The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1909 Page: 1 of 8
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THE PRESS-
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VOLUME 17
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HENNESSEY, KINGFISHER. COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. JANUARY 29. 1909.
Subwrilitlon i<ricet'| :
Dollar W heat
Dollar wheat!
That's what the growers of Ok-
lahoma have—or rather those who
have any of that product on hand,
have.
The price of winter wheat, the
only kind grown in this state, has
passed the Dollar Mark, and it is
likely to continue, around that
figure at least until the growing
crop is harvested or until it is de-
termined that there will be an
over supply produced, which, in
view of the annual increase of
consumption, is not probable.
This crop is of vast importance
to the farmers of Oklahoma and
for the last several years has been
a success. Means for the eradica
tion of the "green bug" and other
insects which destroy the plant
having been discovered. Notwith-
standing the good price and the
splendid crops of last year and the
previous year, there has been a
tendency among the farmers to
neglect wheat and to substitute
corn, cotton, oats and other pro-
ducts for that cereal. While an
increase of the wheat acreage was
naturally expected last season
there was not only no increase in
Oklahoma, but an actual decrease
in the area planted.
In discussing the present and past
conditions of the crop, C. V. Top-
ping, of the Oklahoma Export
company, said recently:
••This state produced a fine crop
of wheat last year, but owing to
the reduced acreage Oklahoma s
yield was not what was to be ex-
pected. The crop is 'one of the
most profitable grown in the state,
and just why the planters should
substitute corn for it is difficult to
Great Graft
Will be Shown in Towu Lot In
vestigation at Muskogee, Say
Officials—Town Full of
Secret Service
Men.
Ok in., Jan. 2<>.-
KATY WINNER
in
Damage suit—First of
of Arcadia Cases Lost
The Defendant.
Series
to
I nothing to fear from these charges
if they are given an absolutely
i impartial and just trial."
J It was discovered today that
the various names of the lists ot
! "dummies" claiming alleged i
j possessory rights to town lots are j wwe turnedf says the
missing from the re^ord of L)ai, oklahoman when the jviry in
townsite commission which had, ^ ^ damage suit
chaige of the appraisement, ap- ^ ^ ^ Kansas &
Muskogee, Okla., Jan. | protionment and scheduling of the ( railfoad brought in a verdict
Government officials now in M.uh- lots. This commission completed ; ■ t,efendant and assessed
kogee assert that no fraud in tow,, , this work six >'cars ^ the costs of the case against the
lots ever investigated will equal , tcmp0sed of Dwight W. 1 uttle.o tiff_ Smith was suing for
the stupendous proportions of j Connecticut, and John Q. Ada ti $-QU alleged damage8 caused by
that now being mado in tho • and G. 1" Marshall, both of Mus
Kindness and I ruth
We read of the mines of ti
couda,
Of Kimberlv's diamond field.
NUMBER 19
Interesting News
Few newspaper readers ever stop
to consider the real loss they
would sutler were all the adver-
j tisements eliminated from their
newspapers says the Afton ^Okla.)
inexhaustible | '^nu 1 'L111
eminent ease here
from a do/.en states
Witnesses
began to ar-
! kogee. The government s
] neys say the disappearance of
rive yesterday to testify before j these lists will have little or no ef-
the federal grand jury that meets j fect on the investigation. The
today. , ■ sessions of the grand jury will be
The government officials 8ay I held in the federal jail, with secret
that there is nothing in records . service mL.n on guard as a precau-
to show who these persons are, , ^onary measure,
but it isjunnounced that a large
corps of secret service men have
worked for months to locate them
These secret service men have
attor-1 overflows.
Smith's case was the fourth
damage case against the railroad,
fill alleged similar charges. Ver-
dicts tor the plaintitT were render-
ed in ihe previous cases.
In all of the cases it was alleged
that the railroad had erected em-
i bankments which caused the
Of the gold paved rivers
Alaska,
That does wealth
Of pearls of the cleptns 01 11,8 j nouncemcnts day aftCr day that
oceau- I they are taken as a matter of
CuvBH lined with them, forsooth;]
There in no will compare
with kindness rangements that cost nothing, but
No jewel as precious as truth. , ^ ^ uxce(,ding|y serviceable.
In tha long ancestral line. j The truth is no newspaper would
In its pomp and its power of birth, j j)e complete without its advertising
""" * 1 " -irinees and MinounCements, for the simple
reason the advertising is really
news - store news, business news—
The average reader is so accus-
t|]U tinned to seeing the dealers an-
course, the same as fresh air and
| sunshine and other beneficent ar-
1 ts
011 oarth ;
of royalty
Charles T. Sheldon I waters of Coffee, and Coon creeks
Charles T. iheldon, of Dan-1 and the Deep Forks to overflow
it ville, Iowa, will give a lecture in ; their property, and prevent proper
is stated, secured from the wit-1 the Congregational church, Mon-; drainage. Nine suits were filed by
nesses as to just the effect they day night, Feb. 1st. Subject: farmers living in the vicinity ot
were used as "dummies" in I "The Makin's of a Man" Mr. Arcada and Luther.
scheduling the lots; that they she don comes well recommended
knew nothing of the use of their j and all should hear him.
numes until asked within the past j Mr. J. E. Stuckey, Mayor of
three years to sign quit claim j Olds, Iowa, says, "Mr. Sheldon
deeds to the lots. About half of j presents his message in an earn-
tliis number are reported to have | ost and interesting manner that
signed the deeds, while the other j pleases the audience. It
half, suspecting something irregu-1 spiring and instructive.
I'hc fifth case that of llenry
Catron who is suing the railroad
for $500 damages was begun in
the county court yesterday.
The suits have been pending
since 1904, and it is likely that
- in- they will a 1 be appealed by the
Hear the railroad, since a decision in
lar,-declined to affix their signa-
tures.
The discovery was made today
that one of tho men summoned to
serve upon the grand jury is the
son-in-law of one of the men ac-
cused and brother-in-law of an-
other. Those men will be re-
jected as jurors and other pro-
substitute corn for it is difficult to j'gpective jurorH will be examined
understand, unless they regard the j I)nrticu|ariy with a view of eli 111 i-
Theinating any relation of the men
him!" Admission, children 10c,
adults 25c; tickets on sale at door.
Who Says 13
An Unlucky Number?—-The
Time-worn Hoodoo Knock-
ed Out by a Magical
Combination of
Letters.
one was rendered in its favor.
With its lords,
kings,
Tho acme of greatness
With its prostige
and fame
Emblazoned with heraldy, for-
sooth.
Hut there is nothing so kingly
as kindness,
There is nothing so royal as truth.
The world rises up to do honor
To the great educational force
Of letters'of science and art,
And all from the perennial source
Undisputed, the power of
knowlege,
It is wonderful and manifold for
sooth,
But there is nothing so bound-
less a'3 kindness
There is nothing so laming as
truth.
Elizabeth Scott Chkitton.
latter crop more certain.
condition of the growing crop is
all that could be desired at this
time, and if nothing unforeseen
occurs Oklahoma's production of
wheat this year will come up to
expectations."
Much difficulty has been experi-
enced by elevator and grain men
in Oklahoma City for the last sev-
eral days on account of the con-
jested condition of the local
railroad yards. The movement
of corn from the farms and
small elevators in different part of
the state has been considerably
delayed by reason of the scarcity
of cars and the lack of shipping
facilities for this and other mar-
Vets.
As a result of these difficulties
the diying elevators for off grades
are handling an unusually large
volume of com for this season of
the year, some of them running
on almost full time, which is very
rare for January or any other win-
ter month. It is said by those in
a position to know, that the vol-
ume of business done by the driers
now equals that of May and June,
the germinating months. This
is attributed to the rainy fall sea-
son, many farmers being forced by
inadequate shipping facilities, to
stack their grain or heap it in
fields exposed to the weather for
days and weeks at a time. It be-
comes, therefore, necessary to
carry the grain through the dry-
ing process in order to prepare it
for manufacture into meal, chop,
etc.
The congestion of the yards of
the railroads is being relieved at a
good rate, and it is said that the
situation will be greatly improved
within the next day or two.
Go Alter It!
"Either run a town with vim or
just sell out and loif,' says Earl
C. Rickel in the Edgar (Nebraska)
The suits mentioned above are
similar to several actions insti-
tuted by farmers residing north of
Kingfisher along the Rock Island | „ y0U want a gtwd town-i ^-always welcomed and gener
right of way. i railroad work for it Go after what you | sly patronized by the theater
.mentioned above, the railroad, _ „ i„,, y v . .. mA„ ;« «.
lost three and won one.
and the people of cny community
are naturally interested in the ef-
forts and achievements of their
fellow-townsmen in business lines
as well as social and artistic ac-
complishments. "All news is ad-
vertising," it is stated, and ail
advertising that ever counts lor
anything must be news."
Whether people realize the ed-
ucation of advertising or not the
fact remains that the newspaper
leading public does read the ad-
vertisements: and to a large part
f the reading public the adver-
tising columns are quite as inter-
esting as any other section of the
paper.
Fred Raymond's famous come-
dy The Missouri Girl will be the
attraction at opera house, Tuesday
Feb. 9.' The fact that the twelfth
season for this play is a most con
elusive proof that good clean,
wholesome theatrical productions
mroau, , • j i - ,
There : want- Uon'1 wait t0 see w"at ! going public. The comedy is so
involved.
Today government officials
learned that two of the men ac-
cused of fraud have died recently
and that a third is dying of tu-
burculosis.
With a view to obtaining a
grand jury free from locol en-
vironments in order to relieve
possible embarrassments, the fed-
eral authorities have called men,
with two exceptions, outside of
Muskogee. There is a probabili-
I ty that several names will be
eliminated from the list and others
substituted before the sitting be-
gins tomorrow.
The names of tho present jury-
men are: \\ • W. Hollister,
an unlucky
Who says 13
number? ; ' . , .
"Not I," says Uneeda Biscuit, in a financial way from losses from
for haven't I thirteen letters in my high water said to be caused by
name, and haven t I been the
greatest food success in the world?
Well, I guess so!"
Whether or not the genius who
coined that famous name, "Uneeda
Biscuit," stopped to count how
many letters it contain el, history
sayeth not. If he had, it is prob-
j able that instead of being the
! greatest hit of the age it would
have died unknown, and the sodt\
cracker which made the name fam-
ous or the soda cracker which made
the name famous, as you choose,
I would have gone forth with a
„1 P,5M vet to be I other fellow is going to do. Start j closc]y interwoven with bits of
are sever . . . fthese| yourself and set a good example, i thos and such sensational inci-
nt ,aleS wT^i^erest by If you want trade ask for it. Lts as would actually occur in
aA' ' , , sufTered ; Take care of it when it comes and u Uves of snch people as exist
many larmeis who have suffered j ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ en.
Fred Murch, ot Clinton, visit ed tirely is a revelation in simplicity
Hennessey 011 business Thursday. ! and interest in play building.
vailroad embankments that inter-
fere with natural drainage.
Not
... ' more prosaic title, to appease the
Chickasha; G. W Jones. W est- Ues of thc muUitude.
vile, Henry Joynk. Sapulpa, Now afttr ten vears. another
Wiley Chambers Claremore; comeg forward with the j
Clarence bm.th, Chelsea; B. fc . ^ Uneeda Biscuit con-
Pulliain, Watoxa; J. W. MoKee, j leUers_ and tQ make 1 himself, ought to st ,
Boynton; J. M. Burleson, Coun- ! ^ mofc starting( he I^ nQt adver.
wright^P. W?8niitli, Sapulpa; A. | ^nounced it on the l,Uh day of ^ because somebody said it did
H. Sheffsky, Haskell; Claud Uoss, | 1™ ■ '0 late_the old-time not ***'_ ought not to believe that
I he Han Who Does
Advertise.
The man who does not adver-
tise simply because his grand-
father did not, ought to wear knee
breeches and queue.
The man who does not adver-
tise becanse it costs it costs money
should stop paying rent the same
reason.
The man who docs not adver-
tise because he tried it and failed
should throw away his cigars be-
cause the light went out.
The man who does not adver-
i tise because he dosen't know how
eating be-
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01 Hennessey. Oklalioma
Transacts a general banking business on a sound and
ccnscrvative basis, always willing to stand by our
customers as we have done in the past, By placing
your money in this bank you can't lose a dollar.
THE ONLY BANK IN TUB CITY WHQSK DEPOSITORS
AKK l'R( >T KPT I'll) BY TIIK l>KP< >S1T< >HS (i LIAR ANTKK
FUND OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA.
If not already a customer become one at once and
put your money where you know it s safe.
Sallisaw; Wm, Hawkins, i'"rter; | boodoo has be£;n broken, and now
Paul Parkinson, Joy tier; J one can sa(etly sit at the table with
XZSTiX" cr:! -—f- -z"
A W. Benger, Vinita; W. n. | thirteen, or be marr ed
Settle, Muskogee; W. J. Cook, I thirteenth of the month.
the world is round because
ancients said it was flat.
the 1
on the
Uneeda Biscuit has been the ,
greatest food success the world j thing advertised that is not per-
has ever known. They are eaten j formed to the letter. The claim
by the millions and millions and j that it is the best domestic come-
what ha™. — I m.1Uons then some more. They dy ever written has never been
Governor Charles N. Haskell, in . b everybody, their rela-, disputed. The production of the
in conveisation here with some ol - \ ,
Muskogee; K- C. Lee, McAlester;
S. A. Hawk, McAlester.
what haskell says
DON'T DISPUTE WITH A
WOMAN
The Missouri Girl is a guaran- Especially on household matters.
• , theater I Women are your friends because
teed attraction, and the theater T ,t ic thpir friend. it
manager is instructed to refund
the money if there is one single
his friends, still declares his belief
that W. R. Heaist is' responsible
UIU ccltcn uy , , 1 ^
tives and their relatives' relatives. j play in this city wifl be the equal
No name has ever been imitated of any ever given Not a line or
, -: so much as Uneeda Bisruit. a scene cut out, and not a bad
for the assembling of the grand , nceWable combination of .actor in the cast at the opera
jury with a view to securing an j J possi-: house, Tuesday, Feb. 9.
indictment to influence the ver- ^"ers ^ ^ ^ —
diet in his libel suit agamst Mr^, Wg;u.t_aU of which have rcally j Advertised Letters
Hearst" TheB°Jern°f' eXpVeSS,,lhelpedin thc killing of the killing The following letters remain un-
The Missouri Girl has broken disbelief in regar to t e genera >' [rreat hoodoo by increasing j claimed at the postoffice in Hen-
records for large business in more accepted report t lat a num er o
I the fame of the only real combi-; nesscy, Oklahoma, Jan. 21, 1908.
than two-thirds of the theaters , prominent cittzens o ; ^S ,0^lnationot thirteen letters-Uneeda Whitsitt, I. N.
played in the last twelve years wou d be indicted ^scuii. _ I Wilkson, D. B.
and this mostly on return dates.; in the alleged land frauds. ( ^ | When caUing for please say ad-
This should be a guarantee that he MusUogee have|"THE ALTON GOODS." jvertised. J. A. Felt, r. m.
the show is "all right. 1 llc V *
Liberty hour is their friend. It
makes the best of bread, pies,
cakes, etc., with less work and
worry at greater economy. If
you would please your wife, house-
keeper or cook be sure to let her
order the Liberty brand every
time. You'll get better cooking.
MADE 11Y
Stc r Mill (%L Elevator Co.
Hennessey, Oklahoma
LOUR.
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If not, why not open one with the First
al Bank? The fact that our Bank has grown steadily
from the first day we opened for business, indicates that
our customers are being well cared for, an a
lie has implicit confidence in our institution. ^
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power to make it a pleasure for people to deal w .th us.
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Tiernay, F. G. The Press-Democrat. (Hennessey, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, January 29, 1909, newspaper, January 29, 1909; Hennessey, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc132239/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.