The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-09-20
FAMOUS MONTE Ne RESORT
CLUB BUILDING AND PEOPLE

president. The next annual meet is
to be held here the week beginning
November the eth He tells me tha
the Cookson Kennel Club will rid.
through horseback and will bring
with them bunch OF full blood
Might Hawk" indians who. for di.
version. will give STOMP" dance
during the hunt. learn that the
Fort Smith club will come to the next
hunt fifty strong with as many as
one hundred hounds and will shin
through for their use two carloads of
saddle horses Foxhunters from six
or more states attend these annual
hunts here. the annual meeting being
In the winter time-this year in No,
ember. one OF the Club company's
buildings has forty open fire places
In It and at these annual foxhunts
many are the stories told around the
cheerful log fires. The Muskogee
Kennel Club headed by Ed Halsell.
DIR. +. B. tite and \. VI. Young has
twice brought the winning dog to
these roxhunts and their Dan Patch
Is one of the remarkably fine hounds
of tho United States These fox.
hunts are becoming moro popular.
year by year, and the meet in Novem.
ber will bring together the largest
party of foXhuuiers that has. probab.
ly met in the south west.
The club company has in course Of
construction, nearly completed.
building, probably the greatest of it's
kind in the world II is Oklahoma
Row. one of the state buildings of the
club company. II was nearly COM
pleted when the panic came. and work
on II was stopped. Mr. Harvcl tells
me that work will begin on 1t again
soon and he expects II 20 be- complet.
ed by the opening of the next summer
season. Oklahoma Row is one con
| tinuous building $40 feet long. has in
/ it's construction forty four thousand
cubic feet of cement concrete and over
| six thousand hewn logs. II will have
/ six hundred feet of 2orches. thirty
eight open fire places and will be fire
/ proof throughout. Everywhere that
+ concrete is used stone is set in the
! face giving it rustic appearance
which together with the hewn logs
/ and tile roof gives one of the most
( pleasing effects in real s.yleshrdlu
/ pleasing effects in rustic style OF arch.
/ itecture ! have ever seen.
Oklahoma Row will be opened with
ceremony beftting the building and
the great state it represents. The
membership in the Club Company in
/ Oklahoma numbers over 200 of the
| leading men of that state. including
/ such men as VIM. Busby of South NJ
l Alester. c. +. Foley Of Eufaula. Col.
! G. VI. Campbell of Ardmor,. VIM. l..
Norton OF BaT'esville, Ed l.. Peck
ham of Blackwell w A. Frasicr of
Guthrie, Col Bob Galbreath of Tulsa.
/ r. VI. bdull ol btdVN, I. ~. blake OF
III Reno. II. NJ. Fulkerson of Alva.
Jese Dunn of the supreme court Cash
Cade OF shawnee. Chas. Davidson OF
Ninita. \. w Robb of Muskogee.
Judge c. II, Brooks and forty others
OF Oklahoma city. There are twenty
seven members in Muskogce and the
same number in McAl'ster represent
ing the leading business and profes,
sional men,
At the opening of Oklahoma Row
the Governor and large attendance
from that state will he present. among
tnem the most notable men of the
state. Governor Donaghey of Ark
ansas, who is a member. Is expected
q be- present 10 welcome to Arkansas
soil these distinguished citizens or
Oklahoma who have built this mag
nitic ~ building at Monte Ne. After
the welcoming speech by Governor
Donaghey the Okahomans will take
charge of the dedicatory ceremonies
'he program they will carry out will
be worthy of the enterprising clti
zens ~ that great new state