The Geary Journal (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1914 Page: 2 of 8
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THE geary JOURNAL
Thejournal
Entered June 13.1903, Geary. Okla., ag second c[m
matter under the Act of Congress or March, lain.
THURSDAYS
g L. Benson.-. - -
H. Franklyn Benson
Roy Benson
- Owner
Editor and Manager
... Associate
one dollar per year
SJOTICE-Errors and misstatements of facts re-
fleeting upon any person will be cheerfully cor-
rected if our attention ia called to the matter, we
will be glad to print signed communications upon
and topic of general interest; name omitted upon
request. Money orders, checks, etc, should be
made payable to The Geary Journal.
GEARY. OKLAHOMA
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Journal is authorized t o
make the following announcements,
subject to the Democratic primaries:
For United States Senator—
THOMAS P. GORE.
For Congressman, 6th District—
SCOTT FERRIS.
For Insurance Commissioner—
A. L. WELCH.
For District Judge—
THOMAS A. EDWARDS.
JOHN T. HAYS
D. S, RANDOLPH
For Clerk of The Dstrict Court
E. R. TAYLOR
For County Sheriff—
CLAUD A. LEACH.
For County Treasurer—
BERT R. WILLIS.
For County Attorney—
J. OTIS WARRINGTON.
H. M. BEAR.
And still we "mediate"
Mexicans.
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with the
From the way the game went be-
tween Philidelphia and Detroit last
Friday it would seem that the Ath-
letics had found their stride again.
CONFIDENCE RESTORED
The Journal editor returned Sun-
day evening from a three days trip
south and east of Geary which car-
ried us over considersble territory
and afforded us an opportunity to
take observation from a good many
sources on industrial conditions.
The result in the final analysis is
that we find confidence restored.
A year ago we made a similar trip
and found business generally in a
condition of depression and, what
was worse, the people were talking
hard times and a generally discour-
aged air seemed to pervade the
country.
It's different now.
Business is far from having at-
tained the normal yet (although the
wheat crop is going to go a long
way in this direction if present
prospects materialize) but the gen-
eral demeanor of the public seems
to be vastly different from a year
ago. Today you hear on the trains,
streets and in the hotel lobbies and
depot waiting rooms—everywhere
in fact, the voice of the optimist
and people seems full of that buoy-
ant certainty which goes to make
up confidence in business.
There seems to be no doubt but
that the country is alright—that
there will surely be plenty of busi
ness—and buiness conditions gen-
erally would seem to indicate that
an almost normal condition is cer-
tain from now on. Some men there
are of course, and some localities,
where the confidence in a rosy fu-
ture is less pronounced than else-
where, but theee are in the main,
people and places, who have been
harder hit by the recent stringent
times than others, and will naturally
be longer in recovering.
On the whole one cannot travel
about and talk to people and "feel
the country's pulse" without
noting the ring of confidence in
the manner in which communities,
We don't like to see our merchants towns and cities are taking up the
For County Judge-
ED BAKER.
apportioned to Blaine county. In-
as-much as the road passes through
Geary and no other town in the
county, it is a certainty that most
of the money will have to come
from Geary and the adjacent coun-
try. It has been decided to raise
this money by means of a member-
ship Campaign in the Geary Inter-
state Postal Highway association.
The membership fee will be $2.00
per member and it is expected to
add at least one hundred new mem-
bers to the association in the next
ten days here.
The co-operation of all of our
people is necessary for this work
and every person in and around
Geary is urged to join and pav their
$2 toward this road. About thirty
men are soliciting new members and
it is most likely that one or more
of these will call upon you; in case
they should miss you do your part
by calling at most any buiness
house in town and having your
name enrolled as a member of the
association and paying the $2.
Have you joined?
——
JOHN H. DILLON
President
O. V. DILLON
Cashier
Have you paid your $2 into the
good road fund? If not do so
day!
This week practically assures
the biggest wheat crop this part
Oklahoma has raised in nearlj
years. It is possible of course,
the wheat to meet with a set bi
in the next week or so but it's v
improbable.
Judge D. S.
Okeene, candidate
Randolph,
for the de
For County Clerk—
BEN SCHUBER.
For County Commissioner, 1st piat
F. S. WALLACE
J. A. CHITWOOD
Charles S. Mellen says he was
a sacrifice to save J. P. Morgan.
We hardly think however that he
is the only one to have that honor.
of this district, was in the city
Saturday shaking hands with
voters and doing a little campa
ing.
What with a eglony of road bu
ers on the job, our new ball pa
a monster wheat harvest upon
and the summer chautauqua !
the autumn horse and colt si
looming in the near-distance. Ge
promises to be a fairly interest
place to live henceforth.
sit back and wait for stangers to
invade the city and force them to
advertise. It don't argue a very
high degree of the hustle and push
that makes cities.
"ork of progress once more.
THE POSTAL ROAD
The only thing we know of that
would take half as much time to
read and understand as ihe con-
gressional record is the bales of
campaign dope—misnamed "liter-
ature"—which comes through the
mails to the desk of every editor
in the land. What's worse, the
worst part of this scourge is yet to
come.
The interest shown at the meet
ing held here Monday night in the
organization of the local branch of
the Interstate Postal Highway as
sociation, was good to see and was
source of much encouragement to
I the men who have the work in
1 charge. About thirty men were
i present and every one displayed
I keen interest in the work and an
i inclination to do their share.
j This road is really one of the
most stupenduous undertaking ever
0 projected in this country. Think
The second trial of Charles Beck-1of undertaking the construction of
er, former police lieutenant in New a cross-the-continent highway with-
York, was concluded last Friday and 1 <>«* caPital and dependant entirely
the jury after deliberating only a, uP°n donations and contributions
short time, returned a verdict of work! And it really means
guilty. Becker was tried some time a Jfreat deal to every town located
ago on the charge of ordering the on highway. It means that
.death of Herman Rosenthal, the hundreds of automobile loads of
New York gambler, and convicted people-next year it should run in-
but secured a new trial. It is thought to the thousand on account of the
that he will appeal the case World'. Fair at San Francisco will
pass through here every season.
Being located as it is there will be
Last week we had a most pain- few tourists who pass through
ful experience. We lost one of our Geary without spending a little
most valuable readers who ordered monev here.
Speaking of the chautauqua
which comes in early July and the
horse and colt show shortly after-
ward, it is time right now that we
were getting busy witn our plans
for these events—especially the
chautauqua which is little more than
a month off.
A Silent Friend In Need
IN TIMES of prosperity when health and position are bring-
ing us a good income, we are apt to forget that sickness
and misfortune may come.
When Adversities Surround You
—there is a great satisfaction in knowing you always have a
silent friend—a bank book.
The First National Bank
The Oldest Bank in Blaine County
Why You
Ought
To Buy
at the
Square
;
Deal
Grocery
<s&.
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C. Fisher, Prop.
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Telephone
r
No. 20
WEAREper-
manently lo-
cated in the
old Hartley
builing on North Broad-
way, where we have a
clean, sanitary, modern
grocery store. We have
installed a modern deliv-
ery service and your or-
der, when telephoned to
No. 20 ( our number)
will reach you so quick-
ly and you will lilce our
goods so much that we
shall have gained a cus-
tomer. Visit our store.
There is work that needs doing
every day of every week in the
furtherance of the general com-
mercial interests ot this city—only
there is no one to do the work. We
all take a turn now and then at it,
but none stay with it long enough
to accomplish very much. Don't
you think we ought to have some
one to look after this work—in
short a commercial secretary? Or
if someone has a better plan the
columns of the Journal will be open
at all times to its furtherance.
Let's near from someone.
Then again the hund- to prevent boys
J. W. Devor. who lives near the
park in the north part of the city,
tells us that boys are busily en-
gaged in robbing the nests of the
hundreds of mocking birds which
inhabit the trees of the park. The
park property belongs to Messrs. J.
A. Smith and M. B. Schofield. of
Oklahoma City, and not to the city
of Geary as many people suppose.
However. ther should he some way
from robbing the
"Machine Way in Shorthand"
taught at the
Phillips Business College
ENID, OKLA., is a MARVEL
Students of Stenotypy are writing as rapidly at
the expiration of three to four months as short-
hand Students usually write in six to eight months.
THE EFFICIENCY SCHOOL
Phillips Business College
"THE SCHOOL THAT GETS POSITIONS'*
Enid, Oklahoma
Incidentally
an
this pro-
his paper stopped because we print- reds and thousands of strangers bird's nests.
ed a little item about practical jokes, passing through here every year perty would make an ideal city
The Journal goes complimentary to will give the town and unlimited park and we believe the taxpayers
every busings roan in th« city (a amount of advertising Whether would sanction a move to purchase
fact which our friend who so pom- this advertising he good or bad is. the property for this purpose,
pously wanted to "pay up a;id stop of cou.se up to us. once the high- Given this property, a very small
the paper" apparently didn't know) way is completed amounnt for annual upkeep would
but we giadly discontinue the paper The chief object for consideration i afforo Geary one of the best parks
in this instance
at present is the raising of the funds in the state.
New State Grocery
Always in the lead for high grade Groceries, Fresh Fruits,
Nuts and Candies. Highest Market Pnce paid for
COUNTRY PRODUCE
A. S. PARRI0TT, Proprietor
Telephone No. 97.
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Benson, H. Franklyn. The Geary Journal (Geary, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 28, 1914, newspaper, May 28, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc184794/m1/2/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.