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FOR FUR ^TURE AND SATISFACTION GO TO J. W. LOVETT, THE FURNITURE MAN
Mangum Sun-Monitor.
Greer Conntjr Monitor Iitiklihtd 1890.
Qr*»r Coutt 8n Bnikllihtd 1800
CoasolMstei April 0.1801.
MANGUM, GREER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1911.
VOL. 22. NO. 8
CAMPAIGN TO OPEN
Indications arc that the Primary
Campaign Will be Warm
WITH CANDIDATES PLENTIFUL
Partial List of Those Who May
Enter the Race for the Var-
ious County Offices
YOUNG LADY WANT8 INDIAN
But He Muat Have "Nice, Clean
White Teeth, and Care for
Hie Nails Properly"
A merry political war among the
democratic politiclans^of Greer coun-
ty is promised again next year about
time for the primary election for
the selection of candidates for the
various offices. Already different
men are commencing to trim their
sails to ruri various offices, a,nd many
others are being urged by their
friends to enter thi» lists.
Commencing at the bottom of the
court house floor, it is possible that
Last week Postmaster Crittenden
received a letter from an Indianapo-
lis young lady who seems to be very
much interested in Indians; ^in.fact
her Interest is so great th*H she al-
lows it to get the best of her judg-
ment, and therefore, her letter makes
her appear very silly.
According to her letter, if you are
an Indian, and have nice clean teeth,
care for your finger nails properly,
neat in appearance, and are a gentle-
man, she would be glad to hear from
you; otherwise, nothing doing.
(We are somewhat afraid that the
young lady v^lll be disappointed in
the amount of correspondence that
she will -receive, for it occurs to us
tha't she is just a bit too exacting in
her demands; in the first place most
of the~ Indians in and around Mangum
are too busy making a living to de-
vote that amount of attention to their
teeth and finger nails which would
be necessary to meet her demands;
NEIGHBORHOOD HAPPENINGS
News from Every Section of Old Greer as Told by The
Sun-Monitor's Special Correspondents
BRINKMAN NOTES
(From tin Courier, Nov. 3)
We have been informed that there
is a move on foot between the rural
citizens to get one or more rural free
J delivery routes established out of
Brinkman. This demand is one that sister' Mrs- Ruff Colllns of near
is given consideration by the govern'
ment . and routes are always estab-
very much enjoyed by all present.
Mr. Charlie Spain Vas a Mangum
vistor Monday afternoon.
Mr. John Foraker butchered the
first of the jneek.
ftuis iva" Howard is visiting-"her
J. B. RANDALL A POPULAR MAN
Advertiaes for a Widow Whose Hue-
band Was Hanged and Receiv-
ed Nearly 200 Letters
TEACHERS COMING
About 500 are Expected to At-
tend S. W. OKIa. Association
Mangum Getting to be Popular
Convention City..We Must
Entertain Them
•Sheriff Nelson will be a candidate | while most all of them are gentle-
again to succeed himself as sheriff; men, it seems from a reading of her
S. H. Tittle, who was formerly sher-
iff, ,ts being urged by many of his
letter that being a gentleman is a
sort of secondary consideration with
friends to enter the race again this her; what she wants more than any-
year, and if he decides to do so there
will be another warm race. H. M.
Maloy, formerly secretary of the
Greer county democratic committee,
and an employe of the state reform-
' atory, is being talked of as a possi-
ble candidate, and if he decides to
enter the race, he will make the oth-
er candidates hustle.
Passing up stairs to the second
floor, we understand that Supt. Sims
has announced to some of his friends
that he will not be a candidate to
succeed himfeelf again, and Jt is
probable £hat there will be several
thing else is an Indian who has nice
clean teeth and nails.
Miss Horton, we imagine, will have
to content herself with one of those
ordinary Americans of the east, who
have plenty of time to devote to their
teeth and nails; the Oklahoma In-
dians have never had any difficulty
in finding plenty of girls nearer ho^ne
who are not quite so exacting in their
demands and who lay greater stress
upon being a gentleman than they do
upon having nice clean teeth and
spotless nails.
Martha.
Miss Carrie Jenkins and Mr. Car-
lished where the patronage is suffic" mifax visited IMr. and Mrs. Paul
lent, and under these conditions there Summers of near Duke Saturday and
is no doubt but what the route will, Sunday.
be established in the near future. i r. a. Smith and famiily were shop-
The Brinkman consolidated High ping in Mangum Monday.
School will start on its term for the
1911-12 term on Monday morning, No-
vember 13th. It is believed of the di-
vember 13th. It is the belief of the
directors that there is enough money
available for a seven-month term,
Miss Myrtl-e Kirk spent the latter
(Continued on page 5, Column 3)
W. H. Jacobs returned Monday
which will beat last term two months, i from a trip to Battle Creek, Mich.,
The handsome new brick school1 where he entered a sanitarium for
building has been completed and is his health. Mr. Jacobs says that
ready to turn over to the board, which -Battl€ Cre€k ig a flne place> and that
is expected every day. Two more v
wagons arrived this week and will h€ is feelin« better tban he has for
be put in service' when the school years, and he looks it, too.
starts. This gives the school seven
wagons, a number that w*ill be suffic-
ient to accommodate all the patrons.
The six teachers employed are in-
structors of ability and .that Brink-
man will have' one of the best schools
in the county is unquestioned. The
people of the northwestern part of
the Hopewell school district this week
made a proposition to the board of
the Brinkman Consolidated school
district asking that they accept their
children as pupils in this school.
patrons are paying the tax in the
Hopewell distrist, yet they see the
advantages to be had by sending the
children here and are willing to ^ pay
I the price to do so. It is to be, remem- .
If you have not nice clean teeth - bered ^ tWg dlgtrlct faas made, cqfcnty in Oklahoma. He says in
The letter was handed to us for
entries in thte race for his place. Prof. | Publication, in the hope that possibly j ~hey ' rent one of the
-Jeter, who taught school near Reed, i araon« the readers of the Sun-Monl-; wagQas of thi8 school t0 convey their
and It is likely that D. T. cmfwypu I tor ]there might be some Indian who j children to and frotn theh. hom€s and
has been mentioned for the place;could fl11 tho requirements, and re- , algQ to pay ^,eir tultlon at
and it is possible that D. T. Coving-1lieve the_young lady's curiosity, and ; thfl regular scholastic rate Thes€
ton, who made the race last year, will | below we publish the letter:
also be a candidate this year. ! Mlss Marle Horton,
Passing on to the office of county j Virginia Ave.,
clerk, Willie Kennedy, who lives on j Indianapolis, Indiana.
Mangum Route 1, has been an avowed, To Whomever This Letter Reaches:
candidate for this place for the past
several months, and it has been said! and do not care tor y°ur finS«r n*ls
by some of Mr. Mc Neill's friends! Properly you need not answer. On
that possibly he would be a candidate! the other hand, if you can plead ^ ^ ^ ^
again. And Luther Maloy has also; Suilty to being neat in appearance bQard accepted their proposition and
been mentioned for this place. j and 70u are a gentleman, I would be
County Treasurer Overton can not very glad to know you.
I am a girl, just eighteen years
old, tall, with dark brown hair - and
gray eyes. I am very much interest-
ed in Indians and would like to know
one of them well. Please write at
onoe and send photo.
tMISS M. HORTON.
ekobs' many
healt^ will
prove.
Mr. Ja-
friends hope that his
continue to steadily l in-
Some weeks ago an advertisement
appeared in one of the leading Fort
Worth papers asking for correspond- NOV. 30 AND DEC. I AND 2.
dence with widows whose husbands
were hanged, the object being matri-
mony. The advertisement was sign-
ed J. B. Randall, and the widows
were directed to address him at Man-
gum, Okla.
A few days after the first appear-
ance of the advertisement, delicately
perfumed letters began to pour into
the postoffice here addressed to Mr.
Randall, > until Postmaster Crittenden
now has on ham' something like lliu
letters, and be ij very anxious tc
iitid Mr. Randall and turn o*rer his
ccrresponierict) to him.
An artic:; apieared a l'e«" days a<u
ij one of t e 3t\Ue papers calling at
.pillion to :ao advertisement, aiitt
.":*ted that .Mr Randall's teason -.or
desiring to wed one whose husband
had been hanged, was so that she
could not always be reminding him
what a nice man her former husband
was.
Wte have not yet been able to find
aryone here who knows or ever heara
tell of one John B. Randie, aud if
anyone knows the gentleman and
PRES. TAFT APPROVES AGRICUL-
TURAL EDUCATION
President Taft in his address be-i
fore the National Conservation con*|
gress at Kansas City, in September,
took a rather optimistic view of the'
agricultural future of this country, j
He heartily approves the expenditure j
<p| every dollar that is being spent in j
conducting experiment stations and
spreading information all over the
country. He also approves the estab-j
lishment of the demonstration farms
in every county in the United States'
similar to those that have been ap-
2 rated for the past two years ill every;
three attempts to become affiliated j par^'
with the Brinkman Consolidated dis-1 11
trict with failure at each attempt. The
succeed himself, according to the
present law, and it is likely that
there will also be several entries for
this position. Andrew McCutcheon,
who was one of the candidates laBt
year for register of deeds, has been
mentioned quite frequently by his
friends for this plaice, but as yet he
has made no definite announcement
of whether or not he will be a candi-
date. So far no others have been
mentioned that we have heard of.
Mrs. Watkins is now serving her
first term as register of deeds and
undoubtedly will again be a candi-
date. She may possibly have opposi-
tion for her second term, as we have
heard of two men who might possi-
bly be opponents of hers.
'The office of Tax Assessor is a
new one, and this year will be the
first time that the voters will elect
this officer. A. B. Carlos will be the
assessor the first year, by appoint-
ment from Governor Cruce, and no
doubt will be a candidate for
their children will attend here.
GRANITE GRATINGS
RESULTS OF ELECTION
The Off-year election in various
states Tuesday resutled generally in
republican victories. In Massachu-
setts,vGov. Foss,-it seems, is reelect-
ed, by a reduced majority. In New
York the republicans elected a ma-
jority of both houses of the legisla-
(From the Enterprise, Nov. 3)
Mrs. Ed Atsinger sustained a brok-
en wrist Tuesday by getting her foot
caught in a wire and falling heavily
on her arm. The lady was crossing
the yard at her home in the north
part of town when she became entan-
gled in the wire and fell, breaking
the right wrist as above stated.
Fire originating from a defective
flue partly destroyed the doof of
Miss Hetty Williams' residence on
Mountain avenue at 3 o'clock yester-
day afternoon. The blaze was ex-
tinguished with a few buckets of
water ^before the fire boys could get
Miss
ture; in Kentucky, it appears prob-
able that a democratic governor has *t"he ground. .....
teen elected to succeed Gov. Wilson, | Williams placei3 the damage from „re ,
" aNjl and water at about *50, which is a to-| Ize the expenditure of money for im-
while in Maryland both sides
claiming the contest; in Rhode Is-
land the republican governor was re-
elected over his democratic apponent
while the election of what is consid-
the ered as an anti-Wilson legislative in
to
he land-grant colleges establish-
ed by the Federal government have
vindicated the policy in making the
grant. Now the department em-
ploys 11,000 persons, many of whom
are engaged in conducting experi-
ment stations and spearding inform-
ation all over the country. The co-
operation between the state agricul-
tural system and the Federal govern-
ment's publicity bureau and experi-
mental work is as close and fine as
we could ask. It is difficult to just-
ify the expenditure of money for ag-
ricultural purposes in the Agricultur-
al Department with a view to its
publication for use of the farmers,
on any constitutional thetory that
will not justify the government in
spending money for any kind of edu-
cation the country over; but the wel-
fare of the people is so dependent
upon improved agricultural conditions
that it seems wise to use the welfare
clause-of the constitution to author
Mangum will be called upon soon
to entertain the largest number of
teachers that has ever been within
its borders at one time, perhajs. Wo
refer to the coming meeting of tho
Southwest Oklahoma Teachers' as*
jsociation,- which will convene hero
on November 30, and continue in
session December 1st and 2nd.
This association comprises all tho
teachers within the counties of south*
west Oklahoma, and its membership
numbers, perhaps, five or six hun-
dred, and a good attendance is ex*
pectaed this year.
Last year the meeting was held at
Weatherford, and by the united of*
forts of tho teachers of Gredr coun-
ty and Supt. Duff of the city school!,
and Supt. Sims, the meeting was
landed for Mangum this year, and
. .. , ,,, not it is up to the people of tho city
knows his present Address, they will tQ ggt ,n behlnd ^ teachera ^
confer a great favor upon the post- them to entertain ^ Tlsltora
office force here by calling the r at- and ghow them tlme.
tention to it.
Committees on securing rooms in
pricate houses: first ward, Misses
Mina Davis and Kate Terry; second
ward, Misses Willie McKinney and
Do you want to raise frying chick- Delia Sanders; third ward, Mimes
ens for the money there is in it? if Mary Hamilton and Beatrice McCol*
you do, then right now is the time ll8ter:' fourtb ward> Misses Mabel
to get busy. Did you kn«w that Hughes and Rhea Shadden.
chickens hatched in- October, Novem-1 Reception Committee, to Mieot
ber and December and January al- Trains—G. W. Sims, J. O. Ward^ Pep*
ways go on the market for from 24 ry Jeter, Nell Nash, Roland Hugheo,
to 40 eepts a pound? That doesn't! D. T. Covington, J. W. Bailey, S. A.
sound exactly reasonable to some Bond and P. L. Lewis.
farmers; but it's true just the same, j To act as buildings—Misses Alta
You may not be able to get thtese sawyer, Bessie Ward, Mary London,
prices from consumers in your own Jessys Ambler, Delia Sanders, Win-
little town; but the way to do is to1 nie Jacobs; Messrs. Chas. Overbjr,
hatch them now, and when they Thomas Russell.
weigh a pound or two pounds, ship Commlttee on AsgIgnm6n.t 0f
them to a good wholesale dealer who Homes-Mrs. Tilla McIntosh, Mi*s
ships them with other carloads of Caroiine Goumey.
stuff to New York and Chicago. There ,:6mmltt€e on Sending to Hornet-
is where the high prices are paid. T ^ VVardf T L Ballingcr. Miss Mat.
These early broilers are sold to fash- j
ionable restaurants and hotels.
good reliable wholesale dealer in the vv. Duff( Roland" trugne«.
west will pay you the prices quoted , ,,ommrttee on Soitclt*aons lad
above, and he gets still more for his Hotel AcCommodations-G. W. Sim*,
time and trouble.
MONEY AND CHICKEN8
tie Thompson, Miss Jeffie "1 oung.
A Committee on Printing—G. W.
' D. T. Covington and R. W. Hughes.
If you are in for making money out committee on Arrangements—T.
of broilers, this is the only thing to s. Ballinger, R. W. Hughes, Miss M*
do just now. If you wait until spring1 ^ Hughes, Miss Hattie Reburgh.
when everybody are hatching, your
chickens will come on the market at
a time when the price is hardly
enough to pay for producing the stuff.
Committee on refreshments—Mioa
Willie McKinney, Mies Kate Terry,
Miss Jeffie Young.
it's like raising watermelons'for the METH0DIST CONFERENCE
place again. J. W. Tucker, township! New Jerae>" « taken as a rebuke
assessor for several years at Reed, Woodrow Wilson. In New Mexico
is also being groomed as a candidate the first state election was held,
for this place, and there may possi-!and »*>th sides aw claiming the elec-
bly be others ition' altbough indications are that a
County Judge Todd has withdrawn j legislature safely revublican has been
his candidacy for congress and has (elected.
Mrs. Will Norman is visiting this
week with friends in Granite.
announced that he will be a candi-
date again for county judge. He may
possibly be opposed by Lawyer1 Mil-
ton Thacker, although neither he nor;
his friends have as yet made anyj
announcement.
tal loss, as she had no insurance.
The papers were signed up this
week by which the state of Oklahoma
takes over the Flynn lease on the
school section west of the state re-
formatory, and that splendid body of
land will now be added to the farm
already belonging to the institution.
This gives the reformatory a total
of 1116 acres, and will render the
institution self supportingjn a very
short while. Warden Reed had a
portion of the land leased this year,
and has a fair crop of cotton on it.
The price paid for the land and pref-
erence right was $12,000 for the en-
tire section. Messrs. Schwartz and
Cox went to Oklahoma City this week
j and got the matter through, though
I
i
to considered to the race.
District Clerk George Wtoburne
says bo has not made op his mind
yet about what bo nil do. that it is
a long time off, aad that ho will
have plenty of time to think about j granite Wednesday and preached the
the matter. Prof. Lewis, from WU- funeral services, after which the
low, has been spoken of as a poesi-j body was shipped to Chickasha,
(Continued oa page S, Coluaux 1)
provement in agricultural education
and leave to the states and private
enterprise general and other voca-
tional education. The attlture of
the government in all this matter
must be merely advisory. It owns,
no land of sufficient importance to |
justify its maintenance of so large'
a department or of sending into all
states agents to carry the news of
recent discoveries in the science of |
agriculture. The S50,u00,000 which |
has been spent for research work in j
the department, however, has come:
back many fold, to the people of the I
United States and all parties unite
In the necessity for maintaining
those appropriations and increasing
them as the demand shall increase.
"Iuis now proposed to organize a
force of 3,000 men, one to etery coun-
ty in the United States, who shall
conduct experiments within the
county for the education of tho pres-
ent farmers and of the embryo farm-
ers who are being educated. It is
proposed that these men shall hare
pay party by the county, partly by
the state and partly by the federal
government, and it is hoped that the
actual demonstration on farms to the
country—not at agricultural stations
or school3 somewhere In the state,
The cotton picking Is not progress- but In the country Itself—will bring
ing very fast on account of the bad bora? tc the farmers what It la poo-
former home of the family, where j weather. ieible to do with the very soli that
tho remains will bo interred. { The party at Sirs. E. A. Kirk's was they themselves are cultivating."
market. You have to get them on tho
market early if you want to make any
money. If you will do this there is
money to be made, and lots of It.
Get a good incubator. Don't be fool-
ed by flashy catalogs. Study the con-
ditions of incupation and investigate
about the machine you intend to buy.
I have used many incubators, and I
find some of them are not
IS NOW IN SESSION
Annual Meeting of Methodists Con*
vened Here Tuesday, Will Con-
tinue All This Week
WOMAN BURNED AT GRANITE
A lady whose name was Mrs. W. rfT ,
McKenzie, met her death at Granite
County Attorney Henry, it is ssid, j Tuesday afternoon, we are informed.
may be a candidate for reelection, | by a gasoline explosion. As we un-jthey have not returned from that
and he will be opposed by Lawyer M. | derstand the situsUon. she was try-i,>im0e, and the Enterprise was unsble
H. Mills, who has served several j tog to repair a leak in a gasoline can to secure any further particulars than
years as deputy district clerk; J«o. when the can exploded enevolping that the deal had been closed. The
Evans, who was a candidate last her in flames. She died shortly ar- ( greater part of the material for the
year, has a%> announced his toten-' terwards from the effects of the main building is now here, and War-
tiou of again being a candidate, and burns. j den Reed is daily expecting a mem-
Lawyer 3. D. William, of Granite, j The dead woman was the wife of a ber of the board of affairs hero to
Dr. W. H. McKenzie. and was popular
among her neighbors, and tho com-
munity mourns with tho doctor in his
hour of bereavement.
Rev. W. L Morrill went over to
approve the foundation work and
other preliminaries, after which con-
struction will begin in earnest.
HESTER HAPPENINGS
Mangum is this week honored by
the meeting of the Annual Methodist
Conference here, which Is the first
worth time in our history that we have had
much. I have studied this question for the pleasure of entertaining so many
years and tried nearly all makes of Methodist preachers. The houses at
incubators, and 1 find that it pays a the city we been thrown open to
man to investigate before he buys.; them and e erybody is making an
You can hardly do without a good in-1 earnest effort to entertain thefb to
cubator. You are almost bound to j a fitting manner.
have one if you hatch chickens in cold i The" session convened at the spa*
weather; and if you want to make Cious Methodist church Tuesday eve-
money, that is when the hatching has ning, and the sessions have been
to be done. You must remember also neid both day and night since.
that to hatch good chickens you must Quite a number of prominent men
set good eggs. Your hens will have from over the state are in attendance,
to be fed on good wholesome food, it to at these annual conferences that
and the eggs taken good care of. I' the business of the church s trans*
always have mighty good luck raising1 acted, and where ministers "eceive
chtckens early and the hatching prob- J their appointments for the succeed*
lem has been solved. I hatch a large i ing year. As yet no announcement®
percent of the eggs put in the incuba- have been made for the appointment*
tor and tb^, chickens nearly all live • of the next year.
and grow fast. j —————-
By all means, fix to take care of the| THE WOLF WEDNESDAY NIOHT
chickens in bad weather, and get at -
good incubator and go to work.—John1 Last night the people of Man-
Fields in Oklahoma Farm Jaurnal. gum were treated to another good
tho
CAPITALISTS WERE HERE
A party of capitalists, many of
whom represent some of the strong-
est financial houses in tho world,
were in Mangum Tuesday afternoon.
It was sbout 5 o'clock that they ar-
rived in the city, and they only spent
a short time here, inspecting tho|good class of attractions hero i
property of the Northwestern, stter he deserves better patronage than
which they left, going north. | Uas received so tor.
play. "The Woir* was one of
best performances seen here this
season, being in the same class with
"The Third Degree." The company
was not a large one, hut each ■■■
ber was well adapted to his or her
particular part, and as a whole tho
performance was very interesting.
Manager Hamblto is bringing a
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