight children, five boys and three girls, all whom survive her. She has been a consistent member of the Baptist Church and whne the time came for her journey to the other life she expressed herself as perfectly resigned to go, firm in the faith of a better existence beyond.
LANHAM SCHOOL HOUSE
Kind Editor:
After congratulating you on the success of the News so far, and wishing it a long life, I will send a few items as I see nothing from this point. Union, or perhaps better known as the Lanham school house is situated five miles east of McGee, and four miles west of Center.
Rev. Butler preached Sunday to a large and appreciative audience.
We have preaching on the first Sunday in each month by Elder Dowing, the 3rd by Bro. Fleming and Sunday School at 10 a.m., singing in the neighborhood every Sunday evening.
The Farmers union hold their meeting every Saturday at 2 p.m.
The Socialists Local meets every two weeks, on Tuesday 8:30 p.m.
School opened Monday with a very good attendance for a rainy morning.
Crops are looking fine.
Health is good generally.
Grandma Vanhook has been very sick but is improving.
If this don't find the "dreaded basket" I will come again.
Farmer's Wife
"THE DREADED BASKET"?? WELL THE BIG NEWS THIS WEEK WAS MR. JACKSON'S MANURE SPREADER. LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER WEEK IN OUR TOWN. WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE WITHOUT MICROWAVE OVENS OR NUCLEAR WEAPONS?(or hot and cold running water, hot baths whenever you want one, inside toilets, refrigerators, OH WELL.) CLICK HERE
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