The Hennessey Clipper (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 17, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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The Hennessey Clipper
VOL. XX.
llENNESSEY, KINGFISHER COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1QQ9-
NO. 5
|A SUBSTANTIAL REDUCTION SLUGGERS WIN TWO GAMES
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FARMERS & MERCHANS BANK
Of HENNESSIY, IIMAHOM*
Oldest Bank in Kingfisher County
Capital and Surplus $20,000.00
Welcomes and appreciates your business whether large
or small and believes its extensive resources developed
by nearly twenty years of constant, considerate, con-
servative accommodations, a splendid endorsement of
its most satisfactory service to the people of Hennessey
and vicinity. We appreciate your business and every
individual receives courteous treatment at our hands.
A (iood Bank in a Good Town
DEPOSITS GUARANTEED
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Corporation Commission Issues
Order Reducing Express
Rates in Oklahoma
D feat the Fast Mulhall Team by
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Score of 2 to l---Win from
Lovell 15 to 6.
CHUMS
You will always find the bread
made from LIBER IY flour and
healthy, growing children. You
will always find the LIBERTY flour
and the housewife who loves to
have success in baking light, white
and delicious bread and fine cakes
and pastry. It is a chum that con-
tributes to your good health and
sound constitution and you can al-
ways get it at all grocery stores in
Hennessey.
Made by
STAR MILL & ELEVATOR CO.
HENNESSEY, OKLA
Stockmen in Chair Cars.
"We had a very good run, and
landed at the yards in Kansas
City promptly on time," said
Lyman Hobbs of Hennessey, Ok-
lahoma, this morning. Mr..
Hobbs was the spokesman for a
large party of Oklahoma stock
men who reached the yards at 6
o'clock over the Rock Island
Sunday evening with 3- car loads
of stock. All this stock was
loaded Saturday afternoon, at
points in the vicinity of Hennes
sey, a distance of over 350 miles
from here. The following com-
prises the list of shippers who
owned the big string of stock:
Lyman Hobbs, W. T. Parker, H.
D. Fender, J. D. Miller, James
Jones, S. C. Glover, A. P. Bond
erer, O. Stettler, E. Whitney, J.
C. Cassaday, A. M. Ridenhour,
C. M. Anderson and H. G. Snow.
"When we reached Caldwell,
Kansas," added Mr. Hobbs, "the
caboose was so full that we could
hardly squeeze into it. Without
any request from any of us the
officials hooked a chair car onto
our train, and from that point on
to Kansas City we rode in style
as well as comfort. The time
made by the train from the very
start was fast, and in making
the good run, our stock landed
here in tine shape. Stockmen
appreciate favors just the same
as other folks, and when we are
thus favored, we do not fail to
let the fact be known, just as we
do when we get poor service.
We have a very fine stock coun-
try from which this train load
came, and when we get such ser-
vice as this it is a great benefit
to us.—Drovers Telegram.
Which Shall it Be?
Rumors are astir as to wheth-
er the City Council will allow the
fire boys two dollars apiece for
each fire. We understand the
majority of the Council say the
city is in debt so deep they don't
see how the warrants can be is-
sued. Other words the fire boys
can buy shoes and clothes just
in order to do the city a favor;
we will venture to say if every
fireman had received two dollars
for each fire which has origin-
ated since the Fire Company or
ganized they wouldn't come out
even. Probably not all of them,
but a part have had more clothes
ruined than all their two dollar
warrants would pay for.
On the other hand what has
the fire boys done for the city of
Hennessey? They have saved a
majority of the town on several
different occasions. They have
reduced the rates on insurance
at least forty per cent. Now
comes the question before our
citizens: Should the Council
turn down the firemen? No.
Because the city gets value re-
ceived for each fire, and they
who have business interests can
better afford to help pay the boys
for what clothing they ruin than
the boys can afford to lose it.
Would it sound better if the
firemen was giving the two dol-
lars for each fire or the city giv-
ing it to the fireman. Take it
into consideration; if the Council
turns down the firemen it will
mean for the fire boys to pay the
city in order to do her a favor.
Which shall it be, the firemen
pay the city or the city pay the
firemen?
The Corporation Commission
has just issued its order No. "203,
effective August 1, 1909, making
a substantial reduction in all ex-
press rates between all points in
the State of Oklahoma.
Hearings were held by the
Commission in Guthrie, last
January, the express companies
were represented by a number
of high salaried attorneys and
express experts from New York
City, and the proposed rate re-
ductions were bitterly fought.
It developed during the hearing
that the express companies were
maintaining the same rates which
they put in effect twenty-five
years ago, at a time when the
territories were a wilderness,
with a very few white inhabit-
ants. The Pacific Express Com
pany had the lowest scale of
rates, and the American Express
Company had the highest. It
was also disclosed at the hearing
that the operative expenses of
express companies were based
on a per centage of the gross
receipts, paid to railroad com-
panies and agents—Transporta
tion is purchased at wholesale
from the railroad companies and
sold at retail to the public.
When rates were reduced ex-
penses were correspondingly re-
duced—When rates were raised
expenses were correspondingly
raised.
The average reduction in the
Wells Fargo merchandise rate
and graduate scale is 27.79 per
cent. The average reduction in
the Pacific merchandise scale is
9 5 per cent.—butter and eggs
22 per cent., milk and cream 29
per cent.
The average reduction on fruit,
vegetables, and other farm pro
ducts, all companies areaoproxi
mately 30 per cent., and on re-
pairs for farm machinery 50 per
per cent.
Tl}8 rates made by the com-
mission are the same for likedis
tances and like commodities be
tween any points in Oklahoma,
absolutely the same to everybody,
rich or poor, packing company
or farmer, consumer or truck
grower, creamery or dairyman—
the rates are the same—equally
to all—no special rates between
any particular points.
The opinion rendered by the
Commission in connection with
its order has been pronounced
by competent critics to be
worthy of critical comparison
with the best opinions rendered
by the highest courts of the
Nation.
The analysis of the express
business contained in the opin-
ion will enable many people to
get out of the dark and step into
the light.
It is the first judicial opinion
ever written in regard to a gen-
eral reduction in express rates,
and will be read by other Com
missions as well as the judiciary
with intense and keen interests.
White House Coffee at Hakes's.
C. E. Hines, Melvin Carson,
Dr. Barker, Dick Mundorff,
Harry Neal, W. R. Blackburn,
Finley Pain and Bernard Neal
Oklahoma Patents.
Granted this week. Reported
by C. A. Snow & Co., Patent At-
torneys, Washington, D. C. H.
A. Beasley, Bartlettsville, Rope-
knife. E. P. Bridges, Wewoka,
Bench clamp, or vise J. M.
Droke, Okeene, Cotton harvester.
A. J. Hathcox, Durant, Nut lock.
For copy of any of above patents
send ten cents in postage stamps
with date of this paper to C. A.
Snow & Co., Washington, D. C.
Who is it now who dares to
say that Hennessey hasn't the
best and fastest amateur base
base ball team in the northern
part of the state?
The Hennessey Sluggers went
to Lovell last Sunday in autos
with a determination to win the
double header they had to play
with Mulhall and Lovell—and
they did. This makes five games
they have won out of six.
The first game with Mulhall
was a fast one from start to finish.
Neither side scored in the first
seven innings although Hennes
sey showed they were somewhat
stronger and did better base
running than their opponents.
Quigly did the pitching for
Mulhall. His work was very
clever and lie had the Sluggers
on the fence the first two innings
but after they got wise to his
twisters they pounded him out
for a nmuber of hits.
Butler did the hurling for the
Sluggers and did not weaken
once during the game. In fact
he threw his best thus ball farthis
season and several times pitched
himself out of tight places.
In the first of the eighth inning
something went wrong and Mul
hall scored on a costly error by
Hennessey. The same thing
happened in the last of the eig t
and Cashion scored for t
Sluggers on an error by Mulhall.
Mulhall went down in one, two,
three order in the first of the
ninth. The Sluggers went to
b t_and Leddy the first up reach-
ed first on a hit, stole second and
came home on a hit by Liston.
The score should have stood one
to nothing in favor of Hennessey.
Score by innings:
Hennessey 0000000 1 1—2
Mulhall 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0—1
Batteries—Butler and Liston,
Quigley and Meyers.
the second game.
In the second game the Slug-
gers seemed to be in just as good
form as the first and defeated
the Lovell team by a score of 15
to 6. They had the Lovell team
at their mercy from start to
finish and seemed to play with
them as a cat would a half dead
mouse.
If Hennessey would have
tightened up and played ball as
they did in the first game they
could have easily held them
down to two scores.
Countess pitched and worked
hard for Lovell but to no avail.
His team mates simply fell over
themselves every time a ball
come their way. Countess would
reach in his hip pocket for a
pinch of resin, grit bis teeth and
hurl the sphere with all his
strength—but alas the Sluggers
were onto his little upshoot and
hit it at will.
In the lastof the nintli the first
two Lovell men up went out at
first. The third man up pounded
out a tly into centerfield—Leddy
was there and grabbed it out of
the air and started for t*hc hotel.
Score by innings:
Hennessey 03034000 5—15
Lovell 20001300 0- 6
Batteries—Countess and Pen-
noch, Butler and Liston.
The Depositors Money
Is insured in the American Bonding Company of
America. Our vault is also guaranteed by the
above company. Our Capital, Surplus and Indi-
vidual Profits are $33,500.00. Plenty of capital to
do a safe banking business. The stockholders of
this bank do not owe the bunk a dollar.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, Hennessey, Okla.
THE OKLAHOMA ROAD LAWS
Sections of the Laws Governing
Working on Roads as Passed
by the Second Legis-
lature, IQOQ.
Dr. Haigh spent Monday in El
Reno.
Sunday June 20 at the Congre-
gational church, Sunday School
at 10 a. m. Preaching at 11 a. m.
drove'to'Lovelfsun^ay tosee the1 Subject "What is Truth." Ser- Commissioner Miles spent
ball games between Hennessey ' vices 8 p. m. Subject "Should a Monday in Kingfisher attending
0„d Mulhall and Hennessey and Christian Join the Church?" an adjourned meeting of the
, „ Rev. C. C. Burger. county commissioners.
Lovell. 1
To the Farmers.
When in need of bread for
threashers go to the Home
Bakery. They will do you right.
Buy your bread and save your
good housewife the trouble of
baking through harvest. I also
carry a complete line of groceries.
4w2 The Home Bakery,
I. B. MuKinzie.
Sec. 17. Every male citizen of
this State, between the ages of
twenty one and fifty years who
shall have resided in this State
thirty days, and who is not a
couuty or township charge and
who has not performed road
duty elsewhere in the state in
that year, shall be subject to
road duty of four days of eight
hours, in each year: Provided,
that any person of whom any
road duty is required may furnish
a substitute satisfactory to the
road supervisor to work out said
duty, and one days' work of man
and team shall be equivalent to
two days work of man alone.
Provided, further, that any per
son liable for road duty may, in
lieu of said labor on the roads,
pay at the time he is warned to
work in cash at the rate of one
dollar and a quarter ($1.25) per
day in lieu of said duty required
of him. The road supervisor
shall have authority to refuse to
accept any substitute sent to
work in the place of any person
warned to work when such sub
stitute is unsatisfrctory to him,
and to discharge any person
warned to work or any substitute
sent in lieu of such person when
he fails to perform reasonable
service and obey the instructions
of the road supervisor.
Sec. 18. It shall be the duty
of each road supervisor imme-
diately after his appointment,
and on the first day of January
and July of each year thereafter,
to prepare a list, alphabetically
arranged, of all persons in his
road district subject to road duty
and who reside therein, and he
shall file said list with the town-
ship clerk of his township. Im
mediately after the preparation
and tiling of such list the clerk
of the township board shall ar-
range such names in a book to be
kept for that purpose, of all
names turned in by such road
supervisor. All persons, cor-
porations and individuals are
hereby required, upon applica-
tion of the road supervisor to
furnish to said supervisor the
number of persons in his, her,
its or their employment who are
subject to road duty under the
provisions of this Act, and in the
event of a willful refusal, failure
or neglect so to do within ten
days after such demand in writ-
ing shall be guilty of a misde-
meanor.
Sec. 19. Said supervisor shall
call out all able bodied male per-
sons not insane, idiotic, deaf,
dumb or blind, who are residents
of such district, subject to road
duty, between the first day of
January and the thirty-first day
of December of each year. The
supervisor shall require such
persons to work on the highways
of such district eight hours each
day and to furnish in such labor
any tool that the supervisor may
direct, if the demand therefor be
reasonable. Any person able to
perform an ordinary day's labor
shall be deemed able bodied
within the meaning of this act
although the person may be in
some respects disabled.
Sec. 20. Such supervisor may
require any person liable to road
duty who is the owner of a team,
plow or wagon, to furnish the
same and a driver in such labor
on such highways, and such per-
son shall receive credit for two
days' labor for each day's ser-
vice by such driver and team and
shall be given a receipt by such
supervisor accordingly.
Sec. 20A. Any road supervis-
or who shall issue and deliver to
any person his receipt giving
credit for work done on high-
ways in his district when such
person to whom or for whom
such receipt is issued has not
actually worked or caused work
to be done for the full time that
such receipt gives credit for at
the rate of eight hours for one
day's work, or tias not paid the
commutation money as provided
by law, shall be deemed guilty of
a misdemeanor and oil conviction
therefor fined not. less than ten
nor more than fifty dollars for
every such receipt so issued.
Sec. 21. Such supervisor shall
notify each person in his road
district to road duty of the time
and place of working on such
highways at least three days
prior to the time designated for
such work. Such notice shall be
in writing, and may bo delivered
personally to the person served
or left at his usual place of resi-
dence. A copy of such notice
shall be retained by the super-
visor, and may be admitted as
presumptive evidence of such
notice in any court within the
county in which such road dis-
trict is located.
Sec. 22. If any such person,
or his substitute, afte" appearing,
shall remain idle or not work
faithfully, or shall hinder others
from working, such offender
shall for every such offense for- .
feit the sum of $1.25 to be collect-
ed from such person as other
fines and forfeitures herein
specified and such person or his
substitute shall be discharged
by the supervisor without credit
for any part of the work he may
have done.
Sec. 23. Any person liable to
road duty who shall fail, neglect
or refnse to appear, after having
been notified as provided in sec-
tion twenty-one of this Act, shall
be deemed guilty of a misde-
meanor and and upon conviction
shall be fined in a sum not less
than ten dollars ($10.00) nor more
than fifty dollars ($50.lX)) or by
confinement in the county jail
not less than ten (10) days nor
more than thirty (30) days or by
both such fine and imprisonment
in the discretion of the court,
but such prosecution shall not
relieve the defendant from furth-
er road duty.
Sec- 24. On application to the
board of highway commissioners
of any township any person
liable to road duty may be ex-
empt therefrom if it be shown
that he is too poor to pay the
commutation therefor: Provid-
ed, that before any person shall
be excused by the provisions of
this section, he shall make the
statement provided herein under
oath.
(Continued on l3age 8.)
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