FIRST MONDAY

June 1^st to Be a Big Day in the History of Waurika.

The business men of Waurika have inaugurated what promises to be a grand monthly trading day to be known as "Waurika's First Monday." June 1^st has been set apart for the first of these great grading days, and hereafter the events will be held on the first Monday in each month.

The merchants of the city have entered heartily into the proposition and agree to greatly cut prices on these days and makes it worth while for the country people to visit Waurika on these occasions.

Business men are offering prizes on farm produce, as follows:

Tucker & Hunter, $1 worth of sugar for the best pound of butter.

Bryan's Café, $1 for best display of frying chickens.

Johnston Mercantile Co., handsome chain to the prettiest baby under one year old.

Durham & Harris,50 cent package of any toilet article for the best dozen eggs.

B. S. Chandler Furniture Store, $1.50 salad bowl for best chocolate cake.

H. A. Baxter, sack of best flour for best peck of new potatoes.

Oklahoma Hardware and Plumbing Co., the best nickel plated tea kettle for nicest jar of fruit.

Nall & Stuard, $1 for largest potato.

W. H. Snook. $1 in hardware for nicest bunch of onions.

Ed V. Parsons, $1 worth of coffee for best peck of (unreadable).

R. L. Cochran & Co., sack of flour for best bunch of lettuce.

R. L. Newton & Co., child's hat for best bunch of radishes.

J. W. Horn, $1 for best sample of new oats.

Waurika News, year's subscription for best 1908 hatch cockerel of any variety of Plymoth Rock or Wyandotte chicks.

Waurika Mercantile Co., $1 in merchandise for best developed cotton plant.

All those entering contest for prizes must live in county, no resident of Waurika, or any corporation, shall be eligible. All exhibits, as well as babies, must be taken to the office of Huffman & Sylvester by 1 o'clock p.m., and the judging will commence promptly at 2 o'clock. All articles to remain property of the exhibitor, and the highest price will be paid for anything offered for sale.

A feature of the day will be a "Swapping Post." In the center of the grounds will be a post. Any horse tied to this post may be swapped for by anyone leaving another in its place. In all cases, animals must have four legs and must be tied to the post. No talk necessary. Trade as often as you want to.

All visitors to Waurika on Monday, June 1, are promised a good time.
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Special
For two days only, May 29^th and 30^th, we will make Post Cards for $1 per dozen. Cash at the time of the sitting.

TAIT'S Studio
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A gentleman was in Waurika yesterday in search of a vacant business house, but did not find it. He would not state the business he wished to engage in.
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Mr. J. R. Chilcoat and Bob Jones and family were guest of Ottie Moody Sunday.

Governor Signs Bills

Guthrie, May 19 – Governor Haskell yesterday affixed his signature to several very important bills which have caused a large amount of discussion in both houses, including the Rainey bill creating a criminal court of appeals; the Stewart bill, creating a girl’s industrial school, and the Ellis-Burban anti-lobby bill. The governor also signed the uniform text book bill and court town bills for Chelsea and Collinsville in Rogers county and Caddo and Bennington in Bryan county.

Council Meeting

The Waurika Board of Trustees held a business meeting Friday night. Bills against the city were allowed and ordered paid. It was ordered that the city hall be fitted up so that in future the Board could meet in it.

The bonds of Lee Jones, city treasurer, and J. D. Huffman, assessor, were filed, and will be passed on at the next meeting of the board.

Mr. Millner was elected city engineer and D. M. Bridges city attorney.

The city marshal was directed to exercise his official functions as ex-offico road overseer.

A committee on sanitary measures was appointed.

Back to God’s Country

Muscogee, May 19 – While traveling through New Mexico an Oklahoma booster claims they have discovered the following note posted on a deserted homestead:

"Four miles from a neighbor, sixteen miles from a postoffice; twenty-five miles to a railroad fourteen miles to a school house, forty-one miles to a church (the rest is illegible).

Poor Lo Buys an Untamed Machine

Shawnee, May 19, Clarence Powderface, a half-breed Kickapoo Indian, who is the owner of a large herd of cattle, many good horses land a fine body of rich bottom and, who is classed as well to do, will never ride in an automobile again. He has turned the back of his hand to machine wagons, because one of them bucfked and threw him and his family from a bridge over the Canadian into the river.

Powderface bought an auto, paying $1,200 for it, and took lessons in the art of manipulating the machinery. Assuming that he had mastered the art, he loaded his wife and three children into the auto and proceeded to cut a dash in Tecumseh and then started for Shawnee, five miles distant. He got along all right until he struck the bridge over the Canadian, and it was there that he foreswore automobiles. The machinery of the auto got out of whack and Powderface lost all control over it, and in attempting to direct the course he gave the wheel a turn in the wrong direction, throwing the head of the machine with such force against the side of the bridge structure that the entire family took a header into the water, twenty feet below.

None of the Powderfaces were seriously injured, but when they reached dry land no amount of persuasion could induce them to go near the automobile, much less get in it again. The head of the family walked to Shawnee and gave instructions to the head of an auction firm to "go catch d___n thing and sell um."

The Rev. W. F. Harris returned Monday from Madden Grove and reports crops in that vicinity to be looking fine and says the farmers to a unit favor Waurika for the county seat.