Oklahoma City Daily Pointer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 305, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1908 Page: 3 of 4
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DO YOU REALIZE THAT THE POINTER IS DISTRIBUTED INTO 3000 OF THE BEST HOMES IN OKLAHOMA CITY DAILY ?
POLLY'S
RESPONSIBILITIES
Polly Parmelee examined her com-
plexion In a tiny silver-backed mirror
and affected not
L
Needed
Home."
to hear the amused
gasp which fol-
lowed as she re-
marked:
1 "Girls, it's pltW
ful the way I'm
needed at home.
What I ought to
do Is to rive up
school and devota
myself to mamma.
"Yes," eh«
added, carefully
powdering her
nose before she
glanced around her
circle of chocolate-
nibbling friends,
"for grown-up chil-
dren my father
and mother are
' the limit. They
need a guardian
apiece. Why there are days and days
when I stay home from school Just,
to keep things going half-way straight.
"You'd think, for instance, that your
soother ought to bo able to select her
•wn winter suit without somebody to
oversee it, wouldn't you? Mine isn't.
She means all right, of course, but
she's not dependable. I get It all
talked out with her the night before,
and she starts downtown fully in-
tending to buy a long, loose black coat
with a white satin lining. But back
she sails at dinner time with what do
you think? A tight-fitting dark-green
tailor-made suit that's no good on this
earth to me!
"Well, that's what happened last
winter, and the result was I had to
get along with my one blue party
cloak and not a sign of a change all
eeason.
"She's the same about hats and
gloves. I tell her, beforehand, over
and over, the make and prioe of the
1 kind I like—write It down for her,
I' even—and think the thing Is done.
Then, If you'll believe it, off she flies,
as soon as she's out of my sight, and
| gets a bargain in some basement!
Think of that, will you, when I'm going
out that evening, perhaps, and de-
pending on her new gloves to wear.
"That's why I feel It my duty to be
there when she shops. Yes, indeed, I
cut every class I had yest day just
to go downtown with her an. keep her
on the track, and I tell you It paid,
too! There'll be no tailor-made gowns
that I can't borrow in our house this
season. She got herself, with my
help, the loveliest, voluminous fawn-
| colored coat, precisely what I need.
1 and we found her a hat, too, that's
simply stunning on me, if I do say k.
j She was afraid it was too young for
her age—it turns right up In front,
j you know—but I persevered and
coaxed her into It at last. Why, she
I never seems to think aboat the econ-,
•my of buying things that I can wear j
too and giving me just that much
more variety without a cent more ea-
* pense!
"Thafa mamma, all over. A perfect
f sterling, you know—and never sees an
i inc\ beyond the end of her nose. It's
a positive fact that If I didn't keep
right after her every single time she'd
invariably go and get five and three-
quarters gloves Instead of sixes, never
ence stopping to consider that a five
and three-quarters split right acrosa
the palm the minute I double up my
han<|. And what If a six is an easy
on her? They wear just that
luch longer, I tell her.
Girls, look out of that window.
There goes my mother this minute,
rushing down the street with that new
Boat and hat on and, as Bure as you
live, it's going to rain. I felt drops be-
fore I came in. Doesn't that prove
every word I've said?
"Oh, I wonder if I could catch her
before she takes the car! She'd be so
thankful to me for coaxing her back
to change it if It should rain. If you'll
excuse me, girls—awfully sorry to go,
but you see how It is, don't you? She
ue9ds me every minute, first to select
her things and then to take care of
them for her. Good-by!"
The girls crowded to the window as
Polly flew down the street.
"Who runs the Parmelee house, any-
way. Polly or her mother?" asked
ene.
"They take turns," somebody a*-
swered. "I'll bet
wins this time,
though, and leads
her mother back
home like a lamb."
"Wish I had my
mother trained like
that," murmured
a third.
A fourth took
advantage of a mo-
ment to slip back
and industriously
devour the last
ohocolates.
A shout went up
at the window.
"Polly loses!—her
mother goes down-
town with the
clothes!"
"For my part,
remarked a tall
girl who had been
a chocolate Polly
&
"My Mother."
watching the candy box from the cor>
ner of her eye, "I'm glad of it. I have
no sympathy, myself, with a person
who is piggish about clothes—or any-
thing else."—Chicago Daily News.
MEW RAILROADS IN AFRICA.
Two Across Nigeria Will Start Pro-
duction of Cotton.
Pardon
FOR ALLEGED MEMBER OF DAL-
TON GANG—IS SERVING SEN-
TENCE OF FIFTY YEARS.
Guthrie, Okla., Jan. 9.—Application
for a pardon for Roy Dougherty, who
is serving a 50-year sentence for
murder, was made to Governor Has-
kell yesterday.
Dougherty was with the Dalton
gang of outlaws and participated in
a fight at Ingalls thirteen years ago.
He was in an attic at a hotel in In
galls and is said to have shot sev-
eral men who were on the floor be-
low him.
He was convicted on circumstantial
evidence and is alleged to have had
no connection with the Dalton gang.
Several months ago an American
who has lived In Nigeria said In ?iew
York that the climate and soil of that
large region are favorable for the cul-
tivation of ootton, but as yet there is
no encouragement to raise it because
there are no railroads to carry It to
the sea.
The railroad Is now to be supplied.
According to the American Geograph-
ical society's bulletin it is to start
from Baro on the Niger river below
the rapids that impede navigation.
Vessels loaded with cotton brought
by rail to Baro may descend the Niger
to Akassa, the port at its mouth,
where steamships may load the
freight for Europe.
The northern terminus of the rail-
road will be Kano, the great and pop-
ulous capital of Hausaland, some 500
miles from Baro by rail and not far
south of the Sahara desert. Kano be-
oame known some 60 years ago as the
greatest manufacturing and commer-
cial center of the western Sudan. It
is expected that the railroad will large-
ly increase ltB importance.
The British government authorized
the building of the raiVroad In August
last.
Its gauge Is to be four feet six
Inches.
But Kano will be joined with the
sea not only by this railroad and the
Niger but also by a through rail by
way of Jebba and Lagos, now the
largest commercial center on the At-
lantic coast of the continent. An agri-
cultural fair in that city recently tes-
tified to the Importance which farming
interests are already attaining. Many
native farmers were among the ex-
hibitors.
Taft
Mexioan Railroad Methods.
"As the son of a soldier and hav-
ing lived in the 'midst of alarms' dur-
ing my tender years, I may be ac-
counted a man out of the ordinary,"
remarked Phil K, Gordon, after whom
Fort Phil Kearny Is named, "but I
must say that traveling on Epes Ran-
dolph's trains in the state of Sonora,
Mexico, is liable to cause oold chills
to run up and down your spine.
"I was on the Sonora railway re-
cently when the Mexican brakeman
rushed into our car and spoke excited-
ly to the conductor, who, by the way,
was an American.
" 'What's the matter?' I asked, for
I was interested, owing to the excite-
ment of the brakeman.
" 'Oh, nothing,' replied the conduc-
tor, and he continued his conversa-
tion.
"After the lapse of an hour he
slowly gathered himself together and
observed that he would go forward
and see what the Mexicans had beea
doing.
"You should have seen that oar.
It looked like a butoher's shamples,
for somebody had gone a-knlfing for
some one else, and the end was that
it was a free fight for all. The con-
ductor calmly looked the door, wired
to the next station for the police, and
there was no further trouble. I won-
der what would have happened if a
car on one of our railroads was
turned into a butcher shop?"
USERS OF GAS
Are you aware that Fowler Bros,
do all kinds of natural gas work, no
matter how large or small. How about
connecting your cook stoves and
furnaces to gas. Phone us and our
solicitor will call and give estimate
cheerfully. Remember there is no
danger to n tural gas if installed
properly. That's what we do. In-
structions given how to use all kinds
of natural gas appliances installed.
Have your work done by experienced
men. That's us. All work done by
us is guaranteed.
Coal stoves and furnaces convert-
ed a specialty.
Room 10 Old P O Building, phone
146. 13 N Robinson.
MAIL BOXES 85c.
Automatic signal. Holds paper.
Where we fix and make everything—
228 Grand. 4-R
Oldest mining district of Califor-
nia, where extensive mining has been
done since 1849. An opportunity
open for short time. For further in-
formation see J. D. Ford, 119^ N.
Broadway, room 7. 304-6
You reach all classes when you
advertise In The Pointer, with Its
7,000 dally circulation—3,000 of which
are delivered in the best residence
section.
1
han<J.
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^auch
BEAUTIFYING RIGHT OF WAY.
Phlox and Hydrangeas for Stations-
Blue Grass for Right of Way.
One of the good things for which
people have to thank the railroads Is
the progress they are making In beau-
tifying their right of way.
It Is the prsctiee of the PeansyV
vanla, as Moody's Magazine points
out, to surround its passenger sta-
tions with little parks with terraces
and gracetally curving paths and
roadways. To care for those station
parks Is part of the duty of the main-
tenaace of way department. Just aa
It Is to keep the rails and tiea In
good order. Flowers aad shrubbery
are planted In artistic plots and
gardeners keep them fro* and flour
lshlng.
At a station on the Long Island rail
road, which is a subsidiary of the
Pennsylvania, 600 trees and shrubs
besides beds of phlox aad hydrangeas
were set out this year. For another
station on the Long Island 425 shrubs
and 12 trees have beea ordered of tho
so-called perennials and evergreens
In tho open country, too, far from
towns, the Pennsylvania has adopted
the poliey of making its right of way
pleasant to look at. Slopes of un-
sightly rock or dirt are transformed
into green terraces!
Henceforth the standard roadbed,
when the tracks are in a cu>, will in-
clude the sodded slopes. Blue grass
used for sodding will prevent the ero-
sion which has given englneenj so
much trouble In times ppat. la help-
ing to solve the drainage problem tho
grass is eves a*ore useful thaa M It
oraamental.
BY COMMITTEE REPRESENTING
ORGANIZED LABOR—DECLARE
HIM A FOE TO WORKING MAN.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 9.—Opposition
to Secretary Taft as a presidential
candidate was embodied in a state-'
ment issued yesterday by the execu-
tive committee of the state branch
of the American Federation of La-
bor. The statement says in part:
"We, the executive committee of
the New Hampshire branch of the
American Federation of Labor, in
entiment and sympathy with union
members of all political parties in
this country, hereby declare ourselves
unalterably opposed to the nomina-
tion of William H. Taft, secretary
of war, for the presidency; that we
recognize in him, through his public
utterances and judicial decisions and
opinions, the arch enemy of organ-
ized labor; that he Is the instrument
and exponent of capitalistic power;
that the writ of injunction which he
upholds, never was intended and
never should be applied to deprive
honest industry of its personal
rights; that we object to his methods
of 'campaigning as any one man's
man, 'aowever exalted and Influen-
tial may be his master, or wide-
spread his own support and en-
deavor; and that we are determin-
edly and irrevocably opposed to his
candidacy."
Straight Railway Track.
In spite of the apparently mathe-
matical straight lineB which many of
the western railways appear to follow
on the map, it has been stated that
the record in this respect will be beat-
en by the new national transconti-
nental railway, otherwise known as
the Grand Trunk Pacific, 70 miles of
which will be constructed without a
curve. Five years ago, however, a
length of 71 miles of perfectly straight
railway track was constructed on the
extension of the Rhodesia railways
from Bulawayo in the direction of the
Victoria falls. So far, therefore, aa
the length of straight line is con-
cerned, the record is held by the por-
tion of the Rhodesia railways above
referred to.—London Times.
Advertise in the paper that every-
body reads—The Pointer.
AUDITORIUM
Skating
Morning; Afternoon and
Night
Indoor
BASE BALL
Saturday Night, 8.30
No Admission Charge for
Skaters to see Games.
KA6E SALE
Tomorrow Is the day to place
that want ad. In The Pointer. The
three day run will Include the Sun-
day morning paper.
DAY OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE
WILL BE CELEBRATED HERE.
The birthday of Robert E. Lee,
the noted southern general, will be
observed in Oklahoma City Jan. 19.
Memorial services and an appropirato
program for the occasion is now be-
ing prepared.
The place for holding the services
has not yet been selected. One of
the churches will perhaps be used.
The services will be under the aus-
pices of the Oklahoma City Daugh-
ters of the Confederacy.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Last days of Package Sale. Many valuable packages
left. Remember all packages contain at least 25c
worth and many contain from $2.00 to $18.00 worth.
Look at our window.
DON'T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY
h. A. BUMP
THE JEWELER
Across from Lee Hotel 23 N. Broadway
NATURAL GAS WHILE YOU SLEEP
■
Automatic valve is guaranteed to
automatically stop the dangerous flow
of gas resulting from the return of
pressure after pressure has becomc
very low or ceased entirely.
B. Z. HUTCHINSON
S. E. Cor. Main and Broadway
Look for the Big: Faucet
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Tucker, Dudley R.; Tucker, Howard A. & Tucker, William L. Oklahoma City Daily Pointer (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 305, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1908, newspaper, January 9, 1908; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc152937/m1/3/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.