The Mooreland Leader. (Mooreland, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1920 Page: 1 of 8
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Always lor Iho Interests of Mczraland and Woodward County
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Llooreland Olikiumo Nov 5 1920 I rfnaiasas'sta I
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No 33
HUM-
' Itwas i famous - old showman
Who doclarod -that tha American
people like to be fooled or like to
’ be “humbugged” That saying Is
miny years old bow but sometimes
It' seems that there Is about as
much truth In It now as there was
when It was first uttered People
as a rule do not like the idea of
having 'something put over” on
them but from the way In which
the great mall orde houses In the
big cities flourish It seems that a
'great many people do not mind It
a bit : v
The business man who when ' he
' gets a call for an article' which he
has net in stock attempts to sub
stltute some other article of a sim-
ilar nature without telling the
buyer of the substitution Is “put
ting something over on his custo-
mers Few retail merchants nows
days attempt to do a thing of that
kind The great majority of mer-
chants do not do this for two reas-
ons ' One reason is that they
wouldn’t do it if they could’ end
the other Is that they couldn’t do
it if they would The man -who
- buys ap article over the counter
seeswhat he is buying before he
pays for it and Is pretty sure to
get what he wants -
But on the other hand send to a
catalog house for an article and If
they havent’ that'exact article in
stock they will substitute another
article as near to it as possible and
you are none the wiser for ’over a
week till that package cotnes then
what recourse have you? You can
write -them a letter or send the ar-
ticle back and maybe get your
money back or carry on a long
string of correspondence This
all takes weeks to do and all the'
time you have needed that particu
DO YOU LIKE TO B3
BUGGED?
I Lumber is
To Bed Rock
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The Mills have
prices
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’ ’ Woodward WaynokMoreland Fargo Gage SharoriMayLaveme Buffalo Salt Sp’gs
lar article end the mall order bouse
has had your money Gan you get
satlsafetioQ when you have to write
to a man hundreds of miles awpy
like you can by going and soelcg
him In person and explaining your
xact wants? No you can’t and
the result is that you have lost
weeks of time and have had con-
stant worry and maybe yet the mat-
ter Is not thoroughly straightened
out How much better it would
have been if you had patronised
your home merchant and if the ar-
ticle wasn’t right go down to his
store and interview him in person
and he will gladly correct all mis-
takes -
Stop again and conisder this: If
the mail order houses were giving
such rare bargain as their catalogs
represent why would it be necess-
ary for them to go out of the city
to sell their goods? There are e-
nough people In the eity to give
hem all the business that they could
attend to and there would be no
need for other retail merchants in
the city that the mail order houses
'do business in But no their bar-
gains are not so greatfor the retail
merchants in the city where the
mail order house Is located doesn’t
feel the sting of mail order busi-
ness as the merchants hundreds of
miles away does If the mail order
honses wares were as represented
there would be no need' of them
spending thousands of dollars each
year for their new attractive cata-
logs ' No dear reader your locals
merchant can't afford to put out a
catalog that costs over $225 each
besides the postage for the local
merchant is doing business on a
legitimate profit basis and could
never afford such an expense to
lure patrons to his store
Let's ail pull together’ spend
our money In our home town and
then we -will have a bigger and
better Mooreland ’
issued their
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No further reductions can be made unless
labor is reduced and that is uncertain
We have reduced our prices in line with
’ the Mills
This is the only fair course for us to pursue
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This reduction from the high price peak of
1 last spring to the present price is frQrh
27 to 35 percent -u
We have taken our loss arid are ready to
serye you on the readjusted values
You need no longer put off building on ac-
count of the cost of lumber ' 1 ' :
We are only too glad to aid you
v plan books and building helps
7 be to figure estimates : '
ciFcns tc ma tea wstt
Nad a Uttta OiliSrsttsa at
Its Own That Was Petty as
Much publicity has been given tbs
"Boston Tea Party" which was piw'
tumsque as well as significant bet
it was not the only "tea party" at
that time Annapolis the capital
of Maryland had an equally good
one with the same intents and par
poses and fplly so spectacular In
the summer of 1774 the brigantint
Peggy Stewart entered the port of
Annapolis with a cargo of tea The
people of the city regarded the ship-
ment as an insult and a defiance of
their will They gathered in the
street to denounce the local Import-
ers and to organise for the destruc-
tion of the tea '
The local importers appealed to
Charles Carroll of Carrollton for
protection His answer was that the
only way by which they could escape
personal violence would bo to burn
both ship and cargo instantly and
in plain sight of the infuriated pop-
ulaoe This was done and the burn-
ing ship ' and' cargo in Annapolis
harbor was quite as spectacular as
the emptying of a cargo of tea into
Boston harbor -
FOILED INVADER OF NEST
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Sparrows Shrewd In Discomfiting Pul
- 1st Who Had Woooossod Horself
of Thoflr Abode j
Ono morning a woman of whom-
a Companion contributor writes no
ticcd a commotion among the spar-
rows that nested under the eaves ot
her back porch They were twitter-
ing indignantly and flying about in
t
minimum
with our
No trou-
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WKeiPilie lnvei-
tijatal she saw her Leghorn pullet
Vwkh mq$t have looked like ' s
giantess to the sparrows sitting
' complacently on the spell nest Get-
ting quietly down the woman wait-
edaud In s few minutes tho pullet
flow down cackling proudly Shd
had laid sa egg In the little sparrow
nest
Curious to see what would happen
the woman left tho egg there but
the next morning it lay smashed on
the porch floor and not a sigh of
the nest under the caves remained
Unobserved the sparrows had spir-
ited awav each little straw tuft of
soft baj string and ' strand of
horsehair apd the egg had rolled
over the edge- The womaij won-
dered whether the sparrows had
shoved it over -
' VSThe next day the pullet again
flew np under the eaves but finding
only bare-boards she returned to the
henhouse' cackling' resentfully In
a ‘ few days the sparrows returned
and apparently reassured rebuilt
their nest in tho samo place—
Youth’s Companion
ANOTHER USE FOR CAMERA
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To bs Employed by Now York Court
to Tako Certified Coplot of lm-
i portant Documents
Surrogates John P Colfalan and
James A Foley announced that on
and after June 30 all certified copies
of wills and other important docu-
ments needed ' in tho surrogate’s
court would be made by photography
stead of the existing method of re-
production by typewriting the New
Our dress goods department is ready for service
for your wants and needs in winter goods
We have a complete line of wool dress goods—
French Sergej cTWiddy Cloth and every desirable
$ cloth for suits for ladies '
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YorST Evening Tu state
It has taken thn photographers
about as long to get some of tho au-
thorities In that dty to recognise the
labor-saving qualities of photog-
iraphy over typewriting alt did for
the typewriter manufacturer to con-
jvince them of the advantages of
typewriting over the old atylo quill
officials ray
A photographic room has been fit-
ted up in the hall of records and al-
though all of the electric light con-
nections have not been made the
surrogates have taken the precau-
tion to inform attorneys ot the con-
templated improvement
MOUNTAIN THREATENS TOWN
t -Part of the mining ’ town of
Mardy Itliondda Valley Wales is
jthreatened with ’ destruction by the
jmovement of Mardy mountain Be-
fore the fine weather set in there
were distinct signs of landslide but
the cessation of rain gave the land
timo to set Recently however
ithere was a repetition of the move-
ment and 40 houses in Edward
street aro feeling tho effects of the
increasing pressure Ceilings aTe
falling and doors aro twisted At
night ominous rumblings are heard
Army huts are being erected in
ithe park with tho object of afford-
ing temporary accommodations if
the houses have' to bo vacated—
London Times ’ ' -
REPUBLICANS ELECT
DENT
PRESI-
Warren G Harding and Calvin C
Cool id ge were elected Tuesady as
our next president and vlee-preai-dent
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Thn Intent rnturan urn ere able to
get give Cox but 118 electoral votee
Harding ban 81 and 20 remain
doubtful Harding carried ail but
the following ntotan:- Alabama -Florida
Georgia Kentucky Louis-
iana Mississippi North Carolina
South Carolina Texas and Virginia
The doubtful atatea are Arfsona
Montana New Mexico and Okla-
homa ELECTION RETURNS -
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The results of the election In
Woodward county as usual placed
nearly all the republican candidates
'in the lead the exeoptionn being
TKlng democrat defeated Wyaad
for county judge Johnson demo-
crat defeated Welsh for assessor
and Endersbydemocrat for survey-
or - and Chandler democrat for -superintendent?
had no opposition
Policy democrat candidate for
sheriff gave Bowers a mighty close
squeak Bowers winning by only
about 73 votes
Coover republican won over-
Murray for the legislature
The township ticket elected In
Mooreland township is at follows''
LJDexter justice of the pence
GNWilkie trustee Everett Teter
treasurer Jack Smith clerk
The vote by precincts In the
entire county could not bejobtained
early enough for this Issue v
Chas Swindall republican ' of
Woodward was elected to congress
for the short term
Ferris-democrat won for the U
S senate y '
Oklahoma demobatic lead was re-
duced to a very small margin in
fact theepublicans at ono time
claimed the state by 25000
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The Mooreland Leader. (Mooreland, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, November 5, 1920, newspaper, November 5, 1920; Mooreland, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc1818384/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 22, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.