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the Journal
A NEWSPAPER OF THE BETTER SORT
THE JOURNAL, GEARY OKLA., AUGUST 29, 1918
Entered June 13th, 1903, at Geary, Oklahoma, as second class mail matter
Under the act of Congress of March, 1897^
ISSUED EVERY THURSDAY—TWO DOLLARS PER YEAR
FRANK HENSON__________________________________Editor
GEARY, OKLAHOMA
If we mistake not there is an ordinance on the statute books
of this city that makes it an oeffnce to spit upon the sidewalks—
and if there isn’t such an ordinance there ought to be one passed.
And it should be neforced.
IS THE END APPROACHING?
¥T HAS been a long while since we have entertained any serious
1 hopes of the war ending short of 1920. In setting the date
at 1920 we make no pretense of being a prophet or anything of
the sort, but it has seemed to us that in all likelihood it would
be the spring and summer of 1920 before America in all the
strength of the various branches of her military forces would
be overseas. In the summer of 1919 we shall doubtless ha\e a
jrreat force <4over there,” but it is morally certain that some of
them will be without the proper amount of training and allow-
ances must be made for re-adjustments and the inauguration of
new systems as old ones are found inefficient. We re a countr.v
new to the war ganje and while we shall doubtless be a powerful
factor in the 1919 campaign, it has seemed to us that we would
make exceptional progress if we attained our full stride by the
spring of 1920.    .,    ,
However, the events of recent weeks give us the hope—
somewhat faint yet—that the prsent winter may see an end to
«r»rcelv be true of the American people at the present time, after |
liUle more thanone vear of war, whereas the German people!
have been straining themslves to the utmost for mow than_four
vears with casualties that run into the millions. The surpris-
ing thing is not that the Sweedish fellow was so anxious to
create a favorable impression of Germany s situation in allied
r.mmtries but that reputable news agencies send out such stuff.
A conaMirable    it could not possibly be true on the face
of it.    ____^_
The Journal’s advertising inchage in August has been
considerably hi excess of that for August, 1917-which would
seem to indicate that advertising, like many other commodities
•    in demand in war-time than ever. True we were at
:    August last year, but we were only just getting started
"ai, Otp rmintrv was still doing business on a peace basis, so
?o »ncak Newspaper advertising is what will shpport the
Uw nP a1,d comnumity* in war-time and Jack of it is what w.ll
bring about hard-times for the merchants of Geary.
C. W. Trippy
Real Estate—Farm Loans
Insurance
* Office in the Hear of
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
phone 84.    Geary, Oklahoma
G. E. Norris
DRAYSrSmFER
Prompt and Careful Hauling
of all Kinds
Residence Telephone------No. 33
Dr. Chas. McLarty
DENTIST
OfTlce over the First National Bank
Phone 230—Geary, Oklahoma
make *it big success—as it always has been.
C. F. Dyer
Attorney and Counsellor
Office over First National Bank
Practice in all Courts
What An Old Gee*er 1>‘‘»    |
There was an old geeser. he nad a
lot of sense. He started up a bush
ness on a dollar eighty cents. The ,
dollar for stock and the eighty for an ,
ad brought him three lovely dollars ;
In a day,.by dad. Well.he bought more j
goods and a little more *£**•’_ “m* i
he played that system with a »®11®
on his face. The customers Aotked
to his two by four, and soon he had
to hustle for a regular store. ip
on the square where people pass, he
pohhlcd up a corner that was aui
He fixed up the window
have to purchase and the geeser was
wise—for he knew the way to get
’em was to advertise.—Standard. Al-
edo. 111.    __
—Closing out my entire stock of
TIRES AND TUBES at 10 per cent
discount; your chance to save “on®?
on your automobile supplies. Peo-
ples Garage, C. J. Nelson, prop.
Leg&ls.
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the struggle, or failing that the 1919 campaign may go against with the best he had and told them
the German so decisive* that he’ll be forced to terms that wint- .ii««    P«fhfnev»e
er. It all seems to depend a great deal upon how haul the Ger- , er it iind he didn’t cut down,
man is really pressed within his own boundaries.    hl8 ad8 one jit. And he’s kept thinJ*** i
The allies are demanding some great things of Germany humptng in the town ever since, and ,
der of Alsace-Lorrain to the French, but their terms practically when the times were punk. People
mean a re-organization of the German government along the    and the geeser was
lines of democracy. In other words they mean to obliterate the
Prussian as the guiding geuius of Germany. Knowing this full
well the Prussian is going to fight as long as the German people
will back him up—and after.*11 it seems that all Germany is so
Prussianized, so steeped in Kaiserism^ that, to speak of stamp-
ing out Prussianism is to mean the annihilation of Germany as a
free P™®[geemg to ug that the prospect for peace depends very
largely upon the straits to which the German people at home
have been reduced by more than four years of bitter fighting
and great sacrifices. * Are their resources of food and man power
equal to one> perhaps two more years? Is their stamina suf-
ficient? In view of the happenings of the past few weeks
and the apparent effect it is having in Germany, we are in-
clined to doubt it. With a victorious, ever-advancing army, yes!
Germany could go to any extreme. But with an ever retreating
failing, weakening, plainly outclassed military force, the Ger-
man staying quality is a doubtful proposition.
This idea w’ould seem to be borne out by recent express-
ions of opinion from England and France. On last Saturday
Premier Clemenceau used this significant language:
••The fine victories of the past weeks have definitely
decided the fortunes of war. We hall the dawn, the first
gleams of which brightened the victorious brows of the found-
ers of the American republic, and of the fathers of our own
revolution. The last obstacle to the establishment of rights
among men Is about to disappear. The triumph 1b near.
For weeks upon weeks the papers each day have told of
fresh German reverses—always accompanied by great losses,
both of men and supplies. This is something unusual. Ger-
many has frequently sacrificed men by the thousands, but it was
always to gain more ground—and the scrifices were not of-
ten in vain. And in her strategic retreats her losses of men or
material has seldom been great. Ever since the German went
reeling back from Chateau Thierry after his first real encount-
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(Publshed, Geary Journal. Aug. 22-
29. 1918)
In the County Court, of Blaine
County, State of Oklahoma.
In the Matter of the Estate
of James S. Self, deceased
NOTICE TO CREDITORS _ f
All persons having claims agaiijgt?
James S. Self, deceased, are required
to present the same with    I
vouchers to the undersigned Admin-,
istrator at Squires & Self s
Geary. Okla.. within four months of
the date hereof, or the same will be
forever barred.
Dated August 20. I9*8- T „
PAUL O. SELF.
Administrator.
•If “J ' AheWulBew^,
r Isi Constipation and Di
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facsimile Si^L°f
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Exact Copy of Wrapper
In
Use
For Over
Thirty Years
CASTORIA
TMC OCMTAun ••«»»»■    TOW« CITY.
SwwfsSi
In the matter of the Estate or
Laura Fields. Deceased.
Notice of Sale of Real K",att
hereby given, that in
Notice is    -    .
reeling back from Uhateau 1 merry auc. u»    —----- pursuance of an order of sale County
er with our own troops he has been on the run, and present pros- by the county eoun ot Blsineunun y
pecte are br?gM fo? clearing the Hun from off French soil before Oklahoma on the lith .day^f Juiy
Christmas.
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There is one genuine consolation about Geary s feuds. The
battlers can’t live always and perhaps they’ll go to their reward
(?) in time for the younger generation to spend its declin-
ing years in peace. Haste the day.
The fact that a man buys liberty bonds and war savings
bought them he has a license to go ahead and do a lot of thing,
that are worse than not buying war securities. When you are
judging a man’s Americanism don’t ask how many liberty bonds
he owns, but inquire what his every day actions and mfuence is
doing to help sustain the county—to help unify his community.
It would be a labor-saving scheme for some of the repub-
lican papers to keep their bi-enmal howls about the democratic
1 i il _iotonHinor in tvno from one election
A. D. 1918. the undersigned as the
administrator of the estate of Laura (
Fields Deceased, will sell at private
Hale to the highest bidder, and upon
the terms hereinafter set forth, all i
the. right, title. Interest and estate
of the said Laura Fields at the time
of her death and all the right title
Interest that the said estate has, j
by operation of law or otherwise ao- j
qulred in and to all that certain lot,
piece or parcel of land situate, ljing
Americanism. Any man who IS aoie lo uuy v>ttl oevui ivito    and being in the county of Blaine
hardlv have the nerve not to do so, but he may teel that ha\ ing and state of Oklahoma, bounded and
bought them he has a.license to ^eadant^do jtotof th.ngs . .teamed .. Mm
Quarter of Section Thirty Four (34)
Township Fifteen (15), North of
Range Ten (10) W. I. M.
Said sale will be upon the follow-
ing terms:    Cash in hand or one
third in cash and the balance of two
thirds payable in two installments
lican papers to keep their ui-enmai uuwib    — due one and two years after date,
tmrtv and the election laws standing in type from one election wlth interest at the rate of 8 per
to another Thev’re all stereotyped anyway—always the same cent upon said deferred payments.
9pru S about the --t.me.nd
lust as meaningless. As a mattei Of tact tntie 18 r?°“‘ I said land. The administrator reseves
nlentv of improvement in Oklahoma s election laws anu there s (he op(lon to either sell for cash or
room for plenty of improvement in the manner in which the (tern- upon terms,
ocratic politicians—yes the democratic machine if you like- Bids mus
run the state, but as a choice of two evils we infinitely P®1
the democratic machine brand of government to the raving dem-
ogogery of the old republican “war hoss. The democratic ma-
chine does produce a really capable official once m a
which is something the old republican orgnization hasn t done
in the last 20 years.
The news agencies forwarded a dispatch from Stockholm
which was published in last Sunday’s papers and which purport-
ed to be an irto, view with a Swecmst .lcu iia.ist who had just
returned from a several week’s trip to Germany. This Journal-
ist” person described the lot of the German people as a wonder-
fully happy one. He stated that all the Germans nad P enty to
eat that they had “stopped thinking about the war at all —and
fn fact he gave the impression that the German people hald-
v realised they were at war, and spoke at length of he osten-
tattou* luxury of the German health resorts. Some of the things
thU “journalist" person claimed for the German people would
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Little CraftBarber Shop
Prompt and Careful Service—
Best of Workmanship.
V
Harvey Cash - - Proprietor
Bids must be In writing and may
be left at the office of C. F. Dyer
Attorney for said Administrator, or
filed with the administrator or filed
with the County Judge or in the of-
fice of the County Judge.
Said Sale will he held on the 3rd j
day of September, 1918 In the City i
of Geary Blaine County. Oklahoma |
and at the office of said admlnl-l
strator in the City of Geary. Blaine j
County. Oklahoma. I
In witness whereof the l nderslgn-
ed administrator with will annexed
hereunto sets his hand this 10th day
of August A. D. 1918.
O. V. DILLION,
Administrator with
will annexed.
-Car of Lump Coal expected in
this week and we can fill your or-
ders; phone us nov*—number 17.—
Davidson ft Case.
Which Shall It Be
Americanism or Kaiserism
Freedom or Opresion
Liberty or Slavery
Mercy or Menace
Protected or Plundered?
We hav emade our choice-    s
Our lives and dollars will uphold the
principles for which America has tak-
en her stand.
Save-invest fully and freely in Liberty
Bonds of the fourth issue.
American State Bank
GEARY, OKLAHOMA
“The Bank Which Gives Personal Service”