The Cushing Democrat. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908 Page: 4 of 12
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CUSHING DEMOCRAT
GUSHING.
OKLA.
OKLAHOMA STATE NOTES
The state treasurer has withdrawn
all Htato_ funds from the national
banks of Oklahoma City who would
not comply with the state guaranty
law. This has reduced the state
funds In Oklahoma City from over
$10,000 to $19,000. There are a few
state banks in the metropolis that
have complied with the state law and
these retain their state deposits.
The official returns of the county
seat elections in McIntosh, Grant and
Wagoner counties has been filed with
Governor Haskell. The victory In Mc-
Intosh Is claimed by Checotah, by a
majority of 6.'? votes. In Grant Med-
rord won by 250 and in Wagoner the
town of Wagonor was 170 votes to the
good. Medford was made the tempo-
rary courtty seat of Grant county but
later Pond Creek was substituted
Governor Haskell has named as re-
gents of the girls' industrial school
created by the Stewart bill, recently
passed, but not yet located, Captain
A. S. McKennon of McAlester, Mrs.
Katherine Patterson of Muskogee,
and Miss Anna B. Stewart of Antler*.
Upon his arrival home from the
legislature, Senator J. J. Williams of
Weatherford was met by a brass band
and a large gathering of citizens. The
occasoin for this celebration was the
appropriation of the $100,000 for the
erection of a new building for the
Southwestern Normal located at
Weatherford.
The Oklahoma Central railroad, op-
erating ISO miles of road between
Lehigh and Chickasha, has gone into
the hands of a receiver. President
Carter of the company says radical
legislation is the principal cause for
the assignment.
The state corporation commission
has issued an order abandoning all
railroad hearings until after July 15.
The reason assigned is to allow the
railroads to recuperate the tremen-
dous losses from the recent floods.
Governor Harkell has appointed
these engineers and coal operators as
members of the state board of mines:
W. T. Evans, of Dowr T# W. McLaugh-
lin, of Haileyville; P. R. Allen, McAl-
ester; David C. McAlpin, Chant; Al-
exander Mount, Henryetta.
Mrs. M. E. Barnes, wife of ex-gov-
ernor C. M. Barnes, died at her home
in Guthrie last week. Mrs. Barnes
was one of the leading club women
of the state.
Two hundred and fifty members of
the order of Elks attended the annua]
meeting in El Reno last week. The
next meeting will be held at Shawnee.
H. L_ Browder, who was recently
appointed liquor dispenser at We-
woka, has resigned. He declares that
the job does not pay a man to devote
his time to it.
RED CLOVER FOR SEED.
It is rumored that the superintend-
ent and his force of clerks and the
dispatchers and trainmen of the Rock
Island now stationed at Geary will
be moved to El Reno June 1.
The Rock Island has re-instated
nearly all the men laid ofT at the
shops in Chickasha during the monthp
of March and April. It is believed
that the re-lnstatement is permanenL
Superintendent Cameron rules that
women are entitled to sit on school
boards in Oklahoma. He maintain*
that the right to vote at school elec-
tions carries with It the right to hold
school offices.
Method of Growing to 8ecure the
Proper Results.
The ordinary method of growing
red clover is to cut the first crop as
soon as it is In full bloom, and then
taking chances of getting a seed crop
from the second cutting. This is gen
eraily a chance and only a chance.
Frequently the condition of the
weather and the press of farm work
delays the first cutting until'the heads
are all brown and sometimes dead;
and then, unless there is a very
favorable Beason, there is not time to
mature a second crop before frost,
which sometimes happens in the lati-
tude of central Iowa by the middle of
September, earlier north and later
south, but generally not until about
October 1. Immense crops are
sometimes grown in this way, but
after all it is a chance. When clover
seed is five dollars a bushel or
under, the farmer will usually get
more clear money by using this sec-
ond crop for pasture; or, if the season
is favorable, for roughage, by which
we mean a second crop of clover hay.
Whetf clover seed rises to eight and
ten dollars, or, as this year, $14 a
bushel, it Is worth while to take some
special measures to secure a seed
crop.
Two or three ways have been sug-
gested. One is to pasture the first
crop until about two weeks before
it would ordinarily be cut, which in the
central portion of our territory would
be about the 10th of June. This
while it will not insure a seed crop,
will make it much more certain than
the method usually adopted.
When the acreage is small and the
farmer will give the time and atten-
tion which it requires, says Wallace's
Farmer, it is possible at- least in the
southern half of our territory to take
a crop of clover hay and add ten
or 15 days to the time allowed
for maturing the seed crop. The
ordinary methods of curing this clover
hay will not be applicable at all. It
contains too much water and will have
to be cured by curing it first in the
sun, stirring it frequently with the
tedder, then putting it up In cocks,
putting on caps and letting it cure out
in the cock. The only question is
whether it Is worth enough more for
hay than for pasture, and this will
depend on the condition prevailing on
the farm.
A STABLE SCRAPER.
Serviceable Device for Use In Hand-
ling the Manure.
A handy scraper for cleaning the
stable is easily and quickly made by
boring a hole in the middle of a piece
of board. The board should be hard
The Handy Scraper.
wood, about six inches wide, and 18
inches long, and it must be thick
enough in* the middle to hold the han-
dle firmly. For a handle, use an old
fork handle carefully fitted and wedge
it firmly, then bore a hole down
through and put In a wire nail to pre-
vent the handle from pulling out after
it works loose, as it is sure to do in
time.
Keep Them Separate.
Put the young ewes that are not
lambing this spring, and the barren
ewes, in a separate lot from those
heavy in lamb. They are likely to
injure the pregnant ewes, especially
at feeding time, when all run to-
gether.
Turkeys can be kept from flying
over any ordinary fence by simply
clipping their wings so as to render j
their balance uneven.
IS. WILLIAM TAFT
SOMETHING REGARDING WIFE OF
SECRETARY OF WAR.
Keenly Interested in Art, Music, Lit-
erature and Education — Did
Year's Shopping in Pari*
in Three Hours.
Washington.—"What kind of a wom-
an is Mrs. Taft?" is a question which
is being asked in that large area of
the country where public opinion cen-
ters on the national Republican con-
vention to be held soon in Chicago.
There are many definitions to be
given in replying to the question, for
Mrs. Taft is a many-sided woman in-
terested in various things.
The government's attitude toward
art and music is a pregnant theme in
MRS WILLI AH HOWARD TAFT
every community, and Mrs. Taft is
keenly interested in ail that means
the practical aid of both. "But I can-
not say that I think the time is ripe
to ask for government aid. The work
along both lines must take a more
definite character," said Mrs. Taft to
the writer.
"But I am heartily in favor of the
government taking the tax off works
of art as a preliminary step to aid the
arts and crafts industry.
"I have always believed that women
should vote. I favor bestowing on them
every civic right, but I should like to
put in a prohibitory clause debarring
them from running for public office.
With women running for public offico,
I think the natural scheme would be
disjointed and the end and aim of
the home destroyed."
Mrs. Taft devotes some part of every
day-to the study of languages. French
and Spanish being her favorites. Few
mistresses of the White House have
known the continental tongues, some-
thing which has prevented a familiar
knowledge of that fascinating part of
society in Washington, the diplomatic
corps. She is well equipped in this par-
ticular. She reads musical reviews
from every part of the world where
music is a power, in addition to maga-
zines devoted to public questions and
the best current literature.
Foreign travel after reading and mu-
sic is Mrs. Taft's delight. She talks
most entertainingly of her recent so-
journ in the orient, and never wearies
of relatiug the incidents and adven-
tures of the journey across the Pacific,
through the Philippines, China and
Japan, thence across the Siberian rail-
road to St. Petersburg.
"I am very proud of the fact," she
said, "that owing to stress of time, I
accomplished the Impossible—that is,
what most people wfll designate the
impossible. I had but three hours to
spend in Paris, yet I shopped for *
/ear, bought lingerie sown*, hat* and
other garments, not only for myself,
but for my daughter and some friends
vho had entrusted me with commis-
sions.
"I telegraphed to a firm with which
I had dealt and asked to hdve these
things ready for inspection. I jumped
in a cab on arriving in Paris, and went
directly to the store. I tried on things,
was fitted, measured and generally in-
spected for the outer garments in less
than an hour, and all the remaining
time I could look at novelties and se-
lect the smaller things.
"It is not a soothing experience for
one's nerves, but still, shopping for a
year can be accomplished in three
hours when necessary."
Mrs. Taft is attractive in appearance
and very girlish. She is tall and slen-
der with deep gray eyes and soft
brown hair, has a frank, pleasant man-
ner in conversation, and talks straight
to the point.
Mrs. Taft is the daughter of Judge
Herron, law partner of President
Hayes, of Cincinnati, and she passed
part of her girlhood in Washington as
the guest of Mrs. Hayes in the White
House.
SMALLEST HOUSE ON LARGE LOT.
Structure Was Transformed from Pho-
tograph Car by Old Couple.
Chicago.—The smallest and oddest
abode that occupies a whole building
lot in all Chicago may be found at
10518 Calhoun avenue, South Deering.
This structure has just been com-
pleted by Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Trow,
who at an advanced age are living the
happiest kind of life in the one and
only home they ever have been able
to call their own.
Originally the upper part of the
structure was the cab of a photograph
car that had been rolled through the
country and which had made stands in
half the states of the union. The
Trows bought the car on wheels for
$90. They rolled it into a corner of
a big coal yard and lived in it for two
years. Then the husband, who is in
the employ of the Illinois Steel Com-
pany, bought a lot on Calhoun avenue.
The vehicle was hauled out of the coal
yard and backed in on the big lot*
There the body of the car was jacked
up about six feet and a new story
built under it. The original entrance
is still accessible, made so by con
structing a stairway to what is now
the second story.
In this little building Mr. and Mra
Trow have cast to the winds all cus
tom as to interior arrangements. Th«
Home Made from a Photograph Car.
first room Is the kitchen, the parlor
and bedroom being in one at the rear.
The entire car was originally about 18
feet long, eight feet wide and eight
feet high, and these dimensions have
neither been increased nor diminished
since the cab was hoisted off its trucks
excepting for the making of the lower
floor. The home as it now stands cost
the Trows less than $300, Including
the lot, which is 25 feet wide and 125
feet deep.
The happy pair who are occupying
this odd little home are both English,
Mr. Trow having been born in Stafford,
•hire and the wife in I«anca*hire. They
have been in this country 25 year*.
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The Cushing Democrat. (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1908, newspaper, June 4, 1908; Cushing, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc284109/m1/4/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.