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VOL XIII
CLAREMORE. CHEROKEE NATION. INDIAN TERRITORY, FRIDAY. JANUARY 4,19O0f *|
NU iM HER 2
Preparatory to remodeling our store and taking inventory we are going to have a Clearance Sale.
Bagirming Janu ivy 8, and lasting till Feb. 1st we make you some exceptionally low prices.
We offer our entire line of out fflasst and hand painted
China at cost. We have some beautiful pieces left, but
haven't the room to properly display them, and are going
to discontinue these lines. So ladles, now Is the time to
take advantage of these prices and III! up your sideboards.
Our entire line of RUBBER GOODS, sundries, toilet
artloles. ledgers, bill books, pocket books, <in fact every
thing except patent medicine at cost.
No goods charged at these prices.
STOCK FOOD -With every package we give you free
one ISo can of Hiking Powder.
Souvenir Spoons and Jewelry at cost.
Prescriptions put apat actual cost of medicines
Remember these prices are only good until Feb. 1st.
BOLINGS PHARMACY.
Quinine, 1 o/.. (Powers & Welghtinins) 35
Quinine, i oz. Powers & Welghtmans) ... .25
Quinine, t oz, (Powers & Weightinam) 15
Sulphur, per pound 05
Copperas, per pound 05
A Goad Start for the New Year.
According to a well arranged plan,
the local order of the Farmers' Union,
known as Claremore Local No. 1489,
which meets at Justice school house,
gave an entertain ant and free dinner
on Jtfeiday, New Year's day. Despite
/ine inclemency of the wenther the house
was filled to overflowing. After some
select music and an invocation service
the audience was very cordially welcom-
ed by a nice address from A. H. Butler.
After the rendition of some excellent
music by the choir, the seats were
cleared from one side of the house and
a table the full length of the building
was arranged and loaded till it groaned
beneath the weight of allv the good
things known to the culinary art. Af-
ter all had eaten to their satisfaction,
and a pleasant hour had been spent
around tha board, the tuble was cleared
away and truly there were "twelve
baskets' full" left. If the day had
been favorable the cr0w)jl might have
been more in proportAut.^o the dinner.
The seats were re-arranged and the
house was again called to order by the
president. The program of exercises
was resumed, which consisted of nice
music and several excellent addresses.
The first address was by E. H. Vincent
on the subject of "How to Keep the
Boyp at Home," which follows in full.
The next was avery instructive address
by M. L. Co :er, onthoubject of "Co-
Operation," which was followed by
select reading by Miss Etta Fowler, on
"Agriculture as it Should Be." Good
talks were made by H. Z. Fowler, Jas.
Robinson, A. H. Butler and others, all
interspersed with good music. Thus a
new year was ushered in, thus a day
was spent, and all who missed it missed
a treat.
MR. VINCENT'S ADDRESS.
Mr. President, Fellow Members of the
Union, Ladies and Gentlemen;—
When the committee on program ap-
pointed be "on the Subject of making
you a talk here today I was very loth
to agree to do so, and not until they
agreed that I should submit my remarks
in the form of a paper did I consent to
do so. If, in the context of may paper,
you,, or any of you, think that I have
digressed from my subject as relates to
the interests of our organization 1 hope
you will bear with me.
In the preparation of my paper the
sole object in my mind was, in my feeble
way, to promulgate the principle advo-
cated by the second word in the title of
our order. And when the list of ques-
tions contained in the ritual, for discus-
aion on each occasion as this, was laid
before me that I might select one us a
basis for my remarks here today, I
selected this one: "How to Keep the
Boys at Home;" not because I felt my-
self able to do it justice, but because
this is a question which is, or should be,
of vital importance to every parent in
all this broad land.
According to my acceptation of this
question, in its general application, the
answer to it can be summoned up in
these words: If you would keep the
boys at home, make home more enjoy-
able, make, it a paradise of pleasantness.
Then there will be no premature deser-
tions of home. The boys will only go
away amidst the blessings of their par-
ents to organize new paradises of pleas-
antness and set up new homes of their
own. Then, if that be true, my subject
naturally resolves itself into the ques-
tion of, how to make home more pleas-
ant. Speaking in general of the rural
homes of this country, there are many
things which can be done to make them
more pleasant. Home is not merely
foursquare walls inclosing an apartment
where we may eat and sleep, like the
four walls which inclose the pig stye,
neither is the guilded palace with its
fine tapestry and its frescoed walls, with
all its modern conveniences for comfort,
and its means of iuxurions pleasure
always home. But home is a com-
bination of all that is noble, grand,
good and inspiring. Home is one of
the blissful pleasures that our fore-
parents enjoyed in the lost paradise,
which we have the pleasure of enjoying
since the fall of man. Home is the one
sacred institution which has survived
the fall. Those of us which have en-
joyed the pleasures of a happy home
have become acquainted with the sweet-
est pleasures of life. Truly with the
poet can we say:
"That hallowed spot is ne'er forgot,
No matter where we roam:
The fondest memories of the heart
Still cluster 'round the home."
As my subject today deals exclusively
with the boys, yet, however, I want
to say this to the' gfrls: If, in my re-
marks, the boys occupy a most con-
i.pka<ros place, -I trust yost 'will" tot"
become offended. But let me assure
you that what I may say will in a gen-
eral way apply to you all alike. We are
not supposed to discuss ways and means
by which to keep the gjrls at home.
An intelligent obedient girl will scarce-
ly think of deserting home until she is
persuaded into that notion by some
male partner whose mind was the first
to conceive the idea. But such deser-
tions as this we are not here to discuss.
Remember that the boy is the most
valuable asset on the farm. I have
seen parents who paid more attention
to the welfare, growth and development
of some choice pig or calf or colt than
they did to their own boy. Is it any
wonder that boys sicken of such homes
and set out to find a more congenial
place? It is little wonder that the boy
forsakes the place where the pigs,
calves and colts are considered of
primary importance and are cared for
and nurtured and raised and he is looked
upon as a creature of secondary impor-
tance and allowed to grow up unnoticed,
uncared for and untrained. The boy is
naturally a progressive creature and
should not be brought up under hamper-
ed circumstances. As he is a creature
of development and Bhould be aided in
every way to make as rapid strides as
possible both mentally and morally as
well as physically.
Mark Hopkins said: "No man knows
what is buttoned up under his own
jacket." And I say to you that neither
can any man comprehend the possibili-
ties that arc enrappod in the small boy.
If all the possibilities that are enrapped
up in the boy of average intelligence
and normal body could be unfolded be-
fore you, you would stand awe-stricken
and amazed. Then let me, in the first
place, plead with you to pay more heed
to the development of these possibilities,
and I assure you, as a consequenco,
that the future generations will witness
a stronger church and state, and a more
general prosperity thoughout the land.
But let me get back to my subject of
making home happy. The first and
greatest lesson to learn in the happy art
of making home happy is to learn to be
contented with the common every day
things of life. If you depend upon
costly and far-fetched things to orna-
ment and beautify and happify your
homes you will only be disappointed in
your expectations and cover up pleasure
with a multitude of wants. If you
would make your home happy you must
pay more attention to the preparation
of the meals in the kitchen and less
attention to the parade in the parlor,
pay less attention to the display of art
and more to the comfort of the home,
have less regard for what the outside
world may say about you and more
eoi.c?rnaty>ut what you say in the fami-
fy circle, have less anxiety about mak-
ing a display of mere politeness to com-
pany and more of cheerfulness and
kindness to eaeh other.
It is one of the principal duties that
parents owe to their boys and one t>f the
most conducive agencies toward making
home happy to furnish amusements for
the home. I have not much faith in
that religious creed which demonstrates
a domineering spirit over the boy and
tries to eliminate every characteristic
of fun and merriment from his nature.
I am thankful that the old Puritanic
idea is not as prevalent now as it once
was, that the boy is fit only to be seen
and not heard in the home, and in many
instances not fit to be seen. But, alas!
it is too much in evidence yet in many
of the homes of our country. I have
seen boys who were made such objects
of ridicule and scolding because of chat
almost insuppressible and uncontrollable
characteristic of fun and merriment in
their very make-up that they seemed
to have loBt all the noble elements of
nature, and that bright, happy, boyish
expression had departed from their
faces and they were objects of pity
rather than admiration. Can we won-
der at such boys seeking more pleasant
places?
Remember that the boy is a boy, and
do not try to make a man of him pre-
maturely, but let nature have her way
and assist her in every ivenue possible,
and the work will be slowly but nicely
and surely done, and a proud and noble
structure will rise up to bless the work
of your hands. A practice which, when
indulged in, in the training of the boy,
is as productive of evil results as, if not
more so, than any other is the practice
of trying to make of the boy a subjec-
tive thinker. Any such unfitting duty
imposed upon him breads monarchy and
melcancholy, likewise begets insanity
and insanity is productive of suicide.
Do not try to make a man of the boy,
but make what it far nobler, make a
boy of him. Mix and mingle with your
boys in their sport and amusement.
Go back and be a boy with them again
and come up with them. You can be a
boy and they cannot be men till nature
has run her course. Do not stand upon
the crest of the hill and beckon to them
to come up, but go down and lead the
way up for them. If you would make
home a pleasant and abiding place for
the boys, provide for them their own
good papers and books to read. But be-
ware of the trashy and base literature.
Let the boys have thrir time to read,
and what is better read with them
around the fireside, and what is still
better have them read for you and the
other members of the family.
One of the most ennobling and grati-
fying arausemehts of is music.
It is not only an amusement, but is an
invaluable and an indispensible adjunct
towards happifying the home. Music
is said to be the life, the language of
the soul and no home is complete with-
out it. But says one, I am not able to
afford music in my home, or there is no
musician in my home. But let me tell
you, a kind word spoken at the right
time is sweeter music than was ever
warbled from the throat of a Jenny
Lind or a Patti, or was wrested from
the key board of an instrument by a
Rubenstein, and kind words are within
the reach of every one. There
few homes that are not able to afford a
musical instrument of some kind, and
most of them can afford a good one,
and there are still fewer homes where
there would not be a musician, had the
opportunity been presented in their
youth for that talent to awaken and
develop.
FINANCIAL CONDITION OF THE
IBANK Of CLAREMORE
CLAREMORE, I. T.,
At the close of the year 1900, (DBcember 31,1906.)
RESOURCES:
1
Loans and discounts. ... $161,703.82
Furniture, fixtures, building 9,424.00
Overdrafts - 5,487.97
Cash and sight exchange 55,340.37
Total resources $231,950.16
LIABILITIES:
Capital stock $ 60,000.00
Due other banks ... 10,000.00
Surplus and undivided profits 16.736.53
Deposits 166,219.63
Total liabilities $231,956.16
Indian Territory, Northern District
I, G. D. Davis, cashier of the above named bank, do hereby swear that the above statement
is correct to the best of my knowledge. G. D. DAVIS, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this the 3rd day of January, 1907.
(Seal) W. J. DODSON, Notary Public
My commission expires January 11th, 1909.
We wish to thank our patrona for this nice showing for the year just closed, and aak you with all new customers to make the coming year the
largest year of any yet in Claremore. Wishing all a Prosperous, Happy New Year.
J. M. BAYLESS
E. S. BESSEY
STOCKHOLDERS AND DIRECTORS :
F. A. NEILSON
F. J. DAVIS
W. F. HAYS
W. W. BRYAN
When friends are engaged In the
production of music there is an In-
visible, Indescrlble, but highly
emotional something which draws
them closer and closer together until
friendship gives way to love; and
when we who have bccome estranged,
and between whom the ties of friend-
ship have been severed are thus en-
gaged or are under the magic spell of
m usic we feel forces which have braced
us apart begin to weaken and pretty
soon the better spirit with the al-
mighty stroke of the brush obliter-
ates the old lines of separation and
our hearts go out and claim
them as friends. Oh can any of us
be so blind and thoughtless and sel-
tllsh as to try to suppress that heaven
born musical talent, the out-cropping
of which we may plainly see in boys!
History presents to us many examples
of grand and noble souls whose ears
were deaf to the pleadings of the
harp, but yet the fact remains un-
contradicted that music is the lan-
guage of the highest souls. "Eloquence
holds a wand for the souls lofty moods
and yet there is an altitude in whose
rarefied atmosphere the soul is dumb
and in the frenzy of despair seizes
the harp and the viol. From these
spiritual beautitudeson wlioseliuslied
summits the veil is rolled back, there
comes no message save in worldless
strains of syren song."
There is something of philosophy In
the oft quoted words of Shakespeare.
"The man that hath no music in
himself nor is moved by concord of
sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, strat-
egems and spoils."
The education of our boys is anoth-
er duty that Is obligatory upon par-
ents and must not be neglected.
From analysis of the word "educate"
we can readily understand that there
Is more embodied in the word than
the mere training "of the mtiul. Ed-
ucate is a derivative of a latin word
which means draw out and expand.
Hence no process of education or
training is complete unless the whole
makeup of the boy is wrought upon,
and drawn out and enlarged and ex-
panded. If we will only consider
the helplessness and entire depend-
ence of a little infant we will readily
see how entirely possible it is for the
wise parent to raise up the boy for
woe, or just as he thooses, with but
very rare exceptions under the care
of the watchful parent, the boy can
be raised up and developed Into just
such an one mentally, moraly and
physically as may be desired. I don't
believe that any boy was ever en-
dowed with an innate desire for al-
coholic beverages. And there is no-
thing else in tiie whole category of
evils that leads any more boys from
home and to degredation and ruin
than this lamentable curse. And
who knows, but that a vast majority
of that awful army of one hundred
thousand souls, who are annually
inarching down to the drunkards
graves, acquired the desire for intox-
icating liquors through the neglect
or the over fond acts of the parents?
I have known mothers to actually
profess a feeling of grief because
their innocent little babe, prompted
only by nature's laws refused to take
of the poisonous teas and toddies.
I have seen parents when persuasion
would fail, resort to threats, and
even punishment to induce their
child to take their noxious .beverages
when the £chlld in its simplicity
knew that such things were contrary
to the Divine plan. Oh! dear mother
how do you know but by =uch acts,
you are laying the foundation stones
for a reeling and tattering structure?
Then does it not behoove us as par-
ents, to be very careful with the In-
cipient ^training of our boys, lest
we send them away from the parent-
al nursery with vitiated tastes and
such abnormal appetites instilled in-
staggering back into our frantic
arms?
Nature alms at another grand re-
sult than that of pleasure, and if we
do not reap such a result from all
the forces of God's hand it is because
his laws have been misapplied. If
walking does not produces pleasure
it Is because something is wrong with
our physiclal nature. If diffused
sunlight does not bring delight to the
eye, it is because the sense of vision
is impaired. If the symphony of the
harp, the song of the birds, the
sighing of the breezee, the patter of
the rain, the rippling of the brook,
the thunder of the cataract, do not
bring music to the soul it is because
sin has entered and rendered the
spirit's harp out of tune.
There is not another spot 011 earth
so well adaptrd to the culture and
developement of these priceless qual-
ities of nature, as is the fireside.
It Is entirely possible for parents
to weild the (left hand of culture ill
the training of their hoys In sue!; a
way us to weave a web of affection
and union around the family circle
as will render it Impervious to the ex
ternal deteriorating forces that would
endeavor to bring discord and disun-
ion to the home. Truly did the poet
speak when lie saldi "Domestic Joy
thou only bliss, Of Paradise that has
survived the fall.''
1 believe it would he theexihibltlon
of the most absurd folly for all farm-
ers to think of making farmers of
their boys. No wiser would that act-
ion be, than for all preachers to try
to make preachers of their boys. The
wise and wide awake parent can easi-
ly tell in what line of thought the
boy's mind is most inclined to run
whether in agriculture, Inventive, a
mechanical, psychological or a busi-
ness line. No wise parent will try to
force a business training upon a boy
whose very nature is afire with the
zeal of invention, nor force the one
to read books of psychology, whose
life Is fired with animal and plant
life, nor hamper one up at thu work
bench or forge, whose chief delight
is in the study of bugs and beetles
insects and reptiles, such unwise act-
ions in the training of boys, are in
my'judgment responsible for avast
majority of the signal failure in all
lines of buslnnss and activity to-day.
No boy will make a successful farmer
whose mind is at thecounter. Neith-
er will the boy make a successful
banker or merchaht whose mind is
constantly revolving the wheels of
some machine. There are many lax
shiftless and unsuccessful farmers to
day who would make good doctors or
lawyers or merchants or preachers.
And 1 believe if all the parents had
looked more wisely to these things
in the training of their boys, that we
would have fewer vagrants and
tramps In the country today than we
have.
Another characteristic which we
can all add to our homes and which
will almost invarlayly prove a tie to
help hold the boys' affection is to
ornament and beautify them. Man
Is an aesthetic creature and a lover
of beauty from his incipiency.
From the earl lest dawn of his exist-
ence as a rational creature his mind
is suspcctible of impressions'.by ob-
jects of beauty- A nd we a 1,1 «\n hesuu.
tlfy our homes by exercising a little
care iu the selection of such things
as nature has put in reach of us all.
It does not necessarily take costly
paintings and upholstered furniture
to ornament the interior of the home.
A pleasant look is a far more beauti-
ful picture than ever was traced 011
canvas by the hand of Raphael, and
any face prompted by the right spir-
it from within can wear a pleasant
look.
It does not necessarily require ver-
dant parks and spraying fountains
and miniature cataracts and cascades
to beautify the exterior of the home.
Every wild flower reflects in the sun-
light the crimson blush of seraphim
the rose has the fragrance of an an-
gels breath, and the petals of the
pinks and daisies and dandelions bear
one imprint of the Divine hand.
Every blade of grass studded wlih
the tiny dew drop r* fllects the r ys
rtf the morning sun as he climbs the
golden stairway of heaven into the
lieautlful tints of t lie rainbow. Then
let us content aud beautify and hap-
pify our homes by wearing 1 smile
amid the beauties that nature's
hand has so lavishly spread around
us.
If you would teach your boys to
love to linger around the home, teach
them the happy art or making home
happy too by beautiful lessons of ex-
perience.
If you would have your boys lie-
come lnterestei In, and love your
own vocation, you need not expect
to do so unless you manifest an lr-
terest In It yourself. You need not
naturally expect your boys to liecome
Interested In, aud manifest a likeness
for a thing, for which you by your
lack of interest, profess a dlslikeness.
Then it seems that the "sweet sing-
er of Israel" that ancient bard whose
songs have charmed all the ages, had
pretty thoroughly studied the sub-
ject of home training, when he said
to train up the youths In the proper
way and when they older grew they
woulB not depart from it.
Then let me add as a concluding
word, after summing up the whole
argument, that seldom will the boys
prematurely leave, or the happiness
take its flight, or the olive branch of
peace desert that home whose In-
mates trust in God and their own
resources.
Dec. 30, 1000
Real Estate Transfer*.
(Furnished by the Central Title k
Trust Co., A. A. Dennison, Mgr.)
Charles Olentine to T. M. Cash, ei
se ne; sw se ne 5-23-15, #1.00.
Jas. H Fllppin to Chas. J. Grimes
sw sw nw 35-21-15 nw sw sw and part
se sw sw 2-20-15 n of St. L. and S. F.
R. R„ I7;i5.
W. E. Griswell to W. M.. Hamil-
ton lot 4, blk 15, Catoosa, WOO
Cherokee Nation to W. E. Griswell,
part of 5, lot 4, blk 15. Catoosa.
N. K. Warner to Daniel A. Dabney,
se sw: se ne sw, sw nw se; nw sw se
22-24-14.
W. M. Hamilton to Jesse C. Jackson,
lot 4, blk 15. Catoosa, $350.
James L. Gideon to Arthur B. Gid-
eon, und 1 lots 2. 3, 7 and 8, blk 4,
Catoosa, $100.
Ruth rv,
lots 3 and 4. and ne se nw 3 24-17.
$200.
Mars*a Ross to John Bullette, sw
se sw 29-22-10, se ne ne 11-18-22: ne sw
sw 3-22-17, $130.
Newton Dial to Commonwealth T.
Co , lot 2; s i se nw 31-22-115.
Cherokee Land office to Newton
Dial, Certificate of allotment. 120.18
20.0(1 a: lot 2: si se nw31-21-l<>. Dept.
of Interior Itemovalof restrictions s
20 00 a. lot 2; s i se nw 31-2l-l(j.
Cherokee Nation to Tlios. J. Daugli-
irty, pat. lots 7 and 8, Catoosa, $10.
Cherokee Land Office to Mary Peck,
Certificate of allotment, 119.52 n. sw
tie: w f se ne less 3 815 a.; ne se se,
less 2.89 a. se nw less 3 .37 a. 19-21-10
Mary Peck to Elmo Howard, pt ne
se ne 16-21-16, $150.
Uaniel A. Dabney to Theodore N.
Barnsdall, se sw.se ne sw; sw nw se;
$100
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