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THE HOOKER ADVANCE
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The Best Paper, Circulated Among the Best People, in the Best Town on Earth
Volume 9
HOOKER. TEXAS COUNTY, OKLAHOMA. FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1912
Number 15
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ROAMING AROUND
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looir again, if it happened
you will find it hebe.
See the Levitation Illusion at the
Norbury Hall May 22.
Claud Henderson went to Guymon
Monday to attend district court.
Marvello Cream and Face Powders
at Hubbard's Pharmacy.
Eighth grade examinations are now
being held at the school house.
Biggest line of school tablets at
Risen's Drug Store.
Judge W. C. Crow was in town
Tuesday taking proofs.
For the finest line of toilet articles,
go to the Pioneer Drug Store.
Mrs. L B. Grubb left Sunday for
Angola, Kansas, where she will visit
her parents.
Those Tarnish off Cloths the Big
Jo Lumber Co., had were fast sellers,
more coming..
Gborge Fessler and D. J3. Almond
went to Guymon Sunday to serve as
petit jurors in district court.
D. B. Zeigler returned Saturday
from Liberal, where be bad been sev-
eral days on business.
HOUSE FOR RENT:—Four rooms.
Water near door. Ask Seitsinger at
the System.
Tom Horton came down from Liber-
al Sunday for a few days' visit at
the F. A. Blake borne.
The UDion Mercantile Co. is hand-
ling the Emerson listers and cultiva-
tors also, a full line of field seeds.
Lewis Long of Optima was up to
Hooker on business Tuesday. Mr.
Long reports Pony creek full from
bank to bank.
Lost:—Near the Block school house,
cutter of an Emmerson lister. Finder
please pbone me on Pontiuj' line. B.
V. Taylor.
C. C. Bleytbing came in from the
new town of Forgan Saturday and
spent Sunday at home. He reports
everything moving very slowly over
there.
Frank Roddy went out to spend
Sunday at home and returned Mon-
day morning; whether he swam to
town or used a boat deponent saith
not.
James N. Mock arrived Tuesday
from Laurel, Montana, to look after
some business affairs. Mr. Mock
owns the brick building formerly
owned by D. H. Anders.
The Everton show that is advertis-
ed in this issue has been favorably
commented on by some of our ex-
changes where the show has been.
See their ad elsewhere and take in
the show.
It was real amusing last Tuesday
to see some of our citizens going to
the cyclone cellar and other out-of-the-
way places to keen Claud Henderson
from serving a jury subpoena cn
them. They love these juiy jobs
about like the devil loves uoly water.
Smith Haynes was elected chairman
of the town board Saturday night,
succeeding Jobn Huston whose term
of office had expired. Smith will
make the town a good president and
we believe the city's municipal affairs
will be handled in a satisfactory man-
ner by him.
I will pasture horses and cattle for
75c a bead per month, and 40c per
month for colts and calves less than
two years old. Good pasture, plenty
of water and salt. Not responsible
for accidents, strayed or stolen stock.
12 miles south of Hooker, John De-
1 autre.
We came very near turning the ed-
itorial job of ti>is great household
guide over to Frank Roddy Tuesday.
We got a subpoena to report at Guy-
mon for jury service and the only
thing that prevented such a calamity
falling on the gentle and unsuspecting
public was the timely telephone mes-
sage thai came just before the train
got here.
There is no game of chance no
lottery scheme, no graft or unpleas- J
ant feature connected with this piano j
contest we have started. Everything
will be strictly in accordance with
the postal laws, and the iocky party
will be the one who gets out *nd works
the hardest for il It is a premium
well worth working for and we are
pleased to note the enthusiasm it has
already created. School will soon
be out and several have expressed1
themselves as intending u go after
votes in the proper style during the
summer. Some one is going to win it
why not you?
H. J. Hollmann of Guymon visited
friends and relatives here Sunday.
C. F. Rose has added harness to
his line of vehicles
You will find the county commiss-
ioners' proceeding's in this issue.
Look them over.
Hooker Produce Co. pays highest
price for hides. See theui before sel-
ling.
Ervin Geist and Herm an Carr of
Lorena made proof before Judge
Crow Tuesday.
It will soon be time to put away
your winter clothing. C. F. Rose
has the trunks and wardrobes.
C. A. Leeman of Texhoma was here
Wednesday, taking in the Oblander
sale and meeting the voters.
For Sale:—One Engine, Broom Corn
Seeder and Baler, cheap. Big Jo
Lumber Co. 4-26-tf.
Col. John Shields is taking in court
at Guymon this week, going down
Sunday afternoon.
For pop, lemonade, milk shake,
candy, cigars, peanuts and other
confectionery, call at Majors place.
Osteopath
Dr. Nellie Good, 1st. door
west of Armstrong's residence
Miss Opal Elmore arrived Friday
from Gibbs, Missouri, for a short vis-
it with Mr. and Mrs. John W. Elmore,
north of town.
The base ball boys went to Guy-
mon yesterday to cross bats with the
Guymon boys. They intended going
Tuesday but were rained out.
Edward W. Mills, a prohibition
lecturer, will deliver a lecture at the
Methodist church next Monday eve-
ning. Admission free
Mr. Forshee of Grand Valley was
in town Tuesday and says that the
wheat is looking fine and there will
be a larger acreage of feed stuff in
his neighborhood than ever.
Rev. Wagner, a Methodist minister
of Excelsior Springs, Missouri, was
here this week visiting at the J. E.
Booth home. He preached at the
Methodist church Sunday evening.
Rev. M. T. Allen preached a splen-
did sermon at the Methodist church
Sunday morning on Mothers' Day.
Nearly everyone wore a white flower
in remembrance of her who is one's
best friend.
According to reports from the
government gauge at H. N. Kelly's
we have bad during the month of May
over two and a half inches of rain
Which is some rain for a dry country,
to be sure.
Roosevelt and Clark carried Cali-
fornia in the presidential primary
held there Tuesday. That's what
comes from President Taft's letting
Secretary Knox tour the state in his
behalf.
In a card from Jobn A. Hiebert
this week be orders his paper changed
from Hillsboro, Kansas, to Upland,
California, stating they had located
there. We wish Jobn and his family
the best of success in their new home.
If elected to the office of Sheriff of
Texas county, I pledge myself to run
the office with the assistancs of one
deputy and the constables of the dif-
ferent districts. But if I need more
help will secure it at my own expense.
J. H. ARMSTRONG.
Everton's Temple of Illusions and
Mystery, will exhibit at Hooker Wed- j
nesday night, Mav 22. introducing a
series of tricks and illusions never j
before witnessed—presenting Emma
Stanbrougb, the Lady magician in I
her great Mahatma Illusion.
Prof, and Mrs. J. M. Browning
moved back to town Wednesday from
near the Buffalo sohool house, where
they taught this year. They moved
into the Lutheran parsonage, but |
whether J. M. intends to hold services J
regularly or not we failed to learn.
There will be a meeting of the shoo) ,
trustees and teachers of Texas county-
tomorrow at 10 o'clock. The meeting
will be beld at the High school build-
ing in Guymon. All school teachers
and trustees are requested to he
present. One of the faculty of the'
State Normal at Alva will be there. '
C. M. Lewis and wife of Texas
county, iMtlaboma, visited relatives I
in Liberal Sunday. Mr. Lewis re-
ports crops ia hi* swtion of the
county looking fine. He has nearly
six hundred acres of wheat and con-
templates planting a large acreage of 1
broomcora and other spnoy crops-
It is tueh vim as is displayed by Mr. i
Lewis that brings oat the possibili-
ties of the Great Southwest—Liberal ;
Democrat.
THE MOB
THE "voice of mere majorities" the "clamor of the mob."
We bear our statesmen lisp these wopds and smother back a sob.
They lift theis voices warningly; they tremble in their fear,
Lest Truth be violated by the mob that crouches near,
The mob that grapples Liberty, to tear her garment's hem,
And rifle in the trampled dust her starry diadem.
The fiend that lurks in Yankee hearts to pillage, burn and rob;
And rend the pillars of the slate—these common folk; the mob!
I hug the insult to my breast: for such as they, am I.
I and my brothers are the mob, 'gainst whom the mighty cry!
The mob that Patrick Henry roused When Freedom saw the day;
The mob that rose when Paul Revere rode down the starlit way.
That bold, embattled farmer mob. whose bleeding breasts were hurled
Against the guns at Lexington, that echoed 'round the world.
The mob that crossed the Delaware amid the icy floes;
The mob that starved at Valley Forge, and tracked the crimson snows.
"All men were equal" in that mob which faced the shot and shell
On Bunker Hill where Putnam fought, and deathless Warren fell.
They wrote it, "We the people," when they gave a nation birth,
But now we know they were the mob, the scum of all the earth.
They were the mob that Jackson called who slew the money power,
The mob that answered Lincoln's call in Freedom's mortal hour.
"God must have loved the mob," he said, "He made so many of us."
We are the ones our statesmen fear, though Lincoln's God may love us.
We poured from farm and forge and shop to march with Grant and Lee;
We trained the guns at Gettysburg, and manned the ships at sea:
We kissed our weeping: wives good-by, and went the patriot's way,
To feed the hungry cannon mouths their feast of quivering clay.
Our women staggered at the plows with blistered hands that bled,
And drove the reapers through the grain—and gave the soldiers bread.
Alone, alone, they hushed the drone of anguished cry and sob,
And from their loins is sprung the race the rulers fear—THE MOB!
—Kansas City Star.
The Enthusiasm is Growing
Enthusiasm in the piano contest put
on by this paper and Hubbard's
Pharmacy is growing stronger right
along. Several ladies have taken an
active interest in the contest and quite
a few have promised to go out and
bring in business enough to make both
of us put on a couple more clerks to
take care of it.
When the contest started we sent
out a circular letter to as many
names as we could think of,
giving each one 2000 votes to start
with, which we will continue to do for
every contestant who enters the con-
test in the future. There are now
If3 contestants, but among those
the following have had the number of
votes placed to their credit which is
set opposite their number:
No. Votes/No. Votes
25 20,56$ 31 3,000
38 10.315 58 13,070
60 5,025 66 12,225
108 6.265 121 9,125
1H7 6,000 152 4.625
168 4,015 179 4,000
182 3,000 183 2,155
Browning Lands a Good
Thing
Prof. J. M. Browning received
word last week from the board of
Agriculture to the effect that he had
been elected to the head of the depart-
ment of English and Mathematics at
the Agricultural college at Broken
Arrow, Oklahoma. He will move to
Broken Arrow some time before July
1, at which time the school year be-
gins in that college. This position
commands a salary and a good man
to keep the job. but we believe Brown
ing is well able to handle it. The two
studies he will have to teach are bis
favorite lines of school work and he
can now give them his entire tiifce.
We believe the Board made a wise
selection when they appointed him
and congratulate J. M. on getting
the same, altho we greatly regret to
see him leave this part of the educa-
tional vineyard.
Some Up-Land Alfalfa
F. W. Blacksten, who owns a farm
one and a half miles northeast of Tex-
homa, has some up-land alfalfa that
is worth noting. It is about eleven
months old, is a fine stand and is be-
tween a foot and 18 inches high at this
time. It will be ready for cutting
about the last of next week. If it
keeps up at the rate it is now growing
Mr. Blacksten expects to harvest four
or five crops from the field this sum-
mer. Alfalfa will grow on Panhandle
up-land, anyhow this field is doing so
with success. —Texhoma Times.
Farm For Sale
! will sell the X. E. | fc-4-18. Over
SAM) worth of building* and improve-
ments. 70 acres wheat, 1-2 interest in
12 acres oats. Also a quarter sec-
tion improved school land wim rood
building*. well and 70 acres good
wheat See or write, G. Youk. Book-
er, Ok la.
Largest (sprinr stock) of wall pa-
per in town 5c per double roll, Hub-
bard's Pharmacy.
That Was Some Rain
Hooker and vicinity was visited by
one of the old time soakers Sunday
night and Monday morning. It began
raining Sunday night about 6:30
and continued for sixteen hours.
This is practically the first good,
soaking rain that we have had for
three years, and the farmers are
jubilant. Everybody is going about
with a Sunny-Jim smile on their face
and figuring what they are going to
do with the proceeds of this year's
wbaat harvest.
The rain coming, as it did at this
season gives the farmer an oppor-
tunity to get the utmost value from it.
He can plant and store the moisture
at the same time and, with a little
cultivation, will practically assure
him a feed crop.
We have heard from nearly all
parts of the county since Sunday
and there is not a report of either
wind or hall, in connection with Sun-
day's downpour.
A Terrible Disappointment
Claud Henderson received word
from Guymon Tuesday about noon to
subpoena eight jurymen right away
and briny them to Guymon on No. 1.
Claud immed'ately got busier than a
cranberry merchant in blackberry time
and bad his eight "tried and true"
at the depot long before train time.
When the train hove in sight he re-
ceived another message telling him
that they had jurymen down there to
burn, and wouldn't need the Hooker
bunch It was a welcome relief and
tbey all got their tickets promptly re-
deemed by Agent Dettle, feeling that
it was just like an answer to prayer
to keep from having to serve on the
jury.
A Great Bargain
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an extremely low price? If so, send
only 11.00 and you will receive the
great Kansas City Daily and Sunday
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THE KANSAS CITY JORNAL,
Dept. A. Kansas City, Mo.
The Disinherited
Born of accident and fate, of
agony and dread, of fears and tears,
held in trembling arms with lips upon
a shrunken breast, withered by woe-
ful want—rocked by tired, unwilling
feet and lured to the painless shores
of sleep by sad, sweet lullabys sung
soft and low by pale and pulseless
lips—led by Need and Wish, two fairy
Queens of early Dawn and taught by
all the things of love and pain which
soothe or lash the dimpled flesh of
babes—learning at last to walk erect,
to think and utter speech, releasing
imprisoned thoughts from books and
stars and babbling brooks—and so
through years of laughter and tears,
ever^stumbling down a thorn paved
way which leads from golden lands
of Dreams to Reality's rock-ribbed
Realm, where the'burden of a giant
oft rests upon the shoulders of a
child.
Then relentless war for pelf and
place, cursed by poverty and crushed
by despair—driven by necessity's
cruel lash to grinding toil in the piti-
less battle for bread—hoping always
for higher, better things, until a sun-
beam falls athwart his darksome way
and the one of all the world is wooed
and won. Then sober thoughts of
Berious things, driving Fairies from
the brain, while upon the shoulders
of the man there falls the responsibil-
ity of a God. Inspired by a death-
less love mated souls soon climb to
Pisgah's highest peak, where forever
waits incarnate Joy, who bids them
view the land of Promise, all bathed
in light and listen to the Siren Queen
Success singing the Harvest Home.
Entranced by glorious visions, love
and laughter follow for a day, then
back to grime and fray more fierce
than jungle beasts of prey, which
tear and rend their victims in lust of
blood and death.
With meager, sweat-stained wage
a place called home is won—a bumble
place to eat and sleep, but under
whose rented roof there is no chamber
of gladness where wedded souls in
sacred dreams divide the billowed
hours of love—but only days of labor,
nights of worry waiting for a life that
love in reckless abandon launched
upon a storm-tossed sea. At last the
port is reached and all is well—a cry,
a smile, a tear, and then the cradle
song which tells of another mouth to
feed—another soul to suffer, toil and
bleed.
Disappointment, Failure and De-
spair, three red-mouthed hounds of
hell follow bard upon baiting heels,
while at the door forever lurk the
gaunt, gray wolves of Want and
Woe. Time runs on in sunless days
and starless nights until Ambition
dies—the spicit breaks—luster fades
from tearless eyes—throbbing temples
whiten with winter's snows and the
fainting bouI, naked and wounded,
longs for death. Mills and Marts in
which his brawn and brain and blood
were turned to gold know him no
more, as in bis startled face each open
door is closed by Mammon's ruthless
hand. Chance, Faith, Hope and For-
tune fly before his faltering footsteps,
while their mocking laughter pierce
his quivering soul as with a thousand
swords. Reeling before Fate's final
blow he backward falls into the arms
of his own flesh and blood, already
weak and weary in life's struggle,
which is but the story of his own.
Light fades, night comes, but the
dawn flnds him free at last—the peer
of kings—a citizen of the Republic of
Duat.—C. A. Windle.
The bill to elect United States seDa
tors by direct vote passed both houses
this week by a handsome majority,
and will be made an amendment to
the federal constitution as soon as
ratified by the different state legiS'
latures and signed by the president.
Tb* K. P. lodge has changed its
meeting night* from Thursday to
•Monday. Members will please be
governed accordingly.
Walter Scott was up from Lorena
Tuesday and report* crop* looking
tine.
You auto see that lumber the Big
Jo Lumber Co. is unloading this week.
Embroidery Club Organized
Last Friday afternoon a number of
ladies met at the home of Mrs. W m.
Ewing and organized an embroidery
club to be known as the "Priscilla
Embroidery Club." Mrs. J. M.
Lovett was elected president and
Mr*. O. J. Wilkins secretary. Those
present were: Mesdames Joe Marshall,
Clyde Swem, Will Isbell, G. S. Ew-
ing, J. M. Lovett, O. J. Wilkins and
Miss Mattie Marshall. •
The afternoon was spent in embroid<
ery after which a dandy luncheon
was served. The next meeting of the
club will tp with Mr*.G. S. Ewing.*,*
More locals on last page
Lawn Party
At the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Welch last Saturday evening a party
[ was given the young folks of Hooker
j and vicinity. A large number were
I present and the evening was spent in
! playing out-door and parlor game*.
, An excelled lunch was served and
I all report a pleasant time.
For Lease .or Trade:—A threshing
rig. Russell engine and Avery sepa-
rator, in good running order. See or
write John H. McDonald, Hooker.
Oklahoma, Route 7.
A New Pension Law
Washington, May 11.—The presi-
dent tonight signed the increased pen-
sion bill passed by the house and
senate. The measure was signed and
became a law just before midnight in
the executive offices at the White
House. The bill as finally agreed to
carries an increase of 935,000,000 for
pensions during the first year of its
operation. During the first three
years the increased payments to vet-
erans will average $22,000,000.
As finally agreed to the bill pro-
vides increased pensions for 420,965
veterans, according to the estimates
of the house conference committee.
Every veteran serving ninty days or
more it> the naval or military service
during the Civil war, who had been
honorably discharged, and who is
over 62 years old, is cared for by the
new law.
For veterans 62 years and oyer the
rate provided in the law, for ninety
days service is $13 a month and it
ranges to $16 a month up to three
years of service; for 66 years old and
over the rate is $15 a month, for
ninety days, and ranges up to $19
for three years: for seventy years old
and over, the rate for'90 days is $18 a
month and ranges up to $25 a month
for three years; at 75 years old and
over, the rate for 90 days is $18 a
month and ranges up to $25 a month
for three years: at 75 years old over,
the rate for ninety days service is $21
and ranges up to $30 for three years.
The house yesterday agreed, 173 to
57, to the conference report of the
general pension bill providing pen-
sions up to $1 a day for verterans of
the Civil and Mexican wars. It now
goes to the president for his signa-
ture. Many Democrats voted for the
bill with the Republicans. Repre-
sentative Kent of California cast the
only Republican vote against it.
Letter From J. J Murray
Portland, Oregon, May 11, 1912.
Mr. A. L. Hiebert,
Hooker, Okla.,
My Dear Friend;
As per my promise just before leav-
ing Hooker, I write to advise you
that myself and family arrived in
Portland, Oregon, in good condition
with right side up. We were all very
much pleased with the magnificent
scenery along the O. R. & N. G. R.
R. and more especially the extensive
magnificence visible after entering
the Royal Gorge in Colorado. The
train travels on the banks of the
Columbia river and it is simply indes-
scribable. It compares very favorably
with the scenery seen by the writer
around the lakes of Killarney.
The Murray bunch have spent
much time sight-seeing in this pecul-
iar and pretty country; peculiar, be-
cause the Oregonians seem to be
different, the hospitality and good
cheer extended to the new comer
boldly stands out in comparison with
people in other states visited by the
writer.
The J. J. Murray family is now
comfortable located in a very pretty
Bungalow about three miles distant
from the City of Portland. It is a
regular garden of Eden spot, no mat-
ter in what direction the eye wanders,
it is feasted with beautiful scenery—
to say that we are all very much
pleased with this country is but to
mildly express our feelings. The
'.'Rose City" is indeed a very appro-
priate name for the City of Portland.
The climate here is almost perfect and
leaving Hooker and coming bere is
almost like dropping into another
world, the change is so radical. The
writer found the Oregon fields almost
knee deep with green grass and
clover; the rose bushes and fruit trees
were in full blossom, the perfume of
which was taken up by the soft cool-
ing air reminding one of some pleas-
ent dream instead of a reality.
If you wish you may publish this
letter in your valuable paper. The
J. J. M. "Bunch" is very busy at
this time so please pardon me for
closing this rambling letter, this with
a promise of more about this oountry
in the near future. Hleaae extend to
all my Hooker friends and associates
my best wishes and kindest remem-
berences and accept the same for
yourself. I believe you can safely
and sinoerely say, that the writer has
about made up bis mind to live and
die, not in Dixie, but in Oregon.
Our photo and Ferromatic tire bua-
! iness promises to do well here.
I beg to remain, very ainoerely
I your*,
Major J. J. Mcrka v.
The contract for the building of a
crossing between the Neff nod Rom
corners and the Hooker Blacksmith
shop across Imo avenue was awarded
to the Big Jo Lumber company Sat-
urday night by the city council.
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