Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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Oklahoma Sis See it!*
VOLUME J9
lexington leader
(Consolidation of You Alls Doins, Established 1800- Cleveland r« . .
^Entered June 9.at Lax«n«o . Ok,., a, second-*,,,,, matter, under Act
LEXINGTON, CLEVELAND COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, „0,.
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One S7.50 Toilet
Set will be given
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To some one of our customers
on Saturday, January 1st.
One ticket will be given with
each purchase of $1.00 worth
of goods, up to and including
that date.
Reserve your tickets, as that
is the only means by which
you will know if you get the
TOILET SET.
Palace Dru^ Store
Sherman S Everett.
President Holds Conference
In their predictions that Mr. Taft
may yet join hands with them, the
republican insurgents an* simply
whistling through a graveyard."
An Associated l'rcss dispatch print-
ed in (lie Omaha World-Herald
says: "President Taft called Vice
President Sherman and Speaker
Cannon into conference today and
for more than an hour the three'
jwere closeted in the president's
private room, while visitors cuoled
their heels in the waiting room of
executive's office. When Mr. Sher-
! man and the speaker left they de-
; dined to comment on the consulta-
tion, declaring that it was not a
subject for public discussion and
that if any information was to be
given out it must come from Presi-
dent Taft. The latter declined to
talk. Leaders in congress, however,
are of the opinion that the confer-
ence delt with the legislative pro-
gram to he followed in the * present
Attorney F. li. Swank, who has feS8ion- It is known that the pres-
been assistant county attorney of *s highly desirous of enacting
Comanche county for the past few le slation that will have the ap-
tnonths, returned last Saturday proval ,)f the country at large and
: from Lawton to remain in Norman. Ile is more ()r 'ess committed to the
j He will hang out bis shingle at the establishment of certain policies.!
J beginning of the new year. desire that the coining legisla-
• Mr. Swank's wide and favorable |tion be nbove criticism is'said to j
acquaintance in this county and all 1,0 accentuated by the attitude of
<>1 bis interests being here prompted ' democrats, who are planning
his return to his home county to se'ze on every republican mis-
take ui> the practice of law. His til'<0 to rn:,ke good the declaration
numerous friends will be glad to ,)f chamP Clark, minority leader in
learn of his return to Norman.— t,ie house, that the next house will
Norman Democrat-Topic.
NUMBER 14
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Presents °fl!!'' m°8t 8e!\sil?k" 1111,1 acceptable Christmas
niprr fJ y0U l,e able t0 ,ni,ke- wouIt' be a
Si VmVare'a rMZOr' 11 g°0(1 pocket knife or a fine
pair of shears or scissors.
. We haye, a complete stock of these goods and our
prices are right. B llnu our
WYNIVE At MAfSSKY
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Attorney F. B. Swank Returns
Santa Claus At Farmers Bank
•Santa Claus sent us word last week to save some of
"ice Christmas Bank Books, because lie had letters from ,
l-oys and girls who wanted a bank book for Christmas.
those
leveral
"Standpat" Conferon CO
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 23rd.—An-
nouncement in the Kansas City pa-
pers that Congressmen McGuire,
Morgan and Creager. republican
State Chairman Norris and a num-
ber of other prominent Oklahoma
republicans had held a conference
in that city and decided on a plan
of campaign for the party in Okla-
homa for the next state election,
has aroused quite a tempest in a
tea pot.
If local republicans are to be be-
lieved, the meeting at Kansas City
was made up solely of "standpat"
republicans who were afraid to hold
their conference within the borders
4 f the state, for fear the aggressive
Tjfisurgents would take them by
storm and compel Chairman 'Nor-
ris to call a meeting of the state
committee for the purpose of reor-
ganizing that body.
N e are very glad to note Mr.
Swank's return to Cleveland county
and wish him unbounded success
in the practice of law.
Christmas Trees
There will be Christmas trees at
the Baptist, Methodist and Central
( hristian churches on Christmas eve
night. An excellent program will be
rendered at each church,
W.
be democratic. One of the chief
demands the house hAs made of
congress is that there must be great-
er economy in appropriations. Rep-
I reii-utatfve Tawney, chairman of
ihe house committee on appropria-
tions, was with the president early
in the day."
An Appreciated Letter
James, Okla.. I>•■«■. ]!)n!) i
Mr. J. O. Fox.
Proprietor of Leader.
Dear Sir:—Enclosed find $2.00
to pay up back subscription and
for next year. My subscription ex-
pired the last of January. Thank
boy or girl a bank hook
A bank account is one
W hy not have Santa bring your
with tin- first deposit to their credit'.'
among the best of gifts.
There is hardly anything that will please the voung"folks
weH as having "Money in the bank just like Papa and Mamma
You'll have to hurry, they are going fast.
irWliiJLlfi
Prospectors in the City
Fred J. Hawk and Jno.
Shields, of Oklahoma City, were in
jXraingtnn Wednesday, .ccomp.ni- yoll ,{ir d, , „„
.«! I,prospectors, who ,lo ]ik,. ,o
very much surprised at the great
development in southern Cleveland
county.
' hey will very likely invest in
! some of our valuable soil.
Week of Prayer
Inere will be a week of prayer
senile- at the Methodist, church,
beginning Friday evening. Decem-
ber 31st, at 7:30 o'clock. Mrs.
Anna Dqwdy will preside during
tli'' Week,.
An excellent program has been
arranged fur the occasion, am
are cordially invited to attend
Yours truly,
W in. Hollowell.
Mr. Hollowell formerly lived near
Lexington and was a very success-
ful farmer. We greatly appreciate
such letters as the above.—[Editor.]'
Telephone Manners
If telephone users would cast
the idea of a machine out of their
minds, and use the same courteous
and common sense practice in talk-
ing by telephone as they observe in
talking to a fellow being, face to
face, they would appreciably raise
the standard of the telephone ser-
vice.
A Dusty Spot
To Rural Patrons
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Merry Christmas
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Happy New Yeai
We wish for our many custo-
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Christmas and a Hapyv
New Year.
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from a recent count made b\
rural carriers in one of the counties
in the State of New York of coins
deposited by patrons in their boxes
for tne purchase of stamp supplies,
it was found that each carrier in
the county was collecting an aver-
age of 115 one-cent coins each
•i week. This average applied to all
the routes in operation throughout
the country would give the enorm-
tal of about 300,000,000 one-
oillr.
As most of these coins are de-
posited loose in boxes, "it is desir-
able that the rural carriers, in a
tactful and polite way, put forth
their beet efforts to induce patrons
to provide themselves with stamp
supplies in advance of their needs,
and to equip their boxes with suit-
able coin-holding receptables. It''
should lie explained to patrons that
'the picking of loose coins from box-
es not only results in needless hard-
ship and suffering to carriers in
winter weather, delays the delivery
and collection of the mails, but
frequently results in actual money
loss to the carriers, for if, in col-
lecting coins from .boxes, they drop
them into the snow or on the
ground without recovery, they are
required to replace the amount out
of their own funds.
Respectfully,
P. V. DEGraw,
Fourth Asst. Postmaster General.
Republicans Opened
Headquarters in Guthrie
ri Guthrie, Okla., Dee. 22ml.— Act-
5 ing Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee, James A.
Wagoner, has conn to
j Guthrie and says he is here to stay
until after the general election of
; 1910. lie has opened headquarters
in the Hotel lone and has started
in to reorganize and rehabilitate the
\ i i republican state, C■ f u111\ mm! ore
■\ school inspector, noted for hi- 1
■s b-mm.iw i i c'ln('t committees, by having all va-
cancies in the ranks filled. Harris
and his friends claim that these va-
cancies are being filled by the rank
and file of the party in the local-
ities where the vacancies exist,
while Harris enemies declare that
each conimitte, from the state or-
ganization down to t:.c towns) ip.
is beimr picked by Harris, through
ii: ft: -kkJiA, fc.t k lAi i
Time to Quit
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■ignat; of Zelaya if
it any lurther excuse
existed for the inter-
nation in the affairs
ias been dissipated,
/clava, the tyrant,
and with its end
idiosyncrasies, happened to notice
that a terrestrial globe in one of the
class rooms was very dusty. This
annoyed him, and, putting his fing-
er on the globe, he cried out,
"There's dust here an inch thick!"
It's thicker than that sir," calmly
replied the new teacher. "What
do you mean?" asked the inspector
With the n
would seem tli
that may have
ference of this
"f Nicaragua I
Die course of
lias been run
should come a termination of t'nele
Sam's meddling with Nicaragua
politics.
Il is to be hoped that there is no
truth in the rumors that the Taft
adinini-(ration contemplates estab-
lishing in Nicaragua a provisional
-"V' ri:,ia 1:1 -in ]';, . (,, that which
obtained until lately in Cuba. The
pcojue of this country have had
pare of experiments
and to
•volent
llfipp
in Cub
W hy." came
it your finger on th<
iahara.,"—Londoft |,
sharply
"you've
erf of
News.
Advice to Correspondents
If you've got anything that's happy
Boil it down.
Make it short and crisp and snappy.
Boil it down.
W hen your brain its ocffn has mined,
Down the page your pen has sprinted
If you want your effort-printed,
Boil it down.
Take out the surplus letter,
Boil it down.
Fewer syllables the better,.
Boil it down.
Make the meaning plain—express it,
So we II know, not merely guess it,
I hen, my friend, ere you address it
Boil it down.
( ut out all the extra trimmings,
Boil it elown.
,ns"'t;r his influ,
1 n e * i
as act
with
will f
j of till
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st a
idpat"
vur hi- retenti
state organiza
•omes to elect
■pllblit
airman,
ii<. who i-
ie head >>
as real and I
Norris
chairman.
1,ether Harris is
rank traitor to tin
sullies to lead, seem
largely on whether the
sidering the matter is
ion when tin
, successor ti
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for
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party he pi
to depend la
person con- uj
ooking at it r<>
Hat ioij in Xic .
ragua call foi any furtlier meddling
on our part, lo Ik sure Uncle Sam
>s the self-constituted policeman of
the western hemisphere beat, but a
policeman called to interfere in a
Right work, right prices—Leader
Skim it well, then skim the skim-
mings,
Boil it down.
W hen you're sure 'twould be a sin to
Cut another sentence in two
Send it on, and we'll begin to
Bfiil it down.
j through "regular-standpat-Cannon-
Ahlricli - Mc (>uire - Morgan - Creaget
! glasses or spectafcles of the LaFol-
j lette - Dolliver - Cummins - Bristow -
Mulvane-( larber-( iolobie -Holcomb-
i Hickam-Scott style of republican
| architecture. Patriotic or perfidi-
ous, take which ever viewpoint you
! choose—one thing is certain, llar-
j ris is here, and in charge of repub-1
j lican headquarters—and he's mighty
I busy these days.
lily row docs not nor<
liis reign in the house
oecured.
warily .set
here the
Quite a Success
i I lie box social given by the high
school Athletic Association Tuesday
j night, was quite a success both
socially and financially.
raise;d a neat sum.
Pure Food Commission .
Needs Some More Cash
Shawhee, Okla., Dec. 21st.—A
larger appropriation by. the next
| legislature, but no more legislation
: is recommended by Dr. J. G'. Mahr.
I state health commissioner, in his
| annual rejiort to the governor which
was issued today.
Principal among the matters con-
veyed in the ruport are reviews of
the itfu<adc against impure vinegar
and sanitary conditions of soda
fountains. The enforcement officers
during the year confiscated several
'gar.
The boys j thousand barrels of impure vim
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Fox, J. O. Lexington Leader. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909, newspaper, December 24, 1909; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc110395/m1/1/: accessed May 4, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.