Edmond Enterprise and Oklahoma County News. (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 26, 1905 Page: 1 of 10
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THURSDAY,
ENTERPRISE WRINKLES.
By A Disbanded Volunteer.
Do you try to do the best you know
Few people do as well as they know
how to do.
Don't gossip, and you will cut out
lots of trouble.
A successful gambler never hecomes
a reliable citizen.
An ugly burdock takes up more
room than a hill of corn.
If you thlnK evil you will do evil—if
you think it long enough.
Many a penny man thinks he could
hold down a hundred dollar job.
The most ot your failures in life are
due to your laziness and lack of sense.
Some people would have to go down
pretty steep hills to find their proper
level.
Too many girls are overly anxlou.i
to marry men who would make life a
burden.
The more the people think for
themselves the less they think of some
of their public servants at Washington.
Did you ever know a good business
man to go to a saloon or a gambling
room to find a competent man to fill
an honorable position?
Coming to the top is not what it is
cracked up to be. That !s what the
worm said when it came to the surface
and the chicken swolled it.
Senator Elklns and Foraker seem
to have but little regard for the rights
of the poeple when it comes to laws
regul'ting railways.
The name of New York life insur-
ance companies should be changed to
••The New York Grafters." Nowa-
days the Grafter Is simply a robber.
It is always a difficult matter to un-
dertake to change the food and the
religion ol men. A scrap may always
be looked for when the attempt is
made.
It is the working hen that lays the
egg. The hen that plays the role of
my fine lady and is not compelled to
scratch for a living is teady lor the
pot any day.
When conditions are such that fruit
trees make much new wood, they will
not the next season make much fruit.
Rank and abundant foliage and good
crops of fruit seldem go together.
A cautious old Kansas granger said
he was thankful to the Lord for the big
wheat crop, but declined to express an
opinion on the state of the country un-
til he saw how the corn crop turned
out.
There is something to be grateful
for. The measly politicians of Indian
Territory are now in a mood to quit
their fight on single statehood, but they
had to take several plain hints before
coming to their senses.
Winter always finds lots of people
out of fuel and provisions. Too many
of that class of folks deposit their
wages in saloons or worse places and
then look for sympathy and support
from good, worthy citizens.
Since Bill Smith left me I have fits
of being very absent minded and fear
that if he does not soon return I shall
bring suit for divorce and be fool enough
to marry some other good for nothing
man.—Mrs. Gooseberry Smith.
When a wife is all smiles when her
husband brings an unexpected stranger
home to dinner on washday, she is cer-
tainly a model woman or knows how to
hide her temper in the presence of a
guest. What happens after the strang-
er departs is none of our business.
EDMOND. OKLAHOMA.
Now the newspapers have taken to
lying about the mosquitos. A Kan-
sas editor declares that a man lost his
whetstone from his tool chest. He
was greatly ruzzeled over the strange
disappearance until he happened to go
down Into the cottonwood grove in front
of the house one day last week. Then
the mystery was solved. He saw an
immense bunch of mosquitoes and on
investigation found his whetstone.
They had swiped It from his tool chest
and carried it out into the grove and
were sharpening their bills with it.
During her trip abroad Miss Alice
Roosevelt was presented with articles
valued atone hundred thousand dollars.
The tariff duty on those presents is
about sixty thousand dollars. This
shows one of the many absurdities of
the present tariff. There is a great
hue and cry that the tariff protects
American labor, but none of the pres-
ents to Miss Roosevelt affect such
labor in any way. The president very
properly said that his daughter must
pay the same as any other citizen, but
that does not touch the fact that the
present tariff is ridiculous in many of
Its provisions.
Gov. L. Follette has a habit of hit-
ting them where they live In his re-
cent Chicago speech he said that "We
have no representation in Congress
when it comes to a contest between
the railroads and the people." Every
candid man sees the force of that blunt
statement. He said that ' There is
not a great corporation in this country
that has not been built up by favors
from the railroads," he asserted.
Rockefeller was the first of these.
The anthracite coal fields of this coun-
try are three in number; side by side
they make a strip of land only about
eight miles long. Who owns that
strip? Eight railway companies. How
did they get it? I told you I would be
conservative and 1 will—they stole it.
They said 'We've got the only roads
over which the coal can get to market.
We'll put the rates up.' And they dia;
they put the rates up until not a pro-
ducer of anthracite coal could send a
pound of his product to market. Then
the roads bought the coal lands at their
own figures." Then, tracing the his-
tory of railroads in the United States,
the governor asserted that rates should
have gone down since 1807. "In-
stead they have gone up." he said,
"You have noticed, havn't you, that
the expenses of maintaining a family
have increased greatly since 1897?
A great part of that advance is due to
the increased railroad rates. Rates
have been raised until the railroads
show $1,032 a mile more net earnings
than in 1897. They should have gone
down since 1897. There has been 52
per cent increase of traffic and as
every student of transportation knows,
as the volume of transportation in-
creases the cost of moving it goes
down." Is it any wonder that Grafters
hate Gov. La Follett?
Tread in solitude thy pathway,
Quiet heart, and undismayed
Thou shalt know things strange, mys-
terious,
Which to thee no voice has said.
While the crowd of petty hustlers
Grasp at vain and petty things
Thou wilt see a great world rising
Where soft, magestic music rings.
Leave the dusty road to others;
Spotless keep thy soul and bright
As the radiant ocean's surface
When the sun is taking flight.
High above the loud day's tumult
Soars the eagle to the skies;
Storks and herons flock together,
Nearer earth their pathway lies.
Tread in solitude thy pathway,
Quiet heart, and undismayed.
Thou shalt know things strange, mys-
terious,
Which to thee no voice has said.
— From the German ot V. Scheffel
*
A Negro "Hiked."
For sometime past there has been
a negro In West Edmond who has
been very objectionable to the residents
of that part of fown. Monday night
we are Informed some parties living
In the incorporate limit of the city
took it upon themselves to rid the town
of the nuisance. As far as we are
able to learn the negro was not found
but all the trace that was left was his
hat which he lorgot to keep on his
head when he left. He has been ac-
cused of not working but making a
living by stealing from the residents
of the fourth ward. He was told early
in the evening that he would have to
leave before sun down and evidently
took his departure immediately as
Tuesday morning he was seen in Guth-
rie telling a bunch of his fellow men
what a time he had In getting out of
Edmond.
To Dog Kingdom.
Sometime during Saturday after-
noon poor old Mint Julip, Hill Anglea s
faithful dog was cruelly murdered north
cf this city, presumably by some hunt-
er who had taken him for a days work.
Old "Julip" was known to every sports-
man in Edmond and has hunted under
the gun of many a would be-sport,
consequently his death will be keenly
felt by all lovers of the festive quail.
Another dog, known to the wolf
hunters by the popular name of "Nero"
was sent to the great beyond by J. J.
Brown on the streets of this city Tues-
day morning. Nero was owned by
Frank Seeley, of Guthrie and had
been visiting in Edmond for the past
week. Tuesday morning he acted a
little queer and Mr. Brown put a chain
on him to pen him up but the dog
commenced to show violence by trying
to bite Jim who promptly ended his
career with a smoke-stick.
*
Almost Lost A Finger.
Last Saturday Ray VirDen, the
youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
VirDen went to the home of J. H.
Dolton north of town to pick cotton
and spend the day. The little fellow
had picked a sack of cotton and went
to the wagon to dump it. In climb-
ing on the wagon he slipped and fell
catching a band ring which he wore
tearing the finger almost off. As it is
the flesh is badly lacerated and Dr.
Flesher informs us that he has some
hopes of saving the finger providing
there is still enough skin left to make
a start It is a very sore finger at
present.
*
New Bell Arrived.
Last week the new bell for the M.
E. church arrived and was installed on
a platform in front of the structure.
The bell weighs 2200 pounds and has
a most beautiful tone. The M. E.
people have been promised a gift of a
bell by a prominent woman of the north
and in the event they receive the do-
nation the company promise to give
another bell in another key and the
three together will m?ke a set of chimes
such as would grace the best structure
in the territory.
*
Mrs. Fred Patten left yesterday
morning for Collins, Iowa, for a six
weeks visit with her parents.
Saddle Pound.
Some few weeks ago a saddle belong-
ing to a young man by the name of
Body was stolen from his horse while
tied to the httch rack on Second
street on the north side of the Furni-
ture Store. No trace of the missing
saddle was found until a week ago
Monday morning when the editor of
the Enterprise found the saddle in the
rear of the undertaking establishment
of L. V. Ford.
From all indications it has been
placed there during Sunday night by
the party who took it and who feared
to dispose of it. It was promptly ad-
vertised by us and Saturday of last
week the young man called at the En-
terprise and described and proved
property and it was turned over to him.
The amount of petty stealing of this
character going on in this community
is assuming alarming propositions.
One day last week a lap robe was
stolen from a buggy on main street
in daylight and the same week a good
whip was taken from a wagon in day
time. Tuesday of this week L. V.
Ford reported that the rope had been
stolen from his saddle which was in
the barn. Nothing else was disturbed.
Almost every day some rticle is lost
in the same manner and something
should be done to stop it even if the
neighborhood has to resort to the vigi-
lance committee plan with a few feet
of hemp rope.
*
Mud Hole Fixed.
The mud hole which has been a
menace to the traveling public on
South Broadway for the past year was
filled in Monday by the street com-
missioner and a little donation work.
The hole was at one time an old buf-
falo wallow and every little rain made
it almost Impassable and as It is the
main traveled road between the south-
west and southeast into Edmond it
was deemed best to fill it In. It was
a good move.
New Boarding House.
The first of this week Mr. and Mrs.
Geo. F. Fox, rented the Mrs. Dur.can
boarding house on Broadway and have
moved in where they will conduct an
up-to-date boarding house. Mrs Fox
at one time had a resturant on Broad-
way and as a caterer to the public is
too well known to need comment.
*
Waterloo.
Len Nostrom came in Friday to
make home folks a visit, after a
years absence.
G. D. Tnornburg and wife were
\isitorswith home folks Sunday.
Mr. Patterson's visited at Mr. Hub-
bies Sunday.
S. W. Murphy and wife were callers
at Timber home Sunday evening.
Mrs Thornburg visited the sick at
Olie Mills' also at Mr. Moss'.
J. J. Hubble and Mr. Breeden were
in attendance at Ada at the A. H T.
A. association the past week.
Ed Bosserman was a caller st Mr.
Patterson's Wednesday.
Mrs. Thornburg visited at Mr Hub-
bies Wednesday.
Herman Groth is putting up a three
room residence on the gin ground. He
is tired of paying rent.
Theo. Maker was a caller at Timber
home Thursday.
A fine cow killed by lightening at
Timber home Tuesday evening.
Mr. Hildebrandt is putting a helper
In a windmill.
Mr. Patterson sowed wheat the last
three days of last week.
OCTOBER 26, 1905
Jeff Cohee and Mr. Bass sold cot-
ton Thursday at our berg.
Mr. Cooper of Seward was In our
midst Wednesday.
Henry Mills and Carl Manion have
been busy the past week with Geo.
jenson as helper, loading cotton and
cotton seed for Groth.
Dr. Mayfield was a business caller
In Guthrie Thursday.
S. W. Murphy wants a farm hand
by the month, at once
Mr. Murphy was a wood gatheter
at Timber home Friday. These cool
mornings makes a fellow want wood.
Rev. Riley, Rankin and VirDen
and Lou Wahl took a hunt over Plain
View farm Wednesday. The killing
was mostly powder and the wounded
was sore feet, but the shooting was
quick and rapid, even two barrels at a
time showing dexterity in the handling
of fire arms and when noon came the
goat meat and others of Mrs. Murphys
dainties soon dissapeared.
Mr. Moss' visited at Mr. Naugle's
Sunday afternoon.
Harry Adamson was a caller at Mr.
Combs' Sunday.
Ralph Parsons has been battling
with the chills for the past few days.
The second hand man brought Rev
VirDen out who gave a sermon that
it seems ought to stir the action.
There is a notice for hunters to keep
off (if my farm. We lost a fine goat
last year by some hunter and will pay
$5 for evidence of anyone hunting
that will convict them, unless they
have permission. We have too much
stock of different kinds at stake for
promiscious hunters. S M. Thornburg
Mr. Kalar is hauling oats to Water-
loo and Mr. Sheidler is hauling corn
to the same point,
Mr. Houten and wife of Guthrie,
visited at D. W. Jeffries over Sunday.
Edwin Patterson was a caller at
Timber home Saturday evening.
Ed Stalnaker of Timber home, is
working for Mr. Riddle In the corn.
Mr. Riddle has been making some
fine sorghum for Corbin and others
the past week.
Grandpa Patterson visited his daugh-
ter and friends In Edmond the past
week.
There was a corn husking bee on
the Warner 40, Saturday evening,
■fes, there was a time but a little cool
but the warm coffee, bologna and the
many other things made it a pleasant
yet a novel affair, at the hands of Mrs.
Warner.
Mesdames Adamson and Laphan
were callers at Mr. Reeds Monday.
Mr. Adamson and wife were visitors
at Plain View home Thursday.
Mr. Shen's had friends from Ed-
mond visiting them Sunday.
Chas Sibrel was out to the farm
Monday picking cotton.
Mr. Filer is building a shed and
getting ready to plaster his house.
Rev. Nickols was looking after his
farm interests Monday.
Mrs. Curry just returned from a
visit with the girls at Stillwater
G. D. Thornburg was a business
caller in Cashion Monday.
G. D. Thornburg and Mr. Lyons
were callers in Waterloo Tuesday.
The band concert Saturday night
was listened to by a goodly crowd of
appreciative citizens although the
night was a little chilly for concerts
yet those who were out seemed to en-
joy themselves".
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