The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1907 Page: 4 of 4
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MARKET LETTER.
Special to the Journal.
Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 26th, 1901.
Cattle receipts were checked after
Tuesday of last week, and the^eneral
market closed the week 15 to 25 cents
higher than the flret days. There is
an over supply today at Chicago, and
the feeling Is weak, although run here
Is only 12,000 head, several thousand
less than on last Monday. Conditions
are still nervous In the livestock mar-
kets, but more settled than a week
ego, and everything was cleaned up
better last week than anytime since
the financial trobles began. Country
buyers were numerous last week, and
prices on stockers and feeders ranged
from steady to a quarter higher by
the end of the week, and this class is
strong today. Top price for fed steers
) !»c week was 15.80 on Thursday, but
1 he best up to noon today sold at 5.30
and good steers sell around 5.00, short
fed steers 4.25 to 5.00, grass westerns
3.40 to 4,25, cows 2.25 to 4.00, heifers
3.00 to 4.00, bulls 2.15 to 3.75, top
veals 0.75, heavy calves 3.50 to 4 25.
Killing calves advanced 25 cents last
week, packers sorted out suitable
stuff from heavy grades more freely
than usual. There is a tendency to
market stuff on feed at once, because
of the unfavorable turn of the market
In the last month and its discourage,
ment to feeders. On the other hand
a good many cattle are being bought
for the country, 375 car loads out last
week, on the ground that present
prices, 2.65 to 3 85 for stockers, and
3 35 to 3,90 for bulk of feeders, are on a
basis that means a profit to the buyer.
The most sensational break of the
year in hog prices occured last week,
the market making a net loss of 1.07
per cwt, and closing Saturday 2.50
per cwt, lower tnan 45 days ago.
Buyers were not satisfied yet how-
ever, and took off 10 to 20 cents today
on a run of 9000 head leaving the top
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VARDY'S BILLIARD HALL
AND
LUNCN COUNTER
Is a nice quiet place to spend your
leisure hours. All kinds of softdrinks,
hot or cold lunch, cigars, tobacco etc.
Everything orderly neat and inviting to
the trade.
E. A. Vardy, Prop'r
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at 4.00, bulk of sales 3.65 to 3.95. Pigs
dropped 35 to 50 cents today with the
disappearance of the Thanksgiving
demand, and heavy weights took and
Impressive lead today, which they
will likely hold for some time.
J. A. Rickaut,
Live Stock Correspondent.
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For a good meal or
short order
WEISS, Proprietors.
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What Shall I Do?
Young friend, you are asking your-
self that question today. Life is
ahead of you—life with its glittering
prospects and dismal failures. With
bated breath and straining eyes you
peer into the future, striving te read
your fate. All is not gold out there—
all is not laughter and music and joy
Thss is a hard old world as well as
good one. Mixed with Its pleasure is
sorrow, and success is seamed with
failure, and in the rush for gain, you
must have a well skilled mind to hold
your own.
What will you do? You must pre
pare. In this commercial age only
those who are prepared succeed,
Great opportunities are ahead
Splendid success is within your reach.
Are youjready? Do you know how to
transact business? To record it? To
catch and fix, with flying pencil, rhe
thought as it falls from the lip of
manager? To handle the key that
moves the rich cars of com
merce over the busy rail? To the
young man or woman, these are the
broad and roomy ways to success; all
others are crowded. True, there’s
room at the top in the professions
but, it takes most of life to get there
The bookkeeper and stetiograper or
operator succeeds and earns from the
start; the ladder is only half as long,
and its rounds are the solid gold of a
fine salary.
Prepare! prepare! Prepare! At the
Athens Business College of Athens,
Ga., the greatest business training
school of this section—the school that
guarantees to prepare you for the
best position and will then place you
LESSEES MEETING.
There will be a meeting of the
school land lessees of Grant county
at Medford on Saturday, Nov. 30,1907
All lessees are urged to be present.
R. H. Chism, Pres.
T. S. Paris, Sec.
—Nothing quite so good as a Buck’s
range. Lydick,
IT PAYS
TO ADVERTISE
ID TIE
NMCMSTCI JOURNAL.
The farmers find it the best way
to find buyers for the sale of horses,
cattle, hogs, or anything that they
have to dispose of.
The wide-awake merchant finds it
tne best method of letting the people
know about their goods and wares,
and the public in general has learned
that men who do not advertise are apt
to be too close in a deal to give them
a bargain.
"Blow your horn" if you want a
seat in the front row in a business way.
Read the Journal ads every week
and patronize the man who thinks
enough of your patronage to ask you
for it.
STHE JOURNAL IS
it EvariMT.
THE MANCHESTER JOURNAL.
FRIDAY, NOV. 20, 1907.
THE LOCAL MARKET.
CORRECTED icaEIi Thursday morning
Fat hogs, per cwt.............................13.50
Wheat, per bu.No. 2........................80
Corn, per bu........................................35
Oats, per bu.........................................60
Prairie hay, per ton...........$4.00 to 5.00
Potatoes, per bu ............ $1.00
Eggs, per dozen....................................10
Country Butter, per Ik.........................15
TOWNSHIP BOARD MEETING.
Tne township board of Manchester
township will meet at the office of
tiie Badger Lumber Co. in Manches-
ter on Saturday, Dec. 7,1907, to trans-
act any and all business properly
coming before it. As this Is the first
meeting since Oklahoma become a
state, it is lioped that every claim
and all business of every nature that
originated while we were under a
territorial form of government, will
be presented atthls meetingand dis-
posed of. There is money on hand to
pay all bills and considerable left to
•tart out in good shape under state-
hood. J. O. Cromwell. Trustee.
M. Kelly, Clerk.
—Buck’s stoves are sold on 30 days
trial. Ask Lydick.
—Dr. Erdman will be in Manches-
ter to fix your teeth, Dec. 10, 11 and
12.
—Great Buck’s stove demonstra-
tion October 24 and 25 at Anthony.
Lydick.
—Save one half your fuel bill by
using a Buck’s heater.
Lydick.
Coal, $5.00 and 7.50 per ton, cash
up, at S. B. Fling's.
Dr. Erdman will be here only
three more days in 1907—Dec. 10, 11
and 12.
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—Ideal feed mills for sale at
Costa's, Anthony, Kansas.
—Master Alton Simmons went to
Attica Wednesday to spend Thanks
giving with relatives there.
-It don’t cost any money to try a
Buck's stove. Ask Lydick.
—Bat Hocking left last Friday for
a trip of several weeks to his old home
in Illinois.
—We will make you cheap prices on
sewing machines. Call and look over
our line.
Badger Lumber Co.
—All parties owing us past due
notes and accounts are requested to
call and make settlement..
Badger Lumber Co.
—We neglected to mention the
fact a week or so ago that Tommy
Patterson had purchased the barber
sliop in Manchester.
—If you are in the market for
buggy or a surrey, call and get our
cash prices.
Badger Lumbr co.
—Strayed, a white brood sow, very
thin in flesh. Phone E. B. JJBoyers
Manchester, as to her whereabouts,
or call at Smith's store.
—Strayed, about two weeks age
from W. C. Bonine’s, a h en peafowl
Tail feathers gone. Notify him by
phone or letter at Manchester.
—Guy Cromwell bought a bunch of
26 head of mixed cattle first of the
week from Pete Wood. This is a bad
time to sell stock, but Pete wanted to
get rid of them, and he did.
—Call up Dr. Erdman at W akita
by Phone No. 62 and make an ap-
pointment to have your teeth fixed
before the holidays. Will be in Man-
chester Dec. 10th, 11th and 12th.
—L. G. Heck, the hustling agent
for the Rock Island Lumber Co. has
been spending much of his time of
late out collecting. The business
man finds it an easy matter to get
accounts scattered all over the coun-
try, but rounding them up and col-
lecting them in is a task that most of
them dislike to go up against.
—C. F. Brattain informed us this
week that alfalfa hav is plentiful at
Pond Creek and Jeffeason, and is sold
on the streets there at $5 per ton.
This is certainly cheap for nice bright
alfalfa, delivered in a man’s barn.
Its real feeding value for horses and
milch cows, compared with the pres-
ent prices of grain and mill feed, is
fully worth three times that much.
—E. A. Vardy bought, the Burlin
game billiard hall and lunch counter
in Manchester and took charge of the
business last Monday. Ed is an in;
dustrious young man who has made
money farming for several years, and
we are glad to see him identify him-
self with the business interests of
Manchester. See his advertisement
in another column and call on him
gV when you come to town. Hislnter-
! Mon is to run a nice r spectable place
forone arid all. Mr. Burlingame, we
J are told will move away.
GANDERBONE’S FORECAST.
December of the drifting snow.
And yule-log blazing bright:
December, when the cold winds blow
Across the fields of white;
When winter’s ring is In the ground
And the nights are clear and still,
And tiie boys go belly-buster down
The slick and shiny hill.
December of the Christmas tree
And childhood’s brightest dream;
December of the ecstasy
Of hallowed Christmas e’en;
When the last sweet lullaby is sung
And children’s whispers cease,
And the wee sweet stocklugs all are
strung
Along the mantel-piece.
December of the drum and horn
And bundles slyly hid;
December of the one great morn
Of mornings for a kid;
When the chimes of sweet and mellow
bells
Are welcoming the dawn,
And thohouse rocks with merry yells
Of kids with nighties on.
December was the ninth month in tiie
old Roman calendar, and Its name is
from decern (ten); When Julius Caesr
became Big Slick of tiie empire, tiie
mouth contained but twenty-nine days
He added two more-one to make
ready for Christmas, and another to
recover from it. Christmas giftsorlgi-
nated with the Greeks. Hence the
saying, “Beware of the Greeks bear-
ing gifts.” Santa Claus was invented
by the toy manufacturers of Neurem-
burg, Germany, where the Teddy
Bears come from.
The motto for this month will be,
“Shut tiie door!” Mr Roosevelt and
Mr. Bryan will be tiie leading presi-
dential candidates, and prohibition
will continue the burning issue. Tiie
liquor interests will build walls
around Peoria, 111., St. Louis, Louis-
ville and Millwaukee, and their war
balloon will make daily observations
of the movements of Mrs. Nation.
The Anti Saloon League has con-
sented to tiie winter solstice of this
year begin at 7 p. m. on the 22d: but
there must be no drinking, and
every one must be in by curfew. Tiie
21st will be the shortest day in the
year. This will be ou Saturday, and
if you are at church next day and stay
for tiie sermon, you will notice that
the 22d is much longer.
The moon will be full on the 19th,
and tiie sign of the zodiac for the
month will be Capricornus the Goat
This will make butter go up, and send
kids to Sunday school.
The old mill pond will freeze again,
And every one will skate;
The mollycoddle modest swain,
Will thither go witii Kate.
She’ll slip in such a way that she
Will see a brilliant star,
And he will deeply blush to see
How long her stockings are.
Tiie money scare will quiet down
unhappy circumstance—and money
will frequent tiie pockets of our pants.
The new gold coins they’re making
new without “In God We Trust,”
will turn up in the hat at church as
prized as any dust. The scrip we
have will be retired, and real dough
will look good, but the old subscriber
will insiston paying up with wood.
On the 2d, Speaker Cannon will
assemble at Washington, where he
will re-elect himself and resume the
enactment of law in tiie presence of
of the Democratic minority and other
onlookers. The final edition of the
President’s message will be read, Wall
street will bo given another physic;
and it will be officially declared that
this country cannot exist half capital
and half water.
Mr. Fairbank will take refuge in the
dignity of the Senate from his cock-
tail persecutors, and several new mem-
bers will be taken into that exclusive
club of multi-millionaires. Congress
assembled will take up great public
questions like the need for a new fed-
eral building at Podunk and Coyote
Center; the growing demand for a
more elastic currency, and why- no
body will stay in tiie army at the
generous inducement of $13 a month
and found—dead in the Philippines.
Persons born under the sign of Cap-
ricornus tiie Goat are great orators,
thinkers and teachers: self-conscious
and not meddlesome: good story tellers
eat. too much, are distrustful, and can
keep a secret (If males). They are
selfish, and never get the hot end of
it In exchange of Christmas gifts.
They continue to hang up their
stocking when it is a hardship upon
others to fill them. Girls born in
Capricornus are hard to win, generally-
preferring the parrot to the stork.
The want-wolf’s wail will ride the
blast
Where poverty prevails;
A few late laggard geese will pass
With winter on their tails.
Theslelgh will Jingle up the road,
the lines around tiie whip, and George
and Nellie, in the robes, will love’s
own honey sip. The sleigh will hit a
10 foot bank, and they’ll go rolling
down, with Nellie's foot In George’s
face—and walk six miles to town.
The new rules for farmers promul-
gated by the farmhands' Onion will
go Into effect on the 1st, viz: Farmers
will provide automobiles for all help,
and will serve as chauffeurs; they will
eat at the second table, and sleep In
the hayloft; they will rise at 4, do the
chores and serve breakfast to the
hands In bed at 9; they will provide a
phonograph and the current maga-
zines; hands will supervise the farm
work from 11 to 12, and from 2 till 3;
the earnings of the farm will be
placed in a bucket every Saturday
and poured tltrough a ladder placed
horizontally, with tiie ends on two
chairs; what goes through, the hands
will get—and what sticks to tiie rungs
goes to tiie farmer.
Santa Claus will make tiie usual
rounds on tiie night of the 24th. Men
will get cigars, neckwear and mus-
tache cups. Ladles will get tiie
money—which they would mucli
rather have. Children will get the
stomach ache and its complications.
And then comes January ill
To plague us with some ancient bill
As only January can
Disturb tiie happiness of man.
Then Leap Year dread shall come
again witii Nineteen Hundred Eight;
when womankind of growing years
and single up to date, will hit tiie
bachelor's plain trail—the unpro-
posing wretch—and make that worthy
for awhile exceeding hard to ketch.
For a Christmas Present, noth-
ing nicer than Dominocards:the great
combination game set, domino shape,
with card colors: Play ca.d3, dominoes
new games “Show-me” and “Big
Stick.” Parents fascinated; children
delighted. 56 parts in attractive box
postpaid, 50c. Boys and girls make
Xmas money as agents. Don’t delay
Wiite today. Dominocards Co., 1807
Chouteau, St. Louis, Mo.
— Dr. Erdman will make one more
visit to Manchester before taking bis
usual holiday vacation—Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 10, 11
and 12.
—See II. W. Reneau for farm loans.
Excur-
sions
Jamestown Exposition, on sale daily
to Nov. 30th season tickets direct
lines $53.60. 60 day to direct lir.es
$48.15. 15 day to direct lines 38.15
A pply for rates Via New York or
Boston.
If you contemplate taking anyof
tiie above rates kindly let us know
your intentions and routes disired in
time that we may get tickets here as
they are not kept in stock.
TIME TABLE.
NORTH
530 Way Freight.......................... 7:45 a. m
508 Passenger................._........... 4:38 p. m
SOUTH
31 Way Freight....................... 2:30 p.m.
07 Passenger ................................ 1M:3S p. m
H. W. REED, Agent.
City Dray Line
H. P. WHITE, Proprietor.
Will <lo your draylng promptly
Phone calls given prompt attention
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R. S. EMERY
Contractor
and
Builder,
First-Class Carpenter Work In all
Its Branches.
lioare orders at the Rock Island
Lumber Yard, or call at W. Van Bus-
klrk's. 5 miles southwest of Munches
ter.
w. II. SMEDLEY, "»KSS.“ jj
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Office over CltUten Slate Hank. Ree-
i Iilence. one Mock south. Telephone
at office and residence.
MANCHESTER. OKLAHOMA
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 15, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, November 29, 1907, newspaper, November 29, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496609/m1/4/: accessed April 19, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.