The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 33, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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MANCHESTER, GRANT COINTV, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20,
Reports Of Geological Survey.
We have just received a copy of
Bulletin No. 6 of the State Geologi-
cal Survey consisting of two parts.
The first part is a report of the op-
erations of the Survey for the last
two years. The second part con-
sists of brief articles on the different
mineral resources of the State.
Since the organization of the sur-
vey several lines of work have been
attempted. Through co-operation
with the United States Geological
Survey detailed maps and reports
of portions of the oil and gas region
have been prepared and are almost
ready for publication; over 100
samples of clays have been collect-
ed from all parts of the state and
tesledin the Government labora-
tory at Pittsburg, Pa; road materi-
als of the state have been examin-
ed and tested; educational collect-
ion of rocks, fossils and minerals
have been assembled, catalogued
and sent to over 50 of the stale
schools and high schools; detailed
reports of many small ureas have
been made in responce to petitions;
a very large collection illustrating
the jnineral resources of the state
has been installed at the State Fair
at Oklahoma City; investigations of
water supply have been made for
several towns and cities.
Part II. of the Bulletin contains
brief chapters on coal, oil, natural
gas, die different building stones,
clays sand and gravel, asphalt
News From w ashington
Cash Cade, George Foster and
other prominent Republicans from
Oklahoma are in Washington now
making a fight for the marshalship
made vacant by the resignation of
John Abernathp. At this time Cade
seems to be in the lead.
In the corridors of the Capital now
can be seen familiar faces of Okla-
homans ;the following are here now:
Col. Roy V. Hoffman of Chandler,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sutton of Okla-
homa City,W.W. Hastings of Table
quah; Mr. Leonard of Anadarko,
Mr. Hollard of Anadarko; A. V,
Doak, of Ardmore; Cash Cade of
Shawnee; (jeorge Foster, of Perry;
Hill, of McAlester; Dennis Flynn of
Oklahninu City.
Congressman Carter,who recently
fell victim to Cupids arrow in Okla-
homa, has returnod to the Capitol,
bringing with him the bride. Char-
lie is busy now 'treating the boys
and receiving congratulations from
his host of friends.
Senator Gore is busy making an
effort to get his bill reported from
the committee, which he introduced
during the tariff session: providing
'or free wood pulp and print paper
To have these articles admitted
into the United States free of duty
would in a measure relieve the
newspapers of the country from the
grasp of the paper trust.
Senator Gore had the novel exper-
ience a few days ago, of being
What About Expense? look about you, and make a list of
Whenever we get any great bene- all the boys and girls who have
fit, especially in a public way, we been sent away to school. Then
must expect to have certain expens- check them up and see how many
es to meet in connection therewith, j of them ever came back to make
When we desire some improvement i their home with the old folks—the
over old things, or the installation | father and mother who had toiled
of new things, we must expect to and slaved, depriving themselves of
pay for it. Our churces are good i every luxury and of many neces-
things, but they are expensive, to a sities, that the child might have a
certain extent; still no one of us fitting education. How many of
would be willing to have that ex- j them ever came back to cheer the
pense curtailed, and do without the j hours of their parents, the hours of
churches as a result. Our schools' twilight, when the day of their life
are indispensable, but we have to
pay for them. And if we are oblig-
ed to pay for a public school, why
not get the most for our money,
and have a high school as well?
For a very little added expense,
Manchester can have a good high
school
is almost done. Look about you,
and notice how many fathers and
mothers sit by the lonely fireside,
wondering where that boy is to-
night, or how the girl is spending
the eveing.
It must not be inferred that we
think all these boys and girls go
And will it pay? Stop and fig- > wrong; we know better than that
lire. We presume that now we are
speaking to a parent, to a father
who has boys and girls to educate.
Bv the time your child is sixteen
years of age, lie or she will have
completed the course offered by the
school here. You will then, no
doubt, send them to some other
town, where they may attend a
high school. Have you figured the
cost.’ It not, then ask some man
who has sent his children awav,
and learn from him what it means
in dollars and cents.
To begin with, the money you
pay for the transportation will
Portland cement rock, glass sand I tinted into the Woodman of the Ee thin eat n^vZ^harc of t'he
road materials, lead and zinc and World in Ins office m the Senate of- .„i , . , “ . . . . , 0
several minerals of minor import- fice building. He is now a meraper i :jna cos a sc i°o at
ante. Reports on oil, gas and aJ of that lodge. homo. lben you pay tuition,
phnlt, and the mineral resource., of One entering the Senate Galleries L°n™-e°,f£
the Arbuckle Mountains are now in today will see an almost entirely r--n " " ;u l ;‘st
press and Bulletins on structural different body of men, than he «««."T
mineral, clays and road materials, would have seen four years a"o. I I v . , . "r each
are in preparation and will be issu- Through the workings of Drovidence ,,, V 1 °o ought possibly ll"d a
edsoon. Any of the Bulletins of and of the popular will, the Sen, e ? , f ' * “?.......“
the Survey will be sent free of has undergone such a remarkaWe ",U“ “ ,but the
charge as soon as they are issued change. Since adjourned last June, muchbrneVn'l^m°U "°U ' i“
upon application to the Director there has oeen six deaths, more r . u ‘ munin in looking
of the Oklahoma Geological Survey, I than has ever before been known in I having found'd" " ' ^
Norman, Oklahoma. | the same length of time. The past 8 ‘
generation of Senators are hastily
nnnnr*..oi«.r I PasisinK away, and what might be
^ I called a new generation of Senators
Some of the young people who
have left Manchester are a credit
to themselves and to the parents
who bore them, but the cold, hard
fact remains that they are away
from home. They no longer cheer
the olil home with their presence,
but substitute for this a weekly,
perhaps weakly, letter in which
they plead guilty to a strong de-
sire to come home on a visit, a de-
sire to which they would readily
yield, were it not "so dull” down
there.
And if we had a high school here,
as we should have and can have,
these same boys and girls would be
at home today, and they would be
well satisfied to be at home.
, - LilJii-u a new generation ol Senators
Opportunity comes to every man. are novv taking posse8sion of that
to perhaps every business man in |Jocjv_
Manchester opportunity came last
week. A solicitor was here from a | Unsprouted W.nler Wheat.
Here s another item of expense
that very few parents think about,
until they have sent a boy or girl
away, and the checks begin to flow
cityward. It is not a necessary ex-
pense, but it is necessary for the
father to pay the bill after the debt
has been incurred.
So long as you kept your child
at home, he was satisfied with what
big printing house in Iowa, and the A Wyoming correspondent writes:
merchants were gWen an opportun- ‘I notice in the crop reports from
lty to save from five to twenty-five Kansas that the winter wheat is. ...... ..........„
per cent on their stationery during not all .up Do they expect a crop he had in the way of worldly goods,
the year. At the same time they from this next season, if it is not tlie amusement he could find was
were given an opportunity to take sprouted now? If so, why will it a little shy, perhaps, but he put up
several hundred dollars out of the I not do to sow winter wheat any "^h it. He could buy shoes in
local bank and deposit it, to anoth- time that the ground thaws be- I Manchester that gave perfect saf-
er fe.iows credit, in an Iowa bank, tween now and spring?” isfaction; bis hats were good enough
By taking advantage of this oppo- Unsprouted winter wheat will for him, even though he bought
tunity, thej conld have saved the I probably make a very poor crop|^ieiri here. Send him away for
local printer lots of work, and could next year. Winter wheat has been bust one term> note the differ
avc done away with the necessity bred for many generations to make cnce- He comes back home a full
for bis hiring as^ many printers as a small growth in the fall, then re Merged suss., boy. This is not true
he now does. The printer is gen- rest over winter, and complete its of a^> b,lt applies to many,
eraily found where the printing is growth in the spring. \\ .nter If he is obliged to buy a pair of
eing one, so when the orders go wheat sown in the spring has been shoes while here on a visit, he will
<> owa t e prinv. .'•an go to-Iovva. found to make very poor growth look over the entire stock, finallv
le Journal office was perhaps -producing little if any seed. Meet a pair of $5 shoes, and. sneer-
e ony uainesa house in town not Judging from this, we would con- ingly tell the clerk that "they will
'I&1 C ^ . ^ie solicitor- ^llt ofiide that winter wheat which is probably do until be can get back
oui opportunity came, nonetheless, not sprouted by the time winter to the city.” And when he gete
Larfyin the week we received, sets in will produce a very small I back to tire city, he will discard
pos age prepaid, a mail order cat- crop. Ground occupied with tin- those shoes, not because thev are
alogue, which showed us where we sprouted winter wheat should be not good enough for him but it
could make a big saving on cloth- sown with spring wheat or some
ing, groceries,and shoes; in fact, all other crop next spring.—Wallaces
the necessaries of life. Within an | Farmer,
hour from the time we took that
book of opportunity from the post-
office, all that was left of it might
have been seen diffusing itself with
the wintry air. Wonder how many
of the merchants passed up their
opportunity.
-Still they call for those tine Buff
Leghorns of Mr. Kremer’s. This
week he sent three birds to a fancier
at Pittsburg. Kansas, and one to
Hartshorn, Oklahome. And he
fancy prices for them.
The lecture at the opera house
Saturday uignr was a very pleasing
affair. Mr. Plattenburg tooK as his
them-existing conditions in society,
and put the facts before the peop e in
a way that was convincing. The talk
was along lines with which the audi-
ence was in sympathy, and the lect-
urer had no difficulty In holding at-
tention.
would emburass him to have a fel-
low student learn that the shoes
New Dental Office.
Manchester is to hava a new
dental office. Dr.s McKee i!c Mich-
ael, of Anthony, have established
a branch office here, and will be
here regularly every month. Their
date this month is the week begin-
ning January 23rd.
1 his firm needs no mtroduction
to Manchester people. For the past
twenty years Dr. McKee has been
the leading dentist in Anthony,
and has many warm friends among
our people.
Dr. Micheal has been with Dr.
McKee the past two years, and has
become quite popular withAnthony
people. Prior to his coming to
Anthony Dr. Michael had ten years
experience in dental work, prac-
ticing seven years in Denver, Colo-
rado. There is no doubt the
branch office will be a good thing
for the Anthony dentists, and we
know it will be well for our people
here. Their office is in the old
postotfice building, next dour to
Patterson's barber shop.
You And The Newspaper,
This is the time of year to pay
newspaper subscriptions. Anytime
will do but this season being the
accepted time for good will toward
all men, the printer ought to have
a little better look-in than at any
other period.
An Iowa county paper puts it
this way, being desirous of getting
them going and coming: "Anyone
owing this paper is requested to
call and pay at once. Anyone not
owing the paper is requested to call
and subscribe and begin owing us
Half Way Men.
The midnight of December 31st
found as usual, eighty qer cent of our
population in one of two attitudes.
Their way of meetlDg the New Year
was seated in a cafe or kneeling in a
church.
Either way is half-way. Neither is
enough.
The attitudes are, of course, no more
than symbolic. There are plenty of
cafes that do not smell of Gehenna;
there are plenty of churches that aie
[ not redolent of righteousness. There
are many uncovered Albanys, Pitts-
burgs, Springfields. My point is simply
that the tide of social betterment is
rising; that you can’t aid it by faith
w ithout works: that you can’t hinder
it by playing Canute on the shore: ana
'-hat you have no right to stand by
and do nothing one way or the other
Now a tide. Soon an inundation.
V ou can’t stop it; but there are those
who are delaying it by strengthening
the old breakwater of graft and pri*
[ vilege: and there are those who art
ry ing to speed it by attacking that
vork of the grafters and the privileg-
ed. If you don’t want to see this
country floodad by genuine democracy
then in the church or out of it, re-
solve to work with the grafters an<
the privileged: and if you do want
genuine democracy, then, in the
church and out of it, get to work wit!
those who are tearing the break-
water down.
Ours is no world for half-way men—
or for half-way women. History ha.-
small place for its King Johns and
Richard Cromwells. It prefers even
an Attila to a Mark Antony, a Duke
nf Cumberland to a Bonny Prince
Charlie; a Napoleon to a Louis XVI.
That Roman princess who drove her
chariot over the body of him she
should have loved was scarcely a less
edifying spectacle than Cathrine d-’
Medici truckling to two factions and
1 rue to neither.
The man in power who says might
is right—no other sort ever did say
it -and who translates his faith into
ruthless practice is a man that may
be respected and can be dealt with.
The man that denies the essential
virtue of power, and in the face of
-coin and defeat fights wrong wher
ever wrong is strong—that man is a
WHOLE man. But the man that
leads a prayer-meeting and an exem-
plary family life, aud then pays low
•'ages because he can: calls poverty,
prostitution, and child-labor “neces-
sary evils:" shuts his eyes to the sight
o'slavery, and his ears to the cries
of the slaves; puts his dollar in the
collection-oox, and marks his ballot
for a corrupt politician, and a cor-
rupt platform, in a corrupt party-
such a man merey encumbers the too-
patlent earth.
The day of the Laodiceans is past.
“Because thou art lukewarm, and
neither cold nor hot,” said the voice
that spoke on the Isle of Patmos, “I
will spue out of my mouth.” There
are whole men whose mere bodies are
in shameful service; but these half-
men, these Laodicean, are the servile
> mis: they are not worth the trouble
aud expense of damnation.—Cosmo-
politan.
Volume 18, Number ll
Nm
IN HISTORY
What Some of our People were Doin?
Seventeen Years Ago.
I* rom the Manchester Journal of
January 18,1894,
—James A. Scott, J. W. Smith
and Z. G. Scott drove up to An-
thony yesterday on business.
J- W, Smith, attorney at-iaw
from Norwich, Kansas, is here vi. it-
ing. He is a brother-in-law of the
Scott boys. He will move his fami-
ly to Manchester and open a law’
office next month.
The Kingman Journal says: Abe
Slaughter was in the city Saturday.
It seems rather strange to hear Abe
speak of home outside of the
county, but as he and Joe McCi
land and VanPetten are all in the
same county in the strip, there is
no doubt that old Rome will howl
when an election takes place.
W. H. Burchfield departed this
life at 2 o’clock a. m. last Thursday
at his home about five miles west of
Manchester, aged 56 years.
Abe Slaughter came down from
Kingman county Monday.
Mrs. Wm Reid visited in Anthony
Monday and Tuesday.
Z. G. Scott returned this week
from a hunt of several days. One
buck deer was killed.
W. C. Bonine called Saturdav
and left the facts connected with
the death of his father-in-law, W.
H. Burchfield.
The third child born in Manche-
tar is a boy, son of Mr.and Mrs.
J. A. Scott, and was born Sunday
night, January 14th.
There has been called to our at-
tention the past week cases of
wanton cruelty to dumb brutes,
of which we feel called upon to
speak. Such acts show a baseness
and lowness of character that one
dislikes to believe exists in this,
a supposedly civilized country. A
person, who will deliberately torture
an animal for no other reason than
that he may feast his perverted
•fight upon its struggles and suffer-
ings. is a bully of the most debased
and despicable sort and has no
spark of true manhood in him.
Such a person, were he not su-h
an arrant coward, would commit
murder or any other brutal crime
that night appeal to his devilish
fan cv—the inclination is his but
he lacks the courage. Just who
the persons were, who committed
these acts, we have not learned,
but whoever they are, we would
call attention to the fact that there
is an ordinance in this town provid-
ing a heavy fine for all such
offences—a word to the wise is
sufficient.—Renfrew Tribune.
had been bought in Manchester. Anyone we are owing is requested
And it is the same with other to subscribe for this paper in the
things It will not be long until full amount of the debt and pay
you are told by your children that us another year in advanee cash,
it is not up-to-date to buy "store Anyone who is not ownig us and
clothes." And they will go all the "ill not do so. is requested to move
way to \\ ichita to buy a hat. simp- to North Dakota and make room
ly that their friends may see the for one who will.”
name of a Wichita dealer in that | That is humorous admonishment
hat. Many of them will leave the but in the main it is just and
hat inverted for hours, that none reasonable This paper is the one i
M . m,l> ,0 note that mark of fash- thing in which every individual in'
got “Many Anthony people are sad. and | ton. By the time the father gets the county should‘be interested
| one home at least isdraped in bta-k . through with the ta<te that the boy It L the spokesman that appeals to’1
Grandma Fox, mother of the Pox | has cultivated, and the habits he Fortune on behalf of all • and all
caulh^euiTo* ' tBr°therd haS aWay’ aDd the hH‘as .‘nXhltsand lould ‘ help
*— ““ ■ I - - - ■»» - — I Ana the „Ue »tt aU. Just ZtXSZT
—Charley Eckert has sold his farm
and moved to town. He may cut out
that bachelor business uyw, athough
we have not not iced any symptoms.
Charley came here at the opening of
the strip and has been batching on
his claim all these years. Do’t know
just what he will do in town, but will
probably get into business.
—The Grant county teachers’ assoc-
iation will meet at Pond Creek on Sat
urday, January 28th, at the Congre-
gational church. The morning ses-
j sion will open at 10 o’clock, and the
afternoon session at 1;30. A good pro
ram has been arranged.
-R. B. Metcalf and Roy White,
went over to Arkausas City Tuesday, I
on business. j
Misses Nellie Miller, Bertha Nold
and Marie Thomas, and Messers
Archie Small, Artis Saunders aud
Ross McDill drove down from Anth-
ony Sunday, and spent the day with
the Journal family.
Ml M >!«♦♦! !!♦♦♦»+j.
I J. w. IMALLORY
at Citizens State Bank, will re- |
oeive all watch and jewelry re- +
pairing left with him, and give *
prompt and careful attention. ?
All work returned to him for |
- collection charges. All work +
| guaranteed.
F. E. PIRTLE & CO.,
Jewelers and Music Dealers,
ANTHONY, KANSAS;
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