SHAMROCK BROGUE 2-5-1916
AGED MAN DROPS DEAD
James Bowen, aged 60, of Oilton, dropped dead in the Shamrock yards
here Wednesday night as he was about to board a Sapulpa & Oil Field
train for Tulsa where he was to enter a hospital. He was accompanied
to the train by his daughter, Mrs. Ed Helton of Shamrock and was walking
by her side when he fell. Several days before Mr. Bowen had suffered
a paralytic stroke. Dr. M.H. Newman was called to the railway station
and made every effort to resuscitate Mr. Bowen but all attempts were
in vain.
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BLARNIES
Miss Florence Hamil has arrived from Chickasha and is opening her millinery
and stationery store on Dublin avenue.
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Miss Vivian Cotterell of the Erin has returned from a Depew visit and
is now one of the “hello girls” in the central telephone
station.
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Dr. and Mrs. A. E. Reynolds of the Hill oil camp have returned to Bristow,
the doctor having sold his medical practice in the oil field.
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L.G. Post of Altus, where he was agent for the Wichita Falls & Northwestern
has taken a similar position here with Sapulpa & Oil Field line.
Mrs. Post and son will soon become residents of the city.
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Sleet and ice have prevented the completion of the Killarney Theatre
building for nearly three weeks but manager Schwake is staying on the
job persistently.
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Denny Cawley, living in Fairview, read a copy of the Brogue in a newspaper
office there; now he is a resident of Shamrock has bought the C.F. Hopkins
lot and is putting up a building for a ladies furnishing store.
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The Brogue has received a letter from a well known carnival company
wanting to come to Shamrock for the St. Patrick week and help celebrate
the occasion.
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The city telephone exchange was installed during the past week, the
shipment of poles and cable being one of the first over the new railroad.
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Leo Blondin, the well known show man is rehearsing a drama for next
season on the road entitled “Shamrock, The Irish Queen”.
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The Atlas Supply company with Ed Ragan—He’s Irish incharge
has opened for business on Tipperary Road near the railway station.
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William Ryan, otherwise known as “Millionaire,” painted
the courthouse green during the past week and several others were tried
inside the building for attempting to paint the town red.
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“Andy” Dignal of the Club Café has been a restauranteur
in every oil field from West Virginia and Pennsylvania across Ohio,
Indiana and Illinois to Oklahoma and Shamrock.
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Mr. and Mrs. John O. Pyle are now occupying their cottage home on Fifth
street next door to the school house. They came from Bristow.
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Hugh Dixon write the Brogue from Los Angeles, Cal., that he is giving
his copies of the paper to Pat Doyle, an oil field man; and thus is
Shamrock becoming known nationwide.
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G. H. Baker, the former Gypsy Oil company scout, is here in charge of
the company’s warehouse and yards located on South Blarney avenue.
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H.F. Newton of Kansas City an uncle of Schwake of the Killarney Theater
is putting in a hardware stock in Dr. M.H. Newman’s building on
Tipperary Road.
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Frank Hudson the cafe and shoe repairing man of Dublin avenue returned
to his former home in Shushing Thursday to recuperate from a sick spell.
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Paul Shoner, formally a star southpaw with Guthrie baseball teams, is
in charge of the Fred E. Cragin lumberyards in the oil field and makes
Shamrock regularly.
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L.B. Grove has his waterworks well on South Blarney avenue practically
complete and will start at once building tanks and laying the mains
over the town.
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Justice of the peace Cal Lake has the only racing car in the oil fields,
it’s a Ford cut down and has been painted green in honor of his
home town.
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Bert Wallis, who draws a good salary from the Hill company, is also
conducting a boot and shoe repairing shop at the Hill yards, two miles
northeast of Shamrock.
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Fred E. Cragin was out from Guthrie during the past week and declared
the Shamrock district to be the busiest in the Cushing oil field.
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Mr. and Mrs. Warren K. Robertson have the distinction of being the first
couple to go to housekeeping in Shamrock following the opening of the
town two months ago.
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Joe T. Ryan, the constable at Markham, was a business visitor in Shamrock
during the past week.
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Pat Sullivan, the photo-card man, is doing business temporarily in a
tent on North Cork street.
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T.L. Lee has his business building practically completed at the corner
of Tipperary Road and Terry Road.
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R.A. Potts, the carpenter contractor, has been busy the past week putting
up bunk houses on C.E. Shaffer’s Richmond Bruner lease on east
of town.
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James Farrall of the Farrall Hotel announces he will soon begin the
construction of a twenty-foot addition to his building.
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H.C. Bland, manager of the Long Bell Lumber company, has just completed
a 72’foot double-decker lumber shed on the company’s lots
here.
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Ben F. Berkey, business manger of the Brogue, is for preparedness and
is organizing a “smoked Irish” regiment which he will offer
to the government together with his services as colonel.
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Messers, Good, and Hunt of the machine shops on Dublin avenue report
a lot of oil field repair business coming to Shamrock all the time and
on the increase.
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Manager N.S.. Sprague of the colleen theater permits only Irish tunes
to be played by his pianist during the nightly performances. He says
a “Pretty place in Ireland” is the favorite.
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Dr. T.C. Moessner’s wife and son Forbes have located in Shamrock
and have built them a home on Fifth street near Cork. He is a practicing
physician and his son is a drill engineer employed by the railway company
here.
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Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lee have recently completed an addition to their
building two doors east of the townsite office on Tipperary Road.
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L.J. Fleming, superintendent of the Kathleen leases north of town, says
the locations have been made for two wells to be drilled soon.
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Dr. J.E. Cargill of Rose Hill, owner of several lots on Fourth street,
was a business visitor in Shamrock during the past week.
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Col. Ned Cheadle of Oilton who once gave away a bunch of bananas on
a Rock Island train and said he grew them –unreadable---- Shamrock,
has ordered the Brogue sent to him at the Hotel Royal, where he is the
night clerk.
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Mrs. Anna McMahon of the Irish Queen café has leased the back
portion of her lot on Dublin avenue and the vacant south side for $42
a month in addition to the income from her café on the same lot.
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Good Irishmen are coming to Shamrock from everywhere. Dennis Brennan
writes the Brogue from Moline, Ill, that he will become a citizen here.
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Charles Devers, the water well drilling contractor, is fast recovering
from a bad fall he had on the ice several weeks ago.
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McBride and Gower have moved their meat market from Tipperary Road to
the Irish Queen café on Dublin avenue.
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R.H. Gillespie of Cushing and J.P. Owen of Duncan will be partners in
the drug business, located in the Dr. Newman building near the Killarney
theater.
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The wedding occurred in Stroud, last Tuesday evening, of Miss Margaret
Schrum and Mr. Harry Jondahl both of this city. They will live in Shamrock
where he will be in charge of the Jondahl furniture store.
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Mrs. L.F. Riley, wife of the plumbing contractor, is now making her
home in Shamrock. They formerly lived in Jennings.
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Mr. and Mrs. C.K. Johnson of Sapulpa are living in Shamrock having rooms
at the John O. Pyle home. Mr. Johnson is a drilling contractor.
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