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THE NORMAN DEMOCRAT-TOPIC, NORMAN, OKLAHOMA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1912.
Bargains! Bargains!
No word in the English language has been abused and butchered so much
as this word. There are two classes of Retail Merchants Extant today, first the
merchant who conducts his store with the bargain idea. Second the merchant
who conducts his store with the service idea. The bargain idea is almost as old
as the hills. It goes back to the dim centuries when the merchant was a ped.
dler, selling from a pack from house to house or at public gatherings. His
profits depended largely on the gaudiness and apparent cheapness of his goods,
and his skill at double dealing. The merchant of today who is wedded to his
bargain idea still underrates public intelligence. He assumes that penny saving
is the chief object of people purchasing goods. He centers effort on buying
merchandise that will be tempting by reason of bargain prices regardless of
value. He usually claims peculiar advantages in buying by reason of purchas-
ing large quantities or boasts of great financial ability to pay spot cash. If you
will carefully scrutinize the merchandise bought under value you will usually
find it undesirable from some cause. It may be odd sizes or broken lots, or out
of style or old shelf worn, moth eaten goods. These are some of the causes
that enable a retailer to buy cheap goods at a cheap price. VALUE AND
QUALITY are taken into account last of all, sometimes never. This sort of
merchant offers the public a disconnected string of price sensations. Yesterday
it was marked-down ribbons, today bargain shoes, tomorrow a terrific slaughter
in handkerchiefs. Everything is hap-hazard, and stocks have little relation to
the wide needs of the modern family.
Slowly, gradually, but surely the bargain vender is becoming obsolete. The
purchasing public have awakened and are governed in their purchases more
from a stand-point of economy. They are fast learning the difference between
'"Hot Air" and facts.
The merchant guided by the "service idea," giving quality and value has a
broad conception of the public's intelligence. He knows that customers weigh
points of value as well as prices.
1 he bargain idea in its general acceptation is certainly passing away. If an
article said to be worth three dollars is offered for two dollars, there is exactly
one dollar in value missing somewhere. Hap-hazard bargain hunting is steadi-
ly giving way to intelligent economical needs for the home.
Good Goods, Good Clerks, Good Customers, Good Business Methods are
the chief characteristics of a Good Store. Where these factors exist you will
find a safe place to trade. Look for the store where quality and value reign
supreme. Where no "tricks of the trade" are practiced and where truth is held
in high esteem both in speaking and writing.
But here I go philosophising again. This idea of value and quality is bear-
ing on my mind, both in my purchases and selling. I never look for "job lots,"
nor inferior merchandise in buying. Value is the supreme idea with us" We
propose to sell merchandise dependable at profits reasonable.
You never see in our advertisements where we propose to sell goods below
cost nor at cost. We could not live and continue business at such a rate.
We simply ask that you compare our plain marked prices and values and
govern yourself according to reason. Values here prevail every hour of every
business day of the year. We are not spasmodic nor frantic in our efforts to
procure business-Not necessary, because business is growing daily and new
satisfied customers are being recognized continually.
Below we give you a few prices now prevailing:
Men's heavy gray sox ----- 5c
Men's cotton flannel gloves, knit wrists - - 5c
10-4 bleach sheeting ..... 25c
9-4 bleached sheeting - - - - - 19c
$13.50 ladies fine broad-cloth coat - - $10.20
Misses coats made of mixed suiting,
sizes up to 14, only = $1.20
Child's bear skin coat .... $1.35
6 spools O. N. T. thread .... 25c
75c ladies black satteen waist .... 50c
Genuine black silk taffata waist - - - $1 48
These are not made of cheap cambric.
Many values in all lines too numerous to mention.
Come and see.
Holland's Plain Price Store
,'iinifs A. Cowan went to see hi-
i'« ' ;rl Sun lay.
Mr. John Ciyburn will hav a big
l- ihlic sale February 6.
(). A. Courtney made a business trip
to Oklahoma City Monday.
Mr. Harry Ciyburn made a bus ness
trip to New Castle Saturday.
Remember O. A Courtney has the
best for less in the grocery line.
Miss Ruby Griffin of Lexington is
the guest of Miss Blanche Jack tins
week.
Mr S. 11. Clyburn and wife oi Ok
'a. <ma City were visiting old friends
i'i vloore Saturday.
Miss Cora Keith of Norman wa*
v | siting Miss Rhodie Sullivan f
Moore Saturday night and Sunday.
Mrs Rhodie Wingo east of Moore
nas visiting her parents Dr C. P.
Kelly and wife of Capital Hill Sun-
day.
Mr. I Inter Milton took his lyst gi I
Miss Ruth Holmes to the spelling
match at Perry school house Friday
night.
rid Britton, ( arl Dressen. Babe
Smith and Ann is Dressen took in
meeting at Oklahoma City Sun
y night.
Mr Je-sie Mon'gomcry of Moore
I Mi-s Ha.'tr, Bennett of Oklaho
;i City were quietly married in Ok-
lahoma City Sail rday.
Remember O A Courtney has
rn chops at $1.55 per 100 pounds
Bran $1.55 per 100 pounds. Oil meal
at $1.50 and shorts at $1.65 per 100
•unds.
Mr J \V Kirk' .•• trick and wile of
Rogers, Arkansas and daughter, Mrs
I annie Brown of Oklahoma City,
visiting Ju 'C. J. Courtney
And wife last week.
Mis-. Mice Foster of Oklahoma
ity was visiting her mother nortli
of Moore Saturday night and Sunday
returning to Oklahoma City Sunday
veiling where she i- employed in
tin Central Hospital.
LOOK AFTER YOUR TREES.
Favorable weather at any time now
will probably remind property own .'rs
that the shade, ornamental and fruit
trees they have should receive some
attention before too late in the spring
for the necessary work to be done •
is not out of the way at this time to
rate that great care should be exer
cised in having only necessary prun-
ing done. There is a tendency only
too often in pruning trees unless the
work is done by an experienced per-
son, to just cut and slash a tree in
discriminately and without much re-
gard for symmetry instead, of simply
heading back and only removing dead
or surplus wood growth. Give the
trees necessary attention and proper
pruning if needed, but don't allow
them to bft *>< tched in a way it wit 1
take years of time to recover from.
COTTON ABOUT ALL IN.
La.st week proved to be one of e.<
eeptional fine weather for winter time
even in Oklahoma, and it enabled the
farmer- to do considerable work and
many of them have marketed the
remnant of the 1911 cotton crop. Ther<
is very little cotton left in the fields
and the recent advance in price has
caused much that was being held in
the bale, to be marketed. As is al
' ays the ca;e. some planters will con
tinue to hold for still higher price-
but the crop has nearly all been sold
in Oklahoma
Agricultural Board Replies to Russell
In a statement issued Saturday b> !
eight member- of the state board of
agriculture, the board declares that
the attacks made by former Senator
Campbell Russell are actuated mere-
ly by personal spite, occasion- rt by
his disappointment at the failure of
the board to name him as secretar
to succeed Joel M. Standlin. The al!e
gation is made that initiative peti
tion number twelve which was jircu-
lated by Russell, was prepared with
the avowed purpose of "petting Brew
er and Elliott," and that Russell had
knowledge of glaring irregularities in
its circulation. The statement fol
in full:
For more than six months the stat"
board of agriculture and the person
nel of its membership has been tin
-ubject of relentless and uncomprom-
ising villificatio.i and abuse by cer
tain interested politicians in the state
of Oklahoma, whose ambition to
on the pay roll was very properly
thwarted by the hoard Leading thi
campaign of villification has occupier'
the entire time and attention of ex-
Senator Campbell Russell of Warner
whose objection to the board of agri-
culture and its members is purely
personal, in that the board in select
ing a successor to Judge Joel M
Sandlin, former secretary, refused to
name Mr Russell for that position
It should be remembered that Mr.
Russell was at that time holding a
position as superintendent of de
monstration farms at a salary of $1,
500 per annum and all expenses, and
that disloyalty and neglect of duty
was not manifested until after his
failure to secure the appointment as
secretary.
If Mr. Russell had been selected
as secretary of the board, his pretend-
ed patriotism would not have been
so manifest when at the state insti
tute at Stillwater on August 8, he re
sorted to every unscrupulous trick
known to the smooth politician to
try to bring about the defeat of
Bewer and Elliott for re-election as
members of the board. He claims to
the public that it was in the interest
of good government that he wa* so
active in these endeavors, hut to
those who know the facts it is quite
plain that his action was prompted
by malice and his determination to
secure for himself a place on the pay
roll as secretary of the board of agri-
culture. Having failed to intimidate
the members of the board by his
threats to defeat them for re-election
he proffered his services to opposi.ig
candidates conditioned upon the prom-
ise that if he defeated Brewer and
Elliott he should "go up higher."
Notwithstanding his determined
fight and in spite of his unscrupulous
methods, the state farmers institute
as officially constituted, re-elected
both Mr. Brewer and Mr. Elliott and
Mr. Russell Jias seen fit to carry this
fight forward by the initiation of a
bill having for its purpose the repeal
of the law creating and providing
for the election of the board of ag-
riculture, and enacting in its place a
statute almost identical with the ori-
ginal statute.
As Mr. Russell puts it, the bill has
but one design: "To get Brewer and
Elliott." In other words Mr. Russell
has prostituted the initiative and ref-
erendum for the base purpose of un-
dertaking to use it as a mean« of
venting his personal spite and malice.
So determined and anxious was he to
be successful in hi- final effort that
a- the evidence taken on the hearing
of the protest to this petition before
the secretary of state shows that the
necessary number of signatures to
initiate petition number twelve wer?
procured by the most glaring forge-
ies and outrageous disregard for law
that has been manifested in relation
to any public matter that has yet
arisen in the state of Oklahoma
That Mr. Russell knew of such
forgeries and the general disregaid
for law appearing in these petitions
seems evident in many instances, be-
cause the work was done by paid
WE ARE READY IN
NEW OFFICE
OUR
To list your farm for sale.
To list your City Property for sale.
To list your farm or City Property for TRADE.
To sell or trade any line of real-estate you want.
To make you a farm loan on good terms.
To make you a loan on City Property.
We are having a good many calls for houses to rent.
If you have any property to rent come in and list it.
It is no trouble to show what we have or tell you what we
can do.
TELEPHONE No. 10
GRIESMER 6 FOREMAN
Opposite Post Office, just east of the Book Store. See the
new sign.
I o I Facte
I want a
Black Jack Farm
for city residence
property.
A. McDANIEL
Pre
Death of Mrs. Cathey.
Mrs. Olivia CaMiey, aged 76 year
dii of paralysis at the home of her
son. Mr. George Cathey, in Tulsa
Sunday at midnight. The body arri\
ed today noon and was taken to the
home of Mr and Mr-. C T. Cathey
where - rvicv were conducted by
Rev. R 1. Ownbey at 3 o'clock p
m. Interment took place at the I. O
O 1' cemetery.
! Mrs S 11 Harris of Oklahoma
j < ity attended the funeral of her grand
I mother. Mrs. Cullum, Monday
I A marriage license was issued at
j Oklahoma City last Saturday to Je-c
! Morntgomery, 23. Moore, and Hallie
Brandt. 18. Norman
Who is it that can dare say the
cost of living is not coming down'
! Flic price of strawberries has declin-
ed from $1.25 to 75 cent- per box
Tlu
his groundless insinuations and idle
vaporings, although lie has been inde
fatiguable in his efforts to discredit
tin- board and its members by almost
very character of innenuenda and ir<
inuations and maliciously false rep
cM-ntations by circulating them r
the form of scurrilous documents and
literature
G. T. BRYAN.
sident Board of Agriculture
J C" ELLIOTT.
Pauls Valley, Ok!a
J W L. CORLEY,
Howe, Ok la
R F. WILSON,
Valliant, Okla
F. L. HAYMES.
Broken Arrow, Okla
GEO. H HINDS.
Westville, Okla
L. G. GRIFFIN,
Marlow, Okla
O A. BREWER.
Helena, Okla
Members of the Board of Agriculture
Secretary Coburn Praises Oklahoma
Notice to Creditors.
All persons having claims against
Walker M. Carr, deceased, are re
quired to present tnt same with the
necessary vouchers, to the under
signed administratrix of the estate
of Walker M. Carr, deceased, at the
office of the Norman Democrat
Topic, at Norman, Oklahoma, within
lour months of the date hereof, or
the same will be forever barred.
Dated this 25th day of January,
1912.
MAMIE E. CARR,
Administratrix
N. F. SHARP,
Attorney. 36-4
"MOODY AND INGERSOLL."
Next Sunday night at the M
llent article entitled "The
< ivir Alphabet," appearing in this
! sue of the Democrat-Topic, was
i handed in for publication by Mrs. J
M Corn, of this city, and it should
be read and remembered by every
person who believes in civic pride
This city has a well earned reputa-
tion for being a clean and desirable
place in which to live and just now
when the danger of an epidemic of
cerebro meningitis threatens every
community in the state, is a good
time to clean up and keep clean
, There can be no harm in using care
For Real Estate Loans and Rentals and taking precautionary measures at
Phone No. 10. Griesmer & Foreman, any time and especially just now.
church, south, the pastor will dehwr
a lecture sermon on "Moody and In
gersoll The subject of the morniuu
ermon will be, "The Training of the
Heart." There will be special mus-c
at both services. Everybody cordially
invited to these services.
R. L. OWNBEY, Past..
employees whose work he supervised
and particularly in this so in the case
of R L. Moore The conclusion then
fore, cannot be escaped that Mr Ru
sell in his desire to discredit the board
of agriculture, in desperation, found
himself willing to use and permit th
use of questionable methods and th
most revolting perversion of the pow-
ers of the people under the initiative
and referendum. Trie details of the
many insinuations made against the
board and its members by Mr. Rus-
sell would require too much space t-
attempt to set them out in full.
Replying to such insinuations ve
think it will suffice to say that the
books and records of the board, the
state auditor and the state treasurer
are open for inspection to interest d
citizens in the state of Oklahoma: that
we have a state examiner and inspec
tor whose duty is to investigate th-
handling of public funds by others
of the state, and if a dollar of th-
fund- appropriated for the support
and maintenance of the agricultur:'
department of this state has been mi:
applied, that fact can be ascertained,
and the amount mis applied accurate
ly determined, party so doing, each
and all upon the ^lightest examina
tion of the records that the law re
quiics the above officers to keep
which are kept, and which speak the
exact truth as to every cent drav i
from the treasury of the state of Ok
lahoma
With the above information the
board desires to <:\y that it will calm
ly await the time when the general
public learns the true character of
ex-Senator Campbell Russell, and
knowing the motives which actuate
During his recent visit to Still
water, to deliver a series of lecture
on Hogs and Alfalfa, at the Farmers
Short Course, Hon F. D, Coburn
secretary of the Kansas State Boar*
of Agriculture, was much 'imprcsse■<
with Oklahoma's agricultural outlook
and the marvelous development of tli
Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechani
cal College, and expressed his ifn
pressions thus:
"I am greatly impressed with what
I see here; the magnitude of the plant
and the layout is twice what T expect
ed. These men who have the work in
hand are certainly laying a foundation
for the future broad and deep, and
wisely building for all time. Inciden-
tally, in connection with other feat-
ures, they are laying great stress and
giving large attention to animal hus
bandrv. Evidently agriculture mu-1
be founded on such a basis to brim
prosperity to this region, and an ag
riculture in which the importance of
live stock is overlooked or ignored
is at a tremendous disadvantage and
builded on a more or less preciou-
foundation. T am greatly impressed
with the idea that the Oklahoma Ag
ricultural and Mechanical College is
in the hands of men with a broad con
ception of what such an institution
should be, and there is no reason why
it should not, as 1 am sure it will
considering the liberal spirit that th.
people are showing toward it, be
come one of the foremost and most
useful institutions of its kind in the
world. The fact that Oklahoma may
1 < having dull times at present, nw
ing to partial crop failure, can have
no significance, at least that is harm
ful, to the future of the state. None
of us comprehend or can comp-cheud
the po-sibilities that are here and
that the oncoming generations will
develop and turn to high advantage
N'o generation was ever born under
more favoring and promising circum
tances than the youths who are at-
tending and will continue t< me
to the Agricultural College, and simi-
lar institutions being built up in the-,
favored regions."
him, will cease to give attention to Monday.
$300.00 to loan, an improved City
property.—Griesmer & Foreman.
A boundik boy was born to Mr
and Mrs. S G. Anibrister at Davi
the first of the week
Mr. and Mrs Allen of Enid and
Mr and Mrs Carlock of Tecumseh
attended the funeral of Mr- Cullum
RURAL SCHOOL LYCEUM
COURSE.
The following date will be filled
with speakers under the auspices of
the Rural School Lyceum Course:
Friday, February 2, 7:30 p. m., J
E. Luttrell and ( . C. Williams, Ban-
ner, di-trict 47
I I McComb, Clearbrook. dis-
trict 35.
Attorney Geo. Graham, Roy Lewis
and Hirsh Slatkin, a Ru--ian refugee,
tell a Consolidated, district 1
Sherman Davis, Capshaw, district
32.
Attorney Ralph Hardie, Franklin
district 22.
Dr. A C. Hirshfield and "Ca . y"
Jones, Adair, district 30.
Prof. Wiley Barton. Davis, di-1ri t
53.
Prof. G. M. Roberts and orchestra.
Rocky Point, district 41.
Dr and Mrs. C D. Blachly and J.
O. Fox, Valley View, district 39.
N. E. Sharp and Eric L. Castile,
Diamond, district 8.
Saturday, February 3rd:
Dr. C. C. Reed, Twelve Corners,
district 43.
Judge F B. Swank, Valley Grove,
district 60.
Prof. Chas Bowling, Lloyd Max
well and H II. Jacobs, Pleasant Val
ley, di-trict 26.
University students will accompany
the speakers so different subjects will
be delivered. As consolidation is the
paramount issue in the northwestern
part of the county, Sharp and Castile
will discuss that subject. A wrong
impression seems to have gained cur-
rency as to the motives of the man-
agement of this course, in inaugurat-
ing it. The course is gotten up for
the benefit of all the people and any
one who can make a thirty minutes
adress on something of general in-
terest is welcomed a- part of the tal-
ent, of the com- Any speaker wh<
uses the opportunity to directly fur
ther hi political ambitions or the in
terest of -orrw- political party or any
phase of party work d u so against
the \\ish« of the management.
The speakers were greeted with
packed houses last Friday night and
the audiences are enthusiastic over
the success of the movement More
speakers will be sent out the last of
February.
ERIC L. CASTILE,
Manager
NON-FRUITING MULBERRY.
We have arranged for a supply of
these tree- for pring. and offer them
delivered in Norman:
1 to 6 ft , each 35c
5 to 6 ft , 1 inch stems 50c
8 to 10 ft., 1 14 to I 1-2 inch stem -
$1.00
I en per cent di-count on orders of
$1000 and up. Pleas order early.
A good supply of fruit and oriu
ntal trees at half what you'd have
pay an agent Special bargains iu
pie trees. Catalogue free
NOBLE NURSERIES,
Noble, Oklahoma tt*
J. W Wilson and John Studholnir
were here from Stella Monday
Don't mi-s
sale 60. to
cents
Barbour's big salad
$100 salad at only 50
36 2
Mi Leota Winton leaves Tliur--
da\ for ( liua :<> where she will enter
an art school.
Hon. A. H Akin wa- here from
Moore last Saturday looking after
school matters.
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