Coweta Times. (Coweta, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 6, 1916 Page: 4 of 8
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— OOG3E3C
COWETA TIMES
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cTVlARK A LEFTWICH Editor and Publiseer
A Newspaper lor All the People
Faithful and Fearless in Deiense of Right”
PUBLISHED EVERT THURSDAY
TJe Official Newspaper of Wagoner County
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Advertising Rates and Rules
Advertising rates lOo per running Inch single column runof paper First page 12He per Inch single column
per line each Insertion
Special rates for time contracts A
All advertisements continued until ordered out or given forstlpulated time
All accounts due the first of each month
Liocals Sc
1879
Entered as second class matter Sept U 1905 at the post-office at Coweta Okla under the Act of Congress of March 8
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT FEES
The price for political announcements to be run from the
the time the announcement Is given us foi publication until
close of the primary will be as follows:
For C on areas $2000
For State -nd Senatorial office 1500
For County office 1000
For County Commissioner 600
For Justice of the Peace Constable Etc 250
All political announcements will be Btrlotly Oath In Advance
F isltlvely no partiality will be shown In this rsspect
ANNOUNCEMENTS
rol BATB IlKATOl
We are authorized to announce the name of S L Johnson
for the nomination for State Senate in this the 32nd district
consisting of the counties cf Wagoner and Okmulgee subject
to action of lemocratio primary election in August 1916
FOR AEPI SBNTAT1VB
We are authorized to anuounce J C Hamilton of Stone Bluff
Township cutHluiate for the Legislature from Wagoner coun-
ty subject to the Deuiocrutic primary election
We are authorized to announce the oame of P A Fox as a w
candidate for the Legislature from Wagoner county subject to i x
the action of the Democratic primary election j 16AVP tiiem 1)18 W&tbll Jinil htTP S til© story of tli6 time
piece as told by the wife to the pawn broker:
BE PATRIOTIC BBT FIRST BE SENSIBLE
Every man should be patriotic and gladly answer
to his country’s call in times of stress and danger If
your country really needs you it is your duty to offer
your services But —
Xot until you have made ample provision against
want and suffering by those dependent upon you
Your first duty always — regardless of patriotic
thrills or anything else is to your home — your wife
and children who depend upon you for protection and
sustenance
At Kansas City last week the only provision a
militiaman could make for his wife and little babe be-
fore going with his regiment to the border was t6
Federal Himcp-airy or I
Railroad ‘Strike? -j
demand from the conductor engineer firemen and brtkemea
nv? on cJuntnr n additional burden in tramportation coit of
?1WUW000 a year the railroad propose that thi wage problem be settled by
reference to an impartial Federal tribunal
ee employe whose efficient aervice i acknowledged the railroad!
“v difference that could not be considered fairly and decided tuatly by such
a public body 1 ' '
j Railroads Urge Public Inquiry and Arbitration
The formal proposal of the railroads to the employes for the settlement of
the controversy is as follows:
“Our cwiforacM km dnuutntil that wa caaaat kifaailw aar Slffua m af anll
alter in conlroranj mual b pawed upaa by othr and diftiaumted inldia TkirtFon wa dm
l"EtolLbfo h Prt0iti0‘ t”ilwJ k dl'P-d Of by or fTSto JL tSfcEfZ
I Preferably br aubmiaaioa to th Intrwi r ii 7
1 iorormtioo
roa COBHTY ATTORNEY
We are authorized to announce C A Summers aa a candi-
date lor County Attorney ot Wagoner County Bubject to uction
of the Democratic paartv
We are authorized to aunounce the name of A C Hunt aa a
candidate for the office of County Attorney of Wagoner county
subject to the uc'ion of the Democratic primary
POa county treasurer
We are authorized to announce the name of Percy A White
as a candidate lor County Treasurer subject to the action of the
Democratic primary
“It is my husband’s watoli It is all he had to
give me when he went with his regiment Since
he left the baby has been sick and I must have
money to pay the doctor and buy some medicine”
We urge all men to be patriotic and loyal to their
country but first to be patriotic and loyal to their
We are authorized to announce the name of Howard D I x
WilliBon as a candidate lor County Treasurer subject to action I lOVel Ones WHO IttUSt suffer UntoM hardships if you
oi the Democratic primary I it i lf r
We are authorized to announce the nameof D W Higgins (Allow your lOV© Of country to blind you to your duty
as a candidate lor l ouuty A reasurer subject tothe Democrstic I aa vrnM yirrtna
primary election I 10 y°ur Ome
pur couNtY aur ERIN TEND ENT I By means be patriot icl)ut be sensible above
Wc- are authorized to announce the name of Chas Com-ljt ever bearing in mind thiit vmir rmramnunf j n
stock as a candidate tor County School huperintendent subject I 111 mum mai OUT paramount duty in
to action of the Democtatic primary ''
We are authorized to announce the name of Rose F Gaunt
as a candidate for ouoty school Superintendent subject to the
the action of tne Democratic primary
accumulated j
tioa ta conaider and protect
itctmo' to meet the added vpvrauon to earn your propou
r U1 Co?!! iTT Ckomn)erot C® esaaot under existing laws act in the premise
WT5SL5 Z “ y 10 “bl h &— — - — mi
S By Mbitratia la ucwdim with th prarUiou al th Ptderil law” (Th Mewlaad AaO
Leaders Refuse Offer and Take Strike Vote
vair iSiVM the trjn ece brotherhoods at the joint conference held in New
YorkJune 1-1S refused the offer of the railroada to submit the issue to arbitration
?IrVkTkew'-“d!he fm?1°ye!’ ?re now votin on the question whether
authority shall be given these leaders to declare a nation-wide strike
The Interstate Commerce Commission is proposed by the railroads as the
- r j yommcrce commission is proposed by the rail
public body to which this issue ought to be referred for these reasons:
i? hr wlfc intimat kumltda
f rnilrosd conditions kss ouch on unquestioned nosi
lion in the public confidence
s3
Th rat th railrad my eharn th public for
1 ltd by thi OarttB-
Out ol rrry drilr rMalvad b
troiporttia n bw lrpcly flxd
wcat board
th railroad (raw
pfoy u M aad th moaty to pay iitnwd w
enn oeme from no other source than tbs rates
by the pubHe
The Interstate Commerce Commission with its con
tfol over rates is la position to make n complete
investigation and render such decision as would pro
tect ths interests of the railroad employes A osrneiO
of the railroads aad tha public
THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
The election forecasters are beginning to study the
roa SHBRIFF
We are authorized tooutmunce the nameof Sid Wright ae a
candidate for the office of Sheriff of W agotier county subject to
action of the Democratic primury
We are authorized announce the nauie of Bob Wagner ae I vote of 1912 Oil which they will base their Dredictions
a candidate lor re-election to the office of Sheriff of Wagoner ’ J c ulcr preuictions
county Hubjectto actiooof the Democratic primary I concerning the 1916 result President Wilson ill 1912
roa o UNIT Aiiailoa received a total vote of 6293019 while the combined
B a'candldtlor'oVoty'oJueil tq uCn o‘r he votes of Taft and Roosevelt were 7604463 In four-
W°e fare au’ Wized'to Announce the name ot w B Miner ae teen States the Democratic candidate received a vote
?rcatincdfmafry e(ieiVtonA““e“‘or' “uljject to “ctloQ °‘ he Ueno' I greater than the combined votes of Republican and
We are authorized to announce the name of a Sidney I Progressive candidates the electoral votes of these
Huunon ua a cutiuiuate lor re-election to the office of County I 1 uiese
AaeMor subject tothe action jf the Democratic primary I States leaving him far short of success The contest is
roa county coMMUiioNr R-naiT dMTRioT I to be determined in those States where the Progressives
stomas "candidatfor r'e""? Srcomuoioni? I had large strength and by the drift of Progressive sen
lufm'ary election0 "oner -ountY ubject to the Democratic tiinent Taking 1912 figures as a basis President
Wilson needs to 'gain the following number of votes
FACTS WELL PRESENTED I from the ranks of the Progressives to carry these States
California 4088 out of 283610 Colorado 16469 out
Every newspaper man knows men and women in k 72i30H nlinoi8j 235043 out of 386478 Indiana
his town tyho do not like him and never lose an oppor- 81 384 out of 162i007 iowai 96 212 out of 161 819-
tunity to show it observes a Kansas writer Still this MiB80Urii ii446 OUt of 124731 Nebraska 17 897 out
same newspaper man goes on year after year being nice of 72fl89 New JewVt fl6 956 out of 145 41’0 New
to these people knowing full well it is kindness wast- york 255381 out of 390021 These and a’ few’ others
ed but the average newspaper man is endowed with not here named are the fiel(Js -n which tfae hard fi ht-
the instinct of decency to the least but it is lost on ing of the 1916 campaif?n ig to be done ftnd Qn the
such people This paper is no exception Ue have bagiB of the 1912 vote neither caddidate ha3 any de
never lost an opportunity to say something nice about cided advantage-Christian Advocate
a number of people who never lose an opportu-
nity to return it over the left and with interest added I xot being content with bis rejterated statement
Perhaps this is the right course for a newspaper to tbat “jt is a diSgraCe for a man to die rich” and sup-
pursue but we are beginning to doubt it It is always I portinK his contention with lavish expenditures and
the right thing to be kind with people who have the I liberal donations of money to various causes and in-
decency to appreciate it We do not know but what the I stitutions Andrew Carnegie now says: “It is fortunate
man who knocks his enemies on the head fares better to be bom poor” Andy mav be correct in his sur-
than the one who tries to be decent with them With b
some folks it is impossible to be decent they are not We d tB ad‘y take tle chance of disgrace
built that way and naturally resent it when a news-1 and ceenv re8ret mat we are so darned fortunate we
paper tries to treat them like they were at least men I can’t get a respectable look in on tin- disgrace
and women
irnaiv Ur I It rail road I
public arlr MM-hlf i dlracflp to th
A Question For the Public to Decide
‘iinn nvwvvalIO1 fcel hat Hey have no right to grant a wage preferment of
1100000000 a year to these employes now highly paid and constituting only
j of l emPloyet without a clear mandate from a public tribunal that
shall determine the merits of the esse after a review of all the facts
before tht country is whether this controversy is to ho settled h am
impartial Government inquiry or by industrial warfare
At last the British seem to have gotten
fighting clothes on straight
their
No Jeremiah non-announcing candidates are not
necessarily “slackers” They’re a sure thing or an un
safe gamble as they view it
Colonel Roosevelt let! a whole lot of dissatisfied
people from both the Republican and Democratic par-
ties but now that Herman influence has crushed his
party and forced him to play obscure part in the polit-
ical game and deliver them over to Hughes his work
will not be so easily accomplished
From the Phoenix we learn that Muskogee’s big
Free State Fair opens October 2nd The Phoenix is
the only Muskogee paper bringing us news of interest
relative to its progress and of news value here
n
Villa bandits annihiliated a force of Carranza’s
army near Jiminez Mexico last Monday The defacto
Mexicap government needs America’s help to restore
even a semblance of order but won’t accept it
TEN YEARS AGO
FROM THE TIMES JULY 6th 1906
ELISHA LEE Chmhmmm
f R ALBRIGHT Gam’l
Atlaaiic Csssi Lias RsilrsssT
L W BALDWIN Can't Mammgtr
Casts J al Gaorfis Rsilwsf
C L BARDO G—'f Manager
Naw Yisrk Naw Havas A If artlsfd
R H COAPMAN Viaa-Haoidnmia
Bosthsrs Railway
6 B COTTFR Can't ATsssm
Wab ah Railsrsy
F B CMC Wl rr loot — ‘ffti
Naw Ysrk Caatrsi Railway
National Conference Committee of the Rsdlwnys
O M BMBRION Om’lMmmmm
Grant Nsrthara Railway
a H SWING Can't Mamnnaa
Falladalpbia A Raadia Ratlwar
R W ORICB Can't Smit Tamnop
Cbaaapaaks A Ohio Railway
A fl GRB1G 4 tot ta Aoaaiaart
I Losia m 9aa Fraselaeo Aallrwi
a W KOUN9 Gan 7 Maaagar
Atehlaon Topaka A Santa ra RaUwssb
H W MaM ASTER GosAl kinnntar
Whaaiisf I Laka Brit lUuMi
N DMAHRR Plwi
Norfolk m Waaiars
JAMBS RUS9BLL Gan't Msoom
Dnvsrt Rio Granda Railroad
A M SGHOYBR Aaaidan rtafmoa
Faaaayhraaia Liana Waal
W L SBDDON Vtaa-Pr
Baahoard Air Lisa Railway
AJSTONB Vtaa-raaatdamh
Bria Railroad
O I WAID rua-praa 0 Can't Mm
aasat Casual Uzaa
Patronize Home
indusiryl
Buy bread that is made
in Coweta Keep Cowe-
ta money in Coweta
Fresh BteaJ Bolls and Cakes
Baked Daily
The city Bakery
PAINTED HER 1000TH CAT
Nw Jray Woman Finihed th Can-
va Just Before Losing
Her Sight
The cornfields and grainfields are smiling and so
I are their owners
Oliver O Sewell and Miss Alaska Williams were
united in marriage by Rev B E Chapman Sunday
afternoon
Sauce Childers one of the best Indian citizens of
of this neighborhood aged about 54 years died Sun-
day afternoon He leaves four sons
Well drillers working on the new oil well on the
Its a mighty poor war correspondent who can not
get up readable stuff for hiB paper these days Now
one or more of them have discovered that in the event
of Uncle Sam’s intervention in Mexico all Latin-
America will form a coalition which will romp all over
the tail of his coat while Germany and Japan over-1 Jerome farm ceaied operations Tuesday morning on
sees the trampling act and enjoy sundue hilarity account of the engine getting out of whack They had
reached a depth of about 1100 feet without any start-
Late press dispatches indicate that the tide of war I ling developments
has turned strongly against Germany and that the an- A deputy s Mttrsh from Wagoner 8melled
ticipated rive y e en en e a e a mmence ou( Bome whiskey at the depot Wednesday confiscated
and the French the British and the Italians are re-F
cording victories in every endeavor while the brilliant and then demolished its containers letting the pre-
’ Russian successes go on with unabated fury Looks bad cious fluid (?) run out in little rivulets and be soaked
for Germany but the Kaiser may have something up I up in the bosom of old mother earth ’Twas a sad
his sleeve which may change conditions before another I and pathetic scene it is said whioh knocked off great
week roll jotmd J chunks of our Fourth of July hilarity
Just as she had finished her thou-
landth painting of cats Mrs E M
Gardner has been stricken with
blindness in her home here Her
light held out just long enough for
her to realize the ambition of her
life
Mrs Gardner who has made her
bome here for many years is a na-
tive of Colchester Conn Asa Pack-
er founder of Lehigh university
was a relative She began painting
80 years ago in Philadelphia Ever
lince she has painted only cats — cats
of all types and degrees — aristocratic
Persians and plain backyards
One room in her modest little
home here ia filled with such pic-
tures She placed upon canvas Tix
in Angora who several years ago
was the pride of Green’s hotel Phil-
adelphia Tix wno was valued for
advertising purposes at $3000 was
reproduced in several different posi-
tions by Mrs Gardner — Pitman
(N J) Dispatch to New York
World
MATTER OF UIN1M
Shopper— Y ou may measure
other yard of that drew binding
please
dork — Beg pardon but I under
Hood you to aay four yard
Shopper— Yea that ia what I raid
but another yard will make the aele
a trifle more binding j
Published in the Coweta Times June
22nd 29th and July 6th 1916
In ths County Court of Wagoner County
Stkto of Oklahoma
In the Matter of the Guardlan-
silp of Clara M Williams and
Hubert A Williams Minors
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that pursuant to
an order of the C ouuty Court of Wagoner
C ounty Oklahoma dated the 9th day of
June 1916 the undersigned guardian of
Clara M Williams and Robert A Wil-
llVll"or‘4’"111 01 the Nth day of July
1910 sell the undivided two-thirds Inter-
° i?l(‘ aboe mi toed minors in and to
the following described real estate locat-
ed in the City of Wagoner Wagoner
county Oklahoma :
hot 3 of Block 440
Lot 5 of Block 107
Lot 0 of Block :7
Lots r3and 4 of Block H
Lots 1 2 7 and 8 of Block 150
Lots 1 2 and 3 in Block 91
Lots 12 and 4 in Block 73
Lota 1 and 6 in Block 114
Lot 6 in Block 252
Lot 3 in Block 635 and
All of Block 723 and
All of Block 724
Suid property will he sold foi cash upon
con Hr mat ion of hidhy the County Court
bid will be received or confoidered un
leas accompanied by certified check for
1 cent amount said property
will be sold at private sale and bids will
le received by the undersigned guar-
dian at the office of the Gorin Mercantile
Company or may be left with Jess W
atts in theCity of Wagoner Oklahoma
ativ time front the hour of h o’clock A
I to the settingof the sun oti said day
Bids niav be made on ullor any part or
Published in the Coweta Times
July 6 1910
In th County Court Sitting at Cowe-
ta in aod For Wagoner County
State ot Oklahoma
Edwofd ChUdem Tuckle I
Childers Bowman Child-J
ers Sauce Childers
W 8 Vernon deeds
No 157
Probate
parts of said prout
JAMES If K
erty
KNNEDY Guardian of
L lara M anti kobert A Williams
J kss w Wa r rs
Att’y for Guardian
Order For Hearing Petition to Ap-
prove Pull Blood Deed By
Creak Indiana
The petition of Edward Tackle Bow-
man and haiice Chlldera to approve deeds
fSfCjed V? heu on the 8th day and the
o( June wherein they convey to
S V ernon all their riaht title and In-
terest in and to lands described as foi-
lows to-wit:
The NE of Sec 30 Twp 17 N Rantre 10
J' e N 0r” 1 o f the NWV and the
amiVanr-" TWP- ‘7 North
of til
the !
16 "
ineboth tracts the North "fool the's'w’C
l Si eCn andV‘5 South of ‘he N W ot
Twp 17 North and Kange 15JSast
MheTwV in7f (i‘e °f i'e NE of Sec-
TP- 17 North and kange 15 EbbI:
Snd !? of the SEJ Section 25
I wp in North and Kange 15 Eaat lieinv
jl1 e ailotment of Mary I'liilders Sauce
Childers John Childers and 40 acres of
"ffotment for a contdderatiou
ol $I73UU coming on to be heard by this
i’urt' a?d 14 ePPcarinv to the -’ourt that
petition is regular iu form and Staten a
C“Se f?r hceclng and a hearing being
asked fur it is the order of the Court that
notices of the time aud place of such
hearing lie given ly publication in the
oweta 1 lines ol Coweta Oklahoma for
8 pr orto tle hearing of the same
aid Ijy posting notices thereof iri three
null if It uuua VY’ " “!'cc
Published In the Coweta Times June
22nd 29ih aod J ulv 0tli 1916
Order Cor Hearing Petition lo Sell
Rent Batata by Guardian
STATE OF OKLAHOMA
WAGONER COUNTY— sa
IN COUNTY COURT-
In the Matter of the Guardian-j
ship of Ueutrice Hrowua minor
A C Hunt Guardiati
Now on this I3t h day r
A C Hunt as guardian
of f une 1916 conies
an f the estate of
the above named word having Hied
herein petition for the sale of the real es-
tate of said ward for the reasons In said
petition stated
It is ordered that said petition he and
hereby is set for hearing at the office of
the County Judge In agoner Oklaho-
ma ou the 17th day of July A L) 1010 at
10 o’clock A M at which time the next
of kiu aud all persons interested in the
estate of snid ward are required to appear
and show cause if any they have why
an order should not be grunted for the
sale of so much of the real estate of said
ward ns is necessary -for the reasons in
said petition stated
1$ is further ordered tbat a copy of this
order be published for two successive
weeks in the Coweta Times of Coweta
Oklahoma and that copies of this order
be posted in three of the most public
places in Wagoner County Oklahoma
und by mailing copies thereof to the next
of kin of said ward and personally served
on all persons interested In the estate of
said ward residing in Wagoner County
as required bylaw
ItfKALj J C PINSON
Coianty Judge
Dated this 13tli day of June 1910
P L NBwTUN
Attorney for Guardian
public places m Wagoner County okl&f
noma us is requited by law
dJj UU&rSd"'iTfcn"ddfi
J c PINSON
County Judge
of Wagoner County
WfATTS & N 0 L ON If
Attorney! at Law
Praotice in all Courts
Wagoner
Oklahoma
Published h the Coweta Times June
15 Si £ and J uly H 13 30 27 1016
OALL FOB SPECIAL ELECTION
otMPh’omS 1 ecUonln Wagoner County
”“‘ah"ira- hereby called to he hod
and held on Tuesday the first da v it Am
a‘ wlchyelecthm alfhe nt
mitted the proposition to-wit:
tio'v' aVlk 'VViVp -
ABOLlSHEDA-iONKh: LOJ‘NTY
tS25ra!rl?sboy"th5":fsjLnl
irimary
Dated t‘ ' ‘ '
IsBAl)
fiVl? tills 5th day of June ll
Atteal?1 J n Ch
Attest Board of County Cora-
T a Parkinson
County Clerk
P L NEW T 0 A
Aitoruev and Counselor at Law
First National Rank Building
Coweta Oklahoma
Dit- w w walto1
Phvsieian and Kurgeou
First National Bank Building
Coweta Oklahoma
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