Coweta Times. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1915 Page: 4 of 8
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Coweta Times
cA Newspaper for All the People
THE VALUE OF FARM ADVISERS
"Faithful and Fearless in Defease of Right
MARK A LBFTWICH Editor
Subscription Price $1 per Year in Advance
Official Newspaper of the County and Town
Published Every Thursday
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Entered as second class matter Sept 11 1905 at the Post
office at C oweta Okla under the Act of Congress of March 1
1879
Anticipating Thanksgiving Italy has declared war
on Turkey — hut will there be enough to go ’round?
m
The price of crude oil has gone up several limes
during the past few weeks but freight rates on the
greasy product havs just begun to climb
If you would really know how important you
are to the life of your town take a vacation and when
you return vou’ll he surprised how few noted your
absence
The allies have issued their proclamation making
cotton and cotton products contrabands of war And
the United States is going to send them a note pro
testing That’s all
That old inter-urban business in Eastern Oklalui'
ma is being revived again Tulsa and Muskogee have
been connected with a trolly line on paper for the
past eight or ten years
Its hard to account for so large a deficit in the
postal department when so many stamps are spoiled
conveying stale dope to eountry newspapers from
every known kind of sponging agencies and literary
cranks
Late cotton news make it plain that while the
acreage is much less than in previous years and the
crop much smaller the price will be considerably
higher and growers receive more equitable compensa-
tion for their labor
We are not weather prophet enough to forecast
what you may expect in the generally “mild Septem-
ber” but if it holds as many surprises in store as did
July and August prepare for hot cold dry and damp
weather and you’ll be reasonably certain to hit it
Germany sold $100000000 worth of securities in
this eountry not long ago to get cash to keep up her
war game without interruption but is wildly protest-
ing now because the United States has accepted $100-
000000 from England to pay for war supplies Ger-
many’s consistency is amusing
W J Creekmore the king-pin liquid damnation
dispenser operating in Oklahoma who was sentenced
to a year and a day in the federal jail got out on an
appeal bond after spending only one day in the juil
This shows that you can’t reach the “higher ups” un-
der existing laws and pull them down to just punish-
ment for law violations
Hank robbing goes right along in Oklahoma just
as it did before the Starr gang ran up against it over at
Stroud The conviction of Starr and his confederates
seemingly cheeked the operations for a season but
the robbery of the hank at Prue Okla the other day
and the clean get-away of the thieves indicate a revival
of interest and renewed activity
Ex-President Taft is struggling to get in the lime-
light by criticising President Wilson’s Mexican policy
He says intervention in Mexico would not have been
necessary if the situation had been properly handled
at the start As the Mexican troubles commenced
while Taft was president his criticism is something of
a boomerang and punches himself for neglect of duty
All the scheming done by the en tente allies to
bring Bulgaria and other Balkan States into their fold
has failed Turkey has made concessions to Bulgaria
which by a new treaty signed July 22nd Bulgaria
must remain strictly neutral This it is claimed will
open the way for Germany to furnish the Turks war
munitions to further defend the Dardanelles which has
so long resisted the assaults of the allied forces
Galveston had no more than recovered her second
breath from the ravages of wind and water before the
the news was flashed over the wires that Newport Ar-
kansas was flooded and an 8 O 8 sounded for food
to prevent starvation of her people who were eonfind
in three of the larger buildings and completely sur-
rounded by raging floods It feels mighty fine to live
in good old Oklahoma and be safe happy and reason-
ably good but not obnoxiously good
Ten million dollars a day is the staggering esti-
mate of loss everv dav of the cropping season to the
American farmers not alone to them but to the entire
nation because of the planters’ lack of appreciation of
the efforts of demonstrators and advisers in their be-
half which was instituted by the government agricul-
tural department and taken up by various progressive
counties throughout the country
In some communities where farm demonstrators
have been employed and have saved large sums of
money to the individual growers and to the county as
a whole their value is under estimated and in some
localities petitions have been circulated and signed by
farmers who think “they know how to run their own
affairs and do not need any adviser any more than
lawyers and doctors and hankers” asking that they
be not re-employed
It never enters the minds of these overly wise ones
that the United States and different municipalities not
only maintain big corps of advisers for lawyers and
doctors but compels them at their own expense to
go to these advisers and stay there until they become
qualified before they oven begin to practice That the
state not only employs an adviser for the banker but
gives him authority to arrest the banker if he fails to
take his advice
The above is revised and adapted from an article
appearing in the last issue of the Popular Magazine on
this subject which concludes as follows: “The loss that
comes from the stupidity of ignorance would not mat-
ter so much if it fell only on the ignorant one himself
but farming is really a public business even of more
vital concern than the railroads and other public utili-
ties which we try so nuthoritively to regulate The
man who owns or lives on the land has a direct obli-
gation to his hundred million fellow countrymen — an
obligation to know as much as he can and blunder as
rarely as possible the same as has the doctor the
banker and the railroad”
CROW DISH FULL TO OVERFLOWING
The United States is in for a clean showdown
now and no mistake Two more Americans have been
murdered by German submarine warfare on passenger
easels If this last outrage doesn’t result in the sev-
erance of diplomatic relations with Germany it seems
that Uncle Sam’s dish of crow will have been filled to
overflowing
First Germany was told that those wantonly tak-
ing American lives would be held to a “strict aC'
countability”
Then the Gulflight was submarined and American
ives lost hut the “strict accountability” didn’t get
anywhere
Then the Lusitania was torpedoed by a German
submarine and over a thousand lives lost among them
over one hundred Americans Again the “strict ac-
countability” failed to work
Then Uncle Sam told Germany that any further
attacks upon neutral vessels and the murder of Ameri-
can citizens would he taken as “an unfriendly act”
But Germany has as indicated by evidence at
and ignored this warning also by the torpedoing the
White Star liner Arabic without warning and killing
two more Americans
Just what steps will he taken relative to this latest
outrage is as yet problematical but the situation as
viewed in Washington grows more ominous daily yet
the hope is indulged that Germany can and will make
itisfactory explanation of this unfortunate occurence
and season the crow until it becomes more palatable
for big hearted generous forbearing and peace-loving
Uncle Sam who would rather eat it than command
any part of his boys to go to their death
FACTS ABOUT 6UESTS
The Kaiser seems to have everything coming his
way — winning victories all along the line and murder-
ing Americans who get in his way regardless of what
Uncle Sam thinks or says about it Later: The tension
at Washington has been somewhat relieved by the
reception from Germany of assurances of sympathy and
regrets for the loss of the American lives by the sink-
ing of the Arabic Same kind of chaff Uncle Sam was
fed on after the torpedoing of the Lusitania but
sympathy and regrets restore no lives
Stewart W Knight in the August Smart Set tells
mie stubborn facts about guests which can not be re-
futed yet all of us love the delightful guests He says:
Guests are people whom we receive and try to make
omfortable because we know that we would feel un-
comfortable ourselves if we did not do every possible
thing for their comfort We also realize that we should
ve up our own comforts for their sakes thus making
ourselves uncomfortable even when we do make them
comfortable We likewise feel it our incumbent duty
to add to our own discomfiture by concealing the un-
comfortableness which is caused by those acts of abne-
ition from which we suffer in order to make them
comfortable We thus work ourselves into a supreme
state of discomfiture that our most strenuous and con-
scientious efforts are utterly unable to make our guests
anything but uncomfortable which as before stated
is the first feeling of discomfiture which we strive to
circumvent”
jtlAD A REMARKABLE ESCAPE
Army Aviator Pall a Mila and Than
ueoaadad In Controlling
Hlo Machine
The official “eyewitness" account
of lighting near Ypres Belgium
gives the following remarkable ac—
oount of an army aviator's escape:
from death:
“One of our airmen had a thrilling
experience He was alone in a single'
seated aeroplane in pursuit of a Ger-i
man machine While trying to re-!
load his machine gun he lost control
of the steering gear and the aero-
plane turned upside down The belt
around bis waist happened to be
looee and the jerk of the turn almost
threw him out of the machine but
he saved himself by clutching the
mar center strut the belt slippingl
down around his legs While he
kung head downward making dee-
perate efforts to disengage his legs
the aeroplane fell from a height of
8000 feet to about 3000 spinning
round and round like a falling leaf
“At last he managed to free his
legs and reach the control lever with!
his feet He then suoceeded in right-
ing the machine which turned slowly
over completely looping the loop
whereupon he slid back to his seat
This constitutes a record even in
service where hairbreadth escapes are
of daily occurrence”
CONTINUED TO HOLD FORT
Vandella Proved That 8he Wae Is- j
mu no Prom Dlopooooealon That
Had Boon Thro atoned
Qtoalily First!
This will be the guiding
slogan in the new man-
agement of the
Sity Meat Market
ND GROCERY
Careful attention will be given to all orders and
they will be filled in the best possible man-
ner We respectfully solicit a share
of your valued patronage
PHONE 67
PROMPT DELIVERY
City Meat Market C& Grocery
O L COLLINS Proprietor
For the thirty-seventh time Mrs
Willipus fixed her cook
“And mind Vandalia" she warned
her “this is the last time I shall dis-
charge you I’m tired of giving you
your walking papers and then dis-
covering that you have failed to
walk If I find you here tomorrow
morning I warn you I shall resort
to force I"
The next morning she was still
messing up the kitchen Mrs Willi-
pus lost no time That girl had to
be fired Summoning the town’s en-
tire force of firemen she led them to
the kitchen
“Now Vandalia” she said trium-
phantly “will you leave peaceably
or shall I be compelled to instruct
these men to fire you ?”
“Miss’ Willipus” replied Vanda-
lia firmly “Ah simply can’t be
fired”
“And why not pray?” inquired
Mrs Willipus
“ ’Cause” chuckled Vandalia
“’cause Ah’m a fireless cooker!”
And Mrs Willipus who had her
position as president of the Ladies’
Comedy club to maintain could do
nothing but swallow her mortifica-
tion and leave Vandalia in posses-
sion — Louisville Times
? T? ° V? V T Y T '
Are You Afraid 0 f Storms?
I can’t keep the storm from hitting your
house but can arrange so you can get
the money to build another if the storm
should hit it by insuring it in one of my
good companies Phone me at 22 or 142
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The Best Place to Get
Good Teams
Good Buggies
Prompt Service
Phone 35
Secretary Daniels believes in being prepared for
war to insure peace At Boston the other dav he ex-
pressed himself in this language: “I shall recommend
to congress the appropriation of a million dollars for
submarines and aeroplanes which I realize are the
most powerful weapons of warfare I also favor faster
and more powerful ships for the navy which in spite
of criticism is in fine shape There are fifty more Bhips
in commission and six thousand more enlisted men
than two years ago”
It isn’t going to be long before its time to market
cotton and com Better get together in your neigh-
borhood and make road improvements You know
they need improving so take the matter up with your
neighbor now Watchful waiting for somebody else
to make the initial move is useless
HIS ONLY COMMENT
“So you told your boss about rav-two-hour
public speech did you?”
said the suffragette
“I did” answered the meek and
lowly husband
“And what did he say ?” she quer- I
led
“He said” replied the mere man
“that he wished his wife would make
her two-hour speeches to the public
Instead of to him privately”
HIGH FINANCE
"Economy isn’t the road to
wealth” remarked the proverb
smasher
“But I thought the way to get
rich was to make dollars go farther’
remarked the dense person
“Then you are entitled to another
think” replied the party of the first
part “The secret of acquiring
wealth is to make them come faster”
ANOTHER CA8E OF WORRY
“A dollar doesn’t go as far as it
used to”
‘That’s probably true but I’ve no-
ticed that people are trying to travel
twice as far and twice as fast as they
used to also”
HI8 WORKS
“There goes one of our standard
authors”
“What books has he written f”
“None He makes flags”
MAKING TERMS
Lady — Wlit are you crying
little boy ?
Urchin — Duuno Wotcher got ?—
Woman’s Home Companion
THOUGHTLE8S COMPARISON
“Shall I play a little something on
the banjo my dear?”
“Please don’t The cook has been
rattling pans dreadfully today”
A FULL VIEW
have
Bix — I wonder why they
those big mirrors in saloons?
Dix — To enable a man to get a
full view of himself I suppose
IN LUCK
“Grabscoin gives his wife a new
motor car -very year or two”
“What becomes of the old cars?”
“They are passed on to poor rela-
tions Why second and third cous-
ins of Mrs Grubseoin own motor
cars now”
ADVICE TO THE POINT
“I don’t know that I like that re-
pair man” remarked ’Mr Chuggins
thoughtfully
“Doesn’t he do his work well ?”
"Oh yes It’s the style of his con-
versation I object to I asked him
what I could do to keep my car from
getting out of order so often and he
aid ‘Hire a regular chauffeur’ ”
THE DIVORCE COURT TO WIT
"Mrs Divorsay belongs to the
cream of society doesn’t she ?”
''Well she’s been through the sepa-
rator” — Boston Evening Telegrtun
TOO DANGEROUS
Professor — Aren’t you taking my
course next year?
Student — -Can’t possibly I walk
in ay deep
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Leftwich, Mark A. Coweta Times. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1915, newspaper, August 26, 1915; Coweta, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1744223/m1/4/?q=%22new-sou%22: accessed July 13, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.