The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-09-28
WHAT SOME LIVE FIRMS
ARE DOING IN
THRIFTY-TOWN
Some Interesting Data Per-
tanning to One of Logan
County's Best
Towns.
special to Daily Leader.


Crescent City. okla. sert 2S.
Crescent Ciy, one Of the fairss flow
ers in ohahoma's great fruit belt is
sitJatod in tLc wes ern part of Logan
county. fourteen miles northwest of
Guthrie. on the main lire Of the Den
yer Erid and Cult railroad Cres.
ceLt has q splendid 'rade tributary.
being sixteen miles from Marshall.
Mulhall eighteen miles northeast.
Dover, twenty-five miles ives Cashion
fifteen miles southwest. which makes
it the cen er OF q trade territory III
about one hundred and ffty thousand
acres of land. one hundrcc an1 wentv
thousand acres OF which IS sal To he
under high s'Gie of cultivation. rho
remaining thirty thousand acres IS
heavily timbercd The aple prod
ucts. raised in and about Crescent
( include he following: Wheat oats
corr Irish potatoes. sweet potatoes
kaFir corn peanuts. millet peach/s
plums, grapes, apples. pears. cherries.
etc
Besides ie.ng splendid mafEe' for
fruits In the season, Crescent is also
becoming Known as quite a wheat and
cotton market There are three ele
vators yhere all doing a nice business
during The harvest season. The two
co ton gins me owned hy Messrs
lIoughtcn AMI Douglas OF Guthrie. and
Brown anG Cress Of that city. The
-four mill owned by Chas. Wilkie. Is
probably the only custom mill In OK
laboma The business portion Of he
| town is located ives, Of the Alfalfa
Route" depot within sigh of all pass
/ ing trains. Until The railroad was
built through the town the business
houses we're locaec about one.half
mile west Of their present location.
/ improvements are cons antly being
made IN he town During the past
I year an elegant two s ory-prick build.
ing was built at one of the principal
corners. AZ he present tine brick
sidewalks are being piacei in front Of
every business louse IN town.
/ In the mat er of educationa, facili-
lies Crescent CITY stands to the front
The school is preside over hy a corps
OF competent instrdc ors with The re-
sulr that every Grade I well attended
There are three clnrctes. he First
/ Christian chrrch. the Baptist and tie
Union The NJ T.. society was organ.
lied in 1890. There is one newspaper.
The Logan County News. J. II Maker
IS editor.
The civic soce'ies number six and
are as follows Crescent lodge No
II. A. + & A, NJ, Crescent lodge No
10 J. D. o f.; Crescent camp. No 7OS
NJ. W A Rebelmh. Silver Star lodge
No e Cresceot G. A. Il lodge. No
20 and the Woman's Relief Cofps.
rhe firm of Brown & Cress. dealers
In genera! merchandise, Is the pioneer
1 firm Of Crescent Wm Erown was one
of ihe first citizens uron the townsite
and on June 30 1889, opened a store
in partnership with X F Rylahd. He
retired from this firm, one year later
and formed partnership with r. l.
Cress Mr Brown has been promi-
neni IN county and ciy politics. is "A
splendid hrsiness man and was po-
tent factor m securing the railroad for
his home city Mr. f. L. Cress moved
TO Gro scent from Illinois in November
1889, and by good conservative busi-
ness methods has become one of the
bes business men in the country.
The Crescent Roller Mills. rnother
institution cf WI .ch Crescent is Just
ly proud. has been under he manage-
ment OF Chas. Wikie since 1894.
Thousands and thousands of bushels
Of wheat are converted into -four each
year and grists are brought from miles
around. Mr. Wilkie is one Of the
prominent eiti7cns of his ci y and is
well known all over the county
Tho City Drug stoie IS owned by
Powell and son. Mr. A 3 Powell who
Is in active charge Of tae store is q
graduate of the Central Normal school
AMI Edmond where ne completed
two years course In botany and chem
istry Mr Andrew Powell senior
meniher of the finn Is one Of the sub
tantial business men Of the ccmmufy.
ty. Pure drugs is the motto Of this
popular store.
8. J. Stewart proprietor o. ne star
grocery rs a new comer to Crescent
but has already established a nice
business. Mr. Stewart moved 10 Cres-
cent from Flpha Kingfsher county.
The Star grocery is neafquarters fc-
a lCll and complete stock OF groceries,
notions. -four and feef. The highest
market prices are paid for but er sne
eggs
The Arkansas Lumber Co. Of Guth-
RE, has a yard in Crescent with c. l.
Snow as agent Mr.. Snow "a an eG-
perienccd lumberman. The Walton
Lumber Co. also Of Guthrie. has
yard there With b =. Kraus as local
manager 8
Anoh Wen known firm IN Cres.
cent City Is the firm OF c. J. Bates
and J F. Parrent who oon1uc. ar ne
tO-daie meat market They have beeO &
in business here only a few months
but have already built up a splendid
buflness by fair and honest dealings
and courteous treatment to customers g
Messrs. Bates and Parent have on
hand at all times a choice lot of fresh
ana salt meats al reasonable prices.
The drug store owned BY L. W. Bras
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