The Hennessey Clipper. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 26, 1908 Page: 1 of 10
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The Hennessey Clipper
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VOL. XIX.
HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, NOVEITHER 26, 1908.
NO. 28
at the big storl
On account of unabated interest given the Great Profit Sharing
Sale we have decided to continue it until DECEMBER 12. Also on ac-
count of having just received direct from the mills a large consignment
of staple merchandise. One item in this lot contains
75000 yards of Remnant Prints rohS at 2 1 -2c per yard
Many other bargains at great money saving prices, all new goods everything you need in making up all kinds of winter wearing apparel,
moth stock of Men's and Boys'Overcoats and Suits we will make renewed efforts to reduce. Also Ladies'and Children's Coats and Ladies'
Suits. These lines will meet with a special big reduction at a great saving to the purchaser.
REfflEriBER THIS SALE
CLOSES DECEMBER 12 th
Our mam-
Tailor Made
£1 lill dd V III& I" 11IW |7UI •
Chler's D. G. Co., The Big Store, Hennessey, Okla.
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LETTER FROM THE HENNESSEY
BRANCH OF THE NAVY.
Archie Strcetcr of the U. S. S.
Maryland Writes Entertain-
ingly from Magdalena
Bay.
Dear Friends:
Hoping that some of my friends
would care to hear of my where-
abouts I am (with The Clipper's
kind permission) taking this
means of visiting with you.
Since I last saw you I have
been seeing quite a little of this
old hulk commonly called the
world From Oklahoma to the
Atlantic and from there back
across the United States to the
Pacific. On this trip I was
lucky enou *h to meet my old
mate Ray Neal in Kansas City
and enjoyed a few hours pleasant
visit with him.
One can hardly realize what a
trip like the one I made is, and
what you can see and learn.
At Richmond, Va , we had two
hours liberty and you can be
sure we took advantage of it.
Shoving off from the depot,
Jac.kies could be seen making
for the different points of inter-
est. Myself and about a dozen
of my mates made for the old
Confederate Capitol which is as
beautiful a sight as one could
wish to see. A large imposing
structure, standing upon a very
steep hill, all covered with the
greenest grass and shrubbery.
On the campus stands a large
number of statues of prominent
men, among which Jackson's
and Washington's appeared to
me as the most beautiful pieces
of statuary I have ever seen.
I have been from one coast to
the other, in Mexico, Hawaii and
Samoa but never have I found a
place where the people are as
hospitable as in Richmond. An
old Civil war veteran took us in
tow and took us up on thecapitol
and pointed out all the historic
places in the city such as Wash-
ington's old head quarters of
the Revolutionary War, the
church where Jefferson Davis
was at divine worship, when
notified that the confederate
cause was gone, and the Old
Confederate museum where he
immediately steered us.
This is in charge of the
Daughters of the Confederacy
and is maintained by charging
the small fee of 25c admittance.
When we rang the bell and the
old battle scarred veteran opened
the door and the lady in charge
saw the uniform of Uncle Sam's,
nothing was too good for us.
She piloted us thru the great old
building, explaining every little
thing to us You should have
seen the eyes of that old man
sparkle when he looked at those
fl -gs torn with shot and shell
and stained with some of the
best blood of the U S.
WheTi 1 looked at those Hags,
those uniforms (riddled with
shot and torn by sabei) of some
officers and privates who had
seen the thickest of the fray,
the canteen of cork a private
soldier made for himself to keep
himself from dying of thirst,
the battered bugles and broken
guns 1 decided that Sherman
just about described war when
he said "War is hell."
Each state of the confederacy
has a room in which they have
relics of the war. In there you
see the battle flags of the con-
federacy—Lee's and other prom
inent officer's complete outfit,
the newspapers printed on wall
paper, all of Jefferson Davis'
wardrobe also his wife's and
daughter's.
Then there was a plate of iron
off the Ironclad Merrimac, the
first piece placed upon her. The
armor was put on in plates
about 18 inches long, 10 inches
wide and 1$ inches thick. I had
the first piece ever placed upon
a ship in my hands and carried
it around. The whole building
might be described a Treasure
Cave of Emblems of a wrong and
hopeless cause.
As we only had three hours
there we must hurry on across
the fertile fields of the Mississippi
Valley, down into the Great
American desert. In crossing
Kansas I was treated to quite an
unlooked for surprise. All of a
sudden a sailor right across the
aisle jumped to his feet and
almost had a fit pointing out the
window and calling for every-
body to come there which they
did and what do you suppose he
saw? (A Rabbit!) Imagine my
surprise whrn I found out a large
number of those sea .dogs had
never seen a rabbit!
While there is nothing to see
in the line of scenery in the
desert thru Arizona and New
Mexico it is interesting anyway
to visit it. I wouldn't be afraid
to wager that for every hundred
acres of land there is not one in
cultivation. Still those greaser
Indians thru there seem to be
good workers and in the near
future that tract of land thru
which I came is goiny to be
quite a civilized country. One
thing seemed strange to me is
that desolate as that country is
the metropolitan appearance of
Alburquerque and Las Vegas,
renders them like an oasis in the
heart of the desert.
On August 9th my little jouruey
was over and I went aboard the
U. S. S Armored Cruiser Mary-
land laying at Vallejo, California.
Just a word of my luck in getting
the "Mary."
1 She holds the trophy for ex-
cellence in naval gunnery.
2. She holds the record fol-
lowing a torpedo destroyer farth-
er and with less breakdowns than
any other ship in the navy. Hav-
ing towed the Destroyer Perry
from Sun Francisco to Honolulu,
from Honolulu to Pago Pago,
back to Honolulu, and from
Honolulu to Magdalena Hay with-
out a breakdown.
:!. Yesterday the Maryland
broke the worlds record for lay
ing mines. (Having placed three
more mines in nine hours than
any ship in the world.)
1 She has the fastest signal
corps in the navy of which "I"
am one of the twelve composing
the force.
Altogether I was lucky in
getting her. We had no more
than gotten acquainted with the
Mary and made a thorough visit
of SanFrancisco than we started
out on an eight months cruise
On the morning of August 24.
farmers
tention!
Do Not Fail to Witness the Famous
LIGHTNING FEED GRINDER EXHIBITION
At our place of business we will serve a
FREE LUNCH
to all who call, using flour ground by this
FAMOUS GRINDER
from which we will make hot cakes, and
serve them with butter, syrup and hot coffee
LADIES AND ALL ARE INVITED
This is our Famous Lightning Sweep
Grinder and Power Attachment and Wagon
Elevator which has adjustable spout to elevate
the ground feed from the grinder to a wagon or
bin, and can be attached to any of our Lightning
Tripple Gear Feed Grinders at any time. The
greatest combination invented. It can be used
from a 3 H. P Engine and Larger.
This is a Grinder, Not a Crusher.
And while you are here, we want to show you the merits c.f the host feed grinders ever invented. They have roller bearings, chilled
steel burrs, friction plates to take up the wear, and nine lugs to force the grain into the burrs, which make three revolutions to one
of the sweep, and the hearings run in oil.
THE FAHOUS LIGHTNING FEED GRINDER
Grinds faster, runs easier and lasts longer than anv other mill mad'? and you never have to grind your grain a second time to get it
fine enough. WE WANT THE LADIES TO COME IN AND TEST OUlt FLOUR
YOU CAN GRIND WHEAT, RYE, OATS, KAFFIR CORN, CORN SHELLED OR IN THE EAR
REMEMBER THE DA TES
Friday and Saturday, November 27 and 28
$3.00 FREE A pair of Burrs worth $3 will be given by the factory to each purchaser
of a Famous Lightning Grinder during this exhibition
G. W. Wootsey, Hennessey, Okla.
the Pacific licet of armored
cruisers towing the Eleventh
fleet of torpedo destroyers ti'5
ships in all sailed out thru the
Golden Gate and for the first
time I realized I was out of sight
of the U. S. A. the first time in
my short visit in this world.
Our first port of visit was
Honolulu and there a royal wel-
come awaited us. As the sixteen
ships after an uneventful trip of
ten days, rounded Diamond ilead
and came sailing majestically in-
to Pearl Harbor, guns rowed
from the fleet and fort, the
Royal Hawaiian Hand greeted us
with the Star Spangled Banner
and from every house top II sated
the stars and stripes.
The docks were crowded to
the limit and needless to s .y tlmt
the "Ladies and Demons of Tbe
Deep,'' as the Cruisers a (l Dos-
troyers are called, respectively,
received the most cordiaj wel-
come a Meet could. During our
ten days stay our visit wws one
continual entertainment. Theatre
going, horse back uxcursiona
out to the mountains, surf riding
at Waiklki Beach and darr.«;ing at
the Leaside hotel. It w is near-
ly every sailor's ambition to
climb Diamond Head in which a
great oart of the climb is hand
over hand up a chain It was
with real sorrow that we shoved
off from the docks and sailed out
to sea bound for Pago Pago,
Samoan Islands off Australia.
These Islands are very produc-
tive in wild fruits. Being an ex
tinjet volcano, the lava beds are
claimed to account for its wond
erful fertility. These Islands
were inhabited a few years ago,
by man eating cannibals but
foreign missionary work has
spread so rapidly and effectually
in recent years that now their
•'head hunting knives" are
buried and a friendly reception
.awaits the advance of civilization.
Abundance of wild banmas and
cocoanuts furnish a subsistence
for these people who, like allother
tropical people, are too luzy to
ifie. We sometimes bought a
hundred banaaas for ten and
tiI'tcen cents. You can buy any-
thing they have for a quarter
but nothing for a dollar or half
doliar. They say "too big."
A cLme "too small." On account
of some English colliers from
w bicli wo coaled, being delayed
by storm we didn't getaway
from there until October 1 and
then began again a trip to Mag
Uncle Sam
IS INTIMATELY ACQUAINTED
With us. He writes us five times each year and in-
sists that we answer his letters by giving him a
statement of the condition of our bank on the day
called for. He also sends Mr. Bank Examiner to
visit, us three or four times a year, as his represen-
tative, to inquire into our methods of handling the
depositors' money and see that it is accurately ac-
counted for. This, with the reputation of our of-
ficers should be sufficient guarantee that your
money will be safe if entrusted to us.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
M ENNESSEY
OKLAHOMA
dalena Bay which a jierson
would naturally and erroneously
i think monotonous. After twenty-
one days we are now in Magda-
j Iona Bay ready to break all
j gunnery records again. We got
wireless yesterday that Taft had
been most wonderfully lucky.
I am sorry to congratulate him.
Well as my tune has come to go
aloft and turn to, 1 must close
this somewhat tiresome and I
know uninteresting letter. In
closing will say again my address
is still U. S. S. Maryland, San
Francisco, Cal., care of P. M.
and would appreciate a line from
all my friends. I think Chuck
Nothstein owes me a letter.
Chuck you might at least write
me about the ball team. 1 know
Mr. Miller will correct misspell-
ed words as I know there are
plenty of theui. Well some time
during the progress of this
voyage to South America I'll
scribble to you again but until
then I'll have to shove olf.
A. C Stkkijtkk.
| We'll be glad to hear from
you, Archie.—En.|
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