SHAMROCK BROGUE 1-22-1916
Fred Knapp of the Depew Independent says “The Shamrock Brogue
is the latest addition to the journalistic field in Creek County. Corb
Sarchet is editor and B.F. Berkey business manager. The Independent
welcomes the new comer to our exchange table and wishes the proprietors
all the “grapes” they can handle. Shamrock is the largest
small place in the entire world. The new paper is filled with advertising
and live news.
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Although less than two months old Shamrock is having a city water works
system installed.
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PERSONALS
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank White of the Shamrock Café have greatly improved
their building which they moved from old Shamrock to Tipperary Road
when new Shamrock was started.
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The death occurred Sunday of Kathleen, the little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. William Wheeler of East Tipperary Road, the fist baby born in Shamrock.
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George W. Cooper, a teaming contractor, wife and son have located in
Shamrock, with headquarters at the corner of Third and St. Patrick.
He recently returned from Mexico where he lived for seventeen years.
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William Ryan, the painting contractor furnished the material and did
the work in staining the decorating the Irish Queen, café of
Mrs. Anna McMahon.
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Postmaster Virgil Morgan has completed a spacious business room in front
of the postoffice building which he moved from old Shamrock.
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Mrs. Walter R. Eaton has been visiting in Shawnee for several weeks,
the guest of her father, Judge L.G. Pittman.
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James Dennis Flynn, editor, and D.C. Payne, advertising man, of the
Sapulpa Daily Argus were conspicuous among the Sapulpa boosters here
Monday.
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C. Cranston of Oklahoma City, one of the early day newspaper men of
Kansas and Oklahoma is moving his printing plant from Oklahoma City
to Shamrock and is locating on Fourth Street.
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Attorney Jack Richards of Oilton was in Shamrock Monday and Tuesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Dixon have moved to Shamrock from Jennings and are
living on Fourth Street. He is with the Long Bell Lumber company.
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Frank Ingalls is one of the best known farmers living east of Shamrock.
He was an early day Oklahoman at E Reno but located in the Creek county
nineteen years ago and now owns a lot of valuable oil land.
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J.W. Stroud of Pawhuska, father of the town of Stroud and first republican
mayor of Pawhuska was in Shamrock during the past week.
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Frank Shewmake, traveling salesman for the El Reno Milling company,
made Shamrock several days ago, and says his company is now erecting
the most extensive flour mill in the state.
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Charles H. Griswold, bookkeeper for the townsite company, spent Sunday
and Monday with relatives in Tulsa.
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L. W. Burton, the Depew druggist was here with the Sapulpa boosters,
Monday, passing his cards headed, “Top of the mornin’ Pat
and Mary”.
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General Manger C.F. Hopkins of the Sapulpa & Oil Field railroad,
announces that railway mail service will be established into Shamrock
in the near future.
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Cal B. Lake, justice of the peace, has been superintending the removal
of the jail building from Oilton to Shamrock during the past week and
evil doers will be incarcerated here instead of chained to the blackjacks.
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Charles Thorburn of St. Louis is an early day resident in Shamrock for
several weeks, being at the head of the railway surveying force in the
field here.
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Frank Glease, who has made Drumright his home ever since the oil field
opened, has finally shaken the dust of that town from his feet to live
in the Irish Queen City.
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The Blankin Brothers of the Shamrock garage and Isom Owensby have established
automobile lines from Shamrock to all points in the oil field.
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Mr. and Mrs. E.D. Miles have located in Shamrock from Atoka and will
make this town their future home. He is connected with the L.B. Grant
Lumber company.
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Misses Oliver and Clark of the Pioneer Telephone exchange at Depew were
in Shamrock Monday with the Sapulpa booster train.
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Mrs. R.A. Potts of Oilton spent the past week in Shamrock, Visiting
her husband, the building contractor.
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Mr. and Mrs. H.B. Granlee are now located in Shamrock permanently, having
purchased the Walter Eaton property on West Fifth street. They moved
to Shamrock from Jennings.
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Mrs. Jerry Hastings, whose husband is superintendent of the Oklahoma
Natural Gas plant here, has returned home from a Tulsa visit.
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Truman Dunn, manger at Oilton of the Mid-Field Gas company, was in Shamrock
Wednesday, visiting at the townsite office.
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Ben F. Berkey, business manger of the Brogue, was in Oilton from Thursday
to Sunday on a business trip.
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The cottage home being built by the Pioneer Telephone company for their
young lady operators, is nearing completion on Dublin Avenue.
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Mrs. Andrew Dignal is now making Shamrock her home, coming here from
Sapulpa. Her husband is manager of the Club café.
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C.C. Stewart, formerly with the Vicmar Oil company at Tulsa, is the
stenographer for Superintendent Granlee at the Sapulpa Oil Field station
here.
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Mrs. C.M. Sarchet came from Tulsa Saturday to spend Sunday and Monday
in Shamrock and help get out the Brogue.
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Mrs. Virgil Morgan, wife of the Shamrock postmaster, has been on the
la grippe sick list during the past week.
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Mrs. F. L. Strickland, son and daughters, Misses Helen and Cornelia,
have come from Kansas City, Mo., to Shamrock to make their home. Mr.
Strickland located in Shamrock during the first days with a hotel and
café.
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H.J. Dwyer has located in Shamrock, coming from Drumright has located
a newspaper and cigar stand in the Hotel Farrall.
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President J.A. Frates of the Sapulpa & Oil Field railroad was here
Monday from Springfield, Mo., and announced that sufficient industrial
tracks will be placed in the Shamrock yards to accommodate all supply
and oil field houses.
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J.A. Sussler, living east of Shamrock and justice of the peace for Shannon
township, visited Shamrock with his family Monday to help welcome the
Sapulpa boosters.
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Jack Crownover has established the first tailoring shop in Shamrock
and is located next the Club lunch café on Ireland avenue.
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Miss Ida Ashley of Bristow is Shamrock’s first school teacher,
opening school Tuesday in the temporary building recently completed.
This is on the site of the $15,000 brick building, for which bonds have
been voted.
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Leaning that nothing but green postage stamps are used in Shamrock and
not understanding that these are just the regulation one-cent stamps
of every day use, postage stamp collectors are willing to citizens here
asking for some of the stamps and the cost thereof. One of these letters
is now on the desk of John Murphy, president of the Citizens Bank. The
writer lives in Indianapolis, Ind. And asks Mr. Murphy to send him several
of the stamps and enclose his bill for the same.
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STROUD MOVING TO SHAMROCK
Hugh Cory, merchant and baker made a trip to Shamrock last week in his
new Ford car.
Floyd Jondahl is erecting a building and will establish a furniture
business in Shamrock.
E.B. Ham has bought a lot in Shamrock and is erecting a building and
will enter into the short-order and grocery business.
The Citizens Bank of Avery was last week moved to the growing oil town
of Shamrock. Amos A. Seaton is Cashier, John Murphy, president and J.B.
Charles, is Vice president of the strong financial institution, which
will doubtless meet with great success in the oil district.
S.P. Harmon and Henry Spurgeon have leased a lot in Shamrock and are
erecting a building and will enter into the grocery business—Stroud
Messenger
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SAPULPANS PAY SHAMROCK A VISIT
Bringing the first snakes to Shamrock and also carrying scads of green
money, a big bunch of Sapulpa business men boosters came to Shamrock
Monday headed by James Dennis Flynn, editor of the Daily Argus and a
brass band. They had special coaches from Sapulpa over the Frisco and
Sapulpa & Oil Field railroads. It was also the first trade excursion
over the recently completed line into Shamrock. The Sapulpans had heard
of Shamrock as a strictly Irish town and that green is rampant here,
so they came prepared to celebrate appropriately. Upon their arrival
they were decorated with shamrocks and then marched up Tipperary road
to the tune of “Tipperary”. The band and boosters visited
a majority of the business places in Shamrock and put in the day hand-shaking
and getting acquainted. They distributed among the people a lot of green
snakes, which they declared would be driven out on March 17 by St. Patrick
in person.
This was the first trade trip to be made to various points in Creek
county, of which Sapulpa is the county seat. These trips are in reality
get-acquainted affairs, and the completion of Sapulpa & Oil Field
railroad made it possible for them to come to Shamrock at this time.
This trip was organized by James Dennis Flynn, whose paper Monday was
printed in green in honor of this occasion.
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TOO EARLY FOR ST. PATRICK’S DAY
A bundle of small snakes—they were so twisted together that a
bundle seems to be the correct way of expressing it—were blown
out of the ground by workman, yesterday who were working on the construction
of the Sapulpa & Oil Field railroad within the city limits of Shamrock.
They were uncovered when the scrapers turned up the earth that had been
loosened with dynamite. Many of the snakes were not over six inches
long and it was not possible to tell their species.
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MOVING JAIL OVERLAND
The first instance of moving a city jail overland from one town to another
was recorded here this week. The city administration at Oilton has made
arrangements for steel cells in a stone building at that town leaving
the old frame building empty. A deal was closed whereby the building
was sold to Shamrock and J.E. Saunders moved it the fifteen miles to
this town.
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ALL COURT DOCUMENTS IN GREEN
C.B. Lake, justice of the peace in the newly created district with Shamrock
as its center, has opened his office on Dublin avenue here, with all
court papers and documents printed in green. His first announcement
is issued to “hi-jackers” and gun men, the same that was
issued to the same class at Oilton in the first days, informing them
that they must keep Shamrock off their itinerary. Offenders are being
given short hours to leave this territory.
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