The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1910 Page: 1 of 8
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The Oldcsl
Newspaper in Ok-
tvskee County
THE WELEETKA AMERICAN
Published Weakly on Friday Morning
EDWIN W.JAMES
Editor and
Publisher
Volume 8
Amended Senate Bill.
No. 76, by Davis, providing for
the legalization of county bridge
bond issues, is now before the
house, having passed the senate,
and from the best information
obtainable it will pass the house.
The following is the text of the
bill;
"That all elections heretofore
held for the issuance of bonds un-
der the provisions of Article 2.,
Chapter 52. Session Laws, 1909,
where such elections were held
at the usual place of holding elec-
tions in such county and in full
compliance with the other provis-
ions of said act, and where pro-
clamation was published in four
consecutive regular issues of a
weekly newspaper of general cir-
culation in said county last prior
to date of the election and at
which, bonds were ordered by a
vote of not less than three fifths
of the electors voting upon the
proposition, are hereby legalized
and all bonds issued or to be is-
sued under authority of such,
election heretofore held, are
hereby legalized and made valid"
The emergency clause is at-
tached.
Representative Dixon stated
that there would be practically
no opposition in the house.
This means that Okfuskee
county bridge bonds can be sold
in a few weeks and the work of
actual construction begin in less
than two months.
The bridges near Weleetka are
across the Canadian, one being
on the section line two and one
half miles west of town and the
other, one mile southeast of town
at the old Harper crossing.
This is reached by crossing the
I he township bridge near the old
Entered April 13. 1902, u second ,-lu. matter at Fnatofflce at Weleetka. Okla. Act of Congrcaa. March J. 187D.
WELEETKA, OKLAHOMA,~FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1910.
$1.00 a ymar, in advaito*
Number 49
stave mill, and following the new
road which was condemed some
months ago by the township
board.
In the opinion of the American
this legalization of the bridge
bonds is of greatest importance
•oOkfuskee connty and especially
to this end of the county, Com-
missioner Greer, having secured
for his district nearly half the
issue. However the whole coun-
ty is benefited and the construc-
tion of the bridges will greatly
enhance land values and be of
untold convenience.
Spring blood medicines at
Hugheys.
Letter From China
Tengchowfu, Shantung, via Che-
foo, North China.
Mrs. Katy Park,
Weleetka, Okla.
My Dear Mrs. Park:
Your most kind and welcome
letter received last week and
how glad I was to hear from We-
leetkaand Alabama again. I shall
always be glad to hear from you
for I have spent many happy and
pleasant days in your home. I
love to hear from the Alabama
school children for I loved them
with all my heart. I hope they
like their new teacher and will
learn very fast. It is so nice that
Dee can be in school at Weleetka
I hope to hear that some day he
has finished school and in some
good position. Give him my love
Remember me to all the Alabama
children and parents that I know.
We are more pleased all\the
time with our new home. I have
one of the dearest, kindest and
best husbands in the world I
think I am so glad that Leslie
is so happily married, give him
my congratulations.
We are now studying the Chi
nese language, it will be about
two years before we can talk or
do much work. They begin at the
left side of the page and writfe
up and down. The Chinese are
very polite people, and are as
friendly as can be. I have learn-
ed to love those that I know as
my American friends. They are
very smart and bright people. It
is nothing for them to memorize
the bible, what they learn they
never forget.
We have about 75000 people in
this city and we are on the banks
of the Yellow Sea. We often go
down to the sea and see the tideB
come in and get pretty shells.
The weather is somewhat colder.
We have had six or eight snows
here already and it is still snow-
ing. We have almost all kinds
of vegetables. Chickens are boun-
tiful. We can buy all we want at
five cents each and of course
eggs are much cheaper. Every
thing in China is cheap. The
average working man makes
from twenty-five cents to a dol-
lars per month. The educated men
such as our teachers get $2.30
and think that is good pay. You
can see from this how cheap ev-
ry thing is. We have very nice
fruit also, such as pears, peaches
grapes etc. We have no wagons,
buggies, street cars nor automo-
biles to travel in, we either are
rolled in wheelborrows or carried
in a basket like concern fastened
by poles on two mules backs, it
is called a shentza. There are
railroads in some parts of r'hina
and we hope to have some here
in the future. Come over and
take a ride with me some day.
Well I must close as it is time
for prayer meeting, hope you will
write soon, as it takes somewhat
over a month for mail to come.
Remember me kindly to Mr.
Park. I think of you all very
often.
Wishing you all a happy New
Year, and hoping to hear from
you soon, I am
Your loving friend,
Bonnie Belle / irner
P. S. I forgot to tell you at we
don't have any Chri s or
Thanksgiving in Chii^- ,/e do
at home, we only meet together
with the missionaries. The
Chinese have their great holiday
at the new year which is this
year the 10th of next month.
They count their time by the
moon and not by the sun as we do
Lovingly, B. B. T.
Nice line of hand bags at
Hugheys.
A Plea for Number 4
The city council has ready for
the final passage an ordinance
granting the privilege of keeping
within the corporate limits, hogs
or pigs to the number of three.
Advocates of the bill claim
that it will allow each one to
raise his own meat from the
scraps from the table and thus
knock on the meat trust.
The American desires to offer
a few reasons for the support of
this very vital ordinance.
1st It will advertise Weleetka
as an up-to-date town, and con-
vince the scoffers that we are
the real thing.
2'nd It will ciuseths inocula-
tion of the circumambient atmos-
phere with a rose-like fragrance
not to be obtained in any other
way, and the bracing effect of
which on a summer's day, must
be considered a boon by any
thinking, honest, smelling citizen
Not only should this ordinance
be passed but an emergency
should be declared that our citi-
zens may loose no more time, for
meat goes higher and summer
comes nigher.
There can be but one objection
offered to the measure and that
might be corrected by amend-
ment. The ordinance provides
that only three hogs may be kept
by each owner. Now, fellow cit-
izens suppose that you owned a
nice gentle well broken lady hog
and some day the stork would
leave three small piggies, and
the City marshal should swoop
down upon you and arrest you
for violation of this ordinance and
you should be sent to the pen for
life? Or would you have the hard
and unfeeling heart to separate
one little piggie from its mother
and two brothers? Fellow citi
zens this is a serious proposition
to contemplate, (this stork busi-
ness when referring to our pro-
posed hog ordinance,) yet if our
town shall prosper and flourish
as the green bay tree, we must
pass this ordinance. A large del-
egation from Spiro will probably
be in attendance at the next
meeting to lobby for its final pas
sage.
Oh, here we are in hogless
town, and meat goes up and nev-
er down. Please, city fathers,
we won't care, if a sloppy aroma
fills the air. Lets give the meat
trust some telling digs, and each
nun endow a home for pigs.
Let them roam on the lawn or
the lea, but do tack on the emer-
gency. And pray do just one
thing more; consider poor piggie
that's numbered "four."
Meanwhile,
up.
going
keeps
Meat
Editor Weds.
On last Thursday evening at
Wetumka occurred the marriage
of Geo. C. Bolin, Editor of the
Gazette, and Miss Foster. They
left for the north on their honey-
moon trip, the groom with a log
chain and cowbell padlocked
around his neck, the attachments
being supplied by the groom's
friends who feared that the oc-
cupants of the train might not
know that he was a happy wed-
ded man.
Fountain drinks taste better
at Hugheys.
In Shiretown.
Half the population has been
in Okemah this week on the Hils-
meyer-Blake suit and the injunc-
tion case. Neither has been com-
pleted this morning.
Finest boxed and wrapped can-
dies at Hugheys.
Fine assortment of brushes and
combs at Hugheys.
Business Lot for Sale
Business lot on Main street, va-
cant, cheap for cash or on terms.
American Realty Co.
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SUNDAY DINNER
A Specialty
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Does The Guaranty Law Guarantee?
IS THE DEPOSITOR PROTECTED BY THE GUARANTY LAW?
These are questions that Depositors have a right to ask.
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For Answer We Say: b%S°maSk^SSSS^
THREE STATE BANKS HAVE FAILED SINCE
GUARANTY LAW WENT INTO EFFECT
International Bank of Coalgate, Deposit* $36,000; Columbia Bank®, Trust Co., Deposits $3000.oo„-. First Suite Bank of Kiefer, Dep. $?fl.OOO.
Total Deposits $3,114,000.
Every Individual Depositor received Every Cent of his money that wa$ on deposit in these three banks
when he called for it. The 600 and more State Banks who paid the depositors in the failed banks
are the most prosperous of any banks in the State of Oklahoma or the United States.
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THEY HAVEN'T MISSED THE SMALL ASSESSMENT THEY WERE CALLED UPON TO PAY. We ask for your basics knowing
that, we can offer you absolute protection for your deposits.
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James, Edwin W. The Weleetka American (Weleetka, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 49, Ed. 1 Friday, March 4, 1910, newspaper, March 4, 1910; Weleetka, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc155224/m1/1/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.