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Newspaper
Farmers Champion
Location
Elgin, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1915
Page
1
The CHAMPION receives an invitation to attend the closing exercises at the United States Indian School Flandreau D I D June 15 to 17 1915. Events include track and field, baseball, band concert, inspection and dress parade. Expressing thanks but stating duties at home prevent attendance.
On Tuesday morning M Davis began an addition to E Stone's store on the west side front. The new room will serve as a rest station and provide a separate room for his cream business, improving sanitation.
Another Pourdown brings a heavy forenoon shower the first in ten days apart from a light Monday shower. Farmers seize the chance to clean out corn and cotton and begin harrying enting, a task they surely appreciate.
A brief notice invites readers to subscribe for Faruea’s CHaMrion and receive all local news. The announcement emphasizes comprehensive coverage and ongoing updates for community happenings.
Eighteen members of the Star class of the Methodist Sunday school visited Sterling by three automobiles. On the return trip a mule team frightened by the sight of the group caused a wagon to overturn. The occupants were thrown from the wagon but were not seriously injured.
The Central Christian Advocate photo features 26 graduates from national training schools for deaconesses and missionaries. Florence Ellen Garwood of Lawton Oklahoma appears in the list, along with another Oklahoma honoree from Alva. She is the daughter of W. W. Garwood of the Bayer Bend School district, and county friends celebrate her achievement.
In a long 15 inning game, Sterling defeated Bigin 7 to 6 on Sunday. The CHAMPION 3 months Phe.
Rosacker and Jacobi of Sterling plan to operate the Elgin Mercantile Co in the former Rucker store. An extensive wing for general merchandise is set, with Tuesday morning unpacking and display. Heavy rainfall revived ground conditions and promises strong business for local firms across the area.
A juvenile narrator recalls a dramatic scene as a boy stands on a burning deck watching a sky bomb strike his neck and a submarine enters the immediate danger zone. The fragment hints at maritime warfare and peril at sea with abrupt, vivid imagery.
An OCR readout records ropey notes from Elgin routes detailing L Kakin painting a hound of a route, J R Stalts on route 2 traveling to Bowie and Dallas, Mia area presuye work on the south end, mile Bianche Richardson visiting Kansas, F King of route 2 on business in Lawton, Q Harris returning from Angelo, and rain aiding crops. Other items mention W Hooper buying a farm on route 2 for 5000 dollars, A T Holland visiting from Bonita, L King and C H Putney on route 1 and 8 respectively, Simmie and Mae Hindman in OKC, A W Deckum in Lawton, and Carrier families near Apache.
A rainy Monday brought scattered wheat and oats harvests in the area. Mrs Ruth King is confined with pneumonia. Sunday singing drew a good crowd despite limited practice. F C Ford and Ernest Montgomery families visited John Montgomery. Herman Bentley and wife traveled to Lawton. Local families report illness among children and requests to attend next Sunday singing. Mrs Claud Bentley planned a Delaware county visit, while Fred Stauffer and family and others shared dinner at T A Spencer's. Preaching planned after Sunday school next week. L D Petty left for relatives in Cleburne after a visit with his sister. W A Livingstone on route 2 builds a new silo this week. H L Cremer was a Sinbad caller in Lawton.
County News notes Brock Dry Goods of Oklahoma City leasing a large cottage at Medi leine park to provide a free summer outing for all employees. Senator Gore and family arrived in Lawton after a Mississippi visit. Three Lawton women were arrested for intoxication in one night. officials report barrell tapping at other places. Talks rise about an oil refinery in Lawton Comanche County. Court in July will have funds to appoint a constable at the Paes Constitution recall event.
Miss Gladys McKaig aged 18 and her sister Iris 10 daughters of J C McKaig of hear Temple were Friday while bathing in a pond. A bandit named Frank Morris tried to rob a Woodward bank Friday night his partner escaped. About 350 new binders and 14 ax seen shipped into Cotton county this year with wheat acreage said to double last year. W C Cockrell near Manitou aged about committed death by own action last Thursday. A Hollie couple are parents of four girls weighing about six pounds each who fell from a buggy and hurt an arm. A heavy hail storm through southern Tillman county ruined thousands of acres of wheat oats corn and cotton and orchards with losses from 6000 to 3000 per farmer. A young lady recently Ffagenal from the Frederick ish aid to have been it not tardy during as she has been in
A group of eight aviators with Curtiss Field planes will depart San Diego on August 1 to join field artillery training at Ft. Sill. Residents of Elgin are warned not to be startled by flights as the pilots practice nearby.
A fragmented OCR passage presents a set of biblical riddles and lines from a garden scene describing a maiden married on her first day of life who dies before birth, with questions about life and death and paradoxes such as two who died never born and two who talked who never lied.
A. Strother of Cassville Me expresses eagerness for Elgin and farm news in his subscription note. He remarks the Champion keeps him ahead with timely gin news and notes crops look promising, showing strong support for continued readership.
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