The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 2, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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NEW REAL ESTATE.
i HINT TO THE YOUNG! royalty writes cook book.
FIRM FOR ALTUS
FOR COMFORT IN AGE ONE 5/1UST
SAVE IN YOUTH.
Massey& Rutter is the name of the
new firm which has just hung out its
sign in Altus. This new firm is a
real estate institution and will add
its share of labor to the work of
making Altus and Jackson county
bigger and better. Mr. Rutter told
the.D.mocrat reporter yesterday thet
the firm was a branch of the Wichita
Falls and Northwestern Townsite
rompanv. They haev their ofices in
tne new Allen building. The Demo
rrat extends them a hearty welcome
and hopes for good results from their
future work.
A BOOSTFR JOKE
TOLD ON ALTUS
& ^
One of the travelling men who
makes this town regularly got off a
touching little booster pun at the
expense of Altus while in the city
the other day. He said that while
in New York City not very long a^o
he overheard a couile of bootblacks
talking about Altus. One of the.
little fellows said ie was going to
hike to Altus right away and in a
burst of enthusiams he exploded:
"Why, Fritzy ti em guys down there
am de grapes, for sure. De mer-
chants write-their advertisements on
the skies and every Saturday night
de mayor of the town runs air ship j
excursions to de moon and they have 1
automobile races on the Milkey Way
and bet a million dollars on a race."
The other bootblack eyes opened like
aaucers and he said, that was going
some.
WOODMEN WILL 'GIVE A
BANQUET FRIDAY NIGHT
The W. O. W. Lodge will give a
banquet next Friday night anil it is
expected to have a good time. There
will be eating,]smoking, speaking and
other things to make all present have
a very pleasant evening. Every
member of the lodge'is requested to
be present Friday night. Officers
will be elected for the ccming year,
and it is the duty of every member
to be present and take part in this
electi >n.
PERSONAL MENTION
From Wednesday's Daily.
Mr. Lockhart of Blair was in the
city this morning.
Woodmen are requested to attend
the regular meeting at the lodg ha'l
Friday night. Election of officers lot*
the ensuing year will b
there w:il b? refreshments to help all
have a good time.
8yatsmatic Putting Away of Part of
Money Earned Is the Only Way
to Do It — Figures Worth
Studying.
A young man who would have a
I competency at the end of ten years
must make sacrifices for the first two
or three years. Say that you, for in-
! stance, are earning |30 a week. At
1 the present time you may be spend-
ing nearly all of this, as thousands of
others are doing, says a writer in The
Bookkeeper. Now, during the first
year, you must save $1,000. "Why,"
you exclaim. "If I should save fl,000
a year that would make $10,000 at the
end of ten years, without counting the
Interest! You're off in your figuring!"
But wait. We are supposing _imw
that you are having your share of
prosperity, and that at different times
within the next few years you will
have doctor's bills to pay and may
even be without employment at times.
These things must be taken into con-
sideration if you would save $10,000
in ten years.
So the first year you save $1,000.
This leaves you a little less than $11
a week upon which to live dujing that
time. Perhaps you will have to move
out of your present home and rent one
that is cheaper. For a time it will also
be necesary for you to contract fewer
tailoring bills, and In all probability
you will get your wife to aid you in
economizing; but you must save $1,000
during that year and you will find that
you can do it.
In the second year your load will
become lighter, and then you.will see
why it was necessary for you to save
$1,000 during the first y&ar. The
$1,000 you enn easily place out at five
per cent, interest and at the end of the
second year it will have earned you
$50. So during this second year you
have to save only $950. In other
words, you have one dollar a week
more to spend on the comforts of life
during the second year than the first.
In this way your ioad continues to
get lighter and lighter. You begin
your third year with $2,000 out at in-
terest, and during this year need save
only $900, which leaves you two dol-
lars a week more to spend than dur-
ing the first year; and so it goes un-
til at the end of your fifth year you
are saving only $7"'0 a year, or less
then one-half of your $1,560 salary.
Each year you have more to spend.
At the end of your eighth year you
are saving just $12.50 a week, while
you have $17 50 to spend.
At the end of your tenth ypar you
have $10.00*. which i« earning you
$500 a year, and which may even bring
you $800 or $700 a year, If you invest
It wall. If you were only 30 years of
age when you began saving you are
■till too young to retina on $50 a
month, but now you can spend all
that you earn, and at the end of an
other ten years, if you do not gather
the "honey" which your $10,000 is
making for you, you will be worth a
little ovsr $17,000, which, at six per
cent., will bring you an Income of
$S5 a month for the rest of your life
A modification of the above scheme
can be made to work to the profit of
any wage earner, no matter what his
weekly earnings may be, granting, of
course, that they are sufficient to live
upon comfortably. For instance, if
the man who earns $15 a week could
save seven dollars a week for 14 years
he would have acquired a little for-
tune of This task of saving
seven d .liar-: a week out of S15 a week
ing in the
jesteHay.
had to sav.
only. At th
would have
the i-itv yesterday afternoon a- J last
night, returning to Elmer thi« morn-
ing.
Sheriff Geo. C. Htnsley has re-
turned from several weeks visit to
Arkansas. He leoks conaiderably im-
proved in health since he went away.
When he left Altus he was suffer-
ing from a severe attack of rheuma
tism and could hardly*wa!k. A few
week' at Hot Springs "gave the rheu-
matism a black cye^and .'be is now
able to resume the duties of his
office.
fh
for Jl',000
first year
tha
this year you would need to save only
$345.S<> instead of $"64. or $6.65 a
week. During the third year you
would have $728 working for pou,
which at five per cent., would earn
$36 40, leaving you $6 30 to aave each
week that year. Figuring in thia way
In the beginning of your aixth year
you would have to lay aside only
$5 80 weekly: at the beginning of
your ninth, It 20. and at the beginning
of your twelfth, only $3 15. Yet at the
end of your fourteenth year you
would have saved over $5,000, which,
properly employed, would mean a
great deal to you in the yeara to come.
Wrecking the Typewriter.
"We sold one of our machines to
Mrs Van Reasaleer for ber boy." said
tbe typewriter man when he had flied
th* machine eo It would write Tbe
Quick brown fos jumps over the lasy
doc. all right 'He was ten years old.
ft was Christmas time She bought
H for one of bis Christmas presents.
It ooft her a hundred dollars Two
days after Christmas she "phoned ma
to come up and see about the ma-
ehice I wish you could have s*en it
Tbe boy had taken It all to pieces He
badL t left two little pieces of it to
ge'te- any more He had it In a aoe
bos It was the wnrjt wreck of a ma-
ehii.e you over saw It took me two
1U>s !t put It togf'be- ag*i= i have
-■great b^pes ft* that boy."
•elf-Defense.
"I see that the Turks have been
kiln eg the Armenians."
"Tan. bat tbe Turks say that the
Armeniass a'tacked them"
• Reminds one of the ah*ep thief
when he waa caught Just after hav-
ing killed a sheep, he aaid he waan't
going to let any doggone aheep bite
him."
Anmieue te Oblige.
"Have another drink, old man."
"We've had en I couldn't possibly
swallow another
"Aw. be a good fellow."
"Thee suppose you poor It over me
Wt!l 'bat satisfy the requirements ol
good fellowship*"—Wash'-?•-a Her-
ald.
PERSOMUpilON
There are twent.' boarders now
stopping at the hotel Hensley and
the county prison is pretty well filled
up for the present.
Good sidewalks are fine things for
any town and they are absolutely es-
sential in the growth of any town.
Keep on talking about the sidewalks,
they make a fine food for discussion.
Altus is becoming one of the most
talked of towns in the state. We
la 8ald to Contain a. Recipe for IrlaH
Stew That Is Superior to AR
Othera Known. '
The announcement that Queen Alex-
andra and Lady Dudley are to co-op-
erate In the writing of a cookery book
should make all Anglo-Saxon house-
wlvea prepare their culinary depart-
ments for an attempt at some famous
dishea. The queen is Known to be an
adept in the kitchen and she has a
recipe for an Irish stew that should
make every Irishman's mouth water
when he reads it, or, better still, when
the recipe takes practical shape, for
him, in his good wife's culinary ac-
complishments That reminds us that
the stew is by no means a favorite dish are going some, and are giving the !
in this country; the average house-' ]e ghroad soniethj to ta|k ;
wife looks upon it as a family dish
that absorbs resurrected products of aoout.
bygone meals and is never intended ■ ' . ,
for company. How different in Europe, The Woodmen of the World lodge
where the chef has a thousand and is preparing to have a jolly gojd
one ways of concocting a stew, the tjme wjth a smoker at their lodge
very memory of which inclines one to!,
smack the lips enjoyably. Here the haM Fnday n,Sht' Election of oih
stew Is a despised and mostly rejected jeers will take place at this meeting
thing, unless it consists of kidneys j an(j jj js expected that a good sized
and choice portions, say, of the fowl.
We may have to thank Queen Alex- attendance will be present.
andra if we can see the introduction | There wi„ be a meet|ng of
of a variety of stews such as we have ;
tasted in Europe into pur own house- Masons at their tall tomorrow
holds. With a fine relish, we say: ' night.
"Oh, let it be soon!" In the matter of
liquid compounds, there is the queen's
famous concoction of sole gin and el-' ... - . , . ... m.- , i 1
derberry wine. What excitement in at their ha" last ni*ht' Th,B lod*e |
our kitchens a few weeks hence!- The j has very comfortable and eommodi-
queen's determination to publish her j 0Us uuarte: s in the Kimmel building
recipes doubtless has been promoted „ a. . „.. , .. , ,.
k,. „ „„ j 1 on V\ est Side, and its urge enro I-
by the success and popularity of her 1 • I
photograph albums, which now are j Went of members is being continu-
to be seen on this side in number. j ally augmented Dy new applications.
SENATOR WAS DOWN THE ROW j It would be a good idea to p>ant|
Governor of Stats Outranks the Repre- 8hade tre*S n0W" There io lols °f |
sentative in the Upper Branch L room in Altus tor hundreds of more
of Congress. shade trees.
Piano Free!
The Eagles held a angular meeting 1
The Democrat is going
to Give Away
This Beautiful Piano
Absolutely
FREE
Many people will be surprised to
learn that a governor outranks a sena-
tor, according to the law of precedence
In vogue in other countries.
A few years ago the new senator
from Vermont, Carrqll S. Page, was
crossing the Atlantic with the late Sen- j
ator Redfield Proctor in the Cunard j
steamship Campania. They had, of
course, seats at the captain's table.
Senator then 1 Governor) Page was
surprised to lind himself occupying the
post of honor, with Senator Proctor
seated further down the table.
This the modest governor of the
Green Mountain state thought was not
quite correct and he remonstrated,
explaining that there muat be some
error, as his friend waa a Un'ted
States senator and his auperlor In
rank. He was told that a governor onfc
ranks a senator.—National Magazine.
Origin of America's Name.
It la a curious chance that America
received Its name from a German
geographer. Old Prof. Waldseemuel-
ler made a mistake, Indeed, when he
named the new countries at Brazil
after the Florentine Amerigo Ves-
pucci. It would have been far more
Just to name the new world after Co-
lumbus, but though Waldseemueller
recognised his mistake and withdrew
the name. It remained in use. And
curiously enough, that Amerigo Ves-
pucci whose name gave origin to the
name of America, had himself, though
an Italian, still a German family
name. Emmerich, Emery In English.
Thus America is a continent with a
German t ame, the meaning of which
might, perhaps, be interpreted as
"rich In corn;" if this Is correct. Prof.
Waldseemueller chose an incorrect
Just Cause for Pride.
The man admired hi? .v.. ntabout
as much as any man can . .'mire a
wife, nevertheless when he saw that
she was devoting m"-.> and more time
each day to mirror razing he deter-
mined to take her down a peg Said
be, brutally:
"I wouldn't be so s'uck on myself
If I were you. Just because people
happen to notice you when you go
out. It Isn't you they're admiring; ita
your clothes I heard a bunch of
women say so the other day."
For an Instant the shock to the
woman s vanity overpowered her, then,
quickly recovering, she said:
"In that case 1 am prouder than
ever. Nature Is responsible for me.
but I designed the clothes my-
self."
And then the man ahut up.
A Millinery Escape.
The woman waa rushing so wildly
oat of a bat store that she dashed
sgaiait ber friend without seeing her.
"What's tbe matter?* asked her
friend. "A Bre*'
"No." tbe woaiaa paatsd "It's a hat
That girl la 'here' Shea ae magnetic.
If I hadn't Jabbed ea my own hat and
ran as ha s ss I coal 4 she d have
made a* buy a hat as big as all out
doors, with a whole cherry tree on It
that made nie look like tbe very old
Nick"
The Parental Kick.
Friend of the Family—la that young
man coming to your h juee as a suitor
for yonr daughter"
Father «w!>h rej-d meaning)—Tee.
and he Is n g <yi one to beet.
Good Advice.
h"s Vac
Altus has lots of good cement side-.
I walks, but that is not the qtfes.ion
we need more of them, several miles
more, and there is no use trying to
Sieep till we get^htyn. and when we
begin construction lets try and seel
to it that the cement company know.s j
its business, and builds something j
that can stand up under a baby car j
j riage without breaking and swaying
in the middle.
J. D and L. C. Key of Vernon,
Texas, are in the city attending the
(trial of their brother. Rube which
is now before the district court,
j Who is, looking after the streets
• at the present time? There are sev-
eral cess pools in the eity that need
immediate attento in, for as they.are
they make a very obnoxious and
nauseating condition which threatens
I the health of the neighborhood in
J which they are located. Get rid of
them and do it at once.
I Boost your town at all times and
on all occasions.
Altus has more boosters and less
j knockers than any town of ita size
in the United States.
i if you are not a member of the
• imercial club, get busy and put in
- application without delay. Four
> ired members isn't too many for
commercial clubJJ. Guess a little
- i.ustling on the part of the
::bcrship committee will easily I
ill that number. Join the com- j
r, ciai club and help the boosters^
id a city here.
'•V. F. Key of Fargo, is in the
attendirg the trial of his bro- 1
< 1 . Kube in the distict court this
Week.
Mis Sal lie Key of Vernon, Texas
h in the city.
A. L. Bird of Dallas, traveling
auditor of the American Express Co. i
j is .n the city looking after the com-
pany's business at thia point.
Attorney G. B. Townsend |of Elk
| City ha« business with the district
! court here this week.
Jesse W. Skaggs of Snyder was
j in the city yeeterday.
' Quite a number cf cititena are
putting out shade trees, and there
are quite a number more who ought
I to be putting them out.
M. S. Foster of Martha was in
' the eity yesterday.
Attorney A. R. Garrett of Man-
gum is attending district court in
f-eg«ioa in Altus thia week.
TV. B. Morrell, one of the legal
lights ef Elk City, is attending
district court here this week.
The commercial club is limbering
up and the outlined plans before it
is bound to turn a trick that will
mean something permanently good
for the town. Thats the kind of a
commercial club to have and one that
every man, woman and child can
take a pride in.
Ex Gov. Frantz has been in the
city a couple of days lcoking over
the liveliest little city in the South
western part of Oklahoma He
knows a good thing and his present
visit here will very likely result in
his making some investments in
Altus.
| D. D. Davis of Wichita, Kansas,
traveling freight agent for the orient
haa been in the city the past few
days looking aftir the company'a
business here.
W. G. Aliens bondsmen asked to
be releaed yesterday and he was
placed in the county prison. He is
charged with having disposed of
mortgaged property.
What's in the wind? There's a
marked and unusual activity among
the real estate men just now.
It's getting about time to talk
about the Orient shops for a change.
G. A. Asher of Rocky Ford Colo.,
is in the citv visiting his brother
W. T Asher.He is very well pleased
with our little city and may decide
to come to Altus and cast his iot with
its citizens
Mis. Goodman is enjoying a visit
from her mother and siater, Mrs.
Bettie Bell and Misa Bell.
Mrs. M. H. Kester of Vernon
Texaa is a guest at the home'of G.
W. Burkett and family.
Lodge Directory I
MASONIC
Altus Lodge No. 6 , A. F. & A. M.,
meets first and third Friday nights
each month. Hall over City National
Bank. Visitors welcome.
C. E. Ruthruff, W. M.; H. C.
Clampett, Sec.
;BSERVANT PtOPLE ARE JAPS
Trouble la They Are Luble to Carry j
It to Extrerraa.
The Japanese are a must Imitative
*nd observant people *nd i-opy every
•Mng they see with minute fl.Iellty. A
Newport man recently engaged a
Japanese valet, who waa very atten-
Uve and aatla'actory
ll'.a dutlee rarely took *iftn Into tha
kitchen, but when he na.1 a chance
of watching the cook he did so with
extraordinary Interest.
The cook caught a severe chill an<
left somewhat suddenly The lad)
of the houae w«s in deapnir, aa ab*
eould not replace her
At laat the valet announced dlffi
dently "hat he 'bought he could cooh *
little and 'he m gladly agreed
to give him a trial
The first thing he started on waa
tbe potatoes, fie took off his shoes
and aocka and i it his fe ' in a batfc
<>f hot mustard and wa'er
Tbe lady wanted to know what n
earth he was doing. He ratted tha'
I.O.O.F. ^
Altus Lodge "Ko
70 meets everyThurs-
day night.
R. B. Perkins, Noble Grand; Ever-
ett Petry, Secretary; E B. Jeffrey
Treasurer,
ALTUS ENCAMPMENT, No. 38
Meets second and fourth Tuesday
nights.
Will Magnis, C. P.; W. O. Houn-
j shell. Scribe; A. S. J. Shaw, Treas.
! QUEEN CITY REBEKAH LODGE
j Meets every first and third Tues-
j days.
Wsnnie Harmon, Noble Grand; Bes-
! sie Coen, Secretary.
ALTUS CHAPTER NO. 49
I ORDER OF THE EASTERN STAR
' MeeetS the 2nd ; rd 4th Thursday of
j each month, in Ma.-onlc Hall. Visitors
Ida J. Snyder, W. M.
Rev. Robt. Hodgson, W. P.
I BMEIiY
miotssm m ran
Can furnih anything in
the Bakery line on
ihort notice. I employ
only the best workman
Free Delivery
H. W. WHITE. PROP.
Great Things in Little.
Tbe Italiana are wonderfully o!«*
er in working with the most minute
<hlnga A skillfnl Italian haa made •
beantlfal little-boat out of a pearl. The
aall la of beaten go!d atudded with
diamond* A tkiy ruby serves as •
headlight The rudder Is sn emerald,
and Ita stand Is a little stab of lvo*r.
The boat weighs leas than half an
ounce, and is valued at 15.000.
Not to be outdone by a man, aa am-
bitious Italian woman has painted on
a canvas, so small that half a grain
of corn hld<>8 It from view, a wind-
1 mill with tbe miller, and n borse and
i cart with people In the cart
Ht'tu** of the Italian mosaic workers
1 'n nnr tic wig .air- of stone and
, glass no larger than gralna of mustard
j se«i and fashion them Into the moat
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