Harmon County Tribune. (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1914 Page: 2 of 4
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Harmon County Tribune
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A. K. Kamsey, Editor
A. A. Baldwin Associate Edt.
Entered in the postoflice at Hollis
'Jkla., as second class mail matter
Subscription $1.U0 per year
Telephone No 150
Friday, August 14, 1914
Democratic Ticket
For United States Senator
THOMAS P. GOKE
l?or Congressman 7th District
J. V. McClintic
For Governor
Robert L. Williams
For Representa.ive
HARRY TREADWAY
For District Judge
FRANK MATHEWS
For Court Clerk
J. R. (BOB) McCUTCHEON
For County Judge
E. C. ABERNAThY
For County Clerk,
J. D. READY
For County Attorney
R. D. MIELER
tor Sherilf
J.C. GAMB1LL
For County Assessor,
S. D. bARNETT
For County Treasurer
G. L. CHISM
For County Superintendent
G. P. MORTON
For Commissioner Precinct 2,
B. B. WARREN
For Commissioner Precinct 1
A.J. HART
For County Weigher
E. N. DIAL
If the crowned heads of Kurope
want a real exciting game we
would suggest an Oklahoma
primary,
An anxioua subscriber wants
to know if there will be any
Turkey left in Europe after the
present carving process ends.
After Primary Thoughts
The hard campaign, the long
ballot and the delay in getting
returns has brought forth a con-
siderable amount of criticism of
Oklahoma's primary law. The
cry of fraud has been raised in
various sections of the state, the
condemnation of election boards
and probability of contests. A
number of suggestions have been
made for the betterment of con-
ditions bv such papers as Har-
lowe's Weekly and the Daily
Oklahoman, among them being
the "short" ballot system. This
system would make only major
officers elective and all minor
officers appointive.
This would shorten the ballot,
facilitate the counting, insure
early returns and lessen the
chances for errors. But on the
other hand it would increase the
governor's patronage, making it
possible for him to build up a
powerful political machine of
sufficient strength to perpetuate
his clique in office. This brings
about a very undesirable con-
dition. We are opposed to any
system which has a tendency to
curtail the peoples' power or in-
crease that of the office holder.
We believe in the people and are
confident that majority rule is
the most satisfactory.
As a remedy for the present
election evils, we offer the fol-
lowing:
Let the system be changed
making the term of office four
years, instead of two, for both
elective and appointive offices.
This will lessen the frequency of
the elections. The further apart
the elections are the fewer the
aspirants. An election every
two years breeds a host of office
seekers who get the habit of run- ture in his home. One "day last
ning for office and become chron- week during his temporary ab-
ic candidates, first for one office sence some stranger cleaned out
then another. This* abnormal the "bank".
growth should be killad off—not} Seattle, Wash. Mrs. George
with sword-but with conditions | shea of Duluth, Minn., who is
that work against them. visiting her sister, Mrs. John
Again, this free for all fight, English; in a suburb of Seattle,
permitting candidates to enter: has reported to the police that
the contest without putting up a she had bean robbed of $20,00 in
cent to help del i ay the expenses currency. Mrs. Shea's husband,
of holding the election, is a who intended to follow her from
pr, mium on the long ballot. The Duluth, and buy property here,
primary system is the proper shipping the money to her by
system, but there is room for | express. She intended to put
improvement of the present law. the money into a bank at1 once,
An amendment providing tnat i but for various reasons put it off.
every candidal for county office, When she and her sister decided
including representative, must to visit Seattle they hid the$J0,-
putUp the sum of $2o.U0; and 000 between the sheets of a bed.
State candidates from $'00.00 io On returning home at night they
$250.00. The money thus raised found that burglars had ransack-
would go a long ways towards, ed the house and stolen the
defraying the expenses of hold-. treasure.
ing the primary. Moreover, it I Multiply these cases by hund-
would he an effective ^way ofjredsancl thousands every year
materially reducing the number antl voU getsome idea of the toll
o. asp,rants. 1 paid by foolish persons who do
Fmalfj, declare for majority j not make full use of Lhe se_
rule, making the second primary j curity afforded by the banks. -
necessary. Thus weeding out, otiluhoman.
the fellows who know that their! .. , ..
I lhe loregoing is only a tew of
only chance is in Liu- hope ot a , , . , . ,
many similiar cases which could
split vote. 1. , .
. . be reproduced. In some cases
these amenJments would , .., , • , . • , ... ,
. | . it is a ioolish distrust ot banks,
bhorien the ballot, preset ve the;. ,, ,
. . I but, in the majority ol cases it is
peoples rights anu at Lhe same . . .. , . . ...
, , . . a lack or knowledge ot banks,
lime withhold irom the governor ....
i When ignorance gives wav to
the power ol#patronage. , ,. *
knowledge the supposed distrust
! of banks will be greatly minimiz-
The Tribune acknowledges re-|ed. ln communities where banks
ceipt of the A. & M. College at, f0u0W a system of judicious ad-
Stilwater, catalogue for M4-161 vertising it is not often that a
burglar finds sufficient money
about the homes he robs to pay
him for his trouble.
It is human nature for us to
look upon things, of. which we
have no knowledge, with suspi-
cion, skepticism and distrust.
the
Foolish Distrust of Banks
Very frequently one rtads in
Lhe newspaper about persons
who have lost a large amount of
money perhaps the savings of a
lifetime, because they uid not j All these disappear with
have confidence enough in banks {dawn of knowledge.
to leave their money on deposit
there.
They preferred to act as their
own bankers and lived to regret
their folly.
Here is a summary of a num-
ber of rccent news items of that
nature:
Mammoth Springs, Ark.
When Mrs. Kate Williams sold
her home several days ago she
stowed the money, $3,000. in a
leather satchel and elected to be
its guardian. Early in the morn-
ing a small band of men rode in-
to Mammoth Springs, robbed
'"hapin. D. <\ Buck, C C Wey, E
J Jones, W V Wilson, George B
Davis, A C Ford, H A FowIhs,
W H Lacy, Z T Jackson, M C
Melton, H P West, Blaine Hen-
derson, R M Thorp. C S High
smith, J. O. Hall, E M Francis,
W R Hooks, 1 E Hooks, G S West
E G West, Taylor W Whaley
Bud Summers. J J Fletcher, J L
Farley, Guy L Tillman, C A Ren-
der. L C Whitt, W F Farley, C
W Taylor, G enn Faught. W 0
Kellev, T D Dailey, B F Pierce,
J H Thompson, R M Roddy,
Claud Hitleomb, Luther Smith,
O V Wood, J R Phillips. John
R Thacker.
Church Of Christ
Sunday School 10:00 a. m.
Preachingand communion 11.00.
Prayer meeting at 8:15 p. m.
Everybody is invited to attend
these services.
Card Of Thanks.
To those of my friends who
supported me in the recent pri-
mary election, I wish to express
my sincere thanks. To those
who chose either one of my op-
qonents I have the best of feel-
ing ,or we are yet friends.
Yours very truly,
E. N. Dial.
Col. Brown,, Capt. Cunning-
ham. Lieut. Nance and Quarter-
Master McKnight claim to have
had a big time at Childress,
Tex. last week during theU. C. \
reunion. They had a royal speed
auto ride, thirty cars in tke pa-
rade. All kinds of fun and ex-
citement. We have not heard
of any kissing games but there is
a story going the rounds about a
woman telling orie of the old
boys that she had all on her
hands she could support. We
have notice! however, that these
four comrades do not congregate
on the street since their return.
We suggest that they be taken
out one at a time and squeezed,
thus we may get the full story.
Where a commercial institu-
tion, that does not advertise,
falls short of its share of the
pulic patronage, it is manifestly
unfair to charge the failure up
to distrust of its business princi-
ples, but this must be charged
up to lack of business enterprise.
The mail order house depends en-
tirely upon advertising for their
support. The fact that the
country merchant throughout
the land is crying out again
them is proof that judicious ad-
vertising dispells distrust and
secures the business.
The bank that fails to make an
the house at which Mrs. Williams | , ^ . . . ,
, , ... adequate appropriation lor ad-
was a guest and made off with '. . , ' " . , .
.i , vertising has lost sight of the
the satchel.
Nicolo Dambrosia snuggled $2,-!
350, and in those of Nicolo Lu-1
vertising has lost sigh
. most potent power at its corn-
Jersey City, N. J. The other j mand for increase of busi-
night while Nicolo Dambrosia, i ness jf advertising is a paying
Nicolo Lucarello and Tony Lu- j pr0p08ition to banks in cities it
carello slept in their flat in the iH be a paying one to banks in
basement of the tenement house ! the rural district8. The city
at 123 Myrtle avenue a thief | banks are very libera, advertis-
crept in and stole the three pairs erg This pla„ can be pr0,itab|y
of trousers that cover the sturdy adopted by country banks
limbs of Dambrosia and the | 0
brothers Lucarello in the dav-in,.. , ,m , A r4.u inn
„ , . . ■ Eldorado, Okla. Aug. 5th 1914. ,
time. But in the trousers of
Hon. George Chism,
Hollis, Okla,
.. („P,, , x . i The news of your nomina-
carello $350, and yet again in .. m .. ,,
., - r ., . | tion for Treasurer ot Harmon1
those of Tony Lucarello $410
.. , . . ,, * | County was received with high-
all sweet American dollars, dug . •<•,• v .1
iV . . . , . . est gratification, lour friends
with the pick and the shovel. ■. . , , ...
at Eldorado are herewith send-
Altoona, Pa. \\ hen Thomas | jng you happy congratulations.
l itzsimmons, an electrical engin- Mav vour tenure in olHce prove
eer. returned to his home from a au tbat
you hoped for. Here's
night job he found his wife and luCK t0 you from thk;^ boys al
five children all partly under the j £ldorado<
influence of chloroform, while) c A Hatch, Holt Moore, C A
the house had been thoroughly tcaviness. Oscar West, J T Rat-
searched. Ten hundred dollars cliff H C Moore, Clarance Walk-
had been taken from its hiding er> r d Barnes, B P West, K H
place. Having no cofidence in 1 Lester, D M Wood, Leslie Cha-
banks, Fitzsimmons kept his; pin. H A Hatch, R S Caviness, R
savings in the house. Cousins, T J Holier, D E Pierce I
Terre Haute, Ind. Robert [ c H Bennett, W G Cousins, A H |
Slusser, a glass blower, put $65 cheek, f J Nichols, E Berry, O
in gold and silver in the bottom j W Farley, J W Farley, L B Ber-
of a coal hod and filled the latter ry, C B Womack, H R Taylor, B
with coal to hide the money over D Witt. E K Webb, A R Webb,
night. The next morning he J H Peden, Frank Hatch, N C
made a fire and dumped coahand Black, W A Criswell, E F Chat-1
coin into the stove. Suddenly elle, J H Smith, S 1) Bazeman, J i
he recalled hiding the money and H Baker, B F Smith. J M Posey, |
frantically entiuguished the fire. O C Baser, M A Haskett, 1 R;
The coin was melted into a lump. Dill. C A Brown. J G Talbott, J
South Scranton, Pa. — Fearing O Render. J W Phillips, C T
to trust his hoard to any ot the Davis, J T Black, E B Minich,
local banking institutions, Frank Joseph A Hearn. W G Ranspot,
Sckolski secreted it behind a pic- W E Rosser, E W Chapin, Alvin
A Card Of Thanks.
I want to thank the people of
Harmon county for their vote
and influence in the primary
election. No man ever appreci-
ated your coefidence more than
I do. I hope to conduct myself
in a way that you will have no
regret for what you have don"
for me, and also to win the con-
fidence of those who supported
my opponents.
I also wish to sav that my
opponents are all good m *n and
made a clean race.
Respectfully yours
J. C. Gamblil.
Dolph. Parks, of McAlester,
was here this week on a visit to
home folks.
What would and election be
with out a Giles and a Gardner?
The Normal School opened
here Monday with agoodattend-
rnce. The enrollment today is
fifty-two.
Bring me your clock and watch
repairing if you want it done
right. All work guaranteed.
J. Day, Jeweler.
Mrs. John Nowellaccompanied
by her son, Logan, left Saturday
for Errick, Okla., to visit her
dau jhter.
Mrs. W. B. Hart, and daughter
of Hansfoid, Texas, were the
guests of her mother, Mrs. J. A.
Nance a few days last week.
Accompanied by Mes. Nance she
went to Mangum Tuesday to vis-
it relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Mitt Cunning-
ham have returned from West
Texas where they had been vis-
iting for several weeks. They
brina tidings of good crops from
the west, but say.it is a "privi-
lege to live in Oklahoma."
J. H. and W. C. Sc.ruggs and
Fred Bell left Monday in W. C's
car for Brown county, Texas,
where they will be for about one
week visiting, fishing and pros-
pecting, etc. The car contain-
ed several suspicious looking
packages-but we suppse they
contained canned fruit.
Mrs. W. S. Cross and daughter
Miss Vivian, who have been in
Hot Springs, Ark., for several
weeks, willretun home by way
of St. Louis, where Mrs. Cross
will buy a fall stock of merchan-
dise for the Cross Dry Goods
Store.
While playing ball last Friday,
a bat in the hands of Carl Ellis
broke part of it striking Henry
Dial on the head cutting a deep
gash. It required three or four
stitches to sew up the wound. It
takes more than a ball bat to
stop Henry and he is now ready
for another game.
The printer says five more
lines of copy.
We say that this is the season
the publishers need your renew-
al. What do you say? ,
Five Generations AH Under
One Roof
Mr. and Mrs. Tam Brooks of
323 East Elm street, are enjoy-
ing the rare distinction of en-
tertaining at their home five
generations, and all of them
females, these being Mrs. D. W.
Smith of Whitney, who is 82
years of age, her daughter, Mrs.
Tam Brooks, her daughter, Mrs.
W. B. Groves, her daughter,
Mrs. Francis B. Hughes, and
her daughter, Miss Frances, the
latter three of whom reside at
Hollis, Okla. In addition to
Mrs. Hughes, Mrs. Groves' three
unmarried daughters and a son
are also guests at the Brooks
home.
In speaking about his guests
yesterday Mr. Brooks stated that
advantage would be taken of
this gathering of the generations
to have photographs taken.—
Hillsboro Weekly.
THE HOME CIRCLE COLUMN
Pleasant Evening Reveries--A Column
Dedicated to Tired Mothers as They
Join the Hpme Circle at Evening Tide
Crude Thoughts From The Editorial Pen
Our Advice To The Boys.
BOYS, did you ever know, or
can you call to mine a single
person, "ho, having his own
way to make in the world, spent
his time in the streets, in billiard
saloons, around hotels, or in any
form ot dissipation or idlenss, to
succeed in life in an eminent de-
gree in any enterprise? Look
over your list of friends and ac-
quaintances and note their
course. Do you not find on ex-
amination that those who today
are men of iufluence and honor,
were the youths who made the
most of iheir valuable time, turn-
ing it to good account? And on
the other bund do you not find
those who stood ou the corners
witl\a cigar or pipe in their
moutn, went from bad to worse,
from worse t,<, ruin? Sauly
must the answer be made they
have failed. Will you not profit
by their example? Fix vour eyes
on some noble object— be a man.
Personalities.
KEEP clear of personalities in
general conversation. Talk
of things, objects, thoughts.
The smallest minds occupy them-
selves with personalities. Per-
sonalities miust sometimes be
talked, because^we have to learn
and find out men's character-
istics for legitimate objects; but
it is to be with confidential per
sons. Do not needlessly report
ill of others. There are family
boards where a constant process
of depreciating, assigning mo-
tives, and cutting up of charac-
ter goes foward. They are no
pleasant places. One who is
healthy does not ^ish to diue at
a dissecting table. There is
evil enough in man, God knows*
but it is not the mission of every
young man or woman to detail
and leport it. Keep the atmos-
phere as pure as possible, and
fragrant with gt ntleness and
charity.
Some Things For A Boy To
Learn.
To walk.
To swim.
To be punctual.
To make a tire.
To throw straight.
Tn haner up h s hat.
To clo*e a door quietly.
Togo upstairs or down quiet'y.
To wipe his hoots on the dooa
mat.
To read aloud wheu requested.
To help his mother and sisters
To remove his hat upon enter-
ing a house. *
To treat, all ^ii Is so well that
they will all wish he was their
brother.
Is not the happiest man or
.woman the most successful in
the highest sense ,of the word?
Given th comforts of life, is
anything more desirable than
the sunshine of a happy home,
where a loving wife, and merrjT,
happy children ahioe, and where
friends congregate for cheerfui,
inspiring association? Industry
and temperence and courage will
bring to any man the comforts
of life. Add to this a kind heart
and a generous, tactful consider-
ation toward all men and life is
camplete.
' I 'HE BUSY m-m and women
A of the world are those who
have attained to greatness.
Many such have endured hard-
ships and practiced rigid econo-
my to enable them to meet the
demands of a large family and
the greatest men this country
has produced have been men
who have labored with hands
and«beain, after acquiring a
competency, remembering the
years that are gone, admit that
their working years were then
happiest years.
Electric Lights
Do you use them?
We will wire your house
Let us figure with you
Hollis Cotton Oil
Light & Ice Co.
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Ramsey, A. K. Harmon County Tribune. (Hollis, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, August 14, 1914, newspaper, August 14, 1914; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc234404/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.