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The Choctaw Herald
Bokoshe, Indian Territory, Thursday, July 5, 1906
 

Bokoshe is in immediate need of sanitary attention.  Because we have no municipal government at present to compel people to keep their premises in good sanitary condition is no argument for the neglect.  Some of the alleys of the town are in a terrible state of putridness; the summer season is here and the hot weather combined with these foul alleys is conducive to anything but health.  After the fatal diseases emanating from such places have almost depopulated the town it will be too late to commence cleaning.  It may strike your family first.  Clean up right now.

Did you know that WOODWARD BROS.’ Was the place to trade?  They handle everything, also pay the highest price for all kinds of produce.

CHAS. PRICE
Will buy or sell all kinds of stock - Horses, Mules Cattle Sheep or Hogs.
If you have anything in the stock you wish to dispose of or if you wish to buy, address me in the care of
Postoffice
Box 92,
Bokoshe, I.T.

THE ARKANSAS CITY MILLING COMPANY
Has placed the Best Flour on the market, and will give away FREE
Five-pound Sample
Bag of their Flour

In order to give every lady a chance to test this Flour call on us and we will give you a 5-pound sack.  Ground by a water mill and every pound guaranteed.  To try is to be convinced of its quality.
THE PRICE RIGHT
Bagwell Boys,
SOLE AGENTS FOR BOKOSHE, I.T.

DR. IVIE,
Physician and Surgeon.
Surgeon for the Midland Valley Railroad Co.

Office next door to Hotel Chappell.
Telephone ~ ~ No. 23

DR. W. W. BEESLEY
Physician and Surgeon.
Office in the Union Drug Store.
Residence Chappell Hotel

Office Phone ~ No. 12
Residence Phone ~ No. 10

F. C. PARROTT,
Physician and Surgeon.
Physician for the Bokoshe Smokeless
Coal Company and the Henderson
Coal Company.  Office in the Union
Drug Store.

TELEPHONE NUMBERS
Office---12.         Residence---4.

Patronize W. B. Johnson’s
Carriage Line

A distance of two miles between the towns of
McCurtain and  Chant.
FARE TWENTY-FIVE CENTS.

Dr. KING, of Spiro was here Sunday.  He is not the doctor with the new discovery.

Mr. Charlie SLAYTON has not been at work for several days, having been disabled by a sore hand.

The work on the new Midland Valley depot is progressing nicely, the frame work being already up.

Miss BARBER, of the telephone office, has been sick for several days and Mrs. Dr. PARROTT filled her place.

Mrs. Dr. HODGES, who has been sick for several days, has almost recovered, her many friends will be glad to learn.

Mr. John TYSON has resigned his position as weigher at the Bokoshe mines and was succeeded by Mr. Mitch YOUNG.

Mr. Baker WOODWARD has accepted a position as a traveling salesman for the Beggs Manufacturing company, of Chicago.

Mrs. Hattie Courts LEIGH, who has been visiting Mrs. Jesse G. CURD, returned to her home in Paducah, Ky. this afternoon.

Dr. L. D. BUFFINGTON, of the Central District Burial association, has been quite sick this week but is now improved.

The rains of the past few days appear to have been general, and have been of great benefit to crops.

Posse J. T. TINSLEY captured fifteen pints of whisky Tuesday at the depot, it was packed in a barrel of salt and shipped in as freight.  There seems to be several ways of getting whisky in here, but this is an entirely new mode.

United States Deputy Marshal GRAY captured an obstreperous and belated celebrator the other day who was loaded both inside and out with the stuff that makes some people fight, and that’s what he proceeded to do.

WARNING ORDER
In the United States Court of the Indian Territory, Central District, Poteau Division:
Sallie M. MOORE, Plaintiff.
vs
John C. MOORE, Defendant
No. 1325

The defendant, John C. Moore, is warned to appear in this court at Poteau in thirty days and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, Sallie M. Moore.

Witness my official signature and seal this 5th day of July, 1906.
E. J. FANNIN, Clerk
by S. G. BRINK, Deputy

BAGWELL & MERRIMAN, attorneys for the plaintiff.
James L. HALE is hereby appointed attorney for non-resident defendant.

Work on the brick building being erected by the townsite company is being pushed so it will be finished for the opening on the first Thursday in August.

Fifty-five tickets were sold by the Fort Smith and Western to people who attended the Farmers’ Union picnic at Milton from Bokoshe, on July 4.

Mr. Thomas DODSON last week bought out his partner in the livery business, Mr. Franklin HUDGENS, and then sold the entire business to Mr.  Chas. PRICE.

Why don’t some one build some nice four or five room cottages in Bokoshe?  There would be no trouble at all in renting fifteen or twenty at good prices.

The picnic at Cowlington last Saturday was well attended.  It was given by the school trustees for the benefit of the Cowlington school, and a neat little sum was realized for that purpose.

It is reported that the Fort Smith & Western and Midland Valley railroads will soon increase their passenger service, which will be a great benefit to Bokoshe people who do shopping in Fort Smith.

It is not known what disposition will be made of the Gus BLACK stock of goods, sold at auction here a few days ago, by order of the United States court.  It is to be hoped that it will not be removed from the city.  The Fort Smith Grocery company bought it.

SOCIAL AND PERSONAL

Several young people of the city attended an ice cream supper given by Mr. and Mrs. Jack JOHNSON near town last Thursday night.  They report spending a most enjoyable evening.

The Central Burial District Association has moved into the building formerly occupied by Culver drug store and when the association gets fixed up will have one of the nicest stores in town.

Mr. C. O. JENKINS visited Spiro last week.

Mr. Pike ALLEN has returned from visit to relatives in Van Buren, Ark.
Mrs. Dr. HODGE is sick, suffering from a slight attack of malaria.

T. J. UNDERWOOD and wife, of He---, Ark. are still in our midst.  Mr.
Underwood is thinking of locating here.

Mrs. James TAYLOR, who has been sick for the past two weeks, has sufficiently recovered to be out, her many friends will be pleased to learn.

Mrs. Thos. JERMAIN has been quite sick, but is much improved today.
Mr. John WARD is in Fort Smith.

A good, fresh line of candy at Bokoshe Drug Co.

Talking about early cotton, Turner WILLIAMS, colored, who lives near Brazil, brought in a stalk last week that had not only bloomed, but has boils almost matured.  He has nine acres of this early crop, planted in March.  The stalks are considerable above waist high.

Mr. M. NELSON attended the Fort Smith Chautauqua several days last week.

Mr. Jim McCLAIN, who has been suffering with his left eye for several days, is improving.  He got something in it one night after retiring, and came near loosing it.

STOP THAT COUGH
If you have a cough, cold, sore throat, or chest, don’t delay a moment - cure it.  Simmon’s Cough Syrup is a sure remedy.  It makes you well.

SANITARY PRECAUTION.
The physicians of Bokoshe report a great deal of sickness, for Bokoshe, just now, which they attribute to the fact that the weather is hot and the very unsanitary condition of the town.  One doctor said that if the citizens do not clean up their premises at once, there will be much more sickness later on than there is now.

While it is true there is no law at present to compel us to clean up the town, still we should have civic pride enough to make us clean the town; if not civic pride, the fear of typhoid and other malignant diseases should compel us to improve the conditions.  The water in some of the wells near the alleys is positively filthy and very unhealthful - especially after a rain.

There will be a large number of people from the old states visit Bokoshe this summer, and if we succeed in inducing any of them in moving to the town we must clean up.  The first thing some of these people will inquire about is the water, and you would be greatly chagrined to show them where some of the wells are situated and the unhealthy conditions surrounding them.

Bokoshe has a naturally healthy situation, but the continued neglect of
sanitary laws will surely result in much sickness and death to our citizens

Mr. W. R. STATHAM has moved his office to this building two doors south of THE HERALD office.

Go to the Bokoshe Drug Co. for pure drugs.
For good cigars go to Bokoshe Drug Co.

The assigned stock of goods of Gus BLACK and Co. will be sold at auction today to the highest bidder for cash.  The stock invoiced at about $8,000, and must bring more that 51 percent to be a sale.  There are several men from other towns to bid on the stock.

For Coco Cola and Soda Pop go to Bokoshe Drug Co.

The picnic at Carterville was one of the best of the season.  About 700 people attended.  The picnic would have been a great success to the promoters if a rain had not interfered in the afternoon, which drove the crowd home.

BASE BALL
The Blues went to Chant Sunday and scalped the team there in league style.  The game was too one-sided to be very interesting.  This puts the standing of the two clubs equal, each having taken two games from the other.  The game for the last “horse” has not yet been arranged and when it does Chant may expect another and worse drubbing than ever, for the Blues are just now getting warmed up.  The score Sunday was Bokoshe 13, Chant 7.

BRASS BAND FOR BOKOSHE
The following named gentlemen met Monday afternoon and organized the Bokoshe brass band:
 

Gus MERRIMAN, Dunk Ware,  ?-- ELLIOTT, John ELLIOTT, James KEATING, Wm. HAMMOND, Thos. GRAYSTON, Sam JONES, Chas. SLAYTON, Ed FISK, Jesse CURD, Dock BLACKSTOCK, Fatty, HOUSE, Harlan HOUSE, F.C. PARROTT

THE CONVENTION
Of the Farmers’ Union Was Held at Spiro Last Week

The county convention of Skulleyville county Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative Union met at Spiro on June 28-9 for the purpose of electing and installing officers for the ensuing term, and the transaction of any other business that might come before the convention.  The following offers were elected and installed:
Mr. Sam BOOTH, re-elected president.
J. B. BEARTEET, vice-president
W. M. RYAN, secretary-treasurer.

The other officers were all elected to fill their last year’s positions.

The members and delegates transacted some very important business for the farmers’ union.  There were thirty-six delegates present at the convention, and everything passed off harmoniously, and the delegates gained much valuable information at this convention from speeches by several delegates; all enjoyed a good time an returned home greatly benefited by the meeting.

President Sam Booth lost his hat on his return home, and all had a good joke on him.  He looked awful wishful after it as it went out the car window, and the delegates made up a collection to buy him a new one.

The people of Spiro exhibited to the delegates a marked degree of respect.

Co-operation is the ground-work of the Farmers’ Educational and Co-Operative Union.  They are taking the lead and are growing stronger every day.  They are making a good fight against capital and the vice of monopoly of the world.

Come, boys, let us rally and put our forces together and we can move the world; on it we’ll roll to the higher aspirations of higher morals of live.  Always stick to the golden rule, love, unity and justice.

A Delegate.