Lexington Leader (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 48, Ed. 1 Friday, August 18, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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OklMion1* Ht* Soei• ty
LEXINGTON LEADER
onsolidtfticn of " You All Doins," ettablithed I999:" Cl*v land Ckmniy Reader," eatabtithed 1891. Enterr.i Jul;; 9, 1903, «< I ingion, OKI ihona, as teeond-clau maU*r, under Act of Congreu of Match 3,'1879.
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VOLUME 20
LEXINGTON, CLEVELAND COUNTY. OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, AUGUST IS, I9II
NUMBER .48
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Canadians Are Wary
The republican argument that a
■high tarifT i.- necessary to maintain
"the high American wage" is shown
up -as a farce, by the presence in
several American manufacturing
1 communities of agents of Canadian
manufacturers, who are gathering
I figures to show that Canada fcannot
| compete against American w ages.
The Canadians, for* instance, are
I learning that men work in the steel
; mills twelve hours a day, and seven
Carnival Week
. ■"). 1911.
week for
streets, as
s. were
going in
Colorado Springs, An
1 —This has been a* gala
■ Colorado Springs. The
well *as • the sidewa
; thronged with people
t'Very direction, pushing and crowd-
ing. However, but lew accidents
occured.
The Carnival opened Monday
with addresses Ijy (iovernor Shaf-
\ roth and Mayor Avery: then came
1 the three-mile auto" parade. The
MONE/
AGAINST LOSS
vm HAS only been in the last few years that banks have
I I been made to protect your money while in the bank
against loss. At the present time there are four states
that guarantee the deposits of state banks.
IT IS NO MORE THAN RIGHT
When
That I Should Give You Security
I TAKE YOUR HONEY
do not lend you money without gettin
Because
security.
Place your money IN 01 It BANK AND BE PRO I EC I hi)
BY THE STATE (il'AIiANTY. FT NO OF OKLAHOMA.
Security State Bank
days a week for a dollar and a half decorations were very unique and
■1 day. It is because U1ey do not perfectly beautiful, the Colorado
! wish to compete against the cheap , cars used their state Hower, the
foreign immigrant labor employed Columbine, in their decorations,
by the steel and other trusts that and .the'Kansas cars the same with
some of the Canadians are urging their sunflower. One car bore the
j the defeat of reciprocity. . \ inscription, "Arkansas, 'Now
And yet, the republican protec- j Laugh '. Colorado Springs won
tionists have argued all these years , the prize for best general deeora-
I that the great danger to American j tions, find Oklahoma for automo-
labor was the possibility that it biles, seventy-three in number. •
J might have to compete with the | Tuesday was the civic parade,
cheap labor of other countries, ! said to be four miles in length, and
The information gathered by the ; the pioneer reception. This parade
[ Canadian knocks the logs from un- (told the story of progress, which
der that ancient contention, so far' the city's birth commemorates,
j as Canada is concerned at least. ; The story of the founding of border
I settlement, and finally the story of ,
Speaker Clark plans to make ' a large and prosperous city of mag-
good roads 'an issue of the next ^ nificient buildings and beautiful
campaign. As a member of the homes of culture and wealth, re-
Lincoln Memorial commission Mr. | fleeting the best of modern life,
irk is advocating the building of j and was one succession of interest-
a great highway from Washington ; ing feature-.
to Gettysburg, "as the nucleus of a First came ti.
great system of national roads built \ aides, the poliec
by the government in co-operation 1 band, the I"11
with the state-." The'majority of trapper . burros
the commission favors a marble pioneers, in carriage-
arch in Washington, which the ■ elaborate floats, am
Speaker .-ays 'would form a lint-
meeting place for English sparrows,
. but which would not tit in with ti 1
practical character of the great Lin1
coin. The speaker has induced the
President to defer action until leg-
~ I islation can be passed permitting
of the strongest the building of the road. He will
e state. The then work for the adoption by the
Andrew Carnegie
savs,
"When Banks Get .Close-to the People,
then the People Get Close to the Banks."
That is on: AMBITION—to
this Mo tion than any bank has
jet closer to* the
ever done before.
people of
We want them TO KNOW that we
through hard times and good
are here to serve them
good
Good Roads Association ing, making it one
The Postal State Highway meet- \ Associations in I
in" rilli'il 'it Norman by Col. Sid-' meeting then adjourned to meet 111 government of a national road build-
ney Suggs, State Highway Com- Purcell and help them
missioner. was a complete success,
Association on the
the 17th.
form their j ing policy.
following day
When the Sherman anti-trust law and went only a short distance
1 was passed legislation was directed and suddenly came down, the
and was largely attended by the
leading farmers and business men
of Cleveland county. L "as sur-
prising to see the interest that was
taken by the farmers throughtout
the entire meeting, and they seem
to realize what good roads means
for Cleveland county. T he meeting
was largely attended by the citizens
of Lexington and the south end of j \™s caught m Oklahoma City rues- curbed by -government regulation.; to the
the county. The representative
Butler and Langford Caught. towarJ the prohibition or destruc.
Wyatt Butler, who ran away tion o f monopolies. Roosevelt,
from the county farm about one Taft and Wiekersham have not the
month ago, was caught at Lebanan. id,.a of trust dissolution. They
Tuesday. "Nick" Langford, who advocate instead that the existence
disappeared from the county road of the trusts be recognized and
gang near Corbett, two weeks ago, legalized, but that their greed be
marshal find his
md tin Midland
Indians, scouts,
prairie -schooners,
jowboys and
many other
feature- which added to the novelty!
interest of the parade. After tra-;
versing -ie main business streets,
the procession ctisperseri, leaving
the streets full of a moving mass of j
people, estimated at 50.000.
Tin Wright Brothers aviation
exhibition was at Boswell park on
Wednesday. The wind being very
high and clouds gathering, they
did not attempt to fly until about
three o'clock. One machine rose
up,
air
Our officer.-
and neig
at heart.
directors and stockholders are your friends
)ors. with the best interests of the community
If you need assistance, we nave money to lban.
If you have idle funds, we'provide a safe place
to keep them and give you the protection of the
in which
Depositors Guarantee Fund of tlie State of
Oklahoma.
from Lexington were: F. V. Ashew, j
E. M. Abernathy, John H. Asbury.
E. J. Kellar. Jack Etliridge. J. F.
-Shockley, II• H. Everett. Monroe
Burkett, Win. Moutaw, P. W.
Booker. W. li. Bandy. A. A. Sud-
derth. E. F. Shinn, W. C. Kemp..
E. Duffy, Sim Morrison, Eli Davis,
Jack Fairchilds, litis Medearis, J.
W. Marcuni, S. S. Denison. Jay
Sherman and W. K. Breeding.
After a speech by Col. Suggs as
to the cause of the meeting and
the benefits to be received by this
good roads project. Then \\ . It.
Goit, the State Engineer took the
floor and went into every detail of
how to build good roads, and the
cost of construction, and' why
Cleveland county should build the
! postal State Highway with the
' state convicts, and by so doing we
will receive our pro ratio of the be-
nefits of the state convicts, which
we have to support, and as yet have
never received any benefits from
their labors. His talk was educat-
ive on how and when to . build
good roads and how to maintain
the same. After an adjournment
for dinner the meeting was called
to order by John Fox, County Com-
missioner and a Good Roads Assoc-
iation was organized, with E. M.
Abernathy, president: J. J. Burks,
Secretary: C. H. Brand, Treasurer;
Sim Morrison and Prof. A. H. Van
Vleet, Executive Committee. There 1
was over Two Hundred members
joined the Association at this meet-
day afternoon. They were brought It remains to be seen whether the
back to Norman, and will be put on people are ready to confess that
the roads in company with the gang the competitive system is obsolute;
which is working near Corbett.
Woulden't a small ad help to
sell some of these left-over goods,
Mr. Merchant.' We are of the
opinion that it would. What say
you that vou try it?
WATCHING HHR
Nq lady is likely to withdraw her
hand when she has the pleasuse of things do not look so much
to abandon a system which affords
free reign for individual enterprise.
and to establish in its place a cen-
tralized government with the busi-
ness of the. whole country in its
' hand.-.
Pleased With Country-
J. I!. Moore, of Canton, Georgia,
came in Thursday evening for a
1 short visit with his friend, Dr. \\ . L.
j Coleman and family, .lie is much
pleased with this country and is
thinking of locating with us. The
only thing, he came just at the
wrong time of the year. Had he
waited and camfe about a month
from now when the farmers will be
bringing large loads of cotton, and
| other farm products into town, he
would probably have a very differ-
ent conception of this place; but he ,, i
is driving through the country and . dulgcd 111 by both old and y
seeing what the farmers have
the
"worse. We'll venture to say that
be will have lots of good things to j ^ jj
tell the folks at home . when he
gets back.
C,
First Bale of Cotton
A, Relephord brought in the
The
not being favorable at that time,
the altitude being difficult to rise
in. About six o'clock they both
rose, and after making several cir-1
euits. came down and made the an-
nouncement that thev would lly
the next afternoon, which they did
itisfaction of all; but j
though they did not circle Pikes
Peak, they went over the Harden of
Gods. We were close when they
started, and they seemed to rise
with ease, and came down as
gracefully as a bird. One went to
a height of 1100 feet. It is some-
thing wonderful, though they have
reached nothing, like perfection.
However there were some who wi re
'disappointed, and nothing seemed
to 1- re "'111 d tin T expi '., t i ■ •. -.
yet I am sure they could not have
been'pi rsuaded to attempt anything
so dangerous, nor could they ap-
pre : u< tin- efforts -i to-.— noiii
men who were unfolding l- tie-
world what will in the next century
be one of the commonplace achiev-
ments.
Wednesday evening was a .time
of fun in general, masking on the
! streets, throwing confetti, and every-
thing in the way of fun was in-
ning.
The. two big features of Friday
wore the Wild West show at Ros-
Park in the afternoon, and the
run and life-saving ex-
hibition in the evening. The lire
run was just fine, and nothing oc-
curred to mar the attraction, except,
that one of the horses drawing the
engine, fell and sustaine'd such in-
nieans
place a
sort.
if largely
a health
advt
of the birth of Colorado Spring- has In the Society Circle.
been well commemorated, and has Mr. and Mrs .1. P>. Iligbee enter-
added much to the ( ity, socially jtaineda large crowd at an ice cream
and financially, and has been tl,e | sucial last Saturday night. Various
tising tiii- were indulged in until a lute
pleasure re- |lliur nn(] all departed wishing many
happy returns of the occasion.
i Last Monday evening Rev. II. H.
It S 3 Buick "Forty . Everett and wife gave mi ice cream
F. V. Askew went to Oklahoma j fecial in honor of their neice and
City last Thursday and returned in |nephew, Mr. Willis Merley and Mi-
llie afternoon with a Buick Forty, Blanche Jacks. A large crowd was
and it certainly i- a beauty. It has present and all enjoyed a jolly good
MRS. M.\BY MlTCHKLtj. i
the very best equipments, and is
one of the swellcst looking cars that
comes to Lexington. This is the
ninth car for Lexington, ami it
seems that it will not be long un-
til there will be several more.
Concrete Floor in Bank
Concrete walks aero-s Main and
Broadway were finished' Saturday
afternoon, and immediately .Wynn
Xcddo, the contract ir. began work
on putting irv a concrete floor in the
Security State Bank. By working
ay night, this floor
and it is a large
it the old wooden
lo' is a 'good con-
lis work shows up
until late Satun
was completed,
improvement o\
floor. Mr. Ned
crete man and
time patieipatmg 111 varies games
until late hour, when all departed
expressing their heart felt apprecia-
tion of such an occasion.
Mr. and Mrs. I!. White entertain-
ed a few couples of young people
1 la.-t Thursday evening vrith forty-two
and other games. Refreshments
were served and all report a spen-
did time.
A large company of young people,
were delightfully entertained at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Booker
last Thursday evening, in honor of
Miss Reba Dunlap, of Texas. They
enjoyed themselves with games un-
til a late hour, when refreshments
were served.
Back From Colorado
E. M. Abernathy and wife, and
son, Fwing, returned Thursday
night from a month's trip to Colo-
Large Sugar Beet.
J. C. Call, of near Helsel, brought
in a sugar beet a few days ago,
which weighed four and one-half
pounds It is very targe and grew
many
iv 011 Id
hill, where
that they
being watched in that kind of
way. If you have an idea of pur-
chasing a Watch or any other
Article of Jewelry
don't run away with the idea that
you can do so well elsewhere as
you can here. Whether you are a ,irst tnlje nf coUon yesterday.
purchaser or not, we take pleasure t)a]e wag good sample and 1 juries that it had to be shot.
in showing what we have to offer. wejgj,e(j 428 pounds. It sold for This is Sunday, and all is quiet
You will be particularly attracted 12c and Mr. Relephord received a again. The streets have been clear-
ly our watches, etc. premium of $30.10 and a year's j ed and nothing remains to tell the cfe Loan Co.. of St. Joseph. Missouri;, 0ld house tom down and 1
L. G. SHERMAN subscription to the Leader. He story of the eventful things of the
rado. They made the trip in their 011 ;l h'K'1 1 '
"Reo", and ooly experienced avery people would
few mishaps. They are loud in not grow. This shows what some
their praise of the Reo, and say they crops will do in Oklahoma, and
just simply Md time of their lives, shows that should the farmer.-
-— plant several different kinds of
want a wagon, liny the (.r0j)s instead of just one crop, that
Bain, for sale by Edgar J. ^ wj[j s{and the chance to make
If you
best, the
Keller.
better crops and more money.
Farm Loans
represent Bartlett Bro:
THE JEWELER
At Owl Drug Store
reports that there will be a fair past week.
1 crop raised in his neighborhood. j buildings.
Branch ollice at Guthrie,
but decoration on the 1 rites and best terms.
The fortieth anniversary
Land
Lowest
Milt Sherman, win'
mile south of town, is
Denison.
lives one
having hi.-
build-
ing a new one. He is going to
build one of the pest country
homes that there is around here.
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