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The Weleetka American
By EDWIN W. JAMES
WELEETKA. ^OKLAHOMA
"The good old summertime" 1b en-
tering on Its last lap.
Even Indian maharajahs get to be
nuisances, according to London re-
ports.
Some persons dive into shallow wa-
ter at summer resorts and others get
engaged.
Earthquakes that hate to be snubbed
are careful to keep away from San
Francisco since the fire.
Tho crown prince of Slam refuses
to be a polygamlst and he does not
Bay It In Japanese, either.
If the cows will not give milk
when there is no rain we will be
driven to milking a can of condensed
cow.
Tho cold storago figures Indicate
that omelets will be more reliable
next winter that poached eggs on
toast
An Indiana mule kicked a motor-
cycle and cyclist across the road the
other day. Some mules seem almost
human.
That little earthquake out In San
Francisco the other day did no dam-
age. but the restored city did not like
the hint of its calling again.
Our friends of the Weather Bureau
are respectfully notified that one large
verification of those rain predictions
Is still overdue.
The man who ate 61 ears of corn
for a prize probably followed nature s
example by holding the ears down as
he ate them, with his fore-feet
The aeroplane as a possible factor
In warfare is somewhat handicapped
by tho tempting target it would make
for .even an ordinary marksman.
An "author of many arithmetics"
has peacefully died in Pennsylvania,
but the arithmetics, dear children, are
still alive and waiting for the fall
term.
A scientist who has been investiga-
ting decides that grasshoppers are en-
tirely useless. Evidently he never had
a flock of young turkeys to be fat-
tened.
DIPPER IS POPULAR
Bathing Parties on Private
Beaches in Chicago.
Never Before in Its Recorded History
Has Lake Michigan Figured so
Extensively as Social Factor
an This Summer.
Chicago.—You are not really In the
swim this summer unless you have
attended a bathing party, says the
Post.
The statement Is fact, not facetious,
for never In Its recorded history has
Lake Michigan figured so extensively
as a social factor as this summer. The
entertaining possibilities on the lake
and by the lake have been appreciated
these many years, but "parties" in the
lake have attained a popularity this
Bummer that swamps the record of
other years. Every resident of the
north shore whose dwelling Is with-
in short walking distance of the wa-
ter plays host two or three times a
week.
These water parties rejoice In vari-
ous names; beginners generally call
them "aquatic agonies," while hard
ened entertainers speak of them as
"delightful dips," and the partici-
pants as "dippers." "Refreshing re-
frigeration" Is a compromise that is
easily uttered with chattering teeth.
North shore dwellers no longer tell
their more centrally located friends
to "come out where it is cool,' but
Issue paradoxical invitations to
"come out and get in." A beach
party may include any number of
guests, an even number not being
necessary, as many persons look odd
any way when arrayed In a bathing i
suit.
The guests come provided with one
bathing suit and many forebodings,
while host and hostess supply dress-
ing rooms in their home and a line of
optimistic conversation relative to
the probable warmth of the water.
Those who get ioU feet before enter-
ing the water are told with much em-
phasis that Lake Michigan in its bed
is much warmer than In a tub.
The more completely equipped
households are supplied with a num-
ber of long and engulfing garments
In which the members of tho party
wrap themselves for the dash from
house to water. Some of tho groups
that wander lakewt^d through Edge-
i water and the north shore suburbs
these summer nights are striking if
WAR VESSELS FOR YCUNG TURKEY
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—jj The Sati/e-oJi'fi 8r&rrden6ur$
TURKEY under the rule of the progressive "Young Turks," is to have a
strengthened navy, the first step In that direction being the purchase of
the German battleships Brandenburg and Worth for a sum said to b
five million dollars. These sister vessels are declared to be too slow for th
special needs of Germany, but will serve the purpose of Turkey very well. lt
would appear that the ex-sultan of Turkey will pay at least some of the pur
chue money, though against his will, for it Is said that certain moneys In the
Deutscher bank to the credit of Abdul Hamid will be turned over to the Ger-
man government In part payment for the warships.
not picturesque In appearance. Slip-
pers slap along and bath robes blow
in the night breeze; generally the
host's orders are to "leave eyeglasses,
puffs and dignity in the room, or you'll
lose 'em." Eyeglasses may be re-
covered.
Once on the beach no time is lost In
getting into the water—and not in-
frequently in getting out aagin. What
constitutes "cold" water is a question
on which beginners and old-timers
never will agree, but as more and
more water parties are given, and the
number of beginners is consequently
reduced, the opinion Is gaining that
any water temperature above 50 is
"fine;" it is sometimes difficult to con-
vince a chattering beginner, however,
that the water is much above 32.
The duration of a water party de-
pends largely on the plumpness of the
majority of the guests. Persons of
rotund build can remain for an
hour or more, and still feel far from
frozen, while those toward whom na-
While he was saving two llveB a
Connecticut man lost $18. The people
whose lives he saved might at least
have the good taste to get up a purse
for him.
The wireless Is turning out to be
the best criminal catcher in the busi-
ness. There is no escape for the bold-
est and shrewdest from Its lightning-
like, tell-tale agility.
TERRIBLE FLY PEST
Rubbish Piles Declared to
Breeding Ground.
Be
Scientists announce that they have
Isolated the germ of leprosy and hope
soon to have a cure. But there is no
hop# in sight for those afflicted with
an itching for public office.
A Princeton professor contends that
the common Idea of heaven is wrong.
Now If someone will determine just
what is the common idea of heaven,
the whole matter will'be settled.
Tho hobble sk rt shows signs of
joining the autoirobile and the airship
for place In the accident-record con-
test. Its uso it ft comment for the
cynical on the i/omen of this liberty-
seeking day.
Residents of Postwick, Little Town In
England, Engaged in War to Ex-
terminate—Traps Filled With
Thousands of Insects.
Though tne bulletin of the Chicago
special park commission concedes that
the larvae of the tussock moth "Is one
of the most beautiful of our caterpil-
lars," It does not recommend that the
larvae be treated as pets.
Canada is also a big country, al-
though not yet in the same class with
the United States as regards popula-
tion and general development. There
have been reports of crop failures In
the Dominion. Now comes the ex-
planation that In some quarters grain
and other products have suffered from
drought. Put in other sections there
has been an ample supply of moisture
and the yield will be good. The out-
cries of the calamity shouter and the
epeculator must be taken with due al-
lowance on both sides of the border.
The official figures showing that du-
ring the calendar year 1909 the ex-
penditures in the United States for
building operations aggregated about
ft billion dollars, surpassing the record
of 190fi by ten 10 cent., not only prove
how completely the country had re-
covered from the "panic" of 1907 but
Indicate that the people have made a
fresh start In prosperity. There may
be checks and reverses from time to
time, but no nation like ours can be
kept permanently crippled or Indus-
trially Inactive.
An English physician Is of the opin-
ion that chickens spread tuberculosis
among cows. Nevertheless a good
many people who are unable to cause
trouble In any other way will con-
tinue to chickens.
The evening service at a church In
New Jersey has been discontinued be-
cause of mosquitoes. And it cannot
be charged that the skeeters were
Imported for the purpose. Whatever
the efTect of the sermon, tho congre-
gation refuse'1 to be bored by the
mosquitoes.
London.—Rural Postwick continues
to be vexed with a plague of flies, and
despite the war waged against ihem by
the villagers their numbers show no I
appreciable diminution. The cause of
the plague it Is said Is the Norwich ;
corporation's dust heap.
Dr. Herbert Hack, medical officer of I
health lor the Blofleld rural district, |
which includes Postwick, resides out-
side the danger zone, eight miles away
j from the swarms of Postwick. He
| says:
"The flies are directly due to the
I Norwich corporation's giant rubbish
j heaps. For some months past the cor-
j poration has been sending the contents
'of the dust carts down the Yare on
I lighters to some land It owns on the
shore opposite Postwick. It is not
| sewage of course, but just refuse of va-
| rious kinds—everything found In the
| town's dust bins.
"The rubbish tip being across the
j stream, Is not In my district, but the
deplorable state of Postwick is v^ry |
j much my affair.
I "Many villagers had not connected :
' the flies with the smells of the rub j
| blsh heap till this week, but It is quite |
j obvious -o me as a medical man that j
' the dust from dwellings and offices |
! contains myriads of eggs of house flies j
I which hatch out in that hotbed.
j "The lurvae feed on rotting vegeta-
I ble mater, which, by the way, causes
vile smells, and when they become
fully developed flies they roam about
for choicer food and adventures, and
Postwick is the first village they en-
counter.
"I have received an offer from a
London firm to exterminate the flies
and to send me the necessary mate-
I rials free of charge. This offer I
have passed on to Councillor Ewlng,
who lives at Postwick, and he has re-
ceived a keg containing 56 pounds of
fly killer for the dust Map and six
dozen tins of it for the villagers to
use in their homes.
"I expect the buzzing millions of
flies is very bad for the nerves of vil-
lagers, but the danger of their Infect-
ing food is infinitely more serious,"
concluded Dr. Back.
Mr. Leeder, tho village blacksmith,
showed his fly cage, a sort of meat-
safe of narrow-meshed zinc, with a be-
wildering entrance underneath. It was
bo full of flies that their restless buz
zing positively made it roar.
His neighbor, Mrs. Culling, drown
ed the occupants of her similar fly
cage.
"1 drown them that way, Just
like mice," she said. "Fly paper costs
too much.
"The flies pile themselves up in
the corners of cupboards and I have
to sweep them out with a feather
in the evenings when they are
drowsy.
"All the babies in Postwick have been
bitten." added Mrs. Culling, "and in
church the drumming In your ears
makes your head ache."
Postwick and the neighboring vil-
lages are now so full of the idea that
the swarms and tho smells are asso-
ciated that a dread of what one very
aged rustic called "jarms" has be-
j come universal.
The poor lunatics of Thorpe asylum
I near Postwick are perplexed and per-
turbed at the noisome hordes of ln-
I sects which are certainly more pun-
gent than ordinary house flies, though
outwardly of the familiar type.
Inspector Sllpperfleld of Blofleld
and Sergeant Wedd of Thorpe are
watching the movements of the
swarms.
ture has been more niggardly in the
matter of fat feel like a dish of ice
cream after five minutes in the lake.
Water parties are a matter of temper-
ature, not temperament.
On a hot night, however, nothing can
be more refreshing than a plunge—
and very often a scream—in the lake.
And the delightful glow of warmth
tnat follows once the guest is in
street clothes again is worth all the
doubt and prefatory shivering.
The final feature of tho parties Is
the "bit to eat" supplied, sometimes
on the shore around a big bonfire of
driftwood—If the policeman doesn't
t«:reaU;n the entire party with arrest
and make them smother the embers
In the sand—anu sometimes in the
b-me of host and hostess. And what
appetites! Liquids and solids are
consumed with the avidity of cast-
aways who have been adrift without
food and water for a week, and North
side grocers are growing rich satis-
fying the appetites of tho "dippers."
ihoneymooners in one car
•'Sleeper Sympathy" Groans Under
Heavy Load of Newly-Weds on
Way Northward.
| start of pitcher ed walsh
Spent Much Time While "Warming
Bench," Watching Other Pitch-
ers—Got "Near-Balk".
By ED. WALSH.
Whatever success I have had in
baseball Is due to two tilings; first, the
patience and confidence in me shown
by President Comlskey and Manager
Jones, and second, hard study and
hard work.
When I came Into the American
league, I was a raw, green fellow,
Btrong and willing, but what I didn't
know about baseball would have made
good pitchers out of half a dozen fel-
lows if it could be scattered around.
From the first both Jones and ComlB-
key seemed to think that some day I
would be a good pitcher, and It was
their confidence In me that kept ne
there. After I got used to the sur-
roundings I settled down to war.cb
what the other pitchers were doing.
I had sense enough not to ask many
questions, but to keep my eyes and
ears open and try to learn all I could.
In those days the White Sox had a lot
of smart pitchers, men who did things,
and who used their heads all the time
Every time I saw one of them pull ofT
something I made a sneak over toward
the clubhouse and tried It myself, to
see whether or not I could do it. • I
worked as hard in those days an ever
a man worked in a mine or a mill. I
was determined I was going to be a
pitcher. Comiskev and Jones both
coached me, told me what to do, ami
how to do It, but they could not make
me a pitcher. A fellow has to do that
for himself. When I began to use the
spit ball I worked like a horse. I
must have pitched two or three games
a day trying to get control and make
that ball go where I wanted it to go.
No one ever watched baseball closer
than I did. When some good pitcher
for a visiting team was working I
never lost a chance to crawl as close
behind the catcher as possible to see
what he was doing, to study how he
pitched to certain batters and how he
used his curves. I think I spent near-
ly all of one season trying to get a
balk motion that was not a balk, and
finally I succeeded. I defy any um-
pire to say honestly that I balk, and ,
no one can do it without straining ;
the rules.
I was three years, almost, on the j
i bench before I got my chance and !
when it came I was ready. I was as
confident as If I had been pitching all i
the time. And then, after I had be-
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Soap -
is more soothing than Cold
Cream; more healing than
W any lotion, liniment or salve;
more beautifying than any
cosmetic.
Cures dandruff and stops hair from
tailing out.
P
-'I have suffered with piles for thirty-
six years. One year ago last April I be-
. i : ruifnr i*nncttfiiltlon. In
pix ycaia. . ,. T
gan taking Cascarets for constipation. In
the course of a week I noticed the pilfs
began to disappear and at the end of six
1_ _ il A*A nnt trnnhlp ITie at all.
UCtrtU —— — -
weeks they did not trouble me at all.
Cascarets have done wonders for me. I
am entirely cured and feel like a new
man." George Kryder, Napoleon, O.
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Try murine eye remedy
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mpuiMcnv °F ALL KINDS Fon SALE
lYIAUmnLm Repair work carefully and
promptly iloue. Write, call or phone.
Southwestern Manufacturing Co. ou,sr,?'T"'
Opportunity
now knocking. All who seek a professional
life work should investigate the science oi
Chiropractic.
CARVER CHIROPRACTIC COLLEGE
Third and Broadway OKLAHOMA CITY. OKLA..
The man whose bluff is not some-
times called never existed.
New Orleans. La.—Through no In-
tentional arrangement on the part of
the railroad officials, hut purely
through accident, the sleeping car
"Sympathy" leaving New Orleans tho
other day for the north, carried noth-
ing but bridal couples.
The "Sympathy's" load was the re-
sult of Instructions from a local pas-
senger agent who gave orders that all
excursionists from nearby rural points
be put in one car.
When the bombardment of rice be-
gan an investigation showed that all
the ruralists were on their honey-
moon.
Walsh
Dr. Pierce'. PtaiMMit P«llel '"Tit
or.itr Htouiuch, Urer and bowels, Sugar coauHfc
Uiiy granules, easy to take as candy.
If a man speaks of auburn locks
when a girl has red hair she knows he
has poetry in his soul.
But it doesn't rain very hard on th
unjust if he is roosting under a stolen
umbrella.
When the Fish Exploded.
Somebody discovered that fish are
fond of gasoline, and this led to th©
Idea of soaking worms In gasoline in
order to make them more alluring
when used for bait.
Mark the result.
Two of those gasoline-tempted fish
exploded in the frying pan, and broke
the kitchen window, and blew the
cook's face full of mashed potato, and
hurled the teakettle into the flour bar-
rel, and painted the kitchen ceiling
with stewed tomatoes.
Call it a lying world and let It go at
that.
Two-Thirds Supply Comes to U. S.
London.—America purchased $2,000,-
000 out of the $3,000,000 available gold
supply on the London market today
at a price half cent below the last
transaction. The rest of the gold
! went to India and the continent.
Cures of Skin Diphtheria.
London.—A series of remarkable
cures of diphtheria of the skin have
been effected by diphtheria antitoxin
at St. John's hospital. Skin diphtheria,
which is impetigenous eczema caused
by diphtheria bacillus, was until the
present treatment was perfected, one
of the most Intractable skin diseases
under antitoxin treatment.
come a winner, I did not stop, but
kept hustling and working and trying
to learn more all the time. I knew ;
that a fellow must work and improve '
steadily, must learn something new
or the batters will learn to hit what
i he has. So I kept at It, and managed .
1 to hold up ray end.
Giant Snails Ravage Ceylon.
Colombo.—Some of tho snails of a
variety known as achatina reulicata,
which are working such havoc at Kal-
utar, weigh one pound each.
Woman's Dream Ccmes True
*—
Saw Her Sister and Happy Family Re-
Union Follows After Separation
of Many Years.
Gloucester City, N. J.—Separated
for 47 years and reunited through the
agency of a realistic dream. Mrs. Louis
Corletto, of this city, and her Bister,
Mrs. Laura Collver, of Newark, N. J.,
hail a Joyous feast with a lot of glad
tears at the home of Harry Johnson,
son-lu-law of Mrs. Corletto.
The sisterB, both then married, part-
ed at Baltimore soon after tho death
of their father and drifted Into differ-
ent parts of tho country, and as the
years sped on and they heard nothing
of each other, they supposed that
death had ended all.
Recently, at her Newark home, Mrs.
Collver dreamed that her long-lost sis-
ter was alive and living in Gloucester.
At first she paid no attention to the
dream, having not the slightest Idea
how her mind came to be Impressed
with Gloucester, as she had never
heard of her sister having gone there.
The vision seemed to grip her, how-
ever, and finally she induced her hus-
band, a Civil war veteran, to write to
Postmaster Anderson of Gloucester
asking If Mrs. Corletto lived there.
The postmaster happened to know
her and her family, and he promptly
supplied the necessary Information.
The happy rounlon quickly followed
and tho aged sisters have been hard at
work ever since trying to tell each
other all that has happened to them
and their children in the years that
have Intervened since they parted.
CHURCH BOWS TO "SKEETERS"
New Jersey Rastor Compelled to Aban.
don Evening Service Until
Frost Comes.
South Orange, N. J.—The pastor of
the Hilton Methodist church. Rev. A.
Boylan Fitzgerald, has never taken
much to the idea of summer vacations.
He has been holding services regular-
ly both morning and evening and they
have been well attended. But for a
while the evening service will be re-
placed by the vesper service at about
four o'clock In the afternoon until
frost comes and drives away the mos-
quitoes.
For several weeks each Sunday
night the pests have kept the pastor
slapping at them while conducting the
service. He provided screens for the
doors and windows but the mosquito
of 1910 defies screens.
On Sunday it was announced from
the pulpit that hereafter until tho
mosquito season ends the congrega-
tion will steal a march on the borers
and get all the services out of the
way before he leaves his hauntB as
the shades of evening fall.
players bring good money
8lx Central League Teams Sell Talent
to Big Leagues for the Sum
of $25,000.
| Six Central league clubs will this
year realize about $20,000 to $25,000
from the sale of players to the higher !
class organizations. Of this amount j
South Bend has already received 1
$4,000 from Pittsburg for Shortstop |
McCarthy and Outfielder Carey and 1
expects to secure at least $3,500 more
through the sale or drafting of Wells, |
Welschonce, Kroy, Llndsey and Koeh-
ler. Next to South Bend, Dayton has
the most profitable aggregation, Man-
ager Knoll having disposed of aCtch-
er Martin to Pittsburg for $1,500 and
Shortstop Starke to Brooklyn for
$2,000. Knoll also expects to lose Nee
and Justus by draft.
Terre Haute has sold Pitchers Hen-
' nis and Alberts to the St. Louis Na-
1 tionals for $1,00.0 each, and secured
another thousand for Outfielder WheeK
er, who has joined Cincinnati. Pitts-
burg is expected to buy First Base-
qjan Sommerlot, or at least, draft him.
and an American association club will
probably take Third Baseman O'Don-
nell of the same club.
Evansville has sold Pitcher Coving-
ton to Detroit for $1,250, and will get
the draft price for Outfielder La June.
Fort Wayne expects to lose Pitchers
Robertson and Miller by draft and will
return First Baseman Gainor to De>
troit.
Try to Come Back.
Not long ago Lord Kinnaird, who 1
always actively interested in religiouo
work, paid a surprise visit to a mis-
Bion school in the east end of London
and told a class of boys the story of
Samson. Introducing his narrative,
his lordship added:
"He was strong, became weak, and
then regained his strength, enabling
him to destroy his enemies. Now,
boys, if I had an enemy, what would
you advise me to do?"
A little, boy, after meditating on the
secret of that great giant's strength,
! phot up his hand and exclaimed: "Get
a bottle of air restorer."
\
Baseball In Heaven.
"Baseball in heaven" was the sub-
ject of a sermon preached recently by
Rev. C. Julian Tuthill, pastor of the
Congregational church, Mattapolsett,
Mass. "Heaven is but an evolution of
this world,'' he said. "A Christian
may love a ball game and remain a
Christian. Why, then, is it not safe
to prophesy that the game will have
Its place in heaven?"
"NO FRILLS"
Just Sensible Food Cured Him.
Sometimes a good, healthy commer-
cial traveler suffers from poorly se-
lected food and Is lucky if he learns
that Grape-Nuts food will put him
right .
A Cincinnati traveler says: "About
a year ago my stomach got in a bad
way. I had a headache most of the
time and suffered misery. For several
months I ran down until I lost about
'<0 pounds in weight and finally had to
give up a good position and go home.
Any food that I might use seemed to
nauseate me.
"My wife, hardly knowing what to
do. one day brought home a package
of Grape-Nuts food and coaxed me to
try it. I told her it was no use but
finally to Lumor her I tried a little,
and they just struck my taste. It
! was the first food I had eaten in near-
' ly a year that did not cause any suffer^
ing.
"Well, to make a longstory short, I
j began to improve and stuck to Grape-
Nuts. I went up from 135 pounds in
December to 194 pounds the following
i October.
I "My brain Is clear, blood all
i right and appetite too much for any
j man's pocketbook. In fact, I am thor-
oughly made over, and owo It all to
Grape-Nuts. I talk so much about what
! Grape-Nuts will do that some of the
men on the road have nicknamed me
| 'Grape-Nuts,' but I Btand today ft
healthy, rosy-cheeked man—a pretty
good example of what tho right kind
of food will do.
"You can publish this If you want to.
It is a true statement without any
frills."
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellvllle," In pkgs. "There's a Reason."
Ever read the above letter? A new
•ne n|ipi'iir« from time to time. They
■re K^nulu* true, and full of hum a*
Intereat.
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