Lehigh Leader. (Lehigh, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 12, 1911 Page: 1 of 8
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“ VOL 20
LEHIGH OKLAHOMA THURSDAY OUT 12 1011
NO 47
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To visit and inspect our latest mer-
chandise which is pronounced a
success by the most discriminating
buyers both in quality and price
In every line in the house you will
J5 find everything for gentlemen and
'y ladies and girls to fit and suit
' everybody
Trade With
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Ouiynht 1910 Ljt-ilie titandard idv Oa
YOU will not be able to answer the
call of opportunity You are not ready
for the emergency Trueyou can not
get enormously rich by” saving but
you can get desperately poor by hot
doing so
START A BANK ACCOUNT
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Deposit with
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or borrow your money
from
“The Old Reliable”
The Lebigii National Bank
Wm Menton Pres x Ben Byers Vice-Pres '
Tom Mitcham Cas hier — W A Jones Asst Cashier
We are going to strive to give our customers better ser-
vice if possible thani we have ia the past We are going to
v make a close study of your needs and carry a line of fresh
i' groceries and nothing but the best will be offered our pat-
rons In Dry Goods Gents Furnishings Shoes Hats etc
we effer you exceptional bargains Come in and see us
Yoursifor good goods and fair dealings
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Joseph
Tobias
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Grilley
GOOD OFFICERS
WILL BE NEEDED
Next year all county officer!
are to be choien and already
much talk la indulged in ea to
who will be the man for this or
that office
There ere two offices which
are by far the moat important
that have been overlooked or
neglected by many aa to their
serious import that of atate sen
ator and county commissioner
two offices that should receive
first consideration
The senate is composed of 42
men and 23 men can actually
control an appropriation of mil
lions to run the state government
aa well aa important legislation
and we should have the ablest
men as well as men of the strict
est honesty and integrity in the
senate and when the Democrat
ic primary comes off next summer-let
us hope to select a sen
ator of this type In this dis-
trict we have two and the coun-
ties of Bryan ' Atoka' and Coal
comprise the district
Bryan and Atoka have hereto-
fore furnished them and Senator-Meminger
of Atoka holds
over Senator Hatchett of Bryan
retires and Coal county is en-
titled to the man and let the
Democrats of Coal county get on
their thinking cap and get out a
good man
As to county commissioners
They spend the people’s money
for the county and the councy
purse strings are open to them
It is the most importrnt body to
the people and let the party see
that only the best of men shall
serve them
The other county offices are
also important to the people and
great care should also be exer-
cised in chooing men to fill them
Teacher’s Examination
The next regular teacher’s
examination will he held at the
County Superintendent’s office
at Coalgate Oklahoma on Oct
26 and 27 All applicants must
be in County Superintendent’s
office not later than 7:45 o’clock
Thursday morning October 26
Examination fee $2
M H Caywood
County Superintendent
Card of Thanks'
We wish to publicly acknowl-
edge our gratitude to those who
so kindly assisted us in the last
sickness of our loved one George
E Wade Words can never ex-
press our thanks for their great
goodness May it be returned
to them an hundred fold
The Family
Tax Levy For 1911
The following tax levy for Le
high was approved by the coun-
ty excise board:
Contlnx-nt and supply fund 16 mill
Struct and bridgu 1
Liffhtlnr - 13 “
Water 13 "
Salary - - -16
Total for axponaa of city T atllla
Interest and inkiny fund - 18
Judgment - 46 “
School - 7 -
County I
Statu ' - I
Total levy to bo paid by tax payors of Lehigh
for 1911 levy 416 mills
Valuation of real astate aa paaaad by the statu
uqualtxntlon board 6241688
Valuation of personal property 6186469
Valuation of corporation proparty 82185
Total 6613340
A L Pennington attendee
I the big State fair at Oklahoma
City last week and reports hav-
ing seen many things of interest
one thing of special interest was
the photos of the big steer sup-
posed to be the largest in the
world He relates some inter-
esting stories concerning it
Ask him about it
The News fit Phillips
Mrs Marion Spinks has been
sick for the past ten days but is
improving now
The Williamson mine is not at
work this week hut we have
not learned the cause of iua-
pension We wonder if the lawe of Ok-
lahoma are such that a man can-
not employ school children to
pick cotton especially when
their mother’s are with them
while they are picking The
reason we ask the question ' is
that a number of children want
to pick for a few days and are
they not allowed that much
liberty
Master Charles Kidd left the
third of this month to attend the
short course of the A and M
college at Stillwater to be held
in connection with the State fair
at Oklahoma City He was one
of three who received the ap-
pointment from Coal county
Mrs Graham of Olney is visit-
ing her daughter Mrs Jeter of
this place
The school board of Phillips is
getting ready for the inspector
as they have had Mr Bay putting
the wattcr barrel in better shape
than it has been for some time
Monday morning between
eleven and 12 o’clock Mr Lee
Fautt’s house caught fire The
fire flarm was given and men
rushed to the burning house but
too late to save anything The
origin of the fire is not known
but it is supposed that it started
from a defective flue
Carroll Hunt is up again after
a week’s illness We are glad
to see you out again Mr Hunt
We wonder why Justice Wal-
decker made such a sad mistake
in the purchase of a bird We
learn that his wife sent him to
Coalgate last Thursday night to
purchase a parrot but the old
man being dim of eye sight made
a mistake and bought an owl or
at least it has the voice of one
Well I will give you some of
my history I was reared on a
arm in Georgia and ate raw
peanuts until I was twenty-one
I never knew that a chicken con-
sisted of any other than wings
and feet until I was eighteen
years old Never saw a steam
car locomotive until I was twenty-three
years old and have not
been able to find a beef with
other than fore quarters since
have been in Phillips
Simon Booster
Runaway Accident
Last Saturday Mr Emile Cou
lomb’s horse which he was driY
ing to his buggy became fright
ened at an automobile and ran
away throwing Mr Coulomb out
of the buggy from which he re-
ceived painful injuries which
have kept him confined to his
bed since
Burglars Work At Phillips
Theives entered the Company
store at Phillips last Thursday
night and stole about thirty-five
or forty pairs of shoes and abou
the same number of men’s suits
M G Rosales
The Tailor
Every suit purchased from me
will pres3 four times free o:
charge Cleaning and pressing
a specialty Fine altering
LET ME GLEAN AND RE-BLOC
YOUR HAT
I have removed from the Ma
son Hotel sample room to the
o'd barber shop stand first door
weit of Merchants Bank
STATE DEMOCRATIC
COMMITTEE MEETS
The State Democratic Com-
mittee met at the Lee Hucklna
hotel In Oklahoma City Saturday
Oct 7 and much bualnesa of im-
portance wm tranaacted
The ' ‘Oklahoman” Saturday
morning atated It waa reported
that Chairman Branson would
resign to run for congress and
ourtownaman and Coal county
committeeman Hon Boone Wil-
liams would succeed him but
this was not -the case although
Mr Williams served as chair-
man of the Reorganization
Committee and was appointed
permanent chairman of the Fi-
nance committee who will have
charge of the opening of head-
quarters and a new press bureau
This was the most important
business transacted at the meet-
ing although the extra session
of the legislature was discussed
he governor was sustained in
lis refusal to call an extra ses-
sion at the time he did but some
new conditions have arisen and
some are arising that make an
extra session necessary after the
new year and in all probability
session will be' called provided
it is limited to only a few days
and only a few subjects One
thing is certain no extended
session or new business or ex-
tended subjects will be permit-
ted and if a session is called it
will be of very short duration
and the expense reduced to a
minimum and only emergency
matters considered
It is said by those who attend-
ed to be the best and most en-
thusiastic meeting ever held and
more real good accomplished
Electric Gin Making Good
Mr Kaley proprietor of the
ehigh Electric Gin has en-
countered many obstacles in the
operation of his plant since start-
ing up owing to the lack of ex-
perienced help This condition
ias now been overcome he now
las the services of an experienc-
ed gin man who has the plant
running in first-class order He
lad a heavy run of cotton Wed-
nesday and the plant run all day
without a halt
THE ARCADE
The Arcade Theater has been
showing some fine pictures since
henew management has had it
n charge They show nothing
jut the very highest grade reels
nothing but strictly clean moral
and refined pictures The in-
structive and educational fea-
tures of the show are splendid
and are far above the ordinary
run of picture shows
LEHIGH AS A COTTON MARKET
Lehigh continues as the best
cotton market in the county she
is still paying the highest price
and buying lota of it Our buy-
ers are not making a big noise
about the business but they are
buying the cotton j’:st the same
The farmers are not paying much
attention to the big r oise being
made by some of our s:ster towns
about the “long” price they are
paying for cotton as they hark-
ened unto the call a few times
and were fooled now they are
marketing their cotton in Lehigh
for they have learned that our
buyers pay the full market price
and there’s nothing to be gained
by making long drives to other
markets but it is the part of
wisdom to stay with the home
market
Dr C C Gardner of Atoka
was in the city Monday
SYNDICATE MAKES
$15000000 OFFER
Huge Price Proposed For Sur-
face and Mineral of Seg-
regated Lands
Victor M Locke principal
chief of the Choctaw nation has
received from A E Perry of
Coalgate who represents an
eastern syndicate an offer of
$15000000 for the segregated
coal and asphalt lands of the
Chickasaw and Chqctaw nations
This includes both the minerals
and surface
A similar offer made while
Green McCurtain was chief of
the tribe was disapproved by
the secretary of the interior who
made it plain that he would favor
disposing of the land only in
small areas
Governor Locke will probably
turn the offer over to the legis-
lature now in session for action
and is expected to make some
recommendation regarding it
Oklahoman
High Class Show Coming
Managers Warrick & Mitcham
of the local play house take great
pleasure in announcing to the
people of Lehigh and vicinity
that they have succeeded in se-
curing Fred Raymond’s great
comedy success “The Missouri
Girl” for date of Oct 26 here
This is the same show exactly
that plays New York Chicago
and all the larger cities The
company carries two complete
sets of special scenery the
smaller of which will fit the lo-
cal stage very nicely thus in-
suring the complete production
the same as seen in the rpgular
city theaters As the manage-
ment here is under very heavy
expense in securing this excel-
lent attraction it is to be hoped
that local theater-goers will ap-
preciate their efforts to give
them first-class attractions by
packing the house on (he above
date
Tickets on sale at Adams &
Adams’ dryg store
Hauling Liqnor Overland Fails
Muskogee OklaOct 9— Out
on the prairie between Musko-
gee and Keefton deputy sheriffs
at midnight Sunday captured a
jootlegger with 432 quarts of
whisky which he was hauling
overland from Keefton to Mus-
kogee A short time ago the Muskogee
officers stationed a policeman ac
every freight depot in town
with instructions ( nrrr't any
baggage or transfer mn v no
attempted to take liquor out of
the railroad war1 1 -vivs This
effectually blocked the Ueiivery
of liquor and the railroads com-
menced to ship the lipuor back
after holding it a certain length
of time
The Muskogee fair is on this
week and the bootleggers were
at their wits end to evolve a
plan whereby they could get
liquor into town as there will
be a tremendious demand for it
during the fair at any price
asked
Henry Ward decided that he
could get his liquor overland
So he had thirty-six cases ship-
ped to Keefton a small station
ten mile3 out of Muskogee Sat-
urday night he decided to bring
it in The officers got a tip and
went out six miles to a point on
the Keefton road they knew
Ward would have to pass and
waited About midnight the
liquor-laden wagon showed up
Ward was arredted and with his
cargo of liquor brought into
Muskogee
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