The Meridian Eagle. (Meridian, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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TKe Meridian Eagle
ISSUED WEEKLY.
THE EAGLE SCREAMS FOR A GREATER MERIDIAN.
VOL. 1, NO. 9.
MERIDIAN, OKLA., SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1905.
$1.00 Per Year.
After You Read This Paper Hand it to Your Neighbor and Tell Him
to Beeome a Subscriber. It will Help Meridian.
notice:.
This is the last issue of
the Eagle for July. All
advertising bills are due
and payable to Mr. Sloan,
who has full authority to
receipt for same. Please
be prompt. Several have
failed to pay their sub-
scription to the paper as
per agreement.
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SERMONS IN
EEW LETTERS
Faith does not fatten on fog.
Modesty is the mark of might.
Religion by compulsion results
in repulsion.
It is easy to call
His inspiration.
our impulse
Faith builds no fences between
us and our fellows.
A petrified creed often goes with
a putty conscience.
Envying another's cake only
spoils our own cookies.
Men need new hearts more than
stronger harness.
(iod waits for us somewhere on
every pathway of pain.
Nowhere do souls sour quicker
than in an ice box church.
Men who intend to be good to-
morrow always die today.
The fragrance of a life depends
i>n the fullness of it.3 love.
The heart gains no rest through
the gold cross carried on the
breast.
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UNITY Of ACTION
Is absolutely necessary to the upbuilding of a
town. Factional disturbances in any town, large
or small, will retard its growth and eventually
"kill it too dead to skin." Some of our people
are not satisfied with the principal placed at the
head of the Meridian school next year, and are
threatening to send their children elsewhere. It
may be that our board of education made a mis-
take in their selection, but this does not justify
the action contemplated by our school patrons.
We are not in position to speak on the merits of
the man employed as principal, but if the board
found that a large number of our people were op-
posed to the person they contemplated selecting,
it would have been better for the school had an-
other man been employed. If this method had
been pursued perhaps the present friction could
have been avoided, and the school not be sub-
jected to the present strife. Nothing could prove
more unfortunate or disastrous to our school
than an open rupture between our people.
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not more assurance
more assets.
of faith but
The Sunday face that looks like
lye will not wash out the sins of
the week.
We'll Gas, You Bet.
II. A. Booth has launched the
Eagle at Meridian, Okla. Booth,
with his paper, will assist in gen-
erating the gas at that city. We-
leetka (I. T.) American.
As things now stand, the Eagle
will have but little trouble in yen-
It's no use agonizing in prayer erating the gas in Meridian as it is
IIAPPILV SIRPRISFD
HI V. BROWN IS HIMIMBlRtD BY
fRIENDS.
An ()ccasion Long to Be Remem-
bered By Those Who
Participated.
A very pleasant surprise was
given Rev. II. B. Brown, Friday
evening, July '21st, in honor of
his fifty-seventh birthday anniver-
sary. Quite a crowd responded to
the invitations given 'on the quiet,'
and a most enjoyable, evening was
spent. Many useful presents were
brought by those attending for
which Rev. Brown was exceedingly
thankful. Just such occasions as
this helps to smooth the furrows
that time places upon our brows.
The following persons were
present:
Mr. and Mrs. Neely.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Mesdames Miles Allen, Dave
Johnson, Elmer Spencer, Millard.
Messrs. Richard Mayes, Everett
Bradbury, Tom Bradbury, Wilbur
Brown, Charles Mahoney, Robert
Smith, Sterling Neely.
Misses Jessie Smith, Grace
Smith, Esther Mahoney, Minnie
Mayes, Ola Smith, Ida Mayes,
Flo Neida, Ruth Neida, Amanda
lvozart, Nettie Brown and Agnes
Millard.
for the liyht when you
shutters locked.
The man who can be
with his corns has n good
<>f glory.
What most ('hristians
pat lent
chance
Many a man wastes enough pers-
piration praying for dimes to earn
ten times that many dollars.
Keep the all on the surface. We are, how-
ever, looking for a different kind
i of gas in the future. In the mean-
time watch the Eagle for gas.
Knew No Difference.
"I didn't know that you were so
accomplished a linguist,'' he re-
marked as he glanced at the paper
she was reading.
''I don't make any pretensions
in that direction," she answered.
"But that is a Russian paper
you have picked up."
"Why, so it is," she answered
in surprise. I thought it was a
dialect story."
Ballots vs. Babies.
We glean from an exchange that
an Oklahoma reformer, a female,
of course, lecturing for the cause
of female suffrage, has announced,
as an ultimatum, "No ballot, no
babies." Men and brethren, what
shall we do? We are certainly
confronted with real trouble at
last, and it will require the com-
bined wisdom of all of us to get
even.
Knockers are found in every
town. Meridian has them.
An tditor Doubts.
"What do you think of an artist
who painted cobwebs on a ceiling
so truthfully that the hired girl
worked herself into a nervous
prostration trying to sweep them
down?" says an exchange. This
causes an editor who had had some
experience along this line to re-
mark that there might have been
such an artist but there never was
such a hired girl.
Friends and well-wishers of the
Eagle can help the paper and also
the town by patronizing only those
who are helping to make the Eagle
a success by carrying an adver-
tisement in its columns. The paper
must depend entirely upon the
liberality of the business men of
Meridian.
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Booth, H. A. The Meridian Eagle. (Meridian, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 9, Ed. 1 Saturday, July 29, 1905, newspaper, July 29, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc405054/m1/1/: accessed April 27, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.