The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 13, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1905 Page: 1 of 8
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MANCHESTER, CHANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TER., FRIDAY, JUNE 30,1905.
Volume 13, Number 4.
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| WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 19051
1 AT MANCHESTER, OKLAHOMA V
Two standard bred and registered
Trotting Stallions, one Registered
French Coach Stallion and one Regis-
tered Percheron Stallion. Also three
splendid Jacks and three extra large
and fine Jennets. Will also sell work
horses, a few cattle and hogs, farming
implements, wagons, harness, etc. etc.
Terms made known on day of sale.
Sale commences at 10 a. m„
This will be the big-gest sale of the
season. Remember date and place.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1905
AT MANCHESTER, OKLAHOMA.
C. R. LELAND.
0 Slaughter & Tuttle, Auctioneers.
X H. W. Reneau, Clerk.
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BETTER THAN EXPECTED,
Wheat is threshing out mrfijh better
than expected and the ( jiallty is
beyond comparison, almclt, with
former years. The tirst job threshed
was a little field of ten or twelve
acres of bound grain on the farm of
C. R. Leland cornering Manchester on
the southwest. Will Stone’s machine
pulled into this Held last Saturday
afternoon and did a nice, clean job of
work.
The general impression seemed to
prevail that this field would yield
about 15 bushels per acre, being bet-
ter than the average lield in the
country. But to the surprise of all
the yield was 239 bushels and 10 pounds
weighed over the scales, and the test
was strong 02 pounds per bushel. The
wheat was well cleaned, but a strong
wind was blowing and many pieces of
straw and beards were blown into
the wagon, reducing the test, which
would underother circumstances have
reached 03 to 04 pounds. The wheat
was sold direct from the machine to
G. T. Price, agent for the Blackwell
Mill and Elevator Co., at 80 cents per
bushel. The berry is highly colored,
uniform and as fine as can be.
The yield was about one-fourtli more
than counted on, and if the yield over
this part of the country turns out as
this one did there will be many happy
surprises among the farmers and the
wheat crop of 1905 will be classed
among the many good paying crops
that have been harvested in Okla-
homa.
Mr. Leland has about 150 acres
more wheat headed and stacked which
is not ready to thresh, but it is not as
J good as the field mentioned above.
There are other fields of wheat in the
country that promise a much better
yield than the one threshed last Sat-
urday, and the Journal fully expects
to be able to report a few yields up to
25 bushels per acre or better. There
are no flies on Oklahoma, and especi-
ally Grant county.
I DON’T FORGET TO
I SEE DR. ERDMAN
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I The FIRST WEEK in JULY. This will X
4. be his last visit to Manchester until the Z
4 first week in September. Will be in his X
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STILL OWN THEM.
In conversation witli Trustee Crom-
well the other day he informed us
that in assessing Manchester township
he was surprised to find so many old
horses among i.he farmers, a great
many still owning animals that they
brought with them to this country at
the opening nearly twelve years ago.
Many a farmer still owns the favorite
nag which he rode into this country
to take a claim, and in nine cases out
of ten he will remain the owner as
long as that nag lives. Somehow
people do not like to part-with the
animal that assisted in securing them
a home in the Cherokee strip.
OBITUARY.
Died, at the family residence two
miles south of Hawley,Thursday,June
22, at 5 p. m., Albert Widick. Funeral
was preached at the family home by
Rev. McQuerry of Hawley. He left a
wife, five sons and a daughter. He
was born in Macon county, 111., moved
to Sumner county, Kan. in an early
day, came to the strip at the opening
and has since resided here. He united
with the Baptist church when young;
was well liked by all who knew him.
He was honest and upright with his
fellow men,a kind husband and father
and a good citizen. A Friend.
CELEBRATE ire FOURTH
AT THE MANCHESTER PLEASURE RESORT.
Three miles south and one mile west of Manchester and
four miles west of Gibbon.
Trapeze performances by experts, cable walking, foot
races, etc Boat riding- free in the forenoon.
Refreshment stand on ground. Plenty of shade Watch
for program later, as other features are being arranged.
Everybody come out and have the time of your life.
STILL IN THE RING.
The Journal was bitten last week by
Pete’s wet ant,but is still in the ring.
Bites of this character, are not half so
harmful as the bite from the larger
type of ant so well known in this
country as the “big red ant.” The
little wet ant in question merely sug-
gested what he might do if his sting-
er were long enough, by calling liar,
fool, idiot, and such other names as
cheap screw swellheads and little kids
indulge in. So we shall not quarrel
with him about that.
The wet ant denies having printed
dead ads to fill space in his Diary of
Jones’ Doings, but we know better
and we know also that one of them
was dropped out of that paper last
week. So the urgent request from the
Old Reliable to“cut out the dead ads”
appears to be bearing fruit.
Our challenge to discuss in a friend-
ly manner the statement made in the
“Diary” that “it is true the mail-or-
der houses sell a little cheaper than
the home merchant,” was answered
in grapevine language, the meaning
of which could not be made out, so we
must again check the question up to
the amateurs for an answer. The
mere statement that you “slopped
over” in that item will suffice the
Journal; but we certainly are entitled
to some sort of answer.
And then ttie little wet ant boasts
loug and loud about his ability to
print. He had more than a year's
careful training under the Old Reli-
able, and we would regret to have it
said that lie made no progress while
working under our direct supervision.
Wonder if he will acknowledge that
about all he knows about the printing
business outside of setting straight
matter was learned in this office?
As to the “war” that is likely to
come in Medford in the newspaper
business, the wet ant says, “We are
ready for war; let it come.” No doubt
about that. You got ready for war
once before, and how you did hike was
a caution! If you make a similar
showing to the one you passed through
at Manchester, the Old Reliable will
s^ud a special representative to play a
gau*e of checkers on your shirt tail as
you pass out Of the country. But when
we stop to think of it, if Pete were to
lay down on the finances, with a high
collar and a dime in your pocket,
wouldn’t you cut a swell in a news-
paper war! But we’d hate to see Pete
do anything of the kind. He was a
w illing victim when you assisted in
working him into the field to run the
Journal out of house and home, and it
would be very unkind in him at this
late day to leave you sitting out on
tiie prairie in a partly nude condition.
Pete had our consent to give up his
Waldron adventure, his Manchester
adventure, and even to Try-County
dear thing) but we’ll never consent
to his forsaking the “kid.”
As to the business men of Manches-
ter, of whom the wet ant speaks, the
Journal feels as though it is a first
cousin to every business man of any
importance in town. It likes them
because they sell cheaper than the
mail order houses; because they ap-
preciate a newspaper in preference to
a neighborhood news letter; because
they deal fairly and honestly with the
people and do not strut and crow and
aim to deceive; because they are large-
hearted and would rather give a
crumb to a hungry pup of the wet ant
pattern than see him sneak off with
his tail dragging in the dust: because
we have known ttiese business men—
each and every one of them—from the
day they first set foot on Manchester
soil, and many of them before that
date. We met some of them on the
field of battle in town building, and
while every inch of ground was fought
for by the Journal and many uncom-
plimentary tilings were said, when
the war was over we buried the
hatchet and no amount of backbiting
and picking at old sores by ants or
human beings can resurrect it. We
know two individuals who tried mak-
ing friends by digging up old sores
once upon a time in Manctiester, and
it lost them friends here, there and
everywhere, and they had to make a
shirt tail get-away. Ants and flies
gnaw at old sores, so it is no sur-
prise to us that you are in that kind
of business.
TO DESTROY WEB-WORMS.
A Guthrie dispatch of the 26th says
that various methods are being sug-
gested for the extermination of web-
worms, which are destroying many
fields of cotton and alfalfa in Okla-
homa. The alfalfa may be cut and
the depredations of the worms stopped
in that way as far as alfalfa is con-
cerned. Territorial Oil Inspector F.
A. Ashton, who has had long expert
ence as a farmer, says the destructive
ness of these worms may be minim
ized, if not prevented altogether, by
thfe use of lighted torches.
“The web worms attacked myal
ialfa field several years ago,” he said,
“and I resorted to the use of lighted
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CLOSED ON THE FOURTH.
We are requested to announce that
the store of E. L. Smith & Co. in
Manctiester will be closed all day on
the Fourth of July, and that all per-
sons desiring to make purchases for
that day should do so the evening or
day before. The object in closing is
to give the ent ire store force a vaca-
tion, as well as toobserveour Nation's
birthday.
torches in the field. The adult insect
is a moth which flies by night. A
lighted lamp or torch placed in the
field naturally attracts these moths.
I used a lamp similar to those used by
the flambeau clubs. The torch should
have a socket so that it can be fitted
on a stock or staff and set upright in
tiie field, a little above the level of
the growing crop. The moths are
attracted by the light and fly directly
into it, with the result that they fall,
singed, to the ground. Three or four
such torches should be sufficient to
destroy all the moths on a thirty-five
acre field. I have also prevented tne
depredations of the worms on fields of
growing corn,the torches being placed
much higher, so they would attract
the moths from all parts of the field.”
Secretary Thoburn lias expressed
much interest in experiments of this
nature and believes this one in partic-
ular worthy of trial. Several years
ago this experiment was tried for de-
stroying the codlin moth in apple or-
chards. Several experiment stations
investigated and reported that the
codlin moth was not nocturnal in its
habits, and moreover there were more
insects killed which preyed upon in-
jurious insects than any other.
GOT SOAKED.
A man living northeast of Carmen
came to town Monday and tried to
exchange a pair of shoes he had pur-
chased of Montgomery Ward 8c Co.
and he could not find a store, in tnwn
that would exchange: they told film
to send them back to Chicago. At
last he asked a business man to show
him a shoe of about the same grade
that he would buy a pair and sell the
others to a neighbor. The business
man sold him a shoe equally as good
if not better for 45 cts. cheaper.
This is another lesson, when you
buy goods of a home merchant he will
exchange with you and if they are
not as represented he will refund
your money.
This man that got soaked was not
a reader of the News, and couldn’t
afford it, buys goods of Montgomery
Ward & Co., and reads Comfort, pub-
lished at Augusta, Me., but he is
always peddling his produce among
the people he refuses to patronize.—
Carmen News.
TELL THE JOURNAL.
If you have a suggest ion on improved
farming that you have tried and know
of your own experience to be benefi-
cial in the growing of any kind of crop
in Oklahoma, tell the Journal about
it and let the Journal tell the public.
It is the best and the most improved
methods of farming that tiie farmers
of this country are after, and the pur-
pose of the Journal is to assist as far
as possible in helping them get it.
It is not always the wisest man that
has a good suggest ion to offer, and we
should not forget that useful knowl-
edge is sometimes gained where it is
least expected.
A capital suggestion at this time,
we think, would be to mow tiie weeds
around the fences before they go to
seed—and more especially so if the
weeds are sunflowers.
STACKING BUNDLE GRAIN.
In conversation with J. W. Burlin-
game the other day, he told us that
there was only one right way to stack
bundle grain. His method is to begin
tiie stack as you would commence to
set up a shock of wheat, and after the
butt of the stack is built two layers
high he turns his sheaves with tiie
butt in, on all but the outside layer.
He says by this means there is no
trouble whatever about keeping the
middle full and that with the heav-
iest rain that falls the stack will not
wet four inches deep. He says he has
stacked many a stack of grain in this
way and that they will keep for
months without damaging it the least.
THRESHERMKN, ATTENTION.
A big lot of the very best threshing
coal has just been received by the
Miller Grain Co. at Manchester, and
we are prepared to fill all orders.
Don't fail to see our coal.
E. G. Hall, Agent.
WANT PROHIBITION.
There was a lady around Monday
securing signers to a petition praying
the Congress of the United States to
admit Oklahoma to statehood as a
prohibition state. We did not see the
petition, but inasmuch as it asks for
a prohibitory law for one state only.it
is not what it should be, and for that
reason the Journal prefers that the
clause be left out of the enabling act
when Oklahoma is admitted as a state.
If the prohibitionists of Oklahoma
want to do something that will put a
stop to the sale of intoxicants, let
them get up a petition to the Congress
of the United States asking for
an amendment to the constitution
whereby it will be unlawful to manu-
facture or offer for sale, or import In-
to the United States intoxicants for
any purpose other than medicinal and
scientific purposes. If a law of that
kind were enacted it would be just
alike to one and all and would be ef-
fective beyond question; but local
state prohibition has proven a source
of annoyance, litigation and expense,
and is inoperative in all the larger
towns and cities throughout the coun-
try where it has been tried, as well as
in most smaller places. It would be
the means of draining the country of
thousands of dollars annually, and at
the same time lessen the consumption
of intoxicants to a very small extent.
Local state prohibition breeds law-
lessness, but with a U. S. prohibitory
law no state would rob another and
the law would be effective to the letter.
The Journal would suggest to its
prohibition friends that they drop the
petition for a state law and go to work
in a way that will amount to some-
thing in the end. This paper is ready
at any time to sign a petition and to
work for a law that will be effective
throughout the United States, but we
believe it time wasted to ask for any-
thing less than that.
MARKET LETTER.
Special to the Journal.
Kansas City, Mo., Monday, June 26.
The cattle market turned out con-
siderably better last week than it pro-
first two days. After the
k jk Tuesday, 15 to 30 cents on
t*ie run dropped down and
atx)Sn\ve* tlie loss was recovered.
Howe ^3 three weeks have passed
since tnw Steady decline on beef steers
set in, and prices are 40 to 60 cents
lower in that time, and $1 to 1.50 be-
low best time, in April. It is report-
ed from the country that a good many
feeders have taken their cattle off of
corn and put them on pasture, pre-
ferring to take chances later than to
accept tiie loss present prices would
mean.
The outlook today is better for the
cattle market this week than it has
been at the beginning of any week in
the past month. Only 8,000 cattle are
here, and not a very large share of
them beef steers, and Chicago has a
small Monday run. Prices today are
10 to 15 cents above the closYof last
week, and about like last j" \jday.
Unless the promising market oi Vlay
draws in an extra heavy run to \>r-
row and Wednesday the market she
hold good the balance of this we.
Best beef steers in the last week so
at 5.i0, but the bulk of steers brough
4.50 to 5.25. Cows and heifers haven’t
changed much in a week, 2.75 to 4.75,
bulls lower,2.25 to $4, veal calves were
lower first of week but have recovered,
at 4.75 to 5.50. Feeders are some low-
er, stockers about steady, at 2.75 to
4.35, stock calves mostly under $4.
The hog market declined rapidly
first of last week, but when receipts
grew smaller, after Wednesday, the
market began to improve, and has
kept It up, including today. Market
is 5 to 10 higher today, top 5.45, sev-
eral loads at 5.42*, bulk of sales 5.35 to
5.42*. Weights below 220 lbs. sell the
highest. Receipts at the five Western
markets were more than 25 per cent
greater last week than same week last
year, yet there is a place for all of
them and the packers appear eager
for all that come.
J. A. Rickabt,
Live Stock Correspondent.
THE TOGO HOUSE.
Messrs. Kramer Sc Hodson, the new
proprietors of the Manchester House,
request us to announce that they have
cleaned, renovated and painted the
interior of the house and otherwise
added to its appearance and conven-
ience of those who patronize it. The
hotel name has been changed to the
Togo House, in honor of Chief Admiral
Togo of the Japanese navy, who led
his fleet to one of the greatest naval
battles in the history of the world.
The hotel under the new manage-
ment is giving the very best of satis-
faction and the Journal bespeaks for
it a fine business.
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 13, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, June 30, 1905, newspaper, June 30, 1905; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc496972/m1/1/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.