The Granite Enterprise. (Granite, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 23, 1902 Page: 3 of 8
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THE GRANITE ENTERPRISE. THURSDAY, JANUARY 2j, 1902.
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Notice To Publishers.
We have for sale one six-column
quarto Country Campbell press, in good
condition, which we wish to sell. The
press has been out of the foundry only
about three months, and is in the best of
condition.
Thank You.
The Gr anite Enterprise has changed
from the folio to the magazine form.
The Enterprise is what its name im-
plies and believes in keeping at the
front of the procession. The paper is
neatly printed, ably edited and is on
the right side of the fence politically.
Here's to you, gentlemen, may you live
long and prosper.—Leger Times.
"Dogmatic Religion.'*
The Leger Times is scoring a set of
people living in the neighborhood of
Navajo who believe in dogmatical re-
ligion. He cites a case where a man
and child died in that neighborhood be-
cause the patient ignored any medical
assistance, preferring the medical
assistance of Christian Science minister
instead. As a result the patients died.
If this is not what the Times terms
"criminal carelessnes" we don't know
what you would call it. In Woods
county when this dogmatical religion
was in good force, patients over the
county who were severely stricken down
with diseases of various nature called
upon the Holiness people to free them
of their awful sufferings instead of
medical assistance. As a consequence
a majority of the patients whom the
, Scientists called upon died. The
authorities were called in to protect
human lives, and from then on the way
of the Scientists dishing out medical
doses was entirely abolished.
If Greer county is affected with this
kind of medicine for restoring health to
the afflicted it is high time a reform was
being made. As to the status of the
■ case to which we refer the Leger Times
hah the following to say:
"But the death occurred as stated,
the sick man dismissed his physician as
stated and the Holiness preachers in-
dulged in exhortations in the sick room
as stated. These are points which we
wished to bring out as proving that
criminal carelessness was apparent.
Mi*. Jeffrey should have asserted him-
self and insisted upon a physician's aid,
as he stated to us that he believed in the
efficacy of medicine.
"The Times does not presume to dic-
tate the policy of any man religiously,
but we do condemn in unmeasured
terms the fostering of a religious excite-
ment in a community—especially when
this 'unnatural confidence preys upon
the minds of a people to the extent
which prompts them to deny themselves
or their children the aid of medicines
during sickness.
"The' praotice of medicine with all its
faults is our best reliance, and science
so for has not produced its superior.
Medicine is not infallible—and we have
yet 'ti "find something in this world
whioh is*"
Afraid To Tell.
At a social gathering held at Mangum
a few nights ago, consisting of gentle-
men and their wives, a memorandum
was taken of whore each person was
born. It was found that the 14 persons
present represented 11 states of the
Union, and one from Canada. Missouri
and T«xas had two each, and in no case
were a man and his wife natives of the
same state. This incident is interesting
in showing the cosmopolitan compo-
sition of Oklahoma. — Weatherford
Chronicle.
We know of several present who were
from Kansas, but they were afraid to
tell. Gentlemen, stand up for your
state, not that we are from there.
Oh, no!
More Tabloid Journals.
We have been pleased to note recently
that several more territory papers have
changed their form from the old-fash-
ioned big-page style to the modern
foup-column page. Among the latest
of the "bird-cage" papers, as the old
lady at Asher called them, are the
Granite Enterprise and the Cushing
Herald. Both of these excellent papers
have banished the advertising from their
front pages and use them, instead, to
boom their towns. Tno Enterprise
uses half-tone engravings similar to
those that have been appearing in the
News, and the Herald sets its front page
to the "wide" measure that has been
characteristic of the News. We cer-
tainly appreciate the compliment.—
Chandler News-
The News appeared last week with a
half-page half-tone of the city of
Chandler. The people can not help but
see the benefit these tabloid journals
are to a town, which with each issue is
printed on the first page some cut of
the town. If our farmers or citizens of
the town will have photos taken of their
stock farms and city residences or stores
we will send for cuts of same and print
them. - . * -
We have opened a first-class book store and news
stand in Granite, and would be pleased to have all lovers
of good reading call and see us. We handle all the latest
leading magazines and newspapers, also a complete line of
Street & Smith's popular io-cent novels, by the leading
authors. We also handle ,
Qovernor Means What He Says.
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"I shall select my appointees after
making my own inquiries," said
Governor PerguBon the other day. "I
know what kind ot men I need to assist
me in the administration of tho affairs
of Oklahoma and shall oxercise my own
choice as to individuals. I am in receipt
daily of letters from all portions of
Oklahoma for and against applicants for
office. Many of these letters contain
implied threats by saying that certain
appointments would be unsatisfactory
to local politicians, insinuating if they
are not pleased there might bo trouble.
I am tired of this phase of Oklahoma
politics and hereafter will pay no atten-
tion to such communidations. Indis-
criminate indorsements are valueless
and untrustworthy. I know many men
whose integrity is unquestioned in
business transactions, yet I 'receive
letters from them praising to tho sky
candidates whom I know and they know
to bo wholly unqualified to hold office.
The time has come to discontinue such
methods. I shall do it."
Why go to Mangum or some other town to get your
books when you can get them just as cheap at hom<??
ADAMS & CO.
"Just Around the Corner," :
In Rear of Jones-Olds Bank.
How True.
Merchants should practice th t same
principle in buying their stationery
that they preach to purchasers, in the
lines they handle—buy at home. Local
printers might charge a little more for
stationery thin large foreign printing
concern's-, but the merchant should
appreciate the fact that Roebuck and
Montgomery Ward undersell . them
likewise. While the editor is preaching
the fcrade-at-home principle some mer-
chants are using printed material
bought abroad. This is not justice.—
Leger Times.
We know of business men right in a
a stone's throw of this office who are
practicing this same injustice. They
send away for printing whioh can be
done just as well at honn. But they do
this because thoy can gat it done a mite
cheaper. It is wholly an injustice, just
"as the Times states. This money sent
away goes to build up the town.you
send it to. It is of no benefit to the
town in which tho sender lives. Your
home printer may charge you a trifle
more for the printing than the foreign
concern, yet by trading with him that
money is kept at home, put into circu-
lation and eventually brought back into
tho hands of the sender. The trouble of
today is that too much money is spent
for foreign articles that can be pur-
chased at home.
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