Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 2, 1913 Page: 4 of 8
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Canadian Valley Record
By C. S. McDOWELp.
and as second class matter September 8.
mm*, at the post-office at Canton. Okla.. under the
Act ot Consraas of March 3. 1179.
Published ovary Thursday at the new town of
Canton. Blaine county. Okla.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YfcAR
New Year's Entertainment.
Canton has one organization
at least that is active. The
Ladies' Aid has had several
entertainments in the past three
months and all were good. The
one Tuesday night was pro-
nounced by many to be tlie best
yet produced in Canton. Admis-
sion was tree, and the program
revealed the fact that Canton
has excellent talent. MissNaylor
of Okeene assisted with several
recitations which were all met
with a hearty encore. Following
is the program as rendered:
Music 1 Orchestra
Prayer Pastor
Song - Congregation
Recitation Doris Myers
Recitation Ima Chronister
Solo Grace Hughes
Recitation Mary Armor
Recitation Marie Murrell
Reading Miss Naylor
Ribbon Drill by girls
Solo Mrs. E. E. Willis
Music Orchestra
Reading Miss Naylor
Music Orchestra
Advertised Letters
List of letters remaining un-
called-for at the Canton Post-
office Jan. 1st, 1913.
letters
Broner, Mildred
Gripe, Mr. John
Hall, Miss N. M. (2)
Harney, Mr. Frink
Jones, Melvin
* Justice, Miss Es'eller Z. (2)
Klingman Bros.
Price, W. J.
Remiatle, Mrs. Lorainne B.
Rouse, Mrs. Cloie
Said, Mr. Lester
Shaw, Mrs. Ella
Watan, Miss Blanch
Wautan, Miss Blanche
POST cards
Dennison, MN E.
DuBois, Mr. Russ
Hale, M. N.
Lakey, Mrs. Cora
Poarch, Mr. Ed.
Thornton, Mrs. E. F.
Walker, Mr. Glen
When calling for these letters
state that they were advertised.
P. B. Klopfenstine, P. M.
For years he had lived the lite of
the smart young man about town. H«
had done the tame thing In the usual
way, he had been neither very good
nor bad; In his own words. the favor-
ite words of British youth, he had al-
ways "tried to play the game."
It was because he felt It Incumbent
upon him to play the game that he
decided to tell the woman he was go-
ing to marry of a certain nswly closed
episode In his life. The consideration
that perhaps it would be as well for
her to hear the tale from him first-
hand, Instead of embroidered with lies
on a foundation of truth, as she might
hear It from some one else, may have
counted for something, too.
But the reason he gave himself as
he knotted his tie carefully before the
mirror on the fateful morning of con-
fession was that he "must play the
game."
"I hardly know how to tell you. J
dear," he began awkwardly, standing
i tall and perfectly groomed on the
hearthrug that afternoon. It's so diffi- |
cult to speak to women—pure worn- '
en, like you—about certain things, but j
the fact of the matter is, I've been an !
awful rotter, Evelyn, and I feel it's up j
to me to own it. You're not marrying I
a saint, you know."
The fair-haired woman in the big ,
big armchair looked up at him sweet- ■
ly out of innocent blue eyes: "Dear,
I do know," she said gently.
He moved uncomfortably. "But it's
JuBt what you don't know," he told |
her, "that I'm worrying about. I'm |
I not thinking Of cards and racing, and j
things like that. It's about women j
I want to speak to you. Especially j
one woman." He paused, and bit his
lip nervously.
"Ah!" said the woman softly, look-
ing down.
"She was a nice little thing," went
on the man. "Not quite a lady, you
know, but very pretty and all that.
. . Her father drank. She ran
away from home. Hadn't a friend in
the world when I picked her up. Only
the streets in front of her. A good
woman like you, Evelyn, can't realize
what the horror of that means. . . .
I took a flat for her."
"Ah!" said the woman softly, look-
ing down.
"I lived with her more or less for
three years,' 'went on the man, gather-
ing courage from her passiveness.
"She was very grateful for all I had
done for her; she was really quite a
nice little thing. But, of course, that's
all over and done with now. I set-
tled up Anally with her today. I shall
never see her again. There was no
reason for you ever to know, Evelyn,
only that I felt it wouldn't be quite
playing the game not to tell you."
"What has become of the girl?"
asked the woman, still softly and still
looking away.
The man shrugged his shoulders.
"Still in the flat, I presume," he said
carelessly. "The rent is paid up till
December." His voice became persua-
sive. He bent down so that his face
was very near the coils of fair hair
wound smoothly round her head.
"Don't let's talk about her any more,"
he urged. "It's all finished and done
with. Now, don't frown, but just kiss
me, and say you forgive me."
"You're a very naughty boy, Jack,"
said th© woman reprovingly, but she
let him wind her smooth white arms
round his neck, as he knelt beside her
on the floor. "Then if you promise
never, never to do it again, I'll forgive
you," she said prettily.
He caught her, flushed and smiling
to him fiercely. "My saint!" he breath-
ed upon her mouth.
CANTON PRODUCE CO.
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
Poultry, Butter, Eggs, Hides,
Flour and Feed
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR
Custer's Best and II. S. Flour
The Best Flour on the Market
Special Prices and Terms on Cream
Separators for the next 30 Days.
Canton, . . .
Oklahoma.
THE WOMAN AND THE CARROT *****
t>+*+ +<*
Playing the
Game
In a daintily furnished room of a lit-
tle flat in Queen's Club Gardens, a
woman lay dead upon the bed with an
empty phial in her hand. There were
traces of tears upon her wbite, cold
cheeks; her closed eyelids were swoll-
en. Her lover had failed her. There
nothing before her but the streets.
So she, too, had "played the game."
God will decide who played it best
Parable Taken From the Russian Folk
Lor* Points a Lesson Full
of Meaning.
This was the story my friend the
Arkansas rabbi told. It i* from the
folk lore of Russia:
A woman who had lain in torment
a thousand years lifted her face to-
ward heaven and cried to the Lord to
Bet her free, for she could endure it no
longer. And he looked down and said:
j "Can you remember one thing you
' did for a human being without rewarc
in your earth life?"
The woman groaned In bitter an-
guish, for she had lived in Belfish
ease; the neighbor had been nothing to
her. ,
"Was there not one? Think well!"
"Once—It was nothing—I gave to a
starving man a carrot, and he thanked
me."
"Bring, then, the carrot Where is
it'"
'It Is long since, Lord," she sobbed,
"and it is lost."
"Not so. Witness of the one un-
selfish deed of your life, it could not
perish. Go," said the Lord to an an-
gel, "find thtf carrel erffd bring it
here." ,
The angel brought/the carrot and
held It over the bottomless pit, letting
It down till it was within reach of the
woman. "Cling to it," he said. She
did as she was bidden and found her-
self rising out of her misery.
Now, when the other souls In tor-
ment saw her drawn upward, they
seized her hands, her waist, her feet,
her garments, and clung to them with
despairing cries, so that there rose
out of the pit an ever-lengthening
chain of writhing, wailing humanity
clinging to the frail root. Higher and
higher It rose till It was half-way to
heaven, and still its burden grew. The
woman looked down and fear and an-
ger seized her—fear that the carrot
would break and anger at her own
peril. She struggled and beat with
hands and feet upon those below her.
"Let go," she cried. "It is my car-
rot."
The words were hardly out of her
mouth before the carrot broke, and
she fell, with them all, back into tor-
ment, and the pit swallowed them up.
—From "As Told by the Rabbi," by
Jacob A. Riis in the Outlook.
STAR
LIVERY & FEED
STABLE
First Class accomodations. In fact everything that
goes to make a first-class livery establishment.
SAM MAYHALL, Prop. Canton, Okla
Flemings' Barber Shop
- - FOR A - -
SHAVE, SHAMPOO 21 HAIR CUT
While you wait, and all in the latest style.
SMITH'S DRAY LINE
W. A. SMITH, Prop.
Hauling to any part of the city. Absolute safety.
Prices reasonable, CANTON, OKLA.
j JI ####*###■* # J* jus* jtjtji.njt h
\ Canton Garage & Machine Shop \
* — # ;
Best Equipped
in the
The man was going to get married.
He had sown his wild oats, and now
he meant to settle down. Well off,
A Difference.
Author—Here's an article on "How
lie meant tu «jluo uunu. „
good looking, a first-rate sportsman, a to live on 12% cents a day.
favorite with men and women alike, Editor—Just what we want. Ill
the Fates spinning busily had smiled give you $5 for it
upon him at birth and had woven only Author—What? Why $5 won t buy
gold threads In the woof of his life. my dinner
m
PEERLESS ROOFING
IS BEST FOR EVERY BUILDING
ON YOUR PLACE
Housan, barns, put houocs and sheds—it makes no dif-
ference. Peerless is unexcelled for all of them.
Also it is without an equal as a siding. .1 unt try it on
that old barn which you have found isn't weatherproof.
Your stock will be far healthier.
Peerless is the brand that makes a roofing dollar stretch
over more square feet and 4ive more lasting satisfaction
than any roofing made.
Attk. for booklet describing Arcotile Ornamental Roofing.
Big Jo Lumber Co.
j ?LV, 103 SQ.FT.
AMERICAN
KERLESS
A Pessimist's View.
"We couldn't have a tea boycott
today like they had In 1776."
"Oh, some people would go in for
It"
"But others wouldn't. And the
wise guys would immediately get
busy delivering it in unlettered
wagons."
country.
WM. LEIHSING, PROP.
S North Record Office. C&ntOIi, OK1&. ^
Endless Chain.
'Wombat had five daughters. The
week after the last one married off the
first one got a divorce and came back
to him."
"Well, did he start in again?"
"Yes; he's on his third time around
now."
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Taking No Foolish Chance.
"No," she said, "I can't be your
wife. Why will you not be satisfied
to let ours be a case of platonic love?"
"Because I don't believe in getting
Into trouble It there's a chance to
keep out"
OUHCEMENT!
Notice is hereby given that the yard of the
Hill-Engstrom Lumber Company
Has been sold to
The A. H. Hill Lumber Company
ROOFING
t^A>ANTEED
American roofing cfi
" KAKIM Cir* K«
'AND ON END.
His Mistake.
"A scientist said not long ago that
music would make a cow give more
milk, but it won't work. I bought a
phonograph and tried it."
"The scientist did not say a phono-
graph, he aid music."
The Question.
"They say the hobble skirt must
go."
"Well, who Is going to take the
steps to make it go?"
The Hill-Engstrom Lbr. Co.
Desires to take this means
of thanking the many
patrons of the Company
for their loyal patronage
during the past, with the
assurance that this same
has been appreciated, and
we can, without any hesi-
tancy, recommend to you
our successors.
Yours very truly,
The Hill-Engstrom Lbr. Co.
The A. H. Hill Lbr. Co.
Comes before you solicit-
ing your patronage with
the assurance that they
will carry out the policies
of their predecessors by
carrying the best high-
grade merchandise, and
at fair prices, and solicit
your future business on
the principle of a Square
Deal to all.
We are at your service.
The A. H. Hill Lbr. Co.
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