The Chandler Publicist (Chandler, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, May 22, 1908 Page: 1 of 8
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THE CHANDLER PUBLICIST
VOL. 15.
CHANDLER, LINCOLN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY. MAY 22 1908.
NO. 4
W hat McGuire is Doing.
With adjournment near at hand
many bills are bi?ing acted upon by
"the two houses of congress and Ok-
Sahoma is interested in a number ot
those that went through last week.
■Of sreat importance is the Mc-
Guire restricyon bill which passed
the house sometime ago and is now
through the senate. It removes re-
-strictions on eight million acres of
S.ind in the Choctaw, Chickasaw,
Creek, Seminole and Cherokee na-
tions, permitting the sale of this
land and making it taxable so that
it will bear an equal burden with
, he lands in Oklahoma, of the ex-
penses of state government.
The McGuire bill removing re-
strictions on the Quapaw Agency
l:inds in northeastern Oklahoma al-
•so passed the senate, having
previously passed the house.
In the omnibus bill reported by
■-the house land committee are three
important measures in which Mc-
Guire is interested, this bill giving
the city of Perry two hundred feet
off the old land office reserve for
library at d other public purposes;
the bill giving Enid the McGuire
park and the bill he favorably re-
ported giving the state of Oklaho-
ma title to the Ft. Supply military
reservation which is to be used for
aa insane asylum. By bunching a
large number of such measures in
an omnibus bill it is expected they
will go through before adjournment.
Each district in Oklahoma gets
something in the public building
bill, better known as the p^rk bill,
which has passed the house. Mc-
Guire secured an appropriation for
$100,"000* building for Enid and
S35.000 for an addition to the site at
• Guthrie. Fulton secured $50,000 to
be vised in starting tae Oklahoma
City building, the ultimate appro-
priation for which is expressly-
limited to $200,000. Ferris secured
$15,000 for a site at Chickasha, Car-
ter $15,000 for a site at McAlester,
and Davenport $20,000 for a sight at
Tulsa. McGuire is the only mem-
ber of congress who secured action
or. two projects in the bill. The
bill introduced by Owens in the sen-
ate .md McGuire in the house send-
ingto the court of claims the Osage
Nation claim for $800,000 tor money
belonging to them that was used in
the education of other Indians has
passed the house.
Two measures of general interest
to Oklahoma that have been recent-
ly introduced by Congressman Mc-
Guire are the resolutions requiring
the pension department to accept
the age at enlistment as shown by
the records of the department
as proof of the soldier's age in
making application under the Mc-
Cumber pension law and the bill
providing that the money derived
from the sale of public land shall
be used for a drainage fund in Ok-
lahoma. The bill permits the loan-
ing of this money to corporations
along the Deep 1-crk organized
by the farmers and land owners for
the purpose of clearing and straight-
ening the channel of the river. Al-
most every year the rich lands of
the Deep Fork bottom are damaged j
by overflows.
Oklahoma is the gainer by more |
than two thousand dollars as a re-1
suit of an opinion by the comptroller j
of the currency, Traeewell, that the
state shall secure three per cent in-1
ti-rest on five million dollars school I
fund secured for the state by Mc- 1
< ruire in the enabling act for the
approval of the act of June Hi, 190fi,
until the money is turned over to i
the state instead of from the time
the state was admitted, Nov. IK, ,
1907, until it was turned over as the
auditorhad previously held. Mc-j
Guire has been worjyng on the mat-
ter for some time and Comptroller
Traeewell notified him of the
opinion this week.
THOUGHTS FOR MEMORIAL DAY
IJV CLARA K. NICHOLS
The last days of May, bright
sunny May; every breeze laden
with the fragrance of spring's
choicest flowers. As we enjoy
the sunlight and inhale the per-
fume, are not some of ws con-
scious of a new thought, or
rather a revivifying of that
which is wafted in every breeze
from the north to the south,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
the inspiration of a nation's
patriotism which will be in-
tensified by the services held
on Memorial Sunday and Mem-
orial Day?
We hope the people of Chan-
dler, especially the children of
our publig schools, will attend
these exercises. Our citizens
owe this courtesy and honor to
the small remnant of a once
mighty host, who on these days
will once again march side by
side to the music of the fife and
drum; and the children, that
they may be taught lessons of
patriotism and for what the flag
of our country stands. It is to
the children of our land that
we must look for our future, as
the children of today are the
voters of tomorrow.
ing flowers on the graves of
their comrades this year will
have the same loyal service
performed for them next Mem-
orial Day? The grand army
veterans are a living object of
patriotism.
Charles G. Burton, command-
er-in-chief of the G. A. R., in
replying to the question, "For
what does the Grand Army of
the Republic stand?" says "We
stand for the school house, the
church and the home. Every
little school house that dots the
plain or nestles in the grove is
a fort; every academy, college
or university is a garrison;
every church or cathedral with
its spire pointing heavenward
is a fort, a garrison and a cita-
del, and every God-fearing
mother in all this land who, at
her own home and her own
hearth stone instills into the
minds of her boys and her girls
the immutable principles of
right and wrong, who teaches
them both to love their country
and its flag and to emulate the
virtues of its heroes, living and
dead; every such God-fearing
mother is a recruiting officer
for the grand army that shall
nobility of the man who gave I of Georgia G. A. R., that we
them utterance. improve and care for it here-
The three cemeteries to!after. It would occupy too
which the veterans of Chandler j much space to tell how this
Post will loyally go on the 30th tract of twenty-five acres, cy>v-
of this month, to reverently | ered with scrub oaks, briers,
place their floral tributes of re-
memberance on the graves of
their comrades, are but a small
fraction of the vast cemetery
wild vines and sand has been
increased to over eighty acres,
a nine room house erected and
furnished, a handsome pavilion
which reaches all over the re- over Providence Spring, over
public. Every city, town and
hamlet has its little stones and
monuments which mark the
resting places of those who
died in the name of a better
humanity.
Think for a moment of the
two hundred pecan trees and
three hundred rose bushes
planted, and now this once hor-
rible prison pen is a place of
beauty with old glory floating
over all. Here 14,000 men
went into tents whose doors
Elbridge Gerry emphasized
the sentiment of American pat- j perpetuate the republic."
riotism in saying, "It is the duty I I believe that a man who
of every citizen, though he may | cherishes these sentiments in j they would receive as a gift the
have but one day to live, to de-1 his heart and gives utterance f Andersonville prison property,
vote that day to the good of J to these words should have his! After a committee had been
magnitude of this cemetery of j never outward swing,
the nation's soldiers. There
are six cemeteries within sight
of our national capitol; here lie
25,000; men and 300,000 soldiers
fill guarded graves in our na-
tional cemeteries. Two ceme-
teries are devoted to the heroic
souls who passed awav in
prison pens, and 145,000 fill un-
known graves. In speaking of
the prison pens we cannot re-
frain from mentioning the
Andersonvillc prison property.
In 18ti5 the department com-
mander of the G. A. R. of
Georgia, asked the national or-
ganization of the W. R. C. if
his country."
The Grand Army of the Re-
public, the aged, feeble vet-
erans in their yearly observ-
ance of Memorial Day exempli-
fy this idea; how many strew-
name graven in stone, and that sent 'here to inspect the prop-
erty this committee recom-
these words of noble impart be
in somg way preserved as a
lasting tribute to patriotism, to
the G. A. R. as well as to the
mended that we accept as a
sacred trust the Andersonville
prison property on the condi-
tions of the department of
This May day does not come
for a (5rant or for a Lee, for a
captain or a general, it comes
with reverence for all—the
dead soldiers and the living
veterans; it comes for every
man, woman and child in our
country.
As time rolls on the senti-
ment of patriotism should be-
come stronger instead of
weaker, because of the need of
this day—these cemeteries, the
sorrows and woes of war; also
because of the thinning ranks
and the feeble footsteps of the
old veterans who now are just
"waiting."
"We murmured not at our ad-
vancing age,
Thy will be done.
We've played our part, we'te
passing off the stage,
Thy will be done.
We wrought for God, for coun-
try and for right,
We've borne pur cross, Oh may
our crown be bright."
Approachiarf Event.
The greatest event of the season,
in a base ball way, will be the an-
nual game between the court house
"rats" and the city "badgers."
While the exact date ot the greut
game has not, as yet, been decided
upon, players have been selected
for both teams and Manager J. 11.
Johnson of the "rats" and Manager
J. Hart Foster of the "badgers" are
confident that their respective team
will win. Players on both sides
are putting in all their spare time
playing "tag,""oneo cat," "aunty-
over" etc. and getting used to the
feel of a base ball and the weight
of a "wagon tongue." There is
considerable discussion between
the managers as to who will be se-
lected to umpire the game. Neither
seems to favor the pencil pusher on
the Tub although he kindly
proffered his services. They are
mean enough to claim that he '
favored the "other" team in the
game he presided over last year.
The players have not been as-
signed their positions but following
we give the names of the list of
players from which the teams will
be selected:
rats
Dist. Clerk Norton, County Clerk
Rea, Sheriff Martin, Deputy Martin,
Deputy Huzzi, Clerk to Register of
Deeds Lasher, Deputy Treas. Lewis,
Register of Deeds Johnston,
Deputy Dist. Clerk F. Norton.
County Atty. Davis, County Judge
Wagoner, Treas. Elliott.
BADGRRS
City Atty. Decker, City Clerk
Foster, Alderman Walker, Mayor
Key, Street Commissioner Arm-
strong, Chief Spencer, Alderman
McGaughy, Alderman Hinchey.
Other county and city men will
act in the capacity of score keepers,
water carriers, sponge holders, etc.
The young lady clerks of the court
house are expected to be present
and cheer for the man who signs
their pay checks. Watch for the
date..
Saturday Specials!
200 Pairs Ladies' Sample Slippers $1.50, $2.00 and $2.50 grade
Choice $1.19
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Commercial Club Meets.
At a meeting of the commercial
club held at the court house last
Wednesday night resolutions were
adopted asking the city coifncil
to grant a franchise to the
Ramona Heat, Light and Power!
Co. for the purpose ot Securing;
natural gas in Chandler.
Correspondence regarding . the
price paid for paving in different
cities were read and commented up-
on. The average price paid for
asphalt seems to be $2.IS to $2.22
per square yard or approximately
51T0 every 25foot lothalf way across
the street.
There were about 100 members
present at the meeting and all were
enthusiastic over the many pro-
posed improvements for Chandler.
All Remnants Lawns and Dress Goods at
One Half Price
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Miss Anna Adams in the Race.
The many friends of Miss Anna
Adams in Lincoln county will be de-
lighted to hear that she has been
selected to make the race for repre-
sentative from this, the first con-
gressional district, in the contest
now being run bj the New State
Tribune, Gov. Haskell's paper,
j which is published in Muskogee,
| Supt. Cameron and wife will take
ten young ladies on a trip to the
most important cities of the east,
| taking a trip on the lakes and In-
j eluding a pleasant visit to the Cap-
j itol of the nation.
Miss Adams has been teaching in
the public schools for a number of
years and deserves a trip like this.
Her friends can assist her very ma-
terially in securing the prize by
subscribing for that paper and giv-
ing her j-our votes. There is also
a coupon in each copy of the paper
worth five votes, she will apprrciate
it if her friends and supporters will
save these coupons and give them
to her or leave them at her father's
store. Miss Adams is one of our
I popular girls and she should have
the support of all the good people
j of Chandler and Lincoln county.
We Buy and SeSS
More Merchan-
dise than any
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Finn in Oklahoma
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Stores:
Chandler, Ok!a.
Shawnee, Okla.
Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma
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HEARD IN THE t
* POSTOFFICE J
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That—She doesn't need to wear
one of the big hats to be a "merry
widow."
That—I would give two bits to
know who the "lady in black" is, I
know two or three who generally
dress in black but they don't seem
to fit the case.
t hat — It is just about time the ad- week. Hut just wait, court will be
vertislng committee of the commer- in session before long and then the
cial club was getting busy. | "old boy" will get busy.
That—Say, but she was mad,
threw the paper down "and said
things that wouldn't look nice in
print.
That—No, the old man didn't get
mad until they smashed a brand
new hammock all to pieces, and
what he said then was a plenty,
That—Guess there won't be much
in the paper this week, John hasn't
done anything sensational for a
there, 1 think it the best thing in
the paper.
That—Say, but can't some of
That—If the Publicist is only these young girls "throw the
fifty cents a year I know ot one or slang" though? Just listen to
two Chandler papers which ought those two over there by the cigar
to be ashamed to ask overa quarter. ; case, onecalled the other
Rebekah Lodge Entertained.
Last Friday evening Mrs. Zan At-
well entertained the members of the
Rebekah lodge. The evening was
pleasantly spent by playing tlinch
after which they enjoyed a treat of
icecream, strawberries and cake.
Those present were: Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. -Monforte, Jim Hill, C. O.
Wilson, Williams, (1. \V. Schlegel,
Crouch, Geo. Keller, Morris,
Rea, Newell, Stettmund, Lvnch,
Meadows, Perswell" Armstrong,
Marcus I'.arker; Misses Laney,
Kirtley, Hogan, Hattie and Ruth
Monforte, Ro.v Newell, Artie
Meadows, Fay Armstrong.
All present report a most pleas-
ant time.
A Guest. *
All W ent to Guthrie.
There has bet
That—No, she gave up her trip to
the city. Guess that little piece in
last week's Publicist frightened her.
You can bet he was there ^11 right.
That—That "heard in the post-
office" column in the Pub is all rot,
there's nothing to it. You're wrong
she called the first one
They are certainly there with the
"gift o' gab."
Farmers protect yourselves
against loss by hail, with crop in-
surance. See I. N. Hall, Chan-
dler. _ 4-10
scarcity of old
kid" and I sold'ers' memt>ers of tlje W. R. C.
"kiddo." and Spanish-American war vets in
Chandler this week. They all went
to Guthrie to attend the big en-
campment. Some of the "old
boys" returned home Wednesday
night and are loud in their praise of
the trertment accorded them by the
citizens of the capital city,'
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