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Moore Messenger
VOL. IV. NO. 4t)
Moore jws Items
P. R. SI « '• Local Editor.
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FKliKI AIIY 22.
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OKLAHOMA (MOORE) OKLAHOMA. T
THE OKLAHOMA OF TODAY
A. J. Smith
A. C. Janacek
SELECTED QUEER PETS
LAWN RIDGE AND ELM CREEK
visited in Norman
on is on the sick
i reported seriously
left Thursday
for
R. L. Cot
Monday.
Blllle Will
list this weel
Mrs. Gesfo
sick this wee
Chas. Mill w
Pampa, Texa
Jas. Harrii nBacted business in
Norman Satu. •/.
W. f. Mauldin was in Moore Mon
day and Tuesday.
O. A. Courtney transacted business
in Norman Monday.
Clyde Cottrell went to Norman Mon-
day to see a dentist.
Mrs. Kainy transacted business in
Oklahoma City Friday.
Jas A. Cowan made a professional
trip to Norman Saturday.
Jno Troy and wife returned to their
home In Sulphur Saturday.
Wm. Gilmore lias purchased Jaspar
Leverich's blacksmith shop.
o. J. Smith and wife were shopping
in Oklahoma City Saturday.
Wm. I'etty loaded Ills emigrant car
for Pampa, Texas Thursday.
Hay Richardson of Conway. Kans.
and family arrived here Friday.
Miss Nina Faris visited ill Okla-
homa City Friday and Saturday.
S. H. Clyburn and wife of ORla-
honia Citv are visiting here this week.
M L Reagan of Noble was circu-
lating among old friends here Satur-
day and Sunday.
Amos Dreessn went to Sewart Mon-
day to visit his brothers, Hat and
''"fi, Taylor left Wednesday for
Pampa, Texas to look after his farm
Interests.
Otis Taylor and Earl Mercer ot
Greenfield, Ohio visited Klmer Holmes
and family here Friday.
Mrs. Perceval has been visiting her
sister who has been sick in Oklahoma
City this week.
Miss M. C. Swihart of ( apa, S. I',
is spending a few days with C. E. |
Swihart and family.
Mrs Taneyhill of the Oklahoma
Rescue Home, addressed the congre-
gation at the Baptist church Sunday
The Moore boys Iftid a ball game
Sunday afternoon with the Capitol
Hill boys. The Moore boys were vic-
torious. ,
Mrs. Etta Payne is seriously ill at
the home of her parents, Mr. and
Mrs J W. Potts at Edmond She had
a surgical operation to remove a tu-
mor and it is feared she cannot re-
cover. . . _
Mrs. Rifle sold her property here
to Jas. A. Cowan, consideration $lo00.
She left Monday evening for Wymore,
Neb., where she will make her home
with her son George. Mrs. Rilile has
been a resident of Moore most of the
time for the past 20 years and has
Ijiany friends who regret to see her
leave.
CONLEY BROWN.
Mr. Chas. Conley, age 22 years and
Miss Maude Brown, age 19 years,
were married before Justice Courtney
Sunday. The young couple are well
known here and have a host of friends
who wish them well.
Died Feb. 15th, at the home ot his
daughter, Mrs. Alice Richardson, of
Moore, Mr. George II. Arnold, age 78
years, 8 months and 4 days. Mr. Ar-
nold was born at New Berlin, N. > ■
lam. 11th. 1833, was married to Miss
Ruth Palmer In 1855. Five children
are left to mourn his loss. Mr. Ar-
nold came here from Missouri some
two months ago and took sick soon
alter his arrival here. The remains
were shipped to Wheeling. Mo. Sat-
urday for burial. Mrs. Richardson
and her son Ray of Conway, Kans
accompanied the corpse to Missouri.
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank our many friends
who were so kind and attentive to
us during the sickness and death of
°Ur ,OVedMRS. ALICE RICHARDSON
AND FAMILY.
RURAL SCHOOL LYCEUM COURSE
The following dates will be filled
by speakers sent out under the au-
spices of the Rural School Lyceum
Course:
Feb. 23rd.
Prof. Harry Brown, "Consolidation,"
and Hirsh Slatkin, "Life in Russia,"
Alamo No. 48. ... nt, I
I,(mis A. Ledbetter. "Duties of ( it
izenship," Leo Gorton, "University
Life," New Hope No. 28. i
March 1st.
Supt. Tt R. McDonald and John
Fields of Oklahoma City, "Consolida-
tion," Antioch Church inlO-4 W.
Short programs and a pie supper
will be held in connection with the
Ivceum numbers in each of the
schools. Supt. B. R. McDonald and
Hon Jess Wailes debated the subject
of consolidation before a large audi-
ence at Moore the 9th. Mr. McDonald
proved that Districts 6, 7, 8, lu, 14.
15 unrt Moore district could consoli-
date and run with one half the Present
lew. Mr. Wailes made an able de-
fense but was defeated. The manage-
ment does not send out, nor is respon-
sible for any speakers who speak for
or against any of the initiative bills
now being agitated.
ERIC L. CASTILK,
Manager.
1 Mrs. W. E. Williams and daughters
spent the day Monday with Mrs. W.
! li. Petty.
! Mr. I . I). Vertreei and family spent
, Sunday with Mrs. (1. 1>. Kitchen.
! Mary Petty spent the day Sunday
'with her aunt Mrs. Lizzie James.
Mr. Allen ami wife spent Sunday
with their daughter, Mrs. W. C. Wilson,
and family.
Mrs. S. L. tthudy Bpent Thursday
with Mrs. A. V. Watts
Miss Heaulah ('.ore of Oklahoma City
ia visiting friends in Kim Creek vicin-
ity this week.
Lela Rogers spent Sunday with home
folks In Capitol Hill.
W. E. dross and wife called on \\.
H Petty and wife Sunday afternoon.
Mrs A. R. Halch of Oklahoma City
is visiting her sister Mrs. Ida Taylor.
Delia Rhudy spent Saturday night,
with Mary Petty.
W. 11. I'etty and family spent Thurs-
day night with his brother John.
W. H. Petty, A, Howser and John
was'shopping in Oklahoma City Fri-
l lMrs S. L. Rhudy and daughter Susie
were shopping in Oklahoma City Fri-
j J Page and family of near Mishak
spent Sunday with her mother Mrs.
A. V. Watts.
Mr \v A. Taylor and wite made a
business trip to Oklahoma City Thurs-
'''s! L. Rhudv and wife and daughter j
Llllie spent the day Sunday with W. j
H. Petty and family.
W. II. Petty made a business trip
to Oklahoma City Monday.
Ollie Rhudy spent Monday night with
Mary Petty. „ M .,
Mrs. Bean and daughter Mrs. Mable
Shields .spent Thursday with Mrs. C.
C. Rou. „ _
W H. Petty will start for Texas
Wednesday with his emigrant car.
The rest of the family will start Fri-
day or Saturday. We are sorry to
see them leave but hope they will be
successful in their new home.
Mrs. W. E. Williams and daughter
Ada and Mrs. C. C. Rou spent Friday
with Mrs. Ida Taylor.
Bert hold and Charlie Auerbach spent
Sunday with their aunt Mrs. O. L>.
Kitchen. ,
Bert Jameway spent Saturday night
with his uncle close to the Roberson
Hchoolhouse.
Mrs. Balch and son's wife, Anma,
spent Saturday with Mrs. Dale Jar.e-
way.
A Serial Story of the Forty Sixth
State—Horticultural Products
GRIZZLY BEAR CUBS TRAINED BY
TRAPPER.
Amusing and Playful After The'- Cap-
turer Had Conquered the Call of
the Wild—As Easy to Train
As Any Dog.
MORGAN ART TREASURES
GREATEST IN WORLD
With the casual report that J. Pier-
pont Morgan paid $2,000,000 instead
$1,000,000 for
Much Oats Being Sowed
Oklahoma City.—J. V. Faulkner, in-
spector for the state demonstration
farm department, after a tour of the
state, reports a large acreage being
sowed in oats and well distributed
over the state.
>c_ _ the Hoentschel
/,' \ collection of Goth-
v ic works and
enamels. the
world la begin-
ning to realize
that the premier
American finan-
cier is the posses-
sor of treasures
of art that fairly
stupefy the imag-
ination in their
range of variety
and their enormous value. No writer
of fiction ever filled the palaces of a
fabled monarch with such treasures.
When, three years ago. Mr. Morgan
permitted the queen of England and
the dowager empress of Russia to in-
spect one of his three great treasure
houses in London they were fairly par-
alyzed by the wealth of art, of paint-
ings, of statuary, of Jewels, of cera-
mics. of porcelain, of bronzes, of reli-
quaries and priceless antiquities of
every form and conception of art
treasure of every age of barbarism
and civilization.
It was then estimated that Mr. Mor-
gan's Ixindon collection was worth
*20.000.000: that his New York art
treasures were worth fully as much;
that the paintings ami art objects he
wid loaned to museums were worth
,>10.000.000 more, and that the art ob-
jects that he had given away were
worth another $10,000,000.
Every day private agents of the
prince of American finance are scour-
ing the world In search of more treas-
ures, buying secretly in remote cor-
ners of the world.
That the modern Croseus purchased
the first Hoentschel collection of
carvings, statuary and furniture for
$1,000,000 and gave It to the Metropol-
itan Museum of Art four years ago
seems forgotten in his purchase of the
second collection for $2,000,000 early
this month.
As the greatest of all collectors of
any period. J. P. Morgan undoubtedly
has been stung oftener than any oth-
er son of Adam.
Some connoisseurs who have seen
all of the Morgan collections and
treasure chests say his collecting has
cost him about $100,000,000. Others
cut this to half a hundred million, but
admit that before many years, as the
world's wealth increases, the Morgan
treasury of art will be worth easily
$100,000,000
Still others say that the Morgan
collections are priceless and Vhat there
is no human means of estimating their
i One day while wandering in the
pine woods on the slope of Mount
Meeker I came upon two young griz*-
: ly bears. Though they dodged about
as lively a chickens, I at last cor-
; nered them in a penlike pocket of
fallen trees.
Getting them Into a sack was one
of the liveliest experiences I ever bad.
Though small and almost starved,
these title orphans proceeded to
"chew me up" after the manner of
big grizzlies, as is told of them in
books. After an exciting chase and
; tussle I would catch one and thrust
him into the sack. In resisting he
I would Insert his claws Into my
, clotheB, or thrust them through the
side of the sack; then, while I was
I trying to tear him loose, or to thrust
him forcibly in. he would lay hold of
a finger, or take a bite in my leg.
Whenever he bit I at once dropped
him, and then all began over again.
Their mother had been killed a few
days before I found them; so, of
course, they were famished and In
need of a home; but so bitterly did
they resist my efforts that I barely
succeeded In taking them. Though
hardly as large as a collie when he is
at his prettiest, they were nimble
athletes.
At last I started home, the sack
over my shoulder, with these lively
Ursus horrlbllls In the bottom of It.
| Their final demonstration was not
needed to convince me of the extra-
| ordinary power of their Jaws. Never-
! theless. while going down a steep
i slope one managed to bite Into my
back through sack and clothes, so ef-
i fectively that I responded with a yell
Then I fastened the sack at the end
of a long pole, which I carried across
my Bhoulder, and 1 was able to travel
| the remainder of the distance to my
cabin without another attack In the
rear.
Of course the youngsters did not
need to be taught to eat. 1 simply
pushed their noses down Into a basin
of milk, and the lltle red tongues at
once began to ply; then raw eggs and
bread were dropped Into the basin.
There waB no hesitation between
courses; they simply gobbled the food
as long as I kept it before them.
Jenny and Johnny were pets be-
fore sundown Though both were
alert, Johnny was the wiser and more
! cheerful of the two. He took train-
ing as readily as a collie or shepherd
dog, and 1 have never seen any dog
| more playful. All bears are keen of
; wit, but he was the brightest one of
the wild folk that I have ever known
He grew rapidly, and ate me almost
1 out of supplies. We were Intimate
i friends In less than a month, and I
I 6pent much time playing and talking
with him. One of the first things I
taught him was. when hungry, to
stand erect with arms extended al
most horizontally, with palms for-
1 ward 1 also taught him to greet mo
in this manner.—From the Spell of
the Rockies, by Enos A. Mills.
Beneficent Scheme.
Mr. Spotcash (at the club)—Doing
anything for your employes this win-
ter?
1 Mr. Maynchantz—I'm going to give
every man, woman and child In my
shops a pleasant surprise next month,
i Mr Spotcash- Glad to hear it.
What's the scheme?
Mr Maynchantz—You know the
I month comes In on Thursday, and
this Is a leap year. Well, I'm going
to make Thursday the pay-day for a
few weeks, so they'll have five pay-
days In February. It'll tickle 'em
most to death.
The horticultural industry is only in
its Infancy, but enough development
lias taki-n place to ut sure the growers
of tile adaptability of soil and climate.
Accordingly, each year is showing a
substantial Increase, both in ucreagc
and gross valueB.
Oklahoma apples took several pre-
I miums at the St. Louis Worlds Fair,
demonstrating to outsiders for the lirst
time that Oklahoma was to he rated
I as something more than a cotton and
uraill producing state. Peaches are a
I source of considerable profit, as the
' fruit ripens and is ready for market
I when the demand 1b best.
| There are many orchards scattered
over the state; the largest peach or-
I Chard, covering over 200 acres, Is
, near Checotah. Plums grow wild
along the river hunks all over the
state, proving conclusively that do-
mestic varieties can lie profitably cul-
I tlvated. reals, cherries, grapes,
' strawberries, blackberries, raspberries
and dewberries are cultivated, but mi
tar almost entirely for domestic use.
As the cities of the state increase In
size another Industry, the production
of small fruits for city markets, will
result.
All sorts of garden products are
raised, hut like fruit-growing the real
development will come with the in-
creasing population in the towns and
cities. Irish potatoes are grown quite
intensively, and ill two counties-
Muskogee und Pottawatomie—this is
quite aa industry, shipments being
made to various states. Sweet pota-
toes and peanuts are grown with con-
siderable success ill many counties.
Live Stock and Dairying
The value of the live stock on the
farms of Oklahoma is $113,4(17,000, atul
during the past year live Btock prod-
ucts valued at $27,089,(100 were mar-
keted. This, in u new state, is cer-
tainly a splendid foundation for a
greater Industry. The new packing
houses recently opened in Oklahoma
City will also prove a decided incen-
tive for a much larger increase in the
number of beef cattle BWiue and
sheep.
Few states possess better natural
advantage or offer greater opportuni-
ties for dairying than Oklahoma does.
Already the development, fostered by
the State Agricultural College, is no-
ticeably increasing the returns from
the farms of the sttae. For some time
Oklahoma will be taxed to produce
enough milk, butter and cheese for
home consumption hut with its advan-
tages the state will undoubtedly be
mi extensive shipper of such products
within another decade
Poultry.
Last year Oklahoma marketed sur-
plus poultry and eggs w orth $3,000,imo
in round numbers. With lis advan-
tages Oklahoma will eventually do far
better than this.
Mineral Resources.
Oklahoma possesses a larger amount
and greater variety o. mineral prod-
ucts thun any other state in the union.
The most valuable deposits are coal,
oil. gas, asphalt, gypsum, salt, lead
zinc, clay of all kinds, sand and build-
ing stone. There are also found, in
smaller quantities, iron, copper and a
little gold and silver, while such sub
stances as tripoli, phosphate, volcanic
ash, novaculile and radium earths are
known to exist.
The total amount of coal in the state
is estimated all the way from ten to
, seventy-five billion tons. There are
I more than 100 mines, large and small,
I now in operation and the amount ot
) coal mined annually is over 3,00(1,000
tons, arge mines are located at or
near McAlester. Krebs, Hartshorne,
' Haileyville. Alderson, Coalgate, Le-
high, Edwards, Savanna, Blocker, Pot-
eau, Henryetta, Heavener, Sculter,
Howe, Broken Arrow, Dawson, Pan-
ama, Bogoshe, McCurtain and Collins
I ville. The coal is chiefly a high grade
j bituminous coal. Coke is manufae-
| tured near a number of mines, the fine
coal or clack being used for the pur-
pose.
I There are more than a dozen re-
gions in Oklahoma in which oil and
j gas occur, the greater part of them
being ill the eastern part of tin- state.
'Three of the most important are the
Shallow field, the 96th Meridian field
:i ti ti (he Muskogee Held. The SMitli Me
ridian Held is by far the most prolific.
' for along this meridian are located
the oil fields of Copan, Dewey, liar
tleaville. Osage. Cleveland. Wynona.
Tulsa, Hed Fork and the famous Glenn
Pool, from which more than 20,000,000
barrels of oil have been produced in
less than two years. There are also a
number of scattered fields, lilch show
more or h'88 promise of future develop-
ment.
The oil Is carried from the wellB to
tankB In two-inch pipes. There are
many tank farms In the oil fields.
There are three large pipe lines, one
going north through Kansas, past <iii
cage to the Atlantic coast, the others
runlng south to the Gulf of Mexico
Oklahoma's oil fields have been de-
veloped within the past few years, the
first operations having been begun In
1901.
Large areas of known productive
gas territory have not yet been drilled,
because of lack of a market for Un-
file!. The amount of gaB in Oklahoma
is Incalculable. Hundreds of wells
flowing anywhere roni 1,000.000 to 10,-
(100,000 cubic feet a day have been
shut in and many wells are reported
to How as high as 60,000.000 cubic feet
daily. Natural gas Is being used in
a number of cities and towns for
lighting, heating und factory pur-
poses. Manufacturing plants from
other states are locating in Oklahoma
on account of the abundance and
cheapness of gas, which is sold as low
I', cents per thousand cubic feet
Groceries,
Dry Goods
Shoes
Place Your Order Now
For SEED l'OTATOKS--
W'e Have Them Coming.
Blacksmith and
Wheelwright
WAGON WORK A SPECIALTY
Also Complete Line of
Whips
Pawhuska, Okla.—Mayor Ferguson
has answered the request of 2T. per
cent of the voters of tills city and lias
called an election for February 26 to
seelct two freeholders from each ward
of the city to draft a charter or a com-
mission form of government
May End Case This Week
Oklahoma City—The case against
R. A. Hat ledge, suspended clerk of the
] district court, was resumed before I
j Judge Carney, Monday. Employes of
the district clerk's office testified in
regard to the box from which It has
been claimed money was stolen. The
j location of the box in the vault and
identity of parties holding keys to it
were gone into. It ib now thought
that the case may end the latter part
I of this week.
Nicely Put
Brahms dined one day with one of
| his fanatic admirers, and the latter,
| knowing the master's predilection for
| tine wine, had a bottle of renowned
quality brought to the table toward \
\ the end of the repast. "This," he ex-j
I claimed, "is the Brahms among my j
mines!" The guest sipped of it, say
ling: "Excellent, wonderful! Now,
i bring on your Beethoven!"
MOORE TIME TABLE.
Eastbound.
'no. 16 leaves 7:05 a. m., K. C. ex-
press.
No. 412 leaves G: 4T. p. m., Chicago ex-
j press.
'No. 420, local fr«lght, .1:41 p. m., ex-
j cept Sunday.
Westbound.
No. 411 leaves 9:35 a. m., Cleyburn
express.
No. 15 leaves 10:05 p. m., local to
Purcell.
No. 423, local freight, leaves lO.lo
a. m. to -Purcell.
M. L. DOWD, Agent.
C. H. BRAND, Pres.
S MAHLER, Cashier
J. W. PAYNE
Implements, Wagons,
Buggies,
DRY CELL BATTERIES,
UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES.
' MOORE
K. Mcl.ENNON, V. 1'.
K. W. BLEAKNEY, V. I*
"bank of moore
Deposits in This Bank Are Protected by
Depositors Guarantee Fund
MOORE, - OKLA.
O. A. Courtney
GROCER -
Near Interurban Station.
Staple and Fancy Groceries at the Lowest Prices.
WE WANT YOUR BUSINESS.
Soft Drinks on Tap.
TELEPHONES
S. G. DYER
LESTER C. DYER, Ph. C.
Era Drug Store
Dealer in Drugs, Toilet Articles, Stationery, Cigars
Candies, Paints, Oils and Window Glass
Moore, Oklahoma
Office, Walnut 1808
Res. Walnut 786ft
++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++4++++++++++++++++++*+;*
+ See P. F. SIMMS for Watch, Clock +
Dr. EdwinE. Sanger % and Jewelry Repairing—Lowest
Prices, Honest Work
DENTIST
Office 414-17 Security Bldg.
Oklahoma City
Jewelry
Particular Attention paid to all details of the work. +
Remember: All work acsolutely guaranteed. +
Clocks |
t
Watches=
ABOUT YOUR EYES
—GO TO—
MCVEYS
THE RELIABLE
OPTICIANS
110 West Main St.
Oklahoma City.
Oklahoma City Mill and Elevator Company
FRANK FARRIS, Manager
Highest Market Price Paid for Grain
Moore
Oklahoma
value.
Wasted Times
It takes twice as long to figure out
how to avoid doing a thing as it does
to do it
Craig's Crazes.
Gordon Craig, who interlards his
sapient utterances with more than the
average man's nonsensical lapses,
perpetrates this:
"I take an entirely common sense
view of the man and his motives. He
simply succeeded in performing in
two months a task that has been tried
in every court in Europe for centuries
He set out to cleanse sodal and of-
ficial life of its moral grime and its
degeneracy. He set about his t*wsk
with direct purpose, and with the
full enthusiasm of a young, virile, and
cruelly wronged man. His ideas were
logical, and he reasoned and thought
out every movement and act during
that brief time of storm and stress
that ended in tragedy That is my
idea of Hamlet "
Apropos of which the Nation tart-
ly remarks:
••If that really is Mr. Craig's notion
of Hamlet, there does not s^em to be
much reason why he should be en-
couraged to promulgate it What fa-
tality is it that condemns so mac
enthusiastic stage reformers to
freakish?"
Safety Hatch Incubator
We have recently installed a line of the well known SAF E 1 ^
HATCH INCUBATORS. This machine is made by the same com-
pany who make the "Easy Washer" Washing Machine, of which we
have sold a great number in and around Moore. 1 his incubator em-
bodies many patented features that can not be obtained in any other
machine. We want you to call in and let us explain how practical,
economical and profitable is the SAFETY HATCH INCUBATOR.
They are made in the following
sizes:
60-Egg, $9.50 240-Egg, $15
1 20-Egg, $12.50 320-Egg, $18
320-Size Brooder, $12.50
H, P.
MOORE,
OKLAHOMA
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