The Oklahoma Hornet from Waukomis, Oklahoma • 1

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If youhaye missed something and should attend their next meeting Out of sixty in line you will never find two that will keep the same step and they are invariably getting out of line trying to show off and making goo goo eyes at (lie sisters There is a strip of country out west of here known as the "Salt 11ats" Some of the land produces very well and sonic of it is as level as can be and seems fit for nothing but- grazing purposes There is a peculiar formatim tii soil and old horsemen say that it is especially adopted foi track put'poses and there is tiothing known that will equal it A company of fancy horse owners are contemplating the establishing of training stables out there and 'ill have a good track made for that purpose Will Worden has opened a loan and real estate dice in the room formerly occupied by the Bank of' Waukomis ana extends all who are wanting anything in his line to call an) see him and learn what he Ims to otter in the way of farm and (Tiler loans If you want to buy a farm or have any friends that want one he vill appreciate it if you will bring them around or have them write to him A farmer a4 iii the other day and he was kicking like blazes about the prices he was getting lot his products We noticed that he had a buggy load of Izoods from that famous Scissors and Sawbuck catalogue house VI on-der how much he would have realized for his truck if it had not been for the home merchant? Of course he bought his goods a little cheaper but did he do better than if he had bought ill the same quantities from his home merchant? Did you ever take into consideration this fact that when you send off for goods you pay the cash and buy in larger quantities than when you go to the home merchant and get from thirty to five hundred days time We are 'willing to wager our interest in the Panama canal that if two farmers will try it for a year and each use the same grade and same amount of goods one buying of our home merchants and the other sending away that at the end of the time the one who buys at home will have the best of it and at the same time have the satisfaction of knowing that he has done something to buildsup and foster a home market for the product of his farm There is very little saved in this sending away from home for everything or anything you need even if you do have to pay a little more from the retailer Of him you 'get what you want and in quantities to suit you and if perchance your money runs a little low' before harvest the home merchant is the one you look to-for the things you need The local High School eleven will play the Kingfisher High School team on the aukomis grounds Saturday afternoon This is the first game of the season for our boys while IL has played several hard games The team will be composed strictly of high school boys Witukons has a fair chance of winning an0 with the support of the town undoubtedly will The latest thing in the statehood business is a proposition to organize clubs and send one thousand dele- (rates to Washington and the at- tractive feature placed in bold type isthat the railroads are not adverse to sitch a movement and Will make a rate of 47 for the round trip Why not the railroads furnish a few fie special trains? There would then be no trouble to get a crowd It will take a good deal of hustling If) find a thousand fellows that have the price to blow in for a trip to Washington even if it is not objectional to the railroads and the people have been buncoed about all they vi I stand 011 '41te put up plan" The boys who went out to the Panhandle Texas country each we understand purchased a tract of land ranging from a (luartor to a section and are very enthusiastic about the prospect of getting rich quick OE the deal It beats the Bloomington gate deal they say Charles was over to Pawhuska the latter part of the week and reports the Waukomis colony over there as happy and quite prosper'ous Hunt and Beck are just finishing up their residences and Jim Ferguson has just moved his family there -Moore was very favor ably impressed with that country andthinks it is going to be a good place for business There is all kinds of' timbe'r there walnut beach hickory oak and soft wood plenty of building stone of an excellent quality gas and oil but it is not much of a farming country and will have to depnd a great deal on other resources for Its development The annual amount of limey paid the Indians amounts to several thousand dollars and this tnoney is turned loose every months The Indians are good spenders Town p1opert3r is very high and as yet no titles are bein given While that section of the countrSt is supposed to be in the United States you have to take out a license and get a permit to do business This Nye understand will pot be- 'le case when the townsite law takes effect which will be as soon as the townsite boards can get around to it In the xeservations and on them the Indian agent is cock of the walk and if he prope1t3r is very high anti as yet no titles are bcing given While that section of the countrSt is supposed to be in the United States you have to take out a license and get a permit to do business This Nye under- will pot be 'le case when the law takes effect which will as soon as the townsite boards get around to it In the xeser- vations and on them the Indian agent is cock Of the walk and if he Rev Nicholson and family left for Stillwater this week where they will reside for the coming cinference year Rev IlAnyeart the new minister for this place is expected to be 'here for services next Sunday Their are people in Oklahoma who have made fortunes by holding onto their farms and some of these same people were carried by the home 'merchants during the early- short crops and hard times and were thus enabled to stay by Weir places Bow many Of these people could have held on had they depended on the mail order houses? Did you ever stop to think about this when you are sending away or going to some neighbor ingtown because you could save a few' cents on some small purcha-se? Patronize your home merchant and thus help to build up a good home market Wankomis has made twice the money for the farmers that are in trading ditance of the town that it has for the men who have been e'n I The enrollment at the territotial University at Norman is alput one hudred and fifty in excess of the enrollment at this time last year The University of Oklahoma is fast becoming recognized as the best unistand versity in the southwest The pubtownsite lie school system of Oklahoma eulbe minates in the Tniversity It is sup-can ported by a tax on the people and is therefore as much their school as the common and high schools in their 1 is so minded he can Make you toe own neighborhood Just as the the mark or hike out of the country district school is for a township and I lie has more power than the ipresi-la High School for a county the Unident of the United States over his versity is for Oklahoma and Indian (Ionian) and the inhabitants thereof Territory: The young men of Waukomis have been wondering for the last week or two what "Sharanode" means They show no inclination however to go deeper into the subject than to wonder Mrs Albert Lundquist who has been visiting relatives in Wichita for the past week returned- home Tuesday evening She was accompanied by her sister Wh10 will vkit here for some time in 1)11ine here tv tipt.