Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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CARNEY ENTERPRISf
BY H. S lif RUf RT.
CARNEY,
OKI. A
LOOK TO THE FURNITURE.
NEW STATE NEWS.
Thomas is putting in an acetylene
gas plant.
The antl-horsethlef association has
endorsed its president, James Kirk-
wood, for governor of the new state.
Shawnee is contemplating offering
a site and a small cash bonus for a
Hock Island hospital.
TJ. T. Rexroad advocates that tho
county in which Ardmore will be lo-
cated be named Jefferson.
The South McAlester Elks are plan-
ning the erection of a home that will
equal the Masonic temple in that city.
The Episcopal church has bought
a site at Shawnee fronting Broadway
and will soon build a $12,000 cathe-
dral.
The city council at Enid has ex-
tended the time in which the street
car company must begin work thirty
days.
The Muskogee Turf and Fair As-
sociation has been Incorporated with
a capital of $50,000. Tho Incorpora-
tors are Robert C. Pate, Thos. Mdrris
and Percival Adams.
Oscar McKay, age 11, was shot by
a playmate, Dana Bryan, age 7, near |
Coyle, while attending a children's
party at the Bryan home. The boys
had a dispute and little Dana went
into the house, got a shotgun and
fired. Oscar may recover, though
chances are against him.
The Elks' home at El Reno suf-
fered a fire loss of $1,000 and thn
cause is attributed to defects in the
heating apparatus.
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The Gardner wagon bridge over
the Wichita river has been burned.
The destruction of the bridge necessi-
tates the cotton growers to carry
their product to Wynnewood, a com-
petitive town.
B. F. Sanford, living near Moun
tain View, Okla., has eight acres of
cotton that is yielding a bale to the
acre, and says that many of his
neighbors have cotton equally as
good. He has 43 acres of sod cot-
ton that will yield half a bale to the
acre.
Ada Is In the mi'dst of a two weeks'
street carnival given by the Ada Mer-
chants' band. One of the attractions
is Cole Younger, the ex bandit, who is
on parole from the Minnesota peni-
tentiary.
Mrs. John W. Brooks of Enid was
nttaoked by an obstreperous cow re-
cently and so severely injured that
she may not recover.
The report of the federal inspec-
tors on the private and public char-
acter of Governor Frantz has been
submitted to the president and It com-
pletely exonerates him.
The board of health at Muskogee
has ordered all children who have not
yet been vaccinated to either do so
during the next two weeks, or suffer
suspension.
Now that the date is actually sot
for the opening of the big pasture
Lawton is beginning to stew the
prunes and bake the biscuits In an-
ticipation of the great crowd who will
come to board.
Wren Moores has a fruit farm in
TUaine county which he values at $20,-
000. This looks like apples of gold
In pictures of silver.
Mrs. J. E. Greenwood of Perry, Is a
grandmother at 36, and Mrs. J. L.
Smith, great-grandmother of the new-
comer, was a grandmother at 32.
Timely Application of Oil Now Will
Work Wonders.
This Is the season of the year whe..
the thorough housewife will procure
the best furniture oil that she can
discover, and, with the bottle in one
hand and a soft flannel cloth in tlie
other, will carefully anoint each piece
of furniture.
The tables, chairs, bookcases and
the various other pieces have now
endured four or five consecutive
months of heat, and the rapidity with
which their parched and thirsty sur-
faces will drink in any emollient
seems almost incredible.
This Is especially true of any fur-
niture that has been kept in one of
our steam-heated apartments, the
temperature of which Is invariably
abnormally high and exceedingly dry.
The effect of this superheated at-
mosphere seems to remove all the
natural oils and saps from the wood-
work, leaving it very brittle, with a
decided tendency toward warpiug and
splitting. Large pieces of furniture,
where there are broad pieces of wood
exposed, are particularly sensitive to
atmospheric conditions, and soon
show the results of this drying out
process.
Especial care should be given to
any ancestral piece of mahogany,
which may be saved from warping
and splintering to rack and ruin by
frequent applications of some good
preparation, such as any reliable fur-
niture dealer would recommend.
OWN AND OPERATE MINE.
THRIFTY MICHIGAN MINERS ARE
THEIR OWN EMPLOYERS.
PROPER WAY TO CLEAN RIBBON.
Caroful Handling Necessary to Pre-
serve Delicate Colors.
Ribbon Is first dusted and then
ironed between tissue paper. To
clean ribbon, a mixture is made in
the proportion of three ounces soft
soap, three ounces honey, to a tea-
cupful each of gin and water. .
The ribbon Is placed on a board
and scrubbed with the mixture; it
i3 then rinsed by dipping several
times In as many lots of clean, cold
water, and not squeezed out, but
hung over a line to drip, then put be-
tween clean cloths and ironed by
drawing the ribbon from under the
Iron; this prevents creasing and a
stringy appearance at finish; the iron
should be kept still with pressure
upon it.
Ribbon Interwoven with tinsel is
best cleaned with bread crumbs and
powdered blue, then shaken and ]
rubbed with a clean cloth; tinsel, or
gold lace, with rock ammonia.
To wash colored ribbons, make a
strong lather of cold water and fine
soap; wash the ribbons and rinse
them several times, always in soapy
water, not clear water.
When partly dry iron between thin
pieces of muslin, having the ribbon
perfectly smooth.
Mter More Than One Year's Trial Co-
operative Mining Industry Has
Been Declared a Success—
Owned by Workmen.
Saginaw, Mich.—After a year's trial
a cooperative coal mining industry at
this place has been declared a success.
This mine is owned by the workmen
who operate it. They establish prices,
make contracts and go down under-
ground to dig out the product.
There are no labor troubles or
strikes, for every man is personally in-
terested in the welfare of the com-
pany.
It was on September 1, 1905, that
coal was first sold from the new mine
of the Caledonia company. There has
been no idleness since, and the work-
men-owners are preparing to put on
double shifts to keep pace with their
orders.
When it was organized the plan was
to have the company consist of 100
men, and the capital stock was placed
at $50,000. After a year of success
it has been decided to increase the
capital to $250,000 and the company
to 500 men.
So well, in fact, has this purely co-
operative mine done that two other
organizations have been formed in
Michigan along similar lines. One of
these new companies, like the Cale-
donia, is formed entirely of practical
handlers of the pick and shovel.
The men forming the Caledonia se-
lected their executive officers from
among themselves. Business of the
company is looked after by a general
superintendent, who is responsible to
a board of managers.
At all times the acts of the board
are subject to review by a general as-
sembly of the miners, who keep in
touch with the afTairs of the concern
as they do with the vein of coal from
which they make their living.
When it came to an allotment of
the stock few of the men were able to
take more than a small holding. They
were not capitalists.
Some, in fact, had little or no money
and arranged to pay their part in la-
bor.
Last spring the Caledonia workers
fixed upon the 1903 scale of wages as
that to be paid in their mine. This is
5.55 per cent, higher than the scale
of the succeeding season—1904-5. The
average pay of the Caledonia miner is
now $2.75 a day.
So far the workmen-owners have re-
frained fron declaring a dividend.
Starting with a small capital, they
have considered it wiser to turn back
into the mine, for the development of
the property, all profits above operat-
ing expenses.
Then, too, the original mine has
only 40 acres of coal land, and as there
has been a steady demand for the out-
put it jwas necessary to look to the
future.
Recently the company has purchased
an additional 500 acres adjoining its
mine,
It was by good fortune and an ex-
ercise of shrewdness that the Cale-
BENJAMIN R. CUSHMAN.
(Secretary of the Coal Company
Owned by Workmen.)
donia people secured their original 40
acres.
In the midst of land controlled by a
combination of existing companies
was this little tract, on which the com-
bination was paying royalties. Think-
ing that it would be well to save this
amount, and that there would be no
difficulty in securing control at any
time, the holders permitted the lease
to lapse.
Waiting for just such an opportun-
ity, tho Caledonia promoters quietly
and quickly secured a lease upon it
themselves.
So secretly were all the prelimi-
naries carried on that it was only
when the work of sinking a shaft was
begun that the actual existence of the
new workingmen's company became
generally known.
Makes Ironing Easy.
A novel little outfit that will add
to the comfort of the woman who has
Ironing to do may be purchased for
a very small sum.
On one end of a short, smooth,
white board is tacked a piece of soft,
coarse muslin, neatly laid in several
folds; on the other end a sheet of the
finest emery paper is fastened;
screwed securely between these is a
small iron stand, and near by is a
cake of wax inclosed in a linen cover.
Thus every accessory of ironing is
right at hand and tho busy house-
wife, removing the iron from the
stand, takes off all stray starch by
means of the emery, polishes the sur-
face on the wax and gives the fin-
ishing touch by rubbing the hot iron
•>ver the thick folds of the cloth.
Cakes for School Lunches.
If possible, hake patty pan cakes for
the lunch basket. They are so easy
to pack, so tempting to eat, especially
when their brown sides support a love-
ly frosted toy.
WITH A WOOLEN STRING.
Convict Cuts His Way Through Bes-
semer Steel Bars.
St. Louis.—Out of pieces of woolen
yarn, unraveled from a sock and
twisted together, a prisoner in the
new federal prison at Leavenworth,
Kan., constructed an instrument which
he used to saw through the top and
bottom of a three-inch steel bar.
That a common piece of yarn could
be made to cut the strongest steel
bars, tested with acids and resisting
steel saws, is a discovery that not
only surprises police and keepers of
jails and penitentiaries, but scientists
as well. It is the first case of the
kind on record, as far as can be
learned, and the prisoner who used it
in the Leavenworth penitentiary is
the originator.
The prisoner was confined in one of
the isolation cells. A guard stand-
ing on a tier above noticed him work-
ing his hands back and forth around
the bars and notified the guards on
the lower floor. They investigated
and found that the top had been
sawed through. The bottom was
about half through.
The ravellngs of his woollen sock
he had twisted together as a tailor
would pieces of thread. He had made
them compact by frequent wettings.
Dust and sand picked up in the quarry
were kneaded into the string. Whea
finished it was almost as hard as a
piece of emery stone. It required two
days, he said, to saw through the bar
with the string, several new strings
having to be made, as they wore out
quickly.
The warden doubted the statement
at first. The prisoner offered to show
him and made one of the Instruments
out of common twine. Small pieces
of a broomstick were used as handles.
With this the warden had the prisoner
finish sawing through the bottom of
the bar.
When plans for the new peniten-
tiary were made it was decided to use
Bessemer steel for the window grat-
ings, it being deemed harder and
nearer saw-proof than the iron which
had been used. The bars at his win-
dow were the ones sawed. The open-
ing made was large enough for a man
to have crawled through.
"The fact that Bessemer steel bars
have been successfully sawed without
using steel makes it more and more
necessary that guards be constantly
on the watchout," said Mr. Shipley.
"Prisoners have made saws of tin
cans and the like, but never before of
common yarn."
Contentment Is Stagnation.
It is better to follow ever the shad-
ow of the best than to remain content
with the worst.—Van Dyke.
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Herbert, H. S. Carney Enterprise. (Carney, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, November 2, 1906, newspaper, November 2, 1906; Carney, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc142268/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.