The Hooker Advance. (Hooker, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, October 18, 1912 Page: 4 of 8
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Roosevelt s Record
Reviewed
By senator la follette
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ADDRESS
THE ADVANCE, Hooker, Oklahoma.
THE UNION MERCANTILE CO.
GRAIN, COAL, POULTRY
AND EGGS
Emerson Farm Implements
and Repairs
HONEST WEIGHTS AND SMALL PROFITS
IP YOU WANT TO SELL OR TRADE LIST YOUR LAND WITH
Richard-Blake
C
Real Estate Co.
A Nan On the Road Most All the Time Getting Deals
If you have something you don't want, tell us
your troubles and see if we can'i turn it for you
We also have THE BEST FARM LOAN Proposition in
Texas County, Money at Less than 10 Per Cent. No In-
spection Fees.
No Charge to Show Land. Automobile Service.
THE HOOKER GARAGE
AND AUTO COMPANY
All Kinds of Repair Work done by First-Class Workmen and
Guaranteed
-A GOOD LINE OF SUPPL1ES-
CHAS. A. HUDSON, Prop.
CITY MEAT MARKET
Kresh and Salt Meats, Oysters. Fish and Ice in Season. Pickles.
Lard and All Kinds of Canoed Goods.
Highest Market Price Paid for Butcher Stock
Heater, G. A. BAKER Oklahoma
Smith's Livery, Feed and Sale Barn
Courteous Treatment—Rates Reasonable—Good Rigs
Hon— boarded by the day or month. Good warm barn and plenty
of food pare water and teed.
Hooker, H. C. SMITH, Prop. Oklahoma
THE HOOKER ADVANCE
Hooker Advance Publishing Co
A. L. Hiebkrt. Editor and Mgr.
; Entered at the Post Office at Booker. Okla,
as Second-class Matter
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have been discarded and we have
evolved more practical, efficient and
beautiful ways. The part each of us
plays in this drama is recorded for
or against us here and now. You
are becoming a master in your line
or else you are on the high road to
the oblivion of mediocrity—Met-
chants' Journal and Commerce.
Clerk - A. L. Hiebert
Treasurer.. .. W. C.Isham
Attorney Z. M. Kirkbride
Marshal ...Claud Henderson
Justice of Peace W. H. Castleberry
Healtb Officer Dr. W. J. Risen
Councilmen:
Council meets
Hooker Advance office.
City Directory
Our recent write-up of the demo-
Chairman of Board.... John Shields' cratic convention at Guymon has
caused considerable comment in po-
litical circles and from the public in
general. The editor of this paper
has the bad failing of not knowing
any better than to publish his real
H. A. Hoole and Harvey Cox. opinioD of anything that doesn't
ieets every Saturday night in the . . . , , ■ ,l._, v.*.
1 suit him, in language so plain that he
who runs fhay read, and if in so
_ _. I doing we happen to stei on some-
County Directory one's toes, we trust it will ultimately
District JudKe R. H. Loofburrow I redound in good to the aforemeo-
County judge w. c. Crow | tioned steppee and the people at
County Attorney .v--Jobn L.Gleason j )arge. At least, "them's the inten-
cierkDistrict Court H. c.Parceiis, ,,^j not always the result. We
County Cleric. A. .f. Burcb I ' , , .. j „
County Treasurer. .. _.W. R. D. Smith didn't mean to knock on the derao-
Register of Deeds J. C. Williamson | cratic ticket by saving what we did
Sheriff Darid H. Chenauit; There are some candidates running
County Superintendent Nettie B. Lynch k fQr whom we
County Surveyor Hugh E. James .. ,,
County Coroner Dr. Angle I would be willing to sacrifice our old
County Weigher. . Wm. M. Goodnight shoes to see them land the office
But what we were driving at is the
utter uselessness of conventions en-
tirely. They are far removed from
the voice of the voters, and are en
tirely uncalled for. They are echoes
of days when candidates were chosei
by the convention method, and the
strongest wire puller got the nomina-
tion whether he was lit to hold the
office or not. which system has been
done away with in most states ana
supplanted by the present primary
elections. What do the people care
about any resolutions or whereases
that a convention may pass? Half
of them never see or hear of them at
all, and the balance let them pass in-
to one ear and out of the other. Be-
sides, a political convention always
carries with it the odor of "frame-
ups, " as a relic of the days when
they were called for that purpose
So, the conventions, in our estima-
tion, are good plaees'for honest men
to stay away from, as politics makes
j queer bed-fellows and there you
of its cargo several hundred volumes rub shouider8 and are iriendly to the
Commissioner 1st District. A1 Lawder
Commissioner Jnd District B. M. Ballinger
Commissioner 3rd District—Thos. W. Clayton
ROCK ISLAND TIMETABLE
WEST BOUND.
No. 1 2:25 p.m.
So. 33 2.30 a m
No. 85. Local 9 a.m.
EAST BOUND.
Mo. J. 11:00 a. m.
No. 34 - 1:51 a. ixl
No. 84. Local 2:80p. m
Post Office Hours
odea 8:00 a. m.
Closes 7:00 p. m
Open 10:00 a. m
Closes 11:00 • m
E. J. Baxter, Postmaster.
The Age of Material Truth
The first ship that crossed the ocean
propelled by steam carried as part
of a book written bv a learned
scholar, "proving" the physical im-
possibility of navigation by steam
Dower.
When Peter Cooper, the great in-
ventor raced his first locomotive with
stage-coach drawn by two white
fiotsam and jetsam of the political
world whom you would not recog-
nize in any other place, and whose
friendship is no credit to auyone.
In another place you will find an
article taken from the Guymon Her
horses and was defeated, people who I showing that the building of a
feared that the locomotive would mean j courthouse will mean only an ad-
the passing of the horse returned
home again to the quiet of the farm
and the peace of agricultural pursuits
—Thus does the world move.
We stand at a new point in time—
the dawn of a new age of thought is
flushing the sky. Man has solved the
riddle of the universe; it is energy
There is nothing in the universe but
this one mysterious substance and
life itself is nothing more than trans-
formed sunlight.
Man has solved the riddle of energy
because he has found i. way to har-
ness and apply it. Since Ben Frank
iin sent his kite into the sky and
made peace with the lightning's flash,
the world has moved forward at a
pace which even those who have
played the biggest part in the ad-
vancement themselves really do not
comprehend.
While a certain contingent of the
"old school," which insists on run-
ning a flower garden in winter and
cutting ice in summer, sits about idl.v
on boxes talking of the folly of the
airship and bow if it had been intend
ed that man should fly he would have
been provided with a pair of wings^—
an aviator sails down over New
York City from St. Louis, circles the
Singer building for a few times, cross-
es the Hudson—and out of sight
against the eastern sky.
We stand at the tomb of the old
way of doing things—the world is
beautified in degree as we make it so.
Tbe thing we elect to do reflects the
spirit of the man who plays the game
Tbe spirit of the man who conducts a
business is seen in every advertise-
ment, in every sale, in every display
of merchandise and. most of all, m
the class of customers that patronizes
his place of business.
Power gravitates to the man who
knows how. Customers rally to the
store that offers the finest service in
connection with the most dependable
merchandise. The old, ossified no-
tion that a shop was a place for the
rat and the cobweb to make merry has
been given an appropriate burial.
Today, the shop, the store, the
plant, the factory—is a place wbere
men do useful work; and to do useful
work is the greatest happiness—and
the greatest happiness is the greatest
good.
Nothing goes in busioeac any more
but hooesly, integrity and material-
ised truth. Tbe c; rue ken poet who
rbjmed verses and reveled in wine
How the Money
Wa.s Spent
CONDITION OF THE COUNTY FUNDS WHEN THE PRESENT OFFICIALS
S rHAKGE JANUARY 9, 1911. WHAT THE OLD OFFICIALS
SPENT IN THEIR LAST SIX MONTHS IN OFFICE COMPARED TO
WHAT TOE NEW OFFICIALS SPENT IN THEIR FIRST SIX
MONTHS AVI) THE BALANCE OF THEIR TERM. THE COUNT*
LEVY HAS BEEN LOWERED FROM 5.9 MILLS YEARS
TO 4 MILLS FOR 1912, YET THE ASSESSED VALUE Ol" TEXAS
COUNTY KOIi 1913 IS $300,000 LESS THAN IN FORMER YEARS
Below we have taken some interesting figures from the records in the
county cuerk's office, which we wish everyone who reads this would investi-
gate for himself. Following we give the levy with the amounts apportioned
to the several funds, together with the balance on hand July 1, 1910.
The present officials were sworn into office Jan. 9, 1911.
Bal. in r una
Salary fund:— „ Jan' 9" 1911
Balance on hand July 1, 1910 $ 1.778.73
Levy for fund made July 1, 1910 ???'!! =
Apportioned to fund (74.95
Total $17,534.58
Court fund:— ^
Balance on hand July 1, 1910 $ 1.784-27
Levy for fund July 1, 1910 9,693.63
Apportioned to fund
837.75
Total 112,315.65
Poor and Insane fund:—
Balance on hand July 1. 1910 --$ 363.<>7
Levy for fund July 1, 1910 M44.74
Apportioned to fund 14.03
Total 5 2,122.34
Road and Bridge fund:—
Balance on hand July 1, 1910 $ 1,70-.84
Levy for fund July 1, 1910 4,406.48
Apportioned to fund - 151.91
$5,423.45
$S,001.41
$ 513.89
Total
Supply fund:—
Balance on hand July 1, 1910 $ 356.82
Levy for fund July 1, 1910 7,931.25
Apportioned to fund 69.15
$ 6,261.20 $ 73.95
$3,727.41
Total $ 8,357.22
Contingent fund:— | _
Balance on hand July 1, 1910 $ 3,333.55
Levy for fund July 1, 1910 3,524.71
Apportioned to fund 209.13
Total -.- $ 7,067.39 $ 933.84
Judgment levy for 1910 1 6,169.20
Insurance received May 2, and applied to supply fund $2,650.00
Insurance received June 6, and applied to supply fund 2,600.00
Total $5,250.00
Insurance received July 7, 1911, applied to building fund $1,591.34
The building insurance could not be apportioned to any save a
building fund and is now-in the county fund for that purpose and will
remain there until a new court house is built for the,county. The other
part of the insurance was used to purchase a new outfit lor the county to
replace that which had been burned up and asist in carrying on incidental
expenses.
Condition of County July 1, 1911
Claims Pending
Court $1,153.84
Poor and Insane 180.80
Road and Bridge 609.31
Contingent 1,014.60
Supply 771.95
Salary 5,646.70
Courthouse Rental fund
ditional 15 cents taxes to each $1,000,
valuation. These are the same figures
given us last week by County Clerk
Burch who has figured it out from
the county records, ld-as-much a>
there is a likelihood of someone's
trying to work the old Westland
hotel at Guymon off on the county,
at a price of $18,000, to be used for
a courthouse, it stands tbe tax payers
in hand to vote for the building of a
courthouse that will look like some-
thing when it is finished, be of ser
vice to the county for many years and
not cost much more. In case of a
fire in tbe present offices of the count}
every record would be destroyed a-
there is not a safe or vault in which
to store tbe books. Better think this
matter over seriously before voting
against it.
The advertisements are generally
true. You can't successfully adver
tise continuously a counterfeit or a
humbug. But a genuinely good ar-
ticle can be auveilised continuously
and with increasing profit to the ad
vertiser. There's Pears soap. That
Das been continuously advertised tor
more than one hundred vears. It's
good soap. You could not buy the
Pear's soap factory for what the fac
lory cost. The advertising has ad
ded value to the plant—"good will,"
it is called sometimes. Your business
can profit in a similar way.—Yinita
Leader.
You will find some republican cam
paign dope on this page. The repub-
licans are spending tbeir campaign
funds in tbe right manner, i. e., ny
newspaper advertising, and we wouiu
suggest that tbe other parties do
likewise if they intend for tbe people
to gel the proper focus on their side
of the story. Newspaper advertising
reaches many people who never have
the time or inclination to attend po-
litical speeches or meetings, but who
do carefully read the papers.
$2,165.89
Governor Cruca will speak in Hook-
er a week from tomorrow, October 2b.
at 2.-00 p. m. Mr. Cruoe ia not run-
ning for ottioe bimself but is merely
campaigning tbe atate in tbe interest*
of the democratic party. It is quite a
distance fo. him U> come to ibis part
of the state anJ requires considerable
(Tort on his part- Our people should
■ show their appreciation of this by I
bas been suocewled bv the man wb.. ' i
- , giving him a large audieooe Don t
ti.Si I r* m. UmblM L > trntn Snh Mmti I "
forget the date.
30,000 Vote* with each $1.00 Subscription. Do it Now.
intildi temples to truth and oeauty,
• bo paves streets, lights cities, builds |
parks, construct* bridges, plants I ~~
fl. wars and garden* and gives rtn-1 About November 5 the Bull Moose
ploy meal to the sons and daughters' will *bed his borna, President Taf;
oi nKD. begin to pack bis grip and
Old methods of doing things iO|Woodrow will begin writing his in-
every craft, profession and business J augral address.
'his rear is
' but for the
i*
Bal. in fund
$ 33.40
31.89
279.50
18.69
1,736.44
27.45
38.52
Total $9,377.20
Balance claims pending because of lack of funds, July 1, 1911 $7,211.31
Claims filed since July 1, 1911, which should have been cared Tor
under the 1910 levy amount to $1,268.25, which should be added to the
$7,211.31, bringing the total up to $S,479.56, or what the new commis-
s:oners have had to pay for the old board.
The approved estimate for the salary fund for the year 1910-1911 was
$17,534.58. On Jan. 9, 1911, when the present county officials were seated,
there was a balance in the salary fund amounting to $5,423.45. The old
afficers spent $12,111.13 in the first six months of the year, leaving the new
officers $5,423.45 of which $2,196.00 had to be paid for assessing the
county, leaving balance in the salary fund of $3,227.45, and on July 1.
1911, there were legal clams pending against this fund to the amount or
$5,640.00; this added to the $3,227.45 makes $8,867.45, the amount It coat
to run the salary fund the first six months for the new officers, compared to
$12,111.13, the cost of the last six months of the old administration,
showing that the present officials made a saving for the taxpayers of
J3.243.68 in six months and this included extra help necessary on account
of the fire, which was paid out of this fund.
The approved estimate for the court fund for the fiscal year 1910-
1911 was $12,315.65. On Jan. 9, 1911, when the present county officials
took charge there was a balance in that fund of $3,001.41. showing the old
officers to have spent $9,314.24 in six months. On June 30, 1911. there were
egal claims pending aga'nst this fund $1,153.00, which makes the showing
of $9,314.24 spent by former officials in six months and by the new officials
or the same length of time $4,154.41. Included in this is the rent of the
court house which is paid out of this fund and amounts to about $100,011
per month.
The approved estimate for the supply fund for the year 1910-1911 was
$8,357.22. On Jan. 9, 1911. there was a balance in the fund of $3,727.41.
showing the old officials to have spent $4,629.81 in six months. $5,250.00
of the insurance money was placed fo the cred't of this to replace records
and furniture that burned. There was a balance in this fund on June 30,
1911. of $1,736.44, showing present officers to have spent $7,S40, including
the purchase price of new furniture and records against $4,629.81 spent by
old officials in six months—and they had no fire to pay for.
The approved estimate for the poor and insane fund for the year 1910-
1911 was $2,122.34, of which $1,608.45 had been spent before Jan. 9, 1911.
leaving the present officials a balance of $513.89 with legal claims pending
to the amount of $150.00. which shows that the old officials had spent
$1,608.45 in six months, as against $663.85 of present officials for the
same length of time.
The approved estimate for the road and bridge fund for the year
19^0-1911 was $6,261.20 and on Jan. 9, 1911, there had been claims
allowed in excess of tbe estimate to the amount of $4 4 2.36, leaving the
new officials no funds in the road and bridge fund for the first six months
of their term, besides having $4 42.36 indebtedness for them to pay.
Thff approved etimate for the contingent fund for the year 1910-1911
was $7067.39. On Jan. 9, 1911. there was a balance <n the fund amounting
to $933.84, showing former officials to have spent $6.13:$.55 in ix
months, leaving the present officers $933.84, and two elections to hold that
spring as you know (the herd law and Art. 9. Sec 9,> which made legal
claims pending against this fund to the amount of $1,014.60. Taking the
claims pending and the old bills that have been paid out of the 1911 levy
which should have been provided for in the 1910 levy amounts to (8,479.56
which the present administration had to pay on account of the old officers
not making a levy conmmensurate with their extravagant expenditures.
One of the notable achievements of fhe present county administration
has been the business like manner in which it has taken '-are of the old
Beaver county indebtedness At a joint meeting of the commissioners or
Beaver. Texas and Cimarron counties held August 8. 1908, it was deter-
mined that the amount due by Texas county to Heaver county was
$17,967.88. and this became a judgment against the county, which, under
the statutes, should have been paid in three years
The county tax levy for 1909, should, therefor**, have provided for the
payment of the Interest. $1,018.07, and $5,989.29 lor oue-thlrd of the
principal. yet not a dollar toward the payment or «u>- part of the debt,
principal or interest, was included in the le\y for that year
The levy for 1910 provided for the payment of the Interest and only
$4,035.85 of the principal, lesyin* $13,932.03 of the debt hanging over
the county when the present oflb ials went Into office In the first levy
made by the present administration. thtt of 1911, provt* ,,n was made for
the payment of the interest on the debt. $«t.v, 92. and one-half of the
principal. $6.966.<i2. a total of $7,801.94. and that amount has been paid
The 1912 levy for all county purposes, although reduced to four mills the
lowest In the history of the county, provides for tbe payment of the halanco
of the debt. prinHpsI $<*,996.01 and interest $117 •>*. a total of $C 9"
If former offictsie had arranged fo pay the interest and one-third of
the principal of this indebtedness in 1909 am they should h«t« done the
county levy for that year would have sit and seven-tenths mills Instead
of live and nine-tenths mills, the last of th* debt would hate been wiped
out by the 1911 levy, no money for thst purpose would hat* been needed
in 191X and tbe levy for this year would bam been reduced to tbrM ■><«
one-half Bills. mna
It la. therefore, true that, slthougb the ounty ! • > f
the lowest we have ever had. it would have t-eu «tti! low
legacy of debt left by tbe previous sdmlnis'rat ton
K II gt lNS
HAITI, BCKMI
(POLITICAL ADVERTISINGi
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