Edmond Twice - A - Week Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, September 9, 1907 Page: 1 of 10
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HEAR HON. C. N. HASKELL AT EDMOND FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, AT I P. M.
edmond ™= •. ■«« Enterprise
Published Every Tuesday And Friday In The Interests Of Edmond And Vicinity.
VOL 7
EDMOND, OKLAHOMA. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1907
NO 33
Return To Their Books
Edmond School Children Back To Their Studies
After The Summer Vacation. Enroll-
ment Large and Prospects
Bright.
WEST WILL BE
he political rings and truculent poli-
ticians who have been using them to
HFDF ^ ATI IDHAY support their impecunious relatives.
3M 1 UI\U" on the day when the people of Ok-
lahoma are emancipated from territo-
rial, carpetbag bondage, the higher In-
stitutions of learning within the state
will have their partistisan shackles
stricken off and allowed to emerge
from the condition of politcal servi
tude that had delayed their develop-
ment and crippled their usefulness.
The Democaatic party believes in
ELECTION WILL
BE HELD
Democratic Candidate for Attor
ney General will Speak
in this City.
Hon. Charles West,
candidate for Attorney
democratic
General of
Edmond's public schools opened
last Monday with the largest enroll-
ment in their history and everything is
bright for a most successful year's
work. The first day of school there
were enrolled 296 pupils and more
will attend later. On the second
Mondcy last year the enrollment
reached only 273 which shows a de-
cided increase for this year.
That Edmond Is a school town, no
one can doubt. Our public schools
easily rank with the best In the state.
Prof. Allen has able assistants in the
teachers In the grades and the patrons
of our schools are looking forward
with great anticipation to a most suc-
cessful year s work. Our schools are
the pride of our ciflzens, and justly so,
and with the hearty co-operation of
the patrons the schools will reach the
highest point of efficiency.
Edmond is the best residence town
In Oklahoma and the chief reason for
this is its excellent educational facili-
ties which insures an atmosphere of
culture and refinement. We are
justly proud of our public schools.
The first days enrollment in the dif-
ferent grades is as follows:
1st Grade 39 5th Grade 45
2nd " 38 6th '• 39
3rd " 35 7th " 38
4th " 42 8th " 2C
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Oklahoma, will be in Edmond next j«« public school system and has al
Saturday afternoon and will address « y stood as the constant defender
the people of this cit/and vicinity at 3 champion of the non-sectarian
o'clock, This will give our citizens non-political conduct of this citadel
an opportunity to meet and hear the ^ bulwark of our liberties and ac-
man who is responsible lor digging up knowledged recruiting ground for the
the evidence against the railroads for "over, of freedom and self govern
rebating in Oklahoma. As assistant™*. The Democratic platform says
Attorney General, with the rebate about °ur schools and institutions of
1 charges as his special work, Mr. i 'earning:
West has rendered a valuable service "We recognize the education of
, . . , ,ii people as absolutely essential to the
to the citizens of Oklahoma and wi deve|0pment 0f the state and to tne
be rewarded by a tremendous majority continuance of supremacy of the Dem-
at the polls. ocratlc party. We p'edge the party
With Mr. West will be Hon, J. B. to vigorously promote In every reason-
Turner, of Vinita, candidate for the «y our public school V**™."
, , , i i that this state shall stand in the front
Supreme Court and he will also rank ln the educational co|umn.
address the people on the issues before 1 believe that the present state
us. schools should be maintained and that
-j other necessary schools and state In-
stitutions should be established equit-
ably throughout the state."
This is the only answer the Demo-
crats need to make to the Courier or
any other spokesmen and critics who
The Real Menace,
Under the head of "Menace to the
Normal ' the Alva Courier tries to
Normal tne Alva uouner irics iu im
... represent the present prominent politl-
scare the people of Alva with the ^ ^ Qf ^ ,n4lItutlonS-
..tatement that no money will be avail- ^ ^ ^ ^ constUution and
able to pay the expenses of the Nor- q( the Democratlc tlcket
mal School at that place for ten long ^ ^ ^ ^ could
months if the constitution should car .. „
. . happen to the schools and colleges as
ry. This land office organ further _ ^ |n h<> a ,jmp n(
says:
A Campaign Lie Nailed.
'
it has been reported that W. H.
Murray advised a certain Democrat
in Edmond to see that 1 am de'eated
for Representative, stating that 1 would
have no influence with the adminis-
tration if I should be elected. When
this report reached me 1 at once wired
Mr. Murray at Woodward, Oklahoma,
and received the following reply:
"I have advised no one in Edmond
to defeat you for the legislature. 1
want you elected and have so ad-
vised."—W. H. Murray.
Petty lieing will do no party or in-
dividual any good.
If my political enemies will tell
enly the truth about me I'll be the last
one to raise an objection. I'll show
the people of Edmond when the legis-
lature convenes whether or not I'll
have any standing with the Demo-
cratic Administration.—Walter L
Ross.
Are You Prom Missouri?
One of the specially attractive fea-
tures of the Oklahoma State Fair,
which opens October 5th and closes
October 16th, will be the "Reunion
' Days," which have been desi usted as
"Old State Days." It is a wall known
fa:t that a 1 0<Uho nans are fro n sj ne
other state and the Fair management
p jrpose setting aside certain days'for
the reunion of all Kansans, Texans,
Missourians, lllinoisans, etc, at whic.i
time they can meat friends, niig.ibors
and acquaintances trom their "Old
State." A reunion booth will be pro-
vided where registry books for each
state will be kept. In which visitors
will write their name and address in
order that their old friends may be
able to find them, The names of
those registered in these books will be
used for the formation of an associa-
tion or club having for its purpose, mu-
tual assistance and the advertising of
the wonderful resources and oppor-
tunities in every line in our great state.
Advertising matter setting forth the ad-
vantages of location in the new state
will be furnished each member free of
charge, to be enclosed in letters to
friends in the old states.
The concerted efforts of our pro-
gressive people along this line will
result in bringing many new residents
to our new state.
"It may now have to close down
for all we know and from the temper
of the Indian Territory Democrats we
are inclined to think it will. Not on-
ly this, but for the same period there
will not be a dollar to pay for the keep-
ing of the insane or convicts in the
penetentiary. Kansas now has charge
of these convicts and under the con-
ditions this constitution will engender.
Child Study Club.
The Child Study Club will have the
regular annual meeting at 2:30 p. m.,
September 17, in the kindergarten
room. The following program will be
given:
Miss Bradley will teach the mothers
a song.
Short paper on story telling—Mrs.
| Jamieson.
Discussion of same opened by—
Mrs. Paulson.
Paper—"The Fussy Mother"—
Mrs. Fink,
Discussion of same—Miss Taggart.
Piano Solo—Edith Jamieson.
Music by Mary Smith, during which
refreshments will be served.
All mothers and teachers are in-
vited to altend.
such, but It promises to be a time of
wailing and gnashing of teeth among
the political harpies who have for
some time been resting and harboring
there.
Democratic Committee.
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Oklahoma County Population
uiuuno imo VU..OHV—W.. 6 Oklahoma county shows an Increase
Kansas will in all probability send them of more than 100 per cent during the
back to us and each county will have seven years that have elapsed since
to take care of those sent up by her ^ ^ fe(jeraj census was taken, the
courts. This is another thing we have
just discovered about this so-called «nsus recently completed giving a
constitution and Is another reason why total population for the county of 55.
tha people should vote it down." 634 as compared with 25,915 ln 1900
The real menace to the Alva Nor- an increase of 29,934, or 115,5 per
mal School, and In fact to eAery other cent.
institutition of higher learning in Ok At the census of 1900, Oklahoma
lahoma is not from the constitution City had a populatation of 10,037 but
and the democratic party under state- ' it now has a population of 32,452 llv-
hood but lies in just such partisan, ly- ing within the corporate limits,
ing misrepresentation as the article indicating an Increase during the sev-
from which the above extract was ta- en years of 22,415, or 223.3 per cent,
ken and the fact that the educational This figure does not Include the popu-
Instltutioni of the territory under Re- lation of Capitol Hill village (1.361)
publican control have become hotbeds and other additions which are situated
for partisan intrigue and pension es- just beyond the city limits, mainly n
tablishments for the favorites of the Greely and Oklahoma townships. ,bu>
political bosses of the territory. The it is evident that there has been a ma
Justice Brewer Reverses Appli-
cation for Writ of Snper-
seders.
lhe enemies of the constitution and
statehood have exhausted every effort
to block the election on September
17th, having failed In their attempt
to secure a writ of supersedeas, The
following from Chicago gives Justice
Brewer's position on the writ:
Chicago, Sept. 10—Justice Brew-
er, of the United States Supreme
i court, to whom application was made
Saturday for a writ of supersedeas
restraining the re districting of cer-
tain counties In Oklahoma has reserv-
ed consideration of the application
until the matter can be brought be-
fore the supreme court wnen it meets
next month.
ln the meantime the election will
proceed on September 17 in accord-
ance with the proclamation of Gover-
nor Frantz.
"My action in deferring considera-
tion of the application." said Justice
Brewer tonight, "Is due to two ques-
tions which have arisen in my mind.
One question is whether H. A. Noah
of Woods county, Okla , who submit
ted the petition to me, has the right
simply as a taxpayer and citizen to
bring this suit. The other is whether
this is not a political move and oi.e
which the court should decline to con-
sider at all.
"My action will not effect the
election, which will go on as the con-
stitutional convention provided, and
the question of the right of the con-
vention to divide the counties will
come before the supreme court."
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Machinery Arrives.
The machinery for the new laundry
has arrived and Is now being put in
place. It Is up-to-date in every re.
spect and the home laundry will be ln
a position to guarantee only the best
grade of work.
HON. C. N. HASKELL
presidents of several of these territori-
al institutions are Republican polltl-
tians and legislative lobbyists first and
educators afterwards, and carpetbag-
ism and undue favoritism are as much
in evidence here as in any other of
terial increase in the population of
these suburban settlements, as refl et
ed by the increase In the population
of the two townships during the sMiie
time.
Oklahoma and Greeley townsh ps,
the misgoverned departments of our exclusive of Oklahoma City, togetner
bureaucratic government. had a population in 1900 of 1954, but
One of the crying demands of the they show a population of 6233, an
intelligent, thinking classes of Okla- increase since 1900 of 4279, or 219
homa is a constitution and a state per cent The population of these
government that will have the power two townships, including that of Okla
and pnrpose to purge these public ln- homa City at the present time, is 3d,
stitutions of their political abuses and 585. as against a combined population
organize them along the lines which of 1900 of 11.991, making a total In
they were intended to follow, These crease during the seven years of 26.
schools belong to the state and not to 694, or 223 per cent.—State Capital.
Will be in Edmond
Friday, September 13,
And address the people at
1:30 p. m. This is your
opportunity to see and
hear the first Governor of
the new state.
HEAR HIM.
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Gould, C. W. Edmond Twice - A - Week Enterprise (Edmond, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 33, Ed. 1 Monday, September 9, 1907, newspaper, September 9, 1907; Edmond, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc140513/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.