The Davis News. (Davis, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 16, 1908 Page: 1 of 9
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THE DAVIS NEWS
VOLUME XIV--NUMBER 35
DAVIS, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16,1908
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aCij\ antages of the gasoline
c nas never been told.
I.H.C. Gasoline Engines
are the simplest, most durable,
most economical In fuel consump-
tion and easiest to operate. The
hundred and one practical uses to
which these engines can be "put
have never been told.
The I. H. C. engine has come
to be an absolute necessity on every
well regulated farm.
Don't say that you cannot afford
an I. H. C. engine for it actually
saves you money from the very day
you buy an engine.
I. H. C. engines are so durable
and the uses to which they may be
put are so many and varied that
there cannot be any question as to
their economy.
Built in the following styles
and sizes:
VERTICAL
2, 3 and 5 Horse-Power
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HORIZONTAL — Portable - Stationary
6, 8, 10,12 and 15 Horse-Power f
Call and let us show you an I. H. C. gaso-
line engine and demonstrate why you
should use one.
LIT IIS
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Not from your meanness, but frooi
Flies, Bugs and Insects. We have
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a large stock of all kinds of Door
and Window Screens.
s Sons £0.
Money Saved
is
Money Made
If you can save twenty or thirty per cent
on what you buy you will have more money
left or more goods for the same money.
I buy my goods in car load lots and guar-
antee to sell you cheaper than you can buy
them in the larger cities. Spend your money
in Davis and thereby help the town by keep-
ing your money at home. Will be glad
to show you.
W. M. HILLIS
FURNITURE ANU HOUSEFURNISHINGS.
The Store that Sells it for Less.
tNTERtJBBAH
RAILWAY
Mostly "Hot Air" istruction in Oklahoma are ladies.
A press dispatch in the Sun-1 We llave one,}n ^,arvin co,mtfy'
day Oklahoma,., says that "Mrs. ]Mie8 Bradfleld; Murray county
M. Oouluu, the only woman in !ha8 oue' etc.-Lindsay News.
Oklahoma holding an elective > G. W. Young, an intermarried
public oilice, that of member of j citizen residing near Berwyn,
the school board, will have to ! tiring a few years ago of the
vacate her oilice under an opin- government school system, built
ion of Attorney General West,
which holds that women as pub-
lic oflicials will not be recog-
nized," is chielly "hot air" as
some other reports sent in from
Lindsay to the same paper, kave
been.
We doubt whether Attorney
General West made such a rul-
ing. We do know of a number
of women who are holding elec-
tive ollices in the state. Miss.
Kate Barnard holds a state of-
lice and a number of couuty
superintendents of public in-
him a school house of his own
and placed his daughter in
charge of the school. Forty
pupils are now enrolled and
Young pays all the expenses.
Young is one of the wealthy
men of the old Chickasaw nation
and is a member of the Chicka-
saw legislature.—Oklahoman.
Whatever may bo said in criti-
cism of Madame Gould, it can-
not be charged that in the
matrimonial race she is a quit-
ter.
School Out May 1.
The Lindsay public schools
will close on May 1. This will
complete an eight months term.
The commencement exercises
will be held on the night of May
1, the address of the occasion to
be delivered by Dr. Wolfe.
l'rof. R. M. Burnham, who has
been superintendent of the
Lindsay public schools for three
years, will under no considera-
tion be a candidate for re-elec-
tiou.—Lindsay News.
It begins to look like the oc-
cupation of prohibitionists is dis-
appearing. A number of the
states have voted to prohibit the
sale of alcoholic liquors and the
pure food laws will search out
intoxicants in drug stores.
"Arrangements have been
lade whereby work will be be-
un on the street railway within
three months and one-half of the
proposed mileage will be rushed
to completion; The Interurban
from Anadarko to Sulphur will
be built and the survey for it
will be started very soon," said
E. M. Hopkins, the Detroit In-
terurban Railway man who has
been in the city the past two
weeks.
There is enough water power
within seventy miles of Chicka-
sha to run the factories of a
city of half a million people,
he said.
Mr. Hopkins, who is president
of seven interurban railroads in
the north, lias investigated
thoroughly conditions in Chicka-
sha and along the entire pro-
posed line.
'I have gone over the line
from Anadarko to Sulphur and
have examined the whole terri-
tory," said the Detroit man,
"and have paid particular at-
tention to the water power
proposition. While at first 1
took no particular stock in this,
yet the more I see of it, the
more I am impressed with tlie
possibilities.
"An interurban line here has a
great future. The whole valley
is the most fertile country I ever
saw and the moment restrictions
are removed, it will settle up
rapidly, giving a population
more than sufficient to make an
interurban a paying investment.
"The second reason why an
interurban will be a success here,
is the water power. There are
the finest water power prospects
here I ever saw and I have put
in many such plants. I found
one place on the Washita where
15,000 horse power can"easily i e
developed and within a short dis-
tance from this city you can get
50,000 horse power far below the
average cost. This cheap power
not only makes the interurban
possible, the use of water mak-
ing up for lack of population,
but it also opens the way for
factories. The people of Chick-
asha don't seem to realize what
they have in this water power
proposition.
"The interurbans we build are
in all respects like a standard
railway except that electric
power is employed. We use 70-
pound steel and build in a sub-
stantial manner. Both freight
and passenger business are
handled and we run cars every
hour.
"This is my first trip to Okla-
homa, and while 1 have heard
much of the country I must say
that it surpasses my expecta-
tions. While there are some
things in your laws that will
have to be modified, there are
some most excellent features in
your constitution and the laws
that have been passed. The new
banking act, which I have ex-
amined carefully, is oue of the
greatest piecos of legislation that
has been passed by any state and
it. insures Oklahoma against
financial disaster."
Mr. Hopkins is associated with
Scott Jones in Ihe street raihva'
and interurban deal.
A proposition from them was
accepted by the executive com-
mittee of the Commercial club
at a meeting yesterday.
The Detroit man is not a
novice in interurbans by any
means. Besides being president
of seven of such companies, he is
a director in seventeen large cor-
porations. He has built two in-
terurbans in Ohio, one in Wash-
ington and several in Michigan.
For many years he was a promi-
nent railroad attorney. Under
President Clevelaud he was
chairman of the eastern mails
commission and recently he was
an American delegate to the
International Monetary congress
in Paris. He left today for De
troit, but expects to return in
ten days.
TO HOLD COTTON.
Atlanta, April 12.—President
Harvie Jordan of the Southern
Cotton association, in a state-
ment made public today, sayB
that his association, in connec-
tion with the Farmers' uniou
has completed arrangements to
hold the remnant of the 11)07
cotton crop. The Farmers'
union cotton companies, the
statement says, in Tennessee,
Arkansas, Mississippi and Ala-
bama, have already perfected ar-
rangements with bankers
those states to finance every bale
now held in Farmers' union
warehouses. Similar results
continues the statement, are be-
ing secured for cotton held by
members of the Southern Cotton
association by the central head
quarters and state divisions, and
at the larger centralized poiuts
President Jordan concludes his
statement as follows:
"I cannot too freely emphasize
again the imperative importance
of cutting down the cotton
acreage and preventing a serious
crisis uext winter."
HASKELL IS
THREATENED.
Silver Laced
WYfcNQOTTES
are said to be the best
known winter layers and
are second to none as a
table fowl.
Eggs $1.00 per 15.
MRS. J. R. CLEMMONS
Davis, Okla.
The Cleburne, (Tex.) Chron-
icle makes a dead center shot in
the following sensible editorial;
"Many a young woman who de-
serves a good man for a life com-
panion has jumped in at a ten-
der age and married a Johnny,
and gone through life embarrass-
ed the rest of her days. Johnny
is all right as an ice cream boy
and as a slot machine from
which to get chewing gum and
bonbons, but when it comes to
measuring up in after years,
with the men who do things,
and whose wives make up the
budget of satisfied ones, he is
down and out before the race
starts. Girls, if yoir must mar-
ry—and you must, if you would
be happy—be sure and marry a
man, or at least what is going to
be a mauj
Hon. Tom Watson says the
Capital of the United States
will be moved some day because
of the climate of Washington.
Very cruel of the Populists to
want him to spend four years in
the White House.
Muskogee, Okla., April 10.—
A threatening letter was re-
ceived here today addressed from
Guthrie to the New State Tri-
bune in which the writer asserts
that Governor Haskell and Bud
Ledbetter, the new police chief,
of Muskogee, who was elects
the democratic ticket this!
week, are to be assassinated and
the city of Guthrie burued by
negroes.
The letter is unsigned, but is
believed to be the outgrowth of
the "Jim Crow" law.
The New State Tribune is
Haskell's weekly newspaper
here.
Train Chained to Tracks by
Sheriff.
Pursuant to a judgment ob
taining against the Rock Island
Railway company for $1,800, se-
cured as the result of a damage
suit, the sheriff of Jefferson
county took advantage of the
company's failure to perfect its
appeal, served a writ of attach-
ment on a local freight train on
the mainline at Ryan. He chain-
ed a wheel of the locomotive to
the rail, took his seat in the cab
and remained in possession un-
til next morning, delaying traf-
fic of all kinds and compelling
trains to pass the station on a
siding.
An attorney for the Rock Is-
land came down from Chickasha,
prepared and executed the re-
quired appeal bond, and the
sheriff released the train.
The
h. C. Johnson
Grocery Store is
con t i n uously re-
plenishing its
stock with pure,
fresh groceries.
Satisfaction
Guaranteed
JUST RECEIVED
Full line of plain and fancy
SCREEN DOORS
A >.dr of famous Kokomo !
I
HOG FENCE
We have a big stock of
CORRUGATED
IRON ROOFING
BARBED WIRE
CEMENT
LIME
BRICK
LUMBER
WAPLES-
PAINTER 00.
Bryan Condenses Solomon's
Proverb.
William Jennings Bryan has
tried his hand at condensing one
of the proverbs of Solomon. In
a speech before the Legislature
of Oklahoma, he said: "One
proverb I have often quoted is
'The wise man foreseeth the
evil and hideth himself, but the
foolish pass on and are puuish-
ed.' It is a great truth, and
beautifully expressed, but I
found it did not stick in people's
mind, so 1 condensed it, and it i>
the only effort I have ever made
to improve upon a proverb; aud
this is not an improvement, it is
merely a condensation. It is not
as beautiful as Solomon's prov-
erb, but more easily remember-
ed. it means the same thing in
a condensed form: 'The wise
man gets the idea into his head;
the foolish man gets it in the
neck.' "
Do not dose the stomach to
cure catarrh in the nose and
throat. Breathe Hyomei's med-
icated air, which goes right to
the spot and kills all catarrh
germs. Sold under Btrict guar-
antee by City Drug Store.
48, 30 and 21 iucli poultry net-
ting at Freeman's.
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