The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1901 Page: 1 of 10
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The Chandler New«
TENTH YEAR.
FIRST PAPER PUBLISHED IN LINCOLN COUNTY.--H. B. GILSTRAP, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1901.
NUMBER
Next to Good Schools, Good Roads Are the Measure of a Country's Progress
CLUB
ORGANIZED.
EVERY person interested in Chandler has
reason to rejoice that at last the town
has organized a Commercial Club, and that
the club is organized for business and is on
a business basis.* There
COMMERCIAL can no question, in view
of the interest that has
been shown in this matter,
that the business men of Chandler are not
asleep to their interests, and that they pro-
pose to work together in every enterprise
that is for the upbuilding of Chandler, com-
mercially and otherwise. The enrollment of
members is not large to begin with, but it is
likely that many who desired to attend the
organization meeting were prevented from
doing so and will avail themselves of an early
opportunity to associate themselves with
this organization of town-builders. There is
scarcely a limit to the work that the club can
undertake with profit to the town and coun-
ty, and the assistance of every friend of
Chandler and Lincoln county is needed. No
businessman should wait to be invited to
become a member. This is an important
time in the history of Chandler. Work on
our highways must be done, railroad matters
must be looked after, our natural resources
must be developed, and manufacturing-in-
dustries must be encouraged. By.energetic,
harmonious work Chandler can be made the
best town in Oklahoma territory.
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NOW
FOR ROAD
WORK.
IT SEEMS as though the good roads agita-
tion which has been kept up most of the
time for the past two years in this county is
likely to bear fruit. If there was any ques-
tion upon which the people
of this county were agreed
in the last campaign it cer-
tainly was the proposition
that we needed better roads more than al-
most anv other one thing, and that our rep-
resentatives in the territorial legislature
should work for the enactment of a new road
law which would make it possible for
us to improve our roads in a systematic man-
ner and at the same time distribute the bur-: old adage that
den of paying for the road improvement in best." The
as just and equitable a way as possible. The
result of this agreement upon the desirabili-
ty of good roads was that our two represent-
DURING the closing hours of the legis-
lature a good deal of fun was poked at
John Embry and C. G. Jones on account of
their having made such a hard tight against
the passage of the public
THE building bill and having
LASb™ been so completely over-
powered by the "mound-
builders." Embry and Jones and the other
members of the house who were classed as
"cave-dwellers," on account of their opposi-
tion to the "mound builders," took all the
chaffing good-naturedly, and now they have
the satisfaction of seeing a verification of the
'he who laughs last laughs
moundbuilders" were out-
witted and didn't discover the fact until
after the legislature had adjourned. When
the governor sent his message to the legis-
atives in the legislature, though differing po-1 lature a few davs before the adjournment
litically, co-operated in the matter of road suggesting the passage of a law providing
legislation in a most commendable manner.
The result was the enactment, of the Todd
bill, which, though not just what our people
would have desired, perhaps, was the best
that our representatives could do for us, in
for the investment of the public building
fund, Embry and Jones saw that he was
wanting a "way out" in case the P. B. bill
passed, and Embry drew and introduced the
bill in line with the governor's suggestions.
view of the fact thai many ot jjie counties iThe "moundbuilders" failed to see the point
are not interested in road improvement to j and gave their unanimous support to the
the same extent as our people. Now that j bill, which proved
Af
we have this law, however, we are at the
critical point in our good roads campaign.
The law makes it possible for us to help our-
selves. If we hesitate to use our opport uni-
S we were going to press last week a|ties, the law will do us no good, lhere dre
telephone message came to The News j two or three points*) hat should be looked
from Guthrie announcing that Gov. Barnes after now with diligence. The amount of | produced passed away at Columbus, Ohio-
had vetoed the public building bill. This j the tax levy for road and bridge purposes j George T. Fairchild, who, for eighteen years
was not unexpected, but the ! is left to the discretion of the county com-
THE information was none the, in issioners, except that a maximum limit is hA,K,
less appreciated by the peo-1set. In order to secure the immediate! lege, and made it the great-
pie of Chandler and this assistance that is needed for road improve
county. No official* act of the present gov
their undoing. Talk
about the parliamentary strategy of Tom
Reid and Speaker Stevens ! They aren't in
it with the cave dwellers!
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N SATURDAY of last week one of the
noblest characters this country has
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GOVERNOR'S
VETO.
GEO. T.
FAIRCHILD
DEAD.
was president of the Kan-
sas State Agricultural Col-
ernor has ever received more unanimous ap-
proval from the people of this county than
this one, and we believe that the same can
be said of nearly ev&ry locality in the terri-
tory, with the exception of three or four
towns that would have been the direct bene-
ficiaries of the building deal.
sets forth his reasons for the
est agricultural school in
ment, the maximum levy should be made, j the world. It was during the time that he
To make it will not produce more revenue j was president of this college that the editor
than is actually needed, and the burden will | of The News was a student there, and the
information that President Fairchild was
not be excessive on the taxpayers, in view
of the increased valuation of the county,
while the benefits of this systematic form of
road work will be shared by all the taxpay- j whole life
The governor ers of the county. The commissioners, ■ few men
veto in a very however, will want to know the sentiment of j inspiring
ably written message, showing that good the people of the county 011 this subject, for ambitions
business policy for the territory demanded they very
dead came as a personal loss to us as to all
who have been associated with him. His
was spent in school work, and
have been more successful in
in young people those loftier
and nobler pur poses
naturallv will not want to be make them
use in the
interest in
bers who supported the public building bill; friends of the good roads
had come to him and stated that they had fore, should take spe cial care to satisfy our
done so under protest in order to pro'ect] county board on 1 his point. They
measures in which they were interested be given to understand that the people of out into the battle of life to learn that he had
from the opposition of the building combine, the county will stand by them in the making been one ol the leally
He called attention to the evident disapproval of a proper levy and in th<> contracting for
of congress for such a, procedure, as evi work on the principal thoroughfares of the
deuced in their prohibition of legislation for county. Another thing worth remembering
lis that if all this work is delayed till after
the levy is made it will then be too late to do
the erection of a capitol building. We regret
that we have not the space to publish the
message entire, for it is certainly a very
interesting document.
great teachers. It
can be said of him that thousands of men
and women, now doing their part 111 the
work of the world, are better and more use-
ful for having known him.
fellowmen and did good,
He
and
much r
begins.
>ad work
Im medi
before the cotton
n c action is very
season jepitah could be
tant.1 this.
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which
world,
every
of real
such action. He said that many of the mem- blamed for making too high a levy. The j He took a personal
movement, there-j student, and many times the young man
who thought him too severe in his judg-
should I ment and too anxious in his counsel, went
loved his
no nobler
written for any man than
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 21, 1901, newspaper, March 21, 1901; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117282/m1/1/: accessed May 12, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.