The Edmond Sun (Edmond, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 18, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 1906 Page: 4 of 8
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EDMOND SUN.
Published every Wednesday by
The Sun Printing Company.
A. D. DA1LEY, Editor.
R. W HARMON. Manager.
TERMS *'-oo Per Year"
F.otcred at the Postolflce at Edmond, 0. 1
tor transmittal through the malls as second
2lass mail mutter.
THURSDAY, DEC. 27, 1906
REPUBLICAN TICKET
For Congress, Second District
THOS. B. FERGUSON,
Candidate for Sheriff.
I hereby announce myself as a
0 mdidate for sheriff of Oklahoma
0 )unty. subject to the action of the
county Republican convention.
John W. Lawrence,
some counties, not more than
ten per cent of the land is tax-
able.
In addition to heaping this
burden of taxation on the peo-
ple of Oklahoma, the constitu-
tional convention delegates are
piling up an enormous debt to
be saddled upon the new state,
the total amount of which will
reach $200,000. This is the
fiist and second lesson of dem-
ocratic economy, but it comes
with a vengeance.
In the making of counties for
the new state, verily the town-
site boomer got in his work.
MOKE NORMAL SCHOOLS.
In an address delivered be-
fore the Oklahoma Teachers'
association, nt Shwuee, on last
Wednesday, Robert L. Kine,
president of the association,
said in regard to normal schools
for the new.state:
n order to have professional
MEETING OF CITY COUNCIL.
(Continued from first page,)
finances of the city were so low
that the oouncil discussed at con-
siderable length a proposition to
spend $10 in repairing this road.
The Oklahoman representative
stated that the plan of the Okla-
homan was to get out a speciai
issue, in which all the cities and
towns of the territory were to be
represented, providing they dug
up the cash. The agent has
spent several days in Edmondj
but has received no encourage-
ment, for the reason the business
men of this city are of the opin-
ion that a write-up of Edmond,
MAY ABOLISH LEGISLATURE
constitution may save people
extra expense for years
Enough Measures Introduced to Pro-
vide State with Laws
for Half a Century
(Special correspondence to The
Edmond Sun.)
Guthrie, Okla., Dec. 26th.—
When the convention closed last
week they had adopted the pre-
amble and fixed the county lines.
Over half the time gone andnoth-
ing definitely done and very few
things suggested that would come
THE BUTCHERY OF OKLAHOMA.
The members of the demo-
cratic constitutional convention
at Guthrie had their carving
knife out la-t week H i " -lashed trained teachers I believe Great
the new state of Oklahoma up or Oklahoma needs two or three
int.i lit ti.. riieci . Thr >jirvii)B more Normal schools. Not so
into little .i > > 1 >. .n n much ^ ^ U) tra.n t0achera
was so skill!ully done that ... ... <■
meat cutters doubtless i>ok up-
on the delegates with m'een
euvy. Some of tle'se comities
have such a limited amount of
territory that a great burden of
taxation will be imposed upon
the people to build court houses
and pay the running expenses
of the counties. The people of
Oklahoma, many of them, have
come here within the past few
years, thousands of them with
hardly enough money to bring
them to this country, and by
hard work and economy have
been enabled to better their
condition, financially. Now*
however, with a heavy burden
of taxation placed upon their
shoulders, many of these set-
tlers will be compelled to bow
their backs under the abnormal
load.
It was about three years ago
that the legislature was asked
for an appropriation for the
new normal school building at
Edmond. Mr. Matthews, del-
egate for congress on the demo-
cratic ticket, was a member of
the legislature and he cast his
vote against the appropriation.
In explaining his vote he stated
he was in favor of the best ed-
ucational advantages for Okla-
homa. However, he said that
in Greer county, in which coun-
ty he resided, there were chil-
dren barefooted in midwinter
and that people were living in
dugouts and that under such
conditions he could not consci-
entiously vote this additional
tax, $40,000, on the people of
the territory.
In the past year a great many
settlers have gone into Beaver,
Greer, Comanche and other
western counties which have
been made into small baili-
wicks, and they are doubtless
little better off financially than
were the people of Greer coun-
ty when Mr. Matthews made
his plea for the taxpayer in the
halls of the legislature. But
notwithstanding this fact the
members of the constitutional
convention have divided up
these western counties to such
an extent that the people will
be tax-ridden for years to come.
Greer county, for whose people
Mr. Matthews made his plea for
low taxation, now finds itself
divided into practically three
counties. Beaver county, just
beginning to be settled up with
people, is carved into three
counties. Other western coun-
ties shared a similar fate. The
condition over Indian Territory
is even worse. Small counties
were also made over in that
part of the new state, where, in
for high schools, or for instruct-
ors in tho higher institutions, but
to give those who will oome the
i'uUiments of education and the
necessary training for teaching
them, that they may go out and
supply the dearth of teachers bo
much needed in our common
schools.
Some might say, send them to
the high schools, but of necessi-
ty on account of the limited time
so many have to attend school,
give them a place to go where
they can have the best opportu-
nities to get the basic principles
of education along with the much
needed enthusiasm and ability to
impart knowledge that they can
get in our normal schools.
Prof. Knie has tho correct
ideas relative to Normal schools.
The tendency in all parts of the
country is for more normals
and the old northern and east-
ern states are establishing nor-
mal schools each year. There
is a big demand for trained
teachers and they can be se-
cured only from the normal
schools. Place trained normal
school graduates in all the pub-
lic schools of Oklahoma and the
people of the new state will
make big advancement along
educational lines. The school
boards are recognizing this fact,
and in many of the cities and
towns will employ only normal
school graduates. The demand
for normal graduates is now so
heavy it is doubtful if even five
schools will be able to meet the
requirements in Greater Okla-
homa.
... . 1 under the head of constitutional
in a publication containing .
1 , , propriety. The most of the time
write-ups of scores of other pla- r ' .
, , nf was spent in the introduction of
ces, would not be of a particle ot ^
... , ,, .. . • .v. pure y egislative measures. One
benefit to the city, and in tjns *"* * f ,
they take a correct view. What the principal ones was a bill
Edmond should have is an ex- "prohibiting the growth of John-
elusive special edition of this "n gra*s-
i .. ..u„„ The "Ddacon, a close obser-
city, .lust now, when there
. , .i ver of the work of the conven-
seems to be so many northern
and eastern people coming into ^ the ^
Oklahoma, such an edition would to™ke *e John9°n gra9S
l <• iu s.t ti „ bill: "The old regime is emu-
be of great benefit to the city. 8
, , , ■ • „ fV>u lated, Disraeli and Gladstone put
In regard to repairing the road r
.u c . n u„ff to shame, William Pitt relegated
south of town, Councilman ttutt- . °
.1 . ...j to the garret of oblivion, the bill
man stated that this road was f , , ., ,,
,. ,, . , , , i _• i of rights has been laid on the
practically impassable and said &
something should be doneatonce dusty shelf of uselessness and in-
place it in „ proper condition, ^ty ^the pessimist,
Councilman Wood said he had he o the second-hand liver, the
this muck raker and the sour grape
been waging war against this ° r
mud hole ever since he had been Performer continues to say that
elected to the council and that he commercialism has lowered the
assisted in filling it up about a avera8e of intelligence and brain
year ago, but realized that it power is computated on the page
needed immediate attention. He ot a ^a.n ' 00 '
,, . . .. . "Yet one little bill, no larger
said he would donate his services ' b
.... , , than a man s hand, after a draw
in helping to make the road pass- '
, . of four cards, has righted the
able. e t. .
Councilman Ringer stated a legislative wrongs of years that
private telephone ccmpany de- a'e passed and unavoidably
sired to set polls along the streets ™ured the blessings of prosper-
and alleys from the Santa Fe and tranquility for ourselves
right-of-way to the Normal and our Posterity. _
building and moved that those what ™re fitting manner
back of the enterprise be allowed °°uld the long-headed savants of
to set polls, under the regulations the constitutional convention,
that control the Pioneer Tele- have hit uPon the millennial so-
phone Co. The motion carried, lution than in introducing the ac
The council adjourned. t0 forever a(luel°h the buddin?,°r
I the noxious week that made Mr.
ment for the holidays President
Murray made the startling an-
nouncement that some rogue had
broken into his private office
andextracted therefrom some
valuable papers, probably a
plat of Murray county or
a draft of a constitutional propo-
sition to make it unlawful for op-
era houses to entertain minstrel
shows. A subordinate member
of the machine actually made a
motion that the convention em-
power the president to purchase
a Yale lock. About thirty min-
utes was consumed in debate on
the matter and it was finally re-
ferred to the committee on educa-
tion. (In-as-much as the lock
specified Yale.) Following is a
draft of the resolution they are
rumored to have prepared for
presentation immediately after
the holidays:
"Resolved, that this conven-
tion do view with alarm the
threatened sanctity and privac of
the habitat of its presiding offi-
cial, and do hereby appropriate
th him one (1) Yale lock; and as
further protection, one library
edition of Mr. Winchester's copy-
righted work on how to ventilate
the human system, to be used
locally, as directed."
Death of Former Edmond Lady.
A. L.
Rooms for rent—W.
Hoff, Edmond, O. T.
Oysters and fish every Thurs-
day at the Schirck meat market.
Young Plymouth Rock Cock-
rels for sale, all highly bred. In-
quire of Geo. Fox, South Broad-
way.
Lost—A pair of gold frame
eye-glasses. Finder leave with
Wm. E. Myall or Sun office and
reeceive reward.
Ladies, see us for belts, hand
bags, combs, etc. The Cyclone
Store.
For SAle—Four Poland China
brood sows.
E. Parsons,
Waterloo, Okla.
Black Beauty Graphite Axle
Grease. The best 10 cent sell-
er on the market. Give it a tri-
al, at Bagley's Harness Shop.
A new and nobby line of mens'
hats, at the Cyclone Store.
New Meat Market.
Perry & Sprague wish to an
nounce that they have opened up
a new meat market, oorner of
Broadway and Secoed street,
where they will have for sale e\ -
erything found in a first-class
meat market. Phone 96.
B1Q PROFIT IN CASTOR BEANS.
(Continued fro.n first page.)
of June to the 1st of July. The
beans are generally killed by
frost from the loth of October to
the 1st of November, so that
there is practioally about four
months that the plants are ex-
pected to grow and yield beans,
no matter how foul or how dry
and hard the ground may be-
come. It is reasonable to think
that a castor bean stalk will
stand in hard weedy ground for
months without cultivation and
produce as many castor beans as
if it had been regularly culti-
vated so that the ground would
hold moisture? It oannot pro-
duce half as much.
Every farmer should save his
own seed. Cut the first spikes
that ripen, then cut the lower
half off and throw it into a
sack for seed. Beans will pop
ont in sacks, same as when ex-
posed to sun, if hung up in a dry
place. The lower half of the
spike contains the best seed
beans because they are well filled
and contain no faulty beans.
Seed saved from the first beans
to ripen will cause the succeed-
ing crops to bear sooner. Gard-
eners always use the earliest
seeds that mature to get the ear-
liest vegetables. Seed maturing
the latter part of September or in
October will be later in commenc-
ing to produce seed again.
You want to plant castor beans
very similar to corn, only the
rows should be a little wider
apart than corn. As a rule, one
stalk in a hill produces more
beans than two stalks, because
it gives more room for one stalk
to spread out. One bushel of
beans will plant twelve to fifteen
acres, if planted by hand; but
with a planter one bushel to ten
acres.
Johnson famous. That bit of
by-play pulled off by our dis-
tinguished progenitor Joshua, in
defying the terrestial merger,
throwing out the delicate mech-
anism of the milky way and in-
sulting the inward economy of
the solar system, was the mere
drawing of a breath as compared
with this recent and statesman-
like slap in the face of dame na-
ture. We can regulate the sun,
moon and the stars by care and
consideration as to where and
how hard we bump our heads,
but how in the sacred name of
Murray county can we strangle
the upward growth of grass?
Answered—By law, by constitu-
tional mandate.
"Let the convention sanotion,
and the sapreme court affirm;
funguaness shall cease and bar-
ber shops skidoo. Let them rog-
uishly change their directions
from anti-sprout to sprout and
hair tonic shall be no more and
watermelons grow on billiard
balls. Uncountable credit is due
the far-seeing body whioh
swarms our legislative chambers
Their work becomes each hour
more symmetrical and sane, each
delegatorial breath is drawn in
support of some measure which
shall hang, as it were, on the
walls of time's corridor, boldly as
being a work well done. How
ever, to insure, literally, a heal
thy constitution, the convention
will, in the short period which
now constitutes its future, do well
to pass finally upon the muchde
bated age of Ann and dictate as
to the future direction from which
the wind shall blow. Then ad
journment, and Cincinnatusback
to the plow and roulette wheel
the pulpit and the tonsorial par
lor; each with a long-drawn and
satisfied sigh, bespeaking work
well done, a finished course,
kept faith."
The many friends of Mrs. S. S.
Leonard, formerly of Edmond,
but recently of Detroit. Mich.,
will be pained to learn of her
death, which occurred recently.
Mr. Leonard settled on a claim
at Waterloo, in 1889, but later
moved to Edmond. He served two
terms as mayor of Edmond. Mrs.
Leonard was widely known and
much beloved for her cheerful
words and kindly deeds in those
early and trying days of Oklaho-
ma. She enjoyed the respect of
all who knew her.
John Leonard, the youngest
son of deceased, is a son-in-law
of President Umholtz, and waB
at one time, postmaster at Ed-
mond.
Prof. Creswell Here.
Prof. Creswell, superintendent of the
public schools at Taleqnah, is in Ed-
mond to spend the holidays with his
family and to greet his numerous
friends in this city. It is a pleasure
to his Edmond friends to note that
Prof. Creswell is meeting with the ut-
most success in his school at Tale-
quae, as is evidenced from the follow-
ing from the Talequah Arrow:
"The public school of Tahlequah
closed yesterday for the holiday va-
cation. The term just ended has been
a most successful one, and under the
efficient charge of Prof. S. J. Cres-
well and assistants has made splendid
progress. The next term will open in
the new school building January—,
and in this modern structure with all
the latest conveniences and improve-
ments, still greater progress will be
made, and with more satisfaction to
both teacher and student."
FASHION STORE is SOLD.
Hugh McCredie Purchases Store of
Chapman & McCoy.
Hugh McCredie, one of the best
known business men of this section and
a former resident of Edmond, has pur-
chased the Fashion store of Chapman
& McCoy and is now in possession of
this excellent business. Mr. McCre-
die needs no introduction to the peo-
ple of Edmond and vicinity. He was
in business here from 1890 to 1894, dur-
ing which time by careful attention to
business and just treatment to all his
patrons, he enjoyed a large and lu-
crative trade. Since leaving Edmond
Mr. McCredie was in business for three
years at Stroud, two years at Shaw-
nee and for the past few years has
conducted a large hardware store at
Oklahoma City, which he disposed of
recently.
Besides being a good business man
Mr. McCredie has taken a prominent
part in politics. He represented this
district in the council fOr two years
and for a similar period of time rep-
resented the Shawnee district in the
legislature.
Mr. McCredie announces thai he
will retain tho services of W. H.
Leonhiird, who has been employed in
the Fashion store for a number of
years. Tiiis will be agreeable n .vs to
Mr. Leonhard's many friends in this
section, who know him to he one of
the most gentlemanly and obliging
clerks ever employed in Edmond. The
services of Claud McCoy, also a very
agreeable clerk, will likewise be re-
tained.
Mr. McCredie will devote most of
his time to the store here and will
probably move to Edmond in the near
future. His many friends here sin-
cerely hope he will see fit to return to
this city to make this place his future
home.
Messrs. Chapman & McCoy have no
snnouncement to make at the present
time in regard to their future plans.
However, their many friends, made
during their few years in business
here, hope they will remain in Ed-
mond. They built up and held a splen-
did trade, by square and honorable
dealing with the people, to all of
whom they recommend Mr. McCredie
in the highest words and express the
hope that all old patrons will gi\e the
new proprietor their patronage.
DR. HOWARD SELLS DRUG STORE
12, 18 and 24 inch sewer pipe
at Hollis Lumber Company's.
A few days before adjourn
Edmond Sunday School Convention.
Wednesday, January 16th, in the
Methodist Episcopal church, begin-
ning at 9 o'clock a. m., there will be
morning, afternoon and night ses-
sion. Every man, woman and child
in Edmond and Edmond township are
cheerfully invited to attend. This
convention is for your benefit and
ou will surely learn many things you
never knew. The best music and
speaking will be the order of the day.
Besides much of the best talent in Ed-
mond, of preachers, professors and
laymen, there will be Dr. Hayes
Burton, of Oklahoma City, who is
noted for his talks on "Teachers
Training" in the morning. Wm.
Rogers a noted Sunday School work,
er on "The Follow Up" in the after-
noon and on "The Child For Christ
in the evening. See program for otl -
ers. W. A. L. Hoff, Pres.
We sell silks: and, GOOD silks,
at the Cyclone Store.
Two neatly furnished rooms
for rent, One block southwest
of the Normal. W. A. L. Hoff,
Notice of Publication.
Territory of Oklahoma, Oklahoma
County—In the District Court of said
county.
•Ro
E. Hiatt and Sons arc the Purchasers
of this Well Established Business
A deal was consummated Wednes-
day whereby the drug store of Dr. J.
W. Howard passes into the hands of
E. Hiatt and sons on Feb. 1. Everett
Hiatt, now employed in a drug
store at Enid, and one of the
best pharmacists in the territory, will
have charge of the store. Mr. Hiatt
was employed^® Dr. Howard's store
for three years, after which he took a
course in pharmacy at the state uni-
versity, since which time he has been
employed in J.rug stores at Norman
and Enid. Owen Hiatt may also re-
turn to Edmond and assist in the
store. Both are highly respected and
popular young men, with a host of
friends here, who will join with The
Sun in wishing them abundant success
in their enterprise.
Dr. Howard, who retires, has been
in the drug business in Edmond since
1891. In the earlier days of Edmond
he devoted considerable time to the
practice of his profession, but during
the past few years has been spending
most of his time at the store. Now,
however, he intends to devote his time
largely to practice and has formed a
partnership with Dr. Day, the firm
name to be known as Howard & Day.
The have rented the room to the west
of the suite of rooms now occupied by
Dr. Day, which will give them three
rooms for their offices.
The many friends of Dr. Howard
will doubtless learn of his retirement
with regret.. However, they will be
pleased to hear that he intends to re-
main in Edmond. Mr. Hubble, who
has been employed as clerk by Dr.
Howard for the past six years, has not
announced his plans for the future.
However, it is hoped he will find it to
his interests to remain in Edmond,
where he has a host of loyal friends.
iv B. C. Delaney, Plaintiff, vs.
Louise L. Delaney, Defendant.
Lei
Said defendant, Louise L. Delaney,
will take notice that she has been sued
in the above named court for a di-
vorce on the grounds of gross neglect
of duty and abandonment, and you,
said defendant, must answer the peti-
tion filed therein by said plaintiff on
or before the 7th day of February,
190", or said petition will be taken as
true and a judgment for said plaintiff
will be rendered accordingly.
Attest: C. E. Hunter,
Clerk.
By Will H. Clark,
Deputy.
H. C. Ochiltree.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
Edmond Bakeri Use Edmond Flour
For the past month Edmond
bakers have been using Edmond
made flour, exclusively, whioh
accounts for the excellent quality
of the bread now being used in
Edmond. This is suffiicient proof
that home-made flour is the best
on the market.
The name, Peters, on a shoe
stands for "The Best," We sell
them. The Cyclone Store.
The Cyclone Store extends a
hearty New Years greeting to its
many friends and patrons.
Fresh Cow for Sale.
Four years old. Geo. Harris.
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