The Depew Independent October 15, 1920 Cathey-Chandler Married Sunday October 10th, Mr. Ed Cathey and Miss Martha Chandler. Ed Cathey is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cathey, of Antlers, but former citizens of near Depew. Ed served with distinction in France as a sharp-shooter, and came back covered with glory. Miss Chandler is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Chandler, farmers living southeast of town a few miles. The Independent joins with friends in wishing them the best going. ----- Frank Yates, an old timer of this part of the country, stepped into our office yesterday for a few minutes chat. Frank has been living at Hartwell, Arkansas for the past 11 years. He is visiting his son Ivan Yates. ----- The buildings formerly occupied by the Coppedge Pharmacy and the Doctor’s offices have been torn down and moved away, clearing the street between the new Coppedge building and the Depew National Bank. ----- Depew is certainly getting her share of cotton this year. If the price of cotton had stayed where it started out this fall our farmers would have been in better shape than anybody. There was a tremendous crop raised. It cost the farmers a lot of money to make the crop, and it is a shame that they have to sell it so cheap, and then have to pay war-time prices for the manufactured goods, and it will probably be some time before there is an appreciative decline in cotton made goods. ----- E. Runkle Much Better Last Friday Mr. E. Bunkle, one of the earliest settlers in Depew, was stricken with something like appoplexy, and it was thought for a time, that he would not recover, on account of his age of some 77 years, but at this writing he is much better and on the road to recovery. ----- Depew’s four cotton gins are kept running almost day and night.

Attention If you want to enjoy yourself be at the church next Friday night October 22nd at 7:30 o’clock. Miss Ruth Chism, of Weatherford, will give an entertainment for the benefit of the people of the town. The program will be interspersed with music by local talent. Miss Chism will have a special program for everybody, something full of fun and frolic for the kiddies, a more sensational part for the younger set, and something else of a more artistic and literary style for the older and more settled folks. The program will be good from beginning to end. If you don’t want to laugh you had better not come. Miss Chism comes well recommended, and is capable of delivering a high class entertainment. But why give recommendations, the position she holds speaks for her ability. She is at the head of the Department of Public Speaking and Expression, of the Southwestern State Normal, at Weatherford. And has lectured and given entertainments all over the country. Come out and hear her, and forget for awhile the hard times everybody is howling about. ----- Bad Wreck at Davenport An east bound freight train passing through Davenport at the rate of about 35 miles an hour Saturday morning about 7:45 was badly wrecked. It appears that a [illegible] beam dropped on the track causing 3 cars of cattle and a car of household goods and a car of general merchandise to pile up on the main line. Two more cars was skidded off the tracks. Some 46 head of fat cattle were killed and the five cars were turned into kindling wood. No one was injured, but a brakeman had just passed over the cars that were wrecked a few minutes before the crash. After the cars left the track and tore loose from the engine, the balance of the train went down the track several hundred yards before it was stopped. One of the citizens told us that some of the liberated cattle were up town on main street before the engine had come to a stop, so we judge that they lit running. It was 1:45 before the track was cleared for the west bound 9:00 train.