The Ripley Times from Ripley, Oklahoma • 1

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They an liar and the mhiIc know It Merrick witHonijr a air til uwtl e4lr tlf ln tJfl4 leduliv? gtMtl tllea kf iitwMlk Ilf 'fe lit ini K- Kt fttriUui aiI lifpf diBf-o 1 it all trrd in itA ligethet ll Maun Jal vt A iuuijtiit4 upr Hat 4ftM IJrt f'e M' lifcfit1 I-dlw r- pfM Jhftkil hrlltid lhI uJ fr JM t'wiwinj llm (tfirrl- 8 trpf Im Wilp where Ik Ii-1 h4 Tk wixumI t4 a Im'uJuI aivl IA it(B)ain ojS Ii-l ktiitm rirtk were gitrn a torpiiMc hk wK by Ik announce Mi nl that lad furriai ol lt mike iiciviandiMt stick of Uitkrd A pUr and thU firm would rrlire from arthe rogigrtirnt In tk mrrvantik It was Known Hat irgutlatl-i were fending for the big dial which a finally closed the first of the week In Hie transaction Hillard A Spicer tale the two OMhnm iru adjoining lllplry Mr Italian! will move to the farm and John Oldham and family will move to town Kd Spicer and family will remain In town Another Important deal was the purchase by John SchuUc of the Nugent corner which Is nt present unoccupied Mr Schulze will remove Ills stock of goods from the Oldham block Into his hew property In a short time The Oldham mercantile company hich will probably be the style of the new firm will then occupy the rooms vacated by John Schulze These deals have caused a general shake-up about town and as a result several firms will change present locations John Cllngcnpeel will move into the iul) Iomi il III ttodriffritt wcia''r'C(1l killjr alirr Ik crrvuiMiy fkw: Jut after diiibrr hr Thr Mldr and hup thr Help- out into thr g-if kfi Urehtdkd k'k (f tinny taluaLM and imdul Miner tail iiMrltet) the yard Umii I hr kit a (dinging m-imUmi at lh Thry kgln MuvVrrping at Mice in Min? litter raldng IU luml toliUMad home whhli the irnni Iwd where the rung emcd to hr and lrc-arl jrfrc ihw happr event ret 11 tiu-d to the linuw lti4l Jocvurml ax nl reaming down his arm lie I Tliek? young are well Known washed the wound and the pain soon I cuty and tliclr many friends llsappeare I after which he reported Kk-nd congntt illations The bride Is the fact to the marshal the na-oinplbhil daughter of Fnclc Mr McKidght lives close to the Johnny Means aul the grnrn the tal BroyUs pasture and it was Ids opinion I ctcd ami cap tide son of Kx-County 1 hat mune luintcts carrj lng a twenty-1 Tnasurcr Teter of Perkins and holds two shot wide of the mark the tmll a ialthn In tin Bank of Cushing hitting Idm accidentally although heley "HI make their future home In heard no report of gun Cushing In tliclr own dwelling The He Is sure It was an accident and Times wishes them go iJ luck and that the hunters are keening mighty mucH prosperity shy He docs not tlilnk any oncsiiould Melian Items itll Vwlk Ihjr tr fii M-k ttw iiihi at Illj-Vjf ff CH ih ttl4 1 Ifcirtrr-' HVln44 in ktisMiCi1!) si Mf I At oW't tliB fcsu il l- thl tlt htij ilrnt In 11 citr VV Mill BO' I tiiri htill ili 4l Ilk tnxi lull to IT Mil cf MjfJ He tuk the min Mr lcntf aotl on tls H4jr hp 4w tl train nit I In I nicr junt in timo to imtc hjM a'aln Here nt ii4)( anl tlirii fttarlctl for htlrn Her tiak ruuoVvn lu SiLi-Iuke City We iaw the treat mjli nml taUr Tlwx ate yraiui Mructtlm and halt Iike Cltjr tle ch'simut city Helrtalu houIcMh fiolltlcktns nt Until ever mw Then we look the Southern rc rlw lc i'n of the Ust Icv ladllc for 111 1'ranclMti toppln of! I kiture Thin matter will come ut at Sacramento City one day We rV who (upx Itcil the capital bulMlnj and art khI I lcr lrat cnveivd) worked It lery then to the capital park which I au nHsiHlc "HI Ircar eclioea of in the paradise of the world Thcllor- 110 utnro 1st toIJ us there wan a tree and a llow-1 Some time ago thin paper offered a cr of every variety In the world in the reward of 81000 for a letter from the park It was Just grand Then we I Interior department officially author-wen to Frisco on the steamer Jlcre IzingKdgar Jones to take the lcgisla-we took the division car and took In the evidence In lie sanitarium to the principal sights going first to the Washington Xo one has claimed the great power house and landing up at reward up to date' The offer Js still the Cliff house where wo took a peep I open at the beautiful Golden Gate We I Where Is Merrick since the govern-saw the seal and sea-lions in their nient inspector made his- report? wild homes The ocean was the grand- Some time ago Merrick said to a' JCan est sight of all for me We-took off sas City Journal correspondent that our shoes and washed our feet in the the governor of the territory had not Big Fan Then we took the Northern reque'sted the secretary to send a man Pacific for Portland Here we passed to investigate the sanitarium Mer-througli nine different tunnels and rick shruld have been unseated in the passing both over and under its own legislature last winter when the Smith rails and looking down we could see episode took place However he has the track four times We had three gone into an obscurity which he isem-engines to our train and had to have inently qualified to adorn two more to climb the hill: We took t- in Portland and took a cable car to TOfeSt Valley Items Barricks We found one Born to Mr and Mrs John Moore a soldier boy Casidy from Oklahoma daughter May 14 He showed us through the barricks Some Clayton young folks attended We took dinner vilth the boys and our Sunday school last Sunday Come then took the tra4n for Seattle stop- again ped one day and then took the Great Miss Bessie Stufflebeam visited home want to assassinate him in broad duy light Tlie affair caused some little excitement In the neighborhood and Mar-j shal Weathers is now hunting the fellows who fired the stray shot Miss Mae Hart is on the sick list this week Mrs A Hart made a fiying trip I Ballard Spicer building as soon as it to Ripley Thursday is vacated The Porter bakery will Ivors and Simpson of near then occupy theClingenpeel room Ripley were in town Monday Flshburn Sc Cooper have purchased complet-1 thomlIllncrJr Rtok ot Mr8' Ballard Bal- part and will also occupy space in the lard Spicer room Nugent the butcher will at once build an addition on the rear of his shop Many other improvements and deals Peabody and A later story as we go to press is to the effect that Mr McKnight receiv-1 ed at his residence In the south ed the wound on his head from the of town bill of an angry mother cat-bird at the loss of her dear little ones Some neighbors say that George robbed a nest in his yard and was carrying the little birds into the house After entering the room it be came necessary for him to lean over evidently to show the little birds to l)ve Franklin has his well Mrs A McKellar of Kan is visiting her parents Mr Mrs Etheridge Art Bone ship! el a carload of wood to Stillwater last -week which he got a good price Grandpa Renfrow-of Perkins stove jn Ripley are pending and lively times for may be expected all summer and fall passed McMurtry Free 1 lis children While in this position I through town Thursday on his way to Last Saturday in the district court at Stillwater McMurtry was tried for the murder of James rFeverlyon the 13th day of last August at Glencoe The case created considerable interest while it was on but soon lost Quay where he has cattle in pusture Rev Stokesberry delivered a very interesting sermon last Sunday morning He will be with us again two weeks from last Sunday at 11 a liisjiat fell from his head The old mother bird who had followed him quick as a hash embraced a fine opportunity to get even pounced- upon lis cranium and jammed her bill rap-dly five or six times into his scalp bringing the blood and then safely made her get-a-way 0 Whichever way the tale goes George has the wound to prove one or the other of the stories and until he Northern for Everette where-we are iast Sunday She is staying with her today May'15 We have taken in all sjstei jn Coyle rj interest when the evidence was all In Little -yeiir old -May ritDk jn a for the public mlnd was then confi- niepe of 1 ranklin arriued here nf tho VAwllrtf rrilA QCO Tuesday from Joplin Mo May will make her home with her uncle and aunt ed out about fifteen minutes and re-John Barth of Clayton took the I turned with a verdict of acquittal makes an open confession the c-asc is train here Thursday of last week for it will be remembered that Fever- surrounded by qiystery the sights and have had as tine a trip as two old boys ever Iiad We will 'go from here to Spokane and then to Minneapolis and then to Kansas City then to the land of grand'old Oklahoma When I return to Oklahoma I will have visited sixteen states two territories Canada and the Pacific ocean Who can beat it? Give my best wishes to all Yours truly Joe Siiakeb Stillwater to employ Dr fcjelph John jyt a saloonkeeper went into the pas-is in very poor health and is now lying senger train to which McMurtry who Lightning Hits In the storm last Monday evening lightning struck the big bam on the Coyle ranch east of Ripley Fortun- very low Runkle an Burns returned to their homes Wednesday! pulled his pistol and killed his assailant instantly Ileally now the Saturday night dancing habit become chronic in this country? Mrs Etheridge Mrs Barger and Mrs Ringwald spent Wednesday with Mrs Clark Tiiis is the month of roses Few are the faces that do not brighten while beholding their beauty A good many of the fanners arc looking gloomy They will have to replant their cotton and seed is hard to find now Many in our district were made happy last week by receiving letters from Miss Bertha VanKunkel our teacher of the past term We suppose we ought to be glad of a chance to get to Ripley at all during these high waters But while it is a New Elevator Williams the Ponca City grain buyer is expected to visit Ripley next Monday He is planning to erect a ately it did not catch fire but three neal Feli wheie they have been young men named Crookshank Taylor doing some carpenter work for Mr Cook who were sleeping in the barn Hrennen were stunned by the bolt I Frazer wr over from Ripley 1 L-i rirar nf0no large elevator on the site next to his They soon recovered One horse was last week looKljg after the interest of small one near the right-of-way The injured by tlie shock so thit he mav Mrs Iracrs musK class Quite a 1 new elevator will be among the larg est 011 the Eastern Oklahoma and fit- To tlie Volunteers of Late Wars 1 Jolu ted out with new and complete ma- ill water rst A ft has notified lrR1 lc1ucry throu1out- Th5s elevator is all the Spanish-A merican war and necked to handle the grain that will llCie forI sIumshI fnan Ripley this season Jl'l) it i Edgecomb-Gordon Wednesday at high noon at the home of the parents Mr and Mrs Gordon southeast of town Miss Matie Gordon and Mr Charles Edgecomb were united in marriage Rev Edgecomb father bf the gnom performing the ceremony in the presence of about sixty relatives and friends A wedding dinner wasserved afterward and the Iiappy couple congratulated The bride Is a popular young lady in the neighborhood and I lias many friends The gnBai is one lVijce Tuntys well known fchJ -teacher is energetic and ind r-ri-emv Tl Imr tlif poi Uhi- a Mrld 4 friends and Tdie Times ex UDhociratulilHKA little ineonrmient chiMr'fti enjoy tne Moveiijr oi b-Mt-11-Jiig 1 a iiii -r lng must we wait fr a ori'L tUYipale in I ratin I Mr e-r- nn ti! fttl- I vftli tlrt-M Mm S'i I-- fnvn4B nf iitf if 1: I i niu i 1 r-: Uf lrru- 'Hi inritati' -N s- Vji i ik Ded Winnie Smil Ik motlerof Mrs V'ioJ rid rtitd of dnsj- of the iiBifi 1-V tl her d-nLU-r in tle riu lend She bjrhl ukr the rights of the t'jtlojc IJk- piieit frtXTi Miil- wal uJuiiftv ift iy S- i- 01 ir j- i I jt )' Arrived yy iii Tlw j-ffie it ki 1 TU Ij: l- i i ii -1 'it It lwVv JJsV U-4 V41 I 1 1 rce lieu- Sic 1 brm r'v of.