The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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THE BACON HOG.
E. M. Moon, living north of Wakita
on Crooked Creek, was In town Mon-
duy for the first time in several years.
He called at the Journal office to set
his subscription ahead, and when the
conversltlon drifted to hogs and
alfalfa, he told us that he had gone
into the bacon hog business and is
growing the Tam worth breed.
• A great many people never saw a
Tamworth hog, which at first sight
resemble the Arkansaw “hazel-
splitter,” except that their legs are
longer and they are larger in every
way. They are a red hog and run
considerable to ears and snout, the
former being very long and straight
and pointing back at the tips, while
the latter looks to be about once-and-
a-half longer than a fellow would
imagine. We saw these hogs on
exhibition at the state fair at Hutch-
inson last fall, and were anythiug but
carried away with them.
But Mr. Moon says they are the
fastest growing hog he has ever
tried, and he used to breed the very
best registered Poland China. We
have his word for it that these hogs
will actually eat straw, and he says a
small amount of corn seems to satisfy
them, their nature being to live more
on some kind of roughness. He says
when he first started to raise these
hogs he was almost ashamed to have
his neighbors look at them, but that
since he has gotten used to seeing
them every day thelr“hazel-splitting”
appearance has worn off and he takes
his visitors out to look at them with
as much pride as though they were
the choicest of the other popular
breeds. Their meat contains more
lean than the ordinary hog, which
makes if much more preferable for
bacon use.
If these- hogs are such lovers of
roughness as Mr. Moon claims them
to be—and we certainly have no
reason to doubt his word—they would
prove a very profitable hog to the
man who has plenty of alfalfa, cane,
kafir and other forage crops to run
them on.
It would be well worth a man's
while to go several miles to see Mr.
Moon’s Tamworths-not that he would
see something to please him, but
through curiosity.
PUBLIC SALE.
Don’t forget H. O. Poison’s public
sale of farm implements, machinery,
stock, harness, etc., beginning at 10
o’clock a. ra. on Wednesday, Feb. 20,
1007, at the farm 31 miles south and
1 mile westof Waldron. Free lunch
at noon.
A NEW STORE.
This issue of the Journal contains a
page advertisement foi^the new store
of Clyde Harris, whicn will make its
grand opening in the Simmons build-
ing on the corner south of this office
on Saturday, Feb. hi. Mr. Harris
hails from Conway Springs, Kansas,
andIhmh. appearance up-tol
Tha sLk“ f“ 0^8° "tore "and is be-1 Jhanee™™ re^1 weed'd not “ml *
fM ThTSC “b"' “ 1l’““lbl! anything on account of the dr?
this advertisement. * ™ «> fatten
the hogs and winter was on us. And
to make maters worse your ma was
What a Reno County Farmer Has to
Say About Them.
From the Hutchinson Times.
“ What is that you have there, my
daughter?” said a Reno county farmer
as he came Into the comfortable kitch-
en. “It looks to me like a catalogue
from one of those Chicago mailorder
houses. I have had no use for them
for a good many years. “Let me see,”
continued the farmer, reminiscently,
“your ma and me came here in 1880.
We had a little money and if we
wanted anything we sent to an order
house for it as we thought we could
POOREST IN THE U. S.
The investigation made by the
interstate commerce commission into
railroad rates in Oklanoma reveals
the fact that rates are higher and the
service poorer than in any state in
the Union.
In an interview with Judge C. A.
Prouty, member of the commission,
which was printed in the Oklahoman,
J udge Prouty said:
“What the outcome of the cases
tried before me this week will be is a
matter of uncertainty until all cases
of a like nature that pertain to rates
in this section of the country are
heard. I will hold a session at
Wichita next week and possibly one
in Texas before all the evidence is
weighed by the associates and myself.
The commission is of the opinion that
the question of grain rates, especially,
is too important to decide until
exhaustive evidence on bbth sides is
heard.
“In my mind the grain rate ques-
tion is not the only one in Oklahoma
that needs investigation. I believe
the present scale of prices charged at
the coal mines is wholly without
reason and with the interstate com-
mission’s approval I intend to inves-
tigate the situation at South Mc-
Alester.
‘That a car shortage existed in
Oklahoma was known to me before
the hearing, as I have had a man in-
vestigating the situation for some
time and 1 can safely say that the
people of Oklahoma are subjected to
the highest freight rates and receive
the poorest service of any section of
the country unless it is in the north-
west.” * _
DUG THEM UP.
Two weeks ago the Pond Creek
X idette buried one of our county
officers, Cap, Wharry, the county sur
veyor, and last week the same paper
dug him up again and set him on his
"pins” once more. We have not
heard from the Captain as to how he
fared during the week that the
Vidette had him dead and buried
Guess Bro. Reynolds got his
“wires” crossed when he made such a
miserable mess of slush about that
contract between the board of county
commissioners and the local bank at
Pond Creek, and hadn't got them
straightened out yet when he re-
ported our county surveyor dead.
There was a man by the name of
Wharry who died at Jefferson,
though, about tliat time.
A FINE YIELD. ------------- _ /wut wa
S. C. Clark, living five miles north- taken down with typhoid fever. *
east of town, informed us Tuesday can tell you I was blue. No money to
that he threshed 20 acres of kafir buy medicine, no coal and nothing
corn which yielded 53 bushels per scarcely to eat in the house. What
bUSM1S the 20 aCreS' r° d° 1 did DOt kD0W' 1 had bought
That, he said, “beats growing nothing in Hutchinson, consequently
wheat all to pieces.” And it surely knew nobody well enough to ask for
does. It costs only about one-half as credit. But something had to be
much to grow a crop of kafir as it done, and that quickly. I hitched up
oes to grow wheat, and where the the team, got a neighbor girl to stay
best of it comes in the farmer can do with ma and went to town. The first
a 1 his own work, if it suits him to do place I went was to the drug store.
Lnd th^wh .!? mUHCh. ha,rder on 1 told the dru8Kkt the circumstances
land than wheat, and should never be and asked him if he would give me
followed the second year with the credit for a little medicine.” "Of
same crop.__ course 1 will,” was the reply. “You
PRISON TWINE CHEAPER. can have anything you want and pay
According to dispatches the board me as soon as you can.” Continuing
of directors of the Kansas penitent!- bhe old gentleman said: "From the
ary met at Topeka and fixed the price dru£ store I went to the coal yard
of prison binding twine at eight and where without a word the dealer
one-half cents a pound for orders of trusted me for a ton of coal and told
5,000 pounds and more and nine cents me to come back when I needed more,
a pound for orders for less than this The next place was the grocery store,
amount. This price is a quarter of a Here I had the same kind treatment
cent lower than last year when it and town a happy man with
was eight and three-quarter cents for everything I needed. After your ma
big orders and nine and one-quarter well she and I talked the matter
cents for small orders. This price is a over aQd resolved never to patronize a
cent and a half lower than the trust “ail order house again, and we have
price for twine and means a big sav- kePt that resolution. When we want
ing to the farmers of Kansas and anything we go to town and buy it, no
Oklahoma, who use nearly all the matter if it does cost a little more
twine manufactured at the Kansas than some mail order house would
penitentiary plant. sell the same article for. Patronize
The twine plant is now running borne merchants when you have
with all the machihery, old and new, money aud you won’t be ashambed if
in operation. February l there was ?°u £®t a little close run to ask them
1,575,999 pounds of manufactured to credit you."
twine ia the storehouses and it is The above is no fancy sketch
estimated that two million pounds written to “fill up.” The occurrence
more can be manufactured before the was narrated to the reporter by the
harvest season closes next summer. daughter herself. The moral is this:
MARKET LETTER. When you want any thing buy it at
special to the Journal. home. It may cost a trifle more, but
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 11,1907. the money will be kept at home. If
There is more argument between ^ou wanted credit a mail order would
salesmen and buyers today regarding not accommodate you. It is cash in
cattle prices than any day for several advance with them. But the home
weeks The run is moderate at 11,000 merchant will and that is the differ-
head, but elements of weakness are a ence.
heavy run at Chicago with weakness FOLK denounces mail order idea.
there, and the fact that Lent will Addressing a meeting of retail mer-
soon begin, with its usual percentage chants at Jefferson City recently Gov-
of abstainers from meats. Salesmen ornor Folk mode some pertinent re-
asked about steady prices, but buyers marks which are as applicable to Kan-
stood out for concessions averaging sas as they are to Missouri. He spoke
10 cents on beef steers, and finals as follows:
sales were consummated between these “ We are proud of our splendid cities
extremes. Cows and heifers sold and we want to increase in wealth and
steady, as they are scarce, and have population,and we also want ourcoun-
been for some weeks past, while the trZ towns to grow. We wish the city
demand for light weight cuts of meat merchants to build up, but we also de-
is strongest at this season, and above sire the country merchants to prosper,
the supply, as it has been each year at Ido n°t believe in the mail order citi-
this season for nearly a decade. Top zen- H a place is good enough for a
steers in the last week sold at $6 50, man to live in and make his money in
with a few sales at $5.90 to 6.35, and it is good enough for him to spend his
bulk of sales are at 4.75 to 5.75. Noth- money in.
ing extra good is here today, and “ No merchant can succeed without
there is no high top to the market, advertising. Patronize your home pa-
Thereisagood shipping demand for Pers. They are the best medium in
good fat cows at $3,75 to 4.75, and which to tell the people what you have
heifers at about the same price, with s®!! °r what you want to buy.
choice light heifers up to 5 25. Build them up and they will build the
Canners and the next grade above | town up in increased trade and
01 the Buiineii Firm* of Manehsitsr and Near-B,
T«*B*. Who Aik lor Your Patronag ia Thii
Paper Through Oiiplap Adi ol Two Inchei
Bpoeo or 0«ar. Read Their Adi and
Patronize Thom when in Need of
Anything In Their Lino:
MANCHESTER.
E. L. Smith A Oo., general merchandlie.
Badger Lumber Co.. lumber and hardware
—T. W. Peter, agent.
S. B. Fling, hardware, Implement!,harnens.
Citizen* State Bank, general banking
business.
Star Restaurant-Miss Sadie Singleton and
Mrs. Weiss, proprietors.
BurchflelA Warnock. live stock dealers.
J. W. Smith, law loans, real estate.
Rock Island Lumber Oo.Jumber and hard-
waro—Luther Flock, agent.
Slaughter & Tuttle, Auctioneers.
Manchester Hotel, Mrs. Anna Deere, Prop.
Lucas Drug Oo., W. M. Lucas, Proprietor.
Mort Canfield, Carpenter.
proprietor*6' L‘Very Bttrn> N‘ Ful*lder,
GIBBON.
Post Mercantile Oo.. general merchandise.
Badger Lumber Co., lumber and hardware
-O. A. Olasen, agent,
WAKITA.
E. M. Garrett Si Co., real estate, loans and
Insurance,
W. T. Tucker, undertaker and funeral
director.
—The revival meeting going on at
Manchester, conducted by a couple,of
gentlemen from Arkansas City, is be-
ing pretty well attended.
—Charley Ford and wife spent
several days last week visiting rela-
tives and friends at Clyde and Med-
ford.
—Arthur Severance was here from
Hutchinson over Sunday, returning
Monday evening. His niece and
nephew, little Clara Bell *nd Master
I red Severance, went home with him
for a visit.
—C. N. Post, the Gibbon merchant,
was in town Monday and made a
hello” call. Post Is one of the busi-
est fellows in the west and has a busi-
ness tact about him that would win
in any country at anything he goes at.
—A meeting of the trustees of Man-
chester was held Monday night for
the purpose of filling the vacancy in
the board caused by the resignation of
W. L. Endsley, and at which J. J.
Warnock was appointed to fill said
vacancy.
—E. M. Garrett sold his farm north
of Wakita a few days ago to Asbury
Miller for $7,000, or $47.50 per acre for
the 160 acres. The purchase by Mr.
PUBLIC SALE.
Don't forget U. O. Poison’s public
sale of farm implements, machinery,
stock, harness, etc., beginning at 10
o’clock a. m. on Wednesday, Feb. 20,
1907, at the farm 31 miles south and
1 mile west of Waldron. Free lunch
at noon.
I ...,i---.— . , yuuJiiiuBS uy air.
_ Miller gives him a half section of good
land, all in one body.
them sell at 2.25 to 3.25, bulls 3.00 to
4.25, calves a little lower than last
week, at 3.50 to 7.25. Stockers and
feeder prices hold up strong, that
class selling better today than any
other kind of cattle. Stockers at 3 40
to 4.60, feeders 4.00 to 4.80, with a few
choice heavy feeders at 5.00 to 5.25.
Old timers predict an unusual
scramble for weighty feeders during
the next two months, with higher
prices on them.
Hog runis liberal tor Monday, at
11.000 head, market 5 lower, top 7.071,
bulk of sales 6.95 to 7.05, light, hogs
6.80 to 7 00, pigs 5 75 to 6 00. Present
prices were equaled In February 1903,
t ie only February in the last fourteen
years during which hogs sold above
7.00 at this market. Supply last week
was 55,000 head, equal to the run
corresponding week last year, hut the
greater opportunities. Do not be
afraid that business is going to be
hurt by the recent exposure of wrong
doing in the commercial word.”
COMMERCIAL CLUB.
Several of the business men of Man-
chester met at the office of J. W.
Smith Monday night and proceeded to
organize what is to be known as The
Manchester Commercial Club, by
electing II. W. Reneau, president, and
G. T. Price, secretary. The purpose
of the Club is to further the business
Interests of the town in the way of
encouraging trade and business and
to look after the interests of the
town in a general commercial way, as
well as the beautifying of parks and
other matters along this line.
All business men and others who
have the interests of Manchester at
NOT TOO LATE.
It is not too late yet, if you Intend
raising a crop of corn next summer, to
give your ground a shallow winter
plowing so as to have it in fine shape
for listing in the spring.
The most successful corn growers
will all tell you that this method pays,
and pays well. The weeds do not
start so badly in the spring and the
corn is much more easily tended.
You can’t raise a crop of corn and a
crop sf weeds on the same land at one
and the same time.
NEW PHONE LINE.
A new phone line was installed this
week from Manchester in a west and
northwesterly direction. The line
statis at the farm of John Wald-
schmidt,on the old Waldron ranch,and
will accommodate the families of Mr
Waldschmidt, J. D. Davis, Chas. and
Sam Ford, John Tripp, W. H.
Bennett, F. W. Eggermann, Frank
Hendrixson, John Huntington and
L. G. Lacy.
All have secured phones but Mr
Huntington, whose mother, an elderly
lady, objects to having the “thing”
in the house. She will be reconciled
to .the later day method of doing
things one of these days, we hope,
and then John will be able to answer
to the call of the phone just like
everybody else.
This connects nearly every family
in this part of the country with the
Manchester switch-board, thus prov-
ing of great convenience to the people
of both town and country.
—John Andre and wife of Great
Bend, Kansas, son-in-law and daugh-
ter of S. Galladay, have been here on a
I visit for several days.
—Mrs. VanBuskirk returned from
Norman Tuesday, accompanied by
her daughter Clara, who is fast re-
covering from her recent sickness.
Miss Louise Emery, who was attend-
ing school there, returned with them
and will attend school at Manchester
the remainder of the term.
—Word was received here Tuesday
from Mansfield, Mo., stating that Mrs.
J. J. McMullin, mother of J.J.andJ ,
F. McMullin of Waldron and W. J.
McMullin of Anthony, had died at
that place. W. J. left Anthony Wed-
nesday to attend the funeral. We did
not learn particulars.
—Wes. Warnock requests us to say,
that A. Grasser, of near Waldron
(the Argus will please take notice)
was in Manchester recently delivering
a load of fat hogs, which were bought
by E. F. Burchfiel and J. J. Warnock.
We would not have mentioned this
but for the fact that the Argus has a
fit every time a farmer within five
miles of Manchester happens to be In
Waldron and buys a spool of thread.
—Ducks and geese have been going
north for a ween or more—an indica-
tion that we are to have but little
more cold weather. They are light-
ing in the creeks and ponds, all of
which have plenty water in them,
and some of the boys have been
feasting on duck of late.
—Henry Waldschmidt came in on
Thursday of last week from north-
western Iowa, and will spend a couple
of weeks visiting his parents who own
a fine farm out on the old Waldron
ranch near Waldron. He says it was
mighty cold when he left Iowa, the
thermometer registering 25 degrees
below zero. Two weeks in this coun-
try will make Henry want to sell out
in Iowa and come here to live.
-David Reis of Ottawa, 111., was
here over Sunday and left Monday
morning. He informed us that he
purchased a big string of fat cattle a
few days before at Clearwater, Kan-
sas, which he will ship to Chicago
wjthiQ ? f?w weeks> and gave the
editor of this paper a pressing invita-
tion to accompany him, with caboose
transportation going and the best
passenger service the Santa Fe
affords on the return trip. And we’re
going to make the trip if it is
possible for us to get away when the
time comes.
t,~°n Saturday night of this week
the people of Manchester and vicinity
will witness the Imperial male quar-
tette at the Manchester opera house
assisted by Mana Gaylord Beckwith
pianist and reader. This is the
fourth number in the lecture course
entertainments secured for our people
by the Manchester Entertainment
Club, and if you have not already se-
cured tickets you had better do so
The entertainment will be of the
highest class that makes the large
towns in the country, and you cannot
afford to miss it.
A1 Huges lost a very fine brood sow
last week, also H. F. Chaney lost a
fine cow.
Willis Dunbar and Dr. Jordan have
been entertaining the gripp for the
past few days.
An itinerant spectacle vender was
in Waldron last week raking In the
sheckles.
Mrs. Geo. Covey and children spent
the Sabbath with her brother and
frmily, Harley Van Huss ef Waldron.
Carl Brand of Anthony was down
to Waldron Friday to serve a sum-
mons on Walter Davis taken out by
Tine Sevier of this place.
A. C. Cutler aud family returned
from Jewell and Ripley county, Kansas
where they have been visiting for the
past two weeks.
Joel Davis was taken to the Wichita
Hospital last week for an operation
to cure him of an old complaint that
has troubled him for the past few
years.
Miss May Kitchen left last week fur
Basil and Coats, Kansas, to visit her
brothers who live at the above named
places. She will be gone for a month
or better.
A Mr. Anderson of Norton county,
Kansas, brother-in-law of Mrs. Joel
Davis, came to Waldron Monday to
help them load and ship a car of com
fed cattle to the market.
Once more we see the smoke of the
threshing machines in the country,
and we hope that this means more
cars, so that the farmers can sell their
last year’s cropsat a fair price,anyway.
The stork paid an evening call at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. A. W.
Lincoln 6} miles northwest of Wal-
dron Feb. 6th, leaving a fine son to
care for till he is of age. Dr. Jordan
reports mother and son doing very
nicely.
Roy Mishler and Cecil Bowen sur-
prised their friends last week by going
to Anthony and being made man and
wife, however their friends wish them
all of the happiness possible in their
future walks of life.
Last Friday being the eighth dey of
the month consequently Mr. C. A.
Hayter was thirty-one yearsofage so
Mrs. Hayter shrprised him by having
a few friends call and serving a dainty
lunch. All reporta pleasant time.
The young people gave a private
dance in Sethman’s hall Monday
night in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Boy
Mishler who were recently married.
We are told a good crowd was out and
that all had the best times of their
lives.
J. J. McMullin returned from Mans-
field, Mo., Sunday where he and his
brother J. F. went last week to see
their parents. Jim brought back
with him a fine trail hound for Mr.
Foster and Hayter.
—There are twoor three prospective
milliners figuring on putting in an ex-
clusive milliner store in Manchester
this spring, but so far none of them
have fully made up their minds.
There is room here for one good mil-
liner store, exclusive of other lines of
goods, and the lady who will start in
will probably have no competition.
Millinery doesn't mix well with cloth-
ing, dry goods and groceries, but un-
less some one starts an exclusive store
it will be necessary for the other
stores to putin gtocks of millinery.
----- iwi irai. dui me ini.eie.-tia ut .Manchester at
demand is strongest ever known here, I,ieartare requested to call at the
and everything rapidly cleaned up i Citizens State Bank abd sign up as
—». j— members of the Club.
J. A. Rick art
Live Stock Correspondent.
—Mrs. Will Long is reported quite
sick at the present time.
-G. T Price bought the J. M.
Morgan farm two miles southwest of
town, adjoining the Dave Morgan
place on the west, which Mr. Price
bought some time ago. This gives
Mr. Price a half section in a body, in
addition to 80 acres south of town
which he holds as a homestead. We
have not learned what Mr. Morgan
Intends doing, but hope to see him re-
I main somewhere in this part of the
country.
The sale of the Evart George I
farm to Wm. Brett of Rochelle, 111.
and the sale of the J. E. Severance I
farm across the road north of the
former place to Evart George, was
finished up one day last week and Mr.
George moved to his new home, ne
I has been hauling out posts and woven
I wire f°r hog fencing, and will aim to
raise more hogs in the future than in i
the past. Mr. Severance may locate
in the southern part of Oklahoma.
EVERY SATURDAY. ,
We will be at Tom Boyers place just
north of Manchester every Saturday!
from 1 till 4 o’clock with coal oil at 9!
cents and gasoline when we can get it
at 13 cents per gallon. Look for the
wagon, rain or shine.
Uncle Sam Oil Oo.
The imperials
at Manchester Opera House,
SATURDAY NIGHT,
FEBRUARY 16, ’07
You can’t afford to miss this high class
entertainment, which the management con*
siders will be one of the best of the five
engagements under contract with Manches-
ter Entertainment Club.
The Imperial Male Quartette, assisted by
Mana Gaylord Beckwith, Pianist and Reader,
will far surpass anything cf the kind ever
held in the opera house at this place.
In presenting these engagements, which
can be had in towns the size of Manchester
only under Iron clad contract, the Manches-
ter Entertainment Club has gone to great
expense, knowing that the people generally
here will appreciate and patronize their
efforts.
Admission 50 and 25 cents
Seats on sale at Lucas Drug Co.
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