The Altus Times. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1906 Page: 2 of 6
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Thursday, January 4, 1900.
The new year could scaroely
have chosen worse weather for
hia arrival. Monday was decid-
edly tho moit diaagroeable day of
the wiuter.
Tub coal miners of the anthra-
cite regions of Peuniylvauia are
going to present Miaa Alice
Roosevelt with a car load of the
beat coal they can find aa a wed
ding present. This ia certainly
a practical gift, and if Miaa Alice
resided iu Altua, where coal ia
$8.60 per ton, (anthracite about
$20.00) she would appreciate it
all the more.
year, and atick to it. Thia ia oue
direction in whioh Altua aoems to
he growing not at all. With the
coming of the Orieut railroad aud
tho many benefits it will bring iu
ita trail'. Altua ought to begiu to
build sidewalks for the uae ot her
own people and those who are
compolled to viait our city on
buaiuean. Let the oouuoil atart
iu by ordoriug the couatruotiou
of aidowalka to eaoh church aud
to each of the railroad paaaenger
atatioua, aud wo believo the peo-
ple will oatch the apirit of prog
reaa aud begiu to build on their
own account.
Oi'k Chamber of Commerce
aliould extend an iuvitatiou to
Preaident Stilwell, of the Orieut
railroad, to pay a viait to Altua
ou hia uext trip to Mexico witli a
train load of iuveatora, aud wheu
he accepta, aa he surely will, put
forth every effort to show him
what a splendid town wo have
here, and what au important
A hood reaolution for Altua p0jut for the Orieut railroad it ia
aee the people dodge at the wild
aud wooly antic* of hia sideshow
Finally, however, two of tho boya
became angry at the rough play
aud, aa Shepard saya, got their
hardware. At tlua poiut in the
game Shop experienced a desire
to lie down, which lie did and
did quickly, right under the
aeata. Wheu asked if he didn't
ruin hia overcoat ho said: "Over-
ooat! What in thunder do I
want with % an evorcoat with
uothiug to wear it on?"—Snyder
Democrat.
people to make for the the new
year would be to reaolve that
tbey will devote more time to
beautifying their homes than
they did iu 1905. Plaut trees,
aod your lawus, build sidewalks,
paint your houses, aud keep your
door yards clean aud neat. A
very little effort in this direction
will accompliah wonders.
The Navajo irrigation project
will remain in escro until spring,
wheu the report ot Mr. Meaus,
government engineer of soils, will
be filed, Meanwhile, our farm-
ers should uot abandon all hope.
The projoct is not dead by any
means. The very fact that Mr.
Camp is still iu the field aud at
work should be a great source of
encouragement in itself.
There will uot be much doing
iu Orient railway construction
at Altus uutil spring opens up.
Tin crew which departed this
week has unloaded 28 miles of
steel here, and other material is
to follow wheu active constrnc-
^i'on work commences. The peo-
ple Ot Altus may rest secure iu
the thought that they will uot
have very much longer to wait
for the road.
goiug to be. If Fairview can
sell $1,800 worth of lots, we can
surely diapose of $5,000. Mr.
Stilwell's stockholders will be
glad of au opportunity to invest
in audi a live, hustliug, enter-
prising community, and the re-
sultant movement of real estate
will have a most beneficial effect
ou tho value of city property.
By all meaus extend the iuvita-
tiou .
The Times makes the predic-
tion that uoue of the territories
will be granted statehood at this
session of Congress. It may
be high treason, or at least not
policy to say this; but we believe
it from the bottom of our heart,
and we might as well say so aud
bedouewith. It all depends ou
the whim of Congress, aud the
exigencies of politics. We're uot
expecting anything, so if state-
hood should happen to come, it
will be a joyful surprise.
Altus has aet her heart 011 sev-
eral things, aud as a New Year's
resolution let's make up our
minds to secure them during the
year 1906. As a suggestion we
offer the following:
A cotton compress.
Au up-town telegraph office.
An up-town express office.
Adequate water works system.
Efficient electric light plant.
A new brick hotel buildiug.
Sidewalks aud crosswalks.
Extension of rural free delivery
systems.
A good road and bridge across;
Salt Fork.
More traes aud shrubbery.
There are lots of other thiugs
we ueed, but the above will do
for a starter. If we secure one-
half of the above good thiugs
during the year we shall have
good reason to be proud of our
efforts. Now. let's all get to
work.
The movement, first started in
the Panhandle of Texas, to or-
ganize tree planting clubs among
the farmers, is spreading into
Western Oklahoma. The plan
waa suggested by a representative
of the bureau of forestry. The
defiuite idea of these clubs is to
fiud out what kinds of trees are
best adapted to the regiou and
how they should be planted. The
bureau of forestry has agreed to
send out a competent man to ad-
dress the people 011 these poiuts
aud to help the movement along.
A few weeks ago Senator War-
ner wrote to friends iu Oklahoma
promising to keep "hauds off" iu
the matter of political appoint-
meuts. How much dependauce
may be placed in his word is in-
dicated by the appointment of
Maxwell, of Missouri, as Receiver
of the Lawton laud office—a car-
pet bagger, a rank outsider, aud
a man who has no more claim 011
Marshai. Buin and Night Po-
liceman Kudsley take exceptions
to tho article in last week's
Times headed "Chriatmaa Time
Iu Altua," and insist that iu
aoine particulars it waa over
drawn. Mr. Ulaiu says that he
himself remained on watch until
12 midnight; that he had three
deputies on; that there was no
drunkenness, swearing, disorder
or congregating on the streets;
iu fact, 110 law breaking of any
aerioua character. He aaya the
couucil auspeuded the rules for
one uight iu regard to fire crack-
ers, dynamite canes aud other
explosives, only requesting him
to keep down the noise as much
as possible aud keep the "cele-
bration" within bounds. The
editor of the Times will admit
b(- ing absent from the city Sat-
urday night, and his information
came to him second handed; and
if the picture was overdrawn it
was due to erroueous informa-
tion. The.Times does not desire
to discredit the work of Marsha
Blain iu any way. We know
how difficult it is to find a man
who fires a revolver iu the uight
aud runs away, and we fully
realize how difficult it wtiuld be
to keep down all disorder at such
a time as Christmas eve. Mr.
Blaiu is by all odds the best of-
ficer Altus has ever had, and he
feels that wheu he does his best
he should be given due credit for
it. The Times believes so, toe.
Hobart is after the Orieut
railroad, aud from some of the
efforts beiug made by the citizens
it seems they really believe they
can get it. The Times desires to
inform the Kiowa metropolis
right here that the Orieut rail-
road is graded several miles west
of Hobart, and the rails will
most probably be laid ou that
grade wheu the road is built.
Hobart's opportunity to secure
this transcontinental Hue came
several years ago, wheu Mr. Stil-
well first made his appeal for
support to the towns aloug the
POSTAL SUB-STATION
The Box to Be Erected 011 First National
Bank Corner Has Arrived from
Washington, D. 0.
Altus is putting on metropoli-
tan airs. She is to have a postal
sub-station —for the reception
of mail only, however, aud uot
for distribution. This substation
is to be established at the corner
of the First Natioual Bauk for
the convenience of the merchants
doiug business on the north side
of the square. While the sub-
statiou is nothing more nor less
thau a letter box it will prove a
great conveni3uce aud save mauy
weary steps for the people 011 the
uorth Bide.
Some time ago the business
men whose places are far from
the postoffice decided among
themselves that if a box for re-
ception of mail were placed at
the First National Bauk corner.
proposed hue. aud Hobart had a | ftnd mftil uken from it ju9t bflf
Ua/I />nao nf foof." nhnnt. . .
fore the departure of each traiu,
bad case of "cold feet" about
that time. Aud Mr. Stilwell is
not going to abandon miles of
good grade and right of way at
this stage of the game tc accomo-
date a lot of stiffs who don't
know au opportunity wheu one
knocks at their door, and who
are just now awakeuiug to the fact
that Mr. Stilwell's perseverance
euergy aud push have triumphed
over innumerable obstacles, aud
the road is to be built.
OUR NEW YEAR
Resolution
The following resolution, offered by our Grocery department
and seconded by our Hardware department, on ballot showed ,]
the following vote: Grocery department, Yea; Hardware
department.Yea; Implement department, Yea; Windmill, Yea.
CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY
Whereas, in the general prosperity, we have had our our share, and
.feel grateful that our part of the country has been visited with
bounteous crops.
And whereas, we wish to show our appreciation to our loyal custo-
mers
And whereas, it shall be our aim to add others to our large and
growing list SATISFIED CUSTOMERS,
BH IT RESOLVED, that 111 the year 1900, wo shall put forth every
effort withiu our power to conduct a busiuess wholely iu the iuter.
est of our customers—Buyiug right and soiling right, equal privil-
eges to all.
We will handle Hardware, Groceries, Implements, Vehicles,
Saddlery, Windmills, Pipe Fittings, etc, the same as this year.
Wc Can Look After Your Wants.
Yours for a prosperous year
it would save them mauy steps.
Thep consulted with Postmaster
VanMatre. who advised them of
the procedure necessary to estab-
lish the box and took up the
matter with the department
with the result tt.at Tuesday the
mail box arrived from Washing-
ton, D. C., cost aud transporta-
tion charges free.
The box is a large oue, of reg-
ulatiou pattern, and will amply
accommodate all the mail matter
placed iu it. As soou as it is
erected, the hours of collecting
will be auuouuced by the post-
master, and the new box will go
into active service.
Editor Shkpabd, of the Altus
Times, got himself iu much the
same position as the man who
bought au elephaut and then
could not mauage it. Shepard '
started east with a bunch of hia;
Oklahoma patronage thau Agui-1 Greer couuty friends Saturday to
naldo. Warner will probablyj»pend Christmas, on the same:
dip into the Mangum laud office j train with a crowd of Texas cow
sppoiutmeut* also, aud should boya, all roariugdruuk and out j- — --
he do so large goba of iutenae dis-! for a hilarious, red hot, glorious | for °ale at Bo"e*
gust will be plsiuly depicted on time. At first the itovelty of the brake-Hightower Co. s and Fa-
the faces of certain aspiring poll- situation kept the Texaus quiet, jg,u • oa J '■ ' ^ l^r )U9 e •
fcjcjtni but as this wore off the narrow- l>. h. ijkidcks.
> I uesa ot the car became irksome *
The Times sincerely hopes that: to tbeas sod something bad to be j Apply to John \\ . Edwards,
Cotton Growers. Listen!
Fine cotton seed, genuine Ma
out! bum, average 39 lb. liut to 100 lb.
the city council will inaugurate a, started—aud they started it. At Oluatee, if you ueed a farm loau. j Tuesday.
GOV. BOB TAYLOR.
The Tennessee -Humorist and Statesman
Delighted a Large Audience
Heie Saturday Night.
Ex-Governor Bob Taylor, the
famous Tennessee politician and
orator, delighted a larrre audience
at Miller opera house Saturday
night. The attendance was
better thau at auy previous num-
ber of the lecture course, aud a
number of out of town people
were present-, but still the audi-
ence was uot np to the anticipa-
tions of Manager Miller, who has
uot beeu very well supported in
his enterprise of giving the peo-
ple of Altus by far the best en-
tertainments they have ever had
the opportunity to hear.
No oue could describe one of
Bob Taylor's lectures. His was
much the same as that of Dr.
James Hedley, who was so much
admired iu an earlier number of
the course, and the philosophy of
sunshine was treated—uot as ser-
iously as by Hedley—but with a
wealth of golden speeoh that was
poetry and song iu itself. His
sketch of the barefoot boy, aud
many stories of old plantation
life were told with iuimitable
humor, from which he quickly
passed to flights of sparkling elo-
quence aud gems of more serious
thought. The lecture was highly
appreciated by all who attended.
The uext number of the course
will be giveu by A. VV. Hawks 011
February 10.
School Notes.
Several new pupils Jeutered
school this week.
Regular monthly examinations'
are being held this week.
The achool reaumed its work
Tuesday, January 2, after a
week's vacation.
Miss Meadows was unable to
return at the opening of achool
ion account of the aerioua illuess
pf her father. She returned
! Tuesday afteruoou. Johnnie Mc-
j Daniel taught the first grade
MILLINERY AT COST
In order to get rid of my surplus stock and prepare
for the spring season, 1 have decided to close out ev-
erything in my line at Actual Cost, This includes
all my handsome street and dress hats, trimmings,
etc. Though a little late in the season, this is a
splendid opportunity to secure a dainty bonnet or a
nice street or dress hat at absolute cost. See my
stock before purchasing.
MRS. BIRDIE CAMERON
North Side Square—at the Racket Store.
Let Us Figure on Your Bill
The Long-Bell Lumber Company
carries in stock a complete assort-
. ment of lumber and building ma-
terial of all kinds and descriptions.
Lime, Hair, Cement, Paints, Oils.
We want your business, and can
save you money.
V. T. WILLIAMSON, Manager.
Phone 56.
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Shepard, Susie W. & Shepard, Horace W. The Altus Times. (Altus, Okla.), Vol. 4, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 4, 1906, newspaper, January 4, 1906; Altus, Oklahoma Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc403315/m1/2/: accessed March 28, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.