The Fletcher Sun (Fletcher, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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It is Generally the Man Who Doesn't Know any Belter who Does Things that Can't be Done. You see the
Blamed Fool Doesn't Know that it Can't be Done, so He Goes ahead and Does it
THE FLETCHER SUN
Published in the interest of Fletcher, Comanche County and Oklahoma.
Vol. I, No. 12
FLETCHER, COMANCHE COUNTY, OKLA., Mav 13. 1910
11.00 Per. Year
Local News
Rena Hildebrand has been
the sick list this week.
on
Hazel White left this week to
visit her father in Waurik, Ok.
Minnie Pierce returned home
from Apache, Monday night.
propriate manner remember the
day.
Further information may be
obtained by addrepsing The Co-
manche County Sunday School
Association.
Alvin Campbell, president,
Lawton, Okla
| Mabel E. Page, secretary.
Lawton. Okla.
The C.
Christian
night.
U. B. met at the
Church Tuesday
Herman Davis of Oklahoma
City visited his parents in this
city over Sunday.
Joseph Smelser, of Wetump
ka, Okla , is stopping at the
Fletcher Hotel this week.
J K. Griffith, of Randlett at-
tended the Odd Fellows meeting
here Tuesday.
Miss \lable Beesley, is visiting j
her sister Mrs. Fentriss of Okla-
homa City this week.
Mrs. C. W Reynolds and Mrs.
Katz visited Mrs. L. L. Kibbe
Tuesday.
Art Burnett, John Williams,
John Shook, Grant Hill and
Emmett Rutherford of Sterling,
stopped at the Fletcher Hotel
Tuesday night.
Misses Maude Hildebrand,
Rena Hildebrand, Gladys Hig-
gins and Messrs. Herman Davis,
Harry Vogeland Clarence Lacy,
attended the base ball game at
Elgin Sunday.
Fred D. Warren, Socialist
Editor, Pleads Own Case
St. Paul Minn., May 9.—Fred
D. Warren editor of the Appeal
to Reason,of Girard,Kans. plead
hisowncaso before Judges Hook
Adams and Reed, of the Unit d
States circuit court of appeals
here today. The court-room was
crowded with socialist sympa-
thizers Mr. Warren wasconvict-
ed of sending defamatory mat-
ters through the mails.
World's Sunday School
Day
Sunday May 22, 1910.
The Executive Committee of
the World's Sunday School As
sociation has designated Sunday
May 22, 1910, as "World's Sun-
day School Day'1 and have re-
quested the past' >rs of all church-
es to preach sermons in the
inteiest of children and youth.
An interesting and instructive
order of service has been pre-
pared for an opening exercise
preceding the study of the regu-
lar leason in the Sunday School.
It is published in some of the
denominational literature.
It is appropriate that all
churches and live, modern Sun-
day schools observe the day be
cause the Interdenominational
Sunday school workers of all
creeds and shades of belief of all
races and nationalities will be
assembled at Washington for
the Sixth World's Sunday School
Convention.
The First World's Sunday
School Convention was held in
London, in July 1889. The sec
ond at St. Louis, in Sept. 1893.
The tliird in London, in July
1898. The fourth in Jerusalem,
in 1904. The fifth in Rome, in
May 1907. At Rome 27 countries
and 53 religious denominations
were represented. The Ameri-
can capital will witness the
wor ld's greatest Sunday school
convention.
It is expected that all church-
es and Sunday schools in Co-
manche county will in some ap-
Fletcher I. O O.F. Lodge
Entertains
Tuesday night the I. O. O. F.
Lodge of Fletcher celebrated
their first anniversary. There
were 250 Odd Fallows and their
families present.
Promptly at eight o'clock the
program commenced, whioh
consisted chiefly of music and
speaking At a late hour re
freshments were served which
consisted of ice cream and cake.
Everybody reports a good time
There were a number of out
of town guests present, some of
whom were: Art Burnett, John
Williams, John Shook, Grant
Hill, Mr. Peddycoart, Tom and
Walter Stapp, Mr. and Mrs. Van
Doren, John Wevmer, Jim Bnt-
tenfield, Frank Mitchell, F. P.
McC'losky and John Rankin and
wife, all of Sterling lodge.
Congressman Scott Ferris
Mr. Ferris of Lawton, is one
of the best and most favorable
known men of the state of
Oklahoma.
He was born November 7,
1877, at Neosho, Newton county
Mo; graduated from the New-
ton county High school in 1897,
and from the Kansas City
school of Law 1901; has practic
ed law continuously since 1901
in Lawton; was married in
June, 1900, to Miss Grace
Hubbert ~f • . , Mo.; was
elected to the legislature of
Oklahoma in 1904, representing
| the twenty-second district; was
elected to the Sixtieth Congress
and re electt d to the Sixty-first
Congress. Mr. Ferris author-
izes us to announce his candi-
dacy for re-election..
T wo
Flood
Guthrie Ministers
Fight for Capital
Protecting against the remov-
al of the state capital to Okla-
homa City for moral reasons
and against the alleged illegali-
ty of capital change until after
the year 1913, two of Guthrie's
ministers, the Rev. E. E. Fair
child, pastor of the M. E.
Church, and the Rev. Harry
Scott pastor of the First Presby
terian church at that place, are
to be in Lawton tomoriow tu
wage fight in the capital loca-
tion campaign and will deliver
addresses at the M. E. and Pres-
byterian churches respectively.
—Constitution-Democrat.
Just The Job
Old Argus was boasting about
his hundred eyes.
"A useful man for an office,"
cried the populace.
''Yes," added Argus, "and 1
can keep half of them closed
when I want to "
Here the populace clapped
their hands wildly.
"We'll make him custom-
house inspector," they declared.
Patronize the advertisers and
besides helping your town and
home paper you will save money
The W. C. T. U. met with
Mrs. E. O. Cole Thursday. An
interesting program was ren-
dered. They have 18 members.
States are
Stricken
Kansas City, Mo., May 7.—
Many parts of Missouri and
Kansas are flooded as a resuKol
the rains of the last few days.
Reports from different sections
of the two states say that rivers
and small streams are overflow
ing causing great worry to the
farmers and heavy damage.
The highest water mark for
twenty years has been reached
in several localities. The ground
was thoroughly soaked and the
backing up of the water from
the creeks has resulted in the
low lands being inundated.
Springfield, Montgomery, Boone
ville, Butler, Sedalia, Mo , Os«a-
watomie, Ottawa, Kans., and
other towns report rivers and
their tributaries are out of their
Stories of Twain
* * *
For forty years or more the
late Samuel Langhorne Clemens
or Mark Twain as the gods call
j ed nim, has been one of the
most prominent figures in
' English letters. Wherever a
joke in English is appreciated
the name < f Mark Twain has
been the key to a good laugh.
His career, which has just,
come to a close, has been one
of almost unparalleled literary
activity, and fi oni being regard-
ed at the outset as a mere fun
maker he has come to be looked
on in many quarters as the
most distinguished Ameiican
man of letters in his age While
in his latter years the quality of
his humor has not kept pace
with the quantity of his produc
tion, what he wrote in his prime
is for the m./st part as enjoyable
today as in the period of its first
success.
Mr. Clemens was born Novern
her, 30, 1835, at Florida, Mo.,
and after the brief period of
common schooling given to boys
of that day he learned the pi int-
er's trade at Hannibal in that
state, where the family had
moved. For this- reason many
readers of the Western Publish-
er will be interested in a few of
bus experiences as a journalist.
BEGINNING HIS "CAHKKlt."
At the age of 13 he became a
printer's apprentice in the office
of the Hannibal Weekly Cour
ier. Of this introduction to
journalism he once told in r -
sponding to a toa^tataprinteis'
banquet in New York:
"1 built the fire for him (the
printer) in the winter mornings;
I brought his water from the
village pump; .1 swept out his
office; I picked up his type from
under his stand; and, if be was
there to see, 1 put the good type
in his case and the broken ones
among the 'bell matter'; and if
he wasn't there to see, I dumped
it all with the 'pi' on theinipos-
banks washing away railroad [ ing stone—for that was the fur
tracks, culverts and doing great
damage to crops. Trains are be-
ing detouredand abandoned.
Considerable stock is being
washed away and the owners
tive fashion of the cub, and 1
was the cub.
"1 wet down the paper Satur-
days; I turned it up Sundays—
are helpless. The wheat will rust! for this was a country weekly-
from exposure to water unless a
change takes place within a few
hours according to reports.
Similar conditions exist in the
Kansas wheat belt where the
Arkansas river and smaller trib-
utaiies are on a rampage.
Farmers Pledge Aid for
Miners
St. Louis, Ma,r 0.—Organized
labor and organized farmers
will work together hereafter in
"preserving the rights and liber-
ties of both classes of workers,"
under the provisions of a resolu-
tion unanimously auopted by
the executive committee of the
Farmers Educational and Co-
operative union here today.
The affiliation between Amer-
ican Federation of Labor and
the Fanners Union has been a
favorite project of Samuel Gom
pers, president df the American
Federation of Labor, and the
adoption of the resolution fol-
lowed a four days' conference
between Mr. Gompers, assisted
by seveial labor leaders, and
the farmers committee.
1 washed the rollers, I washed
the foi ins, I folded the paper, I
carried tlurn around in the dis
agreeable dawn Thursday morn-
ings. The carrier was then an
object of interest to all the dogs
in town. If I had saved up all
the bites 1 ever received I could
keep M. Pasteur busy for a year.
1 enveloped the papers that were
for the mail—we had 100 town
subscribers and 350 country
ones; the town subscribers paid
in groceries and the country
ones in cabbage and cordwood,
when they paid at all, which
was merely sometimes and then
we always stated the fact in the
paper and gave them a puff;
and if we forgot to they stopped
the paper. Every man in the
town list helped to edit the
thing; that is, he gave orders as
to how it was to be edited, dic-
tated its opinions, marked out
its course for it, and every time
the boss failed to connect he
stopped the paper.
RECEIVED 50 CENTS A WEEK
"Life was easy with us; if we
pied a form we suspended till
next, week, and we always sus
pended every now and then
when the fishing was good, and
explained it by the illness of the
editor—a paltry excuse, because
that kind of a paper was just as
well <." with a bick editor as a
well one, and better off with a
dead one than with either of
tnem.
"I can see that piinfing office
of prehistoric times yet, with
its horse bills on the walls, its
'd' boxes clogged with tallow,
because we always stood the
candle in 'k' box nights; its
towel, which was not considered
soiled until it could stand alone,
and other signs and symbols
that marked the establishment
of that kind in the Mississippi
valley."
After three years in the
Courier office he adopted the
life of a rovin compositor
picking up many experi-
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District No. '20
Robert Seymour and sister
Mary spent Sunday with their
sister Mrs. Patteison of near
Rush Spi ings.
Quile a number of young
'oiks of this vicinity attended
the pie supper at lines Chappel
Friday night.
The singing held at Marvin
Hitchcock's Sunday night was
well attenhed.
Misses Nannie Bay and Ruby
Milam spent Sunday with Cora
Bailey.
Mro. Lovett and Mrs. Bailey
spent Monday afternoon with
Mrs. Ida Weever of near Imes
Chappel.
Jim Sims and Family spent
Sunday with Mr. Kroeger and
family.
A. C. Lovett returned home
Thursday from Nebraska where
he has been for some time.
A ciowd of young folkf met
and surprised Mr. and Mrs. J.
VI. Zachary at their home
Saturday night. Everybody
reports a good time.
Green Zachary and family
and Marvin Hitchcock and
family spent Sunday with Jim
Hitchcock and family.
W. W. Bailey made a flying
trip to Fletcher Thursday.
Wilson Brooks formerly of
this vicinity but now of Ceicka-
tha is visiting friends and relat
ives of this vicinity.
Miss Gladys Bailey spent
Thursday with Miss Ethel Rob-
bins.
The crops of this part of the
country looks muen improved
since the rain.
The Pletcher Tailor Shop
We have just received an up
to-date line of samples. Come
.And see them We make suits
to order and to fit. Cleaning
and pressing a specialty. Fair-
dealing, is our motto.
Office over Hary Lacy's con-
fectionary.
Clyde C. Buford
Manager.
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Crews, R. A. The Fletcher Sun (Fletcher, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, May 13, 1910, newspaper, May 13, 1910; Fletcher, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc153230/m1/1/: accessed April 23, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.