The Dover News. (Dover, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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DOVER. KINGFISHER CjUN'I Y, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY
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Every Farmer
As well as every business mc
should have a bank account.
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t/CCct'-JSC! Your mor.c is snfer in the
bank than anywheie else.
Paving your bills by check is
the simplest and most conveni-
ent method.
. our check becomes a voucher
for the debt it pa s.
It gives von a better standing
with ' n sin ess men.
Money in the bank strengthens
your credit.
a bank account tenches, helps
and encourages you to save.
This bank does all the book-
keeping.
Your bank book is a record of
your business.
To those c'csirl £ Fcikirg Connections
with j EstJ lishrd Bon'.:, we
cxt . in i vices.
The SANK of OVER
Dover, Ok Id.
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Cooler We j ill ■? r
Has come and so has our new
goods. We have among then scne
of the prettiest patterns ever
brought to this town. Besides
these we* have a complete line
of the cora ordinary goods that
you need all the time. Among
these you can easily find some-
thing that will please you in
both quality amd price.
We are prepared to supply the
needs of the c.en as we have a
supply of trousers for dress
wear and other furnishings and
we carry in stock the best
there is in overalls, work shirts
and other thing3 for ordinary
wear.
Ler Us Show you.
Gilchrist, Sherwood and
Dover Oklahoma
I KEEP THE BEST BREAD TO BE HAl;
You cm now huv from me the unrivalled product of
tin! Milclu'll Hiking Co., at Euiil I have the Rye
Bread, Civam Bread, and the reliable " R >yal lil'.ie."
Alio tine line of <••> >ki"s. .1 hive, too, just received a
fine stock of Crushed Fniiu for mv- sola fountain
ED. PULS, RESTAURANT-COLD DRINKS
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Modern Demorthenes.
Tlit* fo!loiviii<: are debatt a !>v tlir
public school
cant your v<
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other i
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pupils in ti
lic th steui to be on ttie a
Wo failed to get the
c manuscript in first one:
Tin? <jiivHtiou IVr consideration this
I afternoon i , ilesolwd, theie ic more
ph asure hi pursuit than in posses.
for tin* aft it main
1 thank vou.
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prove
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OWb in search ot ti l' licull
ers ami continued until <
worn out o111\ to cast tiiei.
W'tht r and * lit?. ' li where
wiio nn i I n«searcli all da\
uooii if vaile\ ; select a \
; imail \ to tIjr -tv
i ne pleasure
there vs ho ;
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Aj^ain it is the same old story m
case ti an education. One may *n\ 1
will be smislled il I ttU ej^uth
^rade diploma, hut wln n tiieyj>elit
thc\ conlimie lor souu tlmi" better*
Tlie pleasure ol pursuit. How man\
boys or uiris are Uieie wlj < too|<
iipoti their school da\s and t-a\" the
| happiest days ol' my life." Ail <.n
; account ot the pleasure of
pursuit.
Also in the iiuauciai world how
otLeu one will say, "when 1 am
worth ten or twenty thousand dollars
( I will quit and enjoy lite." Also
wiieii ti icy reach th.s uiarJi, they net
a new goal and try harder it possible
| to get anothi r ten or twenty tiious
I and. I he pleasure ol pursuit.
Ljnl but not least, how many boys
or i irls| who become so wrapped up
I in the pleasures ol pursuit lor a life
j companion thai they neglect every-
I thing; building great hopes on the
ilutuie, when tliey shad have cap
lured their heart's Idyl only to be
| blighted by marriage. My
perhaps, will say that married lite is
; the highest ol attainment. Perhaps
So, it depends on what you call j.leas- |
! ure. y<
Honorable judges, ladies and
llemeii The <|iiestlon for this after
j noon is. Resolved, that lire is ipun
i d stiuctivo than water 1 am lien
: to prove to \o- that tire :s mole de-
structive. Notice il you plea ', tin
i reat lire in Chicago in 1"T I nhiel;
r igcd for two days, consuming ev« r\
thiDii in its path until it liurned to
the lake fioiil, there waterwor's \n;i«
insullicient to stop it :tnd it burnni
overall area of three square mile;,
ifctwoen two and tlrve huudred ln« *
were lost and proj ertN to t in amount
- I $'200,000,000 destroyed and about
lf000,000 people were left lioiueiess
I'oll 'Willis this was the Boston lire in
I ST li in which about (' ."> acres were
huined over and properly value ! st
eighty million dollars deslioye.l, the
water system was inadequale to coin
bat it. Again in lth 4 there was an
other terrible tile in Baltimore in
which the HreiU' ii were unable to
cope with thellimes, though lire en-
gines were brought from W ashing i
Ion. l,hila«ielphia rind Ni*w York, but i
all to no avail until aboui. n0 acres!
w«*re burne.i over, the estimated loss ;
was $1,000,000,000 in property be-
sides the Milo ling and t xposurc
which cannot he estimated in dollars
and m ills. Aga'n uoiice the various
torest li res which have raged in al j
most every sect.on, covered by our!
valuable lorests and note in evt rv j
j case the dest ruelion not only ol the'
; timber, hut the loss of lives of both!
i people ami sti ck. Think ol the pi.
oncer fs'inilies hat have been let' :
i homeless and to h'i.rve, miles and I
: miles troin anv settlement, homes
'gone, crops gone and even members
I of the families perished in the linn- ;
j gry tlames. The loss can hardly bet
: estimated. Notice again the great
I piairie lires which have I retjin nti d I
our great central plains and leit de
I strucion in its path and loss ot life
! lite ol people ami stock. These lior I
rors can hardiy be describ.Mi. I iui |
1 a^rine the soriow ot some poor far-
mer after viewing the remains of a j
| beautiful field of golden grain just
i ready to cut, but which was swept |
! away by the red tlanies or after the j
; harvest is over, think of granaries '
j aud Imrus overflowing with golden I
i grain and then of a lire burning it:
j to ashes to turn to dusi. it is easy j
j enough to make the barns aud houses
; waterproof, but who can build them
opponent, ! fin-proof.
Toy .5Co
These a it t
FLEECED
FLANK
Ilea ;!qfirirt'
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A. H. SeHOWALTL^ & GO-
Lumber,
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! 're It rs I u
ih. nm;-:;. Mv)uUlinp;, Glass, Scrctn
ors, Faint Oil and COAL.
TH, iVigr. Dover, Okla.
•g sand
Id pan i
> would |
Not 1, j
rending thin to sec that \ . st multi-
tude f pi op I e w nli all their « aiibh
p!'Sfessions gone and notexeh a pia- e
tt lay their heads or nothing t-. eall
their own. Thinking of their h ved
oileS that perished in lite lltino, :m I
the properly loss amounted to !rJ..
000,000.000. Was water evt I no
destructive in so short a time — two
days? \\ ith these plain facts Im lore
you I will now leuvn ihe (iiiesi.iou
lor iny oppoueiil. IIazki. Stitt.
Nk.iativ m ti v Mo.na I'o i r.r.scNti.
Our (juestion lor d -bate; tins ai t- r.
noon is, lle.olved that tire is more
destructive tlian water. But. i am
going to try to convince y< u that
this is not st), tor y« u know w lien it
comes to escaping fr tn tire or wat* r
it is much more easy to escape Irom
lire than water. V*'e have mi ni.
stance ot the water disasters in the
Canon City Colorado liood ; how tin-
city was located between mountains;
a cloud hurst came, the walej msiied
down upon the dwellings of the cilv
and destroyed tlieni. You tell me. if
yon can, what wire thesu people fo
You
Will
F ill d
THiBEJTAND LAI-
EST FICTION HER.E.
WE HAVE THE Fl/LL
LI «S T of' HARoLD
JELL WRICHT'J POP
ULAR. BooK.5.
OTHER. PiOOK S BY
DIFFERENT AUTH-
ORS, EQUALLY AJ
uOOD AND THE PRI-
CE .S ARE AS LOW
AS ANYWHERE.
THEJEBooK^ MAKE
ATI R/CTIVE GWTS
CALL AND JFE OUR
JUPPLY.
Saur's Drug Store
Hennessey
in this case, escipe? NVell
IVrhiips you remember that not guess not. When you have a lire it
long ago the country was electrified j is much easier to handle it because
instance, you will j erhaps ^ HM(^ IR'WS that a school house we have our modern lire preventive, 'many boi:!p, as they were clinging
have goue to bed, fallen asleep. Ba burned and with it more than1 Also part of building may be lorn frantically t. the coaches which worn
i by wuiies up cry ing with the colic. K humlrtd little lives had been irom other parts and saved in this being tos<ed to an Iro in the angry
i \cu must get up. light the lire, heat I dotted out. Oh, think of the sor- 1 way. But no power of man ha > yet waters. I hey could do nothing but
. cioths and apply them to his ston.- r,,w the j HreiiLs. They were even been idile to bold back the an^ry ( await their destruction in a burn.
ome sweepiiiLi d
I acli, hui.L up the j aregoric and per-j1 w properly car. waters, which
j haps then walk the 11 or lor an hourr"® ^Jt lr l(,ved ones after death, j upon the people, carl
j cr so to to quiet it, no matter what' ^u^n,1o remained but a lew charred property and many pre
I bones and of course they could not j My opponent may have
llie wither (ft* how sleepy ynu aiv I
wn i'V- Imililinj; one would jump from
iiijr wuli it " ivimloiv or il i', was two high a Iiul.
lives. ■ 'I''1' 'or esuiipf might l o brought
xuiill
: llic imli vu!ual reseued.
Von may eall tlii.s pleasure. I don't. ] l,e 11 ,eI111'i -cI; ainl lliink of tlio tern-
1 wonder w hat my opponent would l,'t' Mcllrs SIJ,BL' people carry through
j say il asked while perforinine that '1'''' caUst''' by falling in the liie or
! aet ol charily? I accidentally getting too near some
1 ted hot article, often lniiirinj; them
Again m the mfirmng the wife
will say, "hubby, it's lime to get
up," and if he doll t move at once
-lie will proceed to place be feet in
the small ol his buck aud move him.
I say this is lur Irom pleasant. Again
wiley may want some money aud
hubby has none. liow unpleasant
fo'* hubby, and if is not forthcoming
the hair may Uy or hubby will, lluw
J pleasant that lie can
of fire being more destructive Ulan 1 Again, I say, w.>at,ean yOll do iu
water ill the Baltimore lire an 1 <lal i uii.ist.ol water.' I Udi you tiler■
veston Hood. Vou may say that (1" ll t ilrown.
there was $10(1,(100,OOU worth of! -^'y oppmi lit sai1, "with tlio moil,
property destroyi'd in the Baltimore . ('*'n inventions the loss ot life at Bea
to such an extent as to prevent their fllv. „„ i,|% :jU,000,000 of property ' e"uhl bo prevented," but did not f u
heisg anything but an invalid ami destroyed in the Galveston flood, ! 'I'dauic have all U'e moderu inven
suffering Irom severe pains. fiy but here, in these two iUBti'iices of'liuns tllilt n,!>n can produce and still
therefore it is destructive to bea-"y, |ire and flood, let me tell vou there "early seventeen hundred lives were
the poet says, " | was one life lost in the Baltimore j wipeil out in less than three hours,
of beauty is a joy forever.' flrt. and 7.000 lives lost m the (jal. Feeling tiiat this evidence should
I We will probably be con I ron ed with, ' veston flood. Here 1 put this question j,)e sufflcieut to couviuc* any nason.
( the theory that lire can be eitin- j be) ore you: Is (lie property more 1tbat water is mere dv.
|guished by water. Thai is (rue j important than the number ,,f!striictivo than Kre, 1 thauk you.
| however, but by diking, ditehin g'I lives lost? Wo say certainly not ! Porla Rico's New^Vond'r
[etc., a great deal of the destiuclion j Then should this ease uot prove tliatl I-'rom f ir aw iv Porto Riooeouio r -
pieveutfd. fire is not tuore destructive than w a-1 por(!i 11 *' :'<loriul new disoovor.v
and you know us
thiii"
ruth- ; Biil who .-an prevent a lamp or gaso- I ter'' Think ot the Uississun over ! ls"'IIBVml w,il vi^ly bonuiit tl.«
• A,,.!..,.:,,,;. ,,„S! CS:J!r5RSSri&*£-
the, also by the problem ot ships spring- | the lives lost aud (lie hoin. s do- eovcry is doiag salendld work' here.
We have only to refer to various j caused by water can he
county records to prove the truth- Hut who
| fulness ol this statement j there
many each year, who pursue
pleasures of wooing and winning only I in a leak while iu mid ocean—but Utroyed. I say what
lo find disappointment in wedded j wtth the modern improvements and I to keep back the
| bliss and bring up the most frivolous| inventions of today tho loss of 1-tel Nothing could 1
I unreasonable and disgraceful charges 1 cun almost always lie on ventod Of1 ...
, .1 compelled to let
obtained course there are exceptions lo r.l|'
the pliusurtc rules. But wheu a boiler buists and
I the ship catches fire alt* is lost,
, to get a divorce. ilaviLi
it they at once bee
• their debtinatiu:;
o . I tit* don. lie .re.I ina about 5 times of ton lb \
.IV waterscou<iu and colds, also tpv btoilwf ot i
doue; the.- were
I
the
wa\-i s reacu
iiook for an iu.
.
enid in lus c!j•>- ? and mori) Hvi'i
) ot !i • rs, will u,p I It on UJ/ lilvns*.
W boputhiiigr<Mi ei-dtoma wll y«:.
s i in «vc*rv drtti: jtoro Iu
Rio." F.)r ihro\'. aid I'joj ti'tufeb'l
stance closer at hoaie. W hni the. ts no bin; bctt r. K ttml will
,, ; tram went down in the Ciiuarinij nv. j" -nvlnci ■ yo i of lt< 11.40.
Trial b .t.tle 1'vsm}. CiUiPWHi Hjt
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Martin, J. S. The Dover News. (Dover, Okla.), Vol. 12, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 14, 1912, newspaper, November 14, 1912; Dover, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107109/m1/1/: accessed March 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.