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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1908
Page
4
The White House undergoes updates with kitchen and upstairs room improvements. Miles building work speeds ahead and goods have begun arriving. Mr Miles expects to be ready for business about December.
Local notes from Gate and Six Mile cover weather, crops, new wells, farm movements, a ten pound baby, school activities, photos by Lawson, a proposed phone line, and community visits. References include Mr Phillips in Woods county, Norma Evans, Rev Gidley, and several families like the Mathers and Brown clans amid harvest and threshing efforts.
A little daughter of Mr John Van defender died of diphtheria Sunday night November and was buried the 9th. Little Mary Jane aged about two to three. Joby Johnson spent last week at his mother's south of Elmwood. Haskell and Seal returned from Kansas trip. Dude Barler left for cotton regions. Garret school box supper poorly attended due to cold. Mrs Birtling improving early week. Sprague visiting Illinois. Mrs Haskell and Alice Evans have whooping cough. Brooks child near Tapley died last week. Lula Wace sick. RFC from Elmwood east and south starts first Monday in December. Lulu Adams returned from Woodward county. Albert Jacob's three girls all ill with whooping cough. A Catren.
Home again and moving along as seedings are set. Mrs Geo Burkart is ill while N A Long visits relatives in Canaan. Sale of Me Hester drew a good crowd and a Literary Society started at Garden Valley school with officers Chas Johnson presiding Mollie Miller secretary treasurer. Coats Wise moved to a newly bought home and is related to Theodore Stoops of Cline Oklahoma. Stephenson family relocated to a newly purchased farm. Bond election for District No 2's new school house was held at J Hudsons Lith.
James Williamson, homesteader on Hackberry creek, dug a twenty two foot well eight inch square. His eighteen month old child backed into the hole and slid feet first to the bottom. The community gathered during services to rescue the baby, digging a nine hour relay prior to the extraction. The child escaped unharmed though very hungry.
Brief notes from Six Mile mention continuing school progress led by Mr. Frank Drum and family with a cheerful outdoor tone despite cold conditions.
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