The Hooker Advance (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE HOOKER ADVANCE[ Parched; waiting
man their last service by fertilizing
WILL SELL YOU THE BEST
My Lady
Of i North
; Hooker Advance Publishing Co.
A. L. Hiebert, Editor and Mgr.
C. C. Swem, Asst. Editor
I Entered at the Post Offlce at Hooker. Okla..
as Second-class Matter.
An exceptionally strong
serial story will begin on
the Ready Print side of
The Advance in a few
weeks. This is a story
that attracted nation-wide
popularity while running as
a serial in one of the larg-
est magazines in the
United States and has
since been selling for $1.50
in book form with an ever
increasing demand for the
same. We don't want to
tell too much about it but
want you to find out for
yourself when you read
the story. tJWhen you
have finished the frst in-
stallment hand the paper
to your neighbor and tell
him about it, then inform
him that stories ot this
kind are a feature of this
paper and that he can con-
nect with same for the
small sum of $1.00 per
year. It's readers we want
and we are going to move
heaven and earth to get
them, and if you want
some good reading mater-
ial for the long evenings
which will soon be here
better pry yourself loose
from a dollar and live hap-
pily for at least a year.
You Simply
Can't Afford to
Miss This Story
HOOKER TIN SHOP
Windmills, Tanks. Casing, Pipe and Fitting, Corrugated
Roofing, Tin and Sheet Metal Work
BINDING TWINE
All Kinds of Oil and Axle Grease
W. W. TANTL1NCER
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
PRICE ONE DOLLAR A YEAR
City Directory
Chairman of Board - John Huston
I Clerk. — - A. L. Hiebert
| Treasurer J. e. Seitsinger
i Attorney Z. M. Klrkbride
I Marshal Claud Henderson
j Justice of Peace. W. H. Castleberry
j Health Officer Dr. W. J. Risen
I Councilmcn: C. P. Rose George W. Street,
j Smith Haynes. W. W. Smith. G. B. Hamilton.
Council meets every Saturday night in Judge
j Castleberry's offlce.
County Directory
! District Judge R. H. Loofburrow
j County Judge. __W. C. Crow
} County Attorney John L. Gleason
Clerk District Court, H. C. ParceUs
I County Clerk ...A. P. Burch
| County Treasurer W. R. D. Smith
j Register of Deeds.... ---J. C. Williamson
Sheriff David H. Chenault
j County Superintendent. Nettie B. Lynch
I County Surveyor Hugh E. James
County Coroner. Dr. Angle
County Weigher Win. M. Goodnight
Commissioner 1st District. A1 Lawder
Commissioner 2nd District B. M. Ballinger
I Commissioner 3rd District, ...Thos, W. Clayton
ROCK ISLAND TIME TABLE
west bound.
| No. 1 2:15 p.m.
No. 3 11:59 P- m.
I No. 85. Local a. m.
east bound.
I No. 8 11:00 a.m.
No. 4 6:29 a. m.
| No. 84. Local - 12:30 p. m
Post Office Hours
j Open.. - - 8:00 a. m.
| Closes - 1:00 p. m.
sunday
I Open - 10:00 a. m.
I Closes 11:00 ?•, ni.
A. F. Farr, Postmaster.
Conserve the Water
In this year of great drought, when
the surface of the earth seems a burnt
crust, when the crops all oyer the
country have been destroyed, it is well
to consider the fact that all this can
be prevented. This year alone, to say
nothing of former years, millions of
j wealth has been lost through the
mouths of our big rivers that rush out
to the sea.
If only (/art of the waters that the
Mississippi, the St. Lawrence, the
Hudson and other great rivers send
back to the salt ocean were properly
used on the dry lands of the nation,
on the lands that lack rain at certain
periods almost every year, those wat-
ers would save us untold loss: there
never would be a drought.
The sun distils the precious water
and raises it into the clouds, and
careless man lets it flow back to the
ocean.
If we saw a man, powerful and able
to stand the drain, bleeding constant-
ly from an open blood vessel, and if
we knew that he took no heed of the
loss of blood and did not seek to pre-
vent it, we should think him insane.
What about our nation that has this
wonderful wealth of fresh water,
needed on our lands, permitting it to
return wasted to the sea from whence
it was drawn.
Farmers who fear that corn will be
dear have rushed their cattle to the
market and sold them at a sacrifice.
Cattle will be scarce, and the big
trusts and the little retailers, quick to
take advantage, will charge in pro-
portion to the scarcity.
And all this because man has not
intelligence enough to keep the fresh
water, and use it on the lands tbat
need it.
It is utterly impossible for our
minds to conceive the wealth that we
Iom every year in these fresh waters
that, falling from the clouds, trickle
into tbe Great Lakes, and rush out
into the Atlantic Ocean, through the
St. Lawrence, or falling into that
great basin of the Mississippi, are
drained constantly into the Gulf of
Mexico.
and feeding as they sink back into
the ground.
Our globe is covered, much more
than half of it, by wastes of water,
useless to us, occupying needless
space. This salt water if it were put
upon the land, would destroy vegeta-
tion and destroy the land. The sun
lifts the water up into tbe clouds and
leaves the salt behind. The moving!
wina, as it heats the air and causes
movement of air currents, carry these
waters in the clouds all oyer the
country.
Up there in those clouds is wealth
unlimited—there lies the future hap-
piness of the race when nature will do
the h%rd work, when man will do only
the thinking and planning.
Today, like ignorant savages, we
watch these clouds, or we fall on our
knees and pray for rain, as do the
poor, benighted creatures on the
banks of the Congo. And as we pray
for rain, Divine Wisdom looks down
in pity, knowing that within our
brains thdre is the power that would
make it unnecessary to pray for rain,
the power that would enable us to use
those waters as they fall, to store
them, to distribute them, and to get
all that rain could possibly give us
and infinitely more.
This nation, so proud of its intelli-
gence, in reality is as dull and foolish
as would be a Bedouin sitting at a
well and dying of thirst for lack of
energy to take the water out of the
well and use it.
We allow our great corn belt to
dry up: we allow our farmers to
sacrifice cattle, fearing increased
price of corn; we allow the pastures
to go dry, and the cows to lack the
milk-giving food and the children to
suffer—and all the time rushing out
to~lhe ocean is that water that we
could save, the water that would mul-
tiply by tens the wealth of this coun-
try, properly used.
Who is the man that will set the
example in this work? Who is the
leader that will make the government
set the example on a really1 big scale?
This earth is man's inheritance,
everything is done for him by kind
nature, except the things that he
should do and can do for himself.
The fertile fields are there waiting
for the water. The water is there
lifted by the sun, scattered every day,
falling into tbe lakes and rivers and
then going back again because men
are too lazy to save it and use it.
We know that individuals must do
first what the government does later.
First came the individual freeing
the slave from bondage and then the
government came to free all the slaves.
First must come the individual free-
ing tbe soil from the terror of the
drouth; freeing one limited section
from water poverty. Then will come
the government, wisely spending its
money utilizing the greatest of all
national wealth, the water that the
sun gives us in endless billions of
cubic yards for nothing.
Have we the money to do this? Yes,
indeed we have. A small part of the
money that we spend for battle, pay
ing for wars that are past, or plan-
ning for wars in the future; and
keeping idle intelligent men as naval
and military parasites, would do
this work.—Yeoman Shield.
Nigger Head Coal -
PAY THE HIGHEST CASH PRICE FOR
— Poultry and Eggs —
agents for old trusty incubator i
AND ALL KINDS OF FARM MACHlNhKi j
0. J. WILKINS, Jeweler
Silverware, Watches, Cut Glass, Hand Painted
China, Clocks, Jewelry
Watch and Clock Repairing a Specialty
EVERYTHING GUARANTEED
Hooker - ______
%
greed, It is a stranger to patriotism,
discriminates in favor of the foreign-
er and with shameless cupidity asks
protection for itself while it plunders
the American consumer.
For the purpose of getting huge ap-
propriations for guns and warships
it encourages the war spirit and lays
the burdens of needless taxation on
the backs of the American people.
1 When called on for an accounting its
I managers alternately speak of the
people with arrogant contempt or
whine about the persecution of busi
ness men and interference with their
plans. —T. A. McNeal in Mail &
Breeze.
About the Steel Trust
Yes, I have read most of the report
on the labor conditions in the works
oi the United States steel trust,
simply tends to confirm in my mind
what I have long believed.
The steel trust was conceived in sin
and brought forth in iniquity. It
was the most colossal plan ever de-
vised to plunder the public and give
fortunes for which no just equiyaleut
had been rendered to a few individ-
uals; fortunes as stupendous in
amount as to be utterly incomprehen-
sible to the human mind.
Seven hundred million dollars of
value arbitrarily added which did
not represent a dollar's worth of real
property; 129 million dollars given Vo
the house of J. P. Morgan & Com-
pany for devising the plan by wnicb
valueless water could be turned into
the rich wine of dividend bearing
The People are Conservative
Enemies of popular government
haye offered the objection that under
a system of direct selection of candi-
dates the people would choose a man
extremely radical and dangerous to
wise governmeut.
There is not a page in American
history justifying such an estimate of
the American people. Conservatism
is one of their characteristics, in the
language of the farmers of our De-
claration of Independence, they are
••more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right them-
selves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed."
Hence the people have long deferred
the task of overthrowing the conven-
tion system, with selfishness the
destroying force, and substituting
popular government, with general
welfare the vitalizing force. They
have been willing to endure the
wrongs imposed bv their supposed
representatives who owed their first
allegiance to political bosses and
campaign contributors, rather than
assert their right to control their
Government and make their public
servants accountable to them alone.
Experience shows that the people will
not vote for a change unless convin-
ced it will be a change for the better.
Aware of this spirit of conserva-
tism and having the utmost confidence
in the intelligence, honesty, and in-
dependence of the people, I had no
hesitancy in proposing a bill giving
the people power by direct vote to
choose party candidates for President
and Vice President, and I urge the
adoption of that plan in evey State.
—Extract from speech of Senator
Bourne of Oregon.
There is a college professor in New
England who is living on peanut brit-
tle. He doesn't give any reason, but
it is presumed he is getting ready to
marticulate for a madhouse.
The Chinese moguls once had a ve-
to power, much like the English Lords,
but the power is gone and you have
to hunt around like sain hill to find
the moguls these days.
Nat Goodwin is getting slow. He
let E. H. Sothern beat him to it with
[Julia Marlowe, when he might as
well had her for himself.
Thirsty Arkansawyers in the dry
zone are asking if a parcels post will
be the bearer of a jug when it is of-
ficially established.
August has been attempting it but
it couldn't equal the high record made
in temperance in June, try as hard as
it might.
Looks like an outrage, that order
for postmasters to work eight hours a
day. What'll the Oklahoma contin-
gent do that is milling in 'politics all
the time?
i
Mr. Taft is right in saying the mass-
es sometimes make mistakes. Our
present president is one of them.
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
learn lhat there Is at least one dreaded dis-
ease that science has been able to cure in all
its stages, and that, is Catarrh. Hall's ca-
tarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
knuwD to the medicai fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires a con-
stitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, acting directly upon the
blood and mucous surfaces of the system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the
disease, and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting na-
ture in doing its work. The proprietors have
so much faiih in its curative powers that they
offf r One Hundred Dollars for any case that
it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address f. J. Cheney & Co.. Toledo. O.
Soid by all Druggists. 75c
Take Hall's Family PUls for sonstipation.
Block. In order to make this water
Thousands of millions of bushels of productive it was necessary to squeeze
wheat and corn and oats and rye,
fruits of all kinds, wealth unlimited
go back into the ocean through the
mouths of those great rivers. And
with the water goes the most fertile
the limit of production out of labor
on the one hand and hold up prices
on the other.
While the beneficiaries of this giant
combination parade their philanthro-
The Pioneer Drug Store
The Leading Drug Store of Hooker
Pure Drugs, Varnishes, Brushes,
Paint?, Window Class, Toilet Articles.
Oil, Cocnbs Soh Drinks
A Full Line of Pat™* Medicines. TobKco sPdOgar*
The I/ine of l*i|ies ever Brought to Town
KODAKS AND Sl lTUES#
We still insist lhat Ibe Advance is tbe Best Paper in the eo«ntT- Try
soil, great deposits of rich, fertile, py and insist that they are tbe real
land swept out into tbe waters of the , saviors of business, their workmen
Guif *nu into the waters of the At- toil in the burning heat of the biast
j furnaces 12 hours per day and seven
Ail along our shores these waters days in the week.
are draining the country of the life! The Standard Oil company has
blood needed by our lands. | been damned the world round, but as
Man has the knowledge, tbe power j compared with the steel trust U,e
and the wealth todav that would Standard Oil company is an institj-
enabie him to keep and to distribute \ tion whose generosity and liberality
what he needs of these precious approach tbe point of profligate waste.
waler4 [u, organization has lowered the
haeineering skill could use U*e e standard of intel igeoce among iu
waters to irrigate millions upoo mill- laborers and coerces iheir opinions
i ions of acres of land. The daj will by threats of dismissal and impend-
ed me when these imprisoned waters ing starvation.
! will be guided where man needs tbe®, It rives ita employes no leisure for
I will do the work of man. tbe heavy recreition or religion and brutalizes
labor, snpi'lyiog electric force, mov- U.em with e*ceaai e and poorly paid
i ing all kir<is of machinery: and tbese toil. It baa no bowels of compas-
I waters will be spread geotly ovsr the^ion and no Impelling motive but
Woodrow Wilson
Truly American
The following is from The Spokane
Spokesman Review;
Mr W:lson is more of an American
in a geographical sense than any
other of the national figures now in
public life. Born and bred in Vir-
ginia, but a citizen of New Jetsey, he
is a Southern man with Northern ex-
perience. He is a Democrat in his
view that the states ought to exercise
their governmental prerogatives ag-
gressively. but a Republican in bis
acceptance of the view that the Union
I of states is supreme.
As a citizen and public man, tbe
former president of Princeton has
shown that be is fearless and forceful.
Tbe history of the United States is at
bis Anger's end, but his scholarship
is not tbat of tbe impractical dm -
trinaire, unable to realize his ideala
by constructive action. He has prov-
ed h'mself to be practical and to
possess executive ability A man of
seasoned convictions be has the cour-
age of bis convictions and the proven
capacity to carry his point against
machines and professional politicians.
Clippings
Tbe Indian who spent thirty years
in jail by mistake must regard tbe
whites as a careless race.
Life is one joy after another. By
the time people get tired of green cora
lima beans come to bat.
The Lodges
Hooker Lodge No. 366, A.
F. & A. M., meets in regular
communication on first and
third Friday nights of eacn
month. Visiting brethren
always welcome.
John Huston, W. M.
J. W. Isbell. Secretary.
Hooker Lodge, I. O. O. F., No. 347,
meets every Wednesday night at 7:30
p. m. All visiting members welcome.
W. W. Irvin, N. G.
J. M. Livesay, Secy.
M. W. A.—Hooker Camp 11,163,
meets every 2nd and 4th Mondays
at Norbury Hall. Visiting neighbors
welcome. J. M. Browninir, V. C.
F. T. Norbury, Acting Clerk.
-K. of P.— Hooker Lodge
No. 212, meets every Thurs-
day night at tiieK.P. hall.
Visiting knights cordially
invited to attend.
G. L. Hchbard. C. C.
A. L. Hiebert, K. B.S.
B. A. Y.—New Star Homestead
No. 2301 meets the 1st and 3rd Tues-
day nightstof each month in Norbury
Hall. Visiting archers cordiallv wel-
come.
A. L. Hiebert, Foreman.
C. C. Swem. Correspondent.
The .Churches
BAPT1STCHURCH—Sunday school
every Sunday trorning at 10:00 o'clock
Preachiag at 11:00 a. m. and 4:30 p.m.
eveay Sunday of each month.
Prayer Meeting on Wednesday even-
ing of each week.
W. A. STRICKLAND, Paator.
M.F.. CHURCH, SOUTH-Sunday
school each Sunday at 10:00 a. m.
jj. W. Isbell. Supt. Preaching at
i 11:00 a. m. and 8:15 p. m. every Sun-
[day.
Kpworth Leajrue services commebc-
ing at 7:45 p. m. each Sunday.
| PraTer Meeting on Thursday even -
j ing of each week.
C. T. Davis, Pastor
i CHRISTIAN CHURCH, Sunday
school every Sunday morning at 10:00
o'clock. Preaching at 11.DO a. m.. and
7 JO p. m. every Sunday. Everybody
invited. F. T. Norhpbv. Clerk.
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Hiebert, A. L. The Hooker Advance (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, September 1, 1911, newspaper, September 1, 1911; Hooker, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc272293/m1/4/: accessed May 6, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.