Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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VOLUME 19
LEXINGTON. CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1. 1909.
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Cotton. Corn and Hogs
Lexington is 11 it* best cotton, corn
and hog market in Southern Okla-
homa. The best prices are being
paid daily, and the farmers learn-
ing the fact are coming to Lexing-
ton from twenty miles away.
Booze Captured
Last Saturday night Deputy Sher-
iff Lou Higbee, assisted by several
Lexington citizens, made a raid on
\ some rooms in the up-stairs of the
old Weitzenhoffer building and cap-
tured about ten gallons of booze.
It is- reported that about fifteen
■ men were caught gambling, but we
could not learn their names.
The county sheriff and his dep-
uties say that this booth".: .'inu bus-
iness has to stop.
High School Notes
Tom Hawk says that lie ran car-
ry the mail.
Edgar Keller is a late arrival in
the eighth grade.
Mr. Rice is having plenty of fun
with the Senior class in rhetoric.
The basket ball girls have organ-
ized and will soon begin to play-
Sam Hawk has been absent part
<it' the week on account of sickness.
Of all arguments, Ilosea and
Mr. Ilutehins now have them dur-
ing physics recitation.
The Junior class which has been
absent, has relumed with th" ex-
ception of Leslie Stovall.
Mr. Hutchin is almost persuaded
to charge for beds in the high
school room.. Everett says he
would like an upper berth.
We received a very interesting
lecture Wednesday morning on
Manners and Morals. Mr. I'ice is
favoring us with some good, short
lectures of late.
The foot ball boys are working
^ hard, and are trying to get a com-
plete schedule. The first game will
be played with Sulphur high on our
grounds, next Friday afternoon.
That Great Story
The Bombardment of West Point,
is on the inside page of the Leader
this week. Don't fail to read it.
It is great, fascinating and entere-'
ing.
Little Boy Dies
I'ervis. the 4 year old son uf
and Mrs. (I. W. Thompson, died
their home at Wayne Sunday* ev
ing at s o'clock, after a few d.
illni -s with throat trouble.
The remains were laid to rest
the Pur -II cemetery M nil. y aft
noon at 4:*>0 o'clock. The servi
were conducted by Lev. J. ('. F
dren, of Wayne.
Where He is a Bit Lame
Mr.
1 at
is speech at Albany, X. V.,
Mr. Taft said: I want Governor
Hughes to come out and back me
up on this platform. When we are
together there is plenty of strength
and we work better than on sepa-
rate platforms. In Massachusetts,
from where I just came, I had a
senator and a congressman or two
help me on the platform, and that's
where 1 needed assistance."
Many a truth has been littered in
jest. Mr. Taft was nominated as a
Roosevelt reformer and elected as a
tariff revisionist. He helped in the
enactment of a tariff hill that in-
creased the consumers' burdens,
declared Aldrich to be the republi-
can leader in the senate and a lit
counsellor for the American people
and gave to Secretary Ballinger a
clean bill. With facts in view one
is impressed that the president was
right when he said "that's where I
need assistahce."
Subscribe for the Leader.
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S. C. HAWK, Wm. WARD, MRS. M. P. GILLETE,
President. askier. Vice President.
Guaranteed Weights
A report has been circulated
through the country to the effect
that the weights of the county
scales are incorrect. T"hi~ is untrue.
The county attorney and deputy
sheriff have examined the scales
and found them absolutely true.
The proper thin ; to do, if you think
your load is weighed incorrectly, is
not to go out of town and tell that
you are being cheated, but to go to
the deputy sheriff, who can be found
without much trouble, and have
him examine the scales. Weights
are guaranteed absolutely correct.
W. H. Walker For Governor
N'ow since the State Capitol fever
has subsided at Purcell, the next
best thing that can be accomplished
is to make Wm. II. Walker, father
of single statehood, Governor of Ok-,
lahoma. No doubt the Democrat-
ic press of the state is at his com-
mand, and Bill Walker would make
a Governor second to no man in
.n* state. Therefore, while the Se-
quoyans are flirting and eohearsing
in the 'curklebur patch' and the:
Ilaskellians are trying to amalga-
mate and select one from their herd
why not the pr-'.-s of the state bring
forth a clean man, a demoi rat. an
honest man, and one who's free
Walker, of th Purcell Register.—
\\ avne (iazett' .
University Notes
Norman, Okla., Septu 27.—The
enrollment at the university this
time of the year is much larger than
at the same time last year. Nearly
600 students are enrolled. Many
new instructors have been added
for the departments and a new en-
gineering building has been start-
ed. The university is equipped
better this year to accommodate
the classes. The new $200,000 Ad-
ministration Hall has been started
and about fifty men are working
steady. The only hinderanc- in its
erection will be caused by the de-
lay of the material.
The fraternities and the sororities
of the university have been exceed-
ingly busy since the opening of the
university. The "rushing season"
is the busiest time of the school
year. The new students, who are
rushed by the fraternities, are kept
busy remembering dates they have
with the fraternities. About thirty-
live new men are pledged by the
fraternities and probably half that
number of girls are taken by the
three sororities.
The board of regents of the uni-
versity is planning a celebration
some time next month at the time
of the corner stone laying of the
new building. Governor Campbell,
of Texas, will be invited to make
an address on that occasion and
several of the most prominent men
of Oklahoma will be asked to at-1
tend. The time is not exactly
known as the material of the build-
ing has not yet arrived. The eon-
tractors stated that they would rush
the building work as fast as possi-
ble and do everything in their power
to get things ready lor the laying of
the stone.
The" Phi Delta (euntna sorority'
g iV' . CP': .1 to tin fri -hi; n
girls of the university last Thin- i .y
aI'ternoiai ;t 1 " ; ' ; ■ - . i,
Lniversity avenue. After an hour
or so of games and other cut Tlain-
tnent. refreshments were served.
The chaperons wen- M ' dames.
Ilieherson, DeBarr. Washburn. Tur-
ley, Sawtell and Buchanan and
Miss Lucille Don .
The Hen On Two Nests
11' hen that trie s to set on two nests hatches no chickens. A
.-he doi - is to spoil good eggs.
It is much the same way with the man who scatters his bankin,
business, lb' get- several half-baked, half-hearted friends; inslead I
one solid, good ope who will always stand by him.
He also scatters his business confidence until his private affairs may
be spread broadcast and his business matters so mixed up that he nevi i
knows where he stands. In the same way, he addles his credit. By try-
11114 t< set on I\n < or more nests he is utile* to keep none of tin* eggs wann
lie will find The Farmers State Guaranty Bank of Lexington, the hest
nest to stick to in order to hatch out good credit, good financial help
und friemUliip. and the longer lie stays the higger Mild stronger will lii-
credit grow the more certain will he he < l altraj/s obtaining help wln-n
he needs it.
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Important to Farmers
Guthrie. Ok.. September 25. '09.
—F. W. (iist. Federal Statistician
with headquarters at Outline, has
the following to say in regard to j
some, recent observations made by
hi 111 on deep plowing.
"The best demonstration of the
value of deep plowing and intense
cultivation which ha-- come under
niy observation, I - aw at Den i son,
Texas, during a recent v isit at that
place. Mr. John F. Baker, mana-
ger of the Industrial Cotton Oil i
Company, is growing three acres of
cotton near his mill, from which.he
has already gathered four bales and
in which there are at least two
bales matured and yet to pick.
The history of the cultivation of
this crop shows conclusively that
the largest part of the credit for
this high yield is due to the amount
and method of cultivation. The
land was broken early in December
last to a depth <>1 ten inches, and
again on the 25th of February to
the same depth. On March 17th,
the land was bedded and the seed
planted on the bed, covered by
barely an inch. This planting came
up within ten days, but when six
or eight inches high, was entirely
killed by frost. The field was
planted the second time on the 8th
and 10th of May at about the same
depth, and in seven days thereafter j
began to come up. The first culti-
vation was given about two weeks
after the plant showed above the
ground, and nine workings in re
given thereafter, the last being the
bri . in:: of tin- iuid<Uc- about the
first (if August. TIii- show two
hn akin /s, one bedding, two plant-
ings and ten workings, the latter
wue!;. Owing to unti ual • ondi-
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growing season a large part of the,
field had a poor stand, the whole
plat averaging about 80 or So per j
cent. The rows are live feet apart j
and the plants are about an aver-'
age of eighteen to twenty inches in
the drills. The plant will average
a little al love waist high, but have
spread out until they meet in the
row, but not between the rows.
Some weavils have been present
during the season, but owing to ex-
treme heat have not caused much
damage. The land upon which
this crop is growing was used eight
years ago as a feeding pen for cat-
tle, hut has not been given any fer-
tilizing since that time, in fai t, a
large amount of the. top soil has
been carted away b\ market gar-
deners. Last year a crop of one
and one-half bales was produced,
so that while the land is still fairly
rich, doubtless richer than that
around it, there has been no artifi-
cial fertilization.
The cotton growing there is of a
splendid type, being of early fruit-
ing, long-limbed variety, the seed
having been carefully selectei 1. Not
more than six inches of rainfall
have oceured since the ground was
first broken. This history shows
that the enormous yields, amount-
ing to perhaps five or six times that
of the average of that in the neigh-
borhood, is principally due to the
method of breaking and cultivation,
which the department of agricul-
ture has been suggesting to the cot-
ton farmers for a number of years,
and which is the basis of the farm
demonstration work in this section.
Meeting Progressing Nicely
Tin meeting, which is being
conducted by Rev Gregg, under the
tabernacle, elo-cH Saturday night.
There has been about twenty-live
oovcrsioiis and fourteen have united
with the church. A great deal of
interest has been aroused.
"Well. o| course ii is hard luck, good deal of tmpopii.ar
doggie." Said old Motther Hubbard (ting things hi neighbor:
as .-he came awa\ frmu th cup All that , girl has to
board, but you are not much a hit with tin young m
worse off than the rest of the ulti- I either sweet, pretty, n
mate consumers." I smart, or just rich.
Labor Officer
I Iic Democratic party has provid-
ed the laboring classes of the state
i with a state office to look after the
| interest of labor. State Commis-
sioner of labor, ('has. Daugherty. is
ever elert to see that laborers of the
state get justice and fair treatment.
Kvery minute of his time and the
■ ' e
hind hiui in hi- great work. Who
believes that an Oklahoma laborer,
after having hit been left at mercy
of corporate employers during all
the year- Oklahoma was controlled
by the republican party, would now
consent to place that party in power
instead ui who gave them pjote.
I tion? The laborer is asking why
the republican party did not do
some of the things for him during
the sixteen years they controlled
the state.
\\ ith sin 11 an oilier as State Kx
: aminer and Inspector in operation
il is impossible for even a corrupt
state officer to get very lar from a
i straight and narrow path. When
j Oklahoma was a state we hail ■ i
I such officer. We wonder win
Snap Shots
Possibly Commander ferry con-
lined his polar plans to Matt Men-
I son in order to keep them dark.
Every loafer is on the lookout
for an easy job, but most of them
1 are afraid to experiment.
When a man takes a better h df
lie gets tin lw-tter of the bargain.
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Fox, J. O. Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, October 1, 1909, newspaper, October 1, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110383/m1/1/: accessed March 29, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.