The Depew Independent April 30, 1920 Dirt Flying On Waterworks Monday morning a force of men were put to work digging the ditches for the mains. Main street is "shot all to pieces" this week. The pipe is being put down about four feet in the ground which will insure it from freezing. From now on, we understand that the work will be pushed on the waterworks and that they will be completed as fast as men and material can do the job. ----- Church Notes S.S. 10 a.m. Prof. E. E. Norvell Supt. 11 a.m. Object Sermon. 6:45 p.m. Young People’s Union, 7:45 p.m. sermon, subject "Building a Life." Let everybody boost for the Y.P.U. Public cordially invited to attend all services. MARRIED Thursday evening about 7 o’clock. Mr. John Barber and Miss Maggie Mercer were married at the M. E. Parsonage, by the Pastor. All join in wishing them a long, happy and prosperous life. C. P. BROOME, Pastor ----- There is a Town Ordinance against chickens running at large. Please keep them up and avoid the penalty. R. L. Plinkton, Marshal ----- Levi Mercer Dies Suddenly Levi Mercer, an old time resident of near Depew died at his home north of town Saturday. He had suffered a paraletic stroke last fall and had never entirely recovered from it. He leaves a wife and several children and two brothers, Ben and John Mercer. ----- Working On Depew National Bank Building Work has started on the Depew National Bank building. The foundation is being layed and the brick are on the ground. The plate glass for the windows arrived this week and the work is being pushed to completion. ----- Doctor Coppedge drove in yesterday evening with a fine new Packard car. This is the first Packard to take up a permanent residence in Depew.

Mushroom Town Booming Slick the new town sixteen miles southwest of Mounds is booming at a great rate, according to reports coming from there. There are under way at the present time, fifty one buildings, a good number of which are substantial brick and stone structures. Enough real estate has changed hands within the past two weeks to populate a city of forty thousand people. The Oklahoma Southwestern railway expects to complete its line to Slick between June first and fifteenth. Many of the oil well supply companies have purchased industrial sites here. The town had a circus April 9th and five hundred people were in attendance. Had the show appeared three weeks ago, it would have played on a cotton field. Such are Oklahoma oil towns. They grow into cities over night. --Tri- County News ----- 2 Shamrock Men Killed at Frisco Grade Crossing F. M. Rundle and Joe Wheeler, both residents of Shamrock, were instantly killed this morning near Bristow, when they attempted to cross the Frisco track in front of a northbound passenger train. According to information from Bristow this morning, the two men driving a ford roadster, were near the track when the Oklahoma City Sapulpa train approached. The men thinking to beat the train across speeded up and went directly on the track when the engine hit their car. Both were thrown about fifty feet and their bodies terribly mangled. The accident occured three miles from Bristow, near the poor farm. Wheeler, it is learned, is married and leaves a wife and several children. An inquest will be held this afternoon. --Monday’s Sapulpa American How About This Ten little taters, growing on a vine, local buyer got one, and then there were nine. Nine little taters shipped away by freight, railroads got one, then there were eight. Eight little taters another ride were given, transfer got one, then there were seven. Seven little taters sold to Commissioner Dix, commissioner got one, then there were six. Six little taters in a store arrive, retailer takes one, then there are five. Five little taters eaten up and then-the ultimate consumer pays for the ten. (Continued on page 2)

*********************************************   The Depew Independent April 30, 1920 (Continued from page 1) John Newman Passes away John Wesley Newman died at the home of his son, Noah Newman, Saturday and was layed to rest in the Stroud cemetery Monday. He had lived near Depew for the past 19 years and was one of the few surviving Civil War veterans. He served a term during the war in Company H Kentucky Calvary and had been palsied for a good many years, but got around rather spry for a man 90 years of age, often walking two or three miles to town. He leaves two children and a wife to mourn his loss. They are Noah Newman, a farmer resident near town, and Mrs. Harve Williams, living out south of town. He had 22 grand-children and 5 great grand-children. He had lived a consistant christian life and was highly respected by his many acquaintances. ----- L. B. Martin was down from Stroud yesterday. He lived in this part of the country 20 years ago and has been living at Stroud for the past 15 years where he has carried the mail on one of the rural routes out of town. ----- Grover Cleveland came in Monday from Chickasha, Okla., to spend a few days visiting relatives. He was so impressed with the "Depew way" that he invested in Depew property. ----- J. H. Bounds, who has spent the past five months in the Texas oil fields, was a pleasant caller at our sanctum Wednesday. ----- C. N. Lee, of Depew National Bank, has bought three lots off the north side of the Oakes property and will build a fine bungalow thereon. ----- Adjustor Ford, was here from Oklahoma City yesterday adjusting the plate glass loss in the Donaldson building, which was blown out a week ago last Saturday night when we had our -near cyclone ----- Prof. S. O. Henshaw was a pleasant caller at the Independent office Wednesday. He was on his way to Oklahoma City.

*********************************************         Miss Clara Stark is clerking in the People’s Exchange store. ----- W. H. Ford and T. M. Hankins were transacting business in Sapulpa yesterday. ----- The brick masons are laying the wall on the Coppedge building this week. ----- Joseph Kinch was in Sapulpa Wednesday looking after the interest of the town in the Cates case. ----- Dr. O. S. Coppedge and wife drove to Oklahoma City Wednesday morning. During his absence Dr. Cargill, of Shamrock is looking after his patients. ----- The entertainment given last Thursday night at the Church by the pupils of Miss Cole’s and Miss Warren’s rooms was entertaining from start to finish. The little tots covered themselves with glory. All the numbers were good, and the song and encore song by Katherine Crosswhite were fine and shows that she has talent and a voice that with training will be a wonder. The proceeds of the entertainment go toward helping to pay for the school piano. ----- Lots is being said about "Overall Clubs", most of the newspapers boosting the proposition. It sounds all right and at first thought a person would think it the proper thing for everybody to buy a pair of overalls. But what about the fellow that has to wear them? It is all right for a fellow to buy overalls if he wants to, but in Oklahoma if all the millionaires buy overalls the price will become so high that a poor man who has to wear overalls will have to go without. We are in favor of reducing the high cost of clothing, but in our humble opinion they are starting at it basacwards. We intend to wear overalls and don’t want the millionaire club to buy up the visible supply. ----- Stolen-$10.00 Reward One North Texas Moline Lister 12 inch. From the North West corner of old Sisler place. $10.00 for information leading to the recovery of the lister. Finder notify GEORGE MARTIN