The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1920-06-06

Healdton has issued a direct chal-
lenge to Ardmore which reads like
this: We will meet you half way with
an interurban line.
These words were spoken by "a man
who can build the entire line him
self if he were to undertake il, and
he says Healdton will make good on
the challenge if Ardmore has the
courage to accept.
An interurban line between Head
ton and Ardmore would pass through
Hewitt oil fields and it would give
all the field workers easy access
either to Ardmore or to Healdton.
There is not a city in the state
that has more pep than Healdton 1t
was founded by Jake l.. Hamon IN
January, 1917. 1t is the custom
for townsite men to sell lots for
time and then 10 advertise an auc-
ton and dispose of the lots that do
not meet ready sale, but no auction
sale of lots was ever held in Heald-
ton. Instead an addition was opened
and every lot OF the addition has been
sold and now another addition is
ready for the market.
Healdton has population OF 5000
people The postoffice receipts WHICH
are an index 10 the growth Of town
have made wonderful strides in the
last few months; it has Commercial
Club with a membership Of 400 live
ones, and is growing each week; il is
aspiring now to be made a city of the
first class 50 it can add paved streets
to its municipal institutions Of cleo
tric lights, waterworks system, sewer
system etc. Brick buildings are tax
ing the places OF the frame structures
erected during the early days Of the
oil fields and the city is assuming
permanency OF appearance which
inspires confidence in its continued
growth.
1t is the gateway from Ardmore to
the great oil field region west of this
city, its supply houses and lumber
concerns do a business each month
that goes high into the hundreds Of
thousands Of dollars,
Healdton has a 500 900 school build.
ing under construction, and it is
said that no other city of its size
has such a building.
The First National Bank has a
brick home under construction. The
bank deposits of the town are now
near the million dollar mark and the
town has its own capital for develop.
ment work.
1t is the home of big oil companies
and oil well contractors and oil well
suppy houses and rig builders, and is
in the center OF the greatest oil de-
yelopmerA in the state Ii Is within
easy reach of the Hewitt field. the
Fox district the Graham producing
country and it is at the very door
of the wonderful field that bears its
name
A county road is under construction
out of Healdton that will pass through
the Hewitt fields and money has /aen
raised by public subscription to oil
eA'iS 'Oau JuSt siS ScOil sAS lIlc
is done, Another road is being built
through the Graham fields and tina,
hustling city will not stop until it
has a good road leading to the new
field which the Magnolia has opened
just north Of the Carter county line.
at Robertson
The spirit of Healdton was demon
strated recently when the town wanted
TO build a ball park. There we're
enough volunteers to build the park
in half day. For every piece OF
work there was a man ready and
this same spirit guides the town in
every Undertaking
But oil is not all. Healdton has. It
is in the midst OF great cotton
section OF the state and the third
gin is moving to the town and it mar
kets every@ year thousands OF bales
Of cotton.
If Healdton says it needs an inter.
urban connection with Ardmore the
same spirit that is now building that
,own will build the line OF road
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