The Cushing Citizen (Cushing, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 11, 1915 Page: 3 of 4
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J. 8. McClure and family Ml Sat
urday afternoon for Oklahoma City,
at which place thay will make th«r
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. (Mpitai Saturday rwalnf. IH Stork
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peculiarly aad accident. Mr. Sloan b»
ing but ti year* old and having a wifa
end two littla children dr^ndwit an
I hla labor.—Yala Ilrmocral.
HANKSGIVING OAT PROC-
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Attorney John H. Hadley returned
Sunday from a businea* trip to Mu*
kogee and Boynton where he had been
to look ovar hia oil territory hold-
ings.
Miaa Lillian Phelpa who ia attend-
ing achool in Oklahoma City. was up
Sunday to apend the day with home
folks, returning lo reaume her atudie*
S inday evening.
Joaeph Holainger returned on Sun-
i lay from a lengthy viait to the old
home of the Holainger family in Pen-
nsylvania and joined hia parent* who
live weat of the city.
Jim Robertson is the new man on
the police force, succeeding Phil Kin-
an. Mr. Robertson was highly rec-
ommended by Pottawatomie county of-
ficials and is expected to make a com-
petent officer.
"Red" Peyton, patrolman and one
of the most popular men on the force,
is home from Oklahoma City where
he underwent an operation. He ex-
pects to be back in harness in a day
or so as good as new.
J. K. Gano came in Sunday night
al ter a stay at Shamrock where he
had been expecting to see a Shaffer
well drilled in. However, the crew
only succeeded in casing off the big
gas Sunday and are today drilling in-
to the oil sand, so he came home dis-
appointed.
Bob Morrow, from Drumright, was
in Monday and Tuesday looking af-
ter business matters in connection
with the White Mfg. Co., here. He
is enthusiastic oyer present condi-
tions in Drumright—says they were
never better—and looks for that burg
to be a good live one for many moons
to come.
The crop of persimmons this year
is said to be the heaviest for many
years. A colored man said today this
meant fat 'possums this winter and
with fat 'possums and the immense
sweet potato crop, a hustling colored
man who couldn't live without troub-
ling himself about the high cost of
living, wasn't worth kicking but of
the world.
Henry Weitzenhoffer, of the Model
• iothing Co., came in this (Monday)
morning from Wirt, the new town
lown in the Healdton field. He is
convinced of the fact that a rest will
do him good and is here for the week
♦o take that rest. His brother, Aaron,
who has been in charge here, will go
to Wirt for the week. Weitzenhoffer
nys that Wirt at this time is busier
: Mvelier than ever Drumright was.
H loesn't look for the place to last
more than »ix months but right now
yhe is a hummer. There are lota of
-hing people down there and he
says it is rather like being at home
♦o sec all the old faces that he knew
here.
Old timers are wondering if aon*
birds and other member* of the fealh
i red tribe are going to remain in thi*
nee non and not migrate further south
'or the winter Mocking birds, rob-
ins, red birds (sometimes called "card-
Main" I are still to be found in large
lumbers in this section. Blackbird*
Have moved away, but these member*
»f the feathered tribe are known a*
hoboes and move around considerably
The presence of so many song birds
o late in the season is taken to mean
hat the winter is to be an open one.
>n the other hand, there are many
who believe the first of the year will
'»ring severe winter weather.
DRILLING TO CONTINUE
From authentic sources it is learn-
d that the Home Gas Company's well
northeast of town, at which drilling
was suspended Friday account of dril-
ing into salt water, will be deepened
in an effort to locate a pay sand at
a greater depth than any surrounding
well. Work started Monday of Bet-
ing the five-inch casing and drilling
operations will be resumed immed-
ately that job is finished.
RETURN FROM PECAN HUNT
John Hopkins and Bert Moore, with
their wives, have returned from a
pecan hunting expedition over near
Depew. They report the largest pe-
can crop in years and had no trouble
in securing all the nuts they could
use. Mr. Hopkins says quail are as
numerous as he ever saw them and
predicts some rare sport for hunters
through that section during the seas-
on. Also he tells about a lake near
Depew where an old goose has rais-
ed a flock of little geeses this year.
Bert spied the old lady on the lake
one day and hiked for his gun. At
ast accounts he had shot 20 times
at her and hadn't yet succeeded in
making her fly. If the ammunition
had held out Bert would have had
goose meat for his Thanksgiving din-
ner if it cost him the price of an-
other Ford.
TAG DAY WINNERS
tit ewr» yewr a* a day
!hank>«t< ing and acbnawledganronl •«
"be Creator should at lkl» time I*
«ept for reason* other than the uaiia
\ year ago. though In > land of peon
we were In the midst of a depress**
r a used by the war beyond the aaaa
Notwithstanding the conflict* on oui
border* and those between the na
tiona of the Old World and the com «
plaint* thus occasioned, we are still
at peace and the sky is clear. From
«hore lo shore we have been bleaaed
with a bountiful harvest, and every
character of business is healthy and
normal.
"Our citisenship ha# responded in
thought and act to the highest ideal*
of a civilization that *tands for hon-
or, right, justice and peace. To the
future, in every sense, including not
only our domestic and internal devel-
merciul and international relations,
opment, but also our foreign com-
we look with assurance.
"As to local matters, we are to be
congratulated. This young giant of
a Commonwealth presents a field that
is inviting to every good citizen who
desires a home, and to every enter-
prise that is seeking an opportunity
for expansion and development. With
confidence in the integrity and char-
acter of our citizenship and faith in
the perpetuity of our institutions, we
are moved to offer our sincere thanks
to Him in whose keepings the destiny
not only of every individual, but al-
so the State and Nation.
"Wherefore, I, R. L. Williams, Gov-
ernor of the State of Oklahoma, do
proclaim Thursday, the 25th day of
November, A. D. 1915, to be set aside
and observed as a day of thanksgiving
and call upon our people to give prop-
er recognition of the same in offering
prayers and thanks to Almighty God
for blessings bountifully bestowed up-
THIS GOOD OLD WORLD
The "Tag Day" inaugurated Sat-
urdayby the Young Men's Business
Club for the purpose of raising funds
to carry on the work of street and j
road building, was successful only in.
a limited sense. About $75 was the
sum total raised. Miss Sadie Brown j
was given first prize for number of i
*ags sold, a cameo ring; Miss Rhoda!
Emrick, second prize, a Parisian Iv- j
ory Mirror, and Miss Lillian Phelps
'hird prize, an assortment of per- j
fumes and toilet waters.
The public response to the effort
by the young men was not as satis-
fying as it might have been. When,
one considers that the work the club
is engaged in is for the benefit of all,
large and small alike, it is a surprise
that their efforts were not rewarded
with a greater degree of success.
Some people knock this good old
world
And say it is getting worse;
Some long for golden gates empearl-
ed
As per the Scripture's verse.
But this old world is what you make
it,
And, despite old Adam's fall,
Somehow it seems a good old world
To live in, after all.
There may be lots of sorrow here
And shadows all around,
But if you're looking for good cheer
There's plenty to be found.
There's the music of the waters
And the bobolink's glad call,
And somehow it's a good old world
To live in, after all.
Of all God's creatures man alone
Is sad and discontent,
And seems to think he ought to own
The whole, big firmament.
The birds and bees and butterflies
And beasts and things that crawl
Believe that it's a good old world
To live in, after all.
Mrs. Eugene Titsworth. wife of the
manager of Gates' Variety Store, has
been in for a few days visiting with
her husband. She leaves this after-
noon for Drumright to resume her
duties ia that city.
[Ivy War M«k» i
rh, lh* Ibslh. thi
• >«».« mot ally. pmmt The «ai
atiiwolatad the Noflh and propwfwd It
fot the (oaqueat of the New We*t.
H. pi«*tialed and bankrupted the
South After the war the North wa»
a* it had been before; the South wa*
• land in ruin* Not only Its capita
wa* gone. Ita institution* were to
rebuild, on new and better foundation*
And while the South stood so blttet
|y la need the law* of the United
States were shaped lo benefit the pro
tected manufacturer* of the Nolh
at the expense of the agricultural
South We recall that the eateemeU
Tribune, in the Medill day*. u*ed to
argue powcrfull yfor a low tariff be-
tween campaigns; then, when the lime
for action came, it alway* became
"regular" and fought with and for
the tariff barons.
There is no more shameful story
than that of the ••reconstruction" at
the South, for which the North wa
responsible. There is no more inspir
ing story than that of the reconstruc
tion of the South by itself. Whu h i*
typical of the South; the shameful
deed of a mob or the steady, persis-
tent advance of industrial reform, of
popular education of city making, of
literature and the arts, of charity and
philanthrophy ?
Is Chicago in a position to throw
.-.tones ? Has the Windy City noth-
ing to learn from the despised South?
I,ook at the way in which Chicago has
muddled her terminal situation and
compare it with the splendid munici-
pal terminals of New Orleans. For
Chicago to prate of "ignorance and
violent politicians" is, as a certain
Venetian gentleman once remarked,
'hypocrisy against the devil." Can the
South match Bath-House John and
Hinky-Dink? Has the South ever
equaled the Lorimer scandal? Yet
Lorimer came from the great and
good City of Chicago.
Chicago has, through Lorimer,
brought disgrace upon the politics of
a nation; its municipal government
has been sordid and corrupt; what
did Chicago ever do in a construc-
tive way to advance the political
thinking of America or help forward
looking men to better things? Noth-
ing at all; in the realm of political
construction Chicago has been as bar-
ren as a stretch of alkali desert under
a blazing sun. But look at little Gal-
veston, a few years since stricken by
one of the worst disasters in history ;
yet setting out, with a courage that
tempest and ocean combined could not
daunt, not only to build a city impreg-
nable in face of the wrath of Nature
but also to fashion a city government
on new principles, where honesty and
efficiency might come into their own.
The one great contribution to the
practical art of city government made
by the United States since the birth
of the nation came out of the Far
South.
What has Chicago done for Cook
County, except to debauch its poli-
tics? The Illinois metropolis might
well take a leaf of the book of Fort
Worth, Texas, which has so stimulat-
ed the good roads enthusiasm of Tar-
rett County that that jurisdiction has
within two years invested $2,000,000
in improved highway*, expended, not
according to the methods of pork-
barrel politics, so well comprehended
in Cook County, but under the per-
sonal supervision, with full respoas'-
bilitj, af one of ti '
CHOES Af.o HOSE ro*
ALL THE FAMIUT
onlv com into our st0rc and slip vows
reer into a paw Of our shocs. thcv wux
loom so wcu. and reu. so cooo. and thc
PRICC IMU K SO LOW THAT VOU WIU SUV THCPL
THCV WUX Give VOU SUCH LONG WCAN THAT
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highway engineer* In America
I hlrago pride* beraelf aa I
*r ti lavement* In literature. Atlanta,
one-twentieth her »••*. ha* given the
nation Joel Chandler llarrt*. Henry
Grady and Frank Stanton. Can Chi-
cago equal that honor roll? Chicago
la a musical center Yet Chicago**
opera company ha* collapsed In ruina
while Atlanta continues to give to
••pvra a patronage unmatched in the
United Slate*, population for popu
lation.
The Tribune anears at theMhill men"
of the South. Itoea It know that these
"hill men" stepped out In front of the
grape-shot in tho Civil War to fight
for freedom ? l»oes it know that no-
where in the United States are per
xonal morals higher and gracious hos-
pitality to tha stringer more univer-
sal than in the hills of the South?
lias it follower) the progress of Mis-
Houri communities peopled by this
Mime stock, and thc records of the
young people who have gone out of
these hills to the universities of the
land, and then to honorable places
in the nation's life?
Did the anarchist outrages of a
luarter-century ago prove Chicago a
nest of anarchists, outside of the pale
of civilization and beyond all hope?
Chicago has, In one sole respect,
shown herself quick to respond to the
growth and improvement of the
South. That is in the realm of trade.
Chicago is acutely conscious of the
value of Southern dollars, anxious to
conserve trade relations with the
region whose "rotten industrial con-
ditions and rotten social ideas * *
illiteracy, blatant self-righteousness
ruelty and violence" are so far un-
worth of the city of. Lorimer, Hinky
Dink, Bath-House John and the rest
of Chicago's municipal saints. But
Chicago serves notice to the world
through press that her commercial
relations with the South carry with
them no hint of good neighborliness
of appreciation of great men and great
movements, of knowledge of the har-
vest of the fields of civic effort, edu
cation, social advance, literature an^
■t, in which the South has labored
Chicago's relations with the South
are on a revenue basis only.—St.
Louis Republic.
WHEN HOUSEWIVES MEET
Cushing housewives are going to in
augurate a new system in purchasing
supplies for the family table, accord
ing to a report that comes from th(
east side. Recently at one of the
homes were gathered a number of
matrons who fell to discussmg the
high cost of living. In comparing
prices it developed that there was »
wide divergence in the prices paid
for the same article, even at the same
store. Further discussion revealed
the fact that those who paid cash were
able to live much cheaper than those
who run accounts, and further, some
of those who run accounts did so for
what they characterized as "conven-
ience," not because they could not af-
ford to pay cash for their supplies
and this led to a general discussion
of the "credit vs. cash system." The
argument pro and con was continued
for two hours and at the end of that
time it was the consensus of opinion
that it was expedient to organise a
'houaawltroa cash buying society" and
when tha women aeporated It waa
with the understanding that another
meeting would be held aooo at wrhtrh
time the matter would take definite
*hape. "This is really one of the big-
goat problem* the modem houaeurtfa
naa to face," declared one of tha la-
he* who was active in promoting tha
aah buying aystem. "Whether it |i
wtaar to run accounts with tha dif-
ferent tradesmen, or pay cash whan
.he purchase is made. Of course,
here are two aides to it and tha two
tides will still be further discussed,
it is quite true as those who favored
die account system aver, it is far mora
.-onvenient to charge one's purchaaes
ind pay the whole at the end of tha
•nonth. The ability to run into the
<hop, or telephone for what one needs,
Joubtless affords infinite satisfaction
to the average housekeeper, but the
Jay of reckoning is not always so
<atisfactory. But it is the woman who
pays for what she buys at the tima
of the purchase who knows just where
*he stands. The first of the month
holds no terrors for her, for there are
10 butcher's, baker's or grocer's bills
iO pay. She pays cash when she re-
-eives the goods, is free to trade where
ihe can do the best, if the goods are
lot satisfactory she can return them
and demand her money back, doesn't
lave to take something else just as
food when her credit store hasn't got
vhat she wants, and is in every way
iractically independent. Her patron-
ige is sought after by the merchants
ind she is always sure of good goods,
air prices and honest measures and
■veights, whereas the woman who runs
in account, is the slave of the mer-
chant where she must trade. Then
n nearly every instance when pay
lay comes the housewife is just sure
.he merchant has overcharged her
>n many articles, charged her with
.hings she never bought and she just
tnows the bill ought not be so big.
She forgets that it is so easy to say
•harge it, and item after item soon
imounts up until the bill is really un-
recognizable in their size. Another
jxcellent reason why cash payments
ire preferable, it prevents mistakes
>eing made by items being charged
o her account articles which some
>ther person got. Wise is the woman
who avoids the "chargit" habit and
who pays cash for what she gets and
iees to it that she gets what she pays
"or. If we can get the women of
Cushing to pledge themselves to get
lown to the "pay as you go" plan,
much of the horror of the high cost of
iving will have been dispelled, we will
live better .happier and longer. I
wish the Citizen would agitate the
natter and help us to organize a
housewives" cash buying league, and
'hus in a measure quit buying auto-
mobiles and paying for pleasure trips
for others and save a little to pay
on our own automobiles and go on
trips to the sea shore."
Myron E. Friss and Henry Hudson
who own the building immediately
north of the Thompson Hotel, left
Tuesday night for their homes in Ok-
lahoma City after a few days here
spent in looking after their business
interests.
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