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RENFREW'S RECORD. ALVA. OKI A, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, I9IS.
Have you any Eye, Ear, Noze or
Throat trouble? I am a regular
graduated physician. Was in gen-
eral practice 15 years, but have
confined my practice for several
years to special work. 1 do nothing
else. DON’T go to a Jewelry store,
or an optician to have your eyes ex-
amined and tested for glasses, when
you have a competent OCULIST
located in Alva for over four years.
The most important thing about get-
ting glasses is to have them fitted
right. This requires the use of the
opthalmoscope and retinascope in
the dark room. Many times you do
not need glasses, but treatment.
'Do you think the Jeweler and optl-
•clan can tell you what is wrong with
your eyes? Consult an oculist who
must be a REGULAR PHYSICIAN.
If you have Catarrh, see me about
treatment. .
M. E. DeGROAT, M. D.
•Consultation free. Office over Post-
office Hours 9 a. m. to 12, and
-2 to 6 p m. Sunday’s by appoint-
ment.
GE0R6E WASHINGTON
By Woodrow Wilson
• WE PAY CASH
e
• Poultry, Eggs and Butter,
■*. . Come In and get our prices
'• before going elsewhere.
• Correct counts and weights
- guaranteed.
••
° J. P. REED.
PURE FOOD BAKERY.
Wm. Ackerle, Prop.
The flirst-class Bakery of
Alva. Corner of Fifth Street
and Barnes Avenue.
PEOPLE’S CLEANING AND
DYE WORKS.
Mrs. J. W. Washburn, Prop.
PHONE 547.
South Side Square, Alva, Ok.
DR. O. R. GREGG,
Homeopathic Physician,
Surgeon.
Office Monfort Bldg.
Res. 911 Locust St.
Long Standing Chronic Diseases
a Specialty. *
T. J. WOMACK.
Lawyer.
Office Over First National Bank
ALVA, OKLA.
G. N. BILBY,
Physician and Surgeon.
Office Phone 59. Res. phone 81
ALVA, OKLA.
DR. J A. TOWNSEND.
DENTIST.
Office over Owl Drug Store
Office phone 166. Res. Phone 222
Office Phone 202. Res. Phone 3.
A. W. CLARKE,
D EN TIST—OPTICIA N
Work Guaranteed. Gas admin-
istered.
Office over First Nat’l Bank. .
DR. AMEND,
THE SANITARY DENTIST
Monfort Building. Work Guar-
anted.
Phones- Office 408. Res. 350.
OSCAR BOGUE,
Violinist and Teacher.
Brass and Reed Instruments.
Studio Room 17, Monfort Bldg.
Res. Phone 371.
W. D. ANDERSON.
Attorney-at-Law
Practice In State Supreme and
all other Courts. Over Woods
C®. Union Bank. Office phone
556. Residence phone 364.
.
W. G. BESSEY,
Attorney-at-Law
Office In Emma Huston
Building •
ALVA, OKLA.
The Story of The First Presi-
dent by the President
rrv a new sense ot responsibility
possessed him, and more and more
gained ascendency over him. He be-
gan to feel a deep anxiety lest a weak
government should make independ-
ence little better than a reproach, and
the country should fall into a hope-
less impotency.
At first he had been very sanguine.
“Notwithstanding the jealous and con-
tracted temper which seems to pre-
vail in same of the states,’’ he wrote
to Jonathan Trumbull in January.
1784, “yet I cannot but hope and be-
lieve that the good sense of the people
will ultimately fj^t the better of their
prejudices, and that order and sound
policy, though they do not come ao
soon as one could wish, will be pro-
duced from the present unsettled and
deranged state of public affairs. , .
Everything, my dear Trumbull, will
come right at last, as we have often
prophesied. My only fear la that we
shall lose a little reputation flret."
But the more Washington observed
the temper of the time, the more un-
easy he grew.
"Like a young heir,” he cried, “come
a little prematurely to a large Inheri-
tance, we shall wanton and run riot
until we have brought our reputation
to the brink of ruin, and then, like
him, shall have to labor with the cur-
rent of opinion, when compelled, per-
haps, to do what prudence and com-
mon policy pointed out as plain as any
problem in Euclid, in the first instance
. . . I think we have opposed Great
Britain, and have arrived at the pres-
ent state of peace and independency,
to very little purpose, if we cannot
conquer our own prejudices.”
For the present he saw little that
could be done beyond holding up the
hands of the congress, and increasing,
as it might prove possible to do so,
the meager powers of the confedera-
tion.
Washington’s Political Creed.
“My political creed,” he said, “is to
be wise in the choice of delegates, sup-
port them like gentlemen while they
are our representatives, give them
competent powers for all federal pur-
poses, support them In the due exer-
cise thereof, and, lastly, to compel
them to close attendance In congress
during their delegation.”
But his thoughts took wider scope
as the months passed; and nothing
quickened them more than his western
trip.
He saw how much of the future
traveled with those Blow wagon trains
of Immigrants into the west; realized
how they were leaving behind them
the rivers that ran to the old ports
at the sea, and going down into the
valleys whose outlet was the great
highway of the Mississippi and the
ports of the gulf; how the great ridge
of the Alleghanies lay piled between
them and the older seats of settle-
ment, with only here and there a gap
to let a road through, only here and
there two rivers lying close enough
at their sources to link the east with
the west; and the likelihood of a sepa-
ration between the two populations
seemed to him as obvious as the tilt ol
the mountains upon either slope.
Word* of Wltdom.
“There is nothing which binds one
country or one state to another bnt
Interest," he said. “Without this ce-
ment the western Inhabitants, who
more than probably will be composed
In a great degree of foreigners, can
have no predilection for us, and a
commercial connection Is the only tie
we can have upon them.”
“The western settlers,” he declared,
while still fresh from the Ohio, “stand
as It were upon a pivot. The touch
of a feather would turn them any way”
—down the Mississippi to Join their
interests with those of the Spaniard,
or back to the mountain roads and the
headwaters of the eastern streams, to
make for themselves a new allegiance
in the east.
He was glad to see the Spaniard so
impolitic as to close the Mississippi
against the commerce offered him, and
hoped that things might stand so until
there should have been “a little time
allowed to open and make easy the
ways between the Atlantic states and
the western territory.”
To Open the Potomae.
The opening of the upper reaches
of the Potomac to navigation had long
been a favorite object with Washing-
ton; now it seemed nothing less than
a necessity.
It had been part of the original
scheme of the old Ohio company to
use this means of winning a way for
commerce through the mountains.
Steps had been taken more than twen
ty years ago to act in the matter
through private subscription; and ac-
tive measures for securing the neces-
sary legislation from tho Assemblies
of Virginia and Maryland were still
In course when Washington was call-
ed to Cambridge and revolution drew
men’s minds imperatively off from the
business.
For an Empire’s Trads.
In 1770 Washington had written to
Jefferson of the project as a means of
opening a channel for “the extensive
trade of a rising empire;” now the
empire of which he had had a vision
was no longer Britain’s, but America’s
own, and It was become a matter of
exigent political necessity to keep that
western coitntry against estrange-
ment, winning it by commerce and
close sympathy to Join itself with the UOUUHI(eg WIUI BurnlI8e
old colonies in building up a free com-1 piunder lt viould afford.'
pany of united stales upon me 6ic<n
continent.
Already the west was astir for the
formation of new states.
Virginia had taken the broad and
national view of her duty that Wash-
ington himself held, and had ceded to
the confederation all her ancient
claims to tho lands that lay northwest
I of the Ohio river, reserving for her-
j self only the fair region that stretched
south of that great stream, from her
own mountains to the Mississippi.
North Carolina’s Settlers Defiant.
North Carolina would have ceded
her western lands beyond the
mountains, also, had they been
empty and unclaimed, like
the vast territory that lay
belond the Ohio. But for many a year
settlers had been crossing the moun-
tains into those fertile valleys, and
both this region and that which Vir-
ginia still kept showed many a clear-
ing now and many a rude hamlet
where hardy frontiersmen were mak-
ing a new home for civilization.
Rather than be handed over to con-
gress, to bo disposed of by an author-
ity which no one else was bound to
obey, North Carolina's western set-
tlers declared they would form a
state of their own, and North Carolina
had to recall her gift of their lands to
the confederation before their plans
of defiance could be checked and de-
feated.
Virginia found her own frontiers-
men no less ready to take the initia-
tive in whatever affair touched their
Interest.
8pain Closes Lower Mleeiesippi.
Spain offered the United States
trade at her ports, but refused to
grant them the use of the lower
courses of the Mississippi, lest terri-
torial aggression 3hould be pushed too
shrewdly in that quarter; and news
reached the settlers beyond the moun-
tains, in the far counties of North
Carolina and Virginia, that Mr. Jay,
the Confederation’s secretary for for-
eign affairs, had proposed to the
congress to yield the navigation of the
Mississippi for a generation in ex-
change for trade on the seas. They
flatly declared they would give them-
selves, and their lands loo, into the
hands of England again rather than
submit to be so robbed, cramped and
deserted.
The New England states, on their
part, threatened to withdraw from the
Confederation if treaties were to be
made to wait upon the assent of
frontiersmen on the far Mississippi.
The situation was full of menace of
no ordinary sort.
It could profit the Confederation lit-,
tie that great states like Virginia and
New York had grown magnanimous,
and were endowing the Confederation
with vast gifts of territory in the west,
if such gifts were but to loosen still
further the already slackened bonds of
the common government, leaving set-
tlers in the unclaimed lands no alls-
j glance they could respect.
Without a national government spir-
ited and strong enough to frame poli-
cies and command obedience, “we
shall never establish a national char-
acter or be considered ab on a respect-
able footing by the powers of Europe,"
Washington had said from the first
Washington Urges Union.
He had made a most solemn appeal
to the states in his last circular to
them, ere he resigned his commission,
urging them to strengthen the powers
of congress, put faction and jealousy
away, and make sure of “an Indis-
soluble union under one federal head.”
“An option is still left to the United
States of America,” he had told them,
with all his plain and stately elo
quence; “lt Is In their choice, and de-
pends upon their conduct, whether
they will be respectable and prosper-
ous, or contemptible and miserable,
as a nation. This Is the time of their
political probation.”
The hazards of that probation had
been a burden upon hla heart through
all the toil of the Revolution, and now
it seemed as If the states must needs
make every evil choice In meeting
them. Congress could not so much as
carry out the provisions of the treaty
of peace, for its commissioners had
made promises In the name of the
states which the states would not re-
deem.
England Breaks Her Agreement
England consequently refused to
keep her part of the agreement and
relinquish the western posts. She
levied commercial war against the
country, besides, without fear of re-
prisal; for congress had no power to
regulate trade, and the states were too
jealous of each other to co-operate
In this or any other matter.
English statesmen had consented to
give up (he colonies, and recognize
their Independence as a nation, rather
than face any longer the world In
arms; but they now looked to see
them presently drop back Into their
hands again, out of sheer helplessness
and hopeless division in counsel; and
here were observant men In America
who deemed the thing possible, though
t brought an Intolerable fire into
their blood to think of it.
In Financial 3tralts.
Other nations, too, were fast con-
ceiving a like contempt for the Con-
federation.
It was making no provision for the
payment of the vast sums of money It
had borrowed abroad. In France and
Holland and Spain; and lt could not
make any. It could only ask the
states for money, and must count It-
self fortunate to get enough to pay
even the interest on Its debts.
I’, was this that foreign courts were
finding out, that the Confederation was
u mere "government of supplication,”
as Randolph had dubbed lt; and its
credit broke utterly down. French-
man and Spaniard alike would only
have laughed, in contemptuous deri-
Bion to see the whole fabric go to
pieces, and were beginning to interest
themselves witli surmises as to what
Hesort to Irredeemable Paper.
The states which lay neighbors to
each other were embroiled in boun- ]
dary disputes, and were fallen to levy- {
ing duties on each other’s commerce
They were Individually in debt, be-
sides. and were many of them resort- i
ing to issues of irredeemable paper
money to relieve themselves of the in
evitable taxation that must sooner or :
later pay their reckonings.
"Wo are either a united people, or
we are not so," cried Washington. "If j
the former, let us in all matters of
general concern act as a nation which
has a national character to support; j
If we are not, let us no longer act a
farce by pretending to it." As the ;
months passed it began to look as if
the farce might he turned into a trag- \
3dy.
Washington Self-Possessed.
The troubles of the country, though 1
he tilled his letters with them and
wrung his heart for phrases of protest
ind persuasion that would tell, effect-
ually In the deep labor of working out
the sufficient remedy of a roused and
united opinion, though he deemed
them personal to himself, and knew
his own fame In danger to bo undone
by them, did not break tho steady self-
possession of Washington's life at
Mc> .nt Vernon.
"It’s astonishing the packets of let-
ters that dally come for him, from
all parts of the world,” exclaimed an
English visitor; but it was not till he
had struggled to keep pace with his
;orrespondence unassisted for & year
and a half that he employed & secre-
tary to help him.
“Letters of friendship require no
study,” he wrote to General Knox;
"the communications are easy, and
allowances are expected and made.
This Is not the case with those that
require researches, consideration, rec-
ollection, and the d-1 knows what
to prevent error, and to answer the
ends for which they are written.”
He grew almost docile, nevertheless,
under tho gratuitous task of courtesy
thrust upon him. Ills gallantry, bred
In him since a boy, the sense of duty
to which he was born, his feeling that
what he had done had in some sort
committed him to serve his country-,
men and his friends everywhere,
though it were only in answering
questions, disposed him to sacrifice
his comfort and Ills privacy to every
one who had the slightest claim upon
his attention.
8ubmlts to the Painters.
He even found sitting for his por-
trait grow easy at last. “In for a pen-
ny, in for a pound, is an old adage,"
he laughed, writing to Francis Hop-
kinson. “I am so hackneyed to the
touches of the painter's pencil that I
am now altogether at their beck; and
sit ‘like patience on a monument'
whilst they are delineating the lines
of my face. ... At first I was as
impatient at the request, and as rest-
ive under the operation, as a colt is
of the saddle. The next time I sub-
mitted very reluctantly, but with less
flouncing. Now no dray horse moves
more readily to his thill than I do
to the painter’s chair.”
Besides the failure of the public
credit, it concerned Washington to
note the fact that, though he kept a
hundred cows, he was obliged to buy
butter for his innumerable guests.
He saw to it that there should be at
least a very definite and efficient
government upon his own estate, and,
when there was need, put his own
hand to the work. He “often works
with his men himself—strips ofT his
coat and labors like a common man,"
measures with his own handB every
bit of building or construction that is
going forward, and "shows a great
turn for mechanics,” one of his guests
noted, amidst comments on his great-
ness and his gracious dignity.
Unchanged by War.
It was such constancy and ctndor
and spirit in living that took the ad-
miration of all men alike upon the
Instant; and his neighbors every day
saw here the same strenuous and sim-
ple gentleman they had known before
ever the war began.
It was through the opening of the
Potomac, after all, the thing nearest
his hand—that a way was found to
cure the country of Its malady of
weakness and disorder.
Washington had been chosen presi-
dent of the Potomac company, that lt
might have the advantage both Of his
name and of his capacity In affairs;
and he had gone upon a tour of in-
spection, with the directors of the
company, to the falls of the rivpr in
the summer of 1785, keeping steadily
to the business he had come upon,
and insisting upon being in fact a
private gentleman busy with his own
affairs, despite the efforts made every-
where he went to see and to enter-
tain him; and lt presently became
evident even to the least sanguine
that the long-talked-of work was real-
ly to be carried through.
Plan Ridiculed by Baltimore.
A visitor at Mount Vernon in the
summer of 1785 found Washington
"quite pleased at the idea of the
Baltimore merchants laughing at him,
and saying it was a ridiculous plan,
and would nover succeed. They be-
gin now, says the general, to look a
little serious about the matter, as
they know lt must hurt their com-
merce amazingly.”
The scheme had shown Its real con-
sequence in the spring of that very
year, when it brought commissioners
from the two states that lay upon tho
river together in conference to devise
clans of co-operation.
(To be Continued.)
Your Cows Will Make You More
Money If You Use an
OLDS
Cream Separator
This machine gets all the cream
and is a great time and labor sav-
er. This saving of time and labor
counts more in summer than in
any other season.
Cheap in price does not mean
economy in buying a cream sepa-
rator—yet the OLDS is very reas-
onable in Price when Quality is
considered. Come in and let’s
talk it over.
Farmers Hardware Co.
North Side Square. Alva, Okla.
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To Our Patrons:
We are prepared to take care or your
harvest loans at regular rates.
During the last year we have carried
every customer through without forc-
ing in a single loan or raisingour rates.
We invite new business assuring to
all a square deal. We pay interest if
left on time deposit.
Alva Security Bank
Alva. Okla
J A. STINE. Pre.iJ.-nt
GEO NICKEL. C«k,r,
GEO. W. CROWELL. Vic.-Prr.idtn
ERANk G MUNSON. A..'t Ca.Kief
NO. 5587.
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ALVA, OKLA.
Accounts of Merchant*. Stockmen. Farmers, and Individuals solicited. Every accomodation eitended
consistent with safe and conservative banking.
We Want The Farmers Business
Every farmer should deposit all his money in the banK and
pay his bills by check. He then becomes well
known to the bank officers and it is easier to secure an
accommodation when he needs it. We invite you to
open an account with us today.
Woods County Union Bank
North of Court House
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. . . NOTICE . . .
YOU CAN GET BETTER RESULTS
BETTER j SEEKS ! TO DO WITH
COLD TIRE ROLLER HYDRAULIC TIRE SETTER
ALVA MACHINE WORKS & AUTO GARAGE
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C. O. DILLOW
DEALER IN
Coal, Hay, Grain and Feed
Field and Garden Seeds
Telephone 151
Cash Paid For Grain
623 Flynn Ave. Alva, Okla.
Dr. Kings Kew Discovery
8ILLS THE COUCH. CURES THE LUNDS.
Dr.KIng's IMew LilePills j
The best in the world. « «■»
B1K :l.>a ti n >CJ» *»*» »*<*
P. F. Herod, M. D.
Res. Phone 239.
OFFICE PHONE 115.
G -n tral Practice - X R ty and Electrotherapeutics — Surgery
Res. Phone 103.
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