Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1907 Page: 2 of 8
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Money to You
YOU CAN SAVE MONEY
BY TRADING AT..
W. N. GREEN S RACKET STORE.
on South Side Square.
We are the biggest department store in Southwest
Oklahoma. We pay the cash for our goods and sell
for cash at a very low per cent. Our motto is, "Quick
Sales and Small Profits." If you buy before getting
our prices you will be doing your pocket-book an in- j
justice.
We are also headquarters for all kinds of Cold
Drinks and Ice Cream. Come on boys, we have a
nice ice cream parlor for you and your best girl to
spend a few happy moments together, eating cream.
Open Sundays and Late hours at Night.
DON'T FORGET THE PLACE,
W. N. Green's
Racket Store,
South Side Square.
who is going to put up $800 daily
for cash expenses and take the
chances of .the railroad bridges
washing away and a general col-
lapse of the whole business and
then wait until your freights are
collected. Now if you think own-
ing and operating a railroad is an
easy job get someone to make you
a present of one and try it: putting
up your own cash daily for expen-
ses.
If you want to make
your own terms for a
loan on your farm see
me. C. W. Gilliland. room
5 over Mangum Drug Co.
Farmer*' Union Lectures.
President S. O. Daws, of the Far-
mers' Union will speak at the fol-
lowing places in Greer county on.
the dates named:
Erick, April 22, at night.
Delhi, April 23, at night.
Marie, April 24, at night.
Vinson, April 25, at night.
Bethany, April 26, at night.
Hollis April 27, at 2 o'clock p.
m.
Purvis, Apcil 29, at night.
Gyp Hill, April 30, at night.
Center, May 1, at night.
Headquarter, May, 2, at-night.
If you are a farmer in Greer
county you cannot afford to miss
hearing one of these speeches by
the father of the Farmers' Union
in Oklahoma.
By order of the County Union.
The public generally invited.
H. H. WYMAN, Pres.,
Mangum, Okla.
LEFT EVIL LEGACY
MISFORTUNE BANS TREE PLANT-
ED BY BAD MAN.
-ATTEND—
Mangum Business College
for thorough courses in Book-keeping, Shorthand, Typewriting, Pen-
manship, etc. Office in old Masonic Hall. Phone 282.
Mangum Sun-Monitor.
H. L. CRITTENDEN
Editor and Publish® <
Published Evbby Thorsbay.
■ntercd at the PostoAce at Mangum, O. T.
Subscription Ratbs.
One Year,
81x Months,
Phone No. ft.
clear, some of them show up all
right and others not so well.
Dr. Border is determined to
shine in his profession whether any
one else does or not. The Border
Hospital is looming up in grand
style and will be an ornament as
well as a great convenience to the
city. The doctor is sparing nieth-
er pains nor expense in making the
One Dollar, building and its appointments all a
Fifty Cents, hospital should be in giving ease
and comfort to its patients.
The railroads are having a tough
time of it, and still some of them
are paying as much as 43 per cent
on all their watered stock and that
that is not watered after payng all
the expenses of operating, repairs
and betterments. The railroads
don't need so much sympathy after
all, and really we don't know that
they need anything.
The Pennsylvania railroad is
owned by 40,000 share holders, and
all of them draw dividends on their
stock and yet when consulted about
its management only one stock-
Capt. James Gates has made holder returned an answer. The
complete plans, specifications and i only connection between a stockhol-
estimates for the fraternity of aider and a railroad is its dividends.
Masonic lodge on the vacant lot at | They have no concern about the
the northeast corner of the court properties..
Thk SUN-MONITOR is read each
week by Five Thousand people in
6r$tr count]/.
THURSDAY, APR. 18. 1907.
Railroad Rumblings.
The big strike on the southwestern
has been averted, and the govern-
ment claims the credit of ''prevent-
ing what would have been the
greatest and most disasterous of all
the strikes. So mote it be.
house square and near the Harris
hotel, to cost $10,000. The plans
are to accommodate Commandary,
Chapter, Blue lodge, and Eastern
Star, with three stores on the
ground floor, with halls and neces-
sary rooms and three offices on the
second floor. The building will be
commodious and up to date. The
income from the building will be
$1,800 net. The building will be
pressed brick with stone trimmings
and an iron front. The matter is
in the hands of the lodge committee.
A car load of Missouri mules
landed here last week and sold as
quick as landed at fabulous prices.
That means Greer county is short
on mules, and that it will pay to
raise mules for the home market.
The price ranged from $380 to $460
per pair.
Have you noticed the many beau-
tiful cottage residences being built
all over the city? On every street
there are from one to five and six
new houses going up, and that
means 100 or more new families in
Mangum in the near future. That
is a good beginning for a commer-
cial city and a railroad center. Let
the building boom proceed.
With a big court house, the fin-
est and best in all the southwest
and with the scales of justice
equally poised on the east and west
sides of the square, there should be
corresponding business houses on
each front of this magnificent buil-
ding, then would the citified ap-
pearance of the square be plain to
every one. When you look towards
the square its plain enough, but
looking from the court house to the
business houses its not quite so
Every farmer is busy. This is
his busy season. The plows are all
running. The wheat aud oats are
growing to beat the b|nd and there
is music in the air, all nature is
alive and doing duty in the best
and most approved fashion. The
green bug is left far behind and
cant catch up to do any damage.
Last Thursday's rain drowned them
out, putting them out of busi-
ness. There is too much cotton
plowed under though, that ought
not to be. No man should plant
more than he can reap because it's
a waste of material and labor.
Greer county still carries the ban-
ner.
Hit or miss the Hollis people are
determined to connect up their
thriving little city and beautiful
country with Mangum by rail.
They have a commercial club at
that place now that believes in
doing things. And they will do it.
Everybody can run a railroad.
People that can't run their own
business can run the government
and can build and operate a rail-
road. It is generally supposed that
a railroad dont cost anything and
when all the water is squeezed out
of it, there is nothing left but the
right of way. But after you get
your railroad on terms like that
you can't operate it on water alone
nor on wind: you must raise about
40 per cent of your gross earnings
to pay operating expenses and that
must be cash, and as freights may
be in transit a month or more you
must plank down that much cash
to your employees. It is said the
Rock Island business at' this point
amounts to $2,000 per day and if so
Pure Texas Honey, one half gal-
lon, $1.00; quart, 50c, at Allen's
Coal Yard.
Advertised Letter LIsL
Letters remaining In the Mangum
Postofflce uncalled (or.
Aprill 5, 1007.
Ladies: Tomison, Miss Nora;
Cummins, Mrs. Irene; Maxwell,
Mrs. S. J.; Toney, Miss May.
Gentlemen: Stockstill, J. D.;
Nicnolson, W. T.; Ward, J. D.;
Roach, W. R.; Davis, Edwin E.;
Thompson, Herbert.; Thompson, N.
H.; Sterling, Harry S.; Welly,
John; Templeton, S. H.; Johnson
Guire; Machen, C. H.; Hamre,
F. K.; Buxon, John; Brown, Mon-
roe; Bell, Harry; Armstrong, A.
H.; Bonfiled, F. A. and Jones
Stanley.
Reed. R. F. D. 3.
I will try to write a few lines
to the Sun-Monitor as we have no
correspondent from these parts.
Farmers are busy in our vicinity
now, some plowing and some plant-
ing.
We are needing rain very badly.
The ground is getting very dry and
also people's cisterns.
The trees are green, roses in
bloom and it makes us think of
good old summer time.
Mumps are the order of the day
in our neighborhood. Hanston
Russell is the victim this week.
Little Miss Cora May Wool-
dridge has been very sick for the
past few days. We havent learned
the particulars.
Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the proud
parents of a fine boy. Mr. and
Mrs. Walter Pence have a fine girl
baby at their home.
Mr. and Mrs. Mathis and their
little daughter, Oakley, spent Fri-
day with Mrs. Gaston.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Pruett will
soon have their half dug out com-
pleted and will go to house keep-
ing. We wish them much success
and happiness.
For full blood White Wyandotte
eggs see Mrs. G. F. McSpadden.
Mrs. J. C. Wooldridge and baby
are real sick with mumps this
week.
There is a bear scare out in our
neighborhood. Look out boys.
Mr. and Mrs. Rymer spent Sun-
day evening with Mr. and Mrs. J.
S. Pruett.
There is Sunday School at Union
Hill every Sunday morning. We
have also organized a singing class
to meet at three o'clock every Sun-
day afternoon. Everybody is in-
vited to attend.
Mrs. Bob Ruth^ford is very
sick. John Bell is also on the sick
list.
Mrs. Lee Thompson has been on
the sick list but we are glad to
hear she is convalescent.
SUNFLOWER.
Farm Loans.
My proposition is the best.
Ready money, lowest rates and
easiest terms.
C. W. GILLILAND,
Room 5 over Mangum Drug Store.
For Job Printing call
Sun*Monitor office.
Superstitious Mexicans Believs Im-
plicitly in 8tory of Misspent Life
and Its Punishment—Tragic
Deaths Have Been Many.
The tree of Tula and the tree of Bad
Night are known throughout the world
but there is a tree In Mexico which
has acquired a local reputation some-
what shady.
El Arbol Maldlto Is said to have
been planted by a gentleman who had
the misfortune to be swallowed up by
Mother Garth on account of his crimes.
He was known throughout the country
as unhombre muy malo. He never
went to mass, never confessed his
sins, nor did he have the Image of a
saint in his house, wear a rosary
around his neck or make the sign of
the cross as a respectable man should.
He never gave a beggar even a centa-
vlto, and when he met a pad reel to on
the street he did not deign to remove
his hat.
Now it was rumored, says Modern
Mexico, that this gentleman was re-
sponsible for many murders and atro-
cious crimes of every description, but
he was never confined In Jail because
It was known that he had a compact
with the devil, so that urtienever he
Invoked his Majesty he was rendered
Invisible to the human eye, or at ieast
so small that he could easily escape.
He was shunned by all, and he had
neither friends nor relatives.
But a peculiar thing about this man
was that he loved the trees, the birds
and all the animals. He planted a
great many trees and fed a flock of
birds every morning.
it was many years ago that the
event of his departure took place, but
Is still remembered by the ancient In-
habitants of the neighborhood. Every-
body on the Haclendita ranch had at-
tended the religious services of the
morning, and they were returning
home when a terrific noise was heard.
They rushed to the street where It
came from, and there they saw how
the earth had opened up under the
feet of that hombre muy malo. He
was enveloped by thick flames and
smoke and quickly disappeared be-
neath the surface of the earth.
This was considered a just punish-
ment in view of the situation, and
every one was exceedlnly pleased.
While the faithful had been attending
the services of the church the cursed
one had nothing else to do but place a
burning cigarette between the lips of
an Image on a big crucifix, carried by
an altar on the street. It was then
that the convenient cavity opened up
and he was engulfed by the earth.
That vory day.all the trees which
he had planted except El Arbol Mal-
dlto, dried up and die<?—and so did
the birds which he had fed from his
own hand. An attempt? was made to
cut down the tree that did not dry
up, but the foolish man who made the
attempt dropped dead on stepping un-
der the shadow of the foliage. As no
one had the temerity to approach and
remove It the man's body had to be
left there to be eaten by the crows.
Since that day many have met a
tragic death under the tree. A pedes-
traln who went under it for shade on a
summer day was bitten by a snake
and died In tow hours. Three men on
different occasions sought shelter from
rain under its branches and were
struck by lightning.
A woman hanging some clothes to
dry from the trunk of the tree was at-
tacked by a goat that came from no-
body knows where and was never seen
again. Three years ago a little boy,
riding a burro, led his animal to the
tree. He was thrown off and kicked to
death.
The last victim of this fatal tree
was a man by the name of Melquiades
Arevalo, who ran under It for shel-
ter during a rainstorm a year ago, and,
like his predecessors, he was struck
by lightning.
The antipathy that the peons have
for this tree is such that they refuse
to work In the fields for half a mile
around It. Some time ago Prospero
Oarcla, proprietor of the ranch where
El Arbol Maldlto grows, resolved to
have it blown up with dynamite, but
no doubt he has been unable to find a
ban brave enough to venture near a
tree which shows such symptoms of
a haunted life.
j Independent
ifc
Home Lumber
Company
Sells the following at a 12 Per
S Cent Profit, which is cheaper f
than any one else in town.
Chess as a Mind Drill.
When the Romans placed over the
door of the temple of Janus "Ex
Orlente Lux et Ludum Scacchorum"
(out of the East came light and the
game of chess) they Bpoke of the two
greatest behests that the storied East
had ever made to the young and ag-
gressive West—the light of religion
and the greatest mental achievement
of man since he came through Eden>i
frowning portals.
In the middle ages when the monks
and abbots watched from afar the bru-
tal soldiery of Christendom swooping
down like a pestilence on the sunny
plains of the South they chanted "A
furore Normanorum libera nos, O Do-
minie" (from the fury of the North-
men deliver us, O Ood) and returned
to chess—all that was left a noble soul
In a vain and turbulent world.
ChesB is the finest mental drlllmaa-
ter the world has ever known. As a
nind trainer It ranks above Oreek
ind dlalestlcs.
But above all Is the science of bat-
le, it Is war without bloodshed, it Is
itrlfe on equal terms, which all the
•ace loves and to which from the era-
lie to the grave all mortality is sub-
iecL
Lumber,
Shingles,
Mouldings,
Saab,
Doors,
Latb,
Plaster,
Cement,
Lime,
Brick,
Bois D'arc Pests, Oak Posts,
Cypress Lumber for Tanks,
Building Pa|>er and
Screen Doors.
Independent
Home Lumber Co
MANGUM, OKLA.
"The Mortgage Lifter.
That's the name of a new kind of cotton seed of which
1,500 pounds of seed cotton makes a 600 pound bale. It's
the best ever. All kinds of Field and Garden Seeds in
bulk and at lowest prices.
COME AND SEE ME.
C. A. ROGERS.
Rogers Feed and Seed Store, North of Black & Renard's Barn.
Steam Hot
is how you want it on a cold day when tak-
ing a bath. Can't have it that way if your
plumbing is out of whack. Get it in trim by
calling us in to fix it up.
A GOOD HOT BATH
is a splendid thing for spring fever. The bath
will be perfect with our perfect plumbing.
For plumbing that's perfectly sanitary have
us do it.
r. s. GENTRY,
South Side Square, Mangum.
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Crittenden, H. L. Mangum Sun-Monitor. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 17, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 18, 1907, newspaper, April 18, 1907; Mangum, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc284937/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.