Volume 9 , Issue 23

1905 - Barnes, O.T. Items

This next article appeared in The Alva Pioneer, Alva, O.T., Woods County, Friday, October 13, 1905. The Alva Pioneer was successor to The Alva Star, Alva Chronicle and The Alva Republican.

Barnes Items - 50 miles southwest, Alva, O.T. -- Seeding of broomcorn is in progress: the crop is above an average.

More hay and fodder is being cut this fall than usual, the serious winter of last year has promoted the farmers to prepare plenty.

Upton Ward, of Pittsburg, Pa. after a month's visit with relatives and friends, went back home well pleased with Oklahoma.

Clifford Noble is a new papa; its a boy; mother and child all right.

Mr. Stone, of Kansas, is a visitor at his father-in-law's Judge Scofield.

Mrs. William Condreay has got home from Denver; reports having had a pleasant visit, and well pleased with Oklahoma after seeing the farming of Colorado, and other parts he passed through.

We are better off in this part of Oklahoma, than most of the world; here we have a Silas and a Paul, but we don't know as Paul has to tell Silas to take a little wine for his stomach's sake; he don't need advice.

Lake Side School has started, but we have not learned the young lady's name as teacher.

Will Condreay seeded and baled 77 of broomcorn in less than 1 1/2 days; the bails will weigh 340 lbs; a part of the brush was green and some was very wet; this the best ever done in this part.

Upton Ward said he was surprised to find so nice a county paper as the Pioneer so far out west.

Nearly every boy in this part is looking around to find a good bird dog, but they won't shoot quails, as the law forbids it and they are law abiding; Joe Ward has 2 dogs, Marion Hunen 1, Noble 3, Archer 2, Sturdiven 1, Woodring 1 and a grayhound and more wanted.

John Mills bas got home from California; say's Oklahoma is good enough for him.

Mrs. Bolster is still very low and but little hopes of her recovery.

Several of our farmers have sold their broomcorn, the price is from $50 to 70 per ton.

More wheat is being sown this fall than any previous year.
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