The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1911 Page: 1 of 4
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ATTENTION!
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customers for payment, but we are just now
sorely in need of money, and ask that all
parties owing us bill of more than 60 days
standing, will please call and
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ary 1, 1912, we shall be obliged to {dace
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MANCHESTER, GRANT COUNTY, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1911.
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Vofune 19, Nmher 30
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TRY A SACK OF THE
NEW PROCESS RED BALL
Tested and proved superfine. Everybody well pleased
with Red Ball Flour because it makes up easy and is the
whitest flour in the state, and we don't use bleachers.
Try a sack of “New Red Ball and
have the finest, whitest bread. It is
guaranteed by
Manchester Mill & Eiev. go. 1
Valuable Piece of Property
Sometimes when we speak of the
value of property, we have reference
to what it cost the owner to buy it,
or what he could get for it on the
open market. At other times, we
mean the property is valuable be-
cause of its earning capacity. Jt is
in this sense that we refer to the
stretch of some three hundred yards
of Santa Fe track, lying between
the depot and the coal chutes at
this place.
One would hardly think a short
stretch of track, located midway
between terminal points, andsuffer-
ing in no wise from the other
portions of the line, could have any
advantage in earning capacity, but
if you feel that way about the line
we mention, you are off a little.
Listen. •
Every man, woman or child—we
mean child of more than ten years
of age—who buys a ticket at Man-
chester for any point in Kansas or
any other state-, pays just ten cents
for the privilege of riding that three
hundred yards. If you go to An-
thony, you pay two cents a mile
for the twelve and a half miles from
the state line, and you pay ten cents
from the depot to the state line, or
thirty-five cents in all, making the
fare three cents a mile to Antnony.
If you go to Harper, you pay two
and a half cents a mile. If you go
to any other point in Kansas, you
pay two cents a mile, according to
Kansas law, but you will invariably
be charged that ten cents extra for
the three hundred yards you travel
in Oklahoma,
And that is not alL Every
patron of the Santa Fe who enters
Oklahoma from Kansas also pays
that ten cents extra. This is not
only true of people leaving and
boarding trains at Manchester, but
is like wise true of all stations along
the Blackwell—Hutchinson route
If you buy a ticket from Wakita to
Anthony, you pay three cents a
mile to Manchester, two cents a
mile from here to Anthony, or a
total of fifty-five cents, and to that
is added the little dime for the coal
chutes stretch.
Many hundreds of people use
this line every month, which makes
it a pretty nice pick-up for the
Santa Fe.
But that still is not all. We are
advised that the freight rate on all
commodities is boosted five cents
per hundred weight for that same
three hundred yards. We do not
make this a positive statement, as
we do not know for a certainty that
such is the case, although we have
it from a man who is a heavy ship-
per, and also truthful. If this is
true, the Santa Fe reaps a harvest
of nickels from the shippers to put
in with the pile of dimes stolen from
the travelers.
Ten cents is not very much to
kick about, and five cents is even
less, but fifteen cents is more, and
by the end of the year we will all
have contributed quite some to the
Santa Fe, which they in turn will
probably contribute to somebody
else—not yet re-nominated. There
may be no way to stop this steal,
but we believe there is, and that it
should be looked into. The Journal
has so far, under the present
management at least, maintained a
friendly attitude toward the Santa
Fe, which they may appreciate
about as much as they would de-
plere an effort on our part to have
this matter straightened out. In
other words, they probably don’t
care much which way we look at it
but if enough of the shippers and
of the traveling public should get
together, we believe some plan
could be devised to make the
• brass collars” see the error of their
way. And as a last resort, there
is Jack Love. The Santa Fe has
already heard much of him, and
may hear some more.
A HAPPY NEW YEAR
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During the year just drawing to a close, many of
our readers have met with misfortune in one way or anoth-
er. With some the misfortune has been in the nature of
financial reverses; with others, sickness and accident have
marred their pleasures; and to some—fortunately few—the
cold, relentless hand of Death has been extended; some
loved one has answered the summons, and about the family
hearth at Christmas-time stood a vacant chair, a chair in
which last Christmas sat the father whose protecting band
lies cold and lifeless beneath the sod. Perchance it was
mother’s chair—the mother whose influence, and love, and
holy example are still keenly felt in the family circle, even
though her chair stands vacant by the fire-side, and her
name is breathed in whispers. Or was it a strong, prom-
ising son, or a bright, laughing daughter, cut off in the
spring-time of life, with all the hopes and joys and ambitions
unfulfilled.
With the advent of the new year, let us hope that
the troubles and sorrows of our friends may be reduced to
a minimum, and better still, let us so live our lives that
this hope may be the more fully realized.
Heartily thanking our patrons for their liberal sup-
port during the past year; thanking our friends for every
little boost, and thanking the knockers for not knocking any
harder, we wish you, one and all, a happy New Year.
STANDING OF CANDIDATES
In the Journal’s popular voting contest
Wednesday, December 29th
Elma Morgan, Manchester.................. 28 600
Violet Morgan, Manchester.................. 4 900
Bertie Jones, Manchester................... 12 400 ^
Willie Merriman, Manchester________________ 2 700 0
Mary Roach, Manchester----------—....... 1 000 0
Clark Assumes New Duties.
Hon. W. T. Clark, principal of
the Manchester city schools, and
representative in the state legis-
lature from this county, has added
to these respective duties the re-
sponsibilities and duties of the
benedict. Miss Maude Feely is the
estimable young lady who has
undertaken the management of the
professor, and who is to be highly
commended for her undertaking.
The ceremony was performed at
the luxurious home of the bride’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Feely, last
Monday, and was witnessed by
members of the family only. Rev.
A. P. Eaton, of the Methodist
church, pronounced the solemn
words which made the couple one
for life.
At high noon on Christmas day,
the man who had faced myriads of
school children in the thousands of
moods, and who had faced con-
ventions, and assemblies, and legis-
latures, stood face to face with a
new experience, and a happy lady
by his side, as she placed her hand
in his and said “for better or for
worse,” etc., took the solemn vows
with full knowledge that her
strength of character and her know-
ledge of the world and its ways
prepared her in great measure for
the new life opening before her.
We understand the happy pair
has rented the N. W. Patton prop-
erty in the north part of town, and
will begin housekeeping at once.
The Journal joins with the many
friends of Mr. and Mrs. Clark in
wishing them a long life of the
utmost happiness and usefulness.
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—Last Sunday Billy Patton was
standingroa the platform of the Orient
at Anthony, waiting for a train. Ha
was convening with another gentle-
man, when Jack Pollock came along
and. without. giving any warning
whatever, landed on Billy's jaw ead
sent him sprawling ovsr the tracks.
The sheriff was there at the time,
and put the young fellow under arrest.
He then deputized a bystander to take
Pollock to jail, but the deputy, as
soon as he got out of eight of the
sheriff, teld Pollook to beat it. That
ended the episode, eo far as the An-
thony and Harper county officers are
concerned. But we will wager that
young Pollock can find many places on
the map more conducive to hie health
than Manchester, and while we don't
think any too muoh of hie habits, aea
rule, we do heartily commend hie hab-
it of staying away from this place.
—The Anthony band baa taken ove
the management of the opera house
at Anthony, and will make an effort
to secure some first class talent tor
tbs people of that and surrounding
towns this winter and spring. The
first attraction under tbs new man
agemeot Is the Morey Stock Company,
which ta making a weak's stand there
this weak. TbialaafoodMraiigoosa-
paay, and if you do not go and hi
thmu at least one night this we
yoQfiittinloatr.
WashfaiftoB News.
The Sherwood dollar-a-day pen-
sion bill passed the House by a
arge majority, 84 Democrats and
8 Republicans voting against it.
Speaker Clark voted for it and
Leader Underwood voted again it.
Friends of both feel that the< re-
spective votes will have a de ded
effect upon their Presidential bo ms.
This bill increases the present an-
nual pension appropriation f om
157 millions to 230 millions. O da-
loma pays under the present pen-
sion law about three million dollars
a year. Under the new law, < it
passes, Oklahoma will pay s ->ut
four and a half millions > >. rly.
The bill will meet with sti »ra
opposition in the Senate.
Governor Harmon’s friends are
resorting to pretty clever tac. ica,
and, as they believe, pretty clever
politics. They realize that the
struggle is between Harmon
the conservatives on the one
and Wilson and the progressiv
the other hand, and that W
has the lead at this time. S
friends of the Ohio Governs
inducing favorite sons to ente
lists in as many states as po.u ble,
believing that the natural op >si-
tion to the leading candidate v:ll
develop on the part of others md
that in the end the favorite ons
will pool their strength agu nst
Wilson. The supporters of the
latter, however, believe that he nas
such a decided lead as to be el/ . to
withstand or overcome this st. *te-
gem.
Several memben of the Okla-
homa delegation in Congres at-
tended the Anti-Saloon banqe
tiie National Hotel on the ev
of the 14th.
Senator Gore has nominate
the presidency of the Ananias
the party who represented hi • as
saying that he would not support
the Democratic nominea u less
Wilson or Clark should win the
nomination. The Senator says
that he will go as far and as fast as
any Democrat in support ot the
Democratic nominee. He ays
that the statement to the coin ary
is a fabrication woven upon the
loom of an active imagina on,
without the thread of truth and
without the fiber of fact, eith . in
the warp or in the woof. H* ias
said nothing that could be ei ter
construed or misconstrued a to
such a declaration of disloyalty.
He could name a list of Democ t ats
a little longer than the moral iaw
that he would enthusiastically sup-
port and the list would include
more than one Oklahoman be. des
limaelf.
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▲ report has come to this offle- iat
Cash Wood and Misa Ada Smitt ire
married at Medford Wednesday >Ve
have no confirmation of the r> p..rt,
but do know that thoac young p >plo
went to the county seat on that u iy.
The writer was talking to Mr. * ?od
at the station while waiting for he
train, and be didn’t seem to be bit
nervous, although he acted like arc
was something on hie mind » ch
worried him. Wo naturally supp >ed
that it was beoausc the train was te.
Anyhow, wo think ho might have tv-
an us a tip.
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at Ottiicns State Bank, will
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All work returned to hies tor
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F. E. PHTLE t COL.
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ANTHONY, KANSAS
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Thomas, L. K. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 19, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, December 29, 1911, newspaper, December 29, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497109/m1/1/: accessed March 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.