Roger Mills Sentinel. (Cheyenne, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1907 Page: 4 of 8
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Roger Hills Sentinel
Published Every Thursday
Mitchell IlnoTfiRRS Publishers
E L Mitchell Editor
Application made for transmission
through the mails as matter of the
second class
ONE COLLAR A TEAR
Committee Meeting
The Democratic preeioct com-
mitteemen of the new Roger
Mills county are hereby called to
meet at Cheyenne Okla on
Monday April i 1907 for the
purpose of reorganizing as a tew
committee All committeemen
south of the Canadian liver in
Day county and those living
north of the Beckham county
line in Roger Mills county are
urged to attend this meeting
Hon Theo D B Fiear ot
Vinita will be present to assist
in the reorganization
J L Paschal
Chairman Roger Mills
E L Mitch fll
Chairman Day
this county select him as their I “whisky is your worst enemy
candidate he will lend strength an T°u should keep as faraway
to the ticket and will be a thor- from !t as ’ can-’’ “Me cnny
ouglily competent officer jf it Father?” responded Patrick
‘'and it was your Riverance’sself
eluded The delegates will meet I The fellow who entertains the I that was telling us in the pulpit
in Guthrie Aprill 16 to sign the idea that Cheyenne is not a good ony ast Sunday to love our ene-
long hand cop- which has been business point is getting to be miesj” “So I was Patrick” re-
prepared
C W Post the breakfast food
vender of Battle Creek ' ich
says he favors a life term for
president He believes the chief
executive might become a strong
advocate of the breakfast food
route to longevity
Senator Burton is out of pris-
on Last Saturday he addressed
his old friends at Abilene Kan
and told ihem how the innocent
had been persecuted and how
greatness had been misunder-
stood Greer county commissioners
have filed a petition in the dis-
trict court at 'angum challeng-
ing the power of the constitu
tional convention to divide coun-
ties which were formed by act of
congress But Greer county will
simply have to be good and take
its medicine
The nomination of Senator
Culbertson for President is fa
vored by the Dallas News but
that paper does not believe any
southern man can beat Bryan in
the convention More voters love
Bryan now than ever before and
they know he is a man of honest
convictions and pure motives
The democratic masses are fer
Bryan
4 Vol 1 of the Koger
Mills Sentinel published at
Cheyenne by Mitchell Bros with
E L Mitchell as editor reached
our exchange table this week
The Sentinel is well gotten up
Loth mechanically and editorial-
ly and will no doubt prosper as
the Mitchell Brothers are good
newspaper men — Greer County
Republican
The republicans of the Second
district have issued a circular
warning to voters to be prepared
for a dirty campaign against
Tom Ferguson Ferguson him-l injured by the green bug Re- We are anxious to see a coun-
self is telling in his paper how he ports of the ravages of this bug fair association organized at this
is being so terribly persecuted are coming from all parts of the place Very little capital will be
by his political enemies We all country and considerable darn needed Thc'premiums do
like Ferguson but that is no rea- age is being done to the wheat have to be large to
son bis faults should be hidden It is said that if the wheat is har- proper interest among
Campaigns always bring out the I
bad in a candidate and if his
if his I
record can’t stand alone the op-
position usually knocks it over I
The opposition to the ratifica-
tion of the constitution which was
so rampant a few weeks ago is
on the wane The indications
now are that a magnificent ma-
jority will be rolled up for the
constitution The people are be-
ginning to see the many good
points which are in the great
document
J T Berry is a candidate for
treasurer of Roger Mills county
and his announcement appears
in this issue He vvas born in
north Alabama 40 years ago and
resided there until he was 18
years old when he moved to
Texas where he lived until seven
years ago He received his edu-
cation in the schools of Alabama
and Texas and graduated from
the Fort Worth University Sev-
en years ago he came to Oklaho-
ma and settled on a place in this
county His time has been de-
voted to farming and stockrais-
ing and he has succeeded He
has never held public office but
is a man of wide experience in
the business world and capable
of performing the duties of the
best offices
An Irish priest had labored
hard with one of his flock to in-
duce him to give up whisky “I
If the Democratsof I tel1 ’ou Patrick ’’said the priest
less important every day The
man who can spend a day in our
town and then go away with a
bad opinion of the place has al-
ready been adjudged insane
state
Wlt
Prosperity for the new
would seem unavoidable
the large number of good news-
papers started of which the
Roger Mills Sentinel of Cheyr-
enne is one— Daily Oklahoman
Jeptha Coleman of Atchison
gets rid of rats and mice by
wrapping cayenne pepper in a
cloth andstuffing it into the holes
where the animals pass
out They gnaw at the rags and I na'T $8000000 for agricul-
the first thing they know theVltuie The armor plate
have a dose of the pepper that
makes them-wiJj they had not
been so industrious Mr Cole-
man does not know whether they
sneeze themselves to pieces or
simply hike to the neighbors
Anyway they disappear— Kan-
sas City Journal
Our New Lexicographer
Graft— What the other fellows
earn while we are thinking about
going to work
Justice— Something the other
fellow ought to have but the
thing we try to avoid
Highwayman-The man who
es before you get started
Standpatter— The man who I
has got
Philanthropist— A man who
gives collars to men who have no
shirts
Charity— A great homebody-
Liberality — Giving away what
you have forcibly taken from
others
Endowment -A college financ-
ed as an anchor to windward
Enterprise — Giving back the
public 10 per cent of the 100 you
make them give you— Com
moncr
rowed thoroughly or rolled that I
the bugs will be killed and many
the bugs will be killed and many
farmersare trying this treatment
with success— Minco Minstrel
Special Clubbing
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The Semi-Weekly New
Thousands of Its readers proclaim It
the best general newspaper in the world
I ts secret of success Is that It gives the
farmer and his family just wliat they
want in the way of a family newspaper
It furnishes all the news of the world
twico each week It has a splendid page
where the farmers write their practical
experiences on the farm It Is like at-
tending an Immense farmers’ institute
U has pages specially gotten up for the
wife for the beys and for t'10 girls Ii
gives the latest market reports In short
it gives a combination of news and in
btructive reading matter that can bo se-
cured In no other way
For H75 cash In advance we will send
Tho Somi- Weekly News and the Roger
Mills Senilnel each for one year This
moans you will get a total of 150 cop es
It’s a combination w hich can’t be heat
and you will secure yonr money's worth
many times over
Subtcribe at ouco it the office of this
paper
Sp0nded the priest “but I did not
Lejj y0U tQ SWallow them” — Sa -
cre(j Heart Review
7 — — —
There is adeep laid plot being
hatched by editors who are pub-1
I lihing that the most beautiful
1 woman of the west attributes her I
fairness to the fact that she plows
an acre of ground every morning
before breakfast In the absence
of a plow these wily sons of
Adam mention the existence of
the lawn mower this summer
armor plate manu-
facturers and the gunsmiths and
shipbuilders wonder why eight
millions should thus be wasted
Major Penrose who was sub-
ject to court martial trial foi
negligence has been acquitted
The trial came as as a result of
the President’s recommendations
in the Browuville affair
The Kansas legislature seems
to have gone the limit It has
passed a law prohibiting liigli
school fraternities Kansas has
more than one prohibitory law
that doesu’t prohibi however
The Commoner says: What
this country needs is the certain-1
ty of the enforcement of the writ-
ten law with as much certainty
as the unwwritten law is enforced
An angry
dozen eggs over his wife’s head
and now she is suing him for -
husband broke a
a I
doesn’t state
cruelty or ex-
divorce She
whether it is for
trayagance
The “green bug” scare which
wras started recently seems fo
be a fake At least the farmers
of this locality say there is noth-
ing in the report
not
up a
bc L
mers they are always ready to
do everything toward furnishing
to have a good fair I
do everything toward furnishing
a good exhibit Let us prepare
John E Leant H V Guernsey
®ean§ ledl
All Kinds of Insurance
Borrow your money from old timers who have been here from the first
day and who know the couniry its resources And the people Wt
inspect your farm and pay you your money as Soon as abstract can be
made Lilieral loans and liberal terms Ve also buy and sell farms
in Roger Mills and Day counties Phone 49
lDOOREAKT 11 r- I D ChfcYENNE
Hotel Buck uOhn b Leary Ot Co OKLAhOMA
W O HORS President
IRVING WIlEATcROFT
Vice President
CHEYENNE COTTON EXCHANGE
V BANK
Diuscroas-II D Cox Join E Lvuy tV 0
Wlieateroft Field Shormafk O B Gnode
We are now in our new building which we had to build twice as
large as the old to take care of our growing business We want
your banking business large or small It is our earnest endeavor
to extend equal courtesies to all Come and see us when you make
your next deposit or need money G B GOODE Cashier
W O MOUNTS
BONDED ABSTRACTER
Abstracts CoLveyacces Notarial Work
PRO UP I ACCURATE WORK
Office in Selby Buildin ’
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Ncw Shop and Everything First-clasi Satisfactioi always
Only the best workmen employed
Ifew 81aek§mih §f?op
G W REDYVTNB Proprietor
an teed
WE LAKE TiOrt
CnEfFNNE
Hotel Black
E M BLACK Proprietor
A First-class Hostelry Cuisine Unexcelled Courteous treatment
Your patronage solicited
CHEYENNE OKLA
Bsard by Day or Week
Have You Made Final Proof?
If not you had better look after the matter
Carter at Cheyenne
will make you proof on lan d lying in either
Roger Mills or Day County
All papers guaranteed correct Don’t delay Delay's are danger-
ous See Cartel at the Star office and have him make your ap-
plication filing or look after that contest for you
C W Tedrowe
Physician and Surgeon
Cheycnnne - Oklahoma
d7 yV TRACY
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Northwest Ctrncr Courthouse Square
Chcycune Oklahoma
Jj Q fi'l 1 PSDfl
Attorney-at-Layv
Attends to all kinds of law busi
ness
Elk City
Oklahoma
J S SHORT
Auctioneer
Two miles west of Cheyenne iil
cry sales in thi and adjoining
counties Guarantees satisfaction
Ir quire at Sentinel office
Jqo C Hendrix
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
ju all lbe courls
Ciilmnne Okla
BAHT GOOD R! Pash ler
HERMAN GUERNSEY
Assistant Cashlar
Hire C A H rr Irving H
GRVND' OKLAHOMA
guar-
UOKK A SPECIAL If
OKLAHOMA
E E TRACY
Probate Judge Roger Mills County
Final Proofs and Homestead Pilings
MaJo Handles Contests Second En-
tries and Ollier Land Business
CIlEYLNNE - - - OKU
T M HILLER
Bonded Abstracter
Roger Mills County
Successor to MniKR-CiLKEnsos Ab-
stract Co
I’lionc No 45 Cheyenne OiLA
Dr J P MILLER
Physician anil Surgeon
Office— Up stairs over S A Elli-
ot's 6tore
Office riione 28 Home Phone 5
C -W McGEE
Painter
When you get leady tp pain that
house or bata see him
Cheyenne Oklahoma
11 E ECIIOLS
ATTORNEY AT LAW
'Elk City Oklahoma
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Mitchell, E. L. Roger Mills Sentinel. (Cheyenne, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 1, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 28, 1907, newspaper, March 28, 1907; Cheyenne, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2042609/m1/4/: accessed February 11, 2026), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.