The New Era. (Davenport, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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Davenport New Era {OKLAHOMA LEADS
IN HOME OWNERS
CARNEY WINS NOMINATION
Official Count Give* Plum to the El
Reno Man
D*VENPORT
OKLAHOMA
OKLAHOMA NEWS N01ES
. Chelsea is starting a fine park sys-
tem.
It Is expected that the peach crop
of Oklahoma will this year reach 5000
car*.
Cordell is to have a new postoffice
building.
Nash claims an unusually large crop
of potatoes.
The glass factory at Ponca City Is
nearly completed.
Gas and oil wells near Hominy,
which went dry some time ago, are
producing again.
Bartlesville and Lawton are building
miles of fine asphalt pavement.
Wagoner county voted bridge bonds
but defeated the court house bonds.
Eufaula has voted |40,000 in bonds
for an extension to Its waterworks
system.
ONLY 6.595 MORTGAGED HOMES
HERE—A REMARKABLE
SHOWING
FARMERS ALL PROSPEROUS
WITH 71.8 PER CENT FREE OF
MORTGAGE WEALTH ACCU-
MULATES RAPIDLY
Oklahoma City.—In a recently Is-
sued statistical abstract from the
government bureau of statistics, the
information Is conveyed that out of
a total of 60,086 home owners in Ok-
lahoma, 60,483 own their homes, 6,-
595 are under mortgage, while 3,008
are unclassified.
With one exception the percentage
of families owning their own homes
in Oklahoma Is larger than any Btate
in the union. This exception is tHe
comparatively unimportant state of
North Dakota.
Oklahoma, with only 6.515
Oklahoma City.—Judge J. J. Car- 1
ney had only thirty-eight votes to 1
spare in his race for the democratic
nomination for congressman from the
Second district. Complete returns
from every county in the district now
show that Judge Carney received
3,906 votes to 3,868 for James R. II )a
and 3,730 for G. W. Cornell.
The returns from Oklahoma county
were filed with the state election
board Saturday afternoon. Up to
the time the Oklahoma county re-
turns were received Cornell led tha
field with 2,604 votes to 2,204 for Car-
ney and 2,104 for Koss. The total
vote shoves that Ed Dallew received
852 votes in the district, Tom S. Bai-
lew 1,624, Forrest 1,480 and Peery
1,74.
The advantage of having first place
cn a primary ballot in a race in which
there is a superabundance of candi-
dates, was demonstrated in the case
of Prank Adams, of Ardmore, a dem-
ocratic candidate for congressman-at
large. Because of the fact that his
name came first on the ballot, Adams,
who is a clerk In a furnishing store at
mort- ; Ardmore, received more votes than
PUSH BALL BIG FEATURE Of THE
HORSE SHOW AT FAIR THIS YEAR
Oklahoma City Push Ball Team Which Will Play Every Night of the
Horse Show in Connection With the Oklahoma State Fair and Exposition,
September 24 to October 6, 1912.
' ANDWICHES! What'.
' tastier than
Potted Ham
It's exceptional in flavor
and doesn't cost a bit more
than ordinary kinds.
At Alt Grocmra
Libby, M- Neill
& Libby
Chicifo
Pony push ball, polo and potato
races will be features of the annual
gaged homes, compares as follows such well icnown men as Fred Bran- Horse Show at the Oklahoma State
I with some of the nearby states: Tex-
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf rail- as has 50,437 mortgage^ homes, Ar-
road is planning to instal motor car
service between Denlson, Texas and
Durant.
Forty-live thousand bushels of
wheat were marketed In Lahoma in
one week.
Good many "courthouse rings" were
■watted in the primaries. Let the
people rule.
State convention of Oklahoma post-
masters will be held at Holdenville In
September.
Okmulgee Herald Is proud of the
fact that a sister of Jim Thorpe, the
famous Oklahoma Indian athlete, lives
in that city.
A porcelain factory is talked of at
Sapulpa, using natural gas from the
local wells and the clay from Arkan-
sas and Florida.
Awful holler out of Indian agent
centers In Oklahoma about that con-
gressional committee conference.
Very few women candidates for
kansas 16,571, Missouri 119,173, Kan-
sas 61,766. In Oklahoma 71.8 per cent
of the farmers own their homes, in
Texas 46.5, In Missouri 50.9, and in
Kansas 59.1.
To show that Oklahoma conditions
are the most favorable in the union
for the acquisition of wealth, it Is
only necessary to extend the compar-
ison to include some of the oldest
and moBt populous states of the un-
ion. The 71.8 per cent of Oklaho-
man owning their homes compares
with 45 per cent in Illinois, 56.1 per
cent in Indiana, 33.2 per cent in New
York and 52.6 in Ohio.
In the entire country only 46.5 per
cent of the people own their homes,
as against the 71.8 per cent for Okla-
homa. In other words 80 per cent
more people have unincumbered
places of residence in Oklahoma than
in the country as a whole.
The first thlrtg a farmer does when
be settles in this state Is to get his
home clear of Incumbrance. He us-
ually does this in about three years.
In this way there has been developed
nomination for county superintendent here the greatest home-owning class
of public instruction were defeated. of people in the country.
One Collinsville bank reports that
1,200 new accounts were started with
it during the past year. Sounds like
prosperity,
' Ponca City Democrat reports houses
so scarce in that town that rents nre
going up. Population of that city is
growing rapidly.
One year ago In August, tho town
of Welch was almost wiped out by
fire. Today It Is bigger and better
than ever before.
REVENUE TAX LAW IS UPHELD
Lawton Judge Holds Only Interstate
Corporations Not Affected
New canning factory has started
operations at Garvin The town also
Lawton, Okla.—Approximately }300,-
000 In gross revenue tax will be added
to the state's treasury if the supreme
court of Oklahoma sustains a decision
handed down by District Judge J. T.
Johnson, in which he held that the
Comanche Light and Power company
is liable for gross revenue earnings
upon which It has refused payment
has a new cotton gin and is prosper for the past three years, relying upon
ing in every line. ! 1 ducision of the United States su-
Bon, former chairman of the demo
cratic state committee; J. Y. Calla-
han, of Enid, state senator R. E. Ecli
ols, Senator William M. Franklin, Pat
Goulding, Moman Prulett, Leslie P
Ross and Judge J. B. A. Robertson.
Adams' total vote throughout the
Btate is 23,709.
Of the twenty-eight candidates rt>r
the nomination for congressman-at-
large, Augustus E. Ivey Is the low
candidate, bis total vote being 1,889.
The vote of the other candidates,
with Payne county missing, is as fol-
lows: Adderton 5,334; Adler 4.473,
Bouldln 3,619, Bowman 6,121, Bran
son 21,898, Brown 4,790, Callahan 10,-
034, Campbell 6,246; Carpenter 3,994;
Echols, 13,474; Eggerman, 4,151; Field
8,653; Franklin, 21,294; Gilmer, 2,876;
Goulding, 6,385; Harley, 5.079; Hays
11,702; Jaynes, 1,974; Murray, 38.436;
Nlblack. 9,277; Prulett, 16,927; Robert
son, 17,910; Ross, 20,215; Thompsou
31.702; and Weaver, 26,878.
Fair and Exposition, which opens Sep-
tember 24 and closes October 5, 1912.
A contract has just been made be-
tween Secretary I. S. Mahan of the
fair and Warren Jennings of the Ok-
lahoma City Polo and Push Ball team
calling for games every night of the
Horse Show. Under the terms of the
contract, the games are to be played
between the Oklahoma City team and
the Rockwall team of Alan Reed,
Texas, which is about forty miles
from Amarillo. These are considered
the crack teams of the southwest as
shown by the fact that they have
Just been engaged to play at the In-
diana State Fair.
Prominent among the Oklahoena
City players might be mentioned Lynn
Ammermann, who is aggressive and I
who easily holds the position of one j
of the hardest hitters on the team, j
Paul Shaffer is one of the pioneer .
players and his horse, "Red," is con- j
sidered among the best of the club
ponies. Mr. Jennings has been in- ;
terested in polo for a number of j
years and Is one of the organizers ,
of the team. Tom Watson playB No. I
4, or back of the team, and has par- i
ticipated in all the games played in
the last year. Billy Craycroft is tha j
youngest member of the team but
what he lacks In experience he
makes up in aggressiveness and bard
playing.
Polo, and push ball proved to be
the most interesting of all arenlc j
sports last year and for that reason !
the games have been provided for tha j
amusement of all at the coming fair,
Sept. 24 to Oct. 6, 1912.
In a woman's eye the most attrac-
tive thing about a man Is her abilitx
to attract him.
Appropriate Name.
"Why does that doctor's wife
her husband, Duckie?"
"Why not? Isn't he a quack?"
call
A great majority of summer Ills rr
due to Malaria in suppressed form. Las-
situde and headaches are but two symp-
tom*. OXIDINE eradicates the Malaris
germ and tones up tho entire system.
Exceptions.
Pater Famlllas—History repeats itr
self.
Smart Child—Not when it's my les-
son.
THE AUTOMOBILE ON THE FARM
In the Hotel Lobby.
Mary—That tall man has been di-
vorced five times.
Alioe—Goodness! Who is he?
Mary—He's the man who invented
the safety match.
CORN IS KING
Oklahoma Crop Will Be Worth Huge
Sum of $43,000,000
Oklahoma City.—The average of re-
ports from twenty-five traveling men
evolves the information that a seven
ty-flve million bushel corn crop it
about to appear on the Industrial land-
scape of Oklahoma. The basis is a
twenty per cent increase In acreage
and growing condition given by Ihe
government crop bulletin at 100 per
cent in advance of last year.
While the growing condition figures
of the government are slightly lower
than those furnished by the corre-
sponding report of 1909, when an acre-
age of 5,135,383 acres gave a total pro
ductlon of 70,606,250 bushels, an aver-
It Is a Common Practice to Use the
Back Wheels for Power to
Run Saws
A new UBe for the automobile has
been found by western farmers. It is
that of utilizing the back wheels for
motive power to run wood saws.
"In traveling in the west I came
across a farmer, who was cutting
wood by means of his automobile,"
laid J. E. Sheldon, representative of
a western automobile company, at the
Riggs house. "The farmer had jacked
up the rear axle of his machine and
attached a belt to one of the wheels,
which was connected with a saw. In
this manner he was sawing wood. I
asked him how he had come to think
of the scheme, and he told me that
It "was common practice among farm-
ers in the west.
no longer so anxious to leave the old
homestead for the city, for they can !
jump in a machine, go to town, and I
get back in time for dinner."—Wash- i
ington Post.
Smoke-Consumer a Success
A smoke consumer and fuel econo- ,
mlzer, said to be the result of twenty '
years' trials, has been successfully 1
tested at Sheffield. Coal was fed inTo
the furnace of a boiler generating
steam for running the works, with the
usual result—the emission of black
smoke from the chimney; then the
consumer was put into action, and in
place of the black smoke there was
only a slight trace of the products of
combustion. The change is effected
by an arrangement of a series of de-
vices so placed In the flues as to in- I
tercept the smoke, and cause it to be
Two air eir-
Mother's Lingual Attainment.
The mother of a little boy In Kan-
sas City, Kan., recites negro dialect
stories charmingly. Her small son Is
quite proud of her accomplishment
and frequently boasts of it. One day
recently, when some of his playmates
were vaunting the achievements of
their several mothers, the little boy
braggingly remarked:
"My mother is smarter than any of
yours; she can talk two languages."
"What are they?" demanded his
companions.
"White and colored."
age production of over fourteen bUBh
els to the acre and totnl value of j "j, ]„ astonishing how many farm- Ignited by the flames.
135,597,716, it is thoufht that the In- ers an through the west own auto- culators are so placed as to allow the
creased acreage will more than com mobiles. Nearly every farmer who is desired quantity of external air to be
f preme court which abrogated gross pensate for the margin between the tnoderately well fixed has a machine, circulated among these devices, caus-
Melons weighing more than fifty revenue assessments upon corpora- development conditions. |t is an ordinary sight to see automo- j lnS the smoke to be properly Ignited,
pounds no longer are accepted by the Hons. Oklahoma opened up the centurj j,iIea skimming through the harvest and consumed around the boiler flues
editor of the Binger Journal. He can-! Judge Johnson sustained a motion with a champion corn production noldB, and it Is remarkable how much before entering the chimney. In other
Case of Mistaken Identity,
President Taft was out for his aft-
ernoon walk in Washington.one day
when a flaxen-hair*l little girl ran out,
in front of him, held up her finger,
and exclaimed, in a shrll' voice:
"I know who you are!'
The president, thinking it not at all
unusual that she should possess this
Information, but willing to gratify her,
asked:
"Well, who am I?"
"Aw," she said teaslngly, "you're
Humpty Dumpty."—Popular Magft-
rlne.
He can-
not afford to pay the drayage bill in , argued by R. E. Gish of the attorney stunt, the average yield being twenty
time they Bave. The increased use of quarters also attempts are being made
getting them out to his residence. general's office, setting aside a tem six bushels to the acre. In 1910 the uut0s by farmers has, in a great meas- cope with the smoke nuisance, and
A boys' dormitory will be erccted
at Panhandle Agricultural institute ut
Goodwell on cooperative plan. Citi-
tens will furnish the money and the
boys will do the work. Then the boys
also plan to form a cooperative board-
ing club during the school year which
opens September 3.
Pryor has Just closed a six-day re-
union of nil Cherokee Indians and-
white people who were residents of
the Cherokee nation prior to state-
porary Injunction to prevent collec- average was sixteen bushels, while in
Hons on the ground that the supreme
court's ruling applied to public service
corporations doing an Interstate busi-
ness and not to corporations operat-
ing within the state.
Attorneys for the local company
■erved notice of appeal and although
Ihere is but little more than $500
Involved In the local case, something
like $300,000 in gross revenue tax
issessments rests upon its outcome
•ince it is being mads a test case to
hood. A permanent association has prove the stability of Oklahoma's gross
been formed.
A claim of $25,000 damages for be-
ing rolled over and over In a wreck
which Injured him both physically and
mentally is the sum asked of the Mid-
land Valley railroad In federal court
at Muskogee by Manuel Hlrsch of
Tulsa.
Bank of Fairview and Citizens'
Btate bank of that city have consoli-
dated under the name of Bank of Fair-
view. This leaves three banking In-
stitutions in the Major county town.
The present peach crop is the larg-
est and best that has ever been raised
In Logan county. Next year there are
thousands of new bearing trees which
will increase the present output, and
each year following the Increase will
be very rapid, as there are numerous
large orchards which are not yet be-
ginning to bear.
The contract for the paving of Third
avenue In Durant from Evergreen to
Mulberry streets has been let to the
Cleveland-Trinidad company of Okla-
homa City at a contract price of $17,-
397.23. This company was the lowest
of four bidders,
J. Fleming, former cashier of the
Union State bank, for whom a war
rant was sworn out charging the
burglary of $3,300, has never been
arraigned and It is possible that he
wll not be prosecuted.
A Talihina girl fed a tramp over
the protest of the family for whom
she was working as cook about a year
ago. Now ho is dead and she has In-
herited his property, valued at $40,000.
A man Is as old as he feels. A
woman Is as old as she looks—before
breakfast.
revenue tax law.
Railroads Boosting Oklahoma
Oklahoma City—Recognizing the
psychology of the situation, the rail-
roads are going to utilize the autumn
months In giving Oklahoma City and
the state more free advertising than
ever attempted In any twelve-month
period before. Statistics will soon
become available from authoritative
sources showing the approximate
crop production of the year and as
this will admittedly exceed the pro-
duction of any previous twelve
months, the general offices are confl-
lent that scores of farmers from the
north and east will be Induced to
lell their high-priced holdings and re-
Invest In Oklahoma land. The Santa
F"e Is getting out a handsome book-
let on the state's resources, which it
1911 there was a decrease to an aver
age of 7.8 bushels to the acre. The
growing condition the first of August
being reported by the government at
double that of the growing condition
on the same date in 1911, this feature
alone would presage a production ol
15.6 bushels to the acre for the pres
ent year. This, considered together
with a quarter million Increase in
acreage, makes the probable produc
tlon for the current year approximate
ly seventy-fivs million bushels, and
worth at the current price $43,000,000
Fish Car In Oklahoma
Oklahoma City—United States fish
commission car No. 4 from Meredosla
I 111., has arrived here. The car is mak
Ing distributions of 80,000 five-inch
black bass at Guthrie, Oklahoma City
and Lawton. The work Is being car
rled out under the supervision ol
Oapt. J. H. 8. Kerns, United States
llsh commissioner, assisted by Mes
senger W. N. llrittnln and Assistant
Messengers F. J. Foster and E. T
Aiken.
The flsh are kept In ten-gallon
I cans, to which a freBh supply of air
ure, removed the prejudice against to turn the smoke waste into an
machines, and it Is seldom now th>t ' economic value. Prof. J. A. Swltzer
one has a complaint from a farmer on of the University of Tennessee records
the score of fast driving. The farm-
ers, when they see a machine speed-
ing along the road, get out of the way
and do not attempt to hold up the oc-
cupants, as they formerly did. They
have learned the value of the auto-
mobile In their own business.
"One of the most striking results
the result of experiments which he
has made with smoke-consumers based
on the principle of Injecting, with
steamjets, fresh air Into the furnaces
whenever fresh fuel is put upon Ihc
fires. He finds that the claim that
such apparatus Increases the efficiency
of the boilers by Increasing the evap-
of the use of automobiles among oration of the water is well founded,
farmers is that of keeping the bcyB , and that there is a real economy in
on the farm. The young fellows are I their use.
How He Left.
The servants were discussing the
matter below stairs.
"Master and mistress 'ad something
of a row last night, I 'ear," said the
butler ponderously.
"You should have heard 'em," an-
swered the parlor maid in a shocked
tone. "Scandalous Is what I calls It!"
"They tell me 'e ran out, cranked 'la
motor car and left in it."
"No," said the maid, positively, "he
didn't leave In his machine; I dis-
tinctly heard the mistress say he left
In a huff."—Ixindon Answers.
FOR SPEEDIER TYPEWRITING
! snore. The two-letter syllables include
the following: Be, an, ch, de, ed, Is, in,
no, st, un; and among the three-let-
is constantly being pumped by special ter syllables are: All, and, who, are,
Machine to Print Syllables With a
Single Pressure
The latest development In connec-
tion with the typewriter is a machine
to print syllables of two and three
letters by a single pressure of the key.
This invention 'calls for no special
skill on the part of the operator. There
is the ordinary standard keyboard, but j the. narrow streets where the publia
the keys can be extended to sixty or is free to worship are about 500,000
Takes Laurels From Brooklyn
"Don't call Brooklyn the City of
churches," says a Globe Trotter, who
is equally familiar with the Hudson,
the Rhine, the Ganges and the Nile.
There is a city In India which is
looked upon as "holy" by Buddhists
and Brahmins which might dispute
the title. Benares has about 2,000
temples and in these and fixed In
machinery
Two-thirds of the area of the side
walls Is devoted to light and ventila-
tion and the car is one of tha best
will
spread broadcast over possible equipped In Ihe government service.
As soon as the Lawton distribution is
end. has, the, our, for, may, not, hay,
eon com, Ing, acc, dls, per pro. When
the operator has become used to posi-
tion of the syllables, and has mem-
orized them, it is epected that typing
will be more rapid process. For ln-
idols. According to Hindoo belief, It
Is the gate to paradise, to which all
who dwell within its walls enter im-
mediately.
•migration areas; the Katy Is run As soon as the lawton distribution U ™ ' | .tanceB
ling a scries of Illustrated descrlp-j effected Captain Kerns will return to stance, for the word accountant it ^
Illinois for a new supply for some only necessary to depress four
other state. The car is kept consTint- keys Instead of ten, as on an ordinary
ly busy going from Maine to Callfor machine;
nla distributing fish to private lakes
and ponds and its yearly distribution
of members of the finny tribe reaehsi
far up into the millions.
:ive articles on the city and state;
ihe Rock Island is arranging a heavy
>ld-tlme colonization movement and
:he Frisco's current descriptive liter-
iture eclipses all previous attempts.
It Is estimated that the advertising
will reach 6,000,000 people.
Big Peach Orchard Planned
Durant, Okla.—Within the next
few years, Colonel J. F. Crawford,
manager of the Pine Belt Lumber com-
pany of Fort Towson, Okla., will bave
the largest peach orchard of the
Section Hand Killed
Durant, Okla.—Ben Gilbert, a sec
tlon hand on the Katy railroad work-
ing out nf Calera, was Instantly kill
ed when he was struck by the engine
of the southbound passenger train
disunion" Is written by
means of three keys, Instead of eight;
"misfortune and "permission" also re-
quire only four keys each.
An Electric Carpet
The latest electric Invention Is the
electric carpet for heating rooms. It
was originated in Paris. The under
side of the new carpet consists of a
network of steel wires through which
the current Is equally distributed in
southwest on bis property near Fort number five, near that town. He was *11 directions. It Is said that the cost
Towson. It now covers approximate-; attempting to remove some tooli
ly 400 acres and In time be expects to ' from the track to avoid a northbound
bave 2,300 acres covered with peach freight train when In some mannei
trees. About one hundred and sev he leaned too close to the other track
enty acres of trees ars now bearing oa which the passenger was running
The colonel's home is In Oklahoma and was struck on the back of th«
City. | bead by some part of the engine.
it the new form of heating will be
ft>ss than that of any known system;
Indeed, It is estimated that a room
fitted with one of these carpets can
bt heated st s total cost of a penny
an hour.
Best Disinfectant.
Sunshine Is the best possible disin-
fectant. The rays of the sun pene-
trate and disintegrate all organic sub-
Let It flood the rooms which
are occupied whenever it Is possible.
Lay the bedding in its direct rays for
an hour every bright morning. Dark
corners that have a stuffy smell are
dangerous to the health of the house'
hold.
Late Inventions
A pistol so small that It may bs
held In the mouth and discharged with
the teeth has been Invented by a Ber-
lin artist.
A shovel with sieve attached so that
ashes can be sifted before they are
removed from a heater has been in-
vented by a Michigan man.
Wireless apparatus for transmit-
ting time direct from observatories to
offices, stores, and residences on land
and to vessels at sea has been invented
by two Frenchmen.
"That's
Good"
Is often said of
Post
Toasties
when eaten with cream or
rich milk and a sprinkle of
sugar if desired.
That's the cue for house-
keepers who want to please
the whole family.
Post Toasties are ready
to serve direct from the
package—
Convenient
Economical
Delicious
••The Memory Lingers"
Sold by Grocers.
■ Cereal Company, United,
BatiU Creek, Mich.
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