The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-20


churches, the Presbyterian. Meth
oulSi Baptist Christian Apostolir.
latter Day Saints and the Catholic.
Two schools. a 100000 high school:
a 10000 grade school, and another
$4,000 school building now under
constructions with staff Of IS
teachers, there being five extra
teachers added this year.
Skiatook has one cotton gin, one
flour aud feed mill, three lumber
yards, five garages with five agen-
cics, four hardware stores, one
grain elevator, four drug stores,
four cafes, one newspaper one
picture show, five dry goods stores,
one bakery, seven groceries and
minor business places, thcre being
about 80 business institutions by
actual count.
The gate way TO all points east,
west, north and south. by reason OF
the peculiar topography OF the
country. Skiatook is interspersed
by six great highways. the most inn
portant being the Tulsa paved road
TO the north, which Skiatook's ag-
gress!ve chamber Of commerce has
just recently voted to connect with
paving with her own Main street
by popular Subscription The Tulsa
highway. which Is now paved but
still covered, viii be opened for
traffic July 81, and opens a new
era OF prosperity for Skiatook and
towns 10 the north as far az Tulsa.
with the opening Of this splendid
new highway. Is miles in length
and leading to the metropolis OF
Tuusa TO the south. other roads
~ l.
hard-surfaced. for that city is on
the main road north to Kansas City
and hence all travel north into the
Usage and points northwest and
northeast must pass through the
gate way" Skiatook IS on the
Ozark trail. and the Albert Pike
highway 20 Denver, via. Pawhuska,
and boasts some OF the fines. scenic
highways in the state.
These roads give Skiatook many
wonderful advantages in the way
OF tourist travel and trade, and that
she is progressive enough to take
advantage of these opportunities,
goes without saying. The citizens
pull together---a working unit
and are planning and will soon
have all the modern convenlences
and luXurles a city many times its
sibe might well be proud Of. The
SkiatOok municipal band Ia one of
the best in the entire country. with
40 talented members, who give two
band concerts each week.
Skiatook business houses invite
and welcome tourist trade, and with
the completion OF the splendid
hard -surfacod road Luly Al, which
will connect north Main street, Tul-
sa. with Main street, Skiatook, Is
miles to the north. Thousands of
residents Of Tulsa, Sapulpa, Ok
mulgee and smaller cities even
farther south will motor over to
that interesting city and get &C
quainted." The four drug stores
are already well prepared to serve
those travellers with cooling drinks,
ices, ice creams, candies, and all
the paraphernalia used by tourists.
The Ideal cafe. owned and man
aged by two pretty young girls, the
Misses Nabor, will also be a releva-
tlon in the way OF good home
cooked food. plainly and dalntily
served; while the Alamo hotel
owned by Mayor l.. O. Maxwell, will
also be a popular stopping place
for travellers.
The Goddard drug store, owned
by DIR. r.. X. Goddard, the city
leading drug store, is up to the min
ute in every modern convenience,
and Is noted for the quality Of Its
products from soda fountain drinks
70 drugs. A complete line OF ko-
daks, films, thermos bottles, bath
ing suits and caps, and essentials
that make travelling and vacation
Ing a Joy, are TO be found here,
while II Is worth the trip 10 Skia-
took TO partake of the delicacies
made at its soda foun.Iin, and on
which this place particularly prides
itself
The Cherokee dru= store, owned
and managed by W Q, Rogers, son
OF william c, Rogers. who will go
down IN history as the last and one
OF the greatest chiefs of the Chero-
KEGS, is a close rival Palms and
potted plants make this place at
tractiyo while It's complete line OF
Nval druFs and toilet accessories
make Il unusually interesting.
The ideal cafe, OF which Misses
Ruth and Cecil Nahor are owners