THE SHAMROCK BROGUE 1-8-1916
RAILROAD REACHES SHAMROCK TO-NIGHT
The railroad will be completed into Shamrock tonight. This is the official
announcement of J.T. Lantry, head of the construction company building
the line, following a conference with General Manger C.f. Hopkins and
other officials of the road. The first trains will no doubt be run into
Shamrock tomorrow and henceforth the people of Shamrock will have excellent
train service. The schedule calls for several passenger trains each
way daily.
Immediately upon the completion of the railroad Shamrock becomes the
chief freight shipping point in the entire oil field and the center
of hauling and teaming to the field. All supplies and material that
will be used in the development of the wonderful producing territory
surrounding Shamrock will be shipped to this town and it will be a great
boon to the oil men as well as to the citizens of Shamrock.
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Even the crude oil found in the Shamrock field has a greenish hue. It
makes more gasoline than any other found in the state.
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Shamrock is building fast. Forty business houses are in operation now
and twenty-five more are going up this week.
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Seven thousand men are now employed in the oil field within two and
a half miles of Shamrock where sixty days ago only a very few wells
were drilling. The oil field pay roll in this district now totals from
$40,000 to $50,000 a day.
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The passenger schedule of the Tipperary Road Route is being drawn with
a view of making direct connections with trains both ways to Sapulpa,
Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Chandler and other important points.
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The Shaffer county proposition is evidently not attracting much attention
in this district. The people here are too busy to engage in the old
game of pulling chestnuts from the fire for they remember that the same
proposition was defeated at the polls, two years ago. Of course, if
the new county should be formed, Shamrock will be in the race for the
county seat and will have a proposition ready to offer the people that
they will not be able to turn down. But, in the meantime, there are
3,000 oil wells to be drilled in the Shamrock territory and that’s
of the first importance.
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COURT IN SHAMROCK
L.A. Slusser, on of the substantial farmers of this district and justice
of the peace for Shannon township has announced that he will hold court
in Shamrock on Tuesdays and Fridays of each week sitting at the townsite
office until other quarters are secured. The bar at present is compiled
of Attorneys Charles B. Lake, Charles H. Griswold and Warren R. Robertson.
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PERSONALS___________________________
C.P. Forsythe, editor of the Bristow Record, was a visitor in shamrock
during the past week. He was formerly a desk man on the Daily Oklahoman
for several years.
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Little Miss Eloise Jenness has entered St. Mary’s Academy at Oklahoma
City for the coming school term. Her mother, Mrs. Janness accompanied
her to Oklahoma City Monday.
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G.A. Potts spent Sunday at his former home in Oilton. He will soon build
a cottage here and bring Mrs. Potts to Shamrock.
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L.B. Grant, the merchant lumberman, has been here looking over the oil
field situation. He has yards now in Shamrock, Oilton, Pemeta and Drumright.
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Mr. and Mrs. Harry Stanton have rooms at the Hotel Erin, coming here
from Drumright. He is a driller on one of the Shaffer leases south of
town.
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Mrs. William Pyle with her little daughter has been here from Bristow
visiting her husband, owner of the 101 Barber Shop.
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Mrs. James Farrall of Tecumseh has joined her husband here in establishing
The Farrall rooming house on Tipperary Road.
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Marquis and Donald Eaton who spent their holidays in Shamrock, have
returned to school—the former at Wentworth Military Academy; the
latter at the Oklahoma A & M college.
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G.A. Robertson, the Avery merchant, spent Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs.
W.K. Robertson
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Eli Admire, editor of the Oilton Gusher, was in Shamrock Thursday and
says there are eighty wells being drilled close to Oilton at the present
time.
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Frank Hudson has returned from spending the holidays with his family
in Cushing and is putting up a café building on Dublin Avenue.
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H.C. Bland of the Long Bell Lumber company has a pretty cottage completed
on Third street and will move his family here from Jennings immediately.
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Mrs. C.M. Sarchet of Tulsa spent Saturday and Sunday in Shamrock. March
Sarchet returned with her to re-enter school, following the holiday
period.
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Mrs. J.P. Miller of Oilton spent Sunday in Shamrock with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lee.
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Mrs. H. Finney of Drumright is making preparations to erect a building
on her business lot on Tipperary Road.
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Messrs, Ridgeway, Schwake and W.F. Parker are erecting a substantial
building at the corner of Tipperary and Bantry to house the Killarney
Theater, expecting to have it open in the near future. The building
is 35 x 100 and will have a stucco front.
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Messrs Snodgrass and N.S. Sprague of Drumright are having a building
completed near the corner of Tipperary and Cork for their Idle Hour
Theater. It is to be up to date in every particular.
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Messrs Childs F.N. Johndahl and Mayor Holder of Stroud were in Shamrock
Sunday. Mr. Johndahl is having a building erected at the corner of Dublin
and Tipperary road and will put in a complete stock of furniture.
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HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
Mrs. J.B. Crownover of the Club Lunch Café on Ireland Avenue,
had a narrow escape Friday. Her clothing ignited from the front of a
stove and her skirts burned quickly. With great presence of mind she
wrapped a curtain around her skirts and her calls for help brought her
son, Jack Crownover. Together they soon had the blaze out and both escaped
without serious burns.
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OFFICERS KNOW THE NAME OF “HI-JACKERS”
It developed today that the authorities know the names of the seven
mean who are working as “Hi-jackers” on the 18-mile prairie
northeast of Shamrock holding up liquor consignment and confiscating
it for their own use and sell. At least three of the men have been closely
connected with alleged bandit bands for the past ten to fifteen years
in the old Indian Territory country, while another was a former officer.
Only one or two of them are actual residents of the district, but the
country in which they operate is well known to the whole gang. It is
understood that no effort has been made to interfere with them as they
molest only such automobiles and other vehicles that carry liquor cargoes
and in taking the liquors they commit no crime under the Oklahoma law.
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