The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 2, 1911 Page: 2 of 4
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THE PEOPLES PRESS
I'uIiIInIii'iI Unity Kxccpt Siaudn.t
T. F. HENSL.EY Editor
C. E. MENSliKY, Local Editor
FRANK HENSM3Y.-. Uus. Mgr.
\ our SubMi'rl|itl u Ncvvr HiiiIick.
Office 103 North Bickford Avenue
Telephone 727
for honest elections and a fair count,
and it intends to oppose for re-elec-
tion, with all the energy at its com-
mand, every man who even shuts liis
eyes upon the frauds that have been
! pulled off in the past. The man that
I is unable to cope with such condi-
tions has no business with a public
office.
A'I' 3
It costs 7 2 cents to produce a
bushel of corn in Maine; about 2f>
cents in Oklahoma.
The -cost of the municipal govern-
ment. of Portland, Ore., last year was
$1,650,000; its schools, $1,750,000.
Parents it makes no difference
whether you set a bad example for
your children or permit some one else
to set it. The evil work has been
accomplished and you arc responsible
for it.
The docket of the supreme court of
the United States shows only 800
cases ahead of the capital removal
suit. Poor old Guthrie her whis-
kers will be as gray as a rat before
her case is reached.
after thi; lobby.
President Ripley of the Santa Fe
I railroad says "the day of the lobby
is past." And when asked what the
; railroads will use instead, he replies:
"The fullest publicity about their af-
fairs."
What a grateful, beneficent change!
j Out of the slime and darkness of the
lobby into the sweetness and light of
| publicity! And for that, Mr. Ripley,
| we may thank those "agitators" and
"demagogs" who have so often ex-
cited your wrath. Really, we are
"going some" and in the direction of
the light.
Another thing, Mr. Ripley: When
you meet the public face to face,
j with no secrets to conceal and no
| legislative deals to be made behind
the door, you will find that the pub-
lic consists of a lot of nice folk worth
knowing.—Oklahoma City News.
What's the matter with Hobart?
She elected a Republican mayor, and
when he took his seat a Democratic
council refused to confirm his ap-
pointments. Hobart should adopt
the three of a kind plan. It works
like a colicky dream.
It is claimed by a number of Okla-
homa City lawyers that a proper in-
terpretation of the constitution of
the state will demonstrate that no
municipality can be legally govern-
ed under a commission charter. If
this is true steps should be taken at
once to have the matter judicially de-
termined and if found to be true,
then it should be remedied by legis-
lative enactments.
A good citizen of El Reno, and
himself the father of girls, in speak-
ing of the El Reno-Hutchison epi-
sode, mentioned in the Press a day
or two ago, made this remark, which
ought to go like a dagger to the
heart of every mother and father in
El Reno. "What better can you ex-
pect, said he, of children, and es-
pecially girls, who are reared in a
town, touching elbows daily, with
gamblers, bootleggers and courtesans
in the business thoroughfares." We
thought if all parents had the quick
perception of this man, how short
would be the work of civic regenera-
tion.
For three elections in this town the
ballot boxes in two wards have been
tampered with. This fact is known
to a number of people. It is a
known fact that ballot boxes were
stuffed in the primary election last
summer. It is also well known in the
water bond election that the boxes in
two precincts were stuffed. It is also
well known to many that the same
thing was practiced at the last city
election. The perpetrators of these
three successive frauds, have become
so bold that they laugh among them-
selves and boast to others how easy
the thing is done. Ballot box stuf-
fing in the last three or four elec-
tions has been done as openly and
effectively as vote selling in Illinois
and Ohio. The public conscience is
just as dead to such practices here,
as it is to vote selling in the above
named places. A few people cogniz-
ant of these facts, have tried to have
the matter looked into in a legal
way, but without avail. The sen-
sibilities of our public officers, seem
to be as inert as the public con-
science. The efforts of a few men who
are endowed with some degree of
civic decency has utterly failed to
even provoke a single inquiry. Grand
juries have held session after ses-
sion and no word of inquiry into
such practices has ever been made,
so far as we have been able to learn.
The only public action that ever has
been taken against the violation of
the election laws was a half hearted
resolution passed by a part of the
Democratic central committee, de-
manding the resignation of the notor-
ious Whittlesey and his associates,
which was wholly disregarded. The
same gang pulled off the next suc-
ceeding elections with the same fraud
and daring.
This paper is in the campaign now,
TKlill'S COWINCKI).
One by one tho roses fall. The
doubting Thomases one by one come
in and acknowledge the corn, (lutel-
ius is the latest convert. He now
knows that an ad in the Press, is
the only place to get results. Day be-
fore yesterday he was a doubter.
Yesterday the scales fell from his
eyes. Today he has more business
sense than he ever had before in his
life. He has learned that in this day
and age, three things are absolutely
necessary to sell goods quick. First,
you must have the goods; second,
you must make the right kind of
prices and third, you must let the
people know it in the right kind of
a way. Gutelius has got the goods,
nobody doubts that. He is quoting
closing out prices on carpets, rugs
and furniture of all kinds, that no
body in this town ever saw before,
and last but not least, on yesterday!
think of it! as late as yesterday, we
persuaded him to let it quietly leak
out through the Press what he pro-
posed to do and today he had the
manhood to come in and tell us that
in less than twenty hours after his
ad was printed in the Press, that he
had sold six rugs and over $100
worth of miscellaneous goods as a
direct result of his ad in the Press
of yesterday. He says it brought
more people into his store today, up
to the hour of going to press, than
had called all the week before.
Of course it must be admitted that
Go-tel-us has knocked them all silly
on prices. He has got everybody
wondering where and how he got his
goods. This helps and the Press has
done the rest.
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An Opportunity
that everybody should improve.
I offer for sale at prices which yon
cannot afford to miss, my entire stock
of Groceries.
They must be sold by May 10.
Goods must be sold, it is not a
question of price. Other business
needs my attention at once.
PHONE 707
CASH PRICE GROCERY
Newton Hershberger, Proprietor
209 Hast Woodson
son i
NOTES.
The Friday Bridge club was
j charmingly entertained yesterday aft-
j ernoon at the home of Mrs. L. M.
Higgins on South Rock Island ave-
nue, in honor of her aunt Miss Kate
I Kuner of Denver, Colo. Several
| tables of bridge were pl&yed, the club
j prize for high score being awarded
S to Mrs. Rickey. Miss Kuner was the
| recipient of a beautiful guest, prize,
| and the consolation prize fell to tue
lot of Mrs. Bell. At 4:30 a dainty
luncheon was served the guests.
XO COMMISSION FORM
FOR KANSAS < I TV.
Kansas City, Mo., May 2.—By the
same vote, 12 to 4, the lower house
of the city council here refused last
night to adopt two resolutions of a
similar nature, the ultimate purpose
of each of which was to permit the
people to ballot on a charter amend-
ment providing for a modified form
of commission government.
NO NEW RETURNS ON
RECENT STATE ELECTION.
Oklahoma City, May 2.—Returns
to the state election board on the
repeal of article 9, section 9, are slow
coming in. It was announced at the
office of the board that no new re-
turns had been received. The mem-
bers of the board are at loss to un-
derstand why the official count is not
received more propmtly. Several
districts are still missing.
Eugene Zimmerman, "Zim," the
cartoonist, was born in Switzerland.
He says he was an assistant fish ped-
ler before he got his first job drawing
pictures.
Buy McDONALD'S
CHOCOLATES
The Best in the World
—SOLD BY—
Johnson 115 E. Woodson
In the account of the Phillips-
Clark luncheon yesterday the names
of the guests of honor should have
read Mrs. S. E. Haggard and Mrs. E.
D. Cockrell.
The ladies of the W. H. M. society
are conducting a sale this afternoon
at the home of Mrs. Fleenor, 320
South Macomb avenue.
Miss Lucile Smith, 1008 ' South
Rock Island, entertained charmingly
last evening in honor of her house
guest, Miss Maude Smithson of Dal-
las, Texas. There were present
Misses Marionette Nicholson, Jewell
Ragland, Lottie Neely, Mabel Busey,
Marjorie Sands, Marguerite Hubbard,
Helen Allarde, Alice Hepburn and
Lyla Smith. The divertissement con-
sisted of music and games. A dainty
luncheon was served.
A May day picnic was enjoyed by
the ladies of the Crestomathean club
yesterday afternoon. A beautiful
spot on the banks of the Canadian,
northeast of town was selected for
the outing and an ideal afternoon was
spent in playing games, fishing and
enjoying May day festivities. Mrs.
Martin, by the unanimous consent of
the club was chosen May queen, and
wielded her sceptor in a very gracious
manner. An informal business ses-
sion was called late in the afternoon,
at which the president named several
committees. Just before 6 o'clock
the ladies were surprised by the ar-
rival of their husbands who came out
in autos, and all thoroughly enjoyed
the delicious picnic supper.
Employer—How is it, sir, that I
find myself at the office every day an
hour before you arrive?
Clerk—Because, sir, I have always
ibeen taught to give precedence to
my superiors.—Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
Must poor old father, alas! now creep
Hence from bed after a careful peep,
Wondering if he dare
While wifey lies in sweet slumber
girt
Search for money in her trouser-skirt
Lying over the chair?
—Philadelphia Telegraph.
CHEER UP, CHEER UP
THE WORST
IS YET TO COME
Too much ambition for the amount
of business is the critical condition of
Go-tel-us the fire-eater in the furni-
ture procession in El Reno.
For the last 30 days a contract has
been laying on our desk to close out
ten thousand dollars worth of gen-
eral merchandise, consisting of DRY
GOODS, SHOES AND CLOTHING at
auction. We must either lose this
contract or close out our entire stock
of furniture.
Rest assured we won't lose the
deal, but YOU will be the loser if
you miss the offering we have in
store for you.
Listen! Put your ear to the ground
and hear the rumbling noise of
paralysis on prices on furniture.
Every fool thing in the house must
sell regardless of price. We must
have the room. This is actually
closing out everything at some price.
Come and be convinced. Store open
every night until 10 o'clock.
60 rugs at a song and you sing it.
30 kitchen cabinets, some of them
the best in the world. Dressers, buf-
fets, china closets, iron beds, mat-
tresses, cheffoniers, book cases, din-
ing chairs and tables and a thousand
other articles all new and up to date.
Must sell before Thursday, May 11th,
a week from next Thursday.
Don't wait until the best patterns
are selected.
Everything will be on the floor and
in sight tomorrow. Nothing reserved.
What we say we DO we DO DO.
Very truly your,
GO-TEL-US & SON.
IX THE LIME-LIGHT.
James Bryce, the English ambas-
sador, does not like to wear an over-
coat.
Baron Hengelmuller, the Austrian
ambassador, is a ready and witty
after dinner speaker.
Champ Clark, the speaker of the
house of representatives, is often
mistaken for a minister—by his
looks.
President Taft doesn't smoke, but
the cigars he gives his friends and
guests are the finest he can buy,
which is contrary to the usual pro-
cedure of non-smokers.
Ed Howe, the Kansas philosopher,
who recently retired from his paper,
the Atchison Daily Globe, went to
work in a printing office when he
was twelve years old and was in one
constantly until his retirement.
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Hensley, T. F. The Peoples Press (El Reno, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 2, 1911, newspaper, May 2, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc123229/m1/2/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.