The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1914 Page: 1 of 6
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T
lie
Independent
keeping ever
lastingly at it is bound to bring success.
VOL. VI.
CASHION, KINGFISHER
COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19.
NO. 42
The Bugaboo of Govern-
ment Ownership
Wnat Causes
Hog Cholera?
One of the stand pat Repunli.
can newspapers of St. Louis has
materialized the gh jst of govern
ment ownership of railroads, tel-
phones and telegraphs, and is
greatly disturbed.
It is not improbable that, some
time, the National Government
will control all utilities having to
do with interstate commerce. L
may be in the next generation,
possibly in this one.
For the present, the stand-pat-
ters may dismiss their dread of
government ownership, and the
reason is—TAXES.
In 1912 the railroads, telepraph
and telephone companies paid in
taxes something like $1 10,000,000
—the figures are taken from sta
tistics gathered by the United
States Government. With the
income tax law in effefit. these
public service utilities should pay
not less than $125,000,000 a year
in taxes.
Uncle Sam pays no taxes, and
so, under government ownership
the individual States would lose
not less than a million dollars
income. It is unlikely that the
ghost will become a reality until
s jme means are devised by which
this huge loss to the States can
be offset.
"Hercules" 5c Cigar.
"Me Nottymobile"
•••••••••••
«•••*•••>•
'Exchuse me goggles misther,
I just got off av me car.
"What, Pat, have yez a car?"
"Shure and I hav a car.
"The man tould me 'twas an
8 h. p. runabout. It is; it runs
about a mile an' sthops—an' it
takes eight horses to budge it. j
He tould me it was a fine turn-
out—it turns me out quicker n
annvthing I ever saw in tne life,^
an' th' beauty av it ye don't hav'
to crawl under it to fix it. If
annything goes wrong it turns
upside down av its own accord.
I wasn't big a nough to drive it
meself so I hired a schuffer—ye
khnow, a nottymobile plumber
He was a wonder; he "schuffed
it so fast that it tuk two pepul to
talk it—wan to say 'here it comes
an' wan to say "there it goes.
He tuk me out the other night
an' we had a fine ride—the fine
was $<;o. 1 pade me fine an' fired
me schuffer and sould the notty-
mobile an' am ridin' th' trolley.^
. Now, Perfesser, if you 11 pass th
gasoleen I'll touch it off."
Best hot chili at Marriots'.—adv
Hog cholera is caused by a
germ that exists in the blood. I
lis an organism apparently so
small that that the most power
: ful microscopes do not show it.
j However, it is easy to demon-
! strate its presence by inoculating
a small part of the blood from a
sick hog into a well one, which
produces the hog cholera. Hog
cholera is a disease which seems
seems to be stopped to a degree
by the frosts of winter, although
frost cannot be said to stop a case
after it bad taken hold of its vic-
tim. However, it seems to pie
vent the rapid spread of the dis
ease. The result is that in spring
time the affection is as a rule at
1 the lowest ebb but increases rap-
| idly from that time until fall,
llog cholera does not seem to af-
fe6t any particular breed of bogs
more than another, and while
generally the careless farmer is
more apt to have disease among
his hogs than the careful one,
the disease sometimes occurs
where the conditions are sanitary.
It is hoped that the work may be
extended gradually until the dis-
ease is completely controlled or
eliminated. The fa£t that hog
! cholera is earned not only l > the
hogs themselves, but by birds,
j dogs, streams and even by the
feet of men going from one farm
to another shows how necessary
it is that the serum campaign be
thorough and the farmers exert
their best efforts to assist in the
work of eradicating it.—Winfield
Courier.
The First National BanK
of Cashion, Oklahoma.
IS
A Farmers' Institution:
s
fit
Christian Church, Feb. 21
Bible School . . . 10 a. m.
Preaching . • • n a. m.
Subjedt, morning sermon, "A
Man Concerned About His Soul.
Evening services 7:30 p. m.
Preaching, evening subjedt,
'The Lost Christ,"
Everyone cordially invited.
Jno. G. Winsett, Pastor.
J With Tliis Strong; Bank You
1 Gain Many Advantages
You enlarge your acquaintance by coming in con-
!; tact with people who are successfully developing the
| interests of this vicinity.
j; You have at your disposal the facilities of this;!
i; bank and its influence behind you, and your
deposits are guaranteed
Once upon a time a country ed- \ The Farmers' State BanK \
;tnr turned down a big ad from ? S
an out of town concern and re I — |
turned the check which.came
with it in prote6\ion even of a
local merchant who didn't adver-
tise. And not long after the
local merchant got from him a
bid on a bunch of envelopes and
then sent to some Rears and Saw
buck outfit for them because he
could get them there seventeen
cents cheaper. What a bloomin
fool a country editor can be with-
out half tryin', says Homer Hoch
in the Marion Record.
1 Go to the
Houston Lumber Company
For your
Lumber, Coal and Posts.
They always have the Best.
T. E. Cashman, Mgr. j
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Barnard, W. F. The Independent. (Cashion, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 1914, newspaper, February 19, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc107176/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.