Hobart Weekly Chief (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1906 Page: 2 of 8
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H0B4ST WEEKLY CHIEF
JANUARY SFCOND
mfrS y
s.ir
in the treasury into the
Street banks. This is the
The New fear.
• mm •■tardir'* P'Hr.
Each first of January we an*
w<mt to picture the Now Year as
a happy, handsome child, gar-
landed with flowers and scatter-
ing roses ulont, 'he pathway that
he is to tread; ard when the last
night of December come*, we
Mee a stooped and aged man,
with tottering steps and hoary
hair, feebly checking off the sec
tinds until he shall he no more
To him the past is truly past,
and at the toll of the mid-night
bell, the witchery of change and P*° R earnings that
<leath will come to him. and in t* n wrung from them hy
his stead ahail stand the dancing ,ax<>* a°d a robber tariff.
happy child again. There is a The V all Street thisves mint
legend which relates, that as our , Pro,,P*r every farmer of the
Havior bore his cross up Calvary's is held up an! robbed. This
aacred hill, a jew standing by P® no* incendiary 'alk, it is not
the wayside j . t i ■ >.-n him; the to? e Mt "r bun<omb.
Savior turned and in tones of thinking people know it is
condemnation and of sorrow (tru,h ar>d they are awaken-
naid, "tarry thou until I come 'nK- They will, in the end, do
again." And so since then the which is right and come in-
wandering .lew, year after year. ,hoip own a?ain A man who
century after century, has in joy afpa'd to trust his cause in
and sorrow lived and suffered an
m
Poor littl* thing! H« can t last much longer.
— Pittsburg DupaUH.
His New Year's resolutions were made after a rather lively time
between Pecember 'Jo and January i. By January 2 he is casting
a 1 "ging glance at the flesh pots of the past and waiting patienth
for the poor child to breath its last "So passes the glory of th -
world."
W If
peo-
nave
high
the farmers of western Oklahoma
want to meet them as members
of a Union that there is a social
side to. Let this matter be
considered calmly and the good
of the Union rightly determined.
all
their hands has a bad and un-
just cause and is personally, no t
worthy of support.
fairly and squarely before them
and let the , • ople rule.
oarthly immortality. Once in
Avery thousand years the wan-
«l«rer returns to youth and then
lives on again his tedious weary
life. Prom this tale may come
the dancing child of spring and
the worn and wearied manhood
of December's dying days. This
exoeption may be marked, that
to Time we have been kinder
than Time has been to him the
Savior cursed.
Once every year our old man
changes into youth while for a
thousand times as long must he,
who put slight upon our Savior,
suffer the woes of broken age.
The deeds that have marked the i ent'a' a Par>*r 89
passing of the year can never be declare 'or it-
undone. Some stand as bright
The Court House Square.
There has been a long and
constant shiver of anxiety and
dread among the silk stockinged
residents of Hobart that our pub-
He equare would not be fenced
and beautified. This would have
been done long ago by the dem-
ocratic county commissioners but
in their work of building up our
county's niagnificient im prove-
n , . . ments they have been greatly
Put tht issues of our country . , . , .
tiiAm ' hampered by having to remove
tha ruins that had been erected
ferow o
5H0^
START THE NEW YEAR
IN A PAIR OF
MADE TOR US BY-*
Diamond Brand Shoes m
An t-xtensive assortment "f Winter weights in Box Calf, Pat. Colt, Heavy Yici and other I'tessy
Leather* are here f< r your inspection. We have Just received big shipment fresh from the fac-
tory anu will save you money on your shoes. pricks, Whatever you wish to pay.
May Manton Pattern.
Just received com-
plete stock of the«e
patterns in all the lat-
est styles. The only
patterns
Not in the Trust.
Regular Prices 15c,
25c, 30 and 35c.
Our Price 10c each.
Bazaar Slave Fitting Patterns,
Worth Hats.
King of good values.
Big new stock of the
new slyles. Take a
look at them. They
are
BEAUTIES.
Prices from 82.00 to
83 00.
Try One.
Our Grocery Deparment.
Start 11H>1 by buying your groceries here
and save at least 10 per cent of your grocery
bill. We can prove it Watch our prices
Choice Fresh Prunes, per lb 5c
Pure Comb Honey, " " 15c
Maple Syrup, cal. can 81 25
Pure Ribbon Cane Syrup. gal. bucket ♦Joe
XXXX Coffee, per package 15(5
Kramer Flour, per sack SI.15
' lb ( M Cofn, ran* for S6o
3 lb can Apricots. 2 cans for 25c
Fresh English Walnuts, per lb 20c
Fresh Lerr.ons, per doz 20c
Come in and get our prices.
Made for lis bv
Co
St.Lgcis.
PHONE 1VH)
TIIE GROWING STORE
Montgomery & Co.
Hobart, Oklahoma.
MADE FOR US BY
Peter
&
by the early republican officials.
These ruins were in the way and
caused a great delay. The court
house square will be fenced and
beautified, but it don't neccess-
arily follow that it will be exolu-
Notes of Interest.
The Oklahoman in a recent is-
sue came out in a strong editor-
ial in favor of the initiative and ,
referendum clause for our New j ^ely used as a place forgiving
State constitution. There is no Pink teas' one exPecl9 or
question but that it is the best want9 our public square to be-
law that can be enacted for the come, * WBf°n ya/d- Thi* iB
good of the people. We are well Purely th* deseased thought of
pleased to see so able andinflu- an .a n°rma rain. Neither
, the Oklahoman d°ue8 lt fo"°w. that a market Place
i wherein the farmers may display
j their produots becomes an un-
Mr. John R. Williams, chair- sanitary, noisome depository of
ajid go'-d remembrances of well; man of the democratic central rubbish and dung piles. What
spent hours and days, while [ county oommittee, congratulated we are contending for is to have
•so., j are dark and dreary and Us on the stand we have taken a centrally located plaae for our
we fain, would bury them from for a county primary and against j farmer? and merchants' to meet
«lght. Each has its duty to per-I a convention. Ho said that it | and trade.
form, and from each we can was eminently right to let all the No better arrangement could
learn a lescon by which our fu-, democrats say who they wanted be made than by widening
ture life to guide. The good for county officials. And now I Fourth and Main streets. This
ones bring their own reward of that the law protected the pri- | would keep ihe wagons out of
content and of joy to a con- maries and guaranteed their fair the square ar.d be handy for
science, that to the soul repeats, I ness. it would not do for our|Hobart'a greatest industry, the
'well done, well done." The | party to nominate in any other! farmers. If the merchants don't
bad and dark ones stand,, as way. Mr Williams is a good want it that way, well and good,
warnings, and whisper to the ar(j conservative democrat and | But mind this prediction a su-
wcary wanderer, who backward looks out for the good of the j burban market place will lessen
casts a glance, "to go and sin j party rather than for selfish or the trade with our merchants,
no more." In all the past year, personal interests. restaurants and ether businesses
•God ha3 been good to us: and if < ' on the square and Fourth street
the chastening rod has f?dlen, | I resident Daws of^ the Far- twenty per cent We have
we must remember, that He hasimerH nion an<* editor °f the |...
said, "as many as I love. I re. official paper of that organiza-
hiiifn and phAst n " tion, the Union-Signal, is a,. ,
• >uke ana cnasten. ...... , .. , to macadamize a central place
cn idiirninrr oor lessons "from strong prohibitionist. In the last ...
eo learning our lessons uom , , . . . . J on our public square. We have
• v... mji «. .1 ho!r thunU-fni f.issue of his paper he has an ad , , 1
the past ana heing thankful tor made the suggestion and done
#h« ilM«inL>« that have boon hr>. for a whiskev house at Shawnee . 4 m,
tne blessings that ha\e neen he- • our duty. The rest is with the
.^jowed upon ue in the year thai | an(* to ma^e worse the whiskey pe0p|p_
LET US FIGURE
ON YOUR BILL!
J. S. MAYFIELD LUMBER CO.
COR. 5TH Sr WASHINGTON- • PHONE 99.
located for the transaction of
business and more convenient
for the checker players. The
room will be handier in many
o«her respects. If we remember
rightly it is situated over Harry
and Dick's refreshment empor-
r
A VALUABLE GIFT
For Our Subscribers
seen
it tried.
Our city could far better afford
."{owed upi
has gone, we bid goodbye, with- advertised is very cheap stuff.
out regret, to the old and trembl ^ *lose PXaniP'e i9 a new editor r1;/.,
tund with a brave I t0 follow? Is not there h 1 "e Moves
ing 15K)5 and stund
heart to clasp the ,?ood l,eal of bo9h
e happv, flower ,hibited hy "utf,i<)
and gall
iders whq even I
Its Offices.
•and cheerful
•and of the happy, flower j ",u,wu "V ouw..iers wnq even, The city council met in ad-
•■•rowned child of 1W0 and hum-, tr>'to ,hctate vvhat advert,8,nP H , journed session Thursday after-
bly ask him to lead us to a bet-, newspaper shall take? noon, allowed some bills and
ier life. ' The induction of negro farmers1 passed «n -'is' on ordi-
tr "—into the Farmers' Union will niake j nance which will bp published in !
Higher Than j trouble we are afraid. The Un- j the C ukf.
I Cilri h ion was originated in the South j The council informally dis-
' ' a. ftn(j |laB a gfronp Southern mem- cussed the waterworks extention
. (• 27 in NTew York on Wall bership. If the negro farmer and a. e determined to make all
Street, call money w n great has the good of the Union at haste in getting the work corn-
demand The interest uemand- heart he will not attempt to dis-1 pleted.
«^d was eight per cent a month rupt it by trying to associn el They will rent the old Com-
and the supply at this figure with whites who do not ws t mercial Club rooms and m^>ve all
would not meet the demand. It him. Where there is enough of the city offices to that building
closed at 90 per cent a "ear. them, let them form auxiliaries j on Fourth street.
! Dr. Coe, the well known phy-
, sieian of Kansas City, has cured
hundreds and can cure you
Read his large advertisement in
this issue of the Chikf. 12 28 6w.
Norfleet Gone to The
Asylum at Norman:
| Sheriff Ed Ray and Deputy
Huie started Saturday morning
to the asylum at Norman with
Norfleet who ha? been adjudged
insane. It will ber emembered
that Norfleet escaped from Dep-
my Weismer and went home for
Christmas dinner He has been
a soufce o' much anxiety to his
relatives, who lived in constant
dread of him.
County Commissioners
Meet.
The county commissioners met
on Jan. 1- r ar.d adjourned until
T v?8u..>. ~ * h.-ve bc«n ip
session today. A full report ot
their doings will be given later
in th* Chi®'. They ali paid the
Chief office a-'pleasaf.t call on
New Year's day and wished us a
prosperous and happy new year.
Shaw, the secre
treasury, is gett'-
lump some of the
r the and where there are only a few. This location will be bettor and
ir to let them receive the benefits of j more comfortable than the pres-
jney.the Union but we do not believe ent one. It will be more centra!ly ! 1-2-12-ua-w
Mares for Sale.
One hundred head of young
and well-broke mares for sale,
at Rock Island wagon yard. Will
buy mulea. Bob Chalfant.
\Vf E have been looking for a fitting
T T Christmas present for our sub>
scribers. We have found it.
The Farmers Magazine
is published weekly in Oklahoma City,
by a man who has done more for the
Farmers than any man in Oklahoma,
J. B. TIIOliTRX,
Formerly Secretary of the Board of Agriculture
He knows the wants of our Farmers
our climate, our soil and what is best
to plant and raise.
It is an Oklahorua Magazine for Okla>
homans.
Subscription price for
Farmers Magazine . .
Hobart Chief . . ,
$1.00
I.OO
$2.00
Now for the present, send us one dollar
for the Hobart Chief, and we will send
you this splendid up.to,date Mpgazine
Free Every Week ior One Year.
Offer good until January 31st. 1906
DON'T MISS IT:
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Judge Caudill returned Friday
from a family reunion at Berlin,
Roger Mills county.
Mrs. L. E. Feason went Jto
Chickasha after visiting Mrs.
Moore.
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Worrall, C. C. Hobart Weekly Chief (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 5, No. 17, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1906, newspaper, January 4, 1906; Hobart, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc269893/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.