The Medford Patriot. (Medford, Okla.), Vol. 20, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 20, 1913 Page: 2 of 8
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The Medford Patriot
Established In 1893.
E. V. & E. 0. Croxton, Publishers.
Parcel Post Fight Not Over
Subscription Price $1.00 Per Year.
Entered at the postoffiee at Medford
Oklahoma, as second class matter.
ADVERTISING RATES
ixt Inch i r month for (llsuliJ . <-' 1*"'
line i>pr insertion for locals.
THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1913
EDITORIAL
The Recall.
Parcel post in its present form
is ail experiment. The present
law was in fact enacted only as
a temporary experimental meas-
ure. In the next congress and
in future congresses there will
be many efforts to change the
law. Some will urge its repeal
but all who have studied the ques-
tion recognize that parcel post-
is hore to stay. Some will ad-
1J vocate the change of the law in-
| creasing the size of packages
that may be carried, permitting
C. 0. D. business and the like.
Hut the big fight will be waged
by the mail order houses to se-
cure the kind of a parcel post
they originally advocated, the
flat rate parcel post.
The parcel post is not working
as the mail order houses desired.
They were the first to advocate
its enactment. They led the cam-
paign for it. But the kind of a
parcel post they wanted was one
with a flat rate, the same charge
12 cents a pound for carrying a
package from New York to
Frisco, as for carrying a package
from Medford to Renfrow. Such
Peter Hanraty, the first state
mine inspector, who as a mem-
ber of the constitutional conven-
tion, and in the formation of the
city charter of McAlester, advo-
cated the doctrine of the recall,
is out in Sunday's Oklahoman in
a signed article telling about the
injustice of his recall as mayor
of McAlester, it is a peculiar
working of fate that Hanrat.\ |a proposition seems foolish on its
the labor leader, and one of the .face, yet the present parcel pout
first and most earnest advocates as ^ passed the lower body
of the recall in the state should 0£ congress last year, was of this
be the first public official to be mail order kind.
recalled. Nemesis? The fight first made in the
Hanraty's chief complaint is j10use |JV a handful of men in-
that the liquor interests brought eluding Bird McGuire of this dis-
about his recall because lie en- trict, and later in the senate by
forced the law, and without Ins Senator Bourne is all that saved
having committed any offense, i tbe people from the flat rate, 12
Possibly lie is correct. But
would like to know how
squares his explanation with
advocacy of the recall on
ground that such a system will
bring about better government.
he
his
the
Why Executive Sessions?
cents a pound, parcel post. Such
a parcel post would ruin the
country merchant and by doing
so destroy competition, injure
farm values and do untold dam-
age. It would also deprive all
I users of the parcel post of cheap
rates they enjoy on all but the
, I longest haul. Twelve cents
The Oklahoma house of repres- p0Und }s the highest rate under
entatives is in a stew and has ^jle presej,t iaw a package
started an investigation of stories; ,mg ,eft tho Medford postoffiee
published by the 1 ulsa \\ orlu 0u -which a twelve cent charge
relative to occurrences in exeeu-lwag ma(je Under the mail order
tive sessions of the house? 18 proposal, every person who has
claimed certain members of the sent a paciiage from Medford
house were misrepresented. would have been compelled to
Instead of investigating the pay H higher rate. The average
"leak" wouldn t it be better to|dista.nCe parcels travel is two
avoid future leaks by holding no j hundred miles. This country
more executive sessions? . , ^ j so large that any one rate must
people of Oklahoma have a right necessarily be too high on most
to know what their representa- shipments and too low on many
•tivps and other officers are do-, jlie mail order houses with
Tig and why they are doing it. the 8Upport 0f many eastern con
There is no occasion for the legis-1 gressmen alKi senators are con
lature of Oklahoma
behind closed doors.
members of the house are
afraid of being misrepresented
why not work out in the open
where there will be no oppor-
tunity for misrepresentation.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Never was there a better seed
bed for spring planting than
there is in Grant county.
The house of representatives
of the Oklahoma legislature has
passed, by a vote of seventy-
seven to seven, the Mitchell-
Franklin bill making it a felony
to sell intoxicating liquors in
this state. What are the mem-
bers of the house trying to do
—put Oklahoma City out of busi-
ness ?—Ardmorite.
President Cleveland's given
name was Stephen Grover, but
he discarded Stephen. President-
Elect Wilson was christened
Thomas Woodrow, but he dis-
carded Thomas. Perhaps Colonel
Bryan'8 fatal mistake was in not
dropping William and becoming
Jennings Bryan.—Kansas City
Journal.
A Silo Advocate.
gr
to meet tinuing the fight ,for the abolish
It the men^ 0f the zone system and for
a flat rate parcel post.
Instead of abolishing the pros
ent scale of graduated rates has
ed on distances, there should be
another zone created, say for
twent.v-five miles around each
postoffiee on which a very low
charge should be made. Busi
uess organizations and farmer
organizations must keep a line
on the parcel post question. Whei
the law is modified it should be
in their interests, and not in the
sole interests Of the mail order
The following is clipped from
.an exchange, not for the purpose
of building any false hopes, for
we believe that all will recognize
that the hill has about as much
chance of becoming a law as a
newspaper man has of becoming, houses. Keep alive for the other
a millionaire, but to show how fellow is very much alive,
ardent an advocate of the silo ——r?
is the man who has been familiar A day like last Sunday natiir
with them since boyhood: ally makes one feel that there
"The builder of a home-made will be no more skating.
silo, while a boy on the farm in
old Kentucky, author of the bill To avoid embarassment remem
which proposes to install silos in her that "Suffer little children
Oklahoma at the rate of 5,000 a to come unto me" doesn't apply
year for fifteen years, Represen-, to all meetings.
tative II. II. Smith of Pottawato-
lnu. county, has presented to the, It might be well for Madero to
house of representatives a meas- take a tip from Leo Meyer and
ure which calls for a state bond aret from under before it is too
issue of $2,500,000, the proceeds late.
of which are designated to be
loaned to the farmers of Oklaho- ^°odrow Wilson don t belong
ma for the specific purpose of to the Trade at Home club if
buving or building silos. one may judge troin the number
"The Smith bill provides that times he is reported as "shop-
a farmer may borrow money to pmg in New York."
build a silo, the rate of interest ]M, , , , ~ ,
to be low, and that, when the I J <>« tord demonstrated Sunday
loan is repaid, it shall be at the thf the people are not hard up
service of the next farmer who i "^withstanding crops have-not
desires to borrow money for the
same purpose."
been as good as usual. Over
three hundred dollars was raised
I in a short time as a donation to
Rev. Thompson of Waterloo,
Our guess is that bloodhounds! [owa> to repav him for his time
and a state of anarchy will con-
tinue in Mexico until the strong
arm of the United States is put
forth to restore peace.
in holding the revival here.
Objecting to stories that were
printed in a Portland paper, Gov-
ernor West, of Oregon, tried to
whip the representative of the
paper. That is a very convincing
way some public men have of
disproving articles printed about
them.
As wheat prospects were never
brighter in Grant county we ask-
A congressional district propo-
sition that is gaining much sup-j
port is the proposal of Senator
Roddie that all eight congress-
men be elected by the state at
large. As a matter of safety the
west side democrats should se-
cure an amendment that the old
Indian Territory side of the state! ed several fanners the past week
should not have over seven of I what was now the greatest dan-
the places. The east siders con-jger. "Chinch bugs" in each
trolled the constitutional con- case was the answer. Then why
vention, all of the legislatures, in Sam Hill don't the farmers
elected both governors and a ma- burn the grass along the roads,
jority of the supreme court and burn off the pasture and hay
they might get it in their heads lands, in fact burn every place
to take all eight congressmen they can that may harbor the
And you have got to give it to bugs. It will soon be too late,
them, they generally get what By failing to do this you may be
they want. losing dollars.
Some
More
Bargains
Large supply of good
apples while they
last at
25c a peck
Bulk Coffee, a fine
grade 25c value
23c a pound
:
Style, Fit and Quality
For Wei! Dre «d Men
Man alive-here are the shoes you want. Shoes with
style—ginger—class—the "doggy" kind Shoes made
of real leather by real shoemakers who know how
to make shoes you men admire. They fit snugly
yet comfortably and wear like buckskin. Made
for ali kinds ot men and occasions. They re the
"real stuff" in Men's Fine Shoes. Come in
and see them-
We can supply
the Entire Family
«4fi
One Qf our
J dtvlish But
r ton Model*.
Also made In
Blucher Cut.
Kate Barnard is quoted as
saying: "Gojl help me, I will
never wear a diamond while there
is a striving woman or child in
America." There are several
hundred thousand other people
who, without saying anything
about it, will pursue the same
course regardless of the bread
and abutter problem of others.
—Muskogee Press.
John Fremonts' centenerary
was celebrated Tuesday. But
certain features of his far west-
ern adventures and his high-
handed course at the beginning
of the Civil war, which gave
President Lincoln so much trou-
ble, were ignored in the celebra-
tion. The biggest lie in Mark
Anthony's funeral oration was
that statement about the evil
that men do living after them.
Humanity is kinder than that.
Henry Robbins.
John Kemp, 011 route two, tells
us that he expects to farm the
place he is now 011 for another
year then move to his own farm
in Garfield county, build a silo
and try an easier way of farm-
ing than raising wheat. Kemp
has been keeping tab 011 some of
his neighbors that have silos
and thinks them all right. Out
in that neighborhood Andy and
Charles Steiger and Ora Kuyken-
dall put up silos last summer and
all three of them are finding the] the local merchant decided
ensilage to be a cheap and a )a(lvailtage OV(,r the city concern
splendid feed. Pond Creek News. jn delivering goods by mail, and
0 it's up to liim to get in touch
The following in the Mt. Car-]with the people.—Corrolton Pa-
mcl correspondence to the Ren- triot.
frovv Tribune would not have ap-
SlarXte SSSM Notice to Outers to Present
Patriot. The figures given in Claims.
the Patriot were as they appear County Court in and tor
on the clerk's warrant book. The Grant County Oklahoma.
article referred to then stated:] NOTICE TO CREDITORS
"The balance it will be noticed. In the Matter of the Estate
is a little larger than the differ- "f n go R. Ilaegert, Deceased
nece between the amount of the -^11 persons having claims
Heasty Bros., Medford, Okla.
the catalogues, which was sever-
al times that amount.
The success of the mail order
houses lies in the fact that they
have got the nerve to put lots of
money into advertising their busi-
ness. There is not a merchant
in Corrolton who lias got the
nerve to put into advertising in
the territory that naturally be-
longs to him, in the course of a
whole year, a sum equal to that
which this mail order house paid
for postage alone on advertising
matter sent into this same terri-
tory the past week. Some Cor-
rolton merchants have waked up
to the advantage of advertising,
but some others have crawled in-
to their shells, and are offering
all the inducements in the world
for mail order houses to step in
and gobble up their trade.
It will pay the local merchant,
not only to spend money, but
sleepless nights on the advertis-
ing proposition. Parcel post
estimate and the amount drawn
by the old board. This is due
to the fact that back taxes have
been received and apportioned
that slightly raised the amount
that could be used over the esti-
mate." The Mt. Carmel item fol-
lows :
"What is the matter with Edi- of or the same
tor Croxton's figures? lie claims 'barred. , „ _ ,
in his last issue of the Patriot j Dated the 10th day of Febru-
tliat the excise Board made the ary> A. D. 1913.
following estimate, last summer, I Esther Z. Haegcrt.
for the fiscal year ending June
against said Hugo R. Ilaegert
deceased, are required to present
the same, with the necessary
vouchers, to the undersigned ad-
ministratrix at her residence
near Nash in the County of
Grant, State of Oklahoma, with-
in four months of the date here-
will be forever
said Z. G. Patterson and against
said defendant Jacob E. Fore
for the sum of $235.60 with
$4.32 costs with interest from dat
of judgment, the 7th day of Oc-
tober, A. I). 1912; I have levied
upon certain lands and tenements
belonging to said Jacob E. Fore
not exempt from sale under exe-
cution, for want of goods and
chattels of the said Jacob E.
Fore to-wit: all of an undivided
one-twelfth, (1-12) interest in
the S.E.1/4 Sec. (1) Twp. (27)
North Range (6) W. I. M. situated
in Grant county, Oklahoma, and
have duly caused said lands
and tenements to be appraised
according to law, at $300.00;
now therefore notice is hereby giv
en that in pursuance of the com-
mands of said writ, I will offer
for sale and sell for cash to
to highest bidder said lands and
tenements, or so much thereof
as will satisfy the said judgment
and costs, 011 the 3rd day of
March, 1913, at 2 o'clock p. m.
of said day, at the front door of
the court house in the city of
Medford, in said county and
state.
Witness my hand this 29th day
of January A. D. 1913.
J. F. LAM1SON,
Sheriff Grant County, Oklahoma.
C. T. Frack,
Under Sheriff.
A. C. Glenn attorney for plaintiff
Administratrix.
1913.
Estimate - - $20,669.32
Dr#wn - - - 12,286.05
Balance - - 11,576.35
living a balance of IGrant County, Oklahoma.
19.5.08. Where does this come in NOTICE TO CREDITORS
A. C. Glenn, attorney.
Notice to Creditors
Claims.
In County Court
to Present
in and for
Looks like some one had been
doing considerable guessing.''
They've Got the Nerve.
Thirteen sacks of mail order
catalogues arrived at the Corrol-
ton postoffiee in one mail Tues-
day and other sacks of the same
kind have been arriving in nearly
every mail since. A total of
probably twenty-five sacks have
arrived this week, all for peo-
ple who receive their mail at the
Corrolton postoffiee. Each sack
holds probably forty or fifty
catalogues, a total of at least
one thousand catalogues sent
here.
These catalogues are not given
the advantage of parcel post
rates, but postage is paid on
them at printed matter rates,
eight cents a pound.
The Chicago house that sent Oklahoma, on the 11th day of!March
out these catalogues was- requir-jJanuary A. D. 1913, in an action'of said day at the front door of
ed to put twenty-seven cents in 1 wherein Z. G. Patterson was the Court House in the City of'of February, 1913.
stamps on every catalogue, which plaintiff and Jacob E. Fore was Medford, Grant county, Oklaho-! J. F. LAMISON,
means that the postage bill for | defendant commanding me to ma, I will offer said above men-. Sheriff Grant County Oklahoma.
In the matter of the Estate
of Dora L. Hooven, deceased
All persons having claims
against said Dora L. Hooven de-
ceased, are required to present
the same, with the necessary
vouchers, to the undersigned ad-
ministrator at his residence near
Wakita in the County of Grant,
State of Oklahoma, within four
months of the date hereof or the
same will be forever barred.
Dated the 7th dav of Febru-
ary A. D. 1913.
W. A. Black,
Administrator.
A. C. Glenn, attorney.
Sheriff's Sale.
Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of a writ of execution
issued out of the clerk's office
of the district court in and for
the county of Grant, State of
In The District Court of Grant
County, State of Oklahoma.
No. 1888
W. C. Muegge, Plaintiff
vs.
The Lamont Mercantile, Real
Estate Company, a corporation,
and M. A. Buffington, Defend-
ants.
NOTICE OF SHERIFF'S SALE
WHEREAS 011 the 28th day
of January, 1913, an order of
sale was duly issued by the Dis-
trict Court of Grant county,
State of Oklahoma, in a certain
action therein pending wherein
ment and order of sale directed.
Witness my hand the 28th day
of January A. D. 1913.
J. F. LAMISON,
Sheriff of Grant County.
J. B. Drennan,
Attorney for Plaintiff.
In The District Court of Grant
County Oklahoma.
No. 1853.
Lydia Schwartz, Plaintiff
vs.
George T. McCarroll, Sadie Mc-
Carroll and the Northwest
Thresher Company, a corporation,
Defendants.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Notice is hereby given that in
pursuance of an order of sale is-
sued out of the office of the
Clerk of the District Court in and
for the County of Grant and
State of Oklahoma, on the 15th
day of April, 1912, in a certain
action therein Lydia Schwartz
was plaintiff and George T. Mc-
Carroll, Sadie McCarroll and the
Northwest Thresher Co., a cor-
poration were defendants, com-
manding me to sell the following
described real estate situate in
the County of Grant and State
of Oklahoma, to-wit:
Lots One (1), Two (2), Four
(4), Eight (8) and Nine (9), in
Block Thirty-three (33); and
the undivided one-half interest
in lots Six (6) and Seven (7),
in Block Thirty-three (33), all
in the Town of Medford, togeth-
er with one certain one and one-
half story frame house located
in the public street abutting and
adjoining said lot One (1) in
said Block Thirty-three (33) on
the north side thereof, to satisfy
a certain judgment and decree of
foreclosure in favor of said plain-
tiff and the said defendant, the
Northwest Thresher Co., a cor-
poration; and against the said
defendants George T. McCarroll,
and Sadie McCarroll, which said
judgment and decree of fore-
W. C. Muegge was plaintiff and closure provides that said pro-
The Lamont Mercantile, Real 1 perty shall be sold and that the
Estate Company, a corporation, 1 proceeds of the sale of s$id lots
and M. A. Buffington were de-jOne (1) and Two (2), in Block
fendants, the same being case | Thirty-three shall be divided
No. 1888; therein, commanding equally between the above nam-
me the undersigned Sheriff of! ed plaintiff and the defendant,
Grant county to advertise and the Northwest Thresher Company
sell according to law without ap-
praisement the following describ-
ed property, to-wit: Lot No. Five
(5) in Block No. Fifty-Three
(53) in the Town of Lamont,
Grant county, Oklahoma, accord-
ing to the recorded plat thereof
to satisfy a certain judgment
rendered in said action on the
25th day of July 1912 in favor
of the plaintiff and against the
defendants The Lamont Mercan-
tile, Real Estate Company, a cor-
poration, and M. A. Buffington
in the sum of $545.85 with inter-
est thereon at the rate of 6 per
cent per annum from the date
hereof until paid, and for a fur-
ther sum of $72.95 accrued costs
and for the remaining accruing
cost of said action.
Now therefore notice is here-
by given that on the 7th day of
1913. at 2 o'clock p. m.
and that one-half thereof shall
be applied to the satisfaction of
the judgment of said plaintiff
amounting to $259.67, and that
ihe balance of the proceeds of
the rest and residue of the pro-
perty herein described shall be
applied to satisfy the lien and
judgment of the defendant, the
Northwest Thresher Company to
the amount of said judgment to-
wit: the sum of $862.50, and
costs accruing, I will on Friday
the 21st day of March, 1913, at
the hour of one p. m. of said day
at the front door of the court
bouse in the Town of Medford,
in the County of Grant and
State of Oklahoma, offer for sale
and sell to the highest bidder
for cash the said property above
described, or so much thereof as
will satisfy said judgment, to-
gether with interest and costs.
Witness my hand this 1st day
pKrnarv 1Q15
the supposed 1,000 copies to Car- levy upon property belonging to, tioned and described 'real pro-
rolton alone was $270. Mind, the said defendant Jacob E. Fore perty for sale and sell same to
that was for postage. Raying sufficient to satisfy a judgment the highest and best bidder for
nothing of the cost of printing rendered in said action in favor'cash in hand, as in said judg-
By. C. T. Frack.
Under Sheriff.*
F. G. Walling, attorney for
plaintiff. 4.13.
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