The Afton American (Afton, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1913 Page: 6 of 8
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Coprrlrht 1909 by C E Elmmettnia Co -No
JUST RECEIVED 1
Our line of 1914 Wall Paper just the Paper you will
want — and the prices will suit you Also NEW RUGS
— nothing old or moth-eaten Come and see us when you
need Wall Paper or Rugs We also have a (i Tncf
few REFRIGERATORS to close out vll
Afton Furniture Company
W W PAINTER Prop and
TThe Afton American
THURSDAY AUGUST 28 1913
Published Weekly
(Wflce: The Gill Block on South
FlrBt Street
EUGENE P MARTIN
Ed and Prop
Xntered as second-class matter
September 28 1908 at the postoffice
Uj Afton Okla under the Act of
zaireh 3 1879-
JMCERTISING RATES FURNISHED
ON APPLICATION
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
18 'Sear strictly cash $100
AS Months 60
3! Months 30
Obpy for advertising must be in
"lundnj noon to insure publication
Ife the current issue
‘ Four issues constitute a month
wiere a month contains fire Issues
She extra issue will be charged for
AX news items Intended for pub-
Motion in the current issue must be
in ibis office Wednesday morning
Resolutions and card of thanks
ew-half advertising rates Churches
hedges and Societies where admls-
afm is charged at door or after one-
taid rates
iX legal publications must be
(sU for when proof of publication is
ftemished Positively no deviation
AJ advertising run and charged
Mr until ordered out
(No communication of any kind
vSl be published unless signed by
idw party sending it in The name
vsiat not be published but all articles
must be signed as an evidence of
sped faith on the part of the corre-
spsadent — EDITOR )
Alton will have a fair
‘Thaw” in Canada will likely be
fioaen hard again before it is over
1m Afton Is on the map — we’re
£0feg to have a big three-days’ agri-
cr&ural exhibit
9San to help make the Farmers’ In-
satiate Exhibit a success— and you'll
sgeatly profit by same
Jbiln Lind will return from Mexico
wldout success We could have told
TAhnto not be too hopeful when he
went— had be asked us
Again we feebly pipe "cut the
'reads” Feebly because nobody seems
aq give a "darn" about the weeds—
ami many things even a lot worse
! Want a Loan?
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I have the most liberal contract for
FARM LOANS
Can get your money without long
! delays If interested see
H R GILL Afom Okla
Loam Real Estate and Insurance
Afton Okla
H O BLAND
AHoraty-et-Lew
Practice Before
Ail the Courts
Probate Practice a Specialty
AFTON OKLAHOMA
Chanute and Iola Kas are rival
townB'at "daggers' points” Chanute
prayed for rain and Iola had a liberal
downpour while Chanute remained
dry You’ll have to draw your own
conclusions
Praise no man too liberally before
his face nor censure him too lavishly
behind his back— the one savors of
flattery the other of malice and both
are reprehensive The true way to
advance another's virtue is to follow
it and the best means to cry down an-
other's vice is to decline it — Ex
Those who have the most of hap-
piness think the least about it But
in thinking about and in doing their
duty happiness comes— because the
oeart and mind are occupied with
earnest thoughts that touch at a thou-
sand points' the beautiful and sublime
realities of the universe
Every man woman and child should
read the "Public Health Department”
published weekly in this paper which
is furnished by the state health de-
partment It Is full of timely sugges-
tions for the safeguarding of health
and it properly heeded would prevent
a great deal of sickness This depart-
ment alone is worth the price of The
Americon to its readers
A study in advertising: Cast your
eye arouncf upon the various firms In
business in Afton study the progress
made by those who advertise and
those who don’t Study for a moment
why you go to one store in preference
to another partly becauss you see by
advertisements that they have for sale
the thing you want to buy and partly
because you know that a progressive
I 1
Mgr
store sells its- old stuff and always
has hew goods ai a result 6f Adver-
tising and pushing 'the goods out In
due season vThink this over and If
you don’t say it’s the truth we’ll "eat
our-hat” The non-advertising mer-
chant should also certainly benefit by
the point of this moral
The Tulsa World one of the llvest
dailies in the southwest will issue a
big “Home and Progress" number next
Sunday This will consist of one hun-
dred pages boosting this section of
Oklahoma And will be the largest
newspaper ever tosued by a town the
size of Tulsa in the southwest It will
be a housewarming number to cele-
brate the World’s removal to its splen-
did new home in that city
Every week you are led to buy
articles because they have been ad-
vertised In this paper whether con-
scientiously or not you would
greatly help your own Interests and
the Interest of this paper as well as
of the merchants if you will occasion-
ally mention the fact that you saw the
article advertised in the paper Try
it and see if you do not experience a
personal benefit as a result
The best way to build up a city to
for each and every man in it not to
strive to rend it and tear it down
Whenever a man in the town Is doing
well do not try to tear him down All
the residents of the town are part-
ners not opponents In all likelihood
the more business done by your rival
the more you will do it Every gen-
tleman who treats his customers hon-
estly and fairly will get his share
and the more business that can be se-
cured by united effort the better it
will be for all When a town ceases
to grow it commences to die and the
more people try to off each other in
their business and good name the
more rapidly will utter ruin come to
all Stand together for the advance
ment of every citizen If a man
shows ability to prosper do not pull
him back with jealousy or weight
him down with cold indifference
A newspaper cannot long succeed
without the encouragement of the
public in both a moral and substan-
tial way The newspaper while it is
a private business just tbe same as a
store or shop it is supposedly set up
to supply a public need The Monitor
Is at Shattuck because we think Shat-
tuck need a newspaper— but it must
have the means of support if it exists
The attitude -of the Monitor toward
the public' has been to everlastingly
boost for Shattuck and to encourage
every enterprise that has come Into
our midst— not so with some of the
business Interests in this town We
have been publishing a paper in Shat-
tuck for almost nine years and there
are concerns in this city that have
never had a line of advertising in our
sheet Some have not even read the
paper— without they borrowed their
neighbor’s and then only to find out
what had been said in the columns
about them If you expect the news-
paper to boost for you you should
boost a little bit for it— Shattuck
Monitor
STRAIN TOO GREAT
Hundreds of Afton Readers Find
Dally Toil a Burden
The hustle and worry of business
men
The hard work and stooping of
workmen
The woman's household cares
Often weaken the kidneys
Backache headache dizziness
Kidney troubles urinary troubles—
frequently follow
An Afton citizen tells you what
to do
Mrs S F Davis North Main street
Afton Okla says: “For a long time
I suffered from a heavy dull ache
across the small of my back I was
tired and languid most of the time
and had headaches and dizzy spells
Doan's Kidney Pills procured at the
Afton Drug Co relieved me from the
first and continuing their ubo a short
time I was cured”
For sale by all dealers Price 60c
Foster-Milburn Co New York sole
agents for the United States
Remember the name — Doan's — and
take no other— Adv
A BIRTHDAY PARTY
Mr and Mrs R A Ervin enterta
ed about twenty-five little folks
their home in this city Monday aft
noon from 4:00 to 6:00 o'clock w
a birthday party in honor of th
little daughter Eveline it being 1
eighth birthday Games of all kit
were played on the lawn Seve
presents were given to Evell
After the games the little folks i
Joyed a 6 o’clock luncheon of lemi
ade and cake and watermelon
enjoyed themselves and doparted
their homes wishing Miss Evell
many more happy birthdays
COSTLY TREATMENT
“I was troubled with constipation
and indigestion and spent hundreds of
dollars for medicine and treatment”
writes C H Hines of Whitlow Ark
“I went to a St Louis hospital also
to a hospital in New Orleans but no
cure was effected On returning home
I began taking uhamberlaln’s Tablets
and worked right along I used them
for some time and am now all right”
Sold by all druggists— Adv
ST
UETHOD O A UAID
r
By TROY AkLMON
He Anally managed to get his cigar
to working satisfactorily and stretch-
ed himself comfortably on tbe graaa
She leaned back against the tree
trunk and watched a squirrel busy on
a neighboring branoh
Harrington noticed that she seemed
to have entirely forgotten bio presence
—he could not decide whether tbe sib
uatkm interested him or piqued hia
masculine vanity
- "When you have satisfactorily ex-
amined the trees the squirrel the wa-
ter falling over those stone and have
formed your opinion concerning the
entrancing horizon ” he said in a
slightly injured tone "wouldn't you
like to talk to me some?”
"None of these things are more in-
teresting to me Diogones than the
study of you I assure you" her lips
curled with a teasing smile and
there was a touch of fun in her eyes
"Sometimes I almost conclude that I
positively dislike you” he said ami-
ably taking long puffs at his cigar
"I never cared much toe women— but
In this case there is a stronger ele-
ment I believe It almost approaches
being dislike -She
wriggled her blond head into
a more comfortable pose against the
tree trunk and beamed upon him as
if he had said something truly grati-
fying "It's an achievement Diogones to
have inspired you with a strong feel-
ing of any description— I’m proud of
myself"
"You have such a confounded way
of pouncing upon a fellow's thoughts
and holding them up to ridicule— you
can analyze a man as easily as a chem-
ist can analyse a patent medicine
Didn’t you know Miss Burton that
women ought to make themselves
— er— attractive — it's uncanny fee
them to go in for psychology analysis
—er— vivisection’’
"Attractive? O Diogones — you are
awfully lacking in manners— I was
taking solid comfort and content in
the belief that the powers that be had
made me— attractive — and was amus-
ing myself with your so-called vivisec-
tion— merely as a side issue I St-J
my dear philosopher that you are no
fitted for tbe gentle ways of polite so-
ciety— if it didn't sound slangy I’d
say: ‘Back to your tub' It was a tub
that Diogones enjoyed so thoroughly
wasn't It?”
He was by degrees worklpg him-
self into an exceedingly bad temper
“Miss Burton did you know that
blond women had always enjoyed the
reputation of being fools — more or
least” he asked scathingly
"All of which leads to—” she in-
terrupted with elaborate Innocence
"The fact that it's time you de-
cided whether you are going to mar
ry that idiot Darrell or me we’ve both
been dangling around you the whole
summer"
"Your climaxes are strong” she
smiled admiringly "that Idiot Dar-
rell or — you — Don't you recognize a
certain similarity to Pope in the way
you construct your sentences?"
"It's Impossible to make a climax af-
ter Darrell” he snorted "it would be
an impossibility to find a bigger idiot
to name after him”
"Everything dear man depends up
on— the point of view” she pinned on
her hat and turned towards tbe path
leading to the hotel
That afternoon Harrington lay half
asleep his magazine over bis face In
the shade of tbe bushes that grew
back of the summer house
"Virginia— you are acting shameful-
ly" he heard Darrell's voice
Virginia evidently enjoyed the Idea
of acting shamefully — for he heard
a little ripple of merriment
“But you know Jack he really does
need some of the conceit taken out of
him — women have spoiled him so”
"I think you have tormented him
enough" Darrell insisted "and you
have carried on with me outrageously
I feel party to a fraud You can’t
keep It up much longer for when
Eleanor comes next week he will soon
find out that I've been engaged to your
stoter all along Why not put him out
of his misery? You know you like
him"
“Of course I do — and I'm going to
marry him— but he needs a little train-
ing first"
Darrell rose and started towards the
house “I’m going to finish my letter
to Eleanor’’ he said “I'll leave you
here to finish your book Shall I tell
Eleanor that wq'll make it a double
wedding in November?”
"I think he'll make an awfully hand-
some bridegroom” she said softly
Darrell laughed delightfully "First
time I ever saw you with a real attack
Virginia I don’t see to save my soul
how he's failed to find out that you
care But as for handsome bride-
grooms— Ml have you remember that
I'll be there myself” and he walked
down tbe path whistling
Harrington sat up let his magazine
fall unnoticed to the ground and
brushed his coat carefully
His gray eyes were twinkling as
be crept quietly into the summer
house
He caught the startled girl In his
arms “A man has a perfect right to
kiss the girl he's going to marry In
November— I'm so glad you acknowl-
edge that I'll look picturesque at the
wedding”
"'You wretch! You heard what I
said!” she gasped i
Harrington held her fast
"Just so— exactly so— and nothing
has ever added so much to my conoeiL
Virginia mine "
(Copyright by Daily Story Pub CoJ
MARY’S GOWNS
Mary had a little gown 1 t
A hobble says the rhyme
And everywhere that Jiary went
Took quite a lengthy time
’ — Kansas City Journal
Mary’s got another gown
’Twas split upon the side
’’'And now wherever Mary goes i
She lengthens out her stride
— Ft Smith Tlmes-Record
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' )
Mary’s gota another gown
She got It from a harem
And every time she steps outside
She gives them all a scarum
' —Sulphur Springs Record
Mary’s got another gown
As thin as “charity soup” - "
And everywhere that Mary goes’
The men all raise a whoop
' — Bentonvllle Sun
i f ' i
And Mary’s got another gown
Her skirt— It Is to laugh
For everywhere that Mary goes
You can always see a calf
' — Gravette- News Herald
And Mary will another gown
Some day put on and warum
It may outclass the barum skirt
For higher up sfie’U bearum
— Rogers Republican
Ah ratals Shut up! Lot Mary go
For she’s beyond redemption
Old Mother Eve would blush with
shame
Because she has no gumption
— Falrland Herald
And Mary’s got another gown
' “We should worry” you can bet—
It’s silly silly very silly ’
By day by night it’s “sll-hou-ette”
MONROE ITEMS
(Too late for laat week)
A nice rain fell here Sunday even-
ing J R Barber Went to 'Afton Tues-
day Mrs A W George visited with her
daughter Mrs Ethel McKnlght Tues-
day Little Leola Armstrong who ' has
been sick for several days to report-
ed better at this writing
J W Carman and wife spent a few
days in this vicinity last week
Mrs E V Allen went to Afton
Saturday She expected to be absent
about a week
H T Warder and wife were vis-
itors at tbe W R Barnett home Sun-
day ‘
' Mrs E V Allen has organized an
L T L Society for the young folks
and there are now twenty members
The officers are Effle Barber presi-
dent’ Bertha Mansfield vice presi-
dent Mabel Barnett secretary Beth-
el George treasurer
Bites of poisonous Insects that cause
the flesh to swell up must be treated
with a healing antteptlc that will
counteract the poison and heal the
wound BALLARD'S SNOW LINI-
MENT answers every requirement In
such cases Price 25c 50c and $100
per bottle Sold by the Afton Drug
Co— Adv
Travel to the
North and
West
When you pqrchase a ticket
reading ever the Frisco Lines
you are buying something more
than a railroad rids You are
providing for every want that
could be supplied in a first-class
hotel— electric light to read by
sloctrlo fans to keep you cool
Fred Harvey meals and ths best
equipment that money can buy
You will find coaches and chair
cars of all-steel construction
drawing-room sleepers and a
well-ballasted track laid with
heavy steel
Let me figure your trip for
you and attend to making your
tieoping-car reservation
R 8 HO MS HER A G T
We rc Headquarters for
POULTRY AND
FRESH EGGS!
Try Ss with your ‘next lot1- '
' Highest Cash Prices Paid
Afton -Transfer Co
‘ it
W M Painter Props
DRAYING OF ALL KINDS
We "Wrap and Crdta goods
ready ' for shipment or ' store
them for you
Prompt Careful Attention
Afton Okla
4 L W TROUTT M D
Physician and 8urgeon
1 Catarrh a Specialty J 4
O Office: Upatalro Painter Bldg
O Residence Phone 92 4
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0 Physician and 8urgeon
O Afton Okla O’
Office over Reed’s Dep’t Store 4
Phones — Office 18 Resldence54
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PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 4
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4 will be sold for charges In 30 4
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4 J T 8TICE AFTON OKLA 4
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4 la the place to get a good shave 4
4 or an up-to-date hair cut— also 4
4 the place to leave your laun- 4
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4 West 8lde Main 8treet 4
4 W E POL80N PROPRIETOR 4
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4 Chattel 8 per cent mon 4
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Martin, Eugene P. The Afton American (Afton, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 28, 1913, newspaper, August 28, 1913; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1715604/m1/6/: accessed July 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.