The Waurika News (Waurika, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 38, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 1910 Page: 4 of 12
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Wlhy Not
IK22p CooD?
During the summer right at home
For a very small cost we install
an electric Fan in your home or
office and the cost of operation is
no more than your soda bill
With a Fan you get the ocean
breeze without its attendant cost
Phone 52 and let’s talk about it
Waurika Ice
& Electric Co
THE WAURIKA NEWS
F W Anderson Editor
Published at Waurika Jefferson
County Oklahoma
On ranted circulation double h
hnv other paper lo Jeflereoa county O
botna JoDoepartmentBewmnd complete
Entered no ecnd clui matter at Win
riba Oklahoma June 8 1406 under act of
Cougreaa of March 8 l?9-
SubtcrlpHoa On Dollar a Tear la Advance
AU reference in three column to matter
political are paid for unless otherwise
specified
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Subject to the Democratic primary
For CoearMa Fifth District
SCOTT FERRIS
For guu Senator
DR L B SUTHERLAND
For Sheriff
JAMES S ROCHE
JOHN WRIGHT
L B LOYD
WARREN R BROWN
C T CHRISTIAN
For Treasurer
JIM E HOWARD
W J CHAPMAN
ALEX C SAVAGE
GEO T BENNETT'
For County Attorney
JAY G CLIFT
P T HAMILTON
For Reylnterof Deed:
D W HUGHES
M C FISHER
For County Clerk
JOE B STEELE
C V EASTERLING
Far Ditr! ct Clerk
R F BROWN
Far County Judg
G M BOND
JOHN W BALDWIN
D D HARTSELL
B T PRICE
Far County Superintendent
L L WADE
R C WHITE
For Cauuniaoiuoer Precinct Na L
N P GILES
T A EDMONDS
For County Weiriwr
JESSE A ZACHAR?
£D WILLIAMS
Hank Spedden say3 that when
le sees Waurika people wearing j
vershoes he thinks the drouth
3 broken
The rains have caused the
wee is to grow Be tter cut them
now while they are young and
before they breed disease
When Builder arc Basj
the demand for lumber is
naturally greatest There
is every indication of good
turns coming so now is the
time to make your lumber
contracts and arrange ahead
for future deliveries so as
not to be handicapped for
want of material Our yards
are stocked to the utmost
capacity with the very best
grades for all building pur-
pones so fall in line and let
ua have your orders
SOUTH TEXAS LUMBER CO
The city marshal has a notice
in this week’s issue warning peo-
ple to clean up their premises
Some people who have no regard
for their own surroundings or
those of their neighbors need
such- warning and should b e
made to clean up It is dangerous
to the health of the town to let
refuse run riot Better clean up
before the marshal makes you a
visit
The copious rains have come at
last and no one now croaks but
the frogs While the oat and
wheat crops are practically ruin-
ed it will not hurt a great deal
for the ecreage was small Corn
is in fine shape grass is looking
good and cotton is better off
than in places where rains have
been plentiful It looks like a
bumper year for Jefferson
county and Waurika will get
her share of the prosperity
With regard to the holding of
a Panama Exposition two cities
are candidates for the location —
New Orleans and San Francisco
That such an exposition ought
to be held everyone agrees and
it probably will be held but all
reason and logic points to New
Orleans as the proper place It
is the Gulf states that will most
largely be benefited bv the open-
ing of the canal and New Or-
leans in the center of that
region After the opening of
the canal the South will come
into her own and it means much
to Oklahoma as the traffic that
goes east and west will he turn-
ed southward through Okla-
homa to the Gulf It means
moje railroads and better rail-
roads No one denies the advantages
of good reads Bad road3 cost
the farmer more than any possi-
ble tax that could he levied
against him Of late years the
use of automobiles has caused a
revival of good road sentiment
and this is quickened in this part
of the state by the fact that the
Glidden tour will he through
Waurika hence if we have good
roads it means that this route
will permanently be established
It means much valuable adver-
tising m the eastern states
Good roads mean that the farm-
er can get his produce to market
with the least possible cost Sup-
pose we make some effort in the
next few weeks to make our
roads better? The cost will be
small compared to results ob-
tained Mmf
I have moved my Feed Seed
Hay Grain and Flour store from
the Heim building to the brick
formerly occupied by E S Wise-
man on east side of Main street
where I am better than ever pre-
pared to serve the public in this
line
You are invited to call and see
me at the new quarters
W E Conner
Cltan-up Halloa
Parties are hereby warned to
remove all hogs from town ard
to clean up their premises of all
refuse cans etc and to cut the
weeds under the penalty of law
I Geo Tucker Marshal
WHEN THE WORKER RESTS
Hit Enjoyment It Ofttn Envied by
tht Idlt Who Cannot Sharo
In Ita Delights
A tenia of deprivation almott ot
having been robbed comet when peo-
ple are having a vacation that be-
came of one'a not working one falla
to benefit by Eaater vacation! ara
being enjoyed by no end of people
and they all teem to be having aucb
a delightful time There la a holiday
air about them an Idle kicking ot
heela and letting the crowd paaa by
that DMkea one very envloua If they
get up every ordinary morning at 7
while you rli-e at 9 or a little after
that does not teem to In the leaat
even thlnga up or make you feel leaa
hurt at being unable to share their
present aenae of having a gala week
To them the week is different from
the weeks that went before anf the
weeks that coma after To you It la
Just tha tame They feel the novelty
of doing usual things at unusual
hours Your hours are not regulated
and nothing but living by rote would
seem novel
You remember yeara ego when yon
were quite small and your health too
bad to admit your going to school
that you were once brought to teara
by your Inability to appreciate Satur-
day morning aa the school children
did They never by any chance mis-
took It for any other day and you
sometime! bad They were always
nolay with gayety on that one day
and you went through a weekly de-
pression at not having a sense of es-
cape of liberty of delightful differ-
ence when the others did If thlnga
are only nice by 'contrast one must
then cultivate contrast Work was no
doubt Invented that play should for-
ever hold Ita own and never be usual
but always have a genuine Saturday
morning sparkle Ita enlivening qual-
ity la shown by our being willing to
work five days merely to lead up to It
And we ara right for to have Satur-
day morning all round and because
ot our idleness to be abut out from It
one Is rendered so sad so Injured so
futllely protesting under punishment
that seems a little over severe
She Was Dear to Him
He bad called that evening expressly
to tell her how dear aha was to him
but always a atrange awkwardness
embarrassed him In her pretence and
words failed him Therefore he took
her mother and herself to the Plaza
for supper
The next day he felt that he couu
no longer keep silent that he must
tell her how inexpressibly dear she
was to him But again hit courage
deserted him so he sent her some
orchids Instead
They met at a dance the next night
and once more he tried to tell her and
once more he failed So be asked her
to go to the opera with him that week
The next afternoon ft waa snowing
hard He went for a walk The keen
bracing air put new spirit In him and
soon he found himself at her house de-
termined to tell her the worse As
soon aa he tried to apeak of his love
he became tongue-tied and sat awk-
wardly miserably silent So be asked
her to take a sleigh ride Instead
He hasn’t yet told her how dear she
la to him She may never know But
he knows — for all his bills came In the
end of the week — Judge's LILrary
California Rainmaker Makes Good
The word comes from Fallbrook
the center of a large bay and grain
country a few miles north of this
valley that Paul Hatfield the aon ot
a farmer living near the vllluge will
receive from the farmers $1'0 which
was to be handed over to him If the
country should be visited by an Inch
of rain between the middle and Hie
last of March Hatfield Is oneXref
the famous family of rainmakers of
that name When the farmers were
despairing of getting rain and Aran-
da! ruin was staring many of them
In the face Hatfield circulated a pa-
per pledging each of the signers to
contribute to a rain making fund The
subscriptions ranged all the way from
1 to 35 The money has been gladly
paid over by the ranchmen although
none of them appear to care wbat the
rainmaker did to earn bis cash The
fall In the Fallbrook country was 165
for tbo last storm and aa most of the
grain waa sown early being upon
rolling ground a large crop is as-
sured — Los Angeles Times I
Original Comments In an Art Oallsry
It la such bad taste for people In a
picture gallery to make the same re-
mark about the paintings that one has
Just finished emitting with great spon-
taneity and fervor It takes all one’s
pleasure not to say pride from one’s
remarks It would almost aeem If It
wert any one In tha world but oneself
that one had banal feelings about the
pictures That being quite out of the
question tberjjs nothing for It but to
lay all me blaKa on the other people
They should know Rhea an adjective
has been used and find something else
or If they ara lacking In alt originality
they must wait until you have passed
on Tbo thought does occur— wbat do
tha people Just ahead of one say—
aurely not the asms — ah that would
bo too much If one Is not lbs last
one la at least tha Brat
Bound to Got Him
The telephone bell ratig In tha In-
spector's room at tha Long Wharf
Immigration station and there waa a
-call for aomebody who was out
“Do you know where ho HP' came
the Inquiry In dulcet tones over tha
wire
"Ye he's on schooner”
"Well what’s tha schooner's tele-
phone number?”— Boston Journal
“What ! " cried the tall girl and tha
short girl simultaneously and unbe-
lievingly “Yes" Insisted the fat man and tha
thin man likewise In chorus
“If you are going on this merry lit-
tle Jaunt Into tha country you will
have to rise with the lark" explained
the tbln man “because the car leaves
down town at nine o'clock"
“Oh well It Isn't aa If we couldn't
do lt“ said the tall girl heroically
So the next morning the four of
them caught the electric car
There bad been a sudden faint drto-
tie of rain but aa they whlszed on
past the last cottages on the prairie
west of town the sun bobbed ont again
The level country waa a rich green
and the sky waa very blue
“1 teel“ said the fat man aa though
1 were threatened with a good lima
today”
“I have exactly the same feeling”
said the thin man
After a time the level country waa
succeeded by country that was broken
and rolling There were glimpses of
brooks with the willows trailing Fellow-green
fingers In the water and
dumps of maples and sycamores pub
ting out glistening young leaves Soma
grazing cattle threw upthelr heads
and switched their tails and a scared
horse galloped to the farther end of a
meadow aa tha car shot by
Through tha open car windows cams
the persistent cheerful melody of
meadow larks The tall girl bad mild
hysterics when she actually saw two
of tbs Httle aongsters balancing on a
fence rail When the short girl spied
a real robin excitement ran high
In soma of tba neat yards of fartn-
bousea there were little round patches
ot tulips In bloom and the bushes
covered with golden Sowers wboea
name no human being remembers Vil-
lages decorated with gorgeous cono-
try clubs and plain villages In their
natural state of' simplicity fled by
The streets were full of people enjoy-
ing the remarkable spring day
They were at tha end of the electric
line before they knew It and got a sur-
rey and two white borsea one -of
which seemed tame and one savage
because It bad a wall ays and rolled
It
“Excuse me" said Iba tall girl “but
as none of us knows how to drive I
shall feel far safer if I hold the lines
mysetf Driving will occupy my mind
so that I shan't have time to worry
about wbat may happen I am posi-
tive that the wall-eyed horse doesn't
like us No doubt well have a run-
away!” “That being the case" said the tbln
man “I will sit In the back seat
where egresa from the doomed vehicle
Is easiest I am great on backward
somersaults!"
It whs noon and much warmer A
big white butterfly floated along tha
roadside and yellow dandelion
speckled the grass Some freshly
plowed land sent forth Ita rich earthy
fragrance and in one farmyard alt
prawly little colts stumbled up against
their mothers and stared The world
waa very new to them A bunch off
fat pigs squealed and galloped away
with their abaurd rocking-horse gait
Presently by a graj rail fence ap-
pesrl a flock of sheep sadly In
need of laundering Among them were
a dozen lambs with funny black legs
looking aa though they bad waded
through Ink -
"Stop the borsea!" commanded the
fat man Then he waved his hands at
the flock “Cambolillttle lambs" he
ordered “Gambol consarn you!"
And they did If you have never
seen Infant lambs with atlck-up ears
and stiff black legs shootlrg out at all
angles Just as though they bad never
heard of the theory of gravitation flit-
ting over the green yflj have lived la
valnt
Like most thtnga In life the horses
did not act as had been expectedThe
wall-eyed one plodded along steadily
but every time It turned a corner the
tame one ran away The driver got
excited and bunted up corners Just to
convince herself of the truth of this
but still the tame steed Invariably ran
All these corners of course bad to be
negotiated on the return trip so the
ride was rather abrupt In spots
After dinner at a hotel they took
the electric car again nnd rode along
the bank of the river with fishermen
fishing and aspiring canoes shooting
out from unexpected spots past foamy
dams and clumps of woodland past
high hills crowded with rich men's
country mansions overlooking miles of
river valley and farm land andtpast
little nooks In the rocky hills shelter
tiiV bungalows and summer cottages '
' Finally they turned about and took
a car back to Chicago Suddenly a
Jagged lightning flash ripped the aky
there waa a thunder crash and tha
April rain stormed down It blotted
out the brooks and trees aai wood-
lands and turned the car window gray
It found little cracka In the car roof
and dripped down Into the collar of
the fat man and on the'alry sleeve of
tbs short girl but nubody cared They
laughed aa they bad laughed all day
Then ft cleared and In the dim
quiet of the sunset they whined away
from the green and gold peace of the
unshlny country back to Chicago
Into the racket and garish tights and
humping cars and hurrying automo-
biles and nervoua rushing people and
hard stone pavemente
“Well It was n pleasant day” aald
one of the four
“And tomorrow" aald another gf
them “begins the same old grind!”
RESPONDED TO CALL
VOUNG MAN HEARD VOICE OP
DUTY AND OBEYED
Real Courage Displayed In Becoming
' Center of Interest to Crowd and
Saving Wretched Horse Prom
III Treatment
The horse dragging a street piano
along the main thoroughfare of n
large New England city was so evi-
dently Inadequate to hla task that peo-
ple turned and looked at It Borne
laughed — It waa a funny sight to them
to see such a raw-boned half-starved
rat of a horse dragging the gaudy In-
strument with a fat man tramping
sturdily along beside It but others
looked serious Something ought to
be done about It The thing waa an
outrage and why did not the police
attend to It? But whether they smiled
or frowned nobody took any definite
action
Two young men came along the
sidewalk together They looked at
the spectacle In disgust but were go-
ing on their way like the others when
one of them hesitated and then
a topped abruptly -
“Why doesn't somebody get that fat
villain's name and have the society
that looks after animals take that
beast away from him?" he demanded
sharply of bis companion
The other smiled
“Why don't you?” he naked 'per-
tinently “Well why don't I?” The other
drew a long breath “Because I'm
afraid of having the crowd call me a
‘butter-ln That'! the trouble with
moat of ua 1 wouldn't be afraid to
stand up In front of any man in sight
In an out-and-out fight and aa for
that man either of us could turn him
over and spank him without taking
out coats off But we're all afraid of
betng considered chicken-hearted"
“Right you are Billy" agreed his
companion “But I don’t nee Just wbat
you're going to do about It"
“Wbat I am going to do about It”
exclaimed Billy “la to kick myaelf
across the street and take the first
stepa toward separating that man
from bla horse! And I'm not going to
let myseircare a snap who sees me
doing It"
True to his determination the young
man strode across the street and
stopped the procession A moment
later and a little crowd of Interested
spectators concealed him from bis
companion The crowd grew Pres-
ently It attracted the attention of a
distant policeman who hurried up and
forced his way Into it There were
signs of lively discussion then the
crowd melted and Billy rejoined his
companion
"That horse" he remarked trium-
phantly “Is now going to be handed
over to ‘the society that takes care of
'em 1 felt like a fool while I was do-
ing It but I'm glad I did It”
Precious Mexican Retie
In the chapel of a monastery at
Puebla Mexico Is one of the most pre-
cious relics of the Spanish conquest
of America It Is a small wooden
statuette of the Virgin Mary with the
Infant Jesus In her arms Battered
and worm-eaten as It la It la dressed
In silks and gold and Jewels and placed
npon the high altar for the veneration
of the faithful For It was given to
Hernando Cortes by the Emperor
Charles V snd the famous conquista-
dor carried It throughout hla career
The relic at one time saved the Ilf
of Cortex during battle But for It
Mexico's history would have been dif-
ferent One hand has been replaced by a
hand of silver This band waa shot
away by a bullet that would othetv
wise have killed Cortes He gave tb4
statue to Ariotecatlec captain of the
republic of Tlaxcala who was his ally
Ever since his days It has remained In
the monastery but there Is now a
movement to tako It to the National
museum where the ravages of time
and worms can bo checked
Old Industry Outstripped
An Instance of the young whale
swallowing the old pnals Illustrated
In the Jute Industry of Dundee and
Calcutta ' It appears that tha Dun-
dee Jute Industry dates from 1878 a
parcel of 40 tons of Jute having been
imported by a sailing ship captain In
that year and In 1855 the first spin-
ning machinery waa sent from Dundee
to Calcutta and the first Indian Jut
mill was established on land that once
belonged to Wkrren Hastings Now
there are 38 Jute spinning companies
In India and every day the Indian
mills produce about 8500 tons as
against only about one-third of that
quantity produced In Dundee In a day
Already Dundee has been completely
outstripped and the process' is still
going on
Easily Solved
A New York poet at the Author’s
club In Bevenlh avenue told Conan
Doyle etory 1
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” bo tald
"sat at a dinner on hla last visit here
beside a lady who asked leave to con
ult him about some thefts
“'My detective powers’ be replied
‘are igyaur service madam’
'Well’ aald the lady ‘frequent and
mysterious theft bare been occurring
at my house for n long time Thus
there disappeared last week a motor
horn a broom a box of golf balls a
left riding boot a dictionary and
half-dosen tin pie-plates'
” 'Aha' said the creator of Sherlock
Holmes the case madam la quit
leaf You keep m goaf ”
A F & A M
A f A A- M meet ftnd and tb Wedoei
night in their bail VUillng brother
dialiy Invited to attend
J N JounaToMWl
H- i Licit Secretary
Church Directory
PRESBYTERIAN— Service every Sabbat
tl o’clock a n and ?dup n Bible school m
Sabbath a 10 o’clock a m Prayer meeting V
neeriay evening at 7:86 A cordial Invitetioa
these service
W A CRAVENS Paat
M E CHURCH SOUTH— Preaching ef
Hunoay at U a- m and? p tn Sunday net
at 10 a m Prayer meeting Wedncu
evening Epwortb League Sunday af
noon at 8 o'clock Everybody cordially
vlted to these meeting
JC CROOK Paato
CATHOLIC— Service everv Third Sunt
morning at 10:80 by Rev McManu In i
Opera House All are Invited to attend
The Church eg Christ will meat at tha I
Inr achool building at tea o’clock oaeh Sua
morning for bibie study and communion aervl
at 11 A M Everybody welcome B W Reas
T O McCann Will M Midkiff Elder
BAPTIST— Preaching every Sunday at
and 7:80 Hunday school at Id Prayer m
Ing Tbumoay evening at 7:80 Choi
clan Wedneatlay oigbte at 7 o'clock aba
Stranger especially invited to three m
Inga
Railroad Tima Card
MAIN LINK
bouts boupd
Train No II Arrives i ns a
Train No 88 Arrives 4:o4p
Train No W Chkkaeha aecommcdat’u 6:66 n
Train No 67 Ft Worth 6:46 a
HOSTS BUCSD
Tra!o No It Arrive 49
Train No 84 Arrive j IS 48 p
Train No 60 Chicks ha accommodation 6:66 a
Train No 66 ft Worth accommodat’a lOdop
laAWTO BURCI
Train No 758
Train No 768
t:8S p
7 0 p
6BMBTI
Train No 74
Train No 766
1-40 a I
1:06 p I
Waurika and Com tab Mall Route Leave W
rtka 7 a n and arrive at Waurika 7 p m eve
lay except Sunday Passenger service ov
this Route SlfiO one way fgdo round trip
M V PLE8S Contractor Phono M
Podtoffice Hour
oiumr winnow ©ran
Work days from I a into Ip n
Sundave from 8 p m to 4 p tn
Lobby open from 6 a m to 6 ptn
Qr JAS C JOHNSTON
Physician & Surgeon
Office la Bueh Building vp-etafr
Residence over Hardy Dry Good Slot
Office Phone 166 Residence Phone 166
PRANK J BAUM M D
Physician and Surgeon
Ofteo-Rooms 1 and A Hunter Building
TlepHonte ( m
Call answered promptly day or nlgkL
I F- SPRADLING
'Attorney at Law
Practices In All (be Couiu
Cornish Oklahoma
VM S PENNELL
DENTIST
— Offices —
Over First National Bank
WAURIKA OKLAHOMA
E J flroaddua J UClifl
Broaddus & Clift
LAWYERS
Office In) Hunter Building
Waurika Oklahoma
NC PETERS
Attorney-at-Law
Office over First National Bank s
Waurika Oklahoma
JOSEPH T DILLARD
Lawyer
Waurika Okla
CHy Justice of
the Peace
S M BOND
DENTIST
Cumiiogliani Bl’df Office phone 118
B F I1AYNIE
Optometrist
and
Optician
In Broaddus’ Drug Stois
J H MELTON-
Expert Boot and Shoe Work
School Shoe Repairing a specialty
Southwest of Stuard Hotel
1 have Plenty of Money
to Loan on Farms
Money paid ever as soon
as papers sie signed
SPENCER JONES
Tel 551 Deer Grove Line
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