The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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The Hennessey Clipper
VOL. XVIII.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1908.
NO. 3Q
England Says
NO ALUM
In Food
and strictly
prohibits the
sale of alum
baking powder—
So does France
So does Germany
t> The tale of alum
foods hat hern made illepal in Wasiunuton and
the District of Columbia, and aluin ba Ling powders
are everywhere recognized at injurious.
Yo protect yourself against alum,
when ordering baking powder.
Say plainly -
ROYALpowder
and be sure you get Royal.
• Royal is the only Baking Powder made
from Royal Grape Cream of Tartar. It
adds to the digestibility and wholesome-
of the food.
tributing among tribal members
of $(j,000,000 trust fund of Five
Civilized Tribes held by govern-
ment. Providing for if 2 5,000
Fish Hatchery for Mangum.
Senator Gore has been invited
to address the Bryan Democracy
of New England at Boston on
Washington's birthday.
Washington News of Interest to
Oklahomans.
Washington, Feb. 17.—Two
things plainly show the theory
of pension legislation upon which
congress is now proceeding, that
of adopting general legislation
for the benefit of those deserv-
ing more than they are now re-
ceiving and of restricting the
private pension bills of the vari-
ous congressmen to the cases
where there are special circum-
stances justifying special legis-
lation. This winter the Senate
and House pension Committees
are throwing out all bills except
those for old soldiers who are
destitute and who require aid
and attention because of their
disabilities. While the Commit-
tees of Congress are much more
strict regarding the private bills
they are far more liberal on gen-
eral pension matters. Last win-
ter the age or service pension
law benefiting so many ex-sold
iers was passed. This winter
the House has passed the bill
raising the pensions of all wid-
ows now receivingJS 00 to$12 00.
* • *
The McGuire restrictions bill
has been referred by the Com-
mittee of Indian Affairs to a sub-
committee composed of Sher-
man, of New York, Campbell, of
Kansas, McGuire, Carter, and
Hackney, of Missouri. The
Committee is favorable and will
report the bill to the main com-
mittee on Thursday of this week.
• • •
Congressman McGuire has in-
troduced another bill backed by
the Interior Department, remov-
ing restrictions on Indian lands
in the eastern part of the State.
The bill is for the Indians under
the jurisdiction of the Quapaw
Agency, sixteen hundred in
number, and entirely removes
the restrictions on all except a
forty acre homestead for each
allottee. As one tribe in this
agency has L'40 acres for each
member and three others 200
acres to each member it will be
seen that this bill would add a
lurge amount of land to the Okla-
homa Tax rolls. After McGuire
introduced it in the House Curtis
introduced the bill in the Senate.
Ex-Senat >r Charles Alexan-
der, C. K. Luce, C. W. Herod,
and J. N. Hopkins, compose a
committee from Woodward pro-
testing against the removal of
the Woodward land office to Alva.
One of these offices must be dis
continued under the Secretary's
ruling.
• • •
Some new bills introduced by
Oklahomans are:
By Gore, appropriating $250,-
000 for Piatt National l'a' k at
Sulphur; providing for '100,000
public buildings at Ada, Durant,
anil El Reno.
By Ferris: Providing for dis-
Certificate of Guaranty.
On February 16th we received
from the State Banking Board,
our Certificate of Guarantee to
Depositors, which means that
the Farmers and Merchants
Bank of Hennessey complies
with the banking laws of the
State and has passed without ob-
jection the rigid examination
necessary to become entitled to
this privilege.
There is manifest opposition
to the guarantee deposit law
upon the part of some banks and
bankers of the State. However,
we wish the public to know that
the officers of the Farmers and ens and boulevards.
Merchants Bank of Hennessey
has absolutely refused to take
part in, or to be a party to any
plan which had for its object the
defeating of the law.
Oklahoma is the first State to
pass a guarantee deposit law and
we are not only pleased that we
are citizens thereof, but the
the management of this Bank
thorougniy believes in the prin-
ciples of a guarantee deposit
law.
We believe that it is fair, right
and just, that when a man,
woman or child goes into a bank
and deposits money, they are en-
titled to know that they will re
ceive one hundred cents on the
dollar from such bank.
It is not necessasy for us to
assure you that the Farmers and
Merchants Bank of Hennessey
has not and will not, raise their
interest rate, or any other charge
harmful Effects of Congested
Population.
From Iowa Homestead.
The movement "back to nature"
is one of the most hopeful signs
which have attended the first de
cade of the Twentieth century.
In the cities and towns, this
movement has shown itself in
the tendency to provide parks in
which the people may enjoy the
fresh air amid the beauties of
nature, such as trees, lakes,
grass, tlowers, birds and animals.
Townspeople who can, too, are
acquiring farms 01* country
homes, where they can spend
a considerable portion of their
time. Cities are no longer built
compactly, with residences and
business buildings alike fronting
immediately upon paved streets;
but advantage is taken of modern
rapid transit facilities for ex
tending the residence districts
over large tracts, with larger
residence lots, parkings, gard
The result
is a much more wholesome en
vironment for hundreds of
thousands of our urban popula
tion.
In the rural districts, the
change is reflected in a truer and
clearer sense of the immense ad
advantages of country life; in a
spirit of contentment whichholds
the sons and daughters of the
farmer at home, and in a wise
determination of the rural popu-
lation to broaden, deepen and
enrich their life so as to make it
approach the ideal.
It was indeed high time that
this tendency should manifest
itself; for the closing quarter of
the Nineteenth century bore
eloquent witness to the dangers
consequent upon congestion of
our population in large cities. In
the craze for mere bigness, our
cities ignored all the real inter-
ests of humanity, and acquired
for services, nor make any j increased population at the ex
charge of any kind whatever to pense of the health, physical and
its patrons on account of the 1 moral, of their inhabitants. Peo-
guarantee deposit law, but will pie were huddled together in
continue the same conservative I tenements unfit for human habi-
methods which give solidity to J tation; and huge, overgrown
theinstitution as wellaseourtesy, business establishments in which
promptness, accuracy ana ab-
solute safety to its patrons.
C. C. Smith, Cashier,
Farmers & Merchants Bank,
Hennessey, Oklahoma.
The following is the wording
of the Certificate of Guaranty is-
sued by the State Banking Board
to the banks complying with the
new law relating to guaranteeing
depositors against loss. Whilf
the record of the Farmers &
Merchants Bank in the past is
such that no such guaranty was
needed, the fact that it has com-
plied with the law makes it that
much stronger than it was be-
fore:
state op oklahoma,
banking department.
This is to certify, that the
Farmers & Merchants Bank of
Hennessey, Oklahoma, has com-
plied with the laws of this State
for the protection of Bank De
positors, and that safety to its
Depositors is guaranteed by the
Depositors Guaranty Fund of
the State of Oklahoma.
in testimony whereof, the
State Banking Board has caused
this certificate to be executed by
its chairman, and attested by its
Secretary under its official seal
and delivered by the Bank com-
missioner of the State of Okla-
homa.
Done at the city of Guthrie
this fifteenth day of February,
in the year of our Lord, 1908,
and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred
thirty-one.
Geo. W. Bellamy,
Chairman of the State Banking
Board.
[seal] Roy C. Oakes,
Secretary of the State Banking
Board.
men, women and children were
mere cogs in vast machines or
were literally ground to pieces
thereby, took the places of mod-
erate sized industries, distribut
ed throughout the country, un-
der normal and wholesome con-
ditions.
Today, there is a wholesome
reaction in the direction of a
wider distribution of the popu-
lation and the industries which
employ them. Laws regulating
the employment and working
conditions of women and children
are being proposed, agitated and
enacted. The people are learn-
ing that ten small cities, with
their owr, stores, factories, banks,
lumber yards and other estab-
lishments are better for all con-
cerned than one great, swollen
center of population with its
glaring contrasts of riches and
poverty. They are learning that,
to a great extent, the interests
of the village, the small town and
the moderate sized city ana those
of the country are common and
mutual; and that a policy of
mutual support is for the advan-
tage of each and conducive,
above all things, to the perman-
ent interests of the nation as a
whole.
Kingfisher County Pensions.
Congressman McGuire has
been notified of the allowance of
the following Kingfisher county
pension claims:
George Clevenger, Kingfisher,
#1?.00; William W. Hastie, Hen-
nessey, '12 00.
Prof. Ristine returned to his
school work Monday moving.
A State Depository.
The Farmers & Merchants
Bank has been made one of the
Depositories for State funds—
having successfully passed the
rigid examination required of
banks before they are designated
as depositories of money belong-
ing to the state. The following
is the letter from State Treasur-
er Menefee:
state of oklahoma,
treasurer's office.
Guthrie, Feb. 14, 1908.
Farmers & Merchants Bank,
Hennessey, Okla.
Gentlemen:
We are glad to advise you
that your good bank has been
selected as one of the depositor-
ies for the State funds.
We are also sending you blank
contract and other papers in con-
nection therewith. Please re-
turn both original and duplicate
agreement to this office.
Yours very truly,
J. A. Menefee,
State Treasurer.
Oklahoma Legislature Endangers
Southern Congressional Rep-
resentation.
The associated press has a
telegram from Washington which
will make the fire-eaters of the
Oklahoma legislature stop and
consider before they disfranchise
the colored voters. Here is the
dispatch:
Washington, Feb. 8 —Oklaho-
ma the youngest of states, is
bidding fair to be the most
prominent one in the entire
south if they enact the "grand
father" clause in the suffrage
laws. It leaked out here tonight
that there was an organized move
ment among congressmen from
all over the north and with the
sanction of the entire republican
organization to watch every fea-
ture of suffrage legislation that
was enacted by the new state
and to allow it to in a measure
govern the future action of con
gress.
A United States senator who
is one of the party leaders in
congress, said tonight to the
press:
"If Oklahoma enacts the
"grandfather" clause it will
mean that congress will take up
the movement in earnest to re-
apportion the congressional
representation on the actual
number of votes cast rather than
on the census returns."
The movement was started
some time ago to take the votes
of the various states as a basis
for representation in congress
which would mean that the solid
south would lose over half of her
present number of congress-
men. It was dropped but the
recent aggressiveness of Oklaho
ma in defying generally every
thing that came from congress
or any of the Washington depart-
ments has again opened up the
agitation and the action of the
Oklahoma legislature will have
much to do with the matter.
Several southern congressmen
were apprized of the exact status
of the situation tonight by the
pressmen. They declined to
discuss it but did not utter a
"defl" in the customaby manner.
PII^ST N A
statement
T I O N
A Li A N K
HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA
At the Close of Business, Monday, Feb. !i, 1907
RESOURCES.
Loans and Discounts tftft.Wtl*
ovkhdka irrs : : : : 020 72
PKKMIUM ON U S BONUH 900 00
Hank HouskFu knitukb& Pixtuurn 10.000
United Statics iiondh 2ft,000uii
f> Pick Dint. Rkukmption Fund l.2ftooo
cash un hand anu in OTHBK IUivkh 101 S.Srt id
TOTAL : 199,'itk) ul
LIABILITIES.
1 Capital Stock t 2ft,ocooo
SUKPLUH undivided PROiriTS NeT tf.151
Circulation 25.000 to
Deposits • ; 143 114 38
TOTAL IIW.260U1
The above statement Im correct.
E. H. COCKRELL, Cashier.
Farmers call and see
. Tricycle Lister,
which drops corn and cotton. We also have the
Check-row Corn and Cotton Planters.
One and two Row Stalk Cutters.
We handle the best makes of
harrows, Plows and Disc Harrows
We carry a fine Line of Buggies
And First-class Light and Heavy Harness.
Come in and see this new up-to-date line
I will take pleasure in showing them whether
you buy or not. Yours for business,
Q. S. PAIN.
Entire t imo will hereafter be de-
voted t. the Practice . f i,aw.
Twenty-five years experience
Largest Library in Western Okla-
homa
Kingfisher, Okla.
D. R. BREWER,
. . pays the highest price for
H I I) K ir> AN D F U In? S
will drill ok clean wells and repair pumps
HENNESSEY, OKLAHOMA.
S. L. OWINGS,
Dentist,
Hennessey, Okla.
office upstairs over first
national hank building.
N. RECTOR,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office: Oklahoma Avenue.
Office 'Phone 21. Residence 'Phone 24.
UVMV li'v
r\VT a MOM A.
Rawhide whips, 25c Spencer's.
Elected as a Director.
Last week was the second year
that E. G. Barnard has taken
hogs to the sale given by the Im-
proved Live Stock Breeders As-
sociation of the Wheat Belt given
at Caldwell, Kansas, and he was
paid a very neat compliment by
being elected a director of the
association for the ensuing year,
an honor most worthily bestowed.
BULK GARDEN • FIELD 5EE0
I have opened a Feed and Seed Store two
doors south of Clipper office, where I handle
all kinds of fresh garden and Held seed in bulk
FARMEhSi Bring In your Kaffir Corn.
Cane Seed, and Cow Pease. WlU pay a good
price. Fresh ground feed for sale.
A. ti. CULLUM, M. D.,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office and residence In Douthltt brick build-
ing, on S. uih Main St. I door north of on^ra
house.
W. L. BAKER.
S. A. Snyder was the only one
of the R. P. D. carriers to start
on his route last Friday morning,
and he had to come back. Satur
day all started, but I. N. Chris-
man and 'Gene Getzendannor
were the only ones to make a
complete trip
Miss Hutoka Stone camc up
from Kingfisher last Friday
evening and is spending the week
visiting Miss Louise Miller.
DR. H. G. BARKER,
Devotes Specal Attention to Chronic
Diseases.
Equipped with latestFlectrlcal,X-Ray,Static
Hot Air and Nebulizing Appliances.
Qffln* 1 door south of Clipper office. >Pknr>mou
W. C. STEVENS. W. L. MOORE
Stevens & Moore,
. ... Attorneys-at-Law
Notary 111 Office.
C. W. HENRY
Solicits Your Transfer
Business Phone 175
Prompt attention to Orders will be given.
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