The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-10-06

JEFF Holland left Tuesday evening for
Hutchinson, Kansas. TO attend the Re-
tail Merchants Convention.
J. w. Renfrow, county assessor,
visited home folks near Balko over the
weekend.
j. II. Zielke, X. A. Wedel, ]. B.
Clark and r. r. Heynen, all of the
Lorena neighborhood, were here Tues
day being called by the Hosea Ellis
preliminary. They called at this Office
and left renewals which were appreci-
ated.
Fred Miller, of May, came to Beaver
Saturday evening and spent Sunday
with his wife's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
F, p. Tenny. Mrs. Miller. who has
been visiting her parents for several
weeks, returned home with him Mon
day.
Mrs. II. N. Lawson gave six o'clock
dinner Monday evening in honor of the
birthday of Miss Gretchen. The
guests were Misses Louise Tracy, Ellen
Carson, Mamie Mincks, Gladys Nc
Pherson, Gladys Ford, Abbie Harmon,
Vinita Barnes and Moita Davis, the
latter of Forgan.
| Frank Flecb, cashier of the Balko
, State Bank, returned from business
trip to Oklahoma City last Thursday.
His wife and children, who had been
visiting at the home of +. p. Tenny
and wife, Mrs. Fleck's parents, re-
turned with him Friday to their home
at Balko.
! Mrs. VIM. Moore was In town Mon
day night and Tuesday at the home of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Cay
Ter. While here she was witness at
the preliminary trial of Hosea Ellis.
Mrs. Moore formerly taught school
near Liberal, Kansas, and Hosea Ellis
was one of her pupils.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wade Loofbourrow
spent Monday night with Mrs. Loot
bourrow's parents in Beaver. They
left early Tuesday morning. Mr.. Loot
bourrow on business trip to Two
Buttes, Colorado, and Mrs. Loofbour-
row to Liberal, Kansas, for several
days visit with DIR. and Mrs. Emery
Trekle.
Mr.. and Mis-. Sam Filing, formerly
of Beaver county, and Mrs. Ellling's
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. F. Lang,
drove in their car from Concordia, Mis-
souri, to Beaver, arriving here last Sat
urday. They are here looking after
their land interests and visiting friends.
They left Thursday for Winfield and
Stafford, Kansas, where they will visit
before going on to Missouri.
The Mathis Cash Store is undergoing
some changes and improvements. The
groceries are being rapidly closed out
and racket department added. Four
counters are already set up-five, ten.
fifteen and twenty-five cent counters.
A gallery for mems furnishings has
been added and in the near future the
store will be a dry goods and racket
store only.
A plant with wonderfully pretty
bloom and much of novelty has been
on exhibition at The First National
Bank this week. The plant is known
as Night Blooming Cherry and it Ger.
tainly puts forth most marvellous flow
ers. The blossom shoots from the leaf,
is of delicate wax white and immense
in size. They are very perishable, only
retaining their beauty a few days,
Those who saw the plant, marveled al
its magnihcence.
The Carter Tracy Hardware Com
pany does not propose to be out-done.
| While the First National Bank was ex.
: hibiting a most beautiful Towering
Night Blooming Cherry this week,
/, Manager w. II. Thomas of the Tracy
1 Hardware Company, had on exhibition
, monster Russian thistle and, wei
r wager, it is one of the largest in cap
a tivity. The plant measured ten feet il
diameter ana grew practically circular
1t was some monster thistle, believeu us
1 Miss Marie Harris returned to Bea
0 yer Sunday night from Crescent, where
she had been for some time with hei
sister, Mrs. Anna Nixon. who has beer
seriously i'll with typhoid fever, Mrs
Nixon is out of danger but is in very
, weakened condition and is not able I,
. sit up. A trained nurse is still with
. her. 1t will be remembered that Mis-
Harris left here for her vacation bu
was called to her sisters bedside. 1
is to be regretted that she missed {
u much needed vacation but her friend
here will rejoice with Miss Harris tina
her sister is on the road to recovery.
Elbert Cliff who rode To Oklahoml