The Mannsville Herald. (Mannsville, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1912 Page: 1 of 8
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VOL 2 NUMBER
Mannsville (Johnston County) Oklahoma Fridj(‘ May 10 1912
ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR
This Is A Business Community Every Business Community Has AiC Elector and a Chute Boosters Ride the Elevator and nockers Ride the
r - ‘ Chute Ride the ElevatorJ Boys and Vote for the Bridge Bonds V
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POSITION to the IMPROVEMENT of THINGS OF IN-
TEREST— PUBLIC and PRIVATE -
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IT STANDS for economy in administration of State County township an-
Sctiool Distiict affairs for maximum in efficiency for minimum in indolence and I
ing to- less cob pipes and foot rests and more work ' J “ V’
IT STANDS for the abolition and consolidation of 212 superflous public offi
both elective and appointive within the bounds of the State and less taxes fpr
guess and speculation as to relative taxable valuable valuations and more mteUi£
- investigation into sucb matters - '’ ' '"I -
: IT STANDS for progress upbuild and thrift in this community for support of '
Its institutions and the institutions of the State and County - r'
IT STANDS for every laudable enterprise tending to our growth prosperity
and happiness
IT STANDS for Enterprise therefore IT STANDS for the- BRIDGE' BONDS
Based upon Ten Years Continuous Service to the public this
- Bank solicits all good business !“
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‘Good roads and good bridges
appeal to good farmers
The successful farmer and bu si-
ll man invariably lends bis aup
port to nil public upbuilding -
“The Welfare! of one is the wel-
fawd cl” bold "food ¥r
- f jf yotx paw aml community
foing to build up this
'caMtiyaad reap the benefits or
wait far-an unborn generation to
doit?
- A substantial business' man -or
farmer looking for a location will
not settle in a backwoods com-
munity -
' Usually the biggest kicker on a
bond issue is the little fellow who
is always on the lookout for some-
thing to roar about
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Did you ever hear of a country
goiu’ broke fixin things inviting
to others?? No or you never will
Who are the others? You me and
everybody
mmfmpmm m— — — — i
Help yourself by helping the
country in -which you live If
vou don't know enough to do it
go talc to your enterprising and
progressive neighbor You might
learn something
Mannsville has 15 miles of river
frontaae valley land cut half into
by u river and ONE bridge over
the other half If this other half
isn't worth another bridge it isn’t
worth u farmer’s toil
Oklahoma Poetry
Becomes National
A letter just received from New
York City by Hon Wa H Mur-
ray “the daddy pf the Constitu-j
tion1’ states that the new Wood-!
row Wilson campaign song writ-
ten to the ton of “Dixie’? -by-Ala
Andrew ' Allen - Veateh of- Mill
Creek t Mr Murray? suegestlorf
is taking the North and by
storm This- is gratifying news
for two reasons: First’ Mr Veateh
is an Oklahoman and secondly
he is the omy man who has even
Read -These Fignres
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For all - purposes the people
living within t be incorporated lim-
its of Mannsville' are paying taxes
at the rate of faa 40 on the $r
ooj 06 Of this amount they are
paying for bonded indebtedness
and $3 50 fooscbool districts bonds
’piaking a total -Of Five and FoUr-
tenths (54) Mills or $5 40 ‘-on
the fiooooo for all bonded 4 in-
debtedness -
People living outside of the
Howu of Mannsville and inside of
succeeded in making the air of RalHff township are paying ’ taxes
Dixie” popular in the North
Such Is the power of genius? and
Johnston county has cause to be
proud -of this almost miraculous
achievement of one of her most
talented Democrats! Maybrthere
are a few other undertakings that
are equally as hard of accomplish-
ment but it Seems to us' that the
man who can set all the Yankees
of the North to singing “Dixley
can just about do anything- he
tries t
Mr Veateh who is a candidate
for the Legislature sung the' song
several times while here not 'long
ago and copies of it are in demand
in this sectiou - - tr“
If you pay taxes on $1000 'and
pay jnver ferriage five times a year
yeti' are out what it would cost
vou to glide over on a bridge It
is simply good sound business
logic to give the bonds for its cost
you vote and good will
Th peat packers were acquit-
ted aftef a trial lasting over two
years which goes’ to prove that
the govmunent has no power to
prevent the trusts from robbing
the public ! There was a time
when men were made to cower
like whipped dogs before their task
masters and live upon the crumbs
that fell from the tables of the
licb hut the Herald doesn’t be-
lieve that the people in this en-
Stanley J Clark the’ socialist
leader who has been suspended by
his party organization charged
with embezzlement is the man
who recently offered to give-' a
hundred dollars to any
or republican who would ' meet
him in debate at Pauls Valley
If he does not reform and 'get' his
fingers under better coni rid he
will have to increase his offer 'It
is too bad that he should have to
pay suett a sum to get inter the’-So-ciety
of gentlemen But then iris
worth at least a hundred dollars
to have to spend two hours'in’ the
presence of such a man as Stanley
Clark
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In 1904 when Roosevelt was
charged with receiving financial
support from the rusts he bfa’rt-
ded the charge as a lie Lpter
the Harriman disclosures showed
that f the time Roosevelt made
the denial he held checks of the in-
terests amounting to $262060 A
month ago when it was alleged
that the International Harvester
at the rate of $17x0 on tbe$iooo
It may vary slightly up or down
from this figure on account of the
school -'districts varying in
amounts of its bonded debt ’ but
tlie alove figure is - approximately
correct -
Now it will be seen that - the
high taxes we are complaining
about come from other sources
than those we have imposed Upon
ourselves by voting bonds Every
dollar in taxes we pay for' support
of our schools building roads and
bridges is well spent for reason
that we get our money’s worth
aud it too represents the small end
of our tax receipt
1 Now coming down to a ' bust-
proposition ' Are you not render-
ing good service to your communi
ty by voting 's small additional
tax on yourself to build up aud
improve? --Then are you not
m ” t HendennK 8°° service again by
going after a Teductiou of taxes
through your'&tate senators and
representatives and reach - where
the evil really lies in high taxes?
Think this over Carefully give it
a penetrating analysis ' and you
will become convinced that black
balling a home movement to build-
up is not the? proper method io
your high tasrargmnents
” lightened age are going to stand I company was supporting the tan-
for that kind of treatment again ' -
Had you noticed that the Big bus-
iness interests are for Harmon for
- president? Well they are 'from
the bmes clear on down the line
to the sard-heeler and Joe Bailey
Whenever we see the tinst crooks
lined HP 1 for a man for president
we run like hell in the opposite di-
rection Tuat’a why we favor
Wilson or Clark "'j
t Mian Bertha McNutt is in Ard-
more where the is 'attending Sel-
yidge Sadness College
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dacy of Roosevelt ' he promptly
answered that the charge was
false But When the account of
of his campaign in New
York county was filed it
showed a contribution of $15000
from the president of the 'Interna-
tional ' i
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A B Rawlins & Company of
Ardmore the Ug furniture deal-
ers have an ad in the Herald this
morning Reod it and when you
wanto bill of furniture see them
for bargains for everything
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The Demons Of The
- Swamp
are mosquitos As they sting
they put deadly malaria germs in
the blood - Then follow the icy
chills and the fires of lever The
appetite flies and the strength
fails also malaria often paves the
way for deadly typhoid Bat
Electric Bitters kill and- cast - out
the malaria germs from the blood
give you a fine appetite and reuew
yonr strength VAfter long suf-
fering’’ wrote Win Fret well of
LncamaN C “three Dottles
drove all the malaria from my sys-
tem and I’ve had good health ever
siuce" Best for all stomach liv-
er and kidney ills 50 cents ' at
Jones &Voris
Rev J C? Cooper pastor of
the Method!st church of this city
and also at Ravia filled his reg-
ular appointment at the Miacral
City Saturday aud Sunday -
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Then and Ncrl
May 18th there wili be gd hkew
tion held -in Ratliff Towasp for
the purpose of voting JncU to
build at (nidge across the CcV
near the Peterman crossing This
hi’will connect M
country- The writer had —
o spend two weeks in the OTeasy
Bend eight years ago when tt was
almost a howling wilderness with
bootleggers and lawlessness pre-
dominating Recently wa spent
ten days in this some locality the
progress made in these feW years
is simply phenominal One cun
hardly realize the great change for
tbe ‘better in these few years
Where there was nothing but
jungle then now a nice school
stands where one of the very best
Sunday' schools in Johnston coun-
ty is now permanently carried - on
together with preaching by the
various denominations almost ev-
ery Sunday In this community
thcie lives a Citizenship equal to
any in Oklahoma Here in the
Bend are the finest alfalfa fields
the best farmers and the best farm-
ing country to be found in South-
ern Oklahoma 1
'This territory naturally belongs
to Mannsville as this is the trad-
ing point as well as the pastoffice
of all that territory So let us
all turn out on the 1 8th and vote
for the bonds so that these good
people can market their farm pro-
ducts in Mannsville It will help
them It will help us Vote for
the bonds “PAD”
Stanley l Clark the Lord’a an-
notated of the socialist cause has
been suspended by tbe socialist
party The charge upon which
he was suspended was embezzle-
ment it being alleged that he re-
served for his own private use cer
tain money collected for the bene-
fit of the organization The so-
cialist local has filed a motion that
Clark be expellad from the social-
ist party and the motion will be
voted on by the different locals of
the state -
' Campbell Russell has filed his
second bill recalling the' board - at
agriculture The work of counting
the signatures to the petitions was
completed by the office of the Sec-
retary of state Friday and it was
found that there were ' 41247
names- or more than four thou-
sand in excess of the uumber re-
quired The petitions are now
being examined by attoroeya for
(he board in search of irregulari-
ties i
Andrew Allen Veateh of Mill
Creek candidate for the legisla-
ture C 3 Fenwick of Tisho
tningo and candidate for County
Judge and Eddie Greene candi
date for District Clerk- were ' in
the city Saturday aud called on
the Herald
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We have many Choice Washita Valley &
River Bottom farms foi?sale Also have
sone splendid cheap upland forms buy
now and take advantange of our special J )
low prices Let us telhyou about them
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Veatch’s Song Takes
V Old Virginia
The wilt in the future
beK1°Cird‘y The latest campaign pewa faun
ateadtf cgVridey as bareh&re Virginia is that And pw
Ttittl4(!riw cat nondljr in Veatch’s campaign song “t? jd-
whitdi £ (£hef newa and at the j row Wilson” is -being sns£ all
aame pan yon wp gat the hap- over r that State at Demoorttic
genirr? lJhe wuek w meetings and cbr-i tv rho
Saturday tarypiag'eLltoue in erery instance" tlurr'j 'tJr
SubacrSMto at -Durwood Prov-f johAston County'po etf"
cnee Baum Nichol Hill Berwyn song was" heard all over Texas " '
Ardmore Oil City Hewitt and
other Ortet county towns should
receive the paper' Saturday marn-
kig early as it will lkave here on
Friday night’s train '
Subscribers at fifinpaen Madill
Oakland Randolph Russet Miu
Creak Ravia Tishomingo Wapa-
nucka MiRmyi Rea ana sill John-
ston connty points should receive
the Herald not later than noon on
Saturday In case of delay no-
tify this ofice
The Herald is in receipt of a let-
ter from Frof Quaid enclosing an
account of tbe Field Meet and
Dedamitory Contest at Wgpa-
nucka week before last for wbich
he will please aecept our thanks
As the proceedings of this meet is
now two weeks old and having
been published la the Wapanueka
and Milhurn papers we cannot
use it However we arq always
glad to have news of thissiad
provided we can get it when it is
news We do not accept reprint
news from county papers
Rev Selvidge of Ardmore fill-
ed the' pulpit at the Baptist
Church in the absence of tha reg-
ular pastor Rev Wright He
was greeted by large congregations
both at tbe morning and evening
services and delivered two very
forceful aermons
Trades Day next Saturday"
last week
Rube’s in trouble One of his t
friends has gone Socialist and the
disease is said to be screaking over
the entire family All o£ theotb-!
ers haven’t taken out a Red Card
and?gre thought to be in good 'way
to recovery Dr Ballard demo-
crat and Dr Stobaugh republic
can 11 will kindly look after this-f?-
case and call on Rnoe for remun-
eratidn Mannsville now ji so
we are informed thirteen of these--
Red Card boys and one or two ?'
others are flirting with the danger i t
signal hut then crops are looking- -fine?
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Gov Cruce has issued a procla-
matron calling fot an election - at -£
Madill on May 2 8 when thatqity v
wiil’vote on that proposition of iw- v
rporatiRg as a city of the firsts -daps
The governcy has approve
ed the charter of f Okcdblgee ""
which provides for a - commission
forin of government
I? O ’ Ken ridge 'uader charge of
atfepipting arimiual 'assault upon
the’person of Naoini Grear 8 year
daughter of J R Gfer waived
examining trial here last Friday
Hisbond was set 'atiocp faib'v
ing (to make which he was ryoan-
ded to jaih— Davis News - -
J Miss Pearl
Rich
was visiting
Mrs Dr Wood in Ardmore the
latter part of last Week" ’ ? '
0 Seasonable S
I Miilin
ery
Is what you get when you
buy from an exclusive mailli-
ner Their ' stock is always!
new and up-to-date aud you
run no risk ofgetting old
stock re-trimmed palmed off
on yon Buy at
Tks Excludve
crd Best Phce
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Geers, C. W. The Mannsville Herald. (Mannsville, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 1912, newspaper, May 10, 1912; Mannsville, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1792216/m1/1/?q=central+place+railroads: accessed July 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.