The Prague Record (Prague, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 23, 1913 Page: 1 of 8
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Circulation This
Issue 1500.
The Prague Record
VOL. XI.
PRAGUE, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1913.
NO. 15.
For Lumber, Builders' Material and Minnesota Paints, Go To Amsden Lumber Co., H. C. Bland, Manager.
LOOK OUT
Be On The I
Right Track |
The track that will land you J
at a successful terminal.
Tike out a certain amount of your money
from each hale oi cotton; bring it to ui, we
will guard it for ynu. Vou will need it for •
A RAINY DAY!
Prague National Bank
FARMERS FAVOR
NEW COUNTY.
TOWN BOA If I) I'liOCEKDl N(iS
Board met in regular session
Monday night. Present K. Demo,
acting mayor, J. M. Hutherforil,
trustee, S. M. Hunt, Clerk, K. I'
Miles, marshal, W. K. Davis,
Supt. L. & W. Minutes of pre-
vious meeting read and approved.
Report of town clerk and town
treasurer for month of September
accepted.
Resignation of Jus. A. Harris, as
police judge, read and accepted,
and upon motion of .T. Ji. Ruth-
erford, seconded by E. Demo, Dr.
R. M. €. Hill was appointed
to fill the vacancy emiseil by Mr.
Harris' resignation, for the unex-
pired term. The tethering of hor-
ses and cows upon streets and al-
leys and near sidewalks came up
for discussion, and it i- probable
that action in this matter prohi-
biting same by ordinance will be
brought up at the next meeting.
There being no further business,
board adjourned.
25c
Per Dozen is a Good Price
for your Eggs! Increase your
egg profits. Whether or not
your hens lay regularly de-
pends to a great extent upon
yourself.
As you know, most farmers
recognize the fact that proper
fertilization of land will great-
ly increase the crop yield, so
it is with hens—a tonic and
appetizer will cause what they
eat to properly digest and they
will lay more eggs.
Poultrymen testify to the
good results of using our rep-
utable brands of Poultry foods
such as Hess's, Seneca, Etc.
CITY DRUG STORE
Thm jJexevCiL S/urr
11TJM I'llHEY-DICKJXSOX.
Last Sunday morning, October
1 Oth, at ton thirty o'clock, Judge
V. Humphrey and Mrs. Serena
Dickinson were married at the
Mt. Hope school house by Rev. R.
M. 0. Hill, pastor of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, South, in
Prague. Airs. Dickinson has been
one of the most highly esteemed
ladies of Prague and will be missed
from church and social circles. In
going to the new home she takes
with her the good wishes of a very
large circle of friends. Judge
Humphrey is a man of the strict-
est integrity and, commands the
reaped of his fellow citizens. He
has built a new house to receive
bis bride and now has one of the
licst homes in north-western Potta-
watomie county. The happv pair
have the best wishes of the Record.
Expressions From Them
Show That They Are
Heartily In Accord
With The New
Movement.
Interest in the new county con-
tinues to grow. The arguments in
favor of ii can not be successfully
controverted. We believe in good
roads and good bridges for our own
territory. We all' have been paying
for these things and the other sec-
quarterly meeting will be held
at the Methodist Episcopal church.
South. next Sunday evening.
Preaching by Rev. Dr. Geo. C.
French, of Sapulpa, the presiding
elder of the district. Everybody
invited to attend the services. This
is the last quarterly mueting of the
year. Rev. Hill goes to his An-
ion! Conference .November lltli, in
| Tahlequah.
\ incennet I'liva, father of our
fellow townsman, Jerry Pliva,
1 brought to him one day last week,
, some of the finest pears that we
I have ever seen in Oklahoma. Air.
Pliva has five trees of these pears
■ and they would be blue ribbon
, wiiliiurs ill iUiv fruit * 111 u Ji.i'iM
brought us one of the pears as a
sample, and it weighed 17 ounce-,
measuring 16 inches in circumfer-
ence.
WHERE I.AND VALUES ARE
HIGH.
1!. Charlton has sold his
>f SO acres north of Buck-
Paul Knapseide of this
Consideration $150 per new.
\Y.
farm
nor
cirv.
to
At Meridian, Miss., i
military train carrying
number of United States
was wrecked on the evenin
VHh nrwl a hundred o
soldiers and officers wen
and injured.
s|K-cial
I large
troop-,
of the
—Buekner ( Mo.) Record.
The editor of the Prague IJecord
is well acquainted with both of
the gentlemen referred to above
and we know that the farm sold
is worth every cent paid for it.
"ion 1 Jamee Newton
killed printer who has been working for
jtlie Record during the past four
] months, left Mondav morning on
See Hampton's line of sweat- 1 "tour" of "discovery."
ers for men, women and child-
ren. adv
tions of the country have been get-
ting them. The truth of thi< state-
ment can 1m easily proved by any
one interested. Go to Chandler.
Shawnee and Tecumseh, Okemah.
Sapulpa, or Wewoka, and you will
find that the roads and bridges
near those towns are in a much
better condition than in any other
part of the counties in which these
town are situated. Why is this?
We are not nearly so much in-
terested in the reason why, as we
are in the truth of the fact. One
reason, however, is the fact flint
one commissioner is nearly always
from or near the county seat and
does his best for his own. We are
not blaming him for thi<. It is
true-—that is what interests us. The
most of the taxes are raised in or
near the county scat usually: and
the people there demand that their
money lie spent near home. But,
the trouble is that while the. are
.-pending "their own they are usualH
getting the lion's share of other
people's money also. The excuse
ordinarily given is that the roads
near the county town are travelled
over by all anil must be kept up.
That i-; good as far as it goes; but
it fails to satisfy the man who lives
in the back district; and never srs
a county bridge save when be goes
to the county scat. The heavy
iT'eiii* of expense in taxation are
found in the road and bridge fund,
and in the court costs. The most
of the latter naturally comes from
the criminal prosecutions. Where
do these entile from ? Mustlv from
the more dense centers of popula-
tion. These centers are usually the
large towns. There are some touirb
districts, but none as a rule that
will equal the tough centers of the
larger towns. Most of the crim-
inal eases come from the larger
towns, not the smaller ones. The
ri tio of court costs a< between
sn.all villages and towns and the
farming sections is much the smile
because they are all the same kind
old-school jof people. As a rule this kind are
law abiding and peaceable. What
we want in this new count v. is to
get the same kind of people in the
one county. Tn the proposed ootin-
kcep up as we havt no upper ten
and lower ten thousand.
We all belong to the latter class.
We like to see where our money
goes when we spend a dollar we
like to see the worth of that dol-
lar in return.
li' our money has to be thrown
at the birds we would liKr to do
the throwing ourselves, and get
the credit to ourselves for being
liberal. We get tired of always
taking what is left. If two sec-
tions need improvements the far
away section is always the one to
wait. We are the far away section
from every county town of all *. n
counties around. We get tired of
the eternal waiting; and yet keep
on paying for the other people'^
improvement*. Apply these objec-
tions to our own section. The
natural site for the court and coun-
ty offices would be in Prague. We
will be a candidate for those hon-
ors. The roads would lie improv-
ed around here. But, in justice
to all concerned, remember that
this town will not be more than
fifteen miles front nearly everv
farm in the proposed county.
We are nearer to every farm
than nearly every other eountv
town, beyond that farm from here,
in the territory we want to join us.
In building better roads between
you and us we are helping each
other. I f we selfisldv built more of
the good roads anqi bridges nearer
fair size, and could under no cir-
cumstances pay a greater amount
than we have already been pav-
ing. If our road and bridge
taxes were to be a* great We would
at the same time Ik' getting the
roads and bridges. When we have
them in, our taxes will of them-
selves decrease to an amount need-
ed to keep up the repairs. That
would 1ki all save the occasional
bridge needed to replace one worn
out. It would be a condition
where we collect and spend all our
money at or near home. Will tax-
es be lower? We do not know.
They can't be higher. Our only shot
in years for lower taxes will be to
get together in this section for
the purpose of justice for all our
people. We will have no tight to
make on any other town in the in-
terested territory. Any or all may
be candidates for county seat hon-
ors. We believe we are in the
most central location from all the
surrounding county towns and in
the liest location in the proposed
county.
We are certain of one thing.
We can not afford to do any tiling
to hurt any neighboring town, We
should all stand together. All
the towns should Ik1 joined by the
host of good roads. We are much
more anxious to have good roads
than to hurry the building of a
new court house. We are not want-
ing any extravagant moves made.
FARM LOANS
- SEE THE-
FIRST STATE BANK
Option of payment or part payment at any
interest paying date.
Low Rates. Easy Terms.
B. F. Whitmore,
President
Jake Zabloudil
Cashier.
Real Estate Loans!
Private Money!
Notes and Coupons All Made Payable at
Our Bank. You Get the Money as Soon
as You Sign the Papers. Rates as Low
As Any Loan Company. You Can Pay
at Any Interest Paying Date. Come in
and Talk It Over With Us.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK.
Geo. R. Sutton,
President.
J. O. Meyer,
Cashier.
ing over Ink] roads is expensive.
Prague is the natural trading cen-
ter for a large territory. We would
be the highest chumps in the stats
to do anything which would tend
to Spoil or injure ally of that ter-
ritory. We want the taxes which
the Seminole farmer now pays to
Wewoka to help us build bridges
over the Canadian river. Wo want
the farmer who has to go to the
county sent to serve on a jury, or
as a witness, or transact anv of
the business which has to be done
in the county town, to he able to
get home the same day if be wants
to do so. We are willing for the
county to have rented quarters un-
til the time arrives when the peo-
ple of the proposed county think,
and say at the polls, that they want
a court house built. We want no
fine building erected here. As we
said before we are just plain folks.
What will be a burden to any of
you will be a burden to us. Not a
man interested in the promotion of
this scheme has any not Kin of try-
ing to profit out of the deal save
Subscribe for the Record!
| ty we will all lie just plain folks.
I There will be no aristrocraev to
Prague than your place, still vou
would lie the gainer because you
uouIT! even then be nearer to mail-
able improvements than you now
are, though you are paving for
them all the same. The cost of
county officers i- a small matter
compared with the criminal costs
you pay in to the treasury of the
large criminal courts. The dif
ferenee is much in favor of the
new county.
' No section would ban* the ex-
pense as we would lie a eountv of
lin
I hat would lie* like jttmpin
of the frying pan into tin
I lie good roads uumpaign will r>
eeive the first cimsideralion from
our citizens and from the men
u ho are back of the new eountv
deal. While 'I ulsa, Oklahoma Citv,
ami Muskogee are so interested in
automobile roads, from one hin'o
center of population to the other,
we are more interested in getting
'■!, live mile- north and two east of
Prague, said: "1 am for it. Think
if the best thing for us. A good
thing."
C. J. Frankc, near neighbor to
Mr. Miller said: "It is ail right
I'll help it along in our part of
the county. We need the roads
and the bridges. We can't get the
help we need from the county. I
am for it."
Joe Rubac, of near Willzetta,
said: "All right. 1 think it a
good thing. Yes, I'm willing to-
help it along our way.*'
W. M. Tucker who lives near
Prague, said: "I don't see why any
man living in this part of the
country would vote against the new
county. It. would help every farm-
er within ten miles of here. I am
for it."
John Lee, a farmer living five
miles north and one west of Paden
in Okfuskee county, said: "1 be-
lieve every man in my part of the
county will vote for it. I will
do w hat I can. We do not get
tlie help we need from our county.
1 think all my neighbors will vote
for it We nad the roads ,n this
dilu tion and will, 1 am sure, be
glad to help you in getting the
new county." - — —-1
Thomas It. Senekar, wV lives
less than five mil - south east of
Prague, said: "I have just had an
over it ami talk it with your | argument that makes me know the
neighbor. We want your help. Von I reasons for a new county are good
will have to help in your own In | when you talk about the eonveni-
■ a li ty or you are liable to lose outjence and expense. I have been -H
in the matter. Wo are sociable in Tecumseh on court business. If
llii* <11 ti 1 Jo imt wtiut mm u..".Tnr.M1 *. hrm **7! ~
il 11mt section plainly does not que. I could have been home to
wish to cast its fortune with usjiend Sunday with my family. Ah
We wisli to treat all fairlv. W
what would naturally come vfrom
legitimate business. K\ery thin#
is open to the insertion of the
world. Not a man in the proposed
county luii has the same free op
}H rtunitics. Not a dollars worth of
property will increase in value
unless vonr's does too.
in any neighbor-
We come to you
and avk you to
treatment in re-
• streets,
H'ho had
gave li-
the farmers
out of the
mod markets promt
otton and live sto<-
to I
hole
with their
Thi haul-
want no soreness
hood against us.
with open hands
give us the same
turn.
A walk and talk on tin
Monday, anion# the men
come to Prague to trade
the following:
Mr. Burcklin, of Arlington, said,
"I think the proposition is feas
able. Kvery one should vote for
it. The farther we live from the
county seat the more expensive it
is to every one of us. It mav not
always show in the tax receipt; but
it will in the pocket book when
we count our hill for traveling
expenses. The better roads and
conveniences for all ought to make
if very man vote for it.*'
•I. W. Mflier, !i\ ins on R<
it was. I had to stay over. 1 wi'K
vote for it and help it in ■: < way
I efjl).
Mike Decker, IhinjC 0\ miles
south of the Canadian Hv. . .<*i<
"wr do not i/et any help for no
roads in the north part of Kor
county. Seminole county spends
all its money for roads and bridges
south of the big hills. We don't
get it. There is but one bridge
now in repair on the river. That
i> ill Keokuk I'.ills. I am i fav-
or of it and will help all I can
io get the new «ounty."
Mr. Cov, from K.•■mtushka, said:
"Our bridge at
is out of repair,
side too. We nc
at Lakeside has
pair for a long
; ? alxuit
t( 1ontinue<
the river crossing
That and at Lakfr-
•d both. The one
been out of re-
time. What you
- is true. What
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