The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1910 Page: 3 of 8
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A Good Bank "in a Good City
A Good Bank in a Good County
fcA Good Bank in a Good State
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I A Good Bank For You to Deposit With
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Altus State Bank
The Guaranteed Bank
Standing of the companies we represent in our agency ac-
cording to the official report issued January 1st, 1910
Philadelphia Underwriters
German American
Royal, Liverpoole, England
Pheonix of Hartford, Conn.
Norwich Union
Sun, of New Orleans
Assets.
$21.1)43.783.
$16,162,230.
$11,323,568.
$ 9.941.424.
$ 2 594.330.
$ 1.252.852.
Surplus to
Policy Holders
$9,688,361.
$7,940,211.
$2,552,820.
$5,066,837.
$ 769.867.
$ 636.752.
You can see from actual facts, that when a policy is written by
McLemore & French and the fire engine stops at your door, that
you are sure to get your money, so come up and get some insur-
ance that insures.
McLEMOREAND FRENCH
Office over Altus Drug Store. Phone 314. Altus, Ok
Christian & Co.,
Groceries
I have severed my connection with the John-
son Hardware Co., and have opened a grocery
store, first door west of Post Office.
Respectfully solicit your patronage.
W. T. Christian
Phone -141
Pure Food Bakery
SUCCESSOR TO
CITY HA Iv KRY
is now remodeled and re-equipped, ('an furnish
you with the very best line of bakery goods ever
turned out in your city before. Our wagon will
make all parts of the town daily after April 1st.
Shipments given prompt attention to all points.
Wedding, Birthday and Party Cakes
a Specialty
McCORD & NICKELL, Props.
St
Til ST III < I I I F
is still and always will be
BREAD
and nowhere can such life
giving, healthful bread be
found as that baked fresh
every day by our staff of
EXPERT BREAD AND CAKE
BAKERS
When children come in hot and
tired from play the first thing they
ask mother for is a big thick slice of
ALTUS STEAM BAKERY BREAED
See that you have it for them
E. B. Enderlein
PROrRIKTOR
t ^'honOfiO
Concrete Work
An experienced concrete worker.
All kinds of sidewalk or construc-
tion done under guarantee of first-
class wockmanship.
You will find me one block east of the
Frisco Hotel. Qt0 M. Fisher
If its ordinary hauling,
plowing, gardening or tree
planting, you want
Phone 93
THE CASE OF
PETER STRIKER
By M. QUAD.
Copyright. 1910, by Arsoclated Lit-
erary Press.
Peter Striker was the son of Farmer
Striker, and up to tbe age of twenty
he hail a reputation of mowing more
grass and cutting more corn than any
other man. old or young, in the town
ship of Dubois.
When a young man has reached the
age of twenty-one he becomes his own
boss. There are farmers yet who will
not have it so, but will keep a son on
until lie simply gets up and declares
his legal right. At twenty Peter ask-
ed his father for his time—that is. he
wanted his legal rights a year ahead
of time, as he had a chance to travel
about the country with a lightning rod
man. The father refused.
Peter sat down under the big pear
tree at the corner of the house to think
things over. As he thought he fell
asleep, and as he slept a thundershow-
| er came up. Almost the first bolt
struck the tree, and a few minutes
later he was found with his boots
burned off. his old silver watch melted
and in an unconscious condition. The
doctor who revived the young man
told his father that the victim might
never be able to work again and that
he must have the best of care to keep
him from the grave. As a matter of
fact, the doctor was all wrong. Peter
had got mixed up with a thunderbolt,
but the damage, outside of the nervous
shock, amounted to nothing. However,
when the doctor's words were over-
heard it was a cue for Peter, lie had
been working hard, and here was his
chance to loaf. For a month he had
to be carried about.
Haying time arrived, and Peter was
conveyed to the shade of a tree down
by the meadow that he might watch
the men at work and wish he were
mie of them. By and by three or four
bumblebees that had been disturbed
near by came along and hopped on to
him. The pain of their stings jumped
I'eter to his feet and sent him run-
ning for ten rods before he remem-
bered his helpless condition.
Then a doctor was called In. He felt
of Peter's fatness and heard about his
race with the bees, but instead nf pro-
nouncing him able to go into the "bay-
field and sweat his shirt, as he really
was, it was diagnosed as a case where
sudden excitement had revived the j
muscular action for a moment.
Corn planting had come round again, j
and the father was working in a field I
near the highway when a man came '
GOVERNMENT
SALE Of LOIS
Boise, Idahoa, April 8 — A gov*
I ernment sale of town lots was com-
j menced today at the new town of
! Rupert, in the Mindoka project of
southern Idaho, where Uncle Sam
has made the desert blossom as the
rose 'by the establishment of an ir-
rigation system. The village has a
; population of 500, is incorporated
! and is on a railroad. Cheap power
; is developed from a government dam
[and contracts for supplying some of j
| it for lighting Kupert and for
commercial and manufacturing pur- ;
poses have ben approved by the sec-j
retary of the interior.
CELEBRATING
BIRIMDAY
Brussels, April 8.—Brussels is en
fete today in honor of the new Bel-
gian monarch, King Albert, who is
celebrating his thirty fifth birthday.
Although it has not been long since
he took up the reins of government,
on the death of his uncle, King
Leopold II., the young ruler has
already endeared himself to the peo-
ple, and his birthday is being made
the occasion of great popular rejoic-
ing.
HAlilY'S COMET
SOON BE VISIBLE
along pushing a <
was bound to th
cart was a big «
as fnkors travel
with. The man
■art before him. He
> village, and in the
lei-tric battery, such
from town to town
was halted, and the
j farmer climbed the fence to see all
about the machine. After he had been
J given a shook free gratis he r.sked:
"The stuff in there is the same as
I lightning, ain't it?"
same."
i feller so he won't
If I should turn on
u couldn't let go of
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The Demon of the Air
is the germ of Lacrippe, that breath-
ed in brings suffering to thousands. Its
after effects are weakness, nervous-
nous, lack of appetite, energy and am-
bition. with dirordered liver and kid-
r.eys. The geatest need then is Elec
trie Bitters, the splendid tonic, blood
purifier and regulator of Stomach, Liv-
er and Kidneys. Thousands have pro-
ved that they wonderfully strengthen
the nerves, build up the system and re-
store health aiul good spirits after an
attack of Grip. If suffering, try them
Only 50c. Perfect satisfaction guaran-
teed by Geo. D. Pendleton.
Wer e Tkan Bullets
Bullet* have often caused less suffer-
ing to soldiers than the eczema. I.. W.
j Hamman. Burlington. Me., got in the
The soft drink man w,th-,orty yw*
"But Bucklen s Arri.-a Salve cured me
All thats cold to drink or failed." he writes. Great-
,. n. . est healer for Smw. Ulcer*. Boils,
eat. (. andies, ( igars and(r -and*. Bruise* and
Tobacco of all kinds. at Geo. I . Pendleton*.
See
B. W. Gloer
j "Just aliout (hi
! "It will shock-
know anything?"
"It surely will.
the full current \
the handles."
Then the father told about Peter be-
I ing shocked, and when he had finished
| the man said-
"Electricity works two ways. One
shock will cripple n man, and the next
i will restore him to his pristine vigor
j What your son wants is another
! shock. If if cures you are to trive me
i a dollar. If it doesn't you need not
I give me anything."
It was planned that Peter must !">
deceived, and the plan was earrici
! out. lie was sitting in a rocking chair
| on the veranda, and the faker and tii-
machine were escorted there, and :li >
| father explained:
"Pete, yon have been going back on
| corneil beef for the last month, am'
I here is something to sharpen your ap
petite. You take hold of these 'er.
j handles, and It's like taking a tonic. I
j took hold of them up the road, and
! I'm as hungry as a bear now."
"But the doctors all said my case
mustn't be experimented with." pro-
I tested Peter, who scented some trick,
j "Oh. this Is no experiment! When a
I feller loses his appetite the doctors ex-
pect him to get it back the best way
he can. I want to see you pitching
| Into fried pork and taters tonight
Take right hold, my son."
I Peter took hold, and the current was
j turned on full. He was froren to the
I handles and yelled blue murder. After
fifteen seconds it was turned off. and
I he jumped up and threw the faker
and his machine off the veranda and
heaved the father after them. Then,
j without a word, he grabbed a hoe and
started for the cornfield. Iu three
I hours he did more work than his fa-
ther had done all day. and it was
reckoned that he sweat off ten pounds
of fat. He acknowledged that he was
as good as new. After supper he milk
ed four cows, fed the hogs and car-
ried In the wood for breakfast. At
midnight he got up to go to work
again, lie ouldn't sit still for a mo-
ment He worked and sweat and
sweat and worked, and at tbe end of
two weeks, there being no more press-
ing work on band, lie tried to carry
tbe smokehouse to a new site on bis
back snd collapsed and died. Tbe first
shock had msde him las?, and tbe sec-
ond had made him too great a bustler
"What you should have done." said
the first doctor to the father when
told of tbe l ist, "was to sit him down
In tbe middle of a pasture with a bull j
In it. In running for the fence the
shock wouM have come on gradual.t
Instead of snddeniT. and be *oq!d hare
been hoetnr that corn and whistling j
by ma tune* a month from today "
San Francisco, April 8.—Astrono-
mers of Lick'Observatory say that
: Halley's comet will become plainly
[ visible to the naked eye during the
next few days. The celestial wan-
derer will rise an hour and four
! minutes before sunrise. Its position
: slightly above the eastern horizon,
will be six or eight degrees nerth of
the east point. The comet, according
to the Lick scientists will reach its
closest approach to the sun ten
days from today, April 18.
The comet has been under contin-
ual observation by the Lick Observa-
tory astroncmers, especially Prof.
Curtis, from its rediscovery in Sep-
tember to tbe pesent time.
The American Astronomical Asso
ciation has nent rohotographic expe-
dition to the island Oahu to take
pictures of the corrtrt.
WITNESSED BY
WB:: ^
Copyright by C. E Zimmtrman Co. -No. 49
SLEEPING CHAMBERS
TT is during the period of sleep
A that the body recuperates and
it necessarily follows that the bet-
ter the surroundings, the better
and more easily this will be per-
formed. Over one-third of your
ife is spent in the bedroom and good furniture
here properly arranged means much toward your
health. Come in and let us talk to you about bed-
room furnishings. Our low prices will astonish
you, and taking into consideration the facts stated
above you will be unable to get along with out
some of these goods.
KNOX FURNITURE CO
Furniture and. Undertaking
Investigate These
Two lots, corner, on Orient siding, a bargain
$350.00
Six room, two story house, corner lot, a good home
for some one, terms on part
$1.600.00
Massey & Rutter
Phone 304. Rooms 5 and ti Allen Bldg.
ASTRONOMERS I COAL!
COAL != COAL!
Washington, April 13. — \ curious
astronomical phenomenon was wit-
nessed by Washington observer* at
4.33 tnis afternoon, when the moon
passed the planet Mars, hiding that
body. After sunset this evening,
the moon and Mars will be so close
together as to give a striking view-
through a small telescope.
TALKING SHOP.
Senator Bailey, Caught on Street.
Telling Secrets of the Tariff.
NEW COAL YARD
First Dooi East it lltrns Brothers' Livery 8am
All Grades of Coai and Feed
1 RC>.MIT DKIJVERY
Your Patronage Solicited
Phone No. 191
Aitus Coal and Feed Company
Anderson & Son, Proprietors
Stock
MONEY
MONEY
HERE IS THE PUCE TO GET
Your Cheap Money
A Barrel of Cheap Money to Loan od Farms. Sc me. or write
J. C. GILLASPIE
Office over Millers Bros. Altui, Oklahoma
KILLthe COUGH
and CURE"*LUNGS
"> dr. kings
NEWDlSCOVEfflf
MP All THBOAT mo um TROUBLES
GOAtAMTUD SATISFACTORY
Off f*ON£V BtnjfitOCO.
Every family and especially those
who reside in the country should be
provided at all times with a bottle of
j Chamberlain's Liniment. There is no
I telliug when it may be wanted in case
of an accident or emergency. It ia
| most excellent in all cases of rheuma-
Itism. sprains and bruises. Sold by
| Geo. D. Pendleton.
Prompt rviief in all cases of throat
and lung trouble if (you use Chamber
Iain's Cough R«medy. Pleasai.t U
take, soothing and healing in effect.
Sold by Gee. D. Pendleton.
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Ruthruff, C. E. The Oklahoma Democrat. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 14, 1910, newspaper, April 14, 1910; Altus, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc280360/m1/3/: accessed April 26, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.