Canadian Valley News. (Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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THE BANK OF CANADIAN
State and County Depository
Our Depositors are Brotwctod by the Depositors' Ouaranty
Bund of the Stote of Oklahoma.
Canadian, Oklahoma.
Statement Dec. 31, 1910
Resources
Loans and Discounts - $37,314.07
Overdrafts (Cotton) - 3,331.72
Furniture and Fixtures - 1,600.00
Building Account - 339.00
Warrants - - 6,442.69
Cash and Sight Exchange 47,996,38
Total - 97,024.22
Liabilities.
Capital Stock - $10,000.00
Surplus - 1,500.00
Undivided Profits - 953.56
Dividend Account - 1,500.00
Deposits - 83,070.66
Total 97,024.22
Country Bank
IN
The Country
Larger
Every Month
Your
And You
I ii f I u ence
Solicited.
and make loyal citizens of them
wo n/ust install truth, honor
'obedience into them while -they
j are young.
Red Oak Items.
Hy Our Special Correspondent.
Mrs. Tibbet who has b -en
jjquite Hick with OMMleSj is up
I again after an illness of several
| weeks.
Mrs. George Ross visited tier
j daughter Mrs. Frank Ross Sun-
Miss Mary Renfro of Reams
| spent Friday with Mrs. Frank
I Payne.
Mr. and Mrs. .John Kt r]s enter-
I tained the young people Satur-
day evening by giving a very
enjoyable party.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Payne
and Misses Ethel Payne and
Mary Renfroe went to "Hen
Hur ' play Friday evening.
Mr. Mrs. Frank Ross visited
?ELrci AMERICAN ARTISTE
i hey Are the Best Ones to Paint Per
traits of Americans, as General
Sheridan Discovered.
American: are learning that the nrn i
•<> ! tint portraits of Americans are
1 mcrlcan portrait painters, although
'!:e number of foreigners who come
' u r here and succeed h: getting vooni-
mlnioas, mainly through ileulers who
'I'ioit them shows no signs of dimin-
alng Ii |s b lng borne in on the
minds n' the sitters and their farul
'ies, however, that the artist of nn
or people Is likely to make Ills sit
r l( ok like a type of his own land.
r;ith<r than of the sitter's land. They
'ire beginning to realize that the old
perl raits which they admire wer
painted mainly hy artists of the same
blood as their sitters. A sculptor com-
iiienting on the matter recently sal,I:
Some people learn that very quick
I), but the others have slow eyes. Yet
to show you that It does not at all
take an artist to perceive It. let me
tell you what Gen. Phil Sherhlan sahl
to me. i was going to make a bust of
him. Said he:
I \e been painted, it seems to me,
h> everybody, and what have they
• one to me? I'Vl_ been painted by an
Italian and he made me look like an
Italian. I've been painted by a Ger
men and he made me look like a Ger
man. I was painted by a Jew and he
For Sale, Trade,
Wanted etc
FOR SALE CHEAP.—Oliver
Typewriter, Oak desk and chair.
g. d. Fellows. 3-3
IWANTFD TO TRADE A good
saddle pony for good cows.
O. W. Beasley,
3'10 Mellette, Okla.
tOR RENT—130 acres good
farm land, also 80 acres hay
meadow, good dwellings and
barns. «
GEORGE MONCRIEF.
ri .1 f* \v
relatives in Checotah Saturday, j '/.' Ir '0°k "ke "" ,srue,ite Now
Mr. and Mrs. BugCesar <*n 1 ed f ^011 8fis. the general learned the
lesson (.uickly—but maybe that's why
he was a general."
Arch Cesar Tuesday
Ion Mrs.
moring.
Miss Stella Williams gave ti
a very pleasant party as a cele-
1'OR SALE-—A good span of
mules, 9 years old weight 1100
for cash or credit.
John West.
SEED CORN FOR SALE I
have about 100 bushels of the
celebrated Boone County White
Seed Corn for sale at my resi-
dence, 1 mile west of Canadian.^
J. W. Knapp.
RUNNING GREAT STEAMSHIPS
bralion of her 21st birthday Tue- ,
^,1..,. . • Immerse Modern Liners of
sday evening.
Mr. II. 10. M irris >n r* remod-
eling the house on lbs farm pre-
patory to moving into it.
CHUMP.
:\Vest Side Items:
: t
I ■>" our Spoeial Correspondent. J
J here is (piite a lot of sickness
since you |as heard from tis.
I he family of l1, Iv. tlogan is
wrestling with the measles, I be-
lieve (his will wind them up on
this side when they are through
w ith them.
Two of Mrs. CI arks children
are sick in bed, fever I suppose
is the t rouble.
Grandma Pulliam is troubled
with rhuem.itisin at this writing
Imt it is hoped she will soon re-
cover.
Miss Lissa Burtt has raturned
hom • after a 1() days visit with
re alives and friends, she reports
a good time but says there's no
place like "Home sweet home"
wh n you are sick for she bro-
ught i> >ck chills, risings in the
head and neuralgia.
Mr. Salmans is expecting his son
Fred home from the navy next
week. ^
50,000
Tons Have Automatic Machinery
Controll d by Single Hand.
In the hinds of a skillful marine
architect much more ha-, been accom-
plished with steel structlon than the
mere economy of space. The safety of
ve. h--!s at sea has been enormoush In
creased, until in the highest type of
'nod- rn ocem liners the elemant of
danger Is virtually eliminated. The
marvelous Ingenuity displayed through-
out this great fabric of steel In guard
'tip against every possible contingency
of th" sea comes to the average lands
w> es^a surprise A rr~o iner of
■id.000 tons may be contrc-l'ed by a sin
gh1 hand The compli'. a'ed raachii.ery
fr safeguarding the . tip is practically
lutonntle.
The bottom of the gre.it h'.ill o! the
liner Is doubled, the hirer ?')■>!! being
strong enonch to fiont the ship evfn ir
'he outer hull 1 e eotnt 'etpiy torn
away <t Is exc-dlng'y unllke'y that
water would ever re-.ch this inner
shell through accident to tlie main
hull, but the pr- e:i ;;tlon Is taken so
that If once In a thousand trips th
ship should strike i hidden object It
"III prove absi, <lv Invulnerable
The shipwrecks of the past caused b'
running upon hidden rocks, derelicts
and iceborgo are thus completely eli:n
lnated.—Cashier's Maga:<l:.e
'"OR SALE Hay, Seed
corn, Boon Co. White, on cob,
Improved Rowden Cotton Seed
G. W. Moncrief.
One mile west of Canadian.
INDIANS AND THEIR DEAD
How the Hopis and Navajos Bury the
Deceased and Provide for
Their Souls.
Land Wanted.
We want to l>uy (50.000 acres of
good farming land.
Canadian Realty Co.
Fain G. Gillock, Sec'y.
I'OR SALE—A good "cow and
ealf. W. S. Bhisendine. 2-24
Iceland Gloves.
In so o: I a c"- • • the g'ove must
be put off or on as .- ipidly and easily
as possible so it is made without fin-
gers, ami In crd«r tl.at no time may
u ^a8t- ! Jn <Jii*:'wishing between
tight and left all gloves have two
thumbs. You nimply thrust your hand
Into the first gove that conies and
vr-T thumb Immediately finds Its i-ty.
rher* arn of cor rsa drawbacks !n t ■>
matter of apt; -irance. f.,r the Jong ...-
die thumb looks untidy.
ON THE SQUARE
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PUBLIC SCHOOL NOTtS ;
By D. L. ROE, Supt.
Our roll reached 206 this week.
Our pupils are preparing t >
give another entertainment in
the near future. Two pla\ - have
been chosen. "Hans Yon
Smaeh" and "l)oi the Miners
d .ughter" have been selected.
Reveran 1 l>. L. Wines, past r
of the Methodist church visited
our school on Monday morning
and conducted our chapel ser-
vices. He addressed the pupil?
and ' '
entertaining
more holidays. Holidays and
parties in tempts our work and
so \ve will work on holidays and
discourage parties.
Our school is full, our teach-
ers are doing good work
the crowded conditions, \y,
mean to hav • work, order, des-
oipline and oludi n e at what-
ever it may cc>st.
Miss Myrtle York sang sweet-
ly two selections at chape - vic-
es on Tuesday morning at the
request of music instruct <r
M.ss Bonier. |t «U ,
treat to all. She is popular
with all and posesses
Mrs. I. 1'. Kstes and children
spent 1 uesday evening with. Mrs.
A. Bryant.
Mr Britt >n has an orange
HtM: tu Hilt OH his OWf:
home grown tree. I wonder if
any one else can say that.
^ ell Mr, Editor as news is j
scarce I will ring off for vourf
umiei' humble servant is not feeling
Well,
Estray Notice.
R
I have at my place on .1.
MeXally farm a!>out five miles
I ist ..f Canadian, in Pittsburg
^ County. One Biack Mare Mule,
1 i'u ab tu nine years old, fifteen and
wett a half hands high, brarded O on
the Mopi Indian believes that the
of nil deceased adults*go to the
Grand Canon. When a man die* a
Krave is duR The nearest relative of
the deceasef'. carries tlie body to the
^:a e, places it In a slttiig posture
facing the Grand Canon, erects a long
pole between the legs, locks the dead
man's lingers around it and fills the
grave To the top of the pole, pro-
truding above the ground, he ties o.ie
et u of a string afid leads the other
end in the direction of the Grand
1 '-on At the end of fcur days It Is
tv! wed the so il leaves the body,
j clln bs the pole, snd with the siring
to guiiK it ^ tn its eternal home
in the canon.
f The Navajos, on the contrary, are
ve y superstitious about handling
bodies They believe that the
evil spirit that kiiis the person hovers
round the hogan, as they call their
lo-'ge. awaiting other victims, and a
began In which a death occurs Is
never oeeupled agiin N:n :: ,> hi gans
are always built with the entrance
faelrg the east When a death occurs
In one of the:n an opening Is Invnrl
ably made in the north side There-
fere, whtn oi o sees a began with the
north side knocked out he may be
certn'n sorieono i..;s d:ed in it _
Outin
For Carpenter,
C on tra ctor an d
Builder See
Richard M. Willams,
Canadian, Oklahoma.
C A.N'ADI AIX
* -r
: Barber S ho p. :
I am now in my new quar-
ters in the Bostoffice Build-
ing and am prepared to fur-
lush my patrons with all
kinds of tonsorial work.
Agent for Haynes Steam
Laundry
J- ">• CANTRELL, Prop.
ices He addressed the pup,Is Voio,, We a - half hands high, brarded O on '
1SLZX.SST* ^
OVER 65 YEARS
experiemce
Uary and not observe it
a holiday. We have lost too morrow anJ
many days this year t > take anv
said the
, '•<««>- .-nun? uy —<--* -• niuch
" are the men and om of' IZ H ^ "'T ^' T'S 8 ^ *W' a f;:nro1
i> « to. and paying for advertising and: |",0"d comln' the tN he don't
i. we would pre- publication. "°,w .'!er 10 run f. r * g.m of a
serve the purity of the natura
2:4.
K. O. ARIOLA.
cyclone cellar."—Toledo Ukue
Trade Marks
Designs
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Scicm-fic American.
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Tignor, J. D. Canadian Valley News. (Canadian, Oklahoma), Vol. 1, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 17, 1911, newspaper, February 17, 1911; Canadian, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc273465/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.