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NO 41
VOL 2
HOFFMAN OKLAHOMA THURSDAY JANUARY 9 1908
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Local Lore
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Postmaster Smith went to MtiAo-
jee yesterday on business
Joe lUs-k is improving his new
home ly Tilling in and grading his
yard
Mrs Peavler is here from Morris
paying a visit to relatives and old
friends
To our mind about the worst over-
worked ereature these days is the
‘ Teddy Pear"
J W Ca has taken a position
with F M Gash aa the teamster at
the city livery Pam
The M O & G railway company is
remodling its depots so as to make
them to fonforin to the ynew Jim
('row law
If it is a birthday or wedding pres-
ent yon are looking for see
Chatham Dure Co
Grandpa Gardener who has been
back among old friends in Kentucky
the past few months arrived in Hoff-
man again this week to make it his
future borne
C W Mandler agent for the Coun-
cil Hill Townsite Co was in town
a short time Tuesday He drove out
to Grayson on business and from there
back to the Hill
- Hill’s Honey and Tar will cure a
cough or cold For sale at Brown's
1 rug Store
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At the regular meeting Tuesday
evening the Odd Fellows of Hoffman
lodge No 211 installed their new
officers for the ensuing term C
15 Herman is the N G C C Chatham
V C and J E Lester secretary
Break up that cough by using
Brown’s White Pine Cough Syrup the
safest surest remedy on the market
At Brown's Prog Store
The fellow who is alwayf too busy
or to selfiish to lend a hand in advan-
cing the interests of his town or the
welfare of his neighbors is the same
fellow who is assisting in driving the
nails in the coffin of the place he calls
home
For the best combs ' Brush Tre-
furos and all druggist’s Sundries go
to
Chatham Drug Co
Miss Ethyl Reynolds who came out
from Missouri to Assist in looking after
-customers at the Brown Drug store
durLg the holiday rush returned "to
her home Saturday Miss Vella Brown
accompanied her and will pay her
friends a two -or three weeks visit
Take your prescription to Chatham
Drug Co AU their medicines are
guaranteed under the Pure Food and
Drug Law
Rev Gibson has moved his house-
hold effects to our town and will oc-
cupy the Nelson projterty as his home
during his pastorate here His wife
and family who are now paying a
visit to her parents will -arrive here
today or tomorrow
Chatham Drug Co will be head-
quarters for holiday goods this year
Goods now in transit and will lx? here
in a Tew days
As rumored last week the Hoffman
Hotel cloned Saturday of last week
since which time the hoarders of that
house have been making the Knight
hotel their headquarters The Hoffman
House is the best location in the town
and it is almost certain that it will
not long remain closed as some good
man will be fonnd w ho will be oniy too
anxious to take charge of it
I buy my cigars and tobacco where
the best in the market is kept
Chatham Drug Co
toi a Cash Basis
Wholesale houses are now demand-
ing cash for goods and hereafter
I will be competed to do the same
My old customers will be accomodated
as usual bn short time payments I
will present statements on the 1st of
each month and they will have to lie
paid or the account will atop '
- J I N Kelker
Our abstract books for all of Mc-
Intosh County are completed Send
us your orders "
- Okla Title & Trust Co
Eufaula Okla
Attorney Powell was here frm
Muskogee this week to look after the
legal end of a case before Squire
West wherein Jack Quinton was the
plaintiff and Mrs Mary Smith the
defendent The case grew out of a
dispute over the possession of forty
acres of land
Why buy a lot or Tract of land
without an abstract Our books for
McIntosh County are correct Send
us your orders
Okla Title & Trust Co
Eufaula Okla
A girl named Rose Williams who
lived over in the Bond Switch country
committed sticide Saturday night of
last week by shooting herself through
the breast No cause for the act is
known other than that advanced by
some who claim to know that it was
a love affair
Checotah has a delegationn now at
Guthrie for the purpose of presenting
their claim before the legislature and
the Governor for one of the State
Normal School and if “push and
stick-to-it” count for anything she is
bound to arin one of the prizes No
better location could be found in the
state
It doesn’t look much like cutting
down the crop acreage in this part
of the cocntry if we are to judge from
the number of new fanners that are
coming in almost every day If each
one that has unloaded here the past
month farms as much as forty acres
it will mean an increased acreage to
the amount of ahont 50000 acres
The appearance of our town is be-
ing materially improved this week' by
a new bridge over the ravine on
Fourth street The material is being
furnished by the city and the la-
bor is being donated by the more
progressive citizens of the town It
is a much needed improvement as that
is one of the worst places in town
Halbert Brothers brothers of Bud
and Gus our liverymen have moved
to this place and will open np a new
blacksmith shop Both are men of
families and one will occupy the Mid-
dleton property and the other the
Harzell residence in the west part of
town They will put in a shop' and
prepare to do blacksmithing and all
kind of wood work
Begining next week the Herald
will have a regular correspondent at
Checotah and oar readers will then
get the news fresh from our propec-
tive county seat We are endeavoring
to secure a good representative at
each town and postoffice in the coun-
ty and will make it of interest to some
young man or woman who cares to
take up the work We want to make
the Herald one of the best county
papers in the new state
The Editorof this religious guide
made a trip to thecotah this week
and found the people of that place as
busy as bees A part of her ' people
were up at Guthrie looking after the
securing of one of the state Normal
schools others were busy looking
after the construction of a system
of water works and everybody was
busy showing up the good points of
thotown We milled around the town
a whole day and never found a man
that had a kick coming against his
own town
Burney Hicks who lives out on
Tiger motntain was the first victim
to pay a fine under the state law for
the carrying of conscaled weapons
He was arrested and brought before
hizzoner John West last week before
whom Hicks plead guilty and received
the minium fine $2500 and costs in
all about $3000 In Default of the
amount he was committed to jail but
met up with a friend on the road
m ho staked him with enough funds
to pay the fine and thus escaped the
sentence
Mrs IJstenfelts
keeping house for her father return-
ed this week to her home at Musko-
Estray Notice
During the month of October there
strayed from my pasture three miles
east of Morris 5 head of steers rang-
ing in ago from two to four years
branded 1 1 on right hip Parties fur-
nishing information leading to their
recovery will le liberally rewarded
Address M Wilson
Morris Okla
The McIntosh County Capital made
its second appearance last week After
a layoff of a week or so Three pages
were identically the same aa the first
issue and the other paga consisted
of Thorton ‘Thorn ograps" about his
baby county seat He just has to
give vent to his pet scheme about
every so often to keep from exploding
The present school term is now a-
bout half gone and things have gone
along remarkably smooth but what of
the future? Isn’t it about time ft be-
gin to make arrangements for the
purchase or erection of n school build-
ing for next year? If we are rightly
infrormed according to contract this
is our last year for free use of the
church house for this purpose and if
we do not make some arrangements
next year will find us with a large
number of school children and no
room in which to hold school which
will be the most deplorable thing that
could happen the children and a great
setback to our little city Let’s not
wait for onr neighbor to start the
agitation but all get busy at once and-
before the time for the next school
term to open see that Hoffman has a
nice comfortable school building
Death of Capt McGKbra
Capt McGilbra died at bis late
home on Graves Creek on New Year’s
day at 9 o’clock a m of pneumonia
Capt Mr Gilbra was an old time resi-
dent in fact he was a native of the
Indian Territory and was an educated
and refined specimen of the noble
Red man He was a leader in all
things good both spntualand worldly
and though be has been callen from
among us to his reward in the better
land his good deeds and noble teach-
ings will live on mad on forever At
an early age the Capt united with the
Baptist church and n few yean lat-
er entered the miderety of the gospel
and labored the remainder of his life
in teaching his people that it was not
all of life to live nor nil of death to
die bnt that then vw$a still beyond
the tomb a great hereafter which all
should strive to reach at the close of
this earthly servitude
He was at the time of his death
aged 64 years 1
The funeral services were held from
his late hornet the day following his
death and according to the old Iidian
custom the remains were interred in
the yard of the family home
1 His death will be mourned by alt
who knew him and the Herai-D joins
with the scores of friends in extend-
ing sympathy to the breaved family
Interurban For Hoffman
At Guthrie Tuesday a charter was
granted to the Fort Smith Checotah
& Shawnee Interurban Railway com-
pany authorizing the operation of aa
electric line from Fort Smith Ark
to Shawnee Oklahoma a distance of
1G0 miles The road when completed
ant equipped will cost $1280000
and the capital stock is placed at
$500000
The main offices are to be located
in this city according to the provisions
of the charter- The ihcorporators
are R It Hutchinson R O Smith
L F Cain R D Martin and W M
Duffy all well known business and
professional men and financiers of
this city Others however with ample
means in this city Shawnee and Fort
Smith are behind the movement ami
beyond a doubt active work will
under way Within a short time The
line will run almost parallel east and
! west and will touch the lest territory J
who r has been jin the eastern half f the new state
— Checatah I h-mm-rat
If the above materializes and
I
judging from the names of the ineera-
tors there is no doubt but what it
will be pushed to a S'leeeesful finish'
it will mean much to the country as
the route will put the line directly j
through Hoffman and will lie the
means of placing us in closer connec-
tion with onr county captol as well !
as the more principal points f thej
state I
- That Bond Switch Farce
A things develop in the Rond
Switch county seat proposition the
motive of the Itoomer also bocome
more easily understood and the latest
shows that motive to be to get enough
out of the McIntosh transaction to
furnish a elnah fund for the campaign
of the town south of the river The
plan is now to sell chances instead of
town lot that is you pay your rash
for a lot but you must then draw for
the location Under this plan the
townsite owners can reserve the best
and enter only the worthless lots in
the drawing contest consequently
the purchaser will pay a fair price
for a cheap spot of ground and the
money can be used to the disadvant-
age of the place he has invested in
Tor the same' purpose the same
people are doing everything possible to
induce the people of Stidham to enter
the county seat contest and thus
still further divide the vote of the
north side - This ‘‘move or rather
these moves will avail nothing in the
end as under the provisions of the
constitution a permanent location of
a county seat can only be made when
some one of the contestants receive
a majority of all the votes cast On
failure of any one town to receive
such majority it is provided that the
naacc of aS contestants except the
two receiving the highest number of
votes shall be dropped and that the
Governor shall call a second election
at which the voters shall decide which
of the' two towns shall be their rapi-
tol city
By these provisions it is plain to
be seen that the final contest must be
between Checotah and Eufaula and
that all the side entries at the first
election will only result in piling up
cost to the people pf the county
while the matter could just as well be
settled at the first election - There is
no getting around this fact either
Checotah or Eufaula will be made the
permanent county capitol and it may
as well be settled at the first as some
subsequent election For our part j
we’re not in favor of any of the side
issues and the extra exense that j
will accrue through them neither are j
we iq favor of locating the seat of
county government over in Texas j
Checotah and Eufaula will each
vote solid for themselves and no one 1
can blame them for doing so— it’s to
their personal Interest This being
true then certainly it is only right !
that the people of the northwest part '
of the county also cast their ballot
if favor of Checotah which is in the
interests of themselves to the extent
of several dollars each year
The enormous extent of the textile
Industrie of the United States la In- j
dleated in a bulletin Just Issued - by
the census bureau at Washington re- I
lating to developments up to and la-
eluding 1905 From this It appears '
that at the time mentioned this conn-
try had 4503 establishments of the
kind speclfled representing a total
capital of $13433:4005 The officials
and salaried employes numbered 24-
110 the average number of wage earn-
ers was 739239 salaries were $32-
490500 and wages $249307277
Hosiery and knit goods represent one
of the most rapidly 'growing branches
of textile Udustry- The United States
stand second among all the countries
of the world as producer of cotton
goods England alone ranking us In
this respect But we use moat of the j
product at borne and though supply-
lug nine-tenths of the raw cotton used I
be J elsewhere make a poor showing la
foreign markets for cotton goods nut
It la act likely that we shall always I
be content with this secondary goal- J
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GOODS and PRIGES
made by the Old
New stock of Mayfield Pants
Woolen Mills of Mayfield Ky
Battreall-Whittingill Shoe Co' Shoes
Famous Panther Brand $300 Hat
Overalls Jumpers and Work Shirts
Kansas Diamond Flour $275 Hundred
Smoked Bacon Or Sugar £f nn
per pound IOL tolbs ylevU (
Old Mammy Hominy oc i
Three cans for !
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It is put up under a Special Formula for us
You have no doubt used different
kinds but we believe this i3 the
Best and is guaranteed by us to
conform to the requirements of
the State and National Pure
V ’Food Laws ' ‘
If you have tried our Cough Syrcp you know how
it is if you haven’t we want you to
j J H BROVW Druggist
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