Checotah Enquirer (Newspaper) - July 20, 1906, Checotah, Oklahoma Official City INDIAN t JULY 20, 1906 VOLUME NUMBER 39 5 Clearance Sale Until July 21st. This Sale is of Importance to Every Dry Goods and Clothing buyer in Checotah and The fact that we always show our patrons up-to-date is a factor in We do this only by at the end of each July will be continued Until July 21st. It is Our Policy not to Carry any Goods We live up to this as hundreds of our patrons in Checotah and can Our methods are open and above We have nothing to conceal from the During this selling every article advertised will be marked in plain The Reduction from our Regular Prices will Range from 25 to 50 cent. We've had a phenomenally big spring business and now we must pocket a in the interest of modern We have but one object in The complete Clearance of all Spring and Summer HUTCHINSON CO. 3^ CONTRACT LET Building of Ntw Home Addition to begin - To be Completed in five The Board of Trustees of the I. 0. 0. F. Home met in this city Monday and let the contract for building the new addition to the Orphan A full attendance of the Board which consists of the following gentlemen was Grand Master B. F. LaFayette of J. A. Rose of Past Grand W. F. of B. B. Grand Treasurer of and The contract was awarded to T. K. Williams of Okmulgee for and the heating and plumming to Weeks of Ard more for Other bids submitted for Vogle and Hosner of Muskogee Likowski and Checotah Muskogee Mill and Construction Co. of Muskogee Wm Lowe of Checotah and and J. M. Chitwood of McAlester For and plumming Eureka Plumming Co. of Tulsa P. Hollingaworth of Muskogee Independent Construction Co. and Penny Wade of Chickasha The contract calls for the completion of the within five months from the date of the contract consequently the will shortly be The addition Is to be built on the north of the present building and will be 40 x 80 feet and two stories high with The foundation is to be of concrete and the walls of In the basement will be located the dining Laundry and store The first floor will contain the school room on the north 23 x 37 1-2 in with lighting necessary for the best school The remainder of the floor will be used for the room and bed a porch will extend the entire length of the building on the On the second floor will be located two hospital one for the boys and one for the These rooms will be located in the south end of the building and the north end of the building will contain an assembly room 40 x feet onto which will be joined the library room with folding doors between so that the two can be thrown into shelves will be constructed in the walls of the Library for the of the books that will be The entire building will be equipped with water electric lights a local telephone exchange and a sewerage The water for the water works will be secured from a large tank that is to be built on the northeast part of the farm and will be pumped to the building by a gasoline engine that will be On each floor of the building will be built bath rooms and lavatorys which will be connected with the When the building is completed it will be one of the finest in the New State and will not only be a credit to the order to which it belongs but will be something to which Checotah may point to with pride and something in which every citizen of Checotah should and 4itly*-proud. Council In Session The City Council regular session Monday with all members present except Mayor In tjie absence of the Mayor Recorder J. B. Morrow presided and Vance was elected Recorder pro. After the reading and adoption of the minuts of the last session the report of the Sanitary committee refering to the dumping grounds was taken up and on motion the committee was instructs to investigate the condition of the road leading to the dumping grounds as it was reported by the scavenger that it was impossible for him to reach the The printing committee reported that the printing had been let to the Enquirer and submitted a schedule of the prices for the various kinds of On motion Alderman Adams seconded by Alderman Rinnert the report was refered back to the committee with instructions to receive bids from both A petition from 218 citizens of the town relating to license on the and joints was received and On motion the following bills were W. I. for lumber N. work on streets Checotah Light & Ice Co. W. I. Cook service as Alderman 5 meetings E. H. Likowski service as Alderman 5 meetings J. F. Adams service as Alderman 5 meetings L. G. Rinnert service as Alderman 5 meetings B. J Vance service as Alderman 5 meetings Total Frank Payn city Scavenger On motion the street and alley committee was authorized to purchase a wheel scraper for the Out of Courtesy to the Mayor who was absent the consideration of the pending ordinances were defered until his Checotah Takes The Game Checotah won over Eufaula in the base ball game Monday by the score of 8 to 2, Ballew was in the box for the locals and was not responsible for the runs the Eufaula boys made as his pitching was easily the feature of the Deere was on the slab for and pitched a star game and had both pitchers received the support they should have had it would have been a 2-0 game in favor of The Eufaula team has been muchly advertised as being the star team of the B. I. T. but it was the general opinion of the crowd that the proposition that they tc ok hold of in Checotah was a little to hot for them to handle and one of the lookers on was heard to recommend Bond Oktaha and other towns size if she desires to keep her A writeup of the game would not be complete without mentioning Eufaula's human talking machine on first Dr. Dippy of comic section there was something doing all the time in his not ball just talk and we recommend that Eufaula take him along in the future as a mascot Checotah's team has had very little practice the boys not having been on the diamond this year and if the people of this community will give them the support and backing that they deserve so as to encourage them to get games we will have one of the best teams in the Indian Attended Republican fleeting N. G. Turk went to Guthrie Oklahoma Sunday to attend a meeting of the Oklahoma Republican central The next meeting will be held the 30th and 40th of this month at Bartlesville where the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Republican Clubs will probably be j Ready for market In this issue of the Enquirer will be found the announcement of R. Y. Audd Peace in which he informs the public l that he has 4000 bushels of fine j Elberta peaches now ready for the J Mr. orchard is the largest peach orchard in the Territory and the fruit that he grows is equal to any grown in the Central States and takes second place only with the fine fruit of I This large orchard is located within a half mile of Checotah j and furnishes employment for a i large number of | In former years Mr. Audd has i been shipping his fruit to markets j in other states but last year he changed the order and found a market almost entirely within the Territory and this year he will follow the same method as it has proven more profitable outside Boy Hurt While hauling a load of dirt to the I. O. O. F. home Earl Napper one of the boys living there was thrown under the wagon and the back wheel passing almost over his Hs was quickly carried into N. G. Turks office and Dr. Reid made a hasty Dr. Gardner soon arrived and had the boy carried to the It seems as if the young Napper was sitting on gave way causing him to slip between the Dr. Gardner reports that there are no internal injuries and that today he is much Uno Talk is but it takes money to but our on the Purse will enable you to get more oils and window glass for less money than you can buy from no matter who or let us show and convince Geor D. Hope Lumber Co. J. N. 39-2t j. d. TURK CO. Insurance and Real Estate First National Bank Farm and city property bought and Longtime loan on real Legal instruments of all kinds executed NOTARY PUBLIC
