The American (Comanche, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1915 Page: 1 of 4
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Historical SocUt
VOL VIII NO 13
COMANCHE STEPHENS COUNTY OKLAHOMA THURSDAY AUGUST 12 1915
WHOLE NO 377
THE REVIVAL MEETINGS
Church of Christ
The series of revival meetings
at the Church of Christ which be-
gan July 31 continues to grow in
interest and results fourteen ad-
ditions to date
Two services are held each day
one at IQ o’clock in the morning
in the church and the other at 8:30
PM in the open air
Elder Borden has been deliver-
ing a serif discourses that ap-
peals to the intelligence of his con-
gregations and large crowds have
been attending every evening
service-
Methodist Protestant
The meeting at the M P
Church still in progress but will
perhaps close Thursday night
Congregations have not beeu large
but the intrest has been very good
throughout not so good however
as had been anticipated two have
been wonderfully saved to date
and many of the members greatly
strengthened One only has united
with the Church
At the M E Church
Under the leadership of our
new Pastot Rev Throgmorton
our church has taken on new life
attendance at Sunday School is
ncreasing also church services
for when one heares this godly
man once they 'want to eo'me back
again
Preparations are being made
for a grand rally day in our Sun-
day School the first Sunday in
September
If you have been a member but
have dropped out come back for
no one can fill YOUR place If
your child is not in Sunday School
don’t send him but come and
BRING him
Strangers are especielly invited
to come and worship with us
THIRTEENTH ANNUAL CARNIVAL
With Comanche’s One Big Annual Event a Week Off The Usual Activity is Being
Manifested on Every Hand A Number of Visitors Have Already Arrived
For this Event The Indications areCood for an Increased attendance
J W Tucker of Byers Texas
arrived Monday to spend a week
or two wit his son P W Tucker
and family
For a Stafe Tax Commission
The long and strenuos effot3 of
the State Equalization Board to
get an equitable adjustment of
tax value in Oklahoma for this
year should attract the attention
of the taxpayers to the careful
consideration of the proposition
now before the voters' of the state
to amend the Consitution and pro-
vide for a Tax Commission to
handle the entire subject of taxa-
tion It may be that after due
and full consideration the voters
of Oklahoma will feel inclined to
reject the tax commission method
of handling tax matters but it
certainly does appear that we
ought to find some method that
would be more satisfactory and
less burdensome on those state
officers who have been selected
for their special qualifications to
perform other and necessary ex-
ecutive and administrative duties
Efficient government is not ad-
vanced by adding to the pres-
cribed duties of a state officer
enough ex-officiq duties to require
practically all his time and the
tax matters of the state are suf-
ficiently important that they
ought to call for the contiuous ef-
forts of trained experts and not
be subject to experiments and
changes that must necessarily
follow each change in administra-
tion This is one propositian for
an amendment to the constitution
that should provoke earnest and
careful study by the intelligent
taxpayer
Doan’s Regulets are recom-
mended by many who say they
operate easily without grasping
and without bad after effects
25c at all Drug stores
1— Introductory
“Know America" Is a slogan that
should ring out from every school
room office farm and shop In this na-
tion No man can aspire to a higher
honor than to become a capable citl-
sen and no one can merit so dte-
tlngulshed a title until he is well In-
formed of the resources possibilities
and achievements of our country
This is a commercial age and civ-
ilization Is bearing its most golden
fruit in America We are noted for
our industrial achievements as Egypt
was noted for her pyramids Jerusa-
lem for her religion Greece for her
art Phoenicia for her fleets Chaldea
for her astronomy and ‘Rome for her
laws Likewise we have men who will
go down in the world’s history as pow-
erful products of their age For stand-
ing at the source of every gigantic
movement that sways civilization is a
great man The greatest minds travel
In the greatest direction and the com-
mercial geniuses of this age would
have been the sculptorB poets phil-
osophers architects and artists of
earlier civilizations
As Michael Angelo took a rock and
' with a chisel hewed it into the image
of an angel that ever beckons man-
kind upward and onward Hill took
the desert of the Northwest and with
bands of steel made it blossom like a
rose dotted the valleys with happy
homes and built cities in waste places
As Guttenberg took blocks of wood
and whittled them into an alphabet
and made a printing press that
flashed education across the con-
tinent like a ray of light upon
a new born world McCormick took
a bar of iron and bent it into
a reaper and with one sweep of
bis magic mind broke the shackles
that enslaved labor of generations yet
unborn and gave mankind freedom
from drudgery and lifted the human
race into a higher zone of life
As Nelson organized the English navy
and made England mistress of the sea
enabling the British Isles to plant her
flag upon every continent washed by
the ocean’s waves and to make foot-
stools of the Islands of every water
Morgan organized a banking system
that has made America master of the
world's finances brought Kings to our
cashier’s windows the nations of the
earth to our discount desks and placed
under the industries of thlB nation a
financial system as solid as the Rock
of Gibraltar
There is no study quite so interest-
ing as progress no sound so magic
as the roar of Industry and no sight
so inspiring as civilization in action
A full realization of America's part in
the great events of the world past
present and future will thrill every
human heart with pride patriotism
and faith in Republican institutions
Through the courtesy of the Agri-
cultural and Commercial Press Ser-
vice the readers of this paper will be
permitted to study America her ag-
ricultural manufacturing and min-
eral development mercantile bank-
ing and transportation systems which
are the wonder of the world The
first article of the series will deal
with transportation and will appear
at an early date
SEVERAL NEW FEATURES BILLED THIS SEASON
Comanche’s Thirteenth Annual Carnival
the one Big Annual Feast of Amusement in
Southwest Oklahoma will begin one week
from today and will continue three days
The committee in charge delayed the final
announcement of the principal attractions
until the first of this week in order to close a
deal for some Special Features that will be of
particular interest to everyone
There will be 1 8 special features Thursday
the first day that you should not miss seing
as they are never exhibited at ordinary pic-
nics and reunions but oniy at such events as
the Comanche Carnival and the Oklahoma
State Fair
COME TO THE CARNIVAL!
WEATHER FORECAST
! For the Week Beginning Wednesday Aug II 1915
j Issued by the U S Weather Bureau Washington D C
I - SPECIAL NOTICE— Thei’&ie-ip&pical -disturbance over the
southern Windward Islahd section and weather in the ter-
ritory east of the Mississippi River for the coming week is
largely dependent upon the movement of this disturbance
! At present indications are as follows:
For West Gulf State including Louisiana Arkanaat Oklahoma and Texu
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Thunderstorms for two or three days followed by generally
air weather thereafter- Seasonable temperature
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Good Wheat Sold for $110
Comanche is developing into
quite a Wheat market lately the
fact that more wheat has been
marketed here the past week than
ever before in the same length of
time is sufficient proof that lacal
buyers are paying top prices
Good wheat sold for $1 10 per
bushel here today Thursday
L C Ramsdale returned Mon-
day from northern Oklahoma and
Kansas where he has been work-
ing in the harvest fields- He re-
ports a good yield of wheat and
oats in that country but that the
excessive rainfall had greatly re-
tarded threshing
J M Bell of Clovis New Mex-
ico arrived Thursday to look af-
ter business matters and to visit
friends a few days
Advertised Letters
The following letters remain un-
claimed in the Postoffice at Comanche
Oklahoma Aug 6 1016 If not called
fer within 16 days they ill be seDt to
the Dead Letter Office at Wnehington
D C When calling for these letters
please say “Advertised” and pay lc
No 1 G B Holland
No -2 Mrs Joe Brown
No 3G B Holland
No 4 Rev 8 L Hogan
No 5 G B Holland
No 6 G B Holland
No 7 M R Jones
No 8 Birdie Moruan
No 9 Paul Ht aden
No 10 L M Steen
P W Tucker P M
Any skin itching is a temper
tester The more you scratch the
worse it itches- Doan’s Ointment
is for piles eczema— any skin it-
ching 50c at all stores
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ANNOUNCEMENT
We wish to announce to the
public that we have purchased
the Rexall Drug Store of Mr R
C Hunton and will continue the
business at the same location with
A B Weakley in charge
We solicit a share of your busi-
nesc and will say that we are
prepared to takd care of your
wants in our liue No order will
be too large or none too small to
have prompt and carefnl attention
Difficult Prescriptions a special-
ty W e never Substitute
' THE REXALL DRUG STORE
A B Weakley & Co Pracs
Odom-Medley
Mr Herman Odam and Miss
Dora Medley were united in the
holy bonds of matrimony at the
home of the bride’s parents Mr
and Mrs J A Medley northwest
of town Sunday afternoon at five
o’clock Rev G P Parker said
the magic words that made them
one
The groom is a son of Mr and
Mrs J L Odom
The many friends of the happy
couple wish them a long happy
and prosperous married life
Stricken Suddenly
Thomas W MsGuire living
southwest of town near Madden
Grove died suddenly last Satur-
day at his hame He had been
hauling hay and worrying" with a “
balky team he became overheated
and walked to the well ( in his
yard and taking a cool draught of
water he feil prostrate and ex-
pired in a few minutes
The remains were laid to rest
in the Comanche cemetery Sun-
day afternoon Rev J J Warn
of Velma conducting the funeral
service
The bereaved family have the
sympathy of their many friends
in this time of sorrow
W T Mongomery of
was a business visitor
anche last Saturday
m
Plover
Com-
VIII— C E Schaff
On Railway Investments
President Wilson recently referring to our railroad'
problems said in part: "They are indispensable to
our whole economio life and railway securities are at
the ver)r heart of most Investments large and small publla
and private by individuals and by institutions
There is no other interest so central to the business wel-
fare of the country as this No doubt in the light of the
new day with its new understandings the problem of the
railroads will also be met and dealt with in a spirit ot
candor and justice”
When the first citizen of the land stresses the Import)
ance of understanding and dealing Justly with the rail-
roads certainly the American plowman can venture upon
a careful study of the problem C E Schaff president of the M K & T
railway company when asked to outline the relation of the publio to rail
roads investments said in part:
“It may be said that the railroad world Is encumbered with a lot of
phantoms which exist only in the popular fancy For Instance because
there have been a few so-called ‘railroad magnates’ whose names have figured
prominently in finance many people have come to believe that the railroads
of the country are largely owned by a few rich men As a matter of fact
nothing could be farther from the truth Out of the colossal sum of twenty
billion dollars jf American railroad securities less than five per cent is now
or ever has been in the hands of these men who have figured prominently in
the newspaper headlines — while the other 95 per cept is In the hands of over
two million investors large and small who in many Instances have put ths
modest savings of a lifetime into these securities in order that they might
lay away a competency for old age When therefore the value of these
securities is depressed or perchance destroyed the hardship is a hundred-
fold greater upon thousands of every-day citizens than upon the handful of
millionaires good or bad who have figured prominently In railroad circles
Hundreds of millions of dollars of the assets of our great life and fire
Insurance companies savings banks trust companies educational and fiduciary
institutions are invested in railroad bonds — and the moment therefore that
the soundness of these bonds Is called info question the financial solidity of
these myriad Institutions— directly affecting the welfare of millions of policy-
holders and bank depositors — is gravely menaced During the last several
years many millions of dollars representing depreciated values have been
charged off the books ot concerns like those enumerated above American
railroads have become a vital part of the very woof and fabric of the nation
Tbetr continued efficiency is absolutely essential to the smallest community
In the land -
In blindly striking at the railroads our blows fall not merely upon thou-
sands who have committed no wrong but in the laBt analysis upon ourselves
We should remember how Interdependent we have come to be in this mighty
republic of ours — that each is in truth become more and more hie brother’s
keeper and that we need to aot and think circumspectly lest In our mistaken
zeal we destroy those who like ourselves need whatever of this world's
goods ths toll and sweat of years has bequeathed to them"
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Nichols, J. M. The American (Comanche, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 12, 1915, newspaper, August 12, 1915; Comanche, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2029130/m1/1/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.