The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1903 Page: 1 of 12
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THE OFFICIAL PAPER OF LINCOLN COUNTY.
Chandler News
VOL. 13—No. 2.
first paper published in lincoln county. h. b. gilsirap. hditor and publisher.
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA. OCTOBER i, 1903.
DISCOVERED.
The ATTITUDE of the citizens
of Chandler has never con-
sciously been that of the aboriginal
American, made to say, by the
"Comic history of the Ur i edStates,"
that they had been all these years
waiting for some one to come and
discover them. Our people have gone*
about in the supposition that they
were already discovered to the civi-
lized world. Hence they are taken
off their perches not a little when
now and then, or even oftener, way-
farers from other parts of Oklahoma
come along and say it is their
first visit to Chandler, that they
have lived in this territory for years
and yet (they pridefully confess)
they know really nothing of Chan-
dler. Of course this is said to con-
vey to Chandlerites a sense of their
own insignificance and a realization
Ot our visi or s important municipal-
ity. One accepts the sneering in-
sinuation with becoming and apolo-
getic meekness. Yet one is led to
wonder if there is any truth in the
intimation that our town is not more
conspicuous abroad. Forthwith vis-
ions assail one's mind of towns no
larger and no older, where they have :
electric lights and abundant water-
works ; where rural free mail delivery prevails,
also a network of rural telephones; where a
closer attention is given to municipal beauty and
$1.00 A YEAR.
CONVICT LABOR.
JUST BE GLAD.
JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY.
0 heart of mine, we shouldn't
Worry so.
What we've missed of calm, we couldn't
Have, you know !
What we've met of stormy pain,
And of soirow's driving rain,
We can better meet again
If it blow.
We have erred in that dark hour
We have known,
When the tears fell with the shower.
All alone.
Were not shine and shower blent
As the gracious Master meant?
Let us temper our content
With his own,
So forgetting all the sorrow
We have had,
Let us fold away our fears
And put by our foolish tears,
And through all the coming years
Just be glad.
labor.
LEARNED with the deepest regret of
the death of Ed.^Felt, which occurred last
sanitation; where the mainriT'TT Saturd*y at his home in Edmond after an illness
take an active part in boo tin ^ h<?USeholderS °f SeVeral weeks' ™<>ugh still a young man he
leaving it to the newsoaoe "g J ^ t0WDS' ^ W°n & h'gh mnk in h'S chosen calling of
Such a state of affa" mv h Z * ^ ! neWSpaper WOrk' He ™ honest, sincere, cour-
open the the world's eyes to^th h WOnderfuI1y aSeous' energetic, progressive, capable of great
your chosen rity To h * ^ S ^ ^ ^ ^ hiS h°me town and community
not sit down an^aJ-one mTrrH ^ may I but for the whole territory. There are few men
and out of season. The d SCaS°n I anywhere bett" fitted by nature and training for
cial sense, is for those who go forth to meet^t i "5efulness in newspaper work than Ed Felt was.'pal roads. This matter is certainly deserving
Cood roads for the expWrU^ ^ ^ * " a"d and as Lincoln county is
at present taking a somewhat advanced position
T I HAS BEEN suggested recently
that it may be possible for Lincoln
county to arrange to get some of the
benefits from the law passed by the
last legislature providing for the use
of convict labor in improving pjblic
hignways. If this can be done it
would certainly be a good thing to
do, for it would not cost any more to
keep these convicts here at home
than their board costs where they
are now kept, and we might as well
have the benefit of their labor as to
allow it to be given to our sister
state The attorney general has
given out an opinion, we understand,
that the governor might contract with
a corporation for keeping those pris-
oners as is done in the case of the
i insane. This would perhaps be no
special advantage to the territory if
their labor were not utilized, but
with the need of work on our public
highways there is an abundance of
opportunity to turn the work of these
prisoners to the public good. Where
convict labor is used in the manufac-
turing of any article, or even in the
I mining of coal, there is always more
or less complaint from the laborers
engaged in similar pursuits of the
—I unfairness of competing with convict
In the matter of road work or any other
public work this objection would hardly arise.
There is enough and more than enough of this
work to be done to employ every available re-
source for years. To use the convict labor would
not require any great outlay of money for equip-
ment, for very often the simplest of tools are
sufficient. A party of men under competent di-
rection could accomplish wonders in the way of
improving the surface and drainage of our princi-
pal roads. This matter is certainly deserving
,, o W" "1
good l^to^aMhrM ref t0 traVel(°Ver' and a I qualities that made for'him friends ^f "nearly all
will give our discoverersTTaT' l*|e/oads' Wlth whom he came in contact. He had spent
sion of their "find " Whil 'mPreS~ ' praCtlCally his whole life in the printing and pub-
ject for pikers to , Jhlle P°^as a sub"! lishing business and understood it very thor-
lert to be foUnd out 5™' ?^ I ^^ yea" he lo^ted at
invest, railroads to build 7>° °aP to ;^dmond and established the Enterprise he had
Meantime, while goine forward t ' !°K f i ^ ^ rePresentative of a big type foundry in _ _ o
covering party our home talent Should 'be em"! ^1a"d S° had C°me ln contact with the of every other method of accomplishing this
Ployed to thVuttermost, RobiLondsoe w^ i und rt^dl had learaed. t0 —k which means so much to every interest of
are informed, did no, SU doTtZ Lund H ' m T ^ of the W" the county. To the end that this matter may be
Invented things, developed his talents until h h ^homa as few men do- When. therefore, handled in some definite and systematic way it
P talents until h | ne came to be engaged once more in active news- might be well to form a county organization for
17pI i nanpr u,*nrl/ hie „i.i. .1 . 0
in the matter of road improvement it would per-
haps be well for Lincoln county to be first in the
matter of utilizing this convict labor if its use be
found practicable. We should not abandon the
means of road improvement that are now being
employed, but we should go ahead and make use
became exnprf in u- nc wine to De engaged once more in
to the world when' he^re/"^ T ^ J marvel j ?aPer work> his utterances attracted more than
Chandler expects is that theT ih° v^ii loCal attention'and his PaPer was s°on accorded
^ iie world shall come to us. j the distinction of having no superior in its par-
T trr> pApr.p .. , ticular class, if, indeed, it had an equal. Day
1 ,, R Wh,Ch PurP°rts to be printed at by day and. week by week he was doing in a
. . ° imaginary (itj of Warwick and which quiet and unobtrusive way his part for the up-
•iee of th PUrp0,Se °f keepin^ UP the cour- building of his town and county and the future
g 0 the s lckers who invested there, devotes state. Oklahoma his need of more men of this
most of it space to abusing Chandler and Wellston, type.
road improvement, such as Logan county has
formed, and to study all the phases of the matter
and all other subjects relating thereto.
THK HEARING in the Burris-Dennis contest
case before Judge Burford last night indi-
cates that Dennis will win. We will publish next
week a statement of the points involved in the
decision. We congratulate Dennis and attorneys.
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Gilstrap, H. B. The Chandler News. (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1903, newspaper, October 1, 1903; Chandler, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc117714/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.