Delaware County Chieftain (Jay, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 1923 Page: 4 of 8
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T HJE DELAWARE C O U N T Y rC H I E F T A I N -
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Delaware County Chieftain
By Chieftain Printing Company) Inc
SUY TWEEDIE Editor and Manoftr
AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER $100 PER YEAR
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JAY OKLAHOMA
Entered as second class matter
at Jay Oklahoma under the Act
DLE IDEA
s
OF A BUSY MAN
Cobwebs!
Especially those that inhabit
the inner recesses ot the brain
pan of the genus homo or the
two legged man with a four
footed mind
One looks in through the win
dows of the eyes or taps on the
door of the ear with the handle
end of a thought and having at
tained admittance finds general
housecleaning necessary
After an examination for prag
matism it is found that nothing
else is left except the half side of
armnharnessed thought minus
hamestring or ' crupper aud the
aforesaid cobwebs well saturated
with worm dust and a number of
ill shaped images of solid ivory
aged and yellow and cracked and
useless
The child mind looks out upon
the world from a clean pure
chamber made sweet by the
presence of angels
Except for the hereditary heir
looms the chamber is empty He
or she at once begins to assemble
the garnishments the furniture
the pictures the ornameuts the
knicknacks that shall form the
embellishments of this chamber-
both the good and the bad the
pleasant the beautiful as well as
the unholy and wicked
That moment starts the weav
ing of minute threads of decay
that finally spread desolation ov
er the haphazard wreck ot a gen
ius and obscures the light of
the windows and dulls the doors
of bearing and clogs the process
es of thinking until the chamber
contains only junk It is pitiful
to think upon in the shadow of
evening when the Sun goeth
down
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It is a strange thing that with
so much of beauty in the world
so much that is useful so much
that will benefit the mind of
man that he will of his own will
and sanction clutter the chamber
of his mind with so much that is
useless and positively harmful to
him that given the knowledge of
good and bad and the power of
selection of the things that shall
occupy his thought aud having
the gift of reason to choose of
the mental food of which he
shall parta'ke— that he should de
liberately desire the things which
wreck and destroy both body and
soul or mind
There is nothing nearer heav
en upon earth than the mind of a
little child nothing purer noth
ing more lovable
if anything should make the
man with a four footed mind
pause in his self-destructtion it
should be a look from the win
dows of a child’s mind
Here if no where else in the
world is purity and sweetness
if nothing else will shame the
stony heart the eyes and voice
of a little child should be to him
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May 23 1923 No 51
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June 13th 1021 at the post office
of March 8 1870 '
as a flower laden breeze in a
musty garret
To the mind of a normal per
son the pleasant laughter of a
little child is a melody of angel
voices
But soon the wicked little
thoughts begin to weave over
lovely pictures a screen ofbitter
ness and over the wonderful ta-
pestries a fading wormwood
sifts a rivulet of bate Soon the
phantoms take up their residence
in the darkened chamber and the
Spirit of good vanishes unless the
mihd itself shall sweep away the
cobwebs and drive out the gloom
and shall make of this chamber a
holy of holies a place where
angels may be entertained
Frost Damages
We do not think that any sec
lion of the Ozarks was damaged
as much as 50 per cent although
some individuals might have
been damaged that much
Sarcoxie Mo seems to be hurt
as little as any section Here
they mulch heavily with straw
which retards the blooms and off
ers some frost protection They
report only a tea percent dam-
age Pierce City and Mouett
and the smaller shipping points
in that section report a some
what heavier loss around 20 to
35 percent Anderson Mo was
not so great as some noints as
most of their berries are grown
on ridge land They are dam-
aged about 15 per cent
In the northern part of New-
ton county and in ihe southern
part of Jasper county the dam-
age was greater than in any oth
er sections Saplings eight and
tenfeet in height had their foli
age all killed to the top and ac-
res of sprouts were black from
the freeze Only a short distance
away grapes showed no damage
and sprouts were not killed At
a meeting in Joplin Monday the
berry growers reported a dam-
age of from 25 to 50 per cent -Benton
County Record
Grape-Juice Plant
To Buy Berries
Twenty thousaud crates of straw
berries will be used this season
by the Welch Grape Juice Co
at Springdale according to an
announcement
The company expects to be in
the market the middle of this
week
Iu addition to strawberries the
grape juice plant is expected to
use blackberries cherries and
other fruits Canning and pres
erving and putting up juices are
mentioned as divisions of the
plants activities
mask of merriment:
”1 underatond Out you are in-
clined t? bs facetious concerning
prohibitive’ remarked the Severe
stranger
"Maybe I have been’1 replied
Uncle Bill Bottlstop Buf it's nol
because I don’t take the subject seri-
ously I must have gone too far in
trying to disguise my real feelings
Berries
Local strawberry growers are
very busy at this time marketing
their products There is an in
creased acreage over last year
although production is still very
much in its beginnings There
are here and there secluded 'pla
ces where wild berries grow in
profusion and of excellent quali-
ty Efforts so far made toward
bqrry production prove that ibis
locality is suited to berry produc
tion It is possible that theques
tion of marketing the product
may be the thing that is holding
many persons back in planting
more considera ble acreage !n
berries But with the completion
of highways east and west and
north and south and the chances
that growers have to cooperate
in the way of marketing no one
who has the land should hesitate
to go in with his neighbors in
planting a commercial berry
Mr Womack in the Blackjack
neighborhood has a patch of 7
acres of strawberries which if
favorable weather conditions
prevail will yield up to 75 crattf
per day during the next weq&
Mr Baldwin Mr Pentecost and
others have considerable patches
and most of them are marketing j
at Southwest City When a plan
of co operative marketing can
be established the berry growers
may be assured of top prices J
A nice thing about straw ber-
ries is that they come- in earlv
as a money return form the soi
and followed by other early ber
ries cherries peaches summer
apples plums etc pieced out
with vegetables and other fall
crops and finally the Commef
cial apple and winter storage ot
the same makes a pretty constan
trickle of money into the pocket
of the “sfnall’r farmer' especially
if he plans his poultry layout for
winter egg prbduction
We may better interest real
dirt farmers in this county if we
show successful production even
in a limited way '
Why Man Loves His Dog-'
1 He doesn’t talk back to you
2 He thinks whatever you do
is all right!
3 You dont have to make com
pany of him
4 He eats what is set before
him and asks no questions: '
5 He will follow you to the end
of the earth
6 He seldom sulks when you
mistreat him
7 He tries to please you
8 You have no rival in his af
fections His love is all yours
9 He respects your moods
10 He never tells you his trou
bles
11 He never pries into your se
crets
12 ' He is polite aud thanks you
with a wag of his tail for every
kind word you see fit to give
him
13 He will fight for you
14- He misses you when you
are away
15 He rejoices when you re-
turn 16 He is faithful unto death
17 He does your bidding with
out knowing why
18 He is jealous of the attent-
ions you show other dogs
19 He trusts you with a faith
that is to the uttermost — —
Red Ranger Magazine
CHIEFTAIN $1
Per Year
i Waraant Call
f The following warrants are
now payable
1 General fund
All warrants up to and includ
ing 1508
Township No L "
AU warrants up to and inc 43
Township No 2
t All warrants up to and inc 92
Township No 3 N
All warrants up to and inc 95
Township No 4
All warrants up to and inc 51
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Township No 5'
All warrants up to and inc218
township No 6
Dated this first day of May 1923
W M Sanders
County Treasurer!
HOTEL PRICE
' Good Things to Eat
Llr s DAN PRICE Proprietress
East 8Ut 4$uart JayOkl
FOR WORK IN THE ORIENT
Endowment of Thro Million Del lord'
' Raised to- Advance Batter Bdu '
cation ef Eastern Women 1
’Word haa been received from New
York that the $2000000 needed to
secure $1000000 offered by John
D Rockefeller and John D Rocks?
feller Jr for seven women’s col-
leges in the Orient haseen raised
The Rockefeller gift Has baen paid
in and comes from tha Laura Spel-
man Rockefeller memorial fund In
order to give the women sufficient
time the Rockefellers extended the
time one month or thirteen months
in all' from the date of the offer
Practically all the $2000000 was
given by women and there were
thousands of giftsef simply $1
The new buildings planned to be
built with the total $3000000 are
Ginling oollege Nanking China
Yenching college Peking China
Women’s Christian college Madras
India Union Missionary Medical
School for Women Vellore India
Isabella Thobura college Lucknow
India' Woman’s Christian oollege
Tokyo Japan Ten mission boards
of different denominations are -in
charge of these different institutions
BROUGHT TO DUST BY MOUSE
Eastern Legend That Deals With the
Death of - the Oreateet of
‘ Jewish Kings
- There is an eastern legend that
deals with the death of King Solo-
mon which Lord Lytton clothed in
magnificent versa in hie "Chronicle
and Characters’ The king had
gone into the holy place to worship
and while he stood there In his
jeweled crown and in aU his golden
splendor of his royal robes the finger
of Azrael the Angel of Death sud-
denly' touched him and he died
where he was The corpse stood mo-
tionless in all its perishing mag-
nificence But the awe of the great
king kept all men even the chief
priests from drawing near or touch-
ing him while all the demons also
were kept afar by the graven spell
Then forth from the temple wall
crept a little brown mouse too in-
significant a creature to feel any rev-
erence It gnawed away the leather
at the bottom of the king’s ebony
staff upon which he was leaning
and lo suddenly the gorgeous figure
fell dowp upon his face and
slipped into ashes And out of the
dust they' picked a golden crown
BOOKS FOR CZECHOSLOVAKIA
According to figures given by the
'Czechoslovak Bibliografical institute
4600 new books were published
in the' course of the year 1900
in 1921 the number was some 4900
while during the last year 1926 had
been published up to the end of
June Of these 857 were philosophic
dramatic musical art and belle-
tristic works while scientific liter-
ature accounted for 1059 Com-
pared with pre-war times the flg-
tires for the last three years in-
dicate a considerable increase is
-literary activity in Czechoslovakia
due in part to the extenajen of ter-
ritory but mainly to the fact that
free library effort is now being en-
couraged instead of being repressed
as formerly
NEW 08E FOR MOUSE TRAPS
The mouse trap has a new gov-
ernment job Finding English spar-
rows which have been committing
serious depredations on the imma-
ture corn and mungo beans growing
in the experimental plats of the fed-
eral experiment station at Hono-
lulu Hawaii too wary to eat poi-
soned grain the mouse trap was
called into service In the com
plats the traps are wired to partly-
eaten ears For bait a soft kernel
is used When the bird attempts to
eat the innocent-looking bait the
trigger is released and the pilferer
caught by the head or neck Death
is instantaneous For the mungo
beans the traps are also baited with
soft corn and laid on the ground
sear the plants
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Tweedie, Guy A. Delaware County Chieftain (Jay, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 23, 1923, newspaper, May 23, 1923; Jay, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1779611/m1/4/: accessed May 5, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.