POST OFFICE ESTABLISHED IN SHAMROCK
The city of Shamrock starts with a United States postoffice open and doing business. The old town of Shamrock had a postoffice for seven years and when the new town was started and the buildings move over from old town, the postal authorities at Washington approved the removal of the Shamrock postoffice to the new townsite. With the completion of the Sapulpa & Oil Fields railroad into Shamrock, railway mail service will be established at once, according to C. F. Hopkins, general manager of the road. In the past Shamrock has been served by rural carrier from Avery. The postoffice in Shamrock gives every man who works in the oil field, anywhere in this locality, the opportunity to get his mail quickly at this point. The postmaster, Virgil Morgan, is an appointee of President Wilson and is an efficient and accommodating official.

SHAMROCK HAS NATURAL GAS
The Oklahoma Natural Gas company, which has a mammoth compressing station here, has finished installing a complete lighting and heating system in Shamrock and all citizens now have a plentiful supply of natural gas. The company had a big force of men at work laying the pipes, during the past week, and immediately fifty meters were installed.

TRAINS RUN INTO SHAMROCK DURING COMING WEEK
The first trains into Shamrock over the Sapulpa & Oil Fields railroad (Tipperary route) will be run during the coming week, according to the announcement of the officials. The schedule for the passenger service has been drawn by Mr. H.B. Granlee, traffic manager and auditor of the road, and will be installed at once. It is drawn with the idea of making connection at Depew with all trains to and from Tulsa, Sapulpa and Oklahoma City.
The race to get the first train into Shamrock on January 1st was so nearly a winner that the railway officials are greatly pleased over the showing made in construction. Had it not been for some bad weather this week and a lack of mean, because of the holiday festivities, the completion to Shamrock would have been made as scheduled. As it is the piledriver has been worked night and day getting in the four remaining bridges between Depew and Shamrock, a distance of nine miles.
The steel gang is right behind the bridge builders and the golden spike will be driven into Shamrock, material will be hauled to this point for the construction of the mammoth electric power station and the road will be electrified at the earliest possible moment. The “Casey Jones” the big 530-horse power electric locomotive, is now on the Frisco tracks at Depew ready for service, as are also two passenger coaches for this line each with a carrying capacity of 40 people. Hourly train service will be established on the electric line.

BUILT A BANK BY MOONLIGHT
Workmen busy all night to complete temporary building. A force of men worked all night completing a house-tent for the Citizens State Bank of Shamrock in order that it might open for business the next morning. It was necessary to place rock corner-stones, build a foundation, lay a floor, put on board sidings, and then place the string to hold the tent roof. It was a bright, moonlight night, sufficient for the workmen until long after midnight and then lanterns were brought into service. In the morning they stopped only long enough to get breakfast. During the night other men were hauling the bank’s safe from Avery and business was opened in the tent as per schedule.
There has been a spirited race between Shamrock’s two banking houses to see which could get opened for business first. The American National Bank of Sapulpa is back of the First State Bank of Shamrock and J.B. Charles interest back of the Citizens State from Avery leaving both of those towns without banking facilities.
The race for a business opening here was practically a draw or a dog-fall as both are ready for business. The First State has its building completed at the corner of Tipperary and Bantry, while the Citizens State opened its tent at the corner of Dublin and Tipperary. Both will build brick buildings immediately after the first of the year. John E. Moore, formerly in charge at Markham, will have charge here of the First State, while John Murphy, the man in charge at Avery, comes here to hold a similar position in the Citizens Bank.

QUARRIED SUFFICIENT ROCK TO FOUNDATION TOWN
A sufficient amount of rock was quarried by workmen in building Shamrock’s main street, Tipperary road to build foundations for the entire city, and the rock is being furnished to builders in order to get rid of it. The electric line, now being completed into Shamrock, comes northward up Spring Creek valley and between the right-of-way and the town was a high stone bluff, across which it was necessary to construct Tipperary road to the station.
For more than two weeks a force of workmen was busy on this bluff quarrying and blasting out the rock and building a good road where passage was impassible before. The rock, thus quarried, is now being converted into foundations for a rapidly growing city. Fifty business buildings have been erected within fifteen days and twenty-five more are in course of construction, and every one of them has a foundation of rock taken from Tipperary road.

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Tracing of pedigrees and climbing family trees to ascertain if there is any trace of Irish in their veins is the program now being extensively followed by residents of Shamrock. The Brogue will soon inaugurate a family tree column and permit each and every citizen who desires to make a showing. Jim McGouldrick of Oilton and “Pat” Sullivan of Shamrock will edit the column. Ed Quimby, Charley Griswold, Warren Robertson, M. Massad, Ed Spinhorney, J.B. Owensby, Charley Wampler and several others have written back home asking that the records in the family Bibles be scanned for anything Irish in their blood. Ed Dunn has already qualified. He claims to be an eighth cousin, by marriage to Charles Parnell.
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The Oil and Gas Journel says:
“Irish names have been given to streets in Shamrock, Okla., and now the Sapulpa & Oil Field Railroad, extending toward that town, is to known as the “Tipperary Road” Trains on it are called the Irish Mail the “Emerald Express, the Killiarne Special, etc.’ The oil produced there about is of a greenish tint. Shamrock’s official motto should be “Erin Go Bragh””.
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IS A LUSTY YOUNGSTER
Shamrock is a lusty youngster and after a month’s growth has approximately one thousand more living in the adjacent oil field and getting their mail at this point. The old town of Shamrock was about ready to celebrate its eighth birthday anniversary when it became necessary to move to the railroad, and the new town has gone by leaps and bounds. The railroad will be completed into Shamrock during the coming week, making this the unloading point for the material and supplies that will be needed in the new oil field. IT is also the center of the entire field for electrical power as the big electric station of the railroad company is to be located here, and power is to be furnished to electrify the field. Because of the bringing in of a Bartlesville sand well by the Hill Company, two weeks ago, together with the active Layton sand pool south of Shamrock, this is to be the busiest section of the Cushing field for many months to come. Oil men estimate that three thousand wells will be drilled in this district.
Shamrock has a postoffice and a railroad, two banks are being established, bonds were voted last week for a $15,000 brick school house, new oil rigs are daily springing up on all sides, and the fist issue of the Brogue, a weekly newspaper is to make its appearance this week.
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THE ONLY TOWN IN THE UNITED STATES WHERE GREEN STAMPS ONLY CAN BE SOLD BY POSTMASTER
Shamrock claims the distinction of being the only town in the United States where green stamps only can be sold by the postmaster. IT started as a joke, really, when the town first began to build a month ago but it soon became a fad and every man and woman who now sends a letter or a postal package of any kind from Shamrock demands the one-cent green stamps as postage. The Shamrock postmaster has a stock of the reddish colored 2-cent stamps on hand that may mildew on his shelf unless he is able to trade them back to Postmaster General Burleson and get the one-centers in exchange.
In truth, green is everywhere in Shamrock. The postoffice is housed in a green building, the stores of the merchants are of that color, the lumberyard offices are of an emerald hue, the big station of the electric railway company has a tint that rivals the shamrock itself, and the residences scattered throughout the forest that covers the town have a color like unto the leaves in the springtime. And when the green returns to the trees, a few months from now, this will be beyond doubt the greenest spot in the nation.
And it all happens because the name of the town happened to be Shamrock. It was named that eight years ago by a pioneer merchant who established himself at a crossroads, applied for a postoffice, and christened his location among the black oak trees Shamrock. And then, when greenish tinted crude oil was found in the locality, during the past autumn, and Shamrock began to take upon herself the proportions of a city because of it being the natural distributing point, the people who cam first were of Irish descent, took Shamrock to their bosom and began at once to put an emerald hue on everything.
“We want no main street in Shamrock,” they said, and remembering the song which is again helping to make Ireland famous in war, they called it Tipperary Road instead, and it is a long way indeed, for Tipperary Road in Shamrock is more than fifteen blocks long from the section line on the west to a point where the railroad crosses it and the depot is located. And it is at this point, too, that Tipperary Road extends on eastward across O’Conner bridge and for six blocks up Parnell heights.
And having named and built Tipperary Road, it will never do, the people said, to have aught but Irish names for the avenues in Shamrock, and consequently the cross streets were called Ireland, Dublin, Cork, Bantry, Terry, Blarney, St. Patrick and Killarney.
John Murphy is locating a bank at the corner of Dublin and Tipperary, Lantry has the contract to build the railroad into town, Ryan is the leading painting contractor, Casey is in the lumber business, Sullivan oversees the gas meters, Dunn looks after the welfare of the town, McFarlin’s men are here drilling for oil, McBride is a merchant, Mrs. Casey has a rooming house, Mulligan is a sign painter, Quimby a carpenter contractor, Mrs. Finney has a hotel, Patrick is a banker, O’Neill is a drilling contractor, Flannigan a driller, McCall the town clerk, Riley a plumber and Jerry Hastings is in charge of the big gas compressing station.
And every person here, who has not an Irish name, is seeking some trace of Irish blood in his veins. Perhaps never in the history of Oklahoma has there been such a study of genealogies. Every man who can qualify does so immediately and the list of Irish is steadily on the increase.
Railroad takes up the Idea.
Even the Sapulpa & Oil Fields railroad company, now completing and electric line into Shamrock, has taken up the Irish idea and has officially designated its line as the “Tipperary Route”, where its trains are to be known as the Irish Mail, the Dublin Express, and the Killarney Special. The 530-horse power engine, electric locomotive, has been christened the “Casey Jones”. And the town people have named their park the Emerald Isle.
In fact, it would seem now that everything and everybody in Shamrock is to be Irish. It is similar to the old son of childhood days:
“My father and mother are Irish;
My father and mother are Irish;
And I am Irish, too.”
And it will be remembered, no doubt, that the song is extended to include “the pig in the parlor” and everything else on the place as “Irish, too”.
In order to be up with the procession and also to catch the public eye from the standpoint of advertising, the merchants of Shamrock have exerted themselves to find the appropriate names for their places of business, names that will have the Irish twang. As a consequence in Shamrock has the Hotel Erin, the Shamrock Café, the Irish Queen, the Tipperary Store, Blarney Castle, Murphy’s Place, the Killarney Rose, and the Irish Stew, the latter an eating house where the far-famed “Mulligan” always a place on the bill of fare.