The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-15


knocker or the census man or anybody
else may say, but old Ardmore is
growing into newer, greater Ard
more every day. Oh, the census man
is going to talk right for we have
knowledge from the bird and that
need not arouse your political sus-
picions either.
But just take your wife and gather
your orphan children about you and
90 for stroll along Ardmores busl-
ness district. What change the
years and not so many of them either
have wrought. over on the south
side you are entertained for several
minutes with a front and furniture
display at A. C. Youngs that would
excite the pride of a cosmopolitan. 1t
is not mere money getting or a place
of business here but an effort TO
charm and a commercial home cosy
and enticing for statesmen and buyer.
Then on we go, but halt! There is
another vision of the home beautiful
breaking in upon the children and we
stop to admire the goth century front
of the Chickasaw Furniture people.
1t is summer, and We can't stay on
the south side all the time, and then
heavenly prospect wooes. 1t Isl
Ringers and "she is peach-speak-
ing in volapuk. Say, you talk about
Ok City being a good thing. There
is nothing up that way that surpasses
Ringers. If every old blue-nose or
tight-wad in Ardmore could be roped
and rushed into Ringers once a day,
there would be an optimism in the
city that would land 1t in the buzzing,
hustling column so quick and so
strong that it would make Ardmore a
city set on a hill whose commercial
light could not be hid Try it.
Do you buy bread? If you never
tried it, see how the process goes in
one of the prettiest bread houses in
Oklahoma right here in Ardmore.
Hold on, just wait until Solomon gets
that hundred globe tungsten chanda-
lier set or fire and those genial CLERKS
all set right behind those polished
counters. and that $500 fountain and
then enter You will think you have
ho ri nj
Solomon will tell you it pays. Pays
in cash, in smiling customers and in
his own feelings. Say, that last is
something that is worth a great deal,
isn't it?
But little Mollie has slipped down
the street and you hear her cry "Oh,
mamma, come here" Now ''here"ii
TO Mollie is in front of Hotchkiss'
show window. Such spangles, cut
glass, fine china and all as tastefully
arranged as though the public paid
Hotch for the window show business.
Well, now, since you come to think
about it. the public does that very
thing or Hotch would not do it. But
before We know mama" has picked
out an exquisitely carved piece of
Libey and given hints about birth
day she is going to have and this
modern show window has gotten in
its work.
Gee, | wish they would clear the
streets of lumber and stuff" little
John shouts, as he runs into some
timber where the old First National
used to be and where the new, might
ier and more beautiful First National
is going to be, because of these same
timbers. As you peek about you see
that Ardmore is growing, growing in
faith, in power and beauty which ever
attends true growth. 1t is all right
TO loan and borrow money-but a fell
low wants to throttle that 'old lady
of threadneedle street" because she
set pace for cob-webs and dingy cor
ners that it has taken the wisdom and
culture of centuries to overcome.
Come down-you big braggart cities
of this or any other state and make
a deposit in the First National when
it gets in it's new home and you will
know Ardmore is one of the best.
Then there is the Ardmore Drug
Co. with big open spaces, a great
inviting fountain spouting Olympian
nectar all the time when properly ap-
preached. You want TO go in and