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Newspaper
Farmers Champion
Location
Elgin, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1913
Page
5
Methodist church preaches morning and night with second and every fifth Sunday of each month plus Sunday school each Sunday at 10:00 a.m. Baptist chapel holds services on the first and third Sundays with Sunday school at 10:00 a.m. Y. P. A. meets every Sunday night and prayer meeting occurs every Wednesday night.
Local notes report J M Morrow courting in Lawton on business and Frank Bradon at the county seat as juryman. For sale items include a folding bed and a couch. Collier Bros of Fletcher Oklahoma sell German millet at 1.00 per bushel. Baptist ladies plan ice cream and pie supper June 7. W A Strother and daughter Merl visit Berry county Missouri. Teachers attend summer normal at Lawton: Annie King, J H Harrison, Anna Els, Floyd Sander. Ross Chosn elected Clerk of the School Board. Lost pocketbook with two canceled notes. return to Bank of Elgin for reward. Collier Bros offer field seed and millet products. Clifford P Martin, publisher of Oklahoma Ledger, visited Elgin. critique of petty town “sponges” and call for local business support.
Mistletoe visitors C. A. Sperling and J. T. Mc Craw are noted as Elgin guests. The brief mention records their local travel stopover and names two visiting individuals without additional context or dates.
The Bowman children recover enough from measles to return to Sun day school. Barns and neighbors visit Blue Beaver area homes, with many single men and women seen at A B Sperling’s. A first base team forms at Mistletoe as Saturn afternoons bring games. Joan Murney attends Pleasant Valley church services, while Subpoenas are served in Batella Righardgon ve area. The measles decline boosts attendance, and the pastor’s family hosts dinner after services.
John Ledes is in Lawton on the jury this week. Joe Herber was an Apache visitor one day last week. Hasenbeck transacted business in Apache Wemoulay. Frank Crawford to chopping cotton for G.C. Crawford this week. Miss Edna Putney spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss aur Elsass, C. Dickson and Kinchen Mor.
Fletcher visited J M Morrow Sunday while Walter Hansen from Oklahoma City is visiting family. A poetry program at Fort Liley drew a large local crowd. Sunday school attendance neared thirty, with calls for more. Harvest will begin soon as the sickle rings. A Friday gathering at G B Conard’s home featured dancing and merriment. Chas Mads family in Lawton learned the editor’s dates were off. German millet offered by Collier Bros of Pletcher, Oklahoma at $1.00 per bushel.
The Southern States Cotton Corporation contracts cotton at fifty cents. Representative HP Wettengel meets at Bank of Egin. Fletcher HotelCALis. Day of NiGur.
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