The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-01-01

AdmOre Is awe 10 tEe opportuh-
ity of having the Bankhead Highway
build through this city.
From Milburn. located forty miles
east Of here on the Rock Island line
# road the Bankhead highway IS
! Luilding toward Tishomingo and will
be finished TO that town in the
/ carly spring. Extending south and
/ east Of Milburn to Durant a distance
OF 2S miles the road is under con
struction and will be completed by
| August of this year. Hundreds OF
teams are busy. The work is costing
! something more than $4,000 a mile
Ardmore wants to see this road
completed to the west side Of John
ston county at Mannsville and then
with a federal project this coonty
will connect with It.
Fine Camping Places
Surrounding Milburn are beauti-
| full camping places, boating and fish
ing and swimming la Blue river
make Milburn a resort that is sought
every year by hundreds of people
and when this highway is completed
It will be within an hour and half
of Ardmore. The line Is being built
| from ocean TO ocean and passes
through the Southern states and Will
be used by many thousands of tray
clers every year.
Named for Milburn Family
Milburn was named for the famous
I Milburn family that moved into John
ston county many years ago. The
city is twenty years old. II has two
Lanks. The First National and the
First State. They carry deposits OF
something like u half million dol
lars which speaks volumes for the
wealth OF the community.
Its Churches
| Milburn has Barkist, Methodist,
/ Christian and Presbyterian churches.
IL has two large Sunday schools.
Markets Hardwood Timber
Blue river runs within half
mile of the town. 1t provides oppoi'
tunities for fishing, boating and swim
ming. 1t gives wide area Of bottom
/ lands to the town. These lands pro-
/ duce Alfalfa and corn and cereals
and the banks Of the stream are
/ lined with pecans and hardwood tim
bor. Two saw mills are operated and
lumber is shipped from the town.
Forty Miles from Ardpore
Milburn is 2S miles from Durant
and 40 miles from Ardmore. 1t has
electric lights. it has 500 children in
its schools, it ''as lovely homes, two
| hanks, hotels. restaurants, churches,
work shops, a newspaper, the Mil
burn News. two cotton gins, one OF
which is said 10 be the most expen'
sive and finest in the state; the
sfasons, odd Fellows and Woodmen
! have their lodge rooms there.
Oil Prospects
! An oil well Is drilling to the south
five miles that has found Il sand
said TO be good for five barrels a
Gay at shallow depth. Oil men are
n the city now taking leases cover
| ing large area northwest OF the
| city and drilling is 10 start within n
short time.
Commercial Club Officers
Milburn has a Commercial Club OF
which i. J.. Hunnicutt is president
and C. c. Galloway is secretary.
No Law Violations
II has organized city government. +
t.. Hunnicutt is mayor and c. r
Bailey and j. A. Kelly are alder
men. There is a calaboose there but
II Is never used There are no law
rotations, there is no whiskey drink
ing.
Women Of Nilburn
The women OF Milburn have theii
church societies. their school organ
izations and they work with the mer
in every movement for the progres:
and moral wealth of the city.
Still A Bachelor
G. c. Galloway IL editor OF the Nil
turn News and has been for Is years
Tle is secretary OF the Commercial
Club. He left n lucrative business II
Ardmore to establish his paper there
While in this city he was much CIV
en- TO contemplation Of marriage ant
his associates say he is still con
templating. In other words he u
ntill bachelor and offers OF marri
age will BE- acceptable.
r. l.. Hunnicuft
Mayor r.. J.. Hunnicutt is presiden
OF tho Commercial Cub. he is prcsi
dent Of the First State Bank and Il
. ono of the tlreless workers for hi
city. He moved 10 that community 81
years ago from Tennessee and In!
nfospered
j. {. Dodd
j. c. nodd IN president OF tho Firs
National Bank. he Is member o
:. the school board and IA a prominon
figure In the building Of the commun
ity.
Best Loved Man
: Or. Guy Clark has the reputation
. cf being tho best loved man Il
! town. He came there when the tow
1 was started. rIc never failed TO &
10 see the sick and never asko
+. whether there was money ready 70
. hnn before no called.
A Close Competitor
DR.. Clark has close ccmpctito
In Rev. Gus Hendrix the Baptis
$ minister. The minister has not bee
there 80 long but when Milburn SUI
rered a scourge OF FLU as other town
= did Rev. Mr.. Hendrix worked almos
: lncessantly for two weeks In carin