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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1909
Page
1
Community news from Beaver County includes people visiting, relocations, and social events. Reports mention travelers, teaching staff, farm loans, broomcorn shipments, church activities, and a lawn fete, with ads for property, loans, and local trades.
Advertisement urges parents to feed children Quaker Oats daily for better health and energy. Claims oats improve brain and muscle work, with easy proof in the family. Tinned oats stay fresh in any climate, promoting steady consumption.
Readable fragment describes an arch with stones and a centered or highlighted name. The text hints at a stone to be set at the center and the name associated with it, but details are incomplete and uncertain.
Beaver Valley directors and North Western Railroad held a stockholders meeting to push a $15000 preliminary bond issue to finance a Beaver to Hooker railroad. Metropolitan Trust & Investment Co of Chicago would handle bonds at 5 percent, secured by mortgage, with a $1000 subscription worth a $35 premium in stock to attract capital. Citizens urged to decide if the region should fund and build the line, arguing the region needs a railroad to spur growth and tax revenue.
The sixth annual session of the Beaver County Baptist Association met at Mountain View Church near Surprise Oklahoma from August 5 to 8. Rev A J Hoye of Madison served as moderator with Prof J J Swain elected clerk and treasurer Prenton Allen of Sophia named treasurer. Varied reports praised dinners, preaching, and mission work while pledges for cash were noted as good prospects. The next meeting place is Lanhoe with Swain elected county superintendent candidate. meetings at Blue Mound planned for ten days with Rev Hiley of Missouri expected to assist.
A Oklahoma church raised funds to finish a new building by harvesting broomcorn on a forty acre plot led by Rev Coffey. About 25 workers, including men women and youths, pulled 25 acres by Friday night, with the total cost around 365 dollars and an expected 6 to 8 tons harvest. Lessons in communal effort and frontier resilience are praised as exemplary.
Health and Beauty Aid cosmetics and Jotuim will not clear your complexion of pimples and blotches. Foley's Orion Laxative aids digestion stomach and liver trouble and habitual constipation. Cleanses the system and is pleasant to take. For sale by F.C. Pracy.
Katharine Wright, a former Latin teacher at Steele High School in Dayton, Ohio, joins brothers Orville and Wilbur Wright whose flying machine advances have reshaped their lives and the town. The Wright siblings, all young yet noted, have become the talk of Dayton and beyond as their achievement draws attention and curiosity.
In behalf of the Christian church at Beaver I wish to express our sincere thanks to all those who assisted so cheerfully and substantially in harvesting our benefited crops grown by the church and for us. RR Coreay Pantor
A fragmentary tale by F Tracy recounts Edgar S Bayliss a Robinsonville Del merchant describing a narrow escape from illness two years ago. He credits Foley's Honey and Tar for stopping his cough and notes a weight gain of twenty eight pounds after treatment.
National Nurseries seeks local men to take orders for high grade western grown nursery stock. No experience required. outfit provided and weekly cast. Free catalogue available for those planning to plant. Write for terms. Address 1622 07 Lawrence Kansas.
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