The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1907 Page: 1 of 8
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FROM MEDFORD.
A letter came from Medford the
other day. Among other things It
contained a piece of poetry, type-
written on an Oliver typewriter. The
letter was withheld, but the part
containing the poetry was cut off and
handed to the editor of the Journal.
It runs like this:
The Star Is run by Wood uhd Son,
And Printer Max, the sou-of-a-xun.
Who sets all thu ads and most of the type—
And chews tobacco and smokuH his pipe.
Ads are scarce and news "are” plenty—
Expense runs at one hundred twenty;
ItutthlnKsare bound to come our way
If we will only slick and stay.
Medford's full of business cranks,
And kids t-at play all kinds of pranks.
Their very looks I do despise—
1)— their souls, they don’t udvertlse.
Well I guess this is enough of this foolish-
ness for this time, so 1 will iry and change
tho subject. I have written Just lots of
pieces lately. I have a good one on Dad and
Simmons, but 1 guess that I had not better
send it. '
The Journal does not know who
composed the above,but the earmarks
are so long drawn out that we are led
to believe that some one closely con-
nected with the Star is responsible.
If so, the cat has gotten out of the
bag and it will take more than three
dollars to get him back in. But then
these things don't cut much ice with
Pete. He started out to get a little
experience, even though it come high
and we guess he’s getting his fill.
He will perhaps feel better, how-
ever, when he reads the following
lines from the New Orleans Times
Democrat:
If the day looks kinder gloomy.
An your chances kinder slim !
If tho situation's puzzlin',
An’ the prospects awful grim,
An’ perplexities keep pressln'
Till all hope is nearly gone, ■
Jus' bristle up an’ grit your teeth,
An' keep "a-stlcklu’" on.
Fumin’ never wins a light,
An' frettln' never pays;
There ain't no good of broodin' In
These pessimistic ways—
Smile just kinder cheerfully
When hope is nearly gone,
An' bristle up, an' grit your teeth,
An' keep ''a-stlckln'" on.
There ain't no use in growlin'
An’grumblin’all the time
When music's ringin' everywhere
An' everything's a rhyme—
J us' keep on smilin’ cheerfully
If hope Is nearly gone,
An' bristle up, an' grit your teeth,
An’ keep "a slickin' ” on.
STUMBLING BLOCKS.
Just at this time, when the great
work of framing the constitution for
the great new state of Oklahoma is
going on, and at a time, too, when
the assistance of every honorable citi-
zen of the new state is needed to
further the interests of the state and
the people for generations to come,
the opposition press of the entire
country, as well as some of the papers
that pretend to be friendly to the
party nowjin power in Oklahoma, is
very industriously engaged in the
work of placing stumbling blocks in
the path of the constitutional con-
vention.
Why men and newspapers will- re-
sort to such degrading tactics at this
critical time, merely for political
capital, is more than we can tell It
proves one thing to the satisfaction of
all, and that is that the scrambling {
pie-hunters in Oklahoma who have
fought and scrapped among
selves for years for appointive posi
01 lb* Busineit Firm* ol Manchester and Naar-Bf
Town*. Who Aik lor Your Patronag in Thia
d Papar Through Display Ada ol Two Inehea
Spaea or Over. Road Thair Ada and
Patronize Them whan in Naad ol
a Anything in Thair Lina:
MANCHESTER.
E. L. Smith & Oo., general merchandise.
Badger Lumber Co., lumber and hardware
—T. W. Peter, agent.
8. B. Fling, hardware, Implements,barneaa.
Citizens State Bank, general banking
business.
Star Restaurant—Miss Sadie Singleton and
Mrs. Weiss, proprietors.
Blackwell Mill & Elevator Co., A. E. Deere,
agent.
BurchSel k Warnock, live stock dealers.
J. W. Smith, law loans, real estate.
Rock Island Lumber Oo.,lumber and hard-
ware—Luther Heck, agent.
Slaughter & Tuttle, Auctioneers.
Manchester Hotel, Mrs. Anna Deere, Prop.
Lucas I)/ug Co., W. M. Lucas, Proprietor.
Mort Canfield, Carpenter.
Manchester Livery Barn, N. H. Fulwlder,
proprietor.
R. F. Watkins, Meat market.
GIBBON.
Post Mercantile Co., general merchandise.
Badger Lumber Co., lumber and hardware
them-1 -°. A. Olasen, agent
W AKITA.
. . . . .. | E. M. Garrett & Co., real estate, loans and
tions, have no interest in the welfare insurance,
Of the new state and its future further I WT- Tucker> undertaker and funeral
than to satisfy their own personal
greed for political position. I a NEW DOCTOR
It will be remembered that when! Manchester is to have a new doctor.
Within a Short Time Cattle That Usually Go to Other Points
for Shipment, on Account of Weighing Facilities,
Will be Shipped From Manchester.
On January 7 the Journal took up the matter of installing stock scales at
the stock yards In Manchester with Mr. J. I. Conway, general livestock
agent of the Santa Fe at the Union stock yards, Kansas City. We
(rfaced before bim the real situation as it exists at this time and has existed
In the past, and also sent him a clipping from last week’s issue of the Journal
calling attention to the loss of business to the company by reason of there
being no scales in the yards here. A prompt reply to our letter has been
received, which is given space in part, as follows:
the holiday recess came the opposition OwiDg to rheumatism and other
set to work with vim and energy In an causes Dr. O. D. Reed has decided to
attempt to get the convention to leave Menchester and a few days ago
again take up the county boundary his residence property to Dr. W.
matter when the convention feas- ^ personal attention, with a view of having the scales installed at the earliest
sembled, even going so far as to state ____—___I_______________
Mr. J. M. Simmons, KAN8As City’ Jan- 9’ 1907'
Manchester, Oklahoma.
Dear Sir:—This will acknowledge receipt of your letter of Jan. 7th,
enclosing clipping from Manchester Journal, and calling my attention to the
fact that our company has lost considerable business at Mahchester, which is
driving to cross-country points, account no scale facilities at Manchester.
I appreciate very much the interest you have taken in this matter by
calling my attention to same.
After a thorough investigation of the conditions surrounding the country
in the vicinity of Manchester, I have come to the conclusion that it is to the
interest of this company to install scales at Manchester, which I have so
recommended, and think that in a short time the scales will be put in.
I will probably be able to advise you more definitely in regard to the
matter in a short time, and want to assure you the matter will be given my
TWO-CENT CAR FARES.
The indications are that a clause in
the constitution of the new state of
Oklahoma may prohibit any railroad
company from ever charging more
than 2 cents per mile passenger fare,
which would be going even further in
the interest of the people of Oklahoma
than was pledged by the Democrats
in the camgaign. The Journal says
amen—let the good work go on-
even if the Republican newspapers do
tell the people that the convention is
a mere farce and is wasting the time
allotted to it.
SNEAK THIEVES.
Sneake thieves are said to be quite
plentiful, and they do not seem to be
overly particular as to what they toat
away. Mrs. Bessie McMullin says a
load of pompkins were stored in the
barn and a carpet thrown over them
Nine were used by the three Mc-
Mullin families, and all the balance
were stoleu. A sack of popcorn hang-
ing in the barn all disappeared but
four ears, and out of 14 frying size
chickens only two are left. A system-
atic arrangement will have to be
made to capture the guilty parties.
Here's a place for the anti-horse thief
association to get in its work.
PLOWING FOR CORN
A good many farmers are plowing
their ground for corn, which is cer-
tainly a good tiling. Shallow plowing
at this season of the year makes the
ground list much easier in the spring,
and the land is also much more easily
kept clean of weeds.
Oats ground, too, is much batter to
be plowed now than to wait until
ready to put in oats in the spring,
when it can ba gone over with disc
and horrow and thus provide the
finest kind of seed bed.
Good farming pays best at all times,
and winter plowing never comes
amiss for any purpose.
—Tommy Reneau informs us that
tie will have a public sale soon. He
sold Ids school land to Otto Feely not
long ago, and has purchased a farm
down in the new country, to which
place lie will go as soon as his sale is
over. Tiiis part of the country can
ill afford to lose such citizeus as
Tommy Iteneau, and our only wish is
tiiat he will be benefited by the
change.
sembled, even going so far as to state lst of the coming month) but Dr
that there was a very strong follow- Reed will remain until Dr. Smedley
ing in the convention which favored arrites.
undoing all that had been done. In Dr’ S”edl?y *?a fin® paring
a c ltion to this, we were told that east of Manchester, and comes very
the formation of the county boundar- highly recommended, having had
ies was illegal and that the opposition eighteen years practical experience as
would test the matter in the courts, a PhJsician- We met the gentleman
when in truth and in fact no bound- ^%tells US l^at his PtinciPal ^eas‘
. . on for leaving Missouri is the deep
aries have been changed, properly mud which makes it almost impos-
speaking, until the people, by their sible fora physican to get to his
own vote in the adoption of the con- patients about four or five months out
stitution as submitted, change them of every year' He also visited his
rhpmspl vps SISter here a year aS°' and was so im
pressed with the couutry that he has
Now what about the “strong follow- since had a desire to return to live,
ing” which proposed to undo the The Journal regrets to see Dr.
county boundries provision at the re- Reed and wife teave. We have known
convening of the convention after the t!iem 45 next door nei&hb°rs fora long
, .. „ , time, and have ever found them
holiday recess.-' Have you ever heard worthy of confldence and est€em.
it mentioned since/ No! It was a The Doctor does not know just yet
“hot air” bomb thrown at the con- where he will locate,but will probably
vention for political effect, pure and U° to tlie south part of Oklahoma,
simple, and never a member of the and Probably at one of the new towns
... ... , to be started soon in the country
contention opened his mouth about known as the »big pasture „ Weare
such a thing as bringing the matter pleased to know, however, that
up again for consideration by the con- when he goes away his place will be
convention. filled by a well-to-do physician who
We mention these things as only a has behind h‘“ a record of el*hteen
. . 8 } years successful practice,
few of the many stumbling blocks _____
that the opposition has hurled in the BUSY DAYS IN STOCK.
pathway of the convention, and we do Saturday and Monday were busy
it more in the spirit of shame to the days in the stsck business at Man-
parpetrators than* that of finding kTW£ ^ °f WCre
. .. ... .... ... shipped by Burchhel & Warnock
fault with what they are guilty of, Monday morning and a fine load of
for we fully realize that if there is a hogs went out Tuesday morning,
period in the history of any state The cattle were brought of Bob Biby,
when the wisdom of all the people is Dick Lawrence, Thos. Koehler and
needed in its behalf, it is certainly .fgj- Th,e ^ "ere Tfur’
... . nished by Mr. Cowels, Mel Hime,Jas.
when the constitution for the state is vocasek, Frank Allen. Marion Free-
being framed. and under which the man, L. P. Roach, Chas. Cox, G. T.
state and all the people within its Norton, T. J. Mulford, C. E. Liven-
boundaries must be ruled and gover- ^°°d’7>ave Thomas, Chas Bennett,
n«i for generations to come. Ch'ls Bu,z and W' F°»ter-
_ , There were quite a number of
Shame upon the opposition press of steers coming 3 and 4 years old in the
Oklahoma! And if the special cor- bunch, in pretty good flesh, for which
respondent of the Wichita Eagle now the buyers paid 139 per head. The
at Guthrie were to appear in Manches- rema*nder were mostly coming 2
ter, we «onld feel like taking him b, PH“ P*ld
the nape of the neck and kick him The bulk of the hogs were bought at
clean across the Kansas line. 15.80. The one car of hogs cost about
And as to those pin-head would-be the same 43 the two cars of cattle.
Democratic asses of the Medford Star Tllls would indicate that there is far
strip, who hare been carried off their ""’".‘“.l,T ?“
. cattle, and the Journal thinks there
feet by the faultfinding of the Deer hs if the farmer is fixed for the hog
Creek Times, the Lamont Record, the business, but we would hate
Renfrow Tribune and others of their to ^ tbe cattle industry neg-
ilk, no amount of criticism can be too |ect*d entirely. They have been
rrs. . . . _ low in price for a good while, it is
severe. The party should relegate true, but one of thege days a tum wU,
them to the rear. come, and then the farmer who has
The convention Is doing a noble a bunch of cattle on hand will be
work in behalf of the new state of pleased that hc did not let S° eotirely-
Oklahoma, and when its labors are —The Anthony Republican tells
finished and the people fully realize I of the marriage of a tall couple in
what has been done for their future | cily on January -■ The groom
welfare, they will force those naughty M^kV?" °f Re'‘ and Mrs’
. ’ , . , * 3 H. 1*. Mock. The groom resides on a
words back down the throats of the farm ln Woods county, and stands 6
Republican leaders in Oklahoma and feet 7j inches. His bride, Miss Laura
cover them beneath a mountain of .Duncan of Spingtield, Mo., is juste
ballots a mile high. feet tall.
possible moment.
Yours Truly,
J. I. Conway.
While the above letter is not a positive assurance that we are to get the
much needed scales, it is pretty good evidence to the Journal that they are
to be put in, and that speedily.
The scales will be beneficial alike to the Santa Ee and the business interests
of Manchester, as well as to the stock growers in this vicinity, of whom
there are many.
Olivia Sanger Hall
Third Number in the Manchester
Lecture Course, at The Opera House,
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TUESDAY NIGHT
JANUARY IS, 1907
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Under the auspices of the
Manchester Entertainment Club.
MISCELLANEOUS PROGRAM.
PART ONE.
“IIow the Beautiful came to the Earth,” from
Ben Hur—A story of the Creation as told by
the Egyptians.
Higher Culture—Impersonation in Negro Dia-
lect—Ole Mammy's “Idee of higher eddication
in de Norf.”
Jamie’s Return—Pathetic impersonation. Story
of mother love—very dramatic and touching.
Widder Doodles—numerous monologue. Very
laughable.
Hagar—I dramatic impersonation in costume.
PART TWO.
Through the flood, from the Bonnie Briar Bush—
a thrilling storv intensely interesting.
Sally Ann’s Experience—Monologue adapted
from a very humerous storv of Kentucky life.
Tommy Atkins and Gunga Din—interpretations.
Moria's Mo’nin’—Negro dialect. Humorous.
L’Envoi—Appropriate closing number.
Admission, 50 and 25 cents. Tickets on sale at Lucas
Druf Co. Those holding season tickets, call at the drug
store and reserve your seats.
NEED MORE CORN.
The thing that this country needs
more than ail else is diversified farm-
ing and with it the planting of five or
six acres of corn every year to where
we only have one,
People have gotten into the old
wheat rut from following it year
after year until they seem to think
that the proper thing is to put out
every acre that they can, every fall,
even if they have to rent a section or
two from their neighbors to keep
them busy.
Wheat is by far the most expensive
crop that is grown in this section of
country, and while it is a fine thing to
harvest a yield of 25 to 30 bushels per
acre and get a good price for it, we
must stop to considsr that this only
happens once in a few years, and that
many tjmes a farmer is simply buck-
ing a losing proposition by having all
his ground in wheat.
This country had a good crop of
wheat in 1906, but the loss by rains
following harvest and the low price
at which it has been sold has not
made the wheat grower a dollar.
Corn, too, was a fine crop, and any
farmer will tell you that he made
more clear money in 1906 off an acre
of corn than he made off any five
acres of wheat on his farm. This is
not due altogether by reason of the
loss to the wheat crop from wet
wheather after harvest, but because
of the fact that help in harvest is
scarce and very high priced, and the
further fact that twine is high and
all machinery for plowing, seeding
and cutting is almost out of reach.
With corn it is very different. It
requires less than one,-half the amount
invested in machinery and the high
priced labor is entirely eliminated if
the farmer is content to farm only
about 4p or 60 acres to corn.
Another advantage the corn grower
has, he can feed his corn to hogs at a
profit, and thus save the expensive
freight rates for getting his grain to
market.
These are all things to be reckoned
in farming, and the man who gives
them the most careful study is apt to
be the one who will make the best
progress on the farm.
THEY ARE PLEASED.
We believe the division of Woods
county as made by the Constitutional
convention last week is the best thing
for this part of the county that has
happened since the opening of the
strip. The tax payers of this north-
east fourth of the county have been
paying 45 per cent of the taxes of the
county and are getting less than any
other portion of the county in return.
Alfalfa county as is now maped out
will be one of the richest counties in
Oklahoma. No wonder Alva is fight-
ing so hard to keep it from getting
away. In this level country where
there is no very large streams to
bridge there is no need of high taxes.
Do you know that it takes three
times as much money to build a
bridge over the Cimarron river as it
does over the Salt Fork or Medicine
rivers? Do you know that there are
hundreds of places west of Alva in
the canyons to be bridged where there
is but one in this part of the country?
Yes, Alva and her banks are fighting
us hard here in the east side, but
through the power vested in the
Constitutional convention we are
getting away form them.—Byron
Republican.
We would suggest to to the Med-
ford Try-Star and all the other Re-
publican papers in Grant county who
have sought to find fault with the
workings of the constitutional con-
vention in the county division matter,
that they cut the above out, paste it
in their hats and give it a careful
reading now and then. It is the
sentiment that is spoken in every part
of the state directly affected, except
those few towns like Alva that held a
cinch on the people for miles and
miles in all directions.
SLAUGHTER & TUTTLE
AUCTHMEERS
MANY YEAR'S EXPERIENCE.
SATISFACTION
GUARANTEED
MANCHESTER and GIBBON.
Leave Orders at tile JOURNAL Office.
—A partnership quarrel between J.
P. Renshaw, formerly of Medford, and
II. I. Wasson, formerly of Pond Creek
both of whom have been living at
Oklahoma City for some time) result-
ed in a charge being made by Renshaw
that Wasson- had embezzled *1,253 09
of the funds of the company, of which
Wasson was Pres., and Renshaw Sec.
Most of the papers in Grant county,
as soon as the report got out, rushed
in and gave Wasson the worst of It.
When the matter is sifted down it
may be there will be a different
phase to the situation from that first
reported. Newspapers should be care-
ful about jumping at conclusions.
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Simmons, J. Mason. The Manchester Journal. (Manchester, Okla.), Vol. 14, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1907, newspaper, January 11, 1907; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc497182/m1/1/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.