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VOLUME ELEVEN
FAIR VIEW MAJOR COUNTY OKLAHOMA NOVEMBER 18 1910
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Cheapest Farm Loans in Major County Money Ready When Papers are Signed Fairview State Bank
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FAIRVIEW FOR STORAGE
Farmers Taking Advantage of the Chance of
Having Their Corn Where Buyers Gan
See It Quickly Price Advances
The arrangements for the storing
of broom corn at Fairview which
were mentioned in this paper a
couple of weeks ago are proving
opt satisfactory and a good deal
of corn is coming in for storage
The first to come in was last
Wednesday and has been average
ing about six tons a day since
Most of those bringing in corn
have asked for bids from the local
buyers' but have received on an
average only about $50 to $60 on a
ton and not being easisfied with
the price have put the corn In
storage Last Wednesday Bert
Zimmerman offered Adam Ratzlaff
$110 for his crop of extra fine shed
cured corn He accepted the offer
and delivered the crop at Orienta
We have not heard of any other
offer as high as this Otherwise
the situation remains about the
same
A GOO ROAD IN ONE DAT
Coffeyville Kan Nov 13 — At
7 o’clock this tnomlng fully 1800
men with teams and road making
machinery started at work con
structing the modern wagon high-
way between this city and Inde-
pendence twenty miles away - If
calculations come true Montgomery
County’s initial good road will have
sprung Into existence by sunset to-
’night" ' ' ' -
When the Montgomery Cojunty
Good Roads Association was organ-
ized a little more than a month ago
by progressive land ' owners of the
county with the assistance of busi-
ness men of Coffeyville Independ-
ence and Cherry vale it was decided
that the first one of the county's
improved thoroughfares should be
built so as to connect the two
larger cities of the county Coffey-
ville and Independence Commit-
tees were appointed to solicit sub-
scriptions from land owners and
motor car owners and to secure
divisional superintendents who were
to look after the building of the
road in the various divisions
The idea was to construct the
highway in a day and it is to be
said to the credit of the county's
good road advocates that this big
undertaking has been accomplished
From the progress made up to 1:30
o’clock this afternoon it is safe to
say that before quitting time to
night the full twenty miles of good
road will have been completed
Of course all of the preliminary
work had been finished before the
start was made today Stone and
concrete culverts with clay pipe
drains had been installed and the
route of the county's first modern
road was thoroughly prepared for
the finishing touches being added
to it today
It is the plan of those interested
in the good roads movement in this
county to keep the good work up
until every main highway in the
county is improved The road that
is being built today will be dragged
throughout the winter months add
next spring itis 'to be givetf a
thorough oiling
W0HAR A 'GOOD C0TT0R thtX
Ardmore Okie Nov 12 — An-
other occupation has been found
for women At Fox in this county
there Is a woman cotton buyer
Miss Florine Davis who also man-
ages her brother's general store
She goes out on the streets and
competes with the men buyers of
the fleecy staple and is nowise
bested at the business Necessar-
ily of course she must know the
grades of cotton and at thfe her
local reputation is so great that any
farmer believing he has a particu-
larly hfine bale or believing that
tone other buyer has undergraded
him always goes to j her ' Miss
Davis says that this is an almost
ideal occupation for women con-
tending that the feminine mind is
more capable of making the fine
distinctions between grades of cot
ton staple
HIHISTEMAL ASS0CIATI0R
The Ministerial Association of
Fairview met in their regular ses-
sion at the Reformed Church Mon-
day at 10 a: m After their usual
businessthey passed the following
resolutions:
1st Resolved that we fully ap-
preciate the untiring efforts of our
business men who assisted so
splendidly in the campaign to pre-
serve our prohibition law in our
fair State
2nd - Resolved that we as an as-
sociation will stand by our County
officials for the enforcement of our
statute laws and will assist in
If You Have An Account With
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NATIONAL BANK
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When You Need Money
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It ia not necessary to put a friend’s generosity to
the test with a request for a loan nor is it necessary
to mortgage your home if you have MONEY IN
THE BANK Your bank book will be all the friend
you will need and one that will not fail you but
"‘ IkUy be depended upon
Our Cajtal Stock Is $25fiOQ
Henry A BowerJres W L Corwin Cashier
every possible way in the right
enforcement of the same
3rd We recommend the reor-
ganizing of our Law and Order
League for immediate action
' The next meeting will be in the
Methodist church in two weeks
which will be Monday November
28th A t this meeting Dr Wolfe
who will be assisting in the revival
at the Baptist Church will give an
address on present day Evangelism
To this meeting all of the officials
and members of all the churches
are invitid and urged to attend
Rev Taylor was appointed as the
editor of our Church paper for next
month The paper will be enlarged
and will bear the theme of evange-
lism We are going to ask that
since our paper is meeting with
good favor everywhere that our
good people begin to send in their
twenty-five cent pieces for an an-
nual subscription
George Korteling See
A UK10R TBAHKSG1V1NG SERVICE
There will be a Union Thanks-
giving Services held this year at
the Methodist Church on Thursday
November 24th at 10 a m and
will hold for one hour and that
will give everybody time to get to
their Thanksgiving dinner: Dr
Wolf the Baptist Evangelist will
preach the sermon and all the sing-
ers of all the churches are expected
to be present and assist in the sing-
ing There will be a special call for
practice for that day Let every-
body plan to be present at this
Thanksgiving service Let the busi-
ness men close their places of
business from 10 to 12 o'clock and
attend this service
FAIR ASSOCIATlOff MEETING
There will be a meeting of the
stock holders of the Major county
Fair Association Wednesday No-
vember 23 for the purpose of elect-
ing officers and making an
ment to pay off indebtedness
Joe Wilson Secretary
TIE TER CERT 0LE0KARGAR1RE TAX
Why did the Congress of the
United States enact the present
olemargarine law which provides
for an internal revenue tax of ten
cents per pound on artificially col-
ored ole unargarine? Was it to
permit the butter producers of the
country to exact a high price for
butter an his been claimed? To
make such a claim is a pretty se-
rious indictment of our federal law
making body Of course butter is
higher in price than it was ten
years ago but so are other neces-
sities of life The percentage of
oleomargarine now being put upon
the market bears a higher ratio to
the amount of butter consumed
than it did ten years ago This
coupled with the fact that less than
three per cent of the oleomargarine
sold is taxed at ten cents per pound
proves that the oleomargarine law
las absolutely nothing' to do with
the price of butter
Congress enacted this law to pre-
vent fraud in the sale of oleomar-
garine The law was never intend-
ed to prevent the honest sale of
oleomargarine or to enhance the
interests of the butter producers of
the country but rather to protect
the one against fraud in the pur-
chase of butter or oleomargarine
and the other against fraudulent
competition
Congress Intended to compel the
sale of oleomargarine in its natural
color (which is white or nearly so)
instead of in the natural color of
butter (which is yellow) Congress
at the same time reduced the for-
mer tax of two cents per pound on
oleomargorine to one-fourth of
cent per pound when the product is
not artificially colored to look like
butter '
Congreess used its taxing power
to prevent fraud in the sale of oleo-
morgarine because it had no other
effective means of accomplishing
that result When oleomargarine
is put upon the market in its natu
ral color thus making it impossible
o commit fraud the tax is one and
throe-fourths cents less per pound
than under any previous oleomar
garine law -The
butter producers of the
country arebenefltted by oleomar
garine legislation only in so far as
the integrity of the dairy industry
is sustained — a benefit which is
shared by every other citizen It
is a most important branch of ag-
riculture and it is quite as essen-
tial to prevent the destruction of
aa agricultural industry by" fraud
asit-is to prevent the destruction
of our banking industry or any of
the other industries in which every
good citizen is interested
The National Dairy Union
‘ FIRST COYOTE HUNT '
Theae will be a coyote hunt on
November 22nd 1910 The bound-
ary Jiues are as follows: Beginning
at the northwest corner of section
16 township 20 ' range 12 then
running 4 miles east then 4 miles
south on range line then 4 miles
west to the southwest corner of sec-
tion 33 then north to place of be-
ginning Start to be made at 11
o’clock No rifles allowed
Those inside the lines should go
to west and south lines to start
E T Crisp
ADVERTISING TALK
By Wm F Freeman
iDuke C Bowers Is a grocer down
in Memphis Tenn He operates
thirty-two retail grocery stores in
the town sells for cash only and
does not make any deliveries
His stores are not big but they
are conveniently located Each
store is run by one man who is
both manager and clerk It is said
that he pays to the manager of
each store $75 per month and at
the end of each year divides equ-
ally with his managers the net
profits of their respective stores
Over every store is this sign:
Bowers’ Temple of Economy” then
follows the number of the store
The population of Memphis would
indicate that there am abojit thirty-
two thousand families in the town
Mr Bowers therefore has a grocery
store for each one thousand fam-
ilies Who would think that it would
pay to have thirty-two stores in a
community where there were only
32000 families?
Yet it does pay and pays well
and the reason it pays well is that
Mr Bowers advertises in his home
newspapers He uses half-page and
full page advertisements to tell the
public what he has on sale in his
stores
‘ With reliable groceries and pro-
visions in each store— with steady
persistent newspaper advertising to
tell the people of Memphis that he
has reliable groceries and pro-
visions is it any wonder that Mr
Bowers is successful?
Is there not a lesson here for the
merchant in every community who
thinks that his store is too small
or too isolately located to advertise
profitably?
In big citites and in small cities
there are a number of reliable small
stores that do not advertise — why
nobody knows
Their business should be adver-
tised in the home newspaper
It can be done profitably provid-
ed the- advertising rims regularly
tells the truth and is backed up by
the right kind of merchandise
COLEHAR-LYDA
Last Tuesday evening at the
ME church parsonage Mr Vane
"Skeet” Coleman and Miss Clara
Lyda were very quietly married by
Rev Geo Green Earl Lyda and his
wife were witnesses and were
among the few who knew that ' the
expected event was to happen so
soon They left immediately for
the bride's home where a supper
was served to the newly wedded
pair and to the members of the
bride's family-
Mrs Coleman is a daughter of
Geo Lyda car foreman at the
shops and has made many friends
since coming here from Marcelaine
Missouri Mr Coleman came here
from Clinton his former home and
was employed here as a barber later
he became one of the proprietors of
the Coleman-Davis shop and is
one of the substantial business men
of the city They are light house-
keeping in rooms with Mrs E J
Carpenter south of the Christian
church where their wellwishing
friends and acquaintances will find
them ready to welcome all guests
Election IMIections
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LADIES no matter what side you were on you must
be in style No matter how much you spend on youi-
clothes no matter how much style you may put on in
other ways you are not dressed up-to-date unless you
have an up-to-date corset We have just received another
of those big shipments from the Jackson Corset Company
and have anything to suit the most fastidious ' Just a
fews tyles are pictured below:
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The front lace for those wishing
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supporters finest quality
Nut only do we have the best in corsets but we think that we cun fit
you out a little better in most any other line Come in and see
Bros & Company
A PLEASANT EVENT
At the J A Crossman home a
week ago last evening the spider
web social given by the Ladies' Aid
Society of the Baptist church was a
decided success White and blue
Strings of immeasurable length
were strung throug the rooms of the
house from the kitchen up the
stairway and into every nook and
corner After a musical program
of piano duets violin solos with
piano accompaniment vocal solos
etc a signal was given and the
contestants started unraveling the
web the gentlemen winding the
white and the ladies the colored
strings After much merriment
partners -were secured for supper
and sandwiches cake and pickles
were served on small paper plates
Strings were woven for fifty couples
and as the attendance was so much
more than expected corresponding
numbers were drawn and the re-
maining guests were coupled off
The house was thrown open to the
freedom of the guests and every
one had a good time
OPEN DAT AND NIGHT
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