The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-01


catalogue and decide to attend this
college, for what it has done for
thousands OF others It can do for
| you
Address James c. Olson. president.
Parsons Business College, Parsons.
Kansas.
w. NJ Thomason of Graham, Wis
tied the Ardmoreite yesterday ev.
ening and moved his date up to
1909.
When you and your family have
/ finished with reading the Ardmore.
ite send IL to some of your friends
/ In the eastern states and ask them
to move to Oklahoma. Nine times
out OF ten he can better his condi.
tion here.
You never have to hold your poul.
try and eggs in order to get de.
cent price.
| {. II. Davenport of Glenn, who
was in the city yesterday, reports
that his town gave box supper
/ Christmas night to raise a fund for
the school and for missionary work.
/ The supper was given at the Baptist
church, The boxes sold for 90 %
and 30 cents and very neat sum
was realized. Glenn has new School
house and new desks which stand as
a monument to the good people of
that community.
| Mr. Davenport says that Glenn
will give another supper soon to
| raise fund for the state Confeder.
ate home. 4 supper for the latter
purpose was given the middle of
| December at the Downard mines and
a fund Of more than $40 was raised
for the Confederate home.
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Uncle Jim Alverson OF Woodford.
is interested in farming and will
plant next year large feed crop.
Ne has patch of alfalfa and saws
| that the crop pays him well. He has
now some three or four hundred
bales of alfalfa hay. For feed
crop for his hogs he will plant rape.
peas and sorghum.
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II. II. Brown made n trip recently
to the town of Terral on the Rock
Island road west OF here. lie saws
the farmers in that community made !
good money last year raising and
shipping watermelons The farmers |
who devoted time TO their melon |
crops and used Judgment in market. |
ing. made more money out of their
years work than those depending on
cotton.
Byron Drew OF Ardmore vi" olc
IN peanuts next yodt ten acres of
land, Mr.. Drew has had opportunity
to observe what can be done with
peanut crop and he agrees with
Mr.. Poland that the poorest land in
Carter county will grow a sufficient
crop OF peanuts to equal bale of
cotton to the acre. The Ardmoreite
contends that crop which holds
out such promises to the farmer
should be freely investigated and
tried out in an intelligent manner.
The Ardmoreite has inaugurated
the Farmers Column IN this paper
Tor the purpose OF being worth some.
Thing TO the farmers of this section
OF Oklahoma. We want you to ex.
change your views and write us
your experience with certain kinds
OF crops and with the raising of
live stock. This is a fine cotton },
country and we would not have the
cotton neglected, but the boil weeyil
has appeared in this section and
II will be suicidal for the farmer
II he continues to depend solely upon
cotton, for II the weevl is not
checked in its growth this section
will suffer just such calamity as
Texas has suffered in having the
crop destroyed at a time when there
is nothing else to depend upon. The
land here grows very fine fruit, ber.
ries, grapes, peanuts, popcorn. stock
beats and ribbon cane. These crops
can be made money crop as well
as cotton and It is the part OF good
Judgment to plant some OF these
crops and not depend wholly upon