Rogers County Leader. And Rogers County News (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1912 Page: 2 of 6
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET
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A U('HIBALD BONDS
County J ud*fo
A. NICODKMUS
County Attorney
W. M. HAI.I,
SiiorliT
III BAM STEPHENS
Treanurer-
ROM Eli DKNNEY
County ('lurk
A. I). LANK
District < "lt*rk
C. T. McCLELLAN
of Dt'cds
D. J. MATHEWS
County Su|H<rint(>nilcnt
J. DOUOHERTV
County Asscsdor
A. E. BALL
Ktnt<' CominitU'Ptnun
('. It. HOLTZENDOBFF
County Surveyor
P. H. BOYD
County Wi'ijfhfi-
BUCK HUNDLKY
Justice of the IVuee (Claremore)
J. H. BBADEN
S. IL BOBINS
Conntuble (I'laivmore)-
VV. E. BBIMM
BUI) MCKENNEY
Commissioner (Third District)
JOHN DIKICKSON
In the recent primary the
north end of the county failed
to score in nominating a can
didate, regardless of the fact
that every man on the list was
a good man, the best that
Rogers county affords, there
are none better. The Re-
porter would like to have
seen some of them win, and
the people of this end of the
county did their best in vot-
ing for them for in every vot-
ing precinct in the north end
of the county the home candi-
dates with few exceptions re-
ceived a majority vote. Mil-
am, Smith, Hillhouse, Oliver,
Holtzendorff, Adair and even
Ezzard, former Chelsea man,
the home people remembered
liberally. Also Chelsea city
gave Massey 80 votes, and the
other voting precincts where
there was a candidate run-
ning for commissioner, their
home people carried the place
for them. The home candi-
dates are not sore because the
home people did not vote for
them, because they did, and if
people in other parts of the
county had voted the same as
Chelsea and vicinity did, most
all of the county officers for
the next two years would have
have been Chelsea men.
However, let it be said that
the people in this end of the
county are proud to have the
above mentioned men to live
in this part of the county and
think just as much of them as
they would have, had they
all been nominated. Not to
mention the fact that there is
a biped running loose in this
county whose spark of man-
hood has vanished and who
further belittles himself in
handing the Chelsea candi-
dates a package.—Reporter.
The Leader is in a very re-
ceptive mood for those of the
county candidates who have
mot called on us on business
£ nnected with unpaid ac-
counts with the office. In
plainer words, we need the
money.
The time was when the
spring girl always had her eye
on the fellow who had a good
driving horse, but the fellow
with an automobile holds over
the fellow with a horse so far
now that there is no compari-
son. A girl could tell her fellow
by the way he drove up to the
door, or by the sound of his
buggy, but now she simply
listens for the "honk" or sniffs
for the smell of gasoline.
There is one handicap yet as
to running an auto, it requires
both hands, but this may be
obviated later on. The tan-
dem bicycle was not a howling
success as a means of locomo-
tion to the young people al-
though it was touted to the
skies first, and there may be
brighter days yet for the old
sorrel and top buggy if the
girls of today and tomorrow
are anything like their moth-
ers of yesterday.
Speaking of the watermelon
season, the Ramona Herald
waxes eloquent as follows:
"Eating watermelon is an art
to be learned by experience.
As a desert it is not a success.
It falls too heavy on a dinner.
Like a pretty girl, it is best by
itself. The melon should be
cold. It should be ripe. Its
flesh should blush like a grad-
uate. Its heart should glow
like a sunkissed cloud at the
close of day, and its tempera-
ture should be as chilly as the
smile of a Boston belle. When
you get such a treasure do not
bother with other food. Open
it, bury your face in it and let
your appreciation run riot. "
Dr. Frank H. Loveland, a
prison expert of Topeka, Kan-
sas, states that while inspect-
ing the Missouri penitentiary
at Jefferson City last week he
saw not less than twenty men
hung up by their wrists, the
blood streaming down their
arms and their toes barely
touching the floor. Such
barbarism belongs to unen-
lightened countries and why
it is practiced in the great
state of Missouri is a mystery
to most people, who have al-
ways looked upon Missourians
as people of high intelligence
and kindheartedness.
CM UNO WARSHIPS
The editor of an exchange
has figured it out that the peo
pie of this country consume
every year 250 million dollars
worth of candy. He says that
this amount would build 100
warships.
Now we do not know where
the editor got this information
concerning the amount of
candy consumed. Our opin-
ion is that his figures are most
lv guesswork, but assuming
that they are correct and
granting that the 250 million
dollars would build 100 war-
ships, which it would not, if
they were the kind of warships
we are building now, we would
still say it is a lot better to
spend the money for candy
than warships.
Some kinds of candy no
doubt are damaging to the
human system, but good pure
candy is not. Pure candy is
pure sugar in the form of can-
dy and the human system de-
mands a lot of sugar. War-
ships are the most expensive
relics of barbarism and use-
less the building of them to-
gether with other military ex-
penditures is checked, the re-
sult is going to be national
bankruptcy for the leading
powers of the world.
Personally we do not spend
much money for candy. We
have no doubt that a good
many people spend more for
sweets of that kind than they
need to spend or than is good
for their health, but as be-
tween candy and warships
our vote is for candy.
The Voice has a way all its
own of figuring out election
returns. Where there were
more than two candidates
running for an office it totaled
the losers' votes and checked
them up against the winner.
This argument must per force
bear itself out, but had there
been only two men in the field,
who would those other votes
have gone to?
Two moves in Oklahoma
!hat are always happening and
mffver happen: The removal
of the capital back to Guthrie,
and the transfer of Frisco op-
erations from Sapulpa to the
city of Tulsa.
Congressman Davenport in
communication addressed to
this paper furnishes us with
official returns of the vote for
congressman from the third
district. Out of a total of
24,638 Davenport received
3,372, Huser 1,745, Sykes
,312, Thraves 3,503, Wil-
liams 2,706. Davenport's
majority over Thraves, near-
est opponent, 9,869; over all
four opponents 2,106.
The gas company at Dela-
ware has served the following
notice on its customers:
Since we now have no col-
lector all gas bills must be
paid at our office. Hours:
Between train north at 9:36
a. m. and train south at 6:15
m." Does this new ruling
carry with it the requirement
that the Missouri-Pacific
keep these two particular
trains on time ?
This week and next Clare-
more must be all smiles, for
remember the city is full of
good looking school marms,
who are attending the county
normal.
M. O. Swan wants to know
what's the matter with Amer-
ica. The only section we can
speak for is that part known
as the United States, which,
we cheerfully opine, is about
the alrightest country we ever
saw.
Here is a proposition to fig-
ure out to suit yourself: How
can Oklahoma ever hope to
irrigate from the Arkansas
river when that stream fails to
supply enough water for the
city of Tulsa?
Central Oklahoma is now
harvesting a big crop of El-
berta peaches. The market
is still fairly good, since the
heavy Arkansas production is
waning.
The man or woman who
works for a living has no par-
ticular fancy for passing out
the coin to moochers. This
is aimed broadside at all pan-
handlers.
When anything becomes so
rotten that something new
springs from it, lookout for a
fungus growth. Nature along
the same lines produces mush-
rooms.
Muskogee is going to dam-
it-Grand-river again.
STOCK SALE!
... I WILL SELL FOR ...
L J. LANGLEY ffltf ZONA FftV
at Mrs. Fry's place, one mile due north of Verdi-
gris, and seven miles soutHwest of Claremore on
Saturday, dept. 7, 1912
Beginning' at 9 o'clock a. m.f the following' list
of live stoch, implements, etc. to the highest
bidden
One black and white cow 12 years old
One red mooley cow and calf 5 years old
One brown cow 10 years old
One red and white line back cow and
calf 5 years old
One pale red cow and calf 3 years old
One mot face cow and calf 5 years old
One red white face heifer 2 years old
One roan male 3 years old
Five one and two year old steers
One red and white heifer yearling
One Jersey cow 2 years old, extra good
milch cow
One 3 year old milch cow, calf by side
Twenty-five head of Duroc hogs, alt
eligible to register
One McCormick binder, 6 foot cut, al-
most good as new
One sulky plow, 16 inch
One walking plow, One disc harrow
Two walking cultivators
Two disc cultivators
One John Deere disc corn planter
One end gate seeder
One two-horse hack, Banner brand
One two-horse farm wagon
Two sets of harness
One buggy, one old hack, one mower
and rake, godevil, plows, cultivator,
corn planter, wagon, etcetera
One iron bedstead
One folding couch snd mattress
One cupboard
One stand table, one wash stand
Two or three dozen chickens
One black mare mule 8 years old,
hands high,, weight 1000 pounds
One bay horse mule 3 years old, 16y*
hands high, weight 950 pounds
One black horse mule 3 years old, 15^
hands high; weight 850 pounds
One light bay horse mule 2 years old, 15,
hands high, weight 850 pounds
One bay horse mule 2 years old, 15^
hands high, weight 850 pounds
One dark bay mare mule 2 years old, 16
hands high, weight 900 pounds
One iron grey horse 4 years old. 16
hands high, weight 1050 pounds
One grey mare and mule colt 16J hands
high, weight 1200 pounds
One matched team of dapple greys 2
years old, i6£ hands high, % Percheron,
. weight 1150 each, sired by Perfection,
Recorded No. 44731
One grey 2 year old horse, 16 hands
high, J Percheron, wt. 1100 lbs., sired
by Perfection, Recorded No. 44731
One black 3 year old stallion 16J hands
high, wt. 1300 lbs., J Percheron, sired
by Perfection, Recorded No. 44731
One grey mare and colt, 15J hands high,
3 years old, a blood Percheron, sired
by Perfection, Recorded No. 44731
One bay horse 7 years oldt/ 16J hands
high, weight 1150; saddle horse and
fancy driver, city broke
Two yearling horse colts, J Percheron,
well matched
TERMS: Nine months time with bankable notes, bearing 10 per cent inter-
est. All sums under $10.00 cask. Five per cent discount for cash.
•••I
LUNCH SERVED AT BIG SPRING
•••
COL. REUBEN DYE, Auctioneer
E. G. BAYLESS, Clerk
LITTLE WILLIE'S VIEW WSIDE
THE BANKER'S
When ma spanked little
Willie it may have hurt her as
bad as it did Willie, but Willie
insisted that it wasn't in the
same place.
The banker says: When
we carry a customer along and
tide him over the rough places
and then he transfers his ac-
count to some other bank just
as soon as he gets on his feet,
it may hurt him as bad as it
does us—but not in the same
place. It jolts our faith in
human nature. We stand by
our friends and we like to
have them stand by us. It is
the confidence of our friends
that makes our bank strong
and substantial.
The cotton crop is the cen-
ter of attraction now and the
growers are praying for con-
tinued warm weather.
Which is the lesser evil, a
stone bruise on a ten-year-old
boy's heel or a heart affliction
to which a seventeen-year-old
swain is sometimes subjected?
The democrats and social-
ists alike accuse Roosevelt of
stealing planks from their
platforms, which they loudly
resent.
Vacant lot improvement is
not exactly in keeping with
the times just now.
The fellow who a few weeks
ago said that summer was
over has gone to the moun-
tains to cool off.
* Pertinent Paragraphs
The mud-slinging between the
city officials and Engineer Potter
seems to haVe found its; way into
the water mains, judging from the
color of the fluid that comes out of
the faucets.—Muskogee Phoenix.
We can at least admire the con-
fident claimers of this campaign,
The preachers are returning from
their summer vacations—the devil
didn't take any.—Vinita Chieftain.
Of course the Arkansas river is
navigable. If you do not believe it
look at it and see.—Tulsa World,
All over the country, from Ohio
to Texas, the rebublican party is
splitting up, one faction remaining
true to Taft, the other seceding to
Roosevelt, and both of them amuse
themselves by claiming victory in
advance over a united democratic
party.—Post-Dispatch.
All sorts of people, good and
bad drift into a growing young city.
Grafters and disappointed politi-
cians are always to be found among
the undesirable element and there
is no way perhaps to keep them out.
—Oklahoma City Times.
which runs by tens. Wilson men
are claiming now all but ten states.
The bull moosers claim ten to start
with and concede only ten to Wil-
son. Taft claims all but ten. Some
of these dreams will be more or less
ten-der-ly laid away on November.
5th.—Tulsa Democrat.
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Hester, Ben. Rogers County Leader. And Rogers County News (Claremore, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 23, 1912, newspaper, August 23, 1912; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc175856/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.