The Billings News. (Billings, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 31, Ed. 1 Friday, April 14, 1905 Page: 4 of 8
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QUITTING = BUSINESS
SALE!?
w.
Having bought out my partner’s interest in the grain business I have decided
to close out my mercantile business within
60 DO
and to do so will give to
the people of Billings
and vicinity such a..........
FEAST OF BARGAINS
Absolutely REGARDLESS of Cost.
We mean business and everything goes both stock and fixtures. While we haven’t space to enumer-
ate our bargains we are sure we will more than satisfy you both in quality of goods and in prices.
THE BILLINGS NEWS
Published Every Friday by W. W.
McCullough
FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1905.
Entered in the Post Office at Hillings,
Okie., as second clasa mail matter.
Subscription Rates.
1 year paid in advance............I.no
6 months..........................SO
l year not paid in advance........l.ifi
The supremo court of Kansas has de-
cided that a threshing machine is ex-
empt from seizure in ease of debt. It
holds that when the maohine is used to
earn a living for the owner and his fam-
ily that it comes within the clause re-
lating to tools and implements of labor.
—Mail and Breeze.
A recent news item says: “Former
Democrats, headed by M. \V. Meagh-
er, an attorney, propose to establish a
new political party, ‘pledged to pre-
vent the accumulation of vast for-
tunes.’ ” Like as if the Democratic
party wouldn’t do just as well. No-
body was ever known to accumulate
evon a small fortune under Democratic
rule. The Yellow Jacket.
The election of the democratic can-
didate for mayor of Chicago on the is-
sue of municipal ownership of its rail-
ways will give us a chance to see some-
what of the advantages and disadvan-
tages of public ownership of great pub-
lic necessities. If the experiment is a
success in Chicago it will result un-
doubtedly in nmnieipal ownership even-
HIS MIND IS UNBALANCED.
Wm. Hoover, whose mysterious dis-
appearance last w»ek occasioned much
apprehension on the part of his family
and friends, turned up in St. Louis
where he had been taken to the emer-
gency hospital by the police. The poor
man had become mentally deranged and
wouuictnj in uniuit:ijmi uwnerKiip even- i .................. milieu auu
tually of all railroads, telegraphs, te!e- j wa8> *9 sailL laboring under a sort of
phones and who knows how many other | rel'(ri°us hallucination. He was brought
inct.itiitinrta nnm onu.. it_____i. hoillfi this WC(?k hv Hiu hmFhpp.in.lam
institutions now supported by the pub- |
lie but run by great corporations. A
greater responsibility is now resting
upon Mayor Dunne of Chicago than he I veilance aa jt 'a not known whal
knows. The people want to he shown fanciful imagination might lead to.
and this experiment in Chicago will be
the whole show until the performance
is over.
by his brother-in-law,
F. C. Clark, who went after him and
while not violent is under constant sur-
veilanee as it is not known what his
Jas. McCluskey and wife, W. C. Paden
and wife and family, J. C. Noonan and
wife, C. E. French and wife, J. C. Me- j
Farland and wife and family, M. S.
Kettenring and wife and family, Mrs.
Lemmon, Mrs. J. L. Holmes, Mrs. Min-
nie Mitchel, A. M. Foster, D. L. Arney
and wife, C. L. Young and wife, W. G.
McCluskey and wife, Misses Eva Lem-
mon, Ford and Irene Holmes, Amy San-
ders and Messrs. Black, Orvil Sanders,
Clark Dale and Quince Holmes.
Luther Burbank, the California ma-
gician, has developed a verbena with a
strong arbutus fragrance. He has made
possible a new fruit, the plumcot, a
combination of the common wild Amer-
ican plum, the Japanese plum and the
apricot. The details of theso and other
experiments, Mr. Burbank's aims, be-
liefs, and hopes in his work, will he the
substance of William S. Harwood’s ar-
ticle in the April Century, the second
of two papers on ‘‘A Wonder-worker of
Science.”
The following conclusion by the edi-
tor of the Farm and Stockman would
lead one to believe that long life is not
to be compared to having one’s food
cooked to his taste. This should be a
pointer to girls on the value of learning
to cook. He says: “Wearoiold that
primitive man ate uncooked food and
lived a long time. It has been hinted
that we may be able to live much long-
er by eating uncooked food. I desire
t» adhere to my present habit of eating
well cooked food. Were I assured a
life of a thousand years by eating un-
cooked food I would prefer to have my
rations cooked and in due time be gath-
ered unto my fathers.”
We understand a number of years ago
he was aceidentally hurt in the head and
which led to a derangement of his mind
for a time but it was hoped he had en-
U is only a little over two weeks until i J*™* from the effects. His
city election comes off and we haven’t v ® " earne9t|y hoPe may prove
heard anything about who are to he ^ “ te,nP°rary derangement and that
candidates or what the great, issues to V' sTT " ,m“y fe'
be decided by the voters in the coming j St°rCd t0 lU_ n°™*1 condition.
event are to be. There have been times ' 4 paucuici I cesn arc
in the history of our little town when ' A '"ntWtLL SEND OFF.
two weeks before election the atmos- Since the news got about giving no-
phero would, politically speaking, be at t>ce of tho sale of J. P. Hurst’s farm
a white heat. Personally we prefer the ,,nd 0! the family’s proposed early de
conditions as we find them now. 1 •“...... • --
WHAT OUR RURAL
CARRIERS ARE
It is expected that the Japanese and
Russian fleets will soon be together and
the interest has been shifted from land
to the water part of the far eastern
war. A great naval battle will in all
probabilities soon take place. The
general guess concerning the outcome
is in favor of tho Japs but guesses won’t
settle the war and hence we will wait
until after the fleets meet before we
give results of the battle.
The President is working off some of
the surplus energy which lias accumu-
lated upon his person since congress ad-
journed. He is spending the week in a
big wolf hunt in the Comanche pasture
reserve. From reports it is thought he — — ■
enjoys rounding up wolves rather better't,le 8anu' »”>Khborhood
ik»n a.. ____I__e . Abu liflln
parture for Anadarko, many of Mr.
Hurst’s good friends have been intend-
ing to call and pay their respects and
bid the family “God speed” in their
new habitalion wherever it may be. As
a sort of culmination of these intentions
it was deuidod to make the call enmasse
and therefore after the word was passed
around a sort of picnic supper was pro-
vided and on last Tuesday night with-
out giving Mr. Hurst’s any warning, a
company of about forty people swooped
in upon them taking them entirely by
surprise but finding them also good na-
tured and delighted.
It is thought when Mr. Hurst realiz-
ed what a jolly set of good neighbors he
had there that he was almost ashamed
of having sold out at all. \Ye wouldn’t
be surprised to see him back inside of
a year trying to find another farm in
than trying to subdue ferocious Ameri-
can Senators.
A recent revision of the New Testa-
ment has discovered that the punish-
ment threatened in Matthew 3:7, is not
directed against those who say "thou
fool!” but against those who say
As a little memento of the evening
and as a token of friendship the guests
presented Mrs. Hurst with a set of nice
table linen which we know will he most
highly prized by her.
Mr. Hurst asks that we express to
their good neighbors here the very high
regard and kindly feeling which they
benr towards all of them.
The Rural Carriers uut of Billings
postoffice during the quarter ending
March .'list did business as follows:
Total number of pieces of mail
delivered to patrons by C.
P. Johnston Route No. 1 7569
Walter Blakeley “ “ 2 10748
Frank Daniel “ ” 3 9275
Roy Henry ** “ 4 9374
Total pieces collected and mailed:
Carrier Route 1 1433 i
“ “ 2 1650 ’
“ “ 3 1519
“ “I 1306
Grand Total Handled bv Carriers:
Carrier Route 1 9002
“ “ 2 12398
“ “ 3
“• ” 1 .................... 10680
Money Order Applications Taken:
Carrier Route 1........ 39
“ “ 2 37
“ “ 3 45
“ “ 4 42
Registered Letters Delivered:
Carrier Route 1.......................... |
“ “ 2.................. 0
II II |
“ “ 4 IZ1 0
Letters Registered for PatronB:
Carrier Route 1
11 11 •>
’’ “ 3 .
11 11 j
Value of Stamps, Etc., Sold:
Carrier Route 1
ti it a
" 3
11 H j
Grand Total of pieces of mail
handled in the quarter by all
four carriers was .. 42,876
Value of Stamps, etc., sold $110.57
Total Money Orders taken 1611
Perry News.
EIGHTEEN
Weather just a little cooler.
Mrs. J. W. Casey visited friends in
Guthrie Monday.
Charlee Emerson, of Lucien, visited
in Perry Sunday. •
T. H. Doyle went to Mangum Sunday
on legal business.
Mrs. E. P. Clouse went to Oklahoma
City to visit friends.
Miss Lula Roberts visited her broth-
D0ING 6r *n R0l;lt Sunday.
Hon. J. R, Scott*was in Guthrie last
Friday on business matters.
Mrs. J. W. Stotlenwerk visited her
mother in Guthrie last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Carter, of Norman, vis-
ited friends in Perry Sunday.
Dr. Southard has go far recovered
that he is able to be out riding.
Miss Lindsay visited relatives and
friends in Guthrie over Sunday.
H. P. Lysinger, of Red Rock, was in
the city last Friday on business.
M. R. Pratt, of Lowe township, trans-
10680 i tt°ted busine88 in the city la8t »’e®k.
Mr. and Mrs. H. Eastman have gone
to Iowa to visit friends and relatives.
C. B. Hunt and F. G. Moore made a
business trip to Guthrie last Friday.
Revs. Miller and Houtz attended a
missionary convention in Billings last
week.
Judge St. Clair moved his family to
Perry last Wednesday and is now com-
* j (ortably located.
9 j The five year old son of Mr. and Mrs.
J Jemmerman died Tuesday and was
| buried Wednesday.
$24.74 *
27.84 [ Mrs. L. G. Beal, of Lawton, is in the
*)•;£} i city Tiaitin& her daughters, Mrsdames
.t.tvi Husselton and Miller.
A. V. Fannin and Geo. Blake, of Red
.... ...... ",,u , »«’ar towards all of them.
u Very few people, nowadays, Those present at the Tuesday night
say Morph. no matter how provoked | reception were: Grandpa and Grandma
they may be. Ex. | Young, Grandpa and Grandma Dale,
NEW DATE FOR SCHOOL MEETIN6
According to aa act of the late legis-
lature the date of the annual school
meeting waa changed from the second
Tuesday in July to the last Tuesday in
May. Sinoe that date is a holiday this
year, the school meeting will be held
May 31.—Jessie Daniels, Co. Supt.
Rock township, were in the city last
Saturday on business.
Fred 8. Gum returned Sunday from
a business trip to Muscogee, 1. T. and
Indianopolis, Indiana.
Mrs. John Wilson and daughter, of
Ceres, were in the city last Saturday
visiting friends and chopping.
Arthur Whorton, of Oklahoma City,
spent Sunday in the elty visiting his
parents, Mr. and Lon Whorton.
! Miss Lizzie Mayhow has gone to
| Chickasha to nurse Mr. Will Van Cleef’s
j little girl who has typhoid fever.
Rev. H. T. Adams, of Newkirk,
preached in St. Mark’s Episcopal
church Sunday morning and evening.
Miss Laura Allen ofTecumseh, Okla.,
left for her home Monday after atten-
ding the school in Perry during the
winter.
Will Burke returned last Friday from
Custer county, where he has been in
interesl of the Farmers Mutual Insur-
ance Association.
Captain Cordell’s son, C. F. and wife,
made him a short vUit last week on
their way from Denver to Oklahoma
City where they will locate.
Miss Etta Norman, Mr. and Mrs. F
W. Whinery and Ben Mount, of Bill-
ings, were in the city last Saturday at-
tending the Teachers’ Association.
John Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. B. F.
Swarts, Mr. Patton, Mont Ruby and
father and C. J. Greer all of Red Rock,
were in the city Wednesday on busi-
ness.
The meat house of M. M. Barnard
who lives one mile east of Perry burn-
ed Sunday. The summer supply of
meat was being smoked and all was
burned.
Clifford Chapman, one of our Perry
boys who has been attending the Uni-
versity at Norman the past three years
will be one of the Oklahoma represen-
tatives in the inter collegiate debate
between Oklahoma and Kansas.
The Frisco hotel which was damaged
by fire on the 12th of Feb., was again
vieited by a much more destruc-
tive conflagration ob Monday about
1 o’clock a. m. It seems that this hotel
is surely in the line of fire. Almost
the whole of the upper story was de-
stroyed before the fire department could
quench the flames.
FOR SALE OR EXCHANCE.
I wish to dispose of a good stock of
ary goods and groceries. Will ex-
change for part land and part eash if
desired. O. W. Hutchison, Billings,Ok,
Farm Loan^ 81* to
us Luaus ten yMri> The
best terms in Noble oounty st the Cltl-
<ens Bank.
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