The Geary Booster (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, April 11, 1913 Page: 4 of 10
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THE GEARY BOOSTER, APRIL 11, 1913
THE GEARY BOOSTER
Published Every Friday at Geary. Blaine
County, State of Oklahoma
Entered as second class mail October 26, 1912. at
the postoffice at Geary, Oklahoma, under the act
of March 3. 1879.
E. E. Brewer and H. F. Benson. Publishers
E. E. Brewer. Owner
Subscription, per year, (cash in advance) $1.00
Subscription, six months, (cash in advance).. .50
Display Advertising, per inch 10
Locals, per line, each insertion 05
FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1913
Edmond now has free mail de-
livery in the city.
They're off! The base ball
season is now on.
The expense of the election
April the first was $158.31. Nec-
essary evils.
The time of year when all city
officials are clearing their decks
for the auditing committees is
now at hand.
The Watonga Republican says
the Madero family are not over-
pleased with Mexico as a health
resort. Can you blame them?
There's a fortune waiting for
the scientific person who can de-
vise the ways and means for
stopping this bloomin' wind from
blowing so much.
Since the shake-up in the M.
W. A. rates, that organization
has lost more than 250,000 mem-
bers At that they have more
than a million left.
Watonga had a "clean-up"
day last Tuesday. Geary might
stage a similar function without
much difficulty it only someone
would take the initiative. The
town would be a great deal bet-
ter for it.
The election board muddle is
getting no better fast. Last week
the action of Hogan and Mosley
in throwing out the precincts
was upheld by Judge Cotteral at
Guthrie and the same week
Judge Tolbert of the district
court, gave the offices to the re-
publicans, thereby holding
against the action of the election
board. Can you beat it?
By ones, twos and half-dozens,
progressive, live, wide-wake
country newspapers all over the
state are dropping the antiquat-
ed "ready-print" or patent in-
side. Time was in Oklahoma
when the ready-print was ac-
cepted as part and parcel of the
equipment of a country news-
paper but newspaper men, al-
though dreadfully busy keeping
track of everybody else's busi-
ness do sometimes learn things
about their own business and it
is gradually dawning on the ed-
itorial mind that the use of ready
prints by country newspapers is
simply paying the Western News-
papes Union, one of the biggest
trusts in the country, for the
privilege of distributing the ad-
"THE BOOSTER"
[The Booster is indebted to someone for the follow-
ing little poem, which touches our hearts in just the right
spot. Everyone likes to know that their work is appre-
ciated and newspaper men are no exceptions. No name
was signed to this little effusion but the author has our
thanks for the sentiments expressed just the same.—Eds]
I know a little paper,
Geary Booster is its name,
And by its newsy columns,
It is gaining some great fame.
This paper is a young one,
About six months old, they say,
And from the older papers
It is running right away.
It has the best of editors,
Who gather all the news,
And through this little paper
No one they e'er abuse.
And of course the correspondents
Are the best that can be found,
By the reading of their items
You can see they're duty-bound.
It gets the advertising
And the job printing too,
And to the list of subscriptions
It is adding quite a few.
If anything you're wanting
That' s in the printing line,
Just take it to the Booster
And they'll get it out on time.
For the editors are workers
And good obliging men,
Sometimes to get their work done
They sit up until ten.
There's no digrace in working
When you know you're working right.
It always pays to do your part
When you are in the fight.
We folks are not a battling
With weapons that are new,
But with this little paper
There is plenty of fighting to do.
And now, my dear readers,
Who do the Booster take,
You're doing right by subscribing—
For a paper that's wide awake.
vertising for which the trust re-
ceives as high as Sll an inch.
The W. N. U. worked the thing
"gwine and comin' "—and the
genus newspaper man paid the
bill. The use of "boiler plate"
is permissable on occasion, per-
haps, but the country newspa-
per that unloads from two to a
dozen Dages of ready print on
its reaaers each week, is doing
an injustice to itself, his town
and his patrons. Whv donate
your money to the W. N. U? If
you fe^l that you must throw
the money away, at least try to
keep it at home. Get aboard
boys.
Hundreds and thousands of
of acres of land are being leased
near Watonga and Bridgeport-on (
either side or Geary—for oil dril-1
ling purposes. It begins to look
like some one had enough confid-
ence in the prospects of this sec-
tion of the state as a prospective
oil field to put real money into
it. We would like to see this
town get into the oil game in
earnest. True the development
of oil in paying quantities on
either side of us would help a
lot but we might as well be on
the crest of the wave of prosper-
ity that would surely follow the
discovery of oil near here.
Greenfield has organized a
brass band with twenty mem-
bers. Is Geary going to have no
band this year? Sne certainly
will not unless the business men
wake up and take hold of mat-
ter? Who will do it?
SMALLER LEGISLATURES
Governor Cruce is advocating
a smaller legislative body for this
state. It seems to us that such
a plan would be in every way a
good one. Besides the amount
saved in salaries to the legisla-
tors, the law-making body com-
posed of say half the number of
members contained in that body
at present, would be far more
weildy, could get together and
go into the merits and demerits
of a measure much more thor-
oughly and quickly. Also it
would go a considerable ways
toward eliminating what might
be termed "personal legislation"
—the myriad of measures with
which the time of the legislature
is taken up and which pertain to
purely local matters. Each mem-
ber usually has from two to two
dozen of these pet measures.
Then there is the distinction
of the thing to consider also. Be-
ing a member of the legislature
these days carries about as
much honor as—well, say being
a member of the city council of
Geary.
Then in the case of irregular-
ities—graft—it would be much
easier to place the responsibility,
if the law making body was half
the present size. Everything
considered we are strong for the
idea. It sounds economical and
appeals to the lay mind in many
ways.
Let's "can" about half of 'em.
Right merrily the fight goes
on in Mexico.
No band concerts again this
year? Why not wake up?
The time of the fish story is
now at hand. Who'll be the first
to catch a whale?
Whatsoever ye sow, that
snail ye also reap," was the sub-
ject of a clear, concise and force-
ful sermon by Rev. Barker at
the Baptist church Sunday night.
Now that everyone else is in
the notion to discontinue the
scrap in Turkey, the dinky little
state Montenegro announces that
it will not quit until it succeeds
in capturing the Turkish strong-
hold of Scutari. Looks tp us
like a good spanking all around,
administratered by the powers,
would help a heap in the Balkan
situation.
The outrages committed by
the militant suffragets in Eng-
land are amazing. They burn
and dynamite buildings, break
windows, wreck trains and many
other things of a criminal na-
ture. And they seem to be no
nearer to obtaining suffrage than
in the beginning. The suffrage
question has long since ceased
to be a joke in England. It's a
grave, glaring reality. Contrast
the situation there with the suff-
rage situation in this country.
The American suffragets have
exploded no bombs ana fired
buildings—and yet they
gained the ballot in nine
already. Pretty good argument
for the theory that diplomacy is
better than rough tactics.
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