The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1894-06-06
our SPICY LEBANON BUDsE1.
; An INSTANCE WHERE ADvER-
: Using WOULD HAVE PAID.
Marietta on the Alert for Trade
Heretofore COming TO ArdmOre.
Fine CroPs-Thieves at Work.

LEBANON, /. T, juno 2, 1884,
Such crops! Such prospects! The
finest for years! are the expressions
from everybody every day and every
man is inclined to think his crop is
the finest, thou h his ncighbor's is
hard to beat.
Say, have your hardware merchants
got sorghum mills in Ardmore2
Quite q lot Of the cane is planted and
looks fine in this country, aud two of
nay neighbors came in to see me the
other day to ascertain if mills and
ovapnrAtors were advertised in the
Ardmoreite, and failing to find any
thing of the kind they decided to go
TO Whitesboro where they knew they
handled them and they each wanted
An outfit, The profits ON the tive
mills would haYe brought the hard>
ware merchants q handsome return
for a small ad in that instance, al
though he might not have ever known
it ca ne through that medium.
Marietta is making great efforts to
procure the cotton and trade from
this SC ction this fall and if she is sue
cessful tho .'tild" will be a .I.u!a,"
for indications point to more han
double the yield of cotton over last
year AMI the demand for farm and
household supplies will consequently
be greater. Marietta has set to work
to bridge Hickory creek and un-
dersisnd has subscribed $500 aud the
neishbOrhood folks along the road
have donated some money. Back
bum 81 Son, merchants at Holder,
gave $50 and the whole town of Lee
baron. il order to rtflec: her great
enterprising spirit aud forever set at
rest the chargc of ''olI fogyism," SUBJ
scribed $40. hardly think the
enormous amount will go 10 protest
in the hands of the contractors as
there are twelve or fifteen business
meu tO meet it at maturity.
Now, in case this bridge is built
Ardmore will have but one recourse
TO keep about 5000 bales of cotton or
the biggest part OF il from leaving her
gates, and that will be to see that the
Lebanon and Ardmore road is put and
kcptsin first-class condition, and then
let the people know through her daily
and weekly papers, in which shc has
an advantage over Marietta, that it
will pay them to come a few miles
further TO sell their cotton and buy
their goods.
The same set of thieves have been
at work again in this neighborhood,
this time making a helpless widow
and her small children their victims.
Her name is Mrs. McAnnally, living
on the George Holder farm near the
river. She had only two milk cows
and the thieving scOundrels slipped
up within 200 yards OF her house snd
drove them off about sun down and
had them safe away in the hands of
their allies by next morning, while
they were back riding unconcernly
by the widows house thinking to
throw of suspicion, and, right here /
win suggest that evidence sufficient
10 convict these thieves is obtainable
ifthe grand jury will admit them and
ii the court 1t its next session will try
an experiment summoning witnes-
ses, other than in commission cases,
the number of grave OfFenses that
would be divulged would be surpris-
ing. The majority of men, rather
thar incur the i'll will of local thieves
and law breakers, will keep ~mum"
rather than 60 before United States
commissioner voluntarily, when they
would tell the whole truth and be
glad Of the chance If they could ex>
Cuse their act under the plea OF COM
pulsion before the grand jury. I
know Of several good men that fits
this Illustration regarding these well