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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1909
Page
8
Country readers report delays in publishing letters due to shop delays while pledging weekly news. Local items note showers, revival meetings, and harvests with numerous named residents and towns like Beaver Tyrone Higgin, Madison, Chaney, and Ochiltree. Weather drought and crop updates contrast social visits, travel, and school notes with community life across No Man’s Land.
BM. Kelly at Higgins purchased a new wagon. Mr. Me Vieker, Doery Raones, and others noted as present discuss moving the shop to the railroad, signaling a shift in local trades and transport links.
Local revival led by Bro Colton ends, with regrets and hopes for return. Community updates include baptisms by Bro Coffey, visits among neighbors, broom corn hauling for Dennis McCay, and recent church activities in Kokomo and Balko. Social events feature Pleas picnic, ice cream supper at Willow Creek, and a street meeting on Beaver streets.
Elmwood items report it is still warm dry and dusty with residents hoping for rain. Chet Chandler returned to Beaver county after visiting his old home in Illinois accompanied by Mr. Steel of Illinois. John Longuer bought the Henry Borcher farm and moved there. A Sunday reunion at Grandpa Kile's honored Mrs. Sellers of Great Bend Kansas and her daughter who arrived for a short Beaver County visit. About sixty relatives attended. Geo Hyde of Helens Oklahoma visited Mrs. Pinnell and planned to return via Texas. Water scarcity affected threshing near here as windmills failed and water was hauled from Clear Creek. Ana Kile drills a well for Mr. Bell on North Flat. The Green family visited Frank Peterson near Sophia. Lew Keever and wife returned from Oklahoma City for health reasons.
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